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Monasticon Anglicanum

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With an engraved half-title.
The titlepage is in red and black.
Includes index.

Argumentum anti-Normannicum, or, An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no absolute conquest of England by the sword; in the sense of our modern writers

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This publication, occasioned by a work of William Pettyt's, entitled Antient rights of the commons of England, 1680, was answered by Brady in his Introduction to old English history. It is by some attributed to Atwood, and by others to Cooke or…

The History of the civil wars between York and Lancaster

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With a final leaf of advertisements.

Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., 1983. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 120, no. 4.

Historical discourses, upon several occasions

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Edited by Hugh Clopton.
'Perfect copies of all the votes' has a separate titlepage and pagination; the register is continuous.
With a folded plate frontispiece showing Charles I and Sir Edward Walker, and a portrait illustration of Charles I (after…

Magna Charta

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Contains Magna Carta and statutes passed before the reign of Edward III.
Latin and Law French.
Imprint from colophon in v. 2.
Volume 2 has title: Secunda pars veterum statutorum. "The date of this title page varies: 1555 or 1556"--STC.
Volume 1:…

A synopsis of heraldry, or, The most plain, short, and easie way for the perfect attaining of that art

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With additional title page (A1v) engraved and signed: A synopsis of heraldry ... F.H. van Hove. Sculp.
The words "with ... Garter" are enclosed within brackets on title page.
"The atchievements of the Kings of England," has separate dated title…

The antiquities of England and Wales

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Engraved titlepages.

Vols. 1-5 are undated, vol. 6 has "Publish'd 30 Decr. 1785 by S. Hooper" beneath the imprint, vol. 7 is dated 1786, and vol. 8, entitled 'Supplement to the antiquities of England and Wales' and without edition statement,…

Desiderata curiosa

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These papers relate to the period 1558-1660.

Paged continuously.

Each volume has separate title pages.

Includes index at end of each volume.

With a list of subscribers in volume 1.

Pages 420 and 426 are misnumbered 400, and 406…

History of the life of King Henry the Second

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Half-title: Lord Lyttelton's history of King Henry II.

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. …

Several treaties of peace and commerce concluded between the late King of blessed memory deceased, and other princes and states

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The first leaf (pi2?) bears an order to print on verso; the last leaf is blank.

Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, A-Z⁴, Aa-Ll⁴.

Treaties concerning the following nations: Spain, France, Denmark, United Provinces of the Netherlands, Savoy…

La vie d'Olivier Cromwel

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Illustrations, portraits, plates (some folded).

Printer's device (sphere).