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With the Russians in Mongolia

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Includes index.

Publisher's advertisements ([4] pages) and catalogue (16 pages) at end.

Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters Westminster

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The title pages are engraved.

Title page of volume II spells "chapels" with a single "p".

Each volume contains a list of subscribers, together with their coats of arms.

Ordinary paper issue: height = 40cm. Gutter margin = 2cm.

Date of…

Typographical antiquities

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Memoirs of Mr. Joseph Ames, by Mr. Gough' (volume 1, pages xiii-xxxv).

Frontispiece portrait of Ames in v.1. -- Sotheby misprinted Soleby in volume 1 imprint and additional printers involved in later volumes.

Imprint varies: volume 3: Printed…

Tuttle's popular history of the Dominion of Canada

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Added t.-p.: An illustrated history of the Dominion, 1535-1876.

Vol.2 has title: The comprehensive history of the Dominion of Canada ... From the confederation of 1867 to the close of 1878. Montreal, Bigney, 1879.

Titles of honor

Title page
Numerous errors in paging, including: 68-97 omitted, 101-102 repeated in the numbering.

Title-page printed in red and black.

Wood-cut decorated head-piece and decorated initials, numerous engraved images of coins, crown designs, and medals of…

Thomæ de Elmham Vita & gesta Henrici Quinti, Anglorum Regis

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An advertisement for this work was issued by Tho. Hearne: 'Advertisement. Just printed in octavo ...' [1728]--cf. ESTC; Tailpieces, headpieces, initials; Signatures: a-e⁴, f², A-3G⁴, 3H²;
Page 283 incorrectly numbered 183; Title within double line…

The tragedies, gathered by Ihon Bochas, of all such princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune since the creacion of Adam, vntil his time

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A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovanni. De casibus illustrium virorum.

Publication date conjectured by STC.

The eighth book begins new foliation on 2A1.

The last leaf, usually lacking, bears the title page to "A memorial of suche…

The supplement to Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures

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Translation of: Supplement au livre de l'antiquité expliquée et representée en figures.

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 six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier

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A translation, by John Phillips, of: Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste. Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier.

Printer's name from Wing CD.

The second part has separate title page with imprint "printed in the year, 1678", pagination and…

The Romane historie

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The first word of the title is xylographic.

"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…