Collection Highlight: Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882).
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882).
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).
La Comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellvtello. Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1544.
Hernán Cortés (1485-1547)
Historia de Nueva-España, escrita por su esclarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes, aumentada
con otros documentos, y notas, por el ilustrissimo señor don Francisco Antonio Lorenzana,
Arzobispo de Mexico. México: Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543).
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI. Basle: Heinrich Petri, 1566.
Copernicus wrote De revolutionibus at the cathedral in Frauenburg (now Frombork) in the northernmost diocese in Poland. Being far away from the main European universities and printing shops, it is very unlikely that Copernicus would have seen his astronomical treatise printed except for the active role of Georg Joachim Rheticus, a young professor of astronomy from Lutheran Wittenberg.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400).
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770).
Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. London: T. Payne and Son, 1778.
Sir William Chambers (1722-1796)
Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew in Surry the Seat of Her Royal Highness The Princess Dowager of Wales. By William Chambers. London: John Haberkorn for the Author, 1763.
Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Compuesta por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. En Quatro tomos. London: J and R. Tonson, 1738.
Celestinus III. Giacinto Bobone (1106-1198). Pont. Max. (1191-1198)
Papal Bull addressed to the Chapter of Saint Peter in Mainz. Rome: March 29, 1197.
BURNS, Robert.
The Works of Robert Burns. J. Crissy: Philadelphia, 1841.