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The dances of death, through the various stages of human life. Wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copper-plates, done from the original designs which were cut in wood, and afterwards painted by John Holbein, in the town-house at Basil. To which is prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the Scripture text from which the designs were taken.

Edinburgh, 1788.

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A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty : containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam : being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker ...

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

New York : Inskeep & Bradford ; Philadelphia : Bradford & Inskeep, 1809.

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A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty : containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam : being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker ...

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

New York : Inskeep & Bradford ; Philadelphia : Bradford & Inskeep, 1809.

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A briefe narration of some church courses held in opinion and practice in the churches lately erected in New England : collected out of sundry of their own printed papers and manuscripts with other good intelligences : together with some short hints (given by the way) of their correspondence with the like tenents and practises of the separatists churches ... / presented to publike view for the good of the church of God by W.R.

Rathband, William, d. 1695.

London : Printed by G.M. for Edward Brewster ... , 1644.

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A history of the fight at Concord, on the 19th of April, 1775, : with a particular account of the military operations and interesting events of that ever memorable day; showing that then and there the first regular and forcible resistance was made to the British soldiery, and the first British blood was shed by armed Americans, and the Revolutionary War thus commenced. / By Rev. Ezra Ripley, D.D., with other citizens of Concord.

Ripley, Ezra, 1751-1841.

Concord [Mass.]: : Printed and published by Allen & Atwill., 1827.

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Views in the Ottoman empire, chiefly in Caramania : a part of Asia Minor hitherto unexplored; with some curious selections from the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and the celebrated cities of Corinth, Carthage, and Tripoli: from the original drawings in the possession of Sir R. Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople / by Luigi Mayer: with historical observations and incidental illustrations of the manners and customs of the natives of the country.

Mayer, Luigi.

London : Published by R. Bowyer, 1803.

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The American reader : a selection of lessons for reading and speaking, wholly from American authors : embracing a great variety of entertaining subjects of history, biography, divinity, laws, natural and moral philosophy, and of other branches of useful and elegant learning : furnishing numerous specimens of American eloquence, from the Presidential chair, the head quarters of the military commander, the seat in Congress, the pulpit on various occasions, the bench of the judge, the bar, station of literary honor, the seat of the muses, and from the shade of private life : containing rules for the proper use of the pauses, for graceful and persuasive pronunciation, and for appropriate and impressive gesture, to improve the scholar in reading and speaking, while enriching the mind with religious, virtuous, and useful knowledge : with an appendix of definitions of the words in this book most difficult for youth to understand : designed for the use of schools / by Joseph Richardson.

Richardson, Joseph, 1778-1871.

Boston : Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, 1810.

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The text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ / translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous seminarie at Rhemes ; with arguments of bookes, chapters, and annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to cleare the controversies of these dayes ; whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses, and annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason, and slander against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the translations used in the Church of England ; the whole worke, perused and enlarged in divers places by the authors owne hand before his death, with sundry quotations and authorities out of Holy Scriptures, counsels, Fathers, and history more amply then [sic] in the former edition by W. Fulke, D. in Divinitie.

Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker ..., 1601.

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The text of the New Testament of Iesus Christ / translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous seminarie at Rhemes ; with arguments of bookes, chapters, and annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to cleare the controversies of these dayes ; whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses, and annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason, and slander against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the translations used in the Church of England ; the whole worke, perused and enlarged in divers places by the authors owne hand before his death, with sundry quotations and authorities out of Holy Scriptures, counsels, Fathers, and history more amply then [sic] in the former edition by W. Fulke, D. in Divinitie.

Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker ..., 1601.

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Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In seven books. Exemplified, in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countreys, and figures of various forms; the way of engraving, etching and limning, ... the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities; the paintings of the antients; ... The whole doctrine of perfumes (never published till now,) together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting: and a discourse of perspective, chiromancy and alchymy. To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber, a most learned and eminent physician, translated out of Latin into English. II. An abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies. The fifth edition: ... Adorned with XXV. copper sculptures; ... by William Salmon, ...

Salmon, William, 1644-1713.

London : printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain, MDCLXXXV. [1685]

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