Period: 17th century / Image Available: Unavailable / Language: English

1. Atlas or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world : through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by new & exact maps / translated by Henry Hexham ...

Creator:: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:: 1633 [i.e. 1636]-1638
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (462 pages) : maps ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Cambridge Shire / Sutton Nicholls sculp.

Date:: [1695?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 41 x 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

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

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

4. An introduction to the general art of drawing, wherein is set forth the grounds and properties, which of this infallible and judicious art are necessary to be known and understood ... with an illustration of 25 copper prints ... Likewise, An excellent treatise of the art of limning in which the true grounds and the perfect use of water-colours ... are ... taught. Formerly set out by ... Gerhard of Brugge. And now much augmented and amended, with some observations, touching ... the colouring and painting with water-colours. Truly tr. into English by J. L.

Creator:: Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: 2 pts. plates. 24 cm. (4 to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Galliae descriptio [cartographic material] : in qua archiepiscopatus et episcopatus omnes academiae item et parlamenta singula suis quaequae notis distingutur / W. Kip sculp.

Creator:: Kip, William
Date:: [ca. 1602]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 80 mm in diameter, on sheet 13 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A vindication of Stone-Heng restored : in which the orders and rules of architecture observed by the ancient Romans, are discussed. Together with the customs and manners of several nations of the world in matters of building of greatest antiquity. As also an historical narration of the most memorable actions of the Danes in England. / By John Webb ...

Creator:: Webb, John, 1611–1672
Date:: MDCLXV [l665]
Physical Description:: [8], 232 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. (Fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S., ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: [1662?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 36 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The art of graveing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper. allso the manner & method of that famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse. in their seuerall ways of etching.

Creator:: Faithorne, William, 1616–1691
Date:: 1662
Physical Description:: 5 p.., 48 p. 10 plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The kingdome of England & principality of Wales : exactly described whith every sheere & the small townes in euery one of them : in six mappes, portable for every man's pocket ... : vseful for all commanders for quarteringe of souldiers ... / described by one that travailed throughout the whole kingdome for its purpose ... W. Hollar, fecit.

Creator:: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:: 1644
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([1], [6] leaves) : 6 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Tuba stentoro-phonica : an instrument of excellent use, as well as at sea, as at land : invented and variously experimented in the year 1670 : and humbly presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty Charles II, In the year, 1671 / by S. Morland ; the instruments (or speaking-trumpets) of all sizes and dimensions, are made and sold by Mr. Simon Beal, one of His Majesties Trumps. in Suffolk-street.

Creator:: Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625–1695
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [2], 14 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Proposals of a new model for rebuilding the city of London : with houses, streets and wharfs, to be forthwith set out by His Majesty's and the city surveyors : with the advantages that will accrue by the building the same accordingly, viz. I. The owners satisfied for their ground, the builder for building, and the poor inhabitants their losses by the fire. II. The city built stately with large streets, the houses not in danger of fire, and the ground all put to the best profit. III. The people will walk easy and dry, the houses-of-office and streets kept sweet and clean; and goods delivered much cheaper. IV. Convenient houses, shops, warehouses and wharfs not dear. V. Advanced to His Majesty by fines 372670 l. VI. A revenue for ever settled upon the crown of per ann. 223517 l. 10 s.

Creator:: Knight, Val. (Valentine)
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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.

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

14. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : began Jan. 1, 1677 : and intended to be continued monthly / by Joseph Moxon.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: 1677-1680
Physical Description:: 1-48, 51-114, 119-242, [243-250] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Albert Durer revived, or, 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 : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

Date:: [1698]
Physical Description:: [3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:: 1630
Physical Description:: [8], 644, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1633
Physical Description:: [16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Cantabrigia illustrativa sive omnium celeberrime istius universitatis.

Creator:: Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:: 1688
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The mysteries of nature and art, in 4 severall pts.

Creator:: Bate, John
Date:: 1635
Physical Description:: 288 p. illus., port. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking ; together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. Which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, Blasius Multibibus, aliàs Drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... Faithfully rendred according to the originall Latine copie.

Creator:: Multibibus, Blasius
Date:: MDCXVII [1617]
Physical Description:: [8], 80, [6], 87-194, [6] p., 2 leaves of plates ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Virginia impartially examined, and left to publick view : to be considered by all iudicious and honest men. Under which title, is comprehended the degrees from 34 to 39, wherein lyes the rich and healthfull countries of Roanock, the now plantations of Virginia and Mary-land. Looke not upon this booke, as those that are set out by private men, for private ends; for being read, you'l find, the publick good is the authors onely aime. For this piece is no other than the adventurers faithfull steward, disposing the adventure for the best advantage, advising people of all degrees, from the highest master, to the meanest servant, how suddenly to raise their fortunes. Peruse the table, and you shall finde the way plainely layd downe / By William Bvllock, gent.

Creator:: Bullock, William, b. 1617?
Date:: 1649
Physical Description:: [12], 66 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Naval speculations, and maritime politicks : being a modest and brief discourse of the Royal Navy of England: of its oeconomy and government, and a projection for an everlasting seminary of seamen, by a royal maritime hospital. With a project for a royal fishery. Also necessary measures in the present war with France, &c. / by Henry Maydman.

Creator:: Maydman, Henry
Date:: 1691
Physical Description:: [32], 348, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A new method of cryptography : humbly presented to the most serene Majesty of Charles the II / by Samuel Morland, knight and baronet, and one of the gentlemen of his Majestie's privy chamber in ordinary. 1666.

Creator:: Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625–1695
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 12 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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.

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

25. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

Creator:: Burton, William, 1575–1645
Date:: [1622]
Physical Description:: 10, 320, [12] p., 2 leaves of plates (one folded) : port., ill., coats of arms, map ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The union of honovr : containing the armes, matches and issves of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640 : with the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being : and of the gentry of Lincolnshire : whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the conquest, till the yeere 1602 / collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-Smith.

Creator:: Yorke, James, fl. 1640
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 16, 331, 52, 76 p. : coats of arms ; 31 cm. (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Remarks in the grande tour of France & Italy. Lately performed by a person of quality.

Creator:: Bromley, William, 1664–1732
Date:: 1692
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 370, [12] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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.

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

29. A new map of the English plantations in America [cartographic material] : both continent and ilands : shewing their true situation and distance from England or one with another / by Robert Morden ... and William Berry.

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: [ca. 1677]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 42 x 52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Mechanick exercises, or, the doctrine of handy-works ... / by Joseph Moxon.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Physical Description:: [4], 234, [8] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The ornaments of architecture : containing compartments, shields, mantlings, foldige, festones, monuments for tombs, alphabets of large letters plain and enrich'd, with the order of making them : with some new designes for carving and painting of eminent coaches : useful for painters, stone-cutters, carvers, plaisterers / collected out of the work of several eminent masters, and set forth by Robert Pricke.

Creator:: Pricke, Robert
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: [51] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

33. A treatise of artificial fire-vvorks both for vvarres and recreation ... Newly written in French, and englished by the authour Tho: [!] Malthvs.

Creator:: Malthus, Francis
Date:: 1629
Physical Description:: 7 p.., 261 [i.e. 263], [8] p. ill. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Britannia, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones ...

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:: [14], 464 p., [113] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 50 maps plan ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

Creator:: Fontaine, Nicolas, 1625–1709
Date:: 1688-1690
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Seuerall wayes of hunting, hawking and fishing according to the English manner / invented by Francis Barlow. Etched by W. Hollar.

Creator:: Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Date:: [1671]
Physical Description:: [13] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk.

Creator:: De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
Date:: 1661-1662?
Physical Description:: 7 drawings : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheets 20 x 30 cm to 39 x 100 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Plan of the fortification at Sandown, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 69 x 80 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ... To which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Date:: 1678
Physical Description:: 5 p.., 407, [15] p. front. (port.) plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. 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.

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

41. [The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine]

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: [1646?]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([57] leaves) : 57 maps ; 44 x 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. 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.

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

43. An apology for the builder, or, A discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building.

Creator:: Barbon, Nicholas, -1698
Date:: 1689
Physical Description:: [2], 37 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The carriers cosmographie, or, A briefe relation, of the innes ordinaries, hosteries, and other lodgings, in and neere London : where the carriers, waggons, foote-posts and higglers, doe usually come, from any parts, townes, shires, and countries, of the kingdoms of England, principality of Wales, as also from the kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland : with nomination of what daies of the weeke they do come to London and on what daies they returne, whereby all sorts of people may find direction how to receiue or send, goods or letters, into such places as their occasions may require : as also where the ships, hoighs, barkes, t[i]ltboats, barges and wherries, do usually attend to carry passengers ... / by Iohn Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, John, 1580–1653
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: 24 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The carpenter's rule made easie, or, The art of measuring superficies and solids : as timber, stone, boards, glass, and the like : also, an addition or second way, being the ground work of measuring timber, stone, boards, and glass ... / by John Darling.

Creator:: Darling, John, 17th cent
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: [2], [10], 140, [126] p. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation : Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush, or flying. IV. How to make shot, proportion the charge, and know good powder; with the proper use of the stalking-horse, bush, hedge, and how to manage them. V. Of singing birds, their diseases and cure. VI. How to distinguish all sorts of poulterers ware, whether old or young, fresh or stale, full of eggs or not. Also to well order, and speedily fat tame and wild fowl. VII. To which is added directions for destroying all manner of vermine / By J.S. Gent.

Creator:: Smith, John, active 1684–1704
Date:: 1697
Physical Description:: [8], 159, [1] p. : ill. ; 12 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Magnum in parvo, or, The practice of geometry with a new order and particular method thereof. Wherein is contained examples of landskips, pieces of prospective, and the like: represented by eighty two plates; each plate having a full description. Publish'd in English by R. P. for the lovers of art ...

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 178, [6] p. ill., plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility ... / deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities by William Dugdale ...

Creator:: Dugdale, William, 1605–1686
Date:: 1675-1676
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The compleat horseman and expert ferrier : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts, as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge, and prescribing the best manner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not hitherto so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses: a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leech: the cures placed alphabetically: with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any author. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the whole kingdome: and dedicated to His most excellent Majestie / By Thomas de Gray Esquire.

Creator:: De Grey, Thomas
Date:: 1639
Physical Description:: [32], 356, [8] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Polygraphice; or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ...

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Date:: 1673
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 352, [8] p. front., ill., plates. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Art's masterpiece. Or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex. Containing, I. The arr [!] of limning and painting in oil, &c. ... By C. K.

Date:: 1697
Physical Description:: 4 p. ., 160 p. incl. front. 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. 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.

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

53. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

Creator:: Cruso, John, d. 1681
Date:: MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:: [10], 108 p., 16 leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. De arte graphica. The art of painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy. With remarks. Translated into English, together with an original preface containing a parallel betwixt painting and poetry. By Mr. Dryden. As also A short account of the most eminent painters, both ancient and modern, continu'd down to the present times ... By another hand.

Creator:: Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:: 1695
Physical Description:: 2 p.., lxxiv, 355, [1] p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. 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.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [6], 79, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The country-man's jewel: or, The jockey's master-piece : Part I contains plain and approv'd rules to choose, feed, and breed the best stallions, horses mares, or geldings. How to order and feed a race-horse. Also how to know a sound horse or mare from one that is distemper'd. With a collection of two hundred choice and approv'd receipts to cure all distempers, and different diseases in horses and mares. The like never before published. Part II prescribes cures for all distempers in black and white cattle; as horses, oxen, bulls, cows, calves goats, mules, asses, sheep, hogs, dogs, deer, hares, and conies. Also to destroy vermin. With directions for improving land to great advantage. To cure the biting of a mad dog / by M.S. [i.e. A.S.?] gent., L.M. J. Lambert, and others.

Date:: [ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:: 118, [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The anatomy of an horse : containing an exact and full description of the frame, situation and connexion of all his parts, (with their actions and uses) exprest in forty nine copper-plates : to which is added an appendix, containing two discourses: the one, of the generation of animals; and the other, of the motion of the chyle, and the circulation of the bloud / by Andrew Snape, Jun. Farrier to His Majesty.

Creator:: Snape, Andrew, 1644–
Date:: An. Dom. 1683
Physical Description:: [14], 237, [1], 45, [7] p., XLIX leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The office of the holy week according to the Missall and Roman breviary : translated out of French with a new and ample explication taken out of the Holy Fathers, of the mysteries, ceremonies, gospels, lessons, psalms, and of all that belongs to this off

Creator:: Catholic Church
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: [8], 611 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. An approued treatise of hawkes and hawking : Diuided into three bookes. The first teacheth, how to make a short-winged hawke good, with good conditions. The second, how to reclaime a hawke from any ill condition. The third, teacheth cures for all knowne griefes and diseases / by Edmund Bert, Gentleman.

Creator:: Bert, Edmund
Date:: 1619
Physical Description:: [16], 109, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Pub. in English by Robert Pricke ...

Creator:: Le Muet, Pierre, 1591–1669
Date:: 1670
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 31, [1] p. 44 pl. (incl. plans) 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Ars pictoria; or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching. To which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Neanderthal authors. By Alexander Browne ...

Creator:: Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: 4 p.l., 110, [2] p. front. (port.) plates. 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. His Maiesties commission giuing power to enquire of the decayes of the cathedral church of St. Paul in London, and for repairing of the same.

Creator:: England and Wales. Sovereign (1625–1649 : Charles I)
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: [2], 49, [2] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. [The 52 countries [sic] of England and Wales [cartographic material] : described in a pack of cards].

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Physical Description:: 52 maps : ill. ; on playing cards 9.5 x 5.5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. 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 ...

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

65. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing. Wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore. Whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation. With an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

Creator:: Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673–1721
Date:: 1686
Physical Description:: [10], 158, [10], 187, [5], 78; [2], 98 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. 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.

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

67. Markhams maister-peece : Contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publicke practise of all the forraine horse-marshals in Christendome; and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome. Being divided into two bookes. The first contayning all cures physicall: the second all belonging to chyrurgery; with an addition of 160. principall chapters, and 370. most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any author whatsoever. Together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke / Written by Gervase Markham, Gent.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1636
Physical Description:: [16], 588, 599-601, [15] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. William Smellie notebook on weaving.

Creator:: Smellie, William
Date:: 1693-ca. 1767
Physical Description:: 1 volume : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters, both antient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 121 p. ill., fold. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. 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.

Creator:: Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:: 1605
Physical Description:: [164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. [Geographical cards.

Date:: 16--]
Physical Description:: 52 cards. ill. (ports.) 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Atlas Anglicanus et Cambria, or, A book of mapps of all the countyes in the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales / collected by John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.

Creator:: Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:: [1694?]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([115] leaves) : 57 hand-colored maps ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. 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 ...

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

74. Veües des plus beaux endroits de la ville de Rome / Jacques Prou delin. et sculp.

Creator:: Prou, Jacques, approximately 1639–approximately1686
Date:: [circa 1680?]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 x 52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The English military discipline : exactly described by copper cutts, in forty-eight postures of the musquet and thirty-six of the pike : with instructions for all young souldiers, and such who are disposed to learn and have knowledge of the military discipline : wherein are set down the conditions and qualities which are required in every several officer of a private company, and the manner of drawing up of companies and placing them in battail rank.

Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: 23 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Effigies regum Anglorum : Wilhelmo Conquestore : are to be sold by Robt. Peake att his shoppe neere Holborne conduitt.

Creator:: Faithorne, William, 1616–1691
Date:: [1630?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Trigonometrie, or, The doctrine of triangles : divided into two bookes : the first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles : the second of sphericall, with grounds and demonstrations thereof : both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithmes, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath beene formerly taught : whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen), a treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing, with certaine necessary tables used in navigation / by Richard Norvvood ...

Creator:: Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: 8, 129, [180] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Britannia, volume the first, or, An illustration of the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales : by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof : actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps : accomodated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns; and compleated by an accurate account of the more remarkable passages of antiquity, together with a novel discourse of the present state / by John Ogilby Esq. ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([26], 200, [4] pages, [203] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

Creator:: Tower of London (London, England)
Date:: [approximately 169-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page.) ; 17 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A direction for the English traviller : by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales : and also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance between London and any other shire or great towne, with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell, till he come to his journies end.

Creator:: Simons, Matthew, d. 1654
Date:: [1677?]
Physical Description:: 48 leaves (some folded) : maps ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The double-armed man, by the new inuention : briefly shewing some famous exploits atchieued by our Brittish bowmen: with seuerall portraitures proper for the pike and bow. / By W.N. archer.

Creator:: Neade, William
Date:: 1625
Physical Description:: [40] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Pvrchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present. : Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Flovd, the heathenish, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / By Samuel Purchas, ...

Creator:: Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:: 1626
Physical Description:: [44], 242, 241-636, 635-1047, [37] p. (the first four pages blank), [1] double leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber ... II. An abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies.

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Date:: 1685
Physical Description:: 33 p.., 767 p. front. (port.) plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The noble art of venerie or hunting : wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and kill euery one of them / translated & collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approoued 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 Great Britaine.

Creator:: Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580
Date:: An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:: [8], 200, [4], 201-204, 207-250, [4] pages : illustrations, music ; 18 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Counsel and advise to all builders : for the choice of their surveyours, clarks of their works, bricklayers, masons, carpenters, and other work-men therein concerned : as also in respect of their works, materials, and rates thereof : together with several epistles to eminent persons who may be concerned in building / written by Sir Balthazar Gerbier ...

Creator:: Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667
Date:: 1663
Physical Description:: [110], 110 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. An abridgment of the architecture of Vitruvius : containing a system of the whole works of that author illustrated with divers copper plates, curiously engraved, with a table of explanation : to which is added in this edition the etymology and derivation of the terms used in architecture / first done in French by Monsr. Perrault, of the Academy of Paris, and now Englished, with additions.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1692
Physical Description:: [12], 158, [34] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., plans ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. A new touch-stone for gold and silver wares : directing all buyers of large plate or small works : (as silver or gold hilts, buckles, watch-cases, pins and studs in watch-cases, money boxes, tobacco boxes, bells and sockets for corals, buttons and tags for garments, chirurgeons-instruments, rings, chains, lockets, or other goldsmiths works) : how to know whether they buy or wear such as are of the lawful standard-allay ... and also discovering the principal matters of the goldsmiths and cutlers ... trades.

Creator:: W. B. (William Badcock)
Date:: 1679
Physical Description:: [20], 218, [151] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Geography rectified: or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy six maps.

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 596 [i.e. 592] p. ill. (maps) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verrulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts.

Creator:: Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: [16], 14, [2], 255, [3], 99, [17], 8, [2], 16, [2], 62, [4], 58, [8], 92, [14], 26 p. : ports. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forrest-trees : also, how to plant, make and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c : with several figures proper for avenues and walks to end in, and convenient figures for lawns : also rules and tables shewing how in ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, with rules how to divide woods or land, and how to measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry, shewing the use of that most excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples : with many other rules, usefull for most men / by M. Cook.

Creator:: Cook, Moses
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: [16], 204, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases, in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fourteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: [16], 80 p., pp. 79-394, [2], 26, 49, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The trve effigies of our most illustrious soveraigne lord, King Charles, Queene Mary, with the rest of the royall progenie : also a compendium or abstract of their most famous genealogies and pedegrees expressed in prose and verse, with the times and places of their births.

Date:: 1641
Physical Description:: 18 p. : ports. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. This new map of [the] Earth and water according to Wrights alias Mercator's projection, drawn according to [the] more exact celestial observations and the more accurate discoveries of an a approued author, Robt. Morden, is sold at [the] Atlas in Cornhill, London, 1699 ; H. Moll sculpsit.

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: [1699]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 13 sheets ; 130 x 238 cm, on sheets 53 x 72 cm + 1 index map (28 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world ... : together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines empire / performed by John Speed.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: 1646
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], 44 [i.e. 88] pages) : illustrations, 22 maps ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. You lovely virgins that intend to marry : heere's choyce of husbands for you, do not tarry ...

Date:: [between 1671 and 1707]
Physical Description:: [1] sheet : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. By the King. A proclamation against new buildings.

Creator:: England and Wales. Sovereign (1660–1685 : Charles II)
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 36 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The sentiments of the most excellent painters concerning the practice of painting / collected and composed in tables of precepts by Henry Testling ... ; translated into English with remarques on the words of art, with an addition of the grounds, and the practical method in perspective.

Creator:: Testelin, Henri, 1616–1695
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: [10] leaves, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Godly prayers of meditations / collected out of certaine holy workes, by the most vertuous Princesse Katherine Parre, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, in the yeare 1545.

Creator:: Catharine Parr, Queen consort of Henry VIII, 1513–1548
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 54 unnumbered pages (incomplete) ; 5.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The art of painting in oyl : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery : containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working in oyl colours ... / by John Smith ...

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [12], 100 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations : containing a discourse of the generall art of fishing with the angle, or otherwise, and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyetting of the fighting cocke. Being a worke neuer in that nature handled by any former author.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1614
Physical Description:: [2], 51, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Atlas or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world : through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by new & exact maps / translated by Henry Hexham ...

2. Cambridge Shire / Sutton Nicholls sculp.

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

5. Galliae descriptio [cartographic material] : in qua archiepiscopatus et episcopatus omnes academiae item et parlamenta singula suis quaequae notis distingutur / W. Kip sculp.

7. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S., ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.

8. The art of graveing, and etching, wherein is exprest the true way of graueing in copper. allso the manner & method of that famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse. in their seuerall ways of etching.

10. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

13. 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.

14. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : began Jan. 1, 1677 : and intended to be continued monthly / by Joseph Moxon.

15. Albert Durer revived, or, 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 : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

16. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

18. Cantabrigia illustrativa sive omnium celeberrime istius universitatis.

19. The mysteries of nature and art, in 4 severall pts.

23. A new method of cryptography : humbly presented to the most serene Majesty of Charles the II / by Samuel Morland, knight and baronet, and one of the gentlemen of his Majestie's privy chamber in ordinary. 1666.

25. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

27. Remarks in the grande tour of France & Italy. Lately performed by a person of quality.

29. A new map of the English plantations in America [cartographic material] : both continent and ilands : shewing their true situation and distance from England or one with another / by Robert Morden ... and William Berry.

30. Mechanick exercises, or, the doctrine of handy-works ... / by Joseph Moxon.

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

33. A treatise of artificial fire-vvorks both for vvarres and recreation ... Newly written in French, and englished by the authour Tho: [!] Malthvs.

35. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

36. Seuerall wayes of hunting, hawking and fishing according to the English manner / invented by Francis Barlow. Etched by W. Hollar.

37. Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk.

38. Plan of the fortification at Sandown, Isle of Wight.

39. Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ... To which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.

40. 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.

41. [The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine]

42. 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.

43. An apology for the builder, or, A discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building.

45. The carpenter's rule made easie, or, The art of measuring superficies and solids : as timber, stone, boards, glass, and the like : also, an addition or second way, being the ground work of measuring timber, stone, boards, and glass ... / by John Darling.

48. The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility ... / deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities by William Dugdale ...

50. Polygraphice; or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ...

51. Art's masterpiece. Or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex. Containing, I. The arr [!] of limning and painting in oil, &c. ... By C. K.

52. 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.

53. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

55. 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.

58. The office of the holy week according to the Missall and Roman breviary : translated out of French with a new and ample explication taken out of the Holy Fathers, of the mysteries, ceremonies, gospels, lessons, psalms, and of all that belongs to this off

60. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Pub. in English by Robert Pricke ...

62. His Maiesties commission giuing power to enquire of the decayes of the cathedral church of St. Paul in London, and for repairing of the same.

63. [The 52 countries [sic] of England and Wales [cartographic material] : described in a pack of cards].

64. 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 ...

68. William Smellie notebook on weaving.

70. 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.

71. [Geographical cards.

72. Atlas Anglicanus et Cambria, or, A book of mapps of all the countyes in the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales / collected by John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.

74. Veües des plus beaux endroits de la ville de Rome / Jacques Prou delin. et sculp.

76. Effigies regum Anglorum : Wilhelmo Conquestore : are to be sold by Robt. Peake att his shoppe neere Holborne conduitt.

79. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

81. The double-armed man, by the new inuention : briefly shewing some famous exploits atchieued by our Brittish bowmen: with seuerall portraitures proper for the pike and bow. / By W.N. archer.

88. Geography rectified: or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy six maps.

89. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verrulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts.

92. The trve effigies of our most illustrious soveraigne lord, King Charles, Queene Mary, with the rest of the royall progenie : also a compendium or abstract of their most famous genealogies and pedegrees expressed in prose and verse, with the times and places of their births.

93. This new map of [the] Earth and water according to Wrights alias Mercator's projection, drawn according to [the] more exact celestial observations and the more accurate discoveries of an a approued author, Robt. Morden, is sold at [the] Atlas in Cornhill, London, 1699 ; H. Moll sculpsit.

94. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world ... : together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines empire / performed by John Speed.

95. You lovely virgins that intend to marry : heere's choyce of husbands for you, do not tarry ...

96. By the King. A proclamation against new buildings.

97. The sentiments of the most excellent painters concerning the practice of painting / collected and composed in tables of precepts by Henry Testling ... ; translated into English with remarques on the words of art, with an addition of the grounds, and the practical method in perspective.

98. Godly prayers of meditations / collected out of certaine holy workes, by the most vertuous Princesse Katherine Parre, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, in the yeare 1545.

99. The art of painting in oyl : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery : containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working in oyl colours ... / by John Smith ...