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1. An ordinance prohibiting cock-matches : Fryday March 31. 1654. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council.

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Creator:
England and Wales
Date:
1654
Physical Description:
[2], 193-194 p. ; 26 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Reges, reginæ, nobiles, & alij in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti vsque ad annum reparatæ salutis 1600 ...

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Creator:
Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:
1600
Physical Description:
[81] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Perspective practical. Or, a plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art... By a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisian. Faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts. Set forth in English by Robert Pricke ...

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Creator:
Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:
1698
Physical Description:
8 p. ., 150, [6] p. 150 engraved plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The countrey farrier : Teaching divers and sundry approved medicines, to cure all sorts of cattell : as horse, kine, sheepe, hogs, and dogs. With directions how to find, or know, what the disease or infirmity is. Contrived into a little volume, for avoiding the charge of high-prised bookes. Very usefull and necessary for all country-farmers, and housholders; and generally, for all sorts of people / Exactly approved and collected, by the long travels, study, and experience of William Poole.

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Creator:
Poole, William, farrier
Date:
1648
Physical Description:
[8], 24, p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The history of the Church of Peterburgh : wherein the most remarkable things concerning that place, from the first foundation thereof, with other passages of history, not unworthy public view are represented / by Symon Gunton ... ; illustrated with sculptures ; and set forth by Symon Patrick.

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Creator:
Gunton, Simon, 1609–1676
Date:
1686
Physical Description:
348 p., [4] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A display of heraldrie : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method / wherein it is now reduced, by the study and industry of John Guillim ...

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Creator:
Guillim, John, 1565–1621
Date:
1660
Physical Description:
[16], 144 (i.e. 444), 36, [6] p. : coats of arms ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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

8. Catalogus librorum Roberti Scott : bibliopolae regii Londinensis. In quavis lingua & facultate insignium ex variis Europae partibus advectorum, quorum auctio habenda est Londini ... decimo tertio die Februarii, 1688 / Per Benjaminum Walford, bibliopolam Londinensem.

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Creator:
Scott, Robert, fl. 1661–1691
Date:
[etc., 1687/8]
Physical Description:
[4], 144, 135-175, [3] p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A description of the sands, shoals, buoys, beacons, roads, channels, sea-marks, on the coast of England, from the South-Foreland to Orford-Ness : shewing their bearings and distances from most of the eminent places on the land : with the depths of water on the sands, as also in the channels between : with several other things necessary to be known : being accommodated with a new and exact draught of the sands, according to the said descriptions / discovered by Capt. Gilbert Crane and Capt. Thomas Browne, elder brethren of the Trinity-House ; and the sea-coasts surveighed by Jonas Moor Esq. ...

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Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:
MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:
[4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : map ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The order and ceremonies used for and at the solemn interment of the most high, mighty and most noble prince George Duke of Albemarle ... 1670 / collected by Francis Sandford ... and published by His Ma[jes]ties especiall command.

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Creator:
Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694
Date:
1670]
Physical Description:
[8] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 x 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A catalogue of divers excellent Italian pictures of the most eminent masters : both ancient and modern : which will be exposed to sale in the Banqueting-House at White-Hall, by way of publick out-cry, on Munday the 2d day of June next.

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Date:
1684
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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

13. Just and legal exceptions against the late act for preventing multiplicity of buildings erected within the suburbs of the city of London and ten miles thereof, since March 1620.

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Date:
1657?]
Physical Description:
8 p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The English husbandman / Gervase Markham.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1982
Physical Description:
205 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

15. The gardeners labyrinth / Dydymus Mountain.

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Creator:
Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528–
Date:
1982
Physical Description:
180 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

16. A sparke of frendship and warme goodwill, that shewes the effect of trve affection and Vnfoldes the fineneffe of this world : Whereunto is ioined, the commoditie of sundrie sciences, the benefit that paper bringeth, with many rare matters rehearsed in the same : with a description & commendation of a paper mill, now and of late set vp (neere the towne of Darthford) by an high Germayn called M. Spilman, Ieweller to the Qu. most excellent Maiestie / written by Thomas Chruchyard Gent.

A sparke of frendship and warme goodwill, that shewes the effect of trve affection and Vnfoldes the fineneffe of this world : Whereunto is ioined, the commoditie of sundrie sciences, the benefit that paper bringeth, with many rare matters rehearsed in the same : with a description & commendation of a paper mill, now and of late set vp (neere the towne of Darthford) by an high Germayn called M. Spilman, Ieweller to the Qu. most excellent Maiestie / written by Thomas Chruchyard Gent.
Creator:
Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604
Date:
1978
Physical Description:
[36] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

17. A new orchard and garden / William Lawson. Knots for gardens / John Marriott. A treatise of fruit-trees together with the spiritual use of an orchard / Ralph Austen.

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Creator:
Lawson, William, active 1618
Date:
1982
Physical Description:
241 p. in various pagings : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

18. Systema horti-culturae, or, The art of gardening / John Worlidge.

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Creator:
Worlidge, John, fl. 1669–1698
Date:
1982
Physical Description:
283 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library