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The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier
Printer's name from Wing CD.
The second part has separate title page with imprint "printed in the year, 1678", pagination and…
Tags: 17th century, Asia, engraved illustrations, exploration, folio, history, illustrated, India, Iran, Japan, map, Schulich gift, travel, Turkey, woodcut illustrations
Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the north west coast of America
The supplement to Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures
The work is divided into five volumes, but paginated and signed continuously (most copies are bound as a single volume).
The title is taken from the…
The Romane historie
"The topographie of Rome" is a revised translation of: Marliani, Bartolomeo. Topographia antiquae Romae.
The "Breviaries" are a translation of: Florus, Lucius Annaeus. Epitomae rerum Romanarum (for…
Tags: 17th century, antiquities, folio, history, illustrated, Italy, purchase, Roman Empire, Rome, woodcut illustrations
A system of chronology
Contains half-title page.
Tags: 18th century, chronology, folio, history, illustrated, Woolf gift
The Florentine historie
Translator's dedication signed: Thomas Bedingfeld.
Printer's and publisher's names from colophon.
Running title reads: The historie of Florence.
The last leaf is blank.
Entered 2 October…
Tags: 16th century, Florence, folio, history, Italy, manuscript waste, purchase
The historie of France
In the Huntington copy, the second Earl of Bridgewater has signed the name "Tho: Dannett" to the dedication.
Colophon reads: London printed…
Tags: 16th century, folio, France, history, manuscript waste, purchase
The history and antiquities of Staffordshire
Most of the plates are from drawings by the author.
Minor variations of title.
The 'Appendix to Burton-upon-Trent' with other appendixes in vol.1 has separate pagination and register; the…
A memorial of suche princes, as since the tyme of King Richarde the seconde, have been unfortunate in the Realme of England.
The…
Tags: 16th century, banned works, England, folio, Great Britain, history, purchase, royalty
De bello Belgico = The history of the Low-Countrey vvarres
Includes index.
Translation of the first only of the two decades of the author's De bello Belgico, which was originally published at Rome, 1632-47.
Title ornament, head- and tail-pieces,…
Historical discourses, upon several occasions
'Perfect copies of all the votes' has a separate titlepage and pagination; the register is continuous.
With a folded plate frontispiece showing Charles I and Sir Edward Walker, and a portrait illustration of Charles I (after…
The baronage of Scotland
With a half-title.
Text continuous despite pagination.
Horizontal chain lines.
Includes index.
Histoire de Guillaume III
Two added title-pages, engr.; the first reads: Histoire metalique de Guillaume III, Roy de la Grande Bretaigne
Contains engravings by Romein de Hooghe.
A journey from London to the Isle of Wight
The narrative of a tour from the Isle of Wight to Land's End was projected, but apparently not published. -- cf. Adv., v. 2, p. [v] at front.
Advertisement: [2] pages at end of volume 2.
A chronological chart of ancient, modern and Biblical history
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A display of heraldry
The fifth edition much enlarged with great variety of bearings, To which is added A treatise of honour military and civil, according to the laws and…