This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... of Plummes, Grapes, Philberts, Figges and many other fruits."' Thomas Lyte wrote wonderfully. He made out pedigrees of himself and his king from the Trojan heroes and a bit bevond. Also something possibly more useful on "Cookerye," "Husbandrye," "Physike" might be dangerous, "Markett matters," "Divers good ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... of Plummes, Grapes, Philberts, Figges and many other fruits."' Thomas Lyte wrote wonderfully. He made out pedigrees of himself and his king from the Trojan heroes and a bit bevond. Also something possibly more useful on "Cookerye," "Husbandrye," "Physike" might be dangerous, "Markett matters," "Divers good instructions which I had found by to deer experience in husbandrye in our clay countrye to be trew." The experience about the pedigree was not "to deer," though he wrote on vellum in a hand fairer than any print, and illuminated in "ritch coulers"; for King James gave him a miniature of himself, by Nicholas Halliard, set in gold, with his initials in diamonds. This jewel was lately sold for, 2835, its original cost having probably been about as many pence. Another pedigree, more than twelve feet wide, gives the descendants of his grandparents John and Edith, who were married in 1521. Eight hundred and thirty-eight of them had accumulated in the 112 years to A.d. 1633. A great tribute to the industry and luck of the family. He writes: "This Genealogie was collected by Thomas Lyte of Lytes Carie, Esquire, Anno 1633... not for any ostentation of birth or kinred, knowing, as saythe Job, that corruption is our mother and the wormes our sisters and brethren...." Several members of the family are recorded as being by great misfortune " brent" or drowned. Jane was "not so fortunat as favre." Another Jane was "twise maried, tasted both of prosperity and adversitie." The portraits of several are given in their old-fashioned costumes. In 1631 he "repayred" the chapel, adorning it with gorgeous shields of arms around the walls; seventeen ...
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Add this copy of Pilgrimages to Old Homes (a Home of the Gunpowder Plot) to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1906 by John Lane Co.
Add this copy of Pilgrimages to Old Homes to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1906 by Published by the Author at this Home.
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Near fine. Illustrated with many black and white photos. 392 pages. Tall heavy 8vo, red cloth with gilt pictorial stamping, beveled edges, top edge gilt (spine lightly sunned). Didsbury: Published by the Author at this Home, 1906. A near fine copy. New Hampshire Historical Society bookplate on front attached endpaper, and faint ghost of label at foot of spine.
Add this copy of Pilgrimages to Old Homes to cart. $58.00, very good condition, Sold by Dorley House Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hagerstown, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1906 by Privately Printed.
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B/W Photos. Very Good. No Jacket. 8 Vo; 3.5 Pounds. First Edition, First Printing; red c w/gilt titles; decorations; some darkening of edges, small nick at front edge; in mylar protective wraps; 392 clean, unmarked pages.
Add this copy of Pilgrimages to Old Homes to cart. $58.03, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
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Add this copy of Pilgrimages to Old Homes Mostly on the Welsh Border to cart. $77.00, good condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 1903 by The Author.
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Good. No Jacket. The boards are sunned, marked and a bit worn. A little light foxing; otherwise internally clean and tightly bound-the hinges have started to go.
