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    Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier, et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu.
    Volume 2 title: Premiere suite de la Description des expériences ar̄ostatiques     Vol. 2 has title: Premiere suite de la Description des expériences ar̄ostatiques. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1699 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Card lists Copy 4 as being part of the regular RBC, Copy 5 as being part of the Rosenwald Collection and Copy 6 as being part of the Batchelder Collection with v....
    • Contributor: Cuchet, Gaspard-Joseph - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Faujas-De-St.-Fond, (Barthélemy) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1783

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    [Charles Dickens's traveling kit].
    Charles Dickens's traveling cutlery kit     The traveling cutlery kit owned by Charles Dickens, marked with his initials, used by Dickens during his travels to the United States in the 1860s. Steel spoon, knife, and corkscrew unfold from ivory-covered case.
    • Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1860
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    [Charles Dickens's walking stick].
    Dickens's walking stick | Dickens' walking stick     Wood walking stick with carved ivory head used by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) during the period of his second tour (1867-1868) to America and at Gadshill. Dickens's ownership of the item is authenticated by accompanying notes from his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth (1827-1917), to whom Dickens left his personal possessions.
    • Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1860
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    Arithmeticae practicae methodus facilis Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: A-M⁸. LAC scc 2018-10-30 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-28 review
    • Contributor: Gemma - Peletier, Jacques - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1556

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    Spiritali di Herone Alessandrino Translation of Pneumatika. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2018-11-15 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Giorgi, Alessandro - Hero - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1592

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    Elementa geometria. Translated from Arabic by Adelardus, of Bath; edited by Giovanni Campano. While books I-XIII are genuine (cf. Th. Heath. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. 1956, v. 3, p. 519), book XIV is a work of the 2d cent. Hypsicles and book XV, the work of a 6th cent. Roman land-surveyor. Printed in red and black. The diagrams are set in a wide margin...
    • Contributor: Euclid - Adelard - Campano - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1482

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    Inauguration Ball, March 4th 1881 : [programme]. Program for the March 4, 1881 inauguration of U.S. president James A. Garfield. Includes listing of inaugural ball committees: Executive Committee, Hall and Promenade Reception Committee, Reception Committee, Committee on Tickets, Committee on Decoration, Committee on Comfort, Committee on Carriages, Committee on Refreshments, Committee on Music, Committee on Programme, Floor Committee; followed by programme (including dance list). Cover title. "Programme executed by The Kendall...
    • Contributor: Inaugural Committee (U.S. : 1881) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1881-03-04

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    Opera. In Greek. Aldus' epistles are in Latin. Lists of contents are in Latin (v. 1), Greek (v. 3), or Greek and Latin (v. 2, 4-5) Vol. 1 (1 Nov. 1495): [234] leaves; v. 2 (Feb. 1497): [32], 268 leaves (leaf 88 blank); v. 3 (29 Jan. 1497): 145, [8], 146-400, [1], 401-457, [1] leaves (the last blank, wanting); v. 4 (1 June 1497): 1,...
    • Contributor: John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Theophrastus - Aristotle - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1495

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    The most excellent and lamentable tragedie, of Romeo and Juliet : newly corrected, augmented, and amended, as it hath bene sundry times publiquely acted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his ... STC (2nd ed.) 22323 Signatures: A-L⁴ M². LC copy from the libraries of E.D. Church and Frederick Locker, with their bookplates. LAC ael 2019-12-03 no edits (1 card)
    • Contributor: Locker-Lampson, Frederick - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Shakespeare, William - Creede, Thomas - Church, Elihu Dwight
    • Date: 1599

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    The Theogony, Works & days, & the Days of Hesiod, engraved from the compositions of Iohn Flaxman, R. A., scvlptor. Dates of publication on plates, 1816 and 1817. On plate 1: Compositions from the Works, Days and Theogony of Hesiod. Designed by John Flaxman ... engraved by William Blake. Engraved throughout. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1837 Keynes, G.L. Bibliography of W. Blake (New York, 1921), 131 LAC ael 2019-09-05 update (2 cards) LAC ddw 2022-04-13 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Blake, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Flaxman, John - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1817

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    Renati Des-Cartes Principia philosophiae.
    Des Cartes philosophia.     René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, scientific thinker, and philosopher who made important contributions to mathematics, optics, epistemology, and other fields that helped to shape how the modern world came to see nature and the human mind. The son of a lawyer, he was educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche and in Poitiers, where he studied law. He became a soldier...
    • Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Descartes, René - Elzevir, Louis
    • Date: 1644

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Odes Title vignette. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1753 English short title catalogue, T42023 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-12-02 no edits (2 cards) LAC ecr 2019-12-10 review LAC ddw 2022-04-04 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gray, Thomas - R. And J. Dodsley - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1757

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    Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.
    Comedies, histories & tragedies | Comedies, histories, and tragedies     First folio ed.; first issue. Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁸(A1+chi1) A-2B⁶ 2C² a-g⁶ [superscript chi]2g⁸ h-x⁶ [par.]-2[par.]⁶ 3[par.]1 2a-2f⁶ 2g² [superscript 2chi]2g⁶ 2h⁶ 2k-3b⁶. Colophon: Printed at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623. STC (2nd ed.) 22273 English short tItle catalog, S111228 LC copy has different state of portrait of Shakespeare mounted on t.p. over original engraving. LAC ael...
    • Contributor: Heminge, John - Jaggard, Isaac - Condell, Henry - Shakespeare, William - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Droeshout, Martin
    • Date: 1623

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    Poems on various subjects, religious and moral With a mixture of horizontal and vertical chain lines, and with two final contents leaves. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Q⁴. Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 4440 English Short Title Catalogue, T153734 Printer's advertisement: p. [4] at end. LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Misbound: [A]4 bound between [A]2 and [A]3. PS866.W5 1773 Copy 1 transferred from the general rare...
    • Contributor: Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Livermore, George - Ingraham, Edward D. (Edward Duncan) - Force, Peter - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Wheatley, Phillis
    • Date: 1773

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    Renati Des Cartes Specimina philosophiae, sev Dissertatio de methodo recte regendae rationis & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice et Meteora.
    Specimina philosophiae     Translation by Etienne de Courcelles. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1432 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: With: the author's Principia philosophiae. Amstelodami, 1644. Copy 2. Choice/form AACR2: vj39 08-15-96 Starts as image 343 of combined digital file LAC ecr 2018-10-16 no edits (2 cards) LC Review of LAC Completed/Not Approved 2018-10-24 LC Review...
    • Contributor: Courcelles, Etienne De - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Descartes, René - Elzevir, Louis
    • Date: 1644

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    Libri Philomusi. Leaf [Ia] (t.p.): Libri Philomusi. Panegyrici ad Regë. Tragoediä de Thurcis et Suldano. Dyalog[us] de heresiarchis. Includes also letters and verses by Locher. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, L-264 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, *10153 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 112 (IA.1468) IGI 5789 Schramm, XX, p. 5, 23, and illus. Library of Congress....
    • Contributor: Locher, Jacob - Grüninger, Johann - Hoe, Robert - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1497

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    Viola sanctorum. Signatures: pi¹⁰ a-d⁸ e-x⁶. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 176 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-338 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 10872 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 395 (IA.6493) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Provenance: Jacobus P.R. Lyell. LC copy:...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Lyell, James P. R. (James Patrick Ronaldson) - Froschauer, Johann - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1496

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    Chronicles of England. A version of the popular English chronicle Brute of England, continued to the year 1461. Cf. F.W.D. Brie. Geschichte und Quellen der mittelenglischen Prosachronik The Brute of England oder The Chronicles of England. Marburg, 1905. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 561 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-477 (pt. 1) (variations) Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5000 (pt. 1) Gesamtkatalog...
    • Contributor: Leighton, John - Carysfort, William Proby - Freeling, Francis - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Caxton, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1480

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    La Commedia. With the commentary of Cristoforo Landino. Edited by Piero da Figino. Includes selected poems of the author (leaves 315b-320b). Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 264 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D-33 Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 5950 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 270 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7970 Also available...
    • Contributor: Piasi, Piero De - Lexington, Robert Sutton - Dante Alighieri - Pietro - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Landino, Cristoforo - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1491

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    Catalogue of the Library of the United States : to which is annexed, a copious index, alphabetically arranged.
    Half title: Catalogue of the Library of the Congress of the United States of America     Half title located on p. [1], 2nd group. Prepared by the librarian, George Watterston. Based on a manuscript, made ca. 1812, of Thomas Jefferson's personal library sold to the Congress in 1814. Cf. Papers of the Bibl. Soc. of Amer., v. 78 (1984), p. 222. "Rules and regulations to be observed in the Library of Congress": p. xxiii-xxxii. Also available in digital form on...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Jefferson, Thomas - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Watterston, George - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1815

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    The scarlet letter : a romance Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2062 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2021-09-01 update (1 card) LAC scc 2020-01-22 update (1 card) LAC ecr 2020-02-04 review LAC ddw 2022-05-02 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Kebler, Leonard - Riviere & Son - French, ASA P. - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1850

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    Oeuvres. "De l'imprimerie de E. Duverger." 2 proofs of frontispiece portrait inserted. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1920 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed on flyleaf of v. 1: A.M. de Rudder, peintre, temoignage de gratitude E. Duverger ... LAC ael 2019-11-05 no edits (2 cards) LAC ddw 2022-04-19 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin - Johannot, Tony - Molière - Vieillard-Duverger, Louis-Camille-Eugène - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1835

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    Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States. Part I. Compiled by Baron de Steuben, inspector general of the Continental Army, and assisted by François-Louis Teissèydre. Illustrations drawn by Pierre L'Enfant. Errata note, p. [163-164]. "Explanation of the plates."--p. [165]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Evans 16627 ESTC W21709 LAC knj 2019-03-25 no edits (2 cards) Missing 051 field for Copy 2. LAC knj 2019-03-25
    • Contributor: L'enfant, Pierre Charles - Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin - United States. Continental Army. Inspector General - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1779

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  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The gentle art of making enemies, as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome ... 9 prelim. leaves, 292 p. 26 cm.
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Whistler, James McNeill - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1890

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    Terenti[us], Most of the illustrations are composed of small blocks used in different combinations, which differ slightly in the various copies of this edition. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, T-94 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 15431 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 110 (IB.1437) (variation) Schramm, XX, p. 4, 22, and illus. Library...
    • Contributor: Badius, Josse - Donatus, Aelius - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Terence - Jouenneaux, Guy - Grüninger, Johann - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1496

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