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- Tags: Great Britain
The charter of Romney Marsh
Tags: charters, grants, Great Britain, history, John Wolfe, octavo, privileges, purchase, Romney Marsh
Certain discourses, written by Sir John Smythe, Knight.
Annales
Short printed preliminaries, A-Y, and also probably 3A-3Y, 4O-4R; Kingston printed 2A-2Y; a third printer or compositor did 4A-4N (STC and addenda).
Includes index.
A variant of the edition…
Tags: Great Britain, history, marginalia, quarto
History of England
Includes index and bibliographical references.
Head pieces.
With a final errata leaf.
Frontispiece portrait (A1v) signed: Gul. Faithorne ad vivum delin. et sculpsit.
Printed by John…
Tags: 17th century, England, Great Britain, history, John Milton, purchase
Several treaties of peace and commerce concluded between the late King of blessed memory deceased, and other princes and states
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
Printer's device (sphere).
A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent
With frontispiece portrait of the author on leaf a2v.
With imprimatur on verso of the title page (a3v).
"The life of Mr. Somner" by White Kennett precedes "The history of the Roman ports and forts in…
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
Tags: 17th century, Great Britain, history, Woolf gift
Notitia monastica
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…
An essay towards a general history of feudal property in Great Britain
Advertisement and Errata on unnumbered pages following the preface.
Includes bibliographical references.
Tags: 18th century, duodecimo, feudal law, Great Britain, history, Woolf gift
Titles of honor
Title-page printed in red and black.
Wood-cut decorated head-piece and decorated initials, numerous engraved images of coins, crown designs, and medals of…
Tags: 17th century, Great Britain, history, illustrated, numismatics, Woolf gift
An historical dissertation concerning the antiquity of the English constitution
Tags: 18th century, England, Great Britain, history, law, octavo, political science, Woolf gift
The beauties of British antiquity
"Errata" : p. [10] at end.
The history and antiquities of Shrewsbury
"The book was, to a large extent, the work of a Mr. [James] Bowen of Halston, Shropshire."--Dictionary of national biographies.
The history of gavel-kind
Genealogical table numbered 211.
Includes index (leaves a3-c1).
With final…
Tags: 17th century, Great Britain, history, quarto, Woolf gift
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Polychronicon
Translated and continued by John Trevisa; revised and expanded to 1460 by William Caxton.Imprint from ISTC; colophon (referring to the preparation of…