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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

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

The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick a...

Translation of: De motu cordis / William Harvey; Dissertatio de corde / Jacobus de Back; and De circulatione sanguinis / William Harvey. Translation of Dissertatio de corde has special t.p. with title: The disc... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

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

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete... More

New illustrations of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus compreh...

Issued in parts. Title page bound in vol. 1 part second. LC copy from the libraries of Crawford Antrobus and Albert Pam, with their bookplates. Engraved half title: A British trophy in honour of Linnaeus ; engr... More

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

New kreüterbüch in welchem nit allein die gantz histori das ist namen ...

Binder's title: Opera Iacobi Cuiacii. LAC iak 2018-09-28 update LAC kcc 2018-10-03 review (2 cards)

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

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

A treatise on electricity and magnetism,

LAC REVIEW COMPLETED 2018-08-14 LAC kcc 2018-08-24 LAC Review Completed 2018-08-24 LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-08-27

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

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

Honore Daumier - Le Charivari Charles Philipon

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

Honore Daumier - Le Charivari Charles Philipon

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

Principia mathematica - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

LAC scc 2018-10-15 update LAC ecr 2018-10-22 review (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Not Approved 2018-10-23 LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-10-25

Honore Daumier - Le Charivari Charles Philipon

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

Itinerarium. German., Augsburg, Bavaria

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). Translated from the French by Michel Velser. Signatures: [a-h¹⁰ i-k⁶]. Goff M-164 Hain 10647 (variations) Schramm, IV, p. 19, 51, and illus. (variations) Rosenwald 79 L... More

Art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances.

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

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

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

Experience of a Confederate States prisoner, being and ephemeris regul...

"G.W. Gary, printer." The diary extends from May to Aug. 1, 1862. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, 2664 LAC snh 2019-05-30 no edits (1 card)

Speculum regum., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 0008 Manuscript, on paper, 2 columns, rubricated. Leaves 1-12 misbound between leaves 25 and 26. Begins (leaf [1a]): Speculu[m] r[e]... More

Esopus constructus moralicatus

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: a-f⁸, g⁴ (last leaf, blank, wanting). The Latin metrical version of the Anonymus Neveleti, known as Aesopus maralisatus, with Lati... More

Whole duty of woman

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 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

Walter Crane - The baby's own Aesop

Errata slip laid in. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Form AACR2: vj36 04-02-2002

Walter Crane - The baby's own Aesop

Errata slip laid in. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Form AACR2: vj36 04-02-2002

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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 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

De magnis [con]iunctionibus anno[rum] reuolutio[n]ibus ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. First edition, Augusburg, 1489. Essentially a translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd (Book of revolutions... More

Baseball A B C. - Public domain book illustration

Cover title. In illustrated paper cover; all ill. are chromolithographs. Guide to baseball literature, edited by A. Grobani, lists this title, clothbound, p. 185, 15-2. Also available in digital form on the Lib... More

Baseball A B C. - Public domain book illustration

Cover title. In illustrated paper cover; all ill. are chromolithographs. Guide to baseball literature, edited by A. Grobani, lists this title, clothbound, p. 185, 15-2. Also available in digital form on the Lib... More

Frugal housewife. Dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Authorship from Mansell 106:643. Later editions published under title: The American frugal housewife. Includes index. Lowenstein, 119 Bitting,... More

[Designs to a series of ballads written by William Hayley and founded ...

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1820 Issued in 4 pts., with covers bearing title: A series of ballads; only four of 15 projected parts were published. LC copy in original covers without ge... More

Giuochi, trattenimenti e feste annue che si costumano in Toscana e spe...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Wholy engraved with watercolor. Plates 22 and 23 signed by Carlo Lasinio, but all generally attributed to him. Plates 2 and 4 signed "G. Piattoli, inv."

[Sinarum lingua︠e︡ mandarinica︠e︡ grammatica duplex].

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed in ink on leaf [1]: "Benj'n B. Carter, Canton, Jan. 15, 1806." "中國官話", "Chūm Kuĕ Kuōn Hoá", "Medii Regni communis Loquel... More

[Sinarum lingua︠e︡ mandarinica︠e︡ grammatica duplex].

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed in ink on leaf [1]: "Benj'n B. Carter, Canton, Jan. 15, 1806." "中國官話", "Chūm Kuĕ Kuōn Hoá", "Medii Regni communis Loquel... More

Kate Greenaway - Little Ann and other poems

Bound in illustrated printed paper boards; green cloth spine and corners with paper label on spine; all edges stained blue; yellow coated endpapers. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1987 Al... More

Kate Greenaway - Little Ann and other poems

Bound in illustrated printed paper boards; green cloth spine and corners with paper label on spine; all edges stained blue; yellow coated endpapers. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1987 Al... More

Kate Greenaway - Little Ann and other poems

Bound in illustrated printed paper boards; green cloth spine and corners with paper label on spine; all edges stained blue; yellow coated endpapers. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1987 Al... More

Kate Greenaway - Little Ann and other poems

Bound in illustrated printed paper boards; green cloth spine and corners with paper label on spine; all edges stained blue; yellow coated endpapers. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1987 Al... More

La operina di Ludouico Vicentino, da imparare di scriuere littera canc...

Signatures: A-D⁴. "Finisce la arte di scriuere littera sorsiua ouer cancellarescha. Stmpata in Roma per inuentione di Ludouico Vicentino, scritore. Cvm gratia & privilegio.": p. [32]. The plates were engraved b... More

Reminiscences of Confederate service, 1861, Confederate States of Amer...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "100 copies. Printed for private circulation." The author was an Englishman who entered the Confederate States' service. LAC snh 2019-05-29 up... More

Oblako nad sviatilishchem, ili, Niechto takoe, o chem gordaia filosofi...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Translated by A.F. Labzin. Masonic coat of arms printed at head of p. [1] with legend: Absque nube pro nobis. Legend translated into Russian ... More

Honours of the table - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress s...

By John Trusler, the editor of Lord Chesterfield's Principles of politeness. ESTC T93149 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC knj 2019-03-14 update (1 card)

Dialoghi di m. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Bookplate of Baron Horace de Landau. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 879 LAC nsk 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Dialoghi di m. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Bookplate of Baron Horace de Landau. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 879 LAC nsk 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]....

Manuscript on vellum. Gothic script in black and red. Pen-and-ink drawings, some slightly colored, with explanatory text in German or Latin. Subject matter and form of presentation is similar to that in 15th ce... More

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]....

Manuscript on vellum. Gothic script in black and red. Pen-and-ink drawings, some slightly colored, with explanatory text in German or Latin. Subject matter and form of presentation is similar to that in 15th ce... More

Selden's condensed ledger and condensed memorandum book; and forms of ...

LC copy includes memorandum dated August 23, 1960 from Waldo Moore (U.S. Copyright Office) to Jerome Edelstein (Library of Congress Rare Book Division) requesting transfer of LC's copy from the general collecti... More

Selden's condensed ledger and condensed memorandum book; and forms of ...

LC copy includes memorandum dated August 23, 1960 from Waldo Moore (U.S. Copyright Office) to Jerome Edelstein (Library of Congress Rare Book Division) requesting transfer of LC's copy from the general collecti... More

Selden's condensed ledger and condensed memorandum book; and forms of ...

LC copy includes memorandum dated August 23, 1960 from Waldo Moore (U.S. Copyright Office) to Jerome Edelstein (Library of Congress Rare Book Division) requesting transfer of LC's copy from the general collecti... More

Selden's condensed ledger and condensed memorandum book; and forms of ...

LC copy includes memorandum dated August 23, 1960 from Waldo Moore (U.S. Copyright Office) to Jerome Edelstein (Library of Congress Rare Book Division) requesting transfer of LC's copy from the general collecti... More

Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos : a round game for merry parties, with ...

Rules of the game on leaf [3]. Printed on one side of leaves only, printed pages face each other. "A new Christmas game for merry parties"--Frontispiece. A nonsense alphabet in which words become progressively ... More

Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos : a round game for merry parties, with ...

Rules of the game on leaf [3]. Printed on one side of leaves only, printed pages face each other. "A new Christmas game for merry parties"--Frontispiece. A nonsense alphabet in which words become progressively ... More

Roland i Serafina; turetskaia poviest

Romanized. LC copy has bookplates: Domashni︠a︡i︠a︡ Biblioteka G.V. I︠U︡dina; and "Iz biblioteki dli︠a︡ chtenii︠a︡ A. Smirdina". Sopikov 9785 Source: Purchase from Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin, 1906. Also availa... More

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

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

The World turned upside down, or, No news, and strange news.

Frontispiece and last leaf are pasted on inside of covers. "Penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York"--P. [4] of cover. Muir, P. H. Children's books of yesterday, 738 Also available in dig... More

The World turned upside down, or, No news, and strange news.

Frontispiece and last leaf are pasted on inside of covers. "Penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York"--P. [4] of cover. Muir, P. H. Children's books of yesterday, 738 Also available in dig... More

The World turned upside down, or, No news, and strange news.

Frontispiece and last leaf are pasted on inside of covers. "Penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York"--P. [4] of cover. Muir, P. H. Children's books of yesterday, 738 Also available in dig... More

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

Constitucion federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos sancionada por el...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy 1 has appended at end: Acta constitutiva de la Federación mexicana (1 p. l., 12 p.).

William Blake - The book of Ahania.

L.C. copy imperfect: frontispiece wanting; hand-colored frontispiece from another copy accompanies book. Printed in dark brown on 6 leaves, from engr. plates. Illustrated t.p. and tailpiece hand-colored. The on... More