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Plan of the battle fought near Camden, August 16th, 1780.

Plan of the battle fought near Camden, August 16th, 1780.

Scale ca. 1:41,500. Relief shown by hachures. Appears in William Faden's Atlas of the battles of the American Revolution. 1845. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1564 Available also through the Library of Co... More

Plan of the Naval-yard at Halifax - Public domain map

Plan of the Naval-yard at Halifax - Public domain map

Scale 1:720; 60 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-17... More

Planisphere celeste septentrional ; Planisphere celeste meridional  /

Planisphere celeste septentrional ; Planisphere celeste meridional /

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Plan de la riuiere de Suriname, de la ville de Paramaribo, es de fort Zelandia.

Plan de la riuiere de Suriname, de la ville de Paramaribo, es de fort ...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index of places and inset of fort Zelandia.

Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinée /

Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinée /

Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege, Aout 1707." "The words 'premier geographe du Roi' added in the title ... [indicate] that [a map] could not have been issued before 1718 when [De l'Isle] was appointed ... More

A map of the estate of Edward Vernon Esquire

A map of the estate of Edward Vernon Esquire

Land-estate cadastral survey map showing property ownership lines, individual farms contained within the estate, field/hedge lines, field names, and field acreages. The farm names (given in capital lettering) a... More

Plan général du Fort Septentrional du Detour des Anglois, tel qu'il est présentement : [Louisiana] /

Plan général du Fort Septentrional du Detour des Anglois, tel qu'il es...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows buildings, internal facilities, and surrounding area. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. Copy annotated in pencil in lower left margin: 84482. A progress repor... More

Georges Louis le Rouge - Plan de la ville de Quebec.

Georges Louis le Rouge - Plan de la ville de Quebec.

Scale ca. 1:7,000. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 595 Available also through the Library o... More

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - North America. Historic map, Library of Congress

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - North America. Historic map, Lib...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Differs from other copy in that only boundaries are colored and some place names are highlighted. The boundary of Georgia is continuous. LC Maps of... More

A new map of Jamaica; in which the several towns, forts, and settlements, are accurately laid down as well as ye situations & depts. of ye most noted harbours & anchoring places ...

A new map of Jamaica; in which the several towns, forts, and settlemen...

Scale ca. 1:250,000. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1916 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "I. Bayly, sculp."... More

The British & French dominions in North America : particularly shewing the French encroachments through all the British plantations from Nova Scotia down to the Gulf of Mexico

The British & French dominions in North America : particularly shewing...

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Ferro and London. Includes "short narrative of the French encroachments upon the British territories in North America." Fold-lined. Available also through the Library ... More

L'Amérique septentrionale divisée en ses principaux états

L'Amérique septentrionale divisée en ses principaux états

Scale ca. 1:27,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 32." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 93 Differs from other copies in geographic features, place names, historical notes, and coloration ... More

Plan de la ville de Port Royal.

Plan de la ville de Port Royal.

Scale ca. 1:3,500. "Tome I, no. 58." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1951 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault. AACR2

The above plan is a discription of a new township called Royalsborough in the county of Cumberland, bounded southeasterly on the headline of Brunswick, southwesterly on Northyarmouth, northwesterly on proprietors land, northeasterly on Androscoggin River ...

The above plan is a discription of a new township called Royalsborough...

Scale ca. 1:30,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Shows township lots and owners. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 834 Available also through the Librar... More

A new and accurate map of part of North-America, comprehending the provinces of New England, New York, Pensilvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island & part of Virginia, Canada and Hallifax, for the illustration of Mr. Peter Kalms travels.

A new and accurate map of part of North-America, comprehending the pro...

Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Covers the area from Quebec to lower Chesapeake Bay and west along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to Fort Detroit. Shows provinces, towns and cities, forts, some... More

A map of the British dominions in North America, according to the Treaty in 1763.

A map of the British dominions in North America, according to the Trea...

Scale ca. 1:10,900,000. Hand colored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 98 Vault AACR2

A plan of Port Royal in South Carolina. nautical chart

A plan of Port Royal in South Carolina. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:63,360. Depths shown by soundings. Described and dated 1776 in William P. Cumming's The Southeast in early maps. Dated 1773 in Essays honoring Lawrence C. Wroth. Includes "Explanation." LC Maps of N... More

Bowles's map of the seat of war in New England. Comprehending the provinces of Massachusets Bay, and New Hampshire; with the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island; divided into their townships; from the best authorities.

Bowles's map of the seat of war in New England. Comprehending the prov...

Scale ca. 1:800,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 811 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

[Part of a map of the Hudson Highlands showing Forts Clinton and Montgomery.

[Part of a map of the Hudson Highlands showing Forts Clinton and Montg...

Scale ca. 1:70,000 (not "1 English mile to a foot"). Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Has watermarks. Northern of two or more sheets. Incorrect scale note in pencil.... More

Carte du Mexique et de la Nouvelle Espagne : contenant la partie australe de l'Amérique Septentle. /

Carte du Mexique et de la Nouvelle Espagne : contenant la partie austr...

Relief shown pictorially. Outline color. Phillips, 647 Lowery, 617 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. From: Santini's Atlas universal. Venise, Remondini, 1776-[1784].

Carte réduite des côtes et de l'interieur de la presqu' île de la Floride, avec la détroit de cette presqu' île et le canal de Bahama. Dressée au Dépôt général des cartes, plans, et journaux de la marine, d'après differentes cartes combinées. Pour le service des vaisseaux du roi.

Carte réduite des côtes et de l'interieur de la presqu' île de la Flor...

Scale ca. 1:1,600,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Paris. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. In lower margin: No. 2.H., N. 1.H et 2.H. Ensemble, Prix trois lives. LC Maps of North America, 1... More

Carte réduite des côtes orientales de l'Amérique septentrionale. Contenant celles des provinces de New-York et de la Nouvelle Angleterre, celles de l'Acadie ou Nouvelle Ecosse, de l'Île Royale de l'Île St. Jean, avec l'intérieur du pays.

Carte réduite des côtes orientales de l'Amérique septentrionale. Conte...

Scale ca. 1:1,800,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Paris. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 110; 651/... More

Plano topografico que comprende una parte del Montegrande, el Rio Yacuy, los establecimentos y misiones del Uruguay, los yervales que actualmento poseen los indios guaranias y el curso del mismo Uruguay desde la boca del verdadero Pepiri o Peguiri hasta el paso que llaman de Concepcion /

Plano topografico que comprende una parte del Montegrande, el Rio Yacu...

Shows Uruguay River. Relief shown by shading. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. In upper margin: No. 5o. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Lord Cornwallis surrender, 1781. - Public domain old map

Lord Cornwallis surrender, 1781. - Public domain old map

Shows Yorktown Virginia and the York River on conical powder horn. Relief shown by hachures. Manuscript: Engraved bovine horn, shellacked. Has wooden pouring spout inserted at narrow end and wooden hinged cap i... More

Mapa de parte de los virreynatos de Buenos Aires, Lima, Sta. Fe y capitania gral. de Caracas en la America meridional con las colonias portuguesas limitrofes para acompañar al proyecto y reflexiones sobre la mejor demarcacion de limites entre los dominios de ambas coronas dispuesto y construido /

Mapa de parte de los virreynatos de Buenos Aires, Lima, Sta. Fe y capi...

Shows northwestern South America. "Madrid lo. de marzo de 1796." Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Annotated in pencil on verso: N. 18. Available also through the L... More

A new chart of the Mediterranean Sea / nautical chart

A new chart of the Mediterranean Sea / nautical chart

Depths shown by soundings in selected areas. Statement of dedication: To the Right Honorable Horatio Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, Rear Admiral of the Blue, and Knight of the Milita... More

Nouvelle decouverte de plusieurs nations dans la Nouvelle France en l'année 1673 et 1674.

Nouvelle decouverte de plusieurs nations dans la Nouvelle France en l'...

From the Jesuit Relations, vol. 59, p. facing 86. 8 x 10 film negative available in G&M Reading Room. Part of the Missisippi River exhibit. Original version: [S.l. : s.n., 1674] Facsimile. Available also throug... More

The royall gailliarde Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majesty's birth day 1710

The royall gailliarde Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majesty's bir...

the tune by Mr. Paisible ; engraven in characters & figures for the use of ma[ste]rs writt [sic] by Mr. de la Garde ... (statement of responsibility) Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as f... More

A new chart of the seas surrounding the island of Cuba with the soundings, currents, ships, courses &c. and a map of the island itself lately made by an officer in the Navy.

A new chart of the seas surrounding the island of Cuba with the soundi...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. From The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. Oct. 1762, v. 21. In upper margin: For the London magazine 1762. LC Maps of North America, ... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Tōkaidō bunkenzu : 1-bu o motte 1-chō ni ateru.

Tōkaidō bunkenzu : 1-bu o motte 1-chō ni ateru.

Shows road between Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Title from title piece mounted on scroll. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Orientation varies. Worm holes in the map. Stamped on: Kan... 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

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

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

Tongguk yŏjido. Historic map, Library of Congress

Tongguk yŏjido. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Purchased from Shannon McCune in 1982. Annotated catalogue of old Korean atlases and maps in the Library of Congress, p. 7, McCune #1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a rast... More

A general map of the northern British colonies in America. Which comprehends the province of Quebec, the government of Newfoundland, Nova-Scotia, New-England and New-York. From the maps published by the Admiralty and Board of Trade, regulated by the astronomic and trigonometric observations of Major Holland and corrected from Governor Pownall's late map 1776.

A general map of the northern British colonies in America. Which compr...

Scale ca. 1:3,700,000. Relief shown pictorially. "The seat of war, in the northern colonies, containing the province of Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova-Scotia, New-England, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, &ca." ... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A 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.

[Tian di tu] Historic map, Library of Congress

[Tian di tu] Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan,... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

La sfera. nautical chart - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

La sfera. nautical chart - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

In verse. Sometimes incorrectly ascribed to Gregorio's nephew, Leonardo Dati, according to Goff, citing GW. No signatures. LC copy has marginal color wash pen-and-ink illustrations, including astronomical, mete... More

Historische Beschreibung, der wunderbarlichen Reyse, welche von einem Holländer, Willhelm Schouten ... ist verrichtet worden: darinnen angezeigt wird, durch was Mittel vnd Weise, er gegen Mittag, der Magellanischen Strassen, einen newen ... Weg in die Sud-See eröffnet habe: auch was für Länder ... vnd wunderbarliche Sachen, jhme in gemelter Sud-See auffgestossen seyen.

Historische Beschreibung, der wunderbarlichen Reyse, welche von einem ...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 10. German] Oppenheim, 1618. 2d issue, copy 2. The illus. consist of 3 unnumb. fold. maps and 9 numb. plates (including map) Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... Ameri... More

Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...

Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Engraved t.p. and tail-piece. With this is bound: Maier, Michael. Michaelis Majeri ... Secretioris naturæ secretorum scrutinium chymicum ... F... More

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

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

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

Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreibung der wunderbahren Schifffahrt, so Georgius von Spielbergen ... durch die Magellanische Strasse, vnd in der Suder See, vom Iahr 1614 biss in das 1618. Iahr verrichtet ...

Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreib...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 10. German] Oppenheim, 1618. 2d issue, copy 2. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 198. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 32 Also available in digital form ... More

Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreibung der wunderbahren Schifffahrt, so Georgius von Spielbergen ... durch die Magellanische Strasse, vnd in der Suder See, vom Iahr 1614 biss in das 1618. Iahr verrichtet ...

Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreib...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 10. German] Oppenheim, 1618. 2d issue, copy 2. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 198. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 32 Also available in digital form ... More

Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreibung der wunderbahren Schifffahrt, so Georgius von Spielbergen ... durch die Magellanische Strasse, vnd in der Suder See, vom Iahr 1614 biss in das 1618. Iahr verrichtet ...

Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreib...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 10. German] Oppenheim, 1618. 2d issue, copy 2. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 198. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 32 Also available in digital form ... More

Discovery of a world in the moone.

Discovery of a world in the moone.

Error in paging: 207-208 repeated. Signatures: A⁴ B-O⁸ P⁴. STC (2nd ed.) 25640.5 LC copy has inscription: C. Townson. Special Files Project; vb32 01-11-2008 LAC ecr 2018-10-30 update (2 cards) LC Review of LAC ... More

De officiis, 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

De officiis, 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in black and red on vellum. Includes Marci Tulij Ciceronis Paradoxa leaf [76b-85b] [V]ersus XII Sapientu[m] ... positi in epitaphio Ma... More

Nouicijs adolesce[n]tib[us] ad astronomica[m] remp. capessenda[m]

Nouicijs adolesce[n]tib[us] ad astronomica[m] remp. capessenda[m]

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Caption title (printed in red). Imprint from colophon (place from Goff). The col. ill. are printed with blocks inked yellow or green; one ill.... More

Nouicijs adolesce[n]tib[us] ad astronomica[m] remp. capessenda[m]

Nouicijs adolesce[n]tib[us] ad astronomica[m] remp. capessenda[m]

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Caption title (printed in red). Imprint from colophon (place from Goff). The col. ill. are printed with blocks inked yellow or green; one ill.... More

Natural magick, by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane: in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences

Natural magick, by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane: in twenty books...

Title-page mounted. Originally pub. in Latin. ESTC R33476 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC scc 2018-10-03 update LAC ecr 2018-10-10 review (2 cards) LAC aaa 2019-04-10 no ... More

The Queen-Like Closet. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything. 5th Edition.

The Queen-Like Closet. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A li...

The second part (p. 121-264) and the supplement (p. [23]-[46], 144 p. at end) have special title pages. ESTC R222047 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift A. W. Bitting Oct. 6... More

The Queen-Like Closet. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything. 5th Edition.

The Queen-Like Closet. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A li...

The second part (p. 121-264) and the supplement (p. [23]-[46], 144 p. at end) have special title pages. ESTC R222047 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift A. W. Bitting Oct. 6... More

The Queen-Like Closet. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything. 5th Edition.

The Queen-Like Closet. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A li...

The second part (p. 121-264) and the supplement (p. [23]-[46], 144 p. at end) have special title pages. ESTC R222047 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift A. W. Bitting Oct. 6... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Cosmographiae introductio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis

Cosmographiae introductio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae pr...

Designed to accompany Waldseemüller's globe and wall map of the world, on which the New World is called America. "America" is suggested as name for the New World on sig. C1 recto and C3 verso. Originally publi... More

Tratado dela successio[n] delos reynos de Ierusalen y de Napoles y de Cecilia y delas p[ro]uincias de Pulla y Calabria

Tratado dela successio[n] delos reynos de Ierusalen y de Napoles y de ...

Imprint extracted from colophon. According to F.J. Norton, Printing in Spain, 1501-1520 (Cambridge University Press, 1966), p. 70, Coci was at that time the only printer in Zaragoza and all of Aragon. Signature... More

Bastiment de receptes, 16th century

Bastiment de receptes, 16th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting, Oct. 6 '39; Rec. 7-27-46. LAC ecr 2019-02-11 update (1 card)

Orders,, 16th century - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Orders,, 16th century - Public domain illuminated manuscript

STC 19625 Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 19 Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. DLC Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Plaidoyez povr la reformation de l’imprimerie.

Plaidoyez povr la reformation de l’imprimerie.

Caption title. "Plaidoyez povr l'Vniversité": leaves 17-20. Bound with: France. Grand conseil. Arrest dv Grand conseil donné sur la reformation de l'imprimerie, le vnziéme septembre 1544. [Lyon, 1548] (Rosen... More

Plaidoyez povr la reformation de l’imprimerie.

Plaidoyez povr la reformation de l’imprimerie.

Caption title. "Plaidoyez povr l'Vniversité": leaves 17-20. Bound with: France. Grand conseil. Arrest dv Grand conseil donné sur la reformation de l'imprimerie, le vnziéme septembre 1544. [Lyon, 1548] (Rosen... More

Yŏjido. Historic map, Library of Congress

Yŏjido. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Purchased from Shannon McCune in 1982. Annotated catalogue of old Korean atlases and maps in the Library of Congress, p. 11, McCune #6 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St. Vaast].

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St. Vaast].

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

Treatise of cleanness in meats and drinks

Treatise of cleanness in meats and drinks

ESTC R3110 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A.W. Bitting Oct. 6, 1939; Rec. R.B. 7-6-44. LAC knj 2018-12-31 update (1 card) LAC ecr 2019-01-03 review

Present for a servant maid. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Present for a servant maid. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

Signatures: [A]² B-K⁴ L². ESTC T76346 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: last leaf wanting. LAC ecr 2019-02-12 no edits (1 card)

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