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THE HISTORY OF ALL RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD ... A Table of HERESIES as also a Geographical Map shewing in what countrey [sic] each religion is practiced.
by Turner, William
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- 1695
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London: John Dunton, 1695. Hardcover. Good. Diagram and illustrated diagrams [3] + Map showing in which country each religion is practised. . Octavo brown leather on 4 raised bands (covers detached, edges worn) [16]pp includes Titlepage in red and black +dedication + to reader + index] +240pp +237-307pp + blank page +[2 leaves inserted before 2nd part] 309-684pp.… Read more about this item Item Price
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AULICUS COQUINARIAE or a vindication in Answer to a pamphlet entituled [sic] The Court and Character of King James. Pretended to be penned by Sir A.W. and published since his death,1650.
by Anonymous [by Sanderson, Sir William ] [1585 - 1676]
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- 1650
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London: Henry Seile, 1650. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo (142x87mm) leather (rebacked/worn to edges/scuffed). Titlepage framed with printer's ornaments, verso with errata within printer's ornaments + [4p= Preface] + [2p= Contents] +205pp. With a few ornamental headers and decorative initial capitals. Pp117 slightly torn on bottom right but without significant loss of text, otherwise all 205 pages present. * The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Chronicles of England
by Doyle, James E (1822-1892)
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- 1864
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Pr. Edmund Evans: Longmans, Green & c 1st edition, 1864. Colour-printed text illus. (81) by Jas. E Doyle. 4to overall gt.cl.signed Timbury (rebacked, recornered/rubbed & gt.lines renewed at tips) AEG; viii+462pgs; Inscr.for Xmas 1863 *Illus.from up to 10 blocks printed by hand (last book Evans printed on handpress DNB Vict.Binding in McLean p.114 Evans called this his most carefully… Read more about this item Item Price
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OBSERVATIONES MEDICAE
by Tulpius, Nicolai (1593-1674) [ Nicolas Tulp]
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- 1685
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Amsterdam: Henr.Wetstenium [reimpt=ression of Daniel Elsevir], 1685. Hardcover. Good. full pages engravings in the text [18 numbered plates + one other full page unnumbered at page 178 + one text illustration [Siamese twins]. Octavo leather spined boards with plum colored buckram sides. Vi [of viii] the missing title & plate +382pp This is a reimpression of the new… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE SEASONS
by Thomson, James (1700-1748)
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- 1768
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Edinburgh: Kincaid, Bell & Robertson, 1768. Hardcover. Good. Plates (2) [of 5] Spring & Summer, by Thos. Donaldson.. 12mo speckled leather on 5 raised bands with red gilt title label to spine [one hinge split at top 2 compartments but held by 1st & 2nd cords rest of hinges good, tips worn, lower cover marked). Title leaf +xxxviii… Read more about this item Item Price
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Chronicle of England
by Doyle, James E. (1822-1892)
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- 1864
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Pr.Edmund Evans: Longmans,Green &c 1st edition, 1864. Colour-printed text illustrations (81) by James.E. Doyle.. 4to full red gilt morocco with royal crest and tudor rose emblems rasied faux bands (tips sl.worn) All Edges Gilt; viii+462pgs; glue marks to gutter of Title. A few marks to early pages. Front inner hinge repaired and free EP re-inserted on a stub else… Read more about this item Item Price
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QUINCTI HORATII FLACCI VENUSINI POETAE LYRICI POEMATA OMNIA Quibus respondet index Th. Treteri nuper excusus.
by Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus)
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- 1576, 1575
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Antwerp: Christophori Plantini (Idibus Martii), 1576, 1575. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo (175x115mm) blindstamped pigskin on wooden boards with 4 raised bands to spine and rolled tools of named bust portraits surrounding both covers + central crucifixion scene with 3 male onlookers to cover, Ressurection of Christ to rear cover + one of two decorated clasps and part… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE NEW AND IMPROVED PRACTICAL GARDENER and modern Horticulturist exhibiting the latest and most approved management of Kitchen, Fruit,and Flower Gardens, the Green-House, Hot-house,Conservatory &c, fir every month in the year. Enriched with numerous wood-cuts and illustrations…
by M'Intosh,Charles (1794-1864)
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- 1839
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London: Thomas Kelly, 1839. Hardcover. Good. hand colored plates [10] with multiple flowers + portrait frontis of the author + text illustrations.. Large Octavo marbled calf [rebacked by overlaying spine with a piece of newer leather/corners worn/covers scratched] All Edges Marbled. Portrait +iv [=titlepage + Preface] +972pp including Index. Frontis with some staining, the recto having newspaper garden… Read more about this item Item Price
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L'HISTOIRE DU MONDE Collationnée & corrigée sur plusieurs vieux exemplaires latins, tant imprimez, qu'escrits à la main & enrichie d'annotations en marge, servans à la conference & declaration des anciens & modernes noms de villes, regions, simples & autres lieux & termes obscurs comprins en icelle. A quoi a esté adiousté un traicté des poids & mésures antiques, reduites à la façon des François... Le tout mis en françois par Antoine du Pinet.
by Pliny (C. Plinius Secundus)
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- 1625
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Geneva [Switzerland]: Stoer, 1625. Hardcover. Good. Woodcut printer's mark to titlepage. . TWO volumes in ONE small Quarto [in 8's] half vellum with some wrinkling (vellum browned and edges sl. worn) 54pp (inc. titlepage) + 533pp + [216]pp =Index, Title to part II +[20]pp + 624pp + [140]pp =Index. The titlepage mounted on old paper and the following… Read more about this item Item Price
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GEDICHTE UND LATEINISCHE ANSCHRIFTEN des Kaiserl. Raths, und Medallien- und Antiquita¨ten - Inspectors Herrn Carl Gustav Hera¨us, [BOUND WITH] Heraei INSCRIPTIONES ET SYMBOLA VARII ARGUMENTI.
by Heraeus, Carl Gustav [1671-1730]
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- 1721, 1721
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Nurnberg [Germany}: Peter Conrad Monath, 1721, 1721. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontisplate + titlepage vignette + full page pictorial dedicatio + 1 fullpage plate + 10 text illustrations + 48 text illustrations +7 multi folding plates + 6 full-page plates Engravings by J.A. Delsenbach & Andreas Nunzer.. 2 VOLUMES IN ONE Octavo half tan leather on 5 raised bands… Read more about this item Item Price
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OPUSCULA (contents lists 72 titles + Life of St.Thomas)
by Aquinas, Saint Thomas or Thome Aquinatis
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- 1490 7th Sept.
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Venice: Hermann Lichtenstein Coloniensis, 1490 7th Sept.. Hardcover. Very Good-. Guide Letters in red and blue + red and blue markers (several hundred) . Quarto (244x175mm) blindstamped pig spined wooden boards with 2 working clasps old,but not original, ink title to spine on 5 raised double cords (repair to foot of spine/ old copper strengthening to lower board… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE WORLD IN MINIATURE ... SWITZERLAND; containing a description of the character, manners, customs, diversions, dress, &c. of the people of that country in general, and of the inhabitants of the twenty-two cantons in particular. Illustrated by eighteen coloured engravings.
by Shoberl, Frederic (editor)
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- 1827 acc. to British Library
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London: R. Ackermann, 1827 acc. to British Library. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured plates (18) inc. several Zurich, 3 Friburg, & Berne frontis with 5 ladies. . 1st edition, 12mo half leather blind-tooled and on 4 gilt raised bands with red spine label, marbled paper sides {tips rubbed] vi +[2p=contents & plate list] + 287pp. Some isolated foxing and… Read more about this item Item Price
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JOURNAL OF A TOUR AND RESIDENCE IN GREAT BRITAIN during the years 1810 and 1811… with Remarks ON The Country, Its Arts, Literature, And Politics, And On The Manners And Customs Of Its Inhabitants. Volume First +[ Volume Second]
by by a french Traveller [=Simond, Louis ]
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- 1815, 1815
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Edinburgh: Constable and Company & Longman,Hurst.Rees,Orme,and Brown, London, 1815, 1815. Hardcover. Good. aquatint plates [21 with pink background] + 2 folding tables + text illustrations [12].. TWO Volumes Octavo Gilt tan Diced leather with gilt spine titles and floral & key-pattern decoration, gilt panel rules to covers & gilt reverses & dentelles (tips worn more so to 2nd… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ROGUE: or THE LIFE OF GUZMAN DE ALFARACHE Written in Spanish by Matheo Aleman, servant to his Catholike Majestie, and borne in Sevill.
by Alema´n, Mateo (1547-1614?) [translated by Don Diego Puede-ser, i.e. James Mabbe (1572-1642?)]
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- 1623 and 1633
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London: Printed [by Eliot's Court Press and George Eld] for Edward Blount (1623) & Robert Allott (2nd part 1633)., 1623 and 1633. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. . Folio (29x20cm) bound in near contemporary leather, neatly re-backed with gilt spine title, tips bumped. Two Parts in 1 Volume, [24], 267,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Seraphici Doctoris S. Patris Ioannis Eustachii Bonaventurae Ordinis Minorum, Episcopi Albanensis, & S.R.E. olim Cardinalis Opusculorum Theologicorum TOMUS PRIMUS [Vol II secundus]. Accesserunt nunc eiusdem S. Patris aliqui mirae eruditionis, ac sanctitatis libelli, qui iam temporum iniuria pene interciderant .. Omnia iussu R.P.F. Francisci Zamorae, eiusdem ordinis Generalis Ministri, a mendis innumeris, quibus hucus que scatebant, summa diligentia, atque vigilantia repurgata, [et] in lucem edita. …
by Bonaventure, Saint and Cardinal (approx. 1217-1274)
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- 1572
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Venice: Apud Hieronymum Scotus., 1572. Hardcover. Good. Vignettes . 2 vol, 30cm-15cm aprox, Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, vignette on dedication leaf, Bassano, 1767--HAROLD FRANCIS. Engraved frontispiece in volume one, spines defective on both vols, occasional light dampstaining. Pantasaph Monastery small circular stamp on titles, contemporary vellum, soiled and worn, folio. *Theoligcal essays… Read more about this item Item Price
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HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. A la louenge de Dieu et de la tressaincte et glorieuse vierge Marie et a l'edification de tous bons catholiques ont esté commencées ces presentes heures a l'usaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir. Auec ung commun antiennes suffrages et oraisons de plusieurs sainctz et sainctes selon ledit usaige et plusieurs aultres comme on verra en la table. Imprimees a Paris par Gillet Hardouyn libraire demourant au bout du pont nostre Dame devant sainct Denis de la chartres a l'enseign de la Rose.
by Catholic Church
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- 1509 approx.
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Paris: Gillet Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn., 1509 approx.. Hardcover. Good. Hand-coloured illuminations to EACH PAGE with 18 full page illustrations hand coloured and many smaller cuts in addition to the floral borders. . Octavo (205x132mm) in 18th century brown calf with gilt title HEURES ANTIQUE and decorated edges (corners & spine tips very worn), printed on parchment (gothic… Read more about this item Item Price
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SACRAE LITANIAE VARIAE. Quibus parva officia singulis hebdomadae diebus congruentia praeponuntur. Cum Previ piaque quotidiana exercitatione in gratiam Catholicorum. Ensemble l'Office de la Conception. Avec les Rubriques en Francois.
by Anon
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- 1648
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Paris: Sebastien Hure, 1648. Good. copperplates (8 full-page) + TP copperplate + 2 large woodcuts printed in two colors as well as all pages printed in red and black with large capitals in red or black,words in red all within red rules.. 105 x 55mm disbound ALL EDGES GILT (gilt worn) 382pp+(ii)of index. BOUND WITH: Coton's ORAISONS DEVOTES,… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE PRISONER OF CHILLON Illuminated by W & G AUDSLEY Architects.
by Byron, Lord George Gordon (1788-1824)
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- 1865
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London: Day & Son, 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Chromolith illustrations to each page by W. R. Tymms from illuminations by W. & G. Audsley.. Folio purple gilt cloth with green onlays bevelled boards (tips sl.worn) 20 leaves. One page with clean 3.5" tear with old neat repair to verso and hardly visible to the printed surface. Lacks free… Read more about this item Item Price
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HORAZENS BRIEFE aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt und mit historischer Einleitung und andern nöthigen Erläuterungen versehen. Erster Theil. Der neuen, verbesserten, mit dem Originale begleiteten Ausgabe. Zweyte Aufl.
by Wieland, C.M. (1733-1813) [Christoph Martin Wieland]
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- 1801
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Leipzig: Weidmannischen Buchhandlung 2nd edition, 1801. Good. Octavo marbled paper covered card with a faded spine label (edges quite rubbed) [16]pp (title +dedication) +332pp. Each chapter begins with an introduction followed by German translation and Latin original poem and ending in a section of explanatory matter. *First edition of this work published in Dessau in 1782. Wieland was… Read more about this item Item Price
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FACTION DISPLAY'D a Poem from a corrected Copy.
by Anon. [But the author was William Shippen 1673-1743]
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- 1709
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London: H.Hills, 1709. Good. Octavo 19th century disbound. 16pp. This issue with the the second line of imprint starting under the N of "and" in the first line of imprint. There is also an issue with the line starting under the R of "Printed" Initially attributed to Matthew Prior who denied he was the author it is also… Read more about this item Item Price
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