Books: 1500s
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NOTE: Titles identified as "GRAPHIC" or "PDF" are generally digital fascimiles of the original books.
| Author | Title | Edition | Format | Price | Puborg |
| Sidney, Philip (Sir) 1554-1586 | The Countess of Pembrookes Arcadia (Book I [of V] only) | 1581/90/93 | Html | Free | UAugsburg |
| Sidney, Philip (Sir) 1554-1586 | The Defence of Poesie | 1595 | Html | Free | UToronto |
| Sidney, Philip (Sir) 1554-1586 | The Defence of Poesie | 1595 | Html | Free | UVaLib |
| Sidney, Philip (Sir) 1554-1586 | The Defence of Poesie | 1595 | Html | Free | UAugsburg |
| Sidney, Philip (Sir) 1554-1586 | The Defence of Poesie | 1595 | Html | Free | PerseusPj |
| Sidney, Philip (Sir) 1554-1586 | The Defence of Poesie [with intro, notes, selected bibliography | 1595/1992 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Sidney, Philip (Sir) 1554-1586 | The Defence of Poesie and Poems | 1595 | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS |
| Sidney, Philip (Sir) 1554-1586 | The Lady of May | 1578 | Html | Free | UAugsburg |
| Sidney, Philip (Sir) 1554-1586 | The Lady of May | 1598/1605 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Silver, George | Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence | 1599c/1898 | Html | Free | |
| Silver, George | Paradoxes of Defence [illus.] | 1599 | Html | Free | |
| Solinus, C. Julius | Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, artivm, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in. C. Ivlii Solini [Polyhistora] enarrati | 1520 | Graphic (Facs) | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Solinus, C. Julius | Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, artivm, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in. C. Ivlii Solini [Polyhistora] enarrati | 1520 Venice | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Soto, Hernando de, ca1500-1542 | 1539: Letter of Hernando de Soto at Tampa Bay to the Justice and Board of Magistrates in Santiago de Cuba [Fl | 1539/1904 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Southwell, Robert | Selected Poems | 1595 | Html | Free | Luminarium |
| Sparke, John | 1565: The Voyage Made by M. John Hawkins Esquire [slaves from Africa; to West Indies, Florida, Huguenots] | 1565/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | A View of the Present State of Ireland | 1596/1894 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Amoretti and Ephithalamion | 1595/1882 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Amoretti and Epithalamion | 1595/1882 | Html | Free | UVaETextL |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Astrophel: A Pastorall Elegie | 1596/1882 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Colin Clovts Come Home Againe | 1595/1882 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Complaints | 1591/1882/1 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Daphnaida. An Elegie vpon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Dovglas | 1596/1882 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Epithalamion | 1595/ | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Fowre Hymnes | 1592/1882 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Letters from Spenser to Gabriel Harvey | 15??/1882 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | Prothalamion, or A Spousal Verse | 1596/1882 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, v 3: Complaints, 1590-91 [Spenser Soc.] | 159-/1882 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, v 7: The Faerie Queene: Bk 3, 4, & 5 [Spenser Soc.] | 159-/1882 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, v 8: The Faerie Queene: Bk 5, 6; Commendatory Poems | 159-/1882 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | NYPL |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, v 9: Veue of the Present State Ireland; Letters [Spen | 159-/1882 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | NYPL |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | The Faerie Queene [Books I-VI; The Cantos of Mutabilitie] | 1596/1882 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | The Faerie Queene, v 1: Books 1-3 | 1596 | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS |
| Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 | The Shepheardes Calendar (Ianuarye - December) | 1579/1895 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Sternhals, Johann | The War of the Knights written above 200 years ago (tr. Fred Hatt frm Ms. Wellcome 1027; w/ notes by Sigismund | 1595 Hambg. | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Stubbe, Peter | A true Discourse Declaring the damnable life of one Stubbe Peeter, a most wicked Sourcerer... | 1590 | Html | Free | Warewolfpage |
| Tassolo, Domenico | La felicissima et honorata intrata in Roma del illustrissimo Signor Marcantonio Colonna con li trion | 1571 Viterb | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Tengler, Ulrich, d. ca. 1511 | Der neu Layenspiegel von rechtmassigen ordnungen in Burgerlichen vnd peinlichn Regimenten | 1511 Ausbur | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| Tomitano, Bernardino | Bernardini Tomitani Thetis in adventu Regis Henrici III Galliae Christianissimi, et IIII Poloniae Se | 1574 Venice | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Torello, Sebastiano | Il belissimo ordine tenuto nella solenne e magnanima intrata nella elicissima Citta di Roma, dal Se | 1570 Viterb | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Tottel, Richard, ed | Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward... | 1557 | Html | Free | HTI-UMich |
| Trithemius, Johannes (?) 1462-1516 | Everburning Lights of Trithemius [MS. Ashmole 1408 | 15th c. ? | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Tyndale, William (Tran.) | The First Printed English New Testament [facsimle of copy in Granville Coll., British Museum] | 152-?/1871 | Free | CaseWestern | |
| Ulivieri, Angelo | Canzone del gravato Rocchegiano al christianissmo r di Francia et di Polonia, Henrico III. | 1574 Venice | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Ulloa, Francisco de | 1539: The Voyage of Francisco de Ulloa, 1539 | 1539/1904 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Umar ibn al-Farruhan al-Tabari (9th c.) | De nativitatibus secundum Omar, liber primus[-tertius] [horoscopes; intro David Juste] | 1533 Basil | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Valenti, Bartolomeo | Corona di stanze per la zuffa del ponte fatta alla presenza del Christianissimo Henrico III. ove si | 1574 Padova | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Vergil, Polydore | Anglica Historia (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1555 ver. | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Verrazzano, Giovanni da, 1485?-1527 | 1524: Voyage of John de Verazzano, along the Coast of North America, from Carolina to Newfoundland, A.D. 1524 | 1524/1841 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Verrazzano, Giovanni da, 1485?-1527 | Voyage of John de Verazzano along the Coast of North America, Carolina to Newfoundland 1524 (tr. J.G. | 1524/18?? | Graphic | Free | CornellU |
| Villa Nova, Arnold de | Extracts made by Lacinius from the works of Arnold de Villa Nova, in which the composition of our stone is pra | 1546/1550 | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571 | Le Monde a l'Empire et le Monde Demoniacle fait par Dialogues...1 L'empire des Monarchies; 2 de l'empire romai | 1561 Geneva | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571 | The Second Part of the Demoniacke Worlde, or worlde possessed with Devils...3 Dialogues: 1. Of Familiar Devils | 1583 Lond. | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571 | The Worlde Possessed with Deuils...3 Dialogues 1 Of the Deuill let loose; 2 Of Blacke Deuils; 3 Of White Deuil | 1583 Lond. | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| Wang, Bing (fl. 762) | Chong guang bu zhu Huangdi nei jing su wen: er shi si juan / Wang Bing zhu [10 vols.; medicine - Chinese; humo | 1550 (China | Graphic | Free | Harvard: |
| Wedderburn, Robert (attrib.) | The Complaynt of Scotland (intro. David Wilson) | ca1550/2003 | Html | Free | ElecScotland |
| Weyer, Johann, 1515-1588 | Cinq Livres de l'Impostvre et Tromperie des Diables: des Enchantements & Sorcelleries: Pris du Latin de Iean V | 1567 Paris | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| White, John, 1570-1615 | 1587: The Fourth Voyage Made to Virginia in the Yere 1587 | 1587/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| White, John, 1570-1615 | 1590: The Fifth Voyage of M. John White, 1590 [Canaries, West Indies, American Coast; colonists gone at Roano | 1590/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Whitney, Geffrey | A choice of emblemes, & other devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, englished & morali | 1586 Leyden | Graphic | Free | ULeiden |
| Whitney, Geffrey | Choice of Emblemes, & other devises, For the moste part gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished & Moralized | 1586 Leyden | Graphic | Free | PennStU |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v1] & other countreys ... Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, E | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v1] & other countreys ... [Frobisher, Martin (Sir) ca. 1535 | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v2] & other countreys ... Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, E | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v2] & other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfu | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v3] & other countreys ... Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, E | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v3] & other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfu | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v4] & other countreys ... Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, E | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v4] & other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfu | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v5] & other countreys ... Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, E | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Willes, Richard (fl.1558-1573) | The history of trauayle in the West & East Indies [v5] & other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfu | 1577 Lond. | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Wilson, Thomas | The Arte of Rhetorique (Books I-III) | 1560/1998 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |