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Total number of records: 174

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Brotherton Collection174
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Herbert Read Collection17
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Livy19
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Tacitus, Cornelius11
Freinsheim, Johann10
Freinsheim, Johann (1608-1660)10
Le Clerc, Jean10

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The comic history of Rome

A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856); Leech, John (1817-1864)

[1897?]

Title page in red and black; title vignette repeated on front board. Full-page hand-colored steel etchings and 98 smaller wood engravings; historiated initials. "London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. LD....

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The history of the revolutions that happened in the government of the Roman Republic (v.1)

Vertot abbé de (1655-1735); Ozell, John (1743)

1720

With a frontispiece and a final leaf of errata in vol.1; vol.2 has half-title conjugate with title-leaf, but no frontispiece.

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The history of the revolutions that happened in the government of the Roman Republic (v.2)

Vertot abbé de (1655-1735); Ozell, John (1743)

1720

With a frontispiece and a final leaf of errata in vol.1; vol.2 has half-title conjugate with title-leaf, but no frontispiece.

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Memoirs of the court of Augustus (v.1)

Blackwell, Thomas (1701-1757); Mills, John (fl. 1760)

1753-1763

Vol. III: "... continued and completed from the original papers of the late Thomas Blackwell ... by John Mills, esq.

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Memoirs of the court of Augustus (v.2)

Blackwell, Thomas (1701-1757); Mills, John (fl. 1760)

1753-1763

Vol. III: "... continued and completed from the original papers of the late Thomas Blackwell ... by John Mills, esq.

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C. Julius Cæsar's Commentaries of his wars in Gaul, and civil war with Pompey : To which is added Aulus Hirtius or Oppius's Supplement of the Alexandrian, African and Spanish wars. With the author's life. Adorn'd with sculptures from the designs of the famous Palladio

Caesar, Sir Julius (1558-1636); Hirtius, Aulus; Bladen, Martin (1680-1746)

1705

First edition. Added t.p., engraved, with imprint dated "MDCCIV". Title in double rule box. "Errata" on p. [12]. 4-page publisher's booklist at end.

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The Emperor Augustus his two speeches in the Senate-House at Rome : the first addressed to the married Romans, the other to the unmarried

Cassius Dio Cocceianus; Augustus Emperor of Rome (63 B.C.-14 A.D)

1675

Indexed in: Wing D1518.

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The manners and customs of the Romans : translated from the French

Lefèvre de Morsan; Knapton, John (1696-1770); Knapton, Paul (fl. 1735-1770)

1740

Publisher's booklist [1p.] at end.

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