Pictures from the books of the Library of Congress
7,358 pictures from 255 books digitised by the Library of Congress, all in the public domain and free to use for anything.
Its books, the most pictures first:
Rembrandt (1911)
[Book of hours] (1400)
Eighteenth century French vignettes and illustrations (1900)
Die ghetiden vanden seuen bitscappen Onser Lieuer Vrouwen. Die seuē psalme Onser Lieuer Vrouwen mitter letanie ende Onser Lieuer Vrouwen souter mitten artikelen vanden leuen en̄ passie Ons Heren Ihesu Cristi mitten figuren (1503)
Modern magic : a practical treatise on the art of conjuring (1894)
Tizian (1912)
Parallele de l'architectvre antiqve et de la moderne : avec vn recveil des dix principavx avthevrs qui ont écrit des cinq ordres ; sçauoir Palladio et Scamozzi, Serlio et Vignola, D. Barbaro et Cataneo, L.B. Alberti et Viola, Bvllant et De Lorme, comparez entre eux. Les trois ordres Grecs, le Doriqve, l'Ioniqve & le Corinthien, font la premiere partie de ce Traitté: Et les deux Latins, le Toscan & le Composite, en font la derniere (1650)
Directorium humanae vite, alias Parabole antiquoru[m] sapientu[m] (1488)
Estampes destinées a orner les éditions (1780)
A political and satirical history of the years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, and 1762. : In a series of 112 humourous and entertaining prints. Contraining all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricatures of those memorable years. To which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print (1762)
Quelques fables (1927)
Guido Reni (1910)
Le theatre des bons engins, auquel sont contenuz cent emblemes moraulx (1546)
Cris de Paris, (1822)
The boy's own book; a complete encylopedia of all the diversion, athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth. (1834)
Meditatio[ne]s Iordani de vita et passio[n]e Ih[es]u [Christ]i (1500)
Later magic (1904)
Thesoro dela Passion sacratissima de Nuestro Redemptor (1494)
Libro di M. Giouanbattista Palatino, cittadino romano, nelqual s'insegna à scriuere ogni sorte lettera, antica, et moderna, di qualunque natione, con le sue regole, et misure, et essempi : et con vn breue, et vtil discorso de le cifre (1545)
Itinerarium (1484)
Omnivm fere gentivm nostrae aetatis habitvs, nvnqvam ante hac aediti (1563)
Specimens of early wood engraving : being impressions of woodcuts from the collection of Mr. Charnley, Newcastle (1858)
Les sainctes prieres de l'ame chrestienne (1644)
James Ward, R.A.; his life and works, with a catalogue of his engravings and pictures, (1909)
Le iardin du roy très chrestien Henry IV roy de France et de Navare : dédié à la royne (1608)
De claris mulieribus (1487)
George Morland; a biographical essay (1906)
Die vier vnd zwenzig Alten (1500)
Illvstrivm anachoretarvm elogia, siue Religiosi viri mvsaevm (1625)
Iacobi Gualle iureconsulti Papie sanctuarium (1505)
England's remembrancer: or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas : containing, an account of men famous and infamous... in short, of every thing that engaged the public attention during 1756 and 1757. In copper-plates. To which is prefixed, a key, explanatory of the nature and design of each, by the great masters themselves (1758)
Codicile de Jérome Sharp, professeur de physique amusante; où l'on trouve, parmi plusieurs tours dont il n'est point parlé dans son testament, diverses récréations relatives aux sciences & beaux-arts. Pour servir de troisième suite à la Magie blanche dévoilée (1791)
Denslow's Mother Goose : being the old familiar rhymes and jingles of Mother Goose (1901)
Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Avstriae, Ducis Burg. Bra. &c (1623)
De reuelatione facta ab angelo beato Methodio in carcere dete[n]to (1498)
The tales of Peter Parley about Europe : with engravings (1828)
Eyn gar loblich ... Cronica sagend von eynem heyligen Kunig mit Namen Josaphat, wie der ward bekeret von eynem heyligen Vatter vnnd Aynsideln genant Barlaam (1476)
Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium. Ofte verandering der Surinaamsche insecten. Waar in de Surinaamsche rupsen en wormen met alle des zelfs veranderingen na het leven afgebeeld en beschreeven worden, zynde elk geplaast op die gewassen, bloemen en vruchten, daar sy op gevonden zyn; waar in ook de generatie der kikvorschen, wonderbaare padden, hagedissen, slangen, spinnen en mieren werden vertoond en beschreeven, alles in America na het leven en levensgroote geschildert en beschreeven (1705)
Œuvres de Moliere (1773)
Horologium deuotionis circa vitam Christi (1490)
Americae das fünffte Buch, vol schöner vnerhörter Historien, auss dem andern Theil Ioannis Benzonis gezogen: von der Spanier Wüten, beyd wider ... die Nigriten, vnnd auch die ... Indianer: wie die Spanier von den frantzösischen Meerräubern ... angriffen vnd geplündert worden ... wie sie erstlich das Neuwe Spanien erfunden haben ... Sampt ... Erklärung der Historien ... Auch einer Landtafel, dess Neuwen Spanien (1613)
Bits of patter (1915)
From Holbein to Whistler, notes on drawing and engraving, / by Alfred Mansfield Brooks. (1920)
[Carta confirmatoria de hidalguía] (1600)
The British architect; or, The builder's treasury of staircases : Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper plates (1758)
London town (1883)
My very first little German book (1900)
A wonder book for girls and boys (1893)
Catalogue of the fifty manuscripts & printed books bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth (1912)
Prof. L.A. Harraden's complete mail course of twenty illustrated lessons in hypnotism (1899)
De generatione Christi, sive Defensorium inviolatae castitatis B.V. Mariae (1476)
ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet (1908)
Chosi falsa speranza ne martelia, non lassar mai lo certo per lo incerto, se non che del tuo proprio fie diserto (1487)
Ariane, jeune fille russe, roman (1924)
Mémoires d'une glace : album absolument inédit (1894)
A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits ... being receipts and conceits of several natures ... As also variety of recreative fire-works ... Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals (1677)
Ornithologie brésilienne; ou, Histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant, ou leurs habitudes (1852)
Speculum humanae salvationis (1470)
Sketches illustrative of the manners and costumes of France, Switzerland, and Italy (1821)
The Knyght of the Swanne (1512)
Artifice, ruse, and subterfuge at the card table : a treatise on the science and art of manipulating cards (1905)
Maechden-pflicht ofte ampt der ionck-vrovvven in eerbaer liefde aen-ghewesen door sinne-beelden. Officivm puellarum in castis amoribus emblemate expressum (1618)
Stories from Hans Andersen (1911)
Henrietta Rae (Mrs. Ernest Normand) (1905)
Americae pars sexta, sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptae, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm praecedentes duae : in hac enim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tissimas illas Peruäni regni provincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba, dei[n]de orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno civilia bella : additus est brevis de Fortunatis insulis co[m]mentariolus in duo capita distinctus : item additiones ad singula capita historiam illustrantes : accessit Peruäni regni chorographica tabula (1596)
Wolffgangi Hildebrands neu-vermehrt, vortrefflich, ausserlesen curieuses Kunst und Wunderbuch : darinnen begriffen wunderbahre Geheimnüsse und Kunststücke, wie man nemlich mit dem gantzen menschlichen Cörper zahmen und wilden Thieren, Vogeln, Fischen, Ungezieffern, allerley Gewächsen und Pflantzungen : auch sonsten fast unerhörte wunderbahrliche Sachen verrichten : auch etliche Wunder-Schrifften künstlich zu bereiten : zu löblicher und lustiger Ubung gebrauchen und die Zeit nützlich zu vertreiben, beneben Erzehlung vieler wunderlichen Dingen, so hin und wieder in der Welt gefunden werden : mit angehengter Beschreibung des Paradiess Luft-Garten und Planetenbuche, dabey eine vollkommene Beschreibung der Physiognomiae, Chiromantiae und Distillir-Kunst (1704)
Dli︠a︡ maloli︠e︡tnikh di︠e︡teĭ nachinai︠u︡shchikh obuchatʹsi︠a︡ rossīĭskomu chtenīi︠u︡ Azbuka, ili, pervonachalʹnyĭ urok, rukovodstvui︠u︡shchīĭ ikh legchaĭshim sposobom k chtenīi︠u︡ knig (1813)
Regola delli cinqve ordini d'architettvra, (1635)
Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustrées par B. de Monvel (1888)
Parlour magic. (1838)
Bien, aduise mal, aduise (1499)
The pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, from the original Greek (1851)
The history of little Goody Twoshoes, otherwise called Mrs. Margery Twoshoes : with the means by which she acquired her learning and wisdom and in consequence thereof her estate ... see the original manuscript in the Vatican at Rome, and the cuts by Michael Angelo, illustrated with the comments of our great modern criticks (1787)
Aggiunta alla quarta parte dell'Indie del sig. Giovanni Botero Benese : di mostri, & usanze di quelle parti, e di quei re con le sue figure al naturale (1623)
Description geographique des isles Antilles possédées par les anglois (1758)
De summo bono libri tres Sancti Isidori, Hyspaliensis Episcopi (1492)
The tales of Peter Parley about America : with engravings (1827)
[Manuscript scrapbook of magic tricks], [1902-1919] (1902)
Mémoires : récréatifs, scientifiques et anecdotiques (1831)
Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore (1909)
Description du jubilé de sept cens ans de S. Macaire, patron particulier contre la peste, qui sera céléré dans la ville de Grand ... a commencer le 30. de mai jusqu'au 15. juin 1767, avec le détail ultérieur des cérémonies, solemnités, cavalcade, ornemens & feux d'artifice, &c. &c. qui auront lieu à cette occasion (1767)
William Blake, (1910)
Passional Christi und Antichristi (1521)
Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreibung der wunderbahren Schifffahrt : so Georgius von Spielbergen ... durch die Magellanische Strasse, vnd in der Suder See, vom Iahr 1614 biss in das 1618. Iahr verrichtet (1620)
Lvx clavstri, La lvmiere dv cloistre (1646)
Gilbert's book of pantomimes, acting charades, parlor theatricals, and tableaux ... Illustrated with numerous fine engravings, showing exactly how everything should be done (1878)
Les figvres e l'abregé de la vie, de la mort, et des miracles de S. Francois de Pavle, instituteur et fondateur de l'Ordre des Minimes : Recevillies de la bvlle de Leon X. & des Enquestes faites pour proceder a sa canonisation (1659)
Poker Rubaiyat, (1903)
Preces ac meditationes piae in mysteria Passionis ac Resurrectionis D. N. Iesu Xp̄i (1612)
Additamentvm; das ist, Zuthuung zweyer fürnemmer Reysen ... Herrn Francisci Draken ... in die West Indien vnd Americam gethan : neben noch etlichen Figuren ... so beydes in das siebende vnd achte Theil Americae gehören. Item, die Reyse der holländischen Armada in die Insel Gross Canarien , welche ... 1599 ... von Holland ... ausgefahren (1600)
Bambergische halszgerichts ordenu[n]g (1507)
Corona mistica Beate Marie Virginis gloriose (1492)
Itinerarium seu peregrinatio Beate Virginis [et] Dei genitricis Marie (1490)
Nouellino de Masuccio Salernitano (1503)
Supplément a La magie blanche dévoilée : contenant l'explication de plusieurs tours nouveaux joués depuis peu à Londres, avec des éclaircissemens sur les artifices des joueurs de profession : les cadrans sympathiques, le mouvement perpétuel, les chevaux savans, les poupées parlantes, les automates dansants, les ventriloques, les sabots élastiques, &c., &c (1785)
The highway to hell (1895)
Dell' idea dello scriuere. Intagliata per Epifanio dal Fiano l'anno 1607 (1624)
Den spiegel der Spaensche tierannije, geschiet in Westindien : waerin te sien is de onmenschelijke wreede feÿten der Spanjaerden met samen de beschrijvinge der selver lant en volcken aert en nature allen vaderlant lieuende en vrome voorsta[n]ders ten exempel voor gestelt (1620)
Royal cookery, or, The complete court-cook : containing the choicest receipts in all the particular branches of cookery now in use in the Queen's palaces of St. James's, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor : with near forty figures (curiously engraven on copper) of the magnificent entertainments at coronations, instalment, balls, weddings, &c. at court ... (1710)
Songs of innocence (1789)
Forty lessons in palmistry; the language of the hands easily comprehended (1914)
Musica (1507)
A apple pie (1900)
Damvs tibi, benigne lector, vno libello tanqvam in specvlo exhibitas, memorabiliores Ivdaea gentis clades : vt delictorvm semper comites, ita cvm presenti, tvm posterae aetati pro exemplis fvtvras (1570)
Den spiegel van Sassen va[n] allen keyserlijken rechten (1504)
Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie: Das Buch der Vergift der Pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der gemein Sterbent der trüsen Blatren, (1500)
Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten Herrn Americi Vesputii vnter König Ferninando in Castilien vollbracht. Zum andern: Ein gründlicher Bericht von dem jetzigen Zustand der Landschafft Virginien ... Beneben einer Heyrath dess Königs Powhatans in Virginien Tochter, mit einem vornemmen Englischen, (1618)
[Scrapbook of bookplates (1913)
Additamentum, oder Anhang dess neundten Theils Americae : welches ist ein warhafftige vnnd eygentliche Beschreibung der langwirigen ... Schiffahrt, so Oliuier van Noort ... durch das ... Fretum Magellanum, vmb die gantze Kugel der Welt ... gethan ... hat (1602)
De gedenkwaardige voyagie van Don Ferdinand de Soto na Florida : en desselfs ontdekking van de landen in dat gewest, met al wat aanmerkensswaardig op die vierjarige reyse is voorgevallen : gedaan anno 1539 en vervolgens (1706)
Illustrations of the Book of Job, (1826)
Le roman de Fierabras (1489)
Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos olim devastatrum accuratissima descriptio, insertis figuris aencis ad vivum fabrefactis (1664)
Confidences et révélations : comment on devient sorcier (1868)
De ludo scachorum (1477)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's von Nettesheim Magische Werke : sammt den geheimnitzvollen Schriften des Petrus von Abano, Pictorius von Villingen, Gerhard von Cremona, Abt Tritheim von Spanheim, dem Buche Arbatel, der sogenannten Heil. Geist-Kunst und verschiedenen anderen. Zweites Bändchen (1855)
Madrigaux (1920)
The history and lives of all the most notorious pirates, and their crews, from Capt. Avery, who first settled at Madagascar, to Capt. John Gow, and James Williams, his Lieutenant, Etc. who were hang'd at Execution Dock, June 11, 1725, for Piracy and Murther, and afterwards hang'd in Chains between Blackwall and Deptford : giving a more full and true Account than any yet Published, of all their Murthers, Piracies, Maroonings, Places of Refuge, and Ways of Living. Adorn'd with Twenty Beautiful Cuts, being the Representation of each Pirate : To which is prefix'd, An Abstract of the Laws against Piracy (1725)
[Hippodrome program for the season 1917-1918]. (1917)
For the sexes: the gates of Paradise (1913)
Gra[m]matica Nicolai Perotti, (1497)
Natural magick, (1658)
Hocus pocus, or The whole art of legerdemain, in perfection : by which the meanest capacity may perform the whole without the help of a teacher : together with the use of all the instruments belonging thereto : to which is now added abundance of new and rare inventions (1795)
Rembrandt (1905)
A Christmas carol (1911)
The discovery of witchcraft: proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions .... In sixteen books (1665)
Topsys & turvys (1893)
Europe, a prophecy (1794)
Recueil d'estampes representant les différents événemens de la Guerre qui a procuré l'indépendance aux Etats Unis de l'Amérique (1784)
Ars moriendi (1475)
Contes du temps passé de ma mere l'oye : avec des morales (1764)
Erste im Königreich Sachsen erschienene Sammlung artistischer Versuche im Steindrucke (1806)
Hocus pocus junior : the anatomie of legerdemain, or, The art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice : unto each tricke is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction (1635)
Milton, a poem in 12 [i.e. 2] books (1815)
Robinson Crusoe (1864)
XII sibyllae, ordine, inscriptione & forma elegantiori quàm antehac vmquam (1600)
Ars morie[n]di, ex varijs Scripturaru[m] sente[n]tijs collecta cu[m] figuris, ad resistendum in mortis agone dyabolice sugestio[n]i valens, cuilibet Christifideli vtilis ac multum necessaria (1500)
Calendrier solaire, perpétuel et universel (1789)
Denslow's Humpty Dumpty (1903)
James Gillray / / by Harry Thornber. (1890)
King Winter (1859)
Mutus liber, (1702)
Scot's discovery of witchcraft : proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars, and their power to kill, torment, and consume the bodies of men, women, and children, or other creatures by diseases or otherwise, their flying in the air, &c. to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also the lewde unchristian practices of witchmongers upon aged, melancholy, ignorant, and superstious [sic] people in extorting confessions by inhumane terrors and tortures is notably detected ... : whereunto is added, a treatise upon the nature, and substance of spirits and divels &c (1651)
The Circus procession (1888)
The book of the cat : with facsimiles of drawings in colour (1903)
The procession of flowers in Colorado (1888)
Herzog Ernsts Ausfahrt (1500)
In laude[m] gloriose Virginis Marie multoru[m]q[ue] Sanctoru[m] varij generis carmina Sebastiani Brant (1494)
L'art d'écrire par Alais (1680)
Mystic key that unlocks the door to the soul of man! : hypnotism, the world's greatest mystery! : the master science of the 20th century (1900)
Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated, by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards (1782)
The square book of animals (1900)
Seconde suite d'estampes, pour servir à l'histoire des modes, et du costume en France, dans le XVIII siecle, année 1776 (1776)
Cupid turned volunteer; in a series of prints (1804)
Leggenda di Marta e Maddalena (1494)
Opus responsivum (1488)
Sixteen illustrations of subjects from Kipling's "Jungle book" (1903)
Vita e lettere di Amerigo Vespucci, gentiluomo fiorentino (1745)
Wappenbüchlein. Antzeygung deren Wappen darauf des Heyligen Römischen Reichs Grundtveste gepflantzt vnnd geordnet ist ... zu Eeren der römischen kayserlichen vnd kunigklichen Mayesteten (1555)
The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary to attain to a perfection on that instrument : with great variety of compositions, which will also be very useful to those who study the violoncello, harpsichord &c (1751)
A manual of astrology, or The book of the stars: which contains every requisite illustration of the celestial science; or the art of foretelling future events, by the influences of the heavenly bodies ... Illustrated and exemplified by ... diagrams and three elegant engravings (1837)
An account of the first discovery, and natural history of Florida : with a particular detail of the several expeditions and descents made on that coast (1763)
Beauties of the New-England primer (1818)
Nic[olai] B[rontii] Car[men] ad Opt[imum] Max[imum] Fort[issimum] Invic[tissimum] et Pien[tissimum] Princ[ipem] D[omin]i Car[olum] Quin[tum] Imp[eratorum] Caes[aerem] S[emper] A[ugustem] (1541)
The humorous magician unmasked, or, A full explanation of the principal and most interesting performances of legerdemain : as exhibited by Monsieur Adrian and other performers, which of late has excited so much curiosity in the public mind, in Philadelphia and other cities of the United States and elsewhere : with amusing dialogues, and original and true Yankee stories (1836)
The panorama of sleep, or, Soul and symbol (1903)
Tractatus de scachis mistice interpretatus de moribus per singulos hominu[m] status (1505)
Albrecht Dürers christlich-mythologische Handzeichnungen (1808)
Arithmeticae practicae methodus facilis (1556)
Baliverneries, ov Contes novveaux d'Eutrapel [pseud.] autrement dit Leon Ladulfi. Paris, E. Groulleau, libraire, 1548 (1815)
Dit boecxken leert hoe men mach voghelen vanghen metten handen. Ende hoemen mach visschen vanghe[n] mette[n] handen ande oeck andersins (1500)
Le vergier do[n]neur ... ensemble plusieurs aultres choses faictes [et] composees par ... Octouien de Sainct Gelais ... et par maistre Andry de La Vigne (1500)
Around the world with a magician and a juggler : unique experiences in many lands : from the papers of the late Baron Hartwig Seeman, "The Emperor of Magicians" and William D'Alvini, juggler "Jap of Japs" (1891)
Commento deli Triumphi del Petrarcha (1497)
Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi (1894)
La magie blanche dévoilée, ou, Explication des tours surprennants, qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la capitale et de la province : avec des réflexions sur la baguette divinatoire, les automates joueurs d'échecs, &c. &c (1784)
Simple addition by a little nigger (1876)
Talk of Uncle George to his nephew about draw poker : containing valuable suggestions in connection with this great American game : also, instruction and directions to clubs and social card parties, whose members play only for recreation and pastime : with timely warnings to young players. (1883)
Visions of the daughters of Albion : the eye sees more than the heart knows (1810)
Vocabulario para aprender franches, espannol y flaminco = Vocabulaire pour apprendre fra[n]choys, espagnol et flaming = Vocabulare om te leerene walsch, spaensch, ende vlaemsch (1520)
Aediloqvivm ceu disticha, partibus aedium vrbanarum & rusticarum suis quaeq[ue] locis adscribenda. Item, Epitaphia septem, de amorum aliquot passionibus antiquo more, & sermone veteri, vieto[s]q[ue] conficta (1530)
B.F. Keith's Theatre News. January 22, 1906. (1906)
De distributione geographica plantarum secundum cœli temperiem et altitudinem montium, prolegomena (1817)
How to be a contortionist! or, Bending made easy : a practical self instructor (1896)
Indulgentiae ecclesiarum urbis Romae (1491)
Phrenology made easy (1894)
The scarlet gown, or, The history of all the present cardinals of Rome. Wherein is set forth the life, birth, and interest, possibility, rich offices, dignities, and charges of every cardinal now living. Also their merits, vertues, and vices : together with the carriages of every of the popes and court of Rome. Whereunto is added, The life of the present Pope Alexander the Seventh (1660)
There is no natural religion. (1790)
Magie, oder, Die Zauberkräfte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Belustigung angewandt worden (1783)
Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de vi aëris elastica et eiusdem effectibus : facta maximam partem in nova machina pnevmatica (1680)
Textus De Sphera Iohannis de Sacrobosco : Cum Additione (quantum necessarium est) adiecta : Nouo co[m]mentario nuper edito Ad vtilitatem studentiu[m] Philosophice Parisien[sis] Academie : illustratus (1494)
The New England primer, improved : for the more easy attaining the true reading of English : to which is added the Assembly of Divines' Catechism (1803)
The art of ventriloquism (1894)
The bear's claws (1913)
[King of handcuffs text, ca. 1900]. (1900)
Antiquitates culinariae, or, Curious tracts relating to the culinary affairs of the old English, with a preliminary discourse, notes, and illustrations (1791)
Mirrikh, or, A woman from Mars : a tale of occult adventure (1892)
Monte santo di Dio (1477)
Mousaiou Poiemation Ta kath' Hērō kai Leandron ; Orpheōs Argonautika ; Tou autou humnoi ; Orpheus peri lithōn = Musaei Opusculum de Herone & Leandro ; Orphei argonautica ; Eiusdem hymni ; Orpheus de lapidibus (1517)
Special performance, Friday morning only, April 27, 1923, 11 a.m. : Houdini, the genius of escape (in person) who will startle and amaze, with a lecture on Fraud mediums and miracle mongers ... (1923)
Statuvolism, or, Artificial somnambulism, hitherto called mesmerism or animal magnetism : containing a brief historical survey of Mesmer's operations and the examination of the same by the French commissioners : phreno-somnambulism, or, the exposition of phreno-magnetism and neurology : a new view and division of the phrenological organs into functions, with descriptions of their nature and qualities, etc., in the senses and faculties, and a full and accurate description of the various phenomena belonging to this state : including its division into two distinct conditions, viz., the waking and sleeping, with practical instructions how to enter and awake from either : the identity of these conditions with other states and mysteries, together with an account of several obstetrical cases delivered while in this state : the proper method of preparing subjects for surgical operations, their management during and after the same, and the latest and best method of curing diseases, etc., in those persons who are in that condition (1871)
Stella clericorum (1488)
The moost excellent treatise of the thre kynges of Coleyne (1499)
La expositione del Pater Noster, (1490)
Opus philosophie naturalis (1490)
Orpheum circuit news. November 14, 1915. (1915)
Parlor problems, or, Mental mathematical magic (1920)
Philalethes (1474)
Songs of experience (1831)
The vanity of arts and sciences (1694)
An occultist's travels (1908)
Der Whist- und Boston-Spieler, wie er seyn soll, oder, Gründliche Anweisung das Whist- und Boston-Spiel : nebst dessen Abarten, nach den besten Regeln und allgemein geltenden Gesetzen spielen zu lernen, nebst 26 belustigenden Kartenkunststücken (1834)
Een genoechelike hystorie van den edelen Coninck Karel van Vranckerijck en de vanden vromen ridder Elegast (1500)
Latter day tricks (1896)
Les misteres de la saincte Messe (1490)
Liber Faceti docens mores hominu[m] p[rae]cipue iuuenu[m], in supplementu[m] illo[rum] qui a Cathone era[n]t omissi, (1496)
Mundus muliebris: or, The ladies dressing-room unlock'd, and her toilette spread : In burlesque. Together with the Fop-dictionary compiled for the use of the fair sex (1690)
Panel picture representing the Temptation of Christ by Tiziano Vecelli called "Titian", 1476(?)-1576 (1925)
Petri Mocenici, Imperatoris, gesta (1477)
Représentation du globe aérostatique qui s'est élevé de dessus l'un des bassins du jardin royal des Thuilleries le 1er, décembre 1783, à l. heure 40. mintes. Avec le récit de son voyage aérién (1783)
Sancte Vrsule Fraternitas inge[n]s p[er]utilis et Christifidelib[us] multum necessaria (1513)
The life of Merlin, surnamed Ambrosius; his prophecies and predictions interpreted, and their truth made good by our English annals: being a chronographical history of all the kings and memorable passages of this kingdom, from Brute to the reign of King Charles. (1813)
The philosophy of mystery (1841)
The rappers, or, The mysteries, fallacies, and absurdities of spirit-rapping, table-tipping, and entrancement (1854)
The whole art of legerdemain, or, Hocus pocus laid open and explained by those renowned masters Sena Sama, Hamed Ben-Ali, and all the celebrated and mysterious professors in the art of natural magic : with full instructions how to perform the various tricks on cards, dice, birds, eggs, rings, &c. as practised before their sublime majesties, the Emperor and Empress of China, the crowned heads of Europe, and the president and people of the United States (1830)
Tractatus de [con]sanguinitate & affinitate (1489)
Zavi︠e︡shtanīi︠a︡ za uchebny-ti︠e︡ zavedenīi︠a︡ v Gabrovo (1867)
[Magicians' Club program, April 25, 1915] (1915)
A Solemn warning to dancers (1824)
A description of East-Florida : with a journal kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas, upon a journey from St. Augustine up the river St. John's, as far as the lakes : with explanatory botanical notes, illustrated with an accurate map of East-Florida, and two plans, one of St. Augustine, and the other of the Bay of Espiritu Santo (1769)
An essay towards a theory of apparitions (1813)
An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particulary Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox (1800)
Aphorisms on man (1794)
Automatic or spirit writing, with other psychic experiences (1896)
Daring dive! : [poster and Victoria Theater announcement, 1914]. (1914)
De victoriis nup[er] in Affrica habitis : ad S. in Xr[ist]o patrem & domunum nostrum d[omi]n[u]m Leonem X Ponti. Maxi : epistola pote[n]tissimi ac inuictissimi Emanuelis regis Portugalli[a]e & Albagiorum & c. = Des grans victoires contre les Turcz nouuelleme[n]t enuoyees au Pape de par le roy Emanuel de Portugal (1513)
Historie van Saladine (1483)
Laurentii Gambarae Brixiani De nauigatione Christophori Columbi, libri quattuor (1583)
Letters on demonology and witchcraft. (1830)
Lorento's wizards' guide, or, Magic made easy (1878)
Miss Martineau's letters on mesmerism (1845)
Natural magic, or, Physical amusements revealed (1785)
Practical occultism (1921)
Psychical research (1911)
Psychomancy : spirit-rappings and table-tippings exposed (1853)
Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello, and harpsicord, particularly the thorough bass : exemplify'd in a variety of compositions on the subjcts [sic] of English, Scotch and Irish tunes (1739)
The Chaldean magician : an adventure in Rome, in the reign of the Emperor Diocletian (1886)
The act of creation (1925)
The book of fate : formerly in the possession of and used by Napoleon (1923)
The conjurer unmasked : being a clear and full explanation of all the surprizing performances exhibited as well in this kingdom as on the continent by the most eminent and dexterous professors of slight of hand : together with the tricks of the divining rod, automaton chess-player, speaking figure, artificial serpents, mechanical birds, automaton flute player, vaulting figure, magical table, perpetual motion, &c., &c (1790)
The occult world (1885)
The wonderful history of the celebrated Friar Bacon : who studies the magic art, and saves a gentleman from the Devil, to whom he had sold his soul and body : he erects a wonderful brazen head, which was to enable him to secure all England from invasion, it speaks, but loses its virtue by his servant's folly : by his help France is conquered : he makes three wicked thieves, who tried to rob him, dance a hornpipe over hedges into ditches, against their wills : with many curious particulars (1829)
Ventriloquism explained : and juggler's tricks, or legerdemain exposed : with remarks on vulgar superstitions. In a series of letters to an instructor (1834)
[Advertisement for Conjurers' Monthly Magazine]. (1906)
[Two newspaper articles announcing Houdini's death on October 31, 1926]. (1926)