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1. The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.
Creator:
Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593–1649
Date:
MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Physical Description:
196, [4] pages : maps ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The complete writings of William Blake : with all the variant readings / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
MCMLVII [1957]
Physical Description:
xv, [3], 936, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Poetry and prose of William Blake / edited by Geoffrey Keynes ; complete in one volume.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
1935
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 1152 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The note-book of William Blake : called the Rossetti manuscript / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:
xii, 162, [1] pages, [120] pages of facsimile : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The writings of William Blake / edited in three volumes by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

6. The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil : with the first Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips / the introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
38, [14] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

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Creator:
Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:
1953
Physical Description:
73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement of Sydney cove / compiled from the original documents in the Public Record office, with extracts from the log-books of H.M.S. Sirius and an introduction and notes, by Owen Rutter ; forward by the Hon. B.S.B. Stevens, M.L.A., Premier of New South Wales ; five engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

No cover image available
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
149, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

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Creator:
Caesar, Julius
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
311, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Together and alone : two short novels / by Christopher Whitfield ; with engravings by John O'Connor.

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Creator:
Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:
1945
Physical Description:
[2], 5-109, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A rapture / by Thomas Carew ; with engravings by J.E. Laboureur.

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Creator:
Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
Date:
MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:
14, [2] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Ulick and Soracha / by George Moore.

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Creator:
Moore, George, 1852–1933
Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
[6], 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

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Creator:
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:
1932
Physical Description:
[6], 79, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Lucretia Borgia : the chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei : Renaissance period / by Algernon Charles Swinburne ; commentary and notes by Randolph Hughes ; engravings by Reynolds Stone.

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Creator:
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:
1942
Physical Description:
[4], 7-191, [2], 16-17, [3] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Sonnets : with folk songs from the Spanish / by Havelock Ellis.

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Creator:
Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
Date:
MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:
[4], vii-xiv, [2], 81, [2] pages : 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ : according to the Authorized version of King James I : with decorations by Eric Gill.

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Date:
1931
Physical Description:
268 p. : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Mr. Glasspoole and the Chinese pirates / being the narrative of Mr. Richard Glasspoole of the ship Marquis of Ely ; describing his captivity of eleven weeks and three days whilst held for ransom by the villainous ladrones of the China Sea in the year 1809 ; together with extracts from the China records and log of the Marquis of Ely ; and some remarks on Chinese pirates, ancient and modern, by Owen Rutter ; and four engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

No cover image available
Creator:
Glasspoole, Richard, 1788–1846
Date:
MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:
57, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Masques & poems / by Peter Quennell.

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Creator:
Quennell, Peter, 1905–1993
Date:
[1922]
Physical Description:
53, [3] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Minxes admonished, or, Beauty reproved : an album of deplorable caprices / faithfully narrated & modestly embellished by William Russell Flint

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Creator:
Flint, W. Russell (William Russell), Sir, 1880–1969
Date:
MCMLV [1955]
Physical Description:
[13],16-123, [5] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Miscellaneous poems / by Andrew Marvell.

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Creator:
Marvell, Andrew, 1621–1678
Date:
MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:
[4], 148, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Count Stefan / by A.E. Coppard.

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Creator:
Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:
MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:
[12], 56, [4] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a prose translation / with an introductory essay by Gwyn Jones ; with six engravings in colour by Dorothea Braby.

No cover image available
Date:
1952
Physical Description:
[4], 95 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Paradise lost : a poem / by John Milton ; the text of the first edition prepared for press by J. Isaacs.

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Creator:
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:
MCMCCCVII [1937]
Physical Description:
[2], 378, [2] pages : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey / De motu cordis 1628; De circulatione sanguinis 1649 : the first English text of 1653 now newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Harvey, William, 1578–1657
Date:
[1928]
Physical Description:
xvi, 202, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Maxims and considerations of Chamfort / translated, with an introduction, by E. Powys Mathers.

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Creator:
Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, 1740?-1794
Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Pure poetry : an anthology / edited by George Moore.

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Date:
1924
Physical Description:
[4], vii-ix, [3],128 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Maya / a play by Simon Gantillon ; paraphrased into English by Virginia & Frank Vernon ; with XIII wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton.

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Creator:
Gantillon, Simon, 1890–
Date:
MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:
viii, 93, [4] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The garden of Cyrus, or, The quincuncial Lozenge, or, Network plantations of the ancients artificially, naturally, mystically consider'd / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician of Norwich.

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Creator:
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:
MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:
[1], 4-58, [6] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A voyage round the world with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution / by Anders Sparrman ; introduction & notes by Owen Rutter ; wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

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Creator:
Sparrman, Anders, 1748–1820
Date:
1944
Physical Description:
218, [2] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, maps, music ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Montaigne's essays : John Florio's translation / edited by J. I. M. Stewart

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Creator:
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533–1592
Date:
MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A sentimental journey through France and Italy / by Laurence Sterne ; with six engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

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Creator:
Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:
MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:
151, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Initiation : translations from poems of the Didinga & Lango tribes / by J.H. Driberg ; decorations by Robert Gibbings.

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Creator:
Driberg, Jack Herbert, 1888–1946
Date:
1932
Physical Description:
[6], 29, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. An apology for the life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews / by Henry Fielding? ; with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson.

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Creator:
Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
[2], x, [2], 80, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The garden / drawings, Sergio Galaviz ; colouring, Katriona Chapman.

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Creator:
Galaviz, Sergio
Date:
[2011]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (20 p.) : col. ill. ; 10 x 180 cm, folded to 10 x 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; with 15 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

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Creator:
Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:
1929-1930
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The white llama : being La venganza del condor of V.G. Calderon / now translated into English for the first time by Richard Phibbs ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

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Creator:
García Calderón, Ventura, 1886–1959
Date:
1938
Physical Description:
123 pages, [1] : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Christmas books.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
xv, [3], 482, [2] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. 153 letters from W.H. Hudson / edited and with an introduction and explanatory notes by Edward Garnett.

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Creator:
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
Date:
1923
Physical Description:
[4], 191, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

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Creator:
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:
1923
Physical Description:
[1], 4-67, [9] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Astrophel & Stella / by Sir Philip Sidney ; edited by Mona Wilson.

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Creator:
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554–1586
Date:
MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:
[2], v-xxxviii, [2], 193, [3] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. From the Third programme : a ten-years' anthology : imagination, argument, experience, exposition / edited by John Morris.

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Date:
1956
Physical Description:
x, 339, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The hundredth story of A.E. Coppard / with engravings by Robert Gibbings.

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Creator:
Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:
MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:
[4], 57, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The constant mistress / by Enid Clay ; wth engravings by Eric Gill.

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Creator:
Clay, Enid
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
[6], 9-40, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The puppet show / by Martin Armstrong.

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Creator:
Armstrong, Martin, 1882–1974
Date:
MCMXXII [1922]
Physical Description:
[7], 10-153, [3] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Complete poetry and selected prose / edited by John Hayward.

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Creator:
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:
1929
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 793, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The Arab war : confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret "Arab bulletin" / introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920.

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Creator:
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868–1926
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
50, [2] pages ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Shaw-Ede : T. E. Lawrence's letters to H.S. Ede, 1927-1935 / foreword and running commentary by H.S. Ede.

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Creator:
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:
1942
Physical Description:
[2], 5-62, [10] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Pope's own miscellany : being a reprint of Poems on several occasions, 1717, containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others / edited by Norman Ault.

No cover image available
Date:
MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:
xcvii, [1], 165, [3] pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Religio medici / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician, of Norwich.

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Creator:
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:
MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:
[1], 4-81, [9] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Sermons by artists / Paul Nash, David Low, Robert Gibbings [and others] ...

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Date:
1934
Physical Description:
79, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts