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This, the sixth volume of Blaeu’s great ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’or ‘Novus Atlas’ is also the first atlas of China published in Europe. More proper...

Cary’s new map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland. On which are carefully laid down All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads the Course of...

Hoyle’s games improved; being practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansq...

[Greek title:] Biblos tes demosias euches... James Duport’s translation was first published in 1665 and adapted from the 1638 translation of Elias ...

Poems on several occasions. Written by the Reverend John Donne, D. D. Late Dean of St. Paul’s. With elegies on the author’s death. To this edition...

A Shooting Trip to Kamchatka The immensely wealthy Count Elim Pavlovich Demidov, third Prince of San Donato, was the Russian Empire's last ambassad...

The works of Virgil: containing his pastorals, Georgics and Æneis. Translated into English verse; by Mr. Dryden. In three volumes. Adorn’d with abo...

Opera In tres Tomos divisa, Cum integris Notis Servii, Philargyrii, nec non J. Pierii Variis Lectionibus, & Selectissimis plerisque Commentarii...

Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, illustrata, ornata, et accuratissime impressa William Sandby used the version of Virgil’s text prepared by 17th cent...

Myriobiblon e Bibliotheke [Greek title] ... Graece edidit David Hoeschelius ... Latine vero redidit et scholiis auxit Andreas Schottus This book is...

Apologiae Duae et Diologus cum Tryphone Judeo. Cum notis & emandationibus Styani Thirlbii. Londini [London]: Impensis Richardi Sare [...] 1722....

A member of a relatively impecunious Franco-Irish gentry family, Crommelin travelled widely and supported herself by writing travel accounts and 42...

Sophocles: [Greek title] Sophoclis Tragoediae septem cum Commentarii interpretationum argumenti Thebaidos fabularum Sophoclis, authore Ioachimo Cam...

Herodotus: [Greek title...] Historiarum Libri IX [...] industria Jacobi Gronovii, cuius accedunt notae […] Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], apud Samuele...

Vorst, Johannes: De Latinitate merito suspecta, deque vitiis sermonis Latini, quae vulgo fere non animadvertuntur, liber, quem alter, De Latinitate...

Freind, John: Opera omnia medica. Editio altera, Londinensi multo correctior et accuratior. Parisiis [Paris], apud Guillelmum Cavelier […] 1735 Rep...

Anthony Wood, who sometimes chose to style himself “à Wood”, is described as “a very strong lusty man, of uncouth manners and appearance ... not av...

Arrian: [Greek title: Arrianou techne taktike, ektaxis kat Alanon... ] Ars Tactica, Acies Contra Alanos, Periplus Maris Erythraei, Liber De Venatio...

The first part of this work details the construction of semi-permanent bridges at Arnhem, Xanten, Rees and Spyck. The second part covers the equall...

The text of this comprehensively illustrated edition follows the sixth edition (1811) revised by Boswell’s son. It is accompanied by the notes of v...

Herodotus and Thucydides: [Greek title] Libri Novum… Georgii Gemisti, qui et Pletho de iis quae post pugnam ad Mantineam gesta sunt libri II. […] B...

Longus: [Greek title: Longou Poimenikon, ton kata Daphnin kai Chloen, biblia tettara] Daphnide et Chloe, Libri Quatuor. Petrus Moll Snecanus J. V. ...

The framing device used by this children’s atlas is a little dark: Filip and his sister Cora are orphans, living with their aunt and uncle and cous...

Bradshaw’s Railway Companion, containing the times of departure, fares &c., of the railways in England, and also hackney coach fares from the p...

[Both title-pages in Greek and Latin] Pausaniæ Accurata Graeciae descriptio, qua lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur… [bound with] Arist...

[Title in Greek and Latin] Stephani Byzantini Gentilia per epitomen, antehac… De urbibus inscripta [with] Notae et castigationes postumae in Stepha...

Plot, Robert: The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England. By R.P. LL.D. Oxford: Printed at the Theat...

Thucydides: [Greek title] De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Iidem Latine, ex interpretatione Lavrentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita […] ...

Quintilian; Marcus Fabius Quintilianus: [Institutio Oratoria] [colophon: impressum Florentaie [Florence] opera & sumptu Philippi Iuntae …] 1515...

Johnson’s last great work contains a great deal of anecdotal information which might otherwise have been lost. It was first published as ‘Prefaces,...

A handsome example of the best and most beautiful – according to Brunet – edition of Spenser’s works. The Reverend Henry Todd’s ‘Poetical Works of ...

Quae Supersunt ex Historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus. Cum integris scholiis, notis, variis lectionibus, et animadversionibus doctorum, curante Pe...

Opera Omnia, in sectiones, apparatui Latinae locutionis respondentes, distincta. […] praeter hactenus vulgatam Dion. Lambini editionem, accesserunt...