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[Wood hornbook] [realia] - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

[Wood hornbook] [realia] - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

Title supplied by cataloger. An eighteenth-century hornbook, possibly American, with alphabet in lower and uppercases, followed by vowels, ligatures, and the Lord's prayer. Paper text covered with translucent ... More

[Charles Dickens’s traveling kit].

[Charles Dickens’s traveling kit].

The traveling cutlery kit owned by Charles Dickens, marked with his initials, used by Dickens during his travels to the United States in the 1860s. Steel spoon, knife, and corkscrew unfold from ivory-covered c... More

Pore lil Mose; his letters to his mammy

Pore lil Mose; his letters to his mammy

Cover title. Comic cartoons from the New York herald of 1901-02.

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

The Children's object book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The Children's object book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

"Designed in England and printed by G. Loewensohn at Fürth, Bavaria"--Front pastedown. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

Metamorphosis, or, A transformation of pictures, with poetical explanations, for the amusement of young persons

Metamorphosis, or, A transformation of pictures, with poetical explana...

Sands' text is rewritten from The beginning, progress, and end of man, London, 1650. The illustrations are by J. Poupard. First published at Philadelphia ca. 1787. Each leaf is folded inward at the top and bott... More

The Children's object book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The Children's object book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

"Designed in England and printed by G. Loewensohn at Fürth, Bavaria"--Front pastedown. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The New England primer, improved : for the more easy attaining the true reading of English : to which is added the Assembly of Divines' Catechism

The New England primer, improved : for the more easy attaining the tru...

Signatures: [A]⁸ B-E⁸. Heartman, C.F. New England primer, 198 Shaw & Shoemaker 4726 Includes a small illustration for each letter of the alphabet, and an illustration of John Rogers, martyr. LC copy imperfect:... 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

Beauties of the New-England primer

Beauties of the New-England primer

Heartman estimates date of printing between 1815 and 1830; Haviland 1818. Samuel Wood & Sons published at 261 Pearl St., New York, between 1817 and 1835. Heartman, C.F. New England primer, 442 Haviland, V. Ya... More

Learning to think : consisting of easy and entertaining lessons, designed to interest and assist in the first unfolding of the reflective and reasoning powers of children

Learning to think : consisting of easy and entertaining lessons, desig...

Weber, C.J. Abbott, VIa2 In original publisher's binding: red morocco-grain cloth with the series title inside a circle decorated with water plants and animals stamped in blind on both boards. Title in gilt on... More

A visit from St. Nicholas - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A visit from St. Nicholas - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

In verse. Known by the title: The night before Christmas. Copyright 1864. A strip of paper folded accordion fashion, to form 12 leaves, the first leaf fastened into a printed paper wrapper. Advertisement for P... More

The Children's object book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The Children's object book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

"Designed in England and printed by G. Loewensohn at Fürth, Bavaria"--Front pastedown. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

A visit from St. Nicholas - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A visit from St. Nicholas - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

In verse. Known by the title: The night before Christmas. Copyright 1864. A strip of paper folded accordion fashion, to form 12 leaves, the first leaf fastened into a printed paper wrapper. Advertisement for P... More

The twelve magic changelings - Drawing. Public domain image.

The twelve magic changelings - Drawing. Public domain image.

"Cut-outs for children of Mary and her little lamb, Humpty Dumpty and the egg, Tom the piper's son and his pig, The town mouse and the country mouse, Silverhair and the little wee bear, Robinson Crusoe and his ... More

A visit from St. Nicholas - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A visit from St. Nicholas - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

In verse. Known by the title: The night before Christmas. Copyright 1864. A strip of paper folded accordion fashion, to form 12 leaves, the first leaf fastened into a printed paper wrapper. Advertisement for P... More

The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - Rare book, public domain, Library of ...

Endpapers illustrated in colors. "Copyright 1908"--T.p. verso. LC copy imperfect: endpapers damaged in rebinding, paste-downs removed. LC copy is a copyright deposit. Two copies received Aug 17, 1908. Copyrig... 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

The twelve magic changelings - Public domain dedication image

The twelve magic changelings - Public domain dedication image

"Cut-outs for children of Mary and her little lamb, Humpty Dumpty and the egg, Tom the piper's son and his pig, The town mouse and the country mouse, Silverhair and the little wee bear, Robinson Crusoe and his ... More

The cats' party - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The cats' party - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Cover title. Copyright 1869. Leaves printed on one side only, printed pages face each other. First and last leaves pasted to paper wrapper. In illustrated paper wrapper with publisher's advertisement on p. [4]... More

Alfred Crowquill - Beauty and the beast

Alfred Crowquill - Beauty and the beast

In verse. With: Bayley, F.W.N. Jack the giant killer. New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845. LC copy has hand-colored illustrations.

ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

Each letter of the alphabet begins the name of an African-American servant on a fictional plantation in a rhyme that imitates southern black dialect. Each rhyme faces a full-page color illustration of the char... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

The mansion of happiness : an instructive moral and entertaining amusement

The mansion of happiness : an instructive moral and entertaining amuse...

A board game that folds to the shape of a book. The paper fastener holds a counter and the instructions (1 sheet). The spaces on the game board are numbered from 1 to 67 and arrranged in an oval. Illustrated sp... More

Biblia pauperum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Biblia pauperum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

One of the block books that has survived in the greatest numbers is the Biblia pauperum, a compendium of scripture prepared for the poor and the minor clergy, providing them with material for prayer and reflect... More

Pore lil Mose; his letters to his mammy

Pore lil Mose; his letters to his mammy

Cover title. Comic cartoons from the New York herald of 1901-02.

The twelve magic changelings - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The twelve magic changelings - Rare book, public domain, Library of Co...

"Cut-outs for children of Mary and her little lamb, Humpty Dumpty and the egg, Tom the piper's son and his pig, The town mouse and the country mouse, Silverhair and the little wee bear, Robinson Crusoe and his ... More

Yankee Doodle : an old friend in a new dress

Yankee Doodle : an old friend in a new dress

In verse. Eight full-page color illustrations. Blue line illustrations are incorporated into the pages of text. LC copy is a copyright deposit: Oct. 13, 1881, no. 15793 M. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literar... 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.

The mansion of happiness : an instructive moral and entertaining amusement

The mansion of happiness : an instructive moral and entertaining amuse...

A board game that folds to the shape of a book. The paper fastener holds a counter and the instructions (1 sheet). The spaces on the game board are numbered from 1 to 67 and arrranged in an oval. Illustrated sp... More

Livre des conserves - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Livre des conserves - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Harriet, the Moses of her people,

Harriet, the Moses of her people,

Pub. Auburn, N.Y., 1869, under title: Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman. LC copy annotated. LAC brd 2019-04-19 no edits (1 card)

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

Each letter of the alphabet begins the name of an African-American servant on a fictional plantation in a rhyme that imitates southern black dialect. Each rhyme faces a full-page color illustration of the char... More

Little Red Riding Hood - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Little Red Riding Hood - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress...

In verse. 11 full-page illustrations including in pagination. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 133 With: Bayley, F.W.N. Jack the giant killer. New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845. LC copy ... 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

Marmaduke Multiply - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Marmaduke Multiply - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

In verse. Blakeman & Mason were at the above address in 1862. Americanized edition of a work originally published in England in 3 parts, in 1816 and 1817. The rhyme "4 times 11 are 44, I bought this book at F... More

Ruines du Mexique et types mexicains

Ruines du Mexique et types mexicains

Title from album cover. Album of 52 photographs: 42 of Mexican ruins (Charnay), and 10 "Tipos Mexicanos" by Julio Michaud. Charnay images have handwritten captions in French; Michaud images have printed capti... More

The principles of Mr. Harrison's time-keeper; with plates of the same

The principles of Mr. Harrison's time-keeper; with plates of the same

Preface and "Notes taken at the discovery of Mr. Harrison's time-keeper," by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal: p. v-xvii. LAC ecr 2018-11-01 update (1 card)

Our old nursery rhymes - Public domain music sheet scan

Our old nursery rhymes - Public domain music sheet scan

An illustrated collection of traditional nursery rhymes with accompanying music. For voice and piano; interlinear words. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, preserves, etc

What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, pre...

Believed to be the first cookbook by an African American, who was also an ex-slave. "Awarded two medals at the San Francisco Mechanics' Institute Fair, 1880, for best pickles and sauces and best assortment of j... More

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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The history of four-footed beasts and serpents ... Collected out of the writings of Conradus Gesner and other authors,

The history of four-footed beasts and serpents ... Collected out of th...

Paged continuously. Vol. 1 is largely a translation of books 1 and 5 of: Historia animalium / Konrad Gesner, with additions by Topsell. The second part has title: The history of serpents, or, The second book of... More

Little Red Riding Hood - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Little Red Riding Hood - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress...

In verse. 11 full-page illustrations including in pagination. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 133 With: Bayley, F.W.N. Jack the giant killer. New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845. LC copy ... 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

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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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

The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - Rare book, public domain, Library of ...

Endpapers illustrated in colors. "Copyright 1908"--T.p. verso. LC copy imperfect: endpapers damaged in rebinding, paste-downs removed. LC copy is a copyright deposit. Two copies received Aug 17, 1908. Copyrig... 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

The secret garden - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The secret garden - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web s... More

Ruines du Mexique et types mexicains

Ruines du Mexique et types mexicains

Title from album cover. Album of 52 photographs: 42 of Mexican ruins (Charnay), and 10 "Tipos Mexicanos" by Julio Michaud. Charnay images have handwritten captions in French; Michaud images have printed capti... More

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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The secret garden - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The secret garden - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web s... More

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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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 modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

The secret garden - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The secret garden - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web s... More

Das nüv Schiff von Narragonia ..

Das nüv Schiff von Narragonia ..

Unauthorized reprint containing a number of additions not by Brant. Cf. Goedecke's Grundriss, 2nd ed., I, p. 385. Rosenwald 172 Goff B-1084 GW 5050 (variations) IGI 2042 Schramm, XX, p. 4 and illus. Bound with ... More

Notebook of Bernadette Mayer, Project Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project,

Notebook of Bernadette Mayer, Project Director of St. Mark's Poetry Pr...

Many to-do lists, reader lists, general notes. Seating plan, children's drawings, dialog between Mayer and Bob Holman during readings, and a few journal entries. Laid in are suggested reading lists, letter to H... 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

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Das nüv Schiff von Narragonia ..

Das nüv Schiff von Narragonia ..

Unauthorized reprint containing a number of additions not by Brant. Cf. Goedecke's Grundriss, 2nd ed., I, p. 385. Rosenwald 172 Goff B-1084 GW 5050 (variations) IGI 2042 Schramm, XX, p. 4 and illus. Bound with ... More

Abregé des observations & des reflexions svr la comete qui a paru au mois de decembre 1680, & aux mois de ianvier, fevrier, & mars de cette anneé 1681

Abregé des observations & des reflexions svr la comete qui a paru au m...

Added t.-p.: Observations sur la comete. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1417 LAC ecr 2018-11-06 update (1 card)

Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : by which Meer Jaffeir was raised to the government of that province, together with those of Babar and Orixa, including the motives to this enterprize, the method in which it was accomplished, and the benefits that have accrued from thence to that country, our United Company trading to the East Indies, and to the British nation.

Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : by which Meer Ja...

Published anonymously. Written by William Watts, formerly attributed to John Campbell. LC copy imperfect? Prelim. leaf may be wanting. ESTC T102030 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web ... More

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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The frugal housewife, or, Complete woman cook; wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands is explained in upwards of five hundred approved receipts, in gravies, sauces, roasting etc. ... also the making of English wines

The frugal housewife, or, Complete woman cook; wherein the art of dres...

Head and tailpiece. Publisher's advertisement: 1 p. (at end) Lincoln 34b. Gift A. W. Bitting Oct. 6, 1939 LAC tnb 2019-02-26 update (1 card)

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

Aritmetica - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Aritmetica - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Rosenwald 266 Goff C-34 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 4234 BM 15th cent., VI, p. 681 (IA.27782) GW 5884 (variation) LC copy: most signatures cropped. Provenance: C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate).

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

"Nova terre descriptio" (p. [649-660]) constitutes signature P, which has a map on the verso. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 515/14 BM STC German, 1455-1600, 731 LC copy has two folded maps removed and shelve... 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

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

The historie of serpents; or The seconde booke of liuing creatures ... Collected out of diuine Scriptures, Fathers, phylosophers, physitians and poets

The historie of serpents; or The seconde booke of liuing creatures ......

LAC scc 2018-12-07 update (1 card) LAC ecr 2018-12-21 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-01-03

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

The secret garden - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The secret garden - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web s... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... 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

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... 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

New illustrations of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus comprehending an elucidation of the serveral parts of the fructification;

New illustrations of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus compreh...

Issued in parts. Title page bound in vol. 1 part second. LC copy from the libraries of Crawford Antrobus and Albert Pam, with their bookplates. Engraved half title: A British trophy in honour of Linnaeus ; engr... 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)

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artillery, mechanics, and pyrotechnics

Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artill...

Manuscript on paper. Leaves 4-81 so numbered. Mainly pen and ink diagrs. and drawings, some painted with water colors. The text accompanying part of the illus. is in Italian, a few pages are in Spanish. Frances... More

A treatise on electricity and magnetism,

A treatise on electricity and magnetism,

LAC REVIEW COMPLETED 2018-08-14 LAC kcc 2018-08-24 LAC Review Completed 2018-08-24 LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-08-27

Pādishāhnāmah - Persian manuscript

Pādishāhnāmah - Persian manuscript

Contains a biography of Shāhjahān from his birth through the first 10 years of his reign by Qazvīnī. This work is followed by the second and third parts of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh's ʻAmāl-i Ṣāliḥ's h... More

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