Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3. Latin. 1596 Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Published / Created:
1596
Call Number:
E159 +B79 6-9
Image Count:
2
Description:
First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 158., Novae Novi Orbis historiae, liber 3 (by G. Benzoni, tr. and annotated by Urbain Chauveton)--Brevis insvlarvm quae Canariae appellantvr ... descriptio.--De Gallorvm expeditione in Floridam ... 1565 (including the petition on behalf of the families of those massacred there by the Spanish in 1565, repeated from America. pt. 2), The t.p., with a new engr. title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates., and With this is bound the editor's [America. pts. 7-9. Latin] Francoforti, 1599-1602. Imperfect: signature G6 (2nd count) blank, wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600, America--History--To 1600, Canary Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Florida--History--Huguenot colony, 1562-1565, and Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. De Novi Orbis natura et ratione Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. Historia natural y moral de las Indias. Latin. 1602 Bry, Johann Israel de, d. 1611 Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623? Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 9-1627. Beschryvinghe van de voyagie. Latin. 1602 Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 9-1627. Vera et accurata descriptio Potgieter, Barent Jansz, b. 1574. Relatio historica Potgieter, Barent Jansz, b. 1574. Wijdloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen. Latin. 1602
Published / Created:
1602
Call Number:
E159 +B79 6-9
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168., Imperfect: map, signature Yy6 and ddd4, blank, wanting. Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 6. Latin. Francoforti] 1596. 1st ed., 1st issue, copy 3., Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages., and The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta.
Publisher:
Apud M. Beckervm,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600, America--History--To 1600, Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina), and Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)--Description and travel
The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments : and other rites and ceremonies of
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Butts.
Subject (Name):
Butts, Thomas, 1759-1846 --Bookplate and Hayes, John, 1633 or 4-1705, printer
Subject (Topic):
Armorial bookplates (Provenance), Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Authorized. --Early works to 1800, Church of England --Liturgy --Early works to 1800, and Church of England --Prayer-books and devotions --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
Cambridge : Printed by John Hayes, printer to the University, M.DC.LXXIX. [1679]
All volumes bound to match 1973 Folio 72. Factitious collection of about 549 maps taken from the atlases of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th cent., put together with the title "Atlas" and bound in 6 volumes. These volumes originally bore the imprint: Amstelaedamii apvd Reiniervm & Josvam Ottens. Over these words on the title-pages of v. 1-2, 4-6 is the name of Henrik de Leth who painted them. Volume 3 has only the erased imprint of Ottens., For fuller description see Phillips 3448 and C. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1800, Amsterdam c1967-71, v. 2, p. 63-83., and Maps by P. Schenck and son, G. Valck, F. de Wit, N. Visscher and others.
Publisher:
chez J. Covens & C. Mortier,
Subject (Geographic):
Denmark --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Reiner et Josua Ottens (Firm), Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719., and Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 1652-1726.
Jiménez de Cisneros, Francisco, 1436?-1517 López de Zuñiga, Diego, 16th century
Published / Created:
1514-17.
Call Number:
MLa191 +514
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Bible. Polyglot. 1514-17. In Academia complutensi.
Description:
For full description of this work, see British and foreign Bible Society, Historical ctalogue, v. 2, no. 1412., Initials; tail-pieces., The first polyglot Bible, edited by eminent scholars, headed by Diego López de Zuñiga, and printed, in an edition of 600 copies, at the expense of Cardinal Ximénez., Titles, with Cardinal Ximénez' coat of arms, are within woodcut borders., Vol. 1 (with title: Vetus Testamentu[m] multiplici lingua nu[n]c primo impressum) and v. 2-4 (Secu[n]da[quarta] pars Veteris Testamenti) have colophon (v. 4) dated, 10 July 1517., and Vol. 1 has Hebrew, Greek and Latin in parallel columns, with Chaldaic text at foot of page.
Publisher:
Industria Arnaldi Guillelmi de Brocario in Academia complutensi]