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Guy Fawkes, or, A complete history of the Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605

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Publisher's advertisements, p. [2], [4]-[11] at end.

Bookseller's embossed stamp: S. Drayton and Sons, booksellers, Exeter.

Includes bibliographical references.

Tuttle's popular history of the Dominion of Canada

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Added t.-p.: An illustrated history of the Dominion, 1535-1876.

Vol.2 has title: The comprehensive history of the Dominion of Canada ... From the confederation of 1867 to the close of 1878. Montreal, Bigney, 1879.

The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia

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Each volume has separate illustrated title page and pagination; plates numbered continuously.

Historical descriptions, v. 4-6, by William Brockedon.

Plates dated: London : Day & Son, 1855. The firm of D. Appleton & Co. was at this address in…

Polycronycon

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Imprint from colophon.

Includes index.

By Ranulf Higden, whose name appears on 2a3r.

Translated by John Trevisa, who is named on 2a3r.

Higden's work, divided into 7 books and extending to the year 1348, was originally written in Latin.…

The first and second volumes of Chronicles

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Compiled by Holinshed, William Harrison, and Richard Stanyhurst. Edited by John Hooker, who continued the work to 1586, with the assistance of Francis Thynne on the Scottish continuations, and with Thynne, Abraham Fleming and John Stow on the other…

The herball, or, Generall historie of plantes

Title page
Largely based on: Dodoens, Rembert. Cruydenboeck.

With an additional engraved title page, signed: Io: Payne sculps:.

Running title reads: Of the historie of plants.

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.

Includes indexes.

Aristotles Politiques, or, Discourses of gouernment

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Translator's dedication signed: I.D., i.e. John Dickenson.

Dedication to Henry III dated July 1596.

Printer's device on title page.

Initials; head- and tail- pieces.

First and last leaves blank.

Pages 70-71 misnumbered as 80-81,…

With the Russians in Mongolia

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Includes index.

Publisher's advertisements ([4] pages) and catalogue (16 pages) at end.

Labrador : its discovery, exploration, and development

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Includes index.

With tipped-in map: Labrador from the most recent surveys (Edinburgh Geographical Institute/John Bartholomew, [1920?]

Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"

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Includes index.

With: Map of King Haakon VII Coast and Queen Maud's Sea, and of Lieut. Hansen and Sergt. Ristveldt's sledge expedition 1905 (compiled by Lieut. Hansen)

With: Route of the Gjöa through the North West Passage.