Book Auction Records, Volumen 12Frank Karslake Wm. Dawson, 1915 A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions. |
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... vellum Register of Bene- factors which remains without them to this day - is but one of the acts of van- dalism laid to their charge . Eventually a judiciously - worded appeal to the Pro- tector from the President and Court of Governors ...
... vellum Register of Bene- factors which remains without them to this day - is but one of the acts of van- dalism laid to their charge . Eventually a judiciously - worded appeal to the Pro- tector from the President and Court of Governors ...
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... vellum leaves of exquisite workmanship , with musical notation , and was executed by English hands about A.D. 1330. The Calendar contains entries of Obits of the XVth century , added by a later hand , belonging to North of England ...
... vellum leaves of exquisite workmanship , with musical notation , and was executed by English hands about A.D. 1330. The Calendar contains entries of Obits of the XVth century , added by a later hand , belonging to North of England ...
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... vellum , circa . 1050 , is a beautiful fragment , and although much injured by damp and neglect before. it. became. a. jealously. guarded. treasure. of. the. College. still. bears. striking. testimony. to. the. exquisite. illuminations.
... vellum , circa . 1050 , is a beautiful fragment , and although much injured by damp and neglect before. it. became. a. jealously. guarded. treasure. of. the. College. still. bears. striking. testimony. to. the. exquisite. illuminations.
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... vellum , dates from about 1270 , and according to a note on the fly - leaf was formerly in the possession of " Simon de Mephin , " Archbishop of Canterbury , 1327-1333 . It is an exquisite piece of English work , and so uniform is the ...
... vellum , dates from about 1270 , and according to a note on the fly - leaf was formerly in the possession of " Simon de Mephin , " Archbishop of Canterbury , 1327-1333 . It is an exquisite piece of English work , and so uniform is the ...
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... vellum ; while Richard Hill , in the next century , provided us with a little MS . volume containing the Metrical version of the Book of Psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins , written in Shorthand . It is a delicately executed piece of work ...
... vellum ; while Richard Hill , in the next century , provided us with a little MS . volume containing the Metrical version of the Book of Psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins , written in Shorthand . It is a delicately executed piece of work ...
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Página 234 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality.
Página lxv - America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ... ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Página 85 - Leaves of Grass," a book of singular service, a book which tumbled the world upside down for me, blew into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation of all the original and manly virtues.
Página 62 - England, shall be, from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America...
Página 234 - ... style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of parts.
Página lxviii - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Página 388 - Journals of Major Robert Rogers : Containing An Account of the Several Excursions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America during the late War.
Página 225 - In she plunged boldly — No matter how coldly The rough river ran — Over the brink of it, Picture it, — think of it, Dissolute Man! Lave in it, — drink of it, Then, if you can!
Página 217 - Six Old Plays on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Taming the Shrew, King John, K.
Página 103 - Sargent was down again and painted a portrait of me walking about in my own dining-room, in my own velveteen jacket, and twisting as I go my own moustache ; at one corner a glimpse of my wife, in an Indian dress, and seated in a chair that was once my grandfather's, but since some months goes by the name of Henry James's — for it was there the novelist loved to sit — adds a touch of poesy and comicality.