Catalogue of Elegant and Rare Books from the Libraries of Two Well-known Collectors, [etc., Etc.]: Including Many Books in Rich and Costly Bindings, [etc., Etc.]1900 - 80 pages |
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Page 42 - Facsimile of the laws and acts of the General Assembly for their Majesties Province of NewYork, etc., etc.
Page 51 - Elia : Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine.
Page 77 - Nouvelles recherches sur les derniers voyages du navigateur florentin, et le reste des documents et éclaircissements sur lui.
Page 71 - LAON AND CYTHNA; or, The Revolution of the Golden City. A Vision of the Nineteenth Century.
Page 73 - A Relation of the Invasion and Conquest of Florida by the Spaniards, under the Command of Fernando de Soto, written in Portuguese by a Gentleman of the Town of Elvas.
Page 22 - Tryumphant Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London, being the 15 of March, 1603.
Page 42 - Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England.
Page 43 - CATALOGUE OF BOOKS from the Libraries or Collections of Celebrated Bibliophiles and Illustrious Persons of the Past, with Arms or Devices upon the Bindings.
Page 13 - Without doubt one of the most curious volumes ever compiled. The author has been to the pains of bringing together everything he could meet with of the treatment of the human body by different nations, ancient and modern, in the New World as well as the old, according to the dictates of fashion, vice, or custom.
Page 24 - ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666. AN HISTORICAL POEM; CONTAINING THE PROGRESS AND VARIOUS SUCCESSES OF OUR NAVAL WAR WITH HOLLAND UNDER THE CONDUCT OF HI8 HIGHNE88 PRINCE RUPERT AND HI8 GRACE THE DUKE OF ALBEMARLE, AND DESCRIBING THE FIRE OF LONDON. ' Multum interest res poscat, an homines latius imperare velint.