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17th century

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• Art, Dutch -- 17th century
• Art, English -- 17th century
• Art, European -- 17th century
• Art, Modern -- 17th century
• Arts, Modern -- 17th century
• Balls (Parties) -- 17th century
• Broadsides -- 17th century
• Catholic literature -- 17th century
• Church history -- 17th century
• Civilization -- 17th century
• Civilization, Modern -- 17th century
• Country-dances (Music) -- 17th century
• Dance music -- 17th century
• Drama -- 17th century
• Drawing -- 17th century
• Drawing, Italian -- 17th century
• Early printed books -- 17th century
• Economic conditions -- 17th century
• English drama -- 17th century
• English language -- 17th century
• English literature -- 17th century
• Engraving -- 17th century
• Engraving, Italian -- 17th century
• Etching -- 17th century
• Etching, Dutch -- 17th century
• European fiction -- 17th century
• European literature -- 17th century
• French drama -- 17th century
• French fiction -- 17th century
• French literature -- 17th century
• French poetry -- 17th century
• History -- 17th century
• History of doctrines -- 17th century
• History, Modern -- 17th century
• History, Naval -- 17th century
• Illustration of books -- 17th century
• Instrumental music -- 17th century
• Intellectual life -- 17th century
• Italian literature -- 17th century
• Italian poetry -- 17th century
• Kent (England) -- 17th century
• Literature, Modern -- 17th century
• Majolica, Italian -- Italy -- Castelli -- 17th century
• Middle class -- England -- London -- 17th century
• Music -- 17th century
• Opera -- Italy -- Venice -- 17th century
• Painting, Dutch -- 17th century
• Painting, Flemish -- 17th century
• Painting, French -- 17th century
• Persecution -- England -- 17th century
• Philosophy, English -- 17th century
• Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century
• Poets, English -- 17th century
• Portrait painting -- 17th century
• Portrait painting, Dutch -- 17th century
• Pottery -- 17th century
• Pottery, English -- 17th century
• Prints -- 17th century
• Prints, European -- 17th century
• Religion -- 17th century
• Religious life -- 17th century
• Sculpture, French -- 17th century
• Sermons, American -- 17th century
• Sermons, English -- 17th century
• Social conditions -- 17th century
• Social life and customs -- 17th century
• Women authors, English -- 17th century

• The Dutchness of Dutch Art (Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2002), by Christopher Brown (PDF with commentary in the Netherlands)

• A Companion to the Cavendishes (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, c2020), ed. by Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Europe in the Age of Monarchy (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), contrib. by John T. Spike (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Humanism and Classical Crisis: Anxiety, Intertexts, and the Miltonic Memory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jacob Blevins (PDF at Ohio State)
• Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, by William Congreve (Gutenberg text)

• The Pack of Autolycus: or, Strange and Terrible News of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and Other Prodigious and Fearful Happenings As Told in Broadside Ballads of the years 1624-1693 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Foot Out of the Snare: With a Detection of Sundry Late Practices and Impostures of the Priests and Jesuits in England; Whereunto is Added a Catalogue of Such Bookes as in This Authors Knowledge Have Been Vented Within Two Yeeres Last Past in London, by the Priests and Their Agents (London: Printed by H. L. for R. Milbourne, 1624), by John Gee (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Corpus Catholicorum (in German) (partial serial archives)

• The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, Who Were Ejected or Silenced After the Restoration, Particularly by the Act of Uniformity, Which Took Place on Bartholomew-Day, Aug. 24, 1662 (2 volumes; London: W. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy, ed. by Samuel Palmer
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Faithful Unto Death: An Account of the Sufferings of the English Franciscans During the 16th and 17th Centuries, From Contemporary Records (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1892), by J. M. Stone, contrib. by John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Edict of the French King, Prohibiting all Publick Exercise of the Pretended Reformed Religion in His Kingdom (with various related documents; second edition, corrected; London: Printed by G. M., 1686), by King of France Louis XIV, contrib. by Elector of Brandenburg Friedrich Wilhelm (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Making of the Restoration Settlement: The Influence of the Laudians, 1649-1662 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1951), by Robert S. Bosher (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of the Chapter Erected by William, Titular Bishop of Chalcedon, and Ordinary of England and Scotland (London: James Darling, 1853), by John Sergeant, ed. by William B. Turnbull (multiple formats at Google)
• Fourteen Papers (London: R. Baldwin, 1689), contrib. by Samuel Johnson, Gilbert Burnet, George Savile Halifax, Daniel Defoe, John Willes, and William Wake
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Memoirs of Gregorio Panzani, Giving an Account of His Agency in England, in the Years 1634, 1635, 1636 (1793), by Gregorio Panzani, ed. by Joseph Berington (HTML with commentary at fooguru.org)
• A Collection of Papers Relating to the Present Juncture of Affairs in England (1688), ed. by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What Has Been, May Be: Or a View of a Popish and an Arbitrary Government (1713) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based upon Original and Contemporaneous Records (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1896), by Philip Alexander Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Letter to a Friend, Upon Occasion of the Death of His Intimate Friend, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• For the Furthur Improvement of Dancing, by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Essex (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Old English Drama: A Selection of Plays From the Old English Dramatists (2 volumes; London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1825), contrib. by George Chapman, James Shirley, Thomas Heywood, Henry Glapthorne, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Nash
  • Volume I (The Second Maiden's Tragedy; A Pleasant Conceited Comedy; The Ball; The Rape of Lucrece): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (Love's Mistress, or The Queen's Masque; Albertus Wallenstein; Dido, Queen of Carthage; The Lady's Privilege): multiple formats at Google
• Old Plays: Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, With Notes, Critical and Explanatory (6 volumes; London: Rodwell and Martin, 1816), ed. by Charles Wentworth Dilke, contrib. by Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, John Marston, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, John Webster, and Thomas Heywood
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
  • Part 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust

• Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century (Portfolio #21; London: Seeley and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Laurence Binyon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (25th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Galileo Galilei Nella Poesia Del Suo Secolo: Raccolta di Poesie Edite e Inedite Scritte da' Contemporanei in Lode di Galileo, Pubblicate in Occasione Del 3. Centenario delle Sue Scoperte Celesti (in Italian; Milan et al.: R. Sandron, 1910), by Nunzio Vaccalluzzo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Ellen Rosand (HTML at UC 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)

• Faithful Unto Death: An Account of the Sufferings of the English Franciscans During the 16th and 17th Centuries, From Contemporary Records (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1892), by J. M. Stone, contrib. by John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (11 volumes; 1839-1845), by Thomas Hobbes, contrib. by Thucydides and Homer (Gutenberg texts)

• 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)

• The Group Portraiture of Holland (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1999), by Alois Riegl, trans. by Evelyn Kain and David Britt, contrib. by Wolfgang Kemp (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Fells of Swarthmoor Hall and Their Friends, With an Account of Their Ancestor, Anne Askew, The Martyr: A Portraiture of Religious And Family Life in the Seventeenth Century, Compiled Chiefly from Original Letters and Other Documents, Never Before Published (second edition; London: F. B. Kitto, 1867), by Maria Webb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gods Promise to His Plantation (1630), by John Cotton, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• Sermons on Evil Speaking (six-sermon selection published in the 19th century), by Isaac Barrow, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• A Fourth Volume Containing One Hundred and Fifty Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture (London: Printed by J. D. for J. Robinson, 1693), by Thomas Manton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Horrid Sin of Man-Catching, Explained in a Sermon Upon Jer. 5, 25, 26 Preach'd at Colchester, July 10, 1681 (London: Printed for F. Smith, 1681), by Edmund Hickeringill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Horrid Sin of Man-Catching, Explained in a Sermon Upon Jer. 5:25, 26, Preached at Colchester, July 10, 1681 (fourth edition; London: Printed for F. Smith, 1682), by Edmund Hickeringill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jerusalem Sinner Saved, or, Good News for the Vilest of Men, by John Bunyan (Gutenberg text)
• Marriage Duties Briefely Couched Togither (originally published 1620), by Thomas Gataker, ed. by Ronald Wayne Cooley (HTML at usask.ca)
• The Works of John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, 1621-1631; With a Memoir of His Life (6 volumes; London: J. W. Parker, 1839), by John Donne, contrib. by Henry Alford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Zealous Christian Taking Heaven by Holy Violence: In Several Sermons, Tending to Direct Men How to Bear with Zeal, to Pray With Importunity (London: Printed for J. Rothwell, 1654), by Christopher Love (multiple formats at Google)
• The Zealous Christian Taking Heaven by Holy Violence: In Severall Sermons, Tending to Direct Men How to Hear with Zeal, to Pray With Importunity (London: Printed by R. and W. Leybourn for J. Rothwell, 1653), by Christopher Love (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together With Death's Duel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959), by John Donne, contrib. by Izaak Walton (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Death's Duel, by John Donne (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Lord's Prayer, by Thomas Watson (multiple formats at CCEL)
• A Sermon on the Gunpowder Treason, With Reflections on the Late Plot (London: Printed for H. Brome, 1679), by Thomas Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)
• The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, ed. by Ian Lancashire (HTML at Toronto)
• Of the Love of God and Our Neighbour, in Several Sermons (third volume in a series of Barrow's sermons on various subjects; London: Printed by M. Flesher for B. Aylmer, 1680), by Isaac Barrow
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Papal Tyranny, As it Was Exercised over England for Some Ages (London: H. Brome, 1674), by Pierre Du Moulin and Peter Du Moulin
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • without title page (but apparently from the same edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • without title page (but apparently from the same edition): page images at HathiTrust

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