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1. Scotiae Regni Antiqvissimi Accvrata Descriptio / Io Leslavs, Epus Rossen.

Creator:: Leslie, John, 1527–1596
Date:: MDLXXVIII [1578]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 40.5 x 53.5 cm, on sheet, 41.5 x 54.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

Creator:: Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:: 1707-1725
Physical Description:: 2 v., XI, 274 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. (frontispiece), map (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Atlas or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world : through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by new & exact maps / translated by Henry Hexham ...

Creator:: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:: 1633 [i.e. 1636]-1638
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (462 pages) : maps ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The true description or draffte of that famous Ile of Wighte : with some parte of the Englishe or Britaine coast and inwarde countreye of Hampshire and Sussex : wherein gentle reader you maye see the true distances sett downe by measure or scale of any parte thereof, also the particuler descriptions of hills, woodes, beacons, castells, rockes, and townes, whiche vnto this platt are adioyninge / made by Baptista Boazio.

Creator:: Boazio, Baptista
Date:: 1591
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 24 x 33 cm, on sheet 29 x 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A catalogue of that superlatively capital assemblage of valuable pictures, formed from the sales of the several celebrated collections of M. de Calonne, Baron Nagel, and Sir Joshua Reynolds : with other capital pictures of the first class : forming together an assemblage, superior to any collection that has ever been offered to pubolic attention in this or any other country, comprising the inestimable works of the most-admired Masters :: which will be sold by private contract, at Mr. Bryan's gallery, in Savile Row, on Monday the 27th day of April, 1795, and following days.

Creator:: Bryan, Michael, 1757–1821
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 22, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Cambridge Shire / Sutton Nicholls sculp.

Date:: [1695?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 41 x 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

7. The county of Suffolk [cartographic material] / surveyed by Joseph Hodskinson.

Creator:: Hodskinson, Joseph
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 1 map on 6 sheets : hand col. ; 120 x 162 cm on sheets 64 x 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S., ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: [1662?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 36 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Southamtoniae comitatus (preter insulas Vectis, Jersey et Garnsey quae sunt partes eius dem comitatus) cum suis undiq[ue] confinibus, oppidis, pagis, villis, et fluminibus vera descriptio / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Leonardus Terwoort Antverpianus sculpsit.

Creator:: Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:: [1575]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 38 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Maris Pacifici (quod vulg ̣Mar del Zur) [cartographic material] : cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio.

Creator:: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Date:: 1589
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 33 x 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A catalogue of a most superb and distinguished collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : a selection formed with peculiar taste and judgment by John Trumbull, Esq. during his late residence in Paris, from some of the most celebrated cabinets in France : consisting of the undoubted works of the following great masters, in the highest state of preservation : Raphael, Titian, Pordenone, Bassan, Spagnoletto, Guercino, Guido, Salvator Rosa, Murillo, Poussin, Rubens, V. Dyck, Teniers, Berghem, Wouvermans, Ger. Douw, Ch. V. Werff, Rembrandt, Vernet / which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, February 17th, 1797, and following day, at one o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: iv, [1], 6-13, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

Creator:: Senex, John, -1740
Date:: 1719
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 48 x 54 cm, on sheet 53 x 59 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection, the property of a Gentleman : consisting of about thirty pictures of the first class of the different schools of Italy, recently arrived from Rome and Naples : together with a capital selection of the most perfect cabinet pictures, of the Flemish and Dutch schools : collected by him with great taste and liberality, during several journies on the Continent, at different periods, since the beginning of the French Revolution : with the nicest attention to their state of preservation, and by the most favourite Masters : comprising the works of Giorgione, Schiavoni, Paduanino, Domenichino, Carracci, Parmegiano, N. Poussin, Guido, Baroccio, Polydore, S. Ferrato, Rubens, Rembrandt, G. Dow, Wouvermans, Du Jardin, A. V. de Velde, Pynaker, Ostade, Bega, Poelemberg, Waterloo, Palamedes, &c. : particularly three exquisite cabinet pictures by Domenichino, and a capital portrait by Giorgione : among them are very few pictures ever on view in this country; of those few, are the Fiddler, by G. Dow, from the Orlean's Collection : and several first-rate pictures from the same and from the collections of Mons. De Calonne, Baron Nagel, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, May 9th, 1800, and following day, at twelve o'clock : note, no person can be admitted to the Museum through the late residence of Lord Cawder's, the only admittance is from Cumberland Mews.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: [ca. 1818?]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Baronagium genealogicum; or, The pedigrees of the English peers, deduced from the earliest times, of which there are any attested accounts including, as well collateral as lineal descents. Originally comp. from the publick records and most authentic evidences; by Sr. William Segar ... and continued to the present time, by Joseph Edmondson.

Creator:: Segar, William, Sir, -1633
Date:: [1764-84]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes genealogical tables, coats of arms 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

Date:: [1740]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Tabula Islandiae [cartographic material] / auctore Georgio Carolo Flandro.

Creator:: Carolus Flandro, Joris, 1601–1625
Date:: [ca. 1660]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 36 x 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Les isles Britanniques, qui contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande : distinguiés en leurs principales provinces, subdiviseés en leurs shireries, et comtés / tiré de G. Cambdene, Chr. Saxton, I. Speed, I. Pont. R. Gordon, et de I.B. Boozius par G. Valck.

Creator:: Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Date:: [approximately 1695]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand colored ; 46 x 56 cm, on sheet 51 x 61 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. La fortificatione, guardia, difesa, et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diuerse guerre / del cavaliero Francco. Tensini da Crema ...

Creator:: Tensini, Francesco, 1581–1630
Date:: MDCLV [1655]
Physical Description:: [12], 83, [1], 83, [1], 128 pages, [50] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 40 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Leben der Heiligen : Sommerteil.

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: [1475]
Physical Description:: [420] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi : à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville / inventé, dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis, graveur de la ville de Strasbourg.

Creator:: Weis, Johann Martin, 1711–1751
Date:: [1748]
Physical Description:: [2], 20 pages, [1] leaf of plates, 11 folded leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 64 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

Creator:: Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 28 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Britania, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones : the like never before published.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:: [14], 464 pages, [63] leaves of plates (50 folded) : coats of arms, maps ; 36 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A topographical map of the county of Norfolk [cartographic material] : surveyed and measured in the years 1790, 91, 92, 93, and 94 by Thos. Donald, Thos. Milne and associates : planned from a scale of one inch to a statute mile / the whole executed and published at the expense of the proprietor William Faden.

Creator:: Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 1 map on 6 sheets ; 124 x 183 cm, each sheet 62 x 61 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties [cartographic material] / by Lewis Evans, MDCCXLIX ; L. Hebert, sculpt.

Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 63 x 47 cm, on sheet 66 x 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. To the nobility, gentry, clergy and others, this map of the county of Monmouth, is most humbly inscribed / by their ever dutyfull & very humble serv.t Robert Snell ; engrav'd & printed by I. Ames.

Creator:: Snell, Robert, fl. 1756–1785
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., dissected and mounted on linen ; 89 x 84 cm., folded in slipcase 25 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

Creator:: Clúny, Alexander
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Wiltshire, wth. Salisbury citty & Stone heng described ano. 1689 [cartographic material] / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Remigius Hogenbergius sculpsit.

Creator:: Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:: [approximately 1715?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 41 x 33 cm, on sheet 47 x 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of Greek, Roman, Saxon, English, and Irish, gold, silver, and brass coins and medals, of the learned and ingenious Mr. James Simon, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquaries Society of London, author of the historical account of Irish coins, late of the city of Dublin, merchant, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in the Hay-Market, on Thursday, the 8th of December, 1757, and the following day.

Creator:: Ford, Mr., active 1741–1757
Date:: [1757]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali siti / delineatio cura et sumtibus Matthaei Seutteri ; chalcographi Augustani.

Creator:: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678–1756
Date:: [1730]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 48 x 56 cm., on sheet 52 x 60 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

Creator:: Burdon, William
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 62 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A catalogue of a valuable and capital collection of pictures, late the property of the Earl of Bute, deceased : brought from his seat at High-Cliffe in the County of Hants, comprising the very best specimens of some of the most esteemed masters, and the first marine collection ever offered to public sale : the paintings by Rubens, Vandyck, Teniers, Berghem, Alb. Cuyp, Osade, W. Vandevelde, P. Panini, Storck, De Blieger, Weenix, Rich. Hoff, Wellart, Vetringa, Brooking, Vandercabel, Augustine Tassi, Com. Vandeveldt, Zeeman, Biersraten, Backhuysen, Canaletti, Marieski, Vangoyen, B. Peters, Monamy, Tellemans, Verschuring, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday, March the 19th, 1796, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had at one shilling each (to be returned to purchasers) in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Westmorland [cartographic material] / Robt. Morden.

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: [1695]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 34 x 41 cm, on sheet 40 x 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A catalogue of the genuine, capital, and valuable collection of pictures, by the most esteemed masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Schools : selected by that eminent artist and esteemed connoisseur Benjamin van der Gucht, Esq. deceased : this celebrated collection contains some of the most rare and capital pictures ever offered to the public : comprising the following most remarkable viz. : A Venus disarming Cupid by Corregio, brought to England by Sir William Hamilton : two, a most capital Landscape, and a Sea Port, by Claude : A landscape, a Chef D'oeuvre, by Cuyp : A Ditto by Rubens : and one Ditto, very capital, by Berghem : Le Retour de Chasse, an elegant Cabinet Picture, by Wouvermans : the Judgment of Paris by Vander Werf : A Conversation by Teniers : The Madona and Infant Christ by C. Dolce : The Transfiguration by Julio Romano : several fine portraits by Vandyck, F. Hals, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction (by order of the administratrix) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, March 11th, 1796, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had at the room in Pall Mall, at one shilling each.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A map of the British and French dominions in North America [cartographic material] : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations / by their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell ; Tho. Kitchin, sculp.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: Febry 13th, 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 136 x 195 cm, on sheets 77 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 = The world maps of Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 / J. Fischer & F. v. Wieser.

Creator:: Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470–1519
Date:: 1903
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 24 sheets ; 127 x 230 cm., sheets 44 x 62 cm. or smaller and 122 x 227 cm., sheets 45 x 62 cm. or smaller, in portfolio 64 x 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Glamorga[n]shire [cartographic material] / discribed by C.S. ; corrected and amended by P. Lea.

Creator:: Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:: [approximately 1715?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 32 x 46 cm, on sheet 46 x 58 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A catalogue of a most valuable collection of prints, books of prints, drawings, and antiquities : late the property of John Strange, Esq. LL.D. F.R. and F.A.S. deceased, formerly British Resident at Venice : the prints comprise an extensive assemblage of V. Den Enden, and other fine impressions of the works of Ruben's, Bolswert, Galle, Pontius, Vischer, Soutman, Poilly, Roussellet, Daulle, Bloemart, Edelink, Spiere, Carracci, M. Antonio, A. Durer : Italian and Dutch etchings : views, &c. by Hollar : modern proofs by Bartolozzi, Strange, &c. : a most capital set of Swiss views by Aberli : drawings by Guardi, &c. : valuable books of prints and antiquities : a capital set of Hogarth's works, &c. &c. &c. : the antiquities consist of bustos, vases, bas reliefs, bronzes, gems, coins, medals, curious carvings in ivory and wood, Raphael's Ware, &c. &c. : which (by order of the executors, and pursuant to the directions of the will of the late John Strange, Esq.) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Wednesday, March 19, 1800, and four following days, (Sunday excepted), at twelve o'clock : may be viewed five days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had (at one shilling and sixpence each) to be returned to purchasers.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 28 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of Greek and Roman medals and medalions in gold, silver, and brass, of the learned Dr. Kennedy, deceas'd : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his great room the end of Savile-Row, next Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square, on Thursday and Friday, the 8th and 9th of May, 1760.

Creator:: Prestage, John, -1767
Date:: [1760]
Physical Description:: 18 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. [Summa universae theologiae. Pars III].

Creator:: Alexander, of Hales, approximately 1185–1245
Date:: Anno a natali christiano MoCCCCoLXXVo [1475]
Physical Description:: [380] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

Creator:: Browne, Christopher, active 1684–1712
Date:: [1685?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 48 x 55 cm, on sheet 53 x 65 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. An historical account of the rise and growth of the West- India collonies : and of the great advantages they are to England, in respect to trade : licenced according to order.

Creator:: Thomas, Dalby, Sir
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: [6], 53, [1] pages : 1 table ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The London tradesman : being an historical account of all the trades, professions, arts, both liberal and mechanic, now practised in the cities of London and Westminster, calculated for the instruction of youth in their choice of business ... ; to which is added, an appendix, containing many useful particulars relative to the foregoing / by R. Campbell ...

Creator:: Campbell, R
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: xii, 340 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Marci Catonis Prisci de re rustica liber.

Date:: [1472]
Physical Description:: [302] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent / by William Roscoe.

Creator:: Roscoe, William, 1753–1831
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : portrait; illustrations (engravings) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. De inventione. De optimo genere oratorum. Topica. With an English translation by H.M. Hubbell.

Creator:: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Date:: 1960 [1949]
Physical Description:: xviii, 466 pages 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved road atlas of England and Wales 1731 / [compiled] by Emanuel Bowen.

Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 273 p. : chiefly maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

51. A rare treatise on interior decoration and architecture : Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and history of the taste of the leading nations / translated and edited by Simon Swynfen Jervis.

A rare treatise on interior decoration and architecture : Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and history of the taste of the leading nations / translated and edited by Simon Swynfen Jervis.

Creator:: Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich, Freiherr zu, 1744–1818
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: ix, 349 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

52. Materials and techniques : of early Italian painting / Anne O'Connor.

Creator:: O'Connor, Anne
Date:: 2001
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([6] pages) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

53. Picturing the pacific : Joseph Banks and the shipboard artists of Cook and Flinders / James Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, James, 1963–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

54. Jack Whirler's alphabet ; or, The St. Paul's primer : adorned with cuts by the Newberys / [by Andrea Immel].

Creator:: Immel, Andrea
Date:: MMXIV [2014]
Physical Description:: 63 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robin Hoffman.

55. Alonso Víctor de Paredes' Institution, and origin of the art of printing, and general rules for compositors (Madrid: ca. 1680) / edited and translated by Pablo Alvarez ; with a foreword by Don W. Cruickshank.

Alonso Víctor de Paredes' Institution, and origin of the art of printing, and general rules for compositors (Madrid: ca. 1680) / edited and translated by Pablo Alvarez ; with a foreword by Don W. Cruickshank.

Creator:: Paredes, Alonso Víctor de, active 17th century
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: xiv, 449 pages : illustrations, color facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

56. Lost secrets of Flemish painting : including the first complete English translation of the De Mayerne Manuscript, B.M. Sloane 2052 / with text, commentary and drawings by Donald C. Fels, Jr. and paintings by Joseph H. Sulkowski ; with German translations by Richard Bedell, from the original 1901 German version of the De Mayerne Manuscript, taken from Quellen für Maltechnik während der Renaissance un deren Folgezeit by Ernst Berger ; with French translations from the original text in French of B.M. Sloane 2052 by Rebecca McClung.

Lost secrets of Flemish painting : including the first complete English translation of the De Mayerne Manuscript, B.M. Sloane 2052 / with text, commentary and drawings by Donald C. Fels, Jr. and paintings by Joseph H. Sulkowski ; with German translations by Richard Bedell, from the original 1901 German version of the De Mayerne Manuscript, taken from Quellen für Maltechnik während der Renaissance un deren Folgezeit by Ernst Berger ; with French translations from the original text in French of B.M. Sloane 2052 by Rebecca McClung.

Creator:: Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573–1655
Physical Description:: xiii, 386 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

57. Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.

Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.

Creator:: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571–1638
Date:: [1970]
Physical Description:: 16 p., 230 plates : 2 col. illus., coats of arms, maps. ; 54 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Scotiae Regni Antiqvissimi Accvrata Descriptio / Io Leslavs, Epus Rossen.

3. Atlas or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world : through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by new & exact maps / translated by Henry Hexham ...

6. Cambridge Shire / Sutton Nicholls sculp.

7. The county of Suffolk [cartographic material] / surveyed by Joseph Hodskinson.

8. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

9. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S., ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.

10. Southamtoniae comitatus (preter insulas Vectis, Jersey et Garnsey quae sunt partes eius dem comitatus) cum suis undiq[ue] confinibus, oppidis, pagis, villis, et fluminibus vera descriptio / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Leonardus Terwoort Antverpianus sculpsit.

11. Maris Pacifici (quod vulg ̣Mar del Zur) [cartographic material] : cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio.

14. A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

16. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

18. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

19. Tabula Islandiae [cartographic material] / auctore Georgio Carolo Flandro.

20. Les isles Britanniques, qui contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande : distinguiés en leurs principales provinces, subdiviseés en leurs shireries, et comtés / tiré de G. Cambdene, Chr. Saxton, I. Speed, I. Pont. R. Gordon, et de I.B. Boozius par G. Valck.

21. La fortificatione, guardia, difesa, et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diuerse guerre / del cavaliero Francco. Tensini da Crema ...

22. Leben der Heiligen : Sommerteil.

23. Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi : à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville / inventé, dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis, graveur de la ville de Strasbourg.

24. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

27. A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties [cartographic material] / by Lewis Evans, MDCCXLIX ; L. Hebert, sculpt.

28. To the nobility, gentry, clergy and others, this map of the county of Monmouth, is most humbly inscribed / by their ever dutyfull & very humble serv.t Robert Snell ; engrav'd & printed by I. Ames.

30. Wiltshire, wth. Salisbury citty & Stone heng described ano. 1689 [cartographic material] / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Remigius Hogenbergius sculpsit.

32. Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali siti / delineatio cura et sumtibus Matthaei Seutteri ; chalcographi Augustani.

33. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

35. Westmorland [cartographic material] / Robt. Morden.

38. Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 = The world maps of Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 / J. Fischer & F. v. Wieser.

39. Glamorga[n]shire [cartographic material] / discribed by C.S. ; corrected and amended by P. Lea.

42. [Summa universae theologiae. Pars III].

43. A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

44. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

45. An historical account of the rise and growth of the West- India collonies : and of the great advantages they are to England, in respect to trade : licenced according to order.

47. Marci Catonis Prisci de re rustica liber.

48. The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent / by William Roscoe.

49. De inventione. De optimo genere oratorum. Topica. With an English translation by H.M. Hubbell.

50. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved road atlas of England and Wales 1731 / [compiled] by Emanuel Bowen.

51. A rare treatise on interior decoration and architecture : Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and history of the taste of the leading nations / translated and edited by Simon Swynfen Jervis.

52. Materials and techniques : of early Italian painting / Anne O'Connor.

53. Picturing the pacific : Joseph Banks and the shipboard artists of Cook and Flinders / James Taylor.

54. Jack Whirler's alphabet ; or, The St. Paul's primer : adorned with cuts by the Newberys / [by Andrea Immel].

55. Alonso Víctor de Paredes' Institution, and origin of the art of printing, and general rules for compositors (Madrid: ca. 1680) / edited and translated by Pablo Alvarez ; with a foreword by Don W. Cruickshank.

57. Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.