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To be seen at Mr. S------n's menagerie the wonderful learned Han[...]r colt who writes a letter blindfolded : NB. he is in training for sev[era]l other useful purposes ; also a very curious monkey who can read & write a little & imitates the human voice ; also several very extraordinary rats from Holland, Buckinghamshire, Wilton, Poole & other places / JS [monogram] f.

James Sayers

1748-1823

[London] : Pubd. 27 Jany. 1789 by Thos. Cornell, [1789

Peel 1643

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Francesco Griffo da Bologna : fragments and glimpses : a new account of the life & work of the man who cut types for Aldus Manutius, Francesco Griffo da Bologna, told through a collection of fragments and glimpses assembled from a variety of sources, with a leaf from the Aldine edition of Ovid's Heroidvm epistolae set in Griffo's first italic type.

Vancouver : Heavenly Monkey, 2020.

PML 198675

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The knowledge of the heavens and the earth made easy; or, The first principles of astronomy and geography explain'd by the use of globes and maps: with a solution of the common problems by a plain scale and commpasses as well as by the globe. Written several year since for the use of learners. By I. Watts.

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.

London : Printed for J. Clark and R. Hett [etc.] 1726.

PML 3896

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Harry Jenkins, the masculine & feminine bellows mender : having declared his intention not to remain neuter in the Westminster Contest, is canvassed by the Duchess of D------e & coax'd by Mother Windsor, & absolutely poll'd for Lord John, on Monday July 28th, altho' he never had any habitation except a cow-house, a privy, a pig stye or a watch house.

James Gillray

1756-1815

[London] : Pubd July 29th 1788 No 51 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street, [1788]

1986.193

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Harry Jenkins, the masculine & feminine bellows mender : having declared his intention not to remain neuter in the Westminster Contest, is canvassed by the Duchess of D------e & coax'd by Mother Windsor, & absolutely poll'd for Lord John, on Monday July 28th, altho' he never had any habitation except a cow-house, a privy, a pig stye or a watch house.

James Gillray

1756-1815

[London] : Pubd July 29th 1788 No 51 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street, [1788]

1986.289

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The ever memorable Battle of Bannockburn : as performed at St Cecilia's Hall with universal applause : wherein is inserted Bruce's address to his troops previous to the action / by the late R. Burns ; the Introduction and Grand chorus wrote by a Gentleman ; composed, and adapted for the piano forte, with a violin accompaniment ... by Peter Urbani.

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Battle of Bannockburn

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PMC 2087

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Edinr [Edinburgh] : Urbani & Liston, [1797].

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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

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Mess. C.I. Ashley & S. Wesley respectfully beg leave to inform the nobility, gentry, their friends, and the public in general, their annual benefit is fixed for this present Saturday, May 24, 1817 at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, when will be performed a grand selection from the compositions of the most favourite authors - ancient and modern.

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PMC 1196

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London : [publisher not identified], 1817.

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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

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A treatise of japaning and varnishing : being a compleat discovery of those arts : with the best of making all sorts of varnish for japan, wood, prints, or pictures : the method of guilding, burnishing, and lackering, with the art of guilding, separating, and refining metals and of painting mezzo-tinto prints ... / by John Stalker and George Parker.

Stalker, John.

Oxford : Printed for and sold by the authors, John Stalker, at the Golden Ball in St. James's Market, London, or by George Parker, at Mr. Richard Woods house over against the theater in Oxford, 1688.

PML 151828

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The art of swimming : with advice for bathing, to which is prefixed a prefatory discourse concerning artificial swimming, or keeping one's self above water by several small portable engines, in cases of danger : illustrated with forty proper copper-plate cuts, which represent the different postures necessary to be used in that art / by Monsieur Thévenot.

Thévenot, Melchisédec, 1620-1692.

London : Printed for John Lever, 1764.

PML 151278

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[The book of divers ghostly matters].

PML 704

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books