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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

Simple addition by a little nigger

Simple addition by a little nigger

Cover title. Leaves printed on one side only, printed pages face each other. A counting rhyme. In illustrated paper wrapper with publisher's advertisement on p. [4]: New picture books for little children. Havil... 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).

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

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.

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

The works of Geber : the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher

The works of Geber : the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher

Signatures: A-V⁸ (A3 signed A2). LAC scc 2018-08-30 LAC Review Completed 2018-09-06

The tale of Benjamin Bunny - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The tale of Benjamin Bunny - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Recat. to AACR2: vj15 04-10-00; formerly classified: PZ10.3.P47 Tabb

Traité des pierres de Théophraste,

Traité des pierres de Théophraste,

LAC ecr 2018-09-27 update

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 tale of Squirrel Nutkin - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The tale of Squirrel Nutkin - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

"Copyright 1903"--Verso of t.p. LC copy is a copyright deposit. Two copies received Aug 22, 1903. Copyright entry Aug 8, 1903 class A ... 65994 copy A. Formerly classified: PZ10.3.P47 Tas

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

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

Zavii, ei, ishchanie nii, ei, ikotorago otti

Zavii, ei, ishchanie nii, ei, ikotorago otti

Translation of: A father's legacy to his daughters. Signatures: 1-6⁸. Quires signed in Cyrillic characters. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The Union A B C - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The Union A B C - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Printed in red and blue on linen. Each letter of the alphabet is printed with the stars and stripes, and is accompanied by a patriotic verse and illustration relating to the Union cause.

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 life of George Washington : with curious anecdotes, equally honourable to himself and exemplary to his young countrymen

The life of George Washington : with curious anecdotes, equally honour...

Shaw & Shoemaker 16702 Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 40-44 LC copy has inscription: John Barton's book, 1810. LAC ecr 2019-04-25 no edits (1 card)

The Union A B C - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The Union A B C - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Printed in red and blue on linen. Each letter of the alphabet is printed with the stars and stripes, and is accompanied by a patriotic verse and illustration relating to the Union cause.

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 conjurer unmasked : being a clear and full explanation of all the surprizing performances exhibited as well in this kingdom as on the continent by the most eminent and dexterous professors of slight of hand : together with the tricks of the divining rod, automaton chess-player, speaking figure, artificial serpents, mechanical birds, automaton flute player, vaulting figure, magical table, perpetual motion, &c., &c

The conjurer unmasked : being a clear and full explanation of all the ...

"... Decremps wrote and published a series of books purportedly to expose all the tricks of [Giuseppe] Pinetti. The first book, La Magie Blanche, appeared in Paris while Pinetti was still playing there in 1784.... 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.

Simple addition by a little nigger

Simple addition by a little nigger

Cover title. Leaves printed on one side only, printed pages face each other. A counting rhyme. In illustrated paper wrapper with publisher's advertisement on p. [4]: New picture books for little children. Havil... More

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

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 twelve magic changelings

The twelve magic changelings

"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

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

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

Rays of sunlight from South America

Rays of sunlight from South America

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Photographs of Lima, Peru and of the guano industry on the Chincha Islands. With captions. "Negative by H. Moulton. Entered, according to Act ... More

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

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

Rays of sunlight from South America

Rays of sunlight from South America

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Photographs of Lima, Peru and of the guano industry on the Chincha Islands. With captions. "Negative by H. Moulton. Entered, according to Act ... More

The book of the cat : with facsimiles of drawings in colour

The book of the cat : with facsimiles of drawings in colour

Printed on one side of leaf only. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Peter Coddle's trip to New-York : three games in one, comprising first a game of transformations, second, literary patchwork, third, a literary puzzle

Peter Coddle's trip to New-York : three games in one, comprising first...

In an illustrated box (12 x 9 cm.) with ca. 100 cards, each of which has a phrase intended to fill in a blank in the story. No. 6 in a box with 12 other games. LAC tnb 2019-06-24 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...

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Peter Coddle's trip to New-York : three games in one, comprising first a game of transformations, second, literary patchwork, third, a literary puzzle

Peter Coddle's trip to New-York : three games in one, comprising first...

In an illustrated box (12 x 9 cm.) with ca. 100 cards, each of which has a phrase intended to fill in a blank in the story. No. 6 in a box with 12 other games. LAC tnb 2019-06-24 no edits (1 card)

The tale of Johnny Town-mouse - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The tale of Johnny Town-mouse - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

"Copyright 1918"--Verso of t.p. LC copy is a copyright deposit: A int. 3287, Nov 29, 1918. Formerly classified: PZ10.3.P47 Tajj

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

The tale of Johnny Town-mouse - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The tale of Johnny Town-mouse - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

"Copyright 1918"--Verso of t.p. LC copy is a copyright deposit: A int. 3287, Nov 29, 1918. Formerly classified: PZ10.3.P47 Tajj

The tale of Benjamin Bunny - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The tale of Benjamin Bunny - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Recat. to AACR2: vj15 04-10-00; formerly classified: PZ10.3.P47 Tabb

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship, the Endeavour

A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship, the En...

Account of the first expedition under command of Capt. Cook, 1768-1771. LAC knj 2019-06-19 update (1 card)

Horologium deuotionis, Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Horologium deuotionis, Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Title extracted from incipit of prologue (leaf [2a]). Translated by the author. The woodcuts are sometimes ascribed to Dürer. Cf. Erwin Panofsky's A. Dürer, 2nd ed., II, p. 51-52. Rosenwald 139 Goff B-505 Hai... More

The tales of Peter Parley about America : with engravings

The tales of Peter Parley about America : with engravings

First edition. Page 144 misnumbered 142. Signatures: [1]⁸ 2-9⁸. Shoemaker 29051 Blanck, J. Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 1 Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 48-56 "The story of America"--P. 138-1... 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

Prospectiua communis d. Iohannis archiepiscopi Cantuariensis fratris ordinis minorum ..

Prospectiua communis d. Iohannis archiepiscopi Cantuariensis fratris o...

Title from opening words, leaf a2. Edited by Facius Cardanus. Ampersand in leaf a1 verson caption represents a Tironian sign. Printer from colophon (in verse: "... Faustis Corneni clauditur auspitijs. ..."); pl... More

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

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

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).

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

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 tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

"Copyright 1906"--Verso of t.p. Illustrated endpapers in color. LC copy is a copyright deposit. Two copies received Jul 27, 1906. Copyright entry June 7, 1906 class A ... 147696 copy B. Formerly classified: P... More

Tablettes gastronomiques de Saint-Pétersbourg, rédigées par un amateur et précedées

Tablettes gastronomiques de Saint-Pétersbourg, rédigées par un amateur...

"Tiré a 100 exemplaires." LAC scc 2019-03-27 update (1 card)

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).

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

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 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

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

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.

Gaistliche Vsslegong des Lebe[n]s Jhesu Cristi.

Gaistliche Vsslegong des Lebe[n]s Jhesu Cristi.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 72 Goff A-1399 Hain 2146 = 16108 Copinger 3350 (variation) BM 15th cent., II, p. 530 (IB.9249) GW 3084 LC copy: original stamped hal... More

Walter Crane - A wonder book for girls and boys

Walter Crane - A wonder book for girls and boys

Added t.p., illustrated in colors; title page in red and black. The colored plates are mounted on paper within gilt-printed frames. "Two hundred and fifty copies printed"--P. [iv]. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle'... More

Der Sele Trost., 15th century, Augsburg, Bavaria

Der Sele Trost., 15th century, Augsburg, Bavaria

Leaf iija: Das ist der Sele Trost genannt ... Comprises only the first part of the earlier (Cologne, 1474) Low German ed. and is an independent version of it. Rosenwald 71 Goff S-358 Hain 14582 BM 15th cent., I... More

Die guldin Bibel, innhaltend Belonung der Tugennt vnnd Strouf der Laster.

Die guldin Bibel, innhaltend Belonung der Tugennt vnnd Strouf der Last...

Title extracted from caption of preface (leaf [1a]). Rosenwald 68 Goff R-21 Hain-Copinger 13690 BM 15th cent., II, p. 359 (IB.6177) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ru... 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

Gaistliche Vsslegong des Lebe[n]s Jhesu Cristi.

Gaistliche Vsslegong des Lebe[n]s Jhesu Cristi.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 72 Goff A-1399 Hain 2146 = 16108 Copinger 3350 (variation) BM 15th cent., II, p. 530 (IB.9249) GW 3084 LC copy: original stamped hal... More

Horas de Nossa Senora segundo costume Romano, con as horas do Spirito Sancto

Horas de Nossa Senora segundo costume Romano, con as horas do Spirito ...

Printed in black and red, with printed red initials. Signatures: a-p⁸. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff H-404 Bohatta, H. Livres d'Heures (2. Aufl.), 1567 Rosenwald 451 ... More

Arithmeticae practicae methodus facilis

Arithmeticae practicae methodus facilis

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: A-M⁸. LAC scc 2018-10-30 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-28 review

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).

Horologium deuotionis, Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Horologium deuotionis, Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Title extracted from incipit of prologue (leaf [2a]). Translated by the author. The woodcuts are sometimes ascribed to Dürer. Cf. Erwin Panofsky's A. Dürer, 2nd ed., II, p. 51-52. Rosenwald 139 Goff B-505 Hai... More

Walter Crane - A wonder book for girls and boys

Walter Crane - A wonder book for girls and boys

Added t.p., illustrated in colors; title page in red and black. The colored plates are mounted on paper within gilt-printed frames. "Two hundred and fifty copies printed"--P. [iv]. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle'... More

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

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

Rays of sunlight from South America

Rays of sunlight from South America

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Photographs of Lima, Peru and of the guano industry on the Chincha Islands. With captions. "Negative by H. Moulton. Entered, according to Act ... 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

Rays of sunlight from South America

Rays of sunlight from South America

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Photographs of Lima, Peru and of the guano industry on the Chincha Islands. With captions. "Negative by H. Moulton. Entered, according to Act ... More

Rays of sunlight from South America

Rays of sunlight from South America

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Photographs of Lima, Peru and of the guano industry on the Chincha Islands. With captions. "Negative by H. Moulton. Entered, according to Act ... More

Evangelivm sanctvm Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptvm a qvatvor Evangelistis sanctis idest

Evangelivm sanctvm Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptvm a qvatvor Ev...

Woodcuts after designs by Antonio Tempesta. Arabic title at head of title page. First printing of the Gospels in Arabic, edited by G.B. Raimondi. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 881 Rosenw... 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

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

Petrus de Crescentiis zu teutsch, mit Figuren

Petrus de Crescentiis zu teutsch, mit Figuren

Rosenwald 164 Goff C-971 Hain-Copinger 5834 = 5835 BM 15th cent., II, p. 499 (IB.8638) GW 7831 LC copy imperfect: the 2 lines of printing on t.p. inlaid; a few leaves mutilated, some repaired. Initials, underli... 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

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

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

Die guldin Bibel, innhaltend Belonung der Tugennt vnnd Strouf der Laster.

Die guldin Bibel, innhaltend Belonung der Tugennt vnnd Strouf der Last...

Title extracted from caption of preface (leaf [1a]). Rosenwald 68 Goff R-21 Hain-Copinger 13690 BM 15th cent., II, p. 359 (IB.6177) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ru... 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

The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes

The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes

1 v. in 2. On spine: Gerarde herball. Illustrated t.-p., engraved. Four pages, between 30 and 31, incorrectly numbered 29-30, 29-30. "Second edition"--p. [46] at end. First edition published in 1597. "A catalog... More

Speculum naturale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Speculum naturale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Part of the author's Speculum maius. Vol. 1: [320] leaves (the first (wanting) and [20] blank); v. 2: [282] leaves (the first and last blank). Goff V-293 Copinger 6257 BM 15th cent., II, p. x; III, p. 860 Polai... 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

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 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

The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes

The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes

1 v. in 2. On spine: Gerarde herball. Illustrated t.-p., engraved. Four pages, between 30 and 31, incorrectly numbered 29-30, 29-30. "Second edition"--p. [46] at end. First edition published in 1597. "A catalog... More

The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes

The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes

1 v. in 2. On spine: Gerarde herball. Illustrated t.-p., engraved. Four pages, between 30 and 31, incorrectly numbered 29-30, 29-30. "Second edition"--p. [46] at end. First edition published in 1597. "A catalog... More

The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes

The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes

1 v. in 2. On spine: Gerarde herball. Illustrated t.-p., engraved. Four pages, between 30 and 31, incorrectly numbered 29-30, 29-30. "Second edition"--p. [46] at end. First edition published in 1597. "A catalog... More

A curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth : designed chiefly to familiarize tender age, in a pleasing and diverting manner, with early ideas of the Holy Scriptures : to which are subjoined, a short account of the lives of the Evangelists, and other pieces / illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts.

A curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New ...

Originally published: London : T. Hodgson, 1783. Signatures: A-M⁶. Evans 20961 Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 510 Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 128 ESTC W38300 Orig. ed. in BLC, v. 28, p. 501. LAC ... More

Art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances.

Art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-02-19 update (1 card)

Art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances.

Art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-02-19 update (1 card)

Comanches: a history of white's battalion, Virginia cavalry, Laurel brig., Hampton div., A.N.V., C.S.A.

Comanches: a history of white's battalion, Virginia cavalry, Laurel br...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC snh 2019-05-28 update (1 card)

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