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Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)26
Dunn, Ginette21
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527)16
Lenotre, G (1855-1935)14
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)11
Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)8
Lees, Frederic (1872-)8
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A sermon on the fast-day, January the sixteenth, 1711/12. Against such as delight in war

Fleetwood, William (1656-1723)

1712

Final page blank. By William Fleetwood, according to ESTC.

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Discours de Stanhope, prononcé dans la Chambre-Haute, à la rentrée du Parlement d'Angleterre

Stanhope, Charles Stanhope Earl (1753-1816)

[1794?]

Catalogued from caption-title. Page 5 wrongly numbered with the 5 upside down.

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Tutte le opere di Nicolo Machiavelli cittadino et secretario Fiorentino : divise in v. parti, et de nuovo con somma accuratezza ristampate

Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527)

M.D.L

Signatures: *2 [dagger]⁴, A-Xx⁴, **², a-o⁴, p², ã⁴, ẽ⁴, a-z⁴, 2a-2p⁴, 3a-3x⁴, 4a-4x⁴, 4y² ([dagger]2 signed a2; ẽ4 and 4y2 blank). The first issue as described by Gamba, wi...

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L'Allemagne avant la guerre : les causes et les responsabilités

Beyens, Eugène-Napoléon baron (1855-1934)

1915

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The deeper causes of the war

Hovelaque, Emile (1865-)

1916

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The works of the famous Nicolas Machiavel : citizen and secretary of Florence

Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527)

1675

First edition. Includes, each with a special t.p.: The history of Florence -- The prince -- The discourses of Nicolas Machiavel upon the first decade of Titus Livius -- The art of war. Pagination ...

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Observations concerning princes and states upon peace and warre

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

1642

Indexed in: Wing Q111.

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The Polish Spy: a fact of the Russian Campaign

c. 1820

An account of Napoleon's attack on Russia in 1813.

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Sheet of paper from Napoleon's carriage from Waterloo

c. 1815

One sheet of folded paper with the following inscription: 'This paper was taken out of the secretary fixed in the carriage of Bonaparte, shown in London after the battle of Waterloo, given by Lord Byr...

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The great illusion : a study of the relation of military power to national advantage

Angell, Sir Norman (1874-1967)

1912

The present volume is the outcome of a large pamphlet published in Europe at the end of the last year entitled "Europe's optical illusion".--Pref. to 1910 edition.

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