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The castrated letter of Sir Thomas Hanmer, in the sixth volume of Biographia Britannica, wherein is discovered the first rise of the present Bishop of Gloucester's quarrel with that Bart. about this edition of Shakespeare's plays. To which is prefixed an impartial account of the extraordinary meas used to suppress this remarkable letter. By a proprietor of that work [i.e. Philip Nicholas.].

Nicholas, Philip.

London, Printed for the author, 1763.

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The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. / by James Boswell, esq. : containing some poetical pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the tour, and never before published : a series of his conversation, literary anecdotes, and opinions of men and books : with an authentick account of the distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II. in the year 1746.

Boswell, James, 1740-1795.

London : Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785.

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A short treatise on several improvements, recently made in hot-houses: by which from four-fifths to nine-tenths of the fuel commonly used will be saved; time, labour, and risk, greatly lessened; and several other advantages produced. And which are applicable to hot-houses already erected, or to the construction of new hot-houses. Illustrated by nine large copperplates. / By J. Loudon ...

Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.

Edinburgh : Printed for the author, and sold by Archibald Constable and Co. ; London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805.

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C. Iulii Solini Polyhistor, rerum toto orbe memorabilium thesaurus locupletissimus. : Huic ob argumenti similitudinem Pomponii Melæ De situ orbis libros tres, fide diligentiaque summa recognitos, adiunximus. Accesserunt his præter noua scholia, quæ loca autoris utriusq[ue] obscuriora copiose passim illustrant, etiam tabulæ geographicæ permultæ, regionum, locorum, marium, sinuumq[ue] diuersorum situs pulchrè deliniantes. Cum indice rerum atque uerborum in utroq[ue] obseruandorum locupletissimo.

Solinus, C. Julius, active 3rd century?

Basileae : apud Michaelem Isingrinium et Henricum Petri, 1538.

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Arithmetical books from the invention of printing to the present time : being breif notices of a large number of works drawn up from actual inspection / by Augustus De Morgan of Trinity College, Cambridge secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society; fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and professor of mathematics in University College, London. ; [Four lines from the Dublin review, no. XLI]

De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871.

London : Taylor and Walton booksellers and publishers to University College 28 Upper Gower Street, 1847.

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Hieroglyphica of merkbeelden der oude volkeren : namentlyk Egyptenaren, Chaldeeuwen, Feniciers, Joden, Grieken, Romeynen, enz. nevens een omstandig bericht van het verval en voortkruypende verbastering der godsdiensten door verscheyde eeuwen, en eyndelyk de hervorming, tot op deze tyden toe vervolgt, in LXIII. hoofdstukken, en zoo veele kopere printblaaden / beschreven en verbeeld door Mr. Romeyn de Hooghe ... overzien en beschaaft door Arn. Henr. Westerhovius.

Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.

Amsteldam : By Joris van der Woude, 1735.

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A briefe collection and compendious extract of strau[n]ge and memorable thinges : gathered oute of the cosmographye of Sebastian Munster. Where in is made a playne descrypsion of diuerse and straunge lavves, rites, manners, and properties of sundry nacio[n]s, and a short reporte of straunge histories of diuerse men, and of the nature and properties of certayne fovvles, fishes, beastes, monsters, and sundrie countries and places.

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.

Imprinted at London : In fleetstrete neare Sainct Dunstanes Churche by Thomas Marshe, Anno Domini,1572.

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"The trumpet major" : a play in four acts / adapted by A.H. Evans from the book of that title by Thomas Hardy ; will be presented by The Dorchester debating and dramatic society, with the author's kind permission, at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester, on the evenings of Wednesday & Thursday, November 27th and 28th, 1912, and at the matinee on Thursday, November 28th.

Dorchester : Ling, Printer, 1912.

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An Answer to an invidious pamphlet, intituled, A brief state of the province of Pennsylvania : Wherein are exposed the many false assertions of the author or authors, of the said pamphlet, with a view to render the Quakers of Pennsylvania and their government obnoxious to the British Parliament and ministry; and the several transactions, most grossly misrepresented therein, set in their true light.

London : Printed for S. Bladon, 1755.

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P. Gasparis Schotti e Societate Jesu, Schola steganographica, : in classes octo distributa, quibus, præter alia multa, ac jucundissima, explicantur artificia nova, queis quilibet, scribendo epistolam qualibet de re, & quocunque idiomate, potest alteri absenti, eorundem artificiorum conscio, arcanum animi sui conceptum, sine ulla secreti latentis suspicione manifestare; & scriptam ab aliis eâdem arte, quacunque linguâ, intelligere, & interpretari ... Cum figuris æri incisis, & privilegio.

Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666.

[Nuremberg] : Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri, & Wolfgangi Junioris Hæred. : Excudebat Jobus Hertz, typographus Herbipol. : Prostant Norimbergæ apud dictos Endteros., [1680]

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