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1. An elegy : to the memory of our illustrious and lamented Queen Caroline of England.

An elegy : to the memory of our illustrious and lamented Queen Caroline of England.
Creator:
Parmenter, S., active 1821
Date:
[1821?]
Physical Description:
1 broadside : illustrations ; 47 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Incipit liber moraliu[m] su[per] trenis iheremie [pro]phete.

Incipit liber moraliu[m] su[per] trenis iheremie [pro]phete.
Creator:
Lathbury, John
Date:
[31 July 1482]
Physical Description:
[584] pages ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland ...

Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland ...
Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
xii, 159, [1] pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portrait ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Panorama, Leicester Square : now exhibiting, in the first circle, Paris : and in the second circle is exhibiting a painting of Edinburgh and the surrounding country ...

Panorama, Leicester Square : now exhibiting, in the first circle, Paris : and in the second circle is exhibiting a painting of Edinburgh and the surrounding country ...
Creator:
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 27 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.
Creator:
Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
Date:
MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:
[8], 458, [32] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues ; by John Evelyn, Esq. fellow of the Royal Society.
Creator:
Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
Date:
MDCLXIV [1664]
Physical Description:
[24], 159, [1] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. De i commentarii del viaggio in Persia di m. Caterino Zeno il K. & delle guerre fatte nell' imperio persiano, dal tempo di Vssuncassano in quà libri due : Et dello scoprimento dell'isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engrouelanda, Estotilanda, & Icaria, fatto sotto il Polo artico, da due fratelli Zeni, m. Nicolò il K. e m. Antonio. Libro vno. Con vn disegno particolare di tutte le dette parte di Tramontana da lor scoperte.

De i commentarii del viaggio in Persia di m. Caterino Zeno il K. & delle guerre fatte nell' imperio persiano, dal tempo di Vssuncassano in quà libri due : Et dello scoprimento dell'isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engrouelanda, Estotilanda, & Icaria, fatto sotto il Polo artico, da due fratelli Zeni, m. Nicolò il K. e m. Antonio. Libro vno. Con vn disegno particolare di tutte le dette parte di Tramontana da lor scoperte.
Creator:
Zeno, Niccolò, 1515–1565
Date:
MDLVIII [1558]
Physical Description:
58 leaves, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (1 map) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A general system of horsemanship in all it's [sic] branches : containing a faithful translation of that most noble and useful work of his Grace, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, entitled, The manner of feeding, dressing, and training of horses for the great saddle, and fitting them for the service of the field in time of war, or for the exercise and improvement of gentlemen in the Academy at home : a science peculiarly necessary throughout all Europe, and which has hitherto been so much neglected, or discouraged in England, that young gentlemen have been obliged to have recourse to foreign nations for this part of their education : with all the original copper-plates, in number forty-three, which were engrav'd by the best foreign masters, under his Grace's immediate care and inspection, and which are explained in the different lessons : and to give all the improvements that may be, this work is ornamented with head-pieces and initial letters, properly adapted to the subsequent chapters, and enlarged with an index.

A general system of horsemanship in all it's [sic] branches : containing a faithful translation of that most noble and useful work of his Grace, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, entitled, The manner of feeding, dressing, and training of horses for the great saddle, and fitting them for the service of the field in time of war, or for the exercise and improvement of gentlemen in the Academy at home : a science peculiarly necessary throughout all Europe, and which has hitherto been so much neglected, or discouraged in England, that young gentlemen have been obliged to have recourse to foreign nations for this part of their education : with all the original copper-plates, in number forty-three, which were engrav'd by the best foreign masters, under his Grace's immediate care and inspection, and which are explained in the different lessons : and to give all the improvements that may be, this work is ornamented with head-pieces and initial letters, properly adapted to the subsequent chapters, and enlarged with an index.
Creator:
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:
MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:
2 v. ([2], viii, [11]-142, [4] p., [84] leaves of plates; [2], 4, [4], 36, 33-138, [14] p., [22] leaves of plates) : ill. (engravings) ; 55cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter / Lee sc.

The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter / Lee sc.
Date:
[1800?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 37 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

A genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain, &C. from the conquest anno 1066 to the year, 1677. In seven parts or books. Containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages, and issues ... all engraven in copper plates ... By Francis Sandford, esq., Lancaster herald at arms.
Creator:
Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694
Date:
1683
Physical Description:
6 p. l., 578 (i.e. 588), [10] p., 1 l. : illus., plates (part double) 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Explanation of the view of the splendid victory gained by the Marquis of Wellington over the French army, consisting of 65,000 men, commanded by Joseph Bonaparte, on the plains of Vittoria : the view, painted by Henry Aston Barker and assistants, from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Burford, is now exhibiting in the great rotunda of the Panorama, Leicester Square.

Explanation of the view of the splendid victory gained by the Marquis of Wellington over the French army, consisting of 65,000 men, commanded by Joseph Bonaparte, on the plains of Vittoria : the view, painted by Henry Aston Barker and assistants, from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Burford, is now exhibiting in the great rotunda of the Panorama, Leicester Square.
Creator:
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774–1856
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 40 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A correct likeness, handsomely framed, in one minute, for one shilling.

A correct likeness, handsomely framed, in one minute, for one shilling.
Creator:
Stanley, C. (Portraitist)
Date:
[approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : portrait ; 47 x 32 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H. B. M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855 / by Henry Barth.

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H. B. M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855 / by Henry Barth.
Creator:
Barth, Heinrich, 1821–1865
Date:
1857-1858
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.
Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:
anno MDCXXIX [1629]
Physical Description:
[22], 134 p., 20 leaves of double plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Divine examples of God's severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers : in their unlavvful sports, collected out of several divine subjects, viz. Mr. H.B. Mr. Beard, and the practice of piety : a fit monument for our present times, &c.
Date:
1671
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 55 x 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]
Physical Description:
[2], 5-60, [32] leaves (last leaf blank), [92] leaves of plates : ill., 47 maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The noble arte of venerie or hunting : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiueteene sundrie chaces together, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contents vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.

The noble arte of venerie or hunting : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiueteene sundrie chaces together, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contents vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.
Creator:
Gascoigne, George, -1577
Date:
[1575]
Physical Description:
[10], 202, 359-362, 205-248, [4] p. : ill. (music) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Armer's, Flookborough.

Armer's, Flookborough.
Creator:
Armer's (Flookborough, England]
Date:
[early 19th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 21 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A chapbook of English tat.

A chapbook of English tat.
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
[2002]
Physical Description:
[32] pages : chiefly ilustrations ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist

20. A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.

A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.
Date:
1596
Physical Description:
[40] p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The Canterbury tales.

The Canterbury tales.
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1483]
Physical Description:
[312] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. De humana physiognomonia : libri IIII ... / Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani.

De humana physiognomonia : libri IIII ... / Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani.
Creator:
Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615
Date:
1586
Physical Description:
265 [i.e. 272] p. : ill., port. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. To be seen alive! [graphic] : the wonderful Cumberland.

To be seen alive! [graphic] : the wonderful Cumberland.
Date:
[1824?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut, with text in letterpress ; 27 x 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. William's return.

William's return.
Date:
[18th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) : illustration ; 22 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto.
Creator:
Neade, William
Date:
[approximately 1630]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Two funeral scenes, with horse-drawn hearses.

Two funeral scenes, with horse-drawn hearses.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut ; sheet 14 x 22
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Panorama, Leicester Square : now exhibiting two views of Paris : the one taken between the Pont Neuf, the Louvre, Mint, and Quatre Nations : the other from a steam-engine on the River Seine : showing the Thuilleries, the place where the late king was beheaded, the Champ de Mars, the Hospital des Invalids, and St. Could, the summer-residence of the First Consul.

Panorama, Leicester Square : now exhibiting two views of Paris : the one taken between the Pont Neuf, the Louvre, Mint, and Quatre Nations : the other from a steam-engine on the River Seine : showing the Thuilleries, the place where the late king was beheaded, the Champ de Mars, the Hospital des Invalids, and St. Could, the summer-residence of the First Consul.
Creator:
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 28 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts : containing, the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler that resolves most mathematical conclusions : and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places round the world ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation, in working a ship in all weathers and conditions at sea : a new way of surveying of land, by the mariners azimuth or amplitude compass ... : the art of gauging all sorts of vessels, and the measuring of timber, glass, board, stone, walls, cielings, and tylings : the art of gunnery ... astronomy, geometrical, instrumental, and by calculation : the art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... : whereunto is annexed an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed relating to the customs and navigation : also a compen / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.
Creator:
Sturmy, Samuel, 1633–1669
Date:
1669
Physical Description:
[34], 219 [i.e. 223], [7], 132, [6], 52, [52], 11, [3], 13 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : port, ill. ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...

A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...
Creator:
Rogers, Charles, 1711–1784
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
2 v. illus., plates, ports. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A chapbook of English tat.

A chapbook of English tat.
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
[2002?]
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (10 prints) : hand-colored woodcuts ; sheets 29 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Mockett

31. The drawing school for little masters and misses : containing the most easy and concise rules for learning to draw, without the assistance of a teacher : embellished with a great variety of figures, curiously designed : to which are added, The whole art of kite making ; and the author's new discoveries in the preparation of water colours / by Master Michael Angelo.

The drawing school for little masters and misses : containing the most easy and concise rules for learning to draw, without the assistance of a teacher : embellished with a great variety of figures, curiously designed : to which are added, The whole art of kite making ; and the author's new discoveries in the preparation of water colours / by Master Michael Angelo.
Creator:
Angelo, Michael, 18th cent
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
[6], iv, 106 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. De architectura libri dece traducti de latino in vulgare, affigurati: cōmentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti [da Cæsare Cæsariano] ...

De architectura libri dece traducti de latino in vulgare, affigurati: cōmentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti [da Cæsare Cæsariano] ...
Creator:
Vitruvius Pollio
Date:
1521]
Physical Description:
IIII numb. leaves, 4 leaves, CLXXXIII numb. leaves, 1 leaf. ill. 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses : vvith all the secrets thereto belonging discouered: An arte neuer heere-to-fore vvritten by any authour. Also a discourse of horsmanship, wherein the breeding, and ryding of horses for seruice, in a briefe manner, is more methodically sette downe, then hath been heeretofore: vvith a more easie and direct course for the ignorant, to attaine to the sayd arte or knowledge. Together with a newe addition for the cure of the horses diseases, of what kinde or nature soeuer.

How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses : vvith all the secrets thereto belonging discouered: An arte neuer heere-to-fore vvritten by any authour. Also a discourse of horsmanship, wherein the breeding, and ryding of horses for seruice, in a briefe manner, is more methodically sette downe, then hath been heeretofore: vvith a more easie and direct course for the ignorant, to attaine to the sayd arte or knowledge. Together with a newe addition for the cure of the horses diseases, of what kinde or nature soeuer.
Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1599
Physical Description:
[126] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Hyakunin isshu karuta.

Hyakunin isshu karuta.
Date:
late 18th century?
Physical Description:
200 playing cards
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysshe The golden legende : for lyke as passeth golde in valewe all other metallys so this legende excelleth all other bookes.

Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysshe The golden legende : for lyke as passeth golde in valewe all other metallys so this legende excelleth all other bookes.
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
[8 January 1498/99?]
Physical Description:
2 parts in 1 volume ([1], lij, [1], [MC]CCClxxxxviii [i.e. CCC.lxxxix], [1] leaves) : illustrations (woodcuts) 29cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.

Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.
Creator:
Neville, Alexander, 1544–1614
Date:
1575
Physical Description:
[16], 156, [12], 207, [13] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : geneal. tables, coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Explanation of a magnificent view of Grand Cairo : painted upon 10,000 square feet of canvas, by H.A. Barker, from drawings taken by Mr. Salt, for Lord Valentia, from a tower in the Old Citadel, now exhibiting in the great rotunda of the Panorama, Leicester Square : the upper circle contains in interesting view of Flushing.

Explanation of a magnificent view of Grand Cairo : painted upon 10,000 square feet of canvas, by H.A. Barker, from drawings taken by Mr. Salt, for Lord Valentia, from a tower in the Old Citadel, now exhibiting in the great rotunda of the Panorama, Leicester Square : the upper circle contains in interesting view of Flushing.
Creator:
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774–1856
Date:
[1808 or 1809]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 28 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Mediciues for horses.

Mediciues for horses.
Date:
[approximately 1565?]
Physical Description:
[28] pages : illustration ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
[14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Champ fleury : au quel est contenu lart & science de la deue & vraye proportio[n] des lettres attiques, quo[n] dit autreme[n]t lettres antiques, & vulgairement lettres romaines proportionnees selon le corps & visage humain ...

Champ fleury : au quel est contenu lart & science de la deue & vraye proportio[n] des lettres attiques, quo[n] dit autreme[n]t lettres antiques, & vulgairement lettres romaines proportionnees selon le corps & visage humain ...
Creator:
Tory, Geoffroy, ca. 1480–ca. 1533
Date:
1529
Physical Description:
[8], lxxx leaves : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Short account of Lord Nelson's defeat of the French at the Nile : ... The view of Margate is in the upper circle : open from eight till dusk, 1799.

Short account of Lord Nelson's defeat of the French at the Nile : ... The view of Margate is in the upper circle : open from eight till dusk, 1799.
Creator:
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : ill. ; 42 x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Marriage procession of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert [graphic] : at the Royal Chapel, St. James's, on Monday, February 10th, 1840.

Marriage procession of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert [graphic] : at the Royal Chapel, St. James's, on Monday, February 10th, 1840.
Date:
[1840]
Physical Description:
1 print on 12 joined sheets : hand-colored woodcut ; sheets end-to-end 9 x 280 cm, accordion folded to 9 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The first volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande : conteyning, the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest, the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde, 1571, the description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the firste originall of that nation, vntill the yeare 1547 / faithfully gathered and set forth, by Raphaell Holinshed.

The first volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande : conteyning, the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest, the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde, 1571, the description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the firste originall of that nation, vntill the yeare 1547 / faithfully gathered and set forth, by Raphaell Holinshed.
Creator:
Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?
Date:
1577
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

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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

45. 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 ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774–1856
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. ; 39 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. 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.

No cover image available
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

47. Zeitglöcklein des lebens und leidens Christi.

No cover image available
Creator:
Berthold, der Deutsche, -approximately 1350
Date:
1493
Physical Description:
[248] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] pages) : illustrations ; 40 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. [De re militari]

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Creator:
Valturio, Roberto, 1405–1475
Date:
An. M. CCCCLXXII [1472]
Physical Description:
[524] p. : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Panorama, Leicester Square : in the lower circle, is represented a most magnificent view of Paris.

No cover image available
Creator:
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 42 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
an sant Iacobs abēt [24 July],
Physical Description:
312 leaves ; fol
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Ecclesiological Society
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
[2], 119 p., [29] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Otto, von Passau, active 1386
Date:
[1477 or 1478?]
Physical Description:
[308] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

56. [World map]

No cover image available
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1482]
Physical Description:
1 map : woodcut ; image 41 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Chronecken der Sassen.

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Bullock, William, b. 1617?
Date:
1649
Physical Description:
[12], 66 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:
1582
Physical Description:
[124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. [Dat duytsche Passionael]

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
[7 Mar. 1487]
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 27 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Date:
1481]
Physical Description:
[100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:
anno domini MDC [1600]
Physical Description:
1 atlas : maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
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

65. 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

No cover image available
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

66. Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschaft Stetten, Landen und Völckern chronicwürdiger Thaaten beschreibung : hierinn wirt auch die Gelegenheit der gantzen Europe, item ein kurtzuergriffne Chronica Germanie oder Teütschlands, insonders aber ein fleyssige History und ordenliche Beschreybung Galliæ oder Franckreychs fürgestellt, darauff denn obgedachte der Eydgnoschafft Beschreybung volget ... : jetz neüwlich zum anderen Mal in den Truck gäben an vilen Orten gebesseret, gemeeret, mit einer angehenckten Chronologey kurtzuer zeichneter Geschichten vom 1548, Jar biss auff diss Gegenwirtig 1586 / Jar durch Johan Rudolph Stumpffen ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Stumpf, Johannes, 1500–1576?
Date:
1586
Physical Description:
[9], DCCXXXII, [22] leaves : ill., coats of arms, ports, maps ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. An analytical view of the animal economy : calculated for the students of medicine, as well as private gentlemen : interspersed with many allegories and moral reflections, drawn from the subject, to awaken the mind to an elevated sense of the great author of nature / by Isaac Ball ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Ball, Isaac
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
64, 67-90 pages : color illustration ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. 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 ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Thevet, André, 1502–1590
Date:
1575
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

70. De planctu ecclesiae.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pelagius, Alvarus, 1280?-1353
Date:
[Oct. 26, 1474]
Physical Description:
[408] leaves ; 49 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Guillelmi Caonrsin [sic] Rhodiorum Uicecancellarij: obsidionis Rhodie urbis descriptio.

No cover image available
Creator:
Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501
Date:
Anno d[omi]ni &c. Mccccxcvj. Die. xxiiij Octob[ris]. [24 October 1496]
Physical Description:
[60] leaves ; ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Chronik von allen Königen und Kaisern.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lirer, Thomas, active 12th? century
Date:
[January 12, 1486]
Physical Description:
[68] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini : olim a Bilibaldo Pirckheimherio traslata, at nunc multis codicibus graecis collata, pluribusque in locis ad pristinam ueritatem redacta / a Iosepho Moletio mathematico ; addita sunt in primum, & septimum librum amplissima eiusdem commentaria, quibus omnia, quae ad geographiam attinent, & quae praetermissa sunt a Ptolemaeo declarantur: atque nominibus antiquis regionum, ciuitatem, oppidorum, montium, syluarum, fluuiorum, lacuum, caeterorumque locorum, apposita sunt recentiora ; adsunt LXIIII, tabulae XXVII, nempe antiquae, & reliquae nouae, quae totam continent terram, nostrae, ac Ptolemaei aetati cognitam, typis[que] aeneis excussae, indices rerum quae tractantur copiosissimi.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
MDLXII [1562]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([8], 112, 286, [66] pages, 64 double leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Diss durchleüchtigest Werck [der] ganczen heilige[n] Geschrifft genannt die Bibel ...

No cover image available
Date:
[3 January 1480]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ([11], cccxviiij, [1]; [11], ij-CCCxxxj, [1] leaves) : illustrations ; (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Auctor operum sequentium.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
Date:
anno salutiferi virginalis partus nonagesimosecundo supra millesimum quaterque centesimum [1492]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. (woodcut) ; 32 cm (fol)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. [Missale Frisingense].

No cover image available
Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
anno D[omi]ni MCCCCXCII, kalend[o] vero Aprilis XVI [16 April (i.e. 17 March) 1492]
Physical Description:
[12], CCLXXIIII, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts), music ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1820?]
Physical Description:
16 pages : illustrations ; 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuss.

No cover image available
Date:
M. CCCC. LXXVI uf Sant Gilgen obent [31 August 1476]
Physical Description:
[235] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. De imitatione Christi.

No cover image available
Date:
[July 1, 1494]
Physical Description:
[144] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Philalethes veritas.

No cover image available
Creator:
Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407–1458
Date:
[ca. 1474-1475]
Physical Description:
[24] pages : illustration ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Thoukudidou tou Olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto = Thucydidis Olori filii De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Iidem Latinè / ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita.

No cover image available
Creator:
Thucydides
Date:
anno MDLXIIII [1564]
Physical Description:
[16], 297, [3], 216, [8] p. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. The history and antiquities of Brentford, Ealing, & Chiswick : interpersed with biographical notices of illustrious and eminent persons who have been born, or have resided there during the three preceding centries / by Thomas Faulkner.

No cover image available
Creator:
Faulkner, Thomas, 1777–1855
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
xvi, 504 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Der Ritter vom Turn : von den Exempel[n] der gotsforcht v[o]n erberkeit.

No cover image available
Creator:
La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, active 14th century
Date:
in dem jor nach Christi geburt .M.cccc.xciii. jor gedruckt [1493]
Physical Description:
74 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio : ne'quali, dopo un breve trattato de'cinque ordini, & di quelli avertimenti, che sono piu necessarij nel fabricare : si tratta delle case private, delle vie, de i ponti, delle piazze, de i xisti, et de'tempij : con privilegi / di Andrea Palladio.

No cover image available
Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
1570
Physical Description:
4 pts. in 1 v. (67, [1], 66 [i.e. 78], [2], 46, [2], 128, [6] p.) : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Typographical antiquities, or, The history of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland : containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them / begun by the late Joseph Ames ... considerably augmented by William Herbert ... and now greatly enlarged with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings ; comprehending the history of English literature, and a view of the progress of the art of engraving in Great Britain by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:
1810-1819
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580
Date:
An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:
[8], 200, [4], 201-204, 207-250, [4] pages : illustrations, music ; 18 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Neade, William
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
[40] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Aeliani De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more Graecorum / liber à Francisco Robertello Vtinensi in Latinum sermonem versus, & ab eodem picturis quamplurimis illustratus.

No cover image available
Creator:
Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century
Date:
MDLII [1552]
Physical Description:
[8], 65, [3], 73-77, [27] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Prima Europa tabula.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1486]
Physical Description:
1 map : woodcut ; 35 x 39 cm, on sheet 41 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Soit co[m]me[n]ce ce liure appelle so[m]me rural / collegie et somme par moi iehan le boutillier homme rural ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Boutillier, Jean, -1395 or 1396
Date:
[1486]
Physical Description:
[10], Clxviii, [4], lxxi, [1] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Explanation of the view of Gibraltar and Bay, taken from the battery, called the Devil's Tongue : in the upper circle, is a view of Edinburgh.

No cover image available
Creator:
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774–1856
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 42 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. De agricultura vulgare / Piero Crescentio.

No cover image available
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

93. Itinerarium prouinciarum omniu[m] Antonini Augusti : cum Fragmento eiusdem necnon indice haudquaq[ue] asperna[n]do : cvm privilegio, ne quis temere hoc ab hinc duos annos imprimet.

No cover image available
Date:
[1512]
Physical Description:
[8], 92, [60] leaves ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Cronick von dem hochwirdigen vnd loblichen heyltum auff dẽ heyligen Perg Andechs genant In obern Bayren.

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1495]
Physical Description:
79 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. 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.

No cover image available
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

96. Supplementum chronicharum.

No cover image available
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

97. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1614
Physical Description:
[2], 51, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
More, Richard (Carpenter)
Date:
1602
Physical Description:
[8], 56 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Löhneyss, Georg Engelhard von, 1552–1622
Date:
1609 [-1610]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., music ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. 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.

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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