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Baldwin (William). A Treatise of Morall Philosophie: wherein is contained the worthy sayings of philosophers, emperours, kings and orators...and now the ninthtime since inlarged by Thomas Palfreman, gentlemen, London: printed by William Stansby, circa 1635, some marginal worming to title and at end, affecting a few letters, some light soiling and water stains, lacking front endpaper, front hinge broken, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming, contemporary limp vellum, ties, some soiling, wear to one corner, 8vo, together with Raleigh (Walter). The General History of the World, being an abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh. With a continuation from the best historians to the present times, 4 volumes, London: printed for A. Bell, R. Smith & J. Round, 1708, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, titles printed in red and black, a little light soiling and stains, bookplates, D.L. Cumming owner signature, later calf gilt, a little rubbed with light stains, 8vo, plus Heylyn [Peter, i.e. Robert Hall]. Eroologia Anglorum:or, an helpe to English History containing a succession of all the Kings of England, and the English Saxons, the Kings and Princes of Wales, the Kings and Lords of Man, and the Isle of Wight, 1st edition, London: R. Cotes for Abel Roper, 1642, title laid-down with marginal loss and manuscript date of 1642, erratic pagination (i.e. pp1-204, 241-379) D.L. Cumming signature, a little light toning, later calf, joints cracking, 12mo, with others including Thomas Lanquet's An Epitome of Cronicles, [1569], defective, lacking about half of title (laid down) and all after ff. 286, Thomas Brown's Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquiries into very many received tenentsand commonly presumed truths, 5th edition, 1669 (bound with Hydriotaphia Urn-Burial or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, together with the Garden of Cyrus, 1669) and other antiquarian, some defective etc