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Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Itinerarium exstaticum: quo mundi opificium id est cœlestis expansi, siderumque tam errantium, quàm fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumque compositio & structura, ab infimo telluris globo, vsque ad vltima mundi confinia, per ficti raptus integumentum explorata, noua hypothesi exponitur ad veritatem interlocutoribus Cosmiele et Theodidacto ad

Description:
  • Title page v.2: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Iter extaticum II. qui & mundi subterranei prodromus dicitur. Quo geocosmi opificium sive terrestri globi structura, vnà …
Year:
1656
Contributor:
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Walch, John Francis.
Subject:
Astronomy
Geology
Natural history > Pre-Linnean works
Imprint 1656.
Imprint 1657.
Italy > Rome
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Characteres Plantarum rariorum: Tab. VIII

Description:
A table of rare plants.
Year:
1748
Contributor:
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770 (artist)
Subject:
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Botany > Pictorial works
Local ID:
RARE 3-S QK41.M37x 1728
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Dies caniculares, hoc est, Colloquia tria et viginti physica, noua et penitus admiranda ac summa iucunditate concinnata

Description:
  • per Simonem Maiolum ... Quibus pleraque naturae admiranda, quae aut in aethere fiunt, aut in Europa, Asia atq[ue] Africa, quin etiam in ipso Orbe Nouo, …
Year:
1607
Contributor:
Maiolo, Simeone, 1520-1597?
Subject:
Natural history > Pre-Linnean works
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, qu[ae] continentur Rom[ae] in Horto Farnesiano: / Tobia Aldino Cesanat auctore ..

Description:
  • Also attributed to Pietro Castelli.
  • Engraved t.p.; decorated initials throughout text
  • Includes indexes
Year:
1625
Contributor:
Aldini, Tobia, 1560-1609 (creator)
Mascardi, Giacomo, fl. 1605-1634 (publisher)
Ciamberlano, Luca, 1586-1641 (artist)
Castelli, Pietro, 1570-1657 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Botanical gardens > Italy > Rome
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Orti farnesiani (Rome, Italy)
Local ID:
1-SIZE QK73.F2 A6x
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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Georgi Marcgravi de Liebstad, misnici Germani, Historiæ rerum naturalium Brasiliæ, libri octo: Cum appendice de Tapuyis, et Chilensibus

Description:
  • Ioannes de Laet, Antvverpianus, in ordinem digessit & annotationes addidit multas, & varia ab auctore omissa supplevit & illustravit.
  • Issued as a part of: Historia …
Year:
1648
Contributor:
Marggraf, Georg, 1610-1644
Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649
Subject:
s-bl---
Natural history > Brazil
Natural history > Pre-Linnean works
Indians of South America
Indian linguistics > Tupi language
indian linguistics > Mapuche language
Imprint 1648.
Netherlands > Amsterdam
Netherlands > Leyden
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modò luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis infertas, adiunctis Latinis, Germanicisq[ue] appellationibus ita ab oculos ponuntur, vt clarius tradi non possint. : eiusdem de animantibus subterraneis liber, ab autore recognitus : cum indicibus diuersis, quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus, atq[ue] omnibus nunc iterum ad archetypum diligenter restitutis & castigatis

Description:
  • Originally published: Basel, 1556.
  • Printer from colophon.
Year:
1561
Contributor:
Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555
Subject:
Metallurgy
Mineral industries
Paleontology
Zoology > Pre-Linnean works
Imprint 1561.
Switzerland > Basel
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Helleborine Americana; radice tuberose folÿs longis; angustis; caule nudo; floribus ex rubro pallide

Description:
Helleborine Americana; radice tuberosa; roliis longis, angustis; caule nudo; floribus ex rubro pallide purpurascentibus. Radix huic tuberosa alba; ex qua tria aut quatuor, nonnunquam plura, …
Contributor:
Kirkall, Elisha, 1682?-1742 (engraver)
Martyn, John, 1699-1768 (illustrator)
Subject:
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Botany > Pictorial works
Local ID:
RARE 3-S QK41.M37x 1728
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Hesperides siue De malorum aureorum cultura et vsu Libri quatuor

Description:
  • Colophon: Romæ, Sumptibus Hermanni Scheus. MDCXLVI [1646]. Ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi
  • Added engraved t.p.; decorated initials throughout text; seal of Jesuits on t.p
  • Includes index …
Year:
1646
Contributor:
Ferrari, Giovanni Battista, 1584-1655 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Citrus fruits > Early works to 1800
Local ID:
2-SIZE SB369 .F67
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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Histoire des plantes, nouuellement trouuées en l'Isle Virgine, & autres lieux, lesquelles ont esté prises & cultiuées au iarden de Monsieur Robin arboriste du Roy. Non encore veuës n'y imprimées par cy deuant

Description:
  • Extract of: L'histoire des plantes / Antoine Du Pinet including supplementary material by Geofroy Linocier, a book in 7 sections each with a separate title …
Year:
1620
Contributor:
Du Pinet, Antoine, active 16th century
Linocier, Geoffroi, active 1584
Subject:
nwvr---
Robin, Jean > 1550-1629
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
France > Paris
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Historia naturalis Brasiliae: auspicio et beneficio illustriss. I. Mauritii Com. Nassau ... adornata : in qua non tantum plantæ et animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur et iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur

Description:
  • Added title page: Guilielmi Pisonis, M.D. Lugduno-Batavi, De medicina Brasiliensi libri quatuor ... Et Georgi Marcgravi de Liebstad, Misnici Germani, Historiæ rerum naturalium Brasiliæ, libri …
Year:
1648
Contributor:
Piso, Willem, 1611-1678
Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649
Subject:
s-bl---
Natural history > Brazil
Natural history > Pre-Linnean works
Medicine > Brazil
Indians of South America
Imprint 1648.
Netherlands > Leyden
Netherlands > Amsterdam
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Iac. Cornuti doctoris medici Parisiensis Canadensium plantarum, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia: Cui adiectum est ad calcem enchiridion botanicum Parisiense, continens indicem plantarum, quæ in pagis, siluis, pratis, & montosis iuxta Parisios locis nascuntur

Description:
  • Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ A-2G⁴
  • Title vignette.
  • Errata statement on last page.
Year:
1635
Contributor:
Cornut, Jacques Philippe, 1606-1651
Subject:
e-fr--- > n-cn---
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Botany > Canada
Botany > France > Paris
France > Paris
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Ioannis Eusebii Nierembergii Madritensis ex Societate Iesu ... historia naturæ, maxime peregrinæ, libris XVI. distincta. In quibus rarissima naturæ arcana, etiam astronomica, & ignota Indiarum animalia ... plantæ, metalla, lapides ... fluuioruḿque & elementorum conditiones, etiam cum proprietatibus medicinalibus, describuntur: Accedunt de miris & miraculosis naturis in Europâ libri duo: item de iisdem in terrâ Hebræis promissâ liber vnus

Description:
  • Signatures: *⁴ A-3D⁶ 3E⁴ (*1 verso, 3E4 blank)
  • Title vignette: printer's device.
  • Includes index.
Year:
1635
Contributor:
Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio, 1595-1658
Subject:
n-mx---
Natural history > Pre-Linnean works
Natural history > Mexico
Imprint 1635.
Netherlands > Antwerp
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Jalapa officinarum

Description:
Japa Officinarum. Jalapa Officinarum fructu rugoso Tournef. Inst. 130. Bryonia Mechaocana nigricans C.B.Prod. 135. Pin. 293. J.B. 2.151. Ger. Emac. 873. Mechoacana nigricans five Jalapium …
Year:
1728
Contributor:
Huysum, Jacob van, ca. 1687-ca. 1740 (illustrator)
Kirkall, Elisha, 1682?-1742 (engraver)
Subject:
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Botany > Pictorial works
Local ID:
RARE 3-S QK41.M37x 1728
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Mémoire presenté a son altesse royale Monseigneur de Duc d'Orleans ... concernant la precieuse plante du gin-seng de Tartarie: découverte en Canada par le P. Joseph François Lafitau ...

Description:
  • Advertisements: p [4-8]
Year:
1718
Contributor:
Lafitau, Joseph-François, 1681-1746 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Ginseng
Botany > Canada
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Local ID:
SB295.G5 L3x
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Narwhal tusk

Description:
  • congesta a Joan. Ferdinando Hertodt
  • Narwhal skull and horn from plate in between p. 82 and 83.
Year:
1607
Contributor:
Hertodt, Johann Ferdinand, 1645-1714 (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Narwhal > Early works to 1800
Zoology > Pre-Linnean works
Local ID:
QK99 .H47x
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Of the vnicorne

Description:
  • Collected out of all the volumes of Conradvs Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell
  • Image of unicorn from p. …
Year:
1607
Contributor:
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625? (creator)
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565 (creator)
Genre:
woodcuts (prints)
Subject:
Unicorns > Early works to 1800
Zoology > Pre-Linnean works
Mammals > Early works to 1800
Local ID:
1-SIZE QL41 .T66 1607
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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R.P. Athanasii Kircheri e Societate Jesu Iter extaticum cœleste: quo mundi opificium, id est, cœlestis expansi, siderumq[ue] tam errantium, quàm fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumq[ue] compositio & structura, ab infimo telluris globo, usq[ue] ad ultima mundi confinia, per ficti raptus integumentum explorata, novâ hypothesi exponitur ad veritatem, interlocutoribus Cosmiele et Theodidacto

Description:
  • First edition published under title: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Itinerarium exstaticum. Rome, 1656-1657. 2 v.
  • Added engraved title page: Iter exstaticum Kircherianum, prælusionibus & …
Year:
1660
Contributor:
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666
Subject:
Astronomy
Geology
Natural history > Pre-Linnean works
Germany > Würzburg
Germany > Nuremberg
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Reyse nach Gvinea, oder, Ausführliche Beschreibung dasiger Gold-Gruben, Elephanten-Zähn und Sclaven-Handels

Description:
  • Im Frantzösischen herausgegeben durch Wilhelm Bossmann, ... Nun aber ins Hochteutsche übersetzet, ..
  • Translation of: Voyage de Guinée. Utrecht, 1705, itself a translation of: Nauwkeurige …
Year:
1708
Contributor:
Bosman, Willem.
Nyendael, David van.
Snoek, Jan, active 1701-1702
Subject:
fw-----
West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands)
Slave trade
Natural history > Africa, West > Pre-Linnean works
Africa, West > Description and travel
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Tab. VI

Description:
  • Hand colored.
  • Published by G.D. Ehret the Proprietor July 7, 1748.
  • Hay Star copy with: Martyn, John. Joannis Martyn Historia plantarum rariorum.
Year:
1748
Contributor:
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770 (artist)
Subject:
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Botany > Pictorial works
Local ID:
RARE 3-S QK41.M37x 1728
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Tab. VII

Description:
  • Hand colored.
  • Published by G.D. Ehret the proprietor December 1, 1748.
  • One leaf from Ehret's work.
  • With: Martyn, John. Joannis Martyn Historia plantarum rariorum.
Year:
1748
Contributor:
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770 (artist)
Subject:
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Botany > Pictorial works
Local ID:
RARE 3-S QK14.M37x 1728
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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