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The clerk's remembrancer. : Containing all sorts of small and useful precedents: with proper directions in conveyancing: and the compleat methods of practice in the courts of Queen's-Bench, Common-Pleas, and in the High Court of Chancery. The whole done very exact, and in a more compendious and instructive manner than hath hitherto been published. / By Giles Jacob, gent'.

Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.

[London] In the Savoy, : Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of E. Sayer, for B. Lintott [etc.], MDCCXIV.

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The gastronomic regenerator : a simplified and entirely new system of cookery, with nearly two thousand practical receipts suited to the income of all classes : illustrated with numerous engravings and correct and minute plans how kitchens of every size, from the kitchen of a royal palace to that of the humble cottage, are to be constructed and furnished / by A. Soyer.

Soyer, Alexis, 1809-1858.

London : Simpkin, Marshall ; sold by J. Ollivier, 1846.

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The anatomy of melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes & severall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up. By Democritus Junior [pseud.] With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse. The sixt. edition, corrected and augmented by the author. [Line in Latin].

Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.

Oxford, Printed for Henry Cripps, 1651.

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The Christen rule or state of all the worlde from the hyghest to the lowest lowest : and how euery man shulde lyue to please God in hys callynge. Item, the Christen state of matrimonye: and how ma[n] and wife shuld kepe house together with loue. Item, the maner oe [sic] saynge grace after the holy scrypture.

[London] : [T. Raynalde and William Hill], 1548?

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A narrative of the mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians : from its commencement, in the year 1740, to the close of the year 1808 ; comprising all the remarkable incidents which took place at their missionary stations during that period ; interspersed with anecdotes, historical facts, speeches of Indians, and other interesting matter / by John Heckewelder.

Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823.

Philadelphia : McCarty & Davis, 1820.

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A vvarning for all maids, being an example of Mrs. Jane Reynolds (a west-country woman) born near Plimouth, who having plighted her troth to a seaman, was afterwards married to a carpenter, and at last carried away by a spirit, the manner how shall presently be recited. To a west-country tune, called, The fair maid of Bristol: or, John True.

[London] : Printed by and for A. M[ilbourn]. and sold by booksellers of London, [1700?]

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Mother bunch's closet newly broke open : Containing, rare secrets of art & nature, tried and experienced by learned philosophers, and recommended to all ingenious young men and maids. Teaching them, in a natural way, how to get good wives and husbands. By our loving friend poor Tom, for the King, a lover of Mirth, but a hater of treason. Part the first.

[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]

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Canterbury tales : Composed for the entertainment of all ingenious young men and maids, at their merry meetings at Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, or any other time, especially on the long winter evening, to keep his wits employed. Intermixed with pleasant stories, witty Jests, and delightful songs, very proper for either city, town, or country / By J. Chaucer, Junior.

Chaucer (Junior)

[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]

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The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England : containing the representations of all the English monarchs from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth ; and of many persons that were eminent under their several reigns on sixty copper plates, engraved by the author, with a supplement, containing twelve plates ; the whole carefully collected from ancient illuminated manuscripts / by Joseph Strutt.

Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802.

London : Henry G. Bohn, 1842.

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Where the Wild Things Are: Original Drawings by Maurice Sendak

October 6 through November 1, 2009

This special exhibition features original drawings and manuscript pages from the classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (b. 1928). The show is part of a citywide celebration honoring Mr. Sendak and marking the October 13 premiere of a new Warner Bros. movie adaptation directed by Spike Jonze.

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