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1. Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.

Creator:: Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
Date:: MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:: [8], 458, [32] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain, &C. from the conquest anno 1066 to the year, 1677. In seven parts or books. Containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages, and issues ... all engraven in copper plates ... By Francis Sandford, esq., Lancaster herald at arms.

A genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain, &C. from the conquest anno 1066 to the year, 1677. In seven parts or books. Containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages, and issues ... all engraven in copper plates ... By Francis Sandford, esq., Lancaster herald at arms.

Creator:: Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: 6 p. l., 578 (i.e. 588), [10] p., 1 l. : illus., plates (part double) 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues ; by John Evelyn, Esq. fellow of the Royal Society.

A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues ; by John Evelyn, Esq. fellow of the Royal Society.

Creator:: Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
Date:: MDCLXIV [1664]
Physical Description:: [24], 159, [1] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts : containing, the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler that resolves most mathematical conclusions : and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places round the world ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation, in working a ship in all weathers and conditions at sea : a new way of surveying of land, by the mariners azimuth or amplitude compass ... : the art of gauging all sorts of vessels, and the measuring of timber, glass, board, stone, walls, cielings, and tylings : the art of gunnery ... astronomy, geometrical, instrumental, and by calculation : the art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... : whereunto is annexed an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed relating to the customs and navigation : also a compen / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts : containing, the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler that resolves most mathematical conclusions : and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places round the world ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation, in working a ship in all weathers and conditions at sea : a new way of surveying of land, by the mariners azimuth or amplitude compass ... : the art of gauging all sorts of vessels, and the measuring of timber, glass, board, stone, walls, cielings, and tylings : the art of gunnery ... astronomy, geometrical, instrumental, and by calculation : the art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... : whereunto is annexed an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed relating to the customs and navigation : also a compen / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

Creator:: Sturmy, Samuel, 1633–1669
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [34], 219 [i.e. 223], [7], 132, [6], 52, [52], 11, [3], 13 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : port, ill. ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Divine examples of God's severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers : in their unlavvful sports, collected out of several divine subjects, viz. Mr. H.B. Mr. Beard, and the practice of piety : a fit monument for our present times, &c.

Divine examples of God's severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers : in their unlavvful sports, collected out of several divine subjects, viz. Mr. H.B. Mr. Beard, and the practice of piety : a fit monument for our present times, &c.

Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 55 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Creator:: Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:: anno MDCXXIX [1629]
Physical Description:: [22], 134 p., 20 leaves of double plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto.

Creator:: Neade, William
Date:: [approximately 1630]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

9. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

Creator:: Burton, William, 1575–1645
Date:: [1622]
Physical Description:: 10, 320, [12] p., 2 leaves of plates (one folded) : port., ill., coats of arms, map ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Tuba stentoro-phonica : an instrument of excellent use, as well as at sea, as at land : invented and variously experimented in the year 1670 : and humbly presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty Charles II, In the year, 1671 / by S. Morland ; the instruments (or speaking-trumpets) of all sizes and dimensions, are made and sold by Mr. Simon Beal, one of His Majesties Trumps. in Suffolk-street.

Creator:: Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625–1695
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [2], 14 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Markhams maister-peece : Contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publicke practise of all the forraine horse-marshals in Christendome; and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome. Being divided into two bookes. The first contayning all cures physicall: the second all belonging to chyrurgery; with an addition of 160. principall chapters, and 370. most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any author whatsoever. Together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke / Written by Gervase Markham, Gent.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1636
Physical Description:: [16], 588, 599-601, [15] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Europa tabulis aeneis 166 secundum rationes geographicas delineata : dorsis tabularum, nonnulla magni momenti, & ad rem geographicam historicamque provinciae, quam tabula ob oculos ponit, facientia, sunt impressa, singularum videlicet natura, coeli solique constitutio, & mores incolarum, deinde quae in ijs sunt ciuitates oppidaque recensentur, simul eorum commerica, quibusque rebus excellant, quidque in ijs rarum visendumque sit, principum quoque, qui provincijs praefuerunt, series ac genus aeditur, vt meriro ea enarratio, pro compendio historico vniuscuiusque provinciae haberi possit / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

Creator:: Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:: anno domini MDC [1600]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas : maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555 / Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, Gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford.

Creator:: Galvão, António, -1557
Date:: 1601
Physical Description:: [12], 97, [3] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Le fortificationi di Buonaiuto Lorini, nobile fiorentino : con la scienza e con la pratica, l'ordine di fortificare le città & altri luoghi, con tutti gli auuertimenti, che più possono apportar benficio per la sicurtà delle fortezze.

Creator:: Lorini, Buonaiuto, fl. 1600
Date:: MDCIX [1609]
Physical Description:: [12], 303, [1] p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The horse-mans honour: or, The beautie of horse-man-ship : As the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses. With the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer. Not innented [sic] and drawn from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise: and now published at the request of diuers honorable and worthy persons, for the generall good of this noble nation of Great Britaine.

Creator:: Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:: 1620
Physical Description:: [16], 188, 191-255, 266-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. : Also, some enquiries into the nature of the water of St. Vincent's Rock, near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary. To which is added, A century of observations, more fully declaring the nature, property, and distinction of the baths. With an account of the lives, and character, of the physicians of Bathe. / By Tho. Guidott ...

Creator:: Guidott, Thomas, fl. 1698
Date:: 1676 [i. e. 1676-1677]
Physical Description:: [30] p., 200 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., plan ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The Bible : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.

Date:: [1607]
Physical Description:: [6], 294, 294-299, 301-361, [1], 359-362, 361-444, 135, [7] leaves : ill., maps (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Georgii Simonis Winteri, Bellerophon, sive Eques peritus : hoc est, artis equestris accuratissima institutio, opere bipartito, seu duobus libris, absoluta : quorum prior modum explicat, quo dextrè quis equum conscendere, vel decorè descendendo relinquere, adeoq[ue] secundùm omnes palaestrae hujus praeceptiones (s. lectiones) nobili hoc armento excellenter uti; nec non decursionibus ad annulum vel quintanam, hastiludiis, & torneamentis, aliísve generosorum exercitiis equestribus, decenter, atque gloriosè defungi queat; heroinis item, illustribus ac nobilibus foeminis, commodâ & gratiosâ equitatione per agros, vel stadia aliquot, spatiandi rationem commonstrat; posterior autem, quomodo indomitus, intractatus, atque iners equus, ad equitatum, vel venatum, erudiendus sit, ostendit; insuper & de fraenis, quibus eum induere oporteat, peculiariter, copiosè, ac luculenter disserit : quibus omnibus perlongo atq[ue] experientissimo usu, creberrimoq́[ue] autoris exercitio, investigatis & probatis, ex ejusdem inventu rariores, nec unquam visae hactenus, figurae s. imagines accessêre, regulis scilicet ac praeceptis ejusmodi illustrandis utilissimae: in gratiam publicae strenuitatis luci publicae exposita, nec vernaculo tantùm, sed in usum exterorum Latino etiam sermone descripta.

Creator:: Winter, Georg Simon, b. ca. 1634
Date:: Anno MDCLXXVIII [1678]
Physical Description:: [16], 191, [1] p., [2], 104 leaves of plates, 60 plates (all but nos. 13 and 20 double), [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Delle caccie / di Eugenio Raimondi Bresciano ; compendiate dal Dottore Francesco Bardi ; ornate con bellissime figure in rame di F. Valleggio.

Creator:: Raimondi, Eugenio, 17th cent
Date:: MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: 16 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Gulielmi Pisonis medici Amstelædamensis De Indiæ utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim, quorum contenta pagina sequens exhibet.

Creator:: Piso, Willem, 1611–1678
Date:: 1658
Physical Description:: [24], 327, [5], 39, 226, [2] p. : ill. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. An hipponomie or The vineyard of horsemanship : deuided into three bookes. 1. The theorick part, intreating of the inward knowledge of the man. 2. The first practicke part, shewing how to worke according to that knowledge. 3. The second practicke part, declaring how to apply both hunting and running horses to the true grounds of this art. In which is plainly laid open the art of breeding, riding, training and dieting of the said horses. Wherein also many errors in this art, heretofore published, are manifestly detected / by Michaell Baret, practitioner and professor of the same art.

Creator:: Baret, Michael
Date:: 1618
Physical Description:: 3 pt. in 1 v. ([20], 48, 51-122, [20], 139, [13], 101, [1], 23, [3] p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. L'instruction du roy en l'exercice de monter à cheual. / Par Antoine de Pluuinel, son sous-gouuerneur, conseiller en son conseil d'estat, chambellan ordinaire, & son escuyer principal. Lequel respondant à sa Majesté, luy faict remarquer l'excellance de sa methode pour reduire les cheuaux en peu de temps à l'obeyssance des iustes proportions de tous les plus beaux airs & maneiges. Le tout enrichy de grandes figures en taille douce, representant les vrayes et naïfues actions des hommes et des cheuaux en tous les aires, et maneiges, courses de bagnu, rompre en lice au Quintan, et combatre à l'Espée. Ensemble les figures des brides, les plus necessaires à cet vsage, desseignées et grauées par Chrispian de Pas.

Creator:: Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555–1620
Date:: M.DC.XXVII. [1627]
Physical Description:: [12], 207, [1] p., [1], 15, [1] 16-56 double leaves of plates : ill. (engravings, woodcuts, ports.) ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Cauelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1607
Physical Description:: [16], 88, [4], 212, 233-264, [4], 67, 58-72, [4], 54, [4], 56, [4], 64, [4], 11, 10-81, [5], 20, 25-40 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien : wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt / door Ioannes de Laet, ende met noodighe kaerten ende tafels voorsien.

Creator:: Laet, Joannes de, 1581–1649
Date:: 1625
Physical Description:: [24], 510, [16] p., [18] leaves of plates : maps ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... / by Henry Peacham ...

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:: 1634
Physical Description:: [8], 163 p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Mundus imperiorum, siue de mundi imperiis libri quatuor : das ist, Beschreibung aller Keyserthumb vnd Königreich, auch aller fürnembsten Fürstenthumb vnd Herzschafften der ganssen Welt, sampt volkomlicher Erzehlung ihrer Macht, Reichthumb, vnd Vermögens, in 4. Theil abgetheiler ... / Auss Italianischer Sprach ins Teutsch gebracht, durch Johann von Brüssel, die ander Edition sehr gemehret vnd gebessert.

Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:: im Iahr MDCII [1602]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([120] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... / by Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

Date:: anno 1599-1600
Physical Description:: 3 v. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases, in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fourteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: [16], 80 p., pp. 79-394, [2], 26, 49, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The booke of falconrie or havvking : for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile gentleman ; and now newly reviued, corrected, and augmented, with many new additions proper to these present times.

Creator:: Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
Date:: An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:: [8], 370, [6] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verrulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts.

Creator:: Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: [16], 14, [2], 255, [3], 99, [17], 8, [2], 16, [2], 62, [4], 58, [8], 92, [14], 26 p. : ports. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations : containing a discourse of the generall art of fishing with the angle, or otherwise, and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyetting of the fighting cocke. Being a worke neuer in that nature handled by any former author.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1614
Physical Description:: [2], 51, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

Date:: 1607?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 33 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The history of the Church of Peterburgh : wherein the most remarkable things concerning that place, from the first foundation thereof, with other passages of history, not unworthy public view are represented / by Symon Gunton ... ; illustrated with sculptures ; and set forth by Symon Patrick.

Creator:: Gunton, Simon, 1609–1676
Date:: 1686
Physical Description:: 348 p., [4] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

Creator:: G. M. (Geffray Minshull), 1594?-1668
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xviii, 91 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta / Joannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

Creator:: Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:: anno MDC [1600]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([36] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus ss. patrvm illustrata / authore Hermanno Hvgone, Societatis Iesv ... ; sculpsit Christophorus à Sichem ...

Creator:: Hugo, Herman, 1588–1629
Date:: 1628
Physical Description:: 456 p., 16 leaves : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Date:: 1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:: 3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in diuers places, as also beutified and enlarged with new mapps and tables by the studious industrie of Iodocus Hondy ; englished by W.S. generosus & regin. Oxoniae.

Creator:: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([22], 56, 55-56, [2], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 5 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende warhafftige vnd volkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften, Insulen, Königreichen vnd Provintzien, Seecusten ... in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyses : dessgleichen, gründlicher Bericht von der Innwohner Beschaffenkeit, Sitten ... vnd Gebräuchen ... / alles auss verscheidenen west-indianischen Historien-Schreibern, vnnd mancherley Sprachen ... zusammen getragen, extrahirt, in ein richtige Ordnung der Materien vnd Zeit, vnd in diese käuffliche Form bracht durch Johan Ludwig Gottfriedt ; mit zugehörigen Landtafeln, Contrafacturen vnd ... Kupfferstücken ... geziert vnd verlegt, durch Mattheum Merian ...

Creator:: Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: [12], 562, 72 p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux / par le tres-noble, haut, et tres-puissant prince Guillaume marquis et comte de New-castle, vicomte de Mansfield, baron de Bolsover et Ogle, seigneur de Cavendish, Bothel et Hepvvell, pair d'angleterre; qui eut la charge & l'honneur d'étre gouverneur du serenissime prince de Galles en sa jeunesse, maintenant roy de la Grande-Bretagne; lieutenant pour le roy de la comté de Nottingham, & de la Forest de Shervvood; capitaine general en toutes les provinces outre la riviere de Trent, & autres endroits du royaume d'angleterre; gentil-homme de la chambre du lit du roy; conseillier d'etat & privé; chevalier du tres-noble Ordre de la Jartiere, &c. Oeuure, auquel on apprend à trauailler les cheuaux selon la nature, & parfaire la nature par la subtilité de l'art; traduit de l'anglois de l'auteur, par son commandement, enrichy de plusieures belles figures en taille douce.

Creator:: Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:: l'an M.DC.LVIII [1658]
Physical Description:: [28], 271, [9], 19, [5] p., [1], 42 double leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards, or dice : to which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.

Creator:: Cotton, Charles, 1630–1687
Date:: 1680
Physical Description:: [16], 175, [1] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Pia desideria. lib. III Ad Vrbanvm VIII. Authore Herm. Hvgone Soc. Iesu.

Creator:: Hugo, Herman, 1588–1629
Date:: M.DC.XXXII
Physical Description:: 16 p.l., 442, [4] p. illus., plates, coat of arms. 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A briefe description of the whole worlde : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: newly augmented and enlarged; with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning.

Creator:: Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:: 1605
Physical Description:: [164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen, tot den iare M.VI.c XII : nu de laestemael bij hem voor sijne doodt merckelijck verbetert en[de] in, XXXII, boecken voltrocken, is mede' hier by gevoegt des autheurs leven ...

Creator:: Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535–1612
Date:: 1614
Physical Description:: [10], 302, 304-671, [15] leaves : ill., map, ports. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. An approued treatise of hawkes and hawking : Diuided into three bookes. The first teacheth, how to make a short-winged hawke good, with good conditions. The second, how to reclaime a hawke from any ill condition. The third, teacheth cures for all knowne griefes and diseases / by Edmund Bert, Gentleman.

Creator:: Bert, Edmund
Date:: 1619
Physical Description:: [16], 109, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Allmodischer Kleyder Teuffel : das ist 1. Schimpff vnnd Ernstlicher Discurs vber den heuttigen Allmodischen : oder A-la-modischen Kleyder Teuffel &c : 2. Eröterung der Frage : Wie ein Erbarer Teutscher Mann thun solle wann sein Weib (da es doch sein Seckel nicht ertragen könte) sich Allmodisch tragen wolte damit er des Hauptcepters nicht gar verlustigt werde : 3. Regulœ eines Getrewen Ehe Weibs / Verfasset Durch M. Johann Ellinger.

Creator:: Ellinger, Johann, of Arheiligen
Date:: Anno 1629
Physical Description:: 56 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A description of the island of Jamaica : with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related, viz. Barbadoes, St. Christophers, Nievis or Mevis, Antego, St. Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Barbada, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New England, New-Found-Land : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places. Illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [8], 192 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. (maps) ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The countrey farrier : Teaching divers and sundry approved medicines, to cure all sorts of cattell : as horse, kine, sheepe, hogs, and dogs. With directions how to find, or know, what the disease or infirmity is. Contrived into a little volume, for avoiding the charge of high-prised bookes. Very usefull and necessary for all country-farmers, and housholders; and generally, for all sorts of people / Exactly approved and collected, by the long travels, study, and experience of William Poole.

Creator:: Poole, William, farrier
Date:: 1648
Physical Description:: [8], 24, p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing. Wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore. Whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation. With an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

Creator:: Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673–1721
Date:: 1686
Physical Description:: [10], 158, [10], 187, [5], 78; [2], 98 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. His Maiesties commission giuing power to enquire of the decayes of the cathedral church of St. Paul in London, and for repairing of the same.

Creator:: England and Wales. Sovereign (1625–1649 : Charles I)
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: [2], 49, [2] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The compleat horseman and expert ferrier : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts, as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge, and prescribing the best manner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not hitherto so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses: a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leech: the cures placed alphabetically: with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any author. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the whole kingdome: and dedicated to His most excellent Majestie / By Thomas de Gray Esquire.

Creator:: De Grey, Thomas
Date:: 1639
Physical Description:: [32], 356, [8] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Virginia impartially examined, and left to publick view : to be considered by all iudicious and honest men. Under which title, is comprehended the degrees from 34 to 39, wherein lyes the rich and healthfull countries of Roanock, the now plantations of Virginia and Mary-land. Looke not upon this booke, as those that are set out by private men, for private ends; for being read, you'l find, the publick good is the authors onely aime. For this piece is no other than the adventurers faithfull steward, disposing the adventure for the best advantage, advising people of all degrees, from the highest master, to the meanest servant, how suddenly to raise their fortunes. Peruse the table, and you shall finde the way plainely layd downe / By William Bvllock, gent.

Creator:: Bullock, William, b. 1617?
Date:: 1649
Physical Description:: [12], 66 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The double-armed man, by the new inuention : briefly shewing some famous exploits atchieued by our Brittish bowmen: with seuerall portraitures proper for the pike and bow. / By W.N. archer.

Creator:: Neade, William
Date:: 1625
Physical Description:: [40] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The carpenters rule, or, A booke shewing many plain waies, truly to measure ordinarie timber, and other extraordinarie sollids, or timber : with a detection of sundrie great errors, generally committed by carpenters and others in measuring of timber; tending much to the buyers great losse : published especially for the good of the Companie of Carpenters in London, and other also; ... / by Richard More.

Creator:: More, Richard (Carpenter)
Date:: 1602
Physical Description:: [8], 56 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Della caualleria = Grundtlicher Bericht von allem was zu der Reutterei gehorig vnd einem Cauallier dauon zu wissen geburt.

Creator:: Löhneyss, Georg Engelhard von, 1552–1622
Date:: 1609 [-1610]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., music ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The noble art of venerie or hunting : wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and kill euery one of them / translated & collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approoued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same, and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here in this noble realme of Great Britaine.

Creator:: Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580
Date:: An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:: [8], 200, [4], 201-204, 207-250, [4] pages : illustrations, music ; 18 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Le grand atlas, ou, Cosmographie Blauiane : en laquelle est exactement descritte la terre, la mer, et le ciel.

Creator:: Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:: MDCLXVII [1667]
Physical Description:: 12 volumes : color illustrations, color maps ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descripto : nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata / Guilielmo Camdeno, authore.

Creator:: Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:: 1607
Physical Description:: [16], 860, [23] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Architectura civilis, das ist, Eigentliche Beschreibung wie ma[n] nach bester Form vnd gerechter Regul ... aufführen vnnd erbawen soll / alles auss vielfaltiger Erfahrnuss zusammengetragen, beschrieben vnd mit 40 Kupfferstucken für Augen gestellt durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Creator:: Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:: anno MDC XXVIII [1628]
Physical Description:: [22], 78 pages, 40, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince, Iames, the first of that name, King, of England, and the sixt of Scotland : at His Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London, vpon the 15th day of March 1603 / invented and published by Stephen Harrison, ioyner and architect, and graven by William Kip.

Creator:: Harrison, Stephen (Joiner and architect)
Date:: 1604
Physical Description:: [9] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. America, sive novus orbis, tabulis Aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineatus / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

Creator:: Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:: anno à partu Virgineo MDC [1600]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([84] pages) : illustrations, 20 maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Novvelle invention de lever l'eau plvs havlt que sa source auec quelques machines mouantes par le moyen de l'eau et vn discours de la conduite d'ycelle / par Isaac de Cavs.

Creator:: Caus, Isaac de, 1590–1648
Date:: 1644
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The perfection of horse-manship : dravvne from nature, arte, and practise / By Nicholas Morgan of Crolane, in the countye of Kent, gent.

Creator:: Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:: 1609
Physical Description:: [28], 188, 191-255, 266-272, [4], 273-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [5] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische compagnie : zedert haer begin, tot het eynde van't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-endewrtich : begrepen in derthien boecken, ende met verscheyden koperen platen verciert / beschreven door Ioannes de Laet ...

Creator:: Laet, Joannes de, 1581–1649
Date:: 1644
Physical Description:: [32], 544, 31, [11] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weales in the worlde : relating their scituations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters / translated into English, and enlarged, with an addition of the relation of the states of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary, and Spaine; in no language euer before imprinted.

Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:: 1603
Physical Description:: [4], 268 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

Date:: 1609
Physical Description:: [8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The discovery of a world in the moone, or, A discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet ...

Creator:: Wilkins, John, 1614–1672
Date:: 1638
Physical Description:: 8, 209 (i.e. 211), [4] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The antiquities of Nottinghamshire, extracted out of records, original evidences, leiger books, other manuscripts, and authentick authorities, : beautified with maps, prospects, and portraictures / by Robert Thoroton ...

Creator:: Thoroton, Robert, 1623–1678
Date:: 1677
Physical Description:: [16], 507, [28], 8, [8] p., [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., coats of arms, map ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Travels thro' Germany, Bohemia, Swisserland, Bohemia, Holland, and other parts of Europe : describing the most considerable citys and the palaces of princes : together with historical relations and critical observations upon ancient medals and inscriptions / by Charles Patin ... ; made English and illustrated with copper cuts and a map.

Creator:: Patin, Charles, 1633–1693
Date:: 1696
Physical Description:: [2], [1], (334) p., 336 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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5. Divine examples of God's severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers : in their unlavvful sports, collected out of several divine subjects, viz. Mr. H.B. Mr. Beard, and the practice of piety : a fit monument for our present times, &c.

7. Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto.

8. 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.

9. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

14. Le fortificationi di Buonaiuto Lorini, nobile fiorentino : con la scienza e con la pratica, l'ordine di fortificare le città & altri luoghi, con tutti gli auuertimenti, che più possono apportar benficio per la sicurtà delle fortezze.

17. The Bible : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.

19. Delle caccie / di Eugenio Raimondi Bresciano ; compendiate dal Dottore Francesco Bardi ; ornate con bellissime figure in rame di F. Valleggio.

20. Gulielmi Pisonis medici Amstelædamensis De Indiæ utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim, quorum contenta pagina sequens exhibet.

24. Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien : wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt / door Ioannes de Laet, ende met noodighe kaerten ende tafels voorsien.

30. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verrulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts.

32. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

33. The history of the Church of Peterburgh : wherein the most remarkable things concerning that place, from the first foundation thereof, with other passages of history, not unworthy public view are represented / by Symon Gunton ... ; illustrated with sculptures ; and set forth by Symon Patrick.

34. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

35. Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta / Joannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

36. Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus ss. patrvm illustrata / authore Hermanno Hvgone, Societatis Iesv ... ; sculpsit Christophorus à Sichem ...

41. The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards, or dice : to which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.

42. Pia desideria. lib. III Ad Vrbanvm VIII. Authore Herm. Hvgone Soc. Iesu.

43. A briefe description of the whole worlde : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: newly augmented and enlarged; with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning.

44. Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen, tot den iare M.VI.c XII : nu de laestemael bij hem voor sijne doodt merckelijck verbetert en[de] in, XXXII, boecken voltrocken, is mede' hier by gevoegt des autheurs leven ...

50. His Maiesties commission giuing power to enquire of the decayes of the cathedral church of St. Paul in London, and for repairing of the same.

53. The double-armed man, by the new inuention : briefly shewing some famous exploits atchieued by our Brittish bowmen: with seuerall portraitures proper for the pike and bow. / By W.N. archer.

55. Della caualleria = Grundtlicher Bericht von allem was zu der Reutterei gehorig vnd einem Cauallier dauon zu wissen geburt.

57. Le grand atlas, ou, Cosmographie Blauiane : en laquelle est exactement descritte la terre, la mer, et le ciel.

58. Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descripto : nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata / Guilielmo Camdeno, authore.

59. Architectura civilis, das ist, Eigentliche Beschreibung wie ma[n] nach bester Form vnd gerechter Regul ... aufführen vnnd erbawen soll / alles auss vielfaltiger Erfahrnuss zusammengetragen, beschrieben vnd mit 40 Kupfferstucken für Augen gestellt durch Josephum Furttenbach.

61. America, sive novus orbis, tabulis Aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineatus / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

62. Novvelle invention de lever l'eau plvs havlt que sa source auec quelques machines mouantes par le moyen de l'eau et vn discours de la conduite d'ycelle / par Isaac de Cavs.

63. The perfection of horse-manship : dravvne from nature, arte, and practise / By Nicholas Morgan of Crolane, in the countye of Kent, gent.

64. Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische compagnie : zedert haer begin, tot het eynde van't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-endewrtich : begrepen in derthien boecken, ende met verscheyden koperen platen verciert / beschreven door Ioannes de Laet ...

67. The discovery of a world in the moone, or, A discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet ...

68. The antiquities of Nottinghamshire, extracted out of records, original evidences, leiger books, other manuscripts, and authentick authorities, : beautified with maps, prospects, and portraictures / by Robert Thoroton ...