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Cecil Betsalel Roth500
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Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)45
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Karo, Joseph Ben Ephraim, 1488-15758
Manasseh Ben Israel (1604-1657)8
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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 319-319

Issuer/creator: Constantine I (306-37)

Place: Sisak

Material: copper alloy

Title: The young man's hymn for New-Year's Day

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem, repenting past sin and intending at New Year to begin a new

life devoted to God and Christ

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Copy of Vulcan's Curse by Ben Jonson

c. 1640

'An Execration against Vulcan for burning his Papers'

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Meditations and contemplations

Hervey, James (1714-1758)

1785

Complete in 1 volume, though all gatherings signed "Vol.1".

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Farewel odes. For the year 1786

Pindar, Peter (1738-1819); Kearsley, George (1790)

1789

Peter Pindar = John Wolcot. With a half-title.

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The character of a disbanded courtier. : Dedicated to the author of that famous speech, call'd, The speech of a noble peer

Person of quality

1682

Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Satire on Antony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury. Considerably expanded from the first edition (2 pages) of 1681.

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Saul : an oratorio in score

Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759); Jennens, Charles (1700-1773); Houbraken, Jacobus (1698-1780)

[1773]

Libretto by Charles Jennens.--Cf. New Grove. Frontispiece: Handel portrait engraving by J. Houbraken. Includes list of subscribers.

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The general history of the Quakers : containing the lives, tenents, sufferings, tryals, speeches and letters of all the most eminent Quakers, both men and women : from the first rise of that sect, down to this present time : collected from manuscripts, &c., a work never attempted before in English

Croese, Gerardus (1642-1710); Keith, George (1639?-1716)

1696

The remaining part of the second book of this general history of the Quakers has special half-title and separate paging. "Our antient testimony renewed... London, 1695," appended. Errors in paging...

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