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Some observations of the additions to, & differences from the truth contained in the storie of the holy scripture
Manuscript "compiled by a careful reader in the mid-seventeenth-century, starting by picking out differences between Josephus and the Old Testament, and continuing with a general summary of the events in Josephus and in the ecclesiastical historians…
Tags: 17th century, Christianity, history, Judaism, octavo, purchase
Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters Westminster
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…
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…
Eboracum
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 history and antiquities of Essex
Published in parts.
Text and register are continuous.
Bowyer's records show 500 copies printed.
Text and register are continuous.
Bowyer's records show 500 copies printed.
Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.
"List of subscribers": preliminary p. [viii]-ix.
"A catalogue of the Kings of Britain, with the Princes of Cornwall": pages [367]-373.
"A Cornish-English vocabulary": pages 376-413.
Plates signed: "W.B. delin. J. Green sculp."…
"A catalogue of the Kings of Britain, with the Princes of Cornwall": pages [367]-373.
"A Cornish-English vocabulary": pages 376-413.
Plates signed: "W.B. delin. J. Green sculp."…
Chronological tables of Europe
In fact by Guillaume Marcel and translated by William Parsons.
Derived, with slight modifications, from Guillaume Marcel's Tablettes chronologiques, Paris, 1682. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.
Engraved throughout.
At foot of the…
Derived, with slight modifications, from Guillaume Marcel's Tablettes chronologiques, Paris, 1682. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.
Engraved throughout.
At foot of the…
Ecclesia restaurata. The history of the reformation of the Church of England
Leaf T4 is blank.
"An appendix to the former book, touching the interposings made in behalf of the Lady Jane Gray," has separate dated title page, on leaf U1r.
"Affairs of church and state in England during the life and reign of Queen Mary."…
"An appendix to the former book, touching the interposings made in behalf of the Lady Jane Gray," has separate dated title page, on leaf U1r.
"Affairs of church and state in England during the life and reign of Queen Mary."…
Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie
Editor's note "To the reader" signed: I.S., i.e. John Spenser.
In fact books 1-5 only, plus the Tractates.
The title page is engraved by William Hole.
Publication date from STC.
Many divisional title pages, register is continuous.…
In fact books 1-5 only, plus the Tractates.
The title page is engraved by William Hole.
Publication date from STC.
Many divisional title pages, register is continuous.…
Tags: 17th century, Christianity, Church of England, folio, history, Woolf gift
The comic history of England
1st ed.
Half-titles in red; title pages in red & black, with vignette.
Illustrated with 20 colored etched plates, 35 wood engraved initials, t.p. vignettes, and 164 textual vignettes after Leech.
Plates hand colored as issued. …
Half-titles in red; title pages in red & black, with vignette.
Illustrated with 20 colored etched plates, 35 wood engraved initials, t.p. vignettes, and 164 textual vignettes after Leech.
Plates hand colored as issued. …
The philosophy of history
Has half-title page.
Includes index.
Errata on page 498.
Translation of: Philosophie der Geschichte.
Includes index.
Errata on page 498.
Translation of: Philosophie der Geschichte.
Tags: 19th century, Christianity, Hinduism, history, Islam, philosophy, religion, Woolf gift
A biographical history of England
Each volume has half-title page.
Includes numerous plates.
W. Baynes and Son issued two "fifth editions" in 1824, an 8vo ed. in 6 v., and a folio ed. in 3 v., cf. Lowndes (1881 ed.), II, 927.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes numerous plates.
W. Baynes and Son issued two "fifth editions" in 1824, an 8vo ed. in 6 v., and a folio ed. in 3 v., cf. Lowndes (1881 ed.), II, 927.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The history and antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and the Abbey Church of Bath.
Authorship ascribed to Rawlinson in BM and NUC Pre-1956.
A reissue of the 1719 edition with a new title page.
Includes (with separate t.p.): "A vindication of the King's sovereign rights," by Thomas Pierce, with "Connubium regiæ prærogativæ,…
A reissue of the 1719 edition with a new title page.
Includes (with separate t.p.): "A vindication of the King's sovereign rights," by Thomas Pierce, with "Connubium regiæ prærogativæ,…
The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Winchester
A reissue of the original 1715 edition, with a cancel titlepage.
In two parts, both with separate pagination and register.
With a final index leaf.
With an additional titlepage after the dedication and preface: 'The history and antiquities…
In two parts, both with separate pagination and register.
With a final index leaf.
With an additional titlepage after the dedication and preface: 'The history and antiquities…
The annals of King George, year the first
Includes index.
In this edition the last line of page 1 reads "His Majesty's reign."
In this edition the last line of page 1 reads "His Majesty's reign."
Tags: 18th century, Christianity, Europe, genealogy, government, Great Britain, history, octavo, royalty, Woolf gift
The imperiall historie, or, The liues of the emperours, from Iulius Caesar, the first founder of the Roman monarchy, vnto this present yeere
An expanded translation, by W. Traheron, of: Historia imperial y cesárea.
Printer's name from STC.
With an additional title page, engraved: The imperiall history.
The first leaf is blank.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Includes…
Printer's name from STC.
With an additional title page, engraved: The imperiall history.
The first leaf is blank.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Includes…
Tags: 17th century, Christianity, Europe, history, Roman Empire, royalty, Woolf gift
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Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret
100 seventeenth-century window-mounted engraved portrait plates with manuscript biographies on facing pages; the first 50 biographies with decorative…