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1. Charades en actions.

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Date:
approximately 1820?
Physical Description:
36 playing cards : illustrations ; 93 x 70 mm, in box 100 x 75 x 25 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. A sporting tour through various parts of France in the year 1802 : including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting and other field-amusements, as practised in that country : with general observations on the arts, sciences, agriculture, husbandry and commerce : strictures on the customs and manners of the French people, with a view of the comparative advantages of sporting in France and England : in a series of letters to the Right Hon. the Earl of Darlington : to which is prefixed, an account of French wolf-hunting / by Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire ; illustrated with upwards of eighty correct and picturesque delineations from original drawings from nature, by Mr Bryant, and other eminent artists ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Thornton, Thomas, 1751 or 2–1823
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., music ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 / described in a series of letters from an English lady : with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners ; prepared for the press by John Gifford ...

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Creator:
Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Heartsease and honesty : being the Pastimes of the Sieur de Grammont, steward to the Duc de Richelieu in Touraine / taken from his notebooks written in French, never before printed & here made English by Helen Simpson.

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Creator:
Gramont, Scipion de, sieur de Saint Germain, -approximately 1638
Date:
1935
Physical Description:
[2], 5-77, [3] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts