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Estienne, Henri (1531-1598)6
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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 367-08-24-375-11-17

Issuer/creator: Valentinian I (364-75)

Place: Aquileia

Material: copper alloy

Landscape with Church
Painting

Landscape with Church

Ruysdael, Salomon van (1602-1670)

1637

Frame Type - later

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Archive Print Item

Iusti Lipsi Epistolica institutio, excepta è dictantis eius ore, anno M.D.LXXXVII. mense Iunio. Adiunctum est Demetrii Phalerei eiusdem argumenti scriptum

Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606); Demetrius of Phaleron

1601

The second work is erroneously attributed to Demetrius of Phaleron. Printer's device on t.p. "Ex Demetrij Phalerei de elocutione" (Greek and Latin in parallel columns): p. 19-23.

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The Thracian wonder. A comical history : As it hath been several times acted with great applause

Warner, William E; Webster, John (1580?-1625?); Rowley, William (1585-1642)

1661

Based on William Warner's "Argentile and Curan". Ascribed by the publisher, Francis Kirkman, to Webster and Rowley but the ascription is not generally accepted. cf. Camb. hist. of Eng. lit., v. 6, p...

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Notes on the Institutes of Justinian, possibly written by Anthony Higgin

Higgin, Anthony

c.1570

Contains Latin notes, chiefly on Justinian's Institutes, beginning on f.2r 'In institution. Proaemium'. At the end there are a few notes in French, on French history, namely: (1) f.92: Les roys de Fra...

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A Christian turn'd Turke: or, The tragicall liues and deaths of the two famous pyrates, Ward and Dansiker : As it hath beene publickly acted. VVritten by Robert Daborn, Gentleman

Daborne, Robert (1628); Barker, Andrew (fl. 1609)

1612

Printer's name from STC. The device on the title-page indicates that the printer was Nicholas Okes. Signatures: A-I⁴ (-A1). Based on: Barker, Andrew. A true and certaine report of the beginnin...

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