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Total number of records: 37

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Books and printed items35
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Brotherton Collection5
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history, ancient37
military art and science6
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world history3
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history, modern1
military history1

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Greece11
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Wesseling, Petrus13
Wesseling, Petrus (1692-1764)13
Diodorus Siculus11
Eyring, Jeremias Nicolaus11
Heyne, Christian Gottlob11
Heyne, Christian Gottlob (1729-1812)11
Preiger, Abraham11
Rhodoman, Lorenz11
Rhodoman, Lorenz (1546-1606)11
Polybius7

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The history of the world : the second part, in six books: being a continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh, knight: beginning where he left; viz. at the end of the Macedonian kingdom, and deduced to these later-times; that is, from the year of the world 3806, or 160 years before Christ, till the end of the year 1640. after Christ

Ross, Alexander (1591-1654); Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618)

1652

Numerous errors in paging: including the omission of nos. 179-180 and 193-220, the repetition of nos. 158-159, 397-400, and 545-556. "A brief chronology of the principal passages faln out in the wor...

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Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor & triginta epithomatis collecta. Lucii Flori Epithomata quattuor quamcultissima in decem Titi Liuii decadas. Sexti Ruffi consularis viri ad Valentianum Augustum de Historia Romana opus dignissimum

Justinus, Marcus Junianus; Sabellico (1436?-1506); Petit, Jean (1492-1530); Marchant, Jean (1504-1516); Florus, Lucius Annæus; Rufus, Sextus

[1509?]

Signatures: A⁸; B⁴, C⁶, a-y·⁴ z⁶ &⁴. Date given as [ca. 1500] in: A catalogue of ancient manuscripts and early printed books; The Brotherton Library, 1931. Headlines, but no catchword...

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Pauli Orosii viri sane eruditi Historiarum liber, et tenebrarum faucibus in lucem aeditus, una cum indicibus tersissimis huic volumini, haud infrugaliter, adiectis

Orosius, Paulus; Mengin, Sebastien; Vidoué, Pierre (1543)

1524

Colophon: Excudebat Petrus Vidovaeus typis & caracteribus suis impendio honesti viri Ioannis Parui bibliopolae adscriptii, in praeclara Parrisiorum universitate, anno a Christo nato M.D.XXIIII. calend...

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Miscellany notebook on classical subjects, with some additions by Anthony Higgin

c.1600

Contains: (1) f.4: Scilua variarum lectionum a Reuerendo Patre Bernardino Castorio...collecta et anno Domini 1579 Pridie Nonas octobris inchoata, followed by notes on the life and times of Aristotle, ...

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The ancient world : a beginning

Glover, T R (1869-1943)

1944

First published by Cambridge University Press, 1935.

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The ancient world : a beginning

Glover, T R (1869-1943)

1944

First published by Cambridge University Press, 1935.

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Origines biblicae, or, Researches in primeval history

Beke, Charles T (1800-1874)

1834

"Volume the first"-- t.p. No more published.

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History of ancient civilization

Seignobos, Charles (1854-1942); Wilde, Arthur Herbert

1907

Appendix: References for supplementary reading: p. [361]-371.

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Herodotus

Herodotus; Thompson, John M.A. Camb; Hayes, B J

[1897]

1 p. advertisements at the front, 16 p. at the end.

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Herodotus

Herodotus; Thompson, John M.A. Camb; Hayes, B J

[1897]

1 p. of advertisements at the front, 8 p. at the end.

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Trogi Pompeii Historiarum Philippicarum epitoma... correcta, et T. Cangiseri ... notis illustrata, accessit V. Strigelii commentarius

Justinus, Marcus Junianus; Cangiserus, Theophilus; Strigel, Victorinus (1524-1569)

[1613?]

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