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    Yu tu zhai yao : shi wu juan
    輿圖摘要 : 十五卷 /     The original inscription of this work reads: "Compiled by Li Rihua of Jiahe; supplemented by Lu Zhongmin of Qianjiang; and edited by Qian Weiqi of Gulin." Si ku quan shu zong mu…
    • Contributor: Qian, Weiqi - Liu You Tang - LI, Rihua - Lu, Zhongmin - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1628
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    Shan hai jing : shi ba juan
    山海經 : 十八卷 / | Nan shan jing | Title on title page: You tu Shan hai jing | You tu Shan hai jing     Shan hai jing (Classic of the mountains and seas) is a Chinese classic text describing mountains, regions within and beyond the seas, and mythic animals. The author or authors and the date…
    • Contributor: Guo, Pu - Jiang, Yinghao - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - LI, Wenxiao
    • Date: 1628
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    The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, being his next voyage to that to Nombre de … This work of 1628 is the first edition of the earliest detailed account of the voyage around the world by Sir Francis Drake in 1577-80. It includes a frontspiece with a portrait…
    • Contributor: Fletcher, Francis - Drake, Francis - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1628

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    Ren wu ping hai ji : er juan
    壬午平海紀 : 二卷     Collection of correspondence and communication detailing Cheng Xun's suppression of pirates on the sea at the time he led an army force in Susong. Presented here is a collection of letters, official…
    • Contributor: Cheng, Xun - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1628
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    Tu xiang ben cao meng quan : shi er juan, juan shou yi juan
    圖像本草蒙荃 : 十二卷, 卷首一卷 / | Title on title page: Chong ke zeng bu tu xiang ben cao meng quan | Title on spine of case: Ben cao meng quan | Chong ke zeng bu tu xiang ben cao meng quan | Ben cao meng quan     Illustrations added after each item; includes a collection of illustrations from famous doctors chosen from Li dai ming yi tu, by Xiong Zongli. This book, compiled by Chen Jiamo in 12 juan,…
    • Contributor: Liu, Kongdun - Xu, Guo - Xiong, Zongli - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Yi, Yefei - Zhou, Ruquan - Hu, Yiguan - Wan Juan Lou
    • Date: 1628
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    Kuaiji Fanchuan Chen shi zong pu : wu juan
    會稽樊川陳氏宗譜 : 五卷 | Chen shi zong pu     The surname of Chen family originated with Hu Gongman at the time when King Wuwang defeated the Yin Dynasty; Hu Gongman is in the first generation, and Fusi is in the eighty-first…
    • Contributor: Chen, Jia - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1628
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    Wei shi kai meng da wen : er juan
    唯識開蒙問答 : 二卷 / | Wei shi kai meng | 唯識開蒙問答 : 二卷     Questions and answers intended to inspire the study of Buddhism; author Yunfeng was a monk in Yitai Temple. The term wei shi (literally, consciousness-only), is a tenet of Yogacara, an influential school…
    • Contributor: Zonggao - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Yunfeng
    • Date: 1628
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    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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    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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    Huan you quan
    寰有詮     In collaboration with the Chinese scholar Li Zhizao (1565--1630), Portuguese missionary Fu Fanji (Francisco Furtado, 1587--1653) translated two Western works into Chinese. They were Huan you quan (On heaven and Earth), a…
    • Contributor: LI, Zhizao - Aristotle - Furtado, Francesco
    • Date: 1628
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    Qi ke
    七克     This work was included in Tian xue chu han (First collection of heavenly studies) printed in 1629. The author was Pang Diwo (the Chinese name of Diego de Pantoja, 1571--1618), one of…
    • Contributor: Pantoja, Diego De
    • Date: 1628
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    Liturgy. This 17th-century manuscript is a liturgical book in Arabic. It includes the prayers for vespers and matins, as well as the Eucharistic repetitions written by two early fathers of the Christian church,…
    • Contributor: John Chrysostom, Saint, Circa 347-407 - Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Circa 329-379
    • Date: 1628-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 143

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    The Book of Horses. This work is an undated manuscript copy of the Faras-nāma (The book of horses) of ʻAbd Allāh Khān Bahādur Fīrūz. It apparently was written during the reign of Shah Jahan (reigned 1628--58)…
    • Contributor: Bahādur Fīrūz, ʻabd Allāh Khān - Usaynī, Zayn Al-ʻābidīn
    • Date: 1628-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 124