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Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection

For nearly a century, beginning in the 1680s, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most sought-after theater designers in Europe.

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Tractatus bipartitus in quo [quod] deus homo fieri voluerit: : [quodque] messias in lege & prophetis [pro]missus: non solum homo sed etiam deus esse debuerit et debeat: quinquaginta duobus et vltra: veteris testamenti et infidelium hebreorum simulq[ue] gentilium ex scriptura testimonijs: adiectis sparsim ad idip[su]m rationib[us] [con]gruentie plurimus: in bipartiti sermonis forma [com]probatur: / per Magist[rum] Conradu[m] Summenhart de Calw sacre theologie [pro]fessorem in generali studio Tüwingensi editus & Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.xciiij. et xcv. ad cetum eiusde[m] vniuersitatis in vigilia natiuitat[is] christi per eundem pro magna parte declamatus.

Summenhart, Konrad, 1465-1511, author.

PML 198699.3

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Printed Books

God's terrible voice in the city: : wherein you have I. The sound of the voice, in the narration of the two late dreadfull judgments of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon the city of London, the former in the year 1665, the latter in the year 1666. II. The interpretation of the voice, in a discovery, 1. Of the cause of these judgments, where you have a catalogue of London's sins. 2. Of the design of these judgments where you have an enumeration of the duties God calls for by this terrible voice. / By T. V.

Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.

[London?] Printed in the year 1667.

PML 19543

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The manual of youth : containing I. Sixty fables, French and English, ornamented with one hundred and twenty cuts, representing the subjects of the fables in the French part, and furnishing, in the English part, a series of elementary lessons, in the several styles of drawing, II. Remarks on rhetoric, with various examples on the different styles, figures, and tropes, III. A large collection of extracts, in prose and verse, selected from the most approved authors, English and French / by J. Ouiseau.

Oiseau, J.

London : Printed for H.D. Symonds, 1807 ([London] : S. Gosnell, printer)

PML 84546

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A natural history of uncommon birds, : and of some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupedes, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. exhibited in two hundred and ten copper-plates ... To which is added, A brief and general idea of drawing and painting in water-colours; with instructions for etching on copper with aqua fortis: likewise some thoughts on the passage of birds; and additions to many of the subjects described in this work. In four parts. / By George Edwards ...

Edwards, George, 1694-1773.

London : Printed for the author, at the College of Physicians ..., M.DCC.XLIII-M.DCC.LI, [1743-1751]

PML 62555

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Eminently good and useful men, the glory and defence of the places where they live. : As it was set forth in a sermon at Stoningtown [sic] upon the occasion of the death of the Reverend Mr. James Noyes, Pastor of the Church of Christ in that place. Who deceased Decemb. 30th. 1719,20. In the eighty first year of his age. / By Eliphalet Adams, M.A. Pastor of the Church of Christ in N. London. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts].

Adams, Eliphalet, 1677-1753.

New-London [Conn.]: : Printed by T. Green., 1720.

PML 3476

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The Byble in Englyshe of the largest and greatest volume : auctorised and apoynted by the commaundement of oure moost redoubted prynce and soveraygne Lorde, Kynge Henrye the VIII, supreme head of this his churche and realme of Englande, to be frequented and used in every church w'in this his sayd realme, accordynge to the tenoure of hys former Injunctions geven in that behalfe / oversene and perused ... by Cuthbert bysshop of Duresme, and Nicolas bisshop of Rochester.

[London] : Printed by Rycharde Grafton, 1541.

PML 915

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Anno tertio et quarto Eduardi Sexti : actes made in the session of this present Parlament, holden upon prorogacion at Westmynster, ... in the thirde yere of our moste drad sovereigne Lorde, Edward the VI, by the grace of God, Kyng of England, Fraunce, and Irelande, defendour of the faithe, and of the Churche of Englande and also of Irelande, in yearth the supreme hed, ... in the IIII. yere of our said souereigne lorde, as foloweth.

[London?] : Richardus Graftonus ..., 1552.

PML 15133

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Topographia urbis Romæ, das ist eigentliche, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom : sampt allen antiquitäten, Pallästen, Amphitheatris oder Schauplätzen, Obeliscis, Pyramiden, Lustgärten, Bildern, Begräbnüssen, oberschrifften und vergleichen, so in und umb der Stadt Rom gefunden, und in vier Tagen ordentlich beschauet und gesehen werden können / in lateinischer Sprach beschrieben durch Joannem Jacobum Boissardum ; jetz aber in die teutche Sprach übersetzt, und die Figuren nach den numeris durch einem Liebhaber der Antiquität geordnet und an den Tag gegeben durch Dietrich de Bry.

Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528-1602.

Franckfurt : Zu finden bey Matthäi Merians seel. Erben., 1681.

PML 144639

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Hainricus Missal

"Hainricus Missal" (Gradual, Sequentiary, and Sacramentary), in Latin, Germany, Weingarten, ca. 1220–30, MS M.711.

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