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    New 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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    Alphabetum ibericum, sive georgianum : cum Oratione dominicali, Salutatione angelica, Symbolo fidei, Præceptis Decalogi, Ecclesiæ Sacramentis, & Operibus miseracordiæ ; latina, & iberica lingua compositis, & charactere georgiano impressis ; accesserunt Litaniæ … Alphabetum ibericum, sive georgianum: cum Oratione (Iberian or Georgian alphabet with prayers) is one of the first two books printed in Georgian using moveable type. In the 1620s, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the body of the Roman Catholic Church established in the early 17th century for the purpose of spreading Catholicism in non-Catholic countries, began to train monks going…
    • Contributor: Catholic Church. Congregatio De Propaganda Fide
    • Date: 1629
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    An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals,…
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 1998

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    The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."
    • Date: 1581

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    Er ru ting qun fang pu : san shi yi juan
    二如亭群芳譜 : 三十一卷 | Qun fang pu     Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Collection of Wang Shunan April 3, 1929 379064. 二十八冊六函. Twenty-eight volumes in six cases.. 上中下三欄 中欄八行十八字 上欄雙行三字 下欄雙行四字. Three columns: in the central column of primary text, eight lines with eighteen characters per line; in the upper column, pairs of three small characters per line; in the lower column, paired lines of…
    • Contributor: Zhang, Pu - Chen, Jiru - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zhu, Guosheng - Wang, Xiangjin - Mao, Jin
    • Date: 1629
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    Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries
    Naturall historie in ten centuries     Added t.p. illustrated, dated 1629. Printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392. STC (2nd ed.) 1170 Gibson, R. Bacon, 172 ESTC S106925 With: Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. [London, 1629]. Issued together. Special Files Project; vb59 11-16-2007 LAC iak 2018-08-20 LC Review of LAC Completed/Not Approved 2018-08-25 LAC Review Completed 2018-08-29 LAC tnb 2020-09-15 update (3 cards)
    • Contributor: Bacon, Francis - Rawley, William - Lee, W. (William) - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) - Haviland, John
    • Date: 1629

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    Qun fang qing wan shi er zhong : shi wu juan
    群芳清玩十二種 : 十五卷 /     Contents include 'Shan ju xiao wan', printed by Mao Jin, to which was added to additional chapters for a total of twelve. 'Ji gu ge ke shu mu', by Tao Xiang, cites an author named only Li. The 'Si ku cun mu' gives the compiler as Li Yu.
    • Contributor: Xu, Liang - Ji Gu Ge (Library) - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Mao, Jin - Ji Gu Ge
    • Date: 1629
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    Cha lu
    茶錄     Cha lu (Record of tea) was compiled by Cai Xiang of Song dynasty in the mid-11th century. Shown here is a facsimile handwritten copy made at Shugutang, the private library of early Qing collector Qian Zeng (1629-1701). The ancestral home of Cai Xiang (1012-67), courtesy name Junmo, was in Xianyou, Fujian, and later the family moved to Putian, Fujian. At the young age of…
    • Contributor: Cai, Xiang
    • Date: 1629
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    Queli zhi : shi er juan
    闕里誌 : 十二卷 /     Concerns Confucian studies; completed by Chen Hao in 1609; supplement added later to record events occuring between 1609 and 1629.
    • Contributor: Chen, Ying - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Huang, Kezuan - LI, Dongyang - Zhu, Yizhuo - Kong, Zhencong
    • Date: 1629
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    Shan ju xiao wan shi zhong : san juan
    山居小玩十種 : 十三卷 /     Collection of ten works by different authors.
    • Contributor: Du, Benjun - Wang, Guixue - Xu, Liang - Du, Wan - Tao, Hongjing - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wang, Siren - Yuan, Hongdao - MI, Fu - Mao, Jin - Ji Gu Ge - Ji Gu Ge (Library) - Ge, Shan - Yu, LI
    • Date: 1629
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    Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.
    • Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Macfarlane, Seth - Sagan, Carl
    • Date: 1495

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    Hispania, sive, De regis Hispaniae regnis et opibus commentarius
    Hispaniae descriptio | Hispania | De regis Hispaniae regnis et opibus commentarius Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Laet's name appears on p. [3]. Another edition of this book was published the same year without the chapter on the Canary Islands. T.p. has border composed of the coat of arms of Portugal, the Spanish kingdoms, the city of Toledo, a view of Valencia, etc. Signatures: A-2K⁸. Palau y Dulcet (2.ed.) 129562 Includes index. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation. LC copy…
    • Contributor: Elzevir, Abraham - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Peeters-Fontainas, J. (Jean) - Laet, Joannes De
    • Date: 1629
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    Generale inuito alle grandezze, e marauiglie della mvsica oue per ogni raggion tanto diuina, come naturale, e positiua, si mostra la sua antichità, e valore; e come sia necessaria à chi di …
    • Contributor: Casali, Lodovico
    • Date: 1629

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    De ecclesiastica hymnodia libri tres, in quibus de prȩstantia, effectibus, et modo rite psallendi in choro copiose agitur Engr. t.p. Page 329-371 erroneously numbered 339-381.
    • Contributor: Secchi, Anacleto
    • Date: 1629

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    Philosophia magnetica, in qva magnetis natvra penitvs explicatvr, et omnivm qvae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur; nova etiam praxis constrvitvr, quae propriam poli eleuationem cum suo meridiano vbique demonstrat. Mvlta qvoqve … In Latin. Added engraved title page has "praxis" changed to "pyxis" and imprint reads: Ferrarie, Apud Franciscum Succium superiorum permissu, 1629. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1319 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy bound in olive morocco, gilt with a semé of fleurs de lys. LAC REVIEW COMPLETED 2018-08-14 SC LAC kcc 2018-08-24 LAC…
    • Contributor: Cabeo, Niccol - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Kinckius, Johann - Suzzi, Francesco
    • Date: 1629

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    Eloges et discovrs svr la triomphante reception dv Roy [Lovis [XIII] en sa ville de Paris, apres la reduction de la Rochelle : accompagnez des figvres, tant des arcs de triomphe, que …
    Eloges et discours sur la triomphante reception du Roy [Louis XIII] en sa ville de Paris, apres la reduction de la Rochelle     The plates, one signed by Abraham Bosse, are engr. by Melchior Tavernier and Pierre Firens. Cioranescu, A. 17.s., 44196. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1385 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Contemporary brown calf binding, with fleurs-de-lys and Rocolet's device on covers. LAC brd 2019-03-08 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-02-14 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Bosse, Abraham - Firens, Pierre - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Rocolet, Pierre - Tavernier, Melchior
    • Date: 1629

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    Zheng jiao zhen quan : er juan
    正教真詮 : 二卷 /     Concerns Islam as interpreted by traditional Chinese philosophy.
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wang, Daiyu - Liang, Yijun - Qing Zhen Tang
    • Date: 1629
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    Jing ji lu : er juan
    經濟錄 : 二卷 / | Title on case: Taiyi shi ji | Taiyi shi ji     In case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. October 13, 1939 562926. 明崇禎間刻本 四周單欄 白口 黑單魚尾 版匡高21.6寬14.0公分. 九行十八字. Nine lines, with eighteen characters per line. 原題:「武功張鍊伯純甫著，上谷賈鴻洙憲仲甫選，新安劉浡然興伯甫訂。」賈鴻洙(序)崇禎二年(1629). 一冊與太乙詩集同裝一函. In case with: Tai yi shi ji. 1602.
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Jia, Hongzhu - Zhang, Lian - Liu, Boran
    • Date: 1629
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    Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs hapanta = Novum Iesv Christi Domini Nostri Testamentum. Romanized. Colphon : Absolvtvm Kalendis Martijs anno D. 1629. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1384 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC brd 2018-12-07 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-02-14 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Iannon, Ioannes
    • Date: 1629

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    Dittionario giorgiano e italiano
    Title on p. 1: Lekʻsi iberigo-pʻrankxi     Published in Rome in 1629, this Georgian-Italian dictionary was the first book printed in Georgian using moveable type. The dictionary was compiled by an Italian, Stefano Paolini, with the assistance of Niceforo Irbachi Giorgiano, the Georgian ambassador in Rome. It contains 3084 words, printed in three columns: Georgian words in the left column; Italian transliterations (with accents marked) in the middle column; and an…
    • Contributor: Paolini, Stefano - Catholic Church. Congregatio De Propaganda Fide - Niceforo Irbachi
    • Date: 1629
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