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Book/Printed MaterialLes figvres e l'abregé de la vie, de la mort, et des miracles de S. Francois de Pavle, instituteur et fondateur de l'Ordre des Minimes : Recevillies de la bvlle de Leon …
Figures e l'abregé de la vie, de la mort, et des miracles de S. Francois de Paule, instituteur et fondateur de l'Ordre des Minimes Conserved; 001382 1976 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda Dondé identified by initials on title page border: F. AD. M. I. An edtion "par Fr. Antoine Dondé" with plates and 171 pages of text was published under the same title at Paris in 1671 (see Paris. Bibliothèque nationale. Catalogue général des livres imprimés). Engraved throughout. Title…- Contributor: Campion, François - Lasne, Michel - Bosse, Abraham - Hoffmann, James R. - Poilly, Nicolas De - Stirling Maxwell, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Dondé, Antoine
- Date: 1659
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Book/Printed MaterialBegraeffenisse van Syne Hoogheyt Frederick Henrick, Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1437 LAC tnb 2019-03-18 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-02-17 update (1 card)- Contributor: Ravesteyn, Nicolaes Van - Post, Pieter - Nolpe, Pieter - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1651
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPādishāhnāmah
پادشاهنامه Contains a biography of Shāhjahān from his birth through the first 10 years of his reign by Qazvīnī. This work is followed by the second and third parts of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh's ʻAmāl-i Ṣāliḥ's history, starting with the 11th year of Shāhjahān's reign and including the wars of succession and his death. Cf, the similar composite manuscript ms. no. 566 in Bankipore, Bengal. Oriental…- Contributor: Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Muqīm, Muḥammad - Muḥammad Amīn Ibn Abī Al-Ḥusayn Qazvīnī
- Date: 1650
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Book/Printed MaterialThe world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake. Offered now at last to publique view, both for the honour of the actor, but especially for the stirring up of heroicke spirits, to benefit … In Sir Francis Drake revived ... collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake, Master Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher ... and divers other gentlemen. London, 1653. Without the dedication by Sir Francis Drake, baronet, nephew of Sir Francis Drake, the navigator, and compiler of the notes, which is found in the first editon, 1628. Wing W3586. LAC knj 2019-06-19 update…- Contributor: Fletcher, Francis - Drake, Francis - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1652
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Book/Printed MaterialThe royall game of chesse-play. Sometimes the recreation of the late king, with many of the nobility The frontispiece is a portrait of Charles I., engraved by P. Stent. Tr. by Francis Beale. Wing G1810. LAC tnb 2019-06-26 update (1 card)- Contributor: Greco, Gioachino - Beale, Francis
- Date: 1656
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Book/Printed MaterialGraphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, The most excellent art of painting: in two parts
Use of the pen and pensil | Most excellent art of painting Added title page: Graphice. Or, The use of the pen and pensill, in designing, drawing, and painting; with an exact discourse of each of them. As also, concerning miniature or limning, in water-colours: the names, natures, and properties of colours: the ordering, preparing, washing, and using them, for pictures of life, landskip, and history. As also, of croyons, or dry-colours, by pastills or powders;…- Contributor: Hollar, Wenceslaus - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Barnard, H. G. - Crofts, Robert - Faithorne, William - Sanderson, William - United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1658
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Book/Printed MaterialLes commentaires de Cesar Added engraved title page. "Et le dit sieur d'Ablancourt a choisi ppour faire ladite impression des Commentaires de Cesar, par luy traduits, la venue Iean Camusat, Angustin Courbé, & Pierre le Petit, ausquels il a cedé son droit de priuilege." "Remarqves svr la carte de l'ancienne Cavle tirée des Commentaires de Cesar par le s. Sanson d'Abbeville, seconde edition, reueue, corrigée & augumentée" with…- Contributor: Ablancourt, Nicolas Perrot D - Liechtenstein, House of - Sanson, Nicolas - Hirtius, Aulus - Caesar, Julius - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1652
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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: Imprimerie Royale (France) - Caesar, Julius - Biblioteca Del Duca DI Genova - Louis XIV - Anne - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1651
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Book/Printed MaterialThe mysteries of nature and art. Added title page. Parts 2-4 have special title pages. Edition statement taken from added title page. English Short Title Catalogue, R29021 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1499 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Imperfect: Title page wanting; added title page mounted. LC copy: Provenance: Bookplate of Howard C. Levis. LAC tnb 2020-09-15 update (1…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Crooke, Andrew - Bishop, Richard - Bate, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1654
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Book/Printed MaterialPrimera parte del arte de escrivir todas formas de letras No more published. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Jose de Casanova signed: Pedro de Villafranca Invent. y Esculp en Madrid 1649. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1554 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: plates 24, 27, 29 and 33 wanting. LAC knj 2019-04-18 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-07 update (1 card)- Contributor: Diaz De La Carrera, Diego - Villafranca Malagón, Pedro - Casanova, José De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1650
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