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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

How to be a contortionist! or, Bending made easy

Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955. Author's name, Chas. E. Griffin, appears in copyright statement. Issued in paper wrappers. Also available in digit... More

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fighting a vicious film - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

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

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

Denslow's Three bears - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Adv. on p. [4] of cover for Denslow's picture books for children: twelve books uniform in format rewritten to remove "all coarsen... More

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)

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

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

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

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

The slant book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

Ars memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum.

Block book. Printed in brown ink on one side of leaves only, on versos and rectos alternately, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Of each printed pair, one is text, the other ... More

Schonbartbuch., 15th century, Nuremberg

Manuscript on paper. Leaves [3]-[66] numb. 132-195. Leaves [1]-[2], and [67]-[70] on different paper, in different, apparently later, handwriting. Leaves [1]-[2]: Vorred auf das Schempartbuch (rhymed). Leaves [... More

Typescript letter to Adolf Hitler, signed by Carl Hinrichs, dated Feb....

NUC pre-1956 NH 0384351 Gassert & Mattern. Hitler library, 411 Includes bibliographical references. LC copy accompanied by 2 p. typescript letter to Adolf Hitler, signed by author, dated Feb. 3. 1941, removed f... More

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 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 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 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

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

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

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

A visit from Saint Nicholas. - Public domain book scan / engraving

Cover title. In verse. Printer and engraver named on p. [2]. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 168-175 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

George Washington diary, 1762. Autograph manuscript written in the lea...

AMs written in the leaves of the 1762 Virginia Almanack. Topics include farming, horse breeding, and the management of Mount Vernon. One of forty-one original George Washington diaries, and one of five diaries ... More

The wonders of a toy shop. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Cover title. Leaves printed on one side only; printed pages face each other. First and last leaves mounted on the inside of the paper cover. Publisher's advertisement on p. [4] of cover. Also available in digit... More

For children: The gates of Paradise. Lambeth, W. Burke, 1793. [1] l....

Engr. on 18 leaves (incl. t.p.). Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1813 Keynes, G.L. A bibliography of William Blake, 52D T.p. and 2 leaves from the author's For the sexes: the gates of Par... More

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 Wollstonecrafts 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

Gastronomie - Public domain book scan / engraving

Frontispiece engraving signed: Bovinet sculp. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC Copy 1 from the library of G.V. Yudin. Has Yudin's blind stamp on page 13 and LC accession no... More

Arte del ben morire cioe i[n]gratia di Dio, compilato & composto per l...

Without t.p. Title extracted from incipit of prologue. Imprint from GW, II, col. 736. Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶. LC copy bound with Savonarola, Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo. Predica dellarte del bene morire. [Flor... More

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

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

Basni v stikhakh i prozie - Public domain book scan / engraving

Engraved t.p. Engravings by Ri︠e︡shetnikov. Printer's statement from t.p. verso. Fables selected from the works of Jean de La Fontaine, Friedrich von Hagedorn, Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer, Johann Wilhelm Gleim, a... More

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 - 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

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Schwester Demut., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

Title from first line of leaf [10a]; the date 1482 appears in the text on leaf [33b]. Apparently a fortune-telling game in verse. Rosenwald 90 Goff S-334 Schramm, VI, p. 3, 18, and illus. Fürstlich Liechtenste... More

Le manuel de la friandise. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-03-05 update (1 card)

Betrachtungen des leidens Christi

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures: [a¹⁰, b²⁽⁺⁾, c¹², d¹⁴, e⁸, f¹², g-l⁸, m¹⁰, n⁸, o¹⁰⁺¹, p-q⁸, r⁸⁺¹, s-z⁸, A-D⁸, E⁶] Cursive script in several h... More

The Arabian nights : their best - by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Recat. to AACR2: vj15 09-10-98

The Arabian nights : their best - by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Recat. to AACR2: vj15 09-10-98

Esopus [moralisatus]., Venice, Italy, 15th Century

Woodcut t.p., illustrated. The Latin metrical version of the Anonymus Neveleti (known as Aesopus moralisatus) with Italian translation and additions by Accio Zucco. Goff A-153 Hain-Reichling 350 (variations) GW... More

A catalog of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana.

Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-06-26 update (1 card)

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.

Testament de Jerome Sharp, professeur de physique amusante : ou l'on t...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Co...

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

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)

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)

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)

American domestic cookery, formed on principles of economy, for the us...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Added t.-p., engraved. L.C. copy imperfect: plates 1-2 wanting. Shaw & Shoemaker 49333 LAC scc 2019-03-13 no edits (2 cards) LAC rwp 2019-03-26 review