A Catalogue of the Books, Autographs, Engravings, and Miscellaneous Articles, Belonging to the Estate of the Late John Allan |
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... SCARCE , CURIOUS AND UNIQUE BOOKS , ANTIQUITIES , ARTICLES OF VERTU , Autographs , Coins , Medals , Minerals , & c . This Collection was made with much care , during a long life , The and the Catalogue will , in itself , be an ...
... SCARCE , CURIOUS AND UNIQUE BOOKS , ANTIQUITIES , ARTICLES OF VERTU , Autographs , Coins , Medals , Minerals , & c . This Collection was made with much care , during a long life , The and the Catalogue will , in itself , be an ...
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... scarce . Of Unique and Presque Unique Books , there is an almost un- equalled Collection . It may be safely asserted that an equal num- ber of Missals , Books printed upon Vellum , etc. , have never before been offered for sale in this ...
... scarce . Of Unique and Presque Unique Books , there is an almost un- equalled Collection . It may be safely asserted that an equal num- ber of Missals , Books printed upon Vellum , etc. , have never before been offered for sale in this ...
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... scarce . Among the Minerals are a few specimens of great beauty , and Lot 4791 is one of much rarity . Relics , Curiosities , and Antiquities , if not numerous , are singu- lar and interesting , and , it is believed , genuine . The ...
... scarce . Among the Minerals are a few specimens of great beauty , and Lot 4791 is one of much rarity . Relics , Curiosities , and Antiquities , if not numerous , are singu- lar and interesting , and , it is believed , genuine . The ...
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... scarce are used sparingly , and according to their received bibliographical value . The authorities referred to are Mr. Bohn's Enlarged Edition of Lowndes , and the last Edition of Brunet's Manual , some of Dibdin's Works , etc. The ...
... scarce are used sparingly , and according to their received bibliographical value . The authorities referred to are Mr. Bohn's Enlarged Edition of Lowndes , and the last Edition of Brunet's Manual , some of Dibdin's Works , etc. The ...
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... scarce . Prepared and published by order of the Society . Only a small edition printed : it includes Speeches by Daniel Webster and G. C. Verplanck , etc. 1852 . 13. ACCOUNT of the Procession , Dinner , and Ball , given in Hon- our of ...
... scarce . Prepared and published by order of the Society . Only a small edition printed : it includes Speeches by Daniel Webster and G. C. Verplanck , etc. 1852 . 13. ACCOUNT of the Procession , Dinner , and Ball , given in Hon- our of ...
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Page 124 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 173 - An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving upon copper and in wood, with an account of engravers and their works, from the invention of chalcography by Maso Finiguerra, to the time of Marc
Page 252 - A COLLECTION OF EMBLEMES, ANCIENT AND MODERNE : Quickened with Metricall Illustrations, both Morall and Divine : and disposed into Lotteries, that Instruction, and Good Counsell, may bee furthered by an Honest and Pleasant Recreation.
Page 248 - SACRA PICTORIA: being a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, executed between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries. Royal 4to, with 50 beautifully Illuminated Plates, half-bound morocco, .£3 IM.
Page 143 - The Historic of Cambria, now called Wales: A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language above two hundreth yeares past: translated into English by H. Lhoyd, gentleman: Corrected, augmented, and continued out of Records and best approoved Authors, by David Powel, Doctor in Divinitie.
Page 193 - The Ever Green, being a collection of Scots Poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600.
Page 81 - Bible was printed here at our Cambridge, and it is the only Bible that ever was printed in all America, from the very foundation of the world. The whole translation he writ with but one pen ; which pen, had it not been lost, would have certainly deserved a richer case than was bestowed upon that pen with which Holland writ his translation of Plutarch.
Page 161 - New England's Memorial; or, a Brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Providence of God, manifested to the Planters of New England, in America; With special Reference to the first Colony thereof, called New Plimouth.
Page 183 - An ESSAY on MEDALS ; or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Ancient and Modern Coins and Medals, especially those of Greece, Rome, and Britain.
Page 130 - Wherein you have the setting out of a ship with the charges ; the prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming; a...