The following list was compiled as an aid to the above class. It is not comprehensive and is only intended as a guide to the primary resource materials in the Rare Book Collection. In using these materials, it will also accustom the participants in the handling and use of older materials.

The list is basically arranged by the weekly classes in which appropriate selections can be made from the rare book collection. These are based upon the authors mentioned in the syllabus and other titles were added as seemed appropriate. More titles may be added later. There are two sections not related to the weekly classes. They are Historical Writing and Study and Teaching of History. The first gives some examples of historical writing through time and is meant only to give the slightest hint of what is in the collection. The latter reflects thoughts on the writing of history.

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Week Two	Week Three	Week Four
Week Six	Week Seven	Historical Writing
Study and Teaching of History

WEEK TWO

D58 .H4713 1709
Author, etc.:
Herodotus.
Uniform Title:
History. English
Title:
The history of Herodotus. Translated from the Greek. By Isaac Littlebury.
Published:
London, E. Castle, etc., 1709.
Description:
2 v.
Notes:
"Smart" (surname?) inscribed on front pastedown.
First complete English edition.
Signatures cut away from title and free front endpapers.
Subjects, general:
History, Ancient.
Subjects, geographic:
Greece -- History.
Other author(s),etc:
Littlebury, Isaac.

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WEEK THREE

871 A59cc.Eh 1610
Author, etc.:
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Title:
S'. Avgvstine, of the citie of God / with the learned comments of Io. Lod. Vives.
Published:
London : Printed by G. Eld., 1610.
Description:
9 p., l., 921, 8 p. ; 80 cm.
Notes:
Englished by J. H.

881 E88eE 1585
Author, etc.:
Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.
Uniform Title:
Ecclesiastical history. English
Title:
The avncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hvndred yeares after Christ, / written in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius ... ; VVhervnto is annexed Dorothevs Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues and endes of the prophetes, apostles and 70. disciples. ; All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue and now perused and corrected by Meredith Hanmer ... ; Last of all herein is contained a briefe Chronographie collected by the said translator, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories.
Published:
Imprinted at London : By Thomas Vautrollier ..., 1585.
Description:
[12], 190, 201-404, [4], 405-600, [22] p. ; 29 cm. (fol. in 6s)
Notes:
Socrates, Evagrius, Dorotheus, and the Chronographie have special title pages.
"The lives, the ends, and the martyrdomes of the prophetes, apostles, and seventie disciples of ovr Saviovr" (p. [513]-540), attributed to Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyrus, is considered a spurious work. Cf. Smith, Dict. Christian biog.
Pages [1]-[2] following p. 600 are blank.
Pages 282 and 545 are incorrectly numbered 286 and 535.
Signatures: *A-2X2Y2Z-3E3F.
Printer's device on t.p. (McKerrow 170), on special title pages (McKerrow 192 and 222), and as tail-pieces (McKerrow 179); head-pieces; initials.
STC (2nd ed.) 10573
Subjects, general:
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Other author(s),etc:
Socrates, Scholasticus, ca. 379-ca. 440.
Evagrius, Scholasticus, b. 536?
Dorotheus, Saint, 255-362.
Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.
Other title(s):
The lives, the ends, and the martyrdomes of the prophetes.

940.17 F929cEb Oversize
Author, etc.:
Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
Title:
The Cronycles of Englande, Fraunse, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flauders and other places adioynynge. Translated out of Frenche into our maternall Englysshe tonge, by Johan Bourchier Knight Lorde Berners: at the comaundement of oure Moost Highe Redouted Souerayne Lorde Kyng Henry the VIII, Kyng of Englande and of Fraunce, A Highe Defender of the Christen Faythe.
Published:
[London, Richarde Pynson, 1523-1525]
Description:
2 v. 31 cm.
Notes:
Title page: The Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spaygne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flaunders and other places adioynyng.
Library copy bound as one vol. in red morocco with gold tooling by W. Pratt.
Subjects, other:
Imprint -- England -- London -- 1523-1525.
Genre/form headings:
Signed bindings (Binding) -- Pratt -- England.
Other author(s),etc:
Pynson, Richard, d. 1530, printer.
Pratt, W., binder.

154.1 D662d
Author, etc.:
Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568.
Title:
Dialogo di m. Lodovico Dolce,
Published:
[Colophon: In Venetia, Appresso Gio. Battista, et Marchio Sessa fratelli, 1562]
Description:
4 p.l., 119 numb. l., 1 l. illus. 16 cm.
Notes:
Irregular paging.
Armorial bookplate mutilated at bottom.
Subjects, general:
Mnemonics.

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WEEK FOUR

JC143 .M163
Author, etc.:
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.
Title:
Machiavels Discourses. Upon the first decade of T. Livius, translated out of the Italian; with some marginall animadversions noting and taxing his errours. By E. D.
Published:
London, Printed by Thomas Paine for William Hills and Daniel Pakeman, and are to bee sold in little Brittaine at the White horse, and at the Rainbow neere the Inner Temple, 1636.
Description:
22 p. l., 646 p. ; 15 cm.
Notes:
"Dedicatory" signed: Edward Dacres.
Subjects, general:
Livy.
Political science.
Other author(s),etc:
Dacres, Edward, fl. 1640, tr.

CT3201 .L42 Oversize
Author, etc.:
Le Moyne, Pierre, 1602-1671.
Title:
The gallery of heroick women / written in French by Peter Le Moyne ; translated into English by the Marquesse of Winchester.
Published:
London : Printed by R. Norton for Henry Seile, 1652.
Description:
24, 127, 181, [2] p., [21] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 37 cm. (4 to)
Notes:
Added t.p. engraved: La galerie des femmes fortes.
Notes:
"Table of the Pictures,... "and errata: p. [183]-[184]
Title vignette.
Armorial bookplates of Charles Gery Milnes, David Dundas, William Venables, and William Hogarth.
Errors in paging.
Printed on horizontally laid paper with elaborate crown watermark.
Wing L1045
Library copy with title on fore-edge.
Subjects, general:
Women -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.
Genre/form headings:
Edge titles (Binding).
Other author(s),etc:
Winchester, John Paulet, Marquis of, 1598-1675.
Other title(s):
The gallery of heroick women.

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WEEK SIX

274 C921eE
Author, etc.:
Crespin, Jean. d. 1572.
Title:
The estate of the church, with the discourse of the times, from the Apostles vntill this present: also the liues of all the emperours, popes of Rome, and Turkes: as also the kings of Fraunce, England, Scotland, Spaine, Portugall, Denmarke, &c. With all the memorable accidents of their times. Translated out of French into English by Simon Patrike.
Published:
London, Printed by Thomas Creede, 1602.
Description:
[16], 708 (i.e. 706), [30] p.
Notes:
Nos. 72-73 omitted in the paging.
Preface signed John Crispin.
Continued to Oct. 14, 1600 by the translator.
Translation of L'estat de l'eglise.
Subjects, general:
Church history.
Other author(s),etc:
Patrick, Simon, d. 1613.

283.42 B617p 1635
Author, etc.:
Birckbek, Simon, 1584-1656.
Title:
The Protestants evidence, taken out of good records : Shewing that for fifteene hundred yeares next after Christ, divers worthy guides of Gods church, have in sundry weightie poynts of religion, taught as the Church of England now doth: distributed into severall centuries, and opened / By Simon Birckbek ...
Published:
London : Printed for Robert Milbourne ..., 1635.
Description:
[35], 248, 206, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
T.p. printed in red and black within double line border.
Head and tail pieces, initials, and catchwords.
Margin notes in Latin.
First pub. in 1634.
Errata: p. [37]
"A catalogue of authours cited in this treatise, with the time and place of their edition": p. [21-36]
Subjects, general:
Church of England -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Protestantism -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800.

252.03 L357f
Author, etc.:
Latimer, Hugh, 1485?-1555.
Title:
The first sermon of Mayster Hughe Latimer, whiche he preached before the Kinges Maiest. within hisgrates palayce at Westminster.
Published:
London, John Day, 1549.
Description:
1v. (unpaged) illus. 14 cm.

270.6 S246iEb Oversize
Author, etc.:
Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.
Uniform Title:
Historia del Concilio tridentino. English
Title:
The history of the Council of Trent. Containing eight books in which besides the ordinary acts of the Council are declared many notable occurrences which happened in Christendom, during the space of forty years and more. And particularly the practices of the Court of Rome, to hinder the Reformation of their errours, and to maintain their greatness. Written in Italian by Pietro Soave Polano and faithfully translated into English by Nathanael Brent. Whereunto is added the life of the learned author and The history of the Inquisition.
Published:
London, Printed by J. Macock for S. Mearne, J. Martyn, and H. Herringman, 1676.
Description:
cvi, 889 p. 33 cm.
Subjects, general:
Council of Trent (1545-1563).
Inquisition -- Italy -- Venice.
Other author(s),etc:
Brent, Nathaniel, Sir, 1573?-1652.

223.207 B582c
Author, etc.:
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.
Title:
A commentarie vpon the fiftene Psalmes, called Psalmi graduum, that is, Psalmes of degrees; faithfvlly copied ovt of the lectvres of D. Martin Luther ... Translated out of Latine into English by Henry Bvll.
Published:
London, Thomas Vautroullier, 1577.
Description:
303 p. 19 cm.
Notes:
Page 144 incorrectly numbered 154; p. 177 incorrectly numbered 717.
Pages 157-160 torn.
STC 16975.
Subjects, general:
Bible. O.T. Psalms CXX-CXXXIV -- Commentaries.
Other author(s),etc:
Bull, Henry, translator.
Vautroullier, Thomas, d. 1587, printer.
Other title(s):
Bible. O.T. Psalms CXX-CXXXIV. English. 1577.

274.2 B964h
Author, etc.:
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
Title:
The history of the reformation of the Church of England ... / by Gilbert Burnet.
Published:
London : Printed by T.H. for Richard Chiswell ..., 1679-1715.
Description:
3 v. : ports. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes:
Part 1 (1679): [16], 377, [1] 368, [4] p., [7] leaves of plates; pt. 2 (1681): [26], 421, [9], 416, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates; pt. 3 (1715): [2], xxij, 332, xij, 426, x p., [5] leaves of plates.
Part 3 has imprint: Printed for J. Churchill.
Each volume has appended a large section entitled: "A collection of records, letters, and original papers; with other instruments referred to ..."
Titles in red and black within double rule border; initials.
Engravings: added title pages to vols. 1-2; portraits.
Includes indexes.
Contents:
[v. 1] The first part, Of the progress made in it during the reign of K. Henry the VIII. -- [v. 2] The second part, Of the progress made in it till the settlement of it in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's reign -- [v. 3] The third part, Being a supplement to the two volumes formerly publish'd.
Subjects, general:
Church of England -- History -- 16th century.
Reformation -- England.
Subjects, geographic:
England -- Church history -- 16th century.

272 F795a9 Folio
Author, etc.:
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
Title:
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable happening in the church ...
Edition:
9th ed.
Published:
London, Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1684.
Description:
3 v. port. 46 cm.
Subjects, general:
Church history.
Church history--Chronology.
Persecution--History.
Christian martyrs.

871 L17dEb 1713
Author, etc.:
Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320.
Uniform Title:
De mortibus persecutorum. English
Title:
A relation of the death of the primitive persecutors / written originally in Latin by L.C.F. Lactantius ; made English by Gilbert Burnet ... ; to which is added a large preface concerning persecution.
Edition:
The second edition.
Published:
London : Printed for A. Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-Lane, 1713.
Description:
95, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Notes:
Translator's preface dated: Amsterdam, 1687.
Advertisements ([1] p.) at end.
Subjects, general:
Persecution.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Other author(s),etc:
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.

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WEEK SEVEN

271.1 M112a Folio
Author, etc.:
Mabillon, Jean, 1632-1707.
Title:
Annales ordinis S. Benedicti occidentalium monachorum patriarchae : in quibus non modo res monasticae, sed etiam ecclesiasticae historiae non minima pars continetur / Johanne Mabillon.
Published:
Lutetiae-Parisiorum : Caroli Robustal, 1703-1739.
Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 40 cm.
Notes:
Title page in red and black; vignette.
Vol. 5-6, published after Mabillon's death, are edited by René Massuet and Edmond Martène.
Includes indexes.
Subjects, general:
Benedictines -- History.
Catholic Church -- History.

PQ2011 .L5E42 1722
Author, etc.:
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.
Title:
Persian letters. / Translated by Mr. Ozell ...
Published:
London : Printed for J. Tonson: and sold by Thomas Combes ... and James Lacy ..., 1722.
Description:
2 v. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Notes:
Translation of his Lettres persanes.
Page 271, v. 1, misnumbered 712.
Amorial bookplates of H. D. Goring.
Two volumes housed in single case.
Volumes have weak hinges and some foxing.
New CBEL 1524.
McBurney 136.
Subjects, geographic:
Europe -- Description and travel.
Asia -- Description and travel.
Other author(s),etc:
Ozell, Mr. (John), d. 1743.

909 V935eE 1754
Author, etc.:
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Title:
The general history and state of Europe.
Published:
London : Printed for J. Nourse, 1754.
Description:
416 p. ; 21 cm.

HX811 1700 .H37 Oversize
Author, etc.:
Harrington, James, 1611-1677.
Title:
The Oceana of James Harrington, : and his other works; som [sic] wherof are now first publish'd from his own manuscripts. The whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an exact account of his life prefix'd, by John Toland.
Published:
London, Printed, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1700.
Description:
[2], xliv, 546, [2] p. : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Notes:
Advertisement by J. Darby, p. [547].
Title in red and black.
Portrait of Harrington by P. Lely and frontispiece engraved by van der Gucht.
Library copy signed on front free endpaper: "Archer Polson Lincolnshire 1839." Bears two bookplates of William Cowper, letterpress and engraved. The engraved bookplate, pasted over the letterpress, was heavily damaged, now restored and encapsulated. Has line under Cowper's name: "Clerk of the Parliaments."
Contents:
The life of James Harrington. -- The grounds and reasons of monarchy consider'd. -- The commonwealth of Oceana. -- The prerogative of popular government. -- The art of lawgiving. -- Six political tracts written on several occasions.
Subjects, general:
Utopias.
Subjects, other:
Imprint -- England -- London -- 1700.
Genre/form headings:
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1700.
Genre/form headings:
Bookplates (Provenance) -- Cowper -- England -- London.
Printers' advertisements -- Darby -- England -- London -- 1700.
Other author(s),etc:
Toland, John, 1670-1722.
Darby, John, 1624 or 5-1704, printer.
Polson, Archer, former owner.
Cowper, William, d. 1740, former owner.
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, artist.
Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725, engraver.

PT8085 .N54 1742
Author, etc.:
Holberg, Ludvig, Baron, 1684-1754.
Uniform Title:
Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum. English.
Title:
A journey to the world under-ground. By Nicholas Klimius [pseud.] Translated from the original.
Published:
London, T. Astley [etc.] 1742.
Description:
[4], 324 p. 17 cm.
Notes:
Translation of Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum.
Subjects, general:
Voyages, Imaginary.
Utopias.
Other title(s):
Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum. English.

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HISTORICAL WRITING

909 R745f 1479
Author, etc.:
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502
Title:
Fasciculus temporum.
Published:
Venice : Georgius Walch, 1479
Description:
64, [7] l. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Library copy bound in later morocco, badly worn. Rubricated.
Subjects, other:
Imprint -- Italy -- Venice -- 1479.
Genre/form headings:
Woodcuts -- Italy -- Venice -- 1479.
Other author(s),etc:
Walch, Georg, fl. 1479-1482, printer.

909 F718s Oversize
Author, etc.:
Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434-1520.
Uniform Title:
Supplementum chronicarum
Title:
Opus preclarum supplementum chronica [rum] vulgo appattatu : in omnimoda historia nouissime congesta Fratris Jacobi Philippi Bergomensis : religionis heremitaru diui Auguistini decoris : saustissime inchoat.
Published:
[Venetiis : Bernardum Rizum, 1490]
Description:
[12], 261, [1] leaves (first and last blank) : col. ill ; 31 cm.
Notes:
Title from first line of text.
60 lines per page.
Rubricated, colored woodcuts throughout.
Hain 2808
Goff (3rd) J-211
Library copy imperfect: lacking first 2 signatures, a8, i7, G5,6. Disbound.
Subjects, other:
Imprint -- Italy -- Venice -- 1490.
Genre/form headings:
Woodcuts -- Italy -- Venice -- 1490.
Other author(s),etc:
Rizus, Bernardinus, printer.

909 L293e
Author, etc.:
Lanquet, Thomas, 1521-1545.
Title:
An epitome of cronicles.
Published:
Londini, in ædibus T. Marshe, anno. 1559.
Description:
28 p. l., 310 numb. l. 19 cm.
Subjects, general:
World history.

909 R163h Oversize
Author, etc.:
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1552?-1618.
Title:
The historie of the world.
Published:
London : Printed for G. Lathum, 1628.
Description:
33 p.1., 184, 181-555,[1], 510, 585-669, [54] p. : ill., 8 double maps. ; 35 cm.

909 B746dE
Author, etc.:
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, Bishop of Meaux, 1627-1704.
Title:
A discourse on the history of the whold world : dedicated to his Royal Highness the Dauphin and explicating the continuance of religion with the changes of states and empires : from the creation till the Reign of Charles the Great / written originally in French by James Benigne Bossuet ... faithfully Englished.
Published:
London : Printed for Matthew Turner at the Lamb in High-Holborn, 1686.
Description:
[8], 565, [3] p. ; 18 cm.
Notes:
Provenance: R. S. Chambers, 1825.
Title within borders ; running title.
Translation of Discours sur l'histoire universelle.

902 N563c
Author, etc.:
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.
Title:
The chronology of antient kingdoms amended.
Published:
London, Printed for J. Tonson [etc.] 1728.
Description:
xiv, [2], 376 p. 3 fold. plans. 23 x 19 cm.
Subjects, general:
History, Ancient.
Subjects, general:
Chronology, Historical.

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STUDY AND TEACHING OF HISTORY

192 B128d Bk. 1-2
Author, etc.:
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Uniform Title:
Advancement of learning.
Title:
The tvvoo bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane. : To the king.
Published:
At London, : Printed for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1605.
Description:
45, 118 [i.e. 121] leaves ; 18 cm. (4to)
Notes:
First edition.
Better known underTitle: Advancement of learning.
There are two issues of this edition known to exist, one being on large paper.
NUC pre-1956 imprints, v. 29, p. 430
STC 1164
Subjects, general:
Science -- Methodology.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Other title(s):
The two books of the proficience and advancement of learning.
Advancement of learning.

907.2 L559dE
Author, etc.:
Le Moyne, Pierre, 1602-1671.
Uniform Title:
"De l'histoire." English.
Title:
Of the art both of writing & judging of history, with reflections upon ancient as well as modern historians ...
Published:
London, Printed for Sare [etc.] 1695.
Description:
6 p.l., 224 p. 17 x 9 cm.
Subjects, general:
Historiography -- Early works to 1800.

907 W556m 1698
Author, etc.:
Wheare, Degory, 1573-1647.
Title:
The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical histories;
Edition:
3d ed.
Published:
London, Printed for C. Brome, 1698.
Description:
37 p.l., 362, [12] p. 18 cm.
Subjects, general:
History -- Study and teaching.
Church history -- Study and teaching.

942.07 B6891 1752
Author, etc.:
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751.
Title:
Letters on the study and use of history.
Published:
London, Printed for A. Millar, 1752.
Description:
481 p. 20 cm.
Notes:
New ed., corrected.
Errata mounted on last leaf.
Subjects, general:
History -- Study and teaching.
Subjects, geographic:
Europe -- History -- 1648-1715.

082 L651
Title:
Letters to a young nobleman ...
Published:
London, Printed for A. Millar, 1762.
Description:
3 p.l., 230 p., 1 leaf. 20 cm.
Contents:
I. On study in general.--II.-III. On the study of history.--IV. On biography.--V. Of taste; and of some distinguishing circumstances of London and Paris.--VI. On the influence of liberty upon taste; and of the Age of Augustus.--VII. On the influence of liberty upon taste; and of the Age of Lewis XIV.--VIII. Why poetry has flourished more in England than sculpture or painting.
Subjects, general:
History -- Study and teaching.
Books and reading.
Aesthetics.
Liberty.
Poetry -- History and criticism.

907 B5931 1806
Author, etc.:
Bigland, John, 1750-1832.
Title:
Letters on the study and use of ancient and modern history : containing observations and reflections on the causes and consequences of those events which have produced conspicuous changes in the aspect of the world, and the general state of human affairs / by John Bigland, author of "Reflections on the resurrection and ascension" ... Her ample page : Rich with the spoils of time : Gray.
Published:
Whitehall : Printed for W. W. Woodward, no. 52, corner of second and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, 1806.
Description:
536 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Bound in calf, title in gilt on red label ; first published in 1804.
Subjects, general:
History -- Study and teaching.
Other title(s):
Study and use of ancient and modern history.

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