Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Period: 17th century / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Classification: Books

1. L'Academia todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura: oder Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey Künste, darinn enthalten unterricht, von dieser dreyer Künste Eigenschaft, ... / Durch Joachim von Sandrart.

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: 1675-1679
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Alle de wercken, so ouden als nieuvven / van de Heer Jacob Cats, oudt Raedtpensionaris van Hollandt, &c. ; doorgaens vermeerdert, en achter met des autheurs tachtigh-jarigh leven, huyshoudinge en bedenckingen op zorgh-vliet.

Creator:: Cats, Jacob, 1577–1660
Date:: 1658
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

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

4. Li cinque libri di architettura / di Gio. Battista Montani milanese ...

Creator:: Montano, Giovanni Battista, 1545–1621
Date:: 1684
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Britannia, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones ...

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:: [14], 464 p., [113] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 50 maps plan ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

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

7. Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabve in qva, per le quali si dimostra come, e per chi le bell'arti di pittura, scultura, e architettura lasciata la rozzezza delle maniere greca, e gottica, si siano in questi secoli ridotte all' antica loro perfezione. Opera di Filippo Baldinvcci Fiorentino distinta in secoli, e decennali ...

Creator:: Baldinucci, Filippo, 1625–1696
Date:: 1681-1728
Physical Description:: 6 v. in 3. fold. geneal. tables. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. An approued treatise of hawkes and hawking : Diuided into three bookes. The first teacheth, how to make a short-winged hawke good, with good conditions. The second, how to reclaime a hawke from any ill condition. The third, teacheth cures for all knowne griefes and diseases / by Edmund Bert, Gentleman.

Creator:: Bert, Edmund
Date:: 1619
Physical Description:: [16], 109, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [6], 79, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Seuerall wayes of hunting, hawking and fishing according to the English manner / invented by Francis Barlow. Etched by W. Hollar.

Creator:: Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Date:: [1671]
Physical Description:: [13] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Topographia Alsatiæ &c. completa : das ist, Vollkömliche Beschreibung und eygentliche Abbildung der vornehmbsten Städt und Oerther im Obern und Untern Elsass auch den benachbarten Sundgöw, Brissgöw, Graffschafft Mümpelgart and andern Gegenden / Jetzo auffs neu revidiret und mit dem jenigen was sonst in dem zuvor absonderlich gedruckten Anhang vermehret und an Tag gegeben und verlegt durch Matthæi Mariani Seel: Erben.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: im Jahr MDCLXIII [1663]
Physical Description:: [18], 70 pages, [38] leaves of plates : folded maps, plans (some folded), plates ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. An ordinance prohibiting cock-matches : Fryday March 31. 1654. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council.

Creator:: England and Wales
Date:: 1654
Physical Description:: [2], 193-194 p. ; 26 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. An introduction to the general art of drawing, wherein is set forth the grounds and properties, which of this infallible and judicious art are necessary to be known and understood ... with an illustration of 25 copper prints ... Likewise, An excellent treatise of the art of limning in which the true grounds and the perfect use of water-colours ... are ... taught. Formerly set out by ... Gerhard of Brugge. And now much augmented and amended, with some observations, touching ... the colouring and painting with water-colours. Truly tr. into English by J. L.

Creator:: Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: 2 pts. plates. 24 cm. (4 to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Traité des manieres de dessiner les ordres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties : auec plusieurs belles particularitez qui nont point parû jusques a present, touchat. les bastimts. de marque comme, la naturelle entresuitte des gros et menüs membres de l'eurs degrez ou escaliers : puis, le moyen darrester par dessein et modelle en petit, les parties d'vn edifice, en sorte q'uestant executé en grand, il fasse l'effet que l'on senst proposé, et enfin, la pratique de trouuer la place geometrale des jours ombres et ombrages, sur les corps geometraux / par A. Bosse.

Creator:: Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:: MVICLXIIII [1664, i.e. 1665]
Physical Description:: [3], XLIV leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Historica relación del reyno de Chile : y delas missiones, y ministerios que exercita en el la Compañia de Iesvs : a nvestro señor Iesv Christo, Dios hombre y ala Santissima Virgen, y Madre Maria, Señora del cielo, y dela tierra, y alos santos Ioseph, Ioachin, Ana, sus padres, y aguelos / [Por] Alonso de Ovalle.

Creator:: Ovalle, Alonso de, 1601–1651
Date:: 1646
Physical Description:: [5], 455, 12, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Ars pictoria; or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching. To which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Neanderthal authors. By Alexander Browne ...

Creator:: Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: 4 p.l., 110, [2] p. front. (port.) plates. 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. De arte graphica. The art of painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy. With remarks. Translated into English, together with an original preface containing a parallel betwixt painting and poetry. By Mr. Dryden. As also A short account of the most eminent painters, both ancient and modern, continu'd down to the present times ... By another hand.

Creator:: Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:: 1695
Physical Description:: 2 p.., lxxiv, 355, [1] p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

Creator:: Fontaine, Nicolas, 1625–1709
Date:: 1688-1690
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Pub. in English by Robert Pricke ...

Creator:: Le Muet, Pierre, 1591–1669
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 31, [1] p. 44 pl. (incl. plans) 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Topographia Archiepiscopatuvm Moguntinensis, Trevirensis, et Coloniensis : das ist, Beschreibung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Plätz in denen Ertzbistumen Maÿnz, Trier, vnd Cöln.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: 1646
Physical Description:: 54, [6] p., 43, [34] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; fol.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan. By Edward Earl of Clarendon.

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

22. Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiua senza saperla : fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca : cognitioni necessarie à pittori, scultori, architetti, ed à qualunque si diletta di disegno / dat' in luce da Giulio Troili da Spinlamberto detto Paradosso, pittore dell'illustriss. Senato di Bologna.

Creator:: Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: [8], 120; [4], 64 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Disputatio juridica de venatione : quam permissu atque authoritate Magnifici JCtorum Ordinis in celeberrima Rauracorum Universitate praeside viro nobilissimo et amplissimo Dn. Jac. Burckhardo, J.U.D. Cod. Prof. Publ. celeberrimo, nec non serenissimi & celsissimi Principis Nassov. Consiliario meritissimo, Patrono ac Praeceptore suo aetatèm colendo: publico placidoq́[ue] eruditorum examini loco horisq́ue consuetis submittit Joh. Henricus Reberus als. Mylhusinus, ad diem Martij, An. Chr. M. DC. LXXXX.

Creator:: Reber, Joh. Henricus
Date:: [1690]
Physical Description:: [2], 74 pages, [4] folded pages of plates ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Remarks in the grande tour of France & Italy. Lately performed by a person of quality.

Creator:: Bromley, William, 1664–1732
Date:: 1692
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 370, [12] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. 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.

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

26. The country-man's jewel: or, The jockey's master-piece : Part I contains plain and approv'd rules to choose, feed, and breed the best stallions, horses mares, or geldings. How to order and feed a race-horse. Also how to know a sound horse or mare from one that is distemper'd. With a collection of two hundred choice and approv'd receipts to cure all distempers, and different diseases in horses and mares. The like never before published. Part II prescribes cures for all distempers in black and white cattle; as horses, oxen, bulls, cows, calves goats, mules, asses, sheep, hogs, dogs, deer, hares, and conies. Also to destroy vermin. With directions for improving land to great advantage. To cure the biting of a mad dog / by M.S. [i.e. A.S.?] gent., L.M. J. Lambert, and others.

Date:: [ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:: 118, [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The anatomy of an horse : containing an exact and full description of the frame, situation and connexion of all his parts, (with their actions and uses) exprest in forty nine copper-plates : to which is added an appendix, containing two discourses: the one, of the generation of animals; and the other, of the motion of the chyle, and the circulation of the bloud / by Andrew Snape, Jun. Farrier to His Majesty.

Creator:: Snape, Andrew, 1644–
Date:: An. Dom. 1683
Physical Description:: [14], 237, [1], 45, [7] p., XLIX leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The office of the holy week according to the Missall and Roman breviary : translated out of French with a new and ample explication taken out of the Holy Fathers, of the mysteries, ceremonies, gospels, lessons, psalms, and of all that belongs to this off

Creator:: Catholic Church
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: [8], 611 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Des ordres de colõnes en l'architecture, et plusieurs aũes dependances dicelle / par A. Bosse.

Creator:: Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:: 1664
Physical Description:: [1], A-V leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing. Wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore. Whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation. With an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

Creator:: Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673–1721
Date:: 1686
Physical Description:: [10], 158, [10], 187, [5], 78; [2], 98 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen, tot den iare M.VI.c XII : nu de laestemael bij hem voor sijne doodt merckelijck verbetert en[de] in, XXXII, boecken voltrocken, is mede' hier by gevoegt des autheurs leven ...

Creator:: Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535–1612
Date:: 1614
Physical Description:: [10], 302, 304-671, [15] leaves : ill., map, ports. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The union of honovr : containing the armes, matches and issves of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640 : with the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being : and of the gentry of Lincolnshire : whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the conquest, till the yeere 1602 / collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-Smith.

Creator:: Yorke, James, fl. 1640
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 16, 331, 52, 76 p. : coats of arms ; 31 cm. (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters, both antient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 121 p. ill., fold. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The countrey farrier : Teaching divers and sundry approved medicines, to cure all sorts of cattell : as horse, kine, sheepe, hogs, and dogs. With directions how to find, or know, what the disease or infirmity is. Contrived into a little volume, for avoiding the charge of high-prised bookes. Very usefull and necessary for all country-farmers, and housholders; and generally, for all sorts of people / Exactly approved and collected, by the long travels, study, and experience of William Poole.

Creator:: Poole, William, farrier
Date:: 1648
Physical Description:: [8], 24, p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Oplomachia / di Bonauentura Pistofilo nobile Ferrarese Dottore, e caualiere ; nella quale con dottrina morale, politica, e militare, e col mezzo delle figure si tratta per via di teorica, e di pratica del maneggio, e dell'vso delle armi ; distinta in tre discorsi di Picca d'Alabarda, e di Moschetto.

Creator:: Pistofilo, Bonaventura, 1576–
Date:: 1621
Physical Description:: [8], 123, [1], 123-256, 253-315, [1] pages : illustrations, portraits (engr.) ; 14 x 20 cm (oblong 4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Mechanick exercises, or, the doctrine of handy-works ... / by Joseph Moxon.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Physical Description:: [4], 234, [8] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The ornaments of architecture : containing compartments, shields, mantlings, foldige, festones, monuments for tombs, alphabets of large letters plain and enrich'd, with the order of making them : with some new designes for carving and painting of eminent coaches : useful for painters, stone-cutters, carvers, plaisterers / collected out of the work of several eminent masters, and set forth by Robert Pricke.

Creator:: Pricke, Robert
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: [51] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695. 1696. & 1697. aux cotes d'Afrique, détroit de Magellan, Bresil, Cayenne et isles Antilles, par une escadre des vaisseaux du roi, commandée par m. de Gennes / Faite par le sieur Froger ingenieur volontaire sure le vaisseau le Faucon Anglois. Enrichie de grand nombre de figures dessinées sur les lieux.

Creator:: Froger, François, b. 1676
Date:: M.DC.XCIX [1699]
Physical Description:: [14], 227, [1] p., [28] leaves of plates ([7] folded) : ill. (maps, plans) ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Proposals of a new model for rebuilding the city of London : with houses, streets and wharfs, to be forthwith set out by His Majesty's and the city surveyors : with the advantages that will accrue by the building the same accordingly, viz. I. The owners satisfied for their ground, the builder for building, and the poor inhabitants their losses by the fire. II. The city built stately with large streets, the houses not in danger of fire, and the ground all put to the best profit. III. The people will walk easy and dry, the houses-of-office and streets kept sweet and clean; and goods delivered much cheaper. IV. Convenient houses, shops, warehouses and wharfs not dear. V. Advanced to His Majesty by fines 372670 l. VI. A revenue for ever settled upon the crown of per ann. 223517 l. 10 s.

Creator:: Knight, Val. (Valentine)
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Tuba stentoro-phonica : an instrument of excellent use, as well as at sea, as at land : invented and variously experimented in the year 1670 : and humbly presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty Charles II, In the year, 1671 / by S. Morland ; the instruments (or speaking-trumpets) of all sizes and dimensions, are made and sold by Mr. Simon Beal, one of His Majesties Trumps. in Suffolk-street.

Creator:: Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625–1695
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [2], 14 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Theatrum civitatum nec non admirandorum Neapolis et Siciliae regnorum.

Creator:: Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:: [1663]
Physical Description:: 166 pages in various pagings, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A vindication of Stone-Heng restored : in which the orders and rules of architecture observed by the ancient Romans, are discussed. Together with the customs and manners of several nations of the world in matters of building of greatest antiquity. As also an historical narration of the most memorable actions of the Danes in England. / By John Webb ...

Creator:: Webb, John, 1611–1672
Date:: MDCLXV [l665]
Physical Description:: [8], 232 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. (Fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The art of graveing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper. allso the manner & method of that famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse. in their seuerall ways of etching.

Creator:: Faithorne, William, 1616–1691
Date:: 1662
Physical Description:: 5 p.., 48 p. 10 plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The kingdome of England & principality of Wales : exactly described whith every sheere & the small townes in euery one of them : in six mappes, portable for every man's pocket ... : vseful for all commanders for quarteringe of souldiers ... / described by one that travailed throughout the whole kingdome for its purpose ... W. Hollar, fecit.

Creator:: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:: 1644
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([1], [6] leaves) : 6 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Romae antiquae et novae theatrum, sive, Genuina ac vera urbis, juxta varios ejusdem status, delineatio topographica : unà cum primariis illius aedificiis ac monumentis, veluti templis, simulacris, circis, campis, theatris, arcubus, porticibus, columnis, statuis & sepulcris antiquis, praecipuè verò modernis templis, palatiis & aedificiis, nonaginta tabulis aeneis exhibitis & secundùm nobilioris architecturae simulac perspectivae regulas extructis, ruinisq́ue illustrioribus / curante Joachimo à Sandrart ...

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: anno Christi 1684
Physical Description:: [2], 15, [1] pages, [108] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 40 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii principum Alberti et Isabellae, Austriae archiducum : et eorum optatissimi in Belgium aduentus, rerumque gestarum et memorabilium, gratulationum, apparatuum, et spectaculorum in ipsorum susceptione et inauguratione hactenus editorum accurata descriptio / auctore Ioanne Bochio ...

Creator:: Bochius, Joannes, 1555–1609
Date:: MDCII [1602]
Physical Description:: 500, [12] pages : illustrations, music ; 38 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ... To which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Date:: 1678
Physical Description:: 5 p.., 407, [15] p. front. (port.) plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descripto : nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata / Guilielmo Camdeno, authore.

Creator:: Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:: 1607
Physical Description:: [16], 860, [23] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation : Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush, or flying. IV. How to make shot, proportion the charge, and know good powder; with the proper use of the stalking-horse, bush, hedge, and how to manage them. V. Of singing birds, their diseases and cure. VI. How to distinguish all sorts of poulterers ware, whether old or young, fresh or stale, full of eggs or not. Also to well order, and speedily fat tame and wild fowl. VII. To which is added directions for destroying all manner of vermine / By J.S. Gent.

Creator:: Smith, John, active 1684–1704
Date:: 1697
Physical Description:: [8], 159, [1] p. : ill. ; 12 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. L'Academia todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura: oder Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey Künste, darinn enthalten unterricht, von dieser dreyer Künste Eigenschaft, ... / Durch Joachim von Sandrart.

2. Alle de wercken, so ouden als nieuvven / van de Heer Jacob Cats, oudt Raedtpensionaris van Hollandt, &c. ; doorgaens vermeerdert, en achter met des autheurs tachtigh-jarigh leven, huyshoudinge en bedenckingen op zorgh-vliet.

3. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

4. Li cinque libri di architettura / di Gio. Battista Montani milanese ...

6. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

9. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

10. Seuerall wayes of hunting, hawking and fishing according to the English manner / invented by Francis Barlow. Etched by W. Hollar.

12. An ordinance prohibiting cock-matches : Fryday March 31. 1654. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council.

18. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

19. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Pub. in English by Robert Pricke ...

20. Topographia Archiepiscopatuvm Moguntinensis, Trevirensis, et Coloniensis : das ist, Beschreibung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Plätz in denen Ertzbistumen Maÿnz, Trier, vnd Cöln.

21. A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan. By Edward Earl of Clarendon.

24. Remarks in the grande tour of France & Italy. Lately performed by a person of quality.

28. The office of the holy week according to the Missall and Roman breviary : translated out of French with a new and ample explication taken out of the Holy Fathers, of the mysteries, ceremonies, gospels, lessons, psalms, and of all that belongs to this off

29. Des ordres de colõnes en l'architecture, et plusieurs aũes dependances dicelle / par A. Bosse.

31. Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen, tot den iare M.VI.c XII : nu de laestemael bij hem voor sijne doodt merckelijck verbetert en[de] in, XXXII, boecken voltrocken, is mede' hier by gevoegt des autheurs leven ...

36. Mechanick exercises, or, the doctrine of handy-works ... / by Joseph Moxon.

41. Theatrum civitatum nec non admirandorum Neapolis et Siciliae regnorum.

43. The art of graveing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper. allso the manner & method of that famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse. in their seuerall ways of etching.

45. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

48. Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ... To which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.

49. Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descripto : nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata / Guilielmo Camdeno, authore.