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Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni tÿpus., Abraham Ortelius

Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni tÿpus., Abraham Ortelius

Covers northern Asia. Relief shown pictorially. From Abraham Ortelius's atlas: Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1603 ed. Hand col. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes tex... More

Anjou : Andegavensium ditionis vera et integra descriptio

Anjou : Andegavensium ditionis vera et integra descriptio

Public domain image of Abraham Ortelius map, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, c... More

Bloys - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Bloys - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Hispaniae novae nova descriptio - Gerhard Mercator 1512-1594

Hispaniae novae nova descriptio - Gerhard Mercator 1512-1594

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Jean Boisseau - Africae nova tabula / Historic map, Library of Congress

Jean Boisseau - Africae nova tabula / Historic map, Library of Congres...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes watermark. Acquisitions control no. 6-85

Neue Land Tafel von Hungarn : und dessenincorporirten Königreichen und Provinzen

Neue Land Tafel von Hungarn : und dessenincorporirten Königreichen und...

Map of Hungary and adjacent parts of the Danube River Valley showing populated places occupied by the Turkish invaders and places remaining Christian (unoccupied). Covers the Danube River Valley from Vienna (up... More

A new map of New England, New York, New Iarsey, Pensilvania, Maryland, and Virginia

A new map of New England, New York, New Iarsey, Pensilvania, Maryland,...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Europe. Historic map, Library of Congress

Europe. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhil, & Robt. Sayer in Fleetstreet." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

La partie françoise de l'isle de Saint Domingue.

La partie françoise de l'isle de Saint Domingue.

Scale ca. 1:1,300,000. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1870 "Tome I, no. 67." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. Available also through the Library of Congress Web s... More

Gigeri in Africa preso e poi abbandonato da Francesi anno 1662

Gigeri in Africa preso e poi abbandonato da Francesi anno 1662

Birds-eye view print shows map of the coastline of North Africa looking across the Mediterranean toward the islands of Sardinia and Corsica. Ships, tents, troop formations, towns, soldiers on horseback are visi... More

Planisphaerivm Aratevm sive Compages Orbivm Mvndanorvm ex hypothesi Aratea in plano expressa.

Planisphaerivm Aratevm sive Compages Orbivm Mvndanorvm ex hypothesi Ar...

Appears in Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia macrocosmica. Amstelodami : Apud Gerardum Valk & Petrum Schenk, 1708. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy accompanied by pho... More

A general map of the middle British colonies in America: Viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut and Rhode-Island: Of Aquanishuonigy the country of the confederate Indians comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio and Thuchsochruntie their deer hunting countries, Couchsachrage and Skaniadarade their beaver hunting countries, of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain, and of part of New France: Wherein is also shewn the antient and present seats of the Indian nations;

A general map of the middle British colonies in America: Viz. Virginia...

Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "West longitude from London" and "from Philadelphia." Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 712 Available also through the Library of Congress... More

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontiers, shewing in a distinct manner all the mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, sandbanks and soundings on the coasts; with the roads and Indian paths; as well as the boundary or provincial lines, the several townships and other divisions of the land in both the provinces;

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct boundaries. Insets: The harbour of Port Royal [ca. 1:200,000]--The bar and ha... More

A plan of Quebec - Public domain vintage map

A plan of Quebec - Public domain vintage map

Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications. Oriented with north to the right. Includes inset "The port & environs of Quebec as it was when attack'd by the English". LC copy mounted on cloth. LC Maps and cha... More

Le globe terrestre représenté en deux plans-hémisphères : dressé sur la projection de Mr. de la Hyre de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, et sur plusieurs routiers et mémoires des plus habiles pilotes et savans voyageurs le tout rectifié et calculé selon les dernières observations, et dédié à Mgr. l'Abbé Bignon, conseiller d'état ordinaire /

Le globe terrestre représenté en deux plans-hémisphères : dressé sur l...

Scale ca. 1:35,000,000 at the equator. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text, notes, and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

A chart of the Atlantick Ocean describing the Coast of Africa from Cape Teffalana to Cape Formosa

A chart of the Atlantick Ocean describing the Coast of Africa from Cap...

This portolan-style chart, with two colorful compass roses and radiating rhumb lines, undoubtedly dates from the early 18th century. It was apparently part of a series of charts prepared to aid sailors in navig... More

Plano de Costa Ricae / - Public domain vintage map

Plano de Costa Ricae / - Public domain vintage map

Shows lower eastern coast of Nicaragua. Depths shown by soundings. The number 4 in the year 1746 annotated in brown ink over the original number 5 in black ink reflecting change from 1756 to 1746. Oriented with... More

A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America; Representing their rightful claim as confirmed by charters and the formal surrender of their Indian friends; likewise the encroachments of the French, with the several forts they have unjustly erected therein

A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America; Represe...

Scale ca. 1:7,200,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Longitude west from Ferro." "Sold by Wm. Herbert ... & Robt. Sayer ... " LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 62 Includes notes. Maps in margin: A... More

A map of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland with part of New Jersey &c.

A map of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland with pa...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America; viz Virginia, Màriland, Dèlaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island: of Aquanishuonîgy, the country of the confederate Indians; comprehending Aquanishuonîgy proper, their place of residence, Ohio and Tïiuxsoxrúntie their deer-hunting countries; Couxsaxráge and Skaniadarâde, their beaver-hunting countries; of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain, and of part of New-France: Wherein is also shewn the antient and present seats of the Indian nations.

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America; viz Virginia...

Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Cover title: Middle British colonies in America: Original wrappers. Hand colored, coloration does not agree with legend. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Longitude west of London" and "fr... More

A correct draught of the harbours of Port Royal and Kingston, with the keys and shoals adjacent &c. from a late accurate survey, by Mr. Richd Jones, engineer.

A correct draught of the harbours of Port Royal and Kingston, with the...

Scale ca. 1:32,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially and by shading and hachures. Soundings shown in fathoms and feet. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1949 Available also through the Library of Congr... More

Carte des royaumes de Siam, de Tunquin, Pegu, Ava Aracan, &c.

Carte des royaumes de Siam, de Tunquin, Pegu, Ava Aracan, &c.

Relief shown pictorially. In upper right margin: Tome III, no. 49. From his Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Jan van Jagen - Ierusalem. Historic map, Library of Congress

Jan van Jagen - Ierusalem. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Includes index. Includes nine illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A plan of Boston, and its environs, shewing the true situation of His Majesty's army, and also those of the rebels. Drawn by an engineer at Boston, Octr. 1775. The principal part of this plan was survey'd by Richard Williams, Lieutenant at Boston ...

A plan of Boston, and its environs, shewing the true situation of His ...

Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military and general interest. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 932 Available also through the Librar... More

A plan of the city and environs of Philadelphia.

A plan of the city and environs of Philadelphia.

Scale ca. 1:42,000. Hand colored. Shows names of landowners in rural areas. LC copy annotated, has "8.11.45.Vme." Includes "Elevation of the State House." Available also through the Library of Congress web site... More

Carte du golfe du Méxique, des isles et des pays adjacens.

Carte du golfe du Méxique, des isles et des pays adjacens.

Scale ca. 1:9,500,000. "Longitude ouest de l'isle de Fer." Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1739 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "Pl. I."... More

[Puerto de Omoa Honduras]. - Public domain old map

[Puerto de Omoa Honduras]. - Public domain old map

Shows fortification of San Fernando de Omoa and positions of combatants in attack on the city. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Watermark: J. Whatman. Pen-and-ink and pencil sectioned in 2, ... More

Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system.

Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : lai...

Shows various expedition routes. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and col. ill. Ancillary maps: Solar system -- Northern hemisphere -- Southern hemisphere -- Astronomical latitude and longitude analemma ... More

Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt. General Burgoyne at Swords House on Hudson's River near Stillwater on Septr. 17th with the positions of that part of the army engaged on the 19th Septr. 1777.

Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt....

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1186 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 650

A correct chart of the North Sea, with the adjacent coasts of Britain, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, the islands of Orkney and Shetland, the entrance to the Sound and the Baltic Sea

A correct chart of the North Sea, with the adjacent coasts of Britain,...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

A map, Middlesex County. - Public domain vintage map

A map, Middlesex County. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:64,000. Title from table of contents: A survey of Middlesex County by B. Morgan, A. Dunham [and] J. Rue. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north to the right. LC ... More

An accurate map of the United States of America, with part of the surrounding provinces agreeable to the Treaty of Peace of 1783,

An accurate map of the United States of America, with part of the surr...

Scale ca. 1:4,100,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Shows national boundaries, towns and cities, frontier forts, trading posts, Indian villages and tribal territory, rivers an... More

Comanche pictograph map of the Battle of Sierra Blanca, 1787

Comanche pictograph map of the Battle of Sierra Blanca, 1787

Shows battle between two warring Plains Indian tribes, the Comanche and Apache. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink with fold lines. Map pasted on larger sheet of paper which includes key to map signed by ... More

Spain and Portugal - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Spain and Portugal - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

[Land ownership map of the William Bingham estate in Potter County, Pennsylvania /

[Land ownership map of the William Bingham estate in Potter County, Pe...

Shows lots, boundaries, numbers, and dimensions. From the William Bingham estate maps. Sectional title label affixed on verso of each sheet. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Some sheets include note and ins... More

Descripción de la costa de sotavento de Veracruz desde la punta de Mocambo hasta el Río Salado y sus bajos adjacentes con expreción de sus canales y sondas en brazas de dos varas castellanas /

Descripción de la costa de sotavento de Veracruz desde la punta de Moc...

Shows Antón Lizardo region. Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: J. Kool; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Watermark dated as 1792. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 533 Available als... More

A new chart of Guyana with the colonies of Cayenne, Surinam, & Trinadad

A new chart of Guyana with the colonies of Cayenne, Surinam, & Trinada...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Chart of the Galapagos / - Public domain vintage map

Chart of the Galapagos / - Public domain vintage map

Also shows routes of expeditions. "... published 1st January 1798 ..." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A topographical map describing the principality of the islands of Malta and Goza

A topographical map describing the principality of the islands of Malt...

Topographic map showing field/fence/wall lines in rural areas. Relief shown by hachures and rock drawings (coastlines). Oriented with north toward the upper left. Handwritten Millard Fillmore signature is not p... More

The states of Maryland and Delaware from the latest surveys, 1799.

The states of Maryland and Delaware from the latest surveys, 1799.

Scale ca. 1:1,280,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for New encyclopedia, published by J. Low, New York." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1; 651/2

[Map showing Indian land &c. 1772. - Public domain map

[Map showing Indian land &c. 1772. - Public domain map

Scale ca. 1:200,000. Title from verso annotation. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows the boundary of "The lands [in Georgia] which the Cherokees have assigned for payments of their debts." "Col. off.... More

Virginia, Historic map, Library of Congress

Virginia, Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:1,310,000. Facsimile. Ninth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

The Solar System - Public domain vintage map

The Solar System - Public domain vintage map

Public domain scan of a vintage world map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Cours du fleuve Saint Louis depuis ses embouchures jusqu'à la rivière d'Iberville et costes voisines.

Cours du fleuve Saint Louis depuis ses embouchures jusqu'à la rivière ...

Scale ca. 1:830,000. "Tome I. no. 43." Prime meridian: Paris. Depths shown by soundings. From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 778 Available also through the Libr... More

Geographica Latine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Geographica Latine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

First 10 books translated by Guarinus Veronensis, the remainder by Gregorius Tifernas. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d-e⁸ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁸ l-n¹⁰ o-p⁸ q-s¹⁰ t⁸ u⁸⁻¹ x-y¹⁰ z⁸ A⁸]. Goff S-794 Hain-Copinger 15087 Proctor 4042 (3 Ve... More

De arte praedicandi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

De arte praedicandi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Book 4 of the author's De doctrina Christiana. Goff A-1226 Hain 1956 BM 15th cent., I, p. 52 (IB.510) GW 2871 Rosenwald 35 LC copy: gilt brown morocco by Rivière. Provenance: Huth Collection (bookplate). Gift ... More

Neu und verbesserter Plan der St. u. Hafens Havana auf der Ins. Cvba mit den Wasser Tiefen, Sand Bæncken und Klippen nochmahten übersehen v. Pr. Chassereau Anno 1739

Neu und verbesserter Plan der St. u. Hafens Havana auf der Ins. Cvba m...

Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "Eoc officina Th. Bowles Londini, & recusa. Norimb. in officina Homaniana." Appears in the author's Städt-Atlas; oder, Schaüpla... More

Mapa geográfico de la mayor parte de la América Meridional que contiene los paises por donde debe trazarse la línia divisoria que divida los dominios de España y Portugal

Mapa geográfico de la mayor parte de la América Meridional que contien...

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing to fold to 32 x 25 cm. LC copy accompanied by 8 manuscript texts: namely 2 reports by Requena with other members of the expeditio... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer

Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, wit...

Letter to Thomas Jefferson, transmitting a copy of the writer's almanac and discussing the subject of slavery. Signatures: [A]² B-D². Evans 24073 Jefferson's reply, dated August 30, 1791: p. 11-12. Account of t... More

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orbis natvra: de hvivs incolarvm svperstitiosis cultibus: déq; forma politiae ac reipubl. ipsorum ... pertractatur ... His accessit designatio illivs navigationis, qvam 5 naues Hollandicae anno 1598, per Fretum Magellanum ... tentarunt: quomodo ... capitaneus Sebalt de Weert ... postquam plurimis mensibus in Freto ... miserè iactatus fuisset ... an. 1600 domum reuersus sit [per Bernhardvm Jansz.] Addita est tertio navigatio recens, qvam 4 navivm praefectus Olevier à Noort ... suscepit ... Omnia è Germanico Latinitate donata, & figuris aeneis coornata editaq́;

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orb...

Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages. The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no... More

Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae

Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae

Goff T-540 Reichling 1100 Dyson Perrins. Ital. book-illustr., 34 Rosenwald 239 LC copy has bookplate of C.W. Dyson Perrins. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion

Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion

Signatures: A-M⁶ N⁴ O⁶ (-O6?) P-S⁶ T⁴ V-X⁶ Y⁶ (-Y6?) Z⁶. "Elegia Bilibaldi Pirckeymheri in obitum Alberti Düreri": p. [261]-[262]. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 657 Rosenwald Collection... More

Durrat al-tāj - Persian manuscript

Durrat al-tāj - Persian manuscript

Shiite prayer book; consists of prayers to be said on the visitation of Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib's tomb. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title from folio 1a. Fol. 6a: Ibn Rustam Khān Ṣafī Qulī. Probabl... More

Kalender Maister Johannes Künigsperger, Augsburg, Bavaria

Kalender Maister Johannes Künigsperger, Augsburg, Bavaria

Printing, including the diagrams of eclipses, in black and red. Leaves [27-28] (designated as 27-30 by BM 15th cent.), containing diagrams of instruments, are each made up of 2 leaves pasted together. Rosenwald... More

Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion

Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion

Signatures: A-M⁶ N⁴ O⁶ (-O6?) P-S⁶ T⁴ V-X⁶ Y⁶ (-Y6?) Z⁶. "Elegia Bilibaldi Pirckeymheri in obitum Alberti Düreri": p. [261]-[262]. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 657 Rosenwald Collection... More

Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti comprese in tre lettere

Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti c...

Edited by Angelo de Filiis. Includes four letters from Weiser to Galilei. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1340 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Cooks and confectioners dictionary.

Cooks and confectioners dictionary.

Title page in red and black. Copper engraving signed J. Pine. Signatures: A⁴ B-2R⁸. Includes index. Pennell, E.R. My cookery books, p. 148 ESTC T92274 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress ... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Von der Kinthait vnsers Herr Ihesu Cristi genant Vita Cristi

Von der Kinthait vnsers Herr Ihesu Cristi genant Vita Cristi

Rosenwald 153 Goff E-17 Hain 4060 GW 9251 Schramm, IV, p. 46, 52, and illus. (variations) Includes Von den heyligen drey Künig, by Joannes of Hildesheim (leaves ciii-cxxxvi). LC copy: illus. hand-colored. Insc... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn - Persian manuscript

Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn - Persian manuscript

Work on materia medica dedicated to the Safavid Shāh Sulaymān. Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 2a. Scribe not identified. Written in India. Paper; tan color laid paper with no visible chain lines or wate... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mandkinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely ...

Title vignette: The gorgon. Errors in pagination. Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁸ chi² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸. STC (2nd ed.) 24123 Includes indexes in multiple languages. LC copy imperfect: first and last leaves (bla... More

A map of the provinces of New-York and New Jersey : with a part of Pennsylvania and the Province of Quebec

A map of the provinces of New-York and New Jersey : with a part of Pen...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Von der Kinthait vnsers Herr Ihesu Cristi genant Vita Cristi

Von der Kinthait vnsers Herr Ihesu Cristi genant Vita Cristi

Rosenwald 153 Goff E-17 Hain 4060 GW 9251 Schramm, IV, p. 46, 52, and illus. (variations) Includes Von den heyligen drey Künig, by Joannes of Hildesheim (leaves ciii-cxxxvi). LC copy: illus. hand-colored. Insc... More

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron.

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron.

Leaf ia: Diss Buch ist gena[n]nt Die vierundczweinczig Alte[n], od[er] D[er] guldin Tron ... Rosenwald 76 Goff O-119 Hain 12128 BM 15th cent., II, p. 347 (IB.5890) Schramm, IV, p. 15, 50, and illus. Also availa... More

Œuvres de Bernard Palissy - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Œuvres de Bernard Palissy - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

Brunet, IV, 320 Grässe, V, 108 Caillet, A.L. Sciences psychiques, II, 8265 "A Monsieur Franklin" (publisher's dedication): p. vij-viij. Error in paging: p. [lxxvj] numbered xxvj. Signatures: pi⁴ a-h⁴i², A-4Z⁴... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Collationes patrum XXIV., Augsburg, Bavaria

Collationes patrum XXIV., Augsburg, Bavaria

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Leaf [162a] (colophon): Hie ennde[t] sich Die viervn[d]zweinczig guldin Harpffen, die gezogen seind auss collac[i]o[n]ib[us] pat[rum] [durch H... More

The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood

The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick a...

Translation of: De motu cordis / William Harvey; Dissertatio de corde / Jacobus de Back; and De circulatione sanguinis / William Harvey. Translation of Dissertatio de corde has special t.p. with title: The disc... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Cooks and confectioners dictionary.

Cooks and confectioners dictionary.

Title page in red and black. Copper engraving signed J. Pine. Signatures: A⁴ B-2R⁸. Includes index. Pennell, E.R. My cookery books, p. 148 ESTC T92274 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress ... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orbis natvra: de hvivs incolarvm svperstitiosis cultibus: déq; forma politiae ac reipubl. ipsorum ... pertractatur ... His accessit designatio illivs navigationis, qvam 5 naues Hollandicae anno 1598, per Fretum Magellanum ... tentarunt: quomodo ... capitaneus Sebalt de Weert ... postquam plurimis mensibus in Freto ... miserè iactatus fuisset ... an. 1600 domum reuersus sit [per Bernhardvm Jansz.] Addita est tertio navigatio recens, qvam 4 navivm praefectus Olevier à Noort ... suscepit ... Omnia è Germanico Latinitate donata, & figuris aeneis coornata editaq́;

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orb...

Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages. The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no... More

New kreüterbüch in welchem nit allein die gantz histori das ist namen gestalt statt und zeit der wachsung natur krafft und würckung des meysten theyls der kreüter so in teütschen vnnd andern landen wachsen mit dem besten vleiss beschriben sonder auch aller derselben wurtzel stengel bletter blümen samen frücht und in summa die gantze gestalt allso artlich vnd kunstlich abgebildet vnd contrafayt ist das dessgleichen vormals nie gesehen noch an tag kom̃en

New kreüterbüch in welchem nit allein die gantz histori das ist namen ...

Binder's title: Opera Iacobi Cuiacii. LAC iak 2018-09-28 update LAC kcc 2018-10-03 review (2 cards)

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orbis natvra: de hvivs incolarvm svperstitiosis cultibus: déq; forma politiae ac reipubl. ipsorum ... pertractatur ... His accessit designatio illivs navigationis, qvam 5 naues Hollandicae anno 1598, per Fretum Magellanum ... tentarunt: quomodo ... capitaneus Sebalt de Weert ... postquam plurimis mensibus in Freto ... miserè iactatus fuisset ... an. 1600 domum reuersus sit [per Bernhardvm Jansz.] Addita est tertio navigatio recens, qvam 4 navivm praefectus Olevier à Noort ... suscepit ... Omnia è Germanico Latinitate donata, & figuris aeneis coornata editaq́;

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orb...

Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages. The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no... More

L'arbre des batailles .. [etc.]

L'arbre des batailles .. [etc.]

A composite manuscript comprised of at least eight distinct pieces. Primary among these are Honoré Bonet’s L’arbre des batailles, John Lydgate’s The churl and the bird, and the anonymous 15th-century poem on E... More

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI ..

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri...

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI Courtesy of Boston Public Library

L'arbre des batailles .. [etc.]

L'arbre des batailles .. [etc.]

A composite manuscript comprised of at least eight distinct pieces. Primary among these are Honoré Bonet’s L’arbre des batailles, John Lydgate’s The churl and the bird, and the anonymous 15th-century poem on E... More

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI ..

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri...

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI ..

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri...

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI ..

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri...

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Itinerarium.  German., Augsburg, Bavaria

Itinerarium. German., Augsburg, Bavaria

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). Translated from the French by Michel Velser. Signatures: [a-h¹⁰ i-k⁶]. Goff M-164 Hain 10647 (variations) Schramm, IV, p. 19, 51, and illus. (variations) Rosenwald 79 L... More

Whole duty of woman

Whole duty of woman

Numbers 113-120 missed in pagination. Signatures: A-G¹². ESTC T64198 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: first leaf wanting. LC copy includes bookplate of Walt... More

Whole duty of woman - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Whole duty of woman - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Numbers 113-120 missed in pagination. Signatures: A-G¹². ESTC T64198 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: first leaf wanting. LC copy includes bookplate of Walt... More

Zwölffter Theil der Newen Welt, das ist: Gründliche volkommene Entdeckung aller der west indianischen Landschafften, Insuln vnd Königreichen ...

Zwölffter Theil der Newen Welt, das ist: Gründliche volkommene Entde...

Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 199. This collection of voyages by Herrera and others, was previously published in Amsterdam, in 1622, under title: Novvs Orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae Occiden... More

Zwölffter Theil der Newen Welt, das ist: Gründliche volkommene Entdeckung aller der west indianischen Landschafften, Insuln vnd Königreichen ...

Zwölffter Theil der Newen Welt, das ist: Gründliche volkommene Entde...

Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 199. This collection of voyages by Herrera and others, was previously published in Amsterdam, in 1622, under title: Novvs Orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae Occiden... More

A Vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects.

A Vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and...

At end of book: End of first volume. LC copy annotated. ESTC W2450 Evans 25054 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

A Vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects.

A Vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and...

At end of book: End of first volume. LC copy annotated. ESTC W2450 Evans 25054 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

A voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogul government in general, the viceroyalties of the Decan and Bengal, with their several subordinate dependencies. Volume 2.

A voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogu...

ESTC T146751 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-20

A survey of the roads of the United States of America /

A survey of the roads of the United States of America /

Relief shown by hachures. Orientation varies. Phillips, 1326 Maps no. 34-39 are believed to never have been engraved as they are wanting in all known copies. Available also through the Library of Congress Web s... More

A survey of the roads of the United States of America /

A survey of the roads of the United States of America /

Relief shown by hachures. Orientation varies. Phillips, 1326 Maps no. 34-39 are believed to never have been engraved as they are wanting in all known copies. Available also through the Library of Congress Web s... More

Der ander Theil, der newlich erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam ... gethan. Eine vnter dem Hauptman[n] H. Laudonniere, anno 1564. Die ander vnter H. Ribald 1565. Die dritte vnter H. Guerguesio 1567 geschehen. Mit Beschreibung vnd ...

Der ander Theil, der newlich erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von drey...

Imprint from special t.p. for plates. The general title is printed within the engr. border used for the 1st Latin ed., and the engr. imprint of that ed. (Francoforti ad Moenvm, Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus T. de ... More

Der ander Theil, der newlich erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam ... gethan. Eine vnter dem Hauptman[n] H. Laudonniere, anno 1564. Die ander vnter H. Ribald 1565. Die dritte vnter H. Guerguesio 1567 geschehen. Mit Beschreibung vnd ...

Der ander Theil, der newlich erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von drey...

Imprint from special t.p. for plates. The general title is printed within the engr. border used for the 1st Latin ed., and the engr. imprint of that ed. (Francoforti ad Moenvm, Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus T. de ... More

Der ander Theil, der newlich erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam ... gethan. Eine vnter dem Hauptman[n] H. Laudonniere, anno 1564. Die ander vnter H. Ribald 1565. Die dritte vnter H. Guerguesio 1567 geschehen. Mit Beschreibung vnd ...

Der ander Theil, der newlich erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von drey...

Imprint from special t.p. for plates. The general title is printed within the engr. border used for the 1st Latin ed., and the engr. imprint of that ed. (Francoforti ad Moenvm, Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus T. de ... More

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