Collection Items

  • Book/Printed Material
    German intrigues in Persia, In November 1914, after the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of Germany and the Central Powers, Sultan-Caliph Mehmed V issued a call for a worldwide jihad against Britain and France. The Germans and their Turkish allies hoped to stir up Muslims against British rule in India and to draw Persia and Afghanistan, both of which had declared their neutrality, into…
    • Contributor: [Griesinger, W]
    • Date: 1918-01-01
    • Resource: - 44 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Mandate for Nauru ... Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: League of Nations. Council
    • Date: 1921-01-01

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    German opinion on national policy prior to July 1914 ... Peace handbooks, vol. xxiv [no. 3-4]
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    German opinion on national policy since July 1914. German text.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 62 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Deutschland und seine Kolonieen; Wanderungen durch das Reich und seine überseeischen Besitzungen, This 538-page work with its 1,367 illustrations reflects German national pride in the early 20th century, a period of rapid economic growth and scientific and cultural achievement in the German Empire. Most of the book deals with Germany proper, which at that time included Alsace-Lorraine, conquered from France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. A concluding chapter is devoted to Germany's overseas empire, which…
    • Contributor: Kürschner, Joseph
    • Date: 1902
    • Resource: - 558 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    East and West Prussia. "Authorities" : p. 64-65.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 82 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Rhenish Prussia. "Authorities" : p. [83]-84.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 100 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Alsace-Lorraine. Appendix p. ([108]-116) : Préliminaires de paix, le 26 février, 1871.--Traité de paix le 10 mai, 1871.--Declaration of the representative of Alsace and Lorraine, February 16, 1871. "Authorities" : p. [117]-119.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 138 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Treatment of natives in the German colonies. "Authorities": p. [49]-50.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 66 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Former German possessions in Oceania. "Appendix" (p. [89]-94): Agreement between Great Britain and Germany, April 25-29, 1885. Declaration of April 6, 1886; April 10, 1886. Final act of Samoa conference, June 14, 1889. Convention and declaration of November 14, 1899. Convention of December 2, 1899. "Authorities": p. [95]-97, [1] p.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 118 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Journal de la campagne des isles de l'Amérique, qu' à fait Monsieur D***. : La prise & possession de l'isle Saint Christophe, avec une description exactes des ani maux, des arbres, & … This work of 1709 is a first-hand description of the island of Saint Kitts and its flora, fauna, people, and economy during the colonial period. The book is by a French naval officer, Gautier du Tronchoy, who in late 1698 and early 1699 took part in a mission to Saint Christophe, as the French called the island. France and Britain vied for control of…
    • Contributor: Gautier Du Tronchoy
    • Date: 1709

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  • Map
    Map of the empire of Germany. From: Kitchin, General atlas describing the whole universe. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Delarochette, L. (Louis)
    • Date: 1782-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Lorraine and Saar minefields. "Authorities" : p. 29.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 46 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis. This work, printed in Germany in 1470, includes part of the text of the Apocalypse of Saint John, the last book of the Christian Bible, also known as the Book of Revelation. The book is based on letters written to church members in Asia Minor that describe Saint John's heavenly visions and revelations. It tells the story of the great heavenly warfare between good…
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1470

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    Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae. Hind notes that 34 oblong images that appear in this edition are printed from metal cuts which feature crisp, structured lines printed in black ink. The cuts are adapted from the woodcuts in the Rome edition of Ulrich Han, printed in 1467. The metal cuts are considerably reduced in size and printed in black line while the borders which frame the composition are printed…
    • Contributor: De Morstat, Marcus Bartolomei - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hofbibliothek (Stuttgart, Germany) - Neumeister, Johann - Torquemada, Juan De - Priesterseminar Mergentheim
    • Date: 1479

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    Buch der Natur. Das Buch der Natur (Book of nature) is a Medieval Latin compendium of science that was edited and translated into German in the 14th century by Konrad von Megenberg, a German scholar and writer who was probably born at Mainberg (Megenberg), near Schweinfurt, Bavaria, in 1309, and died at Ratisbon (Regensburg) in 1374. He studied at Erfurt and then at the University of Paris,…
    • Contributor: Konrad - Thomas - Bämler, Johann - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1481

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    Vita et Fabulae. This is the second Augsburg edition of the Fables of Aesop, translated from Latin into German by Heinrich Steinhöwel. It is illustrated with 208 woodcuts, cut in the Augsburg style, which is characterized by thick contour lines outlining the figures, a reliance on white space rather than highly detailed embellishment to decorate the image, and little background or landscape to create perspective. The publishing…
    • Contributor: Bracciolini, Poggio - Wyle, Niklas Von - Bozérian - Steinhöwel, Heinrich - Sorg, Anton - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Aesop - Avianus - Rinuccio - Romulus - Bruni, Leonardo - Petrus Alfonsi
    • Date: 1479

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  • Book/Printed Material
    German colonization. "Authorities": p. 138-141.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 166 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Ergebnisse einer reise durch das zwischenseengebiet Ostafrikas 1911, Fritz Jaeger and Leo Waibel were professors of geography in Germany who, in late 1913, were commissioned by the German colonial office to explore the northern part of German South-West Africa (present-day Namibia). They arrived in the colony in mid-1914 and soon were caught up in the events of World War I, which broke out in August of that year. Both men were drafted…
    • Contributor: Germany - Meyer, Hans
    • Date: 1913-01-01
    • Resource: - 107 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus tum etiam …
    De revolutionibus orbium cœlestium | De revolvtionibvs orbium cœlestium | De revolvtionibus orbium cœlestium
    De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres), written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) and published just before his death, placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets. Copernicus anticipated his ideas would be controversial and waited more than 30 years to publish his book.…
    • Contributor: Petrejus, Johannes - Copernicus, Nicolaus
    • Date: 1543

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    The Kiel canal and Heligoland. "Appendix [1 p.] : Article XII of the Anglo-German agreement relative to Africa and Heligoland" (Foreign office paper C 6046, July 1890) "Authorities" : [24], [1] p. at end.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 56 pages

  • Periodical
    Locomotive: Newspaper for the Political Education of the People.
    Locomotive :
    The radical 1848 newspaper Locomotive is the most important journalistic work of Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Held (1813--72). After pursuing a military career as an officer in the Prussian army, Held returned to civilian life and worked for a time as an actor and writer. In 1843, he moved to Leipzig where he published the newspaper, Die Lokomotive (The locomotive). The paper quickly achieved success,…
    • Contributor: Held, Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander
    • Date: 1848-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Frederick the Great's "The Works of the Philosopher of Sans Souci." Volumes I-III.
    Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans Souci
    The three-volume edition of selected works by Frederick II, King of Prussia, printed in 1749-50, was the first product of Frederick's private printing press at the palace of Sanssouci. The king entitled the edition, the contents of which were entirely in French, Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans Souci (The works of the philosopher of Sans Souci). (Sanssouci was the name of the summer palace…
    • Contributor: Schmidt, G. F. (Georg Friedrich) - Frederick II, King of Prussia
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    Frederick the Great's "The Works of the Philosopher of Sans Souci." Volume I.
    Oeuvres Du Philosophe De Sans Souci. Tome Premiér
    The three-volume edition of selected works by Frederick II, King of Prussia, printed in 1749-50, was the first product of Frederick's private printing press at the palace of Sanssouci. The king entitled the edition, the contents of which were entirely in French, Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans Souci (The works of the philosopher of Sans Souci). (Sanssouci was the name of the summer palace…
    • Contributor: Voltaire - Schmidt, G. F. (Georg Friedrich) - Le Sueur, Blaise Nicolas - Frederick II, King of Prussia
    • Date: 1752-01-01
    • Resource: - 438 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg.
    Mémoires Pour Servir A L'Histoire De La Maison De Brandebourg
    Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la maison de Brandebourg (Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg) is a history of the Brandenburg Dynasty by Frederick II, King of Prussia, himself a member of that dynasty. It was read at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1747-48 and published in three installments. Shown here is the first complete printing of the work, which dates from…
    • Contributor: Schmidt, G. F. (Georg Friedrich) - Le Sueur, Blaise Nicolas - Frederick II, King of Prussia
    • Date: 1751-01-01
    • Resource: - 544 pages