As an English translation coming thirty years after the original Latin publication, this book tells more so about society and culture in 1598 rather…
Contributors: Alyssa Cokinis
View the items in A Brief and Most Easy Introduction to the Astrological Judgement of the Stars
There are several paraphrases bound together within in this book. All are attributed to the work of George Sandys, and include the tunes meant to…
Contributors: Jennifer L. Gosch
View the items in A Paraphrase Upon the Psalms of David
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.
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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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
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 bound book of over a hundred emblems accompanied by large woodcut illustrations.
Contributors: Kirsten Arneson
View the items in Emblemata V.C. Andreae Alciati Mediolanensis iurisconsulti : cum facili & compendiosa explicatione, qua obscura illustrantur, dubiaq́ue omnia soluuntur, / per Claudium Minoem Diuionensem / eiusdem Alciati vita
A 1591 New Testament Bible which is literally pocket-sized: approximately 2.5 x 1.5 inches.
Contributors: Celine Uhl
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Contributors: Adam Hooks
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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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