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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.

McGuffey's newly revised eclectic primer, with pictorial illustrations

McGuffey's newly revised eclectic primer, with pictorial illustrations

"Intended as an introduction to McGuffey's eclectic first reader"--Preface. Clark, Austin, Maynard & Co. was publishing in New York between 1860 and 1862. Cf. 19th cent. Amer. children's book trade directory, A... More

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

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

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

The senior deacon's special help; a monitor for the senior deacon of the lodge;

The senior deacon's special help; a monitor for the senior deacon of t...

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The twelve magic changelings

The twelve magic changelings

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

Simple addition by a little nigger

Simple addition by a little nigger

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

The Butterfly's ball, and the grasshopper's feast

The Butterfly's ball, and the grasshopper's feast

Cover title. "Embellished with eight colored engravings." The Ill. are hand-colored. In verse. In illustrated green printed wrapper. Baltimore directories show William Raine printing in Baltimore in the early ... More

The confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va. as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray, in the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him to be such when read before the court of Southampton: with the certificate, under seal of the court convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, for his trial. Also, an authentic account of the whole insurrection, with lists of the whites who were murdered, and of the negroes brought before the court of Southampton, and there sentenced, &c
Illustrated alphabet, Confederate States of America.

Illustrated alphabet, Confederate States of America.

Illustrations are drawn from agricultural or rural life. Lithographed in blue and orange. Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, 4058 Form AACR2: vj36 2003-12-17

Beauties of the New-England primer

Beauties of the New-England primer

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

Illustrated alphabet, Confederate States of America.

Illustrated alphabet, Confederate States of America.

Illustrations are drawn from agricultural or rural life. Lithographed in blue and orange. Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, 4058 Form AACR2: vj36 2003-12-17

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

Recherches sur les substances radioactives ..

Recherches sur les substances radioactives ..

Thes̀e--Univ. de Paris. French LAC REVIEW COMPLETED 2018-08-14 SC LAC kcc 2018-08-24 LAC Review Completed 2018-08-24 LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-08-27

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

ESTC T153734 LAC knj 2019-05-30 no edits (2 cards)

The Boston cries ; and, The story of the little match-boy

The Boston cries ; and, The story of the little match-boy

Page [1] (blank) mounted inside front cover. The cries are on p. [2], [5], [7], [9], [11], [13], the story on [4], [6], [8], [10], [12], [14]. John C. Riker published at 129 Fulton St., New York, between 1844 ... More

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

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

Latin and Greek in opposite columns. Abridged by Guarino Veronese. Preceded by the Lord's prayer and the Hail Mary in Latin and Greek. Rosenwald 238 Goff C-494 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 5020 BM 15th cent., V, p. ... 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 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

Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis ... Commentarii secvndo avcti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazerbei de medica materia. Adiectis quàm plurimus plantarum, et animalium imaginibus, quae in priore editione non habentur, eodem authore. His accessit eivsdem Apologia adversvs Amathum Lusitanum, quin et censura in eiusdem enarrationes

Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis ... Commentarii secvndo avcti, in lib...

The Apologia has special t. p. and separate paging. Portrait of the author engraved by Pieter van der Borcht tipped in. Gift: Louise McDonnell Browne in memory of her husband, C. A. Browne, Apr. 23, 1948. LAC b... 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 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.

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

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

Yankee Doodle : an old friend in a new dress

Yankee Doodle : an old friend in a new dress

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

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

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

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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

Yankee Doodle : an old friend in a new dress

Yankee Doodle : an old friend in a new dress

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

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

ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

Beauty and the beast - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Beauty and the beast - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress s...

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

A child's garden of verses - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A child's garden of verses - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Prideaux, W.F. Stevenson, p. 39 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The tale of Pigling Bland - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The tale of Pigling Bland - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

Publisher name printed between places of publication on t.p. LC copy has copyright stamp: Aad int. 1770. Formerly classified: PZ10.3.P47 Tar and PZ7.P85 Tar

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

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 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

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).

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.

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

Giovanni Boccaccio - Decamerone, o ver Cento novelle del Boccaccio, illuminated manuscript

Giovanni Boccaccio - Decamerone, o ver Cento novelle del Boccaccio, il...

Rosenwald 269 Goff B-728 Hain-Copinger 3277 bis (variations) GW 4449 IGI 1777 Sander 1060 "Vita di Giouan Bocchaccio da Certaldo," by Girolamo Squarciafico: leaf [5a-5b]. LC copy: some illus. colored in red and... 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.

A child's garden of verses - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A child's garden of verses - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Prideaux, W.F. Stevenson, p. 39 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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 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.

Uncle Tom's cabin for children - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Uncle Tom's cabin for children - Rare book, public domain, Library of ...

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

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).

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).

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

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

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

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

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

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

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

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

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

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

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

San Domingo : pen pictures and leaves of travel, romance and history, from the portfolio of a correspondent in the American tropics

San Domingo : pen pictures and leaves of travel, romance and history, ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC snh 2019-06-13 update (1 card)

San Domingo : pen pictures and leaves of travel, romance and history, from the portfolio of a correspondent in the American tropics

San Domingo : pen pictures and leaves of travel, romance and history, ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC snh 2019-06-13 update (1 card)

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cometographia, totam naturam cometarum...exhibens

Cometographia, totam naturam cometarum...exhibens

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

Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis ... Commentarii secvndo avcti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazerbei de medica materia. Adiectis quàm plurimus plantarum, et animalium imaginibus, quae in priore editione non habentur, eodem authore. His accessit eivsdem Apologia adversvs Amathum Lusitanum, quin et censura in eiusdem enarrationes

Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis ... Commentarii secvndo avcti, in lib...

The Apologia has special t. p. and separate paging. Portrait of the author engraved by Pieter van der Borcht tipped in. Gift: Louise McDonnell Browne in memory of her husband, C. A. Browne, Apr. 23, 1948. LAC b... More

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

Le Charivari Charles Philipon - Newspaper, public domain, Library of Congress

Le Charivari Charles Philipon - Newspaper, public domain, Library of C...

Daily 1. année (1. déc. 1832)- 84. année (1915). "Journal publiant chaque jour un nouveau dessin" (varies slightly), dec. 1832-nov. 5, 1835. At head of title: Journal quotidien, politique, littéraire et d'a... More

Principles of geology; being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation

Principles of geology; being an attempt to explain the former changes ...

The word "two" in the phrase "In two volumes" on t.-p. of v.1 changed in manuscript to read 3. Appendices: I. Tables of fossil shells by Monsieur G. P. Deshayes.--II. Lists of fossil shells chiefly collected by... More

Conradi Gesneri ... Historiae animalium lib. I-IIII

Conradi Gesneri ... Historiae animalium lib. I-IIII

The complete work includes a fifth volume: Lib. V. Qui est de serpentium natura ex variis schedis et collectaneis ejusdem compositus per J. Carroum ... Tiguri, 1587. LC copy imperfect: v. 2 wanting 27 p. at end... More

Le Charivari Charles Philipon - Newspaper, public domain, Library of Congress

Le Charivari Charles Philipon - Newspaper, public domain, Library of C...

Daily 1. année (1. déc. 1832)- 84. année (1915). "Journal publiant chaque jour un nouveau dessin" (varies slightly), dec. 1832-nov. 5, 1835. At head of title: Journal quotidien, politique, littéraire et d'a... More

Piesni. Russian Masonic Songs, 1905.

Piesni. Russian Masonic Songs, 1905.

"Sbornik masonskikh pi︠e︡sen." Cf. I︠U︡ Bitovt. Ri︠e︡dkīi︠a︡ knigi, 1905, no. 2660. Purchase from Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin, 1906. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ... 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

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

Historia de preliis., 15th century, Augsburg, Bavaria

Historia de preliis., 15th century, Augsburg, Bavaria

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Leaf [2a]: Hienach volget Die Histori vo[n] de[m] Grosse[n] Alexand[er] wie die Eusebi[us] beschriben hat ... Translation by Johann Hartlieb o... 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

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