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Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
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Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
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Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
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Allard, Hugo, approximately 1628–1691
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Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
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Cowper, William, 1666–1709
1
Erich, Adolar, 1559–1634
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Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619–1695
1
Francquart, Jacques, 1577–1651
1
Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
1
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
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Gothus, Olaus Joannis, 1600–1644
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Greaves, John, 1602–1652
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
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Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
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Josephus, Flavius
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King, Daniel, died 1664
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Kip, William
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La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600–1665
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Books
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Maps & Atlas (printed)
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Articles & Chapters
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
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Prints
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17th century
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16th century
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ceramic (material)
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throwing (pottery technique)
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polychromy
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engraving
37
map
16
etching
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woodcut
8
armorial bookplates (provenance)
5
ceramic (material)
4
delftware
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drawing book
4
drug jar
4
handbooks and manual
4
tin glaze
4
volvelle
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atlase
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broadside
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extra-illustrated copies (provenance)
2
ink drawing
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watercolor
2
advertisement
1
albarelli
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Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
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Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800.
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Drawing -- Technique.
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Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
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Painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
3
Painting -- Technique.
3
Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
3
Watercolor painting -- Technique.
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Fortification -- Early works to 1800.
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Geography -- Early works to 1800.
2
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
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Great Britain -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
2
London (England) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
2
Military architecture -- Early works to 1800.
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Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
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Roads -- Great Britain.
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Sculpture -- Early works to 1800.
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Voyages and travels.
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Aesop -- Early works to 1800.
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17th century
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18th century
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Africa
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America
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London (England)
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England
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Netherlands
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Oxford (England)
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Arctic regions
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Atlantic Ocean
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Belgium
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Brandenburg (Germany)
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Bristol (England)
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Brussels
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Canada
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Caribbean Area
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Cheshire (England)
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Chester (England)
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China
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Aesop
1
Albrecht VII, Archduke of Austria, 1559–1621
1
Arundel, Henry Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1608–1652
1
Barentsz, Willem, ca. 1550–1597
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Braun, Samuel, 1580–1668
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Comberford, Nicholas, -1673
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De Ruyter, Michael, 1607–1676
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Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528
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Ferrar, John, 1590?-1657
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Gendt, Willem Joseph, baron van, 1626–1672
1
George, Saint, d. 303
1
Granger, David, 1611–1675
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Harvey, Elizabeth
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Harvey, Mary, -1680
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Hermite, Jacques l', 1582–1624
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Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631–1656
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Josephus, Flavius
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Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
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Lake, James Winter, ca. 1745–1807
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Louis XIV, King of France, 1638–1715
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Exhibition History
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
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The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
2
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
2
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006)
1
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
1
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
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English
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Latin
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French
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German
2
Dutch
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Italian
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Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694
A genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain, &C
1683
2
Ointment pot
between 1650 and 1700
3
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads
1679
4
Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa
MDCXXXII [1632]
5
Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619–1695
Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent
MDCLXXVI [1676]
6
Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern
MDCLXIV [1664]
7
Map of North America
not before 1634
8
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani
ano. Dni. MDCLXXV [1675]
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Vignola, 1507–1573
Vignola, or the compleat architect
1655
10
Neade, William
Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto
[approximately 1630]
11
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
London before the fire in 1666 = Plan de Londres tel quil etoi avant l'incendie de 1666
[1666?]
12
Winstanley, Henry, 1644–1703
Advertisement
1670s?]
13
Divine examples of God's severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers
1671
14
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching
1675
15
Pricke, Robert
The architects store-house
1674
16
Josephus, Flavius
The works of Josephus
MDCLXXVI [1676]
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Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Gerardi de Lairesse, Leodiensis pictoris, Opus elegantissimum
[ca. 1690?]
18
Wet drug jar
circa 1660
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Greaves, John, 1602–1652
Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt
1646
20
A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints,
1647
21
[India Orientalis]
1597[-1628]
22
Gothus, Olaus Joannis, 1600–1644
Marchionatus Brandenburgicus
[ca. 1681]
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Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen
anno MDCXXIX [1629]
24
King, Daniel, died 1664
The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated
1656
25
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie
1670. (fol.)
26
Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Americae pars meridionalis
[between 1641 and 1680]
27
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
America
MDCLXXI [1671]
28
Affidavit certifying the burial in wool of Mary Harvey of Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire
1680 April 1
29
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Africa
MDC LXX [1670]
30
Kip, William
Academiarum totius Europae seu orbis Christiani iuxta suas provincias nova tabula ad usum studiosorum emendate accomodate
An 1602
31
[The Popish Plot]
[1679?]
32
Stalker, John
A treatise of japaning and varnishing
1688
33
Simons, Matthew, d. 1654
A direction for the English traviller
1643
34
Sturmy, Samuel, 1633–1669
The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts
1669
35
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
The art of dravving vvith the pen,
1607
36
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Kyngeston vpon Hvll
circa 1642
37
Francquart, Jacques, 1577–1651
Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Austriae, ducis Burg. Bra. &c.
MDCXXIII [1623]
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Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Africa
[ca. 1686?]
39
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali ac regiones adiacentes
ca. 1682]
40
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis
1622
41
Wet drug jar
between 1675 and 1680
42
Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475–1554
The first[-fift] booke of architecture
1611
43
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
A large and accurate map of the city of London
1677]
44
Topsell, Edward, 1572–1625?
The history of four-footed beasts and serpents
MDCLVIII [1658]
45
Aesop's Fables
1687
46
Seller, John, active 1658–1698
A new system of geography
[1685]
47
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
A new map of the English empire in America
[ca. 1695]
48
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
The characters of the passions
[17--]
49
Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?
Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre
1696
50
Marshal, Alexander
St. George and the dragon
circa 1630-1682
51
Dry drug jar
between 1665 and 1680
52
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618–1679
Novi Belgii Novaeque, Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula
[ca. 1684]
53
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
The compleat gentleman
[1622]
54
The therd booke of flowers fruits beastes birds and flies exactly drawne
1661
55
Overton, John, 1640–1708?
[Composite world atlas]
[1686?]
56
Erich, Adolar, 1559–1634
Thuringia landgraviatus
[1650?]
57
Cowper, William, 1666–1709
The anatomy of humane bodies,
1698
58
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine
[1612]
59
La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600–1665
Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere dv roy tres-chrestien, dans la Grande-Bretaigne
1639
60
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes.
1625
61
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
America
[ca. 1686]
62
Allard, Hugo, approximately 1628–1691
[Chart of the Thames estuary with a view of the English fleet burning in the Medway]
1667
63
A book of the habits, customes, and manners of diverse nations
[169-?]