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SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CENTRAL AFRICA CAVAZZI, Giovanni Antonio. Istorica descrizione de’ tre’ regni Congo, Matamba, et Angola situati nell’ Etiopia inferiore occidentale e delle missioni apostoliche esercitatevi da religiosi Capuccini ... il quale vi fu’ prefetto e nel presente stile ridotta dal P. Fortunato Alamandini ...

Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1687.

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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.

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UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT BY FAMOUS FEMALE TRANSLATOR HIGGONS, Bevil (Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus THIROUX D’ARCONVILLE, translator). ‘Ouvrages historiques de Bevill Higgons Ecuyer traduit de l’Anglois par mad. D’arconville ... Vu abregé de l’histoire d’Angleterre’.

France, 1790s.

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EROTIC FABLES WHY AND THE WHEREFORE (The): or, the Lady’s two Questions resolved. Question the first; why Men have not much to boast of their Greatness, nor Women of their Beauty, in certain very interesting Parts? Resolved in the History, political, natural, and moral, of a primitive Commonwealth. Question the second. Wherefore is it that both Sexes are so eternally dear Lovers of that same? Resolved in a Story, intituled the Female Embassy. Taken from the Priapeian Collection of the Chevalier Marino. By Dr. B –––.

London: Printed for J. Lamb … 1765.

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ARCHITECTURE AND PERSPECTIVE, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED BARBARO, Daniele. La pratica della perspettiva … opera molto utile a pittori, a scultori, & ad architetti.

Venice, Camillo & Rutilio Borgominieri, 1568 [-69].

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EXTREMELY RARE PATTERN BOOK WITH A SUITE OF EIGHT ETCHINGS BY HOLLAR BARLOW, Francis. Barlow’s Birds and Beasts in sixty-seven excellent and useful Prints, being a Collection of the chief Works of that eminent Master; and engraved by Himself, Hollar, Place, &c. All drawn from the Life, shewing in their natural and peculiar Attitudes a vast Variety of Birds, Fowls and Beasts. London, Printed for, and sold by, Carington Bowles. [Price half a Guinea sewed]. [1775].

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CITY OF GOD AUGUSTINE, Saint. St. Augustine, of the Citie of God: with the learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H.

[London,] Printed by George Eld. 1610.

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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.

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CARDONNEL, Adam de. Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Edwards … also by Edwards’s, in Halifax. 1788.

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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.

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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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AN ‘ENGLISH’ ROMANCE, THE ROXBURGHE COPY COLET, Claude. L’Histoire Palladienne, traitant des gestes & genereux faitz d’armes et d’amours de plusieurs grandz princes et seigneurs, specialement de Palladien filz du roy Milanor d’Angleterre, & de la belle Selerine sœur du roy du Portugal: nouvellement mise en nostre vulgaire Françoys …

Paris, Estienne Groulleau, 1555.