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Total number of records: 62

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Several tracts against popery : together with the life of Don Alvaro de Luna

Geddes, Michael (1650?-1713)

1715

With a half-title and part titlepages; the register is continuous.

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Aristarchi De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae, liber : cum Pappi Alexandrini explicationibus quibusdam

Aristarchus of Samos; Pappus of Alexandria; Commandino, Federico (1509-1575); Franceschini, Camillo (1560-1596)

1572

Title vignette. Also has title: De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae, liber.

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Ioannis Poleni De observatione defectus lunae qui contigit V. Id. Sept. 1718 Patavii habita commentariolum

Poleni, Giovanni (1683-1761)

1723

No title-page, catalogued from caption-title at the beginning of the text.

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De phænomenis in orbe lunæ novi telescopii usu a D. Gallileo Gallileo nunc iterum suscitatis physica disputatio

Galla, Giulio Cesare la (1571-1624); Galla, Giulio Cesare la (1571-1624)

1612

Vignette on t.p. (publisher's device); headpieces; floriated initials.

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Report from the Committee on Mr. Sealy's petition respecting his patent for tanning of leather with Elm Bark, &c : Lunae, 7 die Maii, 1798

Great Britain. Parliament

[1798]

Title from endorsed t.p. "Ordered to be printed 7th May 1798".

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Jeremiæ Horroccii, Liverpoliensis Angli, ex Palatinatu Lancastriæ, Opera posthuma : viz. Astronomia Kepleriana, defensa & promota. Excerpta ex epistolis ad Crabtræum suum. Observationum cœlestium catalogus. Lunæ theoria nova. Accedunt Guilielmi Crabtræi... Observationes cœlestes. In calce adjiciuntur Johannis Flamstedii ... De temporis æquatione diatriba. Numeri ad lunæ theoriam Horroccianam

Horrocks, Jeremiah (1617?-1641); Crabtree, William (1610-1644); Flamsteed, John (1646-1719); Wallis, John (1616-1703)

1673

First edition. Edited by John Wallis. Each of the works included, except the first, has its own title page, dated '1672' (but '1673' in the last 2 works); the title pages of the 'Excerpta ex epist...

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 150 BCE

Issuer/creator: Decimius Flavus

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 45 BCE

Issuer/creator: Lucius Valerius Acisculus

Place: Rome

Material: silver


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A declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament concerning His Majesties proclamation, given at his court at York the 27 of May, 1642, with the statute of the 7 Edw. I

Great Britain. Parliament

1642

"Die Lunæ, Iunii 6, 1642. Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Ioh. Brown, Cleric. Parliament."

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 109-08 BCE

Issuer/creator: Manius Aquillius

Place: Rome

Material: silver