Rare Book resources for teaching history

In October, we held a workshop and brainstorming session for history faculty interested in integrating rare books into their teaching. Below is a list of call numbers of some of the types of sources we looked at. Please note that these are by no means exhaustive!

 

Travel and Exploration

RBC E 123.P73 Plautius, Caspar, and Honorius Philoponus. 1621. Nova typis transacta navigatio.
RBC x 910 0r8 Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, [1579 and 1584?]).

RBC x912 5a58 V.2 = Atlas Nouveau: A L’usage de Monseigneur le duc de Bourgogne. Amserdam: Pierre Mortier, 1690-96. (vol. 1 also on shelf)

RBC x919.6 C772 1785 Atlas = Plates to Cook and King’s Voyages. 1785.

RBC x919.6 C772 Atlas = (Maps about Cook’s Voyages?)

RBC x914.7 P177 1794 Atlas = Voyages du Professeur Pallas: Tome Neuvieme (author?). Paris: Maradan, 1794.

RBC x910.4 L312 1798 Atlas = Charts and Plates to La Perouse’s Voyage. 1798.

RBC x912 F496 = Perkins, Jos. A New General Atlas. Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1835.

 

Newspapers and Scientific Periodicals

RBC O52 AT42 = Athenian Gazette: or Casuistical Mercury. Vol. I. London: Raven, 1691.

RBC O52 AT42 = Athenian Gazette: or Casuistical Mercury. Vol. II. London: Raven, 1693.

RBC Q157.A18 V.4 = Opuscula Omnia Actis Eruditorum Lipsiensibus Inserta. Vol. 4. Venetiis: Jo. Baptist ea Pasquali, MDCCXLIII.

RBC xxE187.N38 C74 = Colonial Newspaper Collection: 1760-1800s.

RBC Q111.P45 1731 V.2 = Lowthorp, John, M.A., F.R.S.The Philosophical Transactions and Collections: To the End of the Year MDCC. 4th ed. Vol. 2. London, 1731. (there are further vols. on shelf).

[Plates from Diderot’s Encyclopédie]

RBC AE25.E54 Plates V.1 = Recueil de Planches. Vol. 1. Geneve: Chez Pellet, Imprimeur, MDCC LXXIX.

RBC AE25.E54 Plates V.2 = Recueil de Planches. Vol. 2. Geneve: Chez Pellet, Imprimeur, MDCC LXXIX.

RBC AE25.E54 Plates V.3 = Suite du Recueil de Planches, Sur Les Sciences et les Arts Mechaniques. V. 3. Geneve: Chez Pellet, Imprimeur. MDCC LXXIX

 

Bibles and Prayer Books

RBC BS308 1770 = Erthyglau

RBC 220.54 B47 = La Sainte Bible. MDCX.

RBC xxBS1 1657 = Novum Tetamentum Graecum, Typist, Johannis Wittigau. MDCLVII, 1657.

RBC 335.H33 P8 1871 = Na Halelu. New York: 1871.

RBC 220.5392 B47 = Biblia. Amsterdam: Haaro Compagnie.

RBC xxBS1 1654 V.1 = Biblia Polyglotta. Ed. Brian Walton. MDCLVII.

RBC BS170 1590 = Biblia.

Burgess 025 = Biblia Latina. 1495.

RBC BS90 1669 = Biblia Sacra. Amstardam: 1669.

RBC BT235.G8 = Gulichii, Abrahami. Librorum Propheticorum: Veteris & Novi Testamenti Compendium et Analysis. Amsterdam: Joannis a Someren, CIC IC LXXXIII.

RBC BT430.C95 V.2 = Oraciones Vespertinas de la Passion y Muerte de Christo S. Nvestro. Vol. 2. 1660.

RBC BS185 1611.L62 = The Bible. London: Robert Barker, 1611.

RBC 220.52B47T = Common Prayer: Holy Bible. London: Robert Barker, 1611.

RBC x220.52 B47c = The Complete Family Bible. Burslem: J. Tregortha.

RBC BS2638. A25 1482 = Evangeliae. 1482.

 

Reformation

RBC x940.7 G772 = Fascicvlvs: Rervm Expetendarvm Ac Fugiendarum. 1535.

Burgess 134 Melanchthon, Examen eorvm, qvi avdivntvr anteritvm pvblicae ordinationis, qua commendatur eis ministerium Evangelii. Wittenberg, 1554

RBC 284.1 M48 = Melanchthon, Philip. Eyne Summa der Chriftlichen Leer. Wittenberg: 1524.

Burgess 112 Melanchthon. Der Prophet Daniel

RBC 284.2 C139IE = Norton, Thomas. Calvin’s Institutes. London: Anne Griffin, 1634.

x BR1600.F622. John Foxe, Acts and monuments of the Christian martyrs. [s.1. : s.n., 1632?]