Creator Gender: unknown / Period: 17th century / Classification: Books

101. Seuerall wayes of hunting, hawking and fishing according to the English manner / invented by Francis Barlow. Etched by W. Hollar.

Creator:: Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Date:: [1671]
Physical Description:: [13] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Topographia Alsatiæ &c. completa : das ist, Vollkömliche Beschreibung und eygentliche Abbildung der vornehmbsten Städt und Oerther im Obern und Untern Elsass auch den benachbarten Sundgöw, Brissgöw, Graffschafft Mümpelgart and andern Gegenden / Jetzo auffs neu revidiret und mit dem jenigen was sonst in dem zuvor absonderlich gedruckten Anhang vermehret und an Tag gegeben und verlegt durch Matthæi Mariani Seel: Erben.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: im Jahr MDCLXIII [1663]
Physical Description:: [18], 70 pages, [38] leaves of plates : folded maps, plans (some folded), plates ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. 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 ...

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

104. Oplomachia / di Bonauentura Pistofilo nobile Ferrarese Dottore, e caualiere ; nella quale con dottrina morale, politica, e militare, e col mezzo delle figure si tratta per via di teorica, e di pratica del maneggio, e dell'vso delle armi ; distinta in tre discorsi di Picca d'Alabarda, e di Moschetto.

Creator:: Pistofilo, Bonaventura, 1576–
Date:: 1621
Physical Description:: [8], 123, [1], 123-256, 253-315, [1] pages : illustrations, portraits (engr.) ; 14 x 20 cm (oblong 4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. A treatise of artificial fire-vvorks both for vvarres and recreation ... Newly written in French, and englished by the authour Tho: [!] Malthvs.

Creator:: Malthus, Francis
Date:: 1629
Physical Description:: 7 p.., 261 [i.e. 263], [8] p. ill. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

Date:: [1698]
Physical Description:: [3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1633
Physical Description:: [16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. Allmodischer Kleyder Teuffel : das ist 1. Schimpff vnnd Ernstlicher Discurs vber den heuttigen Allmodischen : oder A-la-modischen Kleyder Teuffel &c : 2. Eröterung der Frage : Wie ein Erbarer Teutscher Mann thun solle wann sein Weib (da es doch sein Seckel nicht ertragen könte) sich Allmodisch tragen wolte damit er des Hauptcepters nicht gar verlustigt werde : 3. Regulœ eines Getrewen Ehe Weibs / Verfasset Durch M. Johann Ellinger.

Creator:: Ellinger, Johann, of Arheiligen
Date:: Anno 1629
Physical Description:: 56 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:: 1630
Physical Description:: [8], 644, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. Reges, reginæ, nobiles, & alij in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti vsque ad annum reparatæ salutis 1600 ...

Creator:: Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:: 1600
Physical Description:: [81] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : began Jan. 1, 1677 : and intended to be continued monthly / by Joseph Moxon.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: 1677-1680
Physical Description:: 1-48, 51-114, 119-242, [243-250] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. XXX. pieces d'architecture : tirees du tres exellent auteur Vincent Scamozze : et autres : tres necessaire a ceux qui sont Proffession de cet Art = XXX. pieces of architecture : taken out of the famous Author Vincent Scamozze : and others : Very necessary for all those that are affected to the said Art.

Creator:: Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:: 1660.]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. Topographia Helvetiæ, Rhætiæ et Valesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornemsten Stätte vnd Plätze in der hochlöblichen Eydgnossschafft, Graubündten, Wallis, vnd etlicher zugewandten Orthen / M.Z.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: Im Jahr MDCLIV [1654]
Physical Description:: 90, [8] p., [80] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. Proposals of a new model for rebuilding the city of London : with houses, streets and wharfs, to be forthwith set out by His Majesty's and the city surveyors : with the advantages that will accrue by the building the same accordingly, viz. I. The owners satisfied for their ground, the builder for building, and the poor inhabitants their losses by the fire. II. The city built stately with large streets, the houses not in danger of fire, and the ground all put to the best profit. III. The people will walk easy and dry, the houses-of-office and streets kept sweet and clean; and goods delivered much cheaper. IV. Convenient houses, shops, warehouses and wharfs not dear. V. Advanced to His Majesty by fines 372670 l. VI. A revenue for ever settled upon the crown of per ann. 223517 l. 10 s.

Creator:: Knight, Val. (Valentine)
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Ars pictoria; or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching. To which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Neanderthal authors. By Alexander Browne ...

Creator:: Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: 4 p.l., 110, [2] p. front. (port.) plates. 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Alle de wercken, so ouden als nieuvven / van de Heer Jacob Cats, oudt Raedtpensionaris van Hollandt, &c. ; doorgaens vermeerdert, en achter met des autheurs tachtigh-jarigh leven, huyshoudinge en bedenckingen op zorgh-vliet.

Creator:: Cats, Jacob, 1577–1660
Date:: 1658
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. The union of honovr : containing the armes, matches and issves of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640 : with the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being : and of the gentry of Lincolnshire : whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the conquest, till the yeere 1602 / collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-Smith.

Creator:: Yorke, James, fl. 1640
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 16, 331, 52, 76 p. : coats of arms ; 31 cm. (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning ano: 1584 to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journeyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes / by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.

Creator:: Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:: 1624
Physical Description:: [14], 96, 105-248 p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. The kingdome of England & principality of Wales : exactly described whith every sheere & the small townes in euery one of them : in six mappes, portable for every man's pocket ... : vseful for all commanders for quarteringe of souldiers ... / described by one that travailed throughout the whole kingdome for its purpose ... W. Hollar, fecit.

Creator:: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:: 1644
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([1], [6] leaves) : 6 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. The country-man's jewel: or, The jockey's master-piece : Part I contains plain and approv'd rules to choose, feed, and breed the best stallions, horses mares, or geldings. How to order and feed a race-horse. Also how to know a sound horse or mare from one that is distemper'd. With a collection of two hundred choice and approv'd receipts to cure all distempers, and different diseases in horses and mares. The like never before published. Part II prescribes cures for all distempers in black and white cattle; as horses, oxen, bulls, cows, calves goats, mules, asses, sheep, hogs, dogs, deer, hares, and conies. Also to destroy vermin. With directions for improving land to great advantage. To cure the biting of a mad dog / by M.S. [i.e. A.S.?] gent., L.M. J. Lambert, and others.

Date:: [ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:: 118, [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. The anatomy of an horse : containing an exact and full description of the frame, situation and connexion of all his parts, (with their actions and uses) exprest in forty nine copper-plates : to which is added an appendix, containing two discourses: the one, of the generation of animals; and the other, of the motion of the chyle, and the circulation of the bloud / by Andrew Snape, Jun. Farrier to His Majesty.

Creator:: Snape, Andrew, 1644–
Date:: An. Dom. 1683
Physical Description:: [14], 237, [1], 45, [7] p., XLIX leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. The office of the holy week according to the Missall and Roman breviary : translated out of French with a new and ample explication taken out of the Holy Fathers, of the mysteries, ceremonies, gospels, lessons, psalms, and of all that belongs to this off

Creator:: Catholic Church
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: [8], 611 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. 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.

Creator:: Bert, Edmund
Date:: 1619
Physical Description:: [16], 109, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. Recueil des meilleurs desseins de Raimond La Fage gravé par cinq des plus habiles graveurs / et mis en lumière par les soins de Vander-Bruggen ...

Creator:: La Fage, Raymond, 1656–1684
Date:: [168-]
Physical Description:: [8] p., [49] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. Effigies regum Anglorum : Wilhelmo Conquestore : are to be sold by Robt. Peake att his shoppe neere Holborne conduitt.

Creator:: Faithorne, William, 1616–1691
Date:: [1630?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. Trigonometrie, or, The doctrine of triangles : divided into two bookes : the first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles : the second of sphericall, with grounds and demonstrations thereof : both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithmes, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath beene formerly taught : whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen), a treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing, with certaine necessary tables used in navigation / by Richard Norvvood ...

Creator:: Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: 8, 129, [180] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. The English military discipline : exactly described by copper cutts, in forty-eight postures of the musquet and thirty-six of the pike : with instructions for all young souldiers, and such who are disposed to learn and have knowledge of the military discipline : wherein are set down the conditions and qualities which are required in every several officer of a private company, and the manner of drawing up of companies and placing them in battail rank.

Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: 23 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber ... II. An abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies.

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Date:: 1685
Physical Description:: 33 p.., 767 p. front. (port.) plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Neu erfundene Krieges-Bau-Kunst : begreiffend unterschiedene vornehme Krieges-Ubungen und Exercitia sambt viele profitable Anweisungen und Andeutungen, auch wie man auf eine gantz leichte Art, ohne einige Rechen-Kunst nach ietziger Zeit üblichen Manier, Festungen abreissen, fortificiren und in Grund legen lernen kan; allen Liebhabern, und denen Krieges-Waffen Ergebenen, zum Nutzen heraus gegeben, und ans Licht gebracht / durch P. V. D. Kreus, der Rom. Kayserl. Majest. Haubtmann, und Ingeneur in Ober- und Nieder-Schlesien.

Creator:: Kreus, Peter von der
Date:: [1699]
Physical Description:: [8], 38 p., [1], 14 leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. 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.

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

131. Signorvm vetervm icones.

Creator:: Bisschop, Jan de, 1628–1671
Date:: 167-?]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 100 plates. 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. 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.

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

133. A direction for the English traviller : by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales : and also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance between London and any other shire or great towne, with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell, till he come to his journies end.

Creator:: Simons, Matthew, d. 1654
Date:: [1677?]
Physical Description:: 48 leaves (some folded) : maps ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. The mysteries of nature and art, in 4 severall pts.

Creator:: Bate, John
Date:: 1635
Physical Description:: 288 p. illus., port. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum. Voor-beelden der teken-konst van verscheyde meesters.

Creator:: Bisschop, Jan de, 1628–1671
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 4 p., 1 leaf, 4, [4] p. 157 plates. 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. M.Z. Topographia Bohemiæ, Moraviæ et Silesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten vnd bekandtisten Stätte, vnd Plätze, in dem Königreich Boheim vnd einverleibten Landern Mähren, vnd Schlesien.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: 1650
Physical Description:: 192, [16] p., [37] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 32 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

Creator:: Tower of London (London, England)
Date:: [approximately 169-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page.) ; 17 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

Creator:: Morosini, Andrea, 1558–1618
Date:: 1623
Physical Description:: [18], 729, [22] p., : port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. The carriers cosmographie, or, A briefe relation, of the innes ordinaries, hosteries, and other lodgings, in and neere London : where the carriers, waggons, foote-posts and higglers, doe usually come, from any parts, townes, shires, and countries, of the kingdoms of England, principality of Wales, as also from the kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland : with nomination of what daies of the weeke they do come to London and on what daies they returne, whereby all sorts of people may find direction how to receiue or send, goods or letters, into such places as their occasions may require : as also where the ships, hoighs, barkes, t[i]ltboats, barges and wherries, do usually attend to carry passengers ... / by Iohn Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, John, 1580–1653
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: 24 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. Perspective practical. Or, a plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art... By a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisian. Faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts. Set forth in English by Robert Pricke ...

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1698
Physical Description:: 8 p. ., 150, [6] p. 150 engraved plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. Artis magnae artilleriae : pars prima / auctore Casimiro Siemienowicz ...

Creator:: Siemienowicz, Kazimierz, -1651?
Date:: Ao. MDCL [1650]
Physical Description:: [16], 284, [4] pages, [23] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Naval speculations, and maritime politicks : being a modest and brief discourse of the Royal Navy of England: of its oeconomy and government, and a projection for an everlasting seminary of seamen, by a royal maritime hospital. With a project for a royal fishery. Also necessary measures in the present war with France, &c. / by Henry Maydman.

Creator:: Maydman, Henry
Date:: 1691
Physical Description:: [32], 348, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. A new method of cryptography : humbly presented to the most serene Majesty of Charles the II / by Samuel Morland, knight and baronet, and one of the gentlemen of his Majestie's privy chamber in ordinary. 1666.

Creator:: Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625–1695
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 12 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. Pvrchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present. : Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Flovd, the heathenish, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / By Samuel Purchas, ...

Creator:: Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:: 1626
Physical Description:: [44], 242, 241-636, 635-1047, [37] p. (the first four pages blank), [1] double leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. La fortificatione, guardia, difesa, et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diuerse guerre / del cavaliero Francco. Tensini da Crema ...

Creator:: Tensini, Francesco, 1581–1630
Date:: MDCLV [1655]
Physical Description:: [12], 83, [1], 83, [1], 128 pages, [50] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 40 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. The sentiments of the most excellent painters concerning the practice of painting / collected and composed in tables of precepts by Henry Testling ... ; translated into English with remarques on the words of art, with an addition of the grounds, and the practical method in perspective.

Creator:: Testelin, Henri, 1616–1695
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: [10] leaves, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Della caualleria = Grundtlicher Bericht von allem was zu der Reutterei gehorig vnd einem Cauallier dauon zu wissen geburt.

Creator:: Löhneyss, Georg Engelhard von, 1552–1622
Date:: 1609 [-1610]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., music ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Polygraphice; or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ...

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Date:: 1673
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 352, [8] p. front., ill., plates. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations : containing a discourse of the generall art of fishing with the angle, or otherwise, and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyetting of the fighting cocke. Being a worke neuer in that nature handled by any former author.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1614
Physical Description:: [2], 51, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. Les tables de geographie, reduites en un jeu de cartes / par P. Du-Val ... ; Cordier sculp.

Creator:: Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619–1682
Date:: [ca. 1680?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill., col. maps ; image 41 x 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Godly prayers of meditations / collected out of certaine holy workes, by the most vertuous Princesse Katherine Parre, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, in the yeare 1545.

Creator:: Catharine Parr, Queen consort of Henry VIII, 1513–1548
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 54 unnumbered pages (incomplete) ; 5.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. [Jewelry and ornament design]

Creator:: Mignot, Daniel, fl. 1590
Date:: [16--]
Physical Description:: [86] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. Art's masterpiece. Or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex. Containing, I. The arr [!] of limning and painting in oil, &c. ... By C. K.

Date:: 1697
Physical Description:: 4 p. ., 160 p. incl. front. 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. A new touch-stone for gold and silver wares : directing all buyers of large plate or small works : (as silver or gold hilts, buckles, watch-cases, pins and studs in watch-cases, money boxes, tobacco boxes, bells and sockets for corals, buttons and tags for garments, chirurgeons-instruments, rings, chains, lockets, or other goldsmiths works) : how to know whether they buy or wear such as are of the lawful standard-allay ... and also discovering the principal matters of the goldsmiths and cutlers ... trades.

Creator:: W. B. (William Badcock)
Date:: 1679
Physical Description:: [20], 218, [151] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno : ricercata non solo su gl'ossi e muscoli del corpo humano, ma dimostrata ancora su le statue antiche più insigni di Roma, delineata in piu tauole con tutte le figure in varie faccie e vedute per istudio della Regia academia di Francia pittura e scultura / sotto la direzzione di Carlo Errard, gia direttore di essa in Roma ; preparata su'i cadaueri dal dottor Bernardino Genga ... con le spiegazioni et indice del sigr. canonico Gio. Maria Lancisi ...

Creator:: Genga, Bernardino, 1620–1690
Date:: il dì XV. settembre M. DC. XCI [1691]
Physical Description:: 56 leaves : illustrations ; 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. An abridgment of the architecture of Vitruvius : containing a system of the whole works of that author illustrated with divers copper plates, curiously engraved, with a table of explanation : to which is added in this edition the etymology and derivation of the terms used in architecture / first done in French by Monsr. Perrault, of the Academy of Paris, and now Englished, with additions.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1692
Physical Description:: [12], 158, [34] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., plans ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus : centenario numero complexa, summo studio collecta / atque in lucem edita à Carolo Allard = Des bewoonden waerelds steden en dragten : in een honderd-getal begreepen / met een byzondere naerstigheid verzaameld en uitgegeven door Carel Allard.

Creator:: Allard, Carel, 1648–approximately 1709
Date:: [not after 1698?]
Physical Description:: [14] pages, [202] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. Les raisons des forces mouuantes, avec diuerses machines tant vtiles que plaisantes : ausquelles sont adjoints plusieurs desseins de grotes et fontaines : augmentes de plusiers figures, avec le discours sur chacune / par Salomon De Caus ...

Creator:: Caus, Salomon de, -1626
Date:: 1624
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1 : ill., music ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. Painting illustrated in three diallogues, containing some choice observations upon the art. Together with the lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue, to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo. With an explanation of the difficult terms.

Creator:: Aglionby, William, d. 1705
Date:: 1685
Physical Description:: 19 p.l., 375 (i.e. 387) p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. The English academy : a drawing book containing variety of examples of the external parts of men, women, and childrens bodies : with the shapes of several creatures frequently used amongst heralds, gold-smiths, &c. : likewise the arts of drawing, etching, engraving in copper and wood, painting and limning ... / P.L., H.G., P.R., H.B.

Creator:: P. L
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. The horse-mans honour: or, The beautie of horse-man-ship : As the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses. With the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer. Not innented [sic] and drawn from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise: and now published at the request of diuers honorable and worthy persons, for the generall good of this noble nation of Great Britaine.

Creator:: Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:: 1620
Physical Description:: [16], 188, 191-255, 266-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Mr. Ogilby's Tables of his measur'd roads : so digested that any great road or branch may readily be found : with the general and particular, computed and measur'd distance and the distinction of market and post-towns, with other remarks : to which is added a true account of the markets and fairs, &c collected in his survey / by John Ogilby ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: [4], 64 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art ... / by a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisien ; faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts ; set forth in English by Robert Pricke for the lovers of art.

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [15], 150, 150, [6] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. Topographia urbis Romæ, das ist eigentliche, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom : sampt allen antiquitäten, Pallästen, Amphitheatris oder Schauplätzen, Obeliscis, Pyramiden, Lustgärten, Bildern, Begräbnüssen, oberschrifften und vergleichen, so in und umb der Stadt Rom gefunden, und in vier Tagen ordentlich beschauet und gesehen werden können / in lateinischer Sprach beschrieben durch Joannem Jacobum Boissardum ; jetz aber in die teutche Sprach übersetzt, und die Figuren nach den numeris durch einem Liebhaber der Antiquität geordnet und an den Tag gegeben durch Dietrich de Bry.

Creator:: Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528–1602
Date:: Im Jahr M. DC. LXXXI [1681]
Physical Description:: [iv], 74, [2] p., 101 leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), 2 plans ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Vade mecum, or, The necessary companion ...

Creator:: Playford, John, 1623–1686?
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [8], 207 p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde / par Antoine de Herrera ... ; translatee d'espagnol en françois ; a la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la navigation du vaillant capitaine de mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres ...

Creator:: Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:: 1622
Physical Description:: [6], 103, [7], 107-254 p., [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. The trve effigies of our most illustrious soveraigne lord, King Charles, Queene Mary, with the rest of the royall progenie : also a compendium or abstract of their most famous genealogies and pedegrees expressed in prose and verse, with the times and places of their births.

Date:: 1641
Physical Description:: 18 p. : ports. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forrest-trees : also, how to plant, make and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c : with several figures proper for avenues and walks to end in, and convenient figures for lawns : also rules and tables shewing how in ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, with rules how to divide woods or land, and how to measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry, shewing the use of that most excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples : with many other rules, usefull for most men / by M. Cook.

Creator:: Cook, Moses
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: [16], 204, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases, in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fourteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: [16], 80 p., pp. 79-394, [2], 26, 49, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Counsel and advise to all builders : for the choice of their surveyours, clarks of their works, bricklayers, masons, carpenters, and other work-men therein concerned : as also in respect of their works, materials, and rates thereof : together with several epistles to eminent persons who may be concerned in building / written by Sir Balthazar Gerbier ...

Creator:: Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667
Date:: 1663
Physical Description:: [110], 110 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. The city & covntry purchaser & builder / composed by S.P. Gent.

Creator:: S. P. (Stephen Primatt)
Date:: [1667]
Physical Description:: 8 p.l., 167 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. A new-naturalized work of a learned stranger, or, An exquisite tutor powerfull to benefit the publick : and convey unto English men, especially architects and artificers of all sorts : that is, masons, carpenters, joyners, glasiers, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, and all that live by hammer and hand : necessary, certaine, and most ready helps of geometrie, which is the first degree of all good art ...

Date:: 1657
Physical Description:: [2], 11 [i.e. 14] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Geography rectified: or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy six maps.

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 596 [i.e. 592] p. ill. (maps) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verrulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts.

Creator:: Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: [16], 14, [2], 255, [3], 99, [17], 8, [2], 16, [2], 62, [4], 58, [8], 92, [14], 26 p. : ports. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

Creator:: Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. : Also, some enquiries into the nature of the water of St. Vincent's Rock, near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary. To which is added, A century of observations, more fully declaring the nature, property, and distinction of the baths. With an account of the lives, and character, of the physicians of Bathe. / By Tho. Guidott ...

Creator:: Guidott, Thomas, fl. 1698
Date:: 1676 [i. e. 1676-1677]
Physical Description:: [30] p., 200 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., plan ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. Amori sdegni et gielosie di Givnone / Julio Bonasone, in ventore

Creator:: Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498–approximately 1580
Date:: [16--]
Physical Description:: [1], [21] leaves : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende warhafftige vnd volkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften, Insulen, Königreichen vnd Provintzien, Seecusten ... in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyses : dessgleichen, gründlicher Bericht von der Innwohner Beschaffenkeit, Sitten ... vnd Gebräuchen ... / alles auss verscheidenen west-indianischen Historien-Schreibern, vnnd mancherley Sprachen ... zusammen getragen, extrahirt, in ein richtige Ordnung der Materien vnd Zeit, vnd in diese käuffliche Form bracht durch Johan Ludwig Gottfriedt ; mit zugehörigen Landtafeln, Contrafacturen vnd ... Kupfferstücken ... geziert vnd verlegt, durch Mattheum Merian ...

Creator:: Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: [12], 562, 72 p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux / par le tres-noble, haut, et tres-puissant prince Guillaume marquis et comte de New-castle, vicomte de Mansfield, baron de Bolsover et Ogle, seigneur de Cavendish, Bothel et Hepvvell, pair d'angleterre; qui eut la charge & l'honneur d'étre gouverneur du serenissime prince de Galles en sa jeunesse, maintenant roy de la Grande-Bretagne; lieutenant pour le roy de la comté de Nottingham, & de la Forest de Shervvood; capitaine general en toutes les provinces outre la riviere de Trent, & autres endroits du royaume d'angleterre; gentil-homme de la chambre du lit du roy; conseillier d'etat & privé; chevalier du tres-noble Ordre de la Jartiere, &c. Oeuure, auquel on apprend à trauailler les cheuaux selon la nature, & parfaire la nature par la subtilité de l'art; traduit de l'anglois de l'auteur, par son commandement, enrichy de plusieures belles figures en taille douce.

Creator:: Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:: l'an M.DC.LVIII [1658]
Physical Description:: [28], 271, [9], 19, [5] p., [1], 42 double leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle fabriche di nostro signore papa Sisto V / fatte dal cavallier Domenico Fontana, architetto di Sva Santita.

Creator:: Fontana, Domenico, 1543–1607
Date:: MDXC [1590, that is 1604]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (94 [i.e. 100], [1] leaves; 30 [i.e. 34], [1] leaves) : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. Topographia Bavariæ, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Orth in Ober vnd Nieder Beÿern, der obern Pfaltz, vnd andern, zum hochlöblichen Baÿrischen Craisse gehörigen Landschaften.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: MDCXLIV [1644]
Physical Description:: 138, [8] p., [59] plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. A display of heraldrie : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method / wherein it is now reduced, by the study and industry of John Guillim ...

Creator:: Guillim, John, 1565–1621
Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [16], 144 (i.e. 444), 36, [6] p. : coats of arms ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland ; to which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

Creator:: Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Date:: 1698
Physical Description:: [22], 243, [1], [32], 228 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. The history of the reformation of the Church of England : in two parts.

Creator:: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643–1715
Date:: 1681-1683
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. Mellificium mensionis, or, The marrow of measuring : wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plastering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works : as also the measuring of land and all other superfices and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the intergers into the least denomination : giving the content of any superfices or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetic : together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto : the whole treatise being comprized in six books and illustrated with copper cuts : an account whereof is given in the epistle to the reader : the like not heretofore published / by Venterus Mandey.

Creator:: Mandey, Venterus
Date:: 1682
Physical Description:: [26], 376, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. Markhams Remembrancer of unpublished secretes : shewinge howe a man may come to be a general horsman by the knowledge of these seauen offyces : 1. Breeder -- 2. Rider -- 3. Feeder -- 4. Keeper -- 5. Ambler -- 6. Buyer, 7 Farrier / G.M., circa 1655.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: circa 1655
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([16], 22, [2], 33, [3], 71, [3], 11, [5], 24, [4], 31, [1], 76, [5] p.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. The art of painting in oyl : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery : containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working in oyl colours ... / by John Smith ...

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [12], 100 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. The carpenters rule, or, A booke shewing many plain waies, truly to measure ordinarie timber, and other extraordinarie sollids, or timber : with a detection of sundrie great errors, generally committed by carpenters and others in measuring of timber; tending much to the buyers great losse : published especially for the good of the Companie of Carpenters in London, and other also; ... / by Richard More.

Creator:: More, Richard (Carpenter)
Date:: 1602
Physical Description:: [8], 56 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. Angliæ metropolis, or, The present state of London : with memorials comprehanding a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof ... / first written by ... Tho. Delaune ... and continued to the present year by a careful hand ...

Creator:: Delaume, Thomas, d. 1685
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: [10], 444 p. : coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. 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.

Creator:: Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
Date:: An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:: [8], 370, [6] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

Creator:: Cox, Nicholas, active 1673–1721
Date:: 1677
Physical Description:: [12], 158, [2], 159-254, [4], 78, 89-95, [3], 78, [12] pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. A book of cyphers or letters reverst. Being a work very ... usefull ... for ... artificers engravers painters ... &c. Where you may find a cypher for any name ... curiously compos'd ... by Jeremiah Marlow ...

Creator:: Marlow, Jeremiah
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 68 plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. 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.

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

195. Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseōn libri XV : ad fidem editionum optimarum et codicum manuscriptorum examinati, animadversi, necnon notis illustrati / opera & studio Thomae Farnabii ; editio nunc primum in Gallia & multis figuris æneis adornata.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: [6], 88, [2], p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America : viz. Jamaica, Barbadoes, S. Christophers, Mevis, Antego, S. Vincent, Dominica, New-Jersey, Pensilvania, Monserat, Anguilla, Bermudas, Carolina, Virginia, New-England, Tobago, New-found-land, Mary-land, New-York. With new maps of every place. Together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands; from the year 1686, to 1700. Also a table by which, at any time of the day or night here in England, you may know what hour it is in any of those parts. And how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [8], 262, [42] p., [9] leaves of plates ([8] folded) : ill. (port., 7 fold. maps, fold. diagr.) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

Creator:: Melzo, Lodovico, 1567–1617
Date:: MDCXI [1611]
Physical Description:: [12], 221, [3] pages, [25] leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. Icones biblicae praecipuas Sacrae Scripturae historias eleganter & graphicè repraesentantes = Biblische Figuren, darinnen die fürnembsten historien, in heiliger vnd göttlicher Schrifft begriffen, gründtlich vnd geschichtmessig entworffen, zu nutz vnd Belüstigung Gottsförchtiger vnd kunstverständiger Personen artig vorgebilget: an Tag gegeben, durch Matthaevm Meriam ... Mit Versen vnd Reimen in dreyen Sprachen geziert vnd erkläret.

Creator:: Merian, Matthaeus, 1593–1650
Date:: [1625-1630]
Physical Description:: 4 parts in 1 volume : illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., [11], 123 p. front., illus., plates (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. London survey'd, or, An explanation of the large map of London : giving a particular account of the streets and lanes in the city and liberties : with the courts, yards, and alleys, churches, halls, and houses of note in every street and lane and directories to find them in the map : with the names and marks of the wards, parishes, and precincts, therein described / by John Ogilby & William Morgan ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1677
Physical Description:: [14], 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : plan ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

YCBA Collections Search

Refine your search

Search Constraints

Creator Gender unknown

Period 17th century

Classification Books

Search Results

101. Seuerall wayes of hunting, hawking and fishing according to the English manner / invented by Francis Barlow. Etched by W. Hollar.

103. 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 ...

105. A treatise of artificial fire-vvorks both for vvarres and recreation ... Newly written in French, and englished by the authour Tho: [!] Malthvs.

106. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

109. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

110. Reges, reginæ, nobiles, & alij in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti vsque ad annum reparatæ salutis 1600 ...

111. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : began Jan. 1, 1677 : and intended to be continued monthly / by Joseph Moxon.

113. Topographia Helvetiæ, Rhætiæ et Valesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornemsten Stätte vnd Plätze in der hochlöblichen Eydgnossschafft, Graubündten, Wallis, vnd etlicher zugewandten Orthen / M.Z.

116. Alle de wercken, so ouden als nieuvven / van de Heer Jacob Cats, oudt Raedtpensionaris van Hollandt, &c. ; doorgaens vermeerdert, en achter met des autheurs tachtigh-jarigh leven, huyshoudinge en bedenckingen op zorgh-vliet.

122. The office of the holy week according to the Missall and Roman breviary : translated out of French with a new and ample explication taken out of the Holy Fathers, of the mysteries, ceremonies, gospels, lessons, psalms, and of all that belongs to this off

124. Recueil des meilleurs desseins de Raimond La Fage gravé par cinq des plus habiles graveurs / et mis en lumière par les soins de Vander-Bruggen ...

125. Effigies regum Anglorum : Wilhelmo Conquestore : are to be sold by Robt. Peake att his shoppe neere Holborne conduitt.

130. 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.

131. Signorvm vetervm icones.

134. The mysteries of nature and art, in 4 severall pts.

135. Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum. Voor-beelden der teken-konst van verscheyde meesters.

136. M.Z. Topographia Bohemiæ, Moraviæ et Silesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten vnd bekandtisten Stätte, vnd Plätze, in dem Königreich Boheim vnd einverleibten Landern Mähren, vnd Schlesien.

137. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

138. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

141. Artis magnae artilleriae : pars prima / auctore Casimiro Siemienowicz ...

143. A new method of cryptography : humbly presented to the most serene Majesty of Charles the II / by Samuel Morland, knight and baronet, and one of the gentlemen of his Majestie's privy chamber in ordinary. 1666.

145. La fortificatione, guardia, difesa, et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diuerse guerre / del cavaliero Francco. Tensini da Crema ...

146. The sentiments of the most excellent painters concerning the practice of painting / collected and composed in tables of precepts by Henry Testling ... ; translated into English with remarques on the words of art, with an addition of the grounds, and the practical method in perspective.

147. Della caualleria = Grundtlicher Bericht von allem was zu der Reutterei gehorig vnd einem Cauallier dauon zu wissen geburt.

148. Polygraphice; or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ...

150. Les tables de geographie, reduites en un jeu de cartes / par P. Du-Val ... ; Cordier sculp.

151. Godly prayers of meditations / collected out of certaine holy workes, by the most vertuous Princesse Katherine Parre, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, in the yeare 1545.

152. [Jewelry and ornament design]

153. Art's masterpiece. Or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex. Containing, I. The arr [!] of limning and painting in oil, &c. ... By C. K.

157. Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus : centenario numero complexa, summo studio collecta / atque in lucem edita à Carolo Allard = Des bewoonden waerelds steden en dragten : in een honderd-getal begreepen / met een byzondere naerstigheid verzaameld en uitgegeven door Carel Allard.

158. Les raisons des forces mouuantes, avec diuerses machines tant vtiles que plaisantes : ausquelles sont adjoints plusieurs desseins de grotes et fontaines : augmentes de plusiers figures, avec le discours sur chacune / par Salomon De Caus ...

159. Painting illustrated in three diallogues, containing some choice observations upon the art. Together with the lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue, to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo. With an explanation of the difficult terms.

165. Vade mecum, or, The necessary companion ...

167. The trve effigies of our most illustrious soveraigne lord, King Charles, Queene Mary, with the rest of the royall progenie : also a compendium or abstract of their most famous genealogies and pedegrees expressed in prose and verse, with the times and places of their births.

171. The city & covntry purchaser & builder / composed by S.P. Gent.

173. Geography rectified: or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy six maps.

174. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verrulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts.

177. Amori sdegni et gielosie di Givnone / Julio Bonasone, in ventore

179. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

181. Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle fabriche di nostro signore papa Sisto V / fatte dal cavallier Domenico Fontana, architetto di Sva Santita.

182. Topographia Bavariæ, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Orth in Ober vnd Nieder Beÿern, der obern Pfaltz, vnd andern, zum hochlöblichen Baÿrischen Craisse gehörigen Landschaften.

183. A display of heraldrie : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method / wherein it is now reduced, by the study and industry of John Guillim ...

185. The history of the reformation of the Church of England : in two parts.

187. Markhams Remembrancer of unpublished secretes : shewinge howe a man may come to be a general horsman by the knowledge of these seauen offyces : 1. Breeder -- 2. Rider -- 3. Feeder -- 4. Keeper -- 5. Ambler -- 6. Buyer, 7 Farrier / G.M., circa 1655.

188. The art of painting in oyl : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery : containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working in oyl colours ... / by John Smith ...

190. Angliæ metropolis, or, The present state of London : with memorials comprehanding a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof ... / first written by ... Tho. Delaune ... and continued to the present year by a careful hand ...

193. A book of cyphers or letters reverst. Being a work very ... usefull ... for ... artificers engravers painters ... &c. Where you may find a cypher for any name ... curiously compos'd ... by Jeremiah Marlow ...

194. 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.

195. Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseōn libri XV : ad fidem editionum optimarum et codicum manuscriptorum examinati, animadversi, necnon notis illustrati / opera & studio Thomae Farnabii ; editio nunc primum in Gallia & multis figuris æneis adornata.

197. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.