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The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated

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In English with interpolations in Latin.
Title page in red and black.
Signatures: a-b⁴ A-5E⁴ 5F² 5G⁶( -5G6). a1 blank; wanting in LC copy.
With a penultimate errata leaf; last leaf is blank.
Includes index.

Remaines concerning Britaine

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Signatures: A-3H?.
Frontispiece is portrait of the author. Armorial bookplate: The Earl of Ilchester.

The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury plain, restored

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Printer suggested by colophon to the collection.
Title in red and black within line border; head and tail pieces; initials.
The frontpiece is a portrait of Inigo Jones, from a painting by Van Dyck.
Each of the three parts has special title page…

An history of the original parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe, in the counties of Lancaster and York

Photo of title page to book V.
Folded leaves of genealogical tables included in pagination and registration. In two parts. Part II has a separate titlepage dated 1801. With a list of subscribers. Title page to book V has the author statement "By Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D." and…

Short description of Norwich taken from Blomefield

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Manuscript with mounted illustrations, cut from printed or engraved sources. Partially based on: Francis Blomefield's History of the city and county of Norwich (1741) Includes index.

Monumenta sepulchraria Sancti Pauli

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H.H. = Henry Holland. Identification of Eliot's Court Press and publication date from STC. Signatures: A-F?. The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A." With a final errata leaf. Bound with: Norden, John. Speculum Britanniae. The firste…

History and antiquities of Cumberland

Engraved title page and frontispiece for: History and antiquities of Cumberland volume 1
Added, engraved title pages. Includes index, list of subscribers, etc. Inserts removed to item file: from v.1. Illustrated note on "escutcheons, tinctures, charges, ornaments"; note and clipping concerning John Peel of Caldbeck.--from v.2. Extract…

Topographical and historical description of the County of Stafford

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Bound in two volumes, extra-illustrated with 182 engravings, incl. 11 colored views and 27 hand-colored coats of arms; William Kip map of Staffordshire dissected into sex separate plates, plus 2 other maps.

Posthumous works of the learned Sir Thomas Browne, kt. M.D. late of Norwich

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"Miscellanies," "Repertorium" and "Antiquitates capellae" have each a separate titlepage, pagination and register; each part of the 'Miscellanies' has separate pagination and register.

'Miscellanies' includes 'An account of Island, alias…

The history and antiquities of Staffordshire

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To have been completed in three vols.; no more published.
Most of the plates are from drawings by the author.
Minor variations of title.
The 'Appendix to Burton-upon-Trent' with other appendixes in vol.1 has separate pagination and register; the…

The Romane historie

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The first word of the title is xylographic.

"The topographie of Rome" is a revised translation of: Marliani, Bartolomeo. Topographia antiquae Romae.

The "Breviaries" are a translation of: Florus, Lucius Annaeus. Epitomae rerum Romanarum (for…

The supplement to Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures

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Translation of: Supplement au livre de l'antiquité expliquée et representée en figures.

The work is divided into five volumes, but paginated and signed continuously (most copies are bound as a single volume).

The title is taken from the…

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.

Supplement to the first edition of the historical account of The environs of London

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This work is the second supplement to Lysons' "The environs of London" ... A first supplement was published in 1800 ... The imprint of Strahan and Preston appears on the verso of the title-leaf and on page 493.

: 'The present volume contains all…