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BOURNE (Vincentius) POEMATIA; Latine partim reddita partim scripta: with English LIFE and Notes by JOHN MITFORD, pr., fcap. 8vo. hf. morocco gilt, 6s B. M. Pickering [1865] BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS: 38 ARISTOTLE on the CONSTITUTION of ATHENS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC FACSIMILE of the Papyrus, in 21 plates, with explanatory Preface by EDWARD SCOTT, Keeper of the MSS., large 4to. cl., £1. 1s (p. £2. 2s) 39 1891 BIRCH (Samuel, D.C.L.) EGYPTIAN TEXTS of the EARLIEST PERIOD from the COFFIN of AMAMU, with Translation, 32 large coloured plates, impl. folio, hf. cl., £1. 10s (p. £2. 28 nett) 1886 40 BOND (Sir Edward Augustus) FACSIMILES of ANCIENT [ENGLISH] CHARTERS in Brit. Mus., from A.D. 679 to the Eve of the Norman Conquest, 144 fine autotype plates, with Intros., Texts, and Indices Nominum et Locorum, 1 v. roy. 4to. and 3 vv. folio-4 vols. cl. 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