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Brotherton Collection3
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education of princes1
lepanto, battle of, 15711
natural history1
papyrus (the plant)1

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Holland, Philemon3
Holland, Philemon (1552-1637)3
Allot, Robert1
Allot, Robert (Fl. 1625-1636?-)1
Charles1
Charles King of England (1600-1649)1
Cyrus, King of Persia, D. 529 B.C1
Florus, Lucius Annaeus1
Gaius Plinius Secundus1
Holland, Abraham1

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Cyrupaedia : The institution and life of Cyrus, the First of that name, King of Persians. Eight bookes. Treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, warlike stratagems, preparations and expeditions: as appeareth by the contents before the beginning of the first booke

Xenophon; Allot, Robert (fl. 1625-1636?); Legate, John (1658); Holland, Henry (1583-1650?); Holland, Philemon (1552-1637); Holland, Abraham (1626); Marshall, William (fl. 1617-1650); Charles king of England (1600-1649)

1632

Posthumously published; Henry Holland, who signs 'The epistle to the Kings Majestie' and 'The epistle to the Earle of Holland', at the beginning of the work, saw it through the press. Signatures: pi...

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The Romane historie

Livy; Holland, Philemon (1552-1637); Florus, Lucius Annæus; Marliani, Giovanni Bartolomeo (1560)

1600

The first edition in English. This was the first of Holland's translations to be published. [A]⁶ B-6F⁶ (lacks A1 and 6F6, both blank). The pagination jumps from 804 to 809 and from 1351 to 1...

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The historie of the world, commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus

Pliny the Elder; Holland, Philemon (1552-1637)

1601

First edition. With errata leaf at end of vol. 2. "[Book 13] Sundrie sorts of gum. Also of the cane papyrus... Of divers kinds of paper, and how writing paper is made, also the triall of good or b...

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