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The prettiest book for children : being the history of the enchanted castle, situated in one of the fortunate isles, and governed by the giant Instruction
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The prettiest book for children : being the history of the enchanted castle, situated in one of the fortunate isles, and governed by the giant Instruction

DateApproximately 1780-1800
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FormatBook
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At foot of t.p.: (Price Six-pence). Book list of 71 items printed for E. Newbery on [6] p. at end of text. The first book listed is Holiday entertainment. Pagination includes frontispiece portrait of Don Stephano Bunyano. Published by J. Coote in 1770 and by F. Newbery in 1772. Signatures: A-H8. Undated. Date from Roscoe. E. Newbery retired 1801-2.
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    Hardcover books
    DimensionsCover size: 11 cm x 7.5 cm (4 5/16 in. x 2 15/16 in.)
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      CollectionOsborne Collection of Early Children's Books
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object Number37131009558487D
      Catalogue Record for Print Book https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=2297287
      Cosmography in four books. Containing the chorography and history of the whole world: and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas and the isles thereof
      Cosmography in four books. Containing the chorography and history of the whole world: and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas and the isles thereof
      Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662
      1682
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      Cromwell's Castle, a tiny fort dating from the days of the civil war in Britain, squats by the water on Tresco in the Isles of Scilly off England's so(...)
      Bryant, George
      8/25/1970
      Popular British conchology : a familiar history of the molluscs inhabiting the British isles
      Popular British conchology : a familiar history of the molluscs inhabiting the British isles
      Brooks, Vincent
      1854
      Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Am?rique, contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les moeurs, la religion & le gouvernement des habitans anciens & modernes, les guerres & les ?v?n?mens singuliere qui y sont arrivez pendant le long sejour que l'auteur y a fait, le commerce, les manufactures qui y sont ?tablies, & les moyens de les augmenter, avec une description exacte & curieuse de toutes ces isles. Tome sixi?me.
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      Labat, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1738
      1722
      Children from the British Isles were made happy in beautiful surroundings
      Children from the British Isles were made happy in beautiful surroundings
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      7/13/1940
      Voyages et avantures du chevalier de ***. Contenant les voyages de l'auteur dans les Isle Antilles françoises du vent de l'Amérique Septentrionale, y compris les Isles Caraïbes de Saint-Vincent, Sainte-Lucie & la Dominique; & dans celle de Saint-Thomas, appartenante aux Danois
      Voyages et avantures du chevalier de ***. Contenant les voyages de l'auteur dans les Isle Antilles françoises du vent de l'Amérique Septentrionale, y compris les Isles Caraïbes de Saint-Vincent, Sainte-Lucie & la Dominique; & dans celle de Saint-Thomas, appartenante aux Danois
      Dessain Junior, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, à la Bonne-Foi
      1769
      Voyages et avantures du chevalier de ***. Contenant les voyages de l'auteur dans les Isle Antilles françoises du vent de l'Amérique Septentrionale, y compris les Isles Caraïbes de Saint-Vincent, Sainte-Lucie & la Dominique; & dans celle de Saint-Thomas, appartenante aux Danois
      Voyages et avantures du chevalier de ***. Contenant les voyages de l'auteur dans les Isle Antilles françoises du vent de l'Amérique Septentrionale, y compris les Isles Caraïbes de Saint-Vincent, Sainte-Lucie & la Dominique; & dans celle de Saint-Thomas, appartenante aux Danois
      Dessain Junior, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, à la Bonne-Foi
      1769
      A Simcoe relic among the Thousand Isles in 1796
      A Simcoe relic among the Thousand Isles in 1796
      Scadding, Henry, 1813-1901
      1896
      Sheila Scott's solo flight from the British Isles to Canada almost ended before it began, Miss Scott said, when a flashlight someone had given her fel(...)
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      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      10/16/1967
      'This was an idea even I couldn't kill, says comedy king Mark Breslin as he pilots Yuk Yuk's Kabarets from Hawaii to the British Isles
      'This was an idea even I couldn't kill, says comedy king Mark Breslin as he pilots Yuk Yuk's Kabarets from Hawaii to the British Isles
      Breslin, Mark
      5/18/1988
      The golden isles
      The golden isles
      Bryant, George
      2/2/1982
      The sounds of the West Indies reverberated through the corridors of the Royal York Hotel Saturday night, and the color of those sunny isles was captur(...)
      The sounds of the West Indies reverberated through the corridors of the Royal York Hotel Saturday night, and the color of those sunny isles was captur(...)
      Bull, Ron
      8/4/1974