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

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

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

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

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

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

404. Problems of beautie and all humane affections / written in Italian by Tho: Buoni, citizen of Lucca, with a discourse of beauty by the same author ; translated into English by S.L., gent.

Creator:: Buoni, Tommaso
Date:: 1606
Physical Description:: [24], 288, [20] p. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

405. Imagines verteris ...

Creator:: Raphael, 1483–1520
Date:: 1674
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

406. Suffolke described and divided into hundreds : the situation of the fayre towne Ipswich shewed with the armes of the most noble families that have bene either dukes, or earles both of that countie as also of Clare / performed by Iohn Speede.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: 1610
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 37 x 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

407. A book of perspective & geometry : being the ABC, and first degree of all good art ... / this second book of architecture made by Sebastian Serly ; entreating of perspective, touching the superficies ; translated out of Itallian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English, for the benefit of our English nation ...

Creator:: Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475–1554
Date:: 1657
Physical Description:: [2], 30 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

408. Oxonium poema / authore F.V. ex aede Christi.

Creator:: Vernon, Francis, 1637?-1677
Date:: 1667
Physical Description:: [2], 26 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

409. Recuel de divers portraits des principales dames de la porte du Grand Turc / tirée au naturel sur les lieux, et dediez a Madame la comtesse de Fiesque, par George de La Chappelle, peintre de la ville de Caen.

Creator:: La Chappelle, Georges de, d. 1655
Date:: 1648
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

411. The English atlas ... : with a general introduction to geography, and a large index, containing the longitudes and latitudes of all the particular places, thereby directing the reader to find them readily in the several maps.

Date:: MDCLXXX-MDCLXXXIII [1680-1683]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (4 volumes) : maps, portraits ; 62 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

412. The boke of Saint Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners, containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour: printed at Saint Albans by the schoolmaster-printer in 1486, reproduced in facsimile, with an introduction by William Blades ...

Creator:: Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:: 1881
Physical Description:: 32 p., facsim.: 90 l., wdcts. (coats of arms) 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

413. The painting of the ancients, in three bookes: declaring by historicall observations and examples, the beginning, progresse, and consvmmation of that most noble art. And how those ancient artificers attained to their still so much admired excellencie. Written first in Latine by Franciscus Junius, F. f. and now by him Englished, with some additions and alterations.

Creator:: Junius, Franciscus, 1589–1677
Date:: 1638
Physical Description:: 4 p., 355 p. 19 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

414. Just and legal exceptions against the late act for preventing multiplicity of buildings erected within the suburbs of the city of London and ten miles thereof, since March 1620.

Date:: 1657?]
Physical Description:: 8 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

415. La pratiqve dv trait a prevves, de mr Desargves ... pour la coupe des pierres en l'architecture. Par A. Bosse ...

Creator:: Desargues, Gérard, 1591–1661
Date:: 1643
Physical Description:: 5 p.., 56, [114] p. 114 plates on 58 leaves. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

416. A booke containing such beasts as are most usefull for such as practice drawing, graveing, armes painting, chaseing, and for severall other occasions. Designed by F. Barlow. Ingraved by Wm. Vaughā.

Creator:: Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Date:: 1664
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 13 plates. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

417. Rerum medicarum Nouæ Hispaniæ thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium mexicanorum historia / ex Francisci Hernandez Noui Orbis medici primarij relationibus in ipsa mexicana vrbe conscriptis a Nardo Antonio Reccho ... collecta ac in ordinem digesta ; à Ioanne Terrentio ... notis illustrata ... ; quibus iam excussis accessere demum alia quor[um] omnium synopsis sequenti pagina ponitur ; opus duobus voluminibus diuisum ...

Creator:: Hernández, Francisco, 1517–1587
Date:: 1651
Physical Description:: 1090 p. in various pagings : ill. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

420. M. Z. Topographia Electorat Brandenburgici et Ducatus Pomeraniae, das ist, Beschreibung der vornembsten und bekantisten Stätte und Plätz in dem hochlöblichsten Churfürstenthum und March Brandenburg, und dem Hertzogtum Pommeren : zu sampt einem doppelten Anhang: 1. Vom Lande Preussen unnd Pomerellen, 2. Von Lifflande unnd selbige beruffenisten Orten.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: [1652]
Physical Description:: 129, [7], 53, [3], 36, [2] p., [59] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 39 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

421. [Portraits of James I and Queen Anne]

Creator:: Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587–1652
Date:: [between 1602 and 1612]
Physical Description:: 1 print : etching and engraving ; image 40.5 x 45.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

422. The description and use of the carpenters-rule : together with the use of the line of numbers (inscribed thereon) in arithmatick and geometry : and the application thereof to the measuring of superficies and solid, gaging of vessels, military orders, interest and annuities : ... also a universal-dial for the use of seamen or others : with the use of a sliding glasiers-rule and Mr. White's rule for solid measure / collected and fitted to the meanest capacity by J. Browne.

Creator:: Brown, John, philomath
Date:: 1666
Physical Description:: [4], 248 [i.e. 245], [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

423. Bucaniers of America, or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies, by the bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French : wherein are contained more especially, the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama &c. / written originally in Dutch, by John Esquemeling, one of the Bucaniers, who was present at those tragedies ; and then translated into Spanish by Alonso de Bonne-maison, Doctor of Physick and practitioner at Amsterdam ; now faithfully rendered into English.

Creator:: Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:: 1684-1685
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illlustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

424. Atlas maior, sive, Cosmographia Blauiana : qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur.

Creator:: Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:: MDCLXII [1662]
Physical Description:: 11 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 58 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

425. A description of the sands, shoals, buoys, beacons, roads, channels, sea-marks, on the coast of England, from the South-Foreland to Orford-Ness : shewing their bearings and distances from most of the eminent places on the land : with the depths of water on the sands, as also in the channels between : with several other things necessary to be known : being accommodated with a new and exact draught of the sands, according to the said descriptions / discovered by Capt. Gilbert Crane and Capt. Thomas Browne, elder brethren of the Trinity-House ; and the sea-coasts surveighed by Jonas Moor Esq. ...

Creator:: Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:: MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:: [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : map ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

426. [Angels holding instruments of the Passion, from the Ponte San Angelo]

Creator:: Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651–1725
Date:: [1699]
Physical Description:: 10 prints : etching and engraving ; plate marks 30 x 20 cm, on leaves 37 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

428. Topographia Germaniae-Inferioris : das ist, Beschreibung und Abbildung der vornehmsten Stätten, Vöstungen und Öhrter so wohl in Grund als in Prospect in den XVII Niederlandischen Provintien : liegend, alls Brabant, Limburch, Mecheler, Seldern, Zutphen, Ober Issel, Frissland, Gröningen, Holland, Utrecht, Seeland, Flandern, Artois, Hennegäw, Camerich, Lützenburg, Namur, und Burgund / M.Z.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: [1659]
Physical Description:: [2], 283, [21] p., [120] leaves of plates (104 folded) : ill., 12 maps ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

429. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world : viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America ...

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: [2], 206 p. : maps ; 11 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

430. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

Creator:: Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: xxxv, 49 p. : facsims. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

432. Theatrum statuum regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudiae ducis, Pedemonti principis, Cypri regis ...

Creator:: Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:: MDCXXXII [1682]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations (engravings), coats of arms, genealogical table, maps, plans, portraits ; 58 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

433. A mapp of Cambridgshire [cartographic material] : with the Ile of Ely / by Ric. Blome.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: [1673]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 29.9 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

434. Systema agriculturae, the mystery of husbandry discovered : wherein is treated of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling planting sowing manuring ordering improving all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods, & coppices, and of all sorts of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new hays, cattel, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. : with an account of the several instruments and engines useful in this profession : to which is added, Kalendarium rusticum, or, The husbandmans monethly directions : also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, windes, rain, hail, thunder, &c. : and Dictionarium rusticum, or, The interpretation of rustick terms / published for the common good, by J. W. gent. ; the whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice.

Creator:: Worlidge, John, active 1669–1698
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [32], 278, [6] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

435. Romanorum fontinalia, sive, Nitidissimorum perenniumque, intra & extra urbem Romam, fontium vera, varia, & accurata delineatio : prout illi vel in areis publicis, vel in palatiis amplissimis, maximè verò in Frescado, Tiuoli, hortísque amoenissimis, ex omni parte, & arte, & facie, inibi locorum hodiéque conspiciuntur / universam earundem substructionum imaginem oculis animísque subjiciente viro celeberrimo Joh. Baptista Falti, Romano ; quae variorum postea artificum, quos meritò suo virtuosos appellant, graphiis aeri graphicè incisa fuit.

Creator:: Falda, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640–1678
Date:: A.C. MDLXXXV [1685]
Physical Description:: 12 pages, XXXXII [i.e. 82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

436. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [2], v, [1], 94, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

438. [Engravings of statues]

Creator:: Poilly, Jean-Baptiste de, 1669–1728
Date:: [circa 1700?]
Physical Description:: 6 prints : etching and engraving ; plate marks 28 x 20 cm, on sheets 37 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

439. L'idea della architettvra universale, di Vincenzo Scamozzi ... diuisa in X libri ...

Creator:: Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:: 1615
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. ill., plans. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

441. Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne, entrepris par les François en l'année M. DC. LII. : diuisé en trois livres. Le premier, contient l'établissement de la colonie, son embarquement, & sa route iusques à son arriuée en l'isle de Cayenne : le second, ce qui s'est passé pendant quinze mois que l'on a demeuré dans les païs : le troisiesme, traitte du temperament du païs, de la fertilité de sa terre, & des mœurs & façons de faire des sauuages de cette contrée : avec un dictionnaire de la langue du mesme païs. / par Me Antoine Biet, ...

Creator:: Biet, Antoine, 1620–
Date:: M. DC. LXIV. [1664]
Physical Description:: [24], 432 p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

442. Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland Ceylon ... Nevens een omstandige en grondigh doorzochte ontdekking en wederlegginge van de afgoderye der Oost-Indische heydenen : Waar inne der zelver grootste geheymenissen, zoo uyt de eygene geschriften, als t'zamenspraak, en bywooninge der voornaamste Bramines, en andere Indiaansche wet-geleerden, getrouwelijk werden aan't licht gebracht, zijnde hier by gevoeght een Malabaarsche spraak-konst; zeer dienstigh voor alle die het lust met dien landaard om te gaan ... / Door Philippus Baldaeus ...

Creator:: Baldaeus, Philippus, 1632–1672
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: 3 pt. in 1 : ill., maps, plans ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

443. Arcano del mare / di D. Ruberto Dudleo duca di Nortumbria, e conte di Waruich : diuiso in libri sei ...

Creator:: Dudley, Robert, Sir, 1574–1649
Date:: MDCLXI [1661]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 57 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

445. The history of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, from its foundation untill these times : extracted out of originall charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts : beautified with sundry prospects of the church, figures of tombes, and monuments / by William Dugdale ...

Creator:: Dugdale, William, 1605–1686
Date:: 1658
Physical Description:: [6], 136, 157-299, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

446. Rutgeri Hermannidæ Britannia magna, sive Angliæ, Scottiæ, Hiberniæ & adjacentium insularum : geographico-historica descriptio.

Creator:: Hermannides, Rutgerus, d. 1680
Date:: [1661]
Physical Description:: [32], 645, [41] p., [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

447. Nobilitas politica vel civilis : personas scilicet distinguendi, et ab origine inter gentes, ex principum gratia nobilitandi forma ...

Creator:: Glover, Robert, 1544–1588
Date:: 1608
Physical Description:: [6], 190, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

448. An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people. With the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties. Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.

Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: MDCXCIX [1699]
Physical Description:: [8], 248, 40 p., [2] double plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

449. La chasse royale / Composee par le roy Charles IX. Et dediée au roy tres-chrestien de France & de Nauarre, Louys XIII. Tres-vtile aux curieux & amateurs de chasse.

Creator:: Charles IX, King of France, 1550–1574
Date:: M.DC.XXV [1625]
Physical Description:: [8], 54, 57-138 [i.e. 136] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

450. The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699.

Date:: MDCCCXXXIV [1834]
Physical Description:: 15 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

451. Topographia Galliae, sive, Descriptio et delineatio famosissimorum locorum in potentissimo regno Galliae : partim ex usu & optimis scriptoribus diversarum linguarum, partim ex relationibus fide dignis per aliquot annos collectis, in ordinem redacta, & publico data / Per Martinum Zeillerum.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: 1655-1661
Physical Description:: 13 pts in 4 v., [331] leaves of plates (276 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

452. Baziliōlogia : a booke of kings : beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English kings from the conquest vntill this present : with their seuerall coats of armes, impresses and devises : and a brief chronologie of their liues and deaths : elegantly grauen in copper.

Date:: 1618
Physical Description:: [1], [99] leaves : all ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

453. The Gentleman's jocky and approved farrier : instructing, in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use; as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities / collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire; T.D. N.S. R.B. J.W. and others.

Creator:: Halfpenny, John, active 1671
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: [16], 300, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

457. A nevv book of architecture : wherein is represented fourty figures of gates and arches triumphant, composed of different inventions according to the five orders of columnes, viz. the Tuscane, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite / by Alexander Francine ... ; with a description of each figure ; set forth by Robert Pricke, for the use and benefit of all ingenious workmen that are concerned in eminent building.

Creator:: Francine, Alexandre, -1648
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [4] pages, XXXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

458. The mirror of architecture, or, The ground-rules of the art of building / exactly laid down by Vincent Scamozzi master-builder of Venice ; reviewed and inlarged [sic] with the addition of a diagonal scale being very useful for dividing the author his given parts into minutes ... ; by Joachim Schuym of Amsterdam ; translated out of Dutch by W.F. ; hereunto is added The description and use of an ordinary joynt-rule fitted with lines for the ready finding the lengths and angles of rafters, ... by John Browne.

Creator:: Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: [10], 23, 29, 22 p., [50] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

459. Markhams farewell to husbandry, or, The enriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our nation, : to be as fruitfull in all manner of graine, pulse and grasse, as the best grounds whatsoever. Together with the annoyances, and preservation of all graine and seed, from one yeare to many yeares. As also, a husbandly computation of men and cattels dayly labours, their expences, charges, and utmost profits ... For the bettering of arable, pasture, and woody grounds: of making good all grounds againe, spoyled with ever-flowing of salt water by sea-branches; as also, the enriching of the hop-garde, and many other things never published before. / By G.M.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1653
Physical Description:: [6], 126, [4] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

460. Nautical chart of Grand Havre, Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and gray wash ; sheet 45 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

461. Atlas chinensis : being a second part of A relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tartar against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly, both of the whole empire of China in general, and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces / collected out of their several writing and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq. ...

Creator:: Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636–1689
Date:: MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:: [6], 723, [1] pages, [72] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

462. A booke of drawinges : performed acording [sic] to the best order for use & brevity that is yet extant.

Date:: 1650
Physical Description:: [18] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

463. Cambridgshire [cartographic material] : described with the deuision of the hundreds, the townes situation, with the armes of the colleges of that famous vniuersiti and also the armes of all such princes and noblemen as haue heertofore borne the honorable tytles & dignities of the Earldome of Cambridge / performed by Iohn Speede.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: 1610
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 37 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

464. The history of the world, or, An account of time / compiled by the learned Dionisius Petavius ; and continued by others, to the year of our Lord, 1659 ; together with A geographicall description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.

Creator:: Petau, Denis, 1583–1652
Date:: 1659
Physical Description:: [10], [807] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : port., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

466. A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.

Creator:: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: [1650]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([16], 5-8, 146 [i.e. 280], [10] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

470. Maneige royal : ou lon peut remarquer le defaut et la perfection du cheualier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne des princes, fait & pratiqué en l'instruction du roy / par Antoine Pluuinel, son escuyer principal, conseiller en son Conseil d'Etat, son chambellan ordinaire, & sous-gouuerneur de sa Majesté. Le tout graué & representé en grandes figures de taille douce par Crispian de Pas, flamand, à l'honneur du roy, & à la memoire de Monsieur de Pluuinel.

Creator:: Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555–1620
Date:: MDCXXIII [1623]
Physical Description:: [10] p., 69 columns, [1] p., [58] leaves of plates : ill. (ports.) ; 36 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

471. Topographia Franconiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eÿgentliche Contrafactur der vornehmbsten Stätte vnd Plätze des Frankenlandes vnd deren die zú dem hochlöbischen fränkischen Craisse gezogen werden.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: [1648?]
Physical Description:: [6], 3-118, [10] p., 43 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

472. Flandria illustrata, sive, Descriptio comitatus istius per totum terraru[m] orbem celeberrimi, III tomis absoluta / ab Antonio Sandero ...

Creator:: Sanderus, Antoine, 1586–1664
Date:: MDCXXXXI-MDCXXXXIIII [1641]-[1644]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 52 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

473. Atlas maritimus, or a book of charts : describing the sea coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers : the bayes, roads, harbors, rivers, and ports in most of the knowne parts of the world : with the true courses and distances from one place to another, gathered from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by divers able and experienced navigators of our English nation : accomodated with an hydrologicall description of the whole world / by John Seller, Hidrographer to [the] Kings most excellent Majestie ; and by William Fisher, John Thornton, John Colson, and James Atkinson.

Creator:: Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:: [between 1677 and 1679]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([4], 12, [2] pages, [79] leaves of plates) : 39 maps ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

474. A geographical dictionary : in which are described the most eminent countreys, towns, ports, seas, streights, and rivers in the whole world : very useful for the understanding of all modern histories.

Date:: 1662
Physical Description:: [4], 138 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

475. Maneige royal ou lon peut remarquer le defaut et la perfection du cheualier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne des princes, fait & pratiqué en l'instruction du roy par Antoine Pluuinel son escuyer principal, conseiller en son conseil d'estat, son chambellan ordinaire, & sous-gouuerneur de sa Majesté. Le tout graué & representé en grandes figures de taille douce par Crispian de Pas, Flamand, à l'honneur du roy, & à la memoire de Monsieur de Pluvinel. Imprimé pour la secunde foijs & mis en alleman a la ville de Brunsvic Au despens de Gotfried Muller = Königliche Reitschul. Da beydes der Mangel vnd Volkommenheit eines Reuters zu vermercken, in allen Exercitijs dieser fürst. vnd adelichen Kunst, gebraucht vnd practisirt bey Vnterweisung des Königs, durch Antonium Pluvinel, Kön. May. Oberstalmeistern, Rath vom Staedt, Ordinari Kemmerern, vnd vnter Gouuernatorn. Alles nach Ahrt vnd Invention Crisp. de Pass. den Jüngern in schönen grossen Figuren abgebildet, zu Ehren Königlicher Mayest. vnd christlicher Angedächtnis des Monsieur de Pluvinel. Zum Andernmahl aussgelegt vnd in vnsere hochdeutsche Sprach vertirt.

Creator:: Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555–1620
Date:: Anno 1626
Physical Description:: [28], 40, 40 p., 64 double leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

476. An idea of the perfection of painting: demonstrated from the principles of art, and by examples conformable to the observations, which Pliny and Quintilian have made upon the most celebrated pieces of the ancient painters, parallel'd with some works of the most famous modern painters, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Julio Romano, and N. Poussin. Written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray, and rendred English by J. E. esquire, fellow of the Royal Society.

Creator:: Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: 12 p.., [16], 136 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

477. Histoire de tous les ordres militaires ou de chevalerie ... / gravées en cuivre par Adrien Schoonebeek.

Creator:: Schoonebeek, Adriaan, 1657 or 8–1705
Date:: 1699
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

478. The first booke of drawing & limning.

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:: circa 1700?
Physical Description:: 1 v. (5-129, [1] leaves) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

479. Halinitro-pyrobolia. : Beschreibu[n]g einer newen Büchsen-Meisterey, nemlichen: gründlicher Bericht, wie der Salpeter, Schwefel, Kohlen, vnnd das Pulfer zu praepariren, zu probieren, auch langwirrig gut zu behalten: das Fewrwerck zur Kurtzweil vnd Ernst zu laboriren. Dann, wie der Pöler, das grobe Geschütz, vnd der Petardo zu gobernirn: ingleichem die Lunden bey Tag- vnd Nachtszeiten, sicherlich vnd ohne gesehen zu tragen, &c. Sampt einer kurtzen geometrishcen Einlaytung, die Weite vnd Höhe gar gering zu erfahren. Alles ausz eygener Experientza; neben etlichen newen, zuvor nicht gesehnen Inventionen, gantz fleissig und vertrewlich beshrieben; vber das, mit. 44. Kupfferstucken delinirt vnd für Augen gestellt / durch Josephum Furttenbach..

Creator:: Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:: Anno MDCXXVII [1627]
Physical Description:: [20], 107, [1] p., [1], 44 [i.e. 88] leaves of plates (44 folded) : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

480. Description of Jarsey.

Date:: 1600
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 42 x 58 cm, on sheet 44 x 59 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

481. L'academia Todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura, oder, Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste : darinn enthalten ein gründlicher Unterricht von dieser dreyer Künste Eigenschaft, Lehr-Sätzen und Geheimnissen, von den Bau-Steinen und fünferley Bau-Arten ... neben aller egyptischen, griechischen, römischen, italiänischen, hoch-und nieder-teutschen, auch anderer alten und neuen Virtuosen Leben und fürehmsten Kunst-Werken beschrieben, Auch Mit 38 Platten von der Architectur, 68 Alt-Römischen Statuen, ganz und halsen Bildern, 74 Medaglinnen, 180 Contrafäten / durch die Hand der bästen heutigen Künstlere, in Kupfer gezieret ; durch Joachim von Sandrart auf Stockau Hoch-Fürstl. Pfalz-Neuburgischen Raht.

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: Anno Christi MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 39 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

482. A representation of the Popish Plott in 29 figures, in ye manner of killing Sr. Edmond bury Godfry, & their horrid designes to kill the King, and the manner of the plotters execution.

Date:: [1681?]
Physical Description:: broadside. col. ill. 42 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

484. A map of ye English Empire in ye continent of America : viz Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, New York, New Iarsey, New England, Pennsilvania / W. Binneman sculpsit ; by R. Daniel, Esq.

Creator:: Daniel, R. (Richard)
Date:: [19--?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 48 x 59 cm., on sheet 64 x 78 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

485. Il torneo / di Bonauentura Pistofilo nobile ferrarese, dottor di legge e caualiere, nel Teatro di Pallade dell'ordine militare et accademico ...

Creator:: Pistofilo, Bonaventura, 1576–
Date:: MDCXXVII [1627]
Physical Description:: [16], 555, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, music ; 23 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

486. The true travels, adventvres, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593 to 1629 : his accidents and sea-fights in the Straights, his service and strategems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia ... : together with a continuation of his Generall history of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624, to this present 1629, as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies / all written by actuall authors, whose names you shall finde along the history.

Creator:: Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:: 1630
Physical Description:: [12], 60 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

487. The first book of architecture / by Andrea Palladio ; translated out of Italian ; with an appendix touching doors and windows, by Pr. LeMuet ... ; translated out of French by G. R. ...

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: [10], 32, [1], 36-159, [29], 191-198, [19] p. 218, [3], p. 220, [3], p. 226, [3], p. 230, [3], p. 234, [2], 237-239 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

488. Topographia provinciarum Austriacaru[m], Austriæ, Stÿriæ, Carinthiæ, Carniolæ, Tyrolis, etc : das ist Beschreibung und Abbildung der fürnembsten Stätt und Plätz in den osterreichischen Landen. ... / An Tag ins Kupffer gegeben durch Matthæum Merian.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: [1677]
Physical Description:: [6], 92, [10] p., 92 leaves of plates (many folded and running over 2 leaves) : ill., maps and plans ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

489. The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots fitting for persons of all qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ...

Creator:: Le Muet, Pierre, 1591–1669
Date:: 1675
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. 81 plates (part. fold., incl. plans) 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

490. The English pilot : describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers; the bayes, roads, harbors, rivers and ports in the northern and southern navigation shewing the courses and distances from one place to another : the setting of the tydes and currents : the ebbing and flowing of the sea : and many other necessary things belonging to the practical part of navigation : being furnished with new and exact draughts, charts, and descriptions, gathered from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by divers able and expert navigators of our English nation / collected for the general use of our countrymen, by Iohn Seller ...

Creator:: Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:: [1671]-[1672]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (2 volumes) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

493. Illustriorum Italiae urbium tabulae : cum appendice celebriorum in maris Mediterranei insulis ciuitatum.

Creator:: Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:: [1657]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (300 pages in various pagings, [6] leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 50 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

494. The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse : adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations. By John Ogilby ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. plates. 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

495. An itinerary : contayning a voyage made through Italy, in the yeare 1646, and 1647 : illustrated with divers figures of antiquities : never before published / by Jo[hn] Raymond ...

Creator:: Raymond, John
Date:: 1648
Physical Description:: 23, 284, [2] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

496. Most approued, and long experienced vvater-vvorkes : containing, the manner of winter and summer-drowning of medow and pasture, by the aduantage of the least, riuer, brooke, fount, or water-prill adiacent : there-by to make those grounds (especially if they be drye) more fertile ten for one : as also a demonstration of a project, for the great benefit of the common-wealth generally, but of Hereford-shire especially / by Rowland Vaughan.

Creator:: Vaughan, Rowland, 1558–1627
Physical Description:: Imprinted at London : By George Eld, 1610.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

497. Urbium totius Belgii, seu, Germaniae inferioris nobiliorum, & illustriorum tabulae antiquae & novae accuratissimè elaboratae.

Creator:: Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:: MDCLVII [1657]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (2 volumes) : illustrations, maps, plans, views ; 51 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

498. Instructions concerning erecting of a library : presented to my lord the President de Mesme / by Gabriel Naudeus, P. ; and now interpreted by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire.

Creator:: Naudé, Gabriel, 1600–1653
Date:: 1661
Physical Description:: [16], 96 pages ; 19 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

499. P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphosis, oder, Sinn-reicher Gedichte von Verwandlungen. Erster Theil, enthaltend die sieben ersten Bücher : gezieret nicht nur allein mit lehr-reichen, über jede Fabel, aus dem Französischen in das Teutsche übersetzten herrlichen Anmerckungen, sondern auch mit gantz neuen, über die in denenselben vorkommenden Handlungen, beygefügten Kupffer-Figuren / inventiret und herausgegeben von Johann Jacob von Sandrart.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Date:: MDCXCVIII [1698]
Physical Description:: [12], 132, [2] pages, [29] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Darling, John, 17th cent
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [2], 10, 166, 142, [4] p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

404. Problems of beautie and all humane affections / written in Italian by Tho: Buoni, citizen of Lucca, with a discourse of beauty by the same author ; translated into English by S.L., gent.

405. Imagines verteris ...

406. Suffolke described and divided into hundreds : the situation of the fayre towne Ipswich shewed with the armes of the most noble families that have bene either dukes, or earles both of that countie as also of Clare / performed by Iohn Speede.

408. Oxonium poema / authore F.V. ex aede Christi.

409. Recuel de divers portraits des principales dames de la porte du Grand Turc / tirée au naturel sur les lieux, et dediez a Madame la comtesse de Fiesque, par George de La Chappelle, peintre de la ville de Caen.

411. The English atlas ... : with a general introduction to geography, and a large index, containing the longitudes and latitudes of all the particular places, thereby directing the reader to find them readily in the several maps.

412. The boke of Saint Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners, containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour: printed at Saint Albans by the schoolmaster-printer in 1486, reproduced in facsimile, with an introduction by William Blades ...

414. Just and legal exceptions against the late act for preventing multiplicity of buildings erected within the suburbs of the city of London and ten miles thereof, since March 1620.

415. La pratiqve dv trait a prevves, de mr Desargves ... pour la coupe des pierres en l'architecture. Par A. Bosse ...

416. A booke containing such beasts as are most usefull for such as practice drawing, graveing, armes painting, chaseing, and for severall other occasions. Designed by F. Barlow. Ingraved by Wm. Vaughā.

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

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

421. [Portraits of James I and Queen Anne]

424. Atlas maior, sive, Cosmographia Blauiana : qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur.

426. [Angels holding instruments of the Passion, from the Ponte San Angelo]

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

429. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world : viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America ...

430. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

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

432. Theatrum statuum regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudiae ducis, Pedemonti principis, Cypri regis ...

433. A mapp of Cambridgshire [cartographic material] : with the Ile of Ely / by Ric. Blome.

436. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

438. [Engravings of statues]

439. L'idea della architettvra universale, di Vincenzo Scamozzi ... diuisa in X libri ...

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

443. Arcano del mare / di D. Ruberto Dudleo duca di Nortumbria, e conte di Waruich : diuiso in libri sei ...

445. The history of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, from its foundation untill these times : extracted out of originall charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts : beautified with sundry prospects of the church, figures of tombes, and monuments / by William Dugdale ...

446. Rutgeri Hermannidæ Britannia magna, sive Angliæ, Scottiæ, Hiberniæ & adjacentium insularum : geographico-historica descriptio.

447. Nobilitas politica vel civilis : personas scilicet distinguendi, et ab origine inter gentes, ex principum gratia nobilitandi forma ...

449. La chasse royale / Composee par le roy Charles IX. Et dediée au roy tres-chrestien de France & de Nauarre, Louys XIII. Tres-vtile aux curieux & amateurs de chasse.

450. The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699.

451. Topographia Galliae, sive, Descriptio et delineatio famosissimorum locorum in potentissimo regno Galliae : partim ex usu & optimis scriptoribus diversarum linguarum, partim ex relationibus fide dignis per aliquot annos collectis, in ordinem redacta, & publico data / Per Martinum Zeillerum.

452. Baziliōlogia : a booke of kings : beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English kings from the conquest vntill this present : with their seuerall coats of armes, impresses and devises : and a brief chronologie of their liues and deaths : elegantly grauen in copper.

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

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

460. Nautical chart of Grand Havre, Guernsey.

462. A booke of drawinges : performed acording [sic] to the best order for use & brevity that is yet extant.

464. The history of the world, or, An account of time / compiled by the learned Dionisius Petavius ; and continued by others, to the year of our Lord, 1659 ; together with A geographicall description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.

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

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

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

471. Topographia Franconiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eÿgentliche Contrafactur der vornehmbsten Stätte vnd Plätze des Frankenlandes vnd deren die zú dem hochlöbischen fränkischen Craisse gezogen werden.

472. Flandria illustrata, sive, Descriptio comitatus istius per totum terraru[m] orbem celeberrimi, III tomis absoluta / ab Antonio Sandero ...

474. A geographical dictionary : in which are described the most eminent countreys, towns, ports, seas, streights, and rivers in the whole world : very useful for the understanding of all modern histories.

477. Histoire de tous les ordres militaires ou de chevalerie ... / gravées en cuivre par Adrien Schoonebeek.

478. The first booke of drawing & limning.

480. Description of Jarsey.

482. A representation of the Popish Plott in 29 figures, in ye manner of killing Sr. Edmond bury Godfry, & their horrid designes to kill the King, and the manner of the plotters execution.

484. A map of ye English Empire in ye continent of America : viz Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, New York, New Iarsey, New England, Pennsilvania / W. Binneman sculpsit ; by R. Daniel, Esq.

485. Il torneo / di Bonauentura Pistofilo nobile ferrarese, dottor di legge e caualiere, nel Teatro di Pallade dell'ordine militare et accademico ...

487. The first book of architecture / by Andrea Palladio ; translated out of Italian ; with an appendix touching doors and windows, by Pr. LeMuet ... ; translated out of French by G. R. ...

488. Topographia provinciarum Austriacaru[m], Austriæ, Stÿriæ, Carinthiæ, Carniolæ, Tyrolis, etc : das ist Beschreibung und Abbildung der fürnembsten Stätt und Plätz in den osterreichischen Landen. ... / An Tag ins Kupffer gegeben durch Matthæum Merian.

489. The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots fitting for persons of all qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ...

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

493. Illustriorum Italiae urbium tabulae : cum appendice celebriorum in maris Mediterranei insulis ciuitatum.

494. The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse : adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations. By John Ogilby ...

495. An itinerary : contayning a voyage made through Italy, in the yeare 1646, and 1647 : illustrated with divers figures of antiquities : never before published / by Jo[hn] Raymond ...

497. Urbium totius Belgii, seu, Germaniae inferioris nobiliorum, & illustriorum tabulae antiquae & novae accuratissimè elaboratae.

498. Instructions concerning erecting of a library : presented to my lord the President de Mesme / by Gabriel Naudeus, P. ; and now interpreted by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire.