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1. [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

2. [India Orientalis].

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

3. [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

4. A book of cyphers or letters reverst. Being a work very ... usefull ... for ... artificers engravers painters ... &c. Where you may find a cypher for any name ... curiously compos'd ... by Jeremiah Marlow ...

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Creator:
Marlow, Jeremiah
Date:
1683
Physical Description:
1 p.., 68 plates. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

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Date:
1660
Physical Description:
[5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...
Date:
1647
Physical Description:
[3], 18 [i.e. 33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A book of perspective & geometry : being the ABC, and first degree of all good art ... / this second book of architecture made by Sebastian Serly ; entreating of perspective, touching the superficies ; translated out of Itallian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English, for the benefit of our English nation ...

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Creator:
Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475–1554
Date:
1657
Physical Description:
[2], 30 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A book of seuerall ornaments inuented & ingraued by S. Gribelin 1682. Liure de plusieurs ornements inuenté et graué par S. Gribelin. in. et sculps.

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Creator:
Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 2–1733
Date:
1682]
Physical Description:
8 plates. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A book of the habits, customes, and manners of diverse nations : as also the prospects of cityes, townes, temples and others structures in severall parts of the world / collected by John Seller, Senr., and are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping.

A book of the habits, customes, and manners of diverse nations : as also the prospects of cityes, townes, temples and others structures in severall parts of the world / collected by John Seller, Senr., and are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping.
Date:
[169-?]
Physical Description:
[65] leaves (some folded) : all ill. ; 16 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A booke containing such beasts as are most usefull for such as practice drawing, graveing, armes painting, chaseing, and for severall other occasions. Designed by F. Barlow. Ingraved by Wm. Vaughā.

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Creator:
Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Date:
1664
Physical Description:
1 p.., 13 plates. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A booke of archetecture containing seeling peeces, chimny peeces and seuerall sorts vsefull for carpenters, joyners, caruers, painters / inuvented by I. Barbet.

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Creator:
Barbet, Jean, 1597?-1654
Date:
1670
Physical Description:
[30] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A booke of drawinges : performed acording [sic] to the best order for use & brevity that is yet extant.

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Date:
1650
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A brief and plain description of the five orders of columns of architecture : viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Roman and Corinthian, with their architraves, friezes and cornishes / by Simon Bosboon, the city-mason of Amsterdam. According to that most eminent and excellent architect Vincent Scamozzi, master-builder of Venice. And reduced into minutes, with a diagonal sccale, very useful and necessary for all mason, bricklayers, carpenters, joyners, painters, carvers, plaisterers, turner, etc. Very plan and easie for all lovers and young practitioners, of this art of architecture.

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Creator:
Bosboom, Simon, 1614–1670
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
[8] p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building. Viz. solidity, conveniency, and ornament. By Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly knight.

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Creator:
Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667
Date:
1662
Physical Description:
6 p.., 44 p. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609–1674
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
5 p. ., 322 p. illus. 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts