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A Book of Fruits & Flovvers. Shewing the Nature and Use of them, either for Meat or Medicine

Tags: 1600-1699, Botany, Cooking, Distillation, Herbal, London (England), Medicinal plants, Medicine, Plants, Recipes, Woodcuts

The double-armed man, by the new inuention : briefly shewing some famous exploits atchieued by our Brittish bowmen: with seuerall portraitures proper for the pike and bow

Tags: 1600-1699, Archery, Bow and Arrow, Charles I 1625-1649, London (England), Military art and science, Woodcuts

Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie : eight bookes

Tags: 1600-1699, Apologetics, Church of England, Church polity, Doctrinal and controversial works, Ecclesiastical law, London (England), Sermons English

Saturni ephemerides, sive, Tabula historico-chronologica : containing, a chronological series or succession of the foure monarchyes, with an abridgment of the annual memorable passages in them : as also, a succession of the kings and rulers over most kingdomes and estates of the world, with a breife chorographical description of them, & theyre seueral storyes epitomized, with a compend of the history of the Chvrch of God from the creation: the times of the patriarchs, Fathers, doctors, & other famous & learned men ... : lastly, An appendix of the plantation and encrease of religion in this monarchy of Britayne: the tymes of foundation of bques. in England and Wales, with a chronological succession of the bpps there, & a breife relation of theyre acts, &c.

Tags: 1600-1699, Chronology, Chronology Historical, Church history, Great Britain, London (England)

Catalogus plantarum Angliæ, et insularum adjacentium : tum indigenas, tum in agris passim cultas complectens : in quo præter synonyma necessaria, facultates quoque summatim traduntur, unà cum observationibus & experimentis novis medicis & physicis opera Joannis Raii, M.. A. & Societatis Regiæ Sodalis.

Tags: 1600-1699, Botany, England, London (England), Materia medica, Materia medica Vegetable, Pre-Linnean works, Recipes

A priest to the temple, or, The country parson his character, and rule of holy life.

Tags: 1600-1699, Clergy, London (England), Pastoral theology, Religious life

Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths : together with the Religio medici

Tags: 1600-1699, Christian ethics, Christian life, Common fallacies, London (England), Natural History, Pre-Linnean works, Religion

The works of Shakespear : in eight volumes collated and corrected from the former editions, by Mr. Pope.

Tags: 1700-1799, Comedy, Drama, Dramatists English, Henry IV 1399-1413, Henry VIII 1509-1547, History, London (England), Midsummer night's dream, Romeo and Juliet, Theatre, Tragedy, William Shakespeare

Remarkable antiquities of the City of Exeter : giving an account of the laws and customs of the place; the office, court of judicature, gates, walls, rivers, churches, and immunities; the titles and privileges of the several corporations, and their distinct coats of arms finely engraven on copper-plates : with a catalogue of all the bishops, mayors, and sheriffs, from the year 1049, to 1677 originally collected by Richard Izacke, Esq; heretofore Chamberlain thereof.

Tags: 1700-1799, Antiquities, Bishops, England, Exeter (England), London (England), Maps, Mayors, Sheriffs

Posthumous works of the learned Sir Thomas Browne, Kt. M.D., late of Norwich : printed from his original manuscripts, viz. I. Repertorium: or, The antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Norwich, II. An account of some urnes, &c. found at Brampton in Norfolk, Anno 1667, III. Letters between Sir William Dugdale and Sir Tho. Browne, IV. Miscellanies. To which is prefix'd his life. There is also added, Antiquitates Capellæ D. Johannis Evangelistæ ; hodie Scholæ Regiæ Norwicensis / authore Johanne Burton, A.M. ejusdem Ludimagistro ; illustrated with prospects, portraitures, draughts of tombs, monuments, &c.

Tags: 1700-1799, Antiquities, Church buildings, Church history, Dugdale William, London (England), Norwich, Norwich (England)

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, Blind tooled bindings, Botany, English, Greek, Herbal, Latin, London (England), Pre-Linnean works, Raised bands

[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, Distillation, English, Herbal, Herbs, London (England), Marginalia, Medicine, Pharmacy, Printers' devices, Recipes, Woodcuts

A collection in English, of the statutes now in force, continued from the beginning of Magna Charta, made in the 9. yeere of the reigne of King H.3. vntill the ende of the Parliament holden in the 35. yeere of the reigne of our gratious Queen Elizabeth ...: hereunto is added two tables, the one at the beginning of the book, declaring under titles by order of alphabet the substance of such referments as stood at the ende of eche title in the first collection of statutes

Tags: 1500-1599, London (England)

A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr. Henry More ...: as namely, his Antidote against atheism, Appendix to the said Antidote, Enthusiasmus triumphatus, Letters to Des Cartes, &c., Immortality of the soul, Conjectura cabbalistica.

Tags: 1700-1799, London (England), Philosophy

A Commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians: first collected and gathered word by word ... into English for the unlearned ; wherein is setforth ... dedicated to the same.

Tags: 1600-1699, Bible, Bible Galatians, Binding damage, Commentaries, Leather bindings, London (England), Luther Martin

A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter

Tags: 1600-1699, Bible, Bible Peter 2nd, Commentaries, London (England), Saint Peter, Saints

[Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the church, with an vniuersall history of the same... now againe, as it was recognised, perused, and recommended to the studious reader by the author Master Iohn Foxe].

Tags: 1500-1599, Church history, London (England), Martyrs, Persecution, Woodcuts

Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church: with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland

Tags: 1600-1699, Church history, London (England), Martyrs, Persecution

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, London (England), Marginalia

A Harmonie upon the three Evangelistes Matthewe, Marke, and Luke ; with the commentarie of M. Iohn Calvine: faithfully translated out of Latine into English

Tags: 1600-1699, Bible, Bible Gospels, Calvin Jean, Commentaries, Harmonies, London (England)

A list of various editions of the Bible, and parts thereof, in English, from the year 1526 to 1776: a manuscript list of English bibles, copied from one compiled by the late Joseph Ames, presented to the Lambeth-Library by Dr. Gifford, hath furnished some part of this publication: later discoveries of several learned gentlemen [principally Andrew C. Ducarel] have supplied the rest.

Tags: 1700-1799, Bible, London (England)

All the workes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet: beeing sixty and three in number

Tags: 1600-1699, English poetry, London (England), Poetry

An abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world: in five books ... His Premonition to princes: also some genuine remains of that learned knight, viz. I. Of the invention of shipping. II. A relation of the action at Cadiz. III. A dialogue between a Jesuit an da recusant. IV. An apology for his vnlucky voyage to Guiana. Published by Philip Raleigh

Tags: 1700-1799, History (Ancient), London (England), Raleigh Walter

[Anakreontos Tēiou Melē = Anacreontis Teii Odae

Tags: 1600-1699, Anacreon, Greek, London (England), Poetry, Poets (Greek)

An epitome of cronicles: conteining the whole discourse of the histories as well of this realme of England, as all other countreis, with the succession of their kynges, the tyme of their reigne, [and] what notable actes thei did: much profitable to be redde namely of magistrates and suche as haue auctoritee in co[m]men weales

Tags: 1500-1599, Chronicles, London (England), World history

A new torch to the Latine tongue: so enlightened, that besides the easie understanding of all classical authors, there is also laid open a ready way to write and speak Latine, well and elegantly by Paul P. Jasz-Berenyi ...

Tags: 1600-1699, Glossaries vocabularies etc, Grammar, Latin language, London (England)

A new way to pay old debts: a comedy acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane

Tags: 1700-1799, Comedy, Dramatists English, London (England), Theatre

A short introduction of grammar, generally to be used compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those, that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latin tongue.

Tags: 1700-1799, Grammar, Latin language, London (England)

[A treatise of morall philosophie: wherein is contained the worthy sayings of philosophers, emperours, kings, and orators: their liues and answers: of what linage they came: and of what countrey they were: whose worthy sentences, notable precepts, counsels, and parables, doe hereafter follow

Tags: 1600-1699, Ethics, London (England)

The auncient ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, written in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius. ; Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina wrote 10. bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople wrote 7. bookes. Evagrius Scholasticus of Antioch wrote 6. bookes. whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the lives and ends of the Prophets, Apostles, and 70. Disciples. ; All which Authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer Doctor of Divinitie. ; Last of all, herein is contained a briefe Chronographie collected by the said Translator, with a copious Index of the principall matters throughout all the Histories.

Tags: 1600-1699, Armorial bindings, Binding damage, Church history, Ecclesiastical, England, Gold tooled bindings, Leather bindings, London (England), Manuscript waste, Marginalia, Panel stamped bindings, Primitive and early church ca. 30-600, Printers' devices, Raised cords

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