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Brotherton Collection140
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Thoughts on civil government : addressed to the disfranchised citizens of Sheffield

Yorke, Henry Redhead (1772-1813)

1794

6 leaves per gathering; no chainlines.

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Dissertatio de ratione status in Imperio nostro Romano-Germanico. In qua, tum, qualisnam reverà in eo status sit; tum, quae ratio status observanda quidem, sed magno cum patriae libertatis detrimento, neglecta hucusque fuerit; tum denique, quibusnam mediis antiquus status restaurari ac firmari possit, dilucidè explicatur

Chemnitz, Bogislav Philipp von (1605-1678)

1647

Fictitious imprint; printed in Amsterdam by Louis Elsevier. Cf. Willems. In this copy p. 583 numbered. Cf. Rahir. Added engraved t.p.; initials; tailpieces. Title vignette.

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The yogi and the commissar : and other essays

Koestler, Arthur (1905-1983)

1945

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The social & political ideas of some great French thinkers of the Age of Reason : a series of lectures delivered at King's College, University of London, during the session 1928-29

Hearnshaw, F J C (1869-1946)

1930

Contents: Introductory: The age of reason/ by H.J. Laski -- Bossuet / by the Rev. N. Sykes -- Fenelon / by R.A. Jones -- The Abbe de Saint-Pierre / by P. Vaucher -- Montesquieu/ by A.J. Grant -- Volta...

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The political thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); White, Reginald James

1938

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