Browse Items (52 total)
- Tags: octavo
A discourse of the nationall excellencies of England
Quires H & I possibly cancelled?; text is continuous despite pagination.
This work is mostly on the subject of English military history, but also includes chapters on agriculture, religion, government and…
Tags: 17th century, agriculture, annotations, England, law, military history, octavo
A History of all the real and threatened invasions of England, from the landing of Julius Cæsar, to the present period
With a half-title.
A reissue of the edition with the 188-page main section; added pages 189-96 to cover events in June 1794.
A short view of the English history
Tags: 18th century, England, Great Britain, history, octavo, royalty, Woolf gift
A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent
With frontispiece portrait of the author on leaf a2v.
With imprimatur on verso of the title page (a3v).
"The life of Mr. Somner" by White Kennett precedes "The history of the Roman ports and forts in…
A voyage to the Pacific Ocean
An archaeological dictionary, or, Classical antiquities of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans
Printed in double columns.
Tags: 18th century, antiquities, archaeology, dictionary, octavo, Woolf gift
An essay on the history of civil society
Tags: 18th century, history, octavo, social science, Woolf gift
An historical dissertation concerning the antiquity of the English constitution
Tags: 18th century, England, Great Britain, history, law, octavo, political science, Woolf gift
An historical view of the English government, from the settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the accession of the house of Stewart
Errata: p. [19] at the end.
Tags: 18th century, England, Great Britain, history, law, octavo, political science, royalty, Woolf gift
Andrews' History of Great Britain
Errata page at the end of each volume.
Boscobel
Characters of the kings and queens of England, selected from different histories
Originally published in 3 parts: London, 1786-1788.
Also available on microfilm from Research Publications Inc. (The Eighteenth Century, reel 155,…
Tags: 18th century, Great Britain, history, octavo, royalty, Woolf gift
Dufresnoy's Chronology
Half-title and index in each volume.
Remainder of title: " ... and a catalogue of books necessary for that purpose; with some…
Tags: 18th century, historical chronology, history, octavo, Woolf gift
Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, in vols. IV, V, and VI, quarto, reviewed
Tags: 18th century, history, octavo, Roman Empire, Woolf gift
Goldsmith's History of England
Tags: 18th century, England, Great Britain, history, octavo, Roman Britain, Woolf gift
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Saint Albans chronicle
Known as "The Saint Albans chronicle"; not the same compilation as the "Chronicles of England" first printed by Caxton (STC 9991-4).
Title and…