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301. The commentaries of Sr. Francis Vere : being diverse pieces of service wherein he had command, written by himself in way of commentary / published by W. Dillingham.

Creator:: Vere, Francis, Sir, 1560–1609
Date:: 1657
Physical Description:: [12], 209, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates : ports., plans, maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

302. A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

Creator:: Browne, Christopher, active 1684–1712
Date:: [1685?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 48 x 55 cm, on sheet 53 x 65 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

303. 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

304. 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

305. 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

306. 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

307. 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

308. 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

309. 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

310. 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

311. 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

312. 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

313. 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

314. 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

315. Traité du droit de chasse.

Creator:: Launay, François de, 1612–1693
Date:: M.DC.LXXXI [1681]
Physical Description:: [12], 185, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

316. A description of the New World. Or, America islands and continent : and by what people those regions are now inhabited. And what places are there desolate and without inhabitants. And the bays, rivers, capes, forts, cities and their latitudes, the seas on their coasts: the trade, winds, the North-west passage, and the commerce of the English nation, as they were all in the year 1649 / faithfully described for information of such of his countrey as desire intelligence of these perticulars. By George Gardyner of Peckham, in the county of Surrey Esq.

Creator:: Gardyner, George
Date:: 1651
Physical Description:: [16], 187, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

317. Architectura Militaris, oder, Gründtliche Underweisung der heuttiges tages so wohl in Niederlandt als andern örttern gebräuchlichen Fortification oder Vestungsbau / Auss den besten Authoribus zusammen getragen, und in ein volkommen werck gebracht Durch Andream Cellarium der Mathematischen kunst Liebhabern.

Creator:: Cellarius, Andreas
Date:: anno 1645
Physical Description:: [4], 364, [52] pages, [91] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, plans, diagrams ; 36 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

318. Voyage of Italy, or, A compleat journey through Italy : in two parts : with the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries, pallaces (sic), villas, gardens, pictures, statues, and antiquities : as also of the interest government, riches, force, &c. of all the Princes : with instructions concerning travel / by Richard Lassels ... ; never before extant.

Creator:: Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

319. Atlas novus, sive, Descriptio geographica totius orbis terrarum : tabulis aeneis luculentissimis & accuratissimis exornata : tribus tomis dinstinctus / Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii.

Creator:: Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:: 1638
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

320. Commission appointing Joseph Taylor as Second Lieutenant to the Gloucester.

Creator:: Great Britain. Admiralty
Date:: 1694 April 27
Physical Description:: 1 item ([1] p.) ; 28 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

321. Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische compagnie : zedert haer begin, tot het eynde van't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-endewrtich : begrepen in derthien boecken, ende met verscheyden koperen platen verciert / beschreven door Ioannes de Laet ...

Creator:: Laet, Joannes de, 1581–1649
Date:: 1644
Physical Description:: [32], 544, 31, [11] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

322. Representations geometrales de plusieurs parties de bastiments faites par les reigles de l'architecture antique : et de qui les mesures sont reduittes en piedz poulces & lignes, afin de saccommoder a la maniere de mesurer la plus en vzage parmy le commun des ouuvriers / par A. Bosse ; la methode de faire cette reduction se peut voir en la page suiuante.

Creator:: Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:: MDCLIX [1659, i.e. 1660?]
Physical Description:: [1], II, 10 leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

323. Nova typis transacta navigatio : Novi Orbis Indiæ Occidentalis admodum reverendissimorum PP. ... Dn. Buellii Cataloni abbatis montis Serrati, & in vniversam Americam, sive Novum Orbem sacræ sedis Apostolicæ Romanæ â latere legati, vicarij, ac patriarchæ : sociorumq[ue] monarchorum ex Ordine S.P.N. Benedicti ad suprà dicti Novi Mundi barbaras gentes Christi S. Evangelium prædicandi gratia delegatorum sacerdotum dimissi per S.D.D. Papam Alexandrum VI. Anno Christi 1492 : nunc primum e varijs scriptoribus in vnum collecta, & figuris ornata / authore venerando Fr. Don Honorio Philopono Ordinis S. Benedicti Monacho.

Creator:: Philoponus, Honorius
Date:: 1621.]
Physical Description:: [12], 101, [3] p., [1], 18 leaves of plates : ill., music ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

324. The hunter : a discourse of horsemanship : directing the right way to breed, keep, and train a horse, for ordinary hunting and plates.

Creator:: Langbaine, Gerard, 1656–1692
Date:: 1685
Physical Description:: [2], 98 p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

325. Il Solimano : tragedia / del co. Prospero Bonarellj.

Creator:: Bonarelli, Prospero, 1580–1659
Date:: MDCXX [1620]
Physical Description:: [12], 162, [2] p., 5 leaves of plates (folded) : ill. ; 23 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

326. Sculptura: or The history, and art of chalcography and engraving in copper. With an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters, and their works. To which is annexed a new manner of engraving, or mezzo tinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the authour of this treatise ...

Creator:: Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:: 1662
Physical Description:: 16 p.., 148, [3] p. front., 1 ill., fold. plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

327. 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

328. 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

329. 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

330. 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. ; to which are added designes of floors lately made at Somerset-House, and the framing of houses after the best manner of English building ...

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 1663
Physical Description:: [10], 199, [1], 101-115, [2], 210-222, [3], 228, [4] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

331. Cosmographie, in four books : containing the chorographie and historie of the whole world, and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas, and isles thereof / by Peter Heylyn ; with an accurate and an approved index of all the kingdoms, provinces, countries, inhabitants, people, cities, mountains, rivers, seas, islands, forts, bays, capes, forests, &c. of any remarque in the whole world ; much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last impression, revised and corrected by the author himself immediately before his death ...

Creator:: Heylyn, Peter, 1600–1662
Date:: 1666
Physical Description:: [14], 1098, [4], 1089-1095, [40] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : 4 maps ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

332. 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

333. 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

334. 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

335. L'atlas de la mer, ou, Monde aquatique : representant toutes les costes maritimes de l'univers descouvertes & cogneues : tres necessaire & commode pour tous pilotes, maistres de navire & marchands : mis nouvellement en lumiere & imprimé

Creator:: Lootsman, Theunis Jacobsz., active 1629–1651
Date:: l'an 1681
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([6] pages, [85] leaves of plates) : 42 maps ; 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

336. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

Creator:: Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 111 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

337. 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

338. 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

339. De zee-atlas, ofte, water-weereld : waer in vertoont werden alle de zee-kusten van het bekende des Aerd-Bodems : seer dienstigh voor alle heeren en kooplieden, als oock voor alle schippers en stuurlieden.

Creator:: Goos, Pieter, approximately 1616–1675
Date:: 1666
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([20] pages, [82] leaves of plates (2 folded)) : 41 maps ; 59 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

340. A book of cyphers or letters reverst. Being a work very ... usefull ... for ... artificers engravers painters ... &c. Where you may find a cypher for any name ... curiously compos'd ... by Jeremiah Marlow ...

Creator:: Marlow, Jeremiah
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 68 plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

342. 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

343. 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

344. 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

345. 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

346. 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

347. 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

348. 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

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

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

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

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

351. 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

352. 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

353. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world ... : together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines empire / performed by John Speed.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: 1646
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], 44 [i.e. 88] pages) : illustrations, 22 maps ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creator:: Hugo, Herman, 1588–1629
Date:: 1628
Physical Description:: 456 p., 16 leaves : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

360. Disegnidi vari altari e cappelle.

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

361. 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

362. Military discipline, or, The art of war : shewing directions for the postures in exercising of the pike and musket, the dragoons, granadeers and horse : the act of doubling, wheeeling [sic], forming and drawing up a battalion or army into any figure &c. : as now practiced : all represented in twenty two several copper plates, with variety of several prospects and other designs, for the practice and exercise of arms.

Date:: 1689
Physical Description:: [8], 108, [4] p., [1], 21 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

363. Contract appointing Richard Beaumont as gamekeeper to the Marquis of Halifax.

Creator:: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633–1695
Date:: 1686 November 15
Physical Description:: 1 item ([1] p.) ; 29 x 37 cm, folded to 29 x 18.5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

365. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

Date:: 1607?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 33 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

367. 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

368. 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

369. 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

370. 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

371. 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

372. 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

373. 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

374. 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

375. 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

376. 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

377. 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

378. 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

379. 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

380. 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

381. 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

382. 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

383. 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

384. 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

385. 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

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

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

387. Cantabrigiensis comitatus : Cambridge shire.

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

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

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

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

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

390. 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

391. 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

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

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

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

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

394. Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende warhafftige vnd volkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften, Insulen, Königreichen vnd Provintzien, Seecusten ... in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyses : dessgleichen, gründlicher Bericht von der Innwohner Beschaffenkeit, Sitten ... vnd Gebräuchen ... / alles auss verscheidenen west-indianischen Historien-Schreibern, vnnd mancherley Sprachen ... zusammen getragen, extrahirt, in ein richtige Ordnung der Materien vnd Zeit, vnd in diese käuffliche Form bracht durch Johan Ludwig Gottfriedt ; mit zugehörigen Landtafeln, Contrafacturen vnd ... Kupfferstücken ... geziert vnd verlegt, durch Mattheum Merian ...

Creator:: Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: [12], 562, 72 p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

395. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

398. Regiones svb polo arctico / auctore Guiljelmo Blaeu.

Creator:: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571–1638
Date:: [1638]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraved ; 39 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

399. Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum praesertim durante illorum heptarchia [cartographic material].

Date:: [1645]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 40 x 30 cm, on sheet 50 x 60 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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301. The commentaries of Sr. Francis Vere : being diverse pieces of service wherein he had command, written by himself in way of commentary / published by W. Dillingham.

302. A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

304. 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.

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

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

307. 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.

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

311. 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 ...

313. 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.

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

315. Traité du droit de chasse.

319. Atlas novus, sive, Descriptio geographica totius orbis terrarum : tabulis aeneis luculentissimis & accuratissimis exornata : tribus tomis dinstinctus / Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii.

320. Commission appointing Joseph Taylor as Second Lieutenant to the Gloucester.

321. Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische compagnie : zedert haer begin, tot het eynde van't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-endewrtich : begrepen in derthien boecken, ende met verscheyden koperen platen verciert / beschreven door Ioannes de Laet ...

324. The hunter : a discourse of horsemanship : directing the right way to breed, keep, and train a horse, for ordinary hunting and plates.

325. Il Solimano : tragedia / del co. Prospero Bonarellj.

326. Sculptura: or The history, and art of chalcography and engraving in copper. With an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters, and their works. To which is annexed a new manner of engraving, or mezzo tinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the authour of this treatise ...

328. 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.

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

335. L'atlas de la mer, ou, Monde aquatique : representant toutes les costes maritimes de l'univers descouvertes & cogneues : tres necessaire & commode pour tous pilotes, maistres de navire & marchands : mis nouvellement en lumiere & imprimé

336. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

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

338. 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.

339. De zee-atlas, ofte, water-weereld : waer in vertoont werden alle de zee-kusten van het bekende des Aerd-Bodems : seer dienstigh voor alle heeren en kooplieden, als oock voor alle schippers en stuurlieden.

340. A book of cyphers or letters reverst. Being a work very ... usefull ... for ... artificers engravers painters ... &c. Where you may find a cypher for any name ... curiously compos'd ... by Jeremiah Marlow ...

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

346. 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.

348. 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.

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

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

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

352. Della Espugnatione et difesa delle fortezze.

353. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world ... : together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines empire / performed by John Speed.

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

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

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

360. Disegnidi vari altari e cappelle.

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

363. Contract appointing Richard Beaumont as gamekeeper to the Marquis of Halifax.

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

365. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

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

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

370. 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 ...

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

373. 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.

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

379. 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.

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

382. 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.

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

384. 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.

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

387. Cantabrigiensis comitatus : Cambridge shire.

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

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

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

395. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

398. Regiones svb polo arctico / auctore Guiljelmo Blaeu.

399. Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum praesertim durante illorum heptarchia [cartographic material].

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