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[Woodcuts used to illus. Fables from incunabula...1966: the fox and th...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4442. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Woodcuts used to illus. Fables from incunabula...1966: Aesop surround...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4442. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Geometric diagrams in margins of text of first printed edition of Euc...

Repr. of line drawing by Erhard Ratdolt, printer of the edition. Illus. in: Euclides Elementa Geometriae, Venice, 1482. Reference copy may be in LOT 4397 P. This record contains unverified, old data from captio... More

[Geometric diagrams in margins of text of first printed edition of Euc...

Repr. of line drawing by Erhard Ratdolt, printer of the edition. Illus. in: Euclides Elementa Geometriae, Venice, 1482. Reference copy may be in LOT 4397 P. This record contains unverified, old data from captio... More

De re militari.Verona, Boninus de Boninis, 13 Feb. 1483.[254] leaves (...

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[Illus: Prognostication: Clergyman ("Jupiter") blessing farmer ("Sagit...

Illus. in: Paulus Middelburgensis, Bp., Prognostica ad viginti annos duratura, Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 28 Sept. 1484. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card... More

Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum. Hours [from old catalog...

Begins (without title) with the cut Astrological man, on the reverse of which is the almanac for 20 years (1488-1508). Type 94G (same font as in BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 152). Goff H-369 Rosenwald 408 LC copy ru... More

Illus. of St. Dympna, 7th Century Irish princess who was martyred by r...

Illus. in: Petrus Cameracensis, Legenda S. Dympanae, Oratio de S. Dympanae. Antwerp. Govaert Back, 1496. Reference copy may be in LOT 4443E. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption ... More

[2 botanical illus. and page of text]

Illus. in: Hortus Sanitatis [Maior] (1497). No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Papie sanctuarium.[Papie, Impressum pro Jacob de Burgofr¯acho, 1505][4...

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Das ist der Teutsch Kalender mit den Figuren. [Augspurg, Getruckt von ...

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Illus. of man slicing bread (making communion wafers?) and of a hawk, ...

Illus. in: Hortus sanitatis [minor], Dè grotè herbari (The great Herbarium), Antwerpen, Gheprint bi C. de Graue, 1514. Reference copy may be in LOT 4638 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption... More

Full page with illus. of man painting madonna and another making engra...

Illus. in: Hortulus anime cum alijs ... [Lugduni, 1516], verso of p. CXI. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - ARTISTS AT WORK. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists at work.

[Incunabula illus. of woman (St. Bridget) in prayer]

Illus. in: Hortulus Animae...(Lugduni, 1517). Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr.). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Illus. poem showing mountain landslide threatening 3 horsemen]

Woodcut on vellum by Hans Schaufrerlein. Illus. in: Theuerdank, Die geuerlicheiten vnd einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen...(Nürnberg, Schönsperger [1517], pl. 36). Reference copy may be in SSF... More

Bvcolica, Georgica, Aeneis, cvm Servii commentariis accvratissime emen...

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[Title page of Witelo, De Natura, illus. with composite of various phe...

Illus. in: Witelo, De Natura, 1535. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rainbow; Light; Natural phenomena; Science; BI Works; RBD; Shelf.

[American Bison; illus. on full page with descriptive text in Spanish]

Illus. in: Francisco López de Gómara, La Historia General de las Indians...1554. Reference copy may be in LOT 4707B. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bison (Am... More

Aqui comiença vn vocabulario enla lengua castellana y mexicana.Vocabul...

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[South Pole. 1555; page of text illus. with map showing "The Pole Anta...

Illus. in: R. Eden, Decades of Newe Worlde or West India. Londini, 1555, p. 248. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Captio... More

The spider and the flie, a parable. London, Imprinted by T. Povvell, 1...

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Hypnerotomachie,Paris [Imprime par I. Le Blanc] pour I. Keruer, 1561.1...

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[Illus. of Aesop's fable of the grasshopper and the ant]

Illus. in: Edward de Deene, De warachtighe fabvlen der dieren, Brugghe, 1567, plate 26. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORKS; Fables; RBD; Shelf.

El cavallero determinado,Le chevalier délibré. SpanishSalamanca, P. La...

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[Illus. of the Anti-Christ on "The Ship of Fools; St. Peter with boatl...

Illus. in: Sebastian Brant, Nauis stultorum, oft, Der sotten schip, Thantwerpen, Ghedruckt by J. van Ghelen, 1584. Reference copy may be in LOT 4444B. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card... More

[Title p. illus. with Spanish missionary in Philippines standing holdi...

Illus. in: Doctrina Christiana, en lengua espanola ytagala, Manila, 1593, title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 7012. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Spani... More

[2 illus. of warfare of Canadian Indians]

Indians & French attacking hexagonal Indian fortification. Illus. in: Champlain, Les Voyages, 1619. plate between pp. 254-5. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA CANADA 16 ? This record contai... More

[4 illus. of Indians: warrior in armor; woman grinding maize; woman we...

Illus. in: Samuel Champlain, Voyages et Descouvertes..., 1619, fol. 87 verso. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians Misc.... More

[2 illus. of warfare of Canadian Indians]

Indians attacking and killing other Indians and Frenchmen; bodies burning beside large cross.

[Engraved title page of Boccaccio's Decameron; 1620 English edition; i...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4442. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Literature; Artists, Publ. I.; RBD; Shelf.

[Map of northern coast of S. America, showing mouths of Amazon and Ori...

Illus. in: Reys-Boeck van het rijcke, Brasilien (Dordrecht?,1624). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, and subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Maps; South America; Snakes; Braz... More

[Title page illus. with ship VICTORIA and bust portraits of circumnavi...

Biblia; das ist, Die gantze Schrifft Alten vnd Newen Testaments.Strass...

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Histoire cvrievse de tovt ce qvi c'est passé a l'entree de la reyne me...

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Title page, with no illus., in William Wood, Nevv Englands prospect, L...

Illus. in: William Wood, Nevv Englands prospect, London, by T. Cotes for J. Bellamie, 1634. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indian tribes Mass.... More

[Illus. title page of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gat...

Illus. in: The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde, London, 1636, title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 4434J. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Capti... More

Eryci Pvteani Bamelrodi Brvxella incomparabili exemplo septenaria ...B...

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[Map with border illus. of cherubs using navigational instruments]

Illus. in: Johannes Hevelius, Selenographie, Gedani, Autoris sumtibus, typis Hünefeldianis, 1647, map between pp. 226-227. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption car... More

[Illus. from book concerning Justices of the Peace: t.p. of 1656 ed. o...

Illus. in: A Manuall...Compleat Justice, 1656 ed., title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 4616. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Kings and rulers; B.I.; Just... More

A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern, in a collectio...

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[Illus. from book concerning Justices of the Peace: frontis, of 1669 e...

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[Title page illus. with scenes of piratical barbarity]

Illus. in: De Americaensche zee-roovers [Pirates of America] by A.O. Exquemelin. Publ. Amsterdam, 1678. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Pirates.

[Frontis. and title page - no illus.]

Illus. in: John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, London, 1678. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; BI WORKS; Shelf.

[Title page - no illus. of Triyals of...Witches... by Cotton Mather]

Illus. in: Tryals of ... Witches... by Cotton Mather (Boston, 1693) No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Witchcraft; PI; Shelf.

[Page from 18th Century almanac: t.p. of Titan's New Almanack...1729; ...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4710. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Illus. from book concerning Justices of the Peace: t.p. of The Office...

Illus. in: The Office...of a Justice of Peace, Williamsburg, Va., 1736, title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 4616. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Kings a... More

[Title page - no illus. - of Rules for playing in a true taste on the ...

Componimenti poetici per l'ingresso solenne alla dignità di proccurato...

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[Title page, with no illus.] - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

Illus. in: James Otis, The rights of the British colonies..., Boston, Edes and Gill, 1764. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tra... More

Illus. of the Rectifier, in Andrew Wakeley, The Mariner's compass rect...

Illus. in: Andrew Wakeley, The Mariner's compass rectified, London, J. Mount and T. Page, 1766. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORKS; Navig... More

Beginning of text, illus. with royal seal, in Gt. Brit. Laws, statues,...

No. 1 in a series of statues lettered: Four acts relating to the tea tax, 1767-1778.

La Gerusalemme liberata. Parigi, A. Delalain, 1771. 2 v. illus., pla...

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The Lord Mayor's speech and the city petition about excise [on tobacco...

Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Tariff 1771 Cartoons. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Gt. Brig. England London History 1771; Caricatures..., British 1771;... More

[Page from The New England Primer Improved, 1773, letters T through Z,...

Illus. in: The New England Primer Improved, 1773. Reference copy may be in LOT 7003. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Alphabets; Primers; Shelf.

[2 pages of New England Primer, 1773, with illus. of letters G through...

Illus. in: New England Primer. Reference copy may be in LOT 7003. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Religion Misc.; Primers; Education; Shelf.

[Title page, with no illus. of James Wilson, Considerations on the nat...

[Title page, with no illus.] - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Illus. in: Alexander Hamilton, A full vindication of the measures of the Congress, New York, James Rivington, 1774. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent re... More

[Title page - no illus.], title page

[Title page with illus. seal showing 12 outstretched arms grasping col...

Illus. in: Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, held at Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1774. Reference copy may be in LOT 4412 LA. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracin... More

[Title page, with no illus., for Abraham Swan's, The British architect...

Illus. in: Abraham Swan, The British architect: or, The builder's treasury of staircases. Philadelphia, Printed for R. Bell by J. Norman, 1775, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old da... More

[Title page, with no illus.] - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

Illus. in: John Wesley, A calm address to our American colonies, London, R. Wawes, 1775. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card traci... More

[Illus. of 3 constellations: "Le Bouvier" (Bootes - the Ploughman), "L...

Illus. in: Atlas Celeste, Paris, 1776. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dogs; Agriculture; Astornomy; RBD; Shelf.

[Title page of "An Astronomical Diary, or Almanack,...for 1777...by Na...

Illus. in: "An Astronomical Diary, or Almanack,...for 1777...by Nathaniel Law". This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Eclipses; Almanacks.

[Page from 18th Century almanac: t.p. of Continental Almanac...1780; a...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4710. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Title page, with no illus., in George Richards Minot, The history of t...

Illus. in: George Richartds Minot, The history of the insurrections, in Massachusetts, in the year MDCCLXXXVI, Worcester, I. Thomas, 1788, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data fr... More

Front page, with masthead illus. of 4 women (one holding Liberty cap o...

Title page, with no illus., of Benjamin Rush, An enquiry into the effe...

Illus. in: Benjamin Rush, An enquiry into the effects of spiritous liquors, Philadelphia, T. Bradford, 1790, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card ... More

[Title page of Regeln fur die Ordnung und Disciplin der Truppen der Ve...

Illus. in: Regeln fur die Ordnung und Disciplin der Truppen der Vereinigten Staaten, Philadelphia, 1793, title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 4424. This record contains unverified, old data from caption car... More

Title page, with no illus., of Edmond Charles Edouard Genet, Liberté E...

Illus. in: Edmond Charles Edouard Genet, Liberté Egalité, n.p., 1793, title page. No reference copy . This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; France Hist. 1793; ... More

[Engraved frontis. illus. to each of four volumes of Swift, Voyages de...

Illus. in: Swift, Voyages de Gulliver, Paris, 1795. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - SWIFT, JONATHAN. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Books, B.I.

[Title p. of the first new Virginia A B C and name book, printed in 18...

Illus. in: Das Erste ganz neue virginische A B C und Namebüchlein für Kinder, Neumarket [i.e. Newmarket, Va.], Ambrosius Heukel, 1808. Reference copy may be in LOT 7003. This record contains unverified, old dat... More

[Title p. of a Christmas book for little boys, a collection of convers...

Illus. in: Ein Christags-Geschenk Für kleine Knaben: oder eine Sammlung von verschiedenen Unterretungen, Neumarket [i.e. Newmarket, Va.], Salomon Henkel, 1809, title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 7003. Thi... More

[Frontis illus. of books by Mason Locke "Parson" Weems (1759-1825): "h...

Illus. in: God's Revenge against gambling ... (Philadelphia, 1812). No reference copies. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Illus. opp. p.1, showing Jesus telling woman in garden "if you have a...

Illus. in: Johann Friedrich Stark, Tägliches Hand-Buch..., Philadelphia, 1812. Reference copy may be in LOT 4443. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Relig. Misc.... More

[The Spiritual Songster: containing a variety of camp-meeting and othe...

Title page from 1st ed. Reference copy may be in LOT 4617. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Shelf.

[Title page - no illus. - from Life and remarkable adventures of Israe...

LC-USZ62-39339 - woodcut illus. from above. Illus. in: Life and remarkable adventures of Israel R. Potter, Providence, 1824. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: R... More

Title page, with no illus., in Nat Turner, The confessions, Richmond, ...

Illus. in: The confessions of Nat Turner... Richmond : Thomas R. Gray, 1832, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US Hist 1831 (Sothampt... More

[Title page of "Fancy's sketch book" by Miss Penina Moise (Charleston,...

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[Title page from Davy Crockett's Almanack (1836), vol. 1, no. 2, illus...

Illus. in: Davy Crockett's Almanack, 1836, v. 1, no. 2, title page. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Almanacs; Humor; Stilts; B.I.

The Liberty Almanac for 1847: [page with slave trade news (no illus.)]

Reference copy may be in LOT 4422A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African American hist. Slavery; Almanacs; African American hist. Emancipation; Shelf.

[Illus. of fable "The ant and the grasshopper," showing two insects dr...

Engraving by Grandville. Illus. in: Fables de la Fontaine. Paris, 1847. Reference copy may be in LOT 4442. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. I.; ... More

[Title page - no illus.] - Public domain dedication image

Illus. in: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, 1793, Phila., B. Franklin [n.d.] [Phila. C. Marshall, 1849], title page. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; BI W... More

[Page from The New England Primer Improved, 1773, letters A through F,...

Illus. in: The New England Primer Improved, 1773. Reference copy may be in LOT 7003. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Alphabets; Primers; Shelf.

[Engraved frontis. illus. to each of four volumes of Swift, Voyages de...

Illus. in: Swift, Voyages de Gulliver, Paris, 1795. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - SWIFT, JONATHAN. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Books, B.I.

[Engraved frontis. illus. to each of four volumes of Swift, Voyages de...

Illus. in: Swift, Voyages de Gulliver, Paris, 1795. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - SWIFT, JONATHAN. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Books, B.I.

[Illus. of Knights in armor fighting]

Illus. in: Die Distructie va Troyen. Gheprent Thantwerpen, ca. 1510-15. Reference copy may be in LOT 4250. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Engraved frontis. illus. to each of four volumes of Swift, Voyages de...

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships.

[Artillery wagons, caissons, travelling forges. ca. 1850; various illu...

Illus. in: Heck, Iconographic Encyclopedia, v. 2, 1851, plate 38. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artillery; Shelf.

[Medieval fortifications - illus. of ditches, bridges, outworks, gates...

Illus. in: Heck, Iconographic Encyclopedia, v. 2, 1851, plate 44. P&P Reference. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts...; Shelf.

[History and Ethnology of Ancient Rome: 4 illus: fig. 1 Exhibition of ...

Illus. in: Heck, Iconographic Encyclopedia, (1851) v. 1, plate 13. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Gladiators; It. Rome; Shelf.

2 illus.: 1. Greytown, Nicaragua; 2. Colonel [H.L.] Kinney head and sh...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no. 2 (1855 Dec. 22), p. 21. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - Walker, William, 1824-1860. ... More

2 illus.: 1. Virgin Bay - slaughter of Americans and burning of the pi...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no. 23 (1856 May 17), p. 361. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - Walker, William, 1824-1860.... More

[2 illus.]: 1. Nicaragua - General Walker landing troops at Fort Casti...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no. 23 (1856 May 17), p. 356. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - Walker, William, 1824-1860.... More

Nicaragua - 2 illus.: 1. Troops landing at Virgin Bay, en route to Cos...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no. 19 (1856 Apr. 19), p. 297. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - Walker, William, 1824-1860... More

[Frontis. illus. of 2 men, 2 horses, pack burro, and dog at tent camp ...

Frontis. engraving by Richardson - Cox. Illus. in: Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey Through Texas, 1857. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Camps; Tex. Hist.; Publ. Ind.

[Illus. and page of text on "trailering"]

Illus. in: Randolf B. March, The prairie traveler. New York, 1859, p. 178-179. Reference copy may be in SSF - Hunting. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Title page - no illus. Subject of presidential campaign of 1858 in Il...

Illus. in: Abraham Lincoln, Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas. Columbus : Follett, Foster and Company, 1860, title page. Reference copy may be in Pres. File. This record contains unverified, old dat... More

3 illus.: 1. The Presidential journey - Reception of President Lincol...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 275 (1861 Mar. 2), pp. 232-233. Reference copy may be in PRES FILE - Inauguration. Captio... More

[Adv. for Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial (patent medicine) in small t...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4399. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Civil War Home front; Patent medicines; Broadsides 1863; RBD; Cartoons, US; Advertising; Shelf.

[Title page of The Confederate Primer (4th ed., Richmond, 1864) with i...

Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, Confederate States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.