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Camb.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Cambridge.


Camb. British  

abbreviation

  1. Cambridge

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Camb.: number of books in library 1472, 145; equidistant windows of library, 148; library selected as type, 151; analysis of catalogue dated 1472, 167 Queen's Coll.,

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis

Camb., read a paper on Balaustion’s Adventure, which he described as “a beautiful misrepresentation of the original.”

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

—Journalist and pamphleteer, youngest s. of a Norfolk baronet, was probably at Camb., and in 1638 took arms for the King.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

—Orientalist, b. at Exeter, and ed. at Camb., became the greatest Orientalist of his day, and was made in 1711 Prof. of Arabic in his Univ.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

—Jurist, ed. at Christ's Hospital and at Camb., where he became Regius Prof. of Civil Law 1847-54.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)