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The history of Miss Clarinda Cathcart, and Miss Fanny Renton. In two volumes. ...
Marshall, Jane, active 18th century.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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(With twenty capital copper-plates, including the Baron's portrait) A sequel to the adventures of Baron Munchausen, Containing his expedition into Africa. - How he out-does Alexander. - Splits a rock at the Cape of Good Hope. - Wrecked on an island of ice. - Becomes acquainted with the Sphinx, Gog and Magog. - Overcomes above a thousand lions. - Buried in a whirlwind of sand. - Feasts on live bulls and Kava. - Is declared Sovereign of Africa, and builds a bridge from thence to Great-Britain, supported by a single arch. - Battle of his retinue with the famous Don Quixote. Becomes acquainted with the Colossus of Rhodes. - Chase of Wauwau through America. - Meets with a floating island. - Visits the islands in the South Sea. - Becomes acquainted with Omai. - Cuts a canal across the Isthmus of Darien. - Discovers the Alexandrian Library. - Besieges Saringapatam. - Overcomes Tippoo Saib. - Raises the hull of the Royal George; together with a variety of other very surprising adventures. Humbly dedicated to Mr. Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, as the Baron conceives that it may be of some service to him, previous to his making another expedition into Abyssinia: But if this advice does not delight Mr. Bruce, the Baron is willing to fight him on any terms be pleases.
Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The Welch wedding. How Shon ap Morgan rode up to London on a goat to buy a wife, - his comical courtship & marriage, - his marrying a cotton twister in a barn, Taffy, thinking it an English church- the comical wedding dinner - Taffy was choaked with eating toasted cheese, and buried at Bethuall green.- His last will where he leaves every body something.- And the Welshman's inventory.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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The good mother's legacy.
More, Sarah, approximately 1743-1817.Date: [1800?]- Books
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The flights of a lady-bird; or, the history of the winged rambler. Embellished with cuts.
Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734-1793.Date: [1799]- Books
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Cheap Repository Sorrowful Sam; or, the two blacksmiths.
More, Sarah, approximately 1743-1817.Date: [1800?]- Books
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The lancashire collier girl. A true story. Cheap Repository.
Date: [1798?]- Books
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The history of Argalus & Parthenia: being a choice flower gathered out of Sir Philip Sidney's rare garden
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1544-1586.Date: Printed in the Year 1788. - (jy) [1788]- Books
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The dream of Alcibiades. Translated from the Greek.
Pic, Jean.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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An affecting relation of the appearance of Thomas Ostrehan's apparition, to his friend Robert Straker: ... being an extract of a letter from a gentleman in Barbados to his friend in Philadelphia, dated November - 1766.
Date: 1767- Books
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A fashionable day. In the first chapter of Genesis is thus written - And the evening and the morning were the first day. And the Evening and the Morning were the second Day. &c. &c. to the end of the Chapter.
Parini, Giuseppe, 1729-1799.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The loyalist's wish, or, Horace's Fifth Ode, Book 4. To Augustus. Paraphras'd in English Prose.
Date: 1719- Books
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A genuine history of two young lovers, who so exactly resembled each other, that the difference could not be easily discerned, which occasioned several surprizing mistakes and misadventures.
Date: [1730?]- Books
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Kilverstone Castle; or, the heir restored. An English gothic story, founded on a fact which happened on the dawn of the Reformation.
Date: 1799- Books
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A Full and particular account of a most strange and wonderful monster of a serpent, which was lately killed in the island of Geylon, in the East Indies. Giving a plain description both of its colour, thickness and lengh, &c. Extracted from the Edinburgh Weekly Magazine of the 18th of August, 1768. Licensed and entered according to order.
Date: 1768?]- Books
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Destination: or, Memoirs of a private family by Clara Reeve, author of "The old English Baron," &c. &c. In two volumes.
Reeve, Clara, 1729-1807.Date: 1799- Books
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The city jilt: or, the alderman turn'd beau. A secret history.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.Date: [1764?]- Books
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The spanish libertines: or, the lives of Justina, the country jilt; Celestina, the bawd of Madrid; and Estevanillo Gonzales, the most arch and comical of scoundrels. To which is added, a play, call'd, An evenings adventures. All four written by eminent Spanish authors, and now first made English by Captain John Stevens.
Date: 1707- Books
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The solitary castle, a romance of the eighteenth century. By the author of The village of Martindale. In two volumes. ...
Nicholson, active 1787-1789.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Wexford cruelties; Being a narrative of the sufferings and providential escapes of Charles Jackson; late resident of Wexford; including An account of the cruelties committed by the rebels in that town, while in their poffession. Written by himself.
Jackson, Charles, of Wexford.Date: 1799- Books
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Hubert de Sevrac, a romance, of the eighteenth century. By Mrs. Robinson. ...
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800.Date: 1797- Books
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The way to plenty; or, the second part of Tom White.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Date: [1796]- Books
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The cypriots; or, a miniature of Europe in the middle of the fifteenth century. By the author of The minstrel. In two volumes. ...
Date: 1795- Books
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Cynthia: with the tragical account of the unfortunate loves of Almerin and Desdemona: being a novel. ... Done by an English hand.
English Hand.Date: 1726- Books
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Dreams and moles with their interpretation and signification. Made far more manifest and plain than any published to the very meanest capacities, by the most ancient as we most modern rules of philosophy. To which is prefixed, a collection of choice and valuable receipts concerning love and marriage. First compiled in Greek, and now faithfully rendered into English by a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a true lover of learning.
Date: [1750?]