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This evening, Saturday, December 20, 1834, will be performed the interesting new drama called Secret service, or The home department ... At the end of the drama, Mr Frampton will dance his comic medley. After which will be performed the popular farce of Perfection, or The lady of Munster .. The whole to conclude with, for the first time this season, the popular burletta called Midas, or Olympus in an uproar.

Accession number

PMC 1220.7

Published

[Edinburgh : publisher not identified, 1834].

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

The memoirs of Sir James Melvil of Halhill; containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mention'd by other historians, more particularly relating to the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, under the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and King James, in most of which transactions the author was personally and publickly concerned. Published form the original manuscript by George Scott.

Melville, James, Sir, 1535 or 1536-1617.

Edinburgh : Printed by T. and W. Ruddimans. Sold by G. Hamilton, A. Martin [and others] 1735.

PML 150554

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Book

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Printed Books

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.

PML 128916

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Book

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Printed Books

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.

PML 85613

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Book

Department

Printed Books

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.

PML 16041

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Book

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Printed Books

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, or ever will be published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker ...

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

New York : Printed for the Grolier Club, 1886.

PML 196626-27

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Printed Books

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 of Basil. To which are prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the Scripture text from which the designs were taken. Etched by D. Deuchar, F. A. S.

London : Printed by W. Smith & Co., ... for J. Scott, ... and Thomas Ostell, 1803.

PML 2118

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Book

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Printed Books

The myrrour or glasse of helth necessary and nedefull for every person to loke in that wyll kepe theyr body from the sekenes of the pestylence; and it sheweth howe the planettes reygne in every houre of the daye and the nyght with the natures and exposycyons of the .xii. sygnes, devyded by the .xii. monthes of the yere. And sheweth the remedyes, for many dyvers infyrmytes and dyseases that hurteth the body of man.

Moulton, Thomas.

[London, Wyllyam Myddelton, 1545?]

PML 6456

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Book

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Printed Books

The trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, printer : who was charged with having printed and published a libel against the government; and acquitted. With a narrative of his case. To which is now added, being never printed before, the trial of Mr. William Owen, bookseller, near Temple-Bar, who was also charged with the publication of a libel against the government; of which he was honourably acquitted by a jury of free-born Englishmen, citizens of London.

Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746.

London : Printed for J. Almon, 1765.

PML 11020

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Book

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Printed Books

Unique collection of drawings & prints, a catalogue of all the great and valuable collection of ancient drawings, scarce prints, and books of prints, which belonged to Sir Joshua Reynolds, deceased ... : also, a few bronzes ... [etc.] and a small library of books, treating of the arts : which ... will be sold by auction by Mr. H. Phillips, at his Great Room, 67, New Bond Street, on Monday, March 5, 1798, and seventeen successive days ...

Phillips, H.

[London] : Catalogues ... may be had of Mr. Lloyd, bookseller ... at Mr. Phillips's house ... and at his Great Room ..., 1798.

PML 79585.1

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Book

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Printed Books