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Book/Printed MaterialBrief on behalf Pedro Fizes Carla of the city of Tarrasa versus Juan Archer Inglés, concerning the latter's alleged liability for breach of contract. [Ca. XVII century]. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Catalan.- Date: 1600-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialWancun tian gai lou ou ping
晚村天蓋樓偶評 | Tian gai lou ou ping | Tian he lou ou ping Collection of 926 test papers acquired from the candidates who participated the Imperial Examinations between 1646 and 1673. The commentator of this civil-examination records collection, Lü Liuliang (formal name of Lü Wancun, 1629-83), was a native of Chongde, Zhejiang Province, who lived at the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing dynasty. His grandmother was a member of the Ming imperial…- Contributor: Lü, Liuliang - Lü, Gongzhong - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Cao, Du
- Date: 1678
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Book/Printed MaterialFiori poetici raccolti nel funerale del ... signor Clavdio Monteverde, maestro di cappella della Ducale di S. Marco Engraved t.p. with symbolical border and portfolio of Monteverdi.- Contributor: Marinoni, Giovanni Battista
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialBoston in New England. August 9th 1667. The Governour, deputy-governour and sundry of the magistrates. Being assembled, do judge meet to comment to their beloved brethren and neighbours the inhabitants of this … Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 5.- Contributor: Massachusetts Bay Company - Massachusetts (Colony) - Green, Samuel - Massachusetts. Governor ( : Bellingham) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1667
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Book/Printed Material[The vvhole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullnes, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes …
Title commonly known as: Bay Psalm book | Whole Booke of Psalmes The Bay Psalm Book, as this work is commonly known, is the first book printed in British North America. The Reverend Jesse Glover imported the first printing press to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638, some 18 years after the first English settlers landed at Plymouth Rock. A London printer, Stephen Daye, came with the press and established a printing office in Cambridge. The…- Contributor: Mather, Richard - Day, Matthew - Van Sinderen, Adrian - Weld, Thomas - Day, Stephen - Cotton, John - Eliot, John - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1640
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Book/Printed MaterialBrief filed by Miguel de Alagón, previously known as Miguel de Córdoba, the legal representative of this father Cristóbal de Alagón, a knight of the Religious Order of Calatrava, versus Manuel de … Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Spanish.- Date: 1673-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialBrief filed by Francisco Puig Rafagut in the case against Antonio Sala y Codina concerning transfer of a contract executed in 1674. [Ca.XVII Century]. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Latin.- Date: 1600-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialSan guo zhi tu xiang
三國志圖像 Sanguo yan yi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong (circa 1330--1400), a late-Yuan and early-Ming author, is a historical novel set in the third century, in the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history. The part-historical, part-legendary, and part-mythical story chronicles the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, who vied…- Contributor: Luo, Guangzhong
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialThe world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios formerly imprinted; This work of 1628 is the first edition of the earliest detailed account of the voyage around the world by Sir Francis Drake in 1577-80. It includes a frontspiece with a portrait of Drake and a double-globed map of the world. Drake's was the second successful circumnavigation, after that of Ferdinand Magellan in 1519-22. Setting out with five ships and 160 men, Drake used…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Fletcher, Francis - Drake, Francis
- Date: 1628
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Book/Printed MaterialMusicks hand-maid: new lessons and instructions for the virginals of harpsychord Engraved throughout, with exception of 3d and 4th prelim. leaves. Illustated t.-p. Signatures: A⁴, A-F⁴, G², H-I⁴, K² (sig. I irregular in arrangement) Page [48] (F4 verso) is marked "Finis", p. [52] (G2 verso) has a tail-piece, and p. [68] [I2 verso) is marked "Finnis", suggesting that previous editions may have ended with these pages. Contains 75 pieces, numbered as 77. The composers named…- Contributor: Playford, John
- Date: 1678
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Book/Printed MaterialLondon, Septemb. 27, Yesterday morning arrived three Holland mails, which bring the following advices ... London, Printed by J. Dawks, Re-printed at Boston in N. E. by B. Green & J. Allen, …
Yesterday morning arrived three Holland mails, which bring the following advices Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 30.- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, John - Green, Bartholomew
- Date: 1697
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Book/Printed MaterialRoyal Order of June 25, 1635 ordering Notaries Public to report the execution of deeds or any other notarial instruments by French nationals, within the term of three days. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Spanish.- Date: 1635-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialQi qi tu shui
奇器圖說 Qi qi tu shuo (Illustrations and explanations of wonderful machines) is the first Chinese translation of a work that introduced Western mechanics and machine engineering to China. It was dictated by Deng Yuhan and recorded and translated by Wang Zheng (1571--1644). Deng Yuhan was the Chinese name of Johann Terrenz (1576-1630), a Jesuit missionary who was born in Konstanz, Germany and came to China…- Contributor: Wang, Zheng - Terentius, Joannes
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialWorks of Galileo Galilei, Part 3, Volume 5, Astronomy: Observations and Related Calculations about the Medicean Planets.
Osservazioni e calcoli relativi ai Pianeti Medicei This manuscript contains observations and calculations made by the Italian scientist and mathematician Galileo Galilei (1564--1642) on the so-called Medicean Planets-the satellites rotating around the planet Jupiter that Galileo discovered using the powerful telescope he invented and built in late 1609. Galileo made these notes in the course of his intense astronomical studies of early 1610, when he was in the last months of…- Contributor: Castelli, Benedetto - Galilei, Galileo
- Date: 1610-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMusomachia, id est bellum musicale. Ante quinque lustra belligeratum in gratiam Er[asmi] Sar[torii] nunc denuò institutum à primo ejus auctore Petro Laurembergio Professore Academico First edition, Hamburg, 1622, published under Sartorius' name, with title: Belligerasmus.- Contributor: Lauremberg, Peter - Sartorius, Erasmus
- Date: 1642
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Book/Printed MaterialBrief on behalf José de Sorribes y Pequera versus Benito Rocafort, a merchant of the city of Barcelona, concerning illegal entry of goods in the city of Barcelona by said Benito Rocafort. … Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Latin.- Date: 1600-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialFrancisci Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Historia vitae & mortis, sive, Titulus secundus in Historiâ naturali & experimentali ad condendam philosophiam : quae est Instaurationis magnae pars tertia
Historia vitae & mortis, sive, Titulus secundus in Historiâ naturali & experimentali ad condendam philosophiam | Historia vitae & mortis | Titulus secundus in Historiâ naturali & experimentali ad condendam philosophiam Signatures: A-2F⁸. 2A4, 2C6 blank. LC copy has bookplate of John Dane. Inscription of Elizabeth Wells Gallup on lower free endpaper. Item no. 83 of the Fabyan Collection. STC (2nd ed.) 1156 Gibson, R. Bacon, 147 LAC ecr 2018-10-15 update (3 cards)- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Bacon, Francis - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1623
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Book/Printed MaterialAntiquæ musicæ auctores septem. Græce et latine Title in red and black. Printer's mark: Minerva. Vol. 2 has title: Aristeidou Kointilianov peri mousikēs biblia III. Aristidis Quintiliani De musica libri III. Marcus Meibomius restituit, ac notis explicavit ... LC Copy: Ex libris: Laurin. LAC ael 2021-06-01 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Gaudentius - Aristides Quintilianus - Martianus Capella - Nicomachus - Alypius - Meibom, Marcus - Cleonides - Aristoxenus - Euclid
- Date: 1652
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Book/Printed MaterialBrief on behalf of Monserrato Puigvert, a Public Notary of Barcelona, versus Gregorio Garreta, concerning restitution of assets. [December 17, 1623]. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Latin.- Date: 1623-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialBrief on appeals filed by Antonio de Fuertes y Biota versus the Marquis and Marchioness of Tarazona, concerning a monetary settlement for the dismissal of their administrator, Antonio de Fuertes y Biota. … Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Latin.- Date: 1652-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialNew essayes, or, Observations divine and morall : colled out of the Holy Scriptures, ancient and moderne writers, both diuine and humane, as also out of the great volumne of mens manners, …
New essayes | Observations divine and morall Re-issue (with cancel t.p.) of: Observations divine and morall. [Amsterdam : Successors of G. Thorp, 1625]. Signatures: A²(-A1+A1) B-2T⁴. LC copy has bookplate of Theo. L. DeVinne. STC (2nd ed.) 21113 LAC tnb 2019-02-07 no edits (2 cards) LAC ecr 2019-02-19 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-02-25- Contributor: Robinson, John - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1629
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Book/Printed MaterialAdditional brief on behalf the community of Alcover versus Carlos Marti of the village of Pontis de Armentera, concerning a monetary debt by said Carlos Marti. [Ca. XVII century]. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Latin.- Date: 1600-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialQuan bu Wang xian sheng shi ji : yi juan. Xiu Xuan ji xiao xu : yi juan
詮部王先生詩集 : 一卷. 修縣志小序 : 一卷 / | Title on label on spine of case: Quan bu Wang xian sheng shi wen ji | Quan bu Wang xian sheng shi wen ji In case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. December 7, 1939 576337. 九行二十字. Nine lines, with twenty characters per line. 原題：「淄川王教著，男王所明彙輯，甥張至發校梓」。按教字子修，隆慶五年進士，官吏部郎 中。居官能持法在吏部與葉隆光等同罷黜。事具明史萬國欽傳。自錢謙益至陳田，亦未錄其詩惟宋弼山左明詩鈔載十七首。其所修志全書猶存，今藏北平圖書館。內有：「忠厚堂崔」圖記。張至發(後序)萬曆四十四年(1616).- Contributor: Wang, Jiao - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zhang, Zhifa
- Date: 1616
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Book/Printed MaterialLa guerre des suisses, Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1397 LC copy: Provenance: Biblioteca del duca di Genova (stamp) LC copy: Vellum binding with the arms of Anne d'Autriche in gilt on both covers; the arms are surrounded by a pattern in which fleurs-de-lis, crowns and the Queen's initials alternate. The initials are formed by 2 capital A's, one of which is inverted and superimposed on…- Contributor: Caesar, Julius - Imprimerie Royale (France) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Biblioteca Del Duca DI Genova - Anne - Louis XIV
- Date: 1651
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Book/Printed MaterialLegal-theological brief on behalf of the Church and Parish of the Lord Saint Paul of the city of Zaragoza, concerning its rights to the enjoyment of the rights and privileges vested on … Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Spanish.- Date: 1600-01-01
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