Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Thomas Hariot's A Briefe and True Reporte of the new found land of Virginia

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave: a True History

John Evelyn's Fumifugium, or, The inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London

Thomas Morley's Cantus of Thomas Morley the First book of balletts to fiue voyces

John Stow 's Survey of London

Isaac Newton 's Philosophiae Naturalis et Principia Mathematica

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin's History of the Bucaniers

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Richard Hakluyt 's Principal Navigations

John Taylor's Christmas in & out, or, Our Lord & Saviour Christs birth-day

Hannah Woolley's The cook's guide: or, rare receipts for cookery

Confucius' Morals of Confucius

Anne Askew's The first examinacyon of Anne Askewe

John Foxe's Actes and Monuments

Leo Africanus's A Geographical Historie of Africa

Margaret Cavendish 's The Description of a New World

Dåawåud ibn 'Umar Anòtåakåi's The nature of the drink kauhi or cofee

John Caius 's Book or Conseill against the Disease Commonly called the Sweate

Benedict Spinoza's Treatise Partly Theological, Partly Political

Catherine Trotter's Agnes de Castro, A Tragedy

John Dee 's A True and Faithful Relation . . .

Reginald Scot 's Discovery of Witchcraft. . .

Margery Kemp's Boke of Margery Kempe. . .

Charles I 's The King's most gracious messages for peace. . .

Thomas Tryon 's Friendly Advice to gentleman-planters of the East and West Indies . . .

Bartolomé de las Casas's Tears of the Indians. . .

James I 's Counterblaste to Tobacco. . .

John Knox 's First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. . .

Aristotle's Politiques or Discourses on Government. . .

Raoul Lefèvre's Recuyell of the historyes of Troye. . .

Elizabeth I's Where as the Quenes maiestie, hath in his present laste session of parliament to repeale sondrye actes of parliament made in the time of the late Queene her maisties sister. . .

Robert Hooke 's Micrographia. . .

John Fortescue's De Laudibus Legum Angliae. . .

Edward Hall 's The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancaster and York. . .

Miles Coverdale's translation of the Bible

Catherine Parr 's Lamentacion of a Synner

John Dowland 's First Book of Songs or Ayres

Elisha Coles' An English Dictionary

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