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Title page of the Life of Ignatius of Loyola, print by Cornelis Galle, Antwerpen, 1610. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The title page of Second Discourse by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), first published in 1755.

Title page of To the University of Ingolstadt (1523), an open letter by the German reformer Argula von Grumbach (l. 1490 to c. 1564) protesting the dismissal, arrest, and imprisonment of the young scholar Arsacius Seehofer (l. c. 1504 to...

The title page of Reflections on the Revolution in France, first published in 1790 and written by Edmund Burke (1729-1797), the Anglo-Irish statesman and political thinker.

The signature page of the Olive Branch Petition of 5 July 1775, the last attempt made by the Second Continental Congress to avoid a war with Great Britain. This is a scan of an original photo from the US Library of Congress.

The title page of Ben Jonson's works, The Works of Benjamin Jonson, published in 1616.

Title page of the 1830 edition of David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World.

Title page from the first edition of Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

Front page of Freedom's Journal, 30 March 1827, the first newspaper owned, operated, and contributed to by African Americans in the USA. David Walker, the abolitionist, wrote for Freedom's Journal beginning in 1827. Photograph/scan by the...

The title page of an early edition of Common Sense by the Anglo-American philosopher Thomas Paine (1737-1809). The pamphlet was first published in 1776 and therein Paine argued for independence for the 13 American colonies.