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PIETAS UNIVERSITATIS OXONIENSIS IN OBITUM SERENISSIMI REGIS GEORGII II. [Bound with] EPITHALAMIA OXONIENSIA, SIVE GRATULATIONES IN AUGUSTISSIMI REGIS GEORGII III. ET ILLUSTRISSIMAE PRINCIPISSAE SOPHIAE CHARLOTTAE NUPTIAS AUSPICATISSIMAS
by University of Oxford
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Oxonii: e Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1761. Hardcover. Folio, [4], [147], [1] blank, [4] handwritten index, [6] blank, [4], [188] pages. In Very Good condition with slipcase in Good condition. Bound in modern quarter leather with marbled paper boards. Paneled spine with gilt lettering reading "George III Coronation & Marriage." Slipcase covered in matching marbled paper, beginning to separate. "Littles of Liberton" bookplate preserved from previous binding and pasted onto front free endpaper verso. First title page missing lower fore corner, which has been archivally supplied. The first part has each page hand-numbered in ink on the upper fore corner and an additional hand-written index following the text with each author neatly numbered by page. Shelved in Case 4. A collection of poems specially written for the coronation of King George III, with text in Latin, Greek, English, several each in Hebrew or Arabic, one in Welsh, and one engraved plate in Phoenician, Palmyrene Syriac, Etruscan, and Samnite Etruscan. It is bound with a collection of poems specially written for the wedding of King George III and Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, with text in Latin, Greek, English, and Hebrew. ESTC T56608, T56607. 1369212. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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- PIETAS UNIVERSITATIS OXONIENSIS IN OBITUM SERENISSIMI REGIS GEORGII II. [Bound with] EPITHALAMIA OXONIENSIA, SIVE GRATULATIONES IN AUGUSTISSIMI REGIS GEORGII III. ET ILLUSTRISSIMAE PRINCIPISSAE SOPHIAE CHARLOTTAE NUPTIAS AUSPICATISSIMAS
- Author
- University of Oxford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- e Typographeo Clarendoniano
- Place of Publication
- Oxonii
- Date Published
- 1761
- Keywords
- Poetry, British Literature
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