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1. East and West Elevations of Windsor Castle

East and West Elevations of Windsor Castle
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet:
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

2. Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.

Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.
Creator:
Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619–1695
Date:
MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[24], 795, [1] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Osbourne's Fort [graphic] / Trollup fecit.

Osbourne's Fort [graphic] / Trollup fecit.
Creator:
Trollope, Robert, -1686
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
2 drawings : watercolor and pen and black ink ; sheets 29 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce Marshall Rare Books

4. The works of Josephus : with great diligence revised and amended, according to the excellent French translation of Monsieur Arnauld D'andilly ; also the embassy of Philo Judæus to the emperor Caius Caligula, never translated before, with the references of the Scripture, a new map of the Holy Land, and divers copper-plates serving to illustrate the history.

The works of Josephus : with great diligence revised and amended, according to the excellent French translation of Monsieur Arnauld D'andilly ; also the embassy of Philo Judæus to the emperor Caius Caligula, never translated before, with the references of the Scripture, a new map of the Holy Land, and divers copper-plates serving to illustrate the history.
Creator:
Josephus, Flavius
Date:
MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[14], 543 [i.e. 545], [7], 557-854 [i.e. 846], [33] p. : ill., 1 folded map. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan. By Edward Earl of Clarendon.

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Creator:
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609–1674
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
5 p. ., 322 p. illus. 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The carpenter's rule made easie, or, The art of measuring superficies and solids : as timber, stone, boards, glass, and the like : also, an addition or second way, being the ground work of measuring timber, stone, boards, and glass ... / by John Darling.

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Creator:
Darling, John, 17th cent
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
[2], [10], 140, [126] p. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. [The 52 countries [sic] of England and Wales [cartographic material] : described in a pack of cards].

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Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Physical Description:
52 maps : ill. ; on playing cards 9.5 x 5.5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. [Geographical cards.

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Date:
16--]
Physical Description:
52 cards. ill. (ports.) 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The theatre of the empire of Great-Britain : presenting an exact geography of the kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the isles adjoyning : as also the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-towns within the kingdom of England and principality of Wales : with a chronology of the civil-wars in England, Wales and Ireland : together with a prospect of the most famous parts of the world, viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America : with these empires and kingdoms therein contained, viz. Grecia, Roman-Empire, Germany, Bohemia, France, Belgia, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Poland, Persia, Turkish-Empire, Kingdom of China, Tartaria, Summer-Islands / by John Speed.

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Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[16], 126, 5-6, 5-8, [22], 129-146, [14], 56, [12] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, coats of arms, tables ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forrest-trees : also, how to plant, make and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c : with several figures proper for avenues and walks to end in, and convenient figures for lawns : also rules and tables shewing how in ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, with rules how to divide woods or land, and how to measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry, shewing the use of that most excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples : with many other rules, usefull for most men / by M. Cook.

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Creator:
Cook, Moses
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
[16], 204, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Mr. Ogilby's Tables of his measur'd roads : so digested that any great road or branch may readily be found : with the general and particular, computed and measur'd distance and the distinction of market and post-towns, with other remarks : to which is added a true account of the markets and fairs, &c collected in his survey / by John Ogilby ...

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
[4], 64 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. : Also, some enquiries into the nature of the water of St. Vincent's Rock, near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary. To which is added, A century of observations, more fully declaring the nature, property, and distinction of the baths. With an account of the lives, and character, of the physicians of Bathe. / By Tho. Guidott ...

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Creator:
Guidott, Thomas, fl. 1698
Date:
1676 [i. e. 1676-1677]
Physical Description:
[30] p., 200 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., plan ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The art of painting : wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work, whether posts, pales, pallisadoes, gates, doors, windows, wainscotting, border boards for gardens ... / composed by John Smith ...

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Creator:
Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
[16], 84 p., 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The mirror of architecture, or, The ground-rules of the art of building / exactly laid down by Vincent Scamozzi master-builder of Venice ; reviewed and inlarged [sic] with the addition of a diagonal scale being very useful for dividing the author his given parts into minutes ... ; by Joachim Schuym of Amsterdam ; translated out of Dutch by W.F. ; hereunto is added The description and use of an ordinary joynt-rule fitted with lines for the ready finding the lengths and angles of rafters, ... by John Browne.

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Creator:
Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
[10], 23, 29, 22 p., [50] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

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Creator:
Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
[2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A map of New England and New York / F. Lamb sculp.

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Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
[1676]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 38 x 50 cm., on sheet 44 x 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A brief and plain description of the five orders of columns of architecture : viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Roman and Corinthian, with their architraves, friezes and cornishes / by Simon Bosboon, the city-mason of Amsterdam. According to that most eminent and excellent architect Vincent Scamozzi, master-builder of Venice. And reduced into minutes, with a diagonal sccale, very useful and necessary for all mason, bricklayers, carpenters, joyners, painters, carvers, plaisterers, turner, etc. Very plan and easie for all lovers and young practitioners, of this art of architecture.

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Creator:
Bosboom, Simon, 1614–1670
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
[8] p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts