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1. Here begynneth the volume intituled and named the recuyell of the historyes of Troye / composed and drawen out of dyuerce bookes of latyn in to frensshe by the ryght venerable persone and worshipfull man, Raoul le ffeure, preest and chapelayn vnto the ryght noble gloryous and myghty prynce in his tyme Phelip duc of Bourgoyne of Braband [et]c in the yere of the incarnacion of our lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and foure, and translated and drawen out of frenshe in to englisshe by Willyam Caxton mercer of ye cyte of London, at the comau[n]deme[n]t of the right hye myghty and vertuouse pryncesse hys redoubtyd lady. Margarete by the grace of god, Duchesse of Bourgoyne of Lotryk of Braband [et]c., whiche sayd translacion and werke was ... fynysshid in the holy cyte of Colen the. xix. day of septembre the yere of our sayd lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleuen [et]c. ...

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Creator:
Lefèvre, Raoul, active 1460
Date:
[1473 or 1474]
Physical Description:
[704] pages ; 26 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The Canterbury tales.

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Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1477]
Physical Description:
[748] p. ; 25 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Vitas patrum.

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Date:
the yere of Our Lorde MCCCClxxxxv ... [1495]
Physical Description:
[8], CCCxlvii [that is, 348] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:
3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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.

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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

6. The Prince of Abissinia : a tale in two volumes.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The ancient and present state of Glocestershire. By Sir Robert Atkyns, knt.

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Creator:
Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1647–1711
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
5 p. l., 452, [6] p. 71 pl. (part double, part fold.), coats of arms, double map, double plan. 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A history or description, general and circumstantial, of Burghley House, the seat of the Right Honorable the earl of Exeter.

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Creator:
Horn, John, active 1791–1817
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 205, [3] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

9. Select views of London : with historical and descriptive sketches of some of the most interesting of its public buildings / compiled and arranged by John B. Papworth, architect ; author of an Essay on the dry rot, &c &c.

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Creator:
Papworth, John Buonarotti, 1775–1847
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[8], 159, [1] p., [76] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... containing his Discourses, papers in the Idler, the Journal of a tour through Flanders and Holland, and also his commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting. Printed from the author's rev. copies, with his last corrections and additions ... To which is prefixed, Some account of the life of the author, by Edmond Malone ...

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
3 v. front. (port.) pl. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The old English 'squire : "a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free" : a poem in ten cantos / by John Careless, Esq. ; illustrated with plates by one of the family.

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Creator:
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
viii, 136 pages, [24] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

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Creator:
Wight, J. (John)
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
iv, 105 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

13. Portraits of the game and wild animals of Southern Africa : delineated from life in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, with sketches of the field sports / by Captain W. Cornwallis Harris ... ; drawn on stone by Frank Howard.

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Creator:
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
Date:
1840 [i.e. 1840-1842]
Physical Description:
vi, [6], 175, [1] pages, [31] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 61 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The Stowe catalogue : priced and annotated / by Henry Rumsey Forster.

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Creator:
Forster, Henry Rumsey, 1815–1884
Date:
MDCCCXLVII [1848]
Physical Description:
xliii, [1], 310, 22 pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

15. Catalogue of the important collection of manuscripts from Stowe : which will be sold by auction by S. Leigh Sotheby ... on Monday, 11th of June, 1849, and seven following days ...

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Creator:
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797–1861
Date:
[1849]
Physical Description:
xl, 252 p. [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts