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Book/Printed MaterialMemoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : This work by William Watts (active 1737-58) is an account of the Battle of Plassey, which took place on June 23, 1757, near the village of Pâlāshir, some 150 kilometers north of…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Watts, William - Campbell, John
- Date: 1760
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBhāgavatapurāṇa Palm-leaf manuscript from Orissa; illustrations on every page; wooden covers highlighted in red with single threaded hole in middle; encased in box (10 x 49 x 29 cm). Also available in digital…- Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 17??
- Resource: PDF - 54
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Baidha saphu] Collections of stotra used in getting rid of planetory influences.- Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1722
- Resource: PDF - 39
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
كتاب دلائل الخيرات | Title on frontispiece: Dilayil-khayrat = A guide for the good | Guide for the good A collection of prayers for the Prophet, with a description of his tomb and his names. This Muslim prayer book is a 1785 copy of an original 15th-century manuscript. The work includes…- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Batchelder, John Davis - Mawlawī, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm - Jazūlī, Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān
- Date: 1772
- Resource: PDF - 300
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialWardah al-juyūb fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Ḥabīb
وردة الجيوب في الصلاة على الحبيب | Wardat al-juyūb fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-maḥbūb Islamic prayer book composed of selections from Dalāʼil al-khayrāt and Riyāḍ al-anwār. This North African manuscript dating from the early to mid-18th century is a prayer book, Wardah al-juyūb fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá…- Contributor: Mukhtār Ibn Muḥammad - Jazūlī, ʻumar Ibn ʻabd Al-ʻazīz - Jazūlī, Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān
- Date: 1727
- Resource: PDF - 190
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMunājāt
مناجات Caliph 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (circa 601-61) is one of the most revered religious and holy figures of Islam. In Iran, he is referred to by the honorary name Amir al-Muʼminin, which…- Contributor: Vahīd Ḥusaynī - Alī Ibn Abī Ṭālib - ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
- Date: 17??
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Book/Printed Material[Tāvatiṃsa, the heavenly abode] Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Pali and Burmese. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16- Contributor: Southeast Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 17??
- Resource: PDF - 23
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Book/Printed Material[Dzayn aṛ baghdzalin ...]
Girkʻ parapmantsʻ Srboyn Kiwrghi Episkoposi Aghekʻsandru Hayrapeti Haghags Mardanaloy Miatsnin The Armenian alphabet was created in about 406. Translations of biblical and religious texts began almost immediately thereafter. Presented here is an early 18th century printed edition of a compilation of translations…- Contributor: Cyril - Grigor - Athanasius
- Date: 1717
- Resource: PDF - 809
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Book/Printed MaterialAtsashunchʻ. Girkʻ Hnotsʻ ew Norotsʻ Ktakaranatsʻ : sharakargutʻeamb nakhneatsʻn merotsʻ ev chshmartasiratsʻ tʻargmanchʻatsʻ
Astuatsashunchʻ Girkʻ Hnotsʻ ew Norotsʻ Ktakaranatsʻ In 1717 a young Armenian Catholic priest, Mekhitar Sebastatsi (Mekhitar of Sebastia [present-day Sivas, Turkey], 1676-1749), founded a Benedictine Armenian Catholic Monastery on the island of San Lazzaro in Venice. Dedicated to…- Date: 1733
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Book/Printed MaterialA curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical …
Curious hieroglyphick Bible A hieroglyphic Bible replaces some of the words of the text with pictures. Such Bibles were at one time very popular in Great Britain and America and were used as a means…- Contributor: Thomas, Isaiah - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1788
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Book/Printed MaterialMeknutʻiwn Aghōtʻitsʻ ew Nerboghinatsʻ Srboyn Grigori Narekatsʻwoy hreshtakakan vardapeti Saint Gregory of Narek (also called Grigor Narekatsi) was born in the city of Narek (in present-day Turkey) in 951. He became a priest at the age of 25 and lived almost…- Contributor: Hakōb
- Date: 1745
- Resource: PDF - 1187
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Book/Printed MaterialOlney hymns : in three books Olney Hymns was compiled by John Newton, the author of "Amazing Grace" and rector of a parish in Olney, England, and William Cowper, a poet and close friend of Newton. The book…- Contributor: Cowper, William - Newton, John - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialSharaknotsʻ erazhshtakan ergetsʻmunkʻ hogeworakankʻ : A[stua]tsaynotsʻ ew erjankatsʻ srbotsʻ vardapetatsʻ, Hayotsʻ Tʻargmanchʻatsʻ ; Zkargaworutʻi[wn]s ekeghetsʻwoy vayelchʻatsʻutsʻanoghatsʻ This Sharaknots' (hymnal) published in 1712 reproduces engravings from an earlier Sharaknots' that was produced by the bishop and printer Oskan Erevants'i (Oskan of Yerevan, 1614-74) at his shop in Amsterdam. Khaz…- Contributor: Armenian Church
- Date: 1712
- Resource: PDF - 745
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, July 4, 1776, a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, …
Also known as: Dunlap Declaration of Independence This document is the first printed version of the American Declaration of Independence. On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution urging Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, to declare…- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Ridgely, David - Force, Peter - United States - Dunlap, John
- Date: 1776
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Book/Printed MaterialA philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East … A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies is a six-volume translation, published in London in 1798, of the ten-volume Histoire…- Contributor: Raynal, (Guillaume-Thomas-François) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah)
- Date: 1798
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Book/Printed MaterialGirkʻ patmutʻean Kaysern Pʻontsʻianosi ew knojn tʻaguhwoy ew ordwoy norin Diokghetianosi ew eōtʻantsʻ imastasiratsʻ Presented here is a translation from Latin into Armenian of a Westernized version of the popular Eastern tale Kalila wa-Dimna (Kalila and Dimna). The translation was completed in 1614 by Hakob T'ok'atets'i…- Date: 1740
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Book/Printed MaterialMemoirs and travels of Mauritius Augustus, count de Benyowsky ... consisting of his military operations in … Maurice Benyowsky (1741 or 1746-1786) was born near Trnava in present-day Slovakia, at the time part of Hungary and the Austrian Empire. After service in the Austrian Army, he joined a Polish…- Contributor: Nicholson, William - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Benyowsky, Maurice Auguste
- Date: 1790
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Book/Printed MaterialPatmutʻiwn hayotsʻ : I skzbaně ashkharhi minchʻew tsʻam teaṛn 1784 : ěst awandeloy ayleayl matenagratsʻ Mik'ayel Ch'amch'yants' was born in Istanbul in 1738. After training and working as a jeweler in his native city, in 1762 he joined the Armenian Catholic Mekhitarist order at the St. Lazar…- Contributor: Chʻamchʻyantsʻ, Mikʻayel
- Date: 1784
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Book/Printed MaterialThe history of Genghizcan the Great, first emperor of the antient Moguls and Tartars : in … This early Western history of Genghis Khan, the 13th-century Mongol emperor who established the world's largest contiguous empire, is by François Pétis (1622-95), an interpreter of Arabic and Turkish at the French…- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Pétis De La Croix, François - Aubin, Penelope
- Date: 1722
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Book/Printed MaterialThe history of Persia. Containing, the lives and memorable action of its kings from the first … Captain John Stevens (died 1726) was a prolific translator and embellisher of Spanish and Portuguese works of history and literature who published this book in 1715. In his preface, Stevens explained: "Persia…- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad Ibn Khāvandshāh - Tūrān Shāh Ibn Quṭb Al-Dīn - Teixeira, Pedro - Stevens, John
- Date: 1715
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialTārīkh-i Nādirī
تاريخ نادري Manuscript is incomplete; text breaks off abruptly at second word of line 5, leaf 257a. Tārīkh-i Nādirī (The history of Nadir) is a historical work that chronicles the political and military career…- Contributor: Mahdī Khān Astarābādī - Munro, Thomas
- Date: 1760
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialWaqiat-i-Nadiri (History of Nadir Shah)
Waqa-i-Nadiri | Vāqiʻāt-i Nādiri Historical study of Iran and Afghanistan during the reign of Nādir Shāh, 1688-1747. Waqiat-i Nadiri (literally "Events of Nadir") is a historical manuscript that chronicles the political and military career of Nādir…- Contributor: Mahdī Khān Astarābādī
- Date: 1759
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Book/Printed MaterialA voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogul government in general, the … This two-volume work is the third edition of a book first published as a single volume in 1757, expanded to two volumes in 1766, and republished in 1772. The author, John Henry…- Contributor: Grose, John Henry - Carmichael, John - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1772
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Book/Printed MaterialVoyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, fait par ordre du roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en … Pierre Sonnerat (1748-1814) was a French naturalist and explorer who made several voyages to southeast Asia between 1769 and 1781. He published this two-volume account of his voyage of 1774-81 in 1782.…- Contributor: Sonnerat, Pierre
- Date: 1782
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Book/Printed MaterialGirkʻ patmutʻeantsʻ erkrin Tarōnoy The arrival of the relics of Surb Karapet (The Holy Precursor, John the Baptist) in Armenia figures prominently in the conversion narrative of the Armenians. Girkʻ patmutʻeantsʻ erkrin Tarōnoy (The history of…- Contributor: Zenob Glak
- Date: 1719
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Book/Printed MaterialNouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet: contenant les cartes générales … "Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782) was one of the most important French geographers of the 18th century. This map of Guangdong Province in southern China is one of 42 maps in his…- Contributor: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D
- Date: 1737
- Resource: Copy 1, map no. [14], Guangdong Sheng - Image
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Book/Printed MaterialTravels into the inland parts of Africa: containing a description of the several nations for the … Francis Moore was a clerk, and later a factor, for the Royal African Company. Moore lived on the Gambia River from November 1730 to May 1735, and represented the commercial interests of…- Contributor: Stibbs, Bartholomew - Moore, Francis - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Leo
- Date: 1738
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Book/Printed MaterialNaufragios de Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, y Relacion de la jornada, que hizo a la …
Naufragios de Alvar Nuñez Cabec̜a de Vaca en la Florida | Navfragios de Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, y Relacion de la jornada, que hizo a la Florida con el adelantado Panfilo de Narvaez Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490-1560) was second in command of an expedition led by Pánfilo de Narváez (1478-1528) that left Spain in June 1527 with five ships and 600 men with…- Contributor: Núñez Cabeza De Vaca, Alvar
- Date: 1749
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Book/Printed MaterialA summary view of the rights of British America : set forth in some resolutions intended … This pamphlet is Thomas Jefferson's personal copy of A Summary View of the Rights of British America, which he originally drafted in July 1774 as a set of instructions for the Virginia…- Contributor: Tucker, St. George - Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington) - Jefferson, Thomas - Rind, Clementina - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1774
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Book/Printed MaterialDescripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasión del nuevo empedrado que se … The astronomer Antonio León y Gama is sometimes considered the first Mexican archaeologist. His description of the discovery of the "two stones" -- the Coatlicue and Sun Stone (a massive sacrificial stone…- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - León Y Gama, Antonio De
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialThe present state of the West-Indies : containing an accurate description of what parts are possessed … This book, published in London in 1778, is a succinct compilation of information about the West Indies, containing, as indicated by the lengthy subtitle, "an authentick account of the first discoverers of…- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Kitchin, Thomas
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialDéfénse des colons de Saint-Domingue, ou, Examen rapide de la nouvelle Déclaration des droits de l'homme, …
Examen des droits de l'homme | Défénse des colons de Saint-Domingue | Examen rapide de la nouvelle Déclaration des droits de l'homme, en ce qu'elle a particulièrement de relatif aux colonies The French Revolution of 1789 had enormous repercussions in France's Caribbean colonies. In August 1791, slaves in the colony of Saint-Domingue staged a massive revolt, setting in train the chain of events…- Contributor: Bordes, J. Marie De - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1796
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Book/Printed MaterialAn historical survey of the French colony in the island of St. Domingo : comprehending a … In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue staged a massive revolt, setting in train the chain of events that ultimately led to the founding of Haiti in 1804. In…- Contributor: Stockdale, John - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Edwards, Bryan - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1797
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Book/Printed MaterialA relation of the late intended settlement of the islands of St. Lucia and St. Vincent, … Britain and France vied for control of the island of Saint Lucia throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1722, the British government of King George I granted the island, along with…- Contributor: Uring, Nathaniel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1725
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Book/Printed MaterialJournal de la campagne des isles de l'Amérique, qu' à fait Monsieur D***. : La prise … 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…- Contributor: Gautier Du Tronchoy
- Date: 1709
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Book/Printed MaterialVoyages de François Coreal aux Indes Occidentales, contenant ce qu'il y a vû de plus remarquable … This three-volume work by a Spanish author of uncertain identity, Francisco (François) Coreal, was published in Amsterdam in 1722. It purports to be the French translation of a first-hand account, in Spanish,…- Contributor: Coreal, Francisco - Nyel, Armand Jean Xavier - Narbrough, John
- Date: 1722
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MapL'hydrographie françoise : recueil des cartes générales et particulières qui ont éte faites pour le service … Phillips, 587 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1737-01-01
- Resource: vol. 2, sheet 99 - Image
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MapAmérique campagne "Amérique, Campagne 1782 (American campaign, 1782) is a compendium of manuscript maps, in pen-and-ink and watercolor, created in 1782, at the end of the Revolutionary War. The maps show the location of…- Contributor: Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien De Vimeur
- Date: 1782
- Resource: Image - 46
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Book/Printed MaterialJournal du voyage de Laurent Lange a la Chine. Swedish born Lorenz Lange was among the many West Europeans to enter Russian service during the reign of Peter the Great. In 1715, he was sent to China as a special envoy…- Contributor: Lange, Lorenz - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1725
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MapThe West-India pilot. Containing piloting directions for Port Royal Harbour in Jamaica, in and out through … "Captain Joseph Smith Speer was an English mariner who spent many years in Central America and the Caribbean. He created detailed maps and guides based on his personal experiences. In 1766, he…- Contributor: Speer, Joseph Smith
- Date: 1766
- Resource: Image - 40