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1. The noble arte of venerie or hunting : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiueteene sundrie chaces together, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued 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 England. The contents vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.

The noble arte of venerie or hunting : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiueteene sundrie chaces together, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued 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 England. The contents vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.
Creator:
Gascoigne, George, -1577
Date:
[1575]
Physical Description:
[10], 202, 359-362, 205-248, [4] p. : ill. (music) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. The first volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande : conteyning, the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest, the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde, 1571, the description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the firste originall of that nation, vntill the yeare 1547 / faithfully gathered and set forth, by Raphaell Holinshed.

The first volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande : conteyning, the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest, the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde, 1571, the description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the firste originall of that nation, vntill the yeare 1547 / faithfully gathered and set forth, by Raphaell Holinshed.
Creator:
Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?
Date:
1577
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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.

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Creator:
Manwood, John, -1610
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Intrationu[m] excellentissimus liber : perq[uam] necessaries o[mn]ibus leg[um] hominib[us]: fere in se continens o[mn]em medullam diuersar[um] materiar[um] ... Necno[n] multorum breuium tam executionu[m] q[uam] aliorum valde vtilium illis hunc librum inspecturis aut inscrutandis. Que quide[m] supradicta facilit[ate] possunt inueniri p[er] indice[m] alphabeticu[m] p[er]uigila[n]ti studio co[n]fectu[m] [et] p[er] ordine[m] l[ite]raru[m] redactu[m] ...

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Date:
anno n[ost]re redemptionis, MCCCCCx, die vero vltima mensis Februarii [1510 February 28]
Physical Description:
[10], l, lii-liij, lv-clxxxv, [1] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and improume[n]tes.

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Creator:
Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531
Date:
1523
Physical Description:
124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Here endeth this presente Cronycle of Englande with the fruyte of tymes, compyled in a boke, & also impry[n]ted by one sumtyme scole mayster of Seynt Albons ...

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Date:
in the yere of oure lorde god MCCCCC and xx [1520]
Physical Description:
[6], Clxiii, [23] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts