![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | De civitate Dei - St. Augustine A native of France, Nicolas Jenson was one of the most important printers operating in Venice in the fifteenth century. Between c.1470 and 1480, Jenson produced around 150 books including the 1475 printing of St. Augustine's "De Civitate Dei" or "The City of God." The quality of Jenson's books influenced greatly the revival of fine printing in Britain in the nineteenth century. The great British typographer Stanley Morison (1889-1967) once said that Jenson produced "the perfect book of the perio... Downloads: 117,489 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar (Volume 1) - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 31 32 Keywords: English language Downloads: 71,448 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Songs of a sourdough - Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874-1958 Poems Downloads: 48,757 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Who's who in China; containing the pictures and biographies of China's best known political, financial, business and professional men - Powell, John Benjamin, 1888-1947 11 Downloads: 40,603 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Constructive anatomy - Bridgman, George Brant, 1864-1943 Includes index Keywords: Anatomy, Artistic Downloads: 32,896 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | A general history of all voyages and travels throughout the old and new world, from the first ages to this present time, illustrating both the ancient and modern geography, containing an accurate description of each country, its natural history and product; the religion, customs, manners, trade, [etc.] of the inhabitants, and whatsoever is curious and remarkable in any kind. An account of all discoveries hitherto made in the most remote parts, and the great usefulness of such attempts, for improving both natural and experimental philosophy; with a catalogue of all authors that have ever describ'd any part of the world, an impartial judgment and criticism on their works for discerning between the reputable and fabulous relaters; and an extract of the lives of the most considerable travellers, made English from the Paris edition - Du Perier Keywords: Voyages and travels Downloads: 21,879 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Hypnerotomachia - Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527 Downloads: 14,318 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Manual of veterinary microbiology; - Mosselman, Gustave 14 Keywords: Veterinary bacteriology Downloads: 11,273 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The world as will and idea (Volume 1) - Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860 Vol. 1 Downloads: 11,175 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Traité des instruments de martyre et des divers modes de supplice employés par les paiens contre les chrétiens; tortures et tourments des martyrs chrétiens. Tr. sur les originaux italien et latin - Gallonio, Antonio, d. 1605 This is a french book on tortures and torments of the Christian martyrs, translated from the original Latin and Italian. Keywords: Martyrs; Torture; Persecution Downloads: 9,945 Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus (Volume 1) - Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 With: Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus / by the author of The last man, Perkin Warbeck, &c. &c. London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 Downloads: 8,186 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | French and English philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes - Descartes, René, 1596-1650 Keywords: Philosophy -- Collected works Downloads: 7,718 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Dictionnaire sanskrit-français - Stchoupak, Nadine 26 Keywords: Sanskrit language -- Dictionaries French Downloads: 7,714 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Flatland : a romance of many dimensions - Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 31 Downloads: 7,695 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Ottawa City Directory 1909 - Might Directories Ltd Keywords: Ottawa (Ont.) -- Directories Downloads: 7,409 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Dictionnaire basque-français - Eys, Willem J. van, 1825- 26 Keywords: Basque language -- Dictionaries Downloads: 7,226 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to the antipathic sexual instinct, a medico-forensic study; - Krafft-Ebing, R. von (Richard), 1840-1902 14 Keywords: Sexual perversion Downloads: 7,149 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | A litil boke the whiche traytied and reherced many gode thinges necessaries for the pestilence ... made by the ... Bisshop of Arusiens ... London, 1485? Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the John Rylands library. With an introd. by Guthrie Vine - Knutsson, Bengt, Bp. of Vesterãs, fl. 1461 London, 1485 Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the John Rylands library. With an introduction by Guthrie Vine. This is the first book written in English about preventative practices for disease. Keywords: Incunabula; Plague Downloads: 7,092 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Toronto City Directory 1921 - Might Directories Ltd Keywords: Toronto (Ont.) -- Directories Downloads: 6,860 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | English embroidered bookbindings - Davenport, Cyril James Humphries, 1848-1941 Keywords: Embroidered bindings (Bookbinding) -- England; Embroidered bindings (Bookbinding) Downloads: 6,785 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Ottawa City Directory 1912 - Might Directories, ltd Keywords: Ottawa (Ont.) -- Directories Downloads: 6,701 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Melting and boiling point tables (Volume 1) - Carnelley, Thomas, 1852-1890 14 Keywords: Boiling-points; Melting-points Downloads: 6,419 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | A complete English-Latin dictionary; for the use of colleges and schools - Riddle, Joseph Esmond, 1804-1859 26 Keywords: Latin language -- Dictionaries Downloads: 6,347 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography of living characters... -- - Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James), 1842-1913 Keywords: Canada -- Biography Dictionaries Downloads: 6,342 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Notes on nursing : what it is, and what it is not - Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Keywords: Nurses and nursing Downloads: 6,152 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Canadian Almanac and Directory 1892 - Unknown Keywords: Almanacs, Canadian Downloads: 6,073 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Library classification and numbering system - parker, Henry William 26 Keywords: Classification -- Books Downloads: 6,036 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, its kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it : in three partitions : with their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medically, and historically opened and cut up - [Burton, Robert], 1577-1640. Keywords: Melancholy Downloads: 6,018 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Patrologiae cursus completus : sive biblioteca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium SS. Patrum, doctorum scriptorumque eccelesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad usque Innocentii III tempora floruerunt ... [Series Latina, in qua prodeunt Patres, doctores scriptoresque Ecclesiae Latinae, a Tertulliano ad Innocentium III. V. 83 - Hamman, A.-G. (Adalbert-G.), 1910- Downloads: 5,959 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Province of Ontario gazetteer and directory... : containing an alphabetically arranged list of post offices with the business carried on in their vicinity, a classified list of patrons, also a list of the division court districts and clerks. -- 1910-11 Keywords: Ontario -- Directories Downloads: 5,900 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture franc̜aise du XIe au XVIe siècle V.1 - Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879 Keywords: Architecture; Architecture -- France Downloads: 5,799 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | An introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography - Thompson, Edward Maunde, Sir, 1840-1929 Keywords: Paleography, Greek; Paleography, Latin Downloads: 5,743 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Auraicept na n-éces : the scholars' primer; being the texts of the Ogham tract from the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow book of Lecan, and the text of the Trefhocul from the Book of Leinster - Calder, George, 1859-1941 Keywords: Irish language -- Grammar; Irish language -- Middle Irish, 1100-1500 Texts; Irish language -- Prosody; Alphabet; Irish language -- Writing; Irish language -- Versification Downloads: 5,539 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Landmarks of Toronto; a collection of historical sketches of the old town of York from 1792 until 1837, and of Toronto from 1834 to 1904 - Robertson, J. Ross (John Ross), 1841-1918 Fourth Series Keywords: Church buildings -- Ontario Toronto; Toronto (Ont.) -- History; Toronto (Ont.) -- Description and travel Downloads: 5,512 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Sketching and rendering in pencil - Guptill, Arthur Leighton, 1891-1956 26 Keywords: Pencil drawing; Drawing -- Study and teaching; Architectural drawing Downloads: 5,471 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Union publishing company of Ingersoll : business and professional directory of all cities in Ontario, with Montreal, Quebec, Winnipeg, Halifax, St. John, Sherbrooke and Hull...containing complete classified lists of all persons doing business in the cities 1902-03 Keywords: Canada -- Directories Downloads: 5,259 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Ottawa City Directory 1915 - Might Directories Ltd Keywords: Ottawa (Ont.) -- Directories Downloads: 5,247 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Canadian Almanac and Directory 1858-1859 - Unknown Keywords: Almanacs, Canadian Downloads: 5,207 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Vernon's city of London street, alphabetical, business and miscellaneous directory 1915 - Vernon Directories Keywords: London (Ont.) -- Directories Downloads: 5,108 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Canadian Almanac & Directory 1878-1879 - Unknown Keywords: Almanacs, Canadian Downloads: 5,058 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Eaton's Spring and Summer Catalogue 1906 - T. Eaton Co. Downloads: 5,026 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland - Burke, Bernard, Sir, 1814-1892 Includes bibliographical references Keywords: Gentry -- Ireland; Heraldry -- Ireland Downloads: 4,986 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Erotika biblion - Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de, 1749-1791 26 Keywords: Erotic literature Downloads: 4,967 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Toronto City Directory 1914 - Might Directories Ltd. Downloads: 4,958 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Canadian Almanac and Directory 1875-1876 - Unknown Keywords: Almanacs, Canadian Downloads: 4,952 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle Volume 2 - Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879 Keywords: Architecture -- Dictionaries; Architecture -- France Downloads: 4,914 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Canadian Almanac and Directory 1887-1888 - Unknown Keywords: Almanacs, Canadian Downloads: 4,848 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Essentials of physiology for veterinary students - Paton, Diarmid Noël, 1859-1928 14 Keywords: Physiology Downloads: 4,846 |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary : with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. (Volume 1) - Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 Works used in the preparation of this dictionary: p. [lxxvii]-xcvi Keywords: Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic Dictionaries Downloads: 4,835 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | English Costume - Clayton, Dion Calthrop English Costumes - Painted and Described Downloads: 4,831 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
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