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Book/Printed MaterialAd Apollodori Atheniensis Bibliothecam notae Continuously paged and signed. Vol. 1: 520 p.; v. 2: p. [3], 524-900; v. 3: p. [5], 906-1408, [4]. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 12 Errata: v. 3, p. [1-3] at end. LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. LC copy is initialled by Thomas Jefferson at signatures I, T, Tt, Iii, Ttt, and Iiiii. All volumes have…- Contributor: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - Heyne, Christian Gottlob - Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1783
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed Vol. 1: xvi, [2], 266, [14] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 519, [13] p. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1457 ESTC (RLIN) T143522 Title pages printed in red and black. Includes indexes. LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, with his initials at signatures I and T in…- Contributor: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - Sale, George - Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1764
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Book/Printed MaterialTableau général de l'Empire othoman, divisé en deux parties, dont l'une comprend la législation mahométane; l'autre, l'histoire de l'Empire othoman. Added t.-p., engr. Vol. 3 has imprint: Paris, Impr. Firmin Didot. Comprises only the "Législation mahométane." The history is still unpublished. cf. J.M. Quérard. La France littéraire.- Contributor: Ohsson, Constantin D - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Mouradgea D'ohsson, Ignatius
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialGottfried Arnolds Unpartheyische Kirchen- und Ketzer-Historie : vom Anfang des Neuen Testaments biss auf das Jahr Christi 1688
Gottfried Arnolds Unparteiische Kirchen- und Ketzerhistorie | Unpartheyische Kirchen- und Ketzer-Historie Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: a-b⁴ c1 A-3K⁴ 3L² 3M-7R⁴ 7S1. Includes index. LAC nsk 2018-11-23 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2023-05-25 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Arnold, Gottfried - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1729
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Book/Printed MaterialA token for children : being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives, and joyful deaths of several young children "Preserved and published for the encouragement of piety in other children. With new additions." "A token for the children of New England" is by Cotton Mather. First published in England, 1671-1672. Became the most widely read children's book of the Puritan age. Cf. Haviland's Yankee Doodle's literary sampler. Signatures: [A]⁶ B-N⁶. Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 67 Haviland, V. Children's reading in America, 1776, p.…- Contributor: Fowle, Zechariah - Mather, Cotton - Janeway, James
- Date: 1771
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Book/Printed MaterialThe distinguishing marks of a work of the Spirit of God ESTC N2950 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2018-12-03 update (1 card)- Contributor: Wesley, John - Edwards, Jonathan
- Date: 1744
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Book/Printed MaterialThe New England Psalter of Psalms of David with the Proverbs of Solomon, and Christ's Sermon on the Mount: being an introduction for the training up children in the reading of the … LC copy imperfect: lower part of title page wanting. Evans, C. American bibliography, 9603. LAC brd 2018-11-30 create (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-12-03 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-12-11- Contributor: Bible Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1764
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Book/Printed MaterialManá del alma; o, Exercicio facil y provechoso para quien desea darse de algun modo à la oracion
Maná del alma | Exercicio facil y provechoso para quien desea darse de algun modo à la oracion Translation of La manna dell'anima, the February part; 2d volume of a 12-vol. Spanish edition. Meditations on liturgically oriented selections from the Bible; texts of the selections in Latin and Spanish. LAC ecr 2019-01-29 update (1 card)- Contributor: Segneri, Paolo - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1751
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Book/Printed MaterialA curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth : designed chiefly to familiarize tender age, in a pleasing …
Curious hieroglyphick Bible A hieroglyphic Bible replaces some of the words of the text with pictures. Such Bibles were at one time very popular in Great Britain and America and were used as a means of teaching Scripture to children in a direct, simple, and interesting way. Presented here is the first American hieroglyphic Bible, A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select Passages in the Old and New…- Contributor: Thomas, Isaiah - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1788
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Book/Printed MaterialPhysica sacra, iconibvs æneis illus
Physica sacra, iconibvs æneis illustrata | Physica sacra, iconibus aeneis illustrata "Catalogus auctorum eorumque scriptorum in hoc opere commemoratorum" : v. 1, p. [11]-[36] Original design and duplicates of plates 44 and 234 laid in. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1560 LC copy has bookplate of Lord Arundell of Wardour. LAC ecr 2019-02-04 create (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-07 update (1 card)- Contributor: Pfeffel, Johann Andreas - Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1731
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Book/Printed MaterialA careful and strict inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and … Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Remarks on the Essays on the principles of morality and natural religion, in a letter to a minister of the Church of Scotland / by the Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards. 13 p. at end. A criticism of Lord Kames' Essays. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-U⁴ X-2Q⁴ R⁴(-R4). Evans 22476 LAC ael 2019-01-24 no edits (3 cards) LAC rwp 2019-02-04 review- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Edwards, Jonathan
- Date: 1790
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Book/Printed MaterialA dissertation concerning liberty and necessity : containing remarks on the essays of Dr. Samuel West, and on the writings of several other authors, on those subjects Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Signatures: A-O⁸ P⁶. Errata on p. [1] at end. Evans 32073 LAC ael 2019-01-24 no edits (2 cards)
- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Edwards, Jonathan
- Date: 1797
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Book/Printed MaterialA disquisition concerning the state of the souls of men (especially of good men) when separated from their bodies : in which some late very remarkable providences relating to apparitions, are considered
State of the soul, after the death of the body Signatures: A-D⁶. Evans 1319 LAC ael 2019-01-25 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Mather, Increase - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1707
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Book/Printed MaterialMystyrion anomias =The mystery of lawlesness [sic], or lawless antichrist discover'd and disclos'd : shewing that all those do belong to that lawless antichrist who wilfully reject the commandments of God, amongst …
Mystery of lawlesness | Mystery of lawlessness | Lawless antichrist discover'd and disclos'd Place of publication and publisher from Bristol. Signatures: A-D⁴. Bristol B776 LAC aaa 2019-01-04 no edits (2 cards)- Contributor: Beissel, Conrad - Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1729
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Book/Printed MaterialPsalmodia germanica, or, The German psalmody : translated from the High Dutch, together with their proper tunes, and thorough bass
German psalmody Dedication signed: John Christian Jacobi. Signatures: A-F⁶ G-P¹² Q⁶. Evans 7772 Includes index. LAC aaa 2019-01-22 no edits (2 card)- Contributor: Jacobi, Johann Christian - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1756
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Book/Printed MaterialOlney hymns : in three books Olney Hymns was compiled by John Newton, the author of "Amazing Grace" and rector of a parish in Olney, England, and William Cowper, a poet and close friend of Newton. The book contained the first printing of "Amazing Grace," which is numbered "Hymn 41" and begins at the bottom of page 53. The profits from the hymnal went to the benefit of Olney's poor.…- Contributor: Cowper, William - Newton, John - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialOlney hymns : in three books
Olney hymns in three books Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Without music. Signatures: A⁶(-A6,+A6) B-2F⁶. A different issue from Evans 23631; t.p. is a cancel.- Contributor: Newton, John - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1791
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Book/Printed MaterialNeu-vermehrt und vollständiges Gesang-Buch zur Uebung der Gottseligkeit, in 750 Psalmen und Gesángen Herrn D. Martin Luthers und anderer gottseliger Lehrer ... welche anjetzo sämmtlich in denen evangelishen Kirchen in Pennsylvanien und … Without music. Printed and bound (in stamped and color vellum) in Germany? Cf. Quarterly journal of the Library of Congress, v. 22, 1965, p. 191. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1789 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC aaa 2019-02-11 update (2 card) LAC rwp 2019-02-14 review LAC ddw 2022-06-16 update (1 card) LC Review of…- Contributor: Baisch, Ernst Ludwig - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States
- Date: 1774
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Book/Printed MaterialA narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw. An African prince Evans 13311 Printed in red on rare book shelf list card: CF-4176.- Contributor: Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1774
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Book/Printed MaterialThe penitential discipline of the primitive church for the first 400 years after Christ- Contributor: Marshall, Nathaniel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1714
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Book/Printed MaterialThe danger of an unconverted ministry : considered in a sermon on Mark VI. 34 Signatures: A-B⁸. Miller, C.W. Franklin, 210 Evans 4609 ESTC W30695 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC aaa 2019-01-23 no edits (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-01-30 review- Contributor: Tennent, Gilbert - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Franklin, Benjamin
- Date: 1740
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Book/Printed MaterialFasti novi orbis et ordinationum apostolicarum ad Indias pertinentium breviarum cum adnotatonibus Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available "... a collection of all the orders, decrees, etc. given by the popes and by the kings of Spain, relative to the spiritual concerns of America, from its first discovery."--Sabin, quoted from Rich, Bibl. Amer. nova, I, 107. "Cyriacus Morelli" a pseudonym for Domingo Muriel, S.J. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel. Signatures: pi⁴ A-4G⁴ 4H⁶. Errata: p. [643]. Includes bibliographical references and index. Backer-Sommervogel, V, column 1453,…
- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Zatta, Antonio - Muriel, Domingo
- Date: 1776
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Book/Printed MaterialManual compendio de el Regio patronato indiano, para su mas facil uso en las materias conducentes à la practica Signatures: pi1 [par.]-4[par.]⁴ 5[par.]⁶ A-3T⁴ 3V⁶. "Bulas apostolicas, que se citan en este manual, con la traduccion del idioma Latino en el Castellano ...": p. [317]-471. Title page printed in red and black. Includes index. Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 266572 Sabin 70785 The papal bulls are in Latin and Spanish on facing pages. Kislak accession no.: 1966.038.00.0003.- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Ribadeneyra Barrientos, Antonio Joachín De - Catholic Church. Pope ( : Benedict XIV)
- Date: 1755
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Book/Printed MaterialPlaticas de los principales mysterios de nuestra sta. fee : con una breve exortacion al fin del modo con que deben excitarse al dolor de las culpas In Maya; preliminary matter in Spanish. Translated "por orden del illmo. ... D.F. Ignacio de Padilla ... arzobispo obispo de estas provincias de Yucatan." Signatures: [par.]² 2[par.]-3[par.]² A-F² [G]1. Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 75281 Sabin 20568 Medina, J.T. México, 4462. Kislak accession no: 2002.162.00.0001. LAC brd 2019-01-11 no edits (2 cards)
- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Domínguez Y Argáiz, Francisco Eugenio
- Date: 1758
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Book/Printed MaterialPromptuario manual mexicano : que á la verdad podrá ser utilissimo á los parrochos para la enseñanza ; á los necessitados indios para su instrucción ; y á los que aprenden la …
Platicas, y Mission Mexicana Text in Nahuatl. Title, prefaces, dedication, and captions in Spanish. Frontispiece engraving (etching) of St. Ignatius of Loyola, signed by Zapata, is identical to that in Compendio del arte de la lengua mexicana del P[adre] Horacio Carochi de la Compañia de Jesus ... por el P[adre] Ignacio de Paredes. The two works have the same imprint and date of publication. Full-page woodcut coat of…- Contributor: Force, Peter - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Paredes, Ignacio De - Smith, Buckingham - Fisher, Otto Orren
- Date: 1759
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