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• Hermannus Hugo Societatis Jesu De prima scribendi origine et universa rei literariae antiquitate : cui notas, opusculum de scribis, apologiam pro Waechtlero, praefationem et indices (Apud Hermannum Besseling, 1738), by Herman Hugo and Christianus Henricus Trotz (page images at HathiTrust)
• De libris varioque eorum usu et abusu libri duo (Ex officina Henrici & viduae Theodori Boom, 1688), by Guilielmus Saldenus, Johanna Veris, Hendrick Boom, and Johannes van den Aveele (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conseils pour former une bibliothèque peu nombreuse, mais choisie (Chez Haude et Spener, 1755), by Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey and Haude und Spener (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay upon study : wherein directions are given for the due conduct thereof, and the collection of a library, proper for the purpose, consisting of the choicest books in all the several parts of learning (Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1737), by John Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliothèque d'un homme de gout (Chez des Essarts, 1798), by L. M. Chaudon and Nicolas Toussaint Lemoyne Desessarts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel bibliographique ([s.n.], 1800), by Gabriel Peignot and Justus Lipsius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre a M. *** servant de réponse à une critique de la Bibliographie instructive, insérée dans le premier volume du mois de juillet 1763, du Journal de Trévoux, page 1617. (G.F. de Bure, 1763), by Guillaume-François de Bure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Neu-eröffnete Bibliothec : worinnen der studirenden Jugend und andern courieusen Liebhabern guter Unterricht von Bibliotheqven, nebenst bequemer Anleitung dieselben anzulegen, wohl zu unterhalten und nützlich zu gebrauchen, an die Hand gegeben wird : welchem angefügt die vornehmsten Bibliotheqven in Europa, und was Reisende vornehmlich bey deren Besichtigung zu beobachten haben. (Bey Benjamin Schillern ..., 1711) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nouvelle bibliothèque d'un homme de gout, ou Tableau de la littérature ancienne et moderne, étrangere & nationale, dans lequel on expose le sujet, & l'on fait connoître l'esprit de tous les livres qui ont paru dans tous les siecles, sur tous les genres, & dans toutes les langue, avec un jugement court, précis, clair et impartial (A Paris, Rue Saint Jacques au Grand Corneille, 1777), by L. M. Chaudon and Joseph de Laporte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rymaille sur les plus celebres bibliotieres de Paris (s.n.], 1649), by Gyrouague Simpliste (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliothèque d'un homme de gout (Chez des Essarts, 1798), by L. M. Chaudon and Nicolas Toussaint Lemoyne Desessarts (page images at HathiTrust)
• De libris varioque eorum usu et abusu libri duo (Ex officina Henrici & viduae Theodori Boom, 1688), by Guilielmus Saldenus, Johanna Veris, Hendrick Boom, and Johannes van den Aveele (page images at HathiTrust)

• Storia polemica delle proibizioni de' libri (Per Generoso Salomoni, 1777), by Francescantonio Zaccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index librorvm prohibitorvm Alexandri VII Pontificis Maximi (Ex typographia rev. Cam. Apost., 1667), by Pope Alexander VII (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edital da Real Meza censoria : Dom José por graça de Deos rei de Portugal ... faço saber a todos que este edital virem, que em repetidas conferencias ... ([Lisboa] : Na Regia officina typografica, [1771], 1771), by Portugal. Real Mesa Censória, Impressão Régia (Portugal), and Portugal. Sovereign (1750-1777 : Joseph) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Humble information of certain stationers, citizens of London, to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England. (Printed for the subscribers hereof, 1652), by Luke Fawne, John Rothwell, Joshua Kirton, and Samuel Gellibrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act and declaration of the Parliament of England touching a pamphlet, entituled, A declaration by the Kings Majesty, to his subjects of the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland. Printed at Edinburgh, 1650. (London : Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, Printers to the Parliament of England, 1650), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1569-03-01 (Imprinted at London : In Powles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, Printers to the Queenes Maiestie, [1569]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A fresh discovery of the high-Presbyterian spirit. Or The quenching of the second beacon fired. Declaring I. The un-Christian dealings of the authors of a pamphlet, entituled, A second beacon fired, &c. In presenting unto the Lord Protector and Parlament, a falsified passage out of one of Mr John Goodwins books, as containing, either blasphemie, or error, or both. II. The evil of their petition for subjecting the libertie of the press to the arbitrariness and will of a few men. III. The Christian equity, that satisfaction be given to the person so notoriously and publickly wronged. Together with the responsatory epistle of the said beacon firers, to the said Mr Goodwin, fraught with further revilings, falsifications, scurrilous language, &c. insteed of a Christian acknowledgment of their errour. Upon which epistle some animadversions are made, / by John Goodwin, a servant of God in the Gospel of his dear Son. Also two letters written some years since, the one by the said John Goodwin to Mr. J. Caryl; the other, by Mr Caryl in answer hereunto; both relating to the passage above hinted. (London, : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by H. Cripps, and L.Ll. in Popes head Alley., 1654. [i.e. 1655]), by John Goodwin and Joseph Caryl (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the Major. Whereas by an act of Parliament, entituled, An act against unlicensed and scandalous bookes and pamphlets, and for better regulating of printing; ... ([London] : Printed by Richard Cotes, Printer to the Honourable City of London, 1649), by City of London (England). Lord Mayor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Resolved by the Parliament that whatsoever person or persons have, or shall have in their custody any of the printed papers (entituled, His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects of the kingdom of England and dominion of VVales) be injoyned forthwith to bring the same in to the Councel of State ... (London : Printed by John Field ..., 1651), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1589-02-13. (Imprinted at London : By the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1588 [i.e. 1589]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Elizabeth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1583-06-30. (Imprinted at London : By Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, [1583]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Elizabeth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the Queene. The Queenes Majestie consydering that not withstanding that by great and mature deliberation of the wysest of this realme. (Imprinted at London : In Powles churcheyarde by Richard Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, [1573]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The accuser sham'd: or, A pair of bellows to blow off that dust cast upon John Fry, a Member of Parliament, by Col: John Downs, likewise a Member of Parliament, who by the confederacy and instigation of some, charged the said John Fry of blasphemy & error to the Honorable House of Commons. Whereunto is annexed, a word to the priests, lawyers, Royalists, self-seekers, and rigid-Presbyterians. Also a brief ventilation of that chaffie and absurd opinion, of three persons or subsistences in the Godhead. / By the accused John Fry. (London : Printed for John Harris, and are to be sold at his house on Addle hill, Febr. 1648), by John Fry (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1588-07-01 ([Imprinted at London : By the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, Anno 1588. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Queen Elizabeth I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1573-09-28 (Imprinted at London : By Nevvgate market, next vnto Christes Churche, By Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, [1573]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Apici Caeli De re coquinaria libri decem. (in libraria academica C. Winter, 1867), by Apicius and Christian Theophil Schuch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les secrets de la nature et de l'art, développés pour les alimens, la médecine, l'art vétérinaire & les arts & métiers : auxquels on a joint un traité sur les plantes qui peuvent servir à la teinture & à la peinture. (Chez Durand ..., 1769), by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The way to get wealth : I. Directing how to make 23 sorts of English wine, equal to French, and cyder equal to canary ... : II. A help to discourse, giving an account of the commodities of all countries ... : III. A book of knowledge for all persons ... (Printed for G. Conyers ..., 1706), by Thomas Lupton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Curiose in allerley, sowohl für hohe, als niedrige Stands-Personen, erdencklichen Bach-Wercken, als ... wohl-erfahrner und in jeder solcher Profession allezeit wolbestehender Becker : deme auch beygefüget was bey Abschlachtung des Viehes absonderlich zu beobachten ... wie auch endlich der Wein und andere Geträncke gut und beständig zu erhalten ... (Verlegts Johann Albrecht, 1713), by Alexius Sincerus and Johann Albrecht (page images at HathiTrust)

• Italian courtesy-books : Fra Bonvicino da Riva's fifty courtesies for the table (Italian and English) with other translations and elucidations, by da la Riva Bonvesin, trans. by William Michael Rossetti (Gutenberg ebook)

• Bibliotheca librorvm rariorvm vniversalis, oder, Vollständiges Verzeichniss rarer Bücher (Bey Martin Jacob Bauer, 1770), by Johann Jacob Bauer, Martin Jacob Bauer, Andreas Westphal, and Georg Andreas Will (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lettere del Padre D. Salvadore Ma. Di Blasi, Casinese : intorno ad alcuni libri di prima stampa del secolo XV. (s.n., in the 18th century), by Salvatore Maria Di Blasi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mirt[h] in abundance. Set forth and made manifest in many jests, upon severall occasions, full of wit and truth. Contriv'd to relieve the melancholy, and rejoyce the merry; to expell sorrow, and advance jollity. All of them new and noble, free from rayling baudery, blasphemy, or incivility. Collected and set together by a lover of lawfull mirth, and true hearted society. (London : printed for Francis Grove, neare the Sarazens-Head on Snow-hill, 1659) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Treatise of algebra, both historical and practical. Prospectus. ([Oxford? : s.n., 1683]), by John Wallis (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The history of the arts and sciences of the antients, under the following heads : agriculture, commerce, architecture and architects, sculpture and sculptures, painting and painters, musick and musicians, the art military (Printed for J.and F. Rivington, 1768), by Charles Rollin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliographia historico-politico-philologica curiosa : quid in quovis scriptore laudem censuramve mereatur, exhibens (s.n.], 1696), by Johann Heinrich Boecler and Samuel Schottel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliographia historico-politico-philogica curiosa : quid in quovis scriptore laudem censuramve mereatur, exhibens, cui praefixa celeberrimi cuiusdam viri de studio politico bene instituendo dissertatio epistolica posthuma. (Schrey und Hamm], 1677), by Johann Heinrich Boecler and Samuel Schottel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca librorvm rariorvm vniversalis, oder, Vollständiges Verzeichniss rarer Bücher (Bey Martin Jacob Bauer, 1770), by Johann Jacob Bauer, Martin Jacob Bauer, Andreas Westphal, and Georg Andreas Will (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rerum Germanicarum scriptores : aliqvot insignes, qvi historiam et res gestas Germanorum medii potissimum aevi, inde a Carolo M. ad Carolum v usque, per annales litteris consignarunt ... nunc denvo recogniti, adiectis notis, et indice, ed. 3. emendatiori et locvpletior ad usus publicos reducti, curante Burcardo Gotthelff. Struvio. (Sumptibus Joannis Conradi Peezii, 1726), by Johann Pistorius and Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origini italiche, o siano Memorie istorico-etrusche sopra l'antichissimo regno d'Italia : e sopra i di lei primi abitatori nei secoli piu remoti (L. Vdnturini, 1767), by Mario Guarnacci (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theory of the earth : (Printed by R. Norton, for W. Kettilby, 1697), by Thomas Burnet (page images at HathiTrust)

• A new catalogue of Bell's Circulating Library : consisting of above fifty thousand volumes (English, Italian, and French) ... including all the books that have been lately published : which are lent to read, at twelve shillings per year, or, four shillings per quarter (J. Bell, 1777), by Bell's Circulating Library and John Bell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der gerechtfertigte Nachdrucker, oder, Johann Thomas von Trattners, des Heil. Römischen Reichs Ritters erwiesene Rechtmässigkeit seiner veranstalteten Nachdrucke : als eine Beleuchtung der auf ihn gedruckten Leipziger Pasquille. (Bey Weidemanns Erben und Reich, 1774), by Christian Heinrich Wilcke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de feu M. le duc de La Valliere. Premiere partie : contenant les manuscrits, les premieres éditions, les livres imprimés sur vélin & sur grand papier, les livres rares & précieux par leur belle conservation, les livres d'estampes, &c., dont la vente se fera dans les premiers jours du mois de décembre 1783 (Chez Guillaume de Bure fils aîné, libraire, quai des Augustins, 1783), by Guillaume Debure, Joseph van Praet, and Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de La Vallière (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pretia librorum bibliothecae Moerlianae (In bibliopolio Io. Eberh. Zeh, 1792), by Johann Sigmund Mörl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai d'une bibliographie annuelle (Chez Debray :, 1802), by G. M. Bontemps (page images at HathiTrust)

• Osservazioni letterarie (In Verona : Dalla Stamperia di Jacopo Vallarsi con licenza de' superiori, MDCCXXXVII-MDCCXL [1737-1740], 1737), by Scipione Maffei (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelle bibliotheque choisie, où l'on fait connoître les bons livres en divers genres de literature, & l'usage qu'on en doit faire ... (David Mortier, 1714), by Richard Simon and Nicolas Barat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplementi al Giornale de' letterati d'Italia. (In Venezia : Appresso Gio. Gabbriello Hertz, con licenza de' superiori, MDCCXXII-MDCCXXVI [1722-1726], 1722), by Giovanni Gabriele Hertz and Girolamo Lioni (page images at HathiTrust)

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