Browse Items (145 total)
- Collection: 17th Century
Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ
Page 570 misnumbered 562.
Includes index.
Tags: 17th century, geography, quarto, religion, Schulich gift
History of England
Includes index and bibliographical references.
Head pieces.
With a final errata leaf.
Frontispiece portrait (A1v) signed: Gul. Faithorne ad vivum delin. et sculpsit.
Printed by John…
Tags: 17th century, England, Great Britain, history, John Milton, purchase
Histoire de la paix sous le regne du tres-chrestien roy de France et de Nauarre, Henry IIII.
Leaves numbered irregularly.
Continued by: Mercure francois.
Present state of the Ottoman Empire
With an added title page (A1v), engraved and signed: F.H. Van Houe fec.
Title within double-rule border; initials.
Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical
With engraved frontis. portrait (plate) of Emperor Cam-hy [i.e. K'ang-hsi] signed: M. Vander Gucht sculp.…
Several treaties of peace and commerce concluded between the late King of blessed memory deceased, and other princes and states
Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, A-Z⁴, Aa-Ll⁴.
Treaties concerning the following nations: Spain, France, Denmark, United Provinces of the Netherlands, Savoy…
Itinera mundi
Hebrew and Latin in parallel columns.
"Tractatus Alberti Bobovii Turcarum imp. Mohammedis IVti olim interpretis primarii, De Turcarum liturgia" has separate title page, dated 1690, and pagination.
Tags: 17th century, geography, Hebrew, Islam, Judaism, Latin, quarto, Schulich gift
La vie d'Olivier Cromwel
Printer's device (sphere).
A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent
With frontispiece portrait of the author on leaf a2v.
With imprimatur on verso of the title page (a3v).
"The life of Mr. Somner" by White Kennett precedes "The history of the Roman ports and forts in…
Argumentum anti-Normannicum, or, An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no absolute conquest of England by the sword; in the sense of our modern writers
Tags: 17th century, Great Britain, history, Woolf gift
Notitia monastica
Includes: "An alphabeticall index of all the monasteries and other places mentioned in the Notitia monastica" on p. [1]-[19] at end, and "An index of the sirnames of founders of…
The Greek and Roman history illustrated by coins & medals
Title within double-rule border
Text continuous despite pagination.
Bookseller's advertisements on pages 357-360.
Errata, preliminary page [16].
Tags: 17th century, Greece, history, numismatics, Rome, Woolf gift
Titles of honor
Title-page printed in red and black.
Wood-cut decorated head-piece and decorated initials, numerous engraved images of coins, crown designs, and medals of…
Tags: 17th century, Great Britain, history, illustrated, numismatics, Woolf gift
Annali ecclesiastici
Engraved title page, signed Daniel Widman.
Tags: 17th century, Christianity, history, manicule, religion, Woolf gift
The history of gavel-kind
Genealogical table numbered 211.
Includes index (leaves a3-c1).
With final…
Tags: 17th century, Great Britain, history, quarto, Woolf gift
Featured Item
Liber chronicarum
Hand-coloured by Johann Kruyshaar c. 1521, his and other early marginal notes (some shaved) intermittently throughout, including his catalogue of the…