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LONDON. Collection of the Yearly Bills of Mortality from 1657 to 1758 inclusive. London: for A. Millar, 1759. 4° (260 x 208mm). 7 folding printed tables (a little spotting at beginning and end). Contemporary sprinkled calf (rebacked, extremities worn). Provenance: WS 170 (initials and book number[?] on title) - William Vaughan (19th-century signature on title) - George Scott (19th-century inscription on title, presenting the book to the RHS.
BIGLAND, Ralph (1712-1784). Observations on Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials, as preserved in Parochial Registers. London: W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1764. 4° (245 x 182mm). Folding printed table (title a little stained, a little spotting at the end). 19th-century boards (a few tears in spine). Provenance: a few contemporary corrections in the text and a marginal note in a contemporary hand.
With 2 others, Halifax and its Gibbet-Law (Halifax, c.1770) and The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall (Truro, 1808, with the first 2 leaves in facsimile). (4)
BIGLAND, Ralph (1712-1784). Observations on Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials, as preserved in Parochial Registers. London: W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1764. 4° (245 x 182mm). Folding printed table (title a little stained, a little spotting at the end). 19th-century boards (a few tears in spine). Provenance: a few contemporary corrections in the text and a marginal note in a contemporary hand.
With 2 others, Halifax and its Gibbet-Law (Halifax, c.1770) and The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall (Truro, 1808, with the first 2 leaves in facsimile). (4)
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Please note Bigland's Observations lacks leaf Gg4, as does the British Library copy.