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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."…

Tags: 18th century, antiquities, Christianity, church buildings, Cornish language, Cornwall, druids, England, engraved illustrations, history, illustrated, map, Roman Britain, royalty

The history and antiquities of Essex

Published in parts.
Text and register are continuous.
Bowyer's records show 500 copies printed.

Tags: 18th century, antiquities, Christianity, church buildings, England, Essex, folio, history, Roman Britain, Woolf gift

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…

Tags: 18th century, antiquities, Christianity, church buildings, England, engraved illustrations, folio, history, illustrated, map, Roman Britain, Woolf gift, York

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…

Tags: 18th century, Anglo-Saxons, architecture, Christianity, church buildings, engraved illustrations, history, illustrated, London, monuments, poetry, Westminster, Woolf gift

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

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Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.

The history and antiquities of Essex

Eboracum

Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters Westminster

Some observations of the additions to, & differences from the truth contained in the storie of the holy scripture

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