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1. Propositio Johannis Russell : printed by William Caxton circa A. D. 1476 / reproduced in facsimile from the copy preserved in the John Rylands Library, Manchester ; with an introduction by Henry Guppy.

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Creator:
Russell, John, -1494
Date:
1909
Physical Description:
35, [8] p. : facsim. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

3. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

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Creator:
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
Date:
1964
Physical Description:
xxxv, 49 p. : facsims. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. De Houtsneden van Mansion's Ovide moralise, Bruges 1484 / met een toelichting door M.D. Henkel.

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Date:
1922
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 44 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The boke of Saint Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners, containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour: printed at Saint Albans by the schoolmaster-printer in 1486, reproduced in facsimile, with an introduction by William Blades ...

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Creator:
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
32 p., facsim.: 90 l., wdcts. (coats of arms) 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans : a facsimile edition of sigs. a2-f8 of the Boke of St. Albans (1486) / by Rachel Hands.

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Creator:
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:
1975
Physical Description:
lxix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Der Fasciculus medicinae des Johannes de Ketham, Alemannus : Facsimile des Venetianer Erstdruckes von 1491 / mit Einerhistorischen Einfuhrung herausgegeben von Karl Sudhoff.

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Creator:
Ketham, Joannes de, active 15th century
Date:
1923
Physical Description:
57 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., facsims ; 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur : notwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf & actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur: of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table : theyr merveyllous enquestes & adventures, thachyevynge of the sanc-greall and in the ende the dolourous deth: and departynge out of this worlde of them al. : which boke was reduced in to Englysshe / by the well dysposyd knyghte Syr Thomas Malory.

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Creator:
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.

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Creator:
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Date:
MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:
[4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

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Creator:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
Date:
1590[-1630]
Physical Description:
14 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

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Creator:
Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:
1897
Physical Description:
[8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [India Orientalis].

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Date:
1597[-1628]
Physical Description:
13 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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 ...

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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

16. Amplissimi ornatissimiq[ue] triumphi : vti L. Pavlvs de rege Macedonum perse capto, P. Africanus Aemilianus de Cathagenensibus excisis. C N. Pompeius Magnus ex Oriente, Julius Augustanus ... et alij imperatores romani, triumpharunt. Ex antiquissimis lapidum, nummorum et librorum monumentis accuratissima descriptio.

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Creator:
Panvinio, Onofrio, 1529–1568
Date:
[n.d.]
Physical Description:
1, 11 leaves : all ill. ; 35 x 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Reges, reginæ, nobiles, & alij in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti vsque ad annum reparatæ salutis 1600 ...

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Creator:
Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:
1600
Physical Description:
[81] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Amori sdegni et gielosie di Givnone / Julio Bonasone, in ventore

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Creator:
Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498–approximately 1580
Date:
[16--]
Physical Description:
[1], [21] leaves : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Diuerses figures hierogliphiques / peinte par Raphael d'Urbin dans une des sallae du Vatican à Rome.

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Creator:
Audran, Gérard, 1640–1703
Date:
[16--?]
Physical Description:
13 leaves : all ill. ; 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. [Jewelry and ornament design]

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Creator:
Mignot, Daniel, fl. 1590
Date:
[16--]
Physical Description:
[86] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555 / Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, Gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford.

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Creator:
Galvão, António, -1557
Date:
1601
Physical Description:
[12], 97, [3] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

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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

23. 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 ...

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

24. The carpenters rule, or, A booke shewing many plain waies, truly to measure ordinarie timber, and other extraordinarie sollids, or timber : with a detection of sundrie great errors, generally committed by carpenters and others in measuring of timber; tending much to the buyers great losse : published especially for the good of the Companie of Carpenters in London, and other also; ... / by Richard More.

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Creator:
More, Richard (Carpenter)
Date:
1602
Physical Description:
[8], 56 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A caueat for the borower, or, A perfect table of vsurie : shewing how much the principall summe, with the interest, and interest vpon interest, from one pound to a thousand, amounteth vnto yearely for twentie one yeares, after the rate of ten in the hundred.

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Date:
1602
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 44 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weales in the worlde : relating their scituations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters / translated into English, and enlarged, with an addition of the relation of the states of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary, and Spaine; in no language euer before imprinted.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:
1603
Physical Description:
[4], 268 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince, Iames, the first of that name, King, of England, and the sixt of Scotland : at His Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London, vpon the 15th day of March 1603 / invented and published by Stephen Harrison, ioyner and architect, and graven by William Kip.

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Creator:
Harrison, Stephen (Joiner and architect)
Date:
1604
Physical Description:
[9] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle fabriche di nostro signore papa Sisto V / fatte dal cavallier Domenico Fontana, architetto di Sva Santita.

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Creator:
Fontana, Domenico, 1543–1607
Date:
MDXC [1590, that is 1604]
Physical Description:
2 volumes (94 [i.e. 100], [1] leaves; 30 [i.e. 34], [1] leaves) : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Het schilder-boeck waer in voer eerst de laerlustighe iueght den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen. Daer nae in dry deelen t'leuen der vermaerde doorluchtighe schilders des ouden, en nieuwen tyds. Eyntlyck d'wtlegghinghe op den Metamorphoseon. Pub. Ouidij Nasonis ... Door Carel van Mander schilder.

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Creator:
Mander, Carel van, 1548–1606
Date:
1604
Physical Description:
4 v. port. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A briefe description of the whole worlde : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: newly augmented and enlarged; with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning.

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Creator:
Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:
1605
Physical Description:
[164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Problems of beautie and all humane affections / written in Italian by Tho: Buoni, citizen of Lucca, with a discourse of beauty by the same author ; translated into English by S.L., gent.

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Creator:
Buoni, Tommaso
Date:
1606
Physical Description:
[24], 288, [20] p. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...

The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
4, 70 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

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Date:
1607?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 33 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The Bible : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.

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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

35. 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.

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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

36. Cauelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
[16], 88, [4], 212, 233-264, [4], 67, 58-72, [4], 54, [4], 56, [4], 64, [4], 11, 10-81, [5], 20, 25-40 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Nobilitas politica vel civilis : personas scilicet distinguendi, et ab origine inter gentes, ex principum gratia nobilitandi forma ...

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Creator:
Glover, Robert, 1544–1588
Date:
1608
Physical Description:
[6], 190, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Le fortificationi di Buonaiuto Lorini, nobile fiorentino : con la scienza e con la pratica, l'ordine di fortificare le città & altri luoghi, con tutti gli auuertimenti, che più possono apportar benficio per la sicurtà delle fortezze.

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Creator:
Lorini, Buonaiuto, fl. 1600
Date:
MDCIX [1609]
Physical Description:
[12], 303, [1] p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Della caualleria = Grundtlicher Bericht von allem was zu der Reutterei gehorig vnd einem Cauallier dauon zu wissen geburt.

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Creator:
Löhneyss, Georg Engelhard von, 1552–1622
Date:
1609 [-1610]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., music ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

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Date:
1609
Physical Description:
[8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The perfection of horse-manship : dravvne from nature, arte, and practise / By Nicholas Morgan of Crolane, in the countye of Kent, gent.

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Creator:
Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:
1609
Physical Description:
[28], 188, 191-255, 266-272, [4], 273-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [5] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Most approued, and long experienced vvater-vvorkes : containing, the manner of winter and summer-drowning of medow and pasture, by the aduantage of the least, riuer, brooke, fount, or water-prill adiacent : there-by to make those grounds (especially if they be drye) more fertile ten for one : as also a demonstration of a project, for the great benefit of the common-wealth generally, but of Hereford-shire especially / by Rowland Vaughan.

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Creator:
Vaughan, Rowland, 1558–1627
Physical Description:
Imprinted at London : By George Eld, 1610.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The first[-fift] booke of architecture / made by Sebastian Serly ... Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English.

The first[-fift] booke of architecture / made by Sebastian Serly ... Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English.
Creator:
Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475–1554
Date:
1611
Physical Description:
5 v. in 1. ill., plans, diagrs. 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. 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

45. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

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Creator:
Melzo, Lodovico, 1567–1617
Date:
MDCXI [1611]
Physical Description:
[12], 221, [3] pages, [25] leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. 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

47. [Historia septem infantium de Lara ... = Historia de los siete infantes de Lara].

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Creator:
Veen, Otto van, 1556–1629
Date:
1612]
Physical Description:
[40 leaves of plates] : chiefly ill. (engravings) ; 23 x 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Quinti Horatii Flacci emblemata : imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata / studio Othonis Vaeni batavolugdunensis.

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Creator:
Veen, Otto van, 1556–1629
Date:
MDCXII [1612]
Physical Description:
212, [2] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. 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

50. The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations : containing a discourse of the generall art of fishing with the angle, or otherwise, and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyetting of the fighting cocke. Being a worke neuer in that nature handled by any former author.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1614
Physical Description:
[2], 51, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. L'idea della architettvra universale, di Vincenzo Scamozzi ... diuisa in X libri ...

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Creator:
Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:
1615
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. ill., plans. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking ; together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. Which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, Blasius Multibibus, aliàs Drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... Faithfully rendred according to the originall Latine copie.

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Creator:
Multibibus, Blasius
Date:
MDCXVII [1617]
Physical Description:
[8], 80, [6], 87-194, [6] p., 2 leaves of plates ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. An hipponomie or The vineyard of horsemanship : deuided into three bookes. 1. The theorick part, intreating of the inward knowledge of the man. 2. The first practicke part, shewing how to worke according to that knowledge. 3. The second practicke part, declaring how to apply both hunting and running horses to the true grounds of this art. In which is plainly laid open the art of breeding, riding, training and dieting of the said horses. Wherein also many errors in this art, heretofore published, are manifestly detected / by Michaell Baret, practitioner and professor of the same art.

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Creator:
Baret, Michael
Date:
1618
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 v. ([20], 48, 51-122, [20], 139, [13], 101, [1], 23, [3] p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

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Creator:
G. M. (Geffray Minshull), 1594?-1668
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
xviii, 91 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Baziliōlogia : a booke of kings : beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English kings from the conquest vntill this present : with their seuerall coats of armes, impresses and devises : and a brief chronologie of their liues and deaths : elegantly grauen in copper.

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Date:
1618
Physical Description:
[1], [99] leaves : all ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. 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.

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

57. 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.

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

58. Il Solimano : tragedia / del co. Prospero Bonarellj.

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Creator:
Bonarelli, Prospero, 1580–1659
Date:
MDCXX [1620]
Physical Description:
[12], 162, [2] p., 5 leaves of plates (folded) : ill. ; 23 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The horse-mans honour: or, The beautie of horse-man-ship : As the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses. With the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer. Not innented [sic] and drawn from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise: and now published at the request of diuers honorable and worthy persons, for the generall good of this noble nation of Great Britaine.

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Creator:
Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:
1620
Physical Description:
[16], 188, 191-255, 266-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae : que in publicis priuatisque locis visuntur : icones [par secunda].

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Date:
1621
Physical Description:
[80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. 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.

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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

62. Nova typis transacta navigatio : Novi Orbis Indiæ Occidentalis admodum reverendissimorum PP. ... Dn. Buellii Cataloni abbatis montis Serrati, & in vniversam Americam, sive Novum Orbem sacræ sedis Apostolicæ Romanæ â latere legati, vicarij, ac patriarchæ : sociorumq[ue] monarchorum ex Ordine S.P.N. Benedicti ad suprà dicti Novi Mundi barbaras gentes Christi S. Evangelium prædicandi gratia delegatorum sacerdotum dimissi per S.D.D. Papam Alexandrum VI. Anno Christi 1492 : nunc primum e varijs scriptoribus in vnum collecta, & figuris ornata / authore venerando Fr. Don Honorio Philopono Ordinis S. Benedicti Monacho.

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Creator:
Philoponus, Honorius
Date:
1621.]
Physical Description:
[12], 101, [3] p., [1], 18 leaves of plates : ill., music ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. 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.

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

64. Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis / auctore Antonio de Herrera ... ; metaphraste C. Barlæo ; accesserunt & aliorum Indiæ Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperæ Australis Jacobi le Maire historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.

Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis / auctore Antonio de Herrera ... ; metaphraste C. Barlæo ; accesserunt & aliorum Indiæ Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperæ Australis Jacobi le Maire historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.
Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:
1622
Physical Description:
[4], 81 [i.e. 82], [1], 11, [1] leaves, [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps, port. ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

66. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde / par Antoine de Herrera ... ; translatee d'espagnol en françois ; a la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la navigation du vaillant capitaine de mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres ...

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Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:
1622
Physical Description:
[6], 103, [7], 107-254 p., [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Austriae, ducis Burg. Bra. &c. / veris imaginibus expressa a Iacobo Francquart archit. reg. ; eiusdem principis morientis vita, scriptore E. Puteano, consil. et historiogr. reg.

Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Austriae, ducis Burg. Bra. &c. / veris imaginibus expressa a Iacobo Francquart archit. reg. ; eiusdem principis morientis vita, scriptore E. Puteano, consil. et historiogr. reg.
Creator:
Francquart, Jacques, 1577–1651
Date:
MDCXXIII [1623]
Physical Description:
A-M p., [130] leaves of plates ([2] folded) ; ill., ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Maneige royal : ou lon peut remarquer le defaut et la perfection du cheualier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne des princes, fait & pratiqué en l'instruction du roy / par Antoine Pluuinel, son escuyer principal, conseiller en son Conseil d'Etat, son chambellan ordinaire, & sous-gouuerneur de sa Majesté. Le tout graué & representé en grandes figures de taille douce par Crispian de Pas, flamand, à l'honneur du roy, & à la memoire de Monsieur de Pluuinel.

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Creator:
Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555–1620
Date:
MDCXXIII [1623]
Physical Description:
[10] p., 69 columns, [1] p., [58] leaves of plates : ill. (ports.) ; 36 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

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Creator:
Morosini, Andrea, 1558–1618
Date:
1623
Physical Description:
[18], 729, [22] p., : port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. 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

71. The elements of architecture / collected by Henry Wotton, Knight, from the best authors and examples.

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Creator:
Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568–1639
Date:
MDCXXIV [1624]
Physical Description:
[10], 123, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Les raisons des forces mouuantes, avec diuerses machines tant vtiles que plaisantes : ausquelles sont adjoints plusieurs desseins de grotes et fontaines : augmentes de plusiers figures, avec le discours sur chacune / par Salomon De Caus ...

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Creator:
Caus, Salomon de, -1626
Date:
1624
Physical Description:
3 v. in 1 : ill., music ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes. : Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen and others. ... Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death more since added, his also perused, & perfected. : All examined, abreuiated, illustrated w[i]th notes, enlarged w[i]th discourses, adorned w[i]th pictures, and expressed in mapps. : In fower parts, each containing fiue bookes. / By Samuel Purchas, B.D.

Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes. : Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen and others. ... Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death more since added, his also perused, & perfected. : All examined, abreuiated, illustrated w[i]th notes, enlarged w[i]th discourses, adorned w[i]th pictures, and expressed in mapps. : In fower parts, each containing fiue bookes. / By Samuel Purchas, B.D.
Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The double-armed man, by the new inuention : briefly shewing some famous exploits atchieued by our Brittish bowmen: with seuerall portraitures proper for the pike and bow. / By W.N. archer.

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Creator:
Neade, William
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
[40] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Icones biblicae praecipuas Sacrae Scripturae historias eleganter & graphicè repraesentantes = Biblische Figuren, darinnen die fürnembsten historien, in heiliger vnd göttlicher Schrifft begriffen, gründtlich vnd geschichtmessig entworffen, zu nutz vnd Belüstigung Gottsförchtiger vnd kunstverständiger Personen artig vorgebilget: an Tag gegeben, durch Matthaevm Meriam ... Mit Versen vnd Reimen in dreyen Sprachen geziert vnd erkläret.

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Creator:
Merian, Matthaeus, 1593–1650
Date:
[1625-1630]
Physical Description:
4 parts in 1 volume : illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien : wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt / door Ioannes de Laet, ende met noodighe kaerten ende tafels voorsien.

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Creator:
Laet, Joannes de, 1581–1649
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
[24], 510, [16] p., [18] leaves of plates : maps ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. La chasse royale / Composee par le roy Charles IX. Et dediée au roy tres-chrestien de France & de Nauarre, Louys XIII. Tres-vtile aux curieux & amateurs de chasse.

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Creator:
Charles IX, King of France, 1550–1574
Date:
M.DC.XXV [1625]
Physical Description:
[8], 54, 57-138 [i.e. 136] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Pvrchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present. : Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Flovd, the heathenish, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / By Samuel Purchas, ...

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Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:
1626
Physical Description:
[44], 242, 241-636, 635-1047, [37] p. (the first four pages blank), [1] double leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Maneige royal ou lon peut remarquer le defaut et la perfection du cheualier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne des princes, fait & pratiqué en l'instruction du roy par Antoine Pluuinel son escuyer principal, conseiller en son conseil d'estat, son chambellan ordinaire, & sous-gouuerneur de sa Majesté. Le tout graué & representé en grandes figures de taille douce par Crispian de Pas, Flamand, à l'honneur du roy, & à la memoire de Monsieur de Pluvinel. Imprimé pour la secunde foijs & mis en alleman a la ville de Brunsvic Au despens de Gotfried Muller = Königliche Reitschul. Da beydes der Mangel vnd Volkommenheit eines Reuters zu vermercken, in allen Exercitijs dieser fürst. vnd adelichen Kunst, gebraucht vnd practisirt bey Vnterweisung des Königs, durch Antonium Pluvinel, Kön. May. Oberstalmeistern, Rath vom Staedt, Ordinari Kemmerern, vnd vnter Gouuernatorn. Alles nach Ahrt vnd Invention Crisp. de Pass. den Jüngern in schönen grossen Figuren abgebildet, zu Ehren Königlicher Mayest. vnd christlicher Angedächtnis des Monsieur de Pluvinel. Zum Andernmahl aussgelegt vnd in vnsere hochdeutsche Sprach vertirt.

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Creator:
Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555–1620
Date:
Anno 1626
Physical Description:
[28], 40, 40 p., 64 double leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. 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

81. Typus mundi in quo eius calamitates et pericula nec non diuini : humanique amoris antipathia : emblematice proponuntur à RR.C.S.I.A.

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Date:
1627
Physical Description:
99, 200-240, [4] p. : ill. ; 13 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gordon S. Haight

82. Il torneo / di Bonauentura Pistofilo nobile ferrarese, dottor di legge e caualiere, nel Teatro di Pallade dell'ordine militare et accademico ...

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Creator:
Pistofilo, Bonaventura, 1576–
Date:
MDCXXVII [1627]
Physical Description:
[16], 555, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, music ; 23 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. L'instruction du roy en l'exercice de monter à cheual. / Par Antoine de Pluuinel, son sous-gouuerneur, conseiller en son conseil d'estat, chambellan ordinaire, & son escuyer principal. Lequel respondant à sa Majesté, luy faict remarquer l'excellance de sa methode pour reduire les cheuaux en peu de temps à l'obeyssance des iustes proportions de tous les plus beaux airs & maneiges. Le tout enrichy de grandes figures en taille douce, representant les vrayes et naïfues actions des hommes et des cheuaux en tous les aires, et maneiges, courses de bagnu, rompre en lice au Quintan, et combatre à l'Espée. Ensemble les figures des brides, les plus necessaires à cet vsage, desseignées et grauées par Chrispian de Pas.

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Creator:
Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555–1620
Date:
M.DC.XXVII. [1627]
Physical Description:
[12], 207, [1] p., [1], 15, [1] 16-56 double leaves of plates : ill. (engravings, woodcuts, ports.) ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus ss. patrvm illustrata / authore Hermanno Hvgone, Societatis Iesv ... ; sculpsit Christophorus à Sichem ...

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Creator:
Hugo, Herman, 1588–1629
Date:
1628
Physical Description:
456 p., 16 leaves : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Architectura civilis, das ist, Eigentliche Beschreibung wie ma[n] nach bester Form vnd gerechter Regul ... aufführen vnnd erbawen soll / alles auss vielfaltiger Erfahrnuss zusammengetragen, beschrieben vnd mit 40 Kupfferstucken für Augen gestellt durch Josephum Furttenbach.

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Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:
anno MDC XXVIII [1628]
Physical Description:
[22], 78 pages, 40, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.
Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:
anno MDCXXIX [1629]
Physical Description:
[22], 134 p., 20 leaves of double plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. A treatise of artificial fire-vvorks both for vvarres and recreation ... Newly written in French, and englished by the authour Tho: [!] Malthvs.

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Creator:
Malthus, Francis
Date:
1629
Physical Description:
7 p.., 261 [i.e. 263], [8] p. ill. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Allmodischer Kleyder Teuffel : das ist 1. Schimpff vnnd Ernstlicher Discurs vber den heuttigen Allmodischen : oder A-la-modischen Kleyder Teuffel &c : 2. Eröterung der Frage : Wie ein Erbarer Teutscher Mann thun solle wann sein Weib (da es doch sein Seckel nicht ertragen könte) sich Allmodisch tragen wolte damit er des Hauptcepters nicht gar verlustigt werde : 3. Regulœ eines Getrewen Ehe Weibs / Verfasset Durch M. Johann Ellinger.

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Creator:
Ellinger, Johann, of Arheiligen
Date:
Anno 1629
Physical Description:
56 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto.

Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto.
Creator:
Neade, William
Date:
[approximately 1630]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Architectura martialis, das ist, Ausführliches Bedeucken, über das, zu dem geschütz und Waffen gehärige Gebäu ... allen Martialisten, besondes den Zeügwartten und Bächsenmeistern zu Wolgefallen beschrieben und mit 12 hierzau dienlichen Kupfferstücken aussgefertiget / durch Josephum Furttenbach.

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Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:
Anno MDCXXX [1630]
Physical Description:
[14], 93, [5], 22, [48] p., [12] double-leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The true travels, adventvres, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593 to 1629 : his accidents and sea-fights in the Straights, his service and strategems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia ... : together with a continuation of his Generall history of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624, to this present 1629, as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies / all written by actuall authors, whose names you shall finde along the history.

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Creator:
Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:
1630
Physical Description:
[12], 60 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Effigies regum Anglorum : Wilhelmo Conquestore : are to be sold by Robt. Peake att his shoppe neere Holborne conduitt.

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Creator:
Faithorne, William, 1616–1691
Date:
[1630?]
Physical Description:
[25] leaves : all ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Trigonometrie, or, The doctrine of triangles : divided into two bookes : the first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles : the second of sphericall, with grounds and demonstrations thereof : both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithmes, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath beene formerly taught : whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen), a treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing, with certaine necessary tables used in navigation / by Richard Norvvood ...

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Creator:
Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675
Date:
1631
Physical Description:
8, 129, [180] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. His Maiesties commission giuing power to enquire of the decayes of the cathedral church of St. Paul in London, and for repairing of the same.

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Creator:
England and Wales. Sovereign (1625–1649 : Charles I)
Date:
1631
Physical Description:
[2], 49, [2] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende warhafftige vnd volkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften, Insulen, Königreichen vnd Provintzien, Seecusten ... in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyses : dessgleichen, gründlicher Bericht von der Innwohner Beschaffenkeit, Sitten ... vnd Gebräuchen ... / alles auss verscheidenen west-indianischen Historien-Schreibern, vnnd mancherley Sprachen ... zusammen getragen, extrahirt, in ein richtige Ordnung der Materien vnd Zeit, vnd in diese käuffliche Form bracht durch Johan Ludwig Gottfriedt ; mit zugehörigen Landtafeln, Contrafacturen vnd ... Kupfferstücken ... geziert vnd verlegt, durch Mattheum Merian ...

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Creator:
Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
Date:
1631
Physical Description:
[12], 562, 72 p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.
Creator:
Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
Date:
MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:
[8], 458, [32] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. 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.

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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

98. Pia desideria. lib. III Ad Vrbanvm VIII. Authore Herm. Hvgone Soc. Iesu.

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Creator:
Hugo, Herman, 1588–1629
Date:
M.DC.XXXII
Physical Description:
16 p.l., 442, [4] p. illus., plates, coat of arms. 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
1633
Physical Description:
[16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... / by Henry Peacham ...

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Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
1634
Physical Description:
[8], 163 p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts