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The new book of constitutions of the most ancient and honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons : containing their history, charges, regulations ... also some rules necessary to be observed by the committee of charity, not published before, together with a choice collection of mason's songs, poems, prologues, and epilogues pub. by the order, and with the sanction of the Grand-lodge / collected from the book of constitutions published in England, in the year 1738, by ... James Anderson ... for the use of the lodges in Ireland, by Edward Spratt ...

Anderson, James, approximately 1680-1739.

Dublin : Printed by J. Butler, for the editor, 1751.

PML 142057

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Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, / executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings ; to which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print, together with the names of those for whom, and of the places for which the original pictures were first painted, (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain himself on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures.

Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822.

In Cheapside, London : Published by the proprietor, John Boydell, engraver, [1777]-1819.

PML 11740-42

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Eden: or, A compleat body of gardening. : Containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a garden, fruits, roots, and herbage; from the practice of the most successful gardeners, and the result of a long experience. : Together with the culture of all kinds of flowers, according to the methods of the English, French, and Dutch florists. And the knowledge of curious plants, after the system of Linnaeus. ... / Compiled and digested from the papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the authors of the Compleat body of husbandry. ...

Hill, John, 1714?-1775.

London : Printed for T. Osborne, ... ; T. Trye, ... ; S. Crowder and Co. ... ; and H. Woodgate, ... , MDCCLVII. [1757]

PML 151819

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Nova Francia, or The description of that part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia : described in the three late voyages and plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Graué and Monsieur de Poutriucourt, into the countries called by the French-men La Cadie, lying to the South west of Cape Breton : together with an excellent seuerall treatie of all the commodities of the said countries, and maners of the naturall inhabitants of the same / [Marc Lescarbot] ; translated out of French into English by P.E.

Lescarbot, Marc.

London : G. Bishop, 1609.

PML 3435

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The young chevalier: or, A genuine narrative of all that befell that unfortunate adventurer, from his fatal defeat to his final escape, after wandering about the isles and highlands of Scotland ... : The whole interspersed with many curious anecdotes of the lives and characters of the chiefs who accompanied, as well as those who abandoned him in his distresses. In particular the characters of Lord Lovat, and some others ... / By a gentleman, who was personally acquainted not only with the scenes of action, but with many of the actors themselves.

London : Printed for the author, [1746?]

PML 19078.2

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Carolina; or, A description of the present state of that country. and the natural excellencies thereof, viz. The healthfulness of the air, pleasantness of the place, advantage and usefulness of those rich commodities there plentifully abounding, which much encrease and flourish by the industry of the planters that daily enlarge that colony. Pub. by T. A. gent. clerk on board His Majesties ship the Richmond, which was sent out in the year 1680. with particular instructions to enquire into the state of that country, by His Majesties special command, and return'd this present year. 1682.

Ash, Thomas.

London, Printed for W. C. and to be sold by Mrs. Grover in Pelican-court in Little Britain, 1682.

PML 3694

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The personal narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky, during an expedition from St. Louis, through the vast regions between that place and the Pacific ocean, and thence back through the city of Mexico to Vera Cruz, during journeyings of six years; in which he and his father, who accompanied him, suffered unheard of hardships and dangers, had various conflicts with the Indians, and were made captives, in which captivity his father died; together with a description of the country, and the various nations through which they passed. Ed. by Timothy Flint.

Pattie, James O. (James Ohio), 1804?-1850?

Cincinnati, E. H. Flint, 1833.

PML 3871

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The delight of the humourous : come then, my friend----my genius, come along. At Sadler's Wells booth, opposite the Cheese Fair in Stirbich Fair, will be exhibited the usual diversions of Sadler's Wells, consisting of several curious bodily performances. Likewise Miss Wakelin's amazing performances. ... By a company of fancy ticklers, some with heads right, and some with heels light. By the latter some tumbling a-la-mode a-flip-flop ... To which will be added an entertaining interlude, called The wife well managed: or a Cure for cuckoldom ...

Cambridge : Printed by Sarah James near the Senate-House, [between 1758 and 1766]

PML 19327, leaf 092

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New arrivals. Under the patronage of the royal family. Mr. Simnett [i.e. Simmett] begs leave to inform the ladies and gentlemen, and the inhabitants at large, of this town, that he has arrived with the greatest wonders of the present age in a large commodious caravan. The Canadian giantesses Miss Priscilla and Miss Amelia Weston, twin sisters, in their twentieth year of their age, and each standing nearly seven feet high ... These wonderful prodigies are contrasted by the Norfolk dwarf Mrs. Walpole, thirty-one years of age, and stands only thirty-five inches high ...

Simmett, Mr.

Romford [London] : S. Robinson, Printer, Essex Press, [1833?]

PML 146639, p. 491 (facing)

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Young Man Taking a Step, with a Basket and Balancing a Sack on His Head. Verso: An Additional Study of the Same Figure

Andrea del Sarto

1486-1530

I, 30 (recto), IV, 14 (verso)

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Drawings and Prints