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The whole booke of psalmes collected into Englishe meter by Thomas Sternh. Iohn Hopkins and others ; conferred with the Hebrue, with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth & allowed to be song in all churches, of all the people together before and after morning and euening prayer: as also before and after sermons, & moreouer in priuate houses, for their godly solace and co[m]fort, laying apart all vngodly songs and ballades, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.

Tags: 1500-1599, Autographs, Bible, Binding damage, Drawings, English, Leather bindings, Music, Paraphrases, Psalms, Raised cords, Sammelband, Woodcuts

Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum, continens vegetabilia, animalia, et fossil1a, in hac insula reperta inchoatus authore Christophoro Merrett, Medicinae Doctore utriusque Societatis Regiae Socio primoque Musaei Harveani custode.

Tags: 1600-1699, English, Great Britain, Greek, Natural History

Theatrum Botanicum = The theater of plants; or, An herball of a large extent : containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of nevv, rare, and strange plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues : shewing vvithall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry authors that have formerly written of them; and a certaine confidence, or most probable conjecture of the true and genuine herbes and plantes : distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property, with the chiefe notes of Dr. Lobel, Dr. Bonham, and others inserted therein collected by the many yeares travaile, industry, and experience in this subject, by John Parkinson, Apothecary of London, and the Kings Herbarist ; and published by the Kings Majestyes especiall priviledge.

Tags: 1600-1699, Botany, English, Greek, Latin, London (England), Pre-Linnean works

[The vertuose boke of the distyllacyon of all maner of waters of the herbes in this present volume expressed : with the fygures of the stillatoryes to that noble worke belongyng fyrst made and compyled by the thirtye yeres studye and labour of the moste famous and expert master of phisyke, Master Iherom bruynswyke, in hye Almayne, and now of late newly translated into Englysshe out of duche by me Laurence andrew to the synguler, profyte, helth and cure, of myn euyn crysten in theyr diseases, and in especyall for them of thys noble royalme of Englonde, my natyfe contrey ; ye shall vnderstande that the great Master Auycenna testifyeth in his fourth canon that the waters be farre better than the herbes in theyr operacyons].

Tags: 1500-1599, English, Herbs, London (England), Medicine, Pharmacy

The first and seconde partes of the herbal of William Turner Doctor in Phisick : lately ouersene, corrected and enlarged with the thirde parte, lately gathered, and nowe set oute with the names of the herbes, in Greke Latin, English, Duche, Frenche, and in the apothecaries and herbaries Latin, with the properties, degrees, and naturall places of the same ; here vnto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in England, and of the vertues of the same with diuerse other bathes, moste holsom and effectuall, both in Almanye and England / set furth by William Turner Doctor in Phisick ; God saue the Quene.

Tags: 1500-1599, Binding labels, Botany, English, Genealogical notes, Gold tooled bindings, Hebrew, Herbs, Leather bindings, Marginalia, Medicinal plants, Paper repairs, Pre-Linnean works, Raised bands, Sammelband, Water damage, William Turner, Woodcuts

A Collection of English proverbs: digested into a convenient method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion: with short annotations: whereunto are added local proverbs with their explications, old proverbial rhythmes, less known or exotick proverbial sentences, and Scottish proverbs

Tags: 1600-1699, English, Hebrew, Proverbs, Scottish

A Discoverie of the State of Ireland: with the true Causes why that Kingdom was never entirely Subdued, nor brought vnder Obedience of the Crowne of England, vntill the Beginning of his Maiesies most happie Raigne

Tags: 1600-1699, Armorial bookplates, Autographs, Binding damage, England, English, History, Ireland, Leather bindings, Limp bindings, Marginalia

A worlde of wordes, or, Most copious, and exact dictionarie in Italian and English collected by Iohn Florio.

Tags: 1500-1599, Dictionary, English, Italian language

Nevv Atlantis: a vvorke unfinished

Tags: 1600-1699, Binding damage, Cockle, English, Francis Bacon, Latin, Leather bindings, Natural History, Raised bands, Sammelband, Sprinkled edges, Thongs, Utopias, Water damage, Watermarks, Woodcuts

Remaines, concerning Britaine but especially England and the inhabitants thereof: their languages, names ... prouerbs, poesies, epitaphs

Tags: 1600-1699, England, English, Epitaphs, Names Personal, Proverbs

Remains concerning Britain: their languages, names, surnames, allusions, anagramms, armories, moneys, impresses, apparel, artillerie, wise speeches, proverbs, poesies, epitaphs

Tags: 1600-1699, England, English, Epitaphs, Names Personal, Proverbs

A compendious and very fruteful treatyse teachynge the waye of dyenge well: writen to a frende by the flowre of lerned men of his tyme

Tags: 1500-1599, Death, England, English, Leather bindings, London (England), Marginalia, Paper defects, Philosophy and religion

Instructions for a right comforting afflicted consciences: with speciall antidotes against some grievous temptations delivered for the most part in the lecture at Kettering in Northamptonshire by Robert Bolton ...

Queen Anna's new world of words, or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues collected, and newly much augmented by Iohn Florio ... ; whereunto are added certaine necessarie rules and short obseruations for the Italian tongue.

Tags: 1600-1699, Dictionary, English, English language, Grammar, Italian, Italian language

Riders dictionarie: corrected, and augmented with the addition of many hundred words, both out of the law, and out of the Latine, French and other languages ... whereunto is ioyned a dictionarie etymologicall, deriuing each word from his proper fountaine: the first euer was extant in this kind: with many worthy castigations and additions, as will appeare in the title and epistle before it

Tags: 1600-1699, English, Latin language

The anatomy of melancholy: vvhat it is, vvith all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and severall cures of it, in three maine partitions, with their severall sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut up by Democritus Iunior ; with a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.

Tags: 1600-1699, English, Greek, Latin, Melancholy, Oxford (England), Robert Burton

The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia

Tags: 1600-1699, English, Pastoral literature, Sidney Philip

Thesaurus linguae romanae & britannicae: tam accurate congestus, vt nihil penè in eo desyderari possit quod vel latinè complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel anglicè, toties aucta Eliotae Bibliotheca ... Accessit dictionarivm historicum & poëticum ...

Tags: 1500-1599, Dictionary, English, English language, Latin, Latin language

The touchstone of complexions: expedient and profitable for all such as bee desirous and carefull of their bodily health: containing most ready tokens, whereby every one may perfectly try, and thorowly know, as well the exact state, habit, disposition, and constitution of his body outwardly, as also the inclinations, affections, motions and desires of his minde inwardly

Tags: 1600-1699, English, Latin, Levinus Lemnius, London (England), Medicine

The workes of Benjamin Jonson.

Tags: 1600-1699, English, Greek, Jonson Ben, Latin

A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie, and cases of conscience: directing Christians, how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin: in four parts...

Tags: 1600-1699, Christian life, English, Latin, London (England), Richard Baxter

A short treatise, contayning all the principall grounds of Christian religion: by way of questions and answers, very profitable for all men, but especially for housholders.

Tags: 1600-1699, Binding labels, Catechisms, English, Gold tooled bindings, Leather bindings, Marginalia, Printed waste, Quarter bindings

The works of Joseph Hall B. of Norwich: vvith a table now added to the same

Tags: 1600-1699, Church of England, Devotional literature, English, Hall Joseph, Sermons, Sermons (English), Theology

Emblem [sic] divine and moral: together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man

Tags: 1700-1799, Emblem books, Emblems, English

The whole booke of Psalmes

Tags: 1600-1699, Bible, English, Hymns, Paraphrases, Psalms

A French-English dictionary compil'd by Mr. Randle Cotgrave : with another in English and French. Whereunto are newly added the animadversions and supplements, &c. [etcetera] of James Howell ....

PC2640 .A2 C7 1650 Large Part 1 Title Page.JPG

Tags: 1600-1699, encyclopedias and dictionaries, English, English language, French, French language

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