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    Le miroir de la cruelle, & horrible tyrannie espagnole perpetree au Pays Bas, par le tyran …
    Title on special t.p. for part 2: Miroir de la tyrannie espagnole perpetree aux Indes Occidentales : on verra icy la cruaute plus que inhumaine, commise par les Espagnols, aussi la description de ces terres, peuples, et leur nature | Miroir de la cruelle, et horrible tyrannie espagnole perpetree au Pays Bas | Miroir de la tyrannie espagnole perpetree aux Indes Occidentales : on verra icy la cruaute plus que inhumaine, commise par les Espagnols, aussi la description de ces terres, peuples, et leur nature     This volume, published in the Netherlands in 1620, contains French translations of two earlier works detailing Spanish crimes and atrocities in both Europe and the New World. The first part is an…
    • Contributor: Gysius, Johannes - Casas, Bartolomé De Las - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Vinckeboons, David - Cloppenburch, Jan Evertsz. (Jan Evertszoon) - Lons, Dirck Eversen
    • Date: 1620

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    Zuo zhuan wen yuan : ba juan
    左傳文苑 : 八卷 / | Title on title page: Zuo zhuan yuan | Zuo zhuan yuan     Collection of essays written by famous scholars from the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) to the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Compiled by Zhang Nai. Zuo zhuan (The commentary, or chronicle of Zuo), is…
    • Contributor: Chen, Jiru - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zhong, Xing - Zhang, Nai - Qing Yun Guan
    • Date: 1620
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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: Wang, Yuanmao - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zhou, Yunzhai - Zhou, Wenhua - Chen, Yuansu
    • Date: 1620
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    Shui hu ye zi
    水滸葉子     Shui hu ye zi (Water margin leaves) was a masterpiece of early Qing created by Chen Hongshou (1598-1652). It contains 40 illustrations depicting the outlaws in the novel Shui hu zhuan (Water…
    • Contributor: Chen, Hongshou
    • Date: 1620
    • Resource: PDF - 42

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    Europe, Very Precisely Represented.
    Europa exactissime descripta     This decorative map of Europe dates from around 1620 and is by Hendrik Hondius (also seen as Henricus Hondius, 1597--1651). Hondius was the son of Jodocus Hondius (1563--1612), a Flemish cartographer and…
    • Contributor: Hondius, Hendrik - Louis XIII, King of France
    • Date: 1620-01-01
    • Resource: Image