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Vigevano, Guido da, approximately 1280–approximately 1350

Liber acquisitionis Te[r]re Sa[n]te de ultra mare

1375

Gladiatoria fencing manual

1440s

Porter, John, fl. 1445–1485

John Porter manuscript

circa 1450

Forty chess problems

circa 1450

Bado Aureo, Johannes de

Tractatus de armis

circa 1450

Medical miscellany

second half of the 15th century

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

The Canterbury tales

1483]

Berners, Juliana, 1388?-

Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ..

[1486]

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298

Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysshe The golden legende

[8 January 1498/99?]

Helmingham herbal and bestiary

circa 1500

Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439–1502

Trattato di architectura civile e militare

not after 1521

Kölderer, Jörg, d. 1540

Maximiliani König Zeughauss

between 1504 and 1508

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

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 ..

anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]

Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560

Editio Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldie[n]sis grammatices magistri et protouatis Anglie i[n] florentissima Oxoniensi academia laureati

Anno d[omi]ni. MCCCCCxxi [1521]

Vitruvius Pollio

De architectura libri dece traducti de latino in vulgare,

1521]

Schöner, Johann, 1477–1547

[Celestial globe]

[ca. 1522]

[Terrestrial globe]

[ca. 1522]

Tory, Geoffroy, ca. 1480–ca. 1533

Champ fleury

1529

Marchi, Francesco de, 1504–1577

Della architettura militare

mid-16th century

Rodler, Hieronymus

Perspectiua

1546

Lily, George, active 1528–1559

Britannia insula quae duo regna continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia adiacente

MDLVI [1556]

Zeno, Niccolò, 1515–1565

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

MDLVIII [1558]

Mediciues for horses

[approximately 1565?]

A very proper treatise,

1573

Gascoigne, George, -1577

The noble arte of venerie or hunting

[1575]

Neville, Alexander, 1544–1614

Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus

1575

Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?

The first volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande

1577

Leslie, John, 1527–1596

Scotiae Regni Antiqvissimi Accvrata Descriptio

MDLXXVIII [1578]

Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615

De humana physiognomonia

1586

Vera descriptio expeditionis nauticae Francisci Draci Angli, cognitis aurati

circa 1587

Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617

The destruction of the Spanish Armada

1588

Boazio, Baptista

The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes

[1589?]

Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-

[Atlas of the counties of England and Wales]

[1590?]

Ubaldini, Petruccio, 1524?-1600?

A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete inuadinge Englande in the yeare 1588

1590

Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592

Account of the last voyage of Thomas Cavendish

1592

A booke of secrets

1596

Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615

Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered and is comne to our knowledge ..

[1599?]

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637

How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses

1599

The Fort Devereux placed uppon the Ferne Islande

circa 1600

Kip, William

Academiarum totius Europae seu orbis Christiani iuxta suas provincias nova tabula ad usum studiosorum emendate accomodate

An 1602

[Thomas Braythwait writing his will]

ca. 1607

Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643

The art of dravving vvith the pen,

1607

Basil, Simon, -1615

Survey of Hertford Castle

1608

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475–1554

The first[-fift] booke of architecture

1611

Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580

The First [... fourth] booke of architecture

not before 1611

Speed, John, 1552?-1629

The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine

[1612]

Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625

Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis

1622

Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?

The compleat gentleman

[1622]

Francquart, Jacques, 1577–1651

Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Austriae, ducis Burg. Bra. &c.

MDCXXIII [1623]

Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626

Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes.

1625

Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667

Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen

anno MDCXXIX [1629]

Neade, William

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

[approximately 1630]

Webb, John, 1611–1672

John Webb account book

1630s

Marshal, Alexander

St. George and the dragon

circa 1630-1682

Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa

MDCXXXII [1632]

Map of North America

not before 1634

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

Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664

Americae pars meridionalis

[between 1641 and 1680]

Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677

Kyngeston vpon Hvll

circa 1642

Simons, Matthew, d. 1654

A direction for the English traviller

1643

Greaves, John, 1602–1652

Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt

1646

A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints,

1647

Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673

Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae Regiae

[1649]

Ointment pot

between 1650 and 1700

Wet drug jar

circa 1660

Erich, Adolar, 1559–1634

Thuringia landgraviatus

[1650?]

Vignola, 1507–1573

Vignola, or the compleat architect

1655

King, Daniel, -1664?

The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated

1656

Topsell, Edward, 1572–1625?

The history of four-footed beasts and serpents

MDCLVIII [1658]

The therd booke of flowers fruits beastes birds and flies exactly drawne

1661

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676

A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern

MDCLXIV [1664]

Dry drug jar

between 1665 and 1680

Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677

London before the fire in 1666 = Plan de Londres tel quil etoi avant l'incendie de 1666

[1666?]

Allard, Hugo, approximately 1628–1691

[Chart of the Thames estuary with a view of the English fleet burning in the Medway]

1667

Sturmy, Samuel, 1633–1669

The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts

1669

Ogilby, John, 1600–1676

Africa

MDC LXX [1670]

Winstanley, Henry, 1644–1703

1670s?]

Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691

Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie

1670. (fol.)

Ogilby, John, 1600–1676

America

MDCLXXI [1671]

Divine examples of God's severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers

1671

Bill for assorted coats, hose, and other clothing

1673

Pricke, Robert

The architects store-house

1674

Loggan, David, 1635–1700?

Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani

ano. Dni. MDCLXXV [1675]