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

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

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

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

3. An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weales in the worlde : relating their scituations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters / translated into English, and enlarged, with an addition of the relation of the states of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary, and Spaine; in no language euer before imprinted.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:
1603
Physical Description:
[4], 268 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Travels thro' Germany, Bohemia, Swisserland, Bohemia, Holland, and other parts of Europe : describing the most considerable citys and the palaces of princes : together with historical relations and critical observations upon ancient medals and inscriptions / by Charles Patin ... ; made English and illustrated with copper cuts and a map.

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Creator:
Patin, Charles, 1633–1693
Date:
1696
Physical Description:
[2], [1], (334) p., 336 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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

6. Der Westeuropäische Wiegendruck in Original-Typenbeispielen : 60 Inkunabelproben Niederlandischer, Franzosischer, Iberischer und Englisch er Pressen / beschrieben von Konrad Haebler.

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Creator:
Haebler, Konrad, 1857–1946
Date:
1928
Physical Description:
[8], 59 p. : ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Woodcuts from books of the 15th century shown in original specimens : 55 leaves detached from books printed in Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, the Netherlands, and Italy / with an introduction by W.L. Schreiber ; translated from the German by André Barbey.

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Date:
1929
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (83, [4] p., 55 leaves) : ill. ; 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts