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Brotherton Collection444
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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)34
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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton14
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Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521)9
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Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)8
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Illustrated plan of Calatia [Caiazo], Italy

1597

Latin description on reverse. Hand coloured

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The divine history of the genesis of the world : explicated & illustrated

Gott, Samuel (1613-1671)

1670

By Samuel Gott--cf. Puritanism and poetry: Samuel Gott / J. Max Patrick in University of Toronto quarterly, v. 8, 1938-9, p. 214-215. Signatures: A² B-3S⁴ 3T². The catchword 'THE' on A2v is no...

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Les femmes illustres or The heroick harrangues of the illustrious women

Scudéry, Madeleine de (1607-1701); Innes, James (fl. 1681); Scudéry M. de (1601-1667)

1681

Dedication signed: James Innes. Each harangue has half-title; register and pagination are continuous. Actually by Madeleine de Scudéry. First gathering signed as follows: fol. 3 "*", fol. 5 "A"...

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Homer his Iliads translated, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations

Homer; Ogilby, John (1600-1676)

1669

First published in 1660. Pages 428-29 incorrectly numbered 427-28.

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Homer his Iliads translated, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations

Homer; Ogilby, John (1600-1676)

1669

First published in 1660. Pages 428-29 incorrectly numbered 427-28.

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RALPH THORESBY MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT "OF INSECTS" BY MARTIN LISTER

1672

Manuscript translation from the work by Johannes Godartus, with illustrations

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Mirza : A tragedie, really acted in Persia, in the last age. Illustrated with historicall annotations

Baron, Robert (1630-)

[1655?]

"Annotations": p. [160]-264. Numerous errors in paging. R. B. is Robert Baron. Greg 744, where it is the only edition and reasons are given against an earlier date; but a semi-colon follows "Mos...

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Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII copper-plates

Hugo, Herman (1588-1629); Arwaker, Edmund (1730)

1686

Engraved frontispiece title facing printed title, possibly originally leaf A8, which is missing, although catchword on A7v (end of Preface) refers past illustration leaf for dedication to B2r (drophea...

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 יחוס האבות:  illustrated account of the Holy Places in Palestine, written in Casale Monferrato, 1598.
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[Yiḥus avot]. [יחוס אבות]. [Illustrated account of the holy places in Palestine, written in Casale Monferrato].

358 [1597 or 1598]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 220. Variant titles: Eleh masʿe bene Yiśraʾel. ...

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Æsopic's or, A second collection of fables, paraphras'd in verse : adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations

Ogilby, John (1600-1676); Aesop; Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-1677)

1668

Originally issued with, or slightly earlier than, Ogilby's The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse... The second edition. London : Printed by Thomas Roycroft, for the author, 1668. Caption title: "...

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Homer his Odysses : translated, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations, by John Ogilby, esq;... [etc.]

Homer; Ogilby, John (1600-1676)

1669

Pp.344-5 numbered 342-3. First issued in 1665.

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Les vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romains, comparees l'une avec l'autre (v.1)

Plutarch; Amyot, Jacques (1513-1593); Clusius, Carolus (1526-1609)

1578

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