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• Of the office of servavntes a boke made in Latine by one Gilbertus Cognatus and newely Englyshed. ([Londini : In officina Thomæ Berthe. regij impressoris typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum., Anno. M.D.XLIII.] [1543]), by Gilbert Cousin and Thomas Chaloner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Short discourse of the life of servingmen. (Imprinted at London : [By Henry Middleton] for Ralphe Newberrie, dwelling in Fleetestrete, a litle aboue the Conduit, 1578), by Walter Darell and Giovanni Della Casa (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A health to the gentlemanly profession of seruingmen; or, The seruingmans comforts With other thinges not impertinent to the premisses, as well pleasant as profitable to the courteous reader. (Imprinted at London : By W. W[hite], 1598), by Gervase Markham and fl. 1598 I. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1583-04-19. (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)
• The court of good counsell VVherein is set downe the true rules, how a man should choose a good wife from a bad, and a woman a good husband from a bad. Wherein is also expressed, the great care that parents should haue, for the bestowing of their children in mariage: and likewise how children ought to behaue themselues towardes their parents: and how maisters ought to gouerne their seruants, and how seruants ought to be obedient towards their maisters. Set forth as a patterne, for all people to learne wit by: published by one that hath dearely bought it by experience. (At London : Printed by Raph Blower, and are to be solde by William Barley at his shop in Gratious Streete, 1607), by Stefano Guazzo (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Instructions for apprentices and servants· ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1699), by John Gother (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• House-hold observations necessary for these times. (London : Printed by T. Paine, and are to be sold by F. Coles in the Old-Baily, 1647) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The humble representation of his late Majesties and Princes domestick servants signifying their distressed condition, and necessitated designment for relief. ([London : s.n., 1655]), by Emmanuel Utie (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The duty of servants containing first, their preparation for, and choice of a service, secondly, their duty in service : together with prayers suited to each duty : to this is added A discourse of the Sacrament suited peculiarly to servants / by the author of Practical Christianity. (London : Printed for Sam. Smith ..., 1685), by Richard Lucas (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Negro Christianized An essay to excite and assist the good work, the instruction of Negro-servants in Christianity. : [Four lines of Scripture texts] (Boston, : Printed by B. Green., 1706), by Cotton Mather (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Advice and caution from our Monthly Meeting at Philadelphia. Held the 25th day of the sixth month, 1732, concerning children and servants. ([Philadelphia : Printed by Andrew Bradford, 1732]), by Society of Friends. Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Martis vicesimo primo die Octobr. 1684 annoq, regni Regis Caroli Secundi, Angliæ &c. tricesimo sexto it is ordered by this court that the order hereafter following (against servants being retained without a testimonial) made at the last quarter sessions held for this city, shall be forthwith printed and published ... / Lond. ss. ad General Quarterial' Sessionem pacis Domini Regis, tent' pro Civitat' London, per adjournament' apud Justice-Hall in le Old-Baily, London, die Mercurii, scilicet Octavo die Octobris, anno regni Regis Caroli secundi, nunc Angl' &c. tricesimo sexto. ([London] : Printed by Samuel Roycraft, printer to this honourable city, [1684]), by England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The apprentices companion containing plain and useful directions for servants, especially apprentices, how to perform their particular dutys to their masters, so as to please God ... : together with prayers and devotions for morning and evening : to which is added, a short and familiar method of arithmetick, and some copies of the most useful, writing hands / by Richard Burton, author of The civil wars of England, &c. (London : Printed for Thomas Mercer ..., 1681), by 1632?-1725? R. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Acts & Orders. 1611-01-21 (Printed at London : by VV. Iaggard, printer to the Honorable Citty of London, [1611]), by City of London (England). Court of Common Council and William Craven (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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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