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Thirty two new and accurate maps of the geography of the ancients, as contained in the Greek and Latin classicks. Wherein the several empires, kingdoms and provinces, the chief cities, towns, rivers and mountains mentioned in Herodotus, Homer, Justin, Virgil, Ovid, Florus, Nepos, Caesar, Livy, Lucan, Plutarch, and many other ancient authors, are represented. ... By Herman Moll, ...
Moll, Herman, -1732.Date: 1732- Books
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Magna Britannia antiqua & nova: or, a new, exact, and comprehensive survey of the ancient and present state of Great-Britain. Consisting of I. A Compleat and Accurate Description of the Cities, Boroughs, Towns and Parishes in the Kingdom. II. Their Antiquities. Their Ecclesiastical, Civil, Natural, and Literary History; with a View of the Manners, Policy and Customs of the Inhabitants. III. A Copious Account of the Foundations, Endowments, Original State, and present Condition of the Cathedrals, Monasteries, Churches, Palaces, and other publick Structures. IV. Compleat Lists of most of the Church Livings in England, and in what Hundred or Deanary they lye: Their Value in the King's Books, and real Income; also an Account of many of their Present Patrons and Incumbents. V. A full History and Description of all the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats and their Present Possessors, with Pedigrees of their Families, Ancient and Modern, according to the best Accounts. Likewise Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of such eminent Persons as have particularly signalized themselves by their Conduct or Writings. The whole being more Comprehensive and Instructive than Camden, or any Other Author on this Subject. And Illustrated not only with General Mapps, but also particular ones of each County, and other Plates curiously Engraved, representing the Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities found in this Island: As likewise Tables shewing at Sight the Distances of Market Towns and other remarkable Places not only from one another but also from London. With many other Particulars that are curious and worthy Notice. Collected and compiled from the antiquities and histories at large of each county. With many Accounts accurately taken on the Spot, and communicated by several judicious hands. ...
Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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A description of the works of art of ancient and modern Rome, particularly in architecture, sculpture & painting. To which is added, a tour through the cities and towns in the environs of that metropolis. Carefully collated with the best Authorities. By J. Salmon, Antiquarian, late of Rome, in Two Volumes. Embellished with Beautiful Engravings from original Designs, ...
Salmon, J.Date: [1798]-1800- Books
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The balnea, or, An impartial description of all the popular watering places in England : interspersed with original sketches and incidental anecdotes, in excursions to Margate [etc.] ... with observations on several ancient and respectable towns and cities leading to the above remarkable places / by George Saville Carey.
Carey, George Saville, 1743-1807.Date: 1799- Books
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An historical description of ancient and modern Rome; also of the works of art, ... To which are added, a tour through the cities and towns in the environs ... and an account of the antiquities found at Gabia. carefully collated with the best authorities. By J. Salmon, ... In two volumes. Embellished with beautiful engravings ...
Salmon, J.Date: 1800- Books
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A collection of debates, reports, orders, and resolutions, of the House of Commons, touching the right of electing members to serve in Parliament, For the several Counties, Cities, Burroughs, And Towns Corporate, In England and Wales: together with several ancient charters, and extracts, out of Domesday-Book, and other records, relating to the said Right. By William Bohun, of the Middle-Temple, Esq;
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: [1710?]- Books
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Abstract of the republics of antiquity.
Warrington, W.Date: 1800- Pictures
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Lot and his daughters leave Sodom as it burns; Lot's wife stays behind to look at it. Etching.
Reference: 15828i- Pictures
An ancient city on the banks of a lake, with people fishing in the foreground. Engraving by W. Smith after J. Taylor, 1775.
Taylor, John, 1745?-1806.Date: Oct.r 10, 1775Reference: 2475582i- Books
Towns in transition : urban evolution in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / edited by N. Christie and S.T. Loseby.
Date: [1996], ©1996- Books
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The ancient and present state of Youghall containing a natural civil, ecclesiastical. and topographical history thereof. To which are added, a description of the towns, villages, churches, in the baronies of Imokilly, and Kilnatalloon, with an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Black-Water, Gentlemen's Seats &c.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
The idea and ideal of the town between late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages / edited by G.P. Brogiolo and Bryan Ward-Perkins.
Date: [1999], ©1999- Pictures
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Lot and his family flee Sodom as it burns; Lot's wife faces the terrible scene, aghast. Coloured lithograph after J. Martin.
Martin, John, 1789-1854.Reference: 15821i- Pictures
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Lot's wife looks back at the flames pouring from Heaven upon Sodom; Lot and his daughters go on ahead. Engraving by R. Sadeler after M. de Vos, 1583.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: 1583Reference: 15823i- Books
Archaeology in British towns : from the Emperor Claudius to the Black Death / Patrick Ottaway.
Ottaway, Patrick.Date: 1992- Books
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A view of the earth, as far as it was known to the ancients. Being a short but comprehensive system of classical geography. Exhibiting 1. A Description of the several Empires, Kingdoms, and Provinces, their Cities, Towns, Rivers, and Mountains, mentioned in the Greek and Latin Classics, Homer, Virgil, Xenophon, Cæsar, Livy, Herodotus, &c. II. An accurate Abridgment of the whole Æneid of Virgil, and Odyssey of Homer, in a geographical Description of the Voyages of Æneas and Ulysses. With the Travels and Voyages of Saint Paul. Being a Work absolutely necessary for the right understanding of the Classics. Adapted to the use of schools and Academies. Illustrated with a new Set of Maps, corrected from the best Ancient Historians and Geographers, on Purpose for this Work. By R. Turner, Junior, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and author of the Heretical History.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1753-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence / by Maynard Paul Maidman ; edited by Ann K. Guinan.
Maidman, M. PDate: [2010], ©2010- Books
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The spelling and explanatory dictionary of the English language. In which the words are properly accented and explained, the Languages from whence derived are pointed out, and The Different Parts Of Speech Specified. Also a mythological and biographical dictionary of all the heathen gods and Goddesses, Heroes and Philosophers, mentioned in the Writings of the Ancients; and a complete list of all the cities, towns, and remarkable Villages in England and Wales; Their Distances from London in measured Miles, and the days on which their markets are held. To which is prefixed an easy and concise introduction to English grammar. The Whole compiled on so general a Pian, as to make it universally useful to all, who wish properly to understand what they read and write. By the Rev, John Bentick, A.M.
Bentick, John.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription. The history of the county of Somerset; Collected from authentic records, and an actual survey. Containing, I. A general view of the ancient and present state of the county. II. History of the cities of Bath and Wells. III. Historical and topographical account of every town, village, hamlet, and tithing, in each hundred; shewing their etymology, situation, natural history, antiquities, state of agriculture, commerce, manufactures, civil police, markets, fairs, charities, privileges, customs and manners, memorable occurrences, and lives of eminent persons. IV. Descent of manors, &c. from the norman conquest to the present time, with an accurate transcript of domesday-book so far as it relates to this county, and a translation of it in English. V. Ecclesiastical history; including a particular account of the bishoprick of Bath and Wells, with the succession of its bishops and deans; -the origin, progress, flourishing state, and dissolution, of the religious houses; -an account of all the livings, present patrons and incumbents. -Description of all, and accurate engravings of the principal churches, with copies of monumental inscriptions. The historical and ecclesiastical part by the Reverend John Collinson, F.A.S. The topographical, and natural history, by Mr. Edmund Rack, secretary to the agriculture and philosophical societies at bath, and honorary member of the society for promoting natural history in London.
Collinson, John, 1756 or 1757-1793.Date: 1784]- Books
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Sotheran's York guide; Including a description of the public buildings, antiquities, &c. &c. in and about that ancient city. Illustrated with nine copperplates.
Sotheran, Henry.Date: Anno 1800- Pictures
A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1620? and 1659]Reference: 2491310i- Pictures
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A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1620? and 1659]Reference: 524682i- Books
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Sotheran's York guide; including a description of the public buildings, antiquities, &c. &c. in and about that ancient city. Illustrated with nine copperplates.
Sotheran, Henry.Date: [1796]- Books
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Sotheran's York guide; including a description of the public buildings, antiquities, &c. &c. in and about that ancient city. Illustrated with nine copperplates.
Sotheran, Henry.Date: [1799]- Books
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A Comprehensive history of Scotland, or A brief summary of the chronice of the Scottish Kings. Containing an account of the original of the Scots Nation; with a regular succession of all their kings and their most remarkable actions during their several reigns down to the present time. With a description of Scotland as it is now divided into counties, with the number of square miles in each of them: with their produce, trade, manufactures, cities, forts, abbeys, mines and minerals, &c. With the curiosities in general in that ancient kingdom. To which is added, a particular account of the islands, and fisheries.
Date: 1790