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1500–1600 AD

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1952

Great Voices of the Reformation

Foordick, Harry Emerson, 1878– ed.

n.d.

A Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

1959

The Sermon on the Mount and The Magnificat

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

1952

Reformation Writings

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

1935

Dr. Martin Luther’s Large Catechism

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

1950

The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

1943

Three Treatises

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

1943

Works of Martin Luther

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

1907

Luther’s Small Catechism

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

1915

Works of Martin Luther

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

n.d.

D. Martin Lutheri Colloquia Mensalia

Luther, Martin, 1483–1546

1848

Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions...

Tyndale, William, d. 1536

1938

The Work of William Tindale

Tyndale, William, d. 1536

1938

The New Testament Translated by William Tyndale

Bible. N.T. English. 1938. Tyndale

1953

Zwingli and Bullinger

Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484–1531

1934

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Rabelais, François, 1490 (ca.)–1553?

1944

The Five Books of Gargantua and Pantagruel

Rabelais, François, 1490 (ca.)–1553?

1944

The Loci Communes of Philip Melanchthon

Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497–1560

1888

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini

Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500–1571

1906

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini

Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500–1571

1949

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1936

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1960

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1950

Complete Indexes to the Institutes of the Christian Religion

Nixon, Leroy

1957

On the Christian Faith

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentaries on the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1950

Commentaries on the Four Last Books of Moses

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1949

Commentaries on the Book of Joshua

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1949

Commentary on the Book of Psalms

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1950

Commentaries on Jeremiah and the Lamentations

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentaries on the First Twenty Chapters of Ezekiel

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentaries on the Book of the Prophet Daniel

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1950

Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1949

Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1949

Commentary on the Gospel According to John

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1949

Commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1947

Commentaries on Romans

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentary on Corinthians

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentaries on Galatians and Ephesians

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentaries on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentaries on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentaries on Hebrews

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1948

Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1952

Sermons on Job

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1958

Tracts and Treatises

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1939

A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1954

Theological Treatises

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1949

Calvin (Smith)

Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564

1949

History of the Reformation in Scotland

Knox, John, 1505–1572

1950

The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius

Vesalius, Andreas, 1514–1564

1906

Contemporary Portraits of Reformers

Beza, Theodore de, 1519–1605

1938

La Opera Complete

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525–1594

1934

An Essay of Michel de Montaigne

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 1533–1592

n.d.

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533–1592

1893

On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

Gilbert, William, 1540–1603

1930

Don Quixote

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616

1949

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1620

1950

Popol Vuh

Popol vuh

1909

The Faerie Queene

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?–1599

1890

The Works of Edmund Spenser

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?–1599

1909

Spenser’s Faerie Queene

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?–1599

1823

The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England

Coke, Sir Edward, 1552–1634

1797

The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England

Coke, Sir Edward, 1552–1634

1848

The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker

Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4–1600

1888

The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine Mr. Richard Hooker

Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4–1600

1820

The Works of the Learned and Judicious Divine Mr. Richard Hooker

Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4–1600

1842

The Zurich Letters

The Zurich letters

1845

The Zurich Letters, Second Series

The Zurich letters

1900

Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum

Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626

1903

Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum

Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626

1890

The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626

1702

Letters of Sr. Francis Bacon

Bacon, Francis

1926

The Advancement of Learning

Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626

1942

Essays and The New Atlantis

Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626

1939

The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill

Burtt, Edwin Arthur, 1892– editor

1943

Werken voor Orgel en Clavecimbel

Swelinck, Jan Pietersz, 1562–1621

1903

Marlowe’s Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Marlowe, Christopher, 1564–1593

1969

The Annotated Mother Goose

Other Goose

1954

Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1944

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1940

William Shakespeare: A Commentary

Ridley, Maurice Roy, 1890–

1900

Shakespeare’s Tragedies & Comedies

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1905

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1908

Pericles

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1905

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1904

The Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1904

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1905

Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1904

The Life and Death of King John

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1904

The Life of King Henry V

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1904

King Henry IV, First Part

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1904

King Henry IV, Second Part

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1905

Julius Caesar

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1905

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1934 / repr. 1946

Hamlet

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1935 / repr. 1946

Macbeth

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616

1880

Shakespeare’s Knowledge and Use of the Bible

Wordsworth, Charles, 1806–1892

1937

The Meaning of Hamlet

Schücking, Levin Ludwig, 1878–

1942

Shakespeare and the Nature of Man

Spencer, Theodore, 1902–1949

1957

The Court and the Castle

West, Rebecca, pseud.

1949

Hamlet’s Father

Flatter, Richard, 1891–

1950

The Sources of Much Ado About Nothing

Prouty, Charles Tyler

1946

Prefaces to Shakespeare

Granville-Barker, Harley Granville, 1877–

1960

On Motion and On Mechanics

Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642

1939

Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences

Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642

1953

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642

1939

Epitome of Copernican Astronomy

Kepler, Johannes, 1571–1630

1924

The Fugger Newsletter

Klapwill, Victor, 1873– ed.

1926

The Fugger News-Letters, Second Series

Klapwill, Victor, 1873– editor

1900

Tercentenary Celebration of the Promulgation of the Edict of Nantes

Huguenot Society of America

1949

The Italian Madrigal

Einstein, Alfred, 1880–

1641

De Monarchia Hispanica

Campanella, Tommaso, 1568–1639

1976

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473–1543