General Catalogue of ... Free Public Library: Auckland 1888. Reference Department

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H. Brett, general printer, 1888 - New Zealand

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Page 35 - Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as contained in the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke, reconciled with each other, and with the Genealogy of the House of David, from Adam to the close of the Canon of the Old Testament ; and shewn to be in harmony with the true chronology of the times.
Page 73 - Essays on Astronomy : A Series of Papers on Planets and Meteors, the Sun and Sun-surrounding Space, Stars and Star Cloudlets, and a dissertation on the approaching Transits of Venus, preceded by a Sketch of the Life and Work of Sir John
Page 23 - ENGLISHMAN'S Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament. Being an attempt at a verbal connexion between the original and the English translation, with indexes, a list of the proper names and their occurrences, etc.
Page 69 - R. The Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German, to which is appended Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Orosius. With a Literal English Translation, and an Anglo-Saxon Alphabet and Glossary. By B. Thorpe.
Page 299 - Ship of Fooles, wherein is shewed the folly of all States, with diuers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay Priest. Imprinted at London in Paules Churchyarde by John Cawood, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie.
Page 2 - BALL, Samuel. An Account of the Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea in China, derived from personal observation during an official residence in that country from 1804 to 1826, with remarks on the experiments now making for the introduction of the culture of the tea tree in other parts of the world.
Page 300 - historie of Cambria, now called Wales : A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language aboue two hundreth yeares past : translated into English by H. Lhoyd Gentleman : Corrected, augmented, and continued out of records and best approoued Authors, by Dauid Powel, Doctor in
Page 300 - Mirror for Magistrates, wherein may be seene, by examples passed in this Realme, with how greuous plagues vices are punished in great Princes and Magistrates, and how fraile and unstable worldly prosperity is found, where Fortune seemeth most highly to fauour : Newly imprinted, and with the addition of diuers tragedies enlarged : At London, in
Page 95 - Elementary Principles of Carpentry ; to which is added an Essay on the Nature and Properties of Timber. With an Appendix containing specimens of various Ancient and Modern Roofs, by Peter Barlow,
Page 12 - How a ship having passed the line was driven by storms to the cold country towards the South Pole, and how from thence she made her course to the tropical latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean, and

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