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Creator:: William, of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre, approximately 1130–approximately 1190
Date:: 20 Nov. 1481
Physical Description:: [144] leaves ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde or thymage of the same.

Date:: 1481]
Physical Description:: [100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. [The cronycles of Englond].

Date:: [1482]
Physical Description:: [364] pages ; 25 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. [T]o the moste excellente, moste redoubted and most crysten kyng, Kyng Edward the fourth / Johan Kay hys humble poete lawreate ...

Creator:: Caoursin, Guillaume, d. 1501
Date:: 1482?]
Physical Description:: [48] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia / Wyllyam Caxton].

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: [after 20 Nov. 1483]
Physical Description:: 449 leaves : illustrations, portraits ; 33 x 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Here foloweth the copye of a lettre whyche Maistre Alayn Charetier wrote to hys brother whyche desired to come dwelle in Court : in whyche he reherseth many myseryes [and] wretchydnesses therin vsed for taduyse hym not to entre in to it leste he after repente like as hier after folowe : and late translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe / whyche copye was delyuerid to me by a noble and vertuous erle at whos instance [and] requeste I haue reduced it in to Englyssh.

Creator:: Chartier, Alain, active 15th century
Date:: [approximately 1483]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : 27 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The holy apostle and doctour of the peple saynt Poule sayth in his epystle.

Creator:: Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288–1322
Date:: [1483]
Physical Description:: [165] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Q]uonia[m] ex t[er]mi[ni]s fiu[n]t p[ro]po[si]c[ion]es ...

Date:: [approximately 1483]
Physical Description:: [326] pages ; 18 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Here begynneth the prologue or prohemye of the book callid Caton : whiche booke hath ben translated in to Englysshe by Mayster Benet Burgh, late Archedeken of Colchestre and hye chanon of saint stephens at westmestre ... and by cause of late cam to my hand a book of the said Caton in Frensshe, whiche reherceth many a fayr lernynge and notable ensamples, I haue translated it oute of frensshe in to Englysshe, as al along here after shalle appiere, whiche I presente vnto the cyte of london.

Date:: [1484]
Physical Description:: [160] p. ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. [Chronicles of England with the Fruit of times].

Date:: [1485 or 1486]
Physical Description:: [580] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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 ...

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

25. English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans : a facsimile edition of sigs. a2-f8 of the Boke of St. Albans (1486) / by Rachel Hands.

Creator:: Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:: 1975
Physical Description:: lxix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. That this is writen in this lytel boke ought the prestes to lerne and teche to theyr parysshes : and also it is necessary for symple prestes that understode not the scriptures : and it is made for symple peple and put into englisshe ...

Creator:: Roye, Guy de, Abp., ca. 1345–1409
Date:: 7 May 1489
Physical Description:: [184] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Here begynneth the table of the rubryshys of the boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye : whiche sayd boke is departyd in to foure partyes ...

Creator:: Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364–approximately 1431
Date:: 14 July 1489]
Physical Description:: [288] p. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. [Abridgement of cases]

Creator:: Statham, Nicholas, -1472
Date:: [1490?]
Physical Description:: 380 pages ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Here begynneth the lyf of Saint Katherin of Senis the Blessid Virgin.

Creator:: Raymond, of Capua, 1330–1399
Date:: [1492?]
Physical Description:: [192] p. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Riche and pore have like cu[m]mynge into this worlde & lyke outgoying but their liuyng in this worlde is unlike : what shulde confort a pore man ayenst grutchyng and what wyckednesses folowe louers of richesses ...

Date:: 5 July 1493
Physical Description:: [488] p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Scala perfecc[i]onis.

Creator:: Hilton, Walter, -1396
Date:: 1494]
Physical Description:: [298] p. : ill. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Bartholomeu[s] de proprietatib[us] re[rum].

Creator:: Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century
Date:: [approximately 1495]
Physical Description:: [956] pages : illustrations ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Vitas patrum.

Date:: the yere of Our Lorde MCCCClxxxxv ... [1495]
Physical Description:: [8], CCCxlvii [that is, 348] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Policronicon.

Creator:: Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Date:: ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth. And of the incarnacyon of our lord: MCCCC lxxxxv [13 April 1495]
Physical Description:: [50], CCCxxxvi, CCCxxxvi-CCCxlvi, [1] leaves : illustrations, music ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Diues & pauper.

Date:: 3 Dec. 1496
Physical Description:: [392] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Here begynneth a shorte & a breue table on these Cronycles ...

Date:: and newely in the ye[a]r of Our Lord God 1497 ..
Physical Description:: [452] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur : notwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf & actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur: of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table : theyr merveyllous enquestes & adventures, thachyevynge of the sanc-greall and in the ende the dolourous deth: and departynge out of this worlde of them al. : which boke was reduced in to Englysshe / by the well dysposyd knyghte Syr Thomas Malory.

Creator:: Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: 16 Feb. 1503 [i.e. 1504]
Physical Description:: 296 leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Stultifera nauis.

Creator:: Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Date:: 1509 (14 Dec.)]
Physical Description:: [4], CCLXXIIII [i.e. CCLXXIX] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Stultifera Nauis, : qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis [et] necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, / è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do. 1570. = The ship of fooles, : wherin is shewed the folly of all states, with diuers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. ; Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay Priest.

Creator:: Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Date:: [1570]
Physical Description:: [12], 259, [68] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Here begynneth a lytell cronycle / translated & imprinted at the cost & charge of Rycharde Pynson, by the co[m]maundement of the ryght high and mighty prince, Edwarde Duke of Buckingham, Yerle of Gloucestre, Staffarde, and of Northamton.

Creator:: Hayton, Frère, approximately 1235–approximately 1314
Date:: [approximately 1520?]
Physical Description:: [2], xliiii, [1] leaf ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: 15 Feb. 1512
Physical Description:: 406 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

Date:: [1519?]
Physical Description:: [72] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. 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 ...

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

45. Accidentia ex Sta[n]brigiana editione nuper recognita et castigata lima Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldiensis in florentissimna dromensi academia laureati.

Creator:: Stanbridge, John, 1463–1510
Date:: anno d[omi]ni MDxxii [1522]
Physical Description:: [32] pages ; 18 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

47. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

Date:: 1528
Physical Description:: 384 p. ; 19 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The iust reckenyng, or, Accompt of the whole nomber of the yeares : from the beginnyng of the world vnto this presente yere of 1547 : a certaine and sure declaracion that the world is at an ende : of the last day of judgment ... and have it shal come to passe / translated out of the Germaine tonge into Englishe by Anthony Scoloker ...

Date:: 1547
Physical Description:: [20] p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred scriptures / set fourth by that moste famous clerke, Huldrich Zwinglius and now translated out of Laten into Englysshe by Ihon Veron ...

Creator:: Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484–1531
Date:: 1550
Physical Description:: [208] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.

Creator:: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. A booke in Englysh metre, of the great marchaunt man called "Dives pragmaticus" ... 1563. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the John Rylands library. Together with an introduction by Percy E. Newbery; and remarks on the vocabulary and dialect, with a glossary by Henry C. Wyld.

Creator:: Newbery, Thomas, fl.1563
Date:: 1910
Physical Description:: xxxviii p. facsim. ([16] p. illus.) 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

52. A newe booke containing the arte of ryding, and breaking greate horses : together with the shapes and figures, of many and diuers kyndes of byttes, mete to serue diuers mouthes. Very necessary for all gentlemen, souldyours, seruingmen, and for any man that delighteth in a horse.

Creator:: Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:: [not before 1566]
Physical Description:: [356] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe : that is to say, the office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keeper, and of the ferrer. In the first parte wherof is declared the order of breeding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make them horses of seruice. Conteyninge the whole art of ryding latelye set foorth, and nowe newelye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrst printing, as well touchyng the byttes as otherwyse. Thirdely, howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they traueyle by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiecte togither with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. which bookes are not onely painefully collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure countrey / By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.

Creator:: Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:: [1570?]
Physical Description:: [5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The post of the world : vvherin is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe with their trade and traficke, with their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country, with the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their mynts, with al their martes and fayres, and the raignes of all the kinges of England : a book right necessary and profitable for all sortes of persons, the like before this tyme not imprinted ...

Creator:: Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550–1640
Date:: 1576
Physical Description:: [24], 112 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage / Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.

Creator:: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Date:: 1577
Physical Description:: [10], 466, [6] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

Creator:: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:: 1582
Physical Description:: [124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The pathwaie to martiall discipline : now newly imprinted, and devided into three bookes ...

Creator:: Styward, Thomas
Date:: [1582]
Physical Description:: [2], 166, [2] pages ; [4], 20 leaves, [8] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The first booke of the Historie of the discouerie and conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales, in their daungerous nauigations, in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name. : VVhich historie conteineth much varietie of matter, very profitable for all nauigators, and not vnpleasaunt to the Readers. / Set foorth in the Portingale language, by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda. And now translated into English by N.L. Gentleman.

Creator:: Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de, -1559
Date:: 1582
Physical Description:: [6], 164 leaves ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

Date:: 1583
Physical Description:: [28] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The Spanish colonie, or Briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe World, for the space of XL. yeeres / written in the Castilian tongue by the reuerend Bishop Bartholomew de las Casas or Casaus, a Friar of the order of S. Dominicke. And nowe first translated into English, by M. M. S.

Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: 1583
Physical Description:: [148] p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The art of riding : set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent, horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present work hath put the same into practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale / written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art.

Creator:: Astley, John, d. 1595
Date:: 1584
Physical Description:: [8], 79, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The art of riding : conteining diuerse necessarie instructions, demonstrations, helps, and corrections apperteining to horssemanship, not heretofore expressed by anie other author / Written at large in the Italian toong, by maister Claudio Corte, a man most excellent in this art. Here brieflie reduced into certeine English discourses to the benefit of gentlemen and other desirous of such knowledge.

Creator:: Corte, Claudio
Date:: 1584
Physical Description:: [12], 112 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The schoole of horsmanship : vvherein is discovered vvhat skill and knowledge is required in a good horseman, practised by perfect experience. And also how to reforme anie restie horse, of what nature and disposition so euer. Briefely touching the knowledge of the breeder, sadler, smith, and the horseleach: with a strange and rare inuention how to make a new kinde of racke, and how to teach a horse to lie vpon his bellie vntill the rider take his backe / By Christ. Clifford, Gent.

Creator:: Clifford, Christopher
Date:: 1585
Physical Description:: [7], 24, 29-99, [1] leaves : ill. (diagrs.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. 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

65. A very proper treatise : wherein is briefly set foorth the art of limming, which teacheth the order in drawing and tracing of leters, vinets, flowers, armes, and imagerye : and the maner how to make sundry syses or groundes to lay siluer or gold vpon, and how siluer or golde shall be layed or limmed vpon the syse, and the waye to temper gold and siluer and other mettals and diuerse kindes of colours to write or to limme withall vppon velym, parchment or paper ...

Date:: 1588
Physical Description:: 11, [3] p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Date:: 1589
Physical Description:: [16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The gardeners labyrinth / Dydymus Mountain.

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

69. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

Creator:: Saviolo, Vincentio
Date:: 1595
Physical Description:: [6], 17 [i.e. 21] leaves, [250] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. 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.

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

71. Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure Bookes.

Creator:: Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563–1611
Date:: [1598]
Physical Description:: [10], 197, [4], 198-259 [i.e. 295], [3], 307-462 p., [23] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

Creator:: Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [6], 31 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Date:: 1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:: 3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge.

Creator:: Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538–1600
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: 119, 218 p. illus. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

75. The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... / by Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

Date:: anno 1599-1600
Physical Description:: 3 v. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. 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

77. The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555 / Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, Gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford.

Creator:: Galvão, António, -1557
Date:: 1601
Physical Description:: [12], 97, [3] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. 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

79. The carpenters rule, or, A booke shewing many plain waies, truly to measure ordinarie timber, and other extraordinarie sollids, or timber : with a detection of sundrie great errors, generally committed by carpenters and others in measuring of timber; tending much to the buyers great losse : published especially for the good of the Companie of Carpenters in London, and other also; ... / by Richard More.

Creator:: More, Richard (Carpenter)
Date:: 1602
Physical Description:: [8], 56 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A caueat for the borower, or, A perfect table of vsurie : shewing how much the principall summe, with the interest, and interest vpon interest, from one pound to a thousand, amounteth vnto yearely for twentie one yeares, after the rate of ten in the hundred.

Date:: 1602
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 44 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A survey of London, by John Stow; reprinted from the text of 1603, with introduction and notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1908
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts. (v. 1. port.) illus., fold. map inserted, double facsim. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

82. An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weales in the worlde : relating their scituations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters / translated into English, and enlarged, with an addition of the relation of the states of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary, and Spaine; in no language euer before imprinted.

Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:: 1603
Physical Description:: [4], 268 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince, Iames, the first of that name, King, of England, and the sixt of Scotland : at His Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London, vpon the 15th day of March 1603 / invented and published by Stephen Harrison, ioyner and architect, and graven by William Kip.

Creator:: Harrison, Stephen (Joiner and architect)
Date:: 1604
Physical Description:: [9] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. 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

85. Problems of beautie and all humane affections / written in Italian by Tho: Buoni, citizen of Lucca, with a discourse of beauty by the same author ; translated into English by S.L., gent.

Creator:: Buoni, Tommaso
Date:: 1606
Physical Description:: [24], 288, [20] p. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

Date:: 1607?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 33 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The Bible : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.

Date:: [1607]
Physical Description:: [6], 294, 294-299, 301-361, [1], 359-362, 361-444, 135, [7] leaves : ill., maps (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Cauelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1607
Physical Description:: [16], 88, [4], 212, 233-264, [4], 67, 58-72, [4], 54, [4], 56, [4], 64, [4], 11, 10-81, [5], 20, 25-40 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The perfection of horse-manship : dravvne from nature, arte, and practise / By Nicholas Morgan of Crolane, in the countye of Kent, gent.

Creator:: Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:: 1609
Physical Description:: [28], 188, 191-255, 266-272, [4], 273-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [5] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

Date:: 1609
Physical Description:: [8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Most approued, and long experienced vvater-vvorkes : containing, the manner of winter and summer-drowning of medow and pasture, by the aduantage of the least, riuer, brooke, fount, or water-prill adiacent : there-by to make those grounds (especially if they be drye) more fertile ten for one : as also a demonstration of a project, for the great benefit of the common-wealth generally, but of Hereford-shire especially / by Rowland Vaughan.

Creator:: Vaughan, Rowland, 1558–1627
Physical Description:: Imprinted at London : By George Eld, 1610.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. 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

93. The booke of falconrie or havvking : for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile gentleman ; and now newly reviued, corrected, and augmented, with many new additions proper to these present times.

Creator:: Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
Date:: An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:: [8], 370, [6] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The English husbandman / Gervase Markham.

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

95. 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

96. 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

97. 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.

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

98. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

Creator:: G. M. (Geffray Minshull), 1594?-1668
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xviii, 91 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. 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.

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

100. Baziliōlogia : a booke of kings : beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English kings from the conquest vntill this present : with their seuerall coats of armes, impresses and devises : and a brief chronologie of their liues and deaths : elegantly grauen in copper.

Date:: 1618
Physical Description:: [1], [99] leaves : all ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. A short history of Chichester Greyfriars and Priory Park / by Alison McCann and Timothy J. McCann.

2. Dolls in wonderland : a catalogue & history of dolls.

3. The superb six : Beaulieu, Blenheim Palace, Harewood House, Longleat House, Warwick Castle, Woburn Abbey.

4. Janet Nathan : constructions 1979-1997.

5. Collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves.

7. [T]o the right noble, right excellent prince George duc of Clarence ...

8. Propositio Johannis Russell : printed by William Caxton circa A. D. 1476 / reproduced in facsimile from the copy preserved in the John Rylands Library, Manchester ; with an introduction by Henry Guppy.

9. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

10. The Canterbury tales.

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

12. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

13. Incipiu[n]t exe[m]pla sacre sc[ri]pture ex utroq[ue] testame[n]to secund[dum] ordin[em] l[itte]ra[rum] coll[e]c[t]a [et] p[rimo] de abstine[n]tia.

14. Here begynneth the boke intituled Eracles, and also of Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the conquest of the holy londe of Jherusalem ...

15. Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde or thymage of the same.

16. [The cronycles of Englond].

17. [T]o the moste excellente, moste redoubted and most crysten kyng, Kyng Edward the fourth / Johan Kay hys humble poete lawreate ...

18. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia / Wyllyam Caxton].

20. The holy apostle and doctour of the peple saynt Poule sayth in his epystle.

21. [Q]uonia[m] ex t[er]mi[ni]s fiu[n]t p[ro]po[si]c[ion]es ...

23. [Chronicles of England with the Fruit of times].

24. 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 ...

25. English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans : a facsimile edition of sigs. a2-f8 of the Boke of St. Albans (1486) / by Rachel Hands.

26. That this is writen in this lytel boke ought the prestes to lerne and teche to theyr parysshes : and also it is necessary for symple prestes that understode not the scriptures : and it is made for symple peple and put into englisshe ...

27. Here begynneth the table of the rubryshys of the boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye : whiche sayd boke is departyd in to foure partyes ...

28. [Abridgement of cases]

29. Here begynneth the lyf of Saint Katherin of Senis the Blessid Virgin.

30. Riche and pore have like cu[m]mynge into this worlde & lyke outgoying but their liuyng in this worlde is unlike : what shulde confort a pore man ayenst grutchyng and what wyckednesses folowe louers of richesses ...

31. Scala perfecc[i]onis.

32. Bartholomeu[s] de proprietatib[us] re[rum].

33. Vitas patrum.

34. Policronicon.

35. Diues & pauper.

36. Here begynneth a shorte & a breue table on these Cronycles ...

38. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

39. Stultifera nauis.

41. Here begynneth a lytell cronycle / translated & imprinted at the cost & charge of Rycharde Pynson, by the co[m]maundement of the ryght high and mighty prince, Edwarde Duke of Buckingham, Yerle of Gloucestre, Staffarde, and of Northamton.

42. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

43. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

44. 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 ...

45. Accidentia ex Sta[n]brigiana editione nuper recognita et castigata lima Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldiensis in florentissimna dromensi academia laureati.

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

47. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

49. A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred scriptures / set fourth by that moste famous clerke, Huldrich Zwinglius and now translated out of Laten into Englysshe by Ihon Veron ...

51. A booke in Englysh metre, of the great marchaunt man called "Dives pragmaticus" ... 1563. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the John Rylands library. Together with an introduction by Percy E. Newbery; and remarks on the vocabulary and dialect, with a glossary by Henry C. Wyld.

52. A newe booke containing the arte of ryding, and breaking greate horses : together with the shapes and figures, of many and diuers kyndes of byttes, mete to serue diuers mouthes. Very necessary for all gentlemen, souldyours, seruingmen, and for any man that delighteth in a horse.

57. The pathwaie to martiall discipline : now newly imprinted, and devided into three bookes ...

59. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

67. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

68. The gardeners labyrinth / Dydymus Mountain.

69. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

71. Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure Bookes.

72. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

74. A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge.

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

78. 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.

80. A caueat for the borower, or, A perfect table of vsurie : shewing how much the principall summe, with the interest, and interest vpon interest, from one pound to a thousand, amounteth vnto yearely for twentie one yeares, after the rate of ten in the hundred.

81. A survey of London, by John Stow; reprinted from the text of 1603, with introduction and notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

84. 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.

85. Problems of beautie and all humane affections / written in Italian by Tho: Buoni, citizen of Lucca, with a discourse of beauty by the same author ; translated into English by S.L., gent.

86. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

87. The Bible : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.

89. The perfection of horse-manship : dravvne from nature, arte, and practise / By Nicholas Morgan of Crolane, in the countye of Kent, gent.

94. The English husbandman / Gervase Markham.

97. 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.

98. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

100. Baziliōlogia : a booke of kings : beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English kings from the conquest vntill this present : with their seuerall coats of armes, impresses and devises : and a brief chronologie of their liues and deaths : elegantly grauen in copper.