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1101. A new voyage to Italy : with a description of the chief town, churches, tombs, libraries, palaces, statues and antiquaries of that country : together with useful instructions for those who shall travel thither / by Maximilien Misson ... ; done into English and adorn'd with figures ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Misson, Maximilien, 1650?-1722
Date:: 1695
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1102. 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 ...

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

1103. A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building. Viz. solidity, conveniency, and ornament. By Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly knight.

Creator:: Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667
Date:: 1662
Physical Description:: 6 p.., 44 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1104. Catalogus librorum Roberti Scott : bibliopolae regii Londinensis. In quavis lingua & facultate insignium ex variis Europae partibus advectorum, quorum auctio habenda est Londini ... decimo tertio die Februarii, 1688 / Per Benjaminum Walford, bibliopolam Londinensem.

Creator:: Scott, Robert, fl. 1661–1691
Date:: [etc., 1687/8]
Physical Description:: [4], 144, 135-175, [3] p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1105. 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

1106. The history of painting, sculpture, architecture, graving: and of those who have excelled in them: in three books. Containing their rise, progress, decay, and revival; with an account of the most considerable productions of the best artists in all ages: and how to distinguish the true and regular performances, from those that are otherwise. By P. Monier.

Creator:: Monier, Pierre, 1639–1703
Date:: 1699
Physical Description:: [15] p.l., 192, [12] p. front. 20 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1107. Illmo. D.D. Rogerio Dv Plesseis ... magnarum artium eximio cultori ... segmenta nobilium signorum e[t] statuaru[m], quae temporis dentem inuidium euasere vrbis aeternae ruinis erepta typis aeneis ab se commissa perpetuae uenerationis monumentum, Franciscus Perrier D.D.D.

Creator:: Perrier, François, 1590?-1656?
Date:: 1638
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., 2 l. 100 pl. (2 double) 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1108. The canting academy, or, The devil's cabinet opened : wherein is shewn the mysterious and villanous practices of that wicked crew, commonly known by the names of hectors, trapanners, gilts, &c. : to which is added a compleat canting-dictionary, both of old words, and such as are now most in use : with several new catches and songs, compos'd by the choicest wits of the age : a book very useful and necessary to be read by all sorts of people.

Creator:: Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
Date:: 1673
Physical Description:: [6], 192, [16] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 15 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1109. Topographia Palatinatus Rheni et vicinarum regionum : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eigentliche Abbildungen der vornemsten Statte V. Plätz der Vntern Pfaltz am Rhein vnd benachbarten Landschaften, als der Bistumer Wormbs vnd Speÿer, der Bergstrass, des Westerreichs, Hundrücks, Zweÿbrüggen, etc. : sampt einer Zugabe ettlicher des, H. Röm. Reichs zu dem Ober Reinischen Cräyss gezogenen ständen, als Bisantz, Metz, Tull, Verdun, Lothringen, Savoyen, etc.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: 1645
Physical Description:: 106, 33, [11] pages, [101] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1110. Plan of fortification, possibly at Newtown, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: December, 1671
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 76 x 120 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1111. Artilleriae recentior praxis, oder, Neuere Geschütz Beschreibung : Worinnen Von allen vornehmsten Haupt-Puncten der Artilleri Gründlich und ausführlich gehandelt, solches auch mit vielen Kupffer-Stücken erkläret wird / Beschrieben von ... Michael Miethen.

Creator:: Mieth, Michael, -1686
Date:: 1684
Physical Description:: [8], 92 [i.e. 90], [6], 82, [6], 74, [6], 62, [2] pages, 30 [i.e. 33] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1112. Van den Wyngaerde's View of London (circa 1550)

Creator:: Wyngaerde, Anton van den, d. 1571
Date:: 1881-1882
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio (7 plates) : all ill. ; 53 x 295 cm, on 7 sheets 80 x 59 cm, in cover 79 x 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1113. Les tables de geographie, reduites en un jeu de cartes / par P. Du-Val ... ; Cordier sculp.

Creator:: Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619–1682
Date:: [ca. 1680?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill., col. maps ; image 41 x 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1114. Illustriorum principumque urbium septentrionalium Europae tabulae.

Creator:: Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:: [1657]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (234 pages in various pagings, [3] leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 52 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1115. Mellificium mensionis, or, The marrow of measuring : wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plastering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works : as also the measuring of land and all other superfices and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the intergers into the least denomination : giving the content of any superfices or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetic : together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto : the whole treatise being comprized in six books and illustrated with copper cuts : an account whereof is given in the epistle to the reader : the like not heretofore published / by Venterus Mandey.

Creator:: Mandey, Venterus
Date:: 1682
Physical Description:: [26], 376, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1116. Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus : centenario numero complexa, summo studio collecta / atque in lucem edita à Carolo Allard = Des bewoonden waerelds steden en dragten : in een honderd-getal begreepen / met een byzondere naerstigheid verzaameld en uitgegeven door Carel Allard.

Creator:: Allard, Carel, 1648–approximately 1709
Date:: [not after 1698?]
Physical Description:: [14] pages, [202] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1117. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde / par Antoine de Herrera ... ; translatee d'espagnol en françois ; a la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la navigation du vaillant capitaine de mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres ...

Creator:: Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:: 1622
Physical Description:: [6], 103, [7], 107-254 p., [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1118. 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

1119. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., [11], 123 p. front., illus., plates (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1120. Angliæ metropolis, or, The present state of London : with memorials comprehanding a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof ... / first written by ... Tho. Delaune ... and continued to the present year by a careful hand ...

Creator:: Delaume, Thomas, d. 1685
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: [10], 444 p. : coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1121. The history of the reformation of the Church of England : in two parts.

Creator:: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643–1715
Date:: 1681-1683
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1122. 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

1123. 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, active 1673–1721
Date:: 1677
Physical Description:: [12], 158, [2], 159-254, [4], 78, 89-95, [3], 78, [12] pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1124. Markhams Remembrancer of unpublished secretes : shewinge howe a man may come to be a general horsman by the knowledge of these seauen offyces : 1. Breeder -- 2. Rider -- 3. Feeder -- 4. Keeper -- 5. Ambler -- 6. Buyer, 7 Farrier / G.M., circa 1655.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: circa 1655
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([16], 22, [2], 33, [3], 71, [3], 11, [5], 24, [4], 31, [1], 76, [5] p.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1125. Della Espugnatione et difesa delle fortezze.

Creator:: Busca, Gabriello, fl. 1580
Date:: 1635
Physical Description:: 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1126. This new map of [the] Earth and water according to Wrights alias Mercator's projection, drawn according to [the] more exact celestial observations and the more accurate discoveries of an a approued author, Robt. Morden, is sold at [the] Atlas in Cornhill, London, 1699 ; H. Moll sculpsit.

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: [1699]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 13 sheets ; 130 x 238 cm, on sheets 53 x 72 cm + 1 index map (28 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1127. The theatre of the empire of Great-Britain : presenting an exact geography of the kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the isles adjoyning : as also the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-towns within the kingdom of England and principality of Wales : with a chronology of the civil-wars in England, Wales and Ireland : together with a prospect of the most famous parts of the world, viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America : with these empires and kingdoms therein contained, viz. Grecia, Roman-Empire, Germany, Bohemia, France, Belgia, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Poland, Persia, Turkish-Empire, Kingdom of China, Tartaria, Summer-Islands / by John Speed.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:: [16], 126, 5-6, 5-8, [22], 129-146, [14], 56, [12] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, coats of arms, tables ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1128. Theatrum Imperij Magnae Britanniae : exactam regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et insularum adiacentium geographia[m] ob oculos ponens : vna cum comitatibus, centurijs, vrbibus et primarijs comitatuum oppidis, intra regnum Angliae, divisis et descriptis / opus nuper quidem à Iohanne Spédo cive Londinensi Anglicè conscriptum ; nunc verò à Philemone Hollando apud Coventrianos medicinae doctore Latinitate donatum.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: anno cum privilegio 1616
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([8], 94, [2], 99-126, [2], 131-132, [2], 137-146, [6] leaves) : maps ; 44 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1129. America, siue, India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui vniversalis imitationem in compendium redacta / per Michaelem Mercatorem, Duysburgensem.

Creator:: Mercator, Michael, d. 1600
Date:: between 1613 and 1630]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col. ; 33.8 in diam.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1130. Geography rectified: or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy six maps.

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 596 [i.e. 592] p. ill. (maps) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1131. Cartes marines a l'usage des armées du roy de la Grand Bretagne : faites sur les memoires le plus nouveaux, des plus experts ingenieurs & pilotes, & enrichies des porfils [sic] des plus fameux ports de mer & villes maritimes de l'Europe ... / gravées & recüeillies par le Sr. Romain de Hooge ...

Creator:: Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645–1708
Date:: MDCLXXXXIII [1693]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([1] leaf, [16] leaves of plates) : 9 maps ; 65 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1132. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink ; sheet 102 x 72 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1133. You lovely virgins that intend to marry : heere's choyce of husbands for you, do not tarry ...

Date:: [between 1671 and 1707]
Physical Description:: [1] sheet : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1134. 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

1135. Atlas, or, A geographicke description of the regions, countries and kingdomes of the world, through Europe, Asia, Africa, & America, represented by new and exact maps / translated by Henry Hexham, quarter-maister to the regiment of Colonell Goring.

Creator:: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:: anno 1636[-1638]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps (some folded), portraits ; 49 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1136. 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

1137. Dissertation sur les ouvrages des plus fameux peintres ...

Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: 1681
Physical Description:: 140, 38, [6] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1138. 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

1139. The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur : notwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf & actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur: of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table : theyr merveyllous enquestes & adventures, thachyevynge of the sanc-greall and in the ende the dolourous deth: and departynge out of this worlde of them al. : which boke was reduced in to Englysshe / by the well dysposyd knyghte Syr Thomas Malory.

Creator:: Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1140. England [cartographic material] / by Robt. Morden.

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: [1695?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 36 x 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William H. Mandel, Yale BFA 1953, and Robert L. Russell, Yale MA 1954

1141. 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

1142. Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle fabriche di nostro signore papa Sisto V / fatte dal cavallier Domenico Fontana, architetto di Sva Santita.

Creator:: Fontana, Domenico, 1543–1607
Date:: MDXC [1590, that is 1604]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (94 [i.e. 100], [1] leaves; 30 [i.e. 34], [1] leaves) : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1143. Topographia Bavariæ, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Orth in Ober vnd Nieder Beÿern, der obern Pfaltz, vnd andern, zum hochlöblichen Baÿrischen Craisse gehörigen Landschaften.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: MDCXLIV [1644]
Physical Description:: 138, [8] p., [59] plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1144. 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

1145. Veues et perspectives de Soesdyck, chasteau [sic] & maison de plaisance du roy de la Grande Bretagne : le tout deffiné & gravé par les plus habiles maistres.

Date:: 1695
Physical Description:: [1], 16 leaves : all ill. ; 21 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1146. 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

1147. Neue und gründliche mathematische Friedens- und Kriegs-Schule : worinnen der Kern und die nothwendigsten Stücke der sechs nachfolgenden Wissenschafften, als Geometriae theoreticae, der Erdmess-Kunst. Architecturae civilis, der bürgerlichen Bau-Kunst. Architecturae militaris, der Fortification oder Kriegs-Bau-Kunst. Artis tormentariae, der Artillerie oder Büchsen-Meisteren. Pyrotechniae damnosae, des Ernst-Feuer-Wercks. Pyrotechniae jucundae, des Lust-Feuer-Wercks / aus vielen, sowol alten, als neuen berühmten und bewährten Autoren zu jedermanns nutzlichen Gebrauch, mit behörigen Figuren, fürtzlich, ordenlich und deutlich aufgesetzet und zusammen getragen durch Johann Sebastian Grubern, Majorn.

Creator:: Gruber, Johann Sebastian
Date:: An. 1697
Physical Description:: [14], 94, [4], 97-250, [2], 251-503, [3], 515-742 p., VI, 8, XVI, XXX, XIII, IV, XVI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1148. A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland ; to which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

Creator:: Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Date:: 1698
Physical Description:: [22], 243, [1], [32], 228 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1149. [Atlas of the British Isles] [cartographic material].

Creator:: Keere, Pieter van den, 1571–approximately 1646
Date:: [Amsterdam?] :
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([44] leaves of plates) ; 44 maps ; 13 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1150. 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

1151. Iconologia deorum, oder, Abbildung der Götter : welche von den Alten verehret worden ... samt dero eigentlicher Beschreibung und Erklärung der heidnischen Tempel-Ceremonien, auch Vorbildung der Thiere und anderer Sachen ... / durch Joachim von Sandrart ...

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: anno MDCLXXX [1680]
Physical Description:: [42], 212, [16] pages, [43] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1152. Disegnidi vari altari e cappelle.

Date:: s.d.]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1153. Geography anatomized, or, A compleat geographical grammar : being a short and exact analysis of the whole body of modern geography ... : to which is subjoin'd the present state of the European plantations in the East and West Indies, with a reasonable proposal for the propagation of the blessed gospel in all pagan countries ... : illustrated with diverse maps / by Pat. Gordon ...

Creator:: Gordon, Patrick, active 1700
Date:: 1693
Physical Description:: [16], 208 p., [36] leaves of plates : maps ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1154. Het schilder-boeck waer in voer eerst de laerlustighe iueght den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen. Daer nae in dry deelen t'leuen der vermaerde doorluchtighe schilders des ouden, en nieuwen tyds. Eyntlyck d'wtlegghinghe op den Metamorphoseon. Pub. Ouidij Nasonis ... Door Carel van Mander schilder.

Creator:: Mander, Carel van, 1548–1606
Date:: 1604
Physical Description:: 4 v. port. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1155. Georgii Simonis Winteri, Hippiater expertus, seu Medicina equorum absolutissima, tribus libris comprehensa : quorum I. Agit de equorum temperamentis; aetate cognoscendâ; morbis omnibus internis capitis; oculorum; aurium; narium; linguae; dentium; oris; aliisq́ue his similibus: II. De affectibus internis thoracis & abdominis nempe pulmonum & cordis; itemq́ue hepatis; lienis; ventriculi; intestinorum; renum; vesicae; nec non de purgatione equorum & pabulatione per gramen; de clysteribus; suppositoriis; de febribus & de peste. III. De omnis generis unguentis; oleis; balsamis & emplastris in genere; item de quibuscunque morbis ac symptomatibus externis; ut: tumoribus, ulceribus & vulneribus cujuscunque generis; ungularum etiam vitiis; fracturâ & luxatione ossium; medicamentorum ad horum morborum curationem necessariorum variis formulis; de venae sectione; de affectibus nervorum &c. Non minus ex probatissimis authoribus congesta, quàm propriâ multorum annorum experientiâ longâq́[ue] praxi stabilita, & multis figuris aeneis elegantissimis, remq́[ue] ipsam miro artificio clarissimè ob oculos ponentibus exornata, & in gratiam exterarum quoque gentium ex vernacula in Latinam translata, nuncq́[ue] primùm typis exscripta.

Creator:: Winter, Georg Simon, b. ca. 1634
Date:: Anno MDCLXXVIII [1678]
Physical Description:: [16], 490, [10] p. : ill., port. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1156. Britania, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones : the like never before published.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:: [14], 464 pages, [63] leaves of plates (50 folded) : coats of arms, maps ; 36 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1157. Theatrum orbis terrarum / Abrahami Orteli Antuerp. Geographi Regij = The theatre of the whole world / set forth by that excellent geographer Abraham Ortelius.

Creator:: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Date:: 1606 [i.e. 1608?]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([510] pages) : 192 maps ; 42 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1158. An historical account of the rise and growth of the West- India collonies : and of the great advantages they are to England, in respect to trade : licenced according to order.

Creator:: Thomas, Dalby, Sir
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: [6], 53, [1] pages : 1 table ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1159. Cantabrigiensis comitatus : Cambridge shire.

Creator:: Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:: [not before 1645]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 40.1 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

1160. An account of what workmen hath bin imployed about the building at Greate Bathampton since February the 4, 1694/5.

Creator:: Berrington, John, -1743
Date:: 1694-1721
Physical Description:: 1 volume (150 pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1161. De atramentis cujuscunque generis. Opus sanè novum, hactenus à nemine promulgatum. In sex descriptiones digestum. Auctore, Petro Maria Canepario ...

Creator:: Canepari, Pietro Maria
Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [16], 568 p. 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1162. Cantabrigia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis, collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae academicae scholarum publicarum, sacelli coll. regalis : regalis nec non totius oppidi ichnographia / deliniatore and sculptore Dav. Loggan utriusque academiae calcographo.

Creator:: Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:: [1690?]
Physical Description:: [64] leaves : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1163. Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems, with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art / by the curious pensil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt. ...

Creator:: Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568–1639
Date:: 1651
Physical Description:: [60], 540 p., [4] leaves of plates : ports. ; 15 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1164. Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae foederatae / ad praesentis temporis faciem expressum a Ioanne Blaeu, Amstelaedamensi.

Creator:: Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:: [1649]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([584] pages) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1165. Diversarum avium species : ad vivum delineatae et in lucem editae Antuerpiae / Petrus von Lisebetten ; Cornelis Galle execudit.

Creator:: Lisebetten, Pieter van, 1630–1678
Date:: [ca. 1650?]
Physical Description:: 18 prints : etchings
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1166. Topographia Sueviae, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abcontrafeitung der fürnembste[n] Stätt vnd Plätz in Ober vnd Nider Schwaben, Herzogthum Würtenberg, Marggraffschafft Baden vnd andern zu dem hochlöbl. schwabischen Craisse gehörigen Landtschafften vnd Orten.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: MDCXLIII [1643] [i.e. ca. 1655]
Physical Description:: [8], 232, [14] p., [109] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 3 maps ; 34 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1167. Lebenslauf und Kunst-werke des woledlen und gestrengen Herrn Joachims von Sandrart, auf Stockau, hochfürstl. Pfalz-Neuburgischen Rahts / zu schuldigster Beehrung und Dankbarkeit, beschrieben und übergeben von desselben dienst-ergebenen Vettern und Discipeln.

Creator:: Sandrart, Jakob von, 1630–1708
Date:: im Jahr Christi 1675
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustration ; 40 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1168. A display of heraldrie : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method / wherein it is now reduced, by the study and industry of John Guillim ...

Creator:: Guillim, John, 1565–1621
Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [16], 144 (i.e. 444), 36, [6] p. : coats of arms ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1169. 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

1170. 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

1171. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

Creator:: Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1172. Amori sdegni et gielosie di Givnone / Julio Bonasone, in ventore

Creator:: Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498–approximately 1580
Date:: [16--]
Physical Description:: [1], [21] leaves : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1173. 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

1174. 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

1175. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 64 x 76 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1176. Great Britain's coasting-pilot ... : describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place, the setting and flowing of tydes, with directions for the knowing of any place; and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety ... / by Captain Greenvile Collins, Hydrographer in Ordinary to the King and Queens most excellent Majesties.

Creator:: Collins, Greenvile, active 1669–1698
Date:: 1693
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : maps, illustrations ; 55 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1177. Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseōn libri XV : ad fidem editionum optimarum et codicum manuscriptorum examinati, animadversi, necnon notis illustrati / opera & studio Thomae Farnabii ; editio nunc primum in Gallia & multis figuris æneis adornata.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: [6], 88, [2], p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1178. The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America : viz. Jamaica, Barbadoes, S. Christophers, Mevis, Antego, S. Vincent, Dominica, New-Jersey, Pensilvania, Monserat, Anguilla, Bermudas, Carolina, Virginia, New-England, Tobago, New-found-land, Mary-land, New-York. With new maps of every place. Together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands; from the year 1686, to 1700. Also a table by which, at any time of the day or night here in England, you may know what hour it is in any of those parts. And how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [8], 262, [42] p., [9] leaves of plates ([8] folded) : ill. (port., 7 fold. maps, fold. diagr.) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1179. 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

1180. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

Creator:: Melzo, Lodovico, 1567–1617
Date:: MDCXI [1611]
Physical Description:: [12], 221, [3] pages, [25] leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1181. The English military discipline : exactly described by copper cutts, in forty-eight postures of the musquet and thirty-six of the pike : with instructions for all young souldiers, and such who are disposed to learn and have knowledge of the military discipline : wherein are set down the conditions and qualities which are required in every several officer of a private company, and the manner of drawing up of companies and placing them in battail rank.

Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: 23 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1182. [Geographical cards.

Date:: 16--]
Physical Description:: 52 cards. ill. (ports.) 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1183. Traité des fevx artificiels povr la gverre, et povr la recreation; avec plusieurs belles obseruations, abregez de geometrie, fortifications, horloges solairs, & exemples d'arithmetique. De nouueau reueu, corrigé, & augmenté par l'autheur, François de Malthe ...

Creator:: Malthus, Francis
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 6 p.., 277, [5] p. ill. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1184. 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

1185. An apology for the builder, or, A discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building.

Creator:: Barbon, Nicholas, -1698
Date:: 1689
Physical Description:: [2], 37 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1186. The carriers cosmographie, or, A briefe relation, of the innes ordinaries, hosteries, and other lodgings, in and neere London : where the carriers, waggons, foote-posts and higglers, doe usually come, from any parts, townes, shires, and countries, of the kingdoms of England, principality of Wales, as also from the kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland : with nomination of what daies of the weeke they do come to London and on what daies they returne, whereby all sorts of people may find direction how to receiue or send, goods or letters, into such places as their occasions may require : as also where the ships, hoighs, barkes, t[i]ltboats, barges and wherries, do usually attend to carry passengers ... / by Iohn Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, John, 1580–1653
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: 24 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1187. [The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine]

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: [1646?]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([57] leaves) : 57 maps ; 44 x 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1188. The carpenter's rule made easie, or, The art of measuring superficies and solids : as timber, stone, boards, glass, and the like : also, an addition or second way, being the ground work of measuring timber, stone, boards, and glass ... / by John Darling.

Creator:: Darling, John, 17th cent
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: [2], [10], 140, [126] p. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1189. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning : with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within [the] kingdome of England, divided and described / by Iohn Speed.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: 1627
Physical Description:: [16], 146, [10] pages, [134] leaves of plates : maps ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1190. 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

1191. Pvrchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present. : Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Flovd, the heathenish, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / By Samuel Purchas, ...

Creator:: Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:: 1626
Physical Description:: [44], 242, 241-636, 635-1047, [37] p. (the first four pages blank), [1] double leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1192. Comitatis Cantabrigiensis : vernacule Cambridge shire.

Creator:: Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:: [not before 1647]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 39.9 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

1193. Neu erfundene Krieges-Bau-Kunst : begreiffend unterschiedene vornehme Krieges-Ubungen und Exercitia sambt viele profitable Anweisungen und Andeutungen, auch wie man auf eine gantz leichte Art, ohne einige Rechen-Kunst nach ietziger Zeit üblichen Manier, Festungen abreissen, fortificiren und in Grund legen lernen kan; allen Liebhabern, und denen Krieges-Waffen Ergebenen, zum Nutzen heraus gegeben, und ans Licht gebracht / durch P. V. D. Kreus, der Rom. Kayserl. Majest. Haubtmann, und Ingeneur in Ober- und Nieder-Schlesien.

Creator:: Kreus, Peter von der
Date:: [1699]
Physical Description:: [8], 38 p., [1], 14 leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1194. Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber ... II. An abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies.

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Date:: 1685
Physical Description:: 33 p.., 767 p. front. (port.) plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1195. Typus mundi in quo eius calamitates et pericula nec non diuini : humanique amoris antipathia : emblematice proponuntur à RR.C.S.I.A.

Date:: 1627
Physical Description:: 99, 200-240, [4] p. : ill. ; 13 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gordon S. Haight

1196. Recueil des meilleurs desseins de Raimond La Fage gravé par cinq des plus habiles graveurs / et mis en lumière par les soins de Vander-Bruggen ...

Creator:: La Fage, Raymond, 1656–1684
Date:: [168-]
Physical Description:: [8] p., [49] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1197. Trigonometrie, or, The doctrine of triangles : divided into two bookes : the first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles : the second of sphericall, with grounds and demonstrations thereof : both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithmes, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath beene formerly taught : whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen), a treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing, with certaine necessary tables used in navigation / by Richard Norvvood ...

Creator:: Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: 8, 129, [180] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1198. Britannia, volume the first, or, An illustration of the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales : by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof : actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps : accomodated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns; and compleated by an accurate account of the more remarkable passages of antiquity, together with a novel discourse of the present state / by John Ogilby Esq. ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([26], 200, [4] pages, [203] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1199. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

Creator:: Tower of London (London, England)
Date:: [approximately 169-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page.) ; 17 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1200. The country-man's jewel: or, The jockey's master-piece : Part I contains plain and approv'd rules to choose, feed, and breed the best stallions, horses mares, or geldings. How to order and feed a race-horse. Also how to know a sound horse or mare from one that is distemper'd. With a collection of two hundred choice and approv'd receipts to cure all distempers, and different diseases in horses and mares. The like never before published. Part II prescribes cures for all distempers in black and white cattle; as horses, oxen, bulls, cows, calves goats, mules, asses, sheep, hogs, dogs, deer, hares, and conies. Also to destroy vermin. With directions for improving land to great advantage. To cure the biting of a mad dog / by M.S. [i.e. A.S.?] gent., L.M. J. Lambert, and others.

Date:: [ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:: 118, [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1102. 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 ...

1103. A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building. Viz. solidity, conveniency, and ornament. By Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly knight.

1104. Catalogus librorum Roberti Scott : bibliopolae regii Londinensis. In quavis lingua & facultate insignium ex variis Europae partibus advectorum, quorum auctio habenda est Londini ... decimo tertio die Februarii, 1688 / Per Benjaminum Walford, bibliopolam Londinensem.

1107. Illmo. D.D. Rogerio Dv Plesseis ... magnarum artium eximio cultori ... segmenta nobilium signorum e[t] statuaru[m], quae temporis dentem inuidium euasere vrbis aeternae ruinis erepta typis aeneis ab se commissa perpetuae uenerationis monumentum, Franciscus Perrier D.D.D.

1110. Plan of fortification, possibly at Newtown, Isle of Wight.

1111. Artilleriae recentior praxis, oder, Neuere Geschütz Beschreibung : Worinnen Von allen vornehmsten Haupt-Puncten der Artilleri Gründlich und ausführlich gehandelt, solches auch mit vielen Kupffer-Stücken erkläret wird / Beschrieben von ... Michael Miethen.

1112. Van den Wyngaerde's View of London (circa 1550)

1113. Les tables de geographie, reduites en un jeu de cartes / par P. Du-Val ... ; Cordier sculp.

1114. Illustriorum principumque urbium septentrionalium Europae tabulae.

1116. Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus : centenario numero complexa, summo studio collecta / atque in lucem edita à Carolo Allard = Des bewoonden waerelds steden en dragten : in een honderd-getal begreepen / met een byzondere naerstigheid verzaameld en uitgegeven door Carel Allard.

1120. Angliæ metropolis, or, The present state of London : with memorials comprehanding a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof ... / first written by ... Tho. Delaune ... and continued to the present year by a careful hand ...

1121. The history of the reformation of the Church of England : in two parts.

1124. Markhams Remembrancer of unpublished secretes : shewinge howe a man may come to be a general horsman by the knowledge of these seauen offyces : 1. Breeder -- 2. Rider -- 3. Feeder -- 4. Keeper -- 5. Ambler -- 6. Buyer, 7 Farrier / G.M., circa 1655.

1125. Della Espugnatione et difesa delle fortezze.

1126. This new map of [the] Earth and water according to Wrights alias Mercator's projection, drawn according to [the] more exact celestial observations and the more accurate discoveries of an a approued author, Robt. Morden, is sold at [the] Atlas in Cornhill, London, 1699 ; H. Moll sculpsit.

1129. America, siue, India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui vniversalis imitationem in compendium redacta / per Michaelem Mercatorem, Duysburgensem.

1130. Geography rectified: or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy six maps.

1132. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

1133. You lovely virgins that intend to marry : heere's choyce of husbands for you, do not tarry ...

1134. 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.

1135. Atlas, or, A geographicke description of the regions, countries and kingdomes of the world, through Europe, Asia, Africa, & America, represented by new and exact maps / translated by Henry Hexham, quarter-maister to the regiment of Colonell Goring.

1137. Dissertation sur les ouvrages des plus fameux peintres ...

1138. 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.

1140. England [cartographic material] / by Robt. Morden.

1141. 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.

1142. Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle fabriche di nostro signore papa Sisto V / fatte dal cavallier Domenico Fontana, architetto di Sva Santita.

1143. Topographia Bavariæ, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Orth in Ober vnd Nieder Beÿern, der obern Pfaltz, vnd andern, zum hochlöblichen Baÿrischen Craisse gehörigen Landschaften.

1144. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

1145. Veues et perspectives de Soesdyck, chasteau [sic] & maison de plaisance du roy de la Grande Bretagne : le tout deffiné & gravé par les plus habiles maistres.

1146. Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta / Joannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

1149. [Atlas of the British Isles] [cartographic material].

1150. Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus ss. patrvm illustrata / authore Hermanno Hvgone, Societatis Iesv ... ; sculpsit Christophorus à Sichem ...

1151. Iconologia deorum, oder, Abbildung der Götter : welche von den Alten verehret worden ... samt dero eigentlicher Beschreibung und Erklärung der heidnischen Tempel-Ceremonien, auch Vorbildung der Thiere und anderer Sachen ... / durch Joachim von Sandrart ...

1152. Disegnidi vari altari e cappelle.

1157. Theatrum orbis terrarum / Abrahami Orteli Antuerp. Geographi Regij = The theatre of the whole world / set forth by that excellent geographer Abraham Ortelius.

1158. An historical account of the rise and growth of the West- India collonies : and of the great advantages they are to England, in respect to trade : licenced according to order.

1159. Cantabrigiensis comitatus : Cambridge shire.

1160. An account of what workmen hath bin imployed about the building at Greate Bathampton since February the 4, 1694/5.

1161. De atramentis cujuscunque generis. Opus sanè novum, hactenus à nemine promulgatum. In sex descriptiones digestum. Auctore, Petro Maria Canepario ...

1162. Cantabrigia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis, collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae academicae scholarum publicarum, sacelli coll. regalis : regalis nec non totius oppidi ichnographia / deliniatore and sculptore Dav. Loggan utriusque academiae calcographo.

1163. Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems, with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art / by the curious pensil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt. ...

1164. Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae foederatae / ad praesentis temporis faciem expressum a Ioanne Blaeu, Amstelaedamensi.

1165. Diversarum avium species : ad vivum delineatae et in lucem editae Antuerpiae / Petrus von Lisebetten ; Cornelis Galle execudit.

1166. Topographia Sueviae, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abcontrafeitung der fürnembste[n] Stätt vnd Plätz in Ober vnd Nider Schwaben, Herzogthum Würtenberg, Marggraffschafft Baden vnd andern zu dem hochlöbl. schwabischen Craisse gehörigen Landtschafften vnd Orten.

1167. Lebenslauf und Kunst-werke des woledlen und gestrengen Herrn Joachims von Sandrart, auf Stockau, hochfürstl. Pfalz-Neuburgischen Rahts / zu schuldigster Beehrung und Dankbarkeit, beschrieben und übergeben von desselben dienst-ergebenen Vettern und Discipeln.

1168. A display of heraldrie : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method / wherein it is now reduced, by the study and industry of John Guillim ...

1172. Amori sdegni et gielosie di Givnone / Julio Bonasone, in ventore

1175. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

1177. Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseōn libri XV : ad fidem editionum optimarum et codicum manuscriptorum examinati, animadversi, necnon notis illustrati / opera & studio Thomae Farnabii ; editio nunc primum in Gallia & multis figuris æneis adornata.

1179. 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.

1180. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

1182. [Geographical cards.

1183. Traité des fevx artificiels povr la gverre, et povr la recreation; avec plusieurs belles obseruations, abregez de geometrie, fortifications, horloges solairs, & exemples d'arithmetique. De nouueau reueu, corrigé, & augmenté par l'autheur, François de Malthe ...

1184. Pia desideria. lib. III Ad Vrbanvm VIII. Authore Herm. Hvgone Soc. Iesu.

1185. An apology for the builder, or, A discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building.

1187. [The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine]

1188. The carpenter's rule made easie, or, The art of measuring superficies and solids : as timber, stone, boards, glass, and the like : also, an addition or second way, being the ground work of measuring timber, stone, boards, and glass ... / by John Darling.

1189. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning : with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within [the] kingdome of England, divided and described / by Iohn Speed.

1190. 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.

1192. Comitatis Cantabrigiensis : vernacule Cambridge shire.

1195. Typus mundi in quo eius calamitates et pericula nec non diuini : humanique amoris antipathia : emblematice proponuntur à RR.C.S.I.A.

1196. Recueil des meilleurs desseins de Raimond La Fage gravé par cinq des plus habiles graveurs / et mis en lumière par les soins de Vander-Bruggen ...

1199. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.