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1. [Armorial bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg]

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Date:
[between 1465 and 1485?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut ; image 6.8 x 6.6 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. [Biblia, deutsch]

No cover image available
Date:
1477
Physical Description:
2 volumes ([267], [275] leaves) : illustrations ; 40 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. [Biblia, deutsch]

No cover image available
Date:
[1477]
Physical Description:
2 volumes (CCCxviiij, CCCxxxj [i.e. 321, 332] leaves) ; 38-39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. [Biblia]

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1478]
Physical Description:
544 leaves : illustrations ; 35 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. [Chronicles of England with the Fruit of times].

No cover image available
Date:
[1485 or 1486]
Physical Description:
[580] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [De re militari]

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Creator:
Valturio, Roberto, 1405–1475
Date:
An. M. CCCCLXXII [1472]
Physical Description:
[524] p. : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. [Die Neue Ehe und das Passional von Jesu]

No cover image available
Date:
[7 Oct. 1476]
Physical Description:
[156] leaves : illustrations ; c 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. [Digestum novum]

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1478]
Physical Description:
[820] pages ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. [Elders in adoration]

No cover image available
Date:
[18 December 1472]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut ; image 21 x 15 cm, on sheet 26 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. [Evangelia et Epistolae].

No cover image available
Date:
[1480 October 27]
Physical Description:
268 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. [Four leaves from Le Roman de Mélusine]

No cover image available
Creator:
Couldrette, active 14th century-15th century
Date:
[ca. 1476?]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
16 Feb. 1503 [i.e. 1504]
Physical Description:
296 leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. [Hie hebt sich an ein schöne Hÿstori wie Troÿa die kostliche Stat erstöret ward]

No cover image available
Creator:
Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century
Date:
[not before 24 April 1474]
Physical Description:
[144] leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. [Historia Romana].

No cover image available
Creator:
Appianus, of Alexandria
Date:
M.CCCC.LXXVII [1477]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ([264], [424] pages) ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. [Lectura super quinque libros decretalium]

No cover image available
Creator:
Niccolò, de' Tudeschi, 1386–1445
Date:
[1477]
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 42 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. [Proof for the Kelmscott Chaucer, pages 223-224].

No cover image available
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1896
Physical Description:
[2] pages : illustration ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. [Rudime[n]tum nouicioru[m]].

No cover image available
Date:
MCCCLXXV [1475]
Physical Description:
[912] pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 38 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. [Stern des Meschiah]

No cover image available
Creator:
Petrus Niger, approximately 1434–1483
Date:
[20 Dec. 1477]
Physical Description:
[644] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
15 Feb. 1512
Physical Description:
406 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. [Vita et Fabulae]

No cover image available
Date:
[circa 1476]
Physical Description:
[288] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Vitae sanctorum patrum]

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1482]
Physical Description:
[4], i-CC.xxx leaves : illustrations ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. [World map]

No cover image available
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1482]
Physical Description:
1 map : woodcut ; image 41 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.

A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.
Date:
1596
Physical Description:
[40] p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:
1605
Physical Description:
[164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A chapbook of English tat : 10 hand coloured postcards / by Andrew Mockett.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
[10] postcards : hand-colored woodcuts ; cards 10 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist

26. A chapbook of English tat.

A chapbook of English tat.
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
[2002]
Physical Description:
[32] pages : chiefly ilustrations ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist

27. A chapbook of English tat.

A chapbook of English tat.
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
[2002?]
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (10 prints) : hand-colored woodcuts ; sheets 29 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Mockett

28. A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...

A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...
Creator:
Rogers, Charles, 1711–1784
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
2 v. illus., plates, ports. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A collection of publications relating to Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead / by John Sykes.

No cover image available
Date:
[1835?]
Physical Description:
534 p. in various pagings : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A contemporary Grand Tour : book 11, Santorini.

No cover image available
Creator:
Clements, Mike
Date:
[2013]
Physical Description:
[9] cards : color illustrations ; 11 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A correct likeness, handsomely framed, in one minute, for one shilling.

A correct likeness, handsomely framed, in one minute, for one shilling.
Creator:
Stanley, C. (Portraitist)
Date:
[approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : portrait ; 47 x 32 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. A description of the island of Jamaica : with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related, viz. Barbadoes, St. Christophers, Nievis or Mevis, Antego, St. Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Barbada, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New England, New-Found-Land : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places. Illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.

No cover image available
Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
[8], 192 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. (maps) ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. : Also, some enquiries into the nature of the water of St. Vincent's Rock, near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary. To which is added, A century of observations, more fully declaring the nature, property, and distinction of the baths. With an account of the lives, and character, of the physicians of Bathe. / By Tho. Guidott ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Guidott, Thomas, fl. 1698
Date:
1676 [i. e. 1676-1677]
Physical Description:
[30] p., 200 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., plan ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain, &C. from the conquest anno 1066 to the year, 1677. In seven parts or books. Containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages, and issues ... all engraven in copper plates ... By Francis Sandford, esq., Lancaster herald at arms.

A genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain, &C. from the conquest anno 1066 to the year, 1677. In seven parts or books. Containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages, and issues ... all engraven in copper plates ... By Francis Sandford, esq., Lancaster herald at arms.
Creator:
Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694
Date:
1683
Physical Description:
6 p. l., 578 (i.e. 588), [10] p., 1 l. : illus., plates (part double) 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A general system of horsemanship in all it's [sic] branches : containing a faithful translation of that most noble and useful work of his Grace, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, entitled, The manner of feeding, dressing, and training of horses for the great saddle, and fitting them for the service of the field in time of war, or for the exercise and improvement of gentlemen in the Academy at home : a science peculiarly necessary throughout all Europe, and which has hitherto been so much neglected, or discouraged in England, that young gentlemen have been obliged to have recourse to foreign nations for this part of their education : with all the original copper-plates, in number forty-three, which were engrav'd by the best foreign masters, under his Grace's immediate care and inspection, and which are explained in the different lessons : and to give all the improvements that may be, this work is ornamented with head-pieces and initial letters, properly adapted to the subsequent chapters, and enlarged with an index.

A general system of horsemanship in all it's [sic] branches : containing a faithful translation of that most noble and useful work of his Grace, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, entitled, The manner of feeding, dressing, and training of horses for the great saddle, and fitting them for the service of the field in time of war, or for the exercise and improvement of gentlemen in the Academy at home : a science peculiarly necessary throughout all Europe, and which has hitherto been so much neglected, or discouraged in England, that young gentlemen have been obliged to have recourse to foreign nations for this part of their education : with all the original copper-plates, in number forty-three, which were engrav'd by the best foreign masters, under his Grace's immediate care and inspection, and which are explained in the different lessons : and to give all the improvements that may be, this work is ornamented with head-pieces and initial letters, properly adapted to the subsequent chapters, and enlarged with an index.
Creator:
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:
MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:
2 v. ([2], viii, [11]-142, [4] p., [84] leaves of plates; [2], 4, [4], 36, 33-138, [14] p., [22] leaves of plates) : ill. (engravings) ; 55cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

No cover image available
Creator:
Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899
Date:
[1891]
Physical Description:
56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A history of Hartlepool / by Sir Cuthbert Sharp ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Sharp, Cuthbert, Sir, 1781–1849
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
vi, 180, [iii]-xxvi p., [3], [1], [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plates, plans, geneal. tables ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

No cover image available
Date:
[1740]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues ; by John Evelyn, Esq. fellow of the Royal Society.

A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues ; by John Evelyn, Esq. fellow of the Royal Society.
Creator:
Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
Date:
MDCLXIV [1664]
Physical Description:
[24], 159, [1] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred scriptures / set fourth by that moste famous clerke, Huldrich Zwinglius and now translated out of Laten into Englysshe by Ihon Veron ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484–1531
Date:
1550
Physical Description:
[208] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A survey of the cathedral-church of Landaff : containing an account of all the inscriptions on the monuments and grave-stones, the history of the Bishops, and other dignitaries belonging to the same, their several preferments, times of decease, burial and epitaphs : with a large appendix of records and other curious matters, relating to Landaff Church and Bishoprick : to which is subjoined an exact list of all the churches and chapels in this diocese ... : and illustrated with a draught of the iconography and upright of Landaff Cathedral / by Browne Willis ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:
1718
Physical Description:
228, [2], 10 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.

No cover image available
Creator:
Manwood, John, -1610
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Abbreuiamentum statuto[rum].

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
9 Oct. 1499
Physical Description:
[7], clxxxviij, [1] leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Aeliani De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more Graecorum / liber à Francisco Robertello Vtinensi in Latinum sermonem versus, & ab eodem picturis quamplurimis illustratus.

No cover image available
Creator:
Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century
Date:
MDLII [1552]
Physical Description:
[8], 65, [3], 73-77, [27] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta / Joannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

No cover image available
Creator:
Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:
anno MDC [1600]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([36] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.

Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.
Creator:
Neville, Alexander, 1544–1614
Date:
1575
Physical Description:
[16], 156, [12], 207, [13] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : geneal. tables, coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ellinger, Johann, of Arheiligen
Date:
Anno 1629
Physical Description:
56 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. America, sive novus orbis, tabulis Aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineatus / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

No cover image available
Creator:
Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:
anno à partu Virgineo MDC [1600]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([84] pages) : illustrations, 20 maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. An abstract of the most material things belonging to the cathedral of St. Peter, Glocester [sic].

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1790?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts