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  • Collection: Rare Book Collection

Annales rerum gestarum Ælfredi Magni

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Includes index p. 178-181.
With a list of subscribers on 7 p. at the end.
Title page in red and black; a variant has the title page printed in black only.
Signatures: a-e⁴ A-L⁴ M² N-X⁴ ²X⁴ Y-Z.⁴
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Alfred…

A catalogue of the bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this island

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Identification of printer from STC,
In this edition and STC 11939 most sheets are in two settings, apparently indiscriminately intermixed,
Title vignette;
head-pieces;
engraved initials,
Dedicated to King James I

A discoverie of certaine errours published in print in the much commended Britannia, 1594

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Edited by John Anstis. --ESTC,
In two parts, each with separate title page, register and pagination. The first part has title "A discoverie of certaine errours ..." with imprint "London printed by J. Betthenham, for James Woodman, 1723";
the…

A Survey of London

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From title page of volume 1: The survey and history brought down to the present time by careful hands. Illustrated with exact maps of the city and suburbs, and all of the wards; and like-wise, of the out-parishes of London and Westminster, and the…

Actes and Monuments

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The sixth time newly imprinted, with certaine additions thereunto annexed, Anno 1610, Mense Octobris.
Titles of v. 1-2 within illustrated woodcut borders; woodcut illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

The "plates" are woodcuts after C3…

Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, Cambrica, a veteribvs scripta : ex quibus Asser Meneuensis, anonymus de vita Gulielmi Conquestoris

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Title page and colophon devices (Andreas Wechel).
Head- and tailpieces, initials.
Printed marginalia.
Includes index.
Error in pagination: pp. 893-896 misnumbered 889-892.
Signatures: [3* in a triangle]? A-Hhhh? Iiii?

Annales of England

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A translation of: 'Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edvvardo VI, et Maria regnantibus, annales.',
"Although entered to both pr[inter]s, the whole book was app[arently] pr[inted] by Stansby."--STC,
The sections on Edward VI and Mary each have…

Annales rerum anglicarum et hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

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Guilielmo Camdeno authore. Text within line border; initials; head and tail pieces.Running title: Elizabetha Angliae Regina.Includes index. Queen's University copy is missing first 2 blank leaves and final errata leaf.A2 is misprinted A3.B1 is a…

Georgii Buchanani Scoti, poetarum sui seculi facile principis, Opera omnia, ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata

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In v.1, leaf 4K2 mis-signed 3K2.
Title pages printed in red and black and enclosed within double-rule.
Added engraved title page to volume 1, signed "Andr. Iohnston excud. M.V.dr Gucht sculp.
Title page to volume 2: "Georgii Buchanani Scoti,…

Historiae Augustae scriptores VI

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Engraved t.p.;
head- and tail-pieces, initials,
Signatures: *? A-3S? 3T?,
Includes index