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Syllabus of Doctor Higgins's course of philosophical, pharmaceutical, and technical chemistry

Syllabus of Doctor Higgins's course of philosophical, pharmaceutical, ...

Anonymous. By Bryan Higgins. ESTC N24507 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot, or, Plantation child-life

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot, or, Plantation child-life

Twelve full-page illustrations included in pagination. Some illustrations signed: WLS (William Ludwell Sheppard). "Interesting and popular books depicting southern life and character"--2 p. at end. Haviland, V... More

A Christmas carol - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A Christmas carol - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. Cover illustrated in gilt; illustrated end-papers. Illustration dated 1911. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC co... More

A booke of the natures and properties as well of the bathes in England as of other bathes in Germany and Italy : very necessary for all seik persones that can not be healed without the helpe of natural bathes

A booke of the natures and properties as well of the bathes in England...

Signatures: A⁴ B-D⁶. STC (2nd ed.) 24351 With: Turner, William. A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin. Impri... 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

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

Traité élémentaire de chimie : présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes : avec figures

Traité élémentaire de chimie : présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'apr...

Paged continuously. Plates engraved by Mme. Lavoisier. Two of the folded plates are tables. Vol. 1: xliv, 322 p., [9] folded leaves of plates (2 are tables); v. 2: viij, [1] 324-653, [3] p., VIII-XIII leaves of... More

Seventy-five receipts for pastry, cakes, and sweetmeats

Seventy-five receipts for pastry, cakes, and sweetmeats

The 4th and later eds. name the author as Miss Leslie. Title registered in Clerk's Office, District of Massachusetts, Mar. 9, 1827, but preface is dated Jan. 15, 1828. The preface may be that of the 1st ed., wh... More

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occidentales

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occ...

In three parts. Title in red and black; on verso of t.-p., the arms of Pardiñas Villar de Francos; engr. vignette (p. 20). "Descripción de las islas del mar Athlantico y de America. Por el capitan D. Miguel d... More

La vie saint Anthoine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

La vie saint Anthoine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Abridgment of the life by St. Athanasius. Woodcut of St. Antonius on t.p. (repeated on verso). Goff A-888 GW 2207 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 388

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

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

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

The woodcuts are those of the Low German Bible printed ca. 1478 by Quentell, Cologne. Rosenwald 93 Goff B-632 Hain 3137 BM 15th cent., II, p. 424 (IC.7283) GW 4303 Schramm, XVII, p. 3, 8; v. 8, illus. 358-372 (... 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.

Sketches & scraps - Engraving, Public domain image

Sketches & scraps - Engraving, Public domain image

In verse. Printer named on verso of t.p. In original publisher's binding: Illustrated paper over boards, cloth spine. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 185-189 LC copy is a copyright deposit: N... 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 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.

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 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

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Signatures; A-M¹, 2 leaves unsigned. Illus. by J. S. van Calcar. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 906 LAC brd 2018-11-14 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-15 review

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

Mutus liber, L'Alchimie - Public domain book scan / engraving

Mutus liber, L'Alchimie - Public domain book scan / engraving

In Latin Attributed to a possibly fictitious Jacob Saulat or Sulat (of which Altus is an anagram) and also to a doctor Tolié . Cf. E. Canseliet L'Alchimie et son Livre muet {1967} The plates , re-engraved afte... 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

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

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

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

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in red and black. Goff R-92 Hain-Copinger 13775 BM 15th cent., II, p. 456 (IA.7877) Schramm, XVIII, p. 5, 16, and illus. Rosenwald 25 ... More

Sketches & scraps - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Sketches & scraps - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

In verse. Printer named on verso of t.p. In original publisher's binding: Illustrated paper over boards, cloth spine. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 185-189 LC copy is a copyright deposit: N... 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.

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

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

Travels into the inland parts of Africa: containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia; their trade, habits, customs, language, manners, religion and government; the power, disposition and characters of some negro princes; with a particular account of Job Ben Solomon ... To which is added, Capt. Stibbs's voyage up the Gambia in the year 1723, to make discoveries; with an accurate map of that river taken on the spot: and many other copper plates. Also extracts from the Nubian's geography, Leo the African, and other authors antient and modern, concerning the Niger, Nile, or Gambia, and observations thereon

Travels into the inland parts of Africa: containing a description of t...

ESTC T131766 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-20

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Heures a lusaige de Rōme tout au long sans rien requerir auecques plusieurs belles hystoires & figures de la pocalipce a la mode dytalie nouuellemēt imprimees

Heures a lusaige de Rōme tout au long sans rien requerir auecques plus...

Signatures : [A]-N⁸. On vellum. Initials and paragraph-marks supplied in gold on red or blue. Ornament pained beneath "Ad laudes" caption on p. [51] includes a cock (?) and green plant-form on gold shield. Libr... 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

A Christmas carol - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A Christmas carol - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. Cover illustrated in gilt; illustrated end-papers. Illustration dated 1911. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC co... 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

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 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 Christmas carol - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A Christmas carol - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. Cover illustrated in gilt; illustrated end-papers. Illustration dated 1911. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC co... 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 mysteries of nature and art, conteined in 4 severall tretises

The mysteries of nature and art, conteined in 4 severall tretises

Title page engr.; books 2-4 have special t.p. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1480 ESTC S122341 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Ein loblich Büchlin von der Gemahelschafft so sich zwischen Got vnd der Sele macht gar nützlich vnd fruchtperlichen zelessen ist

Ein loblich Büchlin von der Gemahelschafft so sich zwischen Got vnd de...

Rosenwald 179 Goff B-1268 Hain-Copinger 4039 (variant) BM 15th cent., II, p. 370 (IA.6369) GW 5669 LC copy: provenance: Franciscans, Augsburg (t.p. inscription); Ulrich Miler (?) (t.p. inscription).

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

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).

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occidentales

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occ...

In three parts. Title in red and black; on verso of t.-p., the arms of Pardiñas Villar de Francos; engr. vignette (p. 20). "Descripción de las islas del mar Athlantico y de America. Por el capitan D. Miguel d... 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

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.

Fourteen hundred and 91 days in the Confederate army. A journal kept by W. W. Heartsill, for four years, one month, and one day: or, Camp life; day-by-day, of the W. P. Lane rangers, from April 19th, 1861, to May 20th 1865

Fourteen hundred and 91 days in the Confederate army. A journal kept b...

Photographs are pasted within borders with subject's name printed underneath. Each plate has protecting-sheet. Contains muster rolls and other lists of soldiers. Also available in digital form on the Library of... 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

Liber cronicarum, cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi

Liber cronicarum, cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi

Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1a]), which begins: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum ... Illus. by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Rosenwald 163 Goff S-307 Hain-Copinger ... More

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

Naturliche Magie, oder, Erklarung verschiedner Wahrsager

Naturliche Magie, oder, Erklarung verschiedner Wahrsager

Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ A-R⁸. Errata: p. [1] at end. LC copy has bookseller's label: Hannemann's Buchhandlung, Berlin. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2018-08-21 LC Review ... 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)

Incomencia il Libro chiamato’il monte di oratione.

Incomencia il Libro chiamato’il monte di oratione.

Prayer at head of title in Latin; text in Italian. Title from caption, leaf a2. Imprint from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) Assigned by GW to the 16th century. Cf. Goff. Formerly considered an incunabulum... More

Incomencia il Libro chiamato’il monte di oratione.

Incomencia il Libro chiamato’il monte di oratione.

Prayer at head of title in Latin; text in Italian. Title from caption, leaf a2. Imprint from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) Assigned by GW to the 16th century. Cf. Goff. Formerly considered an incunabulum... More

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)

Ars vitae contemplativae., 15th century

Ars vitae contemplativae., 15th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Leaves [1-4] and [31-32], with text and illus., are printed xylographically. Goff A-1140 Hain 1822 GW 2672 Rosenwald 46 LC copy: illus. hand-c... More

Ars vitae contemplativae., 15th century

Ars vitae contemplativae., 15th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Leaves [1-4] and [31-32], with text and illus., are printed xylographically. Goff A-1140 Hain 1822 GW 2672 Rosenwald 46 LC copy: illus. hand-c... More

Whole duty of woman - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Whole duty of woman - Public domain illuminated manuscript

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

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

L'Iliade d'Homere, traduite en francois, avec des remarques par Madame Dacier

L'Iliade d'Homere, traduite en francois, avec des remarques par Madame...

Title from spine. 25 original wash drawings (12.7-13.2 cm.) used as illustrations in the French translation of Homer's Works, published by J. Wettstein, Amsterdam, 1731; sometimes also included in the edition o... More

Book of wonders, or, Marvellous chronicle : containing authentic accounts of extraordinary events and occurrences in nature and art ... collected from the writings of historians, travelers, astrologers, magicians, philosophers &c., &c., of all ages and countries.

Book of wonders, or, Marvellous chronicle : containing authentic accou...

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

Book of wonders, or, Marvellous chronicle : containing authentic accounts of extraordinary events and occurrences in nature and art ... collected from the writings of historians, travelers, astrologers, magicians, philosophers &c., &c., of all ages and countries.

Book of wonders, or, Marvellous chronicle : containing authentic accou...

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 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 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.

Luculentissima quaedam terrae totius descriptio: cum multis vtilissimis cosmographiae iniciis.

Luculentissima quaedam terrae totius descriptio: cum multis vtilissimi...

Signatures: a⁸, b⁶, A-B⁸, C-G⁴, H-K⁸, L⁶. Leaf 23 numbered 32. Errata slip inserted. "De America qvarta irbis par te cum aliis nouis insulis appositis (leaves 60-62) relate to America. "The author follows the s... More

Zwo heilige Reden ... bey der Erofnung der Jaroslawischen Statthalterschaft

Zwo heilige Reden ... bey der Erofnung der Jaroslawischen Statthalters...

Romanized. Bound with the author's Slovo o velikikh predmetakh vysochaĭshikh uchrezhdenīĭ. [Moskva] 1778. Translation of Slovo o velikikh predmetakh vysochaĭshikh uchrezhdenīĭ and of Slovo o pobuzhdenīi︠... More

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