Ming shan tu
名山圖
Maps include several geographic features; the names of mountains are marked on the left or right corner above the pictures. Originally untitled, this landscape work, a masterpiece in woodblock print, occupies a…
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Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
Jin gu yu di tu : [san juan]
今古輿地圖 : [三卷] / | Jin gu yu di tu shuo
The maps are process printed with red and black ink. Chen Zilong wrote the introduction in 1638 and the preface in 1643. The three-volume work composed of maps with detailed texts was…
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Shen, Dingzhi - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wu, Guofu
Date:1638
Map
Noua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum
Nova orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum
Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Johannes Kepler's Tabvlae Rudolphinae. Ulm : Johannes Saur, 1627-30. Prime meridian based on the astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory in Denmark. Map drawn in three parts (left to…
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Eckebrecht, Philipp - Kepler, Johannes - Walch, J. P. (Johann Philipp)
De Eylanden en Vastelanden van Westindien
"Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
[Map of the complete island of Cuba]
Cuba
"Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company and for more…
Havana op 't Eyland Cvba
Cuba
"Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
[Map of the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico]
Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
"Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company and for more…
[Map of the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico]
"Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
Noort Rivier in Niew Neerlandt
"Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
Caert vande Svydt Rivier in Niew Nederland
"Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
[Map of the Peninsula of Florida]
"Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
Jiao zei tu ji : yi juan
勦賊圖記 : 一卷
An account of suppression of bandits, covering the period from March 1633 to April 1635; preface dated 1634. Yuan Mo, the author of the work, was a Grand Inspector to Henan who,…
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Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Yuan, MO - Wu, Aheng
Date:1635
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Shi guo ren wen : shi er juan
仕國人文 : 十二卷
Lectures and essays on culture, politics, literature and eminent persons, written by scholars from Shanxi Province, dating from Tang Yu through the Ming Dynasty. The author of this work was Fan Hongsi,…
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Xu, Tianfeng - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Cheng, Shao - Fang, Hongsi - Liu, Chengchong - Zhu, Zhijun
Date:1630
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Jia hui yuan shi : ba juan
嘉卉園詩 : 八卷 /
Author Wang Chengzuo, zi Yuanchang, candidate for the highest level of the Imperial Examination in the year 1581. This collection of poems by Wang Chengzuo was printed during the Chongzhen reign (1628-44)…
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Wang, Chengzuo - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wang, Yongzuo - Wang, Chengzhi
Date:1636
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Li ge chuan deng
藜閣傳燈
This book was not recorded in the index to the Si ku quan shu; only two chapters remain. The preface by Yuan Pengnian says that there should be sixteen chapters; however, the…
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Liu, Ruozai - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Xue, Cai - Liang, Yusi - Yuan, Pengnian - Zheng, Eryang - Zhou, Zhong
Date:1637
Book/Printed Material
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…
Military Epic about the Life of Yoshitsune.
Gikei ki tells a fictional story based on the life of Minamoto Yoshitsune, a famous military commander of the 12th century. In the book, Yoshitsune's elder brother Minamoto Yoritomo, the first shogun…
Date:1635-01-01
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Yuan xi qi qi tu shuo lu zui san juan
遠西奇器圖說錄最三卷
Yuan xi qi qi tu shuo lu zui (Diagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far West), often abridged as Qi qi tu shuo (Illustrations and explanations of wonderful machines),…
Baixuezhai xuan ding yue fu Wu sao he bian
白雪齋選訂樂府吳騷合編
This work, in four juan, is also called Wu sao he bian (A combined collection of Sao songs from the Wu area). It was compiled by Zhang Chushu and Zhang Xuchu of…
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Zhang, Xuchu, Active 17th Century - Chen, Jiru - Zhang, Chushu, Active 17th Century - Wang, Chengpu - Xiang, Nanzhou - Xu, Dangshi
Date:1637
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Xin juan jie yi yuan yang zhong jiao hong ji : er juan
新鐫節義鴛鴦塚嬌紅記 : 二卷
Jiao hong ji (The story of Mistress Jiaoniang and Maid Feihong) is one of the ten greatest tragedies in Chinese classical drama. The story drew on an actual event during the Xuanhe…
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Meng, Chengshun, Active 17th Century - Chen, Hongshou
Date:1638
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Qing lou yun yu guang ji
青樓韻語廣集
Qing lou yun yu guang ji (Expanded edition of stylish verse from the Green Bower) was compiled and edited by Fang Wu, and illustrated by Zhang Ji. This copy is a 1631…
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Fang, Wu - Zhang, Ji
Date:1631
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Freedoms, as Given by the Council of the Nineteen of the Chartered West India Company to …
Vryheden By de Vergaderinghe van de Negenthiene vande Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie vergunt aen allen den ghenen die eenighe Colonien in Nieu-Nederlandt sullen planten
The Lords Nineteen, the governing body of the Dutch West India Company, established the patroon system as a way to encourage the settlement of New Netherland, the Dutch colony in North America…
Philosophical Exercises by Antonio Rocco.
Esercitazioni filosofiche di Antonio Rocco
In Esercitazioni filosofiche (Philosophical exercises), published in 1633 and dedicated to Pope Urban VIII, the Italian priest and philosophy teacher Antonio Rocco (1586--1653), presented various Aristotelian theories intended to challenge the new…
Fabrica, or Dictionary of Vernacular Arabic and Italian Language.
Fabrica overo dittionario della lingua volgare arabica, et italiana
Dominicus Germanus de Silesia (1588--1670) was a German priest and missionary. Born in Schurgast (present-day Skorogoszcz, Poland), he entered the Franciscan order in 1624 and devoted himself to learning Arabic, Persian, and…
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Catholic Church. Congregatio De Propaganda Fide - Dominicus Germanus, De Silesia
Relation of what Occurred in New France in the Year 1634
Relation de ce qvi s'est passé en la Novvelle France en l'année 1634
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la Nouvelle France en l'année 1634 (Relation of what occurred in New France in the year 1634) is without doubt the finest of the Jesuit…
The Long Journey to the Land of the Hurons, Located in America, near the Mer douce …
Le grand voyage dv pays des Hvrons, situé en l'Amerique vers la Mer douce, és derniers confins de la nouuelle France, dite Canada
Gabriel Sagard (circa 1590-circa 1640) was a Recollet brother who in 1623-24 lived among the Hurons, France's main Indian allies at the time. Accompanied by Father Nicolas Viel, Sagard left his monastery…
Anthology of Ḥakīm Ruknā Masīḥ.
This diwan (a collection of poems in Arabic or Persian, usually by a single author) of Persian poems by physician and poet Ḥakīm Ruknā Masīḥ dates from 1638. "Ḥakīm" is an honorific…
The Notebook of the Oculists.
The current manuscript preserves Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (The notebook of the oculists), a landmark treatise in ophthalmology that is often cited as one of the most important works of its kind in medieval…
Writings of Lope de Vega: Daza Codex.
Obras de Lope de Vega
Félix Arturo Lope de Vega (1562--1635) was a playwright and poet during Spain's literary Golden Age and known for his prodigious output. He wrote some 3,000 sonnets, three novels, four novellas, nine…
Gospel Concordance.
This 1635 Gospel concordance in Armenian was written, illuminated, and bound at the Holy Savior's Monastery in Nor Jugha (now called Julfa), the Armenian quarter of Isfahan (in present-day Iran). Isfahan was…
Huang Ming zhi fang di tu
皇明職方地圖
The author of this work was Chen Zushou (died 1637), a late-Ming literary author. A native of Yanling (present-day Changzhou, Jiangsu Province), Chen Zushou received his jin shi degree in 1634 and…
Hand-Drawn Maps and Plans of Recife in Pernambuco, All Saints' Bay, and the Coast from Bahia …
Desenho e plantas iluminadas do Recife de Pernambuco, da Bahia de Todos os Stos., da Costa do mâr e Barra da Bahia athé a do Gãmam
This six-leaved, hand-drawn atlas shows the coastal area of Brazil's Pernambuco and Bahia states as they appeared in the early 1630s. The maps include details of the city of Recife and All…
Java and Australia.
Iava Maior e Nuca Antara [Java e Australia]
This manuscript map of Java and the tip of northern Australia is a copy of an earlier work by the Malaysian-Portuguese cartographer Emanuel Godinho de Eredia (1563-1623). In the 16th century, Portugal…
New Image of Brazil.
Novus Brasiliae typus
This map of Brazil is the work of Willem Blaeu (1571-1638), the founder of a famous Dutch mapmaking dynasty. Blaeu studied astronomy, mathematics, and globe-making with the Danish scholar Tycho Brahe before…
A Most Accurate Picture of Brazil.
Accuratissima Brasiliae tabula
This early map showing Bahia state in Brazil is the work of Henricus Hondius (died 1638), a member of a famous Dutch mapmaking family. His father, Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), acquired the plates…
Book/Printed MaterialMing shan tu
Book/Printed MaterialJin gu yu di tu : [san juan]
MapNoua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum
MapDe Eylanden en Vastelanden van Westindien "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
Map[Map of the complete island of Cuba]
MapCaerte vande Bay St. Tiago : gelegen op 't Eylant Cvba, op de Hoochte van 20 … "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
MapHavana op 't Eyland Cvba
Map[Map of the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico]
Map[Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida] "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
Map[Map of the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico] "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
MapPascaert van Nieuw Nederlandt Virginia, ende Nieuw-Engelandt verthonendt alles wat van die landin by See, oft … "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
MapNoort Rivier in Niew Neerlandt "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
MapCaert vande Svydt Rivier in Niew Nederland "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
Map[Map of the Peninsula of Florida] "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30…
MapVenezuela, cum parte Auftrali Novae Andalausiae. Place names in Spanish. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies; 1 copy as of 07/27/98 Vault
Book/Printed MaterialJiao zei tu ji : yi juan
Book/Printed MaterialShi guo ren wen : shi er juan
Book/Printed MaterialJia hui yuan shi : ba juan
Book/Printed MaterialLi ge chuan deng
Book/Printed MaterialTian gong kai wu
Book/Printed MaterialMilitary Epic about the Life of Yoshitsune. Gikei ki tells a fictional story based on the life of Minamoto Yoshitsune, a famous military commander of the 12th century. In the book, Yoshitsune's elder brother Minamoto Yoritomo, the first shogun…
Book/Printed MaterialYuan xi qi qi tu shuo lu zui san juan
Book/Printed MaterialBaixuezhai xuan ding yue fu Wu sao he bian
Book/Printed MaterialXin juan jie yi yuan yang zhong jiao hong ji : er juan
Book/Printed MaterialQing lou yun yu guang ji
Book/Printed MaterialFreedoms, as Given by the Council of the Nineteen of the Chartered West India Company to …
Book/Printed MaterialPhilosophical Exercises by Antonio Rocco.
Book/Printed MaterialFabrica, or Dictionary of Vernacular Arabic and Italian Language.
Book/Printed MaterialRelation of what Occurred in New France in the Year 1634
Book/Printed MaterialThe Long Journey to the Land of the Hurons, Located in America, near the Mer douce …
Book/Printed MaterialAnthology of Ḥakīm Ruknā Masīḥ. This diwan (a collection of poems in Arabic or Persian, usually by a single author) of Persian poems by physician and poet Ḥakīm Ruknā Masīḥ dates from 1638. "Ḥakīm" is an honorific…
Book/Printed MaterialThe Notebook of the Oculists. The current manuscript preserves Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (The notebook of the oculists), a landmark treatise in ophthalmology that is often cited as one of the most important works of its kind in medieval…
Book/Printed MaterialWorks of Galileo Galilei, Part 4, Volume 2, Astronomy: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
Book/Printed MaterialWritings of Lope de Vega: Daza Codex.
Book/Printed MaterialGospel Concordance. This 1635 Gospel concordance in Armenian was written, illuminated, and bound at the Holy Savior's Monastery in Nor Jugha (now called Julfa), the Armenian quarter of Isfahan (in present-day Iran). Isfahan was…
MapHuang Ming zhi fang di tu
MapHand-Drawn Maps and Plans of Recife in Pernambuco, All Saints' Bay, and the Coast from Bahia …
MapJava and Australia.
MapNew Image of Brazil.
MapA Most Accurate Picture of Brazil.