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Logarithmicall arithmetike : Or Tables of logarithmes for absolute numbers from an unite to 100000; as also for sines, tangentes and secantes for every minute of a quadrant: with a plaine description of their use in arithmetike, geometrie, geographie, astronomie, navigation, &c

Vlacq, Adriaan; Briggs, Henry (1561-1630); Napier, John (1550-1617)

1631

Signatures: A-H⁴, A-Z⁶, Aa-Zz⁶, Aaa-Rrr⁶, Sss⁴ (last verso blank). Title vignette (printer's device). The tables are those of Vlacq's Arithmetica logarithmica, Gouda, 1628, which was bas...

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Strong Room books

The Strong Room books collection takes its name from the secure room where these early, often rare and valuable, books were originally kept. The collection is divided into two parts, one for books pri...

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The workes of that late learned minister of Gods holy word, Mr. William Pemble : containing sundry treatises and expositions, before extant in severall tracts, and now gathered into one intire volume

Pemble, William (1592?-1623)

1635

Pagination continuous to p.590, then separate pagination for each part. Each part has special t.p. Error in paging: p. 279 repeated in numbering only. Signatures: A⁶, aa⁸, B-3D⁶, A-B⁶, C...

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La geneologia de gli dei de gentili

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Betussi, Giuseppe (1512-1573)

1574

Signatures: A-2K⁸.

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The manners, lawes, and customes of all nations

Boemus, Joannes (1485-1535)

1611

Signatures: [par.]⁴; A-B⁴; C-2N⁸; ([par.]1 verso, [par.]2 verso blank).

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Commentaria in C. Iulii Solini Polyhistora, et Lucii Flori de Romanorum rebus gestis, libros, ac Tabulam Cebetis omnibus et res ecclesiasticas et civiles administrantibus, sive lucem, sive rerum varietatem doctrinamq[ue] spectes utilissima

Camers, Joannes (1447-1546); Solinus, C Julius; Pomponius Mela; Florus, Lucius Annæus; Cebes of Thebes; Vadianus, Joachim (1484-1551); Herold, Johannes Basilius (1514-1567)

1557

Date from colophon. The "tabula", probably of 1st cent. A.D. "makes no pretence to be by" Cebes; ascribed to him by a mere error -- Oxf. Class. Dict. Edited by Johannes Herold.

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[Opera]

Avienus, Rufus Festus; Pisanus, Victor (1549); Dionysius Periegetes; Aratus Solensis; Avienus, Rufus Festus; Serenus Sammonicus, Quintus; Strata, Antonius de (1479-1492); Henryson-Caird, James Alexander (1847-1921); Simon, André Louis (1877-1970); Riviere & Son

Anno salutis.M.cccclxxxviii. octauo calendas nouembres. [25 October 1488]

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-p⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on p6r reads: Hoc opus impressum Venetiis arte & ingenio Antonii de Strata Cremonensis. Anno salutis.M.cccclxxxviii. octauo calendas noue...

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