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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)2
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Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C1
Baker, Sir Richard (1568-1645)1
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Coin

Denomination: nummus

Date(s): 410-423

Issuer/creator: Honorius (395-423)

Place: Rome

Material: copper alloy

Title: [unknown]

Author: Farquhar, George

Attribution: Farquhar

Date(s): 1698 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: In praise of courage, applied to Peregrine Osborne, Marquis of Carmarthen,

from the dedicatory preface to Farquhar's play "Love and a bottle"

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Theatrum triumphans, or, A discourse of plays : shewing the lawfulness and excellent use of drammatique poesy, and vindicateing the stage from all those groundless calumnies and misrepresentations, wherewith it is aspersed

Baker, Sir Richard (1568-1645)

1670

Reissue of: Theatrum redivivum, or, The theatre vindicated. London : Printed by T.R. for F. Eglesfield, 1662, written in reply to William Prynne's "Histrio-mastix". Running title: The theatre vindic...

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Consilia, quaestiones et allegationes

Homodeis, Signorolus de (1362); Scinzenzeler, Ulrich (1450-1500?); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno domini.Mcccclxxxxvii.die.xv.Maij. [15 May 1497]

Signatures: a⁸ b-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A-E⁶ aa-ii⁶. Title from ISTC. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on E5v reads: Expliciunt Consilia Questiones [et] allegationes famosissimi lewgum...

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L'histoire de la gverre d'Escosse, traitant comme le Royaume fut assailly, & en grãd'partie occupé par les anglois, & depuis rendu paisible à sa reyne, & reduit en son ancien estat & dignité

Beaugué, Jean de

1556

Other issues:- (1) A Paris, pour Estienne Groulleau, libraire demurant en la rue neufue nostre Dame, à l'image sainct Ian. 1556. Avec Privilege du Roy. (2) A Paris, Pour Gilles Corrozet [the propriet...

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The life of Alexander the Great

Curtius Rufus, Quintus

1690

A reissue of the sheets of 1687, with a new printed title and an engraved frontispiece title, both dated 1690, and an 'Epistle dedicatory' addressed to the Queen, signed: N. Tate. These preliminaries ...

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Certain elegant poems

Corbet, Richard Bishop of Norwich (1582-1635)

1647

First edition. A part of this collection was republished as "Poetica stromata", in Holland, in 1648, and a second Dutch edition appeared in the same year. "Poems. The third edition, corrected and en...

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Incipit Prohemium De proprietatibus rerum Fratris Bartholomei Anglici de ordine Fratrum Minorum

Bartholomaeus Anglicus; Reinhard, Marcus; Philippi, Nicolaus; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930); Reider, Martin Joseph von (1793-1862)

Sub anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimo octogesimo.die vero Iulij.xxix. [29 July 1480]

Signatures: a-i¹⁰ k-l⁸ L⁸ m-x¹⁰ y-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-F¹⁰ G-H⁸. Title from incipit on a2r. Imprint from colophon (the printers were active in Lyon). Colophon on H7v reads: Imp...

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