speares

Don't waste your time searching for, say, a 1609 copy of Shake-speares Sonnets, dedicated in the bard's hand to the Earl of Pembroke, his patron; or a first edition of Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), inscribed by Galileo to Pope Urban VII, his tormentor; or a scribbled howdy-do by Adam Smith to fellow Scotsman David Hume on a first edition of The Wealth of Nations (1776).

Beware Rare Book Forgeries Tom Post 2009

Four hundred years ago today, on May 20, 1609, Thomas Thorpe received license for the book he would publish as “Shake-speares Sonnets.”

The Sonnets at 400 - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Four hundred years ago today, on May 20, 1609, Thomas Thorpe received license for the book he would publish as “Shake-speares Sonnets.”

The Sonnets at 400 - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Thei, aftre what tyme thei haue laied the corps, cophine and all, vpon a bedde of state, amid the square afore mentioned: sticke doune their iauelines and speares aboute him, and with stickes laied ouer from one to another, frame as it ware a Cielyng, whiche thei couer with

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

Then came three men of armes well armed, and vpon their harnesse coates of the Turkes fashion, of Libard skinnes, and murrions vpon their heads, their speares charged, and all the end of their staffe hard by the head of the speare, a horse taile died in a bloody colour, which is their ensigne: they be the chalengers for the

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Then our men fought with morispikes and fixed speares against them the space of three whole houres, till at the last they being well beaten with great ordinance and small on euery side withdrew themselues.

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These Champions are armed with yron axes, and speares, and fight on foote, and he whose Champion is ouercome, is by and by taken, and imprisoned, and terribly handled, vntill he agree with his aduersarie.

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Dagger, both yong, old, rich and poore, and yong children of fiue or sixe yeares olde, and when they go to the warres they haue targets, and some long speares, but most of them such poinyardes:

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It fell out in the way, before they came to Astracan by 40. miles, that the Nagaian Tartars, being a kind of thieuish and cruel people, made an assault vpon them with 18. boates of theirs, each of them being armed, some with swords, some with speares, and some others with bowes and arrowes, and the whole number of them they discouered to be about 300. men.

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How many harping irons, speares, cordes, axes, hatchets, kniues, and other implements for the fishing, and what sort and greatnes of them.

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