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The spirit of the bankrupt laws. Originally compiled by Edward Green, Esq. formerly a Commissioner. Wherein are principally considered, the I. Declaring the party bankrupt. 2. Seizing his Estate, and summoning him to surrender. 3. Receiving Proof of the Debts of his Creditors. 4. Appointing, chusing, and removing Assignees. 5. Selling and conveying the Estate and Effects. 6. The examining and committing the Bankrupt, his Wife, and others. 7. Certifying his Conformity. 8. Dividing the Estate. 9. Ordering bankrupt his allowance, and Overplus. Which are fully discussed and explained, with the Authority and Power of the Commissioners to commit, particularly from the Determinations of Earls Hardwicke, Mansfield, and of the present Judges. Also, precedents, instructions, and a copious index

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Author
Green, Edward
Edition
The fourth edition, corrected, improved, and enlarged, by a late commissioner.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. LXXX. [1780]
Call Number
Boolk 1007 1780
Author
Green, Edward
Edition
The fourth edition, corrected, improved, and enlarged, by a late commissioner.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by His Majesty's law-printers, for Edward Brooke, successor to Messrs. Worrall and Tovey, in Bell-Yard, Temple Bar.,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. LXXX. [1780]
Physical Description
xxiv, iv, 518, [32] pages ; 22 cm, 8Ê»
Notes
With an index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page by that of strunk former owner.
Book numer 1007 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Binding: half sheep and orange and grey marbled paper over boards, red lettering piece, gold spine titles, late 18th/early 19th century.
Subjects
Bankruptcy - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Bankruptcy.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Bindint)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Newcastle and Gateshead Law Institute,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Boolk 1007 1780
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Conductor generalis, or, The office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor : as also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21732
Date of Publication
1792.
Call Number
Book 666 1792
Alternate Title
Conductor generalis
Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, goalers, coroners, constables, jury men, over-seers of the poor
Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace
Responsibility
compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the several other books on those subjects, by James Parker ... ; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America, by a Gentleman of the law ; the whole alphabetically digested under the several titles, with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles ; to which are added, the excise and militia laws of the United States, and the acts called the Ten Pound Act of the states of Pennsylvania and New-York.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for Robert Campbell,
Date of Publication
1792.
Physical Description
xv, 464 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A-2G⁸.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbr 666 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Subjects
Justices of the peace - Early works to 1800.
Sheriffs - Early works to 1800.
Coroners - Early works to 1800.
Constables - Early works to 1800.
Jury - Early works to 1800.
Internal revenue law - United States - Early works to 1800.
Fines and recoveries - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Fines and recoveries - New York (State) - Early works to 1800.
Constables.
Coroners.
Fines and recoveries.
Internal revenue law.
Jury.
Justices of the peace.
Militia.
Sheriffs.
United States - Militia - Early works to 1800.
New York (State)
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Early works.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Parker, James,
Gentleman of the law.
Burn, Richard,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 666 1792
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The first part of the institutes of the laws of England, or, A commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self : haec ego grandaevus posui tibi candide lector

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Author
Coke, Edward,
Edition
The tenth edition, carefully corrected from the errors of the former impressions, with an alphabetical table, to which are added two learned tracts of the same author, the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entituled The statute of levying fines, and the second, of Bail and mainprize, in this tenth edition is also added his compleat copy-holder, a learned treatise of the authors never before printed in any of his works in folio, with many thousands of new references to the modern law cases, by an eminent lawyer, never printed before, and distingushed from the old references by this mark [double dagger].
Date of Publication
1703.
Call Number
Book 755 1703
Alternate Title
Commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self
Responsibility
authore Edwardo Coke, milite.
Author
Coke, Edward,
Uniform Title
First part of the institutes of the laws of England
Edition
The tenth edition, carefully corrected from the errors of the former impressions, with an alphabetical table, to which are added two learned tracts of the same author, the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entituled The statute of levying fines, and the second, of Bail and mainprize, in this tenth edition is also added his compleat copy-holder, a learned treatise of the authors never before printed in any of his works in folio, with many thousands of new references to the modern law cases, by an eminent lawyer, never printed before, and distingushed from the old references by this mark [double dagger].
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by William Rawlins, Samuel Roycroft, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esquires, and are to be sold by Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street and J. Walthoe in Vine-Court, Middle-Temple, adjoyning to the Cloysters,
Date of Publication
1703.
Physical Description
[5] leaves, 88 p., 394, [32] leaves, [1] folded leaf, [2] leaves of plates ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
A reprint of Littleton's Tenures, with a translation in English from Anglo-Norman (Law French), and commentary. Printed in parallel columns.
Some errors in foliation.
Signatures: pi1 [superscript pi]A⁴ a-y² A-3D⁴ [superscript chi]3D² 3E-5E⁴ 5F⁶ ²A-²E⁶.
"Le Reading del mon Seignior Coke, 34 Eliz. anno 1592, sur lestatute de 27 E.I. appelle lestatute de finibus levatis" and "A treatise of bail & mainprize, written by Sir Edward Coke, Knight" on p. 1-27 of the 88 p. sequence; "The compleat copy-holder, being a learned discourse of the antiquity and nature of manors and copy-holds, with all things thereunto incident by Sir Edward Coke, Knight" on p. 29-88 of the 88 p. sequence.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
John Yeate's signature at top of title page under that of former owner J. Hartleys
Book number 755 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references, and index: "A table to the first part of the institutes of the laws of England."
ESTC
Subjects
Land tenure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Real property - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Fines and recoveries - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Bail - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Manors - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Copyhold - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Bail.
Copyhold.
Fines and recoveries.
Land tenure
Manors.
Real property.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Spine title missing (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Littleton, Thomas,
Coke, Edward,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 755 1703
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A new Spanish and English dictionary : collected from the best Spanish authors, both ancient and modern : containing several thousand words more than any other dictionary, with their etymology; their proper, figurative, burlesque and cant significations, the common terms of arts and sciences , the proper names of men, the surnames of families and an account of them, the titles of the nobility of Spain, together with its geography, and that of the West Indies, with the names of such provinces, towns and rivers in other parts which differ in Spanish from the English : also above two thousand proverbs literally translated ... : to which is added, a copious English and Spanish dictionary, likewise a Spanish grammar, more complete and easy than any hitherto extant

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Author
Stevens, John,
Date of Publication
MDCCVI [1706]
Call Number
Book 1045 1706
Alternate Title
Spanish and English dictionary
Dictionary English and Spanish
New Spanish grammar
Responsibility
The whole by Captain John Stevens.
Author
Stevens, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for George Sawbridge, at the Flower-de-Luces in Little Britain,
Date of Publication
MDCCVI [1706]
Physical Description
[526] 70 (i.e. 72) pages ; 40 cm (fol.)
Notes
The English-Spanish dictionary has special t.p., dated 1705; the grammar has special t.p. and separate paging.
Dictionary printed in three columns.
Signatures: pi² A² a² (-a2) B-Z⁴, *⁴, 2A-2Z⁴, *2a-*2e⁴, 4a-4n⁴ 4o², 5a-5i⁴.
Devices on special title pages.
Apparently from the personal library of Jasper Yeates.
Yeates's signature at top of title page and writ large on front flyleaf.
Book number 1045 not assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue
Subjects
Spanish language - Early works to 1800.
English language - Early works to 1800.
Cant - Early works to 1800.
Proverbs, Spanish - Early works to 1800.
Names, Spanish - Early works to 1800.
Cant.
English language.
Names, Spanish.
Proverbs, Spanish.
Spanish language.
Spanish language
Dictionaries.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Stamped title on spine.
Additional Author
Sawbridge, George,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1045 1706
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The practising attorney, or, Lawyer's office : comprehending the business of an attorney in all its branches, divided into two volumes, viz. ... Wherein all the precedents and forms of processes and proceedings are truly and faithfully rendred in the English language, in pursuance of the late statute

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Author
Bohun, William.
Edition
The fourth edition in which the errors in former impressions are carefully corrected,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Call Number
Book 458 1737
Alternate Title
Practising attorney
Lawyer's office
Practising attorney and solicitor, containing the lawyer's office in equity
Responsibility
by a Gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Author
Bohun, William.
Edition
The fourth edition in which the errors in former impressions are carefully corrected,
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion, T. Longman, at the Ship, both in Pater-Noster-Row, T. Worrall, at the Judge's Head, and F. Cogan, at the Middle-Temple Gate, both in Fleet-Street, Ward and Chandler, at the Ship, just without Temple-Bar, and at their shops in York and Scarborough,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description
2 v. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Booksellers' advertisements on first leaf of both volumes.
LC copy imperfect: worm damage on first ten leaves of vol. 1, some loss of text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 458 as assinged by Yeates.
Label of bookseller David Hall,Philadelphia affixed to back of front cover.
Library has vol. 1.
ESTC
Contents
(From t. p.) Vol. I contains: I. The practice of the Court of King's Bench -- II. The practice of the Court of Common Pleas -- III. The practice of Courts-Leet, Courts-Baron, &c. -- Vol. II. contains: IV. The practice of the High Court of Chancery -- V. The practice of equity in the exchequer -- VI. The practice and method of conveyancing, &c.
Subjects
Civil procedure - England - Early works to 1800.
Pleading - England - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing - England - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure - England - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - England - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure.
Conveyancing.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Forms (Law)
Pleading.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling,
A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch (Firm),
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 458 1737
Less detail

The present practice of the Court of King's Bench : containing ample and complete instructions for commencing and defending the various kinds of suits and actions, entering up judgement, suing out execution, proceeding in error from the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer Chamber, and Parliament, &c., and calculated not only to guide the attorney in the course of his practice in cases already settled, but also by pointing out the rise and ground of the various proceedings, and the several cases in each already adjudged, to enable him by analogy to conduct any new matters that may occur : containing rules of court down to Michaelmas Term, 1784, and enriched with a number of very curious and special precedents of the various writs, pleadings, entries, &c. in use in the Court of King's Bench : and particularly of declarations, a great number of which are very special, and settled by the most eminent pleaders : to which is added a complete index

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Author
Sheridan, John.
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number
Book 985 1785
Responsibility
by John Sheridan ... ; with the assistance of other gentlemen of the law.
Author
Sheridan, John.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Flexney ... and J. Walker ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Physical Description
[3], 16-614, [18] p. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: pi² D-2Z⁴ ²2A-²2Z⁴ 3A-3K⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 985 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Courts - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Criminal procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Court rules - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Courts
Civil procedure.
Court rules.
Criminal procedure.
Pleading.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 985 1785
Less detail

The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained

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Author
West, William,
Date of Publication
1641.
Call Number
Yeates Book 80 1641
Author
West, William,
Uniform Title
Second part of symboleography
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Miles Flesher and Robert Young.,
Date of Publication
1641.
Physical Description
[2], 350, [8] leaves ; 22.5 cm. (4to)
Notes
With Latin mottoes and tail piece below title.
"Cum privilegio."--Foot of title page.
Dedicatory letter (in Latin) to Sir Edward Coke, dated 1594, signed: William West.
Collation: [par]² A-2X⁸ 2Y⁶ [$4 signed].
Numerous errors in foliation: leaves 24, 35, 52, 62 numbered 21, 37, 51, 64; leaves 144, 163, 165, 216, 256, 259 numbered 146, 136, 146, 215, 255, 258; leaves 284, 286, 287, 288 numbered 286, 284, 293, 286; leaves 298, 299-302, 303-304, 336, 349 numbered 283, 281-284, 284-285, 320, 394.
In black letter and Roman type; some italic type.
Initials, some historiated; head and tail pieces.
Marginal section notations.
Includes index.
"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.
Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes in margins.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.
Subjects
Legal instruments - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Forms (Law)
Legal instruments.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Quarto format (Printing) - England - London - 1641.
Black letter types (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.
Roman types (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.
Tail-pieces (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.
Additional Author
Flesher, Miles,
Young, Robert,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 80 1641
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Symbolæography, which may be termed the art, description or image of instruments, extra-iudiciall, as, couenants, contracts, obligations, conditions, feffements, graunts, wills, &c. : Or the paterne of præsidents. Or the notarie or scriuener

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20893
Author
West, William,
Date of Publication
1592.
Call Number
Book 80 1592
Responsibility
the first part, newly corrected and augmented by William West of the Inner Temple gentleman, first author thereof.
Author
West, William,
Uniform Title
Symbolaeographia
Place of Publication
Imprinted at London
Publisher
In Fleetstreat within Temple Barre at the signe of the Hand and Starre by Richard Tottle,
Date of Publication
1592.
Physical Description
[668] pages ; 19 cm
Notes
Signatures: A-B⁸ C²; ²A-2L⁸ 2M⁴ 2N-2O⁸ [par.]² 2[par.]².
Mostly blackletter.
Hand lettered page numbers.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library,.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Library's copy missing title page.
Parts 1 & 2 bound together.
STC
ESTC
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.
Subjects
England and Wales. - Court of Chancery - Early works to 1800.
England and Wales. - Court of Chancery.
Conveyancing - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - England - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Forms (Law)
England.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Additional Author
Tottel, Richard,
Cotton, Robert,
Ogden, C. K.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 80 1592
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Jurisdictions, or, The lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseys, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn : together with the most necessary learning of tenures, and all their incidents of essoyns, imparlance, view, of all manner of pleadings, of contracts, of the nature of all sorts of actions, of maintenance, of divers other things very profitable for all students of inns of court and chancery, and a most perfect directory for all stewards of any the said courts : with the return and forms of several original and judicial writs now in use, relating to writs of error, writs of false judgment, and other proceedings of frequent use in the courts at Westminster

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Author
Kitchin, John.
Edition
The fifth edition corrected and enlarged, with two tables.
Date of Publication
1675.
Call Number
Book 437 1675
Alternate Title
Jurisdictions
Lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseyes, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn
Brevia selecta, or, Choice writs
Responsibility
written by the methodically learned John Kitchin ... ; to which is also added, Brevia selecta ... by Richard Antrobus and Thomas Impey ...
Author
Kitchin, John.
Uniform Title
Court leete et court baron.
Edition
The fifth edition corrected and enlarged, with two tables.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Hen. Twyford ... and Sam. Herrick ...,
Date of Publication
1675.
Physical Description
[4], 581, [23], 122, [6] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Notes
"The return of writs newly corrected": pages 514-581.
Signatures: A² B-2P⁸ 2Q⁴, chi² ²A-H⁸.
Leaf 2Q4 is blank.
Includes index.
LC copy imperfect: blank leaf 2Q4 wanting.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page adjacent to struck signature of former owner.
Book number 437 as assinged by Yeates.
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Subjects
England and Wales. - Marshalsea Court.
Courts baron and courts leet - Early works to 1800.
Real property - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Writs - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Courts baron and courts leet.
Pleading.
Real property.
Writs.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Impey, Thomas.
Antrobus, Richard.
Kitchin, John.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 437 1675
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The laws of Jamaica : pass'd by the Governours, Council and Assembly in that island, and confirm'd by the Crown

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Corporate Author
Jamaica.
Date of Publication
1716.
Call Number
Book 503 1716
Corporate Author
Jamaica.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Wilkins, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain,
Date of Publication
1716.
Physical Description
xxx, [6], 457, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Initials; head and tail pieces.
The preface by William Wood gives a descriptive account of the island.
"Mr. Francis Hanson's account of the island and government of Jamaica, which was wrote in or about the year 1682": pages [446]-457.
Errata: p. [458].
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page with one former owner struck and one removed.
Book number 503 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Politics and government
Travel.
Jamaica - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.
Jamaica - Politics and government - To 1962.
Jamaica.
Jamaica - Politics and government - Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Wood, William,
Hanson, Francis.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 503 1716
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