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Misère Temps (Chaptire Xvi)

Feillet, Alphonse

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A Physical Directory; Or A Translation Of The Dispensatory Made By The Colledg Of Physitians Of London, And By Them Imposed Upon All The Apothecaries Of England To Make Up Their Medicines By. And In This Third Edition Is Added A Key To Galen's Method Of Physick., Nicholas Culpeper

Rare Books & Manuscripts

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Samuel Danforth's Almanack Poems And Chronological Tables 1647-1649, Samuel Danforth, Paul Royster (Transcriber & Editor)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Samuel Danforth’s poems from the Almanacks for 1647–1649 are some of the earliest examples of “secular” poetry published in New England. Danforth (1626–1674) was a fellow of Harvard College and an astronomer and mathematician as well as a poet. Although these were not the first almanacs printed in America (the first was by William Peirce, printed at Cambridge in 1639), they are the earliest surviving examples. Danforth’s first printed almanac, for the year 1646 (which survives only in one partial copy), contained no poetry; instead the foot of each month’s page held a running essay on astronomy and the calendar. …

Chirologia: Or The Naturall Language Of The Hand. Composed Of The Speaking Motions, And Discoursing Gestures Thereof. Whereunto Is Added Chironomia: Or, The Art Of Manuall Rhetoricke. Consisting Of The Naturall Expressions, Digested By Art In The Hand, As The Chiefest Instrument Of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto’S, Exemplified Out Of The Authentique Registers Of Common Life, And Civill Conversation. With Types, Or Chyrograms: A Long-Wish’D For Illustration Of This Argument., John Bulwer

Deaf Rare Books

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Circulars, Volume 1: 1642-1762

Circular Letters of Superiors General

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Kentish Tracts 1641-1643

English Historical Library of Wallace Notestein

This work is a collection of eleven pamphlets published and distributed in London during the 1640s. Each link below will take you to the individual titled pamphlet.

• A Discoverie of Six Women Preachers, in Middlesex, Kent, Cambridgshire, and Salisbury
  
  
• To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons, Now Assembled in Parliament
  
  
• Collonel Lvnsford His Petition to the Honourable Assemblie of the Knights, Citisens, Snd Burgesses, in This Present Parliament
  
  
• The Petition of the Gentry, Ministers, and Commonalty of the County of Kent
  
  
• The Humble Petition of the Commons of Kent, Agreed Upon at Their Generall Assizes, Presented to His Maiestie …

Newes From America; Or, A New And Experimentall Discoverie Of New England; Containing, A Trve Relation Of Their War-Like Proceedings These Two Yeares Last Past, With A Figure Of The Indian Fort, Or Palizado, John Underhill, Paul Royster , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

John Underhill’s Newes from America was the most complete contemporary published account of the Pequot War of 1636-1637. Underhill was one of the Massachusetts commanders in the expedition against Block Island in August 1636 and in the force that destroyed the fortified Pequot village at Mystic in May 1637.

The expansion of English settlements into the Connecticut River valley and the northern shore of Long Island Sound brought them into contact and conflict with new groups of Native inhabitants and into competition with the Dutch from New Netherlands. In July 1633, the trader John Oldham was killed off Block Island …

Newes From America; Or, A New And Experimentall Discoverie Of New England, John Underhill

Settler Literature Archive

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Via Recta Ad Vitam Longam : Or, A Plain Philosophicall Demonstration Of The Nature, Faculties, And Effects Of All Such Things As By Way Of Nourishments Make For The Preservation Of Health, With Divers Necessary Dieteticall Observations; As Also Of The True Use And Effects Of Sleep, Exercise, Excretions And Perturbations, With Just Applications To Every Age, Constitution Of Body, And Time Of Yeere ... Whereunto Is Annexed ... A Necessary And Compendious Treatise Of The Famous Baths Of Bathe, With A Censure Of The Medicinable Faculties Of The Water Of Saint Vincent's Rocks Neere The City Of Bristoll. As Also An Accurate Treatise Concerning Tobacco, Tobias Venner

Rare Books at James White Library

The baths of Bathe" and "A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco" have special title pages dated 1637. Imperfect: p. 265-272 mutilated.

A True Relation Of The Late Battell Fought In New England, Between The English, And The Salvages: With The Present State Of Things There. (1637), Philip Vincent [P. Vincentius], Paul Royster , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

This brief account of the major engagement of the Pequot War appeared about six months after the Mystic Massacre of May 26, 1637. Its authorship is attributed to Philip Vincent, of whom little is known, including whether he was a witness or even in America, or, if not, who his informant was. The work obviously enjoyed some popularity, going through three separate editions in 1637–38.

The Pequots occupied the region on the north shore of Long Island Sound around present-day New London, Connecticut. Hostilities began in late summer of 1636, when the Massachusetts authorities sent a punitive expedition under John …

Four English Histories Of The Pequod War, P. Vincentius, John Underhill, Lion Gardener, John Mason

Zea E-Books in American Studies

P. Vincentius, A True Relation of the Late Battell fought in New England, between the English, and the Salvages : With the present state of things there (1637)

John Underhill, Newes From America; or, A New and Experimentall Discoverie of New England; Containing, a Trve Relation of Their War-like proceedings these two yeares last past, with a Figure of the Indian Fort, or Palizado (1638)

Lion Gardener, Relation of the Pequot Warres [1660]

John Mason, A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the memorable Taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 (1736)

Les Dames De La Charité

Goyau, Georges

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A Tongve-Combat, Lately Happening Betvveene Tvvo English Souldiers In The Tilt-Boat Of Grauesend, The One Going To Serue The King Of Spaine, The Other To Serue The States Generall Of The United Prouinces. Wherein The Cause, Course, And Continuance Of Those Warres, Is Debated, And Declared., Henry Hexham

English Historical Library of Wallace Notestein

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Phantastes Chapter 14: Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare

German Romantic and Other Influences

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Winter’s Tale, published in 1623 in the First Folio.

Tychonis Brahe Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata, Tycho Brahe, Bruxelles, Culture Et Civilisation

Before the Textbook

A volume on astronomical phenomena prepared for publication after the author's death by Johannes Kepler who also wrote the appendix.

Rb 002 Guide To Herman Detering Book Collection On Psychiatry And Photography, Detering Family

Rare Books Finding Aids

The Herman Detering History of Photography and Psychiatry collection contains 324 books.. This collection was also processed as a manuscript collection so that the materials in the collections could be discoverable. This collection explores the relationship and history of photography and psychiatry, especially 19th century photography and the “insane.” The primary focus of the collection is the treatment and study of people suffering from various forms of mental illness. See more at RB 002.

Completorium Romanum, Primus Et Secundus Chorus: Alma Redemptoris, Ave Regina Coelorum, Giovanni Asola

Marian Sheet Music

Compline, or night prayers of the Divine Office, with two additional in honor of Mary, "Alma Redemptoris" and "Ave Regina Cœlorum." This piece is the tenor part of a work composed for three voice parts.

Tabvla Asiae Vii, Giovanni Antonion Magini, Ptolemy

Documents and Reports

Publication: [Agrippinensium Colonia?] : [Excudebat Petrus Keschedt?], [1597?]

Physical Description: 1 map ; 14 x 18 cm, on sheet 17 x 23 cm

Language: Latin

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale not given, (E 49°35ʹ--E 82°05ʹ/N 43°33ʹ--N 26°01ʹ).

Notes: Ptolemaic map covering central Asia, including the Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

Relief shown pictorially.

Uncolored.

Copper-plate map.

Verso is page 22 of an unidentified text in Latin, with heading: Asiae Tabvla VI.

Taken from an early edition of Giovanni Antonio Magini's Ptolemy's Geographia, tentatively identified as: Ptolemy. Geographiae vniuersae tum veteris, tum nouae abolutissimum opus, duobus voluminibus districtum. …

Phantastes Chapter 15: Campaspe, John Lyly

German Romantic and Other Influences

Campaspe, an Elizabethan play by John Lyly (1584). The lines quoted are from Act 3, Scene 4, and they indicate the notion of a Platonic beauty, an ideal beauty that the artist can never capture perfectly

Concordia (Book Of Concord, 1581), Jakob Andreae, Martin Chemnitz, Martin Luther, Matthes StöCkel, Gimel Bergen

16th Century Reformation Materials

The Book of Concord (Concordia) is the foundational collection of Lutheran confessional teachings. It includes the three ecumenical creeds (Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed), the Augsburg Confession of 1530, the Apology to the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles of Martin Luther, the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, the Small Catechism of Martin Luther, the Large Catechism of Martin Luther, the Epitome of the Formula of Concord, and the Declaration of the Formula of Concord.

The definitive edition of the book was first published in Dresden, Germany, in 1580 by the printers Stöckel and …

Excerpt, New Found Worlde Or Antarticke, André Thevet, Tami Toms

Early Visions Bucket

"The 1568 English translation of The New Found Worlde or Antarctike, provides a window into how Europeans imagined the Spanish-claimed territory. The reader is invited to see the 'wonderful and strange things' that Thevet has compiled, including an early description of the buffalo."

Poem, Commendation Of Thomas Stutely, Robert Seall, Michael Sadler

Early Visions Bucket

"Registered and printed around July of 1563, this English broadside ballad is the only work attributed to the author, Robert Seall, and it focuses on Thomas Stukeley. A man steeped in controversy since birth, Stukeley (Stucley, Stukely, Stutely–scholars have collected up to 24 spellings) was rumored to be a bastard child of Henry VIII and led a long life of piracy. The ballad was a public relations move to improve Stukeley’s image after a long life of alleged piracy and his revealing plans of an Anglo-Huguenot venture to Florida to a Spanish ambassador in London."

Excerpt, Relaçam Verdadeira, Gentleman From Elvas, Alisa Roberts, Amelia Zimmerman

Early Visions Bucket

"The Gentleman of Elvas, as he is semi-anonymously referred to, wrote an account of the de Soto expedition."

Vonn Dem Bad Pfeffers In Oberschwytz Gelegen : Tugenden, Krefften Unnd Würckung, Ursprung Unnd Herkommen, Regiment Und Ordinantz / Durch Den Hochgeleerten Doctorem Theophrastum Paracelsum Rc., Paracelsus

The Robert E. Schlueter – Paracelsus Collection

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Rb 003 Guide To Dow Collection On Dentistry, Thomas D. Dow (1876-1960)

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Thomas Dow, DDS was a dentist in Michigan who collected books on dentistry and records of dental society during the first half of the 20th century. His collection was international and, while focused on late 19th century and early 20th century works, contains some manuscripts dating to the 1600s. In the early 1960’s the University of Texas Dental Branch (UTDB) Library purchased his collection. In 2010, Dr. Dow’s collection and other historical books on dentistry were transferred to The TMC Library. See more at RB 003.

Selected Pages From Des. Erasmi Roterodami In Novum Testamentum Ab Eodem Tertio Recognitum, Annotationes : Item Ab Ipso Recognitæ & Auctario Neutiq Poenitendo Locupletatae., Desiderius Erasmus

Selections from Special Collections

[8], 629 p. ; 35 cm.

Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Fall 2012.

Book Of Hours (Use Of Rouen), Master Of The Ango Hours, Active 1515-1531

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Illuminated manuscript by the Master of the Ango Hours, approximately 1520-1530.

145 vellum leaves, 20 lines per page, ruled in red; written in brown ink with red rubrics. Includes 14 large miniatures with gold borders; 20 smaller miniatures throughout. Binding is late sixteenth or early seventeenth French red morocco with gilt tooling.

Contents: Calendar -- Sequence of the Gospels -- Passion sequence -- Obsecro te, O intemerata and other prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary -- Hours of the Virgin (Use of Rouen) in the mixed form with the Hours of the cross and the Hours of the Holy Spirit …

Rb 005 Guide To Mcgovern Collection On The History Of Medicine, John P. Mcgovern (1921-2007)

Rare Books Finding Aids

The McGovern Collection contains over 5,500 titles focused on the development of the medical specialties in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. There are significant sections on pediatrics, allergy and cardiology. The collection emphasis has been American Imprints and English language materials. There are a small number of titles in French or German from the eighteenth century. See more at RB 005.

The Spanish Settlements Within The Present Limits Of The United States, 1513-1561.

Florida Heritage

A history of Spanish colonisation of the United States from 1513-1561.

Heures A L'Usage De Rouen, Catholic Church

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112 leaves. 19 woodcut and metal-cut full-page illustrations; borders illustrating religious and secular subjects with captions in French. Initials and line endings in gold on red or blue background.

Antoine Vérard, publisher; Chambolle-Duru, binder.

The letters Ro at the bottom of pages in some sections denotes the Use of Rouen, a variation specific to that region.

See Hilary Maddocks, “A book of hours by Anthoine Vérard in the University of Melbourne Library,” University of Melbourne Collections 16 (June 2015):15-24 about a similar copy in the University of Melbourne Library, providing background on the publisher, artists, and book trade in early …