Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853

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Sowerby's English Botany, with or without Supplementary Volumes.

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Long's History of Jamaica.

Life of the Rev. Isaac Milles. 1721.

Sir Thomas Herbert's Threnodia Carolina: or, Last Days of Charles I. Old Edition, and that of 1813 by Nicol.

Sir Thomas Herbert's Travels in Asia and Africa. Folio.

Letters of the Herbert Family.

Bishop Mosley's Vindication. 4to. 1683.

Life of Admiral Blake, written by a Gentleman bred in his Family. London. 12mo. With Portrait by Fourdrinier.

Oswaldi Crollii Opera. Genevæ, 1635. 12mo.

Unheard-of Curiosities, translated by Chilmead. London, 1650. 12mo.

Beaumont's Psyche. Second Edition. Camb. 1702. fol.

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Literary Gazette, 1834 to 1845.

Athenæum, commencement to 1835.

A Narrative of the Holy Life and Happy Death of Mr. John Angier. London, 1685.

Moore's Melodies. 15th Edition.

Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses (ed. Bliss). 4 vols. 4to. 1813-20.

The Complaynts of Scotland. 8vo. Edited by Leyden. 1804.

Shakspeare's Plays. Vol. V. of Johnson and Steevens's edition, in 15 vols. 8vo. 1739.

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