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An essay on history

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In verse.
With a half-title page.
Errata on page 159.

Labrador : its discovery, exploration, and development

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Includes index.

With tipped-in map: Labrador from the most recent surveys (Edinburgh Geographical Institute/John Bartholomew, [1920?]

The history and antiquities of Tewkesbury

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Title vignette.

A list of additional subscribers is found after page xvi; the table of contents is after page xxiv.

History of York

Title page
British Museum catalog gives William Combe as supposed author.

"Principally a compilation from Drake's History, from whence the plates have been borrowed, and possesses very little interest." -- Boyne. Yorkshire library.

Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.

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"List of subscribers": preliminary p. [viii]-ix.

"A catalogue of the Kings of Britain, with the Princes of Cornwall": pages [367]-373.

"A Cornish-English vocabulary": pages 376-413.

Plates signed: "W.B. delin. J. Green sculp."…

The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol

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Dedication dated: Wraxal, April 15, 1789.

Frontispiece (folded map) dated: "Published according to Act of Parliament 29th. Sepr. 1780."

With a list of subscribers.

Page 228 misnumbered 128.

A new and authentic history of England

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Published in 80 numbered parts.

At head of p. 862: "A.D. 1780. - A.D.1784"

Includes engraved illustrations including portraits, maps, and a facsimile; frontispiece signed: "Wale delin., Grignion sculp."; other plates by Wale signed: "Taylor…

The history of women

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Errata leaf following Contents (v. 1-2).

Half-title page: History of Women.

Parochial antiquities attempted in the history of Ambrosden, Burcester, and other adjacent parts in the counties of Oxford and Bucks

Title page
"The history of Allchester near Bircester in Oxfordshire": p. 683-703.

"A glossary to explain the original, the acceptation, and obsoleteness of words and phrases": 116 p. at end.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The general history and state of Europe

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Volume 1 contains the second part; pagination and register are continuous. Part II has it's own half-title page.

Volume 2 is dated 1755 and called 'Part III.'

Volumes 3-5 are dated 1657 [sic] and called 'Part IV.', 'Part V.' and 'Part VI and…

The history of Charles XII, King of Sweden

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Translation of: Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suède.

Notitia monastica

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Imprimatur on verso of title leaf dated: Martii 13, 1694/5.

Includes: "An alphabeticall index of all the monasteries and other places mentioned in the Notitia monastica" on p. [1]-[19] at end, and "An index of the sirnames of founders of…