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Avgust chetyrnad︠t︡satogo (10-21 avgusta st. st.)
Solzheni︠t︡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich (1918-2008)
1971
The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of that kingdom, now existing, either by tenure, summons, or creation; their descents and collateral lines : their births, marriages, and issue : famous actions both in war and peace : religious and charitable donations : deaths, places of burial, monuments, epitaphs : and many valuable memoirs never before printed. Also their paternal coats of arms, crests, supporters and mottoes, curiously engraved on 200 copper-plates. Collected from records, old wills, authentic manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities, which are cited (v.4)
Collins, Arthur (1682?-1760)
MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Half-title: Mr. Collins's Peerage of England.
lace sampler
19th century
A pink embroidered rectangular sampler of drawn thread work designs in the centre surrounded by repeating floral motifs. All four sides of the ground fabric are neatly hemmed. The open woven cotton gr...
FARRELL Collection
[1800s], [after 1909]
Slides of engravings of Moscow and St Petersburg /1-12/. Note on provenance of 1-12 /13/.
A journal of the life of Thomas Story : containing, an account of his remarkable convincement of, and embracing the principles of truth, as held by the people called Quakers : and also, of his travels and labours in the service of the Gospel: with many other occurrences and observations
Story, Thomas (1662-1742)
1747
Includes index.
Sender: Bridger, J.A.D.
Recipient: Shorter, Clement King
Letters: 2
Date(s): 13 Jul 1925; 28 Jul 1925
Location: BC. Shorter correspondence
Title: [A distich under the signs of a public-house in Havering (index)]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: At Havering in Essex a man who kept the sign of the Leather-Bottle went to
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Witty pun on the words boar and (it seems) bore, in a drinking context