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Book/Printed MaterialNew curiosities in art and nature, or, A collection of the most valuable secrets in all arts and sciences, as appears by the contents
New curiosities in art and nature | Collection of the most valuable secrets in all arts and sciences, as appears by the contents "Translated into English from the seventh edition. Printed this last year in French, in which is near one half more than any former edition. Illustrated with cuts. To which is added a supplement by the translator." Signatures: A-2A⁸. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2572 English short title catalogue, T106315 LC copy has the bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Copy 2 Conserved; 002207.16…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lémery, Nicolas
- Date: 1711
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PeriodicalMemoires pour l'histoire des sciences et des beaux-arts Serial. LC Copy: Louis XIV., King of France, armorial binding. LAC ael 2022-02-01 update (1 card)- Contributor: Buffier, Claude - Catrou, François - Brumoy, Pierre - Berthier, Guillaume François - Louis XIV - Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier De - Mercier, Barthé́lemy - Tournemine, René Joseph De - Aubert, Jean Louis - Sommervogel, Carlos - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Rouillé, Pierre Julien - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Jolivet, Jean Louis - Du Cerceau, (Jean-Antoine)
- Date: 1701
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PeriodicalThe South-Carolina and Georgia almanack, for the year of Our Lord Annual Issued in another printing by Clay & Habersham. LC copy bound, stamped in red leather and gilt, with armorial bookplate of W.J. De Renne, with his autograph presentation to Library of Congress, Oct. 6, 1907. Drake, M. Almanacs 17 cm. Description based on: 1764; title from cover.- Contributor: Tobler, John - American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 17??
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PeriodicalPoor Richard : an almanack, for the year of Christ
Poor Richard's almanacks | Poor Richard improved | Poor Richard's almanac Annual Some issues in several printings. Printer varies after 1792. Title history: Poor Richard, <1733-1740>; Poor Richard improved, <1748-1813>; Poor Richard's almanac, <1867-> American Almanac Collection: 1733, 1740-1867 (some issues wanting); another set (1740-1792)--in a leather pull-off case, with case title: Poor Richard's almanacks; each issue bound in leather by W. Pratt for Henry Stevens of Vermont, with his bookplate. Carson Collection: 1771. Drake,…- Contributor: Force, Peter - Ingraham, Edward D. (Edward Duncan) - American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress) - Pratt, W. - Stevens, Henry - Franklin, Benjamin - Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 17??
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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 MaterialFarol indiano, y guia de curas de indios : summa de los cinco sacramentos que administran los ministros evangelicos en esta America : con todos los casos morales que suceden entre indios, …
Farol indiano, y gvia de curas de indios A handbook for priests with Nahuatl-speaking parishioners, including the "five sacraments administered in America." "Dedicala al santissimo Esposo de la Esposa, y Madre de Dios, y Patron de esta Nueva-España, Señor San Joseph." Signatures: 1[paragraph sign]-6[paragraph signs]⁴ A-2A⁴ chi². A few woodcut initials. Tail-piece at end of preliminaries. LC Copy 1 in contemporary Mexican mottled calf binding. Incomplete: "Indice" and Errata on [3] p.…- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Rivera Calderón, Francisco De - Pérez, Manuel - Andrade, José Maria - Maximilian - Spanish-American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1713
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church : according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter … Engraved throughout. Imprint reads: London, Engraven and printed by the permission of Mr. John Baskett printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1717. Sold by John Sturt engraver... L.C. copy imperfect: movable disk on p. v wanting (supplied in photocopy) "Books and plates engraven and sold by John Sturt": p. [167] Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco. Provenance: I. White, New Coll., Ox. (bookplate); Arthur Haddaway.…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Church of England - Sturt, John
- Date: 1717
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Book/Printed MaterialSeveral sermons wherein is shewed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour, II. That God converts his elect some at one age, and some at another, commonly before old age, III. … Signatures: A⁸ B-F¹² G⁴ (first and last leaves blank). Variant of Evans 1767. LAC brd 2019-02-21 no edits (2 cards)- Contributor: Mather, Increase - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1715
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Book/Printed MaterialHoratii Tursellini, Romani, Historiarum ab origine mundi, usque ad annum à Christo nato MDXCVIII epitomae libri decem : cum brevibus notis, duplici item accessione, usque ad annum MDCXLII.
Historia universalis | Historiarum ab origine mundi, usque ad annum à Christo nato MDXCVIII epitomae libri decem The plate is an engraved illustrated title page. Signatures: *⁸(-*8?) A-2Q⁸. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the Lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 44 Title page printed in red and black. Includes index. LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. LC copy is initialled by Thomas Jefferson at signatures I and T. LAC ecr 2019-03-21 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Torsellino, Orazio - Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1710
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLiber primus Commentariorum in Epitomen historarum Horatii Tursellini : ex privatis lectionibus celeberrimi Jacobi Perizonii.
Perizonii Animadvers. in univ. hist | Commentariorum in Epitomen historiarum Horatii Tursellini Manuscript. No printed edition is known to exist. Cf. E.M. Sowerby. Cat. of the Lib. of Thomas Jefferson.- Contributor: Dawson, Thomas - Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - Perizonius, Jacobus - Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1714
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PeriodicalThe Merchants news-letter
Merchants newsletter Weekly Began in 1703? Title from caption. Also issued in digital form on the Library of Congress web site. PREMARC/SERLOC merged record serpull 985 removed per C. Arms LAC brd 2019-02-04 update (1 card)- Date: 170?
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Book/Printed MaterialThe history of Persia. Containing, the lives and memorable action of its kings from the first erecting of that monarchy to this time; an exact description of all its dominions; a curious … Captain John Stevens (died 1726) was a prolific translator and embellisher of Spanish and Portuguese works of history and literature who published this book in 1715. In his preface, Stevens explained: "Persia is at this time, and has been for several Ages, one of the Great Eastern Monarchies, and yet the Accounts we have hitherto had of it in English have been no better…- Contributor: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad Ibn Khāvandshāh - Stevens, John - Tūrān Shāh Ibn Quṭb Al-Dīn - Teixeira, Pedro - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1715
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Book/Printed MaterialJac. Perizonii Aegyptiarum originum et temporum antiquissimorum investigatio : in qua Marshami chronologia funditus evertitur tum illae Usserii, Cappelli, Pezronii, aliorumque, examinatur et confutantur.
Jac. Perizonii Origines Babylonicae et Aegyptiacae, tomis II | Aegyptiarum originum et temporum antiquissimorum investigatio Vol. 1: [22], 286a, 286b-510, [26] p.; v. 2: [12], 376, [14] p. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the Lib. of Thomas Jefferson 10 Title pages printed in red and black. Errata: v. 1, p. 510; v. 2, p. [14] at end. Includes indexes. LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's copy with his initials at the I…- Contributor: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - Perizonius, Jacobus - Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1711
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Book/Printed MaterialHistoire de la conquete de la Floride, ou, Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans la découverte de ce pays par Ferdinand de Soto
Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans la découverte de ce pays par Ferdinand de Soto | Vol. 2 has title: Histoire de la Floride, ou, Relation de la conquete de ce pays par Ferdinand de Soto, seconde partie | Relation de la conquete de ce pays par Ferdinand de Soto, seconde partie | Histoire de la Floride, ou, Relation de la conquete de ce pays par Ferdinand de Soto, seconde partie A translation of La Florida del Ynca, 1605. An earlier edition of Richelet's translation was published in 1670 under the title Histoire de la Floride. As in the 1709 edition of the present title, vol. 2 is dated 1707. Palau y Dulcet (354839) and Sabin (98748) list the 1711 edition with a variant imprint: Imprimé à Lille, & se vend a Paris : Chez…- Contributor: Richelet, Pierre - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Vega, Garcilaso De La
- Date: 1711
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Book/Printed MaterialIn the House of Representatives. June 12th. 1711. : Whereas Her Majesty of her tender concern and regard to the welfare of her good subjects of these Her Majesties provinces and colonies … Signed: John Burrill speaker. Followed by Governor Dudley's proclamation in support of the expedition against Canada, "Given at the Council Chamber in Boston the twelfth day of June, 1711. ..." Signed: By order of the governour, with the advice of the Council, J. Dudley. Isaac Addington secr., Fr. Nicholson. English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W16865 Bristol, R.P. Index to Supplement to Charles Evans' American…- Contributor: Green, Bartholomew - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - Massachusetts. Governor ( : Dudley)
- Date: 1711
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Book/Printed MaterialPortraits of the four Indian kings of Canada Title from LC portfolio cover. Arranged by numbering available from 2nd state: cf. Smith. Signed on plates, lower edge. LC copy of Ho Nee Yeath Taw No Row trimmed to or within plate mark on left, right, and upper edge with Simon's address erased and replaced by statement: Printed & sold by Iohn King at ye Globe in ye Poultrey. Gift of Lessing J.…- Contributor: Simon, John - Verelst, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1710
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Book/Printed MaterialJournal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de LaSale fit dans le golfe de Mexique, pour trouver l'embouchure, & le cours de la riviere de Missicipi, nommeé à present la riviere … The original journal, of which this is an abridgment, was published in Pierre Margry's Découvertes et établissements des français dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amérique Septentrionale, t. 3, 1878, p. [89]-534. Signatures: a¹² ẽ⁶(-ẽ6) A-Q¹². LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Imperfect, wanting the map. With the Force Collection bookplate. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson,…- Contributor: Force, Peter - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Michel - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Joutel, Henri
- Date: 1713
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Book/Printed MaterialVoyages aux côtes de Guinée & en Amérique. LAC snh 2019-06-14 update (1 card)- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - N
- Date: 1719
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Book/Printed MaterialOngelukkige schipbreuk en yslyke reystogt : van etlyke Engelschen, in den jaare 1696 van Jamaika in West-Indiën, na Pensylvania t'scheep gegaan, en in de Golf van Florida gestrand, alwaar zy onder de … Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available "En met printverbeeldingen en noodig register verrykt." Signatures: A-F⁸ G⁶. Sabin 20017 Kislak accession no.: 1989.002.00.0005 LAC snh 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card) LAC ddw 2023-03-27 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Brown, John Carter - Aa, Pieter Van Der - Dickinson, Jonathan - Sewel, William
- Date: 1710
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Case of the creditors of the Royal African-Company. With docket title. Place of publication from ESTC, date from Hanson. Final line of text: "Losses, during the late long and destructive Wars." Hanson, L. Contemporary printed sources for British and Irish economic history, 1701-1750, 1877 English short title catalogue, N6679 Catalog of broadsides in the Rare Book Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., vol. 4, page 128, column 1 Also available in digital…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Royal African Company
- Date: 1713
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Book/Printed MaterialArrest du Conseil d'Etat privé du roy du 22 mars 1717 portant reglement pour les imprimeurs-libraires de la province de Normandie. Extrait des registres du Conseil d'État privé du roy. Caption title. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1614 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2019-09-19 create (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-09 update (1 card)- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - France. Conseil D'état - Huguier, Charles
- Date: 1717
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Book/Printed MaterialL'architettura civile : preparata sú la geometria, e ridotta alle prospettive In two volumes. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1568 LAC ecr 2019-10-23 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-08 update (1 card)- Contributor: Bibiena, Ferdinando Galli - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Tonelli, G. B. - Monti, Paolo
- Date: 1711
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Book/Printed MaterialErlustierende Augenweide in Vorstellung herrlicher Görten und Lustgebäude, Pt. 2 has title: Erste Fortsetzung erlustierender Augenweide ... ; pt. 3: Erlustierender Augen-Weyde zweyte Fortsetzung ... Engravings by Johann August Corvinus and Karl Remshard. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1558 Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18) VD18 11115165 LAC scc 2019-09-05 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-07 update (1 card)- Contributor: Wolf, Jeremias - Diesel, Matthias - Corvinus, Johann August - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Remshard, Karl
- Date: 1717
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Book/Printed MaterialDessins pour l'Iliade d'Homere. Title from spine. 25 original wash drawings (12.7-13.2 cm.) used as illustrations in the French translation of Homer's Works, published by J. Wettstein, Amsterdam, 1731; sometimes also included in the edition of the Iliad, translated into French, published by Rigaud, Paris, 1711. The drawings, dated 1710, are mounted and have printed captions. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1611 Also available in digital…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Sneyd, Walter - Picart, Bernard - Williams, Theodore
- Date: 1710
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Book/Printed MaterialAlbert Durer revived: or, a book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints: and the art of painting : with the names and mixtures of colours used by the …
Albert Durer revived | Book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints: and the art of painting | Young-man's time well spent Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2461 LC copy: Provenance: Bookplate of Howard C. Levis LAC scc 2019-09-23 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-05-25 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-05-25- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1718
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