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Early Modern Works in Special Collections

A guide to works between 1500 and 1700 in Rare Books and Special Collections.

English History

Basilikon dóron; or, His Majesties instructions to his dearest sonne, Henry the Prince. by King James I
Call Number: Rare JC393.C3 J2 1603
Publication Date: 1603
Edinburgh, Printed by Robert Waldegraue, 1603.
The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Pvblished by Iames, bishop of Winton, and deane of His Maiesties chappel royall... by King James I and James Montagu
Call Number: Rare Folio DA391.A13 1616a
Publication Date: 1616
London, Printed by Robert Barker and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie. Anno 1616[-20]
Eikōn alēthinē, the pourtraiture of truths most sacred majesty truly suffering, though not solely: wherein the false colours are washed off, wherewith the painter-steiner had bedawbed truth, the late King and the Parliament, in his counterfeit piece entit
Call Number: Rare DA400.C48 1649
Publication Date: 1649
London: Printed by Thomas Paine, and are to be sold by George Whittington at the blew Anchor in Corn-hill, 1649.
Sequiseculum Anglicanum, oder, Kurtze iedoch Gründliche Erzehlung, was sich in Engeland von Regierung Heinrici des Achten, bis auff die jüngst-vorgenommene Enthäuptung Caroli des Ersten, und also binnen anderthalbhundert Jahren vor Veränderung so wohl in
Call Number: Rare DA302.S4
Publication Date: 1649
Leipzig, gedruckt und verlegt von Timotheo Ritzschen, Anno MDCXLIX.
Joannis Miltoni Angli Defensio pro populo Anglicano: contra Claudii anonimi, aliàs Salmasii, Defensionem regiam. by John Milton
Call Number: 1651
Publication Date: Rare DA396.A3 S3 1651b
Londini : Typis Du Gardianis, anno domini 1651.
A compleat history of the life and raigne of King Charles, from his cradle to his grave. Collected and written by William Sanderson, esq. by Sir William Sanderson
Call Number: Rare Folio DA395 .S22
Publication Date: 1658
London, Printed for H. Moseley, R. Tomlins, and G. Sawbridge, 1658.
A short view of the late troubles in England; briefly setting forth, their rise, growth, and tragical conclusion. As also, some parallel thereof with the barons-wars in the time of King Henry III. But chiefly with that in France, called the Holy league, i by William Dugdale
Call Number: Rare Folio DA410 .D86 1681
Publication Date: 1681
Oxford, Printed at the Theater for M. Pitt, London, 1681.
A letter to a Dissenter from his friend at the Hague: concerning the penal laws and the test; shevving that the popular plea for liberty of conscience is not cencerned in that question. by Daniel Defoe
Call Number: Rare DA452.L4
Publication Date: 1688
Tot de Hague [i.e. London] : gedruckt door Hans Verdraeght, 1688.
Eikonoklastes [Greek transliterated], in answer to a book intitul’d Eikon basilike [Greek transliterated], the portracture of His sacred Majesty King Charles the First in his solitudes and sufferings. By John Milton... by John Milton
Call Number: Rare DA400.C49 M6
Publication Date: 1690
Amsterdam, Printed in the year 1690.

French History

La vraye et entiere histoire des troubles et guerres ciuiles, auenuës de nostre temps, pour le faict de la religion, tant en France, Allemaigne que Païs Bas. Recueillie de plusieurs discours françois & latines, & reduite en dix-neuf liures... by Jean Lefrère
Call Number: Rare DC111.L43 1573
Publication Date: 1573
Paris, I. Hulpeau, 1573.
Mazarinades: [a collection of 17th century French political pamphlets, some in prose, some in verse].
Call Number: Rare PQ1710.A1 M3
Publication Date: 1633-1652
Paris: [s.n.], 1633-1652.
The historie of the civil warres of France, written in Italian by H. C. Davila. Translated out of the original [by] C C[otterell and] W A[ylesbury] by Arrigo Caterino Davila
Call Number: Rare Folio DC111.D265
Publication Date: 1647
London, Printed by R. Raworth, and are to be sold by W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, 1647.
Topographia Galliae, sive, Descriptio et delineatio famosissimorum locorum in potentissimo regno Galliae: partim ex usu & optimis scriptoribus diversarum linguarum, partim ex relationibus fide dignis per aliquot annos collectis, in ordinem redacta, & publ by Martin Zeiller
Call Number: Rare Folio DA175 .P27 1606
Publication Date: 1655-1661
Francofurti : Cura & impendio Caspari Meriani, 1655-1661.
The French kings declaration of a vvar against England: published in the manner expressed therein at Paris, 27 Jan. 1666: translated out of French, and published by authority. by King Louis XIV of France
Call Number: Rare DA412 1645.C47
Publication Date: 1666
London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb ..., 1666.

Additional History

Praxis criminis persequendi, elegantibus aliquot figuris illustrata, Joanne Millaeo Boio Sylvigniaco... authore... by Jean Milles de Souvigny
Call Number: Rare Folio BX1939.T65 M5 1541
Publication Date: 1541
Parisiis, Apud Simonem Colinaeum, Arnoldum et Carolum Les Angeliers, 1541.
Commentarii delle cose de Turchi / di Paulo Giouio, et Andrea Gambini, con gli fatti, et la uita di Scanderbeg. by Paolo Giovio
Call Number: Rare DR439.G56 1541
Publication Date: 1541
In Vinegia: In casa de’ figliuoli di Aldo, nell’anno 1541.
De la naissance, duree et cheute des estats, ou, Sont traittees plusieurs notables questions, sur l’establissement des empires, & monarchies... / par Rene de Lusinge, Sieur des Alymes... by René de Lucinge, sieur des Alymes
Call Number: Rare JC139.L9 1588
Publication Date: 1588
A Paris: Chez Marc Orry ..., 1588.
A relation of a iourney begun an: Dom: 1610: foure bookes.: containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning. by George Sandys
Call Number: Rare Folio DS47.S2 1632
Publication Date: 1632
London: Printed for Ro. Allot, 1632.
Nouveaux memoires sur l’etat present de la Chine / par le P. Louis Le Comte... by Louis Le Comte
Call Number: Rare Stacks DS708.L48
Publication Date: 1696-1698
A Paris: Chez Jean Anisson ..., 1696-1698.