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Use our 'Turning the Pages™' system to view our great books and magnify the details. This is a complete list of all our virtual books. Just choose the one you'd like to see.

Image from Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica

A landmark in medical history

Vesalius's stunning 16th-century anatomy treatise

Image from Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll

Audubon's the Birds of America

Audubon's The Birds of America

Highlights of the famous 'double elephant folio'

Image from Sultan Baybars' Qur'an

Baybars' magnificent Qur'an

Epitome of sumptuous Arabic calligraphy

Bedford Hours

Bedford Hours

15th-century treasure owned by Henry V’s brother, the Regent of France

Image from the Ethiopic Bible

Bible from Ethiopia

Commissioned by Emperor Iyasu in around 1700

Image from William Blake's Notebook

Blake's notebook

Sketches and poems, including 'The Tyger'

Capt. R.F. Scott's Diary

Capt. R.F. Scott's Diary

Extracts from the 1911 Antarctic expedition

Image from Elizabeth Blackwell's Curious Herbal

Classic of botanical illustration

Elizabeth Blackwell's remarkable Herbal

Image from the Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus

Extracts from a 1,600-year-old-Bible courtesy of the Partners of the Codex Sinaiticus Project

Image from the Diamond Sutra

Diamond Sutra

The oldest printed ‘book’, made in China in 868

Dutch Baroque Gardens

Dutch Baroque Gardens

Country houses and magnificent gardens

Image from Mercator's Atlas of Europe

First atlas of Europe

Compiled by Mercator in the 1570s

Image from the Golf Book

Flemish masters in miniature

The superb so-called 'Golf Book'

Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings

Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings

Dating from the reign of Edward I and almost five metres long

Image from Luttrell Psalter

Glimpses of medieval life

Selections from the famous Luttrell Psalter

Image from the Golden Haggadah

Glorious Hebrew prayer book

The lavishly illustrated Golden Haggadah

Handel's Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

From the draft score of the composer’s most famous work

Henry VIII's Psalter

Henry VIII's Psalter

Lavish production of 1540, with Henry’s own notes

James Gillray satirical prints

James Gillray satirical prints

The impeachmnent of Warren Hastings

Image from Jane Austen's 'History of England'

Jane Austen's early work

'The History of England' in her own hand

Leonardo's Codex Arundel

Leonardo's Codex Arundel

Complete manuscript of notes and drawings (565 pages)

Image from Leonardo da Vinci's notebook

Leonardo da Vinci selection

A selection of his sketches (29 pages)

Image from the Lisbon Bible

Lisbon Hebrew Bible

Survivor of 15th-century Jewish culture

Image from the Sforza Hours

Masterpiece of the Renaissance

Beautiful images from the Sforza Hours

Medieval Bestiary

Medieval Bestiary

Wonderful drawings of creatures, both real and imagined

Image from Mozart's Thematic Catalogue

Mozart's musical diary

The composer's own notes, from 1784 until his death

My Ladye Nevells Booke

My Ladye Nevells Booke

Complete manuscript of William Byrd’s keyboard music

My Ladye Nevells Booke selections

My Ladye Nevells Booke selections

From the manuscript of William Byrd’s keyboard music

Image from the Sherborne Missal

Outstanding 15th-century church book

The wonderful, and weighty, Sherborne Missal

Image from the Lindisfarne Gospels

Pinnacle of Anglo-Saxon Art

The priceless Lindisfarne Gospels

Image from the Ramayana

Ramayana

India's great epic in 17th-century paintings

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