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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.

The history of the bucaniers of America

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Collation: v. 1: [6], 354 pages, [9] leaves of plates (incl. 3 folded maps); v. 2: [2], 406, [24] pages.

Exquemelin's "De americaensche zee-roovers," Amsterdam, 1678, was translated into Spanish in 1681 and thence by an anonymous translator into…

Picturesque antiquities of Scotland

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In two parts, each with separate pagination and register.

Intended as a supplement to Pennant's Tour in Scotland.

The letter press descriptions are by the artist. Each unnumbered leaf has an illustration and letterpress text.…

Pictures of English history

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Vol. 1: [1] leaf, 96 p., [48] leaves of plates; v. 2: [1] leaf, 96 p., [48] leaves of plates. Copper-engraved plates.

Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, and historical.

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Essays on Shakespeare's female characters. Published also under the title: Shakespeare's Heroines.

North Bay, the gateway to silverland

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"These three books in one are to be sent to Public Libraries, into every part of the world ..."--page [3].

With: The real Cobalt / by Anson A. Gard. Toronto : The Emerson Press, 1908.

With: Silverland and its stories / by Anson A. Gard.…

The peerage of England

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Compiled by Arthur Collins.

Volume I. Of the Royal Family -- Dukes -- Marquisses -- Earls -- Volume II. Viscounts -- Barons.

Ruins of desert Cathay

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Record of the archaeological and geographical explorations ... during the years 1906-1908 ... carried out under the orders of the government of India..."-Preface

Britannia antiqua illustrata, or, The antiquities of ancient Britain, derived from the Phoenicians

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The first volume. No more published.

Title page in red and black ; title page vignette.

"This book ... licensed to be printed by ... Sr. Joseph Williamson, March 8th, 1674/75, Roger L'Estrange"--T.p., verso.

Includes index.

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…

History of the County of Northampton

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With indices and a list of subscribers in vol. 2. Reports on this work were issued in 1755 and 1791, and are entitled: 'The committee, appointed to conduct the publication of The antiquities and history of Northampton, ...' and 'Mr. Brydges's History…

The historie of Cambria, now called Wales

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"It is .. more likely that Caradog wrote his work in Latin than in Welsh" (DNB). The original is not known. This English version was in fact assembled and translated by Llwyd from various Welsh sources and expanded by Powell. At foot of title: Cum…

A new and complete history of England, from the first settlement of Brutus, upwards of one thousand years before Julius Caesar, to the year 1793

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Includes a list of subscribers.

The plates are dated from 1791-1794.

Plates marked: "Engraved for Ashburton's History of England ... published by W. & J. Stratford", and dated from 1791-1793.

Frontispiece signed: "Dayes delin: Grainger…