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1. Historica relación del reyno de Chile : y delas missiones, y ministerios que exercita en el la Compañia de Iesvs : a nvestro señor Iesv Christo, Dios hombre y ala Santissima Virgen, y Madre Maria, Señora del cielo, y dela tierra, y alos santos Ioseph, Ioachin, Ana, sus padres, y aguelos / [Por] Alonso de Ovalle.

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Creator:
Ovalle, Alonso de, 1601–1651
Date:
1646
Physical Description:
[5], 455, 12, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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Creator:
Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Date:
1683
Physical Description:
[8], 120; [4], 64 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

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Creator:
Cruso, John, d. 1681
Date:
MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:
[10], 108 p., 16 leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Naval speculations, and maritime politicks : being a modest and brief discourse of the Royal Navy of England: of its oeconomy and government, and a projection for an everlasting seminary of seamen, by a royal maritime hospital. With a project for a royal fishery. Also necessary measures in the present war with France, &c. / by Henry Maydman.

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Creator:
Maydman, Henry
Date:
1691
Physical Description:
[32], 348, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

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Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
[2], v, [1], 94, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

7. Bucaniers of America, or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies, by the bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French : wherein are contained more especially, the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama &c. / written originally in Dutch, by John Esquemeling, one of the Bucaniers, who was present at those tragedies ; and then translated into Spanish by Alonso de Bonne-maison, Doctor of Physick and practitioner at Amsterdam ; now faithfully rendered into English.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1684-1685
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illlustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne, entrepris par les François en l'année M. DC. LII. : diuisé en trois livres. Le premier, contient l'établissement de la colonie, son embarquement, & sa route iusques à son arriuée en l'isle de Cayenne : le second, ce qui s'est passé pendant quinze mois que l'on a demeuré dans les païs : le troisiesme, traitte du temperament du païs, de la fertilité de sa terre, & des mœurs & façons de faire des sauuages de cette contrée : avec un dictionnaire de la langue du mesme païs. / par Me Antoine Biet, ...

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Creator:
Biet, Antoine, 1620–
Date:
M. DC. LXIV. [1664]
Physical Description:
[24], 432 p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699.

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Date:
MDCCCXXXIV [1834]
Physical Description:
15 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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

11. Il cauallo di razza : riconosciuto dal segno de' merchi delle più perfette razze del Venetiano, Lombardia, & parte della Romagna. / Raccolta fatta per Annania Zen [pseud.] a commodo de' professori, e diletanti di caualli.

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Date:
1658. Ad ista[n]za di Bartolomio Federici
Physical Description:
[16], 112 p. : ill. ; 12 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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.

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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

13. Maneige royal : ou lon peut remarquer le defaut et la perfection du cheualier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne des princes, fait & pratiqué en l'instruction du roy / par Antoine Pluuinel, son escuyer principal, conseiller en son Conseil d'Etat, son chambellan ordinaire, & sous-gouuerneur de sa Majesté. Le tout graué & representé en grandes figures de taille douce par Crispian de Pas, flamand, à l'honneur du roy, & à la memoire de Monsieur de Pluuinel.

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Creator:
Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555–1620
Date:
MDCXXIII [1623]
Physical Description:
[10] p., 69 columns, [1] p., [58] leaves of plates : ill. (ports.) ; 36 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Maneige royal ou lon peut remarquer le defaut et la perfection du cheualier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne des princes, fait & pratiqué en l'instruction du roy par Antoine Pluuinel son escuyer principal, conseiller en son conseil d'estat, son chambellan ordinaire, & sous-gouuerneur de sa Majesté. Le tout graué & representé en grandes figures de taille douce par Crispian de Pas, Flamand, à l'honneur du roy, & à la memoire de Monsieur de Pluvinel. Imprimé pour la secunde foijs & mis en alleman a la ville de Brunsvic Au despens de Gotfried Muller = Königliche Reitschul. Da beydes der Mangel vnd Volkommenheit eines Reuters zu vermercken, in allen Exercitijs dieser fürst. vnd adelichen Kunst, gebraucht vnd practisirt bey Vnterweisung des Königs, durch Antonium Pluvinel, Kön. May. Oberstalmeistern, Rath vom Staedt, Ordinari Kemmerern, vnd vnter Gouuernatorn. Alles nach Ahrt vnd Invention Crisp. de Pass. den Jüngern in schönen grossen Figuren abgebildet, zu Ehren Königlicher Mayest. vnd christlicher Angedächtnis des Monsieur de Pluvinel. Zum Andernmahl aussgelegt vnd in vnsere hochdeutsche Sprach vertirt.

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Creator:
Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555–1620
Date:
Anno 1626
Physical Description:
[28], 40, 40 p., 64 double leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Traité du droit de chasse.

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Creator:
Launay, François de, 1612–1693
Date:
M.DC.LXXXI [1681]
Physical Description:
[12], 185, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Voyage of Italy, or, A compleat journey through Italy : in two parts : with the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries, pallaces (sic), villas, gardens, pictures, statues, and antiquities : as also of the interest government, riches, force, &c. of all the Princes : with instructions concerning travel / by Richard Lassels ... ; never before extant.

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Creator:
Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668
Date:
1670
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts