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Gulliveriana. Edited with an introd. by Jeanne K. Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr.
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Gainsville, Fla., Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1970-
1970-present
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberL-11 4151 v. 8 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatText | Call numberL-11 4151 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Les voyages de Gulliver; quatre fragments pour mezzo-soprano et piano.
Notated music
[Amsterdam, Donemus, 1967?]
1967
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| FormatNotated music | Call numberMusic (Sheet) 75-15 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
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Bounce to Fop. An heroick epistle from a dog at Twickenham to a dog at Court. By Dr. S---t.
Book/Text
Dublin, Printed; London, Reprinted for T. Cooper, 1736.
1736
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberBerg Coll 76-426 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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The Works of the most celebrated minor poets. Namely, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon [and others]. Never before collected and publish'd together. In two volumes.
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London, Printed for F. Cogan, 1749.
1749
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberBerg Coll 76-424 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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A New poem ascrib'd to the lady who wrote the Answer to Mr. Philips's Poem on Miss C - t.
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[Dublin, 1725]
1725
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberBerg Coll 76-285 no. 3 In case with: Philips, Ambrose. Poems. Dublin. 1725 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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A new poem ascrib'd to the Honourable Miss Carteret.
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[Dublin, 1725]
1725
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberBerg Coll 76-285 no. 2 In case with the author's Poems. Dublin, 1725 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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Miscellanea. In two volumes. Never before published ...
Book/Text
London, 1727.
1727
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberBerg Coll 77-148 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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Memoirs of the life of Scriblerus. By D. S---t.
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London, Printed from the original copy from Dublin, and sold by A. Moore, 1723.
1723
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberBerg Coll 77-75 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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A prefatory epistle concerning some remarks to be published on Homer's Iliad: occasioned by the proposals of Mr. Pope towards a new English version of that poem. To the reverend Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's.
Book/Text
London, Printed for J. Wyat and H. Clements, 1714.
1714
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberBerg Coll 77-255 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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Jonathan Swift, The battle of the books : e. histor.-krit. Ausg. mit literarhistor. Einl. u. Kommentar / von Hermann Josef Real. 1. Aufl.
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Berlin ; New York : de Gruyter, 1978.
1978
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFD 78-7134 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Portsmouth miscellany; or, Lady's library improved: designed as a reading book, for the use of young ladies' academies. Prepared and published by Charles Peirce ...
Microform
Portsmouth, N. H., Peirce, Hill & Peirce, printers, 1804.
1804
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| FormatText | Call number*ZAN-T3340 Reel 103 no. 689-694, v. 5 | Item locationOffsite |
The poetry of Jonathan Swift : allusion and the development of a poetic style / Peter J. Schakel.
Book/Text
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
1978
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFD 79-3514 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Jonathan Swift in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten / dargestellt von Justus Franz Wittkop ; [den Anhang besorgte der Autor]. [1.-13. Tsd.].
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Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1976.
1976
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFC 79-1372 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The lady's pocket library ...
Microform
Philadelphia, Printed by R. Folwell, for M. Carey, 1794.
1794
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| FormatText | Call number*ZAN-T3340 reel 50 no. 315, v. 3-323 | Item locationOffsite |
Poems on several occasions.
Book/Text
London, Printed for C. Rivington, 1734.
1734
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberBerg Coll 79-411 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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Different styles of poetry : verses / by Wentworth Dillon, Fourth Earl of Roscommon, Thomas Parnell, & Jonathan Swift ; edited by Robert Mahony.
Book/Text
Monkstown, Dublin : Cadenus Press, 1978.
1978
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*KP (Cadenus) 77-241 v. 8 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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A view on Vanessa; a correspondence with interludes for the stage.
Book/Text
[Dublin] Dolmen Press [1967]
1967
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFD 84-4427 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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A KWIC concordance to Jonathan Swift's A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, and A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit, a fragment / Harold D. Kelling, Cathy Lynn Preston.
Book/Text
New York : Garland, 1984.
1984
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFF 85-170 | Item locationOffsite |
Swift vs. Mainwaring : the Examiner and the Medley / edited by Frank H. Ellis.
Book/Text
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
1985
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFE 86-1365 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Gulliver's travels / Brean Hammond.
Book/Text
Milton Keynes [Buckinghamshire] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1988.
1988
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFD 88-10605 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput / by Jonathan Swift ; illustrated by Gennady Spirin ; retold by Ann Keay Beneduce.
Book/Text
New York : Philomel, c1993.
1993
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFF 94-168 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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The dreamer.
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London : Printed for W. Owen ..., 1754.
1754
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSchlosser 429b | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSchlosser 429a | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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Women who cry apples : a cycle of six songs for soprano, clarinet, violin & piano, op. 36 / music by Gary Noland ; poem by Jonathan Swift.
Notated music
Eugene, OR : Freeland, 1994.
1994
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| FormatNotated music | Call numberJNF 95-85 | Item locationOffsite |
An essay on the earlier part of the life of Swift. By the Rev. John Barrett. To which are subjoined several pieces ascribed to Swift; two of his original letters; and extracts from his Remarks on Bishop Burnet's history.
Book/Text
London, J. Johnson; etc., etc. 1808.
1808
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberAN (Swift) (Barrett, J. Essay on the earlier part of the life of Swift) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Vanessa and her correspondence with Jonathan Swift / the letters edited for the first time from the originals, with an introd. by A. Martin Freeman.
Book/Text
London : Selwyn & Blount, 1921.
1921
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberAN (Swift) (Swift, J. Vanessa, and her correspondence with Jonathan Swift) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Secret history of Arlus and Odolphus, ministers of State to the Empress of Grandinsula : in which are discover'd the labour'd artifices formerly us'd for the removal of Arlus, and the true causes of his late restoration, upon the dismission of Odolphus and the Quinquinvirate : humbly offer'd to those good people of Grandinsula, who have not yet done wond'ring why that Princess wou'd change so notable a ministry.
Book/Text
[London?] : [s.n.], Printed in the year 1710.
1710
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberCK (Secret history of Arlus and Odolphus) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Bishop Burnet's History of the reign of King James the Second. Notes by the Earl of Dartmouth, Speaker Onslow and Dean Swift. Additional observations now enlarged.
Book/Text
Oxford, University Press, 1852.
1852
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberCI (Burnet, G. Bishop Burnet's history of the reign of King James II) 1857 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Poems on several occasions.
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London: : Printed for C. Rivington ..., 1735.
1735
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberD-12 2667 | Item locationOffsite |
The mind and art of Jonathan Swift, by Ricardo Quintana.
Book/Text
Gloucester,Mass., Peter Smith, 1965.
1965
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberD-17 4515 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*R-RMRR PR3726 .Q5 1965 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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A new voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms: being the fifth part of the travels into several remote parts of the world by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships, wherein the author returns and finds a new state of liberal horses and revolting Yahoos, from an unpublished manuscript edited, with notes, by Matthew Hodgart.
Book/Text
London, Duckworth, 1969.
1969
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberD-19 9291 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Gullivers Reisen. Nacherzählt von Erich Kästner, mit vielen Bildern von Horst Lemke.
Book/Text
Wein, C. Ueberreuter [1961]
1961
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberF-10 7759 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The works of Sir William Temple Bart, : complete in four volumes octavo. : To which is prefixed, The life and character of the author.
Book/Text
London, : Printed for J. Clarke, T. Wotton, D. Brown, H. Lintot ... [and 13 others], 1757.
1757
8 items
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF (Temple, W. Works) v. 4 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF (Temple, W. Works) v. 4 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF (Temple, W. Works) v. 3 | Item locationOffsite |
A Supplement to the works of the most celebrated minor poets ...
Book/Text
London : Printed for F. Cogan ..., 1750.
1750
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCI Suppl. (Supplement to The works) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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A sentimental journey through France and Italy / by Laurence Sterne. A tale of a tub : written for the universal improvement of mankind / by Jonathan Swift ; with five etchings and portrait by Ed. Hédouín.
Book/Text
London : Nimmo and Bain, 1882.
1882
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCV (Sterne, L. Sentimental journey through France and Italy. 1882) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Miscellanea ... Never before published ...
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London, 1727.
1727
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF (Miscellanea) v. 1-2 | Item locationOffsite |
The Intelligencer ... [nos. 1-19].
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[London] : Printed at Dublin. London reprinted, and sold by A. Moor ... and the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729.
1729-
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCY (Intelligencer) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Literary relics: containing original letters from King Charles II., King James II., the Queen of Bohemia, Swift, Berkeley, Addison, Steele, Congreve, the Duke of Ormond, and Bishop Rundle. To which is prefixed, an inquiry into the life of Dean Swift. By George-Monck Berkeley.
Book/Text
London, Printed for T. Kay, 1792.
1792
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNDC (Berkeley, G. M. Literary relics) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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English letters and letterwriters of the eighteenth century. With explanatory notes. By Howard Williams ... 1st series. Swift and Pope.
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London, G. Bell & Sons, 1886.
1886
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNDC (Williams, H. English letters and letter-writers) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The history of John Bull, for the first time faithfully re-issued from the original pamphlets, 1712, together with an investigation into its composition, publication and authorship. Academish proefschrift ... door Herman Teerink.
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Amsterdam, H. J. Paris, 1925.
1925-1712
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNDF (Arbuthnot, J. History of John Bull) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and several of his friends.
Book/Text
London, Printed by J. Wright for J. Knapton [etc.] 1737-41.
1737-1741
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNDD (Pope, A. Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope) v. 2 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNDD (Pope, A. Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope) v. 1 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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A sentimental journey through France and Italy, by Laurence Sterne; also, A tale of a tub, written for the universal improvement of mankind ... by Jonathan Swift ... with five etchings and portrait by Ed. Hédouin.
Book/Text
London, J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883.
1883
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number8-NCV (Sterne, L. Sentimental journey through France and Italy) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Miscellanea. The third part. Containing I. An essay on popular discontents. II. An essay upon health and long life. III. A defence of the essay upon antient and modern learning. With some other pieces. By the late Sir William Temple ... Published by Jonathan Swift ...
Book/Text
London, Printed for B. Cooke, 1701.
1701
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCZ (Temple, W. Miscellanea) v. 3 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The travels of Mr. John Gulliver : son of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver / translated from the French, by J. Lockman.
Book/Text
London : Printed for Sam. Harding, 1731.
1731
3 items
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNKT (Desfontaines, P. F. G. Travels of Mr. John Gulliver) v. 2 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNKT (Desfontaines, P. F. G. Travels of Mr. John Gulliver) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNKT (Desfontaines, P. F. G. Travels of Mr. John Gulliver) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The works of Sir William Temple, Bart. : In two volumes. ... To which is prefix'd some account of the life and writings of the author.
Book/Text
London: : Printed for J. Round, J. Tonson, J. Clarke, B. Motte ... [and 3 others], 1731.
1731
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF+ (Temple, W. Works) v. 2 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF+ (Temple, W. Works) v. 1 | Item locationOffsite |
The works of Sir William Temple, bart., ...
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London, Printed for J. Round, 1740.
1740
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF++ (Temple, W. Works. 1740) v. 2 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF++ (Temple, W. Works. 1740) v. 1 | Item locationOffsite |
The works of Sir William Temple, bart.
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London : Printed for T. Woodward [etc.] 1750.
1750
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF++ (Temple, W. Works. 1750) v. 2 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCF++ (Temple, W. Works. 1750) v. 1 | Item locationOffsite |
In the sealed cave; being a modern commentary on a strange discovery made by Captain Lemuel Gulliver in th year 1721 and now published from manuscript notes recently come to light; a scientific fantasy, by Louis Herrman. Illustrated by H.V. Meyerowitz.
Book/Text
London, Williams & Norgate Ltd. [1935]
1935
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSB (Herrman, L. In the sealed cave) | Item locationOffsite |
Dean Swift's library, with a facsimile of the original sale catalogue and some account of two manuscript lists of his books.
Book/Text
Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press, 1932.
1932
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*GO (Swift) (Williams, H. H. Dean Swift's library) | Item locationOffsite |
Gulliver [sound recording] / narration written by Larry Gelbard ; composed by Patrick Williams.
Musical recording
[S.l.] : Soundwings ; Santa Monica, Calif. : Distributed exclusively by Welk Record Group, p1986.
1986
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| FormatMusical recording | Call number*LZR 4108 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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