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Total number of records: 15

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Coins3

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Brotherton Collection11
English Literature4
Coin Collection3

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popish plot, 16782
character sketches1
church and state1
dissenters1
english newspapers1
english poetry1
episcopacy1
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eye1
metamorphosis1

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Great Britain7
Cyrene1
Lysimachia1
Uncertain Macedonian Mint1

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L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)3
Blount, Charles, 1654-16932
Church of England2
Great Britain2
Aston, Sir Thomas (1600-1645)1
Baker, Robert1
Bryan (1703-)1
Cicero, Marcus Tullius1
Congreve, William1
Congreve, William (1670-1729)1

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Coin

Denomination: AE11

Date(s): c. 309 - 220 BCE

Place: Lysimachia

Material: copper alloy


Coin

Denomination: AE11

Date(s): 359 - 336 BCE

Issuer/creator: Philip II

Place: uncertain Macedonian mint

Material: copper alloy

AE11
Coin

Denomination: AE11

Date(s): 221-140 BCE

Place: Cyrene

Material: copper alloy


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Cicero's three books touching the nature of the gods : done into English, with notes and illustrations : setting forth (from all antiquity,) what perceptions, man, by the only light of reason, may entertein, concerning a deity!

Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Baker, Robert

1683

Edited and translated by Robert Baker. Signatures: [pi] a-e f(-f12) B-L M⁶. Errata on leaf f11. Advertisements on verso of [pi]1.

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A Collection of miscellany poems, never before publish'd

1737

First edition. Signatures: A(-A11,12),B-E,F(±F8,9=A11,12),G-L. List of subscribers: p. vii-xvii. Issued in 1738 with title: The delights of the muses.

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Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books : a new translation (v.1-2)

Ovid; Sewell, George (1726)

1717

Dedication signed by the editor, G. Sewell. Vol. 2 has title: Ovid's Metamorphoses made English by several hands. Each vol. includes index. I7 of vol. 1 is a cancel. The directions to the binder...

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Epistola anatomica, problematica, tertia & decima

Wedel, Christian (1678-1714); Ruysch, Frederik (1638-1731)

1700

Signatures: A-E⁴.

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Citt and Bumpkin : in a dialogue over a pot of ale, : concerning matters of religion and government. The first part

L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)

1681

Authorship attributed to Roger L'Estrange by Wing, ESTC. Signatures: A-E⁴. A reply to 'An appeal from the country to the city, written anonymously by Charles Blount, 1679.

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The Observator defended by the author of the Observators. In a full answer to several scandalls cast upon him, in matters of religion, government, and good manners

L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)

1685

Title within double line border. Signatures: A-E⁴. Author statement from NUC, Wing. Dedicatory letter signed: Roger L'Estrange. L'Estrange's periodical 'The Observator' began April 13, 1681 ...

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Citt and Bumpkin. The second part. Or, A learned discourse upon swearing and lying. And other laudable qualities tending to a thorow reformation

L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)

1681

Written by Roger L'Estrange; Cf. Wing, ESTC. A reply to Charles Blount's An appeal from the country to the city, 1679. Cf. Kitchin, G., Sir Roger L'Estrange, p. 255-256. Signatures: A-E⁴ (E3 ver...

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Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at VVestminster, the five and twentieth day of April, an. Dom. 1660... [etc.]

Great Britain

1660

Signatures: A-E². Last word of first line of text: 'Par-'; first word of line below initial: 'shall'; last word of last full line of text of first page: 'and'. Statutes 12 Car.II., c. 4-6. At end...

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The temple of fame, a poem : Inscrib'd to Mr. Congreve

Bryan (fl. 1703); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Yalden, Thomas (1670-1736); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

A piracy? The poem was first published in 1703. Signatures: A⁸. Also issued in 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands'.--cf. Foxon. Mainly celebrates the victory of Admiral...

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