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- Tags: folio
A Bond for Luxemburg Iron-Smelting Works
Tags: 18th century, Amsterdam, bond, coupons, Dutch, embossed stamp, end sheet, folio, Luxemburg, Netherlands, paper, pinned, printed, watermark
A chronological chart of ancient, modern and Biblical history
A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne
Printer's name from STC.
The emblems are printed from plates originally engraved by Crispijn van de Passe the elder for "Nucleus emblematorum" by Gabriel Rollenhagen (STC).
With an additional title page, engraved, "Emblemes.…
Tags: 17th century, emblemes, folio, frontpiece
A General dictionary, historical and critical
Tags: 18th century, biography, dictionary, folio, history, Woolf gift
A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland
A journey from London to the Isle of Wight
The narrative of a tour from the Isle of Wight to Land's End was projected, but apparently not published. -- cf. Adv., v. 2, p. [v] at front.
Advertisement: [2] pages at end of volume 2.
A memorial of suche princes, as since the tyme of King Richarde the seconde, have been unfortunate in the Realme of England.
The…
Tags: 16th century, banned works, England, folio, Great Britain, history, purchase, royalty
A new and authentic history of England
At head of p. 862: "A.D. 1780. - A.D.1784"
Includes engraved illustrations including portraits, maps, and a facsimile; frontispiece signed: "Wale delin., Grignion sculp."; other plates by Wale signed: "Taylor…
Tags: 18th century, British Empire, chronology, England, folio, Great Britain, history, illustrated, map, royalty, Woolf gift
A system of chronology
Contains half-title page.
Tags: 18th century, chronology, folio, history, illustrated, Woolf gift
A tour through parts of Wales
Tags: 18th century, aquatint, engravings, folio, poetry, prose, sonnets, Wales
An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk
Volume 1 has errata on page 808; volume 2 has errata on page 913; volume 3 has errata on page viii.
Volume 3…
An itinerary
In three parts, each with separate pagination; register is continuous.
Parts 1-3 of a projected work of 5 parts; part 4 was written but never printed. Cf.…
Tags: 17th century, Europe, folio, illustrated, map, purchase, travel, Turkey, woodcut illustrations
Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures
Volumes 3-5 are dated 1722.
Aristotles Politiques, or, Discourses of gouernment
Dedication to Henry III dated July 1596.
Printer's device on title page.
Initials; head- and tail- pieces.
First and last leaves blank.
Pages 70-71 misnumbered as 80-81,…
Tags: 16th century, folio, history, law, political science, Schulich gift
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Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret
100 seventeenth-century window-mounted engraved portrait plates with manuscript biographies on facing pages; the first 50 biographies with decorative…