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Book/Printed MaterialAlmanach historique de la révolution françoise pour l'année 1792 Signatures: pi² [a]⁶ b-f⁶ g² 1-21⁶ 22⁴, 1-9⁶. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1707 Thacher, II, p. 79 (French Revolution) "Précis de l'histoire de la révolution françoise": p. [1]-257. Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LC copy's engravings are proofs before letters. LC copy has ink stamp and bookplate of Lord Rosebery, Durdans. LAC brd...- Contributor: Moreau, Jean Michel - France - Rabaut, Jean-Paul - Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialChristopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502 : photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the archives of the Foreign Office in Paris, now for the first time published, with expanded text, ...
Half title: Codex diplomaticus of Christopher Columbus "The original Codex on vellum is written on both sides of the leaf, and is here reproduced in same same form, but is interleaved with corresponding pages of transliteration and translation"--P. [9]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Thacher, II, p. 9 (Americana) Appended to the Codex are facsimiles of the autograph letters of Columbus to Oderigo, and...- Contributor: Harrisse, Henry - Columbus, Christopher - Barwick, G. F. (George Frederick) - Stevens, Benjamin Franklin - Spain. Sovereign ( : Ferdinand V and Isabella I) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Henry Harrisse Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1893
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Book/Printed MaterialCosmographiae introductio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis : insuper quattuor Americi Vespucij nauigationes : vniuersalis cosmographiae descriptio tam in solido q[uam] plano, eis etiam insertis quae ... Designed to accompany Waldseemüller's globe and wall map of the world, on which the New World is called America. "America" is suggested as name for the New World on sig. C1 recto and C3 verso. Originally published earlier in the same year. Signatures: A-B⁶ C-D⁴ ²A⁸ b-c⁴ d⁸ e-f⁴. Sabin 101019 Thacher, II, p. 53 (Americana) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977),...- Contributor: Riviere & Son - Waldseemüller, Martin - Rodríguez, José María - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Lud, Gauthier - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1507
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Book/Printed MaterialCosmographiae introductio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis. Insuper quatuor Americi Vespucij nauigationes. Uniuersalis cbosmographiae [sic] descriptio tam in solido q[uam] plano eis etiam insertis qu[a]e Ptholom[a]eo ... Signatures: A⁶ B⁴ a-d⁸ e⁴ f⁶. The first book to suggest the name America (cf. leaf A3). Designed to accompany the globe gores and the world map. LC copy imperfect: sig. B1-B4 and half of folded plate wanting. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Sabin 101018 Thacher, II, p. 53 (Americana) LC copy has ink ownership stamp: S...- Contributor: Vespucci, Amerigo - Waldseemüller, Martin - Harrisse, Henry - Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill) - White, Alfred Tredway - Early Printing Collection (Library of Congress) - Force, Peter - Gruel, Léon - Ives, Brayton - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1507
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Book/Printed MaterialNouus orbis regionum ac insularum ueteribus incognitarum : unà cum tabula cosmographica, & aliquot alijs consimilis argumenti libellis, quorum omnium catalogus sequenti patebit pagina : his accessit copiosus rerum memorabilium index.
Novvs orbis regionvm ac insvlarum veteribvs incognitarvm | Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum Compiled by Johann Huttich; with preface by Simon Grynäus. Map engraved by Hans Holbein, the Younger. Page 586 misnumbered 584. Signatures: [alpha]-[delta]⁶ a-z⁶ A-2C⁶. Register on colophon leaf. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 532/17 Harrisse, H. Americana, 171 Sabin 34100 Thacher, II, p. 34 (Americana) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 898 Includes index. LC copy imperfect: p. [37]-[48] (preliminary sequence) wanting; map in...- Contributor: Herwagen, Johann - Huttich, Johann - Grynäus, Simon - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Holbein, Hans - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1532
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Book/Printed MaterialMœurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps
Mœurs des sauvages americains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps Vol. 1: [22], 610, [2] p., [21] leaves of plates; v. 2: [12], 490, [40] p., [22] leaves of plates. Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson, 3995 Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, volume 4, column 1362 Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 38596 John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) Collection...- Contributor: United States. War Department - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Lafitau, Joseph-François - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1724
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Book/Printed MaterialJournal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de LaSale fit dans le golfe de Mexique, pour trouver l'embouchure, & le cours de la riviere de Missicipi, nommeé à present la riviere ... The original journal, of which this is an abridgment, was published in Pierre Margry's Découvertes et établissements des français dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amérique Septentrionale, t. 3, 1878, p. [89]-534. Signatures: a¹² ẽ⁶(-ẽ6) A-Q¹². Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 4073 Church, E.D. Discovery, 855 Sabin 36760 Thacher, II, p. 25 (Americana) LC copy forms part of the...- Contributor: Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Force, Peter - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Joutel, Henri - Michel - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1713
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Book/Printed MaterialGeographia uniuersalis, uetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptoloemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII
Geographia vniversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII | Catalogus annorum et principum geminus Pirckheimer's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia. "A new and important edition, revised and edited by the geographer Sebastian Münster, who designed the maps anew, and added an appendix."--Sabin. Signatures: 2a⁴ *⁶ a-c⁶, A-N⁶, 2A-2B⁶, 2C⁸. Includes 48 numbered maps on double leaves, with explanatory text on the recto of the first leaf. Adams 2224 Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to...- Contributor: Pirckheimer, Willibald - Ptolemy - Apiarius, Mathias - Ryd, Valerius Anselmus - Petri, Heinrich - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Münster, Sebastian
- Date: 1540
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Book/Printed MaterialLibro di Benedetto Bordone : nel qual si ragiona de tutte l'isole del mondo, con li lor nomi antichi & moderni, historie, fauole, & modi del loro uiuere, & in qual parte ... Place of publication and name of printer from colophon; colophon reads: Impresse in Vinegia per Nicolo D'Aristotile, detto Zoppino, nel mese di giugno, del. M.D.XXVIII. Signatures: 2A⁴, A-C⁶, D-E⁴, F-H⁶, I-K⁴, L⁶, M², N-O⁴, P⁶. The six leaves of plates are three double maps, signed BB, CC, and DD. Title page printed in red and black; title within ornamental border. List of maps of...- Contributor: Bordon, Benedetto - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1528
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Book/Printed MaterialIn hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata
In hoc opere haec continentvr Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata Jacopo D'Angelo's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia. "A reissue of the preceding edition, with a new title-page, and the addition of the "orbis nuoua descriptio" of Beneventanus in fourteen leaves, and Ruysch's map of the world"--Sabin. Publisher from colophon; colophon dated 1507. Signatures: A-C⁸ D-E⁶ F-O⁸, a⁶ b⁸, 2A-2B⁸ 2C⁴. Includes 34 maps on double leaves; second state of Ruysch map....- Contributor: Marcus - D'angelo, Jacopo - Ruysch, Johannes - Vitali, Bernardino Dei - Ptolemy - Bibliotheca Petzoldiana - Bowman, Walter - Cotta, Giovanni - Tosini, Evangelista - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1508
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Book/Printed MaterialIoannis Camertis Minoritani, artium, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in C. Iulii Solini Polyistōra enarrationes : additus eiusdem Camertis index, tum literarum ordine, tum rerum notabiliu[m] copia perco[m]modus studiosis.
C. Iulii Solini Polyistōra enarrationes | Polyistōra enarrationes | Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, artivm, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in C. Ivlii Solini Polyistōra enarrationes "Polyistōra" in title romanized from the Greek. The cordiform map was made by Petrus Apianus and, until the discovery of the Waldseemüller map of 1507, was considered the earliest map upon which "America" appears. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: pi⁸, a⁴ b-z⁶, A-E⁶ F⁴, 2a-b⁶ 2c⁴. Title within historiated woodcut border; text of the Polyhistor surrounded by the Enarrationes. Adams S1391 Church, E.D. Discovery, 45...- Contributor: Solinus, C. Julius - Apian, Peter - Early Printing Collection (Library of Congress) - Camers, Joannes - Alantsee, Lucas - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1520
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Book/Printed MaterialCalendarium. Printed in red and black. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-92 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 13775 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 456 (IA.7877) Schramm, XVIII, p. 5, 16, and illus. Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) id00354000 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977), 51 LC copy: many figures supplied...- Contributor: John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Regiomontanus, Joannes
- Date: 1474
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Book/Printed MaterialClaudii Ptholemei Alexandrini philosophi Cosmographia
Cosmographia Translated by Jacopo D'Angelo; edited, with emendations of George Gemistus Plethon, by Domizio Calderino. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-1083 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 13537 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IV, p. 78 (IC.18252) Sabin 66470 Thacher 241 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977), 225 List of geographical atlases in the Library of...- Contributor: D'angelo, Jacopo - Gemistus Plethon, George - Ptolemy - Calderino, Domizio - Pannartz, Arnold - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1478
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Book/Printed MaterialEpistola declaratoria iuriu[m] et priuilegio[rum] fratru[m] ordinu[m] mendicanciu[m]
Epistola declaratoria iurium et privilegiorum fratrum ordinum mendicantium | Epistola breuis ac p[er]utilis De symonia vitanda | Epistola brevis ac perutilis De symonia vitanda Title extracted from Leaf [2a]: Epistola declaratoria iuriu[m] et priuilegio[rum] fratru[m] ordinu[m] mendicanciu[m]. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 472 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-983 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5849 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 91 (IA.48050) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7846 Also available in digital form on the...- Contributor: Leempt, Gerardus - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Printer of Cultrificis - Cultrificis, Engelbertus
- Date: 1479
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Book/Printed MaterialFasciculus temporum. Leaf cccxxxa (colophon): Hier eyndet dat boeck dat men hiet Fasciculus temporum ... With additions to the original text. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 474 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-278 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6946 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 12 (IB.47086) Polain, M. L. Catalogue des...- Contributor: Rolevinck, Werner - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Veldener, Johann
- Date: 1480
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Book/Printed MaterialCosmographia. Translated by Jacopo d'Angelo; edited by Nicolaus Germanus. The maps, double, except for the last, are on separate sheets, most with descriptive text printed on the versos within woodcut borders; these texts are known in several variants. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-1084 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 538 (IC.9306) Copinger, W.A. Supplement...- Contributor: D'angelo, Jacopo - Erzabtei St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria) - Ptolemy - St. Peter in Salzburg (Abbey) - Königliche Bibliothek Zu Berlin - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Hol, Lienhart - Nicolaus Germanus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Preussische Staatsbibliothek - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialConfessio amantis. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 565 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-329 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 7835 Duff, E.G. 15th cent. Engl. books, 166 Ricci, S. de. Census of Caxtons, 48; 18 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: prelim. leaves [2-7] and leaves [viii], xlvii, cxxxiiii, clxxxv, clxxxviii, clxxxxiiii,...- Contributor: Gower, John - Caxton, William - Huth, Henry - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1483
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Book/Printed MaterialEpistolae familiares. Leaf [2a]: Enee Silvii Senensis ... Rervm familiarivm incipivnt epistole peramene. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 528 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-718 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 152 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 141 (IB.49167) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC...- Contributor: Johann - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pius II - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1483
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Book/Printed MaterialVan den proprieteyten der dinghen. Title from colophon (leaf [464b]). The work has often been erroneously ascribed to Bartholomaeus de Glanvilla. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 488 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-142 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 2522 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 102 (IB.48508) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 3423 Also available in digital...- Contributor: Bartholomaeus - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bellaert, Jacop
- Date: 1485
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Book/Printed MaterialDe consolatione philosophie
Dit es het bouck Boëcii de consolatione Philosophiae In Dutch and Latin, with Dutch commentary. Leaf [2a]: Dit es de tafele dienende desen nauolghenden vijf bouken Boecij De consolatione philosophie. Goff B-812 Hain-Copinger 3400 BM 15th cent., IX, p. 206 (IC.50105) GW 4574 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 535 LC copy rubricated; illuminated initials and borders. On space left blank by the printer at beginning of each of the 5...- Contributor: Keysere, Arend De - Hoe, Robert - Mercier, Emile - Master of Edward IV - Boethius - Hachette, A. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1485
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Book/Printed MaterialCosmographia Translated by Jacopo d'Angelo and edited by Nicolaus Germanus. Maps printed from plates used in Buckinck's Rome ed. of 1478. Registrum alphabeticum (leaves [2a-35b]) and De locis et mirabilibus mundi (leaves [153b-173a]) taken from Reger's Ulm ed. of 1486. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-1086 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 13541 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in...- Contributor: D'angelo, Jacopo - Ptolemy - Nicolaus Germanus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Della Torre, Pietro - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1490
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Book/Printed MaterialPrivilegia Ordinis Cisterciensis. Edited by Abbot Jean de Cirey. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 410 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-976 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 13367 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 9391 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, p. 409 (IB.44916) IGI 8060 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web...- Contributor: Abbaye De Belleau (Villeneuve-La-Lionne, France) - Cirey, Jean De - Leavens, Harry Walter - Cistercians - Leontorius, Conradus - Metlinger, Peter - Marduel, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Crawford, William Horatio - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1491
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Book/Printed MaterialSpiegel der waren Rhetoric vss M. Tulio C. vnd andern getütscht, mit irn Glidern clüger Reden Sandbriefen, vnd Formen menicher Contract, seltzam regulierts tütschs vnd nutzbar exempliert, mit Fügen vff göttlich vnd ... Leaf [Ia] (woodcut title page): Spiegel der waren Rhetoric v[ss] M. Tulio C. vnd andern getütscht mit irn Glidern cluger Reden Sandbriefen, vnd Formen menicher Contract, seltzam. regulierts tutschs vnd nutzbar exempliert, mit Fügen vff göttlich vnd keiserlich Schrifft vnd Rechte gegründt ... Signatures: a⁸ b-[long s]⁶ s-v⁶ u⁶ w⁶ x-z⁶ A-B⁶ C¹⁰ D⁸. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-197 Copinger, W.A. Supplement...- Contributor: John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Riederer, Friedrich
- Date: 1493
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Book/Printed MaterialLib[er] cronicarum, cu[m] figuris et ymagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di.
Cronica mvndi Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1a]): Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ymagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di. Illustrations by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-307 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 14508 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 437 (IC.7451) Schramm, XVII, p. 6,...- Contributor: Anhalt-Zerbst, Adolf Von - Schedel, Hartmann - Koberger, Anton - Wolgemut, Michael - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1493
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Book/Printed MaterialTrialogus super Evangelio de duobus discipulis euntibus in Emmaus. Printed in red and black. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-883 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 1274 (incl. Hain 14361, Copinger 5907) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 2203 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 540 (IA.24222) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977), 297 Also available in digital form on the Library of...- Contributor: Humbert - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Emerich, Johann - Antoninus - Savonarola, Girolamo - Giunta, Luca-Antonio - Giudici, Battista De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1495
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