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Beauty and virtue : a poem sacred to the memory of Anne, late Countess of Sunderland : humbly inscrib'd to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough

Chute, Francis (1745)

1716

Half-title: A poem on the death of the late Countess of Sunderland. Signatures: [B]⁴,C-D⁴. Page 5 misnumbered 1. Last group of pages is publisher's advertising, integral with last gathering ...

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Poems on several occasions

Pilkington, Matthew (1700-1774)

1730

First edition. Pages 181-188 numbered 182-189. Dedication signed: Matthew Pilkington. Includes (with special title-pages): The progress of musick in Ireland, To Mira; and An ode, perform'd at th...

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A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian experience and labour of love in the work of the ministry, of that ancient, eminent and faithful servant of Christ, George Fox : who departed this life in great peace with the Lord, the 13th of the 11th month, 1690. The first volume

Fox, George (1624-1691); Penn, William (1644-1718); Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

1694

His "A collection of many select and Christian epistles" forms the "second volume". The preface has colophon reading: "London, Printed and sold by T. Sowle... 1694." Page nos. 201-203, 206-287, an...

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The history of the life and acts of the most reverend father in God, Edmund Grindal : the first Bishop of London, and the second Archbishop of York and Canterbury successively, in the reign of Q. Elizabeth.... In two books

Strype, John (1643-1737)

1710

"An appendix of certain original papers, letters of state and other MSS. whereto reference is made in the foregoing history." (108 p.). Errata on penultimate page. List of subscribers, p. xv-xviii...

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A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian experience and labour of love in the work of the ministry, of that ancient, eminent and faithful servant of Christ, George Fox : who departed this life in great peace with the Lord, the 13th of the 11th month, 1690. The first volume

Fox, George (1624-1691); Penn, William (1644-1718); Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

1694

His "A collection of many select and Christian epistles" forms the "second volume". The preface has colophon reading: "London, Printed and sold by T. Sowle... 1694." Page nos. 201-203, 206-287, an...

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Observations d'un voyageur anglais, sur la maison de force appelée Bicêtre; suivies de réflexions sur les effets de la sévérité des peines, & sur la législation criminelle de la Grande-Bretagne

Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de (1749-1791); Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790); Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818)

1788

The "voyageur anglais" is Sir Samuel Romilly, who furnished material for the work. Cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 49, p. 188. "Appendice, ou, Lettre de M. Benjamin Franklin, sur le même sujet": p. 111-12...

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Nouvelle géographique, universelle, descriptive, historique, industrielle et commerciale des quatre parties du monde... Avec des observations extraites de l'histoire du commerce d'Anderson ...Par William Guthrie ... La partie astronomique par James Ferguson, avec les dernières découvertes du docteur Herschell ... Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois, sur la dis-septième et dernière édition de Londres (de 1798) par les citoyens Noel ..., Soulès, et le traducteur des Leçons de Blair, sur la rhétorique (v.1)

Guthrie, William (1708-1770); Ferguson, James (1710-1776); Herschell, Sir William; Noël, François Joseph Michel (1775-1841); Soulès, François (1748-1809); Cantwell, André Samuel Michel (1744-1802); Mentelle, Edme

An VII [1798-9]

"Le traducteur des Leçons de Blair" = A. S. M. Cantwell. V.1: Pages 65, 288, 351 and 395 wrongly numbered 56, 188, 354 and 895 -- v.2: Pages 335, 385 and 460 wrongly numbered 355, 335 and 560 -- v....

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Nouvelle géographique, universelle, descriptive, historique, industrielle et commerciale des quatre parties du monde... Avec des observations extraites de l'histoire du commerce d'Anderson ...Par William Guthrie ... La partie astronomique par James Ferguson, avec les dernières découvertes du docteur Herschell ... Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois, sur la dis-septième et dernière édition de Londres (de 1798) par les citoyens Noel ..., Soulès, et le traducteur des Leçons de Blair, sur la rhétorique (v.2)

Guthrie, William (1708-1770); Ferguson, James (1710-1776); Herschell, Sir William; Noël, François Joseph Michel (1775-1841); Soulès, François (1748-1809); Cantwell, André Samuel Michel (1744-1802); Mentelle, Edme

An VII [1798-9]

"Le traducteur des Leçons de Blair" = A. S. M. Cantwell. V.1: Pages 65, 288, 351 and 395 wrongly numbered 56, 188, 354 and 895 -- v.2: Pages 335, 385 and 460 wrongly numbered 355, 335 and 560 -- v....

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Nouvelle géographique, universelle, descriptive, historique, industrielle et commerciale des quatre parties du monde... Avec des observations extraites de l'histoire du commerce d'Anderson ...Par William Guthrie ... La partie astronomique par James Ferguson, avec les dernières découvertes du docteur Herschell ... Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois, sur la dis-septième et dernière édition de Londres (de 1798) par les citoyens Noel ..., Soulès, et le traducteur des Leçons de Blair, sur la rhétorique (v.3)

Guthrie, William (1708-1770); Ferguson, James (1710-1776); Herschell, Sir William; Noël, François Joseph Michel (1775-1841); Soulès, François (1748-1809); Cantwell, André Samuel Michel (1744-1802); Mentelle, Edme

An VII [1798-9]

"Le traducteur des Leçons de Blair" = A. S. M. Cantwell. V.1: Pages 65, 288, 351 and 395 wrongly numbered 56, 188, 354 and 895 -- v.2: Pages 335, 385 and 460 wrongly numbered 355, 335 and 560 -- v....

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Grant

Mid 13th century

1. Avice de Wambwell daughter of Alexander de Chiuete 2. Richard le Normaund Avice, in her widowhood, grants to Richard and his heirs or assigns two bovates of land in the vill and territory of Ch...

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Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum, de analysi promota, jussu Societatis regiae in lucem editum: et jam unà cum ejusdem recensione praemissa, & judicio primarii, ut ferebatur, mathematici subjuncto, iterum impressum

Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Collins, John (1625-1683); Keill, John (1671-1721); Royal Society (Great Britain)

1722

For this second edition, "Ad lectorem"(p.l. [2-4]) and "Recensio libri" (p.[1]-59) were written by Sir Isaac Newton (both formerly ascribed to J. Keill). Newton was also responsible for the changes in...

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