All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet : beeing sixty and three in number : collected into one volume
At London : Printed by J.B. for James Boler …, 1630.
Shelfmark: Ah T218 C630; stolen and subsequently auctioned: Swann, sale 1769, lot 351.
All the workes of John Taylor.
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Sphaera mundi.
Venetiis : Io. Baptista Sessa, 1501.
Shelfmark: QB 41 S123s 1501; ms. annotations; William Prandtl Collection; stolen and subsequently auctioned: Swann, sale 1787, lot 177.
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Calendarium Romanum.
Oppenheim: Jacob Kobel, 24 March 1518.
Shelfmark: CE 73 S7 1518; bookplate of W.E. van Wijk; stolen and subsequently auctioned: Swann, sale 1805, lot 161.
From HRC missing materials list
All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet : beeing sixty and three in number : collected into one volume
At London : Printed by J.B. for James Boler …, 1630.
Shelfmark: Ah T218 C630; stolen and subsequently auctioned: Swann, sale 1769, lot 351.
From HRC missing materials list
Beauty and the beast, or A rough outside with a gentle heart; a poetical version of an ancient tale
London, printed for M.J. Godwin, [ca1811]
Stolen and subsequently auctioned: PBA, 7 April, 1994.
From HRC missing materials list
Vccelliera; overo, Discorso della natvra e proprieta di diversi vccelli, e in particolare di qve’che cantano; con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, alleuargli, e mantenergli. E con le figure cauate dal vero, e diligentemente intagliate in rame dal Tempesta, e dal Villamena.
Roma, A. Fei, 1622.
Shelfmark: 61-7608; ex libris Walter Thomas Wallace; ex libris Henry W. Poor. Stolen and subsequently auctioned: Swann, sale 1740, lot 156.
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La vita et Metamorfoseo d’Ovidio, figurato & abbreuiaro in forma d’Epigrammi da M. Gabriello Symeoni ; con altre stanze sopra gl’ effeti della luna ; il rittatto d’vna Fontana d’Ouernia ; & un’ apologia generale nella fine del libro ; all’ illustrissima Signora Duchessa di Valentinois.
A Lione : Per Giouanni di Tornes, 1559.
Shelfmark: PQ 4634 S44 V57; ex libris G. De Berny; register no. 6301; stolen and subsequently auctioned: Swann, sale 1856, lot 135a.
From HRC missing materials list
Almanach royal année M.DCC.LXIX…
S.l. : s.n. (1768)
Shelfmark: JN 2304 A45 1769 Cop. 1; ex libris P.C.M. De Lonchamp; inscribed: Joly de Fleury; inscribed: Mme. Belin; plaque-impressed binding by Dubuisson. Plaque impression is ill. in: Usanne. French bookbinders of the 18th cent. (plate XV). Stolen and
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Serie di majuscole e caratteri cancellereschi.
[Parma : Bodoni, 1788]
Stolen and subsequently auctioned: Swann, sale 1722, lot 9.
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Experiments and notes about the mechanical origine or production of electricity.
London, Printed by E. Flesher, for R. Davis, 1675.
Stolen and subsequently auctioned: Swann, sale 1752, lot 90
From HRC missing materials list
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