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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. Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 = The world maps of Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 / J. Fischer & F. v. Wieser.

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Creator:
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470–1519
Date:
1903
Physical Description:
2 maps on 24 sheets ; 127 x 230 cm., sheets 44 x 62 cm. or smaller and 122 x 227 cm., sheets 45 x 62 cm. or smaller, in portfolio 64 x 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The first map of Australia [cartographic material] : from Nicholas Vallard's atlas, 1547, in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. at Middle Hill, 1856.

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Date:
[1856]
Physical Description:
1 map : col. ; 37.6 x 55.4 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Van den Wyngaerde's View of London (circa 1550)

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Creator:
Wyngaerde, Anton van den, d. 1571
Date:
1881-1882
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (7 plates) : all ill. ; 53 x 295 cm, on 7 sheets 80 x 59 cm, in cover 79 x 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

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Creator:
Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
[2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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 ...

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

18. A particular account of the grants of each session of Parliament : from the 5th of November 1688 to the 16th of April 1697 : & from thence to the end of the year 1715, with a state of the publick debts as subscribed into the South Sea Corporation.

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Date:
1688-1715
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

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Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
[2], v, [1], 94, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. William Smellie notebook on weaving.

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Creator:
Smellie, William
Date:
1693-ca. 1767
Physical Description:
1 volume : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Eighty-four mezzotints by Georg Philipp Rugendas and Christian Rugendas].

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Creator:
Rugendas, Georg Philipp, 1666–1742
Date:
[1693-1735]
Physical Description:
84 prints : mezzotint with tint plate ; platemarks 19 x 30 cm, and smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. An account of what workmen hath bin imployed about the building at Greate Bathampton since February the 4, 1694/5.

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Creator:
Berrington, John, -1743
Date:
1694-1721
Physical Description:
1 volume (150 pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699.

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Date:
MDCCCXXXIV [1834]
Physical Description:
15 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material, 1699-1981 (bulk 1811-1899).

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Creator:
Carr family
Date:
1699-1981
Physical Description:
10 linear ft.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. The gentleman's guide.

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Creator:
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (4 leaves) : hand col. maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Plates by Woolfe & Gandon for Vitruvius Britannicus.

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Creator:
Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
Date:
s.d
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. To the right honourable John, Earl of Rothes, &ca. these plates exhibiting the funeral solemnities observed at the internment of his grace John Duke of Rothes Lord High Chancelor of Scotland 23 of August 1681, are respectfully inscribed by his lordship's most obedient, & devoted humble servant, Thomas Sommers.

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Date:
between 1700 and 1773]
Physical Description:
4 plates. 48 x 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. B. Seeley, bookseller and stationer in Buckingham : sells Bibles and common prayer books in all sizes and in all kinds of binding, modern books in divinity, history, travels, poetry, &c. ...

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Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The plan of Dunkirk and its fortification as it was in the year MDCCXIV.

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Date:
17--]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 49 x 31 cm., on sheet 55 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Divers different designs of figures proper for carvers, painters, &c. : but particularly adapted for youth to draw after.

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Date:
[17--?]
Physical Description:
[3] leaves : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. To the honourable Archibald Douglas esqr. of Douglas ... these plates exhibiting the solemnities, and ceremonies used at the sitting down, & rising of the Scots Parliament, before the union with England, are most humbly enscribed, by his most obedient & devoted humble servt. Thomas Sommers.

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Date:
17--]
Physical Description:
3 plates 48 x 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. [Hunting scene]

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Date:
[18th century]
Physical Description:
1 print : on linen ; 71 x 74 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Collection of British portraits.

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Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:
circa 1700-1817
Physical Description:
approximately 550 prints in 3 volumes ; 54 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Catalogue of door ornaments.

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Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Cantabrigia illustrata : contenant: les vûës de la ville de Cambridge, avec ses edifices, & ses maisons de campagne, comme aussi des autres lieux circonvoisins; representées en tailles-douces très exactes, avec des explications dessous chaque planche.

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Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
[ca. 1700]
Physical Description:
[4] p., [44] leaves of plates, [1] folded : ill., maps ; 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Turin et ses environs.

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Creator:
Deroy
Date:
[17--?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam : perillustris ac magnifici domini Ignatii Christophori nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall, sacri Romani imperii, & Regni Hungariae equitis, sacrae Caesareae Majestatis consiliarii Aulico-Bellici ab augustissimo, & invictissimo Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I. ad serenissimum, ac potentissimum Tzarum, & magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII / ablegati extraordinarii descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb, p.t. secretario ablegationis Caesareae ; accessit reditus suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

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Creator:
Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:
[1700?]
Physical Description:
[6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 3 maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Album of English bookplates.

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Date:
approximately 1700-1950?
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam perillustris ac magnifici Domini Ignatii Christophori, nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall ... ab ... Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I ad ... Tzarum & Magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII ablegati extraordinarii / descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb ... ; accessit reditus Suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

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Creator:
Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:
[1700?]
Physical Description:
[6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (13 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Album of designs for fancy goods.

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Date:
18th century
Physical Description:
1 volume (352 pages) : etching, engraving ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Collection of engraved portraits.

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Physical Description:
21 v. : all ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Theodore & Honoria : a translation from Boccaccio / by John Dryden ; illustrated by Carol Walklin.

Theodore & Honoria : a translation from Boccaccio / by John Dryden ; illustrated by Carol Walklin.
Creator:
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
[23] p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the art of bricklayers-work / by Joseph Moxon.

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Creator:
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:
1700
Physical Description:
64 [i.e. 46] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Art's masterpiece: or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex. In two parts. I. The art of limning and painting in oil, &c. ... II. The art of making glass ofcrystal, of all sorts and colours, and to prepare the materials ...

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Date:
[170-?]
Physical Description:
166, [2] p. incl. front. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. An historical account of Mr. Brome's three years travels over England, Scotland and Wales. : Giving a true and exact description of the chiefest cities, towns, and corporations; together with the antiquities of divers other places ...

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Creator:
Brome, James, -1719
Date:
1700
Physical Description:
[12], 51, [1], 55-287, [9] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Nouvaux livre d'oyseaux desinée au naturel.

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Creator:
Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Physical Description:
52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Index villaris, or, An exact register, alphabetically digested, of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, ... the bishopricks, deanries [sic], churches, chapels, hospitals : with the rectories and vicarages in England and Wales, ... the private seats of the king, nobility and gentry, the number of Parliament men sent by cities or burroughs, the inns of court, colleges, inns of chancery, or other societies ... : hereto is added a perfect catalogue of the nobility of England and Wales, to the present time, Feb. 20 1700, with their respective seats and the counties wherein they are situate.

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Creator:
Adams, Mr. (John), -1738
Date:
1700
Physical Description:
[8], 420 [i.e. 416] p. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The artist's assistant, in the study and practice of mechanical sciences. Calculated for the improvement of genius. Illustrated with copper-plates.

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Date:
[17--?]
Physical Description:
288, iv p. ill. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A new map containing the towns, gentlemens houses, villages, and other remarks round London : as from London toe Windsor, Ware, Chelmsford, the Hope, Tunbridge, Guildford, &c.

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
[ca. 1700]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 26 x 28 cm., on sheet 30 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Vitruvius Britannica or the British Architect.

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Date:
s.d.]
Physical Description:
5 vols.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts