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    Xian xing zhai bi ji : si juan
    先醒齋筆記 : 四卷     Four chapters; this original version includes one chapter of "Dou ke yi zhi" ("Other remedies for smallpox"), which was omitted from the later Si ku quan shu version. Xian xing zhai bi…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Ding, Yuanjian
    • Date: 1613
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    Wan shi jia chao ji shi liang fang : qi juan
    萬氏家鈔濟世良方 : 七卷 | Wan shi jia chao | Wan shi jia chao fang     Seven chapters; prefaces by Shen Jingjie (1609), Zhu Daoxiang (1602) and Hong Qirui (1610); postscript is incomplete. Wan shi jia chao Ji shi liang fang (Excellent remedies beneficial to mankind), also called…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Shen, Jingji - Zhu, Daoxiang - Hong, Qirui
    • Date: 1609
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    Ge zhi cao : liu juan
    格致草 : 六卷 /     Presented here is a set of two works by Xiong Mingyu and his son Xiong Renlin, in six juan in two volumes. This copy was printed in the fifth year (1648) of…
    • Contributor: Xiong, Mingyou - Xiong, Renlin - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1648
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Shuo meng : liu juan
    說夢 : 六卷 /     Shuo meng (Talking about dreams) is a collection of essays by Cao Jiaju of the Qing dynasty, in a manuscript edition. The calligraphy was possibly by He Zhuo (1661-1722), a native of…
    • Contributor: He, Zhuo - Cao, Jiaju - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Gao, Doushu
    • Date: 1696
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    Cao mu pu
    草木譜     Cao mu pu (Album of plants) consists entirely of images of small plants, with inscriptions that give the names of the plants. The publication date is not given, although the work probably…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600
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    Qin yuan xin zhuan quan bian : can cun shi si juan
    琴苑心傳全編 : 殘存十四卷 / | Qin yuan     Originally in 20 chapters; LC copy includes 14 chapters, lacking chapters 13-15 and 18-20. Includes musical notation. This book includes both research on Chinese music and detailed and complete marginalia. Although the…
    • Contributor: Kong, Xingyou - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Kong, Xingxie - Yi Xiang Ge - Yan, Guangmin - Kong, Yinchun - Kong, Zhenkan
    • Date: 1670
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Shou zhe zhuan : san juan
    壽者傳 : 三卷 /     Although Chen Maoren is cited as author, the "Si ku quan shu zong mu" declared that the six chapters he composed are not found in this work; included are sixty-two biographies and…
    • Contributor: Chen, Maoren - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1644
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    Chan bao bai wen : wu juan
    產寶百問 : 五卷 /     Five chapters, with preface by Wang Kentang; in the table of contents, there is an inscription saying that the book was compiled by Zhu Zhenheng Yanxiu of the Yuan Dynasty, in Danxi…
    • Contributor: Zhu, Zhenheng - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wang, Kentang
    • Date: 1600
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    Jiang bei liang tai zhang mu : bu fen juan
    江北糧臺賬目 : 不分卷 | Jiang bei liang tai ji fa guan bing ling xiang shu mu | Jiang bei liang tai ban li bao xiao di an     Jiang bei liang tai zhang mu: bu fen juan (Accounts of the Jiangbei grain office) is a manuscript copy from the Qing dynasty, in two volumes, by an unknown author. The title…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1644
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    He gong shu : yi juan
    河工書 : 一卷 | Wanli yi si dong Ningling Xian gong ke     According to the end note, this book was printed in winter of 1605 in Ningling County; the contents imply that the author was Lü Kun, a contemporary scholar; not cited in the…
    • Contributor: Lü, Kun - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1605
    • Resource: Juan 1 - Image - 23

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    Ma shi jia pu : bu fen juan
    馬氏家譜 : 不分卷     This manuscript is a collection of records documenting the deeds and actions of four members of Ma family, prominent in Liaoyang, northeast China. They are Ma Mingpei (1600-1666), his son Ma Xiongzhen…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600
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    Zhi fang wai ji : liu juan, juan shou yi juan
    職方外紀 : 六卷, 卷首一卷 /     The Zhifang waiji (Chronicle of foreign lands) is a concise geography of the world, the first of its kind written in Chinese. The Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci produced a map of…
    • Contributor: Yang, Tingyun - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Aleni, Giulio - Ricci, Matteo - Ye, Xianggao - LI, Zhicao
    • Date: 1623
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    Xiuyi Mining Liu shi ben zhi pu : shi san juan
    休邑敉寧劉氏文支譜 : 十三卷 | Mining Liu shi ben zhi pu | Xiu yi mi ning Liu shi ben zhi pu     Chinese genealogical works are historical records that document the pedigree, deeds, and events relating to a patriarchal clan. A genealogical work generally was composed of: a preface; table of contents; rules of…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Liu, Ran - Liu, Hao - Yu, Ji - Liu, Tang - Zhu, Sheng
    • Date: 1670
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    Zhi fu quan shu : shi yi juan
    致富全書 : 十一卷 / | Pu shi     A note in 'Wu jun Zhou wen hua han zhang bu ci" states that this work was a supplement created by Zhou Yunzhai; includes prefaces by Wang Yuanmao and Chen Yuansu; introduction…
    • Contributor: Chen, Yuansu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wang, Yuanmao - Zhou, Yunzhai - Zhou, Wenhua
    • Date: 1620
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Yu zhi Geng zhi quan tu
    御製耕織全圖 | Geng zhi quan tu | Yu zhi geng tu | Title on spine of case: Yu zhi zhi tu | Also known as: Geng zhi tu | Yu zhi zhi tu | Geng zhi tu     Based on "Geng zhi tu", which was painted by Lou Shou in the Southern Song Dynasty; paintings in this edition by court painter Jiao Bingzhen; the preface attributes the text to the…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Kangxi - Yan, Yuchun - Jiao, Bingzhen - China. Nei Fu
    • Date: 1696
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    Ma shi jia pu : bu fen juan.
    馬氏家譜 : 不分卷     Ms. In case. Also available in digital form. Description based on online resource. 九行二十一字. Nine lines, with twenty-one characters per line. 是編收集遼陽馬鳴佩及其子雄鎮孫世濟曾孫國楨事蹟，冠以誥諭祭文，卹典行述，並附鳴佩燕譽堂遺稿，雄鎮擊笏樓遺稿，世濟務本齋賸藁，國楨承恩堂賸藁，四代事蹟，記載頗詳，實可與正史相參證，而補其闕遺。此為馬氏家藏孤本，至可寶也. 冊一 「兵部尚書兩江總督馬鳴珮事蹟」1600-1666；詰命；諭祭文；國史館移取履歷；事蹟；碑銘傳， 附燕譽堂遺稿 -- 冊二 「太子少保兵部尚書廣西殉難巡撫謚文敘馬雄鎮事蹟」1634-1677 -- 冊三 「太子少保兵部尚書廣西殉難巡撫謚文敘馬雄鎮事蹟」 --…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600
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    Jinling tu yong : yi zhuan
    金陵圖詠 : 一卷 /     History and geographic features of the city of Nanjing, with illustrations and annotations. This book was compiled by Zhu Zhifan of the Ming dynasty. Down through the ages, the famous sites of…
    • Contributor: Zhu, Zhifan - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1621
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    Li dai zheng run kao : si juan
    歷代正閏考 : 四卷 /     This work, in four juan and four volumes, is a manuscript edition without prefaces or postscripts. The author, Shen Defu (1578-1642), lived during the Ming dynasty. A native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province,…
    • Contributor: Shen, Defu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1644
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    Dahuai Wang shi nian zu yue yan shi ji : yi juan, Dahuai Wang shi nian …
    大槐王氏念祖約言世記 : 一卷, 大槐王氏念祖約言續記一卷 / | Yue yan     Family biographies, regulations and genealogies. Presented here is a genealogical work of the Wang family of Huantai, Shandong Province, printed during the Chongzhen (1628-44), the last reign of the Ming dynasty. Chinese…
    • Contributor: Wang, Xiangjin - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wang, Zhiyuan
    • Date: 1642
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    Xin ke Chen tai shi jing ji yan ji yao : shi er juan
    新刻陳太史經濟言輯要 : 十二卷 / | Jing ji yan | Title on spine of case: Chen tai shi jing ji yan ji yao | Chen tai shi jing ji yan ji yao     A native of Nanhai, Guangdong Province, the author Chen Zizhuang (died 1647) was a child prodigy who achieved his jin shi degree in 1619 and became a compiler at the Hanlin Academy.…
    • Contributor: Chen, Zizhuang - Chen, Dingxin - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1625
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    Xing ming gui zhi : si juan
    性命圭旨 : 四卷 | Title on title page: Juan Yin Zhenren xing ming gui zhi quan shu | Juan Yin Zhenren xing ming gui zhi quan shu     Promoting the theories of daoism of master Yin Zhenren, by his disciples; the earlier copy of this work was preserved in the home of Tang Xin'an, and was later printed by Wu…
    • Contributor: Wu, Zhihe - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheng, Yuting - Yu, Yongning - Zou, Yuanbiao
    • Date: 1622
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    Si zhong zheng qi : shi er juan
    四種爭奇 : 十二卷 /     During the Ming dynasty, the production of block-printed novels in workshops flourished and the earliest professional community of novelists was born. Deng Zhimo, who lived in the late 16th century-early 17th century,…
    • Contributor: Zuizhongsou - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Yu, Yingqiu - Zhang, Tianzuo - Deng, Zhimo
    • Date: 1624
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    Pian zhi : er shi juan
    駢志 : 二十卷 /     The author of this work, Chen Yumo (1548-1618), a scholar and official, worked as an instructor at the Directorate of Education, as a surveillance commissioner in Sichuan, and as a provincial administration…
    • Contributor: Chen, Yumo - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1606
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    Li Wenyao wen ji : er shi juan, bie ji shi juan, wai ji si juan
    李文饒文集 : 二十卷, 別集十卷, 外集四卷     Li Wenrao (787-850), often referred to by his courtesy name Li Deyu, was one of the most famous figures of late Tang dynasty history, known for both his official status and his…
    • Contributor: Han, Jing - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - LI, Deyu
    • Date: 1624
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Da Yuan hun yi tong zhi : Yanjing
    大元混一統志 : 燕京     Incomplete copy - only six chapters in this copy; the manuscript exhibits different writing styles. This work is based on an important book by Gu Zuyu (1631-92), a geographer from Wuxi, Jiangsu…
    • Contributor: Gu, Zuyu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1662
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    Chongzhen ge chen shi lüe : yi juan
    崇禎閣臣事略 : 一卷 / | Title on title page: Ge chen shi lüe | Ge chen shi lüe     Stories about high officials following the reign of Emperor Chongzhen at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The compiler of this work was Chen Meng of the late Ming dynasty. Chen, a…
    • Contributor: Chen, Meng - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1628
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    Tabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tzaris Boris desumta; et ad fluvias Dwinam, … Dopolnitel'nai︠a︡ karta: Perspektivnyĭ plan goroda Moskvy (1610g.). Orientirovan na zapad.Illi︠u︡strat︠s︡ii: muzhskie figury v nat︠s︡ional'noĭ russkoĭ odezhde. Karta Rossii izvestnogo niderlandskogo geografa i kartografa G. Gerritsa, izdana v Asterdame v 1614g. V kartushe…
    • Contributor: Gerritsz., Hessel
    • Date: 1614-01-01

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    Tabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tsaris Boris desumta ... No. 2 Karta iz izdaniia: Atlas Aziatskoi Rossii.- SPb., Pereselencheskoe Upravlenie, kartogr. art. Zav. A.F. Marks, 1914. Otpechatano v Kartograficheskom zavedenii Iu. Iu. Gash. Kopiia s karty Gesselia Geritsa, izdannoi V.Kordtom. Original…
    • Contributor: Gerritsz, Hessel
    • Date: 1613-01-01
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    Chertezh vsekh sibirskikh gorodov i zemel'. No. 3 Karta iz izdaniia: Atlas Aziatskoi Rossii.- SPb., Pereselencheskoe Upravlenie, kartogr. art. Zav. A.F. Marks, 1914. Kartograficheskoe zavedenie Iu. Iu. Gash. Na oborote lista tekst. Kopiia s karty, izdannoi Arkheograficheskoi komissiei.…
    • Contributor: Remezov, Semën Ulʹi︠a︡novich
    • Date: 1699-01-01
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    Chertezh vsekh sibirskikh gorodov i zemel'. No. 3 Karta iz izdaniia: Atlas Aziatskoi Rossii.- SPb., Pereselencheskoe Upravlenie, kartogr. art. Zav. A.F. Marks, 1914. Kartograficheskoe zavedenie Iu. Iu. Gash. Na oborote lista tekst. Kopiia s karty, izdannoi Arkheograficheskoi komissiei.…
    • Contributor: Remezov, Semën Ulʹi︠a︡novich
    • Date: 1699-01-01
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    Yŏch'udo
    輿墜圖 | Title on label on case: Tongguk yŏjido | Tongguk yŏjido     This is an atlas dating from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It contains 13 maps, the first one being an overview map of Korea, followed by maps of its prefectures. Near the end…
    • Contributor: Korean Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600
    • Resource: kwŏn 1 - PDF - 15

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    100 Poems by 100 Poets. This illustrated book of Ogura hyakunin isshu (One hundred poets, one hundred poems) is a collection of one hundred 31-syllable classical Japanese poems (waka), each by a different poet. The collection is…
    • Contributor: Fujiwara, Sadaie - Hishikawa, Moronobu
    • Date: 1680-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 56

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    Great Miracle of the Apparition of the Queen of Heaven, Saint Mary Our Beloved Mother of …
    Hvei tlamahviçoltica omonexiti in ilhvicac tlatocacihvapilli Santa Maria totlaçonantzin Gvadalvpe in nican hvei altepenahvac Mexico itocayocan Tepeyacac     Known also as Nican mopohua (Here it is said), this document is the report in Nahuatl of the history of the apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, on the hilltop of Tepeyac,…
    • Contributor: Vega, Luis Lasso De La
    • Date: 1649-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 44

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    Tian gong kai wu
    天工開物     Tiangong kaiwu (Exploitation of the works of nature), an integrated work on agriculture and handicrafts, is one of the most important works on science and technology in the history of China. A…
    • Contributor: Song, Yingxing, 1587
    • Date: 1637
    • Resource: PDF - 86

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    Zhang Shenzhi xian sheng zheng bei xi xiang mi ben
    張深之先生正北西廂秘本     The Yuan dynasty drama, Story of the Western Wing, by Wang Shifu, is the finest dramatic work of traditional China. It ranks with Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion, Kong Shangren's Peach Blossom Fan,…
    • Contributor: Wang, Shifu
    • Date: 1628
    • Resource: PDF - 59

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    Muḥammad al-Farghānī's Elements of Chronology and Astronomy. Aḥmad ibn Moḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī (flourished 861) was an astronomer who worked at the court of the early Abbasid caliphs. He appears to have been active in the court of al-Ma'mun,…
    • Contributor: Golius, Jacobus - Vidua Elizei Weyerstraet - Janssonius Van Waesberge, Johannes, Flourished - Farghānī, Flourished 861
    • Date: 1669-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 288

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    Dong yi bao jian
    東醫寶鑑 | Title in Korean reading: Tongŭi pogam     Donguibogam (Principles and practice of Eastern medicine) is an encyclopedia of medical knowledge and treatment techniques compiled and edited by Heo Jun, with the collective support of other medical experts in Korea.…
    • Contributor: Heo, Jun
    • Date: 1613
    • Resource: PDF - 122

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    Tian wen lüe
    天問略     Tian wen lue (Summary of astronomy) is a well-known work by Yang Manuo, the Chinese name of Father Manuel Dias (1574--1659), also known as Emanuel Diaz. Diaz, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, arrived…
    • Contributor: Diaz, Emmanuel
    • Date: 1615
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    Pi xie lun
    闢邪論     Pi xie lun (Refuting heresy) is by Yang Guangxian (1597--1669) from Shexian, Anhui Province, a fierce opponent of the early Christian missionaries to China. Beginning about 1659, Yang assumed the self-appointed role…
    • Contributor: Yang, Guangxian
    • Date: 1650
    • Resource: PDF - 22

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    Jiang ning bu zheng si shu fu ting zhou xian yu di quan tu
    江寧布政司屬府廳州縣輿地全圖     Jiangning was designated a province in the 25th year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing dynasty (1760). The provincial administrative government was established under the supervision of the governor-general of two…