Leighton Library has 1622 edition of “Angeli Politiani et aliorum virorum illustrium, Epistolarum libri XII” by Angelo Ambrogini

Added by Leighton Library at 08:17 on 24 September 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1622 edition of “Angeli Politiani et aliorum virorum illustrium, Epistolarum libri XII. Eiusdem Praefatio in Suetonii Tranquilli expositionem” by Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance Angelo Ambrogini who died #OnThisDay 24 September 1494. He was...

Leighton Library has 1698 First Edition of "A defence of dramatick poetry : being a review of Mr. Collier's View of the immorality & profaneness of the stage" by Edward Filmer, Thomas Rymer & Elkanah Settle

Added by Leighton Library at 07:49 on 23 September 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1698 First Edition of "A defence of dramatick poetry : being a review of Mr. Collier's View of the immorality and profaneness of the stage" by Edward Filmer, Thomas Rymer and Elkanah Settle, about the views of English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian Jeremy ...

Leighton Library has 1656 edition of "Magica de spectris et apparitionibus spiritũ, de vaticiniis, divinationibus" edited by Henning Grosse

Added by Leighton Library at 09:27 on 22 September 2025

#OnThisDay 22 September 1682 the last hanging for those convicted of witchcraft in Britain's North American colonies took place, in the Salem witch trials, with others all eventually released. The Leighton Library has books in witchcraft, including a 1656 edition of "Magica de spectris et apparition...