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VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). The History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great. Berwick: R. Taylor, [c.1760]. 2 volumes, 12°. Titles printed in red and black (a little browning and spotting). Contemporary sprinkled sheep (very rubbed, covers of vol.I becoming loose, lacks labels). Provenance: Thomas Carter (18th-century signature on title and an endpaper) -- Mary Rawson, 1821 (signature on an endpaper). From the first press at Berwick on Tweed where Taylor began printing in 1752.
ASTRY, Sir James. A General Charge to all Grand Juries, with Advice to those of Life and Death, Nisi prius, &c. London: for W. Turner and Thomas Emery, bookseller in Bedford, 1703. 8°. Contemporary sheep (a little rubbed). Provenance: all references to Queen Anne changed to George I and a few emendations in the text in a hand dated 1714; with 12 other volumes. (15)
ASTRY, Sir James. A General Charge to all Grand Juries, with Advice to those of Life and Death, Nisi prius, &c. London: for W. Turner and Thomas Emery, bookseller in Bedford, 1703. 8°. Contemporary sheep (a little rubbed). Provenance: all references to Queen Anne changed to George I and a few emendations in the text in a hand dated 1714; with 12 other volumes. (15)
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