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1. The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.

The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:: [1622]
Physical Description:: [14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Riche and pore have like cu[m]mynge into this worlde & lyke outgoying but their liuyng in this worlde is unlike : what shulde confort a pore man ayenst grutchyng and what wyckednesses folowe louers of richesses ...

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Date:: 5 July 1493
Physical Description:: [488] p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Here begynneth the prologue or prohemye of the book callid Caton : whiche booke hath ben translated in to Englysshe by Mayster Benet Burgh, late Archedeken of Colchestre and hye chanon of saint stephens at westmestre ... and by cause of late cam to my hand a book of the said Caton in Frensshe, whiche reherceth many a fayr lernynge and notable ensamples, I haue translated it oute of frensshe in to Englysshe, as al along here after shalle appiere, whiche I presente vnto the cyte of london.

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Date:: [1484]
Physical Description:: [160] p. ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Nakedness consider'd, or, Reasons for not wearing of clothes / by a gentleman of great parts.

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Creator:: Gentleman of great parts
Date:: 1729
Physical Description:: [7], 1 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The oeconomy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China to the Earl of ****.

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Creator:: Dodsley, Robert, 1704–1764
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xxvi, 94 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Alle de wercken, so ouden als nieuvven / van de Heer Jacob Cats, oudt Raedtpensionaris van Hollandt, &c. ; doorgaens vermeerdert, en achter met des autheurs tachtigh-jarigh leven, huyshoudinge en bedenckingen op zorgh-vliet.

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Creator:: Cats, Jacob, 1577–1660
Date:: 1658
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Diues & pauper.

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Date:: 3 Dec. 1496
Physical Description:: [392] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The contrast, or, The opposite consequences of good and evil habits, : exhibited in the lowest ranks of rural life : for the benefit of intelligent servants, and the best proficients in Sunday schools.

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Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], vii, [1], 291, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. That this is writen in this lytel boke ought the prestes to lerne and teche to theyr parysshes : and also it is necessary for symple prestes that understode not the scriptures : and it is made for symple peple and put into englisshe ...

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Creator:: Roye, Guy de, Abp., ca. 1345–1409
Date:: 7 May 1489
Physical Description:: [184] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts