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1. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

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Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1633
Physical Description:: [16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

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Date:: 1609
Physical Description:: [8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

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Creator:: Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: xxxv, 49 p. : facsims. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts