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Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice : unto each tricke is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugli...

Printer and bookseller from STC (2nd.). Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁴. STC (2nd) 13543 ESTC S93006 Hall, T.H. Conjuring 155 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Beschreibung aller furnemisten mineralischen ertzt vnnd bergkwercks arten wie dieselbigen vnd eine jede in sonderheit jrer natur vnd eygenschafft nach auff alle metalla probirt vnd im kleinen fewr sollen versucht werden mit erklarung etlicher furnemer nutzlicher schmeltzwerke im grossen feuwer auch scheidung goldts silbers vnd anderer metalln sampt einem bericht des kupffer saigerns messing brennens vnd salpeter siedens auch aller saltzigen minerischen proben vnd was denen allen anhengig in funff bucher verfast dessgleichen zuvorn neimals in druck kommen... Auffs newe an veilen orten mit besserer aussfuhrung vnd mehrern figurn erklart durch..

Beschreibung aller furnemisten mineralischen ertzt vnnd bergkwercks ar...

Leaves printed on both sides. LAC ael 2019-02-06 update (2 cards)

Rhetorica ad Herennium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Rhetorica ad Herennium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress...

Has been attributed to M.T. Cicero. Printed on vellum. Rosenwald 214 Goff C-672 Hain 5057 (pt. 1) GW 6709 With this is bound: Cicero, M.T. De inventione. Venice, 1470. The two works were probably issued togethe... 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

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 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.

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

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

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

Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures
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

Epytoma Ioannis de Monte Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei

Epytoma Ioannis de Monte Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei

Woodcut title. Begun by Georg von Peurbach. Edited by Giovanni Abiosi. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff R-111 Hain-Copinger 13806 BM 15th cent., V, p. 427 (IB.23380) IGI ... 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

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron.

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron.

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

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

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron.

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron.

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

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

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

Cometographia, totam naturam cometarum...exhibens

Cometographia, totam naturam cometarum...exhibens

LC copy imperfect: half title wanting. LAC ecr 2018-11-06 update (1 card)

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of ...

"The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464 [i.e. 444-463]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Date of publication from colophon. Signat... 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

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

Supplement a La magie blanche devoilee

Supplement a La magie blanche devoilee

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "... Decremps wrote and published a series of books purportedly to expose all the tricks of [Giuseppe] Pinetti. The first book, La Magie Blanc... 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

Incomenza el libro del glorioso doctore misier sa[n]cto Agustino chiamato Manuale.

Incomenza el libro del glorioso doctore misier sa[n]cto Agustino chiam...

Caption title. Spuriously attributed to St. Augustine. Place and publication date from colophon; printer from Goff. "A partial text"--Goff. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Go... 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

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

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.

England's newest way in all sorts of cookery

England's newest way in all sorts of cookery

"Likewise the best receipts for making cakes, mackroons, biskets, ginger-bread, French-bread, as also for preserving, conserving, candying and drying fruits, confectioning and making of creams, syllabubs, and m... 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

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

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

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

The Queen-Like Closet. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything. 1st Edition..

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

The second part (p. [157]-344) has a special t.p. Signatures: A⁴ B-Q¹² R⁶. Includes index. With: Woolley, Hannah. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything. London : Printed by T.R. for ... More

The Queen-Like Closet. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything. 1st Edition..

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

The second part (p. [157]-344) has a special t.p. Signatures: A⁴ B-Q¹² R⁶. Includes index. With: Woolley, Hannah. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything. London : Printed by T.R. for ... 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

Confessionale bound with Formulario di epistole.

Confessionale bound with Formulario di epistole.

Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: a-b⁸. Goff C-191 GW 6123 Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ic00191000 Text in 2 columns. Woodcut is of the crucifixion. LC copy wanting final blank. With: [For... More

A book of the chesse moralysed.

A book of the chesse moralysed.

Title extracted from leaf [2a], line 14: ... anexcellent doctour of dyuynyte in the Royame of Fraunce of the Ordre of Thospytal of Saynt Johns of Jherusalem ... hath made a book of the chesse moralysed. Attribu... 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

The distinguishing marks of a work of the Spirit of God.

The distinguishing marks of a work of the Spirit of God.

ESTC N2950 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2018-12-03 update (1 card)

De fluuiorum mōtiumq nominibus, & de ijs, quæ admirabilia in illis inueniuntur

De fluuiorum mōtiumq nominibus, & de ijs, quæ admirabilia in illis inu...

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

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

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

Eyn gar loblich ... Cronica sagend von eynem heyligen Kunig mit Namen Josaphat, wie der ward bekeret von eynem heyligen Vatter vnnd Aynsideln genant Barlaam.

Eyn gar loblich ... Cronica sagend von eynem heyligen Kunig mit Namen ...

Rosenwald 63 Goff B-127 Hain 5915 BM 15th cent., II, p. 326 (IB.5580) GW 3398 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: provenance: Ortolffus de Trenbach (inscription).

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)

Thus endeth thys book of the dictes and notable Wyse sayenges of the phylosophers / late translated and drawen out of frenshe into our englisshe tonge by my forseide lord Therle of Ryuers and lord Skales ...

Thus endeth thys book of the dictes and notable Wyse sayenges of the p...

Translated from the French version of Guillaume de Tignonville by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers; edited by William Caxton. Title and date from colophon. Place and publisher, and corrected imprint date from Ill... More

Town and country cook. - Public domain book scan / engraving

Town and country cook. - Public domain book scan / engraving

Date of printing suggested by Maclean, Pennell suggests between 1760 and 1770. An anonymous or pirated ed. of The new and complete universal cook, by Ann Partridge, with the same text and engraved frontispiece,... More

Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens., Augsburg, Bavaria

Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens., Augsburg, Bavaria

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Leaf [1a]: Dises Büchlin genannt d[er] Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens, von ... Rodorico von Hyspania, Byschoffen Zamorensi, gemachet ... Pri... More

Die naturliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nutzlichen Kunststucken bestehend / zusammengetragen von Johann Christian Wiegleb.

Die naturliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nutzlichen Kuns...

A much-expanded and modernized version of Johann Nikolalus Martinus's work Dissertatio inauguralis physico-medica, de magia naturali, ejusque usu medico ad magice et magica curandum (Erfurt, 1700, 44 p.). It w... More

Die naturliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nutzlichen Kunststucken bestehend / zusammengetragen von Johann Christian Wiegleb.

Die naturliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nutzlichen Kuns...

A much-expanded and modernized version of Johann Nikolalus Martinus's work Dissertatio inauguralis physico-medica, de magia naturali, ejusque usu medico ad magice et magica curandum (Erfurt, 1700, 44 p.). It w... More

Die naturliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nutzlichen Kunststucken bestehend / zusammengetragen von Johann Christian Wiegleb.

Die naturliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nutzlichen Kuns...

A much-expanded and modernized version of Johann Nikolalus Martinus's work Dissertatio inauguralis physico-medica, de magia naturali, ejusque usu medico ad magice et magica curandum (Erfurt, 1700, 44 p.). It w... More

Das Buch genannt der Seuse., Augsburg, Bavaria

Das Buch genannt der Seuse., Augsburg, Bavaria

Rosenwald 86 Goff S-871 Copinger 5688 BM 15th cent., II, p. 349 (IB.5943) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Contemporary blind-stamped calf binding.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

Soupers de la cour.  Vol. 2. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Soupers de la cour. Vol. 2. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Co...

LC set incomplete: v. 4 wanting. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 321 LAC tnb 2019-03-05 update (1 card)

Receipts of pastry and cookery.

Receipts of pastry and cookery.

Engraved throughout. Date of printing suggested by both Bitting and Maclean. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 258-259 Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 82-84 Pennell, E.R. My cookery books, p. 15... More

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

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Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien experimentes et aprovves, reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuises en six liures pour la commodite de ceux qui en voudrot vser.

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

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

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

Includes index. Signatures: A⁴ B-12¹² N⁸ ²A-B⁶. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-02-26 no edits (2 cards)

Das Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen.

Das Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen.

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [3a]). A free translation of the Cordiale quattuor novissimorum, often erroneously attributed to Hans Münzinger. Cf. Franz Falk's Die deutschen Sterbebüchlein, 1890, p. 80. ... More

Das Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen.

Das Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen.

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [3a]). A free translation of the Cordiale quattuor novissimorum, often erroneously attributed to Hans Münzinger. Cf. Franz Falk's Die deutschen Sterbebüchlein, 1890, p. 80. ... More

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepi... More

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepi... More

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopra ordinario ...

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopra ordinario ...

Added engraved title pages, signed: Stefan. Della Bella F. Suppressed by the Inquisition in 1633. LC copy has edges untrimmed. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1350 Also available in digita... More

Le Proprietaire en francoys. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Le Proprietaire en francoys. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Co...

"... Des p[ro]prietes des choses fut tra[n]slate de latin en fra[n]coys lay de grace Mil.CCCC.lxxij [sic, i.e. 1372] par le co[m]ma[n]deme[n]t de tres puissant et noble prince Charles le quint ... Et le traslat... More

The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman.

The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues whic...

LC copy imperfect: p. 39-41 wanting. Dedication signed: Gervace Marchan. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939; Rec. R.B. 7-10-44. LAC ecr 2019-02... More

Cuisinier royal et bourgeois. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Cuisinier royal et bourgeois. - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift A. W. Bitting Oct. 6, 1939 LAC tnb 2019-03-05 update (2 cards) LAC rwp 2019-03-13 review

Magie oder, die Zauberkrafte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Belustigung angewandt worden.

Magie oder, die Zauberkrafte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Bel...

Imprint transposed: dates appear before publisher's name. Vol. 1 (1783): LVI, 424 p., IX folded leaves of plates; v. 2 (1784): XXXII, 440 p., 5 folded leaves of plates; v. 3 (1785): XVI, 600 p., IX folded leav... More

Ars moriendi., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Ars moriendi., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

Block book. Printed in black ink on one side of leaves only, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch (3. Aufl.), IV, p. 261, 267-312 (ed. IV A) BM 15th ce... More

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini ..

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato ...

Vols. 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary gilt vellum. Provenance: J. A. de Thou (with his signature) Robert Hoe, Joseph Martini (with their book-plates) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collec... More

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini ..

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato ...

Vols. 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary gilt vellum. Provenance: J. A. de Thou (with his signature) Robert Hoe, Joseph Martini (with their book-plates) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collec... More

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini ..

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato ...

Vols. 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary gilt vellum. Provenance: J. A. de Thou (with his signature) Robert Hoe, Joseph Martini (with their book-plates) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collec... More

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini ..

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato ...

Vols. 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary gilt vellum. Provenance: J. A. de Thou (with his signature) Robert Hoe, Joseph Martini (with their book-plates) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collec... More

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini ..

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato ...

Vols. 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary gilt vellum. Provenance: J. A. de Thou (with his signature) Robert Hoe, Joseph Martini (with their book-plates) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collec... More

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini ..

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato ...

Vols. 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary gilt vellum. Provenance: J. A. de Thou (with his signature) Robert Hoe, Joseph Martini (with their book-plates) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collec... More

Steganographia qv‘ hvcvsqve a nemine intellecta, sed passim vt svpposititia, perniciosa, magica et necromantica, reiecta ... nvnc tandem vindicata, reserata et illvstrata

Steganographia qv‘ hvcvsqve a nemine intellecta, sed passim vt svpposi...

Page 396 incorrectly numbered 364. The Clavis specialis (p. 123-315) consists of the text of the Darmstadt edition of 1620 of the Steganographia, with Heidel's explanations added, and has (p. [124]) a reprint ... More

Scot's discovery of witchcraft

Scot's discovery of witchcraft

Signatures: pi1 A⁴ a⁴ B-2A⁴ 2a⁴ 2*⁴ 2[dagger]⁶ 2B-2G⁴ *² 2H-3E⁴. Wing (2nd ed.) 943 ESTC R19425 Includes bibliographical references. LC copy has bookplate of Eugene L. Bulson. Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna... More

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper.

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elev...

First published in 1757. Plates 61-65 at end of v. 2 are dated 1758. LC copy has vols. 1-2 bound together. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1756 ESTC N27410 Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 19... More

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