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The natvrall and morall historie of the East and West Indies. Intreating of the remarkable things of heaven, of the elements, metals, plants and beasts which are proper to that country: together with the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. Written in Spanish by Ioseph Acosta, and translated into English by E. G.

Acosta, José de, 1540-1600.

London, Printed by V. Sims for E. Blount and W. Aspley, 1604.

PML 6266

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Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: to which are added, Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, esq., and Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean museum, with biographical and literary illustrations ...

London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown : Munday and Slatter, 1813.

PML 63221-23

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The plans, elevations, and sections, chimney-pieces, and cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk : built by Sr. Robert Walpole ... Earl of Orford &c. / the whole designed by Thomas Ripley ... ; delinated by Isaac Ware and William Kent ... ; and engrav'd by ... Mr. Fourdrinier , with a description of the house and of the elegant collection of pictures.

Ripley, Thomas, -1758.

London : Sold by C. Fourdrinier ..., Mr. Lewis ..., Messrs. Piers and Webley ..., 1760.

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Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. By Edward Howe Forbush, ornithologist to the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. Illustrated by the author, C. Allan Lyford, Chester A. Reed and others.

Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929.

Boston, Mass. : Pub. under direction of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, by authority of the Legislature, 1908.

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Ubu roi; drama in 5 acts / by Alfred Jarry ; translated from the French by Barbara Wright; with 2 portraits of the author by L. Lantier and F.A. Cazals and several drawings by Jarry and Pierre Bonnard ... and 204 drawings by Franciszka Themerson doodled on litho plates and printed on yellow paper ; all followed by the Song of the disembraining.

Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907.

London : Gaberbocchus Press, 1951.

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Old Wedgwood : the decorative or artistic ceramic work, in colour and relief invented and produced by Josiah Wedgwood, at Etruria, in Staffordshire, 1760-1794; with sixty-seven full-page illustrations in the colour of originals, and smaller wood-blocks; biographical and descriptive chapters; a list of marks used at Etruria, and explanatory text to each object / illustrated by Frederick Rathbone.

Rathbone, Frederick.

London : Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, 1898.

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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 history of the rebellion and civil wars in England begun in the year 1641. With the precedent passages, and actions, that contributed thereunto, and the happy end, and conclusion thereof by the king's blessed restoration and return upon the 29th of May, in the year 1660. Written by the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon ...

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.

Oxford : Printed at the Theater, 1702-04.

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Letters of S[i]r Francis Bacon ... written during the reign of King James the First / now collected, and augmented with several letters and memoires, address'd by him to the King and Duke of Buckingham, which were never before published ; the whole being illustrated by an historical introduction and some observations, and dispos'd according to the series of time.

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

London : Printed for Benj. Tooke ..., 1702.

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Phedre & Hippolyte, : tragedie. / Par Mr. Racine.

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699.

A Paris, Chez Jean Ribou, au Palais, dans la salle royale, à l'image S. Loüis. M. DC. LXXVII [1677]

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