The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... volume entitled the Speculum Exemplorum , and in the latter and fatter editions the Magnum Specu- lum Exemplorum ; that is , the Great Looking - glass of Examples . An edition of this work in small quarto , printed at Douay in 1605 ...
... volume entitled the Speculum Exemplorum , and in the latter and fatter editions the Magnum Specu- lum Exemplorum ; that is , the Great Looking - glass of Examples . An edition of this work in small quarto , printed at Douay in 1605 ...
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... volume in 1680 , is by the old doer of all work in that line , Mi- chel de Marolles ; on the title - page of a copy ... volumes quarto , Paris , 1785-91 , was Lefebre de Villebrune , who was more famous for the quantity than the quality ...
... volume in 1680 , is by the old doer of all work in that line , Mi- chel de Marolles ; on the title - page of a copy ... volumes quarto , Paris , 1785-91 , was Lefebre de Villebrune , who was more famous for the quantity than the quality ...
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... volume in 1576 , under the title of " Elian's Registre of Hystories , by Abraham Fleming , " a person by whom our ... volumes folio , at Paris , in 1629. The term Polyhistor , by the bye , which may be translated the Manifold Historian ...
... volume in 1576 , under the title of " Elian's Registre of Hystories , by Abraham Fleming , " a person by whom our ... volumes folio , at Paris , in 1629. The term Polyhistor , by the bye , which may be translated the Manifold Historian ...
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... volume without date , but it is supposed to have been executed before or about the year 1473. An Eng- lish translation of the work was one of the earliest pro- ductions of the press of this country , having been printed by Wynkyn de ...
... volume without date , but it is supposed to have been executed before or about the year 1473. An Eng- lish translation of the work was one of the earliest pro- ductions of the press of this country , having been printed by Wynkyn de ...
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... volume was printed in Germany , written by John Herolt , a Domi- nican friar of Basil , better known by the adopted and humble appellation of DISCIPULUS , and who flourished about the year 1418. It consists of three parts : the first is ...
... volume was printed in Germany , written by John Herolt , a Domi- nican friar of Basil , better known by the adopted and humble appellation of DISCIPULUS , and who flourished about the year 1418. It consists of three parts : the first is ...
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