A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700 Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe: Vol. 1-3. Privately Pr, Volume 1Privatly Print., 1905 - American literature |
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... Presented to the Lord Keeper . By Mr. Addison , of Mag . Coll . Oxon . London : Printed for Jacob Tonfon , at the Judge's - Head near the Inner- Temple - Gate in Fleetftreet , MDCXCV . Folio , figured silk . Bound with YALDEN's ...
... Presented to the Lord Keeper . By Mr. Addison , of Mag . Coll . Oxon . London : Printed for Jacob Tonfon , at the Judge's - Head near the Inner- Temple - Gate in Fleetftreet , MDCXCV . Folio , figured silk . Bound with YALDEN's ...
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... Presentation copy from the author , with his book - plate on a fly - leaf . AINSWORTH , WILLIAM HARRISON . Jack Shep- pard : a Romance . By W. Harrison Ainsworth , Esq . . . . with illustrations by George Cruikshank . London : Richard ...
... Presentation copy from the author , with his book - plate on a fly - leaf . AINSWORTH , WILLIAM HARRISON . Jack Shep- pard : a Romance . By W. Harrison Ainsworth , Esq . . . . with illustrations by George Cruikshank . London : Richard ...
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... Presentation copy from the author . ANDREWS , WILLIAM LORING . - The Bradford Map The City of New York at the time of the granting of the Montgomerie Charter a description thereof compiled by William Loring Andrews to accompany a fac ...
... Presentation copy from the author . ANDREWS , WILLIAM LORING . - The Bradford Map The City of New York at the time of the granting of the Montgomerie Charter a description thereof compiled by William Loring Andrews to accompany a fac ...
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... Presentation copy from the author , eighty printed on hand- made paper , with eighteen reproductions of rare engravings , four being in colours . ANDREWS , WILLIAM LORING . -A Trio of Eigh- teenth Century French Engravers of Portraits ...
... Presentation copy from the author , eighty printed on hand- made paper , with eighteen reproductions of rare engravings , four being in colours . ANDREWS , WILLIAM LORING . -A Trio of Eigh- teenth Century French Engravers of Portraits ...
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... Presentation copy on thick paper , from the author . BEATTIE , JAMES . - The Minstrel ; or , the Progress of Genius : in two books . With some other poems . By James Beattie . . . London : printed by T. Gillet , for C. Dilly ...
... Presentation copy on thick paper , from the author . BEATTIE , JAMES . - The Minstrel ; or , the Progress of Genius : in two books . With some other poems . By James Beattie . . . London : printed by T. Gillet , for C. Dilly ...
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Page 197 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself.
Page 109 - Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry : 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.
Page 147 - CHRISTMAS WITH THE POETS. A Collection of Songs, Carols, and Descriptive Verses relating to the Festival of Christmas, from the Anglo-Norman Period to the Present Time. Embellished with 53 Tinted Illustrations by BIRKET FOSTER.
Page 271 - An Account of the Indian Nations inhabiting within the Limits of the Thirteen United States, their Manners and Customs, and Reflections on their Origin. IV. The Stages and Distances between Philadelphia and the Falls of the Ohio, from Pittshurg to Pensacola, and several other Places. — The Whole illustrated by a new and accurate Map of Kentucke and the Country adjoining, drawn from actual Surveys. By John Filson.
Page 26 - THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, Illustrated by Engravings taken from Marbles, Manuscripts, and Charters, Ancient and Modern ; also Some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing.
Page 189 - Testament!,' with 90 wood-cuts beautifully engraved. Crown 8vo. half bound morocco, 1(. Is. A few copies printed entirely on India paper, 2J. 2s. THE DANCE OF DEATH, exhibited in fifty-five elegant Engravings on Wood, with a Dissertation on the several Representations of that Subject; more particularly on those attributed to MACABER and HOLBEIN, by FRANCIS DOUCE, FSA 8vo.
Page 214 - Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, lately forming part of the Library of the Duke di Cassano Serra, and now the property of...
Page 39 - BECKER'S GALLUS ; or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus : with Notes and Excursuses illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Romans.
Page 56 - NURSE'S SONG. WHEN the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still. Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down, And the dews of night arise ; Come, come, leave off play, and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies.
Page 19 - THE BRADFORD MAP." The City of New York at the time of the granting of the Montgomery Charter.