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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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The joyner and cabinet-maker's darling, or, Pocket director : Containing, sixty different designs, entirely new and useful, forty of which are gothic, Chinese, mosaic and ornamental frets, proper for friezes, imposts, architraves, tabernacle frames, book-cases, tea tables, tea stands, trays, stoves, and fenders. And twenty new and beautiful designs for gothic, modern and ornamental fan-lights for over-doors, in the most elegant taste. / Calculated for the universal use of carpenters, joyners, cabinet-makers, masons, plaisterers, smiths, &c. &c. And intended to assist the nobility and gentry in their choice. The whole designed and engraved by John Crunden, architect.

Crunden, John, ca. 1745-1835.

London : Printed for the author: and sold by Henry Webley in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, 1765.

PML 53039

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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

An enquiry into the causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British interest : and into the measures taken for recovering their friendship. Extracted from the public treaties, and other authentic papers relating to the transaction of the government of Pensilvania and the said Indians, for near forty years; and explained by a map of the country. Together with the remarkable Journal of Christian Frederic Post, by whose negotiations, among the Indians on the Ohio, they were withdrawn from the interest of the French, who thereupon abandoned the fort and country. With notes by the editor explaining sundry Indian customs, &c. Written in Pensylvania.

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.

London : Printed for J. Wilkie, 1759.

PML 3671

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To all people in all Christendom : concerning perfect love, pure wisdome and the holy faith and who they are that banisheth them, and who they are that entertains them, and how Christendome hath not received this love ... but hath received envy and wrath ... : also concerning Christs flesh which was offered and Adams flesh which was defiled, and concerning the outward offerings and sacifices ... and concerning the belief in Christ the offering and concerning Adam in the fall, and concerning Adam before he fell ... and concerning the eating of Christs flesh and drinking his blood, and who hath life and who hath not.

Fox, George, 1624-1691.

[London] : Printed for M.W., [1663]

PML 13001

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The Marvelous Land of Oz : being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and also the strange experiences of the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkin-head, the Animated Saw-Horse and the Gump, the story being a sequel to the Wizard of Oz / By L. Frank Baum, author of Father-Goose - his book; The Wizard of Oz; the Magical monarch of Mo; the Enchanted Isle of Yew; the Life and adventures of Santa Claus; Dot and Tot of Merryland etc. etc. Pictured by John R. Neill. The end-papers from life poses by the famous comedians, Montgomery and Stone.

Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919.

Chicago : The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904.

PML 57006

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Anno tricesimo quarto et quinto Herici [sic] Octaui. Actes made in the session of this present parlyament holden vpon prorogation at westm[inster] the .xii. daye of January, in the XXXIIII. yere of the reign of our most drad soueraine lorde Henry the eyght by the grace of god kyng of England Fraunce and Ireland defendour of the faythe and of the church of England and also of Ireland in earth the supreme head [and] there continued and kepte tyll the .xii. daye of May in the .XXXV. yere of our sayde souerayne lorde to the honour of god, and for the common weale and profit of this his realme.

Imprinted at London, in Fletestrete, in the House of Thomas Barthelet [i.e. Thomas Powell], [approximately 1556]

PML 198077

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Anno tricesimo primo Henrici Octavi : Henry the VIII. by the grace of God Kyng of England and of Fraunce, defender of the fayth, lord of Irelande, and in earth supreme hed immediately vnder Christ of the Church of England to the honour of almighty God, conseruacion of the true doctrine of Christes religion, and for the concord quiet and vvelth of this his realme and subiectes of the same, helde his moste high courte of Parliament, begunne at VVestm[inster] the XXVIII. day of Aprill, and there continued till the XXVIII. day of Iune, the XXXI. yere of his most noble and victorious reigne, vvherin vvere establysshed these actes folovvinge.

Londini : In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress., M.D.XLVI [1546]

PML 15116

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Strange and remarkable prophesies and predictions of the holy, learned, and excellent James Usher, late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland : giving an account of his foretelling I. The rebellion in Ireland forty years before it came to pass. II. The confusions and miseries of England, in Church and state. III. The death of King Charles the First. IV. His own poverty and want. V. The divisions in England in matters of religion. Lastly, of a great and terrible persecution which shall fall upon the reformed churches by the Papists ... / written by the person who heard it from this excellent persons own mouth ...

London : Printed for R.G., 1678.

PML 6213.3

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The late famous tryal of Mr. Hickeringill, rector of the rectory of All-Saints, in Colchester; and author of The naked-truth, the second part. : With an information exhibited against him for barretry, in XXIV articles; to make good the charge against him at the suit of the King, (as in course, but really) prosecuted by one Maltcher, and one Morris, a proctor in the spiritual courts. At the assizes in nisi prius held at Chelmsford, March 3, 1680, before Mr. Baron Weston: where and when, he was accused (amongst other things) for writing the said book, called The naked-truth, the second part ...

London : Printed for Francis Smith, 1681.

PML 18658.27

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