An Introduction to Heraldry: With Nearly One Thousand Illustrations, Including the Arms of about Five Hundred Different Families

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G. Bell, 1890 - Heraldry - 279 pages

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Page 11 - ROGER OF WENDOVER'S Flowers of History, comprising the History of England from the Descent of the Saxons to AD 1235, formerly ascribed to Matthew Paris.
Page 10 - HENRY'S (Matthew) Exposition of the Book of Psalms. Numerous Woodcuts. PEARSON (John, DD) Exposition of the Creed. Edit, by E. Walford, MA With Notes, Analysis, and Indexes. PHILO-JUDJEUS, Works of. The Contemporary of Josephus. Trans, by CD Yonge. 4 vols. PHILOSTORGIUS. Ecclesiastical History of. — See Sozomen. SOCRATES
Page 5 - GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete and unabridged, with variorum Notes ; including those of Guizot, Wenck, Niebuhr, Hugo, Neander, and others. 7 vols. 2 Maps and Portrait.
Page 11 - HENRY OF HUNTINGDON'S History of the English, from the Roman Invasion to the Accession of Henry II. ; with the Acts of King Stephen, and the Letter to Walter. By T. Forester, MA Frontispiece from an old MS.
Page 7 - It is not too much to say that we have here probably as good a translation of Moliere as can be given.
Page 22 - Sketch-book. Tales of a Traveller Tour on the Prairies Conquests of Granada and Spain. Two Parts. Life and Voyages of Columbus. Two Parts. Companions of Columbus : Their Voyages and Discoveries. Adventures of Captain Bonneville in the Rocky Mountains and the West. Knickerbocker's History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 4 - Vol. I. — Essays, Lectures, and Poems. Vol. II.— English Traits, Nature, and Conduct of Life. Vol. III.— Society and Solitude — Letters and Social Aims — Miscellaneous Papers (hitherto uncollected)— May-Day, &c. FOSTER'S (John) Life and Correspondence. Edit. by JE Ryland. Portrait. 2 vols. -Lectures at Broadmead Chapel. Edit. by JE Ryland. » vols. Critical Essays contributed to the
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Page 12 - HOLBEIN'S Dance of Death and Bible Cuts. Upwards of 150 Subjects, engraved in facsimile, with Introduction and Descriptions by the late Francis Douce and Dr. Dibdin. INDIA, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, from the Earliest Times. 100 Engravings on Wood and Map. JESSE'S Anecdotes of Dogs. With 40 Woodcuts after Harvey, Bewick, and others ; and 34 Steel Engravings after Cooper and Landseer.
Page 11 - MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER'S Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain, from the beginning of the World to AD 1307. By CD Yonge. 2 vols. NENNIUS. Chronicle of.— See Six OE Chronicles. ORDERICUS VITALIS' Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy.

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