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• Antiquarianism and intellectual life in Europe and China, 1500-1800 (University of Michigan Press, 2011), by François Louis and Peter N. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Timber: or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter, by Ben Jonson, ed. by Ian Lancashire (HTML at Toronto)
• Timber: or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1892), by Ben Jonson, ed. by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies, 1660-1730 (c1992), by Justin Champion (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)
• Shakespeare's England (revised illustrated edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1898), by William Winter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Shakespeare's England (Macmillan, 1892), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre où sont touchées plusieurs choses qui regardent l'estat des sciences & de la religion & autres matieres curieuses. (Chez Pierre Michel, 1666), by Samuel Sorbière (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milton's England, by Lucia True Ames Mead (Gutenberg ebook)

• Publishing the Prince : history, reading, and the birth of political criticism (University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Jacob Soll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquarianism and intellectual life in Europe and China, 1500-1800 (University of Michigan Press, 2011), by François Louis and Peter N. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle (c1998), by J. T. Young (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)

• Voiture et l'Hôtel de Rambouillet : portraits et documents inedits (Éditions Émile-Paul frères, 1929), by Émile Magne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les mémoires de Michel de Marolles, abbé de Villeloin : divisez en trois parties, contenant ce qu'il a vû de plus remarquable en sa vie, depuis l'année 1600 : ses entretiens auec quelques-vns des plus sçauants hommes de son temps : et les genealogies de quelques familles alliées dans la sienne, auec vne brieue description de la tres-illustre maison de Mantouë & de Neuers. (Chez Antoine de Sommaville ..., 1656), by Michel de Marolles, Antoine de Sommaville, Michel Lasne, and Claude Mellan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viri illustris Nicolai Claudii Fabricii de Peiresc, senatoria aquisextiensis vita (Ex typographia Adriani Vlacq, 1655), by Pierre Gassendi (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Companion to the Cavendishes (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, c2020), ed. by Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Closet Devotions (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Richard Rambuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)
• Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century (3 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1908), ed. by Joel Elias Spingarn (page images at HathiTrust; some volumes US access only)
• The Seventeenth-Century English Essay (University of Iowa Humanistic Studies v3 #3; ca. 1926), by Elbert N. S. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Thomas Browne and His "Religio Medici": An Appreciation, by Alexander Whyte, contrib. by Thomas Browne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An address delivered before the New-York Historical Society : at the celebration of its seventy-second anniversary, Tuesday, December 19, 1876 (Pub. for the Society, 1876), by Frederic De Peyster and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The White king; or, Charles the First, and the men and women, life and manners, literature and art of England in the first half of the 17th century. (G. Redway, 1889), by W. H. Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• With Milton and the cavaliers (J. Pott;, 1905), by F. S. Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temper of the seventeenth century in English literature (C. Scribner's sons, 1904), by Barrett Wendell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The battle of the books in its historical setting (B.W. Huebsch, inc., 1920), by Anne Elizabeth Burlingame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century, by T. S. Eliot (Gutenberg ebook)

• Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture (London: University College London Press, 2015), by Lisa Jardine (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)
• Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1991), ed. by David Freedberg and Jan De Vries (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age: The Political Thought of Johan & Pieter de la Court (Leiden: Brill, 2011), by Arthur Weststeijn (JSTOR ebook)

• How "Indians" Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory (originally published 2019; open access edition Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022), by Gonzalo Lamana (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1972), by J. A. Leo Lemay (PDF at Tennessee)

• All'eminentiss. e reverendiss. sig., sig. e padron collendiss., il signor cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (Nella stamperia di Paolo Moneta, 1692), by Pontificia insigne accademia di belle arti e lettere dei virtuosi al Pantheon, Paolo Moneta, and Giuseppe Ghezzi (page images at HathiTrust)

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