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• The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent. (London : printed by T.S. and sold by the book-sellers of London and Westminster, 1680), by William Winstanley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A booke of notes and common places, with their expositions, collected and gathered out of the workes of diuers singular writers, and brought alphabetically into order. A worke both profitable and also necessarie, to those that desire the true vnderstanding & meaning of holy Scripture By Iohn Marbeck (Imprinted at London : By Thomas East, 1581), by John Merbecke (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The customs of London, otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle (Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1811), by Richard Arnold and Francis Douce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taylors cussion (Blades, East & Blades, 1906), by George Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patchwork (Smith, Elder, 1879), by Frederick Locker-Lampson (page images at HathiTrust)
• My grandfather's pocket-book, from A.D. 1701-1796 (Chapman and Hall, 1883), by Henry John Wale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from various sources (John H. Turner, 1863), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varieties of literature; being, principally, selections from the portfolio of the late John Brady, esq. ... (G. B. Whittaker, 1826), by John Brady and John Henry Brady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophisches tagebuch (Commonplace book) (F. Meiner, 1926), by George Berkeley and Andreas Hecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southey's Common-place book (Harper & brothers, 1849), by Robert Southey and John Wood Warter (page images at HathiTrust)
• My commonplace book. (Moffat Yard, 1921), by James Thompson Hackett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gossip; or, Scraps of manuscripts and facetiæ, laconica et lyrica, being the gleanings of the leisure hours of a gentleman, and comprise hints and scraps gathered on the rough and smooth roads through life. (C. Verrall & co.;, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• My commonplace book (T. F. Unwin ltd., 1919), by James Thompson Hackett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lounger's common-place book; or Miscellaneous collections, in history, criticism, biography, poetry, & romance. (Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1805), by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary extracts from English and other works; collected during half a century: together with original matter (Wm. E. Painter, 1847), by John Poynder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new magazine of choice pieces, or, Literary museum : Comprehending an interesting and valuable assemblage of entertaining articles in every branch of human knowledge ... Containing the essence of long, curious and expensive works of the best modern authors and writers of the present age. Forming an elegant common-place book of useful knowledge (J. Cundee, 1810), by John Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southey's common-place book (Longmans, 1850), by Robert Southey and John Wood Warter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lounger's common-place book : or miscellaneous collections in history, criticisms, biography, poetry, and romance ... (W. S. Orr, 1838), by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southey's Common-place book... (Reeves and Turner, 1876), by Robert Southey and John Wood Warter (page images at HathiTrust)
• My commonplace book (T. Fisher Unwin, 1920), by James Thompson Hackett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lounger's common-place book : or, Alphabetical arrangement of miscellaneous anecdotes : (Printed for the author : and sold by Kerby and Co., 1792), by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new volume of the Lounger's common-place book : containing one hundred articles, none of which have been printed in any of the former volumes ... (Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme [etc.], 1807), by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman and Hurst Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lounger's common-place book--A new volume of the Lounger's common-place book (Printed by H. Reynell for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme [etc.], 1807), by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pausilippe. ([s.n.], 1801), by Friedrich von Adelung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nravstvennaia sol, to est, Sluchai, mysli i izrikechenii, izialsnennye politicheski, iuridicheski i indie istoricheski, no s niekotoroiu umierennoiu kritikoiu (V Tip. V. Plavilshchikova, 1808), by Andrei Nikitich Urusov (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new volume of the Lounger's common-place book ... (Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807), by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The island scrapbook (G. Hubbard, 1850), by G. Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Common-place book of prose : first series, consisting of an original selection of eloquent and interesting pieces, including several never before published, with contributions and remarks by the editor. (J. Anderson, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Synopsis communium locorum præcipue ad mores spectantium ex poetis Latinis tum antiquioribus tum recentioribus collecta et in capita curique propria digesta : in usum puerorum qui in scholis grammaticis poetarum latinorum tum lectione tum imitatione prima faciunt Tyrocinia. (Oxoniæ : Typis Leon. Lichfield, Impensis Hen. Clements bibliopolæ, MDCC [1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Miscellaneous extracts in prose and verse. Calculated for the amusement of the humerous [sic] and gay, as well as for the instruction and service of the enquiring and busy world. : To which are added, a number of important questions; which questions, whoever will effectually and satisfactorily answer, shall be entitled to one hundred dollars reward on demand, from Dan. C. Melville. (New-Haven: : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1798), by Daniel C. Melville (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A catalogue of adversaria and printed books containing ms. notes preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. (University Press, 1864), by Cambridge University Library, Gottfried Hermann, Peter Paul Dobree, John Taylor, Churchill Babington, and Henry Richards Luard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plato in twelve volumes (Harvard University Press ;, 1914), by Plato, Paul Shorey, Robert Gregg Bury, W. R. M. Lamb, and Harold North Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations on the English language (Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1951), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kant's Schriften (Berlin : Georg Reimer, 1902-<2020>, 1902), by Immanuel Kant, Eduard Gerresheim, Katharina Holger, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages of a Frenchman exiled for his religion (Press of the Pioneers, 1934), by of Dauphiné Durand, Bruce Rogers, Gilbert Chinard, Nicholas Hayward, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionarii Calepini, octolinguis, et nouissime recogniti, plurimisque dictionibus et variis significationibus aucti, ac diligentissime emendati : altera pars. (sumptibus Caldorianae Societatis, 1620), by Ambrogio Calepino, Jean Passerat, Pedro González de Mendoza, and Societé Caldoriene (Colonia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Casp. Bartholini D. ... Syntagma medicum & chirurgicum De cauteriis praesertim potestate agentibus seu ruptoriis : olim in Academia Patavina nationi Germanicae praelectum, nunc multorum desideriis sasfaciendi ergo revisum, auctum, arcanisque cauterijs usu probatissimis locupletatum & publici juris factum : Accessit ejusdem autoris De aere pestilenti corrigendo consilium medicum (impensis Salomonis Sartorii, 1624), by Caspar Bartholin, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Salomon Sartor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (G. Routledge & sons, limited;, 1905), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Robert Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lumbrico terrestri. (Joh. Chrisoph. Stösselii, 1703), by Christian Franz Paullini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours de fièvres. (L'imprimerie de Jean Francois Picot, 1791), by J.-C.-M.-G. de Grimaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manifiesto canonico,christiano y politico por... D.Fra[n]cisco Añoa y Busto... en la disputa que con ocasion de la... exequias de... Doña Maria Ana de Neoburg ha ocurrido don el... Conde de Maceda... (s.n., 1740), by Francisco Ignacio Añoa y Busto and Reina consorte de Carlos II Mariana de Neoburgo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apology for the Bible : in a series of letters addressed to Thomas Paine, author of The age of reason (Published by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855), by Richard Watson, Charles Leslie, and Thomas Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Aureli Augustini opera. (Apud Geroldi Filium, 1887), by Saint Augustine of Hippo (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1776), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qur'ān leaf] (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-awwal. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sādis ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrūn]. (1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis wa-al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ ʻashar (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-thāmin (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1818), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1680), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, David Eugene Smith, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd Būṣīrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1741), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Muḥsin Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ḥādī ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taʻlīq al-durrah al-Shanawānīyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Ajurrūmīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1637), by Abū Bakr ibn Ismāʻīl Shanawānī, David Eugene Smith, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh Azharī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ājurrūm, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Risālah fī al-uṣūl al-ʻasharah min al-taṣawwuf. Risālat al-Taḥdhīr. (Columbia University Libraries, 1709), by George A. Plimpton, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik Muttaqī, 1145 or 1146-1221 Nazhmiddin Kubro, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1799), by ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah, ʻAlī Shukrī, Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān leaves]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1300), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dīvān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tuḥfatu'l-ʻirfān (Columbia University Libraries, 1720), by Muḥammed Muṣīb Narḫīzāde, David Eugene Smith, Şahidî İbrahim Dede, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān folio]. (Columbia University Libraries, 0800), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb sharḥ al-Jurrūmīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1580), by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad Jibrīl, David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad ʻAwwād ibn Ḥusayn Afandī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1568), by approximately 1253-1325 Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasiyet (Columbia University Libraries, 1726), by approximately 1522-1573 Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, Emîr Süleyman, active 1726 Kâtip Boşnāḳ Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmet, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by Harry G. Friedman and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1779), by David Eugene Smith, active 1779 Ismāʻīl ibn Ṣāliḥ, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Subḥat al-abrār]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Jami, Alan H. Kempner, Margaret Loeb Kempner, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Leaf from Khusraw va Shīrīn]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Gulistān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Sa'di, A. V. Williams Jackson, A. Beijan, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sahm al-muṣīb fī al-radd ʻalá al-Khaṭīb (Columbia University Libraries, 1226), by Sultan of Damascus Muʻaẓẓam, active 1226 ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Carl Reinhardt, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle de l'ame (s.n., 1747), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Du Châtelet, and François-Joseph Hunauld (page images at HathiTrust)

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