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... original oak boards , covered with leather , 4l . 4s . Nuremberga , per A. Coburger , 1478 Coburger was one of the most distinguished , as well as the most active , Printers of the XVth century , for within the space of 26 years he ...
... original oak boards , covered with leather , 4l . 4s . Nuremberga , per A. Coburger , 1478 Coburger was one of the most distinguished , as well as the most active , Printers of the XVth century , for within the space of 26 years he ...
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... original , are in this copy supplied in admirable fac- simile , else this volume is in a sound , clean and perfect state . 19 BIBLE . The Holy Byble , conteining the Olde Testament and the Newe . ( The Bishops ' Version . ) Black letter ...
... original , are in this copy supplied in admirable fac- simile , else this volume is in a sound , clean and perfect state . 19 BIBLE . The Holy Byble , conteining the Olde Testament and the Newe . ( The Bishops ' Version . ) Black letter ...
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... original morocco binding , gilt back with centre ornament on the sides in gold , gilt leaves , 4l . 10s . Camb . 1763 Dr. Cotton says in reference to this Bible , " I insert this edition , on account of the deserved celebrity of its ...
... original morocco binding , gilt back with centre ornament on the sides in gold , gilt leaves , 4l . 10s . Camb . 1763 Dr. Cotton says in reference to this Bible , " I insert this edition , on account of the deserved celebrity of its ...
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... original sheep binding , 7s . 6d . 1684 30 BUNYAN ( J. ) The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus , for the regaining of the Metropolis of the World , or the losing and taking again of the Town of Mansoul . With an Advertisement and ...
... original sheep binding , 7s . 6d . 1684 30 BUNYAN ( J. ) The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus , for the regaining of the Metropolis of the World , or the losing and taking again of the Town of Mansoul . With an Advertisement and ...
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... original sheep binding , with singular portrait , RARE , 20s . At the end is a list of Fuller's works , occupying 3 leaves . 1661 43 GENTLEMAN's Calling ( The ) , FIRST EDITION , brilliant impressions of the frontispiece , engraved ...
... original sheep binding , with singular portrait , RARE , 20s . At the end is a list of Fuller's works , occupying 3 leaves . 1661 43 GENTLEMAN's Calling ( The ) , FIRST EDITION , brilliant impressions of the frontispiece , engraved ...
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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.