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00425
Hieroglyphic Bible with wood cut illustrations supposed to have been designed originally by Thomas Bewick.
00426
Hieroglyphic Bible with wood cut illustrations.
00429
Hieroglyphic Bible with wood cut illustrations supposed to have been designed originally by Thomas Bewick, cut by Joseph Alexander Adams.
00457
Cabinet Bible with engravings after well-known old master paintings held in British collections.
00573
First printed in 1569 for Elizabeth I, and known as "Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book," this compilation of daily devotions was reissued for general use in 1578. Its striking woodcut frontispiece depicts the kneeling Queen as she looks steadfastly…
00617
In this controversial sixteenth-century exposé of alleged cruelties perpetrated by the Spanish Inquisition, the large unfolded woodcut plate illustrates an auto-de-fé, the post-trial ritual in which the condemned heretics were led through a public…
00753
This pamphlet on the proposed marriage between Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) and Francis, Duke of Anjou (1555–1584), argued that English sovereignty, religion, and morality would be undermined by the queen's union with this Catholic French suitor.…
00870
After breaking away from Catholicism, the Church of England needed new manuals for congregational prayer such as this early printing of the first edition of the Book of Common Prayer.
00927
During Anne Askew's imprisonment and torture at the Tower of London for distributing banned Protestant literature she wrote letters and a detailed account of her interrogration. The texts of Askew's legal examination and letters appeared in this 1563…
00972
Ames' theological work composed of two parts: Puritan systematic theology and virtuous Christian life.
01252
Comenius' history of Bohemian Persecution.
01770
The first blank leaf of this 1686 Boston imprint bears an inscription that reads, "Mary Robinson's book. Given her by the Reverend Mr. Increase Mather, June 22, 1698." Although nothing more about this Mary Robinson is known, she clearly had a direct…
01802
In 1643, church authorities ensured that the poet John Milton was refused a license to publish a controversial essay in favor of the right to divorce. In response, Milton composed the pamphlet entitled Areopagitica (after the ancient Athenian court…
02331
In this treatise, Whiston attempted to reconcile the Genesis account of creation with seventeenth-century science.
02411
Bacon began this work, first published in 1623, by refuting the argument that the pursuit of knowledge was humanity's Original Sin, and that learning inclines the mind toward heresy and atheism. He was one of the first to establish the scientific…
02435
Before 1660, most King James Versions of the Bible were not illustrated per the Puritan tradition. After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, Puritanism declined and illustrated Bibles increased again.
02725
A compilation of poems by famed poet Katherine Philips who often signed her work as "Orinda", a classical pseudonym.
02826/C
An account of her trials for publishing libelous pamphlets for which Cellier was found guilty.
02826/E
A self-vindicating account Elizabeth Cellier's trial for treason which she was framed for by Thomas Dangerfield. Her account included the claim that Catholics were being tortured at Newgate; this brought charges of libel from the state.
03301
Narrative by Jonathan Edwards recounting the Northampton, Massachusetts revival that began in 1734 and continued until 1737.
03582
The author of this book, Jonas Hanway, gave away specially bound presentation copies of wholesome literature in an effort to fortify the morals of English society. Hanway employed two unidentified binders for his presentation copies, and the second…
04138
In The Wisdom of God, first printed in 1691 but based on sermons he preached at Cambridge in the 1660s, Ray cited numerous celestial properties, physiological adaptations, and natural laws as scientific evidence of the intelligence underlying God's…
04559
The first major publication by John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism. After reading others' translations of the Imitatio Christi, Wesley decided to undertake his own translation of the text.
04570
Early Wesleyan hymnal with texts by Charles Wesley and Moravian hymns translated by John Wesley.
04571
Wesley extracted and explained Zinzendorf's Sixteen Discourses.
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