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[Early English Printing] [Reformed Theology]
Wolfgang Musculus
Common places of Christian religion
[Loci communes sacrae theologiae, in English]
London: Reginald Wolfe, 1563.
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[Early Printing - Venice] [Roman Catholic Church] [Moral Theology] [Canon Law] [Christian Ethics]
Angelo Carletti di Chivasso
Summa angelica
[De casibus conscientiae]
Venice: Giorgio Arrivabene, May 23, 1504.
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[Early Illustrated Books - English - 16th Century] [English Reformation] [Church History] [Persecutions of Christians] [Martyrologies] [Chronicles]
John Foxe
[Book of Martyrs]
Actes and Monuments
of Matters most Speciall and Memorable,
happening in the Church, with an Universall History of the Same.
Wherein is set forth at large the Whole Race and Course of the Church,
from the Primitive Age to these Latter Times of Ours,
with the Bloudy Times, Horrible Troubles, and Great Persecutions
against the True Martyrs of Christ
London: Peter Short, by the assign of Richard Day, 1596.
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[History of Science - Scientific Revolution] [Physics & Mechanics] [Early Book Illustrations]
Caspar Schott
[& Athanasius Kircher]
Technica curiosa, sive mirabilia artis
Quibus varia Experimenta, variaque Technasmata Pneumatica, Hydraulica,
Hydrotechnica, Mechanica, Graphica, […] aliaque Artis arcana ac miracula,
rara, curiosa, ingeniosa, magnamque partem nova & antehac inaudita,
[…] proponuntur
Vol. I
Nuremberg: Johann Andreas Endter, 1664.
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[History of Medicine - Toxicology] [Biology] [Early Illustrated Books]
Jacques Grevin
De venenis libri duo
A multis hactenus Latmi defiderati, do nunctandem
opera c labore Hieremie Marti Auguftane
Reipubli ce Medici, in Latinum
fermonem [...]
Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1571.
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[Christian Mysticism] [Theology - Catholic and Eastern Orthodox] [Philosophy - Neoplatonism] [Angelology]
Dionysius Areopagita
[OPERA]
Theologia vivificans. Cibus solidus.
Celestis hierarchia. Ecclesiastica hierarchia.
Divina nomina. Mystica theologia.
Undecim epistole. [Etc.]
Strasbourg: [Georg Husner], 1502.
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[Early Printing - Post-Incunabula - Germany - Cologne] [Roman Catholic Church - Moral Theology] [Christian Ethics] [Psychology] [Early Book Illustrations]
JOHANNES NIDER
Consolatorium timorate conscientie
A charming example of a VERY RARE post-incunable edition, preserved in lovely monastic binding of blind-tooled calf with a clasp, formerly in possession of the famous Buxheim Carthusian monastery.
Cologne (Köln): Cornelius von Zierickzee, 20 March 1506.
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[Early English Printing] [Elizabethan Recusant Literature] [Catholic Theology - Purgatory] [Afterlife] [Ghosts]
William Allen
A defense and declaration
of the Catholike Churchies [sic] doctrine,
touching purgatory, and prayers for the soules departed.
Antwerp: Hans de Laet, 1565.
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[Early Medieval Manuscripts] [Paleography - Carolingian minuscule] [Roman Catholic Church -Theology] [Early Christianity] [Christian Mysticism] [Philosophy - Neoplatonism] [Demonology]
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
(St. Augustine)
DE CIVITATE DEI
[Lib. VIII, Cap. xv-xvi]
(Partial leaf from a manuscript on vellum.)
France, likely Tours, 2nd half of 9th century (i.e. 850-900 AD).
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[Exploration & Travel - South America- Brazil] [Early Illustrated Books]
Jean de Léry
Historia navigationis in Brasiliam,
qae et America Dicitur
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[ [Newtoniana] [Ancient History - Egypt; Babylon; Greece] [Chronicles] [Astronomy] [Chronology]
ISAAC NEWTON
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.
To Which is Prefix'd, a Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe,
to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.
London, for J. Tonson, J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1728.
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