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• Isle of Wight (England) -- History
• Isle of Wight (England) -- Early works to 1800
• History -- Early works to 1800

• A tour to the Isle of Wight : illustrated with eighty views, drawn and engraved in aqua tinta (Printed for G. Kearsley, 1796), by Charles Tomkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ioyfull news from Portsmouth and the Jsle of Wight: wherein is declared, the resolution of the county of the inhabitants of the said towne, not to obey any command, or admit any forces into the said town, that should take part with the malignant party, against the King and Parliament. Likewise, the resolution of the inhabitants in the Isle of Wight, to use all possible means to prevent the landing of any men from France, or any other nation. With, a true declaration, how the Earle of Warwicke hath ordered his navie, for the preservation of future designes against the said towne. Ordered that this be printed and published. Io. Bro. Cler. Par. ([London] : Printed for Iohn Iones, August 8. 1642), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• A general history of Hampshire, or the county of Southampton including the isle of Wight (Virtue and co., 1861), by B. B. Woodward, Cecil George Savile Foljambe Liverpool, Theodore Chambers Wilks, and Charles Stewart Montgomerie Lockhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters archaeological and historical relating to the Isle of Wight (H. Fowde, 1896), by Edward Boucher James and Rachel James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Oglander memoirs: extracts from the mss. of Sir J. Oglander, kt. ... (Reeves and Turner, 1888), by J Oglander and William H. Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Index to the Victoria history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. (Constable and company, limited, 1914), by William Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• A companion to the Isle of Wight; comprising the history of the island, and the description of its local scenery, as well as all objects of curiosity. (Printed for the author, and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1823), by John Albin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight. (E. Stock, 1892), by Thomas William Shore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Isle of Wight; military, ecclesiastical, civil, & natural: to which is added a view of its agriculture. (Printed for T. Cadell, jun. & W. Davies, 1795), by Richard Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, topography, and antiquities of the isle of Wight (Smith, Elder, and Co.; [etc., etc.], 1856), by W. H. Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new, correct, and much improved-history of the Isle of Wight, from the earliet times of authentic information to the present period: comprehending whatever is curious or worthy of attention in natural history, with its civil, ecclesiastical, and military state in the various ages, both ancient and modern. (Printed by and for J. Albin, and sold in London by Scatcherd and Whitaker, Booksellers, Ave Maria Lane, and all the Booksellers, 1795), by John Albin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exceeding good newes from the Jsle of VVight being a true relation of a great quantity of ammunition, viz. 1500 muskets many loades of bullets, and great store of powder lately taken there from a ship which was going to the rebels in Ireland : wherein also was much bees-waze, to make tapers for the priests and fryers : with a discoverie of another great plot neere Mayden-head in Berkeshire : all which was discovered to the House of Commons on Saturday, Feb. 11, 1641 : whereunto is added the relation of a prodigious birth, borne neere Fullers Rents in Holborne, Ian. 30, 1641. (London : Printed for John Thomas, 1641 [1642]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Underchiff of the Isle of Wight, past and present (Knight's library;, 1911), by John Livesay Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• His Majesties going from the Isle of Wight and the answer of the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common councell, to the Lord Fairfax his letter to the City of London. Also, a letter from the Lord Generall Fairfax, concerning the citizens of London that have guarded the Parliament, and the head-quarters now at St. Iames, the mewes, and other places about the city. With the armies appeal from the Parliament to the kingdom, and a letter from the Parliament to the Lord Generall. A full relation touching Col. Hamond, and other passages in the Isle of Wight. The originall papers were read, and this is published for generall satisfaction to the kingdom. (London : Printed for Richard Robinson, 1648), by Thomas Fairfax Fairfax and England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A tour to the Isle of Wight : illustrated with eighty views, drawn and engraved in aqua tinta (Printed for G. Kearsley, 1796), by Charles Tomkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Observations on the western parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : to which are added, a few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight (Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tour to the Isle of Wight : illustrated with eighty views, drawn and engraved in aqua tinta (Printed for G. Kearsley, 1796), by Charles Tomkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the western parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : to which are added, a few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight (Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies ..., 1798), by William Gilpin and Cadell & Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tailors travels from London to the Isle of VVight, vvith his returne, and occasion of his iourney ([London] : Printed at the Authors charge ..., 1648), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The true description or draffte of that famous Ile of Wighte with some parte of the Englishe or Britaine coast and inwarde countreye of Hampshire and Sussex : wherein gentle reader you maye see the true distances sett downe by measure or scale of any parte thereof, also the particuler descriptions of hills, woodes, beacons, castells, rockes, and townes, whiche vnto this platt are adioyninge / made by Baptista Boazio. ([London : s.n.], 1591), by Baptista Boazio (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Scripture observations. (London : printed by M.S. for H. Crips, at his shop in Popes-head Alley next Lombard Street, 1662), by Caleb Trenchfield (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Recueil d'antiquités egyptiennes, etrusques, grecques, romaines et gauloises (Chez Duchesne ..., 1752), by Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, Nicolas-Martin Tilliard, Charles Saillant, Nicolas Desaint, and Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquite s, mythologie, diplomatique des chartres et chronologie (Chez Panckoucke, libraire, ho tel de Thou, rue des Poitevins ;, 1786), by Henri Agasse, Cle ment Plomteux, Charles Joseph Panckoucke, Jacques Bouillard, Ange lique Mongez, and Mongez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orbis antiqui monumentis suis illustrati primae lineae (Typis Lorenzii et Schuleri ..., 1790), by Jer. Jac. Oberlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geöfnete Antiqvitäten-Zimmer (Bey Benjamin Schillern, Buchhändlern, 1702), by Friedrich Christian Feustking and Benjamin Schiller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Second booke of battailes. (At London : Printed [by Thomas East] for Gabriell Cavvood, 1587), by John Polemon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• All the famous battels that haue bene fought in our age throughout the worlde, as well by sea as lande set foorth at large, liuely described, beautified, and enriched with sundry eloquent orations, and the declaratio[n]s of the causes, with the fruites of them. Collected out of sundry good authors, whose names are expressed in the next page. (Imprinted at London : By Henrye Bynneman, & Francis Coldock, [1578]), by John Polemon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Vitae Selectorum Aliquot Virorum Qui Doctrinâ, Dignitate, Aut Pietate Inclaruere (in Latin; London: A. G. and J. P., 1681), by William Bates
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• Empresa, victorias y desgracias de el principe Carlos Eduardo Stuard, pretendiente de Inglaterra, residente en Roma (en la imprenta del Diario, 1791), by Victor Amadeo Maria and Miguel Canal y Gabuti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarchi Parallela, seu Vitae Parallelae : volumen tertium. (ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1723), by ca. 46-ca. 119 Plutarco, John Watts, Jacob Tonson, Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares), and biblioteca com (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarchi Parallela, seu Vitae Parallelae : volumen quartum. (ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1723), by ca. 46-ca. 119 Plutarco, John Watts, Jacob Tonson, and Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarchi Parallela, seu Vitae Parallelae : volumen quintum. (ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1724), by ca. 46-ca. 119 Plutarco, John Watts, Jacob Tonson, and Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patin, Guy : tiré de ses conversations, de son Cabinet, de ses Lettres, & de ses autres Ouvrages, avec son portrait historique. (chez Henry Schelten ..., 1709), by Guy Patin and Hendrick Schelte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium, doctrina et eruditione praestantium (T. de Bry], 1597), by Jean Jacques Boissard, Adam Lonicer, and Theodor de Bry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy state. (Printed by R.D. for John Williams ..., 1648), by Thomas Fuller, John Williams, and Roger Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy state (Printed by R.D.[aniel] for John Williams, 1652), by Thomas Fuller, John Williams, and Roger Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elogia doctorum virorum ab avorum memoria publicatis ingenii monumentis illustrium (Apud Joan. Bellerum, 1557), by Paolo Giovio and Johannes Latomus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome (Imprinted at London : [By H. Middleton] for Henrie Cockyn, dwelling in Fletestreate at the signe of the Elephant, a litle aboue the Conduit, Anno. 1577), by John Bishop (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended: To Which Is Prefix'd a Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great (London: Printed for J. Tonson, J. Osborn, and T. Longman, 1728), by Isaac Newton
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• La Chronologie des Anciens Royaumes Corrigée: À Laquelle on a Joint une Chronique Abregée, qui Contient ce qui s'est Passé Anciennement en Europe, Jusqu'à la Conquête de la Perse par Alexandre le Grand (in French; Paris: chez G. Martin et al., 1728), by Isaac Newton, trans. by François Granet, contrib. by Edmond Halley (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Die Natale; Life of the Emperor Hadrian (title of first book should be "De Die Natali"; New York: Cambridge Encyclopedia Co., 1900), trans. by William Maude, contrib. by Censorinus and Aelius Spartianus
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• Nakd-üt-tevarih (Mustafa Paşa tekkesi şeyhi Yahya Efendi'nin matbaası, 1879), by Yağlıkçızade Ahmet Rifat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zhamanakagrutʻiwn (880-03 Yerusaghēm : I tparani Srbotsʻ Hakovbeantsʻ, 1870., 1870), by Michael the Syrian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bun tōmar hayotsʻ ew hṛovmayetsʻwotsʻ. ([s.n.], 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronographia (Bonnae : Impensis Ed. Weberi, MDCCCXXXI (1831), 1831), by John Malalas, Edmund Chilmead, Humphrey Hody, Richard Bentley, and Ludwig August Dindorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera. (Ex officina Arnoldi Doude, Cornelii Driehvysen, 1670), by Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, Jacobus Gronovius, Johannes van Meurs, and Johannes Isacius Pontanus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendio vniversale delle cose del mondo ... (Agnelli, 1714), by Giovanni Nicolò Doglioni and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• De die natale ("The natal day") (The Cambridge encyclopedia co., 1900), by Censorinus and William Maude (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iste liber vocatur cronica Ranulphi Cistrensis monachi ([England, 1400), by Ranulf Higden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Sotheby's (Firm), H.P. Kraus (Firm), Powis Castle (Wales), and Furness Abbey (page images at HathiTrust)
• De temporibus, siue, De sex aetatibus huius seculi liber incipit (P[er] Ioan. de Tridino alias Tacuino, 1509), by the Venerable Bede, Petrus Marenus Alexander, and Publius Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ioannis Lucidi Samothei viri clarissimi Opusculum de emendationibus temporum ab orbe condito ad usque hanc aetatem nostram (In officina Lucȩantonij Iuntȩ, 1537), by Joannes Lucidus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cronologia prodromo alla Biblioteca del p. Coronelli ([Venice] : [publisher not identified], [1707?], 1707), by Vincenzo Coronelli, Giuseppe Baroni, and Accademia cosmografica degli argonauti (Venice : Republic : To 1797) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De scrvpvlis chronologorvm (Excusum apud Bernhardum Iobinum, 1575), by Clemens Schubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief cronology of Great Britain from the first discoveries of this isle, through the severall comquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans. (London : Printed by T.C. and are to be sold by T. Crosse, [1656]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The first part of the diall of daies containing 320. Romane triumphes, besides the triumphant obelisks and pyramydes of the Aegyptians, the pillers, arches, and trophies triumphant, of the Græcians, and the Persians, with their pompe and magnificence: of feastes and sacrifices both of the Iewes and of the Gentils, with the stately games and plaies belonging to these feastes and sacrifices, with the birthes and funeral pomps of kinges and emperours, as you shall finde more at large in the 2. part, wherein all kind of triumphes are enlarged. By Lodowick Lloid Esquire. (London : Printed for Roger Ward dvvelling at the signe of the Purse in the little old Bailie, 1590), by Lodowick Lloyd (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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