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1. Africa : being accurate description of the regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billendulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, AEthiopia, and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages : their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure, with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents / collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations ; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq. master of His Majesties revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.

Africa : being accurate description of the regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billendulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, AEthiopia, and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages : their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure, with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents / collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations ; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq. master of His Majesties revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: MDC LXX [1670]
Physical Description:: [18], 38, [2], 39-146, [2], 147-281, [3], 283-304, [2], 305-314, [2], 315-488, [2], 489-632, [2], 633-658, [2], 659-767, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Advertisement [graphic] : All noble men and gentlemen that please to have their mansion houses design'd on copper plates, to be printed for composeing a volume of the prospects of the principall houses of England, may have them done by Mr Hen. Winstanley by way of subscription ...

Advertisement [graphic] : All noble men and gentlemen that please to have their mansion houses design'd on copper plates, to be printed for composeing a volume of the prospects of the principall houses of England, may have them done by Mr Hen. Winstanley by way of subscription ...

Creator:: Winstanley, Henry, 1644–1703
Date:: 1670s?]
Physical Description:: 1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 35.2 x 40.9 cm., on sheet 35.4 x 47.5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching, by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. : by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe : by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity / by Joseph Moxon ; hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.

Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching, by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. : by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe : by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity / by Joseph Moxon ; hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: 1670. (fol.)
Physical Description:: [6], 66 p., LX [i.e. 42] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Published in English by Robert Pricke ...

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Creator:: Le Muet, Pierre, 1591–1669
Date:: 1670-75
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. 81 plates (part fold.; incl. plans) 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The office of the holy week according to the Missall and Roman breviary : translated out of French with a new and ample explication taken out of the Holy Fathers, of the mysteries, ceremonies, gospels, lessons, psalms, and of all that belongs to this off

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Creator:: Catholic Church
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: [8], 611 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Pub. in English by Robert Pricke ...

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Creator:: Le Muet, Pierre, 1591–1669
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 31, [1] p. 44 pl. (incl. plans) 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A booke of archetecture containing seeling peeces, chimny peeces and seuerall sorts vsefull for carpenters, joyners, caruers, painters / inuvented by I. Barbet.

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Creator:: Barbet, Jean, 1597?-1654
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: [30] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A geographical description of the four parts of the world taken from the notes & workes of the famous Monsieur Sanson, geographer to the French king, and other eminent travellers and authors : to which are added the commodities, coyns, weights, and measures of the chief places of traffick in the world, compared with those of England, (or London) as to the trade thereof : also, a treatise of travel, and another of traffick, wherein the matter of trade is briefly handled : the whole illustrated with variety of useful and delightful mapps and figures / by Richard Blome.

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Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: [12], 113, [5], 82, [4], 138, [6], 56, [2], 55, [1] pages, [25] folded leaves of plates : 25 maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The order and ceremonies used for and at the solemn interment of the most high, mighty and most noble prince George Duke of Albemarle ... 1670 / collected by Francis Sandford ... and published by His Ma[jes]ties especiall command.

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Creator:: Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694
Date:: 1670]
Physical Description:: [8] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Voyage of Italy, or, A compleat journey through Italy : in two parts : with the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries, pallaces (sic), villas, gardens, pictures, statues, and antiquities : as also of the interest government, riches, force, &c. of all the Princes : with instructions concerning travel / by Richard Lassels ... ; never before extant.

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Creator:: Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts