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... FRENCH Families ; MANUSCRIPT , from the Collection of John Hol land , whose bookplate , engraved by Hogarth , is pasted inside the cover , calf £ 3 . cir . 1600 At the end is a Manuscript , entitled " The of the Quene of Scotts att ...
... FRENCH Families ; MANUSCRIPT , from the Collection of John Hol land , whose bookplate , engraved by Hogarth , is pasted inside the cover , calf £ 3 . cir . 1600 At the end is a Manuscript , entitled " The of the Quene of Scotts att ...
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... French origin , red morocco gilt , £ 5 . 15s Sec . XV . 40 HORE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS Secundum Usum Romanæ Curiæ , cum Calendario , 16mo . MANUSCRIPT on vellum , having 3 large and 8 small MINIATURES , by a French artist , with floreated ...
... French origin , red morocco gilt , £ 5 . 15s Sec . XV . 40 HORE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS Secundum Usum Romanæ Curiæ , cum Calendario , 16mo . MANUSCRIPT on vellum , having 3 large and 8 small MINIATURES , by a French artist , with floreated ...
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... French artist , velvet bdg . £ 6 . 10s circa 1500 43 HOROLOGIUM Magnum et Troparium , Horas Officii Divini continens , Graece , thick sm . 4to . exquisite Manuscript of the FIFTEENTH CENTURY upon Bombyx paper , dated in the year 6982 ...
... French artist , velvet bdg . £ 6 . 10s circa 1500 43 HOROLOGIUM Magnum et Troparium , Horas Officii Divini continens , Graece , thick sm . 4to . exquisite Manuscript of the FIFTEENTH CENTURY upon Bombyx paper , dated in the year 6982 ...
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... French calf gilt , Paris , 1821 191 208 Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Lyon , 3 vols . 1812 - Mémoires Bibliographiques et Littéraires ( 1812 ) , very rare , 4 vols . 8vo . marbled calf gilt , 25s 1812 192 DĚLÉPIERRE , Macaronéana ...
... French calf gilt , Paris , 1821 191 208 Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Lyon , 3 vols . 1812 - Mémoires Bibliographiques et Littéraires ( 1812 ) , very rare , 4 vols . 8vo . marbled calf gilt , 25s 1812 192 DĚLÉPIERRE , Macaronéana ...
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... French and Latin . 555 HEURES A LUSAIGE DE ROME tout au lōg | sans rien requerir avec les figures de lapocalipse , sm . 8vo . gothic letter , PRINTED ON VELLUM , 140 leaves not numbered , all the initials throughout the volume ...
... French and Latin . 555 HEURES A LUSAIGE DE ROME tout au lōg | sans rien requerir avec les figures de lapocalipse , sm . 8vo . gothic letter , PRINTED ON VELLUM , 140 leaves not numbered , all the initials throughout the volume ...
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Page 131 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 130 - Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Reign of Edward I. 2 vols, 8vo, containing upwards of 1,000 pages, closely printed In double columns, cloth, a new and cheaper edition.
Page 200 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.
Page 160 - CELTIC DRUIDS; Or, an Attempt to show that the Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies, who emigrated from India, and were the Introducers of the First or Cadmean System of Letters, and the Builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of other Cyclopean works in Asia and Europe.
Page 420 - The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations proved by a Comparison of their Dialects with the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages. Forming a Supplement to Researches into the Physical History of Mankind.
Page 205 - It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ; firstly, because he was a nobleman, and secondly, because he was a gentleman ; but to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable letters, and of the Castle of Otranto, he is the " Ultimus Romanorum," the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play.
Page 462 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Page 197 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Page 715 - Specimens of Ancient Sculpture and Painting now Remaining in England, from the Earliest Period to the Reign of Henry VIII...
Page 381 - CHARLES) Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology.