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... Cost the late owner 427. unbound . Paris , 1823-26 116 BERRETINUS ( P. ) Tabule Anatomicæ , 27 finely engraved plates , with descriptions . Folio , " bound in the very best man- ner , in the finest russia , of the true Russian colour ...
... Cost the late owner 427. unbound . Paris , 1823-26 116 BERRETINUS ( P. ) Tabule Anatomicæ , 27 finely engraved plates , with descriptions . Folio , " bound in the very best man- ner , in the finest russia , of the true Russian colour ...
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... ( cost 41. 48. ) Folio , cloth , Îl . 18 . 1829 125 ISOGRAPHIE DES HOMMES CÉLÉBRES , ou Collection de Facsimiles de lettres Autographes et de Signatures dont les originaux se trouvent à la Bibliothéque du Roi , aux Archives du royaume ...
... ( cost 41. 48. ) Folio , cloth , Îl . 18 . 1829 125 ISOGRAPHIE DES HOMMES CÉLÉBRES , ou Collection de Facsimiles de lettres Autographes et de Signatures dont les originaux se trouvent à la Bibliothéque du Roi , aux Archives du royaume ...
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... ( cost 27. 128. 6d . ) 1840 127 BONETTI ( G. B. ) Writing Book ( in Italian ) with Specimens of Flourishing , and numerous Drawings of Figures , Ani- mals , Birds , & c . with Pen and Ink . folio , sewed , 17 . Sm . MANUScript . 1619 128 ...
... ( cost 27. 128. 6d . ) 1840 127 BONETTI ( G. B. ) Writing Book ( in Italian ) with Specimens of Flourishing , and numerous Drawings of Figures , Ani- mals , Birds , & c . with Pen and Ink . folio , sewed , 17 . Sm . MANUScript . 1619 128 ...
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... ( cost 187. ) 97 . 1849 At the end is appended a very useful " List of some of the most remarkable Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages , " both in Eng- lish and Foreign Collections , arranged according to dates . 136 LE MOINE ...
... ( cost 187. ) 97 . 1849 At the end is appended a very useful " List of some of the most remarkable Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages , " both in Eng- lish and Foreign Collections , arranged according to dates . 136 LE MOINE ...
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... ( cost 107. 10s . ) 61. 10s . 1833 141 TAYLOR ( S. ) A Standard for an Universal System of Steno- graphy or Short - hand Writing , whereby a Person , in a few days , may instruct himself to write Short - hand correctly . 8vo . calf neat ...
... ( cost 107. 10s . ) 61. 10s . 1833 141 TAYLOR ( S. ) A Standard for an Universal System of Steno- graphy or Short - hand Writing , whereby a Person , in a few days , may instruct himself to write Short - hand correctly . 8vo . calf neat ...
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Page 46 - An Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of Engraving upon Copper and in Wood ; with an Account of Engravers and their Works, from the Invention of Chalcography by Maso Finiguerra, to the Time of Marc' Antonio Raimondi ; including Observations on some of the first Books ornamented with Wood-cuts.
Page 68 - 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 170 - mend his native country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take.
Page 85 - WILSON'S AMERICAN' ORNITHOLOGY; or, Natural History of the Birds of the United States ; with the Continuation by Prince CHARLES LUCIAN BONAPARTE.
Page 122 - The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Bookes : The first of POETS and POESIE, the second of PROPORTION, the third of ORNAMENT.
Page 2 - The Appellation of John Knoxe from the cruell and most unjust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishoppes and clergie of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobilitie, estates, and comunalitic of the same realme.
Page 118 - The | pleasauntest workes of George | Gascoigne Esquyre: Newlye \ compyled into one Volume, | That is to say: \ His Flowers, Hearbes, Weedes, the Fruites of | warre, the Comedie called Supposes, the | Tragedie of Jocasta, the Steele glasse, ] the Complaint of Phyloment, the | Storie of Ferdinando Jeronimi, \ and the pleasure at Ke-|nelworth Castle.
Page 133 - Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English ; their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the Kingdom of France as well as in other countries.
Page 35 - A Full and Impartial Account of the Discovery of Sorcery and Witchcraft Practised by Jane Wenham of Walkerne, in Hertfordshire, upon the Bodies of Anne Thorn, Anne Street, &c.
Page 56 - It is impossible for me to conceive a work which ought to be more interesting to the present age than that which exhibits before ' our eyes our ' fathers as they lived,' accompanied with such memorials of then.