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Total number of records: 105

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Brotherton Collection4
English Literature3
Quaker Collection1
Ripon Cathedral1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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america1
autograph manuscripts.1
book burning -- history -- italy -- sources.1
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- printed texts.1
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes.1
commonplace books -- specimens.1
conversos -- italy -- ancona -- history -- sources.1
cosmography1
geography1
hebrew letters -- texts.1

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Ancona (Italy)1
Great Britain1
Hebron (West Bank)1
Padua (Italy)1

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Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron De (1732-1799)92
Beisson, Francois-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)92
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas De Caritat Marquis De (1743-1794)92
Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827)92
Voltaire (1694-1778)92
Burrough, Edward (1634-1662)2
Parker, Alexander2
Parker, Alexander (1628-1689)2
Society of Friends2
Apian, Peter (1495-1552)1

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Athelstan : a tragedy : as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane

Brown, John (1715-1766)

1756

Press figures: 31-4, 68-3. Anon., by John Brown.

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Rerum anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edwardo VI, et Maria regnantibus, annales

Godwin, Francis (1562-1633)

1628

Pagination irregular. Signatures: [paragraph]⁴, A-2H⁴. Publisher's device (McK.349) on t.p. Dedication signed F.H. The initials of the first word in each book, taken in succession, spell t...

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Characters and elegies

Wortley, Sir Francis (1591-1652)

Printed in the yeere, 1646

Contents: pp.1-29, characters of the King, Queen, Prince, Duke of York, a true English Protestant, an Antinomian, a Jesuit, a 'Northerne lady' etc.; pp.31-54, elegies on the Earl of Lindsay, the Earl ...

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Several pieces in prose and verse

Layng, Henry (1698?-1749?); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)

1748

"To the right honorable Lady Charlotte Farmor..." (p. 1-8) signed: Hen. Layng. Imprint differs from Foxon entry p.413 which also omits mention of frontispiece and irregularities in pagination. Hig...

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Libro dela cosmographia de Pedro Apiano, : el qual trata la descripcion del mundo, y sus partes, por muy claro y lindo artificio, augmentado por el doctissimo varon Gemma Frisio, doctor en medecina, y mathematico excellentissimo: con otros dos libros del dicho Gemma, de la materia mesma. Agora nueuamente traduzidos en Romance Castellano

Apian, Peter (1495-1552); Gemma Frisius (1508-1555)

1548

Includes: Libritto dela manera de descriuir o situar los lugares, y de hallar las distancias de aquellos, nunca vista hasta agora, por Gemma Frison. - ff. 55-61; Uso del anillo astronomico compuesto p...

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Grant

Mid 13th century

1. Walter son of Gilbert de Chiuet 2. Thomas son of Philip de Burgo Walter grants to Thomas and his heirs the moiety of the toft and croft with appurtenances on the south of the vill of Chiuett, w...

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The odes of Casimire

Sarbiewski, Maciej Kazimierz (1595-1640); Hils, G

1646

First edition of this translation. Signatures: A⁶ (1 leaf unsigned (plate) between A1 and A2), B-G¹². Title within line border. Added illustrated title-page, engraved by William Marshall (Jo...

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Anonymous miscellany of short Latin compositions on various literary themes and philosophical maxims

c.1575

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 5...

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (v.1)

Voltaire (1694-1778); Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799); Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de (1743-1794); Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827); Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)

1785-1789

Edited by Beaumarchais, Marquis de Condorcet and Decroix. Portrait engraved by François Joseph Etienne Beisson. Printed with Baskerville types under the direction of J. F. Letellier and later of J. ...

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (v.2)

Voltaire (1694-1778); Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799); Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de (1743-1794); Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827); Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)

1785-1789

Edited by Beaumarchais, Marquis de Condorcet and Decroix. Portrait engraved by François Joseph Etienne Beisson. Printed with Baskerville types under the direction of J. F. Letellier and later of J. ...

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (v.3)

Voltaire (1694-1778); Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799); Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de (1743-1794); Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827); Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)

1785-1789

Edited by Beaumarchais, Marquis de Condorcet and Decroix. Portrait engraved by François Joseph Etienne Beisson. Printed with Baskerville types under the direction of J. F. Letellier and later of J. ...

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (v.4)

Voltaire (1694-1778); Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799); Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de (1743-1794); Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827); Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)

1785-1789

Edited by Beaumarchais, Marquis de Condorcet and Decroix. Portrait engraved by François Joseph Etienne Beisson. Printed with Baskerville types under the direction of J. F. Letellier and later of J. ...

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