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William Blake's illustrations to Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil in Ambrose Phillips' [sic] imitation of Virgil's first eclogue, 1821 : enlarged fac-similes in platinotype from the scarce original edition / by Frederick H. Evans.

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

[London] : F.H. Evans, 1912.

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The Byble in Englyshe of the largest and greatest volume : auctorysed and apoynted by the commaundemente of oure moost redoubted prynce and soveraygne Lorde Kynge Henry the .VIII. supreme head of this his churche and realme of Englande: to be frequented and used in every church w'in this his sayd realme accordynge to the tenour of his former Injunctions geven in that behalfe / oversene and perused at the co[m]maundem[n]t of the kynges hyghnes, by the ryght reverende fathers in God Cuthbert bysshop of Duresme, and Nicolas bisshop of Rochester.

[London] : Printed by Edwarde Whitchurch, [November] 1541.

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Gospel musick, or, The singing of Davids psalms, &c. in the publick congregations, or private families asserted, and vindicated, against a printed pamphlet, entitled, Certain reasons by way of confutation of singing psalms in the letter, objections sent in, in writing, scruples of some tender consciences / by thy loving brother, N.H., D.D., M.M.S. ; vnto which is added, the iudgement of our worthy brethren of New-England touching singing of psalms, as it is learnedly and gravely set forth in their preface to the Singing psalms, by them translated into metre.

Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.

London : Printed for Henry Overton ..., 1644.

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Joh. Amos Comnienii Orbis sensualium pictus : hoc est, omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura = Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine, and High-Dutch (being one of his last essays, and the most suitable to childrens capacities of any that he hath hither to made) ; & translated in[to] English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.

Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.

London : Printed for J. Kirton, at the Kings-Arms, in Saint Paul's Church-yard, 1664.

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A dispvte vpon the qvestion of kneeling, in the acte of receiving the sacramentall bread and wine, proving it to be unlawfull, or, A third parte of The defence of the ministers reasons for refusall of the subscription and conformitie requyred : against the severall answers of 1. D. Spark, in his brotherly perswasion to unitie &c.; 2. D. Covel, in his booke against M. Iohn Burges; 3. Thomas Hutton, in his 2. booke against the ministers of Devonshire and Cornwell; 4. Thomas Rogers in his two dialogues, printed this yeare 1608.

Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.

[London : s.n.], 1608.

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The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory, wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful foretasts of it, by the help of meditation / written for the authors own use, in the time of his languishing, when God took him off from all publike imployment, and afterwards preached in his weekly lecture, by Richard Baxter.

Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.

London : Printed for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1654.

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Gospel lectionary single leaves (MS M.654.1-4).

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Moscow, Russia, 1596.

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1596.

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MS M.654.1-4

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Historia naturalis, libri I-XVII, fragment (MS M.871).

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Worms, Germany, 830-840

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MS M.871

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The Holy Bible : conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly translated out of the originall tongues: & with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Maiesties speciall comandement. Appointed to be read in churches.

Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, Anno 1611.

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