The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing...George Bell & Sons, 1859 - English literature |
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Page 908 - The Origin of Laws, Arts and Sciences, and their Progress among the Most Ancient Nations, Translated from the French of the President de Goguet.
Page 884 - GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete and unabridged, with variorum Notes ; including those of Guizot, Wenck, Niebuhr, Hugo, Neander, and others. 7 vols.
Page 846 - DIBDIN. 2 vols. in 1. 7s. 6& Hewitt's (Mary) Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons. Embodying the whole of Aiken's Calendar of Nature. Upwards of 100 Engravings. (Mary and William) Stories of English and Foreign Life. Twenty beautiful Engravings.
Page 844 - Every Day in the Year. Taylor's (Bishop Jeremy) Holy Living and Dying. Portrait. Thierry's Conquest of England by the Normans. Translated by WILLIAM HAZLITT. Portrait. In 2 vols. Tiers Etat, or Third Estate, in France.
Page 844 - In 2 vols. Smith's (Adam) Theory of the Moral Sentiments ; with his Essay on the First Formation of Languages. Smyth's (Professor) Lectures on Modern History. In 2 vols. Lectures on the French Eevolution.
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