This is a bible printed by a printer personally employed by Queen Elizabeth. It features elaborate annotations regarding religious interpretation and…
Contributors: Zach Stark
View the items in The Bible, that is, The holy Scriptures contained in the Olde and new Testament, translated according to the Hebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diverse languages, With most profitable Annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance
This is the 1583 publication of one of the first books to sort approximately 1,800 authors and each of their texts in alphabetical order, with…
Contributors: Nathalie Halcrow
View the items in Bibliotheca institvta et collecta, primvm a Conrado Gesnero: deinde in epitomen redacta, & nouorum librorum accessione locupletata, tertiò recognita, & in duplum post priores editiones aucta, per Iosiam Simlerum: iam verò postremò aliquot mille, cùm priorum tùm nouorum authorum opusculis, ex instructissima Viennensi Austriæ imperatoria bibliotheca amplificata, per Iohannem Iacobum Frisium Tigurinum
The well-known incunabular work of Johannes Angelus that details the 360º belt of the Zodiac, written in Latin, and replete with fully-colored…
Contributors: Brian Vlasak
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A 1591 New Testament Bible which is literally pocket-sized: approximately 2.5 x 1.5 inches.
Contributors: Celine Uhl
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An expanded edition of La Varenne's famous cookbook, Le Cuisinier Francois. Filled with hundreds of recipes and culinary techniques, La Varenne's work…
Contributors: Max Seifert
View the items in Le vray cusinier francois [The True French Cook]
This is a first edition printing of the libretto for the opera The Fairy-Queen, written by Elkanah Settle, without the music composed by Henry…
Contributors: Katie Campbell
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Often considered the first encyclopedia, this copy of Margarita Philosophica is an unauthorized reprint, printed by Johannes Grüninger in 1504.
Contributors: Ryan Schroeder
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A religious text in Spanish and Nahuatl, published in Mexico. Used for the conversion of the indigenous peoples. Contains a Catechism, detailed…
Contributors: Emily Erler
View the items in El Camino del Cielo en Lengua Mexicana con Todos los Requisitos Necessarios para Conseguir este fin...
A polyglot Bible with French, Dutch, and English translations of the Christian New Testament side-by-side on each page. The French text is the Geneva…
Contributors: Katie Hitchcock
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A Thousand Notable Things is a mixture of anecdotes and miscellaneous remedies carefully compiled by Lupton himself, and divided into ten bookes. The…
Contributors: Rachel Romero
View the items in A Thousand Notable Things of Sundry Sortes: Whereof Some Are Wonderfull, Some Straunge, Some Pleasant, Diuers Necessary, A Great Sort Profitable, and Many Very Precious.
