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[Library for Youth, or Book-Case of Knowledge, <i>10 vols</i>.]

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WITH TWO ORIGINAL FRONTISPIECE DRAWINGS [JUVENILE.] [Library for Youth, or Book-Case of Knowledge, 10 vols.]

London: Printed for John Wallis … by T. Gillet or J. Cundee … 1800.

Lamento di Costantinopoli [<i>with</i>] a fragment of an unrecorded Italian poem in praise of Malatesta Novello.

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VERSE LAMENT ON THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLEWITH UNRECORDED VERSE IN HONOUR OF MALATESTA NOVELLO DELLA VEDOVA, Michele. Lamento di Costantinopoli [with] a fragment of an unrecorded Italian poem in praise of Malatesta Novello.

Northern Italy (probably Veneto), c. 1460.

Passionis dominice sermo historialis notabilis atque praeclarus.

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PRINTED WITH GUTENBERG’S TYPE BIEL, Gabriel, and Florentius DIEL (editor). Passionis dominice sermo historialis notabilis atque praeclarus.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Friedrich Heumann, 29 August 1509.]

De fide et legibus.

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GUILELMUS ALVERNUS. De fide et legibus.

[Augsburg, Günther Zainer, c. 1475-6].

‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals being a Representation of a Series of Events taken from the Roman History’.

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119 PEN DRAWINGS DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine. ‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals being a Representation of a Series of Events taken from the Roman History’.

London, c. 1795-1800.

Li giardini di Roma con le loro piante, alzate e vedute in prospettiva, disegnate ed intagliate da Gio. Battista Falda. Nuovamente dati alle stampe ...

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GRANDIOSE GARDENS FALDA, Giovanni Battista. Li giardini di Roma con le loro piante, alzate e vedute in prospettiva, disegnate ed intagliate da Gio. Battista Falda. Nuovamente dati alle stampe ...

Rome, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, [early eighteenth century?].

De architectura libri decem, cum commentariis … multis aedificiorum, horologiorum, et machinarum descriptionibus, & figuris, una cum indicibus copiosis, auctis & illustratis.

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PALLADIO’S VITRUVIUS VITRUVIUS, and Daniel BARBARO. De architectura libri decem, cum commentariis … multis aedificiorum, horologiorum, et machinarum descriptionibus, & figuris, una cum indicibus copiosis, auctis & illustratis.

Venice, Francesco Franceschi & Johann Criegher, 1567.

De censuris et De sponsalibus et matrimonio.

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EDITIO PRINCEPS ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS. De censuris et De sponsalibus et matrimonio.

Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 23 September 1474.

Epistolae familiares.

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EROTIC EPISTOLARY NOVEL BY A POPE PIUS II (and Nicolaus von WYLE, editor). Epistolae familiares.

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 17 July 1486.

Altare Christianum: or, the dead Vicar’s Plea. Wherein the Vicar of Gr. being dead, yet speaketh, and pleadeth out of Antiquity, against him that hath broken downe his Altar. Presented, and humbly submitted to the consideration of his Superiours, the Governours of our Church.

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SOUTHEY’S COPY, WITH A LONG NOTE POCKLINGTON, John. Altare Christianum: or, the dead Vicar’s Plea. Wherein the Vicar of Gr. being dead, yet speaketh, and pleadeth out of Antiquity, against him that hath broken downe his Altar. Presented, and humbly submitted to the consideration of his Superiours, the Governours of our Church.

London, Printed by Richard Badger. 1637.

Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium congregationis S. Salvatoris, Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Denuo reformatae, auctae, summis illustratae, indiceq. locupletissimo exornatae.

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PRINTED ON VELLUM [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.] Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium congregationis S. Salvatoris, Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Denuo reformatae, auctae, summis illustratae, indiceq. locupletissimo exornatae.

Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592.

A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David and upon the Hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments …

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CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO, GILT SANDYS, George. A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David and upon the Hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments …

London … 1636.

Autograph poetical manuscript, apparently unpublished, comprising a preface dated 3 April 1825 and some forty long poems.

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‘CELESTIAL SCENERY, ELEGIES, TALES’ BY A BERMONDSEY RHYMESTER HOGG, John. Autograph poetical manuscript, apparently unpublished, comprising a preface dated 3 April 1825 and some forty long poems.

[London, 1825-7].

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Essays on the powers of the human mind; to which are prefixed, an Essay on quantity, and an Analysis of Aristotle’s Logic. In three volumes.

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