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Book/Printed MaterialLexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art but the arts themselves
Lexicon technicum | Universal English dictionary of arts and sciences | Binder's title: English dictionary of arts and sciences Imprint of v. 2 lists Dan. Brown and 7 others. Vol. 1 not numbered. Both volumes are unpaged. Signatures: v. 1: [A]² a-c⁴ B-2H⁴ 3A-3Z⁴ 5A-7N⁴ 7O² (7O2 blank); v. 2: [a]² b⁴ *-3*² A-B⁴ C⁴ (C1+[par.]a-[par.]t²) D-P⁴ Q² 3A-3O⁴ 3P² 3Q-3S⁴ 3T² 3V² 3U-3X⁴ 3Y² 5A-5Z⁴ 7A-7G⁴ 7H², ²A-N² O1, ³A-2G² [dagger]C-[dagger]D² chi² a-m² n1. The conjugacy of chi1 and chi2 could not…- Contributor: Harris, John - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1704
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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: Brumoy, Pierre - Jolivet, Jean Louis - Aubert, Jean Louis - Tournemine, René Joseph De - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Catrou, François - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Du Cerceau, (Jean-Antoine) - Buffier, Claude - Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier De - Sommervogel, Carlos - Rouillé, Pierre Julien - Berthier, Guillaume François - Louis XIV - Mercier, Barthé́lemy
- 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: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress) - Force, Peter - Pratt, W. - Franklin, Benjamin - Ingraham, Edward D. (Edward Duncan) - Stevens, Henry
- Date: 17??
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Book/Printed MaterialWolffgangi Hildebrands neu-vermehrt, vortrefflich, ausserlesen curieuses Kunst und Wunderbuch : darinnen begriffen wunderbahre Geheimnüsse und Kunststücke, wie man nemlich mit dem gantzen menschlichen Cörper zahmen und wilden Thieren, Vogeln, Fischen, Ungezieffern, allerley …
Kunst und Wunderbuch Originally published (1610) under title: Magia naturalis. Errors in paging: 71-80 repeated; 255-256, 435-444 omitted. Signatures: pi1 A-6D⁴ 6E² a-f⁴. Title page printed in red and black. Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has a dealer's description mounted on p. [2] of cover. LC copy has bookplate: C. Hering, M. D., Philadelphia. LAC ecr…- Contributor: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) - Hering, Constantine - Müller, Balthasar - Hildebrand, Wolfgang - Elshotz, Joh. Sig. (Johann Sigismund) - Jugel, Caspar - Dehn, Ernst Abraham Von
- Date: 1704
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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: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Mather, Increase
- Date: 1707
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Book/Printed MaterialThe rebuker rebuked in a brief answer to Caleb Pusey his scurrilous pamph[l]et, entituled, A rebuke to Daniel Leeds, &c. : wherein William Penn, his Sandy foundation, is fairly quoted, shewing that … Signatures: A⁴ B². Evans 1113 LAC knj 2019-02-21 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Leeds, Daniel - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1703
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Book/Printed MaterialL'exercice pueril, s'Applicant à apprendre la langue Françoise = Oeffeninghe Voor de Jonckheyt, Om gevotgelijck de Fransche tale te leeren : van nieuws oversien ende vermeerdert met de Coniugatien.
Oeffeninghe Voor de Jonckheyt, Om gevotgelijck de Fransche tale te leeren Gedrukt door Franciscus I (1680-1714) of II (-1752) Signatures: A-F⁸. Woodcut device on title page depicts Saint Ignatius Loyola. Woodcut tail-piece on page 16. STCV 12915266 LC copy with: Abecedarium. Croatian / Primus Truber. Tubingae : [Ulrich Morhardt], 1561. Bound together subsequent to publication. LAC ddw 2023-03-27 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2023-05-23 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Weduwe Van Joris Willemsens
- Date: 1700
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Book/Printed MaterialThe academy of armory: or, A display of heraldry ... containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick, with the instruments of …
Academy of armory | Display of heraldry In 3 pts. each with special half-title and seperate pagination. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2559 English short title catalogue, N29183 LC copy: Provenance: Bookplates of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bart. and Howard C. Levis. LAC aaa 2019-03-25 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: Holme, Randle - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Brooke, Thomas
- Date: 1701
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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 MaterialA compendious history of the monarchs of England: from King William the First, commonly call'd the Conqueror, down to the sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty ... Queen Anne; … Preface signed: G. L. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1737 English short title catalogue, T231150 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Bookplate of Howard C. Levis. LAC knj 2019-02-25 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-03-07 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-03-11 LAC ddw 2022-03-31 update (1 card)- Contributor: Onley, W. (William) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - G. L. - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1707
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Book/Printed MaterialDocument relating to William III and Queen Mary II. Binder's title. Engraved througout by John Sturt. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1779 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis. LC copy: Bound in a volume (25 x 25 cm.) Half morocco. LAC snh 2019-02-28 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-04-06 update (1 card)- Contributor: Stuart, John - Sturt, John - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1700
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Book/Printed MaterialSvccession de el rey D. Phelipe v nuestro Señor en la corona de España; diario de svs viages desde Versalles a Madrid; el qve execvtó para sv feliz casamiento; jornada a Napoles, …
Succession de el rey D. Phelipe v nuestro Señor en la corona de España Plates engraved by J.B. Berterham and L. Cause after Felipe Pallota (except portrait by G. Edelinck after T. Ardemans) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1780 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Imperfect. Palau y Dulcet calls for 14 plates: LC copy lacks that entitled Juramento de Felipe V en S. Gerónimo el Real. LAC…- Contributor: García Infanzon, Juan - Edelinck, Gérard - Ubilla, Antonio De - Ardemans, Teodoro - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Causé, Lambertus - Berterham, Jan Baptist - Pallota, Felipe - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1704
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Athenian oracle, the second edition, printed at London. 1704. Vol. I.P. 545-----548 : Quest. Whether trading for Negroes i.e. carrying them out of their own country into perpetual slavery, be in … Attributed to Samuel Sewall on the strength of an inscription in the Massachusetts Historical Society copy. From Sewall's correspondence it appears that while he arranged for its reprinting, he did not write this argument against slavery. Cf. ESTC. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: A². Evans, C. American bibliography, 1199 English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W4851 Catalog of broadsides in the Rare Book Division,…- Contributor: Green, Bartholomew - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Sewall, Samuel - Phillips, Samuel
- Date: 1705
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Book/Printed MaterialJournal de la campagne des isles de l'Amérique, qu' à fait Monsieur D***. : La prise & possession de l'isle Saint Christophe, avec une description exactes des ani maux, des arbres, & … This work of 1709 is a first-hand description of the island of Saint Kitts and its flora, fauna, people, and economy during the colonial period. The book is by a French naval officer, Gautier du Tronchoy, who in late 1698 and early 1699 took part in a mission to Saint Christophe, as the French called the island. France and Britain vied for control of…- Contributor: Gautier Du Tronchoy
- Date: 1709
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Book/Printed MaterialA new voyage to Carolina : containing the exact description and natural history of that country ; together with the present state thereof ; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd … Reissued with new title: The history of Carolina ... London, W. Taylor, [etc] 1714. Signatures: A-Z⁴ . Aa-Ll⁴. ESTC T133233 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC rwp 2019-06-05 update (1 card)- Contributor: Lawson, John
- Date: 1709
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Book/Printed MaterialGod's protecting providence, man's surest help and defence, in times of the greatest difficulty, and most eminent danger : evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other persons, from … Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available First ed. published Philadelphia, 1699; another issue (89 p.) re-printed, London, in the same year. Signatures: A⁴ a²(-a2) B-D⁸ E⁴ F⁸ G⁸(-G8). LC copy has [8] p. of advertisements bound in at end. ESTC (RLIN) R12705 Wing (2nd ed.) W1390A Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Kislak accession no.: 2000.121.00.0001- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Sowle, Tace - Dickinson, Jonathan
- Date: 1700
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Book/Printed MaterialDe gedenkwaardige voyagie van Don Ferdinand de Soto na Florida : en desselfs ontdekking van de landen in dat gewest, met al wat aanmerkensswaardig op die vierjarige reyse is voorgevallen : gedaan … Kislak accession no.: 2003.109.00.0001 This record originally had the call no. of G160.A14 vol. 7, which applies to LCCN 05041497, the fol. ed. of the larger work, and was an in-analytic to the version that appears in v. 7 of that set. On the original cards, it was a dashed on entry. vj21 2007-01-04. LAC snh 2019-04-24 no edits (2 card)- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Force, Peter - Knight of Elvas - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1706
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Book/Printed MaterialChorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures, et signes démonstratifs, avec lesquels on apprend facilement de soy-même toutes sortes de dances ...
Chorégraphie | Art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures, et signes démonstratifs "Recueil de dances, composées par M. Feuillet" (84 p.) and "Recueil de dances, composées par M. Pecour" (72 p.) have special title pages. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1608 LC copy: Provenance: George Ginheimer; E. W. Hennell (ex libris). LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-09 update (1 card)- Contributor: Pécourt, Guillaume Louis - Feuillet, Raoul-Auger - Restout, Denise - Ginheimer, George - Hennell, E. W. - Landowska, Wanda - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1700
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Book/Printed MaterialAn Overture for supplying the present scarcity of money Place and date of printing from ESTC. English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T169766 Catalog of broadsides in the Rare Book Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., vol. 4, page 111, column 1 National Union Catalog (Pre-1956) NO 0176106 (vol. 435, p. 532) LC copy in bound volume of 22 blank leaves, 28 cm with LC bookplate. LC copy original flag reads: Bound Broadside Collection.…- Date: 1705
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Book/Printed MaterialAn account of the number of Negroes delivered in to the islands of Barbadoes, Jamaica, and Antego, from the year 1698 to 1708, since the trade was opened : taken from the … Statistics to prove the beneficial effects on the slave trade of the termination of the Royal African Company's monopoly.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1709
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Book/Printed MaterialSeveral informations of the Evil Practices of Mr. Chidley, late Evidence against the R.A.C.
Extracts and papers relating to Mr. Chidley, the Company's late Factor at Gambia Includes extracts of documents describing the activities of John Chidley of the Royal African Company in the trade of African slaves, gold and elephant ivory and his non-payment of creditors and theft of gold.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1708
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialRelacion de las ceremonias ... de los Indios de la provencia de Mechoacan, 18th century In his prologue, the author says his intent in writing the book was "to conduct an investigation among these new Christians to determine what had been the nature of their beliefs, customs and government...." The text contains numerous watercolors depicting village life, religious ceremonies, and warfare among the Indians, and portrays several scenes of Indians practicing cannibalism. Although some ritual cannibalism did exist in…- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Mendoza, Antonio De
- Date: 17??
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Book/Printed MaterialDeclaration du roy donnée a Fontainbleau le 2. d'octobre 1701 portant reglement povr les libraires & imprimeurs. Publiée en audiance publique le 21. novembre 1701. Caption title. "Extrait des registres du greffe civil de la Cour du parlement de Dauphiné." Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1609 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: France. Conseil D'état - Giroud, Alexandre - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1701
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Book/Printed MaterialLex Regia, det er: den souveraine Konge-lov, sat og given af den stoormegtigste höjbaarne fyrste og herre, herr Friderich den Tredie, af Guds naade, konge til Danmark og Norge, de wenders og …
Kongelov Engraved throughout, with illustrated borders. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1787 LAC ael 2019-08-27 no edits (2 cards) LAC ddw 2022-04-07 update (1 card)- Contributor: Denmark - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1709
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