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To all people in all Christendom : concerning perfect love, pure wisdome and the holy faith and who they are that banisheth them, and who they are that entertains them, and how Christendome hath not received this love ... but hath received envy and wrath ... : also concerning Christs flesh which was offered and Adams flesh which was defiled, and concerning the outward offerings and sacifices ... and concerning the belief in Christ the offering and concerning Adam in the fall, and concerning Adam before he fell ... and concerning the eating of Christs flesh and drinking his blood, and who hath life and who hath not.

Fox, George, 1624-1691.

[London] : Printed for M.W., [1663]

PML 13001

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James Miles : from Sadler's Wells in Islington, now keeps the Gun Musick-Booth in Smithfield-Rounds, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be shown such variety of sport and pastime the like not in all the fair. This is therefore to give notice to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is come to this place the famous and ingenious Indian woman, that lifts six hundred weight with the hair of her head ... she likewise lies upon the ground with an anvil upon her breast, and suffers any man to strike with a hammer of sixteen pound weight to cut a piece of iron asunder ...

Miles, James, d. 1724.

[London : s.n., between 1699 and 1724]

PML 19327, leaf 096

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The universal penman, or, The art of writing made useful to the gentleman and scholar, as well as the man of business : exemplified in all the useful and ornamental branches of modern penmanship; with some necessary observations on the excellency of the pen, and a large number of select sentences in prose and verse; various forms of business, relating to merchandize and trade; letters on several occasions; accurate specimens of the oriental languages, and alphabets in all the hands now practis'd / written, with the friendly assistance of several of the most eminent masters, and engrav'd by Geo. Bickham. The whole embelish'd with beautiful decorations for the amusement of the curious.

Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?

London: : Printed for, and sold by the Author at the Crown in James Street, Bunhill Fields, 1741.

PML 146479

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Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan

December 5, 2008, through March 29, 2009

One of the Morgan's core strengths is its collection of historically and artistically significant bookbindings.

De doctrina christiana libri, IIII : omnibus sacram scripturam vel rectè intelligere, vel fructuose populo p[ro]ponere volentibus perqua[m] utiles & necessarij.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Parisiis : [Nicolas Barbou] Apud Ioannem Foucher, 1541.

PML 196542.1

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D. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis Episcopi, De fide & operibus liver unus.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Parisiis : [Nicolas Barbou] Vaenit apud Ioannem Foucher, 1542.

PML 196542.2

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Our Nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free Black : in a two-story white house, North, showing that slavery's shadows fall even there / by "Our Nig."

Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900, author.

Boston : Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859.

PML 199179

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Epistolae ad Lucilium.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.

PML 43

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books

The hunting of the snark : an agony, in eight fits / by Lewis Carroll ; with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1876.

PML 61808

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The French Gardiner : instructing how to cultivate all sorts of Fruit-Trees and Herbs for the Garden : together with directions to dry and conserve them in their Natural ; six times printed in France, and once in Holland. An accomplished Piece / first written by R.D.C.D.W.B.D.N. ; and now transplanted into English by Philocepos.

Bonnefons, Nicolas de.

London : Printed by J.C. for John Crooke, 1658.

PML 53067

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Printed Books