Books: 1500s
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| Author | Title | Edition | Format | Price | Puborg |
| Apian, Peter, 1495-1552 | Cosmographicvs liber Petri Apiani mathematici, iam denuo integritati restitutus per Gemmam Phrysium ... [Ameri | 1533 | Graphic (Facs) | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Apian, Peter, 1495-1552 | Cosmographicvs liber Petri Apiani mathematici, iam denuo integritati restitutus per Gemmam Phrysium. Item eius | 1533] Antwp | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Apuleius, Lucius b. ca. 114 ("Africanus" | The Golden Asse | 1566 | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS |
| Apuleius, Lucius b. ca. 114 ("Africanus" | The Golden Asse (tr. William Adlington; elec. ed. Martin Gay) | 1566/1996 | Html | Free | Eserver |
| Archimedes | Archim edous tou Syrakousiou, Ta mechri nun s ozomena, hapanta. = Archimedis Syracvsani philosophi ac geometra | 1544 Basil | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Argenti, Agostino, d. 1576 | Il Monte di Feronia: nel quale si contengono le cose d'arme fatte in Ferrara nel Carnevale del MDLX | 1562Ferrara | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Argentino, Ricardo | De Praestigiis et Incantationibvs Daemonvm et Necromanticorvm Liber singularis nunqamante hac aeditus. | 1568 Basil | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| Ariosto, Ludovico 1474-1533 | Orlando Furioso (tr. William Stewart Rose) | 1516? | Html | Free | Sunsite |
| Aristotle | Aristotelis De natura, aut De rerum principiis libri 8 Ioachino Perionio interprete, rev. ... | 1561 Paris | Graphic | Free | ProCivMusAssisi |
| Aristotle | Textus ethicorua Aristotelis ad Nichomachum iuxta antiquaa [Nichomachean ethics. Latin; "1ed by Jean Buridan, | 1500? | Graphic (Facs) | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Aristotle. Nichomachean ethics. Latin. | Textus ethicoru Aristotelis ad Nichomachum iuxta antiqua translatione cum familiarissimo c*mentario in eund | 1500? Paris | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Ascham, Roger | The Schoolmaster | 1570 | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS |
| Ascham, Roger (1515-1568) | The Scholemaster | 1570/1904 | Html | Free | UVaETextL |
| Ascham, Roger (1515-1568) | The Scholemaster | 1570 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Bacon, Roger 1214?-1294 | The Mirror of Alchemy | 1597 Lond. | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Badius, Josse, 1462-1535 | Annotationes doctorum viroru[m] in grammaticos, oratores, poetas ... | 1511 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | ComplutenseUMad |
| Barbosa, Duarte | The book of Duarte Barbosa [v2] account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean & their inhabit [II-49] | 1518/1921 | Graphic | Free | CornellU |
| Barlowe, Arthur | 1584: Captain Arthur Barlowe's Narrative of the First Voyage to the Coasts of America [Pamlico Sound; Roanoke | 1584/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Barnes, Barnabe (c1569-1609) | Selections from: Parthenophil and Parthenophe (1593) & Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets (1595) | 1593/1593 | Html | Free | Sonnets |
| Barrado, Hernando | 1582: Declaration of Hernando Barrado, 1582 [southwest; murder of missionaries] | 1582/1916 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Bartholomaeus, Nicolaus 1478- | Christus Xilonicus (tr. C. C. Love) | 15--? | Html | Free | UToronto |
| Benedetti, Rocco | Le feste, et trionfi fatti dalla Sereniss. Signoria di Venetia nella felice venuta di Henrico III, C | 1574 Venice | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Bernardus, Comensis, d. ca. 1510 | Lvcerna Inqvisitorvm Haereticae Pravitatis R. P. F. Bernardi Comensis, Ordinis Pr dicatorum. | 1584 Rome | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| Besson, Jacques Dauphinois | 1578: Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum [Theater of Instruments and Machines] (Intro Ronald Brashear) | 1578/1999 | Graphic | Free | Smithsonian |
| Betulius (Sixt Birk,or Birck) 1501-1554 | Susanna (tr. C. C. Love) | 15--? | Html | Free | UToronto |
| Bianca, Leonora | Le risposte della signora Leonora Bianca: dove ingeniosissimamente et con mirabil arte, si pronostica (illus.) [Dante; fortune-telling] | 1565 Venice | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Bianchelli, Mengo | Contro alla peste [plague - prevention; formulae, receipts, prescriptions] | 1523Flornce | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
| Bible. | Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc castigata Hebraea, Chaldaea, Graeca & Latina nomina virorum, mulierum, | 1547Louvain | Graphic | Free | ProCivMusAssisi |
| Bigges, Walter | Expeditio Francisci Draki Equitis Angli in Indias Occidentales Anno MDLXXXV (ed. Dana F. sutton) | 1588 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Bigges, Walter (Capt.) | A Summary & True Discourse of SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S West Indian Voyage, begun in the year 1585...Santa Domingo.. | 15?? | Html | Free | Bartleby |
| Bodin, Jean | De la Demonomanie des Sorciers [Avec Privilege dv Roy] | 1587 Paris | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| Bodin, Jean | Six Books of the Commonwealth (Abrg & Tr. M.J. Tooley) | 1576/1955 | Html | Free | Constitution |
| Boetie, Etienne de la | Discourse on Voluntary Servitude | 1548/1942 | Html | Free | Constitution |
| Bonus, Petrus | A form & method of perfecting base metals. by Janus Lacinius Therapus, the Calabrian [illus.] | 1546 Venice | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Bradford, John 1510- | Writings of the Rev. John Bradford [illus.] | 15-- | Html | Free | CCEL |
| Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601 | 1598: Astronomiske Instrumenter Mechanica [3 lang ed.] | 1598 | Html | Free | UCopenhagen |
| Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601 | Tychonis Brahe ... De mvndi aetherei recentioribvs phaenomenis, liber secvndvs ... | 1588 Frankf | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601 | Tychonis Brahe De nova et nullius aevi memoria prius visa stella, iam pridem anno a nato Christo 1572, mense Novembri primum conspecta, cont | 1572?Brusll | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UGhent |
| Breton, Nicholas | The Arbor of Amorous Devices: 1597 | 1597/10936 | Questia | subs | HarvardUPr |
| Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca1450-ca1512 | Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie =: Das Buch der Vergift der Pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der geme | 1500Strassb | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
| Buchanan, George | Ane Admonition Direct to the Trew Lordis Mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Scot | 1571 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Buchanan, George | De Caleto Nuper Recepta Carmen (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1558 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Buchanan, George | De Iure Regni Apud Scotos Dialogus (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1579 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Buchanan, George | De Maria Scotorum Regina (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1568 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Buchanan, George | Rerum Scotarum Historia (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1582 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Buchanan, George | Vita ab Ipso Scripto Biennio ante Mortem (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) The Life of George Buchanan | 1580 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Bugenhagen, Johann Bugenhagen (Pomeranus | A Christian Sermon Over the Body & at the Funeral of the Venerable Dr. Martin Luther [facsimile & text] | 1564 | Graphic | Free | EmoryUniv |
| Bustamente, Pedro de | 1581: Declaration of Pedro de Bustamente, 1582 | 1581/1916 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez] | 1542: Relation of the Voyage of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, 1542-1543 | 1542/1916 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620 | The Latin Poetry of Thomas Campion (1567-1620) (hypertext ed) | 1595 & 1619 | Html | Free | UCaIrvine |
| Canobbio, Alessandro | Il Svccesso della Peste occorsa in Padova l'anno 1576 | 15--? | Free | WorldHealthOrg | |
| Car., Giovanni Paulo | La partita del Serenissimo Pricipe con l'armata di Spagna, & l'arriuata sua in Inghilterra, & l'ordi | 1554?Rome? | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Cardi, Pietro Niccola de | Venuta della sereniss[i]ma Cristina di Loreno in Italia al seggio ducale di Fiorenza del suo serenis | 1590Flornce | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Carew, Richard (Sir) | Partial English Translation of Tasso...... s Gerusalemme Liberata (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1594 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Caroso, Fabrito, d. 1605 | Il Ballarino [tr.] | 1581 | Html Graphic | Free | |
| Caroso, Fabrito, d. 1605 | Il ballarino di M. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta,...["one of the most important documents detailing late-Renais | 1581 | Html Graphic | Free | Libr Congress |
| Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557 | 1534: First Relation of Jaques Carthier of S. Malo, 1534 [Newfoundland, Labrador, Gulf of St. Lawrence] | 1534/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557 | 1535: Shorte and Briefe Narration (Cartier's Second Voyage), 1535-1536 [Newfoundland, St. Lawrence River, sit | 1536/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557 | 1541: Third Voyage of Discovery Made By Captaine Jaques Cartier, 1541 [St. Lawrence Riv.] | 1541/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Case, John | Apologia Musices tam Vocalis quam Instrumentalis et Mixtae (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1588 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Case, John | Speculum Moralium Quaestionum (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1585 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Case, John | Sphaera Civitatis (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1588 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Castaneda de Najera, Pedro de, 16th c | 1540: Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542 [ed: George Parker Winship] | 1540/1904 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Castaneda, Pedro de | The Journey of Coronado | 15?? | Html | Free | PBS |
| Castiglione, Baldassare | The Book of the Courtier (ed by Walter Raleigh; tr. Thomas Hoby) | 1561/1900 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Castro, Alfonso de | Fratris Alfonsi a Castro, Zamorensis, Ordinis Minorvm, Regvlaris Obseruantiae prouinciae sancti Iacobi De iust | 1549 Veneti | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey, ca 1343-1400 | The Romaunt of the Rose - MS Glasgow, Hunter 409 (V.3.7) [Pilot Project & Sample Pages; William Thynne] | 1532? | Graphic | Free | UGlasgow |
| Chettle, Henry | Kind-Hartes Dreame, Conteining fiue Apparitions, vvith their Inuestiues against abuses raigning | 1582/1923 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Chirino, Alonso | Tratado llamado menor dano de Medicina | 1513 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | ComplutenseUMad |
| Chrysopolitanus, Jacobus | Brevis narratio triumphi quo a Senatu populoque Traiectensi illustrissimus princeps Robertus Dudlaeu: | 1586Ultraje | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Cino da Pistoia, 1270-1337 | Cyni Pistoriensis ... in Digesti veteris libros commentaria doctissima [Roman law] | 1578 | Graphic Txt | Free | UToronto |
| Cockaine, Thomas | A Short Treatise of Hunting [illus.] | 1591 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527 | Hypnerotomachia (tr. Robert Dallington, 1561-1637) | 1592/1969 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UToronto |
| Columbus, Christopher | 1503: Letter of Columbus on the Fourth Voyage [in Olson & Bourne, The Northmen] | 1503/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Constable, Henry | Diana. Or, The Excellent Conceitful Sonnets | 1594/1973 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |