Period: 17th century / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Classification: Books

1. L'Academia todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura: oder Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey Künste, darinn enthalten unterricht, von dieser dreyer Künste Eigenschaft, ... / Durch Joachim von Sandrart.

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: 1675-1679
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An ordinance prohibiting cock-matches : Fryday March 31. 1654. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council.

Creator:: England and Wales
Date:: 1654
Physical Description:: [2], 193-194 p. ; 26 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. An introduction to the general art of drawing, wherein is set forth the grounds and properties, which of this infallible and judicious art are necessary to be known and understood ... with an illustration of 25 copper prints ... Likewise, An excellent treatise of the art of limning in which the true grounds and the perfect use of water-colours ... are ... taught. Formerly set out by ... Gerhard of Brugge. And now much augmented and amended, with some observations, touching ... the colouring and painting with water-colours. Truly tr. into English by J. L.

Creator:: Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: 2 pts. plates. 24 cm. (4 to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Disputatio juridica de venatione : quam permissu atque authoritate Magnifici JCtorum Ordinis in celeberrima Rauracorum Universitate praeside viro nobilissimo et amplissimo Dn. Jac. Burckhardo, J.U.D. Cod. Prof. Publ. celeberrimo, nec non serenissimi & celsissimi Principis Nassov. Consiliario meritissimo, Patrono ac Praeceptore suo aetatèm colendo: publico placidoq́[ue] eruditorum examini loco horisq́ue consuetis submittit Joh. Henricus Reberus als. Mylhusinus, ad diem Martij, An. Chr. M. DC. LXXXX.

Creator:: Reber, Joh. Henricus
Date:: [1690]
Physical Description:: [2], 74 pages, [4] folded pages of plates ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Traité des manieres de dessiner les ordres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties : auec plusieurs belles particularitez qui nont point parû jusques a present, touchat. les bastimts. de marque comme, la naturelle entresuitte des gros et menüs membres de l'eurs degrez ou escaliers : puis, le moyen darrester par dessein et modelle en petit, les parties d'vn edifice, en sorte q'uestant executé en grand, il fasse l'effet que l'on senst proposé, et enfin, la pratique de trouuer la place geometrale des jours ombres et ombrages, sur les corps geometraux / par A. Bosse.

Creator:: Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:: MVICLXIIII [1664, i.e. 1665]
Physical Description:: [3], XLIV leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Historica relación del reyno de Chile : y delas missiones, y ministerios que exercita en el la Compañia de Iesvs : a nvestro señor Iesv Christo, Dios hombre y ala Santissima Virgen, y Madre Maria, Señora del cielo, y dela tierra, y alos santos Ioseph, Ioachin, Ana, sus padres, y aguelos / [Por] Alonso de Ovalle.

Creator:: Ovalle, Alonso de, 1601–1651
Date:: 1646
Physical Description:: [5], 455, 12, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695. 1696. & 1697. aux cotes d'Afrique, détroit de Magellan, Bresil, Cayenne et isles Antilles, par une escadre des vaisseaux du roi, commandée par m. de Gennes / Faite par le sieur Froger ingenieur volontaire sure le vaisseau le Faucon Anglois. Enrichie de grand nombre de figures dessinées sur les lieux.

Creator:: Froger, François, b. 1676
Date:: M.DC.XCIX [1699]
Physical Description:: [14], 227, [1] p., [28] leaves of plates ([7] folded) : ill. (maps, plans) ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Proposals of a new model for rebuilding the city of London : with houses, streets and wharfs, to be forthwith set out by His Majesty's and the city surveyors : with the advantages that will accrue by the building the same accordingly, viz. I. The owners satisfied for their ground, the builder for building, and the poor inhabitants their losses by the fire. II. The city built stately with large streets, the houses not in danger of fire, and the ground all put to the best profit. III. The people will walk easy and dry, the houses-of-office and streets kept sweet and clean; and goods delivered much cheaper. IV. Convenient houses, shops, warehouses and wharfs not dear. V. Advanced to His Majesty by fines 372670 l. VI. A revenue for ever settled upon the crown of per ann. 223517 l. 10 s.

Creator:: Knight, Val. (Valentine)
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

10. The kingdome of England & principality of Wales : exactly described whith every sheere & the small townes in euery one of them : in six mappes, portable for every man's pocket ... : vseful for all commanders for quarteringe of souldiers ... / described by one that travailed throughout the whole kingdome for its purpose ... W. Hollar, fecit.

Creator:: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:: 1644
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([1], [6] leaves) : 6 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Romae antiquae et novae theatrum, sive, Genuina ac vera urbis, juxta varios ejusdem status, delineatio topographica : unà cum primariis illius aedificiis ac monumentis, veluti templis, simulacris, circis, campis, theatris, arcubus, porticibus, columnis, statuis & sepulcris antiquis, praecipuè verò modernis templis, palatiis & aedificiis, nonaginta tabulis aeneis exhibitis & secundùm nobilioris architecturae simulac perspectivae regulas extructis, ruinisq́ue illustrioribus / curante Joachimo à Sandrart ...

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: anno Christi 1684
Physical Description:: [2], 15, [1] pages, [108] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 40 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A vindication of Stone-Heng restored : in which the orders and rules of architecture observed by the ancient Romans, are discussed. Together with the customs and manners of several nations of the world in matters of building of greatest antiquity. As also an historical narration of the most memorable actions of the Danes in England. / By John Webb ...

Creator:: Webb, John, 1611–1672
Date:: MDCLXV [l665]
Physical Description:: [8], 232 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. (Fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Des ordres de colõnes en l'architecture, et plusieurs aũes dependances dicelle / par A. Bosse.

Creator:: Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:: 1664
Physical Description:: [1], A-V leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiua senza saperla : fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca : cognitioni necessarie à pittori, scultori, architetti, ed à qualunque si diletta di disegno / dat' in luce da Giulio Troili da Spinlamberto detto Paradosso, pittore dell'illustriss. Senato di Bologna.

Creator:: Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: [8], 120; [4], 64 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Ars pictoria; or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching. To which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Neanderthal authors. By Alexander Browne ...

Creator:: Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: 4 p.l., 110, [2] p. front. (port.) plates. 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

Creator:: Cruso, John, d. 1681
Date:: MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:: [10], 108 p., 16 leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Li cinque libri di architettura / di Gio. Battista Montani milanese ...

Creator:: Montano, Giovanni Battista, 1545–1621
Date:: 1684
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The ornaments of architecture : containing compartments, shields, mantlings, foldige, festones, monuments for tombs, alphabets of large letters plain and enrich'd, with the order of making them : with some new designes for carving and painting of eminent coaches : useful for painters, stone-cutters, carvers, plaisterers / collected out of the work of several eminent masters, and set forth by Robert Pricke.

Creator:: Pricke, Robert
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: [51] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Alle de wercken, so ouden als nieuvven / van de Heer Jacob Cats, oudt Raedtpensionaris van Hollandt, &c. ; doorgaens vermeerdert, en achter met des autheurs tachtigh-jarigh leven, huyshoudinge en bedenckingen op zorgh-vliet.

Creator:: Cats, Jacob, 1577–1660
Date:: 1658
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

22. Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii principum Alberti et Isabellae, Austriae archiducum : et eorum optatissimi in Belgium aduentus, rerumque gestarum et memorabilium, gratulationum, apparatuum, et spectaculorum in ipsorum susceptione et inauguratione hactenus editorum accurata descriptio / auctore Ioanne Bochio ...

Creator:: Bochius, Joannes, 1555–1609
Date:: MDCII [1602]
Physical Description:: 500, [12] pages : illustrations, music ; 38 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Theatrum civitatum nec non admirandorum Neapolis et Siciliae regnorum.

Creator:: Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:: [1663]
Physical Description:: 166 pages in various pagings, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29. The city & covntry purchaser & builder / composed by S.P. Gent.

Creator:: S. P. (Stephen Primatt)
Date:: [1667]
Physical Description:: 8 p.l., 167 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Bovvels opened, or, A discovery of the neare and deare love, union, and communion betwixt Christ and the church, and consequently betwixt him and every beleeving soule : delivered in divers sermons on the fourth, fifth and sixth chapters of the Canticles / by Dr. Sibs ; late preacher unto the honourable society of Grayes-Inne, and master of Katharine Hall in Cambridge ; being in part finished by his owne pen in his life-time and the rest of them perused and corrected by those whom he instructed with the publishing of his works.

Creator:: Sibbes, Richard, 1577–1635
Date:: 1641
Physical Description:: [20], 74, 71-118, 113-276, 275-282, 285-472, [20] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae : que in publicis priuatisque locis visuntur : icones [par secunda].

Date:: 1621
Physical Description:: [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Topographia urbis Romæ, das ist eigentliche, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom : sampt allen antiquitäten, Pallästen, Amphitheatris oder Schauplätzen, Obeliscis, Pyramiden, Lustgärten, Bildern, Begräbnüssen, oberschrifften und vergleichen, so in und umb der Stadt Rom gefunden, und in vier Tagen ordentlich beschauet und gesehen werden können / in lateinischer Sprach beschrieben durch Joannem Jacobum Boissardum ; jetz aber in die teutche Sprach übersetzt, und die Figuren nach den numeris durch einem Liebhaber der Antiquität geordnet und an den Tag gegeben durch Dietrich de Bry.

Creator:: Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528–1602
Date:: Im Jahr M. DC. LXXXI [1681]
Physical Description:: [iv], 74, [2] p., 101 leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), 2 plans ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Vade mecum, or, The necessary companion ...

Creator:: Playford, John, 1623–1686?
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [8], 207 p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Mr. Ogilby's Tables of his measur'd roads : so digested that any great road or branch may readily be found : with the general and particular, computed and measur'd distance and the distinction of market and post-towns, with other remarks : to which is added a true account of the markets and fairs, &c collected in his survey / by John Ogilby ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: [4], 64 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art ... / by a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisien ; faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts ; set forth in English by Robert Pricke for the lovers of art.

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [15], 150, 150, [6] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

40. A direction for the English traviller : by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales : and also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance between London and any other shire or great towne, with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell, till he come to his journies end.

Creator:: Simons, Matthew, d. 1654
Date:: [1677?]
Physical Description:: 48 leaves (some folded) : maps ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

42. Signorvm vetervm icones.

Creator:: Bisschop, Jan de, 1628–1671
Date:: 167-?]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 100 plates. 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ... To which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Date:: 1678
Physical Description:: 5 p.., 407, [15] p. front. (port.) plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility ... / deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities by William Dugdale ...

Creator:: Dugdale, William, 1605–1686
Date:: 1675-1676
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Topographia Hassiae, et regionum vicinarum : das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten Städte und Plätze in Hessen und denen benachbarten Landschafften, als Buchen, Wetterau, Westerwald, Löhngau, Nassau, Solms, Hanau, Witgenstein und andern / M.Z.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: Im Jahr MDCLV [1655]
Physical Description:: [2], 151, [9] p., [77] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (some folded), maps, plans ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Biblos tes demosias euches / kai teleseos mysterion kai ton allon thesmon kai teleton tes ekklesias ...

Creator:: Church of England
Date:: 1665
Physical Description:: 35, [1], 126, [4], 171 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Theatrum civitatum et admirandorum Italiae : ad aevi veteris & praesentis temporis faciem expressum / à Ioanne Blaeu, G.F.

Creator:: Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:: MDCLXIII [1663]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations (engravings), maps, plans ; 58 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A catalogue of divers excellent Italian pictures of the most eminent masters : both ancient and modern : which will be exposed to sale in the Banqueting-House at White-Hall, by way of publick out-cry, on Munday the 2d day of June next.

Date:: 1684
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

51. Magnum in parvo, or, The practice of geometry with a new order and particular method thereof. Wherein is contained examples of landskips, pieces of prospective, and the like: represented by eighty two plates; each plate having a full description. Publish'd in English by R. P. for the lovers of art ...

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 178, [6] p. ill., plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Cantabrigia illustrativa sive omnium celeberrime istius universitatis.

Creator:: Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:: 1688
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

55. La fortificatione, guardia, difesa, et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diuerse guerre / del cavaliero Francco. Tensini da Crema ...

Creator:: Tensini, Francesco, 1581–1630
Date:: MDCLV [1655]
Physical Description:: [12], 83, [1], 83, [1], 128 pages, [50] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 40 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The sentiments of the most excellent painters concerning the practice of painting / collected and composed in tables of precepts by Henry Testling ... ; translated into English with remarques on the words of art, with an addition of the grounds, and the practical method in perspective.

Creator:: Testelin, Henri, 1616–1695
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: [10] leaves, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

59. The art of painting in oyl : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery : containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working in oyl colours ... / by John Smith ...

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [12], 100 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

65. The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation : Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush, or flying. IV. How to make shot, proportion the charge, and know good powder; with the proper use of the stalking-horse, bush, hedge, and how to manage them. V. Of singing birds, their diseases and cure. VI. How to distinguish all sorts of poulterers ware, whether old or young, fresh or stale, full of eggs or not. Also to well order, and speedily fat tame and wild fowl. VII. To which is added directions for destroying all manner of vermine / By J.S. Gent.

Creator:: Smith, John, active 1684–1704
Date:: 1697
Physical Description:: [8], 159, [1] p. : ill. ; 12 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

68. Della Espugnatione et difesa delle fortezze.

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

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

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

70. By the King. A proclamation against new buildings.

Creator:: England and Wales. Sovereign (1660–1685 : Charles II)
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 36 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

72. Icones biblicae praecipuas Sacrae Scripturae historias eleganter & graphicè repraesentantes = Biblische Figuren, darinnen die fürnembsten historien, in heiliger vnd göttlicher Schrifft begriffen, gründtlich vnd geschichtmessig entworffen, zu nutz vnd Belüstigung Gottsförchtiger vnd kunstverständiger Personen artig vorgebilget: an Tag gegeben, durch Matthaevm Meriam ... Mit Versen vnd Reimen in dreyen Sprachen geziert vnd erkläret.

Creator:: Merian, Matthaeus, 1593–1650
Date:: [1625-1630]
Physical Description:: 4 parts in 1 volume : illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

74. Counsel and advise to all builders : for the choice of their surveyours, clarks of their works, bricklayers, masons, carpenters, and other work-men therein concerned : as also in respect of their works, materials, and rates thereof : together with several epistles to eminent persons who may be concerned in building / written by Sir Balthazar Gerbier ...

Creator:: Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667
Date:: 1663
Physical Description:: [110], 110 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

76. London survey'd, or, An explanation of the large map of London : giving a particular account of the streets and lanes in the city and liberties : with the courts, yards, and alleys, churches, halls, and houses of note in every street and lane and directories to find them in the map : with the names and marks of the wards, parishes, and precincts, therein described / by John Ogilby & William Morgan ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1677
Physical Description:: [14], 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : plan ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking ; together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. Which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, Blasius Multibibus, aliàs Drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... Faithfully rendred according to the originall Latine copie.

Creator:: Multibibus, Blasius
Date:: MDCXVII [1617]
Physical Description:: [8], 80, [6], 87-194, [6] p., 2 leaves of plates ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Effigies regum Anglorum : Wilhelmo Conquestore : are to be sold by Robt. Peake att his shoppe neere Holborne conduitt.

Creator:: Faithorne, William, 1616–1691
Date:: [1630?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

80. Godly prayers of meditations / collected out of certaine holy workes, by the most vertuous Princesse Katherine Parre, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, in the yeare 1545.

Creator:: Catharine Parr, Queen consort of Henry VIII, 1513–1548
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 54 unnumbered pages (incomplete) ; 5.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno : ricercata non solo su gl'ossi e muscoli del corpo humano, ma dimostrata ancora su le statue antiche più insigni di Roma, delineata in piu tauole con tutte le figure in varie faccie e vedute per istudio della Regia academia di Francia pittura e scultura / sotto la direzzione di Carlo Errard, gia direttore di essa in Roma ; preparata su'i cadaueri dal dottor Bernardino Genga ... con le spiegazioni et indice del sigr. canonico Gio. Maria Lancisi ...

Creator:: Genga, Bernardino, 1620–1690
Date:: il dì XV. settembre M. DC. XCI [1691]
Physical Description:: 56 leaves : illustrations ; 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

83. A new-naturalized work of a learned stranger, or, An exquisite tutor powerfull to benefit the publick : and convey unto English men, especially architects and artificers of all sorts : that is, masons, carpenters, joyners, glasiers, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, and all that live by hammer and hand : necessary, certaine, and most ready helps of geometrie, which is the first degree of all good art ...

Date:: 1657
Physical Description:: [2], 11 [i.e. 14] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Altaria et sacella varia templorum Romae : a celeberrimis quondam architectis structa, quibus sistuntur singulorum orthographia exterior scenographia, ichnographia cum additis ubique mensuris.

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: [approximately 1690]
Physical Description:: [80] leaves : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

Creator:: Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
Date:: 1590[-1630]
Physical Description:: 14 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

87. Polybiou tou Lykorta Megalopolitou istorion ta sozomena = Polybii Lycortae F. Megalopolitani Historiarvm libri qui supersunt / interprete Isaac Casaubono ; Jacobus Gronovius recensuit, ac utriusque Casauboni, Ful. Ursini, Henr. Valesii, Jac. Palmerii & suas notas adjecit. Accedit [Aineis Taktikon te kai poliorkētikon hypomnēma, peritou pōs chrē poliorkoumenon antechein] = Aeneae, vetustissimi Tactici, Commentarius de toleranda obsidione : cum interpretatione ac notis Isaaci Casauboni.

Creator:: Polybius
Date:: MDCLXX [1670]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Academia nobilissimae artis pictoriae, sive, De veris & genuinis hujusdem proprietatibus, theorematibus, secretis atque requisitis aliis ... : unà cum artificum tam Aegyptiorum, Graecorum & Romanorum, quàm Italorum, Gallorum, Anglorum, Germanorum, Belgarum, aliorumq[ue] ... vitis atque encomiis ... : eorundemque plusquàm ducentis iconibus ... aere expressis, erecta atq[ue] publicata / Joachimi de Sandrart, à Stockau ...

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: anno MDLXXXIII [1683]
Physical Description:: [18], 401, [21], 16 pages, [53] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 39 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Topographia Helvetiæ, Rhætiæ et Valesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornemsten Stätte vnd Plätze in der hochlöblichen Eydgnossschafft, Graubündten, Wallis, vnd etlicher zugewandten Orthen / M.Z.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: Im Jahr MDCLIV [1654]
Physical Description:: 90, [8] p., [80] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Pub. in English by Robert Pricke ...

Creator:: Le Muet, Pierre, 1591–1669
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 31, [1] p. 44 pl. (incl. plans) 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan. By Edward Earl of Clarendon.

Creator:: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609–1674
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: 5 p. ., 322 p. illus. 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The union of honovr : containing the armes, matches and issves of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640 : with the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being : and of the gentry of Lincolnshire : whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the conquest, till the yeere 1602 / collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-Smith.

Creator:: Yorke, James, fl. 1640
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 16, 331, 52, 76 p. : coats of arms ; 31 cm. (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning ano: 1584 to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journeyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes / by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.

Creator:: Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:: 1624
Physical Description:: [14], 96, 105-248 p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The art of graveing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper. allso the manner & method of that famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse. in their seuerall ways of etching.

Creator:: Faithorne, William, 1616–1691
Date:: 1662
Physical Description:: 5 p.., 48 p. 10 plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Topographia Archiepiscopatuvm Moguntinensis, Trevirensis, et Coloniensis : das ist, Beschreibung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Plätz in denen Ertzbistumen Maÿnz, Trier, vnd Cöln.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: 1646
Physical Description:: 54, [6] p., 43, [34] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; fol.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [6], 79, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. De arte graphica. The art of painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy. With remarks. Translated into English, together with an original preface containing a parallel betwixt painting and poetry. By Mr. Dryden. As also A short account of the most eminent painters, both ancient and modern, continu'd down to the present times ... By another hand.

Creator:: Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:: 1695
Physical Description:: 2 p.., lxxiv, 355, [1] p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Britannia, 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 ...

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:: [14], 464 p., [113] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 50 maps plan ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

Creator:: Fontaine, Nicolas, 1625–1709
Date:: 1688-1690
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 121 p. ill., fold. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. L'Academia todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura: oder Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey Künste, darinn enthalten unterricht, von dieser dreyer Künste Eigenschaft, ... / Durch Joachim von Sandrart.

2. An ordinance prohibiting cock-matches : Fryday March 31. 1654. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council.

11. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

14. Des ordres de colõnes en l'architecture, et plusieurs aũes dependances dicelle / par A. Bosse.

17. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

18. Li cinque libri di architettura / di Gio. Battista Montani milanese ...

20. Alle de wercken, so ouden als nieuvven / van de Heer Jacob Cats, oudt Raedtpensionaris van Hollandt, &c. ; doorgaens vermeerdert, en achter met des autheurs tachtigh-jarigh leven, huyshoudinge en bedenckingen op zorgh-vliet.

23. Theatrum civitatum nec non admirandorum Neapolis et Siciliae regnorum.

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

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

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

29. The city & covntry purchaser & builder / composed by S.P. Gent.

31. Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae : que in publicis priuatisque locis visuntur : icones [par secunda].

33. Vade mecum, or, The necessary companion ...

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

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

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

41. 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.

42. Signorvm vetervm icones.

43. Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ... To which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.

44. The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility ... / deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities by William Dugdale ...

45. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

46. Topographia Hassiae, et regionum vicinarum : das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten Städte und Plätze in Hessen und denen benachbarten Landschafften, als Buchen, Wetterau, Westerwald, Löhngau, Nassau, Solms, Hanau, Witgenstein und andern / M.Z.

47. Biblos tes demosias euches / kai teleseos mysterion kai ton allon thesmon kai teleton tes ekklesias ...

48. Theatrum civitatum et admirandorum Italiae : ad aevi veteris & praesentis temporis faciem expressum / à Ioanne Blaeu, G.F.

49. A catalogue of divers excellent Italian pictures of the most eminent masters : both ancient and modern : which will be exposed to sale in the Banqueting-House at White-Hall, by way of publick out-cry, on Munday the 2d day of June next.

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

52. Cantabrigia illustrativa sive omnium celeberrime istius universitatis.

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

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

55. La fortificatione, guardia, difesa, et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diuerse guerre / del cavaliero Francco. Tensini da Crema ...

56. The sentiments of the most excellent painters concerning the practice of painting / collected and composed in tables of precepts by Henry Testling ... ; translated into English with remarques on the words of art, with an addition of the grounds, and the practical method in perspective.

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

59. The art of painting in oyl : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery : containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working in oyl colours ... / by John Smith ...

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

68. Della Espugnatione et difesa delle fortezze.

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

70. By the King. A proclamation against new buildings.

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

78. Effigies regum Anglorum : Wilhelmo Conquestore : are to be sold by Robt. Peake att his shoppe neere Holborne conduitt.

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

80. Godly prayers of meditations / collected out of certaine holy workes, by the most vertuous Princesse Katherine Parre, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, in the yeare 1545.

84. Altaria et sacella varia templorum Romae : a celeberrimis quondam architectis structa, quibus sistuntur singulorum orthographia exterior scenographia, ichnographia cum additis ubique mensuris.

85. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

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

89. Topographia Helvetiæ, Rhætiæ et Valesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornemsten Stätte vnd Plätze in der hochlöblichen Eydgnossschafft, Graubündten, Wallis, vnd etlicher zugewandten Orthen / M.Z.

90. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Pub. in English by Robert Pricke ...

91. A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan. By Edward Earl of Clarendon.

94. The art of graveing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper. allso the manner & method of that famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse. in their seuerall ways of etching.

95. Topographia Archiepiscopatuvm Moguntinensis, Trevirensis, et Coloniensis : das ist, Beschreibung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Plätz in denen Ertzbistumen Maÿnz, Trier, vnd Cöln.

96. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

99. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.