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demonology1
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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)3
Aylett, Robert (1583-1655?)1
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Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton1
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Doring, Mathias (1400-1469)1
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M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

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De laniis & phitonicis mulieribus
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De laniis & phitonicis mulieribus

Molitor, Ulrich (fl. 1470-1501); Sigmund archduke of Austria (1427-1496); Prüss, Johann (1510); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[not before 10 January 1489]

Signatures: a-b⁸ c-d⁶. Imprint from ISTC. BMC dates the book to about 1488-93. Title taken from leaf a1r. Introductory letter addressed to Sigmund, Archduke of Austria. Leaf a2r: Tractat...

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Divine and moral speculations in metrical numbers, upon various subjects

Aylett, Robert (1583-1655?)

1654

Sig: A⁵, B-R⁴, Aa-Hh⁴; B-C⁸; Ii-Ll⁸; Mm-Tt⁸ in eights; leaf without sig.-mark. Title within a single ruled line border. Portrait by T. Cross. Head and tail-pieces, initials. Wing A42...

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Incipit tabula sup[er] prima p[ar]te panthelogie

Rainerius de Pisis (1348); Jacobus Florentinus; Lichtenstein, Hermann (1494); Contal, Edmond; La Plagne Barris, Paul (1817-1888); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno ab incarnat[i]o[n]e d[omi]ni. M.cccclxxxvi. p[ri]die Idus Septembris. [12 September 1486]

Signatures: part 1 [*]⁶ [**]¹⁰ a¹⁰ b-x⁸ y⁶ z⁸ &⁸ aa-ll⁸ mm-nn⁶; part 2 [*]⁸ [**]⁶ [***]⁸ A-NN⁸ OO-PP⁶. Imprint from colophon to part 2. Colophon to part 1 on nn5v reads...

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Bleinheim, a poem : Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Robert Harley, Esq

Philips, John (1676-1709); Oxford, Robert Harley Earl of (1661-1724); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

Anonymous. By John Philips. In this edition, the rules on the titlepage are 38mm. apart and p. 5 is correctly numbered. A piracy? The second of Hills' two editions. Also issued as part of: 'A co...

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Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society

Gypsy Lore Society

v.1-3 (July 1888 - Apr. 1892); new series, v.1-9 (July 1907 - 1916); 3rd series, v.1 - 5th series, v.10, no.1 (1922-June 2000) Original covers bound in. Two copies of 3rd series, v.14: special number:...

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Biblia cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra (Pt.4)

Paulus a Mercatello; Guilielmus Brito; Moneliensis, Franciscus; Paul of Burgos (1351-1435); Döring, Mathias (1400-1469); Nicholas, of Lyra (1270-1349); Jenson, Nicolas (1420-1480); Johann von Köln (1471-1491); Herbort, Johann (1484); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno milesimo quodringentesimo octuagessimo primo pridie calendas sextiles. [31 July 1481]

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Literary, Personal and Family Correspondence

1958-1990

Piers Paul Read. Read’s excellent letters to his parents, and the retained copies of his letters to school, university and Yorkshire friends, are full of description, analysis and opinion. Beginnin...

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Correspondence

c.1957-c.1999

Detailed information about the correspondence: Family correspondence Piers Paul Read. Read’s excellent letters to his parents, and the retained copies of his letters to school, university and York...

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