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Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Joseph [Joshua] Hill, Beeston, Yorkshire

24 Apr 1708

Regarding his brother's Hungarian Persecution.

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The Fifth ode of the first book of Horace imitated

Horace

1745

Also "An epigram" (p.8). Includes the Latin text; the English imitation is a poem against Thomas Pelham-Holles, duke of Newcastle.

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Elizabethae Reginae Angliae edictum : promulgatum Londini 29 Novemb. anni MDXCI

Parsons, Robert (1546-1610); Great Britain. Sovereign

1593

Signatures: A-Z⁸ 2A 1; [A] unsigned, Z4 missigned "A4". Printer's device on title page; title and text printed within double line border. Includes bibliographical references as marginalia. Inc...

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Discourses delivered at several meeting houses of the people called Quakers

Fothergill, Samuel (1715-1772)

1792

Issue without errata list. "A discourse delivered... the 17th day of 8th month, 1770" has separate title-page, dated 1793, following p. [166]. The account of Fothergill's life is by Thomas Letchwo...

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The spirit of truth vindicated, against that of error & envy; unseasonably manifested: in a late malicious libel, intituled, The spirit of the Quakers tryed, &c

Penn, William (1644-1718)

1672

"To the impartial reader" signed: W. Penn. Place of publication and publisher statement from Wing, Bronner & Fraser. Signature E2 signed E3. With errata leaf:[2] p. after p.8. "A vindication o...

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Dagon's fall before the ark : written primarily, as a testimony for the Lord... : Secondarily, as a testimony against the old serpent ... wherein, as in a glass, teachers in schools and colledges may see their concern, neither Christian nor warrantable

Lawson, Thomas (1630-1691)

1703

Signatures: B-I in alternate 4s and 8s. Forms the second item (of 96 pages) in his "Two treatises more... The first, Of baptisms ... The second, Dagon's fall before the Ark. vol.2", London, T. Sowle...

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A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased, which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786,... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-Garden, Whitehall, by order of the acting executrix

Lightfoot, John (1735-1788); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Bell, John (1745-1831); Hailstone, Edward (1818-1890); Rylands, J[?] P; Skinner and Co. (London, England); Skinner and Co., London; Malcolm Gardner, London; Hyde & Sons[?], Sleaford

[1786]

At foot of titlepage: "No.", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the titlepage. - A price list entitled 'A marked catalogue containing the lots' was publ...

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A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased, which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786,... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-Garden, Whitehall, by order of the acting executrix

Lightfoot, John (1735-1788); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Bell, John (1745-1831); Hailstone, Edward (1818-1890); Rylands, J[?] P; Skinner and Co. (London, England); Skinner and Co., London; Malcolm Gardner, London; Hyde & Sons[?], Sleaford

[1786]

At foot of titlepage: "No.", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the titlepage. - A price list entitled 'A marked catalogue containing the lots' was publ...

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A recollection of such treatises as haue bene heretofore seuerally published and are nowe reuised, corrected, augmented

Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)

1617

Collation: [1l.], A², B-3P⁶, 3Q⁴; A-2C⁶, [2D²]. Most individual works and many of the subdivisions have special t. p., all dated 1617.

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Vergilius cum commentariis quinque : uidelicet Seruii, Landini., Ant. Mancinelli, Donati, Domitii

Virgil; Servius; Landino, Cristoforo (1424-1504); Calderino, Domizio (1447-1478); Donatus, Aelius; Scotto, Ottaviano (1498); Giunta, Luca-Antonio (1457-1538); Zanis, Bartholomaeus de de Portesio (1486-1515); Hoskin, H.C; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Sub anno domini.M.cccc.xciii.die Vltimo Iulii. [31 July 1493]

Signatures: a⁶ b-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-V⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on V8r reads: Impressum Venetiis per Bartolomeu[m] de Zanis de Portesio. Sub anno domini.M.cccc.xciii. die Vl...

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The spirit of truth vindicated, against that of error & envy; unseasonably manifested: in a late malicious libel, intituled, The spirit of the Quakers tryed, &c

Penn, William (1644-1718)

1672

"To the impartial reader" signed: W. Penn. Place of publication and publisher statement from Wing, Bronner & Fraser. Signature E2 signed E3. With errata leaf:[2] p. after p.8. "A vindication o...

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