English 419

Codex to Code - The History of the Book

Below is a list of the books and other items we have called up in our visits to Rare Books and Special Collections. For each class, I list the things you actually saw, and I suggest some search terms, and occasionally some similar items, to help you find more materials.

I will update this list as the course goes on.

Introductory class, January 11

• Merlinus liberatus: being an almanack for the year... by John Partridge; 18th century almanac with many interesting annotations. AY751.M474 1743
  • We have many almanacks in the collection, though they are not all as interesting as this one. Try search for "almanack" with Toronto, Canadian, Farmer, Montreal, Clerical, Gentleman's, Merchants (among other things) as other words - many of these searches will turn up whole sets of almanacs. The oldest almanac I've been able to find in the collection is Almanack for the year of Christian Account 1694 (AY256.L4).
• Book of Hours: manuscript book of hours, dated to around 1430 - 1440. BX2080.A2 1430
  • See the Manuscripts and related material list for more medieval manuscripts. In addition, there are some interesting printed prayer books. You could search for "prayer" by itself. You can also try Book of Common Prayer, which will give you a range of materials, including early printed books and an 1899 Haida translation of the Book of Common Prayer, among other things (in fact, we have prayer books in many indigenous languages). Searches on "psalms" or "psalters" will also turn up related material.
• The WunderCabinet: artist book, containing many objects. AM221 H623 2011 (OV).
  • We have a few more items by the artist (Barbara Hodgson) and the designer (Claudia Cohen); you could also search on the press, Heavenly Monkey, if you are interested in artists's books. There will be more fine press items later in the term, so check those lists too as they come up.
• Angeli Dennis archival materials: The letter about the biography of Dante Gabriel Rosette. RBSC-ARC-1009/ Box 17-13.
  • This is a collection of archival materials - diaries, manuscripts, correspondence and so on - relating to the pre-Raphaelites, and in particular to the Rossetti family. There is also material related to many Victorian poets. There is a collection inventory online: http://rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca/index.php/angeli-dennis-collection;rad
• Theatre Broadsides from Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and the Adelphi Theatre: SPAM 674.b, SPAM 668.B, and SPAM 662.B
  • A simple search on "broadside" or "broadsides" will point you at similar material. These are not all theatre posters; for example, some are popular ballad sheets, as for example the Honest Miller of Glocestershire: A True Ballad (c. 1790: SPAM 928.A, ASRS storage). You can add "theatre" to the search if that is your particular interest. Another search worth trying is "playbill."
• Chapbooks (Black Giles the Poacher; Valentin et Orson; Therese). PZ61796 M674; PZ6 1790 V344; PR974.C64 1800z
  • The term chapbook is also used for a small collection of poetry, so searching on "chapbook" will lead you to that kind of material as well. One way to get at chapbooks (cheap early popular literature) similar to those we looked at today, is to look for the publishers; so, for example, Black Giles is printed for the Cheap Repository. There will also be more chapbook material listed for later classes.
• Theatre Under the Stars programs: these are from a new donation, so they are still being catalogued. If you are interested in this kind of material, try asking one of the librarians for advice!
• Items from the Alice in Wonderland collection: Barry Moser woodblock illustrations (PR4611.A7 1982a); facsimile of the manuscript (Alice.book 1); the Italian version from 1955 (Alice.book 475)
  • The Alice 100 collection includes hundreds and hundreds of versions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. There is a guide to the collection here: http://guides.library.ubc.ca/alice100. You might also be interested in the Harry Potter collection, that you can read about here: http://collections.library.ubc.ca/featured-collections/harry-potter/. We have an excellent collection of children's literature, and there will be an RBSC visit devoted to seeing a sampling of that material, so check the list for that day once it is posted, for further examples and suggestions.

Manuscripts and related material, January 23 and 25

• Book of Hours BX2080 .A2 1430
• 13th century Bible BS75 1200z
• Tusculanae disputationes: 15th-century Italian paper manuscript. PA6304.T6 A1 (medium oversize)
• Compendium theologice veritatis: theological manuscript. BX890 H76 1320
  • These are currently the only complete medieval (and one humanist) manuscripts we own, though we also have manuscript service books, some of whose origins and dates are currently uncertain (see below).
• Antiphonary. Spanish Chant manuscript. c. 1575-1625. M2149.L32 S6 1575
• Oversize service book, with binding bosses: M2148L4G732
• Liturgical manuscript. M2148 L4 G7342 medium oversize
• Manuscript book of chants from the Roman gradual – M2148 L4 G735 (range is 732 – 735) - medium oversize
  • Many of the service books we looked at are part of the Gatti-Kraus Musica Sacra Collection: you can search for "Gatti-Kraus," or you can click the hyperlinked name of the collection in one of the items, to get a list of everything in the collection. There is printed material as well as manuscript material.
• Privilegium Innocenti IV…: papal bull from 1245. BX1547.T74 C373 1245
• Illuminated manuscript leaf, c. 1200. VF-274
• Leaves from an Italian 15th-century gradual. M2148 L4 I8 1400 oversize
• Fragment from Book of Samuel, France, 14th century. VF-487
• Clay, Albert Tobias. Babylonian cuneiform tablets. PJ3721.U7 C86
• Greek papyri from 2nd C AD. VF-493
• Biblia Pauperum, 1480. This is an early printed book, bound in medieval manuscript. Z241B6V4
• Binding / fragments. Z106.5.E85 M424 1050
• Bulwer family fonds documents
  • This collection of materials from the Bulwer family includes material dating between 1263 and 1941. There is an inventory here: http://rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bulwer-family-fonds;rad?sf_culture=en

Early Print and Print and the Reformation, February 6 and 8

Early printed Asian material

• Sheng shi xin sheng: Asian Rare-4 no. 63
• Zhan guo ce: shi Juan: Asian Rare-4 no. 11
• Nanhua jing: Asian Rare-1 no. 1232
  • These first three books were from our substantial collection of early Chinese printed material. There is a guide here: http://guides.library.ubc.ca/samplepage/homeYou can see some of the material digitized, here: https://open.library.ubc.ca/search?q=*&p=0&sort=5&view=0&circle=n&dBegin=&dEnd=&c=1&collection=asian
  • If you are interested in other old Asian material, we have an excellent collection of maps from the Tokugawa era in Japan (c. 1600 - 1867): you can browse them online here: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/tokugawa

  Leaf Books and Individual Leaves

• Leaves from various incunabula, Z240 L428 1490z
• West-European incunabula: 60 original leaves Z242 P67 H2
• Catholicon, Mainz: Gutenberg, 1460 PE25 R62 v. 40 medium oversize (this is another leaf, not a whole book)
• Incunable leaves, before 1501 VF-484
• Biblia Germanica, Nuremberg: Koberger, 1483, SPAM709B

  Early Humanist Printing

• Lorenzo Valla, Elegantiae linguae latinae Venice: Andrea Vendramine, 1476 PA2821.V2 1476 medium oversize
• Seneca, Tragoediae, Lyons: Sarazin, 1491 PA6664 A2 1491
• Lucan, Lvcanvs, Venice: Aldus, 1502 PA6478.A2 1502
• Petrarch, Opera, Venice: Bartholomeo de Zani, 1508 PQ4476 A1 B08
• Virgil, Aeneid, 1512 PA6801 A2 1512
• Lucan, Pharsalia, Venice: Aldus, 1515 PA6478.A2 1515
• Martial, Epigrammata, Venice: Aldus, 1517
• Ovid, P. Ovidii Nasonis vita per Aldum ex ipsius libris excerpta… Venice: Aldus, 1533 PA6519.A6 A4
  • We have many other books from the 15th and early 16th centuries. The list below is just a selection; it includes more of the classical texts that we looked at in class, as well as things like poetry, theology, and scientific works. The books are printed in what is now Germany, Italy, or France.
    • Eusebius of Caesaria, Historie ecclesiastice, Rome: Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, 1476 BR165 E973 1476
    • Peter Lombard, Commentarius…, Treviso: Hermann Lichtenstein, 1477 BX1749 P4 B66 1477 medium oversize
    • Institutiones. Basel: Wenssler, 1478 KE151.A1 1478 oversize
    • Albertus Magnus, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1478 BX890 A53 1478
    • Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologicae, Venice: Antoninus de Strate, 1484 BX1749 T52 1484
    • Ivniani Maii eqvitis Parthenopei…, Venice: Ionnaes Uercellensis, 1490 PE 25 R62 v. 231
    • Pliny, Epistolae, Venice: Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 1492 PA6638.A2 1598
    • Suma de arithmetica geometria proportioni…, Venice: Paganinus, 1494 QA32 P33 1494a
    • Jean Gerson Opera, Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1494 BX890 G4 1494
    • Martial, Epigrammata, Venice: Aldus, 1501 PA6501 A2 1501
    • Luca Pacioli, Divina proportione, Venice: Paganius, 1509 NC745 A2 P3 1509A
    • Sermonum decas, Parrhisiis: Parvi and Ascensius, 1511 PA8547 M46
    • Firmamentum trium ordinum beatissimi patris nostri Fancisci, Paris 1512 BX3602 A2 F7
    • Compendium musices, Venice: Lucantonium de Giunta Florentinus, 1513 MT820.C64
    • Jakob Wimpheling, Elegantie maiores, 1516 PA2313 W7 1516
    • Giovanni Pontano, Amorum libri ii, Venice: Aldus, 1518 PA8570 P5 A64 1518
    • Jacobi Parez de Valentia… Psalmos davidicos, Paris: Badio Ascensio, 1518 BS1429 P49 1518
    • Justinian, Codex, Paris: Regnault, 1518 KE152 I42 1518
    • Maximus of Tyre, Dissertationes, Basel: Ioannes Frobenius, 1519 B588 S4 L3 1519
    • Bernard de Clairvaux, Opera omnia, Lyons: Clein, 1520 BX890 B5 1520
    • Lactantius, Habes in hoc volvmine lector optime…, Venice, 1521 BR65 L2 1521
    • Ex Plavti comoediis, Venice: Aldus, 1522 PA6568 A2 1522a
    • Valentinus curio lectori, Basel, 1523 G87 S87 1523
    • Josse Clichtove, De veneratione sanctorum, Paris: 1523 BX2325 C55
    • Boccaccio, Fiammetta, 1525 PQ4270 F2 1525
    • Erasmus, Paraphrasis, 1549 BS2335 E72 1549
    • Horace, Q. Horatii Flacci liber de Arte poetica… Venice, 1562 PA6393.E7 N6 1553
    • Quintus Curtis Rufus, Rebus gestis Alexandri Magni… Lyons, 1556 PA6376.A2 1556
    • Ovid, Epistotle d’Ovidio de Remigio Florentino… 1560 PA6525.H4 N3 1560

  Bibles and Related Material

• Biblia sacra, Venice: Octavius Scotus, 1480 BS75 1480
  • We have other fairly early Latin Bibles; for example
    • Bibla Sacra Vulgatae, 1647 BS75 1647
    • Biblia sacra polyglotta, London: T. Roycroft, 1657 BS1 1654, 6 vols
• Thomas Sternhold, Whole book of psalmes collected into English meetre, London: Richard Day, 1588 BS170 1589
• Booke of common prayer… London: Robert Barker, 1633 BC1424 G7 1633
  • You can compare multiple editions of these texts, as well as similar works: look for, among others,
    • Thomas Sternhold, Whole book of psalms, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1619 BS185 1614 L6
    • Thomas Sternhold, Psalter, London: R. Barker, 1633 BS1424 G7 1633:1
    • Thomas Sternhold, Whole booke of Psalmes, London, 1633 BS1424 G7 1633:2
    • Thomas Sternhold, The whole Book of Psalms, London: G.M., 1669 BS90 1669:2
    • Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, 1684 BX5145 A4 1684
• Whole Byble (Coverdale Bible), Zurich: C. Froschover, 1550 BS145 1550
• Bishops’ Bible, London: Richard Iugge, 1568 BS175 1568
• Bible… with… annotations, London: Christopher Barker, 1589 BS170 1589
• Bible, London: Christopher Barker, 1599 BS170 1599
• The Bible (Geneva Bible), London: Robert Barker, 1605 BS170 1605
• The Holy Bible (King James Bible), London: Robert Barker, 1611 BS185 1611 L6 oversize
  • We have many early English Bibles. Some further examples are
    • The Bible (Geneva Bible), London: Robert Barker, 1607 BS1700 1607
    • The Bible (Geneva Bible), London: Robert Barker, 1609 BS170 1609
    • Holy Bible, London: Robert Barker, 1613 BS185 1613 L62
    • Bible, London: R. Barker, 1615 BS170 1615
    • Bible, London: Robert Barker, 1616 BS170 1616
    • Holy Bible, Cambridge, 1633 BS185 1633 C3
    • The Holy Bible, London: Robert Barker, 1634 BS185 1634 L6
• John Fisher, This treatyse concernynge the fruytfull sayinges of Dauyd the kynge and prophete in the seuen penytencyall psalms, London: Thomas Marshe, 1555 BS1429 F585 1555
  • For other theological and devotional texts, see, for example,
    • Calvin, The Institution of Christian Religion London: Thomas Vautrollier for William Norton, 1578 BX9420 I67 1578
    • Calvin, A harmonie vpon the three euangelists, London: George Bishop 1584 BS2560 C35 1584
    • John Clarke, Holy oyle for the lampes of the sanctvuarie, London: Aug. Mathewes for Rob. Milbourne, 1630 BS425 C55
    • William Gouge, Of domesticall duties, London: George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1634 BJ1241 G6 1634
• John Foxe, Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable..., London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1684 BR1607 F5 1684 3 vols
  • We have two more editions: look for
    • Booke of acts and monumentes of the Church, London: J. Windet, 1589 BR1607 F5 1589
    • Acts and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable..., London: A. Islip, 1632-41 BR1607 F5 1632

  Printing Early Modern Authors (and others), February 27 and March 1

• Aphra Behn, Poems upon several occasions PR3317 A6 1684
• Aphra Behn, The Rover PR3317 R58 1716
• John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress PR3330.A2 B48
• Geoffrey Chaucer (Speght), PR1850 1602 os
• Geoffrey Chaucer (Urry), Works of Geoffrey Chaucer PR1850 1721 os
• John Donne, Poems PR2245 A1 1633
• John Ford, ’Tis pitty shee’s a whore PR2524 T4 1633
• Ben Jonson, The workes of Beniamin Jonson PR2600 1616
• John Milton, Paradise lost; a poem in twelve books PR3560 1688 mov
• John Milton, Paradise regain’d : a poem in iv books; to which is added, Samson Agonistes PR3563 1688 mov
• John Milton, Paradise regain’d: A poem. In four books. To which is added Samson Agonistes. And Poems upon several occasions PR3563 1705
• John Milton, Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books PR3560 1719
• Sir Thomas Overbury, Wife now a widowe PR2326 O5 A16 1622
• Katherine Philips, Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda PR3619 .P4 1669
• William Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, London, 1633 PR3646 H5
• William Shakespeare, Works. 1632 Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies: published according to the true originall copies PR2751 A2 1632 mov
• Sir Philip Sidney, The countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia PR2342 A5 1633
  • Another copy: Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia PR2342 .A5 1655
• Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene PR2358 A1 1590
• Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene 1609 PR2358 A1 1609
• George Wither, Collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne PR2392 E5 1634
  • See also: George Wither, Works. 1620 PR2392 1620
  • Francis Quarles, Emblems divine and moral PR3652.E3 1718
  • George Wither, Choice emblems: divine and moral PR2392/E53 1720z
• Other 16th- and 17th-century books that might interest you include
  • George Buchanan, Psalmorum Davidis, Herbonae, 1592 BS1442 B8 1592:1
  • Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy, 1632 (4th edition), PR2223 A1 1632
  • Margaret Cavendish, The life of the thrice novle, high and puissant prince William Cavendishe DA407.N5 A3 1667 os
  • Thomas Elyot, Of that knowlage whiche maketh a wise man, London: Berthelet, 1552 PR2270 E5 O4
  • Thomas Fuller, The history of the worthies of England DA28 .F8 1662
  • Richard Hakluyt, Principall Navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation, London, 1598 – 1600 G240 H2 1598
  • A remembrance of the honors due to the life and death of Robert earle of Salisbury, London: John Wright, 1612 DA690 N6 G73 v. 3:1

Atlases, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries: The World in Print, March 8 and 13

Geography and Chorography

• Abraham Ortelius, Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio 1587. Antwerp, 1588. G3290.1587 O7 1588
• Mercator. Atlas minor Gerardi Mercatorio à I. Hondio plurimis aeneis atque illustratus. Dordrecht, 1610. G1007.M42 1610
• Regiones svb polo arctico auctore Guiljelmo Blaeu (1638) G3270 1638 .B5 (Maps)
  • We have a very large map collection. Here are few more, similar items, but this is still only scratching the surface:
    • Abraham Ortelius. Presbiteri Iohannis sive abissinorum imperii descriptio [cartographic material]. Antwerp, 1580 - 1589. G8220 1580
    • Mercator. Tartaria sive magni chami imperium [cartographic material]. Amsterdam, 1638? RBSC-ARC-1646:74
    • Mercator. Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus [cartographic material] : The North-Pole. London, 1635. RBSC-ARC-1677:1635:M
    • Mercator. Iaponia et terra Eso. [cartographic material]. Amsterdam, 1651. G7950.1651 M4
  • We also have many Japanese maps; an example is Bankoku sozu [cartographic material] (late 17th. Century) G3200 1645z .S5 (RBSC portfolio)
• Mercator. Atlas minor Gerardi Mercatorio à I. Hondio plurimis aeneis atque illustratus. Dordrecht, 1610. G1007.M42 1610
• Atlas unique G1015.B428 1752
  • Other atlases and geographical dictionaries in our collection include
    • A geographical dictionary, representing the present and antient names and states of all the countries, kingdoms, provinces, remarkable cities. London, 1695. PE25.R62 v. 57
    • Dictionnaire géographique portatif. The Hague, 1748. PE25.R62 v. 125
    • An atlas of ancient geography, by Mons. D'Anville ... comprised in eleven maps. London, n.d. G84.A63
• William Camden, Britain, Philemon Holland translation, 1610 DA610 C17 1610 medium oversize
  • We have several other printings of Camden's Britannia, as well as a few other chorographies; look for
    • William Camden, Britannia, London, 1594, DA610.C166 1594
    • William Camden, Camden’s Britannia, Edmund Gibson, 1695 DA610 C17 1695 oversize
    • William Camden, Britannia. London, 1730? DA610.C17 oversize
    • Britannia, second edition of Gibson, 2 vols, 1733 DA610 C17 1722 oversize
    • William Lambarde, A perambulation of Kent. London, 1596. DA670.K3.P4
• An accurate representation of sea horses, which Capt. Cook met with in his third voyage. London, 1784. SPAM308C
  • We have other illustrations in this series, as well as a lot of material related to Captain Cook and exploration; look for
    • A view of the habitations in Nootka Sound. London, 1784. SPAM285C
    • An offering before Captn. Cook, in one of the Sandwich Islands. London, 1784. SPAM298C
    • View of the Ice Islands as seen in Cook's second voyage on Jan. 9, 1773. London, 1777. SPAM291C
    • A view of the town and harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul, in Kamtschatka. London, 1784. SPAM286C
    • James Cook / A voyage to the Pacific ocean (1784) FC3821.243 .A1 1784a (Atlas only)
    • George Vancouver / A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world (1798) FC3821.25 1798 (Atlas only) (OV)

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Hvloets dictionarie, newelye corrected, amended, set in order and enlarged vvith many names of men, tovvnes, beastes, foules, fishes, trees, shrubbes, herbes, fruites, places, instrumentes &c. London, 1572. PE25.R62 v. 172
• Hēgemōn eis tas glōssas = Ductor in linguas = The gvide into tongves. London, 1617. PE25.R62 v. 239
• The English dictionary, or, An interpreter of hard English words : enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young scholars, clerks, merchants. London, 1661. PE25.R62 v. 100
• A new dictionary of all the cant and flash languages, both ancient and modern, used by gipsies, beggars, swindlers, shoplifters, peterers, starrers, footpads, highwaymen, sharpers, and every class of offenders. London, 1800. PE25.R62 v. 271
• Johnson's Dictionary of the English language in miniature. London, 1803. PE25.R62 v. 189
• The boy's own book : a complete encyclopedia of all the diversions, athletic, scientific, and recreative, of boyhood and youth (1828) LT305 1828 .C527
• Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled upon a new plan, Edinburgh, 1771 PE25 .R62 V. 65
  • The dictionaries come from the H. Rocke Robertson collection; you can search the collection name to find all the (hundreds) of items. Here are just a few more that might be of interest:
    • Dictionum latinarum & graecarum…, Haguenau: Thomam Anshelmum Badensem, 1521 PE25 R62 V81
    • Dictionarium latinogallicum. Paris, 1543. PE25.R62 V. 141
    • Hvloets dictionarie, newelye corrected, amended, set in order and enlarged vvith many names of men, tovvnes, beastes, foules, fishes, trees, shrubbes, herbes, fruites, places, instrumentes &c. London, 1573. PE25.R62 v. 45
    • A world of wordes, or, Most copious and exact dictionarie in Italian and English. London, 1598. PE25.R62 v. 147
    • A dictionarie in Spanish and English. London, 1599. PE25.R62 v. 257
    • The interpreter, or, Booke containing the signification of words. Cambridge, 1607 PE25.R62 v. 115
    • A treasvrie or storehovse of similies, both pleasaunt, delightfull, and profitable. London, 1609. PE25.R62 v. 89
    • The new world of English words: or, A general dictionary: containing the interpretations of such hard words as are derived from other languages. London, 1658. PE25.R62 v. 260
    • Glossographia, or, A dictionary, interpreting all such hard words of whatsoever language, now used in our refined English tongue. London, 1661. PE25.R62 v. 51
    • A collection of English vvords not generally used. London, 1674. PE25.R62 v. 274
    • A dictionary, English-Latin, and Latin-English : containing all things necessary for the translating of either language into the other. London, 1679. PE25.R62 v. 109
    • Dictionaire universel, contenant generalement tous les mots françois tant vieux que modernes. Rotterdam, 1690. PE25.R62 v. 152 (3 vols.)
    • Le grand dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise. Paris, 1696. PE25.R62 v. 5
    • A new English dictionary, or, A compleat collection of the most proper and significant words. London, 1702. PE25.R62 v. 207
    • Dictionarium rusticum & urbanicum, or, A dictionary of all sorts of country affairs, handicraft, trading, and merchandizing. London, 1704. PE25.R62 v. 37
    • Glossographia Anglicana nova, or, A dictionary, interpreting such hard words of whatever language, as are at present used in the English tongue. London, 1707. PE25.R62 V. 155
    • Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves. London, 1708-1710. PE25.R62 v. 164-165
    • Cyclopaedia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences. London, 1728. PE25.R62 v. 92
    • A compleat English dictionary : containing the true meaning of all words in the English language : also the proper names of all the kingdoms, towns, and cities in the world. Westminster, 1735. PE25.R62 v. 123
    • Dictionarium britannicum, or, A more compleat universal etymological dictionary than any extant ... likewise a collection and explanation of English proverbs. London, 1736. PE25.R62 v. 36
    • Francisci Junii Francisci filii Etymologicum anglicanum. Oxford, 1743. PE25.R62 v. 205
    • A new general English dictionary : peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. London, 1750. PE25.R62 v. 130
    • 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. London, 1755. PE25.R62 v. 179 (2 vols)
    • A Spelling-dictionary of the English language, on a new plan, for the use of young gentlemen, ladies, and foreigners. London, 1762. PE25.R62 v. 294
    • A compleat collection of English proverbs; also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. London, 1768. PE25.R62 v. 275
    • The British language in its lustre, or, A copious dictionary of Welsh and English. Shrewsbury, 1777. PE25.R62 v. 204
    • Entick's New spelling dictionary, teaching to write and pronounce the English tongue with ease and propriety. London, 1791. PE25.R62 v. 135
    • Bibliotheca classica, or, A classical dictionary, containing a full account of all the proper names mentioned in antient authors. London, 1797. PE25.R62 v. 216

Science: Medicine

• Hieronymus Brunschwig. The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri practysyd & complyed by the moost experte mayster Jherome of Bruynswyke (1525) WZ240 .B78 1525 (Mem Standard)
• Ambrose Paré , Workes WZ250 .P28 1634
• Eucharius Rosslin. The byrth of mankynde (1540) WZ240 .R6713 1540 17
• Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, Scholae Medicorum Patauinae Professoris. Basileae : Ex officina Ioannis Oporini, Anno salutis reparatae M D XLIII mense Iunio [June, 1543]. WZ240 V38 1543. Memorial oversize
  • We have several other early editions of Vesalius:
    • Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, invictissimi Caroli V. Imperatoris medici. Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555]. WZ240.V38 1555 Memorial oversize
    • Andreae Vesalii, Anatomicarum Gabrielis Falloppii observationum examen. Venetiis : Apud Franciscum de Franciscis, Senensem. WZ240.V37 1564 Memorial standard
    • Andreae Vesalii De corporis humani fabrica libri septem. Venetiis, Apud F. Franciscium, 1568. WZ240.V38 1568 Memorial medium oversize
    • Anatomia viri in hoc genere princip. Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis. Amstelodami, Excudebat Ioannes Ianssonius, 1617. WZ250.V47 1617 Memorial medium oversize
    • Andrea Vesalii ... Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Joannem du Vivie et Joan. & Herm. Verbeek, 1725. WZ260.V47 1725, 2 vols., Memorial medium oversize
• William Harvey. Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus, Guilielmi Harvei (1628) WZ250 .H34 1628 Memorial standard
• Nicholas Culpeper, The English physitian enl., with three hundred sixty and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression untill this. London, 1684. WZ250.C83 1684 Memorial standard
• William Smellie A sett of anatomical tables, WZ260 .S475 1754
  • We have quite a few historical medical books; here are just a few more:
    • Govard Bidloo / Anatomia hvmani corporis, centum & quinque tabvlis, per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineais, demonstrata WZ250 .B58 1685
    • Observations on the preparation, utility, and administration of the Digitalis purpurea, or foxglove, in dropsy of the chest, consumption, hemorrhage, scarlet fever, measles, &c QV153 .H354 1807
    • An inquiry into the causes and effects of variolae vaccinae, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox (WZ260 .J46 1798 Memorial Standard)

Science: Math

• Isaac Newton, Universal arithmetick: or, A treatise of arithmetical composition and resolution. London, 1769. QA35.N564 1769 22
  • We also have the Latin: Isaac Newton, Arithmetica universalis; sive de compositione et resolutione arithmetica. Amsterdam, 1761. QA35.N56 1761 2 vols.
• Euclid, The first six books of the Elements of Euclid, in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners. London, 1847. PR10.K6 P5 1847
  • For more Euclid, see
    • Thomas Rudd, Practical geometry, in two parts. London, 1650. QA33.R84 1650
    • Thomas Rudd and Euclid, Elements of geometry : the first VI books. London, 1651. QA33.R84 1650
    • Euclid. Elements of Euclid : with select theorems out of Archimedes. London, 1714. QA31.E83 1714

Science: Natural history

• James Audobon, Birds of America from the drawings made in the United States and their territories QL674 .A9 1840 Memorial Standard
• Jonstonus, Joannes, Historiae naturalis QL41 .J67 1657 Mem MOV
  • We also have the separate parts that this book was printed in: look for Historiae naturalis as title in the catalogue, limited to RBSC, and you will see the individual parts
• Conrad Gesneri Historiae animalium QL41 .G46 1551 v. 1 Mem MOV
  • We have many natural history books; some others include
    • Pliny, Naturalis historia, Lyons, 1606 PA6611 A2 1606 medium oversize
    • Pliny, Naturalis historia, Lyons, 1635 PE25 R62 v. 267, 3 vols.; also QH41 P73 1635
    • Species conchyliorum, or, Concise original descriptions and observations accompanied by figures of all the species of recent shells, with their variety (QL408 .S642 1830 Memorial Standard)
    • Johannes Hedwig, Fundamentum historiae naturalis muscorum frondosorum, concernens eorum flores, fructus, seminalem propagationem adiecta generum dispositione methodica iconibus illustratis. QK537 .H44 1782
  • In general, you will find many interesting items relating to medicine and natural history in the William C. Gibson History of Medicine and Science Collection; you can search the catalogue by the collection name to get a complete list

Nineteenth Century and Fine Press Printing, March 20 and 22

Decorative Arts, Architecture, and Book History

• Joseph Ames, Typographical Antiquities, 1749 Z151.A51
  • We also have Dibdin's expansion of this text, from 1810 - 1819: Z151.A512 1810
    
• Thomas Astle, Origin and progress of writing. London, 1803. PR211.A75 1803
  
• Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Bibliographical Decameron. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1817. Z1001.D545. 3 vols.
  • For you Dibdin fans, we also have
    • Bibliomania, or book madness. London, 1811. Z992.D541 (and an 1842 edition too: Z992.D542
    • A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany. 3 vols. London, 1821. Z001.D54
    • Reminiscences of a literary life. 2 vols. Z1004.D45
    • Bibliotheca Spenseriana. 4 vols. Z240.S74
• William Dugdale, Monasticon anglicanum, 1817 - 1830. 6 vols. BX2592.D84 1817
• Jules Goury/ Owen Jones, Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra. 2 vols. London, 1842 - 1845. NA387.G64
• Henry Shaw, Decorative Arts, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of the Middle Ages. London: W. Pickering, 1851. NK700.S5
  • We have several other books by Shaw:
    • Henry Shaw, Encyclopaedia of Ornament. Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1898. NK1530.S5 1842a
    • Henry Shaw, Handbook of the Art of Illumination. London: Bell and Daldy 1866. ND2920.S5. Medium oversize
    • Henry Shaw, Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages. London: William Pickering, 1843. NK1260.S
• Henry Noel Humphreys, Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849. ND2920.H85. oversize
  • We also have Henry Noel Humphreys, Origin and progress of the art of writing. London, 1853. Z105.H92
• Henry Noel Humphreys, Parables of Our Lord. London, 1847. ND3410.H86 B5 1847
• Joseph Strutt, Glig-gamena angel-deod. Or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England. London, 1801.GV75.S9 1801 medium oversize
  • We have two later editions: GV75.S9 1810; Martz.S878 1876
• E. Viollet-Le-Duc, Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle. 10 vols. NA1041.V73

Kelmscott Press, Fine Press, and Related Material

• The English Bible (the Doves Bible) BS185 1903 H3
• Dante, Lo Paradiso, PQ4307.A1 1905 (we have all 3 volumes of this Ashendene Press printing of Dante's Commedia - search for Inferno and Purgatorio for the others)
  • For another fine press Dante, see Dante. Divina Commedia. The Nonesuch Press, 1928. PQ4302.F28.
• Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (Vale Press/ Hacon and Ricketts) PR10.T8 M3 1903 D6
  • Another book by this press is Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Rime of the Ancient Mariner. London: Hacon and Ricketts, 1899. PR10.H2 C6 1899
• Chaucer, The Kelmscott Chaucer PR1850 1896
• Psalmi penitentiales (Kelmscott) BS1445.P4 E4 1894
• Romance of Sir Degrevant. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897 PR2065.D414 1896 OR
  • We have many more Kelmscott Press books. Some are listed here; you can search on Kelmscott to find more
    • Syr Ysambrace. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. PR2065.I8 1897
    • Floure and the leafe (Kelmscott) PR1898.F4 1896
    • Golden Legend of master William Caxton done anew. London: Kelmscott Press, 1892. PN683.J151 1892. 3 vols. Medium oversize
    • William Morris. Sundering Flood. Kelmscott Press, 1897. PR10.P4 M6 1897
    • William Morris, Water of the Wondrous Isles. Kelmscott Press 1897. PR10.P4 M6 1897 W3. Medium oversize.
    • William Morris, Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of over sea. Kelmscott Press 1894. PR10.P4 M6 1894 T3
    • William Morris, Gothic Architecture. Kelmscott press 1893. PR10.P4 M6 1893 G6
• Petrarch, Le rime del Petrarca (Pickering) PR10.K6 P5 1822 R5
  • We have several volumes from the Pickering's Diamond Classics series: browse the PR10.K shelfmark in the catalogue to find others
• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Edmund Dulac, illustrator. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. PZ6 1909 O43
• Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock. Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator. London, 1902. PR10.T2 B3 1902
• Thomas Malory, Birth, life, and acts of King Arthur. J.M. Dent, 1893. PR10.T2 B3 1893 B5. 2 vols.
• Thomas Malory, Morte d’Arthur. J.M. Dent 1910. PR10.T2 B3 1910. 12 vols.
  • We have both the small and large paper fasciscles of the Dent Malory, and we also have the various editions; browsing the call numbers will help you to find them all
• Jean Froissart. Froissarts Cronycles. Shakespeare Head Press, 1927 - 28. D113.F878 1927. 2 volumes in 8 parts.
  • Other books by the Shakespeare Head Press include
    • William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis. The Shakespeare Head Press, 1905. PR10.R7 B8 1905
    • William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets. The Shakespeare Head Press, 1912. PR10.R7 B8 1912
  • We have many, many fine and small press books from a more recent period; a few examples are
    • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. London: Lion and Unicorn, 1956. PR2065.G3 G7 1956
    • David Posner. Rake’s Progress. Etchings by David Hockney. London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1962. PS3566.O67 R34 1962
  • Aristophanes. Birds. London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1971. PA3877.A8 F4 1971
  • William Blake, Auguries of Innocence. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968.
  • William Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus, illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Gehenna Press, 1973. PR2835.A2 M39 1973
    
  • Floriated alphabet. Vancouver: Strathcona Press, 2007. Z250 .F567 2007
  • Mr Darcy's Letter. Bowler Press 2012 No call number
  • From Persuasion. North Vancouver, B.C. Bowler Press, 2011. PR4032 2011
  • Importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people. North Vancouver, B.C. : Bowler Press, 2008. PR5818 .I4 2008
  • Letterpress printing ABC / Vancouver : Heavenly Monkey, 2004. Z118 .C53 2004

Limited Editions Club and Folio Society

• Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. London: Folio Society, 1965.
• Christopher Marlowe. Four Plays. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966. PR2662.E52 1966
• James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. PR6019.O8 P6 1968b
• James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London: Folio Society, 1965. PR6019.O8 P6 1965
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth. Dali illustrations. PR2923.A2D3 1946
• Oscar Wilde. Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957.
  • We have many more LEC and Folio Society Books; I've listed just a few below, and you can find many others by searching the catalogue for either "Folio Society" or "Limited Editions Club," and then selecting RBSC as the location filter
    • Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey. Limited Editions Club, 1971. PR4034.N6 1971b
    • Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Folio Society, 1961. PR4611.A5 A6
    • John Donne. The Poems of John Donne. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1968. PR2245.A5 K4 1968
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky, Idiot. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1956. PG3326.I3 1956
    • Jean Froissart. Chroniques. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. D113.F77 1959
    • Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1956. PR4748.A1 1956
    • Ovid, Ars amatoria. London: Folio Society, 1965. PA6522.A8 M6
    • William Shakespeare. Poems of William Shakespeare. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1967. PR2842.P7 A4 1967
    • William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part one. London: Folio Society, 1965. PR2810.A2 P53 1965
    • Jonathan Swift, Voyage to Lilliput. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950. PR3724.G8 1950a
    • Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels. London: Folio Society, 1965. PR3724.G8 1965
    • Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Idylls of the King. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1953. PR5558.A1 1952
    • H.G. Wells, Time Machine. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. PS1972.M6 1961