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Military observations in a tour through part of France, French Flanders, and Luxembourg. By J. C. Pleydell, Esq. Late Lieut. Colonel, and equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
Pleydell, J. C.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]- Books
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The new pocket dictionary of the French and English languages. In two parts. I. French and English. II. English and French. Containing All Words of general Use, and authorised by the best Writers. As also The several Parts of Speech-The Genders of the French Nouns-The Accents of the English Words-The Naval and Military Terms-The new French Calendar-Two Alphabetical Lists of the most usual Christian and Proper Names, and of the most remarkable Places in the World. Carefully compiled from the most approved Dictionaries, French and English, particularly from that of the Royal Academy at Paris. By Thomas Nugent, LL.D.
Nugent, Thomas, 1700?-1772.Date: M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]- Books
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The tatler. ...
Date: 1797- Books
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The spectator. ...
Date: 1797- Books
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A catalogue of several considerable libraries, very lately purchased, comprising a general assortment of Ancient and Modern Literature, with a large appendix, Containing an uncommon Collection, relating to Trade, Revenue, Coins, Police, Linen and Woollen Manufactures, Fisheries, and Irish Affairs. The price of each is printed in the catalogue, and will be selling, for ready money only, (march, 1786,) And will continue on sale till the End of the Year, By Samuel Hayes, Bookseller, No. 332, Oxford-Street, Corner of Argyle-Street, London, Who buys Libraries and Parcels of books.
Hayes, Samuel, active 1779-1795.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1913-1922Reference: WA/BSR/BA/Cor/B.44Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Books
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A new and general biographical dictionary; containing an historical and critical account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation; particularly the British and Irish; from the earliest accounts of time to the present period. Wherein their remarkable actions and sufferings, their virtues, parts, and learning, are accurately displayed. With a catalogue of their literary productions.
Date: 1798- Books
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Elegant extracts: or, Useful and entertaining pieces of poetry, selected for the improvement of young persons: being similar in design to Elegant extracts in prose.
Date: 1796- Books
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Elegant extracts: Or, useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected for the improvement of young persons: being similar in design to elegant extracts in poetry.
Date: 1797- Books
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The plays of William Shakspeare. Accurately printed from the text of Mr. Malone's edition; with select explanatory notes. In seven volumes. ...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: MDCCXC. [1786-1790]- Books
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The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, in ten volumes; collated verbatim with the most authentick copies, and revised: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added, an essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation ON The Three Parts Of King Henry VI.; an historical account Of The English Stage; And Notes; by Edmond Malone.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The plays of William Shakspeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: [1793]- Books
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The plays of William Shakspeare, accurately printed from the text of Mr. Steevens's last edition, with a selection of the most important notes. In eight volumes. ...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: 1797- Books
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The lives of the most eminent English poets. With critical observations on their works. By Samuel Johnson. A new edition, corrected. In four volumes. ...
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: 1794- Books
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Elegant extracts: or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected for the improvement of young persons: being similar in design to Elegant extracts in poetry.
Date: 1797- Books
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A catalogue of several libraries lately purchased; Among which are included those of the Revd. Mr. Joseph Sims, prebendary of St. Paul's; and of the Rev. Edward Jackson, D.D. rector of Christ-Church, Surrey, both deceased; with many other valuable collections: the whole containing many thousand volumes of the best books in all arts and sciences, in most languages, and in the best condition. Which will be sold bery reasonable, the lowest prices markt in the catalogues beginning December 1776, and to continue till all are sold, By Mess. Baker and Leigh, Booksellers, at their house in York Street, Covent-Garden. Catalogues to be had of the following booksellers, Dodsley's Pall Mall; Robson's, Bond-street; Sewel's, in Cornhill; Walter's, Charing Cross; Edwards's in Cockspur Street, Charing Cross; Owen's, Temple Bar; and at the place of sale.
S. Baker and G. Leigh (London, England)Date: 1776]- Books
Dictionary of American biography / under the auspices of the American council of learned societies.
Date: 1928-1958- Books
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An universal etymological English dictionary; Comprehending The Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, either Ancient or Modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Modern French, Teutonick, Dutch, Spanish, Italian; as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper Characters. And also A brief and clear Explication of all difficult Words, derived from any of the aforesaid Languages, and Terms of Art, relating to Anatomy, Botany, Physick, Pharmacy, Surgery, Chymistry, Philosophy, Divinity, Mathematicks, Grammar, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, Gardening, Husbandry, Handicrafts, Confectionary, Carving, Cookery, &c. Together with A large Collection and Explication of Words and Phrases used in our Ancient Statutes, Charters, Writs, Old Records, and Processes in Law; and the Etymology, and Interpretation of the Proper Names of Men, Women, and remarkable Places in Great Britain: Also the Dialects of our different Countries. Containing many Thousand Words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added, A Collection of our most common Proverbs, with their Explication and Illustration. The whole Work compiled and methodically digested, as well for the Entertainment of the Curious, as the Information of the Ignorant; and for the Benefit of young Students, Artificers, Tradesmen, and Foreigners, who are desirous thoroughy to understand what they Speak, Read, or Write. By N. Bailey, [Greek]
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: [1782]- Books
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A catalogue of the valuable library, of Edward Wynne, Esq; Lately Deceased; Brought from his House at Little Chelsea. Great Part of it was formed by an Eminent and Curious Collector in the last Century, and comprehends a fine Suite of Historical, Classical, Mathematical, Natural History, Poetical and Miscellaneous Books, in all Arts and Sciences. Amongst which are, Eustalbii in Homerum, 4 tom. morocco, Rom. Platonis Opera, 2 tom. Editio Princops, Ald. 1519. Prynne's Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, 3 vol. Sloane's Janiqica, 2 vol. Aristotelis. Opera, Gr. Lat. a Du Val, chart. mag. 2 tom. Dart's Westminster Abbey, large paper, 2 vol. Dart's Canterbury, large paper. Virgilii Opera, Servii, chart. mag. Likewise many others equally good, by the most Eminent Printers, Rob. Steph. Morell. Aldus, Elzevir, Caxton, Wynken de Worde, &c. &c. Also a very curious Collection of old English Romances, and old Poetry; with a great Number of scarce Pamphlets during the Great Rebellion and the Protectorate. Which will be sold by Auction, By Leigh and Sotheby, Booksellers, At their House in York-Street, Covent Garden, Beginning Monday, March 6, 1786, and to continue the Eleven following Days (sundays excepted) Beginning each Day exactly at Twelve O'Clock. To be viewed on Wednesday, March 1, and to the Time of Sale. Catalogues to be had (price 6d) of the following Booksellers; Mr. Becket's, Pall Mall; Mr. Robson's, Bond-Street; Mr. Walter's, Charing Cross; Mr. Sewel's, Cornhill; Mr. Owen's, at Temple Bar; and at the Place of Sale. Where is given the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books.
Leigh and Sotheby.Date: 1786]- Books
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A catalogue of prints and books of prints, both ancient and modern, after the most eminent masters. Among them are the following Books of Prints. The Works of Capt. Baillie Oeuvres de Phil Wovermans Oeuvres de Pillement, half bound Scenographia Americana Sadelar's Landscapes Oeuvres de F. K. Wierotter Perelle's Landscapes, Worlidge's Gems, 3 vols. Hayes's British Birds finely coloured Edwards's Flowers on 100 plates, do. Harris's English Insects, Moths and Butterflies Redinger's various coloured Horses Miller's Plants, done at Nuremberg Ovid's Metamorphoses The Life of Massachio, by Patch - Fra. Bartolomeo, ditto - Giotta ditto Barry's Charts of Nova Scotia, &c. The North American Pilot The American Atlas, by Jefferies The West Indian Atlas De L'isle's Atlas Dunn's Atlas Piranesi's Views of Rome Books bound in Russia, &c. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. fol. Johnson's Dictionary in 2 vols. Postlethwayte's Dictionary of Trade Beauwe's Lex Mercutoria Atkyn's History of Gloucestershire Wood's Body of Conveyancing, 3 vols. Harris's Collection of Voyages, 2 vols. Anderson's History of Trade, 2 vols. Hawkin's History of Music, 5 vols. Grose's Antiquities of Eng. and Wales Strut's Customs and Manners of the Ancient Inhabitants of Eng. 3 vols. Pennant's Tour to Scotland, 3 vols. Anson's Voyage Blackwel's Courtof Augustus, 3 vols. Hume's History of England, 8 vols 4 to Robinson's History of Scotland, 2 vols. Hooke's Roman History, 4 vols. Locke's Works, 4 vols. Bolingbroke's Works, 5 vols. Thompson's Description of the Royal Palace of the Escurial with plates Philosophical Transactions, complete Wards Justice, 4 vols. Lexembourg Gallery half bound. A Choice Collection of Metzotintos, First Impressions; many of them Proof Prints; all in fine Preservation and many very scarce. Likewise A Collection of fine Paintings. With an Appendix, containing. A Collection of Books, most of them in elegant Bindings, the lowest Price of each Article printed in the Catalogue By Hooper and Davis, No. 25, Ludgate-Hill. Catalogues to be had gratis, as above; at Mr. Ridley's, St. James's Street; Mr. Shropshire's, New Bond Street; Mr. Millan's, Charing-Cross; and at Mr. Sewel's, Cornhill.
Hooper and Davis (Booksellers : London, England)Date: 1779?]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of the Rev. John Bowle, M. A. F. S. A. Late of Idmiston, near Salisbury, and Editor of Don Quixote in Spanish, with Notes and various Readings: with several other collections, Containing the most valuable Books in every Language and Class of Learning. Jacquin, Stirpes Americanae, finely coloured. Jacquin, Icones Plant, rar. 11 fascic. dep. Jacquin, Flora Austr. 5 vol. c. m. depict. Plenck, Plantae Medicinales, 6 fascic dep. Flora Rossica, cura Pallas, vol. 1, 2 pts dep. Flora Danica, Oederi, &c. 16 fas. cleg. dep. Kniphosii Botan. in Orig. 4 vol. 1200 fig. Weinmanni Phytantheza, 8 vol. fig. dep. Hedwig, Plantae Cryptogamicae, 8 fas. dep. Herbarium Black wellianum, 6 vol. depict. Herbarium Amboinense, Rumphii, 7 vol. Hortus Eystettensis, cura Besleri, 3 vol. Robert, Plant. grav. par Ordre de Louis XIV Mr. Pennant's British Zoology, coloured. J. F. Miller's Non-Des. Anim. Plants, &c. Catesby's Nat. Hist. of Carolina, 2 vol. col. ... Thesaurus Rerum Naturalium, 4 vol. Aldrovandi Opera omnia, 13 vol. Fritsch's Nat. Hist. of Birds, coloured. Bloch's Fishes, 6 vol. beautifully coloured. King of Denmark's Book of Shells, col. Bar. Born's Shells, and Martyn's Shells, col. Martini's Shells, and Buonanni's Shells, col. Knorr's Petrifactions, and his Museum, col. M. Merian's Surinam Insects, orig. ed. col. Zoolog. Danica, Mulleri, 3 vol. c. m. dep. Sloane's & Browne's Nat. Hist. of Jamaica Mr. Pennant's Works, 16 vol. compl. eleg. Buffon, Oiseaux, & Planches col. 10 tom. Edwards's, Brown's and Albin's Birds, col. Ernst, Papillons D'europe, 6 tom. enlum. Cramer, Papillons Exotiq. 4 tom. enlum. Schaefferi Insecta & Fungi, 8 vol. depict. Luffon, Oeuvres, 37 tom. 4 to. complets. Piranesi's Works, complete, 19 vol. fine. G. Duke of Tuscany's Gallery of Paintings. La Galerie de Luxembourg, first impress. Crozat's Collect. of Paint. 2 vol. first im. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Vases, 4 vol. Passeri's Etruscan Vases, 3 vol. coloured. Antichita di Ercolano, 8 vol. eleg. bound. Ruins of Rome, Ath. Palm. &c. 11 vol. eleg. Montfaucon, Antiquites, 15 tom. best edit. Museum Florentinum, 12 vol. fine impr. Museum Capitolinum, 4 vol. comp. eleg. Ceremonies Religieuses, 7 tom. gr. pap. Blaeu's Great Atlas, 11 vol. coloured. D'anville's and Robert's Atlas, coloured. Cowper's Anatomy, Oxford, L P. red lett. Plinii Historia Nat. Harduini. 3 vol. c. m. Virgilius, 2 vol. MS. on Vel. with Illum. Apollonius Rhodius, Gr. editio princeps. Anthologia Gr. editio princeps. Diogenes Laertius, 2 vol. charta max. Barbou's Claslics, 70 vol. Morocco. Meninski, Thesaurus Ling. Orient. 4 vol. Mabillon, Carpen. & Walther, de Re Dipl. Corps Diplomatique, 20 tom. complets. Encyclopedie, 35 tom. complets. Par. edit. Traite des Arts & des Metiers, 26 tom. com. Blomefield's and Parkins's Norfolk, 5 vol. Holingshed's Chronicles, 3 vol. with Castr. Froissart's Chronicle, by Ld. Berners, Russ. Grafton's Chronicle, very fine copy, Russ. Philosophical Transactions, 59 vol. T. Hearne's Works, complete, 63 vol. Monthly Review, 82 vol. complete. Gentleman's Magazine, 66 vol. comp. The Sale will begin on Tuesday, January 19, 1790. By Benjamin White and Son, Booksellers, at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London. N. B. The lowest Prices are marked in the Catalogue, and in the first Leaf of every Book. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Faulder, New Bond-Street; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. Sewell, in Cornhill; the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and the principal Towns of England: also of Mr. Richard White, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer, No 76, Oxford-Street, opposite the Pantheon.
Benjamin White and Son.Date: 1790]- Books
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A Catalogue of several valuable collections of books, lately purchased; The Whole forming a general Assortment of the best Authors in every Branch of Literature. Many of them in the most elegant Bindings. Amongst which are Estampes du Cabinet du Roy, 25 tom. Coypell's Works. Berghem's Works, mor. Salvator Rosa's Works, mor. Vandermeulin's Works, 3 vol. mor. Oeuvres de Redinger. Sacre de Louis XV. mor. Estampes de Caylus, mor. L'art de Verifier les Dates, sur Velin Tableau de Suisse, 2 tom. Walpole's Painters, 5 vol. Museum Florentinum, 10 tom. Fontaine Fables, 4 tom. grand. pap. Houbraken's Heads, L. P. Hunter's Gravid Uterus. Hamilton's School of Painting. The Luxembourg Gallerie. Montfaucon L'antiquite, 15 tom. La Gallerie de Dussledorff, 2 tom. Adams's Architecture. Wood's Palmyra and Balbec. Stuart's Athens. Cameron's Baths of the Romans. Adams's Dioclesian's Palace. Cleresseau Antiq. des Nismes, L.P. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Antiquities, 2 vols. Hollingshed's Chronicle, l. p. 3 vols. Troyssart's Chronicle. Blomfield's Norfolk, 5 vol. Dugdale's Baronage. Dugdale's Warwickshire. Dugdale's Monasticon, 3 vol. Hutchins's Dorsetshire, 2 vol. Horsley's Britannia Romana. Tanner's Notitia Monasticon. Chauncy's Hertfordshire. Drake's York. Thorsbey's Leeds. Caesaris, per Clarke. Dionis Cassii Reimari, 2 tom. Diodorus Siculus Wesslingii, 2 tom Dionysius Halicarnass. Hudsoni, 2 tom. Oxon. Maittaire Corpus Poetarum, 2 tom. chart. max. Plinii Hist. Nat. Harduini, 3 tom. Platonis Serrani, 3 tom. Poetae Graeci Principes, 2 tom. Thucydidis Dukeri. Aeschylus Stanleii. Pindarus, per West Gale Scriptores, 3 tom. russia. Borlase's Cornwall, 2 vol. Miller's Plants, 2 vol. col. Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. col. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. col. Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Thoroton's Nottinghamshire. Plott's Staffordshire. Ovid by Banier, 2 vols. Voyages by Harris, Hackluyt, Pocock, Purchase, &c. &c. Dictionaries by Johnson, Chambers Postlethwaite, Bayle, &c. Mininski Thesaurus, 5 tom. Stephani Thesaurus, Gr. 5 tom. Encyclopedie, 28 tom. Regenfuss Recueil de Coquillage, col. Merian's Insects, in Dutch, col. Hill's Eden, coloured. Hayes's Birds, coloured. Harris's Insects, coloured. Drury's Insects, coloured. Edwards's Birds, 7 vol. coloured. Albin's Birds and Insects, 4 vol. Philosophical Transactions at large, complete. Which will begin to be Sold This Day, 1785, By Robert Faulder, Bookseller to his Majesty. No. 42, New Bond-Street, the Corner of Maddox-Street, who gives the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books. N. B. Books Exchanged. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Blamire, Strand; Mr. White, Fleet-Street; Mr. Law, Avemary-Lane; Mr. Sewel, Cornhill; Mr. Cater, Holborn; of the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and principal Towns in England.
Faulder, Robert, 1747 or 1748-1815.Date: 1785]- Archives and manuscripts
Letters to George Rolleston and his wife Grace
Date: 1860-1885Reference: MS.6119Part of: Rolleston family