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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. Armer's, Flookborough.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. The Canterbury tales.

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

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

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

18. A chapbook of English tat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. William's return.

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

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

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

25. Hyakunin isshu karuta.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

36. A chapbook of English tat.

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

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

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

38. Mediciues for horses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

44. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
am montage nach der heyligen drey künig tag [10 Jan.],
Physical Description:
[440] leaves : illustrations ; (Folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Meditationes Reuerendissimi patris domini Iohannis de Turrecremata Sacrosancte Romane ecclesie Cardinalis posite [et] depicte de ipsius ma[n]dato in eccl[es]ie ambitu sancte Marie de Minerua Rome.

No cover image available
Creator:
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388–1468
Date:
[17 October 1473]
Physical Description:
[62] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Biblia.

No cover image available
Date:
[2 May 1485]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : woodcuts: illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

49. De planctu ecclesiae.

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

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

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

51. [De re militari]

No cover image available
Creator:
Valturio, Roberto, 1405–1475
Date:
An. M. CCCCLXXII [1472]
Physical Description:
[524] p. : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425–1502
Date:
[24 November, 1480]
Physical Description:
[8], 68 leaves : illustrations, diagrams (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The booke of falconrie or havvking : for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile gentleman ; and now newly reviued, corrected, and augmented, with many new additions proper to these present times.

No cover image available
Creator:
Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
Date:
An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:
[8], 370, [6] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Scala perfecc[i]onis.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hilton, Walter, -1396
Date:
1494]
Physical Description:
[298] p. : ill. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Collection of English ballads.

No cover image available
Date:
early 19th century
Physical Description:
1 volume : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. [Biblia Germanica].

No cover image available
Date:
1483
Physical Description:
[1], iv, [1], v-ccxcv, [2], ccxcvi-cccclxxxiii, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 39-40 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Le grant vita Christi en francoys.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300–1377 or 1378
Date:
lan mil quatrece[n]s quatrevi[n]gtz et treze, et le premier jour de mars [1 March 1493/1494]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ([1], CXXV, CXVIII [that is, 128], [2]; [1], XCIX, CLI, [1] leaves) : illustrations ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
15 Feb. 1512
Physical Description:
406 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Prima[-tertia] pars operum Johannis Gerson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Gerson, Jean, 1363–1429
Date:
[1488]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Intrationu[m] excellentissimus liber : perq[uam] necessaries o[mn]ibus leg[um] hominib[us]: fere in se continens o[mn]em medullam diuersar[um] materiar[um] ... Necno[n] multorum breuium tam executionu[m] q[uam] aliorum valde vtilium illis hunc librum inspecturis aut inscrutandis. Que quide[m] supradicta facilit[ate] possunt inueniri p[er] indice[m] alphabeticu[m] p[er]uigila[n]ti studio co[n]fectu[m] [et] p[er] ordine[m] l[ite]raru[m] redactu[m] ...

No cover image available
Date:
anno n[ost]re redemptionis, MCCCCCx, die vero vltima mensis Februarii [1510 February 28]
Physical Description:
[10], l, lii-liij, lv-clxxxv, [1] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Leben der Heiligen : Sommerteil.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
[1475]
Physical Description:
[420] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Herbarius zu teutsche und von aller handt kreüteren.

No cover image available
Date:
[13 Aug. 1493]
Physical Description:
[522] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:
1718
Physical Description:
228, [2], 10 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The Wreath.

No cover image available
Date:
[between 1829 and 1833]
Physical Description:
16 pages : illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
[10] postcards : hand-colored woodcuts ; cards 10 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist

67. Edward Wadsworth.

No cover image available
Creator:
Wadsworth, Edward, 1889–1949
Date:
1921
Physical Description:
[4] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
23 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Inuentariũ eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur.

No cover image available
Creator:
Gerson, Jean, 1363–1429
Date:
1489
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Cavalca, Domenico, -1342
Date:
Adi quatro di septembre .M. CCCC. LXXXXIII. [4 September 1493]
Physical Description:
[90] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425–1502
Date:
[between 6 April 1490 and 1494]
Physical Description:
[6], XC, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Jncipit missale s[ecundu]m chor[um] ecclesie brixinens[is].

No cover image available
Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
17 August 1493
Physical Description:
[14], 224, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuss.

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

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

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Haebler, Konrad, 1857–1946
Date:
1927
Physical Description:
[5], 7-72 p. : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Meder, Johannes, -1518
Date:
1495
Physical Description:
[232] leaves : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. De Biblie / mit vlitigher achtinghe: recht na deme latine in dudesck auerghesettet ; Mit vorluchtinghe vnde glose: des hochghelerden Postillatoers Nicolai de lyra vnde anderer velen hillighen doctoren.

No cover image available
Date:
[19 November 1494]
Physical Description:
[984] pages : illustrations ; 38 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bert, Edmund
Date:
1619
Physical Description:
[16], 109, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Das Buch des Ritters Herr Hannsen von Montevilla ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
[18 July 1481]
Physical Description:
92 unnumbered leaves (the last blank, wanting) : 121 illustrations ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
Date:
del. MCCCCLXXXXI adi iii, Marzo [3 Mar. 1491]
Physical Description:
[10], CCLXXXXI, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. [Bible].

No cover image available
Date:
[14 Nov. 1489]
Physical Description:
[1224] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) 27 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Date:
[7 Oct. 1476]
Physical Description:
[156] leaves : illustrations ; c 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. [Historiae Romanae decades]

No cover image available
Creator:
Livy
Date:
[11 Feb. 1493]
Physical Description:
[382] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

85. Chronik von allen Königen und Kaisern.

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

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

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

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

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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
[1481 or 1482]
Physical Description:
[206] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Iohannes von Monteuilla, Ritter.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
1488
Physical Description:
[180] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Here begynneth a shorte & a breue table on these Cronycles ...

No cover image available
Date:
and newely in the ye[a]r of Our Lord God 1497 ..
Physical Description:
[452] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

No cover image available
Creator:
Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899
Date:
[1891]
Physical Description:
56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

93. [O]fft vnd vil habe ich by mir selbst betracht die wu[n]dersam werck des schepfers der natuer wie er am anbeginde dem hymel hait beschaffen vnd gezterer mit schonen leüchtenden sternen den er zů inflüssen in alles das vnder dem hymel ist krafft vnd macht geben hait.

No cover image available
Date:
[28 Mar. 1485]
Physical Description:
[360] leaves (the last blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 25 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen, tot den iare M.VI.c XII : nu de laestemael bij hem voor sijne doodt merckelijck verbetert en[de] in, XXXII, boecken voltrocken, is mede' hier by gevoegt des autheurs leven ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535–1612
Date:
1614
Physical Description:
[10], 302, 304-671, [15] leaves : ill., map, ports. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Maggi, Girolamo, -1572
Date:
MDLXXXIII [1583]
Physical Description:
[4], 136 [i.e. 138] leaves : illustrations, maps, plans ; 37 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Ketham, Joannes de, active 15th century
Date:
[15 Oct. 1495]
Physical Description:
40 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The golden legend.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
and finished on the 12th day of September in the year 1892
Physical Description:
3 volumes (xii, 1286 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Blank page.

No cover image available
Date:
1988-1991
Physical Description:
6 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund

99. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

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

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

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