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Missae in agenda defunctorum tantum deservientes

1 pp 1706

Printer's name transposed; appears below the place and date of publication on the title page.

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Missae in agenda defunctorum tantum deservientes

1 pp 1669

Printed in red and black.

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Ni de shen ti he ni zi ji

1 pp 1975

A heavily adaptated translation of Our bodies, ourselves issued by The Women's Magazine in 1975 in Taipei. Contains chapters on sex, food and nutrition, sexually transmitted infections, birth control, childbirth, and menopause. Lacks the chapters on homosexuality, rape, self-defense, abortion, pregnancy, preparation for childbirth, postpartum, and exceptions to normal childbirth.

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Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI ...

1 pp 1543

This is the first edition of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of heavenly spheres), a seminal work that advanced a heliocentric theory of the universe.

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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

1 pp 1687

This is the first edition of Newton's Principia, in which he elucidates the universal laws of gravitation and motion that underlay the phenomena described by Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. Newton also establishes the mathematical basis for the motion of bodies in unresisting space (the law of inertia); the motion of fluids and the effect of friction on bodies moving through fluids; and the law of universal gravitation and its unifying role in the cosmos.

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Prayer book

1 pp 1730

Comprised of a psalter, canticles, Song of songs, an encomium to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and an encomium to the Angel Phanuel.

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Prayerbook

1 pp 1800

A miscellany of prayers from various sources, in Hebrew, generally related to the concept of financial success. The first section includes the full text of the 24th psalm, followed by selected passages attributed to a prayer composed by Rabbi Moses Alshekh (1508-1593). The manuscript is bound in a fragment of an earlier Italian ketubah written on parchment.

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The Holy Bible

1 pp 1782

This, the "Aitken Bible," is the first complete English Bible printed in America, bearing an American imprint; it was approved and recommended by a resolution of the U.S. Congress assembled on Sept. 12, 1782, authorizing the publisher "to publish this recommendation in the manner he shall think proper." (cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, Washington, 1914, vol. XXIII, 1782, p.572-574; cf. also John Wright, Early Bibles of America, 1894, p. 51-67).

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