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1. 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

2. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde / par Antoine de Herrera ... ; translatee d'espagnol en françois ; a la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la navigation du vaillant capitaine de mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres ...

Creator:: Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:: 1622
Physical Description:: [6], 103, [7], 107-254 p., [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

Creator:: Morosini, Andrea, 1558–1618
Date:: 1623
Physical Description:: [18], 729, [22] p., : port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. 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

6. Historien der Nederlanden : en haar naburen oorlogen tot het jaar 1612 / door Emanuel van Meteren ; met heerelijker konterfeytsels dan ooyt voordezen verciert, en verbetert.

Creator:: Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535–1612
Date:: 1663
Physical Description:: [6], 629, [11] leaves : ill., ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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

8. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 64 x 76 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 64 x 75 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Plan of fortification, possibly at Newtown, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: December, 1671
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 76 x 120 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Atlas chinensis : being a second part of A relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tartar against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly, both of the whole empire of China in general, and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces / collected out of their several writing and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq. ...

Creator:: Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636–1689
Date:: MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:: [6], 723, [1] pages, [72] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Plan of the town of Hull and its immediate surroundings.

Creator:: Archer, James, approximately 1632–approximately 1680
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 67 x 94 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Plan of Scarbrogh Castle & towne / delineated by Capt. James Archer, one of his Matie. of England's Ingeniers.

Creator:: Archer, James, approximately 1632–approximately 1680
Date:: circa 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and gray wash ; sheet 85 x 170 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Nautical chart of Grand Havre, Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and gray wash ; sheet 45 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink ; sheet 102 x 72 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Plan for the Citadel at Hull.

Creator:: De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
Date:: [1681?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 36 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Plans for the Citadel at Hull.

Date:: 1681-1682
Physical Description:: 2 maps : pen and ink and watercolor ; each sheet 39 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Plans for the fortifications at Hull.

Creator:: Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:: 1681-1682
Physical Description:: 13 sheets : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheets 68 x 72 cm, or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Plan of a fortification in Guernsey.

Date:: July 20, 1682
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 32 x 25 cm, on sheet 38 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

Creator:: Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 111 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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

22. A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland ; to which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

Creator:: Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Date:: 1698
Physical Description:: [22], 243, [1], [32], 228 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam : perillustris ac magnifici domini Ignatii Christophori nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall, sacri Romani imperii, & Regni Hungariae equitis, sacrae Caesareae Majestatis consiliarii Aulico-Bellici ab augustissimo, & invictissimo Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I. ad serenissimum, ac potentissimum Tzarum, & magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII / ablegati extraordinarii descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb, p.t. secretario ablegationis Caesareae ; accessit reditus suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

Creator:: Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:: [1700?]
Physical Description:: [6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 3 maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam perillustris ac magnifici Domini Ignatii Christophori, nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall ... ab ... Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I ad ... Tzarum & Magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII ablegati extraordinarii / descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb ... ; accessit reditus Suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

Creator:: Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:: [1700?]
Physical Description:: [6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (13 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The history and present state of Virginia : in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time -- II. The natural productions and conveniencies of the country, suited to trade and improvement -- III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace. -- IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: MDCCV [1705]
Physical Description:: [12], 104, 40, 64, 83, [1], 16, [4] pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The establishment of the yearly charge of our dyett, with incidents for housekeeping : also wages & boardwages to the officers & servants of our house, chamber, chappells, & stables, with provisions for horses : also allowances, stipends, and pentions to old & supernumerary servants and widows, to commence the first day of October, 1714.

Creator:: George I, King of Great Britain, 1660–1727
Date:: 1714-1716
Physical Description:: 1 volume (159, [1] pages) ; 47 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

Creator:: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555–1628
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The history of Virginia, in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706 : II. The natural productions and conveniences of the country, suited to trade and improvement : III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace : IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land, the 10th of June 1702 / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: [8], 284, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Views of the several parts of the palace, or castle of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, basins, groves, parterras, and other the most beautifull parts of the gardens : wherein are represented whatever are remarkable, as, statues, groups of figures, water-falls, &c. : drawn on the spot, by order, and with ye approbation of the French king : engraved in the year 1725.

Date:: [1725?]
Physical Description:: [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

Date:: [ca. 1725?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The Leeds Mercury.

Physical Description:: volumes ; 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Versailles illustrated, or Divers views of the several parts of the royal palace of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, groves, parterras, ye labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens, wherein are represented whatever is remarkable, whether statues, groups of figures, water falls, pleasure houses &c. : drawn on the spot by the order & with the approbation of the French king.

Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [29] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: 22 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

Creator:: Labat, maître d'armes
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, octavo : at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the fourteenth day of January, Anno Dom. 1734, in the eighth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc. : being the first session of this present Parliament.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: [2] p., p. 215-218 ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

Creator:: Hoofnail, John
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: vi, 2, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

Creator:: Grierson, George, -1753
Date:: 1740]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1740
Physical Description:: [2] p., p. 407-412 ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:: [6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent : containing whatever is most worthy of notice in their ancient and present state ... with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of this great metropolis ... / by the Rev. John Entick ...

Creator:: Entick, John, 1703?-1773
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill., plans, ports., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano habita idibus Aprilibus, MDCCXLIX. die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae ...

Creator:: King, William, 1685–1763
Date:: [1749]
Physical Description:: [6], 34 p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR.

Creator:: Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:: 1750-1778
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([83] p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A new drawing book.

Date:: [175-?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Voyage historique de l'Amerique Meridionale : fait par ordre du roi d'Espagne / par Don George Juan ... et par Don Antoine de Ulloa ... ouvrage orné des figures, plans et cartes necessaires ; et qui contient une histoire de Yncas du Perou, et les observations astronomiques & physiques, faites pour déterminer la figure & la grandeur de la terre.

Creator:: Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716–1795
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Religio philosophi: or, The principles of morality and Christianity, illustrated prom [!] a view of the universe, and of man's situation in it. By William Hay ...

Creator:: Hay, William, 1695–1755
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 4 p.l., 232 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

Creator:: Armstrong, John, -1758
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 66 x 45 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A catalogue of prints : engraved from the finest paintings of the most eminent masters : in the collection of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Monsgr. le Duc D'Orleans, Monsgr. le Marquis D'Argenson, Monsr. le Comte de Vence, Monsr. le Chevalier de la Rocque ... : the whole collection are printed on grand eagle paper, to be had either in sheets or bound fit for gentlemen's libraries.

Creator:: Major, Thomas, 1720–1799
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 38 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia / by William Stith, A.M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Creator:: Stith, William, 1707–1755
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: viii, 304, 295-331, [1], v, [1], 34, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. 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.

3. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

5. Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk.

6. Historien der Nederlanden : en haar naburen oorlogen tot het jaar 1612 / door Emanuel van Meteren ; met heerelijker konterfeytsels dan ooyt voordezen verciert, en verbetert.

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

8. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

9. Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight.

10. Plan of fortification, possibly at Newtown, Isle of Wight.

12. Plan of the town of Hull and its immediate surroundings.

13. Plan of Scarbrogh Castle & towne / delineated by Capt. James Archer, one of his Matie. of England's Ingeniers.

14. Nautical chart of Grand Havre, Guernsey.

15. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

16. Plan for the Citadel at Hull.

17. Plans for the Citadel at Hull.

18. Plans for the fortifications at Hull.

19. Plan of a fortification in Guernsey.

20. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

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

27. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

30. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

31. The Leeds Mercury.

33. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

34. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

38. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

39. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

40. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

42. Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano habita idibus Aprilibus, MDCCXLIX. die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae ...

43. Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR.

44. A new drawing book.

46. Religio philosophi: or, The principles of morality and Christianity, illustrated prom [!] a view of the universe, and of man's situation in it. By William Hay ...

47. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

49. The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia / by William Stith, A.M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

50. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...