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A scots ode, to the British Antiquarians.
Ramsay, Allan, 1685-1758.Date: 1726]- Archives and manuscripts
Envelope with sketch of a Roman altar, inscription greeting Thomas Hodgkin junior from fellow member of Newcastle Antiquarians Society
Date: Late 19th century -early 20th centuryReference: PP/HO/G/B11Part of: Hodgkin family- Books
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An introduction to universal history. Translated from the Latin of Baron Holberg. With notes historical, chronological, and critical. By Gregory Sharpe, L L. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquarians.
Holberg, Ludvig, Baron, 1684-1754.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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An inquiry into the nature, causes, and termination of nervous fevers; together with observations tending to illustrate the method of restoring His Majesty to health, and of preventing relapses of his disease. By Robert Jones, M. D. And Member of the Royal Society of Antiquarians At Edinburgh.
Jones, Robert, M.D.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A genealogical essay on the family of the Hams: Wherein is shewn, Their Pretensions to certain Colleges, as Founders Kinsmen. Together with a preface, setting forth the true Original of the Family of the Belchers. Inscrib'd, with all due Submission, to the Learned Society of Antiquarians.
Date: 1730- Books
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An introduction to universal history translated from the Latin of Baron Holberg. With notes historical, chronological, and critical. By Gregory Sharpe, L.L.D. fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquarians. To which is added, The history of Ireland; also, and account of the author.
Holberg, Ludvig, Baron, 1684-1754.Date: M.DCCLX. [1760]- Books
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An introduction to universal history, translated from the Latin of Baron Holberg with notes historical, chronological, and critical. By Gregory Sharpe, L.L.D. fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquarians. To which is added, The history of Ireland; also, an account of the author.
Holberg, Ludvig, Baron, 1684-1754.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The history of Great Britain, from the first invasion of it by the Romans under Julius Cæsar. Written on a new plan. By Robert Henry, D.D. one of the Ministers of Edinburgh, Member of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The second edition.
Henry, Robert, 1718-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The history of Great Britain, From the first invasion of it by the Romans under Julius Cæsar. Written on a new plan. by Robert Henry, D.D. one of the ministers of Edinburgh, member of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The second edition.
Henry, Robert, 1718-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The analysis of nobility, in its origin; as military, mercantile, and literary; proofs, privileges, duties, acquisition, and forfeiture thereof, interspersed with several curious Monuments of History, relating to Laws of Chivalry, Creations, Degradations, Justs, Tournaments, Combats, &c. Translated from the original German of Baron von Lowhen. With Notes collected from the best English Antiquarians, and other Authors.
Lowhen, Baron von.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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A collection of curious discourses written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the Original Manuscripts. With an account of the Lives and Writings of the Original Society of Antiquarians. In two volumes. ...
Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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An argument in defence of Christianity, taken from The Concessions of the most antient Adversaries, Jews and Pagans, Philosophers and Historians. In which is shewn, The different State of Infidelity in those early Times, from what it now is. To which is added, An apology for some of the First Christian Fathers; with Some Remarks upon the Genuineness of the Four Gospels. By Gregory Sharpe, L.L D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquarians.
Sharpe, Gregory, 1713-1771.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Pictures
Three antiquarians examining a medal. Etching by F. Grose.
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.Date: [1788]Reference: 747990i- Books
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A companion to the guide, and a guide to the companion: being a complete supplement to all the accounts of Oxford hitherto published. containing, An accurate Description of several Halls, Libraries, Schools, Public Edifices, Busts, Statues, Antiquities, Hieroglyphics, Seats, Gardens, and other Curiosities, omitted or misrepresented, by Wood, Hearn, Salmon, Prince, Pointer, and other eminent Topographers, Chronologers, Antiquarians, and Historians. The Whole interspersed with Original Anecdotes, and interesting Discoveries, occasionally resulting from the Subject. And embellished with perspective views and Elevations, neatly engraved.
Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790.Date: [1762?]- Books
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A companion to the guide, and a guide to the companion: being a complete supplement to all the accounts of Oxford hitherto published. containing, An accurate Description of several Halls, Libraries, Schools, Public Edifices, Busts, Statues, Antiquities, Hieroglyphics, Seats, Gardens, and other Curiosities omitted or misrepresented by Wood, Hearn, Salmon, Prince, Pointer, and other eminent Topographers, Chronologers, Antiquarians, and Historians. The Whole interspersed with Original Anecdotes, and interesting Discoveries, occasionally resulting from the Subject. And embellished with perspective views and elevations, neatly engraved.
Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790.Date: [1760?]- Pictures
Elderly antiquarians examining a chamber pot purported to be Boadicea's. Etching by F. Grose.
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.Date: [1788]Reference: 747986i- Pictures
A club of elderly antiquarians. Etching by F. Grose.
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.Date: [1788]Reference: 747987i- Books
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A companion to the guide, and a guide to the companion: being a complete supplement to all the accounts of Oxford hitherto published. Containing, an accurate description of several halls, libraries, schools, Public Edifices, Busts, Statues, Antiquities, Hieroglyphics, Seats, Gardens, and other Curiosities, omitted or misrepresented, by Wood, Hearn, Salmon, Prince, Pointer, and other eminent topographers, Chronologers, Antiquarians, and Historians. The Whole interspersed with Original Anecdotes, and interesting Discoveries, occasionally resulting from the Subject. And embellished with perspective Views and Elevations, neatly engraved. The second edition, corrected and enlarged.
Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790.Date: [1762?]- Pictures
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Three antiquarians discussing pieces of armour held by two of them. Lithograph, 1833.
Date: 27th Juny. 1833Reference: 35788i- Books
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A genuine copy of the tryal of Thomas Grimes, Esq. alias Lord S------, for a barbarous and inhuman rape, committed on the body of Miss T. C. P. a young girl of thirteen years of age. ON A Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, held at the Old Court House, now a Bagnio at Charing-Cross, before the Worshipful Mrs. Justice Broadbottom, Mrs. Justice Firebrand, and Mrs. Baron Rigglerump. To which is annex'd. The Ordinary's Account of the Criminal's Behaviour before his Condemnation, and at the Place of Execution; with his genuine last Speech, Dying Words and Confession, delivered to the Sheriff before he was to have been turn'd off. Extracted from the records of the Tower of London. By a member of the Society of Antiquarians.
Member of the Society of Antiquarians.Date: [1748]- Books
The amateur and the professional : antiquarians, historians, and archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886 / Philippa Levine.
Levine, Philippa.Date: 1986- Books
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A catalogue, of coins, medals, bronzes, pictures, Prints, Drawings, Books, &c. &c. Part I. describing the coins and medals in cabinet a, with the prices affixed. In the Numismatical Part of this Museum will be found many of the Rarest Coins, in the Graecian, Roman, Saxon, English and Scotch series, in the finest preservation, With several Choice and Curious Pattern Pieces by Briot, Simon, &c. Also the chief part of the Extensive, Valuable, and well Selected Cabinets of the late Nathaniel Roe, Esq. Together with the Collections of some other judicious Antiquarians, which are now selling By William Stevenson, Market-Place, Norwich, Who Buys and Sells on Commission or Exchange, Arranges, Catalogues, and Values, Coins, Medals, &c. on the most Liberal Terms.
Stevenson, William, approximately 1750-1821.Date: [1795?]- Books
Early American bookbindings from the collection of Michael Papantonio.
American Antiquarian Society.Date: 1985- Books
Heavenly clockwork : the great astronomical clocks of medieval China / by Joseph Needham, Wang Ling and Derek J. de Solla Price.
Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995.Date: 1960- Books
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A catalogue of the libraries of Sir John Cross, Bart. and other gentlemen, deceased, consisting of fifteen thousand volumes of rare and valuable books, in almost all languages; a fine collection of Historians and Antiquarians, particularly those of Great Britain and Ireland; Voyages and Travels, Divinity, Classics, Physic and Polite Writers, many in Elegant Bindings, and almost all Gilt and Lettered. The whole will begin to be sold cheap, at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, for Ready Money only, on Thursday, April 25th, 1771; and continue Daily, by Thomas Evans, bookseller, in King-Street, Covent-Garden, Who gives the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books, also Libraries arranged, catalogued, appraised, or sold by Auction. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. Robson and Parker, in New Bond-Street; Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Walter, Charing-Cross; Owen, Fleet-Street; Cook, Royal Exchange, and at the Place of Sale.
Evans, Thomas, 1742-1784.Date: 1771]