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Seen in the Whitechapel Gallery in London, a rare book published in 1890. I researched it.
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Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe : contenant leurs descriptions, leurs figures, leurs differentes metamorphoses, de même que les descriptions des plantes, fleurs & fruits, dont ils se nourissent ... / par Mademoiselle Marie Sybille de Merian, en deux parties in-folio. Paris : L.C. Desnos, 1771.
Call No.: 500 X27 FOLIO
Location: George Peabody Library
Illustrator: Edward Gorey
Title: The Wanderer
Author: Alain-Fournier
Publisher: Doubleday Anchor Books (A14)
Date: 1953
Historia general de las grandezas, y excelencias de Espana, que han consegvido por la intercession de Maria Santissima Senora nuestra, y por la Santa Cruz, muchos reyes Catolicos
Printed Madrid 1681
Printer Roque Rico de Miranda
NLA RBq MISC 179
Caelii Apitii summi adulatricis medicinæ artificis De re culinaria libri x.
Printed Basle 1541
Printer unknown
NLA RB MISC 3383
A medicinal cookbook
Margarita philosophica cū additionibus nouis: ab auctore suo studiosissima reuisione quarto super additis
Printed Basilee 1517
Printer Michael Furterius
NLA RB 502 REI
Breviarum romanum
Printed Parisiis 1606
Printer: apud viduas Sebastiani Nioellij, Guillelmi Chaundiere, Guillelmi de la Noue, Michaelem Sonnium, Laurentium Sonnium, Claudium Chappelet, et Petrum Mettayer ; impressum Parisiis : per Dionysium Binet
NLA RB CLI 3063
Flora’s Dictionary, Mrs. E.W. Wirt, Baltimore, 1855
Call No.: 716.2 W799 1855
Location: George Peabody Library
Lusiadas de Luis de Camoens ... comentadas por Manuel de Faria i Sousa
Printed Madrid 1639
Printer Juan Sanchez
NLA RB CLI 3419 and 3420
Biblia magna commentariorvm literalivm Joannis Gagnaei... Gvillelmi Estii... Emmanuelis Sa, Ioannis Menochii, & Tacobi Tirini... prologomenis, chronico sacro, indicibus... illustrata... Cura & labore... Ioan. de la Haye
Printed Paris 1643
Printers: Michaelis Soly, Matthaei Gvillemot, Dionysii Bechet, et Antonii Bertie
NLA RBq JES 4990
The compleat English-scholar : in spelling, reading, and writing; containing plain and easie directions ... / by E. Young, Schoolmaster in London
Printed London 1679
Printer: unknown
NLA RBRS ALS 1204
Vierzehen jahrige Ost-Indianische Krieg- und Ober-Kauffmanns-Dienste, in einem richtig gefuhrten Journal- und Tage-Buch.
Printed in Sultzbach 1686
printed by Abraham Lichstenthaler for Endter
NLA RB 991.021 WUR
Annales ecclesiastici avctore Caesare Barinio... : Coloniae Agrippinae
Printed Cologne 1624
Printer Ioannis Gymnici
NLA RBq De Vesci 1604
Biblia magna commentariorvm literalivm Joannis Gagnaei... Gvillelmi Estii... Emmanuelis Sa, Ioannis Menochii, & Tacobi Tirini... prologomenis, chronico sacro, indicibus... illustrata... Cura & labore... Ioan. de la Haye
Printed Paris 1643
Printers: Michaelis Soly, Matthaei Gvillemot, Dionysii Bechet, et Antonii Bertie
NLA RBq JES 4990
Curtis’s Botanical magazine, or Flower Garden Displayed, (ed.) John Sims, London, 1801-1844
Call No.: 580.5 C981
Location: George Peabody Library
Andreae Tiraqvelli... ex commentariis in Pictonvm consvetvdines seotio De legibus connvbialibvs, et ivre maritali. Postrema hac editione felicius, quam antea renata, accuratissumeq; repurgata
Printed Lugduni 1574
Printer Guliel Rovillium
NLA RBq De Vesci 1125
The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines / compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea
Printed London 1612
Printer Richard Field
NLA RBq 888.8 PLU
William Earl Johns (5 February 1893 – 21 June 1968) was an English First World War pilot, and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns: best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles.
Biblia magna commentariorvm literalivm Joannis Gagnaei... Gvillelmi Estii... Emmanuelis Sa, Ioannis Menochii, & Tacobi Tirini... prologomenis, chronico sacro, indicibus... illustrata... Cura & labore... Ioan. de la Haye
Printed Paris 1643
Printers: Michaelis Soly, Matthaei Gvillemot, Dionysii Bechet, et Antonii Bertie
NLA RBq JES 4990
Flora’s Dictionary, Mrs. E.W. Wirt, Baltimore, 1855
Call No.: 716.2 W799 1855
Location: George Peabody Library
The compleat English-scholar : in spelling, reading, and writing; containing plain and easie directions ... / by E. Young, Schoolmaster in London
Printed London 1679
Printer: unknown
NLA RBRS ALS 1204
Historia general de las grandezas, y excelencias de Espana, que han consegvido por la intercession de Maria Santissima Senora nuestra, y por la Santa Cruz, muchos reyes Catolicos
Printed Madrid 1681
Printer Roque Rico de Miranda
NLA RBq MISC 179
Elucidatorium ecclesiasticum, ad officium ecclesiae pertinentia planius exponens
Printed Basle 1519
Printer Johann Froben
SLSA sp242/C636.c/1519
The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines / compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea
Printed London 1612
Printer Richard Field
NLA RBq 888.8 PLU
La fisonomia dell'hvomo et la celeste ... libri sei / Tradotti di latino in volgare, & hora in questa noua forma, & vltima editione ricorreta
Printed Venice 1652
Printer Combi Heirs
Colloqvia et dictionariolvm septem lingvarvm, Belgicæ, Anglicæ, Teutonicæ, Latinæ, Italicæ, Hispanicæ, Gallicæ ... = Colloques ou dialogues auec vn dictionaire en sept languages, Flamen, Anglois, Alleman, Latin, Italien, Espaignol & Francois ... = Colloquien oft samenspreckingen met eenen vocabulaer in seuen spraken, Neerduntsch, Engelsch, Hoochduntsch, Latin, Italien, Spaens ende Fransois
Printed: Leodii (Liège) 1604
Printer:Apud Henricum Hovium, 1604
NLA RBRS ALS 115
Biblia magna commentariorvm literalivm Joannis Gagnaei... Gvillelmi Estii... Emmanuelis Sa, Ioannis Menochii, & Tacobi Tirini... prologomenis, chronico sacro, indicibus... illustrata... Cura & labore... Ioan. de la Haye
Printed Paris 1643
Printers: Michaelis Soly, Matthaei Gvillemot, Dionysii Bechet, et Antonii Bertie
NLA RBq JES 4990
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, cum integris & emendatioribus commentariis Servii, Philargyrii, Pierii. Accedunt Fulvii Ursini ..., et aliorum, ac praecipue Nicolai Heinsii notae
Printed Amsterdam 1746
Printer Jacob Wetsten
NLA RB ONI 3094
The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines / compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea
Printed London 1612
Printer Richard Field
NLA RBq 888.8 PLU
C. Julii Solini Polyhistor, rerum toto orbe memorabilium thesaurus locupletissimus : huic ob argumenti similtudinem Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libros tres, fide diligentiaque summa recognitos, adiunximus
Printed Basle 1538
Printer Isingrinium & Henricum Petri
NLA MAP RA 309
Tufts University MS 34
Letters patent by Giovanni de Sigestro, Vicar General of the minorite friars in the cismontane province, granting lay membership of the order to the Venetian patrician Domenico Tarvisio, his wife Caterina, and their sons and daughters.
Monastery of San Ludovico, Revere (Lombardy), 11 May 1490.
Opera Virgiliana
printed Lvgdvni 1529
Printer in typographaria officina Ioannis Crespini
NLA RBq CLI 4247
Old Favorites Bookshop, Green River, Ontario.
Established in 1954, this bookshop holds it's ground, specializing in rare, out of print, or just plain old books. Adjacent to 18,600 acres of land expropriated by the Canadian Government for airport development back in the early 70's, this shop feels very much like a part of a larger time capsule.
The future of this prime agricultural land remains uncertain.
Record number: MSS 01024
Creator: Unknown
Title: [Album of 42 watercolours of birds, with original feathers applied and glazed]
Date: [Mexico, 1866?]
Description: Each watercolour is painted on a small card, mounted two per sheet on rectos only and interleaved with tissue guards. The album is bound in a contemporary black leather binding, with covers bordered in gilt and blind.
Extent: 22 leaves; 155 x 246 mm
Format: Album, manuscript
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
D. Francisci Toleti ... In sacrosanctum Ioannis Evangelium commentarii : cum tribus indicibus
Printed Coloniae Agrippinae 1599
Printer n officina Birckmannica : Sumtibus Arnold Mylij
NLA RBq JES 5126
The historie of fovre-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely figure of every beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, 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 ... / collected out of all the volumes of Conradvs Gesner and all other writers to this day, by Edward Topsell
London 1607/8
Printer William Jaggard
NLA RBq 599 T679