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 |
| Onate, Juan de, 1549?-1624 | 1599: Account of the Journey to the Salines, the Xumanas, & the Sea | 1599/1916 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Onate, Juan de, 1549?-1624 | 1599: Letter Written by Don Juan de Onate from New Mexico | 1599/1953 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses (tr. Arthur Golding) [digital facsimile] | 1567 Lond. | Graphic | Free | SCETI |
| Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo Fernandez de, 1 | 1539: Narrative of De Soto's Expedition Based on the Diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, His Private Secretary [Florida] | 1539/1904 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Pantera, Giovanni Antonio (16th c.) | Monarchia del nostro Signor Giesu Christo di M Giouan'Antonio Pantera Parentino da lui nuouamente emendata... | 1548 Venice | Graphic | Free | ProCivMusAssisi |
| Papius, Andreas, 1542-1581 | And. Papii Gandensis De consonantiis, sev Pro diatessaron libri dvo [music theory] | 1581 | Graphic | Free | UMichigan |
| Paracelsus [ie, Phillip von Hohenheim] 1 | Fur Pestilentz: ain seer nutzlicher unnd bewerter Tractat, der Christlichen gemayn zu Nutz und Wolfart, auss d | 1554 Salzbg | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
| Paracelsus, Philippus Theophrastus | 15??: The Coelum Philosophorum [excerpt; "exp of Paracelsus' alchemical writing"] | 15?? | Html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Paracelsus, Philippus Theophrastus | The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers [frm 'Paracelsus his Archidoxis ...] | 15--?/1660 | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Paradin, Claude | Devises Heroiques | 1557 Lyon | Graphic | Free | UGlasgow |
| Paradin, Claude | Les devises heroiques Gabriel Symeon, Les devises ou emblemes heroiques | 1563 Antwrp | Graphic | Free | ULeiden |
| Paradin, Claude (16th c.) | The heroicall devises of M. Claudius Paradin, Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons & others [tr. from | 1591 Lond. | Graphic | Free | PennStU |
| Pardo, Juan, 16th c | 1566: Account of Florida, 1566-1568 [Smithsonian Inst. Pr.] | 1566/1990 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Pare, Ambroise | 15??: Journeys In Diverse Places 1537-69 (tr. Stephen Paget) [condition of surgery in the 16th c] (Harvard Cla | 15?? | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS |
| Partenio, Bernardino, d. 1589 | In divi Henrici tertii Galliae, ac Poloniae Regis Christianissimi, ac Felicissimi, ad urbem Venetam | 1574 Vernic | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Pasquali, Carlo | Caroli Paschali cuneatis ad Henricum III Francorum Regem oratio. | 1574 Venice | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Peachum, Henry | The Garden of Eloquence | 1593 | Html | Free | PerseusPj |
| Peele, George | Pareus (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1585 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Percy, William | Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia | 1594/1877 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Persio, Ascanio | La corona d'Arrigo III, re di Francia, e di Polonia / d'Ascanio Persio.: | 1574 Venice | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Petrarca, Francesco 1304-1374 | Il Petrarca con l'espositione di m. Alessandro Velutello. Di nuouo ristampato con le figure a i Trionfi,... | 1568 Venice | Graphic | Free | ProCivMusAssisi |
| Philo, of Alexandria | [Selections. 1552] Philonis Iudaei in libros Mosis | 1552 Paris | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Pianerio, Giovanni | Felicissimi adventus Henrici Galliarum, et Poloniae Regis Christianissimi, et Augustissimi, ad urbem | 1574 Venice | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Piccolomini, Alessandro, 1508-1579 | 1558: Della grandezza della Terra et dell'acqua, trattato di M Alessandro Piccolomini...[NatSci: land/Water] | 1558 Venice | Graphic | Free | ProCivMusAssisi |
| Plato | Apanta ta toy Platonos (romanized form)] Omnia Platonis opera. [Omnia Platonis opera.] | 1513 Venice | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Plato | Il dialogo di Platone, intitolato il Timeo, ouero della natura del mondo ... (tr. Sebastiano Erizzo) | 1558 Venice | Graphic | Free | ProCivMusAssisi |
| Plutarch | Lives: Caius Martius Coriolanus; Julius Caesar; Marcus Brutus; Marcus Antonius; Augusts; Theseus; Alcibiades ( | 15?? | Html | Free | PerseusPj |
| Ponce de Leon, Juan, 1460?-1521, et. al. | 1513: History of Juan Ponce de Leon's Voyages to Florida: Source Records [Fla. Hist Soc Q.] | 1513/1935 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
| Preston, Thomas, 1537-1598 | Cambyses, King of Persia (c1584 ed) [Cambyses II, d. 522 B.C; Tudor Facsimile Texts] | 1584/1910 | PDF Txt | Free | UToronto |
| Ptolemy (2nd c.) | Cl. Ptolomaei Pheludiensis Alexandrini quadripartitum | 1533 Basil | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Ptolemy, fl. 2nd cent. | Kl. Ptolemaiou Megales sunt axeos: bibl. 13, Thenos Alexandreos Eis ta auta ugomnematon bibl. Ia. (romanized f | 1538 Basil | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Puttenham, George | The Arte of English Poesie | 1569 | Html | Free | UVaLib |
| Puttenham, George (attrib) | The Arte of English Poesie | 1589 | Html | Free | UToronto |
| Quintilian, Marco Fabio Quintiliano | M. F. Quintilianus | 1515 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | ComplutenseUMad |
| Raleigh, Walter (Sir) [ie, Ralegh] | The Discovery of Guiana | 1596 | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS |
| Raleigh, Walter (Sir) [ie, Ralegh] | The Discovery of the Large, Rich, & Beautiful Empire of Guiana | 1596/1910 | Html | Free | ModHstSourceBk |
| Raleigh, Walter (Sir) [ie, Ralegh] | The DISCOVERY of the large, rich, and beautiful EMPIRE of GUIANA | 1596 | Html | Free | Bartleby |
| Raleigh, Walter (Sir) [ie, Ralegh] | The Discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana | 1596/1910 | Html | Free | ModHstSourceBk |
| Raleigh, Walter (Sir) [ie, Ralegh] | The Last Fight of the Revenge at Sea | 1591/1871 | PDF Txt | Free | UToronto |
| Razi, Abu Bakr Muammad ibn Zakarnya 865- | Traicte de la peste, et de sa guerison: premierement, en langue syrienne ... [tr.] en grec, par Alexandre Tral | 1566Poitier | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
| Razi, Abu Bakr Muammad ibn Zakarnya 865- | Traicte de la peste, et de sa guerison: premierement, en langue syrienne ... [tr.] en grec, par Alexandre Tral | 1566Poitier | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
| Reitter, Conrad (fl. ca1508) | Mortilogus / F. Conradi Reitterii Nordlingensis, Prioris Monasterii Caesariensis, epigrammata ad eruditissimos | 1508Augsbg | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
| Ripa, Cesare | Iconologia ["very influential in the 17th c."; tr. Rawn Clark frm Brit. Libr. Ms. Add 23195; allegorical symp | 1593-/ | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Ripa, Cesare | Iconologia or Hieroglyphical figures [Introduction; tr. Rawn Clark frm Brit. Libr. Ms. Add 23195] | 1593-/ | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Ripley, George 1415?-1490 | The works of Sir George Ripley ["one of the most important of English alchemists"; poetry, epistles] | 15th c. | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Riva di San Nazarro, Gianfrancesco | Celeberrimi atq[ue] acutissimi iureconsulti Do. Jo. Fra[n]cisci de sanctonazario doctoris Papiensis, iura inte | 1552Avignon | Graphic | Free | Harvard: |
| Riva di San Nazarro, Gianfrancesco (d. 1 | Celeberrimi atq[ue] acutissimi iureconsulti Do. Jo. Fra[n]cisci de sanctonazario doctoris Papiensis, iura inte | 1552Avignon | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
| Robertus Remensis (monk) 12th c. | Bellvm Christianorvm Principvm. Praecipve Gallorvm, Contra Saracenos, Anno Salvtis M.LXXXVIII, pro terra sanct | 1533] Basil | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Robinson, Clement & Divers Others | A Handefull of Pleasant Delites [Spenser Soc.] | 1584/1871 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | |
| Rogers, John (?) | The glasse of Godly loue. (By John Rogers?) 1569 [New Shakespeare Soc.; ed. F. J. Furnivall] | 1569/1876 L | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | VictoriaU(Can) |
| Roy, William, fl. 1527-1531 & Jerome Bar | A Compendious Treatise, etc. | 1530/1871 | PDF Txt | Free | UToronto |
| Roy, William, fl. 1527-1531 & Jerome Bar | A Proper Dyalogue betweene a Gentillman and a Husbandman, etc. | 1530/1871 | PDF Txt | Free | UToronto |
| Roy, William, fl. 1527-1531 & Jerome Bar | Rede me and be nott wrothe, for I say no thynge but trothe | 1528/1871 | PDF Txt | Free | UToronto |
| Rumpolt, Max (?) | German Cookbook, 16ht c. [partial, in facsimle, in German] | 1581 | Html | Free | DavidFriedman |
| Sackville, Charles (1536-1608) (Earl of | The Mirror for Magistrates: The Induction | 1563 | Html | Free | UToronto |
| Sahl ibn Bisr al-Isra'ili | Meseallach et Ptholemeus De electionibus | 1509 Venice | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Sambucus, Joannes | Emblemata cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis | 1564 Antwrp | Graphic | Free | ULeiden |
| Sambucus, Joannes | Emblemata et aliquot nummis antiqui operis, cum emendatione et auctario copioso ipsius autoris | 1569 Antwrp | Graphic | Free | ULeiden |
| Sambucus, Joannes | Emblemata; In Nederlantsche tale ghetrouwelick overgheset | 1566 Antwrp | Graphic | Free | ULeiden |
| Sanford, John | Apollinis et Musarum (ed. Dana F. Sutton; Latin & Eng. tr.) | 1592 | Html | Free | UBirminghamUK |
| Sannazzaro, Iacopo, 1458-1530 | Iacobi Sannazarii: Opera omnia. Quorum indicem sequens pagella continet. His adiecta sunt selecta poemata, ex | 1590 Rome | Graphic | Free | ProCivMusAssisi |
| Schrotentreck, Doctor | Practica doctor Schrotentrecks ven Bissingen auff das funffzehen hundert und XXIII jar (4 leaves; illus.; prophecies - humor; satire - Ger | 1522 Erfurt | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
| Scot, Reginald | Reginald Scot on Alchemy [Bk 14, The Discoverie of Witchcraft] | 1584 | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
| Scot, Reginald | The Discoverie of Witchcraft, Wherein the Lewde Dealing of Witches & Witchmongers is notablie detected...conju | 1584 Lond. | Graphic Txt | Free | CornellU |
| Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night's Dream (Modernized Eng) | 1596 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe: Clark/Wright) | 1595-6/1866 | Html | Free | UVaLib |
| Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night's Dream (Modernized Eng.) | 1594/2004- | Html | Free | WikiBooks |
| Shakespeare, William | As You Like It (Globe: Clark/Wright) | 1599/1866 | Html | Free | UVaLib |
| Shakespeare, William | Julius Caesar (Modernized Eng) | 1599 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
| Shakespeare, William | Julius Caesar (Globe: Clark/Wright) | 1599/1866 | Html | Free | UVaLib |
| Shakespeare, William | King Edward III (1596 Quarto) (Old Spelling; by Acts/Scenes) [?attributed] | 1596 Qto | Html | Free | UVictoria(Can) |
| Shakespeare, William | King Edward III (1596 Quarto) (Old Spelling; by Quarto pages) [?attributed] | 1596 Qto | Html | Free | UVictoria(Can) |
| Shakespeare, William | King Edward III (Globe: Clark/Wright) | 1596-9/1866 | Html | Free | UVaLib |
| Shakespeare, William | King Henry IV, Part 1 (1598 Quarto) (Old-Spelling, by Acts/Scenes) | 1598 Qto | Html | Free | UVictoria(Can) |
| Shakespeare, William | King Henry IV, Part 1 (1598 Quarto) (Old-Spelling, by Quarto pages) | 1598 Qto | Html | Free | UVictoria(Can) |