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The text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ : translated out of the vulgar Latine by the papists of the traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes. With arguments of bookes chapters, and annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to cleare the controversies of these dayes. Whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a confutation ... The whole worke, perused and enlarged ... By W. Fulke ...

London : Augustine Matthews, on[e] of the Assignes of Hester Ogden, 1633.

PML 16046.1

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Book

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Printed Books

The Isle of Man, or, The legal proceeding in Man-shire against sinne : wherein by way of a continued allegory, the chief malefactors disturbing both church and commonwealth are detected and attached, with their arraignment and judicial trial according to the laws of England, the spiritual use thereof, with an apology for the manner of handling most necessary to be first read for direction in the right use of the allegory throughout is added in the end / by R.B.

Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.

London : Printed by T. Milbourn for T.S., and are to be sold by John Wright, 1668.

PML 15950

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Book

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Printed Books

A defense of the sincere and true translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue : against the manifold cavils, frivolous quarrels, and impudent slanders of Gregorie Martin, one of the readers of Popish divinitie in the traiterous seminarie of Rhemes / by William Fulke ... ; whereunto is added a briefe confutation of all such quarrels and cavils, as have beene of late uttered by divers Papists in their English pamphlets, against the writings of the said William Fulke.

Fulke, William, 1538-1589.

London : Printed by Augustine Mathewes, one of the assignes of Hester Ogden, 1633.

PML 16046.2

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Printed Books

An account of the new invented Pennsylvanian fire-places: : wherein their construction and manner of operation is particularly explained; their advantages above every other method of warming rooms demonstrated; and all objections that have been raised against the use of them, answered and obviated. : With directions for putting them up, and for using them to the best advantage. : And a copper-plate, in which the several parts of the machine are exactly laid down, from a scale of equal parts.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin., 1744.

PML 64766

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Book

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Printed Books

The pride of Britannia humbled, or, The queen of the ocean unqueen'd, "by the American cock boats" ... : illustrated and demonstrated by four letters addressed to Lord Liverpool, on the late American war / by Wm. Cobbett, Esq. ; including a number of his other most important letters, and arguments, in defence of the American republic ; to which is added, a glimpse of the American victories, on land, on the lakes, and on the ocean ; with a persuasive to political moderation ...

Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.

Philadelphia : Published by William Reynolds : Daniel Griffin, New York : J. Campbell, Baltimore : and P. Boyle, New Jersey, 1815.

PML 130219

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Book

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Printed Books

A new herball; or, Historie of plants: wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants: their diuers & sundrie kindes ... and that not onely of those which are heere growing in this our countrie of England but of all others also of forraine realms commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Douch or Almaigne toong ... and now first translated out of French into English, by Henrie Lyte, esquier.

Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.

London : Imprinted by Ninian Newton, 1586.

PML 53056

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Printed Books

Emblems of mortality; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, death seizing all ranks and degrees of people; imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland; ; with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French. Intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth. To which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject...

London: Printed for T. Hodgson, 1789.

PML 150622

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Book

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Printed Books

Isidore Pils Sketchbooks

Browse two sketchbooks by French artist Isidore Pils (1813–1875), one dated 1830-32 and the other dated 1836.

Digital Facsimile

Book of hours fragment (MS M.1248).

Created

Dijon, Burgundy, France, ca. 1480s.

Accession number

MS M.1248

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Manuscript

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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress

September 17, 2010, through January 2, 2011

The exhibition coincides with the 175th anniversary of Twain's birth in 1835 and includes more than 120 manuscripts and rare books.