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Die ritterliche vnnd lobwirdige Reyss des Gestrengen und uber all ander weit erfarnen Ritter vnd Landtfahrer Herrn Ludouico Vartomans von Bolonia

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Signatures: A-Cc4;
Woodcut on title page, 46 woodcuts in the text by Jörg Breu the Elder (including two full page), title printed in red and black, woodcut tailpiece.
Gothic letter.

Heliodorus his Aethopian history

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Translated by Thomas Underdown, edited by William Barret.

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 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…

History of Wheatfield.

Title page
Anonymous. By John Clubbe.

A skit on Philip Morant's "The History and Antiquities of the ... town and borough of Colchester."

Itinera mundi

Title page
First 3 words of title in Hebrew characters.

Hebrew and Latin in parallel columns.

"Tractatus Alberti Bobovii Turcarum imp. Mohammedis IVti olim interpretis primarii, De Turcarum liturgia" has separate title page, dated 1690, and pagination.

Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ

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"R. B." is sometimes identified with Richard Braithwaite.

Page 570 misnumbered 562.

Includes index.

Le parlement de Bourgongne

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With half-title and added engraved title-page. Illustrated with engraved coats-of-arms. Includes index.

Life and raigne of K. Henrie the fourth

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The first 100 pages are devoted chiefly to the preceding reign of Richard II. Dedication signed: I. Hayvvarde. The imprint is false; printed by Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet, 1629?--STC. Running title reads: The life and raigne of K. Henrie the…

Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England

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Dedication signed: I. Hayvvard. Printer's name from STC. Signatures: A-2Q? 2R. "Escapes" (i.e., errata)--page 314.

Nottinghamia vetus et nova : or, An historical account of the ancient and present state of the town of Nottingham

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A list of the knights of the shire and burgesses of the town, copied from Prynne's Parliamentary writs, from the 23rd of Edward I. to the 16th Charles I.: 6 leaves between pages 208 and 209.

Supplement to the first edition of the historical account of The environs of London

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This work is the second supplement to Lysons' "The environs of London" ... A first supplement was published in 1800 ... The imprint of Strahan and Preston appears on the verso of the title-leaf and on page 493.

: 'The present volume contains all…