A case of 211 unbound, unpaginated leaves of plates. Each leaf depicts one 17th century trade with a title, a large engraving, and a few lines of…
Contributors: Alexander Bradbury
View the items in Weigels Ständebuch / Neudruck der Abbildungen / nach der Ausgabe von 1698 / mit Vorwort von Friedrich Klemm / Osnabrück / Biblio Verlag / 1966
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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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
Originally published in 1667, John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost tells the story of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. This…
Contributors: Sara Katschka
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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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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
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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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Contributors: Adam Hooks
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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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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
