Exhibition History: Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) / Image Available: Available / Classification: Books - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

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1. The Canterbury tales.

The Canterbury tales.

Creator:: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:: 1483]
Physical Description:: [312] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]
Physical Description:: [2], 5-60, [32] leaves (last leaf blank), [92] leaves of plates : ill., 47 maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The works of Geoffrey Chaucer : now newly imprinted.

The works of Geoffrey Chaucer : now newly imprinted.

Creator:: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:: Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896]
Physical Description:: 4 blank l., ii p., 1 l., 554 p. illus. 43 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East : and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other undomesticated animals, as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes and serpents : the whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes ... the scenery gives a faithful representation of the picturesque country, together with the manners and customs of both the native and European inhabitants : the narrative is divided into forty heads, forming collectively a complete work, but so arranged that each part is a detail of one of the forty coloured engravings ... / the whole taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson ... ; the drawings by Samuel Howett [sic] ...

Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East : and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other undomesticated animals, as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes and serpents : the whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes ... the scenery gives a faithful representation of the picturesque country, together with the manners and customs of both the native and European inhabitants : the narrative is divided into forty heads, forming collectively a complete work, but so arranged that each part is a detail of one of the forty coloured engravings ... / the whole taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson ... ; the drawings by Samuel Howett [sic] ...

Creator:: Williamson, Thomas
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: [4], ii, [2], 150 p., 41 leaves of plates : ill. ; 47 x 60 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ...

Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ...

Creator:: Berners, Juliana, 1388?-
Date:: [1486]
Physical Description:: [180] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts