Rare Book Collection
Description
Items from our general rare book collection that complement and support the Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection. Books are added to this online collection if they have been consulted by students or faculty for research. Dr. Daniel Woolf's Winter 2017 course, The British Discover their Past, was the impetus for this collection.
Collection Items
Purchas his pilgrimes
First ed.
A made up set; v. 1-4: 1625; v. 5: 1626.
Engraved title, v.1, sig. [paragraph sign]1v: Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his pilgrimes.
Title-page to v. 5: Purchas his pilgrimage, or, Relations of the world and the religions observed in…
A made up set; v. 1-4: 1625; v. 5: 1626.
Engraved title, v.1, sig. [paragraph sign]1v: Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his pilgrimes.
Title-page to v. 5: Purchas his pilgrimage, or, Relations of the world and the religions observed in…
The historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China, and the situation thereof
Author's name taken from Alden.
Translation of: Historia de las cosas mas notables ritos y costumbres, del gran reyno de la China. Rome: Bartholome Grassi, 1585, Three Chinese woodcut characters on pages 92-3.
Translator's preface (p. [3-7])--dated…
Translation of: Historia de las cosas mas notables ritos y costumbres, del gran reyno de la China. Rome: Bartholome Grassi, 1585, Three Chinese woodcut characters on pages 92-3.
Translator's preface (p. [3-7])--dated…
Georgii Buchanani Scoti, poetarum sui seculi facile principis, Opera omnia, ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata
In v.1, leaf 4K2 mis-signed 3K2.
Title pages printed in red and black and enclosed within double-rule.
Added engraved title page to volume 1, signed "Andr. Iohnston excud. M.V.dr Gucht sculp.
Title page to volume 2: "Georgii Buchanani Scoti,…
Title pages printed in red and black and enclosed within double-rule.
Added engraved title page to volume 1, signed "Andr. Iohnston excud. M.V.dr Gucht sculp.
Title page to volume 2: "Georgii Buchanani Scoti,…