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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.

The parochial history and antiquities of Stockton upon Tees

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Includes index.

Errata, page 178.

Title-vignette and tail piece; both by Thomas Bewick, according to Hugo, The Bewick collector, no. 91.

Plates: P.1: A view of the principal street of Stockton in the county of Durham, taken from the end of…

The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia

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Each volume has separate illustrated title page and pagination; plates numbered continuously.

Historical descriptions, v. 4-6, by William Brockedon.

Plates dated: London : Day & Son, 1855. The firm of D. Appleton & Co. was at this address in…

The environs of London

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The imprints to volumes 2-4 read: printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell)

The first volume is dated 1792, the second and third 1795, and the fourth 1796.

Some etchings by Samuel Lysons.

Engraved…

Eboracum

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Vol. 2 has separate title page: Book the second; contains the history of the Cathedral Church of York : with the lives of the Archbishops of that See, &c. : also the History of the Abbey of St. Mary in that City, from the foundation to its…

The English works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt. published in his life-time

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Volume 2 has separate title page with imprint date of 1723; title reads: "Reliquiae Spelmannianae : the posthumous works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt. relating to the laws and antiquities of England. Publish'd from the original manuscripts."

"The…

Desiderata curiosa

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These papers relate to the period 1558-1660.

Paged continuously.

Each volume has separate title pages.

Includes index at end of each volume.

With a list of subscribers in volume 1.

Pages 420 and 426 are misnumbered 400, and 406…

Monasticon Eboracense: and the ecclesiastical history of Yorkshire.

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Numerous errors in paging.

At foot of p.448: "The end of the first volume"; no more published.

'Proposals for printing by subscription, Monasticon Eboracense' were issued in [1757?]

An appendix was issued in 1759.

With a list of…

Polycronycon

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Imprint from colophon.

Includes index.

By Ranulf Higden, whose name appears on 2a3r.

Translated by John Trevisa, who is named on 2a3r.

Higden's work, divided into 7 books and extending to the year 1348, was originally written in Latin.…

The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Canterbury

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Dedication signed by the engraver, James Cole.

Pages lvii, lviii of the Appendix misnumbered lv, lvi. Pagination sequence includes numbered plates, most of which are printed and numbered on recto only. Pages numbered 33, 35- 36, 41, 44, 49, 54,…

The history and antiquities of the county of Somerset

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Map engraved by A. Crocker, dated: March 3, 1792.

Volume 1 includes list of subscribers. 'Proposals for printing by subscription, The history of the county of Somerset' were issued in October 1784. Volume 2, pages 97-104 incorrectly numbered…