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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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 1591 New Testament Bible which is literally pocket-sized: approximately 2.5 x 1.5 inches.
Contributors: Celine Uhl
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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
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
