<< YCBA Home Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art << YCBA Home

YCBA Collections Search

Search Constraints

Start Over
You searched for:

Image Available Unavailable

Remove constraint Image Available: Unavailable

Image Use Under Certain Circumstances

Remove constraint Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances

Subject Period 17th century

Remove constraint Subject Period: 17th century

Classification Books

Remove constraint Classification: Books

Search Results

1. The general history of the vast continent and islands of America : commonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof : with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities / collected from the original relations sent to the kings of Spain, by Antonio de Herrera ; historiographer to His Catholick Majesty ; translated into English by Capt. John Stevens ... ; illustrated with cutts and maps.

No cover image available
Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, -1625
Date:
MDCCXXV-MDCCXXVI [1725-1726]
Physical Description:
6 volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A rapture / by Thomas Carew ; with engravings by J.E. Laboureur.

No cover image available
Creator:
Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
Date:
MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:
14, [2] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her daughter and her friends : in nine volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626–1696
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
9 v. : ill., ports. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Explication des peintures, sculptures, et autres ouvrages de messieurs de l'Academie royale; dont l'exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l'intention de Sa Majeste', par M. Le Normand de Tournehem ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Date:
1748
Physical Description:
14 p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen, tot den iare M.VI.c XII : nu de laestemael bij hem voor sijne doodt merckelijck verbetert en[de] in, XXXII, boecken voltrocken, is mede' hier by gevoegt des autheurs leven ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535–1612
Date:
1614
Physical Description:
[10], 302, 304-671, [15] leaves : ill., map, ports. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bertram, Charles, 1723–1765
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
198 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Magnae Britanniae Notitia : or, The present state of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616–1703
Date:
MDCCXXIII (1723)
Physical Description:
[4], vi, [12], 672, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiua senza saperla : fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca : cognitioni necessarie à pittori, scultori, architetti, ed à qualunque si diletta di disegno / dat' in luce da Giulio Troili da Spinlamberto detto Paradosso, pittore dell'illustriss. Senato di Bologna.

No cover image available
Creator:
Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Date:
1683
Physical Description:
[8], 120; [4], 64 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Lettre sur la peinture, sculpture, et architecture à M. ***.

No cover image available
Creator:
Baillet de Saint Julien, Louis Guillaume, Baron, fl. 1748–1775
Date:
1748
Physical Description:
2 p.., 239 (i.e. 139), [6] p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Le cabinet des plus beaux portraits des plusieurs princes & princesses, hommes illustres, fameux peintres & autres / faits par le fameux Antoine Van Dyck, Chevalier et Peintre du Roi, quel l'auteur a fait graver à ses propres dépens, par les meilleurs graveurs de son temps ; cette ouvrage peut aussi servir pour supplement au Cabinet du fameux van Dyck, imprimez à Anvers.

No cover image available
Creator:
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641
Date:
MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [49] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Memoirs of the two last years of the reign of King Charles I., by Sir Thomas Herbert ... To which is added, a particular account of the funeral of the king, in a letter from Sir Thomas Herbert to Sir William Dugdale.

No cover image available
Creator:
Herbert, Thomas, Sir, 1606–1682
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
viii, 222 p. front. (port.) 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Desiderata curiosa, or, A collection of divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history : consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters, wills, epitaphs, &c., transcribed, many of them, from the originals themselves, and the rest from divers antient ms. copies, or the ms. collections of sundry famous antiquaries and other eminent persons, both of the last and present age : the whole, as near as possible, digested into an order of time, and illustrated with ample notes, contents, additional discourses, and a complete index / by Francis Peck ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Peck, Francis, 1692–1743
Date:
1779
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Count A. Hamilton.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646–1720
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Holmby house, a tale of old Northamptonshire, by G.J. Whyte-Melville ... illustrated by Lucy E. Kemp-Welch.

No cover image available
Creator:
Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John), 1821–1878
Date:
1860?
Physical Description:
498 p. front., plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Imago Regia : the churchman's remembrance of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the decollation of King Charles the First, January the thirtieth, 1649-1899 / by D.M.

No cover image available
Creator:
Macleane, Douglas
Date:
[1899?]
Physical Description:
35, [1] pages ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.