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Book/Printed MaterialRenati Des-Cartes Principia philosophiae
Des Cartes philosophia René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, scientific thinker, and philosopher who made important contributions to mathematics, optics, epistemology, and other fields that helped to shape how the modern world came to see nature and the human mind. The son of a lawyer, he was educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche and in Poitiers, where he studied law. He became a soldier…- Contributor: Elzevir, Louis - Descartes, René - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialRenati Des Cartes Specimina philosophiae, sev Dissertatio de methodo recte regendae rationis & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice et Meteora.
Specimina philosophiae Translation by Etienne de Courcelles. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1432 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: With: the author's Principia philosophiae. Amstelodami, 1644. Copy 2. Choice/form AACR2: vj39 08-15-96 Starts as image 343 of combined digital file LAC ecr 2018-10-16 no edits (2 cards) LC Review of LAC Completed/Not Approved 2018-10-24 LC Review…- Contributor: Descartes, René - Courcelles, Etienne De - Elzevir, Louis - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialActes and monvments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church, with an vniuersall historie of the same ... from the primitiue age to those latter times of ours, with …
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable | Second volvme of the ecclesiasticall historie, containing the acts and monuments of martyrs | Ecclesiasticall historie, containing the acts and monuments of martyrs Vol. 2 has title: The second volvme of the ecclesiasticall historie, containing the acts and monuments of martyrs. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1461 LC copy: On covers: Coat of arms of King James I; also, coronet and the initials H L beneath it (Henry Yelverton, viscount Longueville, 3d Earl of Sussex?). Bookplate of Hog of Newliston. LAC nsk 2018-12-20 update (2…- Contributor: James I - Yelverton, Henry - Hog, J. M. (James Maitland) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Stationers' Company (London, England) - Foxe, John
- Date: 1610
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Book/Printed MaterialBiblia; das ist, Die gantze Schrifft Alten vnd Newen Testaments
Gantze Schrifft Alten vnd Newen Testaments Added engraved title page. "Die Propheten" and "Das Newe Testament" have special title pages. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1320 LC copy: Illustrations and engraved title pages are hand-colored. Conserved; 000455 1972 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda LC copy bound in Contemporary gold-toothed red morocco. LAC ecr 2019-01-22 update (1 card) LAC ddw…- Contributor: Luther, Martin - Bible Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Lazarus Zetzner Erben - Merian, Matthaeus
- Date: 1630
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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: Hoffmann, James R. - Dondé, Antoine - Lasne, Michel - Bosse, Abraham - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Poilly, Nicolas De - Stirling Maxwell, William - Campion, François
- Date: 1659
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Book/Printed MaterialLa vie symboliqve dv bienhevrevx François de Sales, evesqve et prince de Geneve, comprise sous la voile de 52 emblemes, qui marquent le caractere de ses principales vertus, avec autant de meditations, …
Vie symbolique du bienheureux François de Sales "Pour l'vsage des Religieuses de la Visitation, & à la disposition de celles du Fauxbourg saint Iacques." The emblems by A. Flamen. Cf. M. Praz. Studies in 17th cent. imagery. Frontispiece engr. by G. Vallet after A. Paillet. LAC knj 2019-01-28 no edits (2 cards)- Contributor: Gambart, Adrien - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Flamen, Albert
- Date: 1664
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Book/Printed MaterialLes hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siecle : avec leurs portraits au naturel Portraits engraved by Gérard Edelinck, Jacques Lubin, and others. "Archevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois, le 28. septembre 1696."--v. 1, Extrait du privilege. Copy in which notices and ports. of Thomassin and Du Cange have been substituted for those of Arnauld (p. 15) and Pascal (p. 65), but the two suppressed ports. have been added. Regarded as first issue. Cf. Brunet, Manuel du libraire.…- Contributor: Edelinck, Gérard - Lubin, Jacques - Cobenzl, Johann Karl Philipp - Bement, Clarence S. (Clarence Sweet) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Dezallier, Antoine - Perrault, Charles
- Date: 1696
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Book/Printed MaterialHerōologia Anglica : hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum aliqout [sic] Anglorum qui floruerunt ab anno Cristi M.D. usq' ad presentem annum M.D.C.XX viuae effigies vitae et elogia : duobus tomis
Ms. title on front free endpaper of copy 3: Series of authentic English portraits with memoirs | Herologia Anglica | Spine title of copy 2: Heroologia LC copy has leaf (inserted after 7th preliminary leaf) containing poem in Latin signed: I. Gruterus. LC copy inscribed: P. Mariette 1682. Its ms. marginalia are discussed in Hind, A.M. Engraving in England, v. 2, p. 150-151. Printed by the author. Cf. ESTC. Signatures: )(¹⁰ A-V⁶ chi1. Title page engraved by Crispijn van de Passe; plates engraved by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe.…- Contributor: Passe, Magdalena Van De - Holland, Henry - Northwick, John Rushout - Jansson, Jan - Passe, Willem Van De - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Passe, Crispijn Van De - Naunton, Robert - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1620
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Book/Printed MaterialThe history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales: with ye successions, lives, acts & issues of the English … Engraved title page. Published as a continuation of the author's "Theatre of Great Britaine," both works being listed in the table of contents. The woodcuts are by Christoph Schweitzer. Cf. ESTC. Printed by by William Hall and John Beale. Cf. ESTC. English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) S117937 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1462 LC copy: Imperfect. 4 preliminary leaves wanting? LC copy…- Contributor: Speed, John - Beale, John - Humble, George - Schweitzer, Christoph - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, William - Sudbury, John
- Date: 1611
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Book/Printed MaterialRelation en forme de journal du voyage et sejour, que le serenissime ... prince Charles II roy de la Grand' Bretagne, &c. a fait en Hollande depuis le 25 may jusques au … Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1439 LAC knj 2019-03-12 no edits (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-02-17 update (1 card)- Contributor: Vlacq, Adriaan - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1660
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Book/Printed MaterialRelation du voyage de Sa Majesté Britannique en Hollande et de la reception qui luy a été faite. Avec un ré́cit abregé́ de ce qui s'est passé́ de plus considerable depuis l'arrivé́e … Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1447 LAC snh 2019-03-01 update (2 card) LAC ddw 2022-02-22 update (1 card)- Contributor: Tronchin Du Breuil, Jean - Leers, Arnout - Hooghe, Romeyn De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1692
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Book/Printed MaterialKomste van Zyne Majesteit Willem III. Koning van Groot Britanje, enz. in Holland : ofte, Omstandelyke beschryving van alles, het welke op des zelfs komste en geduurende zyn verblyf, in 's Graavenhaage … Added engraved title page. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1446 LAC snh 2019-03-01 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-02-22 update (1 card)- Contributor: Leers, Arnout - Bidloo, Govard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1691
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Book/Printed MaterialThe theatre of the empire of Great Britaine: presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning: with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within ye … Engraved title page. Continues the author's History of Great Britaine. Printed by by William Hall and John Beale. Cf. ESTC. "The text is mainly taken from: Camden, William. Britannia"--ESTC. Woodcuts by Christoph Schweitzer. Some of the maps are signed by Jodocus Hondius. Cf. ESTC. English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) S117917 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1463 LC copy: Imperfect? Leaf at end…- Contributor: Speed, John - Beale, John - Camden, William - Humble, George - Schweitzer, Christoph - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hondius, Jodocus - Hall, William - Sudbury, John
- Date: 1611
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Book/Printed MaterialMarie de Medicis entrant dans Amsterdam : ou, Histoire de la reception faicte à la reyne mere du roy tres-chrestien par les bourgmaistres & bourgeoisie de la ville d'Amsterdam
Marie de Medicis entrant dans Amsterdam | Histoire de la reception faicte à la reyne mere du roy tres-chrestien Most of the plates etched after paintings of Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1429 LC copy imperfect : portrait cut out and mounted on flyleaf. LAC brd 2019-03-08 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-03-22 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-03-28 LAC ddw 2022-02-16 update (1 card)- Contributor: Blaeu, Cornelis - Moeyaert, Claes Cornelisz - Blaeu, Joan - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Baerle, Caspar Van
- Date: 1638
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Book/Printed MaterialDiscovrs svr les arcs triomphavx dressés en la ville d'Aix à l'heureuse arriuée de Lovys XIII, roy de France, & de Nauaare.
Discours sur les arc triomphaux dressés en la ville d'Aix à l'heureuse arriuée de Louys XIII, roy de France, et de Navaare Added engraved title page. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1379 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy bound in contemporary gilt vellum. LAC brd 2019-03-08 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-02-10 update (1 card)- Contributor: Tholosan, Jean - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Galaup De Chasteuil, Jean
- Date: 1624
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Book/Printed MaterialIl mondo piangente, et il cielo festeggiante. Nel fvnerale apparato dell'essequie celebrate in Roma nella Chiesa di San Lvigi de Francesi alla gloriosa memoria di Anna d'Avstria, regina di Francia
Essequie di Anna d'Austria Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1357 LC copy: On spine: Essequie di Anna d'Austria. LC copy: bound in white vellum, with coat of arms. LAC brd 2019-03-08 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-02-08 update (1 card)- Contributor: Benedetti, Elpidio - Tinassi, Nicol' Angelo - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1666
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Book/Printed MaterialLes Plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée. Course de bague ; collation ornée de machines ; comedie, meslée de danse et de musique ; ballet du palais d'Alcine ; feu d'artifice : et autres … Added engraved title page: Les Plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée, ou Les festes, et diuertissements du Roy, à Versailles, diuiséz en troi journées ... Plates engraved by Israël Silvestre. Reprint, with corrections, of the edition of 1664 in which the "Comédie meslée de danse et de musique" (Molières La princesse d'Élide) was published for the first time, being the "divertissement" of the second day (p.…- Contributor: Imprimerie Royale (France) - Molière - Silvestre, Israël - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1674
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Book/Printed MaterialAmore e gloria : festa d'armi a cavallo celebrata nel regio ducal palazzo di Milano e dedicata all'eccellentissimo signore il sig. Don Paola Spinola Doria. Dedication by Sinibaldo Fieschi to Paolo Spinola Doria, Spanish governor of Milan. The tournament took place in 1669. Engravings by various artists after designs by Andrea and Carlo Biffi. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1358 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2019-03-18 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-03-27 review LAC ddw 2022-02-08 update (1…- Contributor: Spinola-Doria, Paolo - Biffi, Andrea - Biffi, Carlo - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Malatesta, Marc'antonio Pandolfo - Fieschi, Sinibaldo
- Date: 1669
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Book/Printed MaterialIl mondo festeggiante. Balletto a cavallo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran dvca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana et Margherita Lvisa d'Orleans. The 3 fold plates are etchings by Stefano della Bella. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁴ I² (A1-2 wanting; I2, blank?, wanting) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1356 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Provenance: the arms of the marquesses Rangoni Macchiavelli in gilt on covers. LAC ael 2019-03-19 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-03-27 review LAC…- Contributor: Stamperia DI S.A.S. (Florence, Italy) - Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea - Della Bella, Stefano - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1661
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Book/Printed MaterialFesta fatta in Roma alli 25 di febraio 1634. The plates after designs of Andrea Sacchi were engraved by François Collignon. The festivities were in honor of the arrival of Prince Alexander Charles of Poland. Author identified as Guido Bentivoglio from the Collection of letters written by Cardinal Bentivoglio, Rome, Filippo de Rossi, 1654. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1351 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web…- Contributor: Sacchi, Andrea - Bentivoglio, Guido - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Collignon, François - Mascardi, Vitale
- Date: 1635
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Book/Printed MaterialHistorica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis Serenissimorum Belgii Principum Alberti et Isabellae, Austriae archiducum, et eorum optatissimi in Belgium adventus ... descriptio. "Pompae triumphalis et spectaculorum in adventu ... Principum Alberti et Isabellae ... in ... Principatus metropoli Antverpia exhibitorum graphica designatio a Ioanne Bochio," "Descriptio pompae ... a Senatu populoq. Gandavensi ... decretae, Maximo Aemyliano Vrientio ... auctore" and "Descriptio triumphi et spectaculorum ... in ... civitatem Valentianam ingredientibus ... auctore Henrico d'Oultremanno" have special title pages. The engravings by Pieter van der Borcht after…- Contributor: Bochius, Joannes - Momper, Josse De - Moretus, Jan - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Borcht, Petrus Van Der
- Date: 1602
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Book/Printed MaterialPompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Avstriae, Ducis Burg. Bra. &c Plates engraved by Cornelius Galle. Printed text (in Latin. Spanish, French, and Dutch) has colophon: Lovanii, Typis Henrici Hastenii. M.DC.XXIII. Cancel slip on p. [16]. "Cérémonie célébrée dans l'eglise de Sainte-Gudule à Bruxelles le 20 mars 1622." ---E. Vinet Bibl. ... des beaux-arts, 1874, no. 622. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1453 LAC tnb 2019-03-13 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-03-20 review…- Contributor: Puteanus, Erycius - Francquart, Jacques - Galle, Cornelis - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1623
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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: Post, Pieter - Nolpe, Pieter - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Ravesteyn, Nicolaes Van
- Date: 1651
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Book/Printed MaterialPompa introitvs honori ... Ferdinandi Avstriaci Hispaniarvm Infantis ... a S.P.Q. Antverp. decreta ... XV Kal. Maii ann. M.DC.XXXV. Arcus, pegmata, icones[ue] a Pet. Pavlo Rvbenio inuentas et delineatas, inscriptionibus et elogiis …
Half-title (mounted) : Pompa trivmphalis introitvs Ferdinandi Avstriaci ... in vrbem Antverpiam Text inlaid to match the larger size of the uncut plates. The portrait of Prince Ferdinand is by Tulden, engraved by J. Neefs. The title page is engraved by J. Neefs. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977), 1456 LC copy: Apart from the regular 43 engravings, the copy has 2 extra plates inserted, one facing p. 6 (view of Antwerp, in an…- Contributor: Gevaerts, Jean-Gaspard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Thulden, Theodoor Van - Neeffs, Jacobus - Meursius, John - Rubens, Peter Paul
- Date: 1642
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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: Muqīm, Muḥammad - Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh - Muḥammad Amīn Ibn Abī Al-Ḥusayn Qazvīnī - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1650
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