A94087
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A vindication of that prudent and honourable knight, Sir Henry Vane, from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Richard Baxter, minister of Kidderminster. In a monitory letter to the said Mr. Baxter. By a true friend and servant of the Commonwealth of England, &c.
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Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
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1659
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Wing S6068; Thomason E985_21; ESTC R203679
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A51531
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The narrative of Lawrence Mowbray of Leeds, in the county of York, Gent., concerning the bloody popish conspiracy against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government, and the Protestant religion wherein is contained I. His knowledge of the said design, from the very first in the year 1676, with the opportunity he had to be acquainted therewith, ... II. How far Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Sir Miles Stapleton, &c. are engaged in the design of killing the King and firing the cities of London and York, for the more speedy setting uppermost the popish religion in England, III. An account of the assemblings of many popish priests and Jesuits at Father Rishton's Chamber ..., IV. The discovery of the erecting a nunnery at Dolebank in Yorkshire ..., V. A manifestation of the papists fraudulent conveying of their estates, himself being privy to some of them, VI. A probable opinion concerning the Jesuits, the grand instruments in these affairs : together with an account of the endeavours that were used to stifle his evidence, by making an attempt upon his life in Leicester-Fields.
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Mowbray, Lawrence.
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1680
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Wing M2994; ESTC R10191
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28,403
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35
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A88146
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Astroscopium, or Two hemispheres, containing all the northern and southern constellations projected upon the poles of the word [sic], according to the observations of Mr. Halley, which (by the help of a moveable horizon) are rendred serviceable in any latitude : the uses of which hemispheres are illustrated by variety of examples : whereunto is added, the antient poetical stories of the stars, shewing reasons why the several shapes and forms are pictures on the coelestical globes.
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Lamb, Francis.; Lea, Phillip, fl. 1683-1700.; Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598.
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1700
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Wing L205E; ESTC R42465
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A51558
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The use of the astronomical playing-cards teaching any ordinary capacity by them to be acquainted with all the stars in heaven, to know their place in heaven, colour, nature, and bigness. As also the poetical reasons for every constellation, very useful, and pleasant, and delightful for all lovers of ingeniety. By Joseph Moxon hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.
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Moxon, Joseph.; Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598. aut
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1692
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Wing M3027A; ESTC N66308
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31,031
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A33149
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Cato major, or, The book of old age first written by M.T. Cicero ; and now excellently Englished by William Austin of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ; with annotations upon the names of the men and places.; Cato maior de senectute. English
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Austin, William, 1587-1634.
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1648
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Wing C4288; ESTC R6250
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35,701
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154
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A02092
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A disputation, betweene a hee conny-catcher, and a shee conny-catcher whether a theefe or a whoore, is most hurtfull in cousonage, to the common-wealth. Discouering the secret villanies of alluring strumpets. With the conuersion of an English courtizen, reformed this present yeare, 1592. R.G.
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Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.
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1592
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STC 12234; ESTC S105909
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A50090
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The city-madam a comedie, as it was acted at the private house in Black Friers with great applause / written by Phillip Massinger, Gent.
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Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640.; Pennycuicke, Andrew, b. 1620.
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1659
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Wing M1047; ESTC R154
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A16923
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The antipodes a comedie. Acted in the yeare 1638. by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street. The author Richard Brome.
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Brome, Richard, d. 1652?
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1640
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STC 3818; ESTC S106712
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A68396
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The practice of policy written by Lodowike Lloyd ...
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Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.
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1604
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STC 16627; ESTC S1335
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A20028
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The defence of contraries Paradoxes against common opinion, debated in forme of declamations in place of publike censure: only to exercise yong wittes in difficult matters. Wherein is no offence to Gods honour, the estate of princes, or priuate mens honest actions: but pleasant recreation to beguile the iniquity of time. Translated out of French by A.M. one of the messengers of her Maiesties Chamber.; Paradoxes, ce sont propos contre la commune opinion. English. Selections
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Estienne, Charles, 1504-ca. 1564.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Paradossi.; Duval, Jean-Baptiste, d. 1632, attributed name.
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1593
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STC 6467; ESTC S105222
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A32752
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A relation of the late embassy of Monsr. de Chaumont, Knt. to the court of the King of Siam with an account of the government, state, manners, religion and commerce of that kingdom.; Relation de l'ambassade de M. le chevalier de Chaumont à la Cour du roi de Siam. English
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Chaumont, Alexandre, chevalier de, d. 1710.
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1687
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Wing C3737C; ESTC R6683
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53,413
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A31465
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Malice defeated, or, A brief relation of the accusation and deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier wherein her proceedings both before and during her confinement are particularly related and the Mystery of the meal-tub fully discovered : together with an abstract of her arraignment and tryal, written by her self, for the satisfaction of all lovers of undisguised truth.
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Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680.
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1680
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Wing C1661; ESTC R17590
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56,493
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52
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A21074
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Ariosto's satyres in seuen famous discourses, shewing the state, 1 Of the Court, and courtiers. 2 Of libertie, and the clergie in generall. 3 Of the Romane clergie. 4 Of marriage. 5 Of soldiers, musitians, and louers. 6 Of schoolmasters and scholers. 7 Of honor, and the happiest life. In English, by Garuis Markham.; Satires. English
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Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533.; Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620.; Markham, Gervase. 1568?-1637.
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1608
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STC 744; ESTC S100232
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118
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B00614
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The second tome of the trauailes and aduentures of Don Simonides enterlaced with/ varietie of historie, wherein the curteous and not curious reader, maie finde matters so leueled, as maie suffice to please all humours. For malancholie men, they shall not neede to saile to Anticera, for here they shall finde pleasaunt expulsiues. For merrie myndes, sober discourses to preuent excesse. For deuoute, wholesome lessons to confirme their contemplatio[n]. For al sortes, such delightes as neither alow of daliaunce, nor discommende honest pleasure / Written by Barnabe Riche, Gentleman.
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Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.
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1584
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STC 21002A; ESTC S115926
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156
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A04408
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A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike Christians, in the kingdome of Iaponia diuided into two bookes. Taken out of the annuall letters of the fathers of the Society of Iesus, and other authenticall informations. Written in Spanish, and printed first at Mexico in the West Indies, the yeare of Christ M.DC.XVI. and newly translated into English by W.W. gent. The first part.; Breve relacion de la persecucion que huvo estos años contra iglesia de Japon. Part 1. English
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Morejon, Pedro, 1562-1634?; Wright, William, 1563-1639.
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1619
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STC 14527; ESTC S106448
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116,621
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360
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A04136
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A perfite looking glasse for all estates most excellently and eloquently set forth by the famous and learned oratour Isocrates, as contained in three orations of morall instructions, written by the authour himselfe at the first in the Greeke tongue, of late yeeres translated into Lataine by that learned clearke Hieronimus Wolfius. And nowe Englished to the behalfe of the reader, with sundrie examples and pithy sentences both of princes and philosophers gathered and collected out of diuers writers, coted in the margent approbating the authors intent, no lesse delectable then profitable.; To Demonicus. English
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Isocrates.; Isocrates. To Nicocles. English. aut; Isocrates. Nicocles. English. aut
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1580
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STC 14275; ESTC S107436
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118
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A49957
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Chara tēs pisteōs The joy of faith, or, A treatise opening the true nature of faith : its lowest stature and distinction from assurance, with a scripture method to attain both, by the influence and aid of divine grace : with a preliminary tract evidencing the being and actings of faith, the deity of Christ, and the divinity of the sacred Sciptures / by Samuel Lee ...
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Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.
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1687
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Wing L891
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A72050
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The First and second part of the history of the famous Euordanus Prince of Denmark With the strange aduentures of Iago Prince of Saxonie: and of both theyr seuerall fortunes in loue.
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1605
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STC 10566.5; ESTC S121626
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A01992
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The wise vieillard, or old man. Translated out of French into English by an obscure Englishman, a friend and fauourer of all wise old-men; Sage vieillard. English
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Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; Williamson, Thomas, 1593-1639.; T. W., obscure Englishman.
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1621
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STC 12136; ESTC S103357
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A32903
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The Lusiad, or, Portugals historicall poem written in the Portingall language by Luis de Camoens ; and now newly put into English by Richard Fanshaw, Esq.; Lusíadas. English
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Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580.; Petronius Arbiter. Satyricon CXIX-CXXIV. English & Latin.; Fanshawe, Richard, Sir, 1608-1666.
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1655
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Wing C397; ESTC R18836
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A39031
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The excellent woman described by her true characters and their opposites
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Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.
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1692
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Wing E3838; ESTC R21842
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335
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A20888
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The historie of the great emperour Tamerlan VVherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diuerse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished, during his raigne of fortie or fiftie yeares: with other instructions for the warre, which should not be vnknowen of them that would attaine vnto the knowledge of armes. Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by Messire Iean du Bec, Abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. by H.M.; Histoire du grand Tamerlan. English
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Du Bec, Jean, 1540-1610.; Mildmay, Humphrey, attributed name.
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1597
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STC 7263; ESTC S109956
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270
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A67859
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The new history of Count Zosimus, sometime advocate of the treasury of the Roman Empire with the notes of the Oxford edition, in six books : to which is prefixed Leunclavius's Apology for the author : newly Englished.; Historia nova. English
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Zosimus.; Leunclavius, Johannes, 1533?-1593. Apologia pro Zosimo. English.
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1684
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Wing Z16; ESTC R8792
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A07883
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Positions vvherin those primitiue circumstances be examined, which are necessarie for the training vp of children, either for skill in their booke, or health in their bodie. VVritten by Richard Mulcaster, master of the schoole erected in London anno. 1561. in the parish of Sainct Laurence Povvntneie, by the vvorshipfull companie of the merchaunt tailers of the said citie
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Mulcaster, Richard, 1530?-1611.
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1581
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STC 18253; ESTC S112928
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326
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A47309
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The practical believer, or, The articles of the Apostles Creed drawn out to form a true Christian's heart and practice in two parts.
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Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.
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1688
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Wing K380_VARIANT; ESTC R36226
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263,804
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A06713
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The Florentine historie. Written in the Italian tongue, by Nicholo Macchiavelli, citizen and secretarie of Florence. And translated into English, by T.B. Esquire; Istorie fiorentine. English
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Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Bedingfield, Thomas, d. 1613.
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1595
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STC 17162; ESTC S113983
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A48265
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The history of the reign of Lewis XIII, King of France and Navarre containing the most remarkable occurrences in France and Europe during the minority of that prince / by Mr. Michel LeVassor.; Histoire du règne de Louis XIII. English
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Le Vassor, Michel, 1646-1718.
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1700
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682
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A16282
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The manners, lauues, and customes of all nations collected out of the best vvriters by Ioannes Boemus ... ; with many other things of the same argument, gathered out of the historie of Nicholas Damascen ; the like also out of the history of America, or Brasill, written by Iohn Lerius ; the faith, religion and manners of the Aethiopians, and the deploration of the people of Lappia, compiled by Damianus a ̀Goes ; with a short discourse of the Aethiopians, taken out of Ioseph Scaliger his seuenth booke de emendatione temporum ; written in Latin, and now newly translated into English, by Ed. Aston.; Omnium gentium mores, leges, et ritus. English. 1611
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Boemus, Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Góis, Damião de, 1502-1574.; Nicolaus, of Damascus.; Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611. Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil.; Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609. De emendatione temporum.; Aston, Edward, b. 1573 or 4.
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1611
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STC 3198.5; ESTC S102777
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A60307
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The History of the Turks describing the rise and ruin of their first empire in Persia, the original of their second : containing the lives and reigns of their several kings and emperors from Ottoman its first first founder to this present year, 1683, being a succinct series of history, of all their wars (forreign and domestick) policies, customs, religion and manners, with what else is worthy of note in that great empire.
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I. S.
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1683
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Wing S39; ESTC R31795
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386,077
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658
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A55335
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The history of Polybius, the Megalopolitan containing a general account of the transactions of the world, and principally of the Roman people, during the first and second Punick wars : translated by Sir H.S. : to which is added, A character of Polybius and his writings by Mr. Dryden : the first volume.; Historiae. English
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Polybius.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Character of Polybius and his writings.; Sheeres, Henry, Sir, d. 1710.
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1698
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Wing P2787; ESTC R13675
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386,363
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A49883
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The world surveyed, or The famous voyages & travailes of Vincent le Blanc, or White, of Marseilles ... containing a more exact description of several parts of the world, then hath hitherto been done by any other authour : the whole work enriched with many authentick histories / originally written in French ; and faithfully rendred into English by F.B., Gent.; Voyages fameux. English
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Leblanc, Vincent, 1554-ca. 1640.; Brooke, Francis.
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1660
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Wing L801; ESTC R5816
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408,459
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466
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A14827
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A decacordon of ten quodlibeticall questions concerning religion and state wherein the authour framing himfelfe [sic] a quilibet to euery quodlibet, decides an hundred crosse interrogatorie doubts, about the generall contentions betwixt the seminarie priests and Iesuits at this present.
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Watson, William, 1559?-1603.
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1602
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STC 25123; ESTC S119542
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424,791
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390
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A03705
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The felicitie of man, or, his summum bonum. Written by Sr, R: Barckley, Kt; Discourse of the felicitie of man
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Barckley, Richard, Sir, 1578?-1661.; Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
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1631
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STC 1383; ESTC S100783
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425,707
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675
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A47663
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The secret miracles of nature in four books : learnedly and moderately treating of generation, and the parts thereof, the soul, and its immortality, of plants and living creatures, of diseases, their symptoms and cures, and many other rarities ... : whereunto is added one book containing philosophical and prudential rules how man shall become excellent in all conditions, whether high or low, and lead his life with health of body and mind ... / written by that famous physitian, Levinus Lemnius.; De miraculis occultis naturae. English
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Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.
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1658
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Wing L1044; ESTC R8382
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466,452
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A05094
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The French academie wherin is discoursed the institution of maners, and whatsoeuer els concerneth the good and happie life of all estates and callings, by preceptes of doctrine, and examples of the liues of ancient sages and famous men: by Peter de la Primaudaye Esquire, Lord of the said place, and of Barree, one of the ordinarie gentlemen of the Kings Chamber: dedicated to the most Christian King Henrie the third, and newly translated into English by T.B.; Academie françoise. Part 1. English
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La Primaudaye, Pierre de, b. ca. 1545.; Bowes, Thomas, fl. 1586.
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1586
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STC 15233; ESTC S108252
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683,695
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A12738
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The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales: with ye successions, lives, acts & issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Cæsar, to our most gracious soueraigne King Iames. by Iohn Speed.
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Speed, John, 1552?-1629.; Schweitzer, Christoph, wood-engraver.
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1611
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STC 23045; ESTC S117937
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1,552,755
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623
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A47834
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Hymen's præludia, or Loves master-peice being that so much admired romance, intituled Cleopatra : in twelve parts / written originally in the French, and now elegantly rendred into English by Robert Loveday.; Cléopatre. English
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La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, d. 1663.; Loveday, Robert, fl. 1655.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.; J. C. (John Coles), b. 1623 or 4.; J. W. (James Webb)
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1674
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Wing L123; ESTC R3406
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2,056,707
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1,117
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A48774
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The Roman history written in Latine by Titus Livius. With the supplements of John Freinshemius and John Dujatius from the foundation of Rome to the middle of the reign of Augustus.
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Livy.; Dujatius, John.; Freinsheim, Johann, 1608-1660.
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1686
(1686)
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Wing L2615; ESTC R25048
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2,085,242
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A09802
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The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea ; translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amyot ... ; and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North.; Lives. English. 1579
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Plutarch.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593.; Acciaiuoli, Donato, 1429-1478.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.
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1579
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STC 20066; ESTC S1644
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2,087,933
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1,206
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