![[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...
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| 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
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Keywords: English language
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| Songs of a sourdough - Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874-1958
Poems
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| 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
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| Constructive anatomy - Bridgman, George Brant, 1864-1943
Includes index
Keywords: Anatomy, Artistic
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| 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
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| Hypnerotomachia - Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527
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| Manual of veterinary microbiology; - Mosselman, Gustave
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Keywords: Veterinary bacteriology
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| The world as will and idea (Volume 1) - Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860
Vol. 1
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| 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
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| 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
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| French and English philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes - Descartes, René, 1596-1650
Keywords: Philosophy -- Collected works
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| Dictionnaire sanskrit-français - Stchoupak, Nadine
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Keywords: Sanskrit language -- Dictionaries French
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| Flatland : a romance of many dimensions - Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926
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| The Ottawa City Directory 1909 - Might Directories Ltd
Keywords: Ottawa (Ont.) -- Directories
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| Dictionnaire basque-français - Eys, Willem J. van, 1825-
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Keywords: Basque language -- Dictionaries
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| Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to the antipathic sexual instinct, a medico-forensic study; - Krafft-Ebing, R. von (Richard), 1840-1902
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Keywords: Sexual perversion
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| 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
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| The Toronto City Directory 1921 - Might Directories Ltd
Keywords: Toronto (Ont.) -- Directories
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| English embroidered bookbindings - Davenport, Cyril James Humphries, 1848-1941
Keywords: Embroidered bindings (Bookbinding) -- England; Embroidered bindings (Bookbinding)
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| The Ottawa City Directory 1912 - Might Directories, ltd
Keywords: Ottawa (Ont.) -- Directories
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| Melting and boiling point tables (Volume 1) - Carnelley, Thomas, 1852-1890
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Keywords: Boiling-points; Melting-points
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| A complete English-Latin dictionary; for the use of colleges and schools - Riddle, Joseph Esmond, 1804-1859
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Keywords: Latin language -- Dictionaries
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| 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
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| Notes on nursing : what it is, and what it is not - Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Keywords: Nurses and nursing
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| The Canadian Almanac and Directory 1892 - Unknown
Keywords: Almanacs, Canadian
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| Library classification and numbering system - parker, Henry William
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| 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
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| 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-
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| 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
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| Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture franc̜aise du XIe au XVIe siècle V.1 - Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879
Keywords: Architecture; Architecture -- France
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| An introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography - Thompson, Edward Maunde, Sir, 1840-1929
Keywords: Paleography, Greek; Paleography, Latin
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| 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
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| 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
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| Sketching and rendering in pencil - Guptill, Arthur Leighton, 1891-1956
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Keywords: Pencil drawing; Drawing -- Study and teaching; Architectural drawing
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| 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
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| The Ottawa City Directory 1915 - Might Directories Ltd
Keywords: Ottawa (Ont.) -- Directories
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| The Canadian Almanac and Directory 1858-1859 - Unknown
Keywords: Almanacs, Canadian
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| Vernon's city of London street, alphabetical, business and miscellaneous directory 1915 - Vernon Directories
Keywords: London (Ont.) -- Directories
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| The Canadian Almanac & Directory 1878-1879 - Unknown
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| Eaton's Spring and Summer Catalogue 1906 - T. Eaton Co.
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| A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland - Burke, Bernard, Sir, 1814-1892
Includes bibliographical references
Keywords: Gentry -- Ireland; Heraldry -- Ireland
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| Erotika biblion - Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de, 1749-1791
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| The Toronto City Directory 1914 - Might Directories Ltd.
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| The Canadian Almanac and Directory 1875-1876 - Unknown
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| 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
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| The Canadian Almanac and Directory 1887-1888 - Unknown
Keywords: Almanacs, Canadian
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| Essentials of physiology for veterinary students - Paton, Diarmid Noël, 1859-1928
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Keywords: Physiology
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| 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
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| English Costume - Clayton, Dion Calthrop
English Costumes - Painted and Described
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