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Brotherton Collection4
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Quaker Collection2
Cookery Collection1
Incunabula1
Ripon Cathedral1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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alchemy1
architecture, domestic1
book burning -- history -- italy -- sources.1
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- correspondence.1
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes.1
christian literature, early1
churches, quaker1
commandments -- early works to 1800.1
encyclopedias and dictionaries1
freedom of religion1

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Codignola (Italy)1
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Aldam, Thomas1
Aldam, Thomas (1660)1
Bayly, William (1675)1
Benson, Gervase (1679)1
Breck, Edward1
Buttivant, Samuel1
Church of England1
Clement of Alexandria, Saint (150-215)1
Concini, Concino, Marechal D'Ancre, Approximately 1575-16171
Dacres, Edward1

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Bargain and Sale

29 Aug 1616

From Richard Nayler of Heptonstall yeo. to Richard Nayler of Langfelde (his father) of 2 messuages called Crontonstall and Edgend in Ayringden; Ibotroyd in Harley wood in Stansfield.

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[Klementos Alexandreōs Ta euriskomena h?apanta] : Ex bibliotheca Medicea]

Clement of Alexandria, Saint (150-215); Torrentinus, Laurentius

1550

Imprint from colophon. Signatures: a⁴ b-[delta]⁶ A⁸ B-2F⁶ 2G-2H⁴. Pagination error: p. 63 numbered 61.

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Certain cases of conscience resolved concerning the lawfulness of joyning with forms of prayer in publick worship

Scott, John (1639-1695)

1683

Published anonymously; author identified as John Scott by Wing. Vol. 2: Printed... by H. Hills, Jun., for T. Basset ... B. Tooke ... and F. Gardiner. Vol. 1: [4], 56 p. (advertisements on 1st prel...

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Six new playes : viz. The brothers. Sisters. Doubtfull heir. Imposture. Cardinall. Court secret. The five first were acted at the private house in Black Fryers with great applause. The last was never acted

Shirley, James (1596-1666)

1653

Each play has a separate t.p., dated either 1652 or 1653, and separate pagination and signatures. Head-pieces; initials. Frontispiece port. of the author, dated 1646. Collation: [4]; [8], 72; [8...

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Machiavels Discourses : upon the first decade of T. Livius

Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527); Dacres, Edward

1636

"The epistle dedicatory" signed: Edward Dacres, the translator. Title within line border; text within line borders, double at top and outside to enclose headlines and side notes. The following irr...

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Francisci Marii Grapaldi De partibus aedium libellus : cum additamentis emendatissimus

Grapaldi, Francesco Mario (1465?-1515); Ugoleto, Angelo (1486-1501); Hardwicke, Philip Yorke Earl of (1690-1764); Leigh, Blanche Legat

1501

Signatures: A-B⁶ a-p⁸ q-r⁶. Place of printing and name of printer suggested by Comolli on the basis of type comparison with the first edition ([Parma] : Angelus Vgoletus Parmensis impressor, [...

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Praeclarissimvm opus Diui Isidori Hyspalensis Episcopi, quod Ethimologiarum intitulatur... [etc.]

Isidore of Seville, Saint (636)

[25 May 1499]

Charles Debougne's device appears on t.p. above the bookseller Jean Alexandre's address; colophon (leaf r5v) reads: Impressum Parrhisii Op[er]a magistri Georgii VVolff & Thielma[n]ni keruer. [for Jean...

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The saving grace of God owned, and scripturally asserted. To remove dark and atheistical contradiction thereunto. For particular and general information

Elliot, John Quaker (fl. 1693-1695)

1693

Advertisements for Northcott's publications, pp. [60-61]. Author named as "John Elliott", p.58.

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The Irish chief; or, Patriot king : A new tragedy. Performed at the theatre in Smock-Alley, Dublin

Dobbs, Francis (1750-1811)

1777

First published in 1774 as: The patriot king; or, Irish chief. Title page appears to contradict DNB statement that the play "does not seem ever to have been acted". Half-title: The Irish chief; or...

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Unhappy prosperity : expressed in the history of Ælius Seianus, and Philippa the Catanian. With Observations upon the fall of Sejanus. Lastly, Certain considerations upon the life and services of Monsieur Villeroy

Matthieu, Pierre (1563-1621); T. H, Sir (1640); Manzini, Giovanni Battista (1599-1664); Matthieu, Pierre (1563-1621)

1639

Running title: Unhappie prosperitie. First published in Rouen in 1618 under title Aelius Sejanus, histoire romaine. Supposed to have been written to represent the rise and fall of Concino Concini,...

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Johannis Ottoni Helbigii, Thuringi, philosophi & medicinae doctoris, Introitus in veram atque inauditam physicam : epistola ex India orientali in Europam ad celeberrimam Sacri Romani Imperii Academiam naturae Curiosorum transmissa, apertus

Hellwig, Johann Otto Baron (1654-1698)

1680

Title on half title continues: magis elucidatus, et duabus epistolis augmentatus. Title of 1st supplementary letter, p. [49]: Vis aliena tessae, sive, Epistolium responsorium hermeticè commentans &...

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