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Title: On generall luxury

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: [Latin]; Lucan

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 18

Contents: Epigram on gluttony as the cause of usury, leading in turn to extortion and war

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Title: Generall selfe-partiality

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 18

Contents: Epigram asserting that each person is possessed of more than enough wit or intelligence to make him or her happy

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'Virus and Generalic ' by George Szirtes

No date

1f TS with editorial markings. Apparently unpublished.

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Title: A short description of beauty in generall

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167-?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: On general beauty as a constellation of beautiful parts; epigram from Plotinus at end; with some alternative wording given

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Procura generale to (Joseph) Alfred Novello

18 Mar 1895

Procura generale in Italian to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, dated 18 March 1895. The document empowers a person to act as the representative of another.

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Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere (v.1-2)

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788)

1785-1790

"Avec l'aide de Philibert Guénau de Montbeillard, Gabriel Bexon, Louis Daubenton et Bernard La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède". Not present in this set are Lacépède's "Histoire naturelle de...

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Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere (v.3-4)

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788)

1785-1790

"Avec l'aide de Philibert Guénau de Montbeillard, Gabriel Bexon, Louis Daubenton et Bernard La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède". Not present in this set are Lacépède's "Histoire naturelle de...

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Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere (v.5-6)

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788)

1785-1790

"Avec l'aide de Philibert Guénau de Montbeillard, Gabriel Bexon, Louis Daubenton et Bernard La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède". Not present in this set are Lacépède's "Histoire naturelle de...

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Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere (v.7-8)

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788)

1785-1790

"Avec l'aide de Philibert Guénau de Montbeillard, Gabriel Bexon, Louis Daubenton et Bernard La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède". Not present in this set are Lacépède's "Histoire naturelle de...

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Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere (v.9-10)

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788)

1785-1790

"Avec l'aide de Philibert Guénau de Montbeillard, Gabriel Bexon, Louis Daubenton et Bernard La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède". Not present in this set are Lacépède's "Histoire naturelle de...

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Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere (v.11-12)

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788)

1785-1790

"Avec l'aide de Philibert Guénau de Montbeillard, Gabriel Bexon, Louis Daubenton et Bernard La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède". Not present in this set are Lacépède's "Histoire naturelle de...

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Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere (v.13)

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788)

1785-1790

"Avec l'aide de Philibert Guénau de Montbeillard, Gabriel Bexon, Louis Daubenton et Bernard La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède". Not present in this set are Lacépède's "Histoire naturelle de...

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