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The letters of the late William Cowper, esq. to his friends

Cowper, William (1731-1800); Johnson, John (1833)

1827

Added t.p., engr.

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Archive Print Item: BC NCC SCA

Le romant comique, de Mr. Scarron (v.1)

Scarron, Paul (1610-1660); Girault, Jean (1683); Offray, Antoine

[1680?]

Engraved t.-p., title vignette, initials and tail-piece.

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Archive Print Item: BC NCC SCA

Le romant comique, de Mr. Scarron (v.2-3)

Scarron, Paul (1610-1660); Girault, Jean (1683); Offray, Antoine

[1680?]

Engraved t.-p., title vignette, initials and tail-piece.

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Archive Print Item: BC NCC BAC

The essays, or, Councils, civil and moral

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)

1706

"Of the colours of good and evil" has half-title; "The wisdom of the ancients" has special t.p. with date 1705. These two pieces have their own pagination, but the signatures run continuously through ...

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Archive Print Item: BC NCC/ALD

The sisters' tragedy : with other poems, lyrical and dramatic

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)

1891, c1890

Title vignette.

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Archive Print Item: BC NCC/MAR

Contes moraux (v.1)

Marmontel, Jean-François (1723-1799)

1798

Contents: t.1. Alcibiade; ou, Le moi. Soliman II. Le scrupule; ou, L'Amour mécontent de lui-même. Les quatre flacons; ou, Les aventures d'Alcidonis de Mégare. Lausus et Lydie. Le mari sylphe. Heure...

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Archive Print Item: BC NCC/MAR

Contes moraux (v.2)

Marmontel, Jean-François (1723-1799)

1798

Contents: t.1. Alcibiade; ou, Le moi. Soliman II. Le scrupule; ou, L'Amour mécontent de lui-même. Les quatre flacons; ou, Les aventures d'Alcidonis de Mégare. Lausus et Lydie. Le mari sylphe. Heure...

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Archive Print Item: BC NCC/MAR

Contes moraux (v.3)

Marmontel, Jean-François (1723-1799)

1798

Contents: t.1. Alcibiade; ou, Le moi. Soliman II. Le scrupule; ou, L'Amour mécontent de lui-même. Les quatre flacons; ou, Les aventures d'Alcidonis de Mégare. Lausus et Lydie. Le mari sylphe. Heure...

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Archive Print part: BC NCC/CHA

Undine

La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de (1777-1843); Tracy, Thomas (1781-1872); Tenniel, Sir John (1820-1914)

[1845]

The illustrations are thought to be by Tenniel. The t.p. is engraved.

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Archive Print Item: BC NCC BRU

An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile : Abridged from the original work

Bruce, James (1730-1794); Shaw, Samuel of Edinburgh; Symonds, H D (1784-1808)

[1800?]

Running title: Shaw's abridgement of Bruce's travels. Signatures: A-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa⁴ Bbb². Date cited from BMC. 4th ed. by Symonds dated 1800. Cf. Nat. Union Ct. Pre-56 imprints. T.p. ver...

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Archive Print part: BC NCC Mus/REI

Petites etudes sur des bagatelles : forming a series of familiar and entertaining movements for the piano-forte, in which the passages are so constructed as to give continued exertion to the weaker fingers, promoting facility of execution with equality of touch

Stokes, Charles

[18--]

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Archive Print part: BC NCC Mus/REI

Galatea dry thy tears : a celebrated chorus from Acis and Galatea

Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759); Holder, Joseph William

[184-?]

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