Collection Items
-
Book/Printed MaterialHortus Cliffortianus, plantas exhibens quas in hortis tam vivis quam siccis, Hartecampi in Hollandia coluit ... Georgius Clifford ... : reductis varietatibus ad species, speciebus ad genera, generibus ad classes, adjectis locis … Not published until about Sept. 1738. Cf. Hunt botanical cat., 504. Call no changed to QK 91. H67 from QK98.L77 Title in red and black; title vignette. "Observet lector hanc paginam excipi a pagina 301., nullo tamen hiatu admisso præter numerum paginarum nobis ob typum necessarium." Plates engraved by J. Wandelaar (20 after designs by G. D. Ehret) LAC scc 2018-11-20 update (1 card)- Contributor: Wandelaar, Jan - Ehret, Georg Dionysius - Linné, Carl Von - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1738
Resource: View All Pages | Images with Text | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialBybel der natuure, Title vignettes. Paged continuously. Added t.-p. in Latin. Dutch and Latin in parallel columns. LAC scc 2018-12-11 update (1 card)- Contributor: Gaubius, Hieronymus David - Swammerdam, Jan - Boerhaave, Herman
- Date: 1737
Resources: View All Pages | PDF View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialDe Europischen insecten, naauwkeurig onderzogt, Title in red and black, with vignette in colors; tailpiece in colors. Translation of author's Der raupen wunderbare verwandelung und sonderbare blumennahrung, Nuremberg, etc., 1679-83. Published also under title: Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering, Amsterdam, 1683-1717. LAC scc 2018-12-14 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Merian, Maria Sibylla - Marret, Jean
- Date: 1730
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Manuscript/Mixed MaterialManuscriptum ichthyologicum quod Petrus Artedi elaboravit in usum Thesauri Sebani : manuscript Peter Artedi, known as the "father of ichthyology," was a colleague of (and possible influence on) Linnaeus. Notes made by Artedi on the fish-specimen collection of Albertus Seba, posthumously incorporated into volume 3 of the latter's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri. Describes the fishes found in Ambon and Suriname, arranged by genus and species. Title from title page. Copied by Rob. Wilh. van Homrigh and…- Contributor: Artedi, Peter - Phillipps, Thomas - United States. Bureau of Fisheries - Seba, Albertus
- Date: 1735
Resource: View All Images | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialThe gentleman's companion: or, Tradesman's delight. Containing the mystery of dying in all its branches. The method of cleaning and taking out stains from silks, woollen or linnen. To clean gold or …
Gentleman's companion | Tradesman's delight Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2531 English short title catalogue, N7432 LC copy: Gift of A.W. Bitting October 6, 1939 LAC scc 2019-01-10 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-06-06 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-06- Contributor: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1735
-
Book/Printed MaterialThe laboratory, or school of arts ; in which are faithfully exhibited and fully explain'd, I.A variety of curious and valuable experiments in refining, Calcining, ... II. Choice Secrets for Jewellers, in …
Laboratory | School of arts Dedication signed: G. Smith. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2630 English short title catalogue, T65469 LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis. LAC ddw 2022-06-14 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-14- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Smith, George - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1739
Resource: View All Pages | Images with Text | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialThe country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the … The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall. ESTC T34242 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-02-26 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Bradley, Richard - Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1736
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialThe compleat city and country cook, or, Accomplish'd housewife : containing several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c., illustrated …
Compleat city and country cook | Accomplish'd housewife "To which is added by way of appendix, near two hundred of the most approv'd receipts in physick and surgery for the cure of the most common diseases incident to families, the collection of a noble lady deceased, a work design'd for the good, and absolutely necessary for all families." Signatures: A⁴ B-S⁸ T⁴. LC copy: Fine binding. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 78…- Contributor: Carter, Charles - Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) - Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1732
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialCookery as it is now in use in Great Brittain and Ireland : to which is added bills of fare for every season in the year Holograph, with later additions in other hands. Title from cover. Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939 (Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy. Manuscript cookery book no. 13). Pages 89-94 have been excised. Includes index. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 125 Cataloged as manuscript. vj03 11-21-88. LAC tnb 2019-02-26 no edits (2 cards)- Contributor: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) - Dobson, Elizabeth
- Date: 1735
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialA collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery : for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses "There is little doubt ... that Mary Kettilby was the principal author"--Maclean. Second part has special t.p., which reads: A collection of receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery. Part II. Containing likewise a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving of sweet-meat, &c. By several hands. The fourth edition. London : Printed for W. Parker ..., MDCCXXXIV. Signatures: A-R⁸ S². Source: Gift…- Contributor: Kettilby, Mary - Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1734
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialFive hundred new receipts in cookery, confectionary, pastry, preserving, conserving, pickling; and the several branches of these arts necessary to be known by all good housewives. ESTC T91234 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift A. W. Bitting Oct. 6, 1939 LAC tnb 2019-02-27 update (1 card)- Contributor: Middleton, John - Howard, Henry - Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1734
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialThe compleat housewife; or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion, being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. …
Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion ESTC, T167156 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-03-04 update (1 card)- Contributor: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) - Smith, E. (Eliza)
- Date: 1730
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialLes dons de Comus; ou, Les délices de la table. Ouvrage non-seulement utile aux officiers de bouche pour ce qui concerne leur art, mais principalement à manger, & d'être servies délicatement, tant …
Délices de la table Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift A. W. Bitting Oct. 6, 1939 LAC tnb 2019-03-05 update (1 card)- Contributor: Marin, François - Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1739
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialHistoire de l'Isle espagnole ou de S. Domingue : ecrite particulierement sur des memoires manuscrits du p. Jean-Baptiste le Pers, jesuite, missionnaire à Saint Domingue, & sur les pieces originales, qui se … Vol. 1: xxviii, 482, [58] p., [5] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: xiv, 506, [60] p., [9] leaves of plates (some folded). Thacher, II, p. 8 (Americana) Includes indexes. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Le Pers, Jean Baptiste - Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier De - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1730
Resources: View All Pages | PDF View All Pages | PDF
-
PeriodicalActa eruditorum anno 1682-1731 publicata Monthly Serial. Founded by Otto Mencke, and edited by him till his death in 1707, when it was continued by his son, Johann Burkhard Mencke, till 1732. "Die Acta eruditorum wurden ... dann unter dem titel 'Nova acta eruditorum' von seinem enbel Friedrich Otto M. bis 1754 und endlich im namen und auf kosten der Menckeschen familie von K.A. Bel ... bis zu dem…- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Mencke, Otto - Mencke, Johann Burkhard
- Date: 1682
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialA catalogue of maps, prints, copy-books, &c. from off copper-plates, Added engraved title page. With: Barbadoes. A catalogue of books, to be sold by Mr. Zouch. [London? 1715?] [Rosenwald collection item 2653] -- Curll, Edmund. A catalogue of poems. [London, 1720] [Rosenwald collection item 2511]. Bound together subsequent to publication. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2597 English short title catalogue, T498251 LC copy: Provenance: Ex libris Howard C. Lewis Conserved; 002958.2 1977…- Contributor: Hoole, John - Overton, Henry - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1734
Resource: View All Pages | Images with Text | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialThe universal penman,
Added title page title: Universal penman, or, The art of writing made useful to the getleman and scholar, as well as the man of business | Art of writing made useful to the getleman and scholar, as well as the man of business Combines features of the 1st and 2nd variants described in The library, 4th ser., v. 25, p. [162]-184; 5th ser., v. 1, p. 247-248. Issued in 52 numbers. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1742 English short title catalogue, T86160 LAC knj 2019-04-18 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-31 update (1 card)- Contributor: Bickham, George - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1733
Resource: View All Pages | Images with Text | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialBibliotheca uffenbachiana, seu Catalogus librorvm, quos Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2641 National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, NU 005578 (vol. 606, page 635) LAC ddw 2022-06-14 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number or copy number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-14- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Uffenbach, Zacharias Konrad Von - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1735
Resource: View All Pages | Images with Text | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialCatalogue des livres de feue Madame la comtesse de Verruë, Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2643 LAC ddw 2022-06-03 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number or copy number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-03- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Martin, Gabriel - Verrue, Jeanne Baptiste D'albert De Luynes - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1737
Resource: View All Pages | Images with Text | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialCatalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici Comitis de Hoym, olim Regis Poloniae Augusti II. apud regem Christianissimum legati extraordinarii Signatures: pi² ã² ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ õ² A-4D⁴ E1. pi1 is blank. LC copy has "Supplementum ad praetermissos" (6 p.) and "Libri deficientes in bibliotheca ill. Com. de Hoym" ([2] p.) on an additional gathering signed Ff, bound in at end. Recat. to AACR2. vj46 11/22/83. LAC scc 2019-05-07 no edits (2 cards)- Contributor: Martin, Gabriel
- Date: 1738
Resource: View All Pages | Images with Text | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialThe tapestry hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets, in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII, with the portraits of the lord high-admiral, and … During or immediately after the Armada campaign, Robert Adams, Surveyor of Works to Queen Elizabeth I, prepared a series of drawings displaying the principal incidents of the sea battles between the Spanish and English, with a general map. These were engraved and published by Augustine Ryther. Shortly thereafter, the English commander-in-chief, Lord Howard of Effingham, ordered a set of tapestries after the Adams drawings…- Contributor: Pine, John - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1739
Resource: View All Pages | PDF