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Exhibition History Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27)

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1. 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

2. Nenia britannica : or, A sepulchral history of Great Britain.

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Creator:
Douglas, James, Rev
Date:
1793
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

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Creator:
Bertram, Charles, 1723–1765
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
198 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. A new mapp of England Scotland and Ireland [cartographic material].

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Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:
[1678]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 50 x 57 cm, on sheet 54 x 63 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning : with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within [the] kingdome of England, divided and described / by Iohn Speed.

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Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
1627
Physical Description:
[16], 146, [10] pages, [134] leaves of plates : maps ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Gothic furniture; consisting of twenty-seven coloured engravings, from designs by A. Pugin. With descriptive letter-press.

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Creator:
Pugin, Augustus, 1762–1832
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
iv, 26 p., 1 leaf. 27 col. plates (incl. added t.-p., engr.) 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world ... : together with all the prouinces, counties and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines Empire / performed by Iohn Speed.

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Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
1627
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 44, 5-8 pages) : illustrations, 22 maps ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. [The cronycles of Englond].

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Date:
[1482]
Physical Description:
[364] pages ; 25 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The history of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, from its foundation untill these times : extracted out of originall charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts : beautified with sundry prospects of the church, figures of tombes, and monuments / by William Dugdale ...

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Creator:
Dugdale, William, 1605–1686
Date:
1658
Physical Description:
[6], 136, 157-299, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A set of fifty new and correct maps of England and Wales, &c. : with the great roads and principal cross-roads, &c. shewing the computed miles from town to town ... / all, except two, composed and done by Herman Moll, geographer ...

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
1724
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([51] leaves) : illustrations, maps ; 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes. By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, esq. ...

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Creator:
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
5 p., 59 p. XXIV col. plates. 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The English dance of death / from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson ; with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Doctor Syntax." Vol. I[-II]

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1815-1816
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. An history of the original parish of Whalley : and honor of Clitheroe, in the counties of Lancaster and York / by Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

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Creator:
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759–1821
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
[4], v [i.e. vii], 483, [7] p., [28] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map, geneal. tables ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The monumental effigies of Great Britain : selected from our cathedrals and churches for the purpose of bringing together, and preserving correct representations of the best historical illustrations extant, from the Norman conquest to the reign of Henry the Eighth / by C.A. Stothard.

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Creator:
Stothard, C. A. (Charles Alfred), 1786–1821
Date:
1817 [i.e. 1811-1832]
Physical Description:
23, 112, [8] p., [146] leaves of plates : ill. ; 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts