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1810

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1815 Only 200 copies of these rare pieces were privately printed by Longmans, at £25. 3s the set in boards. 24 ARCHER; Brief Memorials of ENGLISH FAMILIES of that Name, a Monograph of 46 pages, 4to. boards, 6s 6d Privately printed, Edin. 1856 25 ARETINO (Leon) HISTORIA FIORENTINA tradocta de Lat. in Ling. Toscana da Donato Acciaioli, folio, e POGGIO, HISTORIA FIORENTINA, tradocta da Lat. in Ling. Toscana da Jacopo suo Figliuolo, folio, together 2 vols. old crimson morocco extra, lined with silk, gilt edges, £2. 10s

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1823-31

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1811

In this curious old Chronicle are first printed many of the City Charters, and, among divers other matters, the original of the Nutte Browne Maide."

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1833

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1870

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1803

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1832

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1839

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1833

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1853

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1750

147 CANNING'S (Rt. Hon. G.) SPEECHES, edited with Life, by R. Therry, portrait, 6 vols. (1828)— POLITICAL LIFE, (1822-27) by his Private Secretary, A. G. STAPLETON, 3 vols. 1831-together 9 vols. 8vo. new bright hf. calf gilt, uniform, BEST LIBRARY EDITIONS, £3. 5s

1828-31

148 CANTERBURY and YORK; An accurate Description and History of the Metropolitan and Cathedral Churches of, illustrated with 117 copper plate engravings, and numerous additional ones, folio, old calf, £1. 1s 1755

This work is abridged from Dart's Canterbury Cathedral and Drake's York. All the illustrations belonging to the book are worked from the coppers originally engraved for these works. The numerous additional illustrations are selected from various volumes, and are inserted loosely.

149 CARR'S (A.) History of COLDINGHAM PRIORY, Berwickshire, woodcuts, 8vo. boards, 5s 6d Edin. 1836 150 CARTER'S (J.) ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE of ENGLAND; including the Orders during the British, Roman, Saxon, and Norman Eras; also during the Reigns of Hen. III., Edw. III., Rich. II. Hen. VI., VII. and VIII. with 109 plates containing upwards of 2000 specimens, ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS, 2 vols. impl. folio in one, hf. russia, rough edges, £2. 10s

1795-1814

This National Work on English Architecture is one of the most useful Books the Architectural Student can possess.

151 CARTWRIGHT'S (W., the Cavalier Poet) CoMEDIES, TRAGI-COMEDIES, with other POEMS, the Ayres and Songs set by Mr. Henry Lawes, with portrait by Lombart, and the cancelled leaves (pp. 301-6) sm. 8vo. recently bound in sprinkled calf gilt, red edges, old style, by Pratt, RARE, £1. 8s 1651 Prefixed are upwards of fifty commendatory Poems by the principal writers and wits of the day, including one by Izaak Walton. "My son Cartwright writes all like a man."

BEN JONSON 152 CATALOGUE of ENGRAVED Portraits (30,000) of Persons connected with the History and Literature of Great Britain, the Colonies and the United States, with the Names of the Painter and Engraver, and the size of each plate, 2 vols. 8vo. boards, 7s 6d Evans & Son, n.d. 153 CATALOGUE of the Valuable Contents of STRAWBERRY HILL, the renowned Seat of Horace Walpole, as sold by auction by G. Robins in April and May, 1842, 24 days' sale, portrait of Walpole, 4to. sewed, 6s

1842

Robins styles this sale as the most distinguished gem that

has ever adorned the annals of Auctions."