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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.

An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk

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Title of volumes 1-2 in red and black; volumes 4-5 paged continuously. The first 2 volumes and part of volume 3 appeared in numbers.

Volume 1 has errata on page 808; volume 2 has errata on page 913; volume 3 has errata on page viii.

Volume 3…

An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex which are not described in the "Environs of London"

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Title page is engraved.

The title is taken from the etched title-plate. This is a supplement to Lysons' "The environs of London ..." (London, 1792-1796; No.1977). A further supplement was published in 1811 (No.1979).

Index of arms: p.…

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…

Britannia antiqua illustrata, or, The antiquities of ancient Britain, derived from the Phoenicians

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The first volume. No more published.

Title page in red and black ; title page vignette.

"This book ... licensed to be printed by ... Sr. Joseph Williamson, March 8th, 1674/75, Roger L'Estrange"--T.p., verso.

Includes index.

Collectanea curiosa ; or miscellaneous tracts

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With a list of subscribers in volume 1.

Dedication signed: John Gutch.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued online.

Eboracum

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Vol. 2 has separate title page: Book the second; contains the history of the Cathedral Church of York : with the lives of the Archbishops of that See, &c. : also the History of the Abbey of St. Mary in that City, from the foundation to its…

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…

History and antiquities of Durham

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Engraved title page, with vignette.

First edition, 1785-94.

Contains numerous pedigrees.

A biographical sketch of John Egerton, bp. of Durham, by Francis H. Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater: v. 3, p. iii-xiii.

Imprint varies: v. 3,…

History of Great Yarmouth

Title page
The pagination is irregular.

With a list of subscribers and an index.

Preface signed by John Ives, publisher of Swinden's posthumous work.

History of Winchester

Title page - vol. 1
Dedication dated: Sept. 2, 1772.

Sometimes erroneously attributed to Thomas Warton.

Errors in paging, v. 2: 252 numbered 225; 265-268 omitted.

Also available as: Microfilm. - Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1986. - 1 reel ;…

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…