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Books in Quires, &c.Mr. C.A. Lewis will have Sales on each Friday in November and December.
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The the Secretary be directed for the use of the Board to have five Quires of blank warrants on the Treasury printed.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908
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Quires signed by means of roman numerals often preceded by the letter _Q·_ (= Quaternio) in the lower right corner of the last page of each gathering.
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
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Others say, as the abovesaid Author relates, that if all the Quires of
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The Inside of ye Church is very neate being new but there is but Little painting; there are two Quires, one old one wth organs and seates, ye other new wch is very Large wth Organs and fine Carving in ye wood; here are 2 organs.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Quires of paper were sold already folded into such folios.
Letter from David M. Lees to Hugh M. Lees, March 17, 1829 1829
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Quires of paper from both sides are come over to the council, who are to determine from hence what is to be done.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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Twenty-five of these make a _Quire_, 9. twenty Quires a _Ream_, 10. and ten of these
The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631
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I have seen an undated "Address to the Learned: or, an advantageous Lottery for Books in Quires; wherein each Adventurer of a Guinea is sure of a Prize of Two Pound Value; and it is but Four to One that he has a Prize of Three, Six, Eight, Twelve, or Fifty Pounds, as appears by the following Pro - posals:" 1500 lots, at iZ.
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The Price is 2c s. in Quires, 5 s. to be paid down, and the Remainder on Deli\-ery.
Proposals for printing by subscription, a compleat history of the Union 1707
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