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With the Russians in Mongolia
Includes index.
Publisher's advertisements ([4] pages) and catalogue (16 pages) at end.
Publisher's advertisements ([4] pages) and catalogue (16 pages) at end.
The historie of France
A translation, by Edward Hoby, of books 1-4 of: La Popelinière, Lancelot-Voisin. L'histoire de France.
In the Huntington copy, the second Earl of Bridgewater has signed the name "Tho: Dannett" to the dedication.
Colophon reads: London printed…
In the Huntington copy, the second Earl of Bridgewater has signed the name "Tho: Dannett" to the dedication.
Colophon reads: London printed…
Tags: 16th century, folio, France, history, manuscript waste, purchase
The history of the bucaniers of America
Collation: v. 1: [6], 354 pages, [9] leaves of plates (incl. 3 folded maps); v. 2: [2], 406, [24] pages.
Exquemelin's "De americaensche zee-roovers," Amsterdam, 1678, was translated into Spanish in 1681 and thence by an anonymous translator into…
Exquemelin's "De americaensche zee-roovers," Amsterdam, 1678, was translated into Spanish in 1681 and thence by an anonymous translator into…
The History of the Revolution in Sweden
Originally published as 'Histoire des révolutions de Suède'.
Tags: 18th century, history, map, octavo, Sweden, Woolf gift
Itinera mundi
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.
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.
Tags: 17th century, geography, Hebrew, Islam, Judaism, Latin, quarto, Schulich gift
Picturesque antiquities of Scotland
In two parts, each with separate pagination and register.
Intended as a supplement to Pennant's Tour in Scotland.
The letter press descriptions are by the artist. Each unnumbered leaf has an illustration and letterpress text.…
Intended as a supplement to Pennant's Tour in Scotland.
The letter press descriptions are by the artist. Each unnumbered leaf has an illustration and letterpress text.…
An essay on the history of civil society
An essay on the history of civil society / By Adam Ferguson, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.
Tags: 18th century, history, octavo, social science, Woolf gift
Pictures of English history
Vol. 1: [1] leaf, 96 p., [48] leaves of plates; v. 2: [1] leaf, 96 p., [48] leaves of plates. Copper-engraved plates.
History of Europe from the commencement of the French revolution in 1789, to the restoration of the Bourbons in 1815
List of authorities: volume 1, pages vii-xi.
Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt libri XVIII
Title in red and black; engraved printer's device; numismatic illustration (page 2, 2nd sequence); includes index.
Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, and historical.
Essays on Shakespeare's female characters. Published also under the title: Shakespeare's Heroines.
North Bay, the gateway to silverland
"These three books in one are to be sent to Public Libraries, into every part of the world ..."--page [3].
With: The real Cobalt / by Anson A. Gard. Toronto : The Emerson Press, 1908.
With: Silverland and its stories / by Anson A. Gard.…
With: The real Cobalt / by Anson A. Gard. Toronto : The Emerson Press, 1908.
With: Silverland and its stories / by Anson A. Gard.…
Observations introductory to an historical essay upon the Knighthood of the Bath
The first unnumbered leaf contains an advertisement and errata.
A reissue of that "printed for James Woodman, and sold by J. Roberts" with reset titlepage.
Signatures: [A]2 B-M4, 2A-2O4
A reissue of that "printed for James Woodman, and sold by J. Roberts" with reset titlepage.
Signatures: [A]2 B-M4, 2A-2O4
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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…