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1. 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.

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

2. Painting illustrated in three diallogues, containing some choice observations upon the art. Together with the lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue, to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo. With an explanation of the difficult terms.

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Creator:
Aglionby, William, d. 1705
Date:
1685
Physical Description:
19 p.l., 375 (i.e. 387) p. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus : centenario numero complexa, summo studio collecta / atque in lucem edita à Carolo Allard = Des bewoonden waerelds steden en dragten : in een honderd-getal begreepen / met een byzondere naerstigheid verzaameld en uitgegeven door Carel Allard.

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Creator:
Allard, Carel, 1648–approximately 1709
Date:
[not after 1698?]
Physical Description:
[14] pages, [202] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Diuerses figures hierogliphiques / peinte par Raphael d'Urbin dans une des sallae du Vatican à Rome.

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Creator:
Audran, Gérard, 1640–1703
Date:
[16--?]
Physical Description:
13 leaves : all ill. ; 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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.

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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

6. Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland Ceylon ... Nevens een omstandige en grondigh doorzochte ontdekking en wederlegginge van de afgoderye der Oost-Indische heydenen : Waar inne der zelver grootste geheymenissen, zoo uyt de eygene geschriften, als t'zamenspraak, en bywooninge der voornaamste Bramines, en andere Indiaansche wet-geleerden, getrouwelijk werden aan't licht gebracht, zijnde hier by gevoeght een Malabaarsche spraak-konst; zeer dienstigh voor alle die het lust met dien landaard om te gaan ... / Door Philippus Baldaeus ...

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Creator:
Baldaeus, Philippus, 1632–1672
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 : ill., maps, plans ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabve in qva, per le quali si dimostra come, e per chi le bell'arti di pittura, scultura, e architettura lasciata la rozzezza delle maniere greca, e gottica, si siano in questi secoli ridotte all' antica loro perfezione. Opera di Filippo Baldinvcci Fiorentino distinta in secoli, e decennali ...

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Creator:
Baldinucci, Filippo, 1625–1696
Date:
1681-1728
Physical Description:
6 v. in 3. fold. geneal. tables. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

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

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

10. An hipponomie or The vineyard of horsemanship : deuided into three bookes. 1. The theorick part, intreating of the inward knowledge of the man. 2. The first practicke part, shewing how to worke according to that knowledge. 3. The second practicke part, declaring how to apply both hunting and running horses to the true grounds of this art. In which is plainly laid open the art of breeding, riding, training and dieting of the said horses. Wherein also many errors in this art, heretofore published, are manifestly detected / by Michaell Baret, practitioner and professor of the same art.

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Creator:
Baret, Michael
Date:
1618
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 v. ([20], 48, 51-122, [20], 139, [13], 101, [1], 23, [3] p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

12. 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

13. The painters voyage of Italy : in which all the most famous paintings of the most eminent masters are particularised, as they are preserved in the several cities of Italy : chiefly related to their altar-pieces, and such other paintings as are ornamental in their churches : and also many choice pictures, kept as jewels, in the palaces of particular persons : whereunto is added that excellent collection of Signior Septale, in his closet at Milan ... / written originally in Italian by Giacomo Barri ...; Englished by W.L. ...

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Creator:
Barri, Giacomo, approximately 1630–approximately 1690
Date:
1679
Physical Description:
[16], 159 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., ports., map ; 18 cm. (8v)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

15. The boke of Saint Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners, containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour: printed at Saint Albans by the schoolmaster-printer in 1486, reproduced in facsimile, with an introduction by William Blades ...

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Creator:
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
32 p., facsim.: 90 l., wdcts. (coats of arms) 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts