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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Date 1709

Period 18th century

1. Iconologia, or, Moral emblems / by Caesar Ripa, wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies, as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity ; illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters ; by the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.

Iconologia, or, Moral emblems / by Caesar Ripa, wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies, as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity ; illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters ; by the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.

Creator:: Ripa, Cesare, 1560–1645
Date:: MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:: [4], 81 leaves, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations (326 emblems on 81 plates) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Instructions to Vander Bank : a sequel to the Advice to the poets : a poem, occasion'd by the glorious success of Her Majesty's arms, under command of the Duke of Marlborough, the last year in Flanders.

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Creator:: Blackmore, Richard, Sir, 1654–1729
Date:: 1709
Physical Description:: 12 p. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Tunbrigialia. Authore P. Causton.

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Creator:: Causton, Peter
Date:: 1709
Physical Description:: 12 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The gentleman's recreations : in three parts : the first part contains a short and easie introduction to all the liberal arts and sciences, &c. : the second treats of horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, agriculture, &c. : done from the most authentick authors, especially several lately printed at Paris, as may be seen in the preface; with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the respective recreations. : the third is a complete body of all our forest, chace, and game-laws, as they are at this time. : the whole illustrated with near an hundred copper-cuts relating to the several subjects, particularly all sorts of nets, engines, traps, &c. are added for the taking of wild beasts, fowl, fish, &c. not hitherto publish'd by any.

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Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1709-1710
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1 : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The royal pastime of cock-fighting, or, The Art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game : published purely for the good, and benefit of all such as take delight in that royal, and warlike sport: to which is prefixed, a short treatise, wherein cocking is proved not only ancient and honourable, but also useful, and profitable / by R. H., a lover of the sport, and a friend to such as delight in military discipline.

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Creator:: Howlett, Robert
Date:: 1709
Physical Description:: [30], 92 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The life of Ælfred the Great / by Sir John Spelman Kt. ; from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library ; with considerable additions, and several historial remarks by the publisher Thomas Hearne, M.A..

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Creator:: Spelman, John, Sir, 1594–1643
Date:: MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:: [6], 238, [10] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts