The standard work on the Asiatic and Oriental countries. Here
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It describes the manners, morals, customs, religions, art,
literature, politics, industries, of all the great people who
live on the other side of the Pacific, with whom our immediate
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the countries west of us, and the recorded observations of
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These magnificent volumes contain over 7,600 pages, printed in
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224 Oriental Tales. Translated into English Verse. By J.
Hoppner. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo. old mottled calf. London,
1805. =$5.00=
Should some of these Tales appear to bear a little hard upon
the female character, the author would request the fair reader
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that they are the actions of a people whose gods were monsters
or whose prophet was Mahomet.
225 Ovid's Metamorphoses. Translated by the most Eminent Hands.
Also, Ovid's Art of Love, together with His Remedy of Love.
Translated into English Verse by Dryden, Congreve, and others.
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226 Pugilism. Fistiana; or, The Oracle of the Ring. Comprising
a Defence of British Boxing. A Brief History of Pugilism, from
the earliest Ages to the Present Period. By the Editor of Bells
Life in London. 16mo. original cloth gilt, gilt edges. London,
1841. Scarce. =$5.00=
Contains Chronological Tables of Prize Battles, from 1780 to
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226A Pugilism. Boxiana; or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern
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the championship of Cribb. By Pierce Egan. Illustrated with
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portraits. Together 5 vols. 8vo. pictorial boards (3 vols.
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227 Pepys (Samuel). Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys,
M.A., F.R.S., Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty.
Transcribed from the Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian
Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, by the Rev. Mynors
Bright. With a Life and Notes by Lord Braybrooke. Facsimiles.
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228 Pope (Alexander). Works, with Memoir of the Author, Notes
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229 Poe (Edgar Allan) Complete Works. With etched portrait and
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230 Pickering's Aldine Poets. The Poetical Works of Thomas
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231 Peerage. The Manual of Rank and Nobility; or, Key to the
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232 Psyche, with Other Poems. With fine stipple portrait. New
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233 Queens of England. Strickland (Agnes). Lives of the Queens
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234 Reynolds (George W. M.). The Mysteries of the Courts of
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