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A Pleasant and useful companion to the Church of England, or, A short, plain, and practical exposition of the Book of Common Prayer : containing the harmony of the several parts and offices, and the substance of the liturgical remarks of Bp. Sparrow, Dr. Comber, Mr. Wheatley, Mr. Nelson, and the other learned writers on the same subject : as also a concise account of the feasts and fasts : carefully collected into a narrow compass, chiefly for the convenience of those who have not the opportunity of perusing many and larger books; but made serviceable to all by the addition of new observations : to which is prefixed, an introduction containing, a short account of the lives of the compilers of the liturgy.

London : Printed for J. Newbery ... , 1764.

PML 83724

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The new witnesses proved old hereticks, or, information to the ignorant : in which the doctrines of John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, which they stile, mysteries never before known, revealed, or heard of from the foundation of the world, are proved to be mostly ancient whimsies, blasphemies and heresies, from the evidence of Scripture, reason and several historians : also an account of some discourse betwixt L.M. and my self, by which his blasphemous, ignorant and unsavory spirit is clearly and truly manifested, in love to the immortal souls of those few, who are concern'd in the belief of his impostures / by a living true witness to that one eternal way of God, revealed in the light of righteousness W.P.

Penn, William, 1644-1718.

[London : s.n.], 1672.

PML 19096.13

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The honour of the taylors, or, The famous and renowned history of Sir John Hawkwood, Knight : containing his many rare and singular adventures, witty exploits, heroick atchievements, and noble performances relating to love & arms in many lands : in the series of which history are contained likewise the no less famous actions and enterprizes of others of the same art and mystery : with many remarkable passages relating to customs, manners &c., ancient and modern : illustrated with pictures and embelished with verses and songs wonderfully pleasant and delightful : to which, as an appendix, is added a brief account of the original of the Worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors, as to their being incorporated &c., ...

Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.

London : Printed by Alexander Milbourn for William Whitwood ..., 1687.

PML 6393

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The English myrror. : A regard wherein al estates may behold the conquests of enuy : containing ruine of common weales, murther of princes, cause of heresies, and in all ages, spoile of deuine and humane blessings, : vnto which is adioyned, Enuy conquered by vertues. Publishing the peaceable victories obtained by the Queenes most excellent Maiesty, against this mortall enimie of publike peace and prosperitie, : and lastly A fortris against enuy, builded vpon the counsels of sacred scripture, lawes of sage philosophers, and pollicies of well gouerned common weales : wherein euery estate may see the dignities, the true office and cause of disgrace of his vocation : a worke safely, and necessarie to be read of euerie good subiect. / By George Whetstones ...

Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?

At London : Printed by I. Windet for G. Seton, and are to be sold at his shop vnder Aldersgate, 1586.

PML 6581

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Memoirs, illustrative of the life and writings of John Evelyn, esq. F.R.S. ... : comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between King Charles I. and his secretary of state, Sir Edward Nicholas, whilst His Majesty was in Scotland, 1641, and at other times during the Civil War; also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, ambassador to the Court of France, in the time of King Charles I and the usurpation. The whole now first published from the original Mss. / Edited by William Bray, esq. fellow and treasurer of the Society of antiquaries of London.

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.

London : Printed for Henry Colburn, 1819.

PML 37272

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Women Artists and Patrons in the Natural Sciences, 1650–1800

Women played an important role in the development of the natural sciences in the early modern period.

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One Hundred Years of James Joyce's Ulysses

June 3 through October 2, 2022

One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” explores Joyce’s trajectory from lyric poet to modernist genius.

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One Hundred Years of James Joyce's Ulysses

Set on one day, 16 June 1904, James Joyce’s Ulysses follows the young poet Stephen Dedalus and the unlikely hero Leopold Bloom as they journey through Dublin.

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Collection in Focus: Ouida's "A Dog of Flanders"

Jesse R. Erickson, our Astor Curator and Department Head of Printed Books & Bindings, tells us about a popular Victorian novelist, Maria Louise Ramé, better known as Ouida.

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Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961): Poetry Is Everything

May 26 through September 24, 2023

Blaise Cendrars, born Frédéric Louis Sauser, was a catalyst in some of the explosive artistic innovations of the early twentieth century.

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