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Collections of wood or ivory tablets, or sheets of paper, parchment, or similar material, that are blank, written on, or printed, and are strung or bound together; commonly many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing; especially, when printed, a bound volume, or a volume of some size.

This term has 2,576 records attributed within our system.

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Getty AAT term number

300028051

Broader Terms used

<information artifacts by physical form>

Narrower Terms used

<books by conditions of production>
<books by external form>
<books by internal form>

Term used for

books
codices (gathered leaves)

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Concerts of antient music under the patronage of Their Majesties: as performed at the New Rooms, Tottenham-Street, M.DCC.XCII.

Maker(s)

Publisher: Lee, W.

Rights of man being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution

Maker(s)

Author: Paine, Thomas

Les Spectacles de Paris : ou Calendrier historique & chronologique des Theatres ... vingt-sixiéme partie, pour l'année 1787.

Maker(s)

Publisher: Veuve Duchesne

The birds of America from original drawings. Volume 3.

Maker(s)

Audubon, John James

Les Spectacles de Paris : ou Calendrier historique & chronologique des Theatres ... vingt-troisiéme partie, pour l'année 1784.

Maker(s)

Publisher: Veuve Duchesne
Annotator: Zacharie, Mademoiselle

Heures a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir : avec les figures de la vie de lhomme: et la destruction de Hierusalem ...

Maker(s)

Catholic church
Printer: Hardouyn, Gilles

[Volume containing works by Petrarca and Dolce]

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Editor: Dolce, Lodovico
Bookbinder: Eve, Nicholas

[Homiliai theophorōntinōn paterōn]. = Homiliæ quædam sacræ, Basilij M. Gregorij Nysseni, Nazianzeni, Ioan. Chrysostoni, Cyri Germani; in præcipua anni serias: cum fragmento Cyrilli Alexandrini. / Studio et opera Davidis Hoeschelij A. è libris calamo exaratis partim emendatiores, partim nunc primum editæ; cum eiusdem notatiunculis, rerum item ac verborum indice..

Maker(s)

Editor: Hoeschel, David
Printer: Manger, Michael

The art of drawing in perspective made easy to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / By James Ferguson, F.R.S.

Maker(s)

Author: Ferguson, James (astronomer)
Publisher: Strachan, William
Publisher: Cadell, Thomas

Ornithological biography, or, An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America : accompanied by descriptions of the objects represented in the work entitled The birds of America : and interspersed with delineations of American scenery and manners

Maker(s)

Author: Audubon, John James

Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda. : To which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies. With several other translations out of French.

Maker(s)

Author: Philips, Katherine
Author: Corneille, Pierre
Engraver: Faithorne, William
Herringman, Henry
Printer: Newcomb, Thomas

The history of Sir Charles Grandison in a series of letters : published from the originals by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In six volumes.

Maker(s)

Author: Richardson, Samuel
Bookseller: C. Hitch & L. Hawes (Firm)
Bookseller: J. and J. Rivington (Firm)
Bookseller: Millar, Andrew
Bookseller: R. and J. Dodsley
Bookseller: Leake, James
Bookseller: Main, Robert

Memoirs of the life of the late George Frederic Handel ; to which is added a catalogue of his works, and observations upon them.

Maker(s)

Author: Mainwaring, John
Publisher: R. and J. Dodsley

Clarissa : Or, the history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life. In seven volumes. To each of which is added, a table of Contents. The fourth edition. In which many passages and some letters are restored from the original manuscripts. And to which is added, an ample collection of such of the Moral and Instructive sentiments interspersed throughout the Work, as may be presumed to be of general Use and Service.

Maker(s)

Author: Richardson, Samuel
Bookseller: Osborn, John
Bookseller: Millar, Andrew
Bookseller: J. and J. Rivington (Firm)
Bookseller: Leake, James

Thomae Gianninii Ferrariensis in patrio gymnasio primi philosophiae doctoris de lumine & speciebus spiritalibus, mente effectrice & speciebus intelligibilibus. Dæmonibus & mentibus à materia separatis. Disputationes aristotelicæ. Ad amplissimum S.R.E. cardinalem Bonifacium Bevilaquam.

Maker(s)

Author: Giannini, Tommaso
Dedicatee: Bevilacqua, Bonifacio
Printer: Baldini, Vittorio

Atlas de Rocque

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Conservator: Brockman, James (bookbinder)

De omnibus illiberalibus sive mechanicis artibus : humani ingenii sagacitate atque industria iam inde ab exordio nascentis mundi vsque ad nostram aetatem adinuentis, luculentus atque succinctus liber / auctore Hartmanno Schoppero, novoforensi, norico ...

Maker(s)

Author: Schopper, Hartmann
Bookseller: Feyerabend, Sigmund Karl
Printer: Rabe, Georg
Bookbinder: Chambolle-Duru (Firm)

Il Petrarca con l'espositione di M. Alessandro Velutello. Di nuouo ristampato con le figure a i Trionfi, con le apostille, e con piu cose utili aggiunt

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Commentator: Vellutello, Alessandro
Printer: Bevilacqua, Nicolò

Fla Iosephi De bello iudaico, Libri septem : De Antiquitatibus, contra Apionem Grammaticum, libri duo ; et De Imperatrice Ratione, liber unus, in quo martyrium Machabæoru[m] describitur.

Maker(s)

Author: Josephus, Flavius
Translator: Rufinus, of Aquileia
Editor: Erasmus, Desiderius (Erasmus von Rotterdam)
Bookseller: Gryphius, Sebastianus

Philosophie d'amour de M. Leon Hebrev ; traduicte d'italien en françoys, par le Seigneur du Parc Champenoi

Maker(s)

Author: León, Hebreo
Translator: Sauvage, Denis, sieur du Parc
Printer: Rouillé, Guillaume
Printer: Payen, Thibaud
Bookbinder: Eve, Nicolas

Il Petrarcha con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello e con piu vtili cose in diuersi luoghi di quella nouissimamente da lui aggiunte : nessuno ardisca stampare, ne stampato uendere il presente uolume dentro altermino d'anni dieci sotto le pene che nelbreue del Sommo Pontifice, ene glialtri priuilegi si contengono.

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Commentator: Vellutello, Alessandro
Printer: Vitali, Bernardino dei

Xenophontis philosophi et historici clarissimi Opera, quae quidem Graecè extant, omnia, partim iam olim, partim nunc primùm, hominum doctissimorum diligentia, in Latinam linguam co[n]uersa, ac multò quàm antè accuratius recognita : quorum elenchum uersa pagella reperies.

Maker(s)

Author: Xenophon of Athens
Translator: Filelfo, Francesco
Printer: Isingrin, Michael

[Il Petrarcha spirituale and two other works]

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Author: Maggiorino, Benedetto
Author: Polybius

Gliasolani di messer Pietro Bembo.

Maker(s)

Author: Bembo, Pietro
Dedicatee: Borgia, Lucrezia
Printer: Manuzio, Aldo
Printer: Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula

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