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- Johannes Valentinus Andreae - Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459
- Dr. John Bullokar - An English Expositor: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language, with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses (dictionary)
- George Chapman - The Whole Works of Homer
- Philipp Clüver - Germania Antiqua
- Francis de Sales - Treatise on the Love of God
- Thomas Dekker - The Artillery Garden
- Robert Fludd - Apologia Compendiaria, Fraternitatem de Rosea Cruce suspicionis
- Ben Jonson - The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (the first folio collection)
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