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Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as o...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. This translation of De senectute (Cato maior), though frequently ascribed to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is probably by William Worcester... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, containyng thextraction of rootes, the cossike practise, with the rule of equation, and the woorkes of surde nombers

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, c...

Author's name appears in dedication('Epistle dedicatorie") as "Robert Recorde". Manuscript notes. "These bookes are to bee solde, at the Weste doore of Poules, by Ihon Kyngstone." Imprint from colophon. Signatu... More

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of ...

"The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464 [i.e. 444-463]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Date of publication from colophon. Signat... More

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Added t.p. illustrated, dated 1629. Printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392. STC (2nd ed.) 1170 Gibson, R. Bacon, 172 ESTC S106925 With: Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. [London, 1629]. Issued toge... More

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice : unto each tricke is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugli...

Printer and bookseller from STC (2nd.). Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁴. STC (2nd) 13543 ESTC S93006 Hall, T.H. Conjuring 155 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Translation of: Historia de le conquista de Mexico; first Spanish edition, Madrid, 1684. In five books; books I-II, III-IV, respectively, paged continuously; one plate printed on double leaf. Signatures: [a]², ... More

The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands : containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants : particularly the forest-trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors : together with their descriptions in English and French, to which, are added observations on the air, soil, and waters, with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. : to the whole, is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of

The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands : cont...

LC copy: paging and description in card catalogue: "2v., 100, 100, 20 col. pl., col. map ; 52 cm". LC copy: errors in paging from card catalogue: "Vol. 2, p. 59 numbered 56. Vol. 2, pl. 61 unnumbered; pl. 80 nu... More

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello, and harpsicord, particularly the thorough bass : exemplify'd in a variety of compositions on the subjcts sic of English, Scotch and Irish tunes

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violonc...

Variations for melody instrument and continuo. Engraved title page. Figured bass realized. "Opera VIII." "Printed with His Majesty's Royal License." Sowerby gives a probable publication date of 1739?; British L... More

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary to attain to a perfection on that instrument : with great variety of compositions, which will also be very useful to those who study the violoncello, harpsichord &c

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary t...

Engraved title page. Title page transposed: printer's statement appears after the imprint date. "Opera IX." The text (p. 9, [1], 2nd and 3rd groups of paging) is letterpress, printed on paper with horizontal ch... More

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in A...

Vertical chain lines. The leaves of the supplement have horizontal chain lines. Pt. 1: [4], 86, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; pt. 2: [3], 90-107 [i.e. 109], [1] p. Illustrations on leaf of plate signed: T... More

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London in the year 1665

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effec...

Extracted from Defoe's Journal of the plague year. Signatures: )(⁸. Evans 9373 LAC knj 2019-01-04 no edits (2 cards) LAC ecr 2019-01-08 review

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

Vol. 1: xvi, [2], 266, [14] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 519, [13] p. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1457 ESTC (RLIN) T143522 Title pages printed in red and black. Includ... More

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

24 letter alphabet (no J or U), illustrated with street vendors with their particular cries as captions. Wrapper shaped like an envelope, with a flap that surrounds the fore-edge of the book. Title from ins... More

King of handcuffs text, ca. 1900

King of handcuffs text, ca. 1900

Publicity item touting Harry Houdini's successes as "The King of Handcuffs" in London performances; includes numerous quotations from organs of the British and French press, and the addresses of Houdini's Ameri... More

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as o...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. This translation of De senectute (Cato maior), though frequently ascribed to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is probably by William Worcester... More

The byrth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke ... whose contentes ye maye rede in the table of the booke and most playnly in the prologue

The byrth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke ... whose con...

Translation of Rösslin's Swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten from the Latin (De partu hominis). Cf. DNB. Place of publication and printer from colophon. Signatures: A⁴ B-I⁸ ²H⁸ ³H⁶ K-Q⁸ R⁴ S-X⁸ Y¹⁰. STC (2... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

The pathway to knowledg : containing the first principles of geometrie, as they may moste aptly be applied vnto practise, bothe for vse of instrumentes geometricall and astronomicall and also for proiection of plattes in euerye kinde, and therfore much necessary for all sortes of men

The pathway to knowledg : containing the first principles of geometrie...

On verso of t. p. : "The arguments of the foure bookes." The vol. contains but two of the four: but the preface of book second speaks of the "other bookes, whiche now are lefte vnprinted," giving the reasons. T... More

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, containyng thextraction of rootes, the cossike practise, with the rule of equation, and the woorkes of surde nombers

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, c...

Author's name appears in dedication('Epistle dedicatorie") as "Robert Recorde". Manuscript notes. "These bookes are to bee solde, at the Weste doore of Poules, by Ihon Kyngstone." Imprint from colophon. Signatu... More

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of ...

"The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464 [i.e. 444-463]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Date of publication from colophon. Signat... More

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mandkinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely ...

Title vignette: The gorgon. Errors in pagination. Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁸ chi² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸. STC (2nd ed.) 24123 Includes indexes in multiple languages. LC copy imperfect: first and last leaves (bla... More

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Added t.p. illustrated, dated 1629. Printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392. STC (2nd ed.) 1170 Gibson, R. Bacon, 172 ESTC S106925 With: Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. [London, 1629]. Issued toge... More

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice : unto each tricke is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugli...

Printer and bookseller from STC (2nd.). Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁴. STC (2nd) 13543 ESTC S93006 Hall, T.H. Conjuring 155 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Translation of: Historia de le conquista de Mexico; first Spanish edition, Madrid, 1684. In five books; books I-II, III-IV, respectively, paged continuously; one plate printed on double leaf. Signatures: [a]², ... More

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello, and harpsicord, particularly the thorough bass : exemplify'd in a variety of compositions on the subjcts sic of English, Scotch and Irish tunes

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violonc...

Variations for melody instrument and continuo. Engraved title page. Figured bass realized. "Opera VIII." "Printed with His Majesty's Royal License." Sowerby gives a probable publication date of 1739?; British L... More

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary to attain to a perfection on that instrument : with great variety of compositions, which will also be very useful to those who study the violoncello, harpsichord &c

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary t...

Engraved title page. Title page transposed: printer's statement appears after the imprint date. "Opera IX." The text (p. 9, [1], 2nd and 3rd groups of paging) is letterpress, printed on paper with horizontal ch... More

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in A...

Vertical chain lines. The leaves of the supplement have horizontal chain lines. Pt. 1: [4], 86, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; pt. 2: [3], 90-107 [i.e. 109], [1] p. Illustrations on leaf of plate signed: T... More

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London in the year 1665

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effec...

Extracted from Defoe's Journal of the plague year. Signatures: )(⁸. Evans 9373 LAC knj 2019-01-04 no edits (2 cards) LAC ecr 2019-01-08 review

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

Vol. 1: xvi, [2], 266, [14] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 519, [13] p. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1457 ESTC (RLIN) T143522 Title pages printed in red and black. Includ... More

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

24 letter alphabet (no J or U), illustrated with street vendors with their particular cries as captions. Wrapper shaped like an envelope, with a flap that surrounds the fore-edge of the book. Title from ins... More

King of handcuffs text, ca. 1900

King of handcuffs text, ca. 1900

Publicity item touting Harry Houdini's successes as "The King of Handcuffs" in London performances; includes numerous quotations from organs of the British and French press, and the addresses of Houdini's Ameri... More

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as o...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. This translation of De senectute (Cato maior), though frequently ascribed to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is probably by William Worcester... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, containyng thextraction of rootes, the cossike practise, with the rule of equation, and the woorkes of surde nombers

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, c...

Author's name appears in dedication('Epistle dedicatorie") as "Robert Recorde". Manuscript notes. "These bookes are to bee solde, at the Weste doore of Poules, by Ihon Kyngstone." Imprint from colophon. Signatu... More

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of ...

"The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464 [i.e. 444-463]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Date of publication from colophon. Signat... More

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Added t.p. illustrated, dated 1629. Printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392. STC (2nd ed.) 1170 Gibson, R. Bacon, 172 ESTC S106925 With: Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. [London, 1629]. Issued toge... More

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice : unto each tricke is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugli...

Printer and bookseller from STC (2nd.). Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁴. STC (2nd) 13543 ESTC S93006 Hall, T.H. Conjuring 155 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Translation of: Historia de le conquista de Mexico; first Spanish edition, Madrid, 1684. In five books; books I-II, III-IV, respectively, paged continuously; one plate printed on double leaf. Signatures: [a]², ... More

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello, and harpsicord, particularly the thorough bass : exemplify'd in a variety of compositions on the subjcts sic of English, Scotch and Irish tunes

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violonc...

Variations for melody instrument and continuo. Engraved title page. Figured bass realized. "Opera VIII." "Printed with His Majesty's Royal License." Sowerby gives a probable publication date of 1739?; British L... More

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary to attain to a perfection on that instrument : with great variety of compositions, which will also be very useful to those who study the violoncello, harpsichord &c

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary t...

Engraved title page. Title page transposed: printer's statement appears after the imprint date. "Opera IX." The text (p. 9, [1], 2nd and 3rd groups of paging) is letterpress, printed on paper with horizontal ch... More

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in A...

Vertical chain lines. The leaves of the supplement have horizontal chain lines. Pt. 1: [4], 86, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; pt. 2: [3], 90-107 [i.e. 109], [1] p. Illustrations on leaf of plate signed: T... More

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London in the year 1665

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effec...

Extracted from Defoe's Journal of the plague year. Signatures: )(⁸. Evans 9373 LAC knj 2019-01-04 no edits (2 cards) LAC ecr 2019-01-08 review

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

Vol. 1: xvi, [2], 266, [14] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 519, [13] p. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1457 ESTC (RLIN) T143522 Title pages printed in red and black. Includ... More

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

24 letter alphabet (no J or U), illustrated with street vendors with their particular cries as captions. Wrapper shaped like an envelope, with a flap that surrounds the fore-edge of the book. Title from ins... More

King of handcuffs text, ca. 1900

King of handcuffs text, ca. 1900

Publicity item touting Harry Houdini's successes as "The King of Handcuffs" in London performances; includes numerous quotations from organs of the British and French press, and the addresses of Houdini's Ameri... More

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as o...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. This translation of De senectute (Cato maior), though frequently ascribed to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is probably by William Worcester... More

The byrth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke ... whose contentes ye maye rede in the table of the booke and most playnly in the prologue

The byrth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke ... whose con...

Translation of Rösslin's Swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten from the Latin (De partu hominis). Cf. DNB. Place of publication and printer from colophon. Signatures: A⁴ B-I⁸ ²H⁸ ³H⁶ K-Q⁸ R⁴ S-X⁸ Y¹⁰. STC (2... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

The pathway to knowledg : containing the first principles of geometrie, as they may moste aptly be applied vnto practise, bothe for vse of instrumentes geometricall and astronomicall and also for proiection of plattes in euerye kinde, and therfore much necessary for all sortes of men

The pathway to knowledg : containing the first principles of geometrie...

On verso of t. p. : "The arguments of the foure bookes." The vol. contains but two of the four: but the preface of book second speaks of the "other bookes, whiche now are lefte vnprinted," giving the reasons. T... More

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, containyng thextraction of rootes, the cossike practise, with the rule of equation, and the woorkes of surde nombers

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, c...

Author's name appears in dedication('Epistle dedicatorie") as "Robert Recorde". Manuscript notes. "These bookes are to bee solde, at the Weste doore of Poules, by Ihon Kyngstone." Imprint from colophon. Signatu... More

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of ...

"The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464 [i.e. 444-463]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Date of publication from colophon. Signat... More

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Added t.p. illustrated, dated 1629. Printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392. STC (2nd ed.) 1170 Gibson, R. Bacon, 172 ESTC S106925 With: Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. [London, 1629]. Issued toge... More

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice : unto each tricke is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugli...

Printer and bookseller from STC (2nd.). Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁴. STC (2nd) 13543 ESTC S93006 Hall, T.H. Conjuring 155 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Translation of: Historia de le conquista de Mexico; first Spanish edition, Madrid, 1684. In five books; books I-II, III-IV, respectively, paged continuously; one plate printed on double leaf. Signatures: [a]², ... More

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello, and harpsicord, particularly the thorough bass : exemplify'd in a variety of compositions on the subjcts sic of English, Scotch and Irish tunes

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violonc...

Variations for melody instrument and continuo. Engraved title page. Figured bass realized. "Opera VIII." "Printed with His Majesty's Royal License." Sowerby gives a probable publication date of 1739?; British L... More

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in A...

Vertical chain lines. The leaves of the supplement have horizontal chain lines. Pt. 1: [4], 86, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; pt. 2: [3], 90-107 [i.e. 109], [1] p. Illustrations on leaf of plate signed: T... More

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary to attain to a perfection on that instrument : with great variety of compositions, which will also be very useful to those who study the violoncello, harpsichord &c

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary t...

Engraved title page. Title page transposed: printer's statement appears after the imprint date. "Opera IX." The text (p. 9, [1], 2nd and 3rd groups of paging) is letterpress, printed on paper with horizontal ch... More

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London in the year 1665

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effec...

Extracted from Defoe's Journal of the plague year. Signatures: )(⁸. Evans 9373 LAC knj 2019-01-04 no edits (2 cards) LAC ecr 2019-01-08 review

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

Vol. 1: xvi, [2], 266, [14] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 519, [13] p. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1457 ESTC (RLIN) T143522 Title pages printed in red and black. Includ... More

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

24 letter alphabet (no J or U), illustrated with street vendors with their particular cries as captions. Wrapper shaped like an envelope, with a flap that surrounds the fore-edge of the book. Title from ins... More

King of handcuffs text, ca. 1900

King of handcuffs text, ca. 1900

Publicity item touting Harry Houdini's successes as "The King of Handcuffs" in London performances; includes numerous quotations from organs of the British and French press, and the addresses of Houdini's Ameri... More

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as o...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. This translation of De senectute (Cato maior), though frequently ascribed to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is probably by William Worcester... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of ...

"The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464 [i.e. 444-463]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Date of publication from colophon. Signat... More

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mandkinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely ...

Title vignette: The gorgon. Errors in pagination. Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁸ chi² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸. STC (2nd ed.) 24123 Includes indexes in multiple languages. LC copy imperfect: first and last leaves (bla... More

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Added t.p. illustrated, dated 1629. Printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392. STC (2nd ed.) 1170 Gibson, R. Bacon, 172 ESTC S106925 With: Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. [London, 1629]. Issued toge... More

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice : unto each tricke is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugli...

Printer and bookseller from STC (2nd.). Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁴. STC (2nd) 13543 ESTC S93006 Hall, T.H. Conjuring 155 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Translation of: Historia de le conquista de Mexico; first Spanish edition, Madrid, 1684. In five books; books I-II, III-IV, respectively, paged continuously; one plate printed on double leaf. Signatures: [a]², ... More

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello, and harpsicord, particularly the thorough bass : exemplify'd in a variety of compositions on the subjcts sic of English, Scotch and Irish tunes

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violonc...

Variations for melody instrument and continuo. Engraved title page. Figured bass realized. "Opera VIII." "Printed with His Majesty's Royal License." Sowerby gives a probable publication date of 1739?; British L... More

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in A...

Vertical chain lines. The leaves of the supplement have horizontal chain lines. Pt. 1: [4], 86, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; pt. 2: [3], 90-107 [i.e. 109], [1] p. Illustrations on leaf of plate signed: T... More

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary to attain to a perfection on that instrument : with great variety of compositions, which will also be very useful to those who study the violoncello, harpsichord &c

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary t...

Engraved title page. Title page transposed: printer's statement appears after the imprint date. "Opera IX." The text (p. 9, [1], 2nd and 3rd groups of paging) is letterpress, printed on paper with horizontal ch... More

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London in the year 1665

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effec...

Extracted from Defoe's Journal of the plague year. Signatures: )(⁸. Evans 9373 LAC knj 2019-01-04 no edits (2 cards) LAC ecr 2019-01-08 review

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

Vol. 1: xvi, [2], 266, [14] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 519, [13] p. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1457 ESTC (RLIN) T143522 Title pages printed in red and black. Includ... More

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

The uncle's present : a new battledoor

24 letter alphabet (no J or U), illustrated with street vendors with their particular cries as captions. Wrapper shaped like an envelope, with a flap that surrounds the fore-edge of the book. Title from ins... More

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as o...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. This translation of De senectute (Cato maior), though frequently ascribed to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is probably by William Worcester... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, containyng thextraction of rootes, the cossike practise, with the rule of equation, and the woorkes of surde nombers

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, c...

Author's name appears in dedication('Epistle dedicatorie") as "Robert Recorde". Manuscript notes. "These bookes are to bee solde, at the Weste doore of Poules, by Ihon Kyngstone." Imprint from colophon. Signatu... More

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of ...

"The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464 [i.e. 444-463]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Date of publication from colophon. Signat... More

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mandkinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely ...

Title vignette: The gorgon. Errors in pagination. Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁸ chi² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸. STC (2nd ed.) 24123 Includes indexes in multiple languages. LC copy imperfect: first and last leaves (bla... More

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Added t.p. illustrated, dated 1629. Printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392. STC (2nd ed.) 1170 Gibson, R. Bacon, 172 ESTC S106925 With: Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. [London, 1629]. Issued toge... More

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice : unto each tricke is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugli...

Printer and bookseller from STC (2nd.). Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁴. STC (2nd) 13543 ESTC S93006 Hall, T.H. Conjuring 155 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Translation of: Historia de le conquista de Mexico; first Spanish edition, Madrid, 1684. In five books; books I-II, III-IV, respectively, paged continuously; one plate printed on double leaf. Signatures: [a]², ... More

The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands : containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants : particularly the forest-trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors : together with their descriptions in English and French, to which, are added observations on the air, soil, and waters, with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. : to the whole, is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of

The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands : cont...

LC copy: paging and description in card catalogue: "2v., 100, 100, 20 col. pl., col. map ; 52 cm". LC copy: errors in paging from card catalogue: "Vol. 2, p. 59 numbered 56. Vol. 2, pl. 61 unnumbered; pl. 80 nu... More

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello, and harpsicord, particularly the thorough bass : exemplify'd in a variety of compositions on the subjcts sic of English, Scotch and Irish tunes

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violonc...

Variations for melody instrument and continuo. Engraved title page. Figured bass realized. "Opera VIII." "Printed with His Majesty's Royal License." Sowerby gives a probable publication date of 1739?; British L... More

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary to attain to a perfection on that instrument : with great variety of compositions, which will also be very useful to those who study the violoncello, harpsichord &c

The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary t...

Engraved title page. Title page transposed: printer's statement appears after the imprint date. "Opera IX." The text (p. 9, [1], 2nd and 3rd groups of paging) is letterpress, printed on paper with horizontal ch... More

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America

Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in A...

Vertical chain lines. The leaves of the supplement have horizontal chain lines. Pt. 1: [4], 86, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; pt. 2: [3], 90-107 [i.e. 109], [1] p. Illustrations on leaf of plate signed: T... More

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London in the year 1665

The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effec...

Extracted from Defoe's Journal of the plague year. Signatures: )(⁸. Evans 9373 LAC knj 2019-01-04 no edits (2 cards) LAC ecr 2019-01-08 review

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

Vol. 1: xvi, [2], 266, [14] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 519, [13] p. Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1457 ESTC (RLIN) T143522 Title pages printed in red and black. Includ... More

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as o...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. This translation of De senectute (Cato maior), though frequently ascribed to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is probably by William Worcester... More

The byrth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke ... whose contentes ye maye rede in the table of the booke and most playnly in the prologue

The byrth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke ... whose con...

Translation of Rösslin's Swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten from the Latin (De partu hominis). Cf. DNB. Place of publication and printer from colophon. Signatures: A⁴ B-I⁸ ²H⁸ ³H⁶ K-Q⁸ R⁴ S-X⁸ Y¹⁰. STC (2... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, containyng thextraction of rootes, the cossike practise, with the rule of equation, and the woorkes of surde nombers

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, c...

Author's name appears in dedication('Epistle dedicatorie") as "Robert Recorde". Manuscript notes. "These bookes are to bee solde, at the Weste doore of Poules, by Ihon Kyngstone." Imprint from colophon. Signatu... More

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara

The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of ...

"The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464 [i.e. 444-463]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Date of publication from colophon. Signat... More

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mandkinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely ...

Title vignette: The gorgon. Errors in pagination. Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁸ chi² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸. STC (2nd ed.) 24123 Includes indexes in multiple languages. LC copy imperfect: first and last leaves (bla... More

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Added t.p. illustrated, dated 1629. Printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392. STC (2nd ed.) 1170 Gibson, R. Bacon, 172 ESTC S106925 With: Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. [London, 1629]. Issued toge... More

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice : unto each tricke is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction

Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugli...

Printer and bookseller from STC (2nd.). Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁴. STC (2nd) 13543 ESTC S93006 Hall, T.H. Conjuring 155 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Translation of: Historia de le conquista de Mexico; first Spanish edition, Madrid, 1684. In five books; books I-II, III-IV, respectively, paged continuously; one plate printed on double leaf. Signatures: [a]², ... More

The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands : containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants : particularly the forest-trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors : together with their descriptions in English and French, to which, are added observations on the air, soil, and waters, with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. : to the whole, is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of

The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands : cont...

LC copy: paging and description in card catalogue: "2v., 100, 100, 20 col. pl., col. map ; 52 cm". LC copy: errors in paging from card catalogue: "Vol. 2, p. 59 numbered 56. Vol. 2, pl. 61 unnumbered; pl. 80 nu... More

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello, and harpsicord, particularly the thorough bass : exemplify'd in a variety of compositions on the subjcts sic of English, Scotch and Irish tunes

Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violonc...

Variations for melody instrument and continuo. Engraved title page. Figured bass realized. "Opera VIII." "Printed with His Majesty's Royal License." Sowerby gives a probable publication date of 1739?; British L... More

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