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A complete account of the ceremonies observed in the coronations of the kings and queens of England. Containing, I.The form of the royal letters of summons, ... XIII. A bill of fare at a former coronation -feast. With many other notable particulars, ... The whole adorn'd with curious cuts, ...
London: Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane; J. Stagg, in Westminster Hall; and D. Browne, without Temple-Bar. 1727. [Price 2s 6d], 1727.

Fourth Edition (a reissue, with altered title page, of sheets from the third edition). 4to; 80pp, with a magnificent folding copper-engraved frontispiece, "Procession of Kings and Queens with over 150 robed figures," measuring a full 44 cm x 35 cm; a second folding engraving, "The Manner of the Champions, performing... more

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[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle] Chronicon saxonicum, seu, Annales rerum in Anglia praecipue gestarum a Christo nato ad annum usque MCLIV. deducti, ac jam demum Latinitate donati : cum indice rerum chronologico : accedunt regulae ad investigandas nominum locorum origines : et nominum locorum ac virorum in chronico memoratorum explicatio / operā & studio Edmundi Gibson
Oxonii [Oxford]: e Theatro Sheldoniano, A.D. MDCXCII. [1692].

4to: [12],244,[36, index],64pp, with additional title page with engraved vignette and folding map by M. Burghers. Latin and Old English renditions of the text in parallel columns. "Regulę ad investigandas nominum locorum origines" with separate divisional title page and pagination beginning on 2N1. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in full speckled... more

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A survey of the cities of London and Westminster: containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities. Written at first in the year MDXCVIII. By John Stow, citizen and native of London. Since reprinted and augmented by A.M. H.D. and other. Now lastly, corrected, improved, and very much enlarged: and the survey and history brought down from the year 1633, (being near fourscore years since it was last printed) to the present time; by John Strype, M.A. a native also of the said city. Illustrated with exact maps of the city and suburbs, and of all the wards; and likewise of the out-parishes of London and Westminster: together with many other fair draughts of the more eminent and publick edifices and monuments. In six books. To which is prefixed, the life of the author, writ by the editor. At the end is added, an appendiz of certain tracts, discourses and remarks, concerning the state of the city of London. Together with a perambulation, or circuit-walk four or five miles round about London, to the parish churches: describing the monuments of the dead there interred: with other antiquities observable in those places. And concluding with a second appendix, as a supply and review: and a large index of the whole work
London: printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. W, 1720.

The best and most desirable edition of Stow's magisterial study—the "starting point of all inquiry into the subject of Elizabethean London." Complete in two folio volumes; each of the six 'books,' introduced by a drop-head title, with its own pagination: [4], xii, xlii, [2], 308, 208, 285, [1]; [2], 120,... more

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The Whigs unmask'd: being the secret history of the Calf's-Head-Club. Shewing the Rise and Progress of that infamous Society since the Grand Rebellion. ... Adorn'd with cuts suitable to every particular design. To which are added, several characters by Sir John Denham, and other valuable authors. Also a Vindication of the Royal Martyr, King Charles the First; wherein are expos'd, the Hellish Mysteries of the old Republican Rebellion. By Mr. Butler, Author of Hudibras
London: Printed: And Sold by J. Morphew near Stationer's-Hall M DCC XIII, 1713.

The eighth, and best, edition, with large additions. 8vo; [16], vi, 224pp, plus 8 full-page copper-engraved plates, including the frontispiece. Bound in contemporary full paneled calf with a wonderful patina, the spine rebacked very skillfully to style; modern red morocco label lettered in gilt. As collectible a copy as one... more

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Vindiciae arboris genealogicae augustae gentis Carolino-Boicae, contra sistema authoris geneographi, qui in arbore genealogica ante paucos annos cupro incisa serenissimorum Bojorum principum fundatorem ponit Luitpoldum, et abrupta penitus arbore, negat Carolum Magnum . . .
Monachii [Munich]: Typis Marię Magdalenę Riedlin, 1730.

First Edition of an important genealogical work dedicated to Prince-Elector Charles Albert (later Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII), tracing the descent of the Wittelsbach dynasty of Bavaria to Charlemagne. Two volumes in one. Folio; [20], 82; 192; [12], 326, [28]pp, with a double-page engraved map of the Danube basin (signed... more

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Eikon basilike. The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings
London: printed by R. Norton for Richard Royston, bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty, MDCLXXXI. [1681].

8vo: [16],256 (p. 186 misnumbered 860)pp, with 2 copper-engraved portraits, including the frontispiece by R. White. First two words of title in Greek characters. Period sheep, boards framed in blind with a double fillet, flat spine with recent red morocco lettering piece gilt. Scuffed and rubbed, but otherwise an excellent... more

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Price: $665.00