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rare books5
incunabula4
classical literature4
book collecting1
libraries1

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Oldys, William (1696-1761)6
Oldys, William6
Osborne, Thomas4
Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747)4
Osborne, Thomas (1767)4
Maittaire, Michael4
Tyrconnel, John Brownlow Viscount (1754)4
Brownlowe4
Harley, Edward, Earl of Oxford, 1689-17414
Johnson, Samuel4

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A critical and historical account of all the celebrated libraries in foreign countries, as well ancient as modern, and particularly the Vatican : with general reflections upon the choice of books, and the method of furnishing libraries : a work of great use to all men of letters

Oldys, William (1696-1761); Kelly, John (1680?-1751); Le Gallois Sieur (fl. 1672-1680)

1740

An abridged translation (variously attributed to John Kelly and William Oldys) of Pierre Le Gallois' Traitté des plus belles bibliothèques de l'Éurope.

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Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae : in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (v.1)

Oldys, William (1696-1761); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747); Osborne, Thomas (1767); Tyrconnel, John Brownlow Viscount (1754); Brownlowe

1743-1745

Vols. 1-4 compiled by William Oldys, Samuel Johnson and Michael Maittaire for Thomas Osborne, who purchased the printed books from Lord Oxford's library. Vol. 5, an enumeration of Osborne's unsold s...

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Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae : in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (v.2)

Oldys, William (1696-1761); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747); Osborne, Thomas (1767); Tyrconnel, John Brownlow Viscount (1754); Brownlowe

1743-1745

Vols. 1-4 compiled by William Oldys, Samuel Johnson and Michael Maittaire for Thomas Osborne, who purchased the printed books from Lord Oxford's library. Vol. 5, an enumeration of Osborne's unsold s...

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Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae : in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (v.3)

Oldys, William (1696-1761); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747); Osborne, Thomas (1767); Tyrconnel, John Brownlow Viscount (1754); Brownlowe

1743-1745

Vols. 1-4 compiled by William Oldys, Samuel Johnson and Michael Maittaire for Thomas Osborne, who purchased the printed books from Lord Oxford's library. Vol. 5, an enumeration of Osborne's unsold s...

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Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae : in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (v.4)

Oldys, William (1696-1761); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747); Osborne, Thomas (1767); Tyrconnel, John Brownlow Viscount (1754); Brownlowe

1743-1745

Vols. 1-4 compiled by William Oldys, Samuel Johnson and Michael Maittaire for Thomas Osborne, who purchased the printed books from Lord Oxford's library. Vol. 5, an enumeration of Osborne's unsold s...

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