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1. Collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves.

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Date:
circa 1450-1598
Physical Description:
approximately 2400 leaves : illustrations
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1589
Physical Description:
[16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:
Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[6], 31 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

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Creator:
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:
1582
Physical Description:
[124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Here endeth this presente Cronycle of Englande with the fruyte of tymes, compyled in a boke, & also impry[n]ted by one sumtyme scole mayster of Seynt Albons ...

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Date:
in the yere of oure lorde god MCCCCC and xx [1520]
Physical Description:
[6], Clxiii, [23] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe : that is to say, the office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keeper, and of the ferrer. In the first parte wherof is declared the order of breeding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make them horses of seruice. Conteyninge the whole art of ryding latelye set foorth, and nowe newelye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrst printing, as well touchyng the byttes as otherwyse. Thirdely, howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they traueyle by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiecte togither with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. which bookes are not onely painefully collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure countrey / By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.

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Creator:
Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:
[1570?]
Physical Description:
[5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
16 Feb. 1503 [i.e. 1504]
Physical Description:
296 leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred scriptures / set fourth by that moste famous clerke, Huldrich Zwinglius and now translated out of Laten into Englysshe by Ihon Veron ...

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Creator:
Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484–1531
Date:
1550
Physical Description:
[208] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
15 Feb. 1512
Physical Description:
406 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

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Date:
1583
Physical Description:
[28] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage / Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.

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Creator:
Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Date:
1577
Physical Description:
[10], 466, [6] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.

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Creator:
Manwood, John, -1610
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

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Creator:
Saviolo, Vincentio
Date:
1595
Physical Description:
[6], 17 [i.e. 21] leaves, [250] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The Spanish colonie, or Briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe World, for the space of XL. yeeres / written in the Castilian tongue by the reuerend Bishop Bartholomew de las Casas or Casaus, a Friar of the order of S. Dominicke. And nowe first translated into English, by M. M. S.

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Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:
1583
Physical Description:
[148] p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The art of riding : set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent, horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present work hath put the same into practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale / written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art.

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Creator:
Astley, John, d. 1595
Date:
1584
Physical Description:
[8], 79, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Stultifera Nauis, : qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis [et] necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, / è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do. 1570. = The ship of fooles, : wherin is shewed the folly of all states, with diuers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. ; Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay Priest.

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Creator:
Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Date:
[1570]
Physical Description:
[12], 259, [68] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The schoole of horsmanship : vvherein is discovered vvhat skill and knowledge is required in a good horseman, practised by perfect experience. And also how to reforme anie restie horse, of what nature and disposition so euer. Briefely touching the knowledge of the breeder, sadler, smith, and the horseleach: with a strange and rare inuention how to make a new kinde of racke, and how to teach a horse to lie vpon his bellie vntill the rider take his backe / By Christ. Clifford, Gent.

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Creator:
Clifford, Christopher
Date:
1585
Physical Description:
[7], 24, 29-99, [1] leaves : ill. (diagrs.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

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Date:
[1519?]
Physical Description:
[72] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:
3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... / by Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

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Date:
anno 1599-1600
Physical Description:
3 v. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and improume[n]tes.

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Creator:
Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531
Date:
1523
Physical Description:
124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The first booke of the Historie of the discouerie and conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales, in their daungerous nauigations, in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name. : VVhich historie conteineth much varietie of matter, very profitable for all nauigators, and not vnpleasaunt to the Readers. / Set foorth in the Portingale language, by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda. And now translated into English by N.L. Gentleman.

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Creator:
Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de, -1559
Date:
1582
Physical Description:
[6], 164 leaves ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The post of the world : vvherin is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe with their trade and traficke, with their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country, with the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their mynts, with al their martes and fayres, and the raignes of all the kinges of England : a book right necessary and profitable for all sortes of persons, the like before this tyme not imprinted ...

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Creator:
Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550–1640
Date:
1576
Physical Description:
[24], 112 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Here begynneth a lytell cronycle / translated & imprinted at the cost & charge of Rycharde Pynson, by the co[m]maundement of the ryght high and mighty prince, Edwarde Duke of Buckingham, Yerle of Gloucestre, Staffarde, and of Northamton.

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Creator:
Hayton, Frère, approximately 1235–approximately 1314
Date:
[approximately 1520?]
Physical Description:
[2], xliiii, [1] leaf ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The art of riding : conteining diuerse necessarie instructions, demonstrations, helps, and corrections apperteining to horssemanship, not heretofore expressed by anie other author / Written at large in the Italian toong, by maister Claudio Corte, a man most excellent in this art. Here brieflie reduced into certeine English discourses to the benefit of gentlemen and other desirous of such knowledge.

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Creator:
Corte, Claudio
Date:
1584
Physical Description:
[12], 112 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts