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- Tags: duodecimo
A Compendious history of England
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
An history of England, in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son.
The London part of the imprint is false; probably printed in Gainsborough (ESTC)
"This work has been ascribed to the Earl of Orrery, to Lord Lyttelton, and to the Earl of Chesterfield"--Hackett and Laing.…
Tags: 18th century, duodecimo, England, history, Woolf gift
Chronological tables of Europe
Derived, with slight modifications, from Guillaume Marcel's Tablettes chronologiques, Paris, 1682. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.
Engraved throughout.
At foot of the…
David Persecuted
History of Canada
Booksellers' advertisements: [9] p. at end of v. 2.
Tags: 18th century, Canada, duodecimo, First Nations, history, Iroquois, North America, Woolf gift
History of Winchester
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 ;…
History of York
"Principally a compilation from Drake's History, from whence the plates have been borrowed, and possesses very little interest." -- Boyne. Yorkshire library.
New history, survey and description of the city and suburbs of Bristol
Errata precedes text, on p. iv-v.
Tags: 18th century, Bristol, duodecimo, England, history, Woolf gift
Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind
With a half-title page.
Tags: 18th century, duodecimo, history, philosophy, Woolf gift
The chronicle of the Kings of England
Nathan Ben Saddi, a pseudonym used by Robert Dodsley, is named as the author in the preface.
Tags: 18th century, duodecimo, Great Britain, history, royalty, Woolf gift
The history of Charles XII, King of Sweden
Tags: 18th century, duodecimo, history, illustrated, royalty, Sweden, Woolf gift
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Liber chronicarum
Hand-coloured by Johann Kruyshaar c. 1521, his and other early marginal notes (some shaved) intermittently throughout, including his catalogue of the…