rareness

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Why, look you, Sir, I have, to surprize you with Pleasure, against you came home, been putting up this Piece of Tapestry, the best in Italy, for the Rareness of the Figures, Sir.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

Scaramouch professes that the noise was made by putting up this piece of Tapestry, 'the best in Italy for the Rareness of the Figures, sir.'

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

It also procureth Delight, by gratifying Curiosity with its Rareness, or Semblance of Difficulty.

From An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Clifford, James L.