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... Written in imitation of Swift's Advice to Servants ,? perhaps by Captain Grose . " Another copy . Roy . 8vo . maroon morocco , extra , gilt top , uncut . New York , 1867 . ONE OF 5 COPIES on Drawing Paper . 13 AENEAS SILVIUS ...
... Written in imitation of Swift's Advice to Servants ,? perhaps by Captain Grose . " Another copy . Roy . 8vo . maroon morocco , extra , gilt top , uncut . New York , 1867 . ONE OF 5 COPIES on Drawing Paper . 13 AENEAS SILVIUS ...
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... & c . Illustrated . Post 8vo . cloth . Philadelphia , 1859 . 104 AUBREY , JOHN . LETTERS WRITTEN by EMINENT PERSONS in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries ; to which are added , Hearne Journeys to Reading and to Whaddon Hall ; also lives 11.
... & c . Illustrated . Post 8vo . cloth . Philadelphia , 1859 . 104 AUBREY , JOHN . LETTERS WRITTEN by EMINENT PERSONS in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries ; to which are added , Hearne Journeys to Reading and to Whaddon Hall ; also lives 11.
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... writing , is a blot on her reputation for judgment and ability , which was so great that Charles II . thought fit to entrust her with the conduct of some political affairs in Holland . 162 BEHN , MRS . APHRA . The Emperor of the Moon ...
... writing , is a blot on her reputation for judgment and ability , which was so great that Charles II . thought fit to entrust her with the conduct of some political affairs in Holland . 162 BEHN , MRS . APHRA . The Emperor of the Moon ...
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... written by the forefathers of the natives whom we call Indians ( who are a remnant of the Tribe of Joseph ) by Charles Thompson . 16mo . cloth , rare . Battavia , N. Y. , 1841 . 251 BOOK OF VARIETIE , collected by Dr. Thomas Purland ...
... written by the forefathers of the natives whom we call Indians ( who are a remnant of the Tribe of Joseph ) by Charles Thompson . 16mo . cloth , rare . Battavia , N. Y. , 1841 . 251 BOOK OF VARIETIE , collected by Dr. Thomas Purland ...
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... written after the author's renunciation of the Catho- lic Faith , and gave great offence to the Roman Catholics from the freedom of its exposures . 263 BOXIANA ; or , SKETCHES of PUGILISM . A series of upwards of 70 portraits of ...
... written after the author's renunciation of the Catho- lic Faith , and gave great offence to the Roman Catholics from the freedom of its exposures . 263 BOXIANA ; or , SKETCHES of PUGILISM . A series of upwards of 70 portraits of ...
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Page 231 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 185 - In the first two volumes is a History of England, from the death of Henry III. to the death of Henry V., by Thomas Walsingham, Precentor of St. Albans, from MS.
Page 183 - I., about the year 1282. 18. A COLLECTION OF ROYAL AND HISTORICAL LETTERS DURING THE REIGN OF HENRY IV. 1399-1404. Edited by the Rev. FC HINGESTON, MA, of Exeter College, Oxford. 1860. This volume, like all the others in the series containing a miscellaneous selection of letters, is valuable on account of the light it throws upon biographical history, and the familiar view it presents of characters, manners, and events.
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Page 186 - ENGLAND ; being a Collection of Documents illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vols. I., II., and III. Collected and edited by the Rev. T. OSWALD COCKAYNE, MA, of St. John's College, Cambridge. 1864-1866. This work illustrates not only the history of science, but the history of superstition. In addition to the...
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Page 186 - Year Books" contain reports in Norman-French of cases argued and decided in the Courts of Common Law. They may be considered to a great extent as the " lex non scripta " of England, and have been held in the highest veneration by the ancient sages of the law, and were received by them as the repositories of the first recorded judgments and dicta of the great legal luminaries of past ages.
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Page 183 - The manuscript, a folio volume, is also preserved in the Record Room of the City of London, though some portion in its original state, borrowed from the City in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and never returned, forms part of the Cottonian MS.