Collection Items
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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
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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: Jazūlī, Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān - Mukhtār Ibn Muḥammad - Jazūlī, ʻumar Ibn ʻabd Al-ʻazīz
- Date: 1727
- Resource: PDF - 190
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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 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: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Uring, Nathaniel
- Date: 1725
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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: Narbrough, John - Nyel, Armand Jean Xavier - Coreal, Francisco
- Date: 1722
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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: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Lange, Lorenz
- Date: 1725
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MapLa Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, Apostolicos de la Compa. e Jesus … Relief shown pictorially. McLaughlin, G. Mapping of California as an island, 196 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault 2 copies; copy 2 is b&w- Contributor: Fer, Nicolas De
- Date: 1720-01-01
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MapLe royaume de France. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Sanson, Guillaume - Jaillot, Alexis Hubert
- Date: 1724-01-01
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Map[Iconografica rappresentatione della inclita città di Venezia consacrata al reggio serenissimo dominio veneto] Shows principal buildings, gardens, foot bridges, etc. Title from illustration in Cassini's Piante e vedute prospettiche di Venezia. Eight sheets pasted together, sectioned, and mounted on cloth. Includes dedication, poem, and ill.…- Contributor: Baroni, Giuseppe - Ughi, Lodovico
- Date: 1729-01-01
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MapMap of Turky [sic], Arabia and Persia.
Map of Turkey, Arabia and Persia Relief shown pictorially. From Senex's New general atlas. Published in London by D. Browne in 1721. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault- Contributor: Senex, John - L'isle, Guillaume De
- Date: 1721-01-01
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MapTheatrum historicum ad annum Christi quadringentesimum : in quo tum Imperii Romani tum Barbarorum circum incolentium … Shows nations and their borders in color. Relief shown pictorially. Includes globe-shaped inset titled "Supplementum Theatro Historicum" showing continents of Africa, Europe, Asia and northern boundaries of Australia, all with different colors.…- Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De
- Date: 1725-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapAfrica : corrected from the observations of the Royal Society at London and Paris. Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, rivers, forests and principal settlements, with tents symbolising areas inhabited by nomads, and notes. London meridian. "Drawn & Engrav'd by I. Senex." Available also through the Library…- Contributor: Senex, John
- Date: 1725-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialHmayil (Armenian prayer scroll) number 1.
Armenian prayer scroll number 1 Hmayils (phylacteries, or prayer scrolls) in the form of highly decorated and illuminated scrolls came into use in the Armenian Church the 17th century. The manuscripts contained sermons, magical formulas, and prayers…- Contributor: Ateshian, Aram
- Date: 1725
- Resource: PDF - 9
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb sharḥ Nuzhat fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
كتاب شرح نزهة في علم الحساب / Manuscript is a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's book Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār, which itself represents the author's abridgement of his work Murshidat al-tālib illá asnaʼ al-maṭālib. This 18th-century manuscript offers a clear example of…- Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Azharī, Ḥasan Al-Badrī Al-Shāfiʼī Al-Shādhilī Al-Laythī - Ghazzī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim
- Date: 1722
- Resource: PDF - 124
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb al-jadwal al-mubārak fī ʻilm al-zamān wa-al-falak fī ḥisāb madākhil al-ashhūr al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah
كتلب الجدول المبارك في علم الزمان و الفلك في حساب مداخل الأشهور العربية و الرومية / | Binder's title : Kitāb al-jadwāl al-mubārak fī ḥisāb madākhil al-ashhur al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah li-ibn Jaḥḥāf | Kitāb al-jadwāl al-mubārak fī ḥisāb madākhil al-ashhur al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah li-ibn Jaḥḥāf Because of the religious obligation to perform canonical prayers at set times of the day and the sanctity attributed to particular times of the year, such as the month of Ramaḍān, Muslim…- Contributor: Ḥidyah, Maḥrūs - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Jaḥḥāf, Al-Ḥusayn Ibn Zayd Ibn ʻalī - Ḥarrāzī, Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad Al-Sahl - Watarī, Muḥammad ʻalī Ibn Ẓāhir - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Walīdī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻīsá
- Date: 1729
- Resource: PDF - 25
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Book/Printed MaterialJian shi kao yao
檢屍考要 / In Zhu Gang's introduction notes that he collected and compiled the important aspects for the identification of corpses from "Xi yuan lu" and "Wu yuan lu", as recorded in the work entitled…- Contributor: Zhu, Gang - Yu, Yuanshi - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Bulantai
- Date: 1726
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Book/Printed MaterialJian shi kao yao
檢屍考要 / In Zhu Gang's introduction notes that he collected and compiled the important aspects for the identification of corpses from "Xi yuan lu" and "Wu yuan lu", as recorded in the work entitled…- Contributor: Zhu, Gang - Bulantai - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Yu, Yuanshi
- Date: 1726
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Book/Printed MaterialWan shou sheng dian chu ji : yi bai er shi juan
萬壽盛典初集 : 一百二十卷 / This work, in 120 juan and 40 volumes celebrating Emperor Kangxi's 60th birthday, was compiled by landscape painter and official Wang Yuanqi (1642-1715) and others and published at the imperial Wuying Hall…- Contributor: China. Nei Fu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wang, Yuanqi
- Date: 1721
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Book/Printed MaterialKun yu wai ji
坤輿外紀 This work is by Nan Huairen, the Chinese name of Ferdinand Verbiest (1623--88), the Belgian Jesuit who joined the order in 1641 and was sent as a missionary to China in 1655.…- Contributor: Verbiest, Ferdinand
- Date: 1722
- Resource: PDF - 10
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Book/Printed MaterialComplaint by Some Members of the Dutch Reformed Church, Living at Raritan, etc in [...] New …
Klagte Van Eenige Leeden der Nederduytse hervormde kerk, Woonende op Raretans, etc [...] Nieu-Jersey [...] Over het gedrag [...] van Do. Theodorus Jacobus Frilinghuisen, Met syn Kerken- Raaden In 1664, the Dutch colony of New Netherland ceased to exist when Governor Peter Stuyvesant was forced to surrender New Amsterdam--soon to be renamed New York--to an English fleet. Many residents of…- Date: 1725-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 171
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Book/Printed MaterialA Full and Impartial Account of the Company of Mississippi, Otherwise called the French East-India Company. …
A Full and Impartial Account of the Company of Mississipi, otherwise call'd the French East-India Company. Projected and settled by Mr. Law John Law was a Scottish financier and adventurer who was also an authority on banking and the circulation of money. He convinced the regent of France, Philippe d'Orléans, that he could liquidate…- Contributor: Law, John
- Date: 1720-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 74
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Book/Printed MaterialGeneral Price List of Medicines.
Tarifa General de Precios de Medicinas The work presented here, Tarifa general de precios de medicinas (General price list of medicines), dates from 1723. Produced by Cuba's first printer, Carlos Habré, an immigrant from Ghent, Flanders, it long…- Contributor: Tenesa, Francisco
- Date: 1723-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Clarification of the General Principles of Medicine. In the introduction of this manuscript entitled al-Īḍāḥ fī kullīyāt al-ṭibb (The clarification of the general principles of medicine), the author identifies himself as 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn 'Abdullāh al-Anwarī, but nothing…- Contributor: Anwari, Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abdullah
- Date: 1727-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 193
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Book/Printed MaterialCertificate of Emancipation for Female Slave. Timbuktu (present-day Tombouctou in Mali), founded around 1100 as a commercial center for trade across the Sahara Desert, was also an important seat of Islamic learning from the 14th century onward. The…- Date: 1726-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialBook of Theology. Shem'un al-Turani was born in 1670 near Tur Abdin in present-day Turkey. He studied in Tur Abdin and became a monk at the age of twenty. He was appointed maphrian-historically the prelate…- Contributor: Aslan, Athanasius - Basileios, Shemun, Maphrian
- Date: 1720-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Weapon of Religion and the Shield of Certainty. Shem'un al-Turani was born in 1670 near Tur Abdin in present-day Turkey. He studied in Tur Abdin and became a monk at the age of twenty. He was appointed maphrian-historically the prelate…- Contributor: Zakarya - Basileios, Shemun, Maphrian
- Date: 1724-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCollection on the Genealogy of Bavarian Nobility, Volume 27.
Sammlung zur Genealogie des bayrischen Adels in alphabetischer Ordnung, Band 27 Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing (1649--1727), prince-bishop of Freising from 1696 onwards, was keenly interested in history and genealogy. Having amassed material since his youth, he enlisted his Hofkammerdirektor (director of the…- Contributor: Eckher Von Kapfing Und Liechteneck, Johann Franz, Prince-Bishop of Freising - Prey, Johann Michael Wilhelm Von
- Date: 1724-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 598
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Book/Printed MaterialLouisiana Squirrel.
Ecureuil de Louisiane This hand-colored drawing of 1727 depicts what is said to be a flying squirrel, which is perched on a branch eating a nut. The squirrel was brought to Paris from New Orleans…- Date: 1727-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialRelation, or True Chronicle of what Occurred in the Country of Louisiana for Twenty-two Consecutive Years …
Relation, ou annale véritable de ce qui s'est passé dans le païs de la Louisiane pendant vingt-deux années consecutifes, depuis le commencement de l'établissement des François dans le païs André Pénicaut, born around 1680 in La Rochelle, France, was a "carpenter in the construction of royal ships" and an interpreter. This manuscript is his account of the 22 years he spent…- Contributor: Pénicaut, André
- Date: 1721-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 376
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Book/Printed MaterialAuthorization Granted to Jacques Hertel de Cournoyer, to Travel to the Pays-d'En-Haut for the Purpose of … With this document dated April 30, 1721, and signed in Montreal, Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil (1643--1725), governor of New France, permitted Jacques Hertel de Cournoyer (1667--1748) to go to the Pays d'en…- Contributor: Vaudreuil, Philippe De Rigaud, Marquis De
- Date: 1721-01-01
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MapThis Chart was Compiled on the Siberian Expedition under the Command of Navy Captain Bering from … Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681--1741) was born in Denmark but spent most of his adult life in the Russian navy. In 1725, Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great) instructed Bering to undertake an…- Contributor: Bering, Vitus Jonassen
- Date: 1725-01-01
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MapBrazil: According to New Surveys by Messrs. of the Royal Academy of Sciences, etc..
Le Bresil : suivant les nouvelles observations de Messrs. de l'Academie Royale As seen in this map, much of Brazil was still uncharted territory in the early 18th century. The annotations about the rivers, native peoples, and mines of the interior provide limited information.…- Contributor: Aa, Pieter Van Der
- Date: 1729-01-01
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MapPrimitive Map of the Upper Paraguay River and Its Tributaries Cuiaba, Porrudos and São Lourenco.
Mapa rudimentar do alto Paraguai com seus afluentes entre os quais o Cuiabá e o Porrudos, atual São Lourenço This hand-drawn map from around 1720 shows the Upper Paraguay River and its tributaries, the Cuiaba, Porrudos, and São Lourenco rivers. The basin of the Upper Paraguay River is located in the…- Date: 1720-01-01
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MapRegion Between Amazon River and São Paulo.
Região compreendida entre o rio Amazonas e São Paulo This pen-and-ink watercolor map shows the course of the Amazon River, including its minor tributaries and the towns located along its banks. Although much of the area along the Amazon was controlled…- Date: 1722-01-01
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MapMap of Ancient Arabia.
Arabiae Veteris Typus This map of the Arabian Peninsula, published in 1720, shows Arabia Felix, Arabia Deserta, and Arabia Petraea. Other regions included are Palestine, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, Persia, Aegyptus, and Aethiopia. A large number of…- Contributor: Weigel, Christoph
- Date: 1720-01-01
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MapMap of Mexico City.
Plano de la ciudad de México Dated 1720, this map was produced by the government of Mexico City in order to improve urban sanitation through the collection of garbage. It shows the central part of the city in…- Contributor: Alvarez, Antonio - Rivera, Miguel
- Date: 1720-01-01
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MapMap of the Whole of Guiana or the Savage Coast, and the Spanish West Indies at …
Kart van geheel Guajana of de Wilden-Kust This 18th-century Dutch map, produced in Amsterdam by the publisher Isaak Tirion (circa 1705--circa 1769), shows the northern coast of South American and its offshore islands, including Curaçao, Bonaire, and neighboring islands;…- Contributor: Tirion, Isaak, 1705 1769
- Date: 1720-01-01
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MapTurkey in Europe: According to New Observations by the Gentlemen at the Royal Science Academy.
Turquie en Europe : Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733) was a Dutch publisher and bookseller, based in Leiden, who specialized in reissuing maps acquired from earlier mapmakers. Van der Aa's major work was the elaborate Galerie…- Contributor: Aa, Pieter Van Der
- Date: 1729-01-01
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MapCourse of the Rivers and Streams Flowing to the West from the North of Lake Superior.
Cours des rivières, et fleuves, courant à l'ouest du nord du Lac Supérieur Shown here is a manuscript map depicting the "course of the rivers and streams flowing westward from the north of Lake Superior." The anonymous author of the map composed it "following a…- Contributor: Ochagac, Flourished 18th Century - L'isle, Guillaume De
- Date: 1722-01-01
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MapMap of Louisiana, View of New Orleans.
Carte de la Louisiane, vue de la Nouvelle-Orléans The French royal engineer, de Beauvilliers, drew this 1720 map of the entire hydrographic network of the Mississippi River, from the Illinois Country to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, and…- Contributor: Beauvilliers, De, 1730 - Bénard De La Harpe, Jean-Baptiste
- Date: 1720-01-01
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