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Catalogue of a portion of the valuable library of the late Stanesby Alchorne ... : containing various rare books and first editions printed in the fifteenth century ... : to which are added the valuable duplicates of a nobleman : the whole will be sold by auction, on Saturday the 22nd of May, by R.H. Evans ...

Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1778-1857.

[London : R.H. Evans], 1813.

PML 78169

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Gulliver revived : containing singular travels, campaigns, voyages, and adventures, in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic Ocean : also an account of a voyage into the moon, with many extraordinary particulars relative to the cooking animal, in that planet, which are here called the human species / by Baron Munchausen.

[New York] : London, printed, New-York, re-printed for Samuel Campbell ..., 1787.

PML 83209

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Bible animals : being a description of every leving creature mentioned in the scriptures from the ape to the coral / by J.G. Wood, author of "Homes without hands," "Common objects of the sea-shore and country," etc. ; with one hundred new designs by W.F. Keyl, T.W. Wood, and E.A. Smith ; engraved by G. Pearson.

Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889.

New York : Charles Scribner and Company, 1870.

PML 88939

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Autograph letters signed (3), autograph notes signed on his visiting cards (2), typewritten letters signed (one signed by Lotte Walter Lindt), and printed cards (5), dated : Salzburg, New York, Beverly Hills, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles, 1936 or 1937 and 1954-1961, to Lise Rueff, 1954 Dec. 23 and 1957 Sept. 27.

1954 Dec. 23 and 1957 Sept. 27.

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MLT W231.R919 (1-13)

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Letter

Select works of Porphyry : containing his four books On abstinence from animal food; his treatise On the Homeric cave of the nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the perception of intelligible natures / translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. With an appendix, explaining the allegory of the wandering of Ulysses. By the translator ...

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305.

London : Printed for Thomas Rodd, 1823.

PML 195350

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Orator Henley christening a child. Etch'd by Saml. Ireland from an original sketch in oil in his possession by Hogarth / To Francis Grose Esqr. F. A. S. an encourager & promoter of the arts, this etching from his favourite Hogarth is inscribed by his obliged friend & servant, Saml. Ireland. Hogarth pinxt.: S. Ireland fecit 1785.

William Hogarth

1697-1764

Peel 0367

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This present evening, Saturday, February 28, 1835, will be performed the grand melo-dramatic opera of 'Masaniello ... After which will be performed, for the fourth time this season, the favourite operetta of No! ... The whole to conclude with, for the first time this season, the opera of John of Paris.

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PMC 1220.17

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[Edinburgh : publisher not identified, 1835].

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This evening, Saturday, April 11, 1835, will be performed Weber's grand romantic legendary opera called Der Freischutz ... After the opera will be performed, by particular desire, the favourite interlude of Every body's husband ... The whole to conclude with the new grand historical musical spectacle, in three acts, called Gustavus of Sweden.

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PMC 1220.24

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[Edinburgh : publisher not identified, 1835].

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This present Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1812, will be acted (for the 10th time) a new grand historical play (in three acts) interspersed with musick, called The renegade ... After which, the burlesque tragick opera of Bombastes furioso ... To which will be added (28th time) the revived comick burletta of Midas.

Accession number

PMC 1332.4

Published

London : Printed by E. Macleish, 2, Bow-street, [1812].

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