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Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise De, 1721-17644
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Coin

Denomination: follis

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

Issuer/creator: Valens (364-78)

Place: Rome

Material: copper alloy

Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: Religious poem arguing that those in heaven enjoy such perfect bliss that

their intentions and their thoughts become identical

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Archive File

Letter from Christopher Pearson III

01/11/1794

(d. c.1800) to his mother, Elizabeth (d. 1837), nee Johnson. London, 1 November 1794. 2 ff. Mutilated.

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Some account of the life and gospel labours of William Reckitt

Reckitt, William (1706-1769)

1776

Advertisements for Phillips's publications on pp. 202-4.

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BC MS Lt 27, p. 61: The opening of
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Mock poem or Whiggs supplication Part First, by Samuel Colvil

Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)

c.1680

Comprises a long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, preceded by "The authors apologie to the reader"

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Eight anatomical tables of the human body containing the principle parts of the Skeletons & Muscles represented in the large tables of Albinus; to wc. are added Concise Explanations by John Innes Edinburgh 1776

Innes, John (1739-1777)

1776

Manuscript copy of the work 'Eight anatomical tables of the human body [...]', by the anatomist John Innes, which was first published in 1776, with later editions in 1778 and 1779. Begins with a for...

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The essays or counsels, civil & moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban : with a table of the colours of good & evil : whereunto is added the wisdom of the ancients

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Gorges, Sir Arthur (1557?-1625)

1673

Pages 68, 239, 1st group of paging, p.119, last group, incorrectly numbered 86, 39, 129, respectively. "The wisdom of the ancients. Written in Latine by Sir Francis Bacon... . Done into English by S...

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Epistolae duae, quarum altera de moribus ac institutis Turcarum agit: altera septem Asiae ecclesiarum notitiam continet

Smith, Thomas (1638-1710)

1672

This work was translated into English as "Remarks on the manners, religion and government of the Turks", London, 1678. With an initial imprimatur leaf and 10 final pages consisting of an index of Ar...

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Miscellanies over claret, or, The friends to the tavern the best friends to poetry : being a collection of poems, translations, &c. to be continued monthly from the Rose Tavern without Temple-Bar

Pittis, William (1674-1724)

in the year 1697

no.4 1698 Letter to contributors, dated March the 12th. 1697/8, and "signed" by J.S., secretary to the President and Court of Assistants at the Rose-Tavern, on back of title-page. Dedication to Sir ...

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