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Enchiridion novus Algorismi .

by HUSWIRT, Johannes

Cologne : In officina H. Quentell , 1504

Epistola Selectas de re naturali obervationes complectens accessere ex historia naturali curiosa

by [KIRCHER] / BATTAR[R]A, Giovanni Antonio

Rimini : Albertiniana , 1774

Essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne. Cinquiesme edition, augmentée d'un troisiesme livre et de six cens additions aux deux premiers.

by MONTAIGNE, Michel de.

Paris : chez Abel L'Angelier au premier pillier de la grand Salle du Pallais , 1588

Essais. Édition seconde, revue & augmentée.

by MONTAIGNE, Michel de.

Bordeaux : Simon Millanges , 1582

Estat present de l’eglise et de la colonie francoise dans la Nouvelle France, par M. L’Evêque de Quebec

by SAINT VALLIER, Jean Baptiste de la Crois de Chevrieres de, Bishop of Québec

Paris : Robert Pepie , 1688

A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN MAP OF CHINA IN ENGLISHIN RICH ORIGINAL HANDCOLORChinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. [London, 1606].

by [China] ORTELIUS, A. / BARBUDA, Luis Jorge de.

[London] [1606]

A FINELY DETAILED PORTRAYAL OF EARLY SAN FRANCISCOSan Francisco-California.

by [San Francisco.] Frederick HESS

[San Francisco? 1874]

THE FIRST COPERNICAN ALMANAC THE EARLIEST VERNACULAR ANNOUNCEMENT OF COPERNICAN HELIOCENTRISM SOLE KNOWN COPY Practica auff das M.D.XLvj. jar/ durch Doctorem Achillem P. Gasser L. zu Feldkirch gemacht

by [ALMANAC/EPHEMERA] GASSER, Achilles Pirmin.

Nuremberg : J. Petreius , 1545

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH“A STORY OF ADVENTURE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPERIENCES OF ONE OF THE GREATEST TRAVELLERS WHO EVER LIVED" (PMM)La Description Geographique des provinces & villes plus fameuses de l'Inde Orientale.

by POLO, Marco

Paris : Jehan Longis , 1556

FIRST EDITION OF NEWTON’S OPTICKSOpticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures.

by [Light/ Color Theory] NEWTON, Isaac

London : Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society , 1704

THE FIRST ENGRAVED ANATOMICAL ILLUSTRATIONS EVER PRODUCED Les Portraicts anatomiques de toutes les parties du corps humain.

by Vesalius, Andreas, & Grévin, Jacques

Paris : Wechel , 1569

THE FIRST ENGLISH SEA ATLAS OF AMERICAThe English Pilot. [The Fourth Book.] Describing The West-India Navigation, from Hudson’s Bay to the River Amazones. London, Printed for Mount and Davidson, 1794.

London 1794

THE FIRST FRENCH EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE EAST INDIESDescription du premier voyage faict aux Indes Orientales par les François en l'An 1603. [including separate title pages for the Description et Remarque de quelques animaux, episceries, drogues. and the Traicte du Scurbut].

by VITRÉ, François Martin de

Paris : Laurens Sonnius , 1604

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN ARCHITECTURAL TREATISE VERNACULAR TRANSLATION FOR THE USE OF ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS L’Architettura di Leon Battista Alberti tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli ... Con la aggiunta de Disegni. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550.

by ALBERTI, Leon Battista / BARTOLI, Cosimo

Florence : Lorenzo Torrentino , 1550

THE FIRST PRINTED ENCYCLOPEDIA THE OLDEST PRINTED ILLUSTRATION OF THE HUMAN EYE FINE WORLD MAP WITH TANTALIZING INFORMATION ON NEWLY DISCOVERED LANDS Margarita philosophica. Basel, Michael Furter & Johann Schott, 1508 [colophon].

by REISCH, Gregor

Basel : Michael Furter & Johann Schott , 1508 [colophon]

THE FIRST PRINTED WORK ON CRYPTOGRAPHY WOODCUT TITLE PAGES IN CONT. HAND-COLOR PRESERVED IN AN ELABORATELY STAMPED GERMAN BINDING DATED 1587 Polygraphiae libri sex

by TRITHEMIUS, Johannes

[Basel?], [M. Furter and A. Petri ?] for Haselberger, 1518.

FIRST PRINTED MANUAL OF VENETIAN TRADETariffa de pexi e mesure. [Qui comincia la utilissima opera chiamata taripha…]

by [VENICE] / [ECONOMICS] / PAXI, Bartholomeo di.

Venice : Albertin da Lisona Vercellese , 26 July 1503 [colophon at f. K4v

THE FIRST STAR ATLASLa sfera del Mondo … Di nuouo da lui ripolita, accresciuta, & fino à Sei Libri, di Quattro che erano ampliata, & quasi per ogniparte rinouata, & riformata.

by PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro.

Venice : Giovanni Varisco & Compagni , 1566.

THE FIRST STUDY OF NEBULAE: WITH 39 WHITE-ON-BLACK WOODCUTS OBSERVED WITH A TELESCOPE OFFERED BY GALILEO NO US COPYDe systemate orbis cometici de que admirandis coeli characteribus, opuscula duo, in quorum primo cometarum causae disquiruuntur, & explicantur... In secondo vero quid, quales quotue sint stellae luminosae; nebulosae; necnon, & occultae, manifestantur, & rerem caelestium studiosis commendantur ...

by ODIERNA, Giovanni Battista

Palermo 1654

THE FIRST WORK PRINTED WITH ENGRAVED CHINESE TYPE IN FRANCE Meditationes Sinicae, in quibus: I. Consideratur Linguae Philosophicae atque Universalis Natura qualis esse. II. Lingua Sinarum mandarinica, tum in Hieroglyphis, tum in Monosyllabis suis. III. Datur eorumdem Hieroglyphorum, ac Monosyllaborum. IV. Idque omne, progressu a Libris mere Euopaeis (de Sina tamen) ad Libros mere Sinicos, facto

by FOURMONT, Étienne

Paris : Chez Musier [et al.] , 1737