Rare Books
A Book of Cheerful Cats and other Animated Animals
Published: 1892Submitted by: Kristina Rader
A Book Of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals is a classic children’s book published in 1892 and written by J. G Francis. The high quality mat...
The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written Originally in Italian, and from Thence Newly and Faithfully Translated into English
Published: 1675Submitted by: John Crowell-Mackie
Considered one of the founders of modern political thought, Niccolo Machiavelli’s writings a have been cornerstones to the practice of politics and ...
The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science
Published: 1845Submitted by: Samantha Hogue
The American Whig Review was a significant political and literary magazine of the American Whig party in the mid-nineteenth century. Volume one conta...
The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes
Published: 1633Submitted by: Laura Spain
One of the most interesting texts of the seventeenth century is John Gerard’s Herball, or Gererall Historie of Plantes, a fairly well known botanica...
Danger in the Cards or How to Spot a Crooked Gambler (Armed Services Edition) serial number H-223
Published: 1943Submitted by: Jason Milton
Michael MacDougall’s American Service Edition book Danger in the Cards or How to Spot a Crooked Gambler is a rare survivor of a genre of books that ...
Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana (Vocabulary of the Mexican and Castilian languages)
Published: 1571Submitted by: Victoria Skaggs
Spanish colonies existed in both North and South America starting in the early 1500’s. Mexico City was home to one of the Spanish colony’s more p...
Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture
Published: 1959Submitted by: Rachel Tippett
Drawings for a Living Architecture was published on behalf of the Edgar J. Kauffman Foundation, who was a close friend of Wright and the original owne...
The Holy Bible
Published: 1660Submitted by: Laura-Michal Balderson
The University of Mary Washington owns, in its rare book collection, a 1660 edition of the King James Translation of "The Holy Bible." This Bible was ...
What is Remembered
Published: 1963Submitted by: Mallory Baker
What is Remembered is a classic autobiographical work by the author and long time companion of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas. The copy that resides ...
Lewis Carroll and the Kitchins: Containing Twenty Five Letters Not Previously Published, and Nineteen of His Photographs
Published: 1980Submitted by: Aerona Cullen
In the last decade there have been several big changes in the way books are made and how people are reading them. The Internet brought an ...
Godey’s Lady’s Book (Volume 74-75)
Published: 1867Submitted by: Morgan Mangold
Godey's Lady's Book - 1867
Godey’s Lady’s Book ran from 1830-1878.The first Lady’s Book was published in 1830 by utilizing previously ...
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed
Published: 1602Submitted by: Ross Patterson II
Throughout modern English history, the 14th century author and poet Geoffrey Chaucer has always been held up as the father of English Lit...
The Works of Thomas Paine
Published: 1796Submitted by: Shellye L. Burrow
Revolutionary America unraveled as a complex series of occurrences founded on the basis on political, technological, and social movements. During thi...
Le Theatre du Monde (Nouvel Atlas)
Published: 1645Submitted by: Carly Boucher
Le Theatre du Monde, also called the Nouvel Atlas, was a four volume set of atlases published in 1645 in Amsterdam by the father-and-son printers Will...
Illuminated Manuscripts
Published: 1911Submitted by: Sarah Bachmann
John Alexander Herbert wrote Illuminated Manuscripts in 1911 while he worked in the British Museum’s Department of Manuscripts. He used his access...
Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia
Published: 1801Submitted by: Aubrey Elliott
As one of the United States’ early statesmen and presidents, Thomas Jefferson helped to shape the political discourse of a new and developing nat...
I discorsi di Niccolo Machiavelli
Published: 1584Submitted by: Corey B. Sims
I Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli: Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio was printed in the year 1584. This particular volume measures 16 cm tall ...
Delta Wedding
Published: April 15, 1946Submitted by: Jamie Waite
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty is a book that is common in the way it was made in the 1940s, but rare in that it has since become a colle...
The Apocrypha: Reprinted According to the Authorized Version of 1611
Published: 1924Submitted by: Olivia Colville
This edition of the Apocrypha: Reprinted according to the Authorized Version of 1611 is the fourth of 5 volumes of the Bible that were printed in Lond...
The Golden Legend
Published: 1892Submitted by: Kirsten van der Noordaa
The Kelmscott edition of The Golden Legend, by Jacobus de Voragine, was published in 1892 in London, England by William Morris of Kelmscott Press and ...
Ravenna: recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878
Published: 1878Submitted by: Jocelyn Lewis
Ravenna: recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878 by Oscar Wilde is a small 16 page octavo pamphlet containing the poem Ravenna. This is the o...