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[Arrianou Peri Anabaseos Alexandrou historion biblia 8] Arriani (qui alter Xenophon vocatus fuit) De expedit. Alex. Magni historiarum libri VIII [....

Omnia Divini Platonis opera, tralatione [sic] Marsilii Ficini, emendatione et ad Graecum codicem collatione Simonis Grynaei, nunc recens summa dili...

[Homerou Ilias kai Odysseia, kai eis autas scholia, e exegesis Didymou] Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in easdem scholia, sive interpretatio Didymi...

The history and topography of Ashbourn, the valley of the Dove and the adjacent villages; with biographical sketches of eminent natives &c This...

A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I II, III, IV by George Anson, esq; now Lord Anson... compiled from his his letters and papers by Ri...

An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India; and the progress of trade with that country prior to the disco...

History of the Azores, or Western Islands; containing an account of the government, laws, and religion, the manners, ceremonies, and character of t...

An Historical Sketch of the Campaign of 1815, illustrated by plans of the operations and of the battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo... seco...

Picturesque antiquities of Scotland Adam de Cardonnel (1746/7-1820) trained as a surgeon, but ‘his easy circumstances left him leisure to indulge h...

Reuben Ramble's Travels in the Counties of England This is a county atlas designed for children or ‘the little geographer’, with simple text by Sam...

Relation des événements arrivés à Sainte-Hélène, postérieurement à la nomination de Sir Hudson Lowe, au gouvernement de cette île, en réponse à une...

[Greek title] Opera quae extant. Magno ingenii acumine scripti, Pyrrhoniarum hypotyroseon [Greek] libri III. Quibus in tres Philosophiae partes ace...

Nouveau voyage en Espagne, ou tableau de l'état actuel de cette monarchie  Jean-François, baron de Bourgoing (1748-1811), was a French diplomat, wr...

Hierokleous Philosophou Hypomne ma eis ta to n Pythagoreion epe ta chrysa. Hieroclis philosophi Commentarius in Aurea Pythagoreorum carmina  Neopla...

Therapeutices Universalis, seu medendi rationibis, libri septem [bound with] De Abditis Rerum Causis, libri duo [...] Jean Fernel (1497-1558) was p...

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...

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

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...

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...

[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...

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...

The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the autumn of 1852. With a voyage down the Volga and a tour through the country of the Don Cossacks. Second ...

Historical Recollections of Hyde Park, compiled and arranged from numerous authentic works, public records, private documents, &c. London: prin...

Walks through Bath describing every thing worthy of interest… including Walcot and Widcombe and the surrounding vicinity… also an excursion to Clif...

The Old Court Suburb; or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, and Anecdotical. London: Freemantle & Co, 1902 A poet and journalist, Leigh...

The Village of Palaces; or, Chronicles of Chelsea. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1880 The Reverend Alfred L’Estrange (1832-1915) wrote other topograp...

Chronicles of London Bridge: by an antiquary. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1827. Richard Thomson (1794-1865) wrote extensively on London history (...