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First Folio
First edition copy of 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays held by State Library of New South Wales
The Assayer
1623 essay by Galileo Galilei
The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart
work by Jan Amos Comenius
Zhifang waiji
17th century atlas by Italian Jesuits in China
L'Adone
'''''L'Adone''' (Adonis) is an epic poem in Italian by Giovan Battista Marino, first published in Paris in 1623 by Olivier de Varennes (1598-1666) and dedicated to Louis XIII. It tells the love story of Venus and the eponymous Adonis and with 5,124 ottave and 40,992 verses is one of the longest poems in Italian literature - it is slightly longer than Orlando furioso and around three times as long as the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme liberata''.