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1. The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated : wherein is contained a geographical and historical description of that famous county, with all its hundreds and seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders; its rivers, towns, castles, buildings ancient and modern. Adorned with maps and prospects, and the coats of arms belonging to every individual family of the whole county / performed by William Smith, and William Webb, gentlemen. Published by Mr. Daniel King. To which is annexed, an exact chronology of all its rulers and governors both in church and state, from the time of the foundation of the stately city of Chester, to this very day: fixed by eclipses, and other chronological characters. Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants. Of the state ecclesiasticall. Of the civil government. Of the trade; and, of the strength of the island.

The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated : wherein is contained a geographical and historical description of that famous county, with all its hundreds and seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders; its rivers, towns, castles, buildings ancient and modern. Adorned with maps and prospects, and the coats of arms belonging to every individual family of the whole county / performed by William Smith, and William Webb, gentlemen. Published by Mr. Daniel King. To which is annexed, an exact chronology of all its rulers and governors both in church and state, from the time of the foundation of the stately city of Chester, to this very day: fixed by eclipses, and other chronological characters. Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants. Of the state ecclesiasticall. Of the civil government. Of the trade; and, of the strength of the island.
Creator:
King, Daniel, -1664?
Date:
1656
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 239 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 55 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 34 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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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

3. 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.

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

4. The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... / by Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

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Date:
anno 1599-1600
Physical Description:
3 v. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Halinitro-pyrobolia. : Beschreibu[n]g einer newen Büchsen-Meisterey, nemlichen: gründlicher Bericht, wie der Salpeter, Schwefel, Kohlen, vnnd das Pulfer zu praepariren, zu probieren, auch langwirrig gut zu behalten: das Fewrwerck zur Kurtzweil vnd Ernst zu laboriren. Dann, wie der Pöler, das grobe Geschütz, vnd der Petardo zu gobernirn: ingleichem die Lunden bey Tag- vnd Nachtszeiten, sicherlich vnd ohne gesehen zu tragen, &c. Sampt einer kurtzen geometrishcen Einlaytung, die Weite vnd Höhe gar gering zu erfahren. Alles ausz eygener Experientza; neben etlichen newen, zuvor nicht gesehnen Inventionen, gantz fleissig und vertrewlich beshrieben; vber das, mit. 44. Kupfferstucken delinirt vnd für Augen gestellt / durch Josephum Furttenbach..

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Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:
Anno MDCXXVII [1627]
Physical Description:
[20], 107, [1] p., [1], 44 [i.e. 88] leaves of plates (44 folded) : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti : comprese in tre lettere scritte all' illustrissimo signor Marco Velseri linceo, duum viro d'augusta consigliero di sua Maesta Cesarea / dal signor Galileo Galilei linceo, nobil fiorentino, filosofo, e matematico primario del sereniss. D. Cosimo II. Gran Duca di Toscana ; si aggiungono nel fine le lettere, e disquisizioni del finto Apelle.

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Creator:
Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
Date:
MDCXIII [1613]
Physical Description:
4, 164, 55, [1] pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Topographia Westphaliae : das ist, Beschreibung der vornembsten, vnd bekantisten Stätte, vnd Plätz, im hochlöbl. westphälischen Craisse.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
[1647]
Physical Description:
94, [6] p., [51] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall description of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in divers places, as also beautified and enlarged with new mappes and tables by the studious industry of Iudocus Hondy ; Englished by W.S. generosus, & Coll. Regin. Oxoniae.

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Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:
1635
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([22], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 2 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps (1 folded) ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts