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1201. 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.

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

1202. Atlas maior, sive, Cosmographia Blauiana : qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur.

Creator:: Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:: MDCLXII [1662]
Physical Description:: 11 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 58 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1203. America, siue, India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui vniversalis imitationem in compendium redacta / per Michaelem Mercatorem, Duysburgensem.

Creator:: Mercator, Michael, d. 1600
Date:: between 1613 and 1630]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col. ; 33.8 in diam.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1204. 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

1205. Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseōn libri XV : ad fidem editionum optimarum et codicum manuscriptorum examinati, animadversi, necnon notis illustrati / opera & studio Thomae Farnabii ; editio nunc primum in Gallia & multis figuris æneis adornata.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: [6], 88, [2], p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1206. The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America : viz. Jamaica, Barbadoes, S. Christophers, Mevis, Antego, S. Vincent, Dominica, New-Jersey, Pensilvania, Monserat, Anguilla, Bermudas, Carolina, Virginia, New-England, Tobago, New-found-land, Mary-land, New-York. With new maps of every place. Together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands; from the year 1686, to 1700. Also a table by which, at any time of the day or night here in England, you may know what hour it is in any of those parts. And how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [8], 262, [42] p., [9] leaves of plates ([8] folded) : ill. (port., 7 fold. maps, fold. diagr.) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1207. The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards, or dice : to which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.

Creator:: Cotton, Charles, 1630–1687
Date:: 1680
Physical Description:: [16], 175, [1] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1208. Great Britain's coasting-pilot ... : describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place, the setting and flowing of tydes, with directions for the knowing of any place; and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety ... / by Captain Greenvile Collins, Hydrographer in Ordinary to the King and Queens most excellent Majesties.

Creator:: Collins, Greenvile, active 1669–1698
Date:: 1693
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : maps, illustrations ; 55 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1209. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

Creator:: Melzo, Lodovico, 1567–1617
Date:: MDCXI [1611]
Physical Description:: [12], 221, [3] pages, [25] leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1210. The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... / by Henry Peacham ...

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:: 1634
Physical Description:: [8], 163 p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1211. The history of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, from its foundation untill these times : extracted out of originall charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts : beautified with sundry prospects of the church, figures of tombes, and monuments / by William Dugdale ...

Creator:: Dugdale, William, 1605–1686
Date:: 1658
Physical Description:: [6], 136, 157-299, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1212. Rutgeri Hermannidæ Britannia magna, sive Angliæ, Scottiæ, Hiberniæ & adjacentium insularum : geographico-historica descriptio.

Creator:: Hermannides, Rutgerus, d. 1680
Date:: [1661]
Physical Description:: [32], 645, [41] p., [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1213. Nobilitas politica vel civilis : personas scilicet distinguendi, et ab origine inter gentes, ex principum gratia nobilitandi forma ...

Creator:: Glover, Robert, 1544–1588
Date:: 1608
Physical Description:: [6], 190, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1214. An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people. With the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties. Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.

Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: MDCXCIX [1699]
Physical Description:: [8], 248, 40 p., [2] double plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1215. La chasse royale / Composee par le roy Charles IX. Et dediée au roy tres-chrestien de France & de Nauarre, Louys XIII. Tres-vtile aux curieux & amateurs de chasse.

Creator:: Charles IX, King of France, 1550–1574
Date:: M.DC.XXV [1625]
Physical Description:: [8], 54, 57-138 [i.e. 136] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1216. The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699.

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

1217. Topographia Galliae, sive, Descriptio et delineatio famosissimorum locorum in potentissimo regno Galliae : partim ex usu & optimis scriptoribus diversarum linguarum, partim ex relationibus fide dignis per aliquot annos collectis, in ordinem redacta, & publico data / Per Martinum Zeillerum.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: 1655-1661
Physical Description:: 13 pts in 4 v., [331] leaves of plates (276 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1218. Mundus imperiorum, siue de mundi imperiis libri quatuor : das ist, Beschreibung aller Keyserthumb vnd Königreich, auch aller fürnembsten Fürstenthumb vnd Herzschafften der ganssen Welt, sampt volkomlicher Erzehlung ihrer Macht, Reichthumb, vnd Vermögens, in 4. Theil abgetheiler ... / Auss Italianischer Sprach ins Teutsch gebracht, durch Johann von Brüssel, die ander Edition sehr gemehret vnd gebessert.

Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:: im Iahr MDCII [1602]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([120] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1219. An idea of the perfection of painting: demonstrated from the principles of art, and by examples conformable to the observations, which Pliny and Quintilian have made upon the most celebrated pieces of the ancient painters, parallel'd with some works of the most famous modern painters, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Julio Romano, and N. Poussin. Written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray, and rendred English by J. E. esquire, fellow of the Royal Society.

Creator:: Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: 12 p.., [16], 136 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1220. Histoire de tous les ordres militaires ou de chevalerie ... / gravées en cuivre par Adrien Schoonebeek.

Creator:: Schoonebeek, Adriaan, 1657 or 8–1705
Date:: 1699
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1221. The first booke of drawing & limning.

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:: circa 1700?
Physical Description:: 1 v. (5-129, [1] leaves) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1222. Halinitro-pyrobolia. : Beschreibu[n]g einer newen Büchsen-Meisterey, nemlichen: gründlicher Bericht, wie der Salpeter, Schwefel, Kohlen, vnnd das Pulfer zu praepariren, zu probieren, auch langwirrig gut zu behalten: das Fewrwerck zur Kurtzweil vnd Ernst zu laboriren. Dann, wie der Pöler, das grobe Geschütz, vnd der Petardo zu gobernirn: ingleichem die Lunden bey Tag- vnd Nachtszeiten, sicherlich vnd ohne gesehen zu tragen, &c. Sampt einer kurtzen geometrishcen Einlaytung, die Weite vnd Höhe gar gering zu erfahren. Alles ausz eygener Experientza; neben etlichen newen, zuvor nicht gesehnen Inventionen, gantz fleissig und vertrewlich beshrieben; vber das, mit. 44. Kupfferstucken delinirt vnd für Augen gestellt / durch Josephum Furttenbach..

Creator:: Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:: Anno MDCXXVII [1627]
Physical Description:: [20], 107, [1] p., [1], 44 [i.e. 88] leaves of plates (44 folded) : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1223. Description of Jarsey.

Date:: 1600
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 42 x 58 cm, on sheet 44 x 59 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1224. L'academia Todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura, oder, Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste : darinn enthalten ein gründlicher Unterricht von dieser dreyer Künste Eigenschaft, Lehr-Sätzen und Geheimnissen, von den Bau-Steinen und fünferley Bau-Arten ... neben aller egyptischen, griechischen, römischen, italiänischen, hoch-und nieder-teutschen, auch anderer alten und neuen Virtuosen Leben und fürehmsten Kunst-Werken beschrieben, Auch Mit 38 Platten von der Architectur, 68 Alt-Römischen Statuen, ganz und halsen Bildern, 74 Medaglinnen, 180 Contrafäten / durch die Hand der bästen heutigen Künstlere, in Kupfer gezieret ; durch Joachim von Sandrart auf Stockau Hoch-Fürstl. Pfalz-Neuburgischen Raht.

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: Anno Christi MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 39 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1225. Britannia, volume the first, or, An illustration of the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales : by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof : actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps : accomodated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns; and compleated by an accurate account of the more remarkable passages of antiquity, together with a novel discourse of the present state / by John Ogilby Esq. ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([34], 200, [4] pages, [203] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1226. Italy, in its original glory, ruine and revival : being an exact survey of the whole geography, and history of that famous country : with the adjacent islands of Sicily, Malta, &c. and whatever is remarkable in Rome (the mistress of the world) and all those towns and territories, mentioned in antient and modern authors / translated out of the originals ... by Edmund Warcupp ...

Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [18], 327, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1227. [Engravings of statues]

Creator:: Poilly, Jean-Baptiste de, 1669–1728
Date:: [circa 1700?]
Physical Description:: 6 prints : etching and engraving ; plate marks 28 x 20 cm, on sheets 37 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1228. L'idea della architettvra universale, di Vincenzo Scamozzi ... diuisa in X libri ...

Creator:: Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:: 1615
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. ill., plans. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1229. Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien : wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt / door Ioannes de Laet, ende met noodighe kaerten ende tafels voorsien.

Creator:: Laet, Joannes de, 1581–1649
Date:: 1625
Physical Description:: [24], 510, [16] p., [18] leaves of plates : maps ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1230. 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, ...

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

1231. Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland Ceylon ... Nevens een omstandige en grondigh doorzochte ontdekking en wederlegginge van de afgoderye der Oost-Indische heydenen : Waar inne der zelver grootste geheymenissen, zoo uyt de eygene geschriften, als t'zamenspraak, en bywooninge der voornaamste Bramines, en andere Indiaansche wet-geleerden, getrouwelijk werden aan't licht gebracht, zijnde hier by gevoeght een Malabaarsche spraak-konst; zeer dienstigh voor alle die het lust met dien landaard om te gaan ... / Door Philippus Baldaeus ...

Creator:: Baldaeus, Philippus, 1632–1672
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: 3 pt. in 1 : ill., maps, plans ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1232. Arcano del mare / di D. Ruberto Dudleo duca di Nortumbria, e conte di Waruich : diuiso in libri sei ...

Creator:: Dudley, Robert, Sir, 1574–1649
Date:: MDCLXI [1661]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 57 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1233. Topographia Sueviae, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abcontrafeitung der fürnembste[n] Stätt vnd Plätz in Ober vnd Nider Schwaben, Herzogthum Würtenberg, Marggraffschafft Baden vnd andern zu dem hochlöbl. schwabischen Craisse gehörigen Landtschafften vnd Orten.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: MDCXLIII [1643] [i.e. ca. 1655]
Physical Description:: [8], 232, [14] p., [109] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 3 maps ; 34 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1234. 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

1235. Theatrum orbis terrarum / Abrahami Orteli Antuerp. Geographi Regij = The theatre of the whole world / set forth by that excellent geographer Abraham Ortelius.

Creator:: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Date:: 1606 [i.e. 1608?]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([510] pages) : 192 maps ; 42 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1236. The Bible : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.

Date:: [1607]
Physical Description:: [6], 294, 294-299, 301-361, [1], 359-362, 361-444, 135, [7] leaves : ill., maps (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1237. 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.

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

1238. Georgii Simonis Winteri, Bellerophon, sive Eques peritus : hoc est, artis equestris accuratissima institutio, opere bipartito, seu duobus libris, absoluta : quorum prior modum explicat, quo dextrè quis equum conscendere, vel decorè descendendo relinquere, adeoq[ue] secundùm omnes palaestrae hujus praeceptiones (s. lectiones) nobili hoc armento excellenter uti; nec non decursionibus ad annulum vel quintanam, hastiludiis, & torneamentis, aliísve generosorum exercitiis equestribus, decenter, atque gloriosè defungi queat; heroinis item, illustribus ac nobilibus foeminis, commodâ & gratiosâ equitatione per agros, vel stadia aliquot, spatiandi rationem commonstrat; posterior autem, quomodo indomitus, intractatus, atque iners equus, ad equitatum, vel venatum, erudiendus sit, ostendit; insuper & de fraenis, quibus eum induere oporteat, peculiariter, copiosè, ac luculenter disserit : quibus omnibus perlongo atq[ue] experientissimo usu, creberrimoq́[ue] autoris exercitio, investigatis & probatis, ex ejusdem inventu rariores, nec unquam visae hactenus, figurae s. imagines accessêre, regulis scilicet ac praeceptis ejusmodi illustrandis utilissimae: in gratiam publicae strenuitatis luci publicae exposita, nec vernaculo tantùm, sed in usum exterorum Latino etiam sermone descripta.

Creator:: Winter, Georg Simon, b. ca. 1634
Date:: Anno MDCLXXVIII [1678]
Physical Description:: [16], 191, [1] p., [2], 104 leaves of plates, 60 plates (all but nos. 13 and 20 double), [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1239. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning : with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes within [the] kingdome of England, divided and described by Iohn Speed.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: [1650]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([16], 5-8, 146 [i.e. 280], [10] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1240. Delle caccie / di Eugenio Raimondi Bresciano ; compendiate dal Dottore Francesco Bardi ; ornate con bellissime figure in rame di F. Valleggio.

Creator:: Raimondi, Eugenio, 17th cent
Date:: MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: 16 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1241. 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.

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

1242. Topographia Franconiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eÿgentliche Contrafactur der vornehmbsten Stätte vnd Plätze des Frankenlandes vnd deren die zú dem hochlöbischen fränkischen Craisse gezogen werden.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: [1648?]
Physical Description:: [6], 3-118, [10] p., 43 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1243. Flandria illustrata, sive, Descriptio comitatus istius per totum terraru[m] orbem celeberrimi, III tomis absoluta / ab Antonio Sandero ...

Creator:: Sanderus, Antoine, 1586–1664
Date:: MDCXXXXI-MDCXXXXIIII [1641]-[1644]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 52 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1244. Atlas maritimus, or a book of charts : describing the sea coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers : the bayes, roads, harbors, rivers, and ports in most of the knowne parts of the world : with the true courses and distances from one place to another, gathered from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by divers able and experienced navigators of our English nation : accomodated with an hydrologicall description of the whole world / by John Seller, Hidrographer to [the] Kings most excellent Majestie ; and by William Fisher, John Thornton, John Colson, and James Atkinson.

Creator:: Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:: [between 1677 and 1679]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([4], 12, [2] pages, [79] leaves of plates) : 39 maps ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1245. A description of the sands, shoals, buoys, beacons, roads, channels, sea-marks, on the coast of England, from the South-Foreland to Orford-Ness : shewing their bearings and distances from most of the eminent places on the land : with the depths of water on the sands, as also in the channels between : with several other things necessary to be known : being accommodated with a new and exact draught of the sands, according to the said descriptions / discovered by Capt. Gilbert Crane and Capt. Thomas Browne, elder brethren of the Trinity-House ; and the sea-coasts surveighed by Jonas Moor Esq. ...

Creator:: Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:: MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:: [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : map ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1246. [Angels holding instruments of the Passion, from the Ponte San Angelo]

Creator:: Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651–1725
Date:: [1699]
Physical Description:: 10 prints : etching and engraving ; plate marks 30 x 20 cm, on leaves 37 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1247. Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in diuers places, as also beutified and enlarged with new mapps and tables by the studious industrie of Iodocus Hondy ; englished by W.S. generosus & regin. Oxoniae.

Creator:: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([22], 56, 55-56, [2], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 5 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1248. 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).

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

1249. [Portraits of figures of the court of Louis XIV].

Creator:: Dieu, Jean, 1654–1695
Date:: [1678-1698]
Physical Description:: [114] prints : engraving ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1250. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

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

1251. Systema agriculturae, the mystery of husbandry discovered : wherein is treated of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling planting sowing manuring ordering improving all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods, & coppices, and of all sorts of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new hays, cattel, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. : with an account of the several instruments and engines useful in this profession : to which is added, Kalendarium rusticum, or, The husbandmans monethly directions : also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, windes, rain, hail, thunder, &c. : and Dictionarium rusticum, or, The interpretation of rustick terms / published for the common good, by J. W. gent. ; the whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice.

Creator:: Worlidge, John, active 1669–1698
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [32], 278, [6] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1252. Cauelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1607
Physical Description:: [16], 88, [4], 212, 233-264, [4], 67, 58-72, [4], 54, [4], 56, [4], 64, [4], 11, 10-81, [5], 20, 25-40 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1253. Romanorum fontinalia, sive, Nitidissimorum perenniumque, intra & extra urbem Romam, fontium vera, varia, & accurata delineatio : prout illi vel in areis publicis, vel in palatiis amplissimis, maximè verò in Frescado, Tiuoli, hortísque amoenissimis, ex omni parte, & arte, & facie, inibi locorum hodiéque conspiciuntur / universam earundem substructionum imaginem oculis animísque subjiciente viro celeberrimo Joh. Baptista Falti, Romano ; quae variorum postea artificum, quos meritò suo virtuosos appellant, graphiis aeri graphicè incisa fuit.

Creator:: Falda, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640–1678
Date:: A.C. MDLXXXV [1685]
Physical Description:: 12 pages, XXXXII [i.e. 82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1254. A mapp of Cambridgshire [cartographic material] : with the Ile of Ely / by Ric. Blome.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: [1673]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 29.9 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

1255. Neue und gründliche mathematische Friedens- und Kriegs-Schule : worinnen der Kern und die nothwendigsten Stücke der sechs nachfolgenden Wissenschafften, als Geometriae theoreticae, der Erdmess-Kunst. Architecturae civilis, der bürgerlichen Bau-Kunst. Architecturae militaris, der Fortification oder Kriegs-Bau-Kunst. Artis tormentariae, der Artillerie oder Büchsen-Meisteren. Pyrotechniae damnosae, des Ernst-Feuer-Wercks. Pyrotechniae jucundae, des Lust-Feuer-Wercks / aus vielen, sowol alten, als neuen berühmten und bewährten Autoren zu jedermanns nutzlichen Gebrauch, mit behörigen Figuren, fürtzlich, ordenlich und deutlich aufgesetzet und zusammen getragen durch Johann Sebastian Grubern, Majorn.

Creator:: Gruber, Johann Sebastian
Date:: An. 1697
Physical Description:: [14], 94, [4], 97-250, [2], 251-503, [3], 515-742 p., VI, 8, XVI, XXX, XIII, IV, XVI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1256. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

Creator:: Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
Date:: 1590[-1630]
Physical Description:: 14 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1257. Het schilder-boeck waer in voer eerst de laerlustighe iueght den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen. Daer nae in dry deelen t'leuen der vermaerde doorluchtighe schilders des ouden, en nieuwen tyds. Eyntlyck d'wtlegghinghe op den Metamorphoseon. Pub. Ouidij Nasonis ... Door Carel van Mander schilder.

Creator:: Mander, Carel van, 1548–1606
Date:: 1604
Physical Description:: 4 v. port. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1258. Military discipline, or, The art of war : shewing directions for the postures in exercising of the pike and musket, the dragoons, granadeers and horse : the act of doubling, wheeeling [sic], forming and drawing up a battalion or army into any figure &c. : as now practiced : all represented in twenty two several copper plates, with variety of several prospects and other designs, for the practice and exercise of arms.

Date:: 1689
Physical Description:: [8], 108, [4] p., [1], 21 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1259. The canting academy, or, The devil's cabinet opened : wherein is shewn the mysterious and villanous practices of that wicked crew, commonly known by the names of hectors, trapanners, gilts, &c. : to which is added a compleat canting-dictionary, both of old words, and such as are now most in use : with several new catches and songs, compos'd by the choicest wits of the age : a book very useful and necessary to be read by all sorts of people.

Creator:: Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
Date:: 1673
Physical Description:: [6], 192, [16] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 15 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1260. Topographia Palatinatus Rheni et vicinarum regionum : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eigentliche Abbildungen der vornemsten Statte V. Plätz der Vntern Pfaltz am Rhein vnd benachbarten Landschaften, als der Bistumer Wormbs vnd Speÿer, der Bergstrass, des Westerreichs, Hundrücks, Zweÿbrüggen, etc. : sampt einer Zugabe ettlicher des, H. Röm. Reichs zu dem Ober Reinischen Cräyss gezogenen ständen, als Bisantz, Metz, Tull, Verdun, Lothringen, Savoyen, etc.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: 1645
Physical Description:: 106, 33, [11] pages, [101] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1261. 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

1262. The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... / by Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

Date:: anno 1599-1600
Physical Description:: 3 v. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1263. Baziliōlogia : a booke of kings : beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English kings from the conquest vntill this present : with their seuerall coats of armes, impresses and devises : and a brief chronologie of their liues and deaths : elegantly grauen in copper.

Date:: 1618
Physical Description:: [1], [99] leaves : all ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1264. The Gentleman's jocky and approved farrier : instructing, in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use; as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities / collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire; T.D. N.S. R.B. J.W. and others.

Creator:: Halfpenny, John, active 1671
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: [16], 300, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1265. A new-naturalized work of a learned stranger, or, An exquisite tutor powerfull to benefit the publick : and convey unto English men, especially architects and artificers of all sorts : that is, masons, carpenters, joyners, glasiers, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, and all that live by hammer and hand : necessary, certaine, and most ready helps of geometrie, which is the first degree of all good art ...

Date:: 1657
Physical Description:: [2], 11 [i.e. 14] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1266. Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus ss. patrvm illustrata / authore Hermanno Hvgone, Societatis Iesv ... ; sculpsit Christophorus à Sichem ...

Creator:: Hugo, Herman, 1588–1629
Date:: 1628
Physical Description:: 456 p., 16 leaves : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1267. Iconologia deorum, oder, Abbildung der Götter : welche von den Alten verehret worden ... samt dero eigentlicher Beschreibung und Erklärung der heidnischen Tempel-Ceremonien, auch Vorbildung der Thiere und anderer Sachen ... / durch Joachim von Sandrart ...

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: anno MDCLXXX [1680]
Physical Description:: [42], 212, [16] pages, [43] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1268. Disegnidi vari altari e cappelle.

Date:: s.d.]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1269. Cantabrigiensis comitatus : Cambridge shire.

Creator:: Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:: [not before 1645]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 40.1 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

1270. An account of what workmen hath bin imployed about the building at Greate Bathampton since February the 4, 1694/5.

Creator:: Berrington, John, -1743
Date:: 1694-1721
Physical Description:: 1 volume (150 pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1271. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Published in English by Robert Pricke ...

Creator:: Le Muet, Pierre, 1591–1669
Date:: 1670-75
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. 81 plates (part fold.; incl. plans) 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1272. A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building. Viz. solidity, conveniency, and ornament. By Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly knight.

Creator:: Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667
Date:: 1662
Physical Description:: 6 p.., 44 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1273. The history of painting, sculpture, architecture, graving: and of those who have excelled in them: in three books. Containing their rise, progress, decay, and revival; with an account of the most considerable productions of the best artists in all ages: and how to distinguish the true and regular performances, from those that are otherwise. By P. Monier.

Creator:: Monier, Pierre, 1639–1703
Date:: 1699
Physical Description:: [15] p.l., 192, [12] p. front. 20 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1274. Illmo. D.D. Rogerio Dv Plesseis ... magnarum artium eximio cultori ... segmenta nobilium signorum e[t] statuaru[m], quae temporis dentem inuidium euasere vrbis aeternae ruinis erepta typis aeneis ab se commissa perpetuae uenerationis monumentum, Franciscus Perrier D.D.D.

Creator:: Perrier, François, 1590?-1656?
Date:: 1638
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., 2 l. 100 pl. (2 double) 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1275. A new voyage to Italy : with a description of the chief town, churches, tombs, libraries, palaces, statues and antiquaries of that country : together with useful instructions for those who shall travel thither / by Maximilien Misson ... ; done into English and adorn'd with figures ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Misson, Maximilien, 1650?-1722
Date:: 1695
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1276. Catalogus librorum Roberti Scott : bibliopolae regii Londinensis. In quavis lingua & facultate insignium ex variis Europae partibus advectorum, quorum auctio habenda est Londini ... decimo tertio die Februarii, 1688 / Per Benjaminum Walford, bibliopolam Londinensem.

Creator:: Scott, Robert, fl. 1661–1691
Date:: [etc., 1687/8]
Physical Description:: [4], 144, 135-175, [3] p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1277. Vade mecum, or, The necessary companion ...

Creator:: Playford, John, 1623–1686?
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [8], 207 p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1278. 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 ...

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

1279. Amori sdegni et gielosie di Givnone / Julio Bonasone, in ventore

Creator:: Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498–approximately 1580
Date:: [16--]
Physical Description:: [1], [21] leaves : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1280. Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende warhafftige vnd volkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften, Insulen, Königreichen vnd Provintzien, Seecusten ... in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyses : dessgleichen, gründlicher Bericht von der Innwohner Beschaffenkeit, Sitten ... vnd Gebräuchen ... / alles auss verscheidenen west-indianischen Historien-Schreibern, vnnd mancherley Sprachen ... zusammen getragen, extrahirt, in ein richtige Ordnung der Materien vnd Zeit, vnd in diese käuffliche Form bracht durch Johan Ludwig Gottfriedt ; mit zugehörigen Landtafeln, Contrafacturen vnd ... Kupfferstücken ... geziert vnd verlegt, durch Mattheum Merian ...

Creator:: Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: [12], 562, 72 p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1281. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1282. Dissertation sur les ouvrages des plus fameux peintres ...

Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: 1681
Physical Description:: 140, 38, [6] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1283. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Date:: 1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:: 3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1284. Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta / Joannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

Creator:: Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:: anno MDC [1600]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([36] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1285. Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle fabriche di nostro signore papa Sisto V / fatte dal cavallier Domenico Fontana, architetto di Sva Santita.

Creator:: Fontana, Domenico, 1543–1607
Date:: MDXC [1590, that is 1604]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (94 [i.e. 100], [1] leaves; 30 [i.e. 34], [1] leaves) : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1286. Topographia Bavariæ, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Orth in Ober vnd Nieder Beÿern, der obern Pfaltz, vnd andern, zum hochlöblichen Baÿrischen Craisse gehörigen Landschaften.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: MDCXLIV [1644]
Physical Description:: 138, [8] p., [59] plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1287. Veues et perspectives de Soesdyck, chasteau [sic] & maison de plaisance du roy de la Grande Bretagne : le tout deffiné & gravé par les plus habiles maistres.

Date:: 1695
Physical Description:: [1], 16 leaves : all ill. ; 21 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1288. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

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

1289. Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux / par le tres-noble, haut, et tres-puissant prince Guillaume marquis et comte de New-castle, vicomte de Mansfield, baron de Bolsover et Ogle, seigneur de Cavendish, Bothel et Hepvvell, pair d'angleterre; qui eut la charge & l'honneur d'étre gouverneur du serenissime prince de Galles en sa jeunesse, maintenant roy de la Grande-Bretagne; lieutenant pour le roy de la comté de Nottingham, & de la Forest de Shervvood; capitaine general en toutes les provinces outre la riviere de Trent, & autres endroits du royaume d'angleterre; gentil-homme de la chambre du lit du roy; conseillier d'etat & privé; chevalier du tres-noble Ordre de la Jartiere, &c. Oeuure, auquel on apprend à trauailler les cheuaux selon la nature, & parfaire la nature par la subtilité de l'art; traduit de l'anglois de l'auteur, par son commandement, enrichy de plusieures belles figures en taille douce.

Creator:: Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:: l'an M.DC.LVIII [1658]
Physical Description:: [28], 271, [9], 19, [5] p., [1], 42 double leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1290. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

Date:: 1607?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 33 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1291. The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur : notwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf & actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur: of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table : theyr merveyllous enquestes & adventures, thachyevynge of the sanc-greall and in the ende the dolourous deth: and departynge out of this worlde of them al. : which boke was reduced in to Englysshe / by the well dysposyd knyghte Syr Thomas Malory.

Creator:: Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1292. The history of the Church of Peterburgh : wherein the most remarkable things concerning that place, from the first foundation thereof, with other passages of history, not unworthy public view are represented / by Symon Gunton ... ; illustrated with sculptures ; and set forth by Symon Patrick.

Creator:: Gunton, Simon, 1609–1676
Date:: 1686
Physical Description:: 348 p., [4] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1293. A display of heraldrie : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method / wherein it is now reduced, by the study and industry of John Guillim ...

Creator:: Guillim, John, 1565–1621
Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [16], 144 (i.e. 444), 36, [6] p. : coats of arms ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1294. 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

1295. Georgii Simonis Winteri, Hippiater expertus, seu Medicina equorum absolutissima, tribus libris comprehensa : quorum I. Agit de equorum temperamentis; aetate cognoscendâ; morbis omnibus internis capitis; oculorum; aurium; narium; linguae; dentium; oris; aliisq́ue his similibus: II. De affectibus internis thoracis & abdominis nempe pulmonum & cordis; itemq́ue hepatis; lienis; ventriculi; intestinorum; renum; vesicae; nec non de purgatione equorum & pabulatione per gramen; de clysteribus; suppositoriis; de febribus & de peste. III. De omnis generis unguentis; oleis; balsamis & emplastris in genere; item de quibuscunque morbis ac symptomatibus externis; ut: tumoribus, ulceribus & vulneribus cujuscunque generis; ungularum etiam vitiis; fracturâ & luxatione ossium; medicamentorum ad horum morborum curationem necessariorum variis formulis; de venae sectione; de affectibus nervorum &c. Non minus ex probatissimis authoribus congesta, quàm propriâ multorum annorum experientiâ longâq́[ue] praxi stabilita, & multis figuris aeneis elegantissimis, remq́[ue] ipsam miro artificio clarissimè ob oculos ponentibus exornata, & in gratiam exterarum quoque gentium ex vernacula in Latinam translata, nuncq́[ue] primùm typis exscripta.

Creator:: Winter, Georg Simon, b. ca. 1634
Date:: Anno MDCLXXVIII [1678]
Physical Description:: [16], 490, [10] p. : ill., port. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1296. 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 ...

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

1297. Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art ... / by a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisien ; faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts ; set forth in English by Robert Pricke for the lovers of art.

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [15], 150, 150, [6] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1298. Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae : que in publicis priuatisque locis visuntur : icones [par secunda].

Date:: 1621
Physical Description:: [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1299. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world ... : together with all the prouinces, counties and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines Empire / performed by Iohn Speed.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: 1627
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], 44, 5-8 pages) : illustrations, 22 maps ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1300. Altaria et sacella varia templorum Romae : a celeberrimis quondam architectis structa, quibus sistuntur singulorum orthographia exterior scenographia, ichnographia cum additis ubique mensuris.

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: [approximately 1690]
Physical Description:: [80] leaves : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1202. Atlas maior, sive, Cosmographia Blauiana : qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur.

1203. America, siue, India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui vniversalis imitationem in compendium redacta / per Michaelem Mercatorem, Duysburgensem.

1204. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

1205. Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseōn libri XV : ad fidem editionum optimarum et codicum manuscriptorum examinati, animadversi, necnon notis illustrati / opera & studio Thomae Farnabii ; editio nunc primum in Gallia & multis figuris æneis adornata.

1207. The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards, or dice : to which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.

1209. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

1211. The history of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, from its foundation untill these times : extracted out of originall charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts : beautified with sundry prospects of the church, figures of tombes, and monuments / by William Dugdale ...

1212. Rutgeri Hermannidæ Britannia magna, sive Angliæ, Scottiæ, Hiberniæ & adjacentium insularum : geographico-historica descriptio.

1213. Nobilitas politica vel civilis : personas scilicet distinguendi, et ab origine inter gentes, ex principum gratia nobilitandi forma ...

1215. La chasse royale / Composee par le roy Charles IX. Et dediée au roy tres-chrestien de France & de Nauarre, Louys XIII. Tres-vtile aux curieux & amateurs de chasse.

1216. The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699.

1217. Topographia Galliae, sive, Descriptio et delineatio famosissimorum locorum in potentissimo regno Galliae : partim ex usu & optimis scriptoribus diversarum linguarum, partim ex relationibus fide dignis per aliquot annos collectis, in ordinem redacta, & publico data / Per Martinum Zeillerum.

1220. Histoire de tous les ordres militaires ou de chevalerie ... / gravées en cuivre par Adrien Schoonebeek.

1221. The first booke of drawing & limning.

1223. Description of Jarsey.

1227. [Engravings of statues]

1228. L'idea della architettvra universale, di Vincenzo Scamozzi ... diuisa in X libri ...

1229. Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien : wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt / door Ioannes de Laet, ende met noodighe kaerten ende tafels voorsien.

1232. Arcano del mare / di D. Ruberto Dudleo duca di Nortumbria, e conte di Waruich : diuiso in libri sei ...

1233. Topographia Sueviae, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abcontrafeitung der fürnembste[n] Stätt vnd Plätz in Ober vnd Nider Schwaben, Herzogthum Würtenberg, Marggraffschafft Baden vnd andern zu dem hochlöbl. schwabischen Craisse gehörigen Landtschafften vnd Orten.

1235. Theatrum orbis terrarum / Abrahami Orteli Antuerp. Geographi Regij = The theatre of the whole world / set forth by that excellent geographer Abraham Ortelius.

1236. The Bible : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.

1239. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning : with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes within [the] kingdome of England, divided and described by Iohn Speed.

1240. Delle caccie / di Eugenio Raimondi Bresciano ; compendiate dal Dottore Francesco Bardi ; ornate con bellissime figure in rame di F. Valleggio.

1242. Topographia Franconiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eÿgentliche Contrafactur der vornehmbsten Stätte vnd Plätze des Frankenlandes vnd deren die zú dem hochlöbischen fränkischen Craisse gezogen werden.

1243. Flandria illustrata, sive, Descriptio comitatus istius per totum terraru[m] orbem celeberrimi, III tomis absoluta / ab Antonio Sandero ...

1246. [Angels holding instruments of the Passion, from the Ponte San Angelo]

1249. [Portraits of figures of the court of Louis XIV].

1250. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

1254. A mapp of Cambridgshire [cartographic material] : with the Ile of Ely / by Ric. Blome.

1256. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

1261. Plan of fortification, possibly at Newtown, Isle of Wight.

1263. Baziliōlogia : a booke of kings : beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English kings from the conquest vntill this present : with their seuerall coats of armes, impresses and devises : and a brief chronologie of their liues and deaths : elegantly grauen in copper.

1266. Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus ss. patrvm illustrata / authore Hermanno Hvgone, Societatis Iesv ... ; sculpsit Christophorus à Sichem ...

1267. Iconologia deorum, oder, Abbildung der Götter : welche von den Alten verehret worden ... samt dero eigentlicher Beschreibung und Erklärung der heidnischen Tempel-Ceremonien, auch Vorbildung der Thiere und anderer Sachen ... / durch Joachim von Sandrart ...

1268. Disegnidi vari altari e cappelle.

1269. Cantabrigiensis comitatus : Cambridge shire.

1270. An account of what workmen hath bin imployed about the building at Greate Bathampton since February the 4, 1694/5.

1271. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Published in English by Robert Pricke ...

1272. A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building. Viz. solidity, conveniency, and ornament. By Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly knight.

1274. Illmo. D.D. Rogerio Dv Plesseis ... magnarum artium eximio cultori ... segmenta nobilium signorum e[t] statuaru[m], quae temporis dentem inuidium euasere vrbis aeternae ruinis erepta typis aeneis ab se commissa perpetuae uenerationis monumentum, Franciscus Perrier D.D.D.

1276. Catalogus librorum Roberti Scott : bibliopolae regii Londinensis. In quavis lingua & facultate insignium ex variis Europae partibus advectorum, quorum auctio habenda est Londini ... decimo tertio die Februarii, 1688 / Per Benjaminum Walford, bibliopolam Londinensem.

1277. Vade mecum, or, The necessary companion ...

1279. Amori sdegni et gielosie di Givnone / Julio Bonasone, in ventore

1281. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

1282. Dissertation sur les ouvrages des plus fameux peintres ...

1284. Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta / Joannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

1285. Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle fabriche di nostro signore papa Sisto V / fatte dal cavallier Domenico Fontana, architetto di Sva Santita.

1286. Topographia Bavariæ, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Orth in Ober vnd Nieder Beÿern, der obern Pfaltz, vnd andern, zum hochlöblichen Baÿrischen Craisse gehörigen Landschaften.

1287. Veues et perspectives de Soesdyck, chasteau [sic] & maison de plaisance du roy de la Grande Bretagne : le tout deffiné & gravé par les plus habiles maistres.

1288. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

1290. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

1292. The history of the Church of Peterburgh : wherein the most remarkable things concerning that place, from the first foundation thereof, with other passages of history, not unworthy public view are represented / by Symon Gunton ... ; illustrated with sculptures ; and set forth by Symon Patrick.

1293. A display of heraldrie : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method / wherein it is now reduced, by the study and industry of John Guillim ...

1294. 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.

1298. Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae : que in publicis priuatisque locis visuntur : icones [par secunda].

1299. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world ... : together with all the prouinces, counties and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines Empire / performed by Iohn Speed.

1300. Altaria et sacella varia templorum Romae : a celeberrimis quondam architectis structa, quibus sistuntur singulorum orthographia exterior scenographia, ichnographia cum additis ubique mensuris.