911J Henricus Suso, (1295-1366). ed. Elsbeth Stagel (1300-1360) Horologiu[m] eternae sapientiae. Köln Cornelius von Zierickzee 1503 . Price $7,500 Octavo 14 × 10.5 cm. 128 leaves. Signatures: A-Q8 Date in the colophon: M.ccccc.iij. mensis Septembris ipso die Marcelli. With title‐woodcut with four‐part border and... Continue Reading →
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1) The Ladies Diary: Or, the Woman's Almanack. Price $3,500 The ladies diary: or, the woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1718. Being the second after bissextile, or leap-year. Containing many delightful and entertaining particulars, peculiarly adapted for the... Continue Reading →
635J Rider, Cardanus Riders (1683.) British Merlin: bedect with many delightful varieties, and useful verities: fitting the longitude and latitude of all capacities within the islands of Great Brittains monarchy. And chronological observations of principal note to this year 1683.... Continue Reading →
The Magnalia Christi Americana reminds us that America’s story was never simple. Seventeenth-century New England was already negotiating diversity and inclusion
The History of the Royal-Society of London 1667. The natural history of animals 1702 The natural history of Northampton-Shire. The Natural History of Oxford-Shire A Philosophical Language by John Wilkins The natural history of Stafford-shire 1686 The natural history of... Continue Reading →
983J Robert Plot (1640-1696.) The natural history of Stafford-shire. By Robert Plot. LLD. keeper of the Ashmolean Musæum and professor of chymistry in the University of Oxford· Oxford : printed at the Theater, anno M.DC.LXXXVI. [1686] Price $2,900 Folio 35x22.5cm. Signatures:... Continue Reading →
Three and a half centuries before artificial intelligence renewed the problem of representing human knowledge in formal systems, Wilkins attempted something audaciously similar in ambition: to classify the world, assign its concepts determinate relationships, and construct a language capable of expressing that structure without the ambiguities of ordinary speech.
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