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- Tags: duodecimo
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
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
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
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.
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 ;…
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 history of the principality of Wales
With a half title and three final advertisement leaves.
Title within double line border.
Frontispiece on verso of half-title.
Tags: 18th century, duodecimo, Great Britain, history, illustrated, royalty, travel, Wales, 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
A Compendious history of England
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…
The history of Charles XII, King of Sweden
Tags: 18th century, duodecimo, history, illustrated, royalty, Sweden, Woolf gift
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A display of heraldry
The fifth edition much enlarged with great variety of bearings, To which is added A treatise of honour military and civil, according to the laws and…