Featured Highlights
The CRRS has one of the most substantial collections of early modern books in North America with over 4,000 volumes of history, literature, religion, philosophy, politics, and science, printed in a range of languages including English, Latin, Greek, Dutch, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. To discover more about what’s in our collections, you can browse our selection of themed online exhibits, check out our rare books posts on Instagram and Facebook, or explore some highlights from our collections below.
Animals
Conrad Gessner, Vogelbuch (Zurich, 1581).
Ulisse Aldrovandi, De quadrupedib[us] digitatis viuiparis libri tres (Bologna, 1663).
Guillaume Rondelet, Libri de piscibus marinis (Lyon, 1554).
Architecture
Vitruvius, I dieci libri dell’architettura di M. Vitruuio (Venice, 1567).
Sebastiano Serlio, De architectura libri quinque (Venice, 1569).
Sebastiano Serlio, Reigles generales de l’architecture (Antwerp, 1545).
Astronomy
William Cuningham, The Cosmographical Glasse (London, 1559).
Galileo Galilei, Syderevs nvncivs magna (Bologna, 1655).
Georg von Peurbach, Theoricae novæ planetarvm (Cologne, 1581).
Censorship
Desiderius Erasmus, Apologia aduersus articulos aliquot per monachos quosdam in Hispanijs (Basel, 1529).
Desiderius Erasmus, ed., Omnia quotquot extant Diui Ambrosii Episcopi Mediolanensis opera (Basel, 1538).
Ovid, Metamorphosis (Venice, 1517).
Dictionaries
John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes (London, 1598).
Sante Pagnino, Epitome thesauri linguae sanctae (Leiden, 1588).
Hiob Ludolf, Za’ijob Lodalf za’embhera garmanja ‘eheta jebelewa ‘alemana muzagabe qalate za’lesana gedeze (London, 1661).
Music
Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins, The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London, 1583).
Leaf from an antiphonary (c. 1500).
Johann Reuchlin, Comoediae duae (Cologne, 1540).
Plants
William Turner, The First and Seconde Partes of the Herbal (Cologne, 1568).
John Gerard, The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes (London, 1633).
A Book of Fruits & Flovvers (London, 1656).
Reformation
Martin Luther, Eyn Widerruff vom Fegefeür (Nuremberg, 1530).
Martin Luther, Hausspostilla (Nuremberg, 1565).
John Foxe, Actes and monuments (London, 1596).
Warfare
Christoph Dambach, Büchsenmeisterey (Frankfurt, 1615)
William Neade, The Double-Armed Man, by the New Inuention (London, 1625).
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor (Paris, 1535)
