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History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes

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Lacks title page; trimming affects marginal notes; leaf 2M8 torn, affecting printed marginalia; wormtrack. Annotations in early and modern hands ; signed "Liber Richardi Framptoni" on [fleuron]6v (crossed out), 2L4v and 3O2v. A translation, with some…

Choice of emblemes, and other devises

Title page
Contains 248 woodcut emblems within ornamental borders, gathered from earlier emblem books published by Plantin, including those of Alciato, Sambucus, Junius, and Paradin.

In verse.

The second part has divisional title page; pagination and…

Annales

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At foot of title: Cum priuilegio Regiæ maiestatis.

Short printed preliminaries, A-Y, and also probably 3A-3Y, 4O-4R; Kingston printed 2A-2Y; a third printer or compositor did 4A-4N (STC and addenda).

Includes index.

A variant of the edition…

The History of the civil wars between York and Lancaster

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With a final leaf of advertisements.

Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., 1983. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 120, no. 4.

The history of Berwick upon Tweed

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With a half-title page.

At the bottom of title page in square brackets: entered in Stationers Hall.

The appendix has separate pagination.

A generall historie of France

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A translation of: "Inventaire général de l'histoire de la France."

Supplemented mostly from works of Pierre Matthieu.

Engraved title-page, signed "Renold Elstrack sculpsit."

Text continuous despite pagination irregularities.

First leaf…

The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire

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Includes bibliographical references and general index in vol. 12.

The description of Britain

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"De situ Britannicae" by Charles Bertram, was a forgery claimed by him to have been copied from a manuscript written by Richard of Cirencester--National Union Catalog.

Translated by Henry Hatcher, the commentary by Thomas Leman--British Library…

Through the Yellowstone Park on horseback

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Folded map in pocket, bottom cover: Map of the Yellowstone National Park compiled from different official explorations and our personal survey, 1882 [by] Carl J. Hals and A. Rydström.

The tragedies, gathered by Ihon Bochas, of all such princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune since the creacion of Adam, vntil his time

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A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovanni. De casibus illustrium virorum.

Publication date conjectured by STC.

The eighth book begins new foliation on 2A1.

The last leaf, usually lacking, bears the title page to "A memorial of suche…

Fabyan's chronicle

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Title within woodcut border with printer's initials. Cf. McKerrow & Ferguson, no. 20.

Special title page for volume 2: The seconde volume of Fabyans cronycle conteynyng the cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, from the begynnyng of the reygne of…

Here beginneth the third and fourthe boke of syr Iohn froissart of the cronycles of Englande, fraunce, Spaygne, Portyngale Scotland, Bretayne, flaunders, and other places adioynyng

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A translation of books 3 and 4 of the "Chroniques."

The imprint, from colophon, is false; in fact printed by Thomas Marsh, ca. 1563?.

Imprimatur at foot of colophon: Cum priuilegio a rege in dulto.

Foliation irregular; actual foliation…

The first and second volumes of Chronicles

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Compiled by Holinshed, William Harrison, and Richard Stanyhurst. Edited by John Hooker, who continued the work to 1586, with the assistance of Francis Thynne on the Scottish continuations, and with Thynne, Abraham Fleming and John Stow on the other…