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1. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: am montage nach der heyligen drey künig tag [10 Jan.],
Physical Description:: [440] leaves : illustrations ; (Folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Biblia.

Date:: [2 May 1485]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : woodcuts: illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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

4. Zeitglöcklein des lebens und leidens Christi.

Creator:: Berthold, der Deutsche, -approximately 1350
Date:: 1493
Physical Description:: [248] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Explanation of the Battle of Waterloo / painted on the largest scale from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Henry Aston Barker ... ; now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square ; the upper circle contains a view of the city of St. Petersburg ...

Creator:: Barker, Henry Aston, 1774–1856
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. ; 39 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Gronlandia antiqva : seu Veteris Gronlandiæ descriptio : ubi cœli marisqve natura, terræ, locorum & villarum situs, animalium terrestrium aqvatiliumqve varia genera, gentis origo & incrementa, status politicus & ecclesiasticus, gesta memorabilia & vicissitudines, ex antiqvis memoriis, præcipue Islandicis / qva fieri potuit industria collecta exponuntur authore Thormodo Torfæo ...

Creator:: Þormóður Torfason, 1636–1719
Date:: 1715
Physical Description:: 64, 369 [i.e. 269], [19] p., 5 folded leaves of plates : maps ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde or thymage of the same.

Date:: 1481]
Physical Description:: [100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Disz büch ist genant die vier vnd tzwenzig Alten oder der guldin tron.

Creator:: Otto, von Passau, active 1386
Date:: [1477 or 1478?]
Physical Description:: [308] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Hye nach volget ein schoene matery von den syben todsünden und von den syben tugenden darwider.

Date:: [1482]
Physical Description:: [60] pages : illustrations ; (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Discorsi delle fortificationi / del. Sig. Carlo Tetti. Oue diffusamente si dimostra, quali debbano essere i siti delle fortezze, le forme, i recinti, fossi, baloardi, castelli, & altre cose à loro appartenenti, con le figure di esse. Hora di nuouo da lui medisimo ricorretti, & ampliati del secondo libro. Con gli elenchi di tutti i Capitoli; & Tauola di tutte le materie, che in essi si trattano. Con priuilegio.

Creator:: Theti, Carlo, 1529–1589
Date:: MDLXXV [1575]
Physical Description:: [8], 119, [9] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The journal of design and manufactures ...

Date:: 1849-1852
Physical Description:: 6 v. illus., plates, plans, mounted samples. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The gentleman's dictionary : in three parts : viz. I. The art of riding the great horse: containing the terms and phrases us'd in the manage, and the diseases and accidents of horses : II. The military art; explaining the terms and phrases us'd in field or garison; the terms relating to artillery; the works and motions of attack and defence; and the post and duty of all the officers of the army: illustrated with historical instances, taken from the actions of our armies : III. The art of navigation; explaining the terms of naval affairs; as building, rigging, working, and fighting of ships; the post and duty of sea-officers, &c. : with historical examples taken from the actions of our fleet : each part done alphabetically, from the sixteenth edition of the original French, published by the Sieur Guillet, and dedicated to the Dauphin ; with large additions, alterations and improvements, adapted to the customs and actions of the English; and above forty curious cuts, that were not in the original.

Creator:: Guillet de Saint-Georges, Georges, 1625–1705
Date:: 1705
Physical Description:: [384] pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Coniuratio maligno[rum] spirituũ in corporib[us] hominum existentium prout in sancto Petro.

Date:: [approximately 1492]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves : illustrations ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. De planctu ecclesiae.

Creator:: Pelagius, Alvarus, 1280?-1353
Date:: [Oct. 26, 1474]
Physical Description:: [408] leaves ; 49 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Short, but concise account of Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.

Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] pages) : illustrations ; 40 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. [Historia Romana].

Creator:: Appianus, of Alexandria
Date:: M.CCCC.LXXVII [1477]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ([264], [424] pages) ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Churches of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely / published by the Cambridge Camden Society.

Creator:: Ecclesiological Society
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [2], 119 p., [29] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. La mer des hystoires.

Date:: [July 1488-Feb. 1489]
Physical Description:: 2 v. (270, the last leaf blank; 310 leaves, leaf 274 blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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

20. [Hie hebt sich an ein schöne Hÿstori wie Troÿa die kostliche Stat erstöret ward]

Creator:: Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century
Date:: [not before 24 April 1474]
Physical Description:: [144] leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: an sant Iacobs abēt [24 July],
Physical Description:: 312 leaves ; fol
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Here fynyssheth the boke yf [sic] Eneydos / compyled by Vyrgyle, which hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wyll[ia]m Caxton, the xxij. daye of Iuyn. the yere of our lorde. M.iiij. Clxxxx. The fythe yere of the regne of kynge Henry the seuenth.

Creator:: Virgil
Date:: [not before 23 June 1490]
Physical Description:: [172] p. ; 26 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

Creator:: Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [6], 31 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. [Armorial bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg]

Date:: [between 1465 and 1485?]
Physical Description:: 1 print : woodcut ; image 6.8 x 6.6 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini.

Creator:: Barbieri, Filippo de', 1426–1487
Date:: [1 Dec. 1481]
Physical Description:: [164] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino.

Creator:: Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
Date:: del. MCCCCLXXXXI adi iii, Marzo [3 Mar. 1491]
Physical Description:: [10], CCLXXXXI, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Flauij Vegetij Renati, Vier bücher der Ritterschafft : mit manicherleyen gerüsten, bolwercken vn[d] gebewen, Als Büchsen, Katzen, Antriben, Uberwerffenden prucken, Wasserzeügen, Steyglaitern, Ziechtürnen, Schiffen vnd anders, zů Kryegsleuffen gehoerig, mit jren mustern vnnd fyguren darneben verzaychnet : zum anderen mal vbersehen, vnnd mit etlichen figuren gemeret vnd gebesseret

Creator:: Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Date:: Vollendet am xvij.tag Nouembris, Jm[m] Jar M.D.XXXIIII [1534]
Physical Description:: [4], XXX, [66] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. [Rudime[n]tum nouicioru[m]].

Date:: MCCCLXXV [1475]
Physical Description:: [912] pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 38 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. [Bible].

Date:: [14 Nov. 1489]
Physical Description:: [1224] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) 27 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. 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

31. 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

32. The golden legend.

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: and finished on the 12th day of September in the year 1892
Physical Description:: 3 volumes (xii, 1286 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Della fortificatione delle citta / di Girolamo Maggi, e del capitan Iacomo Castriotto ... Discorso del medesimo Maggi sopra la fortificatione de gli alloggiamenti de gli esserciti ; Discorso del capitan Francesco Montemellino sopra la fortificatione del Borgo di Roma ; Trattato dell'ordinanze, ouero battaglie del capitan Giovacchino da Coniano ; Ragionamento del sudetto Castriotto sopra le fortezze della Francia.

Creator:: Maggi, Girolamo, -1572
Date:: MDLXXXIII [1583]
Physical Description:: [4], 136 [i.e. 138] leaves : illustrations, maps, plans ; 37 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Fasciculus medicine : in quo continentur, videlicet ...

Creator:: Ketham, Joannes de, active 15th century
Date:: [15 Oct. 1495]
Physical Description:: 40 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. 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

36. [World map]

Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: [1482]
Physical Description:: 1 map : woodcut ; image 41 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Blank page.

Date:: 1988-1991
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund

38. 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

39. Chronecken der Sassen.

Date:: In deme iare na Cristi gebort. Dusent vierhundert .lxxxxij. vppe den Sesten dach des Mertzen. [March 6, 1492]
Physical Description:: [568] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (Folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. La cosmographie vniverselle / d'André Thevet cosmographe du roy ; illustree de diverses figures des choses plus remarquables veuës par l'auteur, & incogneuës de noz anciens & modernes ...

Creator:: Thevet, André, 1502–1590
Date:: 1575
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Fasciculus te[m]po[rum] omnes antiquorum cronicas complecte[n]s.

Creator:: Rolevinck, Werner, 1425–1502
Date:: [after 6 April 1490]
Physical Description:: [6], XC, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, Indien und Persien.

Creator:: Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:: [1481 or 1482]
Physical Description:: [206] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. History of the plague in London in 1665 : with suitable reflections.

Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: 23 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Hie fahet an der helden bůch das man nennet den wolfdieterich ...

Date:: [approximately 1479]
Physical Description:: [282] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Das andechtig zitglögglyn des lebens und lide[n]s christie.

Creator:: Berthold, der Deutsche, -approximately 1350
Date:: 1492
Physical Description:: [202] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. [Der Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens].

Creator:: Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo, 1404–1470
Date:: [23 July 1479]
Physical Description:: [4], cciij, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Das Buch der Natur.

Creator:: Konrad, von Megenberg, 1309–1374
Date:: an mittwoche[n] nächst vor sant Jacobs tag ... M.cccc.lxxxij [24 July 1482]
Physical Description:: [482] p. : ill. (woodcuts) : 27 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. 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

49. 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

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

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

51. Some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century.

Creator:: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867–1962
Date:: 1897]
Physical Description:: xi, [1] p., 23 leaves, 24-36, [1] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. [Die Neue Ehe und das Passional von Jesu]

Date:: [7 Oct. 1476]
Physical Description:: [156] leaves : illustrations ; c 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Inuentariũ eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur.

Creator:: Gerson, Jean, 1363–1429
Date:: 1489
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. 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

55. [Historiae Romanae decades]

Creator:: Livy
Date:: [11 Feb. 1493]
Physical Description:: [382] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Quadragesimale nouum editu[m] ac predicatu[m] a quoda[m] fratre minore de obseruantia in inclita ciuitate Basilien[sis]. de filio prodigo [et] de angeli ip[s]ius ammonit[i]one salubri p[er] sermones diuisu[m].

Creator:: Meder, Johannes, -1518
Date:: 1495
Physical Description:: [232] leaves : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Chronik von allen Kaisern und Königen und Päpsten.

Creator:: Bämler, Johann, approximately 1430–1503
Date:: [1476]
Physical Description:: 196 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

Creator:: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:: 1582
Physical Description:: [124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Versehu[n]g leib sel er vnnd gutt.

Date:: [1489]
Physical Description:: [1], clxxj, [10] leaves (leaf [clxxj] blank) : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1486 or 7]
Physical Description:: [196] p. : ill. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe : that is to say, the office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keeper, and of the ferrer. In the first parte wherof is declared the order of breeding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make them horses of seruice. Conteyninge the whole art of ryding latelye set foorth, and nowe newelye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrst printing, as well touchyng the byttes as otherwyse. Thirdely, howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they traueyle by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiecte togither with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. which bookes are not onely painefully collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure countrey / By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.

Creator:: Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:: [1570?]
Physical Description:: [5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Supplementum chronicharum.

Creator:: Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
Date:: anno a natiuitate D[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij [1493]
Physical Description:: [2], 256, [12] leaves : illustrations; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. [Proof for the Kelmscott Chaucer, pages 223-224].

Creator:: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: [2] pages : illustration ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata / schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correcta a Marco Beneuentano monacho caelestino & Ioanne Cotta Veronensi uiris mathematicis consultissimis ; figura de proiectione spherae in plano quae in libro octauo desiderabatur ab ipsis no[n]dum instaurata sed fere ad inuenta eius. n. uestigia in nullo etiam Graeco codice extabant ; maxima quantitas dier[um] ciuitatu[m], & distantiae locor[um] ab Alexa[n]dria Aegypti cuiusq[ue] ciuitatis quae in alijs codicibus no[n] erant ; planisphaerium Cl. Ptolemaei recognitu[m] & diligentiss. emendatum a Marco Benuentano ... ; noua orbis descriptio ac nuoa oceani nauigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicu[m] peruenitur pelagus Marco Benuentano ... aedita ; noua & uniuersalior orbis tabula Ioa[n]. Ruysch ... elaborata ; sex tabulae nouiter confectae uidelicet Liuoniae, Hyspaniae, Galliae, Germaniae, Italiae, & Iudeae.

Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: anno Virginei partus 1508
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([284] pages, [68] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 34 maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Leben der Heiligen : Sommerteil.

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: [1475]
Physical Description:: [420] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Herbarius zu teutsche und von aller handt kreüteren.

Date:: [13 Aug. 1493]
Physical Description:: [522] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A survey of the cathedral-church of Landaff : containing an account of all the inscriptions on the monuments and grave-stones, the history of the Bishops, and other dignitaries belonging to the same, their several preferments, times of decease, burial and epitaphs : with a large appendix of records and other curious matters, relating to Landaff Church and Bishoprick : to which is subjoined an exact list of all the churches and chapels in this diocese ... : and illustrated with a draught of the iconography and upright of Landaff Cathedral / by Browne Willis ...

Creator:: Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:: 1718
Physical Description:: 228, [2], 10 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Scala perfecc[i]onis.

Creator:: Hilton, Walter, -1396
Date:: 1494]
Physical Description:: [298] p. : ill. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Collection of English ballads.

Date:: early 19th century
Physical Description:: 1 volume : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The Wreath.

Date:: [between 1829 and 1833]
Physical Description:: 16 pages : illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A chapbook of English tat : 10 hand coloured postcards / by Andrew Mockett.

Creator:: Mockett, Andrew
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: [10] postcards : hand-colored woodcuts ; cards 10 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist

72. De agricultura vulgare / Piero Crescentio.

Creator:: Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233–approximately 1320
Date:: die nono mẽsis Iulii anno dñi M.D.XIX [9 July 1519]
Physical Description:: 235 (i.e. 234), [6] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. 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

74. Tercia Europe tabula.

Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: [1486]
Physical Description:: 1 map : woodcut ; 35 x 36 cm, on sheet 41 x 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. 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

76. 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

77. Edward Wadsworth.

Creator:: Wadsworth, Edward, 1889–1949
Date:: 1921
Physical Description:: [4] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. 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

79. The child's alphabet : emblematically described & embellished by twenty-four pictures brought into easy verse, etc.

Date:: [ca. 1820?]
Physical Description:: 16 pages : illustrations ; 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. The bibliographical decameron, or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography / by the Rev. T.F. Dibdin ...

Creator:: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. 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

82. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia / Wyllyam Caxton].

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: [after 20 Nov. 1483]
Physical Description:: 449 leaves : illustrations, portraits ; 33 x 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. [Vita et Fabulae]

Date:: [circa 1476]
Physical Description:: [288] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Now exhibiting in the second circle, a view of Edinburgh and the surrounding country : the contemplation of this grand and delightful scene, and an earnest desire to represent it entire, were the first circumstances which impressed Mr. Barker's mind with the idea of a panorama : the public may now form a judgment of the comparative excellence of three views, reckoned by men of taste the finest in Europe, namely, Constantinople and Plymouth, which have been exhibited, and Edinburgh, which is now open.

Creator:: Barker, Robert, 1739–1806
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; 27.3 x 22.1 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Date:: 1589
Physical Description:: [16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Libro molto deuoto & spirituale de fructi della lingua.

Creator:: Cavalca, Domenico, -1342
Date:: Adi quatro di septembre .M. CCCC. LXXXXIII. [4 September 1493]
Physical Description:: [90] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Der deutsche wiegendruck in original-typenbeispielen : 115 inkunabelproben / beschrieben von Konrad Haebler.

Creator:: Haebler, Konrad, 1857–1946
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: [5], 7-72 p. : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. De Moluccis insulis : itemq[ue] alijs pluribus mira[n]dis, quae nouissima Castellanorum nauigatio Sereniss. Imperatoris Caroli. V. auspicio suscepta, nuper inuenit / Maximiliani Transyluani ad Reuerendiss. Cardinalem Saltzburgensem epistola lectu perquam iucunda.

Creator:: Maximilian, of Transylvania, active 1522
Date:: Anno uirginei partus. MDXXIII mense Ianuario [1523]
Physical Description:: [32] pages ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Legenda aurea : In German. Winterteil.

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: 18 Aug. [14]89
Physical Description:: [2], iii-cccxii leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. 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

91. L'art de batir les vaisseaux, et d'en perfectionner la construction : de les garnir de leurs apparaux, les mettre en funin, les manoeuvrer, &c avec la coupe d'un vaisseau du premier rang, les devis de plusieurs fortes de vaisseaux, les outils & machines des ateliers de construction, les instrumens de mathematique servans à la navigation, leurs descriptions & figures; diverses listes & tables concernant la construction, l'equipment, &c. Outre, Les pavillons de divers etats, le tout tiré des meilleurs auteurs hollandois, comme Witsen, van Eyk, Allard, &c.

Date:: MDCCXIX [1719]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Discordiantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini.

Creator:: Barbieri, Filippo de', 1426–1487
Date:: [approximately 1482]
Physical Description:: [136] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Holbein's Dance of Death : with an historical and literary introduction.

Date:: MDCCCXLIX [1849]
Physical Description:: iv, 146 pages, [53] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

94. [Evangelia et epistolae].

Date:: [1481 October 4]
Physical Description:: 231 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Epistolae et Evangelia (Plenarium).

Date:: [28 Feb. 1483]
Physical Description:: 256 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. [Biblia Germanica].

Date:: 1483
Physical Description:: [1], iv, [1], v-ccxcv, [2], ccxcvi-cccclxxxiii, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 39-40 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Le grant vita Christi en francoys.

Creator:: Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300–1377 or 1378
Date:: lan mil quatrece[n]s quatrevi[n]gtz et treze, et le premier jour de mars [1 March 1493/1494]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ([1], CXXV, CXVIII [that is, 128], [2]; [1], XCIX, CLI, [1] leaves) : illustrations ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. 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

99. Fasciculus tempo[rum]: omnes antiquoru[m] cronicas complectens: Incipit feliciter.

Creator:: Rolevinck, Werner, 1425–1502
Date:: [24 November, 1480]
Physical Description:: [8], 68 leaves : illustrations, diagrams (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come. The second part : delivered under the similitude of a dream : wherein is set forth the manner of the setting out of Christian's wife and children : their dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country / by John Bunyan.

Creator:: Bunyan, John, 1628–1688
Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [12], 179, [1] pages : illustrations, portrait ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

2. Biblia.

4. Zeitglöcklein des lebens und leidens Christi.

5. Explanation of the Battle of Waterloo / painted on the largest scale from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Henry Aston Barker ... ; now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square ; the upper circle contains a view of the city of St. Petersburg ...

7. Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde or thymage of the same.

8. Disz büch ist genant die vier vnd tzwenzig Alten oder der guldin tron.

9. Hye nach volget ein schoene matery von den syben todsünden und von den syben tugenden darwider.

11. The journal of design and manufactures ...

13. Coniuratio maligno[rum] spirituũ in corporib[us] hominum existentium prout in sancto Petro.

14. De planctu ecclesiae.

15. Short, but concise account of Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.

16. [Historia Romana].

17. Churches of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely / published by the Cambridge Camden Society.

18. La mer des hystoires.

20. [Hie hebt sich an ein schöne Hÿstori wie Troÿa die kostliche Stat erstöret ward]

21. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

23. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

24. [Armorial bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg]

25. Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini.

26. Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino.

28. [Rudime[n]tum nouicioru[m]].

29. [Bible].

31. 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 ...

32. The golden legend.

34. Fasciculus medicine : in quo continentur, videlicet ...

36. [World map]

37. Blank page.

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

39. Chronecken der Sassen.

40. La cosmographie vniverselle / d'André Thevet cosmographe du roy ; illustree de diverses figures des choses plus remarquables veuës par l'auteur, & incogneuës de noz anciens & modernes ...

41. Fasciculus te[m]po[rum] omnes antiquorum cronicas complecte[n]s.

42. Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, Indien und Persien.

43. History of the plague in London in 1665 : with suitable reflections.

44. Hie fahet an der helden bůch das man nennet den wolfdieterich ...

45. Das andechtig zitglögglyn des lebens und lide[n]s christie.

46. [Der Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens].

47. Das Buch der Natur.

49. 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.

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

51. Some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century.

52. [Die Neue Ehe und das Passional von Jesu]

53. Inuentariũ eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur.

55. [Historiae Romanae decades]

56. Quadragesimale nouum editu[m] ac predicatu[m] a quoda[m] fratre minore de obseruantia in inclita ciuitate Basilien[sis]. de filio prodigo [et] de angeli ip[s]ius ammonit[i]one salubri p[er] sermones diuisu[m].

57. Chronik von allen Kaisern und Königen und Päpsten.

59. Versehu[n]g leib sel er vnnd gutt.

60. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

62. Supplementum chronicharum.

63. [Proof for the Kelmscott Chaucer, pages 223-224].

65. Leben der Heiligen : Sommerteil.

66. Herbarius zu teutsche und von aller handt kreüteren.

68. Scala perfecc[i]onis.

69. Collection of English ballads.

70. The Wreath.

71. A chapbook of English tat : 10 hand coloured postcards / by Andrew Mockett.

72. De agricultura vulgare / Piero Crescentio.

74. Tercia Europe tabula.

75. 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.

77. Edward Wadsworth.

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

79. The child's alphabet : emblematically described & embellished by twenty-four pictures brought into easy verse, etc.

80. The bibliographical decameron, or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography / by the Rev. T.F. Dibdin ...

82. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia / Wyllyam Caxton].

83. [Vita et Fabulae]

86. Libro molto deuoto & spirituale de fructi della lingua.

87. Der deutsche wiegendruck in original-typenbeispielen : 115 inkunabelproben / beschrieben von Konrad Haebler.

88. De Moluccis insulis : itemq[ue] alijs pluribus mira[n]dis, quae nouissima Castellanorum nauigatio Sereniss. Imperatoris Caroli. V. auspicio suscepta, nuper inuenit / Maximiliani Transyluani ad Reuerendiss. Cardinalem Saltzburgensem epistola lectu perquam iucunda.

89. Legenda aurea : In German. Winterteil.

92. Discordiantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini.

93. Holbein's Dance of Death : with an historical and literary introduction.

94. [Evangelia et epistolae].

95. Epistolae et Evangelia (Plenarium).

96. [Biblia Germanica].