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1. Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descripto : nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata / Guilielmo Camdeno, authore.

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Creator:
Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
[16], 860, [23] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Edward Wadsworth.

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Creator:
Wadsworth, Edward, 1889–1949
Date:
1921
Physical Description:
[4] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Nakedness consider'd, or, Reasons for not wearing of clothes / by a gentleman of great parts.

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Creator:
Gentleman of great parts
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
[7], 1 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The boat race and who went to it.

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Date:
[between 1868 and 1885]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([16] panels) : illustrations ; 29 x 89 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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

6. Abbreuiamentum statuto[rum].

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Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
9 Oct. 1499
Physical Description:
[7], clxxxviij, [1] leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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 ...

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Creator:
Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:
1810-1819
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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.

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Creator:
Neade, William
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
[40] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The noble art of venerie or hunting : wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and kill euery one of them / translated & collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approoued 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 Great Britaine.

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Creator:
Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580
Date:
An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:
[8], 200, [4], 201-204, 207-250, [4] pages : illustrations, music ; 18 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Virginia impartially examined, and left to publick view : to be considered by all iudicious and honest men. Under which title, is comprehended the degrees from 34 to 39, wherein lyes the rich and healthfull countries of Roanock, the now plantations of Virginia and Mary-land. Looke not upon this booke, as those that are set out by private men, for private ends; for being read, you'l find, the publick good is the authors onely aime. For this piece is no other than the adventurers faithfull steward, disposing the adventure for the best advantage, advising people of all degrees, from the highest master, to the meanest servant, how suddenly to raise their fortunes. Peruse the table, and you shall finde the way plainely layd downe / By William Bvllock, gent.

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Creator:
Bullock, William, b. 1617?
Date:
1649
Physical Description:
[12], 66 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Now exhibiting in the second circle, a view of Edinburgh and the surrounding country : the contemplation of this grand and delightful scene, and an earnest desire to represent it entire, were the first circumstances which impressed Mr. Barker's mind with the idea of a panorama : the public may now form a judgment of the comparative excellence of three views, reckoned by men of taste the finest in Europe, namely, Constantinople and Plymouth, which have been exhibited, and Edinburgh, which is now open.

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Creator:
Barker, Robert, 1739–1806
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; 27.3 x 22.1 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The bibliographical decameron, or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography / by the Rev. T.F. Dibdin ...

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Creator:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

14. 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] ...

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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

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

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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

16. 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.

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Creator:
Cotton, Charles, 1630–1687
Date:
1680
Physical Description:
[16], 175, [1] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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

18. Policronicon.

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Creator:
Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Date:
ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth. And of the incarnacyon of our lord: MCCCC lxxxxv [13 April 1495]
Physical Description:
[50], CCCxxxvi, CCCxxxvi-CCCxlvi, [1] leaves : illustrations, music ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince, Iames, the first of that name, King, of England, and the sixt of Scotland : at His Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London, vpon the 15th day of March 1603 / invented and published by Stephen Harrison, ioyner and architect, and graven by William Kip.

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Creator:
Harrison, Stephen (Joiner and architect)
Date:
1604
Physical Description:
[9] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The history of Punch & Judy.

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Date:
[ca. 1860?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([10] pages) : hand colored woodcuts ; 11 x 100 cm, accordion folded to 11 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteenth century : how they illustrated and interpreted their times ... / by Graham Everitt.

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Creator:
Everitt, Graham
Date:
1893
Physical Description:
xx, 427, 31 p., [55] leaves of plates : ill., facsims. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. [Chronicles of England with the Fruit of times].

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Date:
[1485 or 1486]
Physical Description:
[580] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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

24. Here begynneth the prologe of Syr Johan Froissart of the Chronicles of Fraunce, Inglande, and other places adjoynynge.

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Creator:
Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
Date:
1897
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

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Date:
[1740]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts