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

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

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

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.

Leaves of Grass - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Leaves of Grass - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Author's name, Walter Whitman, appears in copyright statement on t.p. verso. BAL and Myerson describe at least two issues, and various states of the copyright page, p. iv, frontispiece, and binding. Also availa... More

Here begynneth the table of the rubrices of this presente volume named the Mirrour of the World or thymage of the same.

Here begynneth the table of the rubrices of this presente volume named...

Translated by William Caxton from a prose version of the Image du monde (or Livre de clergie) attributed by some authorities to Gossuin, by others to Gautier of Metz. It is derived from various Latin sources, c... More

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

Das goldene Spiel., 15th century, Augsburg, Bavaria

Das goldene Spiel., 15th century, Augsburg, Bavaria

Leaf [1a]: Hie hebt sich das Buch an, die man nent Dz guldin Spil, vnder dem begriffen seind siben Spil, durch welche die Houbtsund der ouch an der Czal siben seynd, kurcz vn[d] meisterlich zu Bestraffung d[er]... More

La rapresentatione d’uno miracolo di duo pellegrini che andauano a San Iacopo di Galitia

La rapresentatione d’uno miracolo di duo pellegrini che andauano a San...

Signature: A⁸. LC copy bound with: La rapresentatione del angelo Rafaello i Tobbia. [Firenze, 1554]. Bookplate of C.W. Dyson Perrins. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 855

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate Greenaway - Little Ann and other poems

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

Reminiscences of Confederate service, 1861, Confederate States of America

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

Theatre de Voltaire; dessins par Gravelot

Theatre de Voltaire; dessins par Gravelot

Title lettered on case. 45 mounted pencil and pen sketches for the illustrations to the Collection complète des oevres de Voltaire, Genève, Cramer, 1768-96. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collectio... More

Theatre de Voltaire; dessins par Gravelot

Theatre de Voltaire; dessins par Gravelot

Title lettered on case. 45 mounted pencil and pen sketches for the illustrations to the Collection complète des oevres de Voltaire, Genève, Cramer, 1768-96. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collectio... More

Theatre de Voltaire; dessins par Gravelot

Theatre de Voltaire; dessins par Gravelot

Title lettered on case. 45 mounted pencil and pen sketches for the illustrations to the Collection complète des oevres de Voltaire, Genève, Cramer, 1768-96. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collectio... More

Theatre de Voltaire; dessins par Gravelot

Theatre de Voltaire; dessins par Gravelot

Title lettered on case. 45 mounted pencil and pen sketches for the illustrations to the Collection complète des oevres de Voltaire, Genève, Cramer, 1768-96. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collectio... More

Art of cookery. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Art of cookery. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift of A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 8-2-48 LAC scc 2019-03-20 update (1 card)

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

Dialoghi di m. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo.

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.

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)

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

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings].

[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].

[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].

[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

Memoirs of Robert - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Memoirs of Robert - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-06-27 no edits (1 card)

Memoirs of Robert - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Memoirs of Robert - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-06-27 no edits (1 card)

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

Roland i Serafina; turetskaia poviest

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

Trevisan manuscript.  Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo. [i.e. Colombo, or Colocut].

Trevisan manuscript. Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo....

Ms. Title from spine of early 19th-century binding. In Venetian dialect of Italian. The codex assembles in one copy made ca. 1503 a number of reports dating from 1501 to ca. 1503, notably: (ff. 1a-30a) Angelo T... More

Trevisan manuscript.  Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo. [i.e. Colombo, or Colocut].

Trevisan manuscript. Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo....

Ms. Title from spine of early 19th-century binding. In Venetian dialect of Italian. The codex assembles in one copy made ca. 1503 a number of reports dating from 1501 to ca. 1503, notably: (ff. 1a-30a) Angelo T... More

Academia italica - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Academia italica - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

"To the ingenious reader" signed: T.P. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1512 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

William Blake - The book of Ahania.

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

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de le figure del testamento vecchio; le quale figure sonno verificate nel testamento nuouo con le sue expositione ...

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de...

Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori. Four issues are described in Schreiber's Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure ... au XVe siècle, v. 4 (1902) p. 105-113. This copy resembles issue d in havin... More

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de le figure del testamento vecchio; le quale figure sonno verificate nel testamento nuouo con le sue expositione ...

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de...

Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori. Four issues are described in Schreiber's Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure ... au XVe siècle, v. 4 (1902) p. 105-113. This copy resembles issue d in havin... More

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de le figure del testamento vecchio; le quale figure sonno verificate nel testamento nuouo con le sue expositione ...

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de...

Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori. Four issues are described in Schreiber's Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure ... au XVe siècle, v. 4 (1902) p. 105-113. This copy resembles issue d in havin... More

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de le figure del testamento vecchio; le quale figure sonno verificate nel testamento nuouo con le sue expositione ...

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de...

Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori. Four issues are described in Schreiber's Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure ... au XVe siècle, v. 4 (1902) p. 105-113. This copy resembles issue d in havin... More

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de le figure del testamento vecchio; le quale figure sonno verificate nel testamento nuouo con le sue expositione ...

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de...

Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori. Four issues are described in Schreiber's Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure ... au XVe siècle, v. 4 (1902) p. 105-113. This copy resembles issue d in havin... More

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de le figure del testamento vecchio; le quale figure sonno verificate nel testamento nuouo con le sue expositione ...

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de...

Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori. Four issues are described in Schreiber's Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure ... au XVe siècle, v. 4 (1902) p. 105-113. This copy resembles issue d in havin... More

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de le figure del testamento vecchio; le quale figure sonno verificate nel testamento nuouo con le sue expositione ...

Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de...

Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori. Four issues are described in Schreiber's Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure ... au XVe siècle, v. 4 (1902) p. 105-113. This copy resembles issue d in havin... 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)

Il modo de temperare le penne con le uarie sorti de littere ordinato per Ludouico Vicentino

Il modo de temperare le penne con le uarie sorti de littere ordinato p...

Signatures: a-d⁴. LC copy bound with the author's La operina. [Roma, 1522]. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 810 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC knj ... More

Sixteen illustrations of subjects from Kipling's "Jungle book" /

Sixteen illustrations of subjects from Kipling's "Jungle book" /

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Sixteen reproductions 43 x 33 cm. mounted on board with hinged mat, covered with guard sheet with letterpress. Many captions include quotation... More

Spiritali di Herone Alessandrino, ridotti in lingua volgare da Alessandro Giorgi.

Spiritali di Herone Alessandrino, ridotti in lingua volgare da Alessan...

Translation of Pneumatika. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2018-11-15 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.

Ballad of the lost hare - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Ballad of the lost hare - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

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).

Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states of the human soul.  [London, W. Blake, 1794]  54 plates. col. ill. 19 cm.

Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states ...

Printed in brown, orange, or green on 30 leaves, from plates containing both text and illustrations. Hand colored. Songs of innocence, with special title page dated 1789, printed from plates of the 1789 editio... More

Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states of the human soul.  [London, W. Blake, 1794]  54 plates. col. ill. 19 cm.

Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states ...

Printed in brown, orange, or green on 30 leaves, from plates containing both text and illustrations. Hand colored. Songs of innocence, with special title page dated 1789, printed from plates of the 1789 editio... More

Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccios Decamerone

Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccio...

One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprise... More

Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccios Decamerone

Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccio...

One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprise... More

Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccios Decamerone

Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccio...

One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprise... More

Mary's little lamb: a picture guessing story for little children

Mary's little lamb: a picture guessing story for little children

T.p. in red and black. Throughout the text some of the nouns are presented graphically. In original publisher's binding: Illustrated paper over boards, with a green cloth spine. LC copy is a copyright deposit: ... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Compleat cook. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Compleat cook. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

With (as issued): The queens closet opened. London, 1656. ESTC R216675 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502 : photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the archives of the Foreign Office in Paris ...

Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502 : photographic ...

"The original Codex on vellum is written on both sides of the leaf, and is here reproduced in same same form, but is interleaved with corresponding pages of transliteration and translation"--P. [9]. Also availa... More

Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502 : photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the archives of the Foreign Office in Paris ...

Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502 : photographic ...

"The original Codex on vellum is written on both sides of the leaf, and is here reproduced in same same form, but is interleaved with corresponding pages of transliteration and translation"--P. [9]. Also availa... More

Bastiment de receptes, 16th century

Bastiment de receptes, 16th century

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

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd."--P. 48. Also available in digit... More

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd."--P. 48. Also available in digit... More

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd."--P. 48. Also available in digit... More

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd."--P. 48. Also available in digit... More

Sunday as a civil institution - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Sunday as a civil institution - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

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

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

Bizzarie di varie figure - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Bizzarie di varie figure - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

"All'ill[ustrissi]mo s[ignor] don Pietro Medici." Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1345 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy probably from the library... More

Three cancelled plates from "America, a prophecy." Three unique plates with pencil corrections by Blake, bound in with six other plates from America, a prophecy.

Three cancelled plates from "America, a prophecy." Three unique plates...

Manuscript t.p. Printed in blue, brown, or green on 6 leaves, from engraved plates containing both text and illustrations. Includes plates 1-2, 9-10, and 2 copies of plate 13 of America, a prophecy. Keynes, G.L... More

The History of insects. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The History of insects. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Woodcut illustrations and title vignette. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The History of insects. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The History of insects. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Woodcut illustrations and title vignette. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustre´es par B. de Monvel

Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustre´es par B. de Monvel

LC copy may be a printing of later date. Printer's imprint on p. 4 includes the number 18523. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Publication date from Lorenz

Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustre´es par B. de Monvel

Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustre´es par B. de Monvel

LC copy may be a printing of later date. Printer's imprint on p. 4 includes the number 18523. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Publication date from Lorenz

Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustre´es par B. de Monvel

Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustre´es par B. de Monvel

LC copy may be a printing of later date. Printer's imprint on p. 4 includes the number 18523. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Publication date from Lorenz

Le cave di fiesole - Public domain medieval manuscript

Le cave di fiesole - Public domain medieval manuscript

Caption title. In verse. Illustrations: 1 woodcut; illustration is the same as that used in Luca Pulci's Epistole. Signature: A⁴. Ex libris Josephi Martini; bookplate of Baron Landau. Library of Congress. Lessi... More

Vieilles chansons pour les petits enfants

Vieilles chansons pour les petits enfants

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Copy 2. Gift; Gunilla Marcus-Luboff 1993.

La rapresentazione de sette dormienti: di nuouo mandata in luce.

La rapresentazione de sette dormienti: di nuouo mandata in luce.

LC copy bound with: La rapresentatione del angelo Rafaello i Tobbia. [Firenze, 1554]. Bookplate of C.W. Dyson Perrins. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 853 Also available in digital form on... More

The ghost of Abel : a revelation in the visions of Jehovah / seen by William Blake.

The ghost of Abel : a revelation in the visions of Jehovah / seen by W...

Ms. Transcribed by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Presented to Lessing Rosenwald by C.A. Stonehill, 1939. The original published in 1822. Keynes, G.L. Bibliography of W. Blake (New York, 1921) 51A Rosenwald 1812 A... More

William Blake - The song of Los.

William Blake - The song of Los.

LC copy printed in green on eight leaves, from plates containing both text and illustrations. Hand colored. ESTC T64903 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Keynes, G.L. Bibliogra... More

[Wash drawings for illustrations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original stories from real life].

[Wash drawings for illustrations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original sto...

Mary Wollstonecraft's Original stories from real life. London, 1791, contain 6 of the illus.; the other four were not used. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1818 Keynes, G.L. Bibliography o... 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

Bayonet fighting for war - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Bayonet fighting for war - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

LC copy is item no. 428 of the George Fabyan Collection. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-04-04 no edits (1 card)

Railroad franchise granted by the Mexican government to Benigno V. Garcia, 1886.

Railroad franchise granted by the Mexican government to Benigno V. Gar...

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

Gabrovsko - Public domain book about history of the first secular school in Bulgaria

Gabrovsko - Public domain book about history of the first secular scho...

Printed in Istanbul, a history of the first secular school in Bulgaria. The Gabrovo School, founded in 1835, trained Bulgarian teachers and employed such notable scholars as Neofit Rilski. Has added lithographe... More

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

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

Printed in Istanbul, a history of the first secular school in Bulgaria. The Gabrovo School, founded in 1835, trained Bulgarian teachers and employed such notable scholars as Neofit Rilski. Has added lithographe... More

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