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Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work; with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists; the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress.

Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788.

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank ..., 1790.

PML 86915

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An easy introduction to astronomy : for young gentlemen and ladies: describing the figure, motions, and dimensions of the Earth; the different seasons; gravity and light; the solar system; the transit of Venus, and its use in astronomy; the Moon's motion and phases; the eclipses of the Sun and Moon; the cause of the ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c. ; Illustrated with copper-plates / By James Ferguson.

Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.

London : printed for T. Cadell in the Strand, MDCCLXXIX [1779]

PML 88164

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An account of south-west Barbary: containing what is most remarkable in the territories of the king of Fez and Morocco. Written by a person who had been a slave there a considerable time; and published from his authentick manuscript. To which are added, two letters: one from the present king of Morocco to Colonel Kirk; the other to Sir Cloudesly Shovell: with Sir Cloudesly's answer, &c. By Simon Ockley.

Ockley, Simon, 1678-1720.

London, J. Bowyer [etc.] 1713.

PML 6509

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The epitaph-writer; consisting of upwards of six hundred original epitaphs, moral, admonitory, humorous, and satirical ... Part I. Contains general epitaphs of two and four lines each ... Part II. Epitaphs on various characters and relations in life ... Part III. Humorous and satirical epitaphs, designed as satires on vice and folly. To which is prefixed, an essay on epitaph-writing. By John Bowden ...

Bowden, John, 1751-1817.

Chester [Eng.] Printed by J. Fletcher, 1791.

PML 9577

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Thoukydidou tou Olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia oktō : Thucydidis Olori filii De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo : Iidem Latine, ex interpretatione Lavrentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita. Cic. De orat. lib. II, Post Herodotu[m] Thucydides omnes dicendi artificio (mea sententia) facè vincit: qui ita est creber rerum frequentia, vt verborum propè numerum sententiaru[m] numero consequatur: ita porro verbis est aptus & pressus, ... [Title continues in note].

Thucydides.

[Paris] : Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, [1564]

PML 16367

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A chronicle at large, and meere history of the affayres of Englande, and kinges of the same : deduced from the creation of the worlde, vnto the first habitation of thys islande : and so by contynuance vnto the first yere of the reigne of our most deere and souereigne lady Queene Elizabeth: collected out of sundry aucthors, whose names are expressed in the next page of this leafe.

Grafton, Richard, -1572?

Imprinted at London : By Henry Denham ... at the costes and charges of Richard Tottle and Humffrey Toye, 1569.

PML 4247

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Mormonism unveiled, or, A faithful account of that singular imposition and delusion : from its rise to the present time ; with sketches of the ... propagators, and ... the manner in which the ... Golden Bible was brought before the world ; to which are added inquiries into the probability that the historical part of said Bible was written by one Solomon Spalding ... / by E.D. Howe.

Howe, E. D. (Eber D.), 1798-1885.

Painesville [Ohio] : The author, 1834.

PML 4277

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The English reader, or, Pieces in prose and poetry : selected from the best writers, designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect : to improve their language and sentiments and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue, with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading / by Lindley Murray, author of an English grammar, &c. &c.

Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826.

Haverhill, Mass. : Burrill and Tileston, 1817.

PML 82910

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Biblia : das ist, die gantze Heilige Schrifft, Altes und Neues Testaments / verdeutscht von Herrn Doctor Martin Luther ... ; von etlichen reinen Theologen dem eigentlichen Wort-Verstand nach erkläret, wie hiervon weiter in der Vorrede gehandelt wird ; dabey über die gewöhnliche, mit Fleiss verbesserte Biblische Register, unter andern zu finden, ein Bericht, von Vergleichung der Jüdischen und Biblischen Monden, Maass, Gewicht, Müntz und Elen mit den Unserigen ...

Nürnberg : In Verlegung der Johann Andreä Endterischen Handlung, anno 1768.

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A form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God : to be used in all churches and chapels throughout England, the Dominion of Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed, on Thursday, the twenty-ninth of July, being the day appointed by proclamation for a general Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for putting an end to the late bloody, extended, and expensive war im which we were engaged.

London : Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1784.

PML 19068

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