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Anglo-French

Works printed before 1830 (with a few later exceptions) which illustrate the influence of Great Britain on France. Many of the works are translations into French from English or, occasionally, from Br...

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Scotorum historiæ a prima gentis origine, cum aliarum et rerum et gentium illustratione non vulgari, libri XIX

Boece, Hector (1465?-1536); Ferrerio, Giovanni

1574

Colophon: Lausanne excudebat Franciscus de Preux.

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Histoire de Guillaume III : roy d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse, de France, et d'Irlande, Prince d'Orange, &c.... Par medailles, inscriptions, arcs de triomphe, & autres monumens publics

Chevalier, Nicolas (1650-1720); Hooghe, Romeyn de (1645-1708)

1692

Title in red and black. Added title-page, engraved. Contains engravings by Romein de Hooghe. "Contenant les actions les plus memorables, depuis la naissance jusques à son elevation sur le tròn...

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Les croniques annalles des pays Dangleterre et Bretaigne : contenant les faictz et gestes des roys et princes qui ont regne oudit pays/ et choses dignes de memoire aduenues durant leurs regnes puis Brutus iusques au trespas du feu duc de Bretaigne Francoys Second du nom Dernier decede

Bouchard, Alain

1531

Colophon:"... Nouuellement reueues et corrigees et Imprimees a Paris par Anthoine Cousteau imprimeur le vnziesme iour de Septembre mil cinq cens.xxxi. pour hõnorables personnes Jehan Petit et Galliot...

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Recueil, des guerres et traictez d'entre les roys de France et d'Angleterre

Du Tillet, Jean sieur de la Bussière (1570)

1588

The same as vol. 2 of the author's Recueil des roys de France, Paris, 1586-1588, except for a different title-page printed for this separate edition.--cf. Bib. nat.

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Historia Anglicana ecclesiastica a primis gentis susceptae fidei incunabulis ad nostra fere tempora deducta, et in quindecim centurias distributa

Harpsfield, Nicholas (1519-1575); Campion, Saint Edmund (1540-1581); Gibbons, Richard (1550?-1632); Speed, John (1552?-1629)

1622

Title in red and black. Printer's device on t.p. Head- and tail-pieces; initials. Side-notes. Frequent errors in paging. "Historia Wicleffiana eiusdem auctoris": pp. [661]-732. "Catalogus ...

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A dictionarie of the French and English tongues

Cotgrave, Randle; Sherwood, Robert (1632-1680)

1632

"Dictionaire, anglois et françois, pour l'utilité de tous ceux, qui sont desireux de deux langues. A dictionarie English and French; compiled for the commoditie of all such as are desirous of both t...

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