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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Period 17th century

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Language English

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Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads : with computed and measured distances and the distinction of market and post townes.
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1679
Physical Description:
[13], 27 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...
Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:
1675
Physical Description:
[8], 110, [2], [4], 39, [2] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt / by Iohn Greaves ...
Creator:
Greaves, John, 1602–1652
Date:
1646
Physical Description:
13, 142 [i.e. 120] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...
Date:
1647
Physical Description:
[3], 18 [i.e. 33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Aesop's Fables : with his life, in English, French and Latin : newly translated : illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures : to this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life / by Francis Barlow.
Date:
1687
Physical Description:
[6], 40, 40, 17, 2-221, [3] pages, [2], 31 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:
[1685]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4], 112 [i.e. 110 p.], [53] leaves of plates : 51 maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The characters of the passions / done after the originalls of Monsr. Le Brun.
Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
[1], 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
[14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Cruso, John, d. 1681
Date:
MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:
[10], 108 p., 16 leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Burton, William, 1575–1645
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
10, 320, [12] p., 2 leaves of plates (one folded) : port., ill., coats of arms, map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Physical Description:
[4], 234, [8] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609–1674
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
5 p. ., 322 p. illus. 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
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
No cover image available
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
No cover image available
Creator:
Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625–1695
Date:
[1666]
Physical Description:
12 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
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
No cover image available
Creator:
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643–1715
Date:
1681-1683
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[between 1671 and 1707]
Physical Description:
[1] sheet : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568–1639
Date:
1651
Physical Description:
[60], 540 p., [4] leaves of plates : ports. ; 15 cm (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
1668
Physical Description:
[10], 32, [1], 36-159, [29], 191-198, [19] p. 218, [3], p. 220, [3], p. 226, [3], p. 230, [3], p. 234, [2], 237-239 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694
Date:
1670]
Physical Description:
[8] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 x 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1650
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1607]
Physical Description:
[6], 294, 294-299, 301-361, [1], 359-362, 361-444, 135, [7] leaves : ill., maps (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
1668
Physical Description:
[2], 206 p. : maps ; 11 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Barbet, Jean, 1597?-1654
Date:
1670
Physical Description:
[30] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Dugdale, William, 1605–1686
Date:
1658
Physical Description:
[6], 136, 157-299, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Petau, Denis, 1583–1652
Date:
1659
Physical Description:
[10], [807] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : port., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Thoroton, Robert, 1623–1678
Date:
1677
Physical Description:
[16], 507, [28], 8, [8] p., [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., coats of arms, map ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
1663
Physical Description:
[10], 199, [1], 101-115, [2], 210-222, [3], 228, [4] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676
Date:
1658
Physical Description:
[16], 87 p., [3] leaves of plates : ports ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Wood, Robert, 1622?-1685
Date:
1681
Physical Description:
18 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts