New Books
- Jacob Boehme - Mysterium Magnum, oder Erkärung über das Erste Buch Mosis (Amsterdam&Frankfurt). Contains a portrait of Jacob Boehme by N. van Werd.
- John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
- Ralph Cudworth - The True Intellectual System of the Universe
- Madame de la Fayette - La Princesse de Clèves (published anonymously)
- Sir Thomas Herbert - Threnodia Carolina
- Thomas Hobbes - Decameron Physiologicum
- Josiah King - The Examination and Trial of Old Father Christmas Together with his Clearing by the Jury
- The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News out of Hartford-Shire, a woodcut showing what is alleged to be the first crop circle
- The Works of Geber, Englished by Richard Russell.
- Thomas Rymer - The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered
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