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A tour through parts of Wales

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Includes 13 engravings (aquatint plates) based upon on-site drawings by author; red leather binds the spine and corners, the spine (6 segments) bears title 'Sothebys Tour in Wales'

A tour through Monmouthshire and Wales

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Includes index, errata list. Illustrations drawn by S.H. Grimm, engraved variously by Fra. Chesham, W. Walker, W. Angus, S. Sparrow.

Notitia Parliamentaria

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A supplement to "Notitia Parliamentaria: or, An history of the counties, cities and boroughs ..." published in 2 vols. in 1715-16.

Head- and tail- pieces; printed marginalia.

With an index of M.P.s.

Notitia parliamentaria

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Includes half-title page.

Volume 1 only is of the second edition, with additions ;
Volume 2 is a reissue of the first edition of 1716.

Vol. 1 printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed.

A historical tour through Pembrokeshire

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Title vignette.

Appendix (75 p.) consists of documents and letters.

Includes index.

Order of plates and Errata follow index.

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 history of the principality of Wales

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Robert Burton = Nathaniel Crouch.

With a half title and three final advertisement leaves.

Title within double line border.

Frontispiece on verso of half-title.

Mona antiqua restaurata

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Title page in red and black.

With a half-title page and a list of subscribers.

Letters by Edward Lhuyd.

Part II has special title page: The Second Essay : clearing some difficulties in the preceding accounts : enlarging on some passages…

The history of the parishes of Whiteford and Holywell

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Engraved title page.

In 2 parts, the second having separate, engraved title page: History of Holywell parish, and separate register; the pagination is almost continuous.

Errata on page 328.

Of "Appendix": The five royal tribes of Cambria…

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,…

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 historie of Cambria, now called Wales

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"It is .. more likely that Caradog wrote his work in Latin than in Welsh" (DNB). The original is not known. This English version was in fact assembled and translated by Llwyd from various Welsh sources and expanded by Powell. At foot of title: Cum…