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Kreuterbuch. : Kunstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden, Hecken, Kreuter, Getreyde, Gewürtze. Mit eigentlicher Beschreibung derselben Namen, in sechserley Spraachen, nemlich Griechisch, Latinisch, Italianisch, Frantzösisch, Teutsch und Hispanisch ... Sampt künstlichem und artlichem Bericht dess Distillierens. Item von fürnembsten Gethieren der Erden, Vögeln, und Fischen. Dessgleichen von Metallen, Ertze, Edelgesteinen, Gummi, und gestandenen Säfften. Jetzo auffs fleissigst zum sechsten Mal von neuwem ersehen, und durchauss an vilen örten gebessert, auch weit uber alle vorige Edition gemehret, durch Adamum Lonicerum ...

Lonicer, Adam, 1528-1586.

In Franckfort : Bey Christian Egenolffs seligen Erben, 1578.

PML 37529

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A form or order of thanksgiving, and prayer, to be used in Dublin, and ten miles round it on Sunday the 19th of this instant February; and throughout Ireland on Sunday the 26th of the same month, by all parson, vicars and curates, in their respective parish churches and chapels, in behalf of the King, the Queen, and the royal family, upon the occasion of the Queen's being with child. By His Majesties special command.

Dublin : Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham, assigns of Benjamin Tooke, printer to the King's most excellent majesty; and are to be sold by Andrew Crook at His Majesty's printing-house on Ormond-Key; and Samuel Helsham at the Colledge-Arms in Cast

PML 17615.2

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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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A short historical account of the kings of England. From Canutus the first monarch, and from William the Conquerour. Illustrated with all their atchievements blazon'd. To which is annexed A collection of the most remarkable passages out of several declarations, and speeches of the King, his l. chancellors, and keepers, and the speakers of the honourable House of commons in Parliament, since His Majesties happy restauration, anno 1660. till the end of the last Parliament in Jan. 1680/1.

London, T. Simmons, 1684.

PML 3231.4

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... Geographiae ... a plurimis uiris ... eme[n]data : & cu[m] archetypo graeco ab ipsis collata. Schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correctaà Marco Beneventano ... & Joanne Cotta ... Figura de proiectione spherae in plano ... Maxima quantitas die[rum] civitatu[m] : & distantiae loco[rum] ab Alexa[n]dria Aegypti ... Planisphaerium ... noviter recognitu[m] & diligentiss. emendatum a Marco Beneventano ... Nova orbis descriptio ac nova Oceani navigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicu[m] pervenitur Pelagus Marco Beneventano ... aedita. Nova & universalior orbis cogniti tabula Joa[n]. Ruysch ... elaborata. Sex tabulae noviter confectae videlicet Livoniae ... Iudeae ...

Ptolemy, active 2nd century.

Rome : [Impressum per Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] de Vitalibus, expe[n]sis E. Tosino] 1508 [Colophon: 1507]

PML 455

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The personal narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky, during an expedition from St. Louis, through the vast regions between that place and the Pacific ocean, and thence back through the city of Mexico to Vera Cruz, during journeyings of six years; in which he and his father, who accompanied him, suffered unheard of hardships and dangers, had various conflicts with the Indians, and were made captives, in which captivity his father died; together with a description of the country, and the various nations through which they passed. Ed. by Timothy Flint.

Pattie, James O. (James Ohio), 1804?-1850?

Cincinnati, E. H. Flint, 1833.

PML 3871

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The fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders. Who was born in Newgate : And during a life of continued variety for sixty years was 17 times a whore, 5 times wife, whereofonce [sic] to her own brother, 12 years a thief, 11 times in Bridewell, 9 times in New-Prison, 11 times in Wood-street compter, 6 times in the Poultry Compter, 14 times in the Gate-house, 25 times in Newgate, 15 times whipt at the Cart's arse, 4 times burnt in the hand, once condemned for life and 8 years a transport in Virginia. At last grew rich, lived honest, and died penitent.

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]

PML 8218.12

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Warhafftige und gründliche Histori, vom Leben unnd Sterben dess H. Einsidels und Martyrers S. Meinradts : auch von dem Anfang, Auffgang, herkommen und Gnaden der H. Wallstatt und Capell unser lieben Frauwen, Desgleichen von der ordentlichen Succession aller Prelaten desselben Gottsshauss zu den Einsidlen, sampt etlichen herrlichen Wunderwercken, die Gott der Herr allda durch sein gebenedeyte Mütter Maria gewirckt hat, mit angehenckten Leben und Leyden ... dess heiligen Martyrers unnd Hauptmanns S. Mauritzen sampt seiner Gesellen, S. Sigmunds, S. Justen dess neunjärigen Knabens, S. Gerolds dess Einsidels, unnd Sanct Wolffgangs Bischoff zu Regenspurg.

Freyburg : In der Eydgnoschafft bey Abraham Gemperlin, 1587.

PML 126243

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Il Fior di Battaglia: A Renaissance Fighting Manual

This manuscript, along with two others, comprise the earliest illuminated copies of Fiore dei Liberi’s treatise on fencing and martial arts entitled Fior di battaglia (The Flower of Battle).

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JEAN POYER: ARTIST TO THE COURT OF RENAISSANCE FRANCE OPENS JANUARY 25

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Thursday, November 30, 2000

The first one-man show in the United States devoted to the work of a manuscript illuminator, Jean Poyer: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France opens at the Morgan Library on January 25, 2001, and remains on view through May 6. Taking a novel approach to the traditional manuscript exhibition, Jean Poyer examines not only the artist's work but also his artistic roots, his contemporaries, and his competitors.

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