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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…

Through the Yellowstone Park on horseback

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Folded map in pocket, bottom cover: Map of the Yellowstone National Park compiled from different official explorations and our personal survey, 1882 [by] Carl J. Hals and A. Rydström.

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…

The primitive origination of mankind, considered and examined according to the light of nature

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The imprint date is made using turned c's.
The portrait of the author is signed: F.H. Van. Houe: sculp.