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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...
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...
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...
La geneologia de gli dei de gentili
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Betussi, Giuseppe (1512-1573)
1574
Signatures: A-2K⁸.
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).
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.
Historia natvralis Brasiliae : In qua non tantum plantæ et animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur et iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur
Piso, Willem (1611-1678); Marggraf, Georg (1610-1644); Laet, Joannes de (1581-1649)
1648
Engraved t.-p.
Le relationi universali di Giovanni Botero Benese, divise in sette parti : alle quali vi sono aggiunte nuouamente i Capitani dell'istesso auttore, con le Relationi di Spagna, del Stato della chiesa, & di Sauoia... con le figure, & due copiosissimi tauole. Inoltre vi s'aggiunge nell'ultimo un breue racconto di mostri, & usanze di quelle Indie, con le sue figure al naturale, d'Alessandro de Vecchi. Nuovamente ristampate, & ricorrette
Botero, Giovanni (1540-1617); Vecchi, Alessandro de (fl. 1602-1630)
1618
Part one, with general title page as above, is divided into two volumes separatly paged; the "Aggiunta alla quarta parte dell'Indie" and parts 2-7 have separate title-pages. Parts five and seven dat...
Genealogie Johannis Boccacij : cum micantissimis arborum effigiacionibus cuiusq[ue] gentilis dei progeniem : non tam aperte q[ui?] summatim declarantibus cumq[ue] pr̨efoecunda oīm que in hoc libro sunt ad finē tabula. Eiusdēq[ue] de mōtib. & siluis de fōtib. lacubus & fluminib. Ac etiā de stagnis & paludib. nec non & de marib. seu diuersis maris nominib. libri luculētissimi: omnib. deniq humanarū litterarum... [etc.]
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)
[1511]
On verso of t.-p.: Ioannes Kierherus Slettstattinus: Gotfrido Hitorpio Agrippinensi Bibliopol̨e... Salutem ... Lutecia pridie kal.' Iunias. Anno ... Millesimo quingentesimo vndecimo. Colophon: Parr...
[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...