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Notitia monastica

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Imprimatur on verso of title leaf dated: Martii 13, 1694/5.

Includes: "An alphabeticall index of all the monasteries and other places mentioned in the Notitia monastica" on p. [1]-[19] at end, and "An index of the sirnames of founders of…

The antiquities of the abbey or cathedral church of Durham

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Dedication signed: Pat. Sanderson.

The register is continuous.

With a final advertisement leaf.

A reprint, with additions, of John Davies' "The ancient rites, and monuments of the monastical, & cathedral church of Durham," a work based on…

Annali ecclesiastici

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Continues Baronius from 1198 to 1378. Incomplete. Rinaldi carried the work to 1565.

Engraved title page, signed Daniel Widman.

Andrews' History of Great Britain

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Volumes 1 and 2 also called volumes VII and VIII on running titles.

Errata page at the end of each volume.

The imperiall historie, or, The liues of the emperours, from Iulius Caesar, the first founder of the Roman monarchy, vnto this present yeere

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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…

The annals of King George, year the first

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Includes index.

In this edition the last line of page 1 reads "His Majesty's reign."

The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Winchester

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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…

The history and antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and the Abbey Church of Bath.

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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 biographical history of England

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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.

The philosophy of history

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Has half-title page.

Includes index.

Errata on page 498.

Translation of: Philosophie der Geschichte.

The comic history of England

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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. …

Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie

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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.…

Ecclesia restaurata. The history of the reformation of the Church of England

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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."…

Chronological tables of Europe

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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…