Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres: Haa-Myv

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Page 257 - Testament!,' with 90 wood-cuts beautifully engraved. Crown 8vo. half bound morocco, 1(. Is. A few copies printed entirely on India paper, 2J. 2s. THE DANCE OF DEATH, exhibited in fifty-five elegant Engravings on Wood, with a Dissertation on the several Representations of that Subject; more particularly on those attributed to MACABER and HOLBEIN, by FRANCIS DOUCE, FSA 8vo.
Page 53 - Tower Menagerie; comprising the Natural History of the Animals contained in that Establishment, with Anecdotes of their Characters and History. Illustrated by Portraits of each, taken from life, by William Harvey, [and engraved on Wood by Branston and Wright.
Page 679 - An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus lately existing at Isernia in the Kingdom of Naples; to which is added, a Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its connexion with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients, 4to, 1786.
Page 69 - THE LIFE OF SHEIKH MOHAMMED ALI HAZIN, Written by Himself : translated from two Persian Manuscripts, and illustrated with Notes explanatory of the History, Poetry, Geography, &c. which therein occur. By FC BELFOUR, MA Oxon, Sic. &c. In Demy Octavo ; 10».
Page 51 - Cornwallis). Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa. Delineated from Life in their Native Haunts, during a Hunting Expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 and 1837, with Sketches of the Field Sports.
Page 183 - Discours ample et tres véritable conten. les plus mémorables faits advenuz en l'année 1587, tant en l'armée commandée par le duc de Guyse, qu'en celle des Huguenots conduite par le duc de Bouillon, envoyé par un gentilhomme françois à la Royne d'Angleterre (par De la Chastre, gouverneur de Bourges).
Page 163 - CELTIC DRUIDS; Or, an Attempt to show that the Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies, who emigrated from India, and were the Introducers of the First or Cadmean System of Letters, and the Builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of other Cyclopean works in Asia and Europe.
Page 597 - D'OHSSON : Histoire des Mongols, depuis TchingiHZ-khan jusqu'à Tamerlan; 4 vol. in-8". La Haye, 1334. Par M. JULIEN : le Livre des récompenses et des peines, en chinois et en français, accompagné de quatre cents légendes, anecdotes et histoires, qui font connaître les doctrines, les croyances et les mœurs de la secte des Tao-ssé; traduit du chinois par Stanislas JULIEN, de l'Institut; 1 volume in-8° de 560 pages, imprimé aux frais du comité oriental de Londres.
Page 685 - Description du Musée de feu Le Prince Basile Kotschoubey d'après son catalogue manuscrit et recherches sur l'histoire et la numismatique des colonies grecques en Russie, ainsi que des royaumes du Pont et du Bosphore Cimmérien, vol.
Page 17 - PRINCIPALL NAVIGATIONS. VOIAGES, AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION, made by Sea or over Land to the most remote and farthest distant Quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres ; Devided into three several!

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