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1. Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.
Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:
anno MDCXXIX [1629]
Physical Description:
[22], 134 p., 20 leaves of double plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The antiquities of Magna Graecia / by William Wilkins, Jun., M.A. F.A.S., fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

The antiquities of Magna Graecia / by William Wilkins, Jun., M.A. F.A.S., fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Creator:
Wilkins, William, 1778–1839
Date:
MDCCCVII [1807]
Physical Description:
[6], xxii, 74, [2] pages, [73] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Select meditations and reflections on death : with other select pieces.

Select meditations and reflections on death : with other select pieces.
Creator:
Salisbury, W. T
Date:
circa 1782-1792
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 300 pages) ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A tour in North Wales.

A tour in North Wales.
Creator:
Walter, John
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
1 volume (184, 15 pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. [India Orientalis].

[India Orientalis].
Date:
1597[-1628]
Physical Description:
13 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Cambridgeshire : in which is laid down every parish and place containing upwards of 40 houses / Cooper delt. et sculpt.

Cambridgeshire : in which is laid down every parish and place containing upwards of 40 houses / Cooper delt. et sculpt.
Creator:
Capper, Benjamin Pitts
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 18 x 11 cm, on sheet 21 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

7. A direction for the English traviller : by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales : and also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great town, with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village, or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell till he come to the journies end ...

A direction for the English traviller : by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales : and also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great town, with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village, or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell till he come to the journies end ...
Creator:
Simons, Matthew, d. 1654
Date:
1643
Physical Description:
[48] leaves (some folded) : maps ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.
Creator:
Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
Date:
MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:
[8], 458, [32] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Potter, No. 22, Old Bond Street, late foreman to Mr. Breach, hatter to Their Majesties.

Potter, No. 22, Old Bond Street, late foreman to Mr. Breach, hatter to Their Majesties.
Creator:
Potter, John (Hatter)
Date:
[approximately 1816]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 50 x 82 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland ...

Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland ...
Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
xii, 159, [1] pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portrait ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Della architettura militare : manuscript.

Della architettura militare : manuscript.
Creator:
Marchi, Francesco de, 1504–1577
Date:
mid-16th century
Physical Description:
1 volume : 85 drawings, one print ; 43 cm + 8 items
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. De humana physiognomonia : libri IIII ... / Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani.

De humana physiognomonia : libri IIII ... / Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani.
Creator:
Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615
Date:
1586
Physical Description:
265 [i.e. 272] p. : ill., port. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Jersey algae.

Jersey algae.
Date:
1860
Physical Description:
1 volume (21 leaves) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia / by George Waddington ... and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury ... ; with maps and other engravings.

Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia / by George Waddington ... and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury ... ; with maps and other engravings.
Creator:
Waddington, George, 1793–1869
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 333, [3] p., [18] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...
Date:
1647
Physical Description:
[3], 18 [i.e. 33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales : in a collection of select views / engraved by W. Angus, from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales : in a collection of select views / engraved by W. Angus, from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.
Creator:
Angus, William, 1752–1821
Date:
Feby. 1, 1787 [i.e. 1787-1815]
Physical Description:
[130] p., [1], LXIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates [graphic].

The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates [graphic].
Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 26 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Drawings of houses and gardens.

Drawings of houses and gardens.
Creator:
Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747
Date:
1736-1743
Physical Description:
1 v. (circa 280 pages, with blanks) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt / by Iohn Greaves ...

Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt / by Iohn Greaves ...
Creator:
Greaves, John, 1602–1652
Date:
1646
Physical Description:
13, 142 [i.e. 120] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.

London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.
Date:
[1841-1844]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front., ill., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The characters of the passions / done after the originalls of Monsr. Le Brun.

The characters of the passions / done after the originalls of Monsr. Le Brun.
Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
[1], 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.

Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.
Creator:
Neville, Alexander, 1544–1614
Date:
1575
Physical Description:
[16], 156, [12], 207, [13] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : geneal. tables, coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Catherine Hamilton commonplace book.

Catherine Hamilton commonplace book.
Creator:
Hamilton, Catherine
Date:
1822-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland : with descriptive illustrations / by Walter Scott.

The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland : with descriptive illustrations / by Walter Scott.
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
2 v. (lii, 208 p., [2] leaves, [52] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.

Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.
Creator:
Sinclair, George, 1786–1834
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 42 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Austriae, ducis Burg. Bra. &c. / veris imaginibus expressa a Iacobo Francquart archit. reg. ; eiusdem principis morientis vita, scriptore E. Puteano, consil. et historiogr. reg.

Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Austriae, ducis Burg. Bra. &c. / veris imaginibus expressa a Iacobo Francquart archit. reg. ; eiusdem principis morientis vita, scriptore E. Puteano, consil. et historiogr. reg.
Creator:
Francquart, Jacques, 1577–1651
Date:
MDCXXIII [1623]
Physical Description:
A-M p., [130] leaves of plates ([2] folded) ; ill., ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Indenture placing Elizabeth Richardson into the service of Jane Horam.

Indenture placing Elizabeth Richardson into the service of Jane Horam.
Date:
1769 January 4
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.

Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.
Date:
1740 October 6
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis / auctore Antonio de Herrera ... ; metaphraste C. Barlæo ; accesserunt & aliorum Indiæ Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperæ Australis Jacobi le Maire historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.

Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis / auctore Antonio de Herrera ... ; metaphraste C. Barlæo ; accesserunt & aliorum Indiæ Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperæ Australis Jacobi le Maire historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.
Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:
1622
Physical Description:
[4], 81 [i.e. 82], [1], 11, [1] leaves, [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps, port. ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Album of the work of William Walter Burch, engraver on gold and silver.

Album of the work of William Walter Burch, engraver on gold and silver.
Creator:
Burch, William Walter, approximately 1796–1873
Date:
1821-1871
Physical Description:
1 volume (226 pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere dv roy tres-chrestien, dans la Grande-Bretaigne : enrichie de planches / par le sr. de la Serre ...

Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere dv roy tres-chrestien, dans la Grande-Bretaigne : enrichie de planches / par le sr. de la Serre ...
Creator:
La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600–1665
Date:
1639
Physical Description:
72 p., [9] leaves of plates (some folded) : port., ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Panorama of the Rhine and the adjacent country from Cologne to Mayence / drawn from nature by F. W. Delkeskamp ; engraved by John Clark ; to which are now added maps showing the routes from Calais, Ostend, and Rotterdam, to Cologne, and from Mayence to the sources of the Rhine, together with the steam boat companion, describing the places between Rotterdam and Mayence.

Panorama of the Rhine and the adjacent country from Cologne to Mayence / drawn from nature by F. W. Delkeskamp ; engraved by John Clark ; to which are now added maps showing the routes from Calais, Ostend, and Rotterdam, to Cologne, and from Mayence to the sources of the Rhine, together with the steam boat companion, describing the places between Rotterdam and Mayence.
Creator:
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:
[between 1834 and 1839]
Physical Description:
3 prints on 6 sheets : engraving ; sheets end-to-end 284 x 28 cm, accordion folded to 19 x 23 cm, in covers 21 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. A collection of English grasses.

A collection of English grasses.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
circa 1792-1808
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 105 leaves) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. [Composite world atlas].

[Composite world atlas].
Creator:
Overton, John, 1640–1708?
Date:
[1686?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (1 volume) : 74 maps ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.

The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
[14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.

Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[not after 1778]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Julia Maria Barmby and Charlotte Elizabeth Barmby commonplace books.

Julia Maria Barmby and Charlotte Elizabeth Barmby commonplace books.
Creator:
Barmby, Julia Maria, 1823–1892
Date:
ca. 1844-1865
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes. : Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen and others. ... Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death more since added, his also perused, & perfected. : All examined, abreuiated, illustrated w[i]th notes, enlarged w[i]th discourses, adorned w[i]th pictures, and expressed in mapps. : In fower parts, each containing fiue bookes. / By Samuel Purchas, B.D.

Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes. : Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen and others. ... Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death more since added, his also perused, & perfected. : All examined, abreuiated, illustrated w[i]th notes, enlarged w[i]th discourses, adorned w[i]th pictures, and expressed in mapps. : In fower parts, each containing fiue bookes. / By Samuel Purchas, B.D.
Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Admission ticket for the balloon ascension of Vincenzo Lunardi on May 13, 1785.

Admission ticket for the balloon ascension of Vincenzo Lunardi on May 13, 1785.
Creator:
Lunardi, Vincent, 1759–1806
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket : engraving ; 7.5 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Indenture placing William Spill into the service of William Beales, broad weaver.

Indenture placing William Spill into the service of William Beales, broad weaver.
Date:
1728 April 8
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The national memorial to His Royal Highness the Prince Consort.

No cover image available
Date:
1873
Physical Description:
[9], viii, 100 pages, 24 [i.e. 25] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii principum Alberti et Isabellae, Austriae archiducum : et eorum optatissimi in Belgium aduentus, rerumque gestarum et memorabilium, gratulationum, apparatuum, et spectaculorum in ipsorum susceptione et inauguratione hactenus editorum accurata descriptio / auctore Ioanne Bochio ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Bochius, Joannes, 1555–1609
Date:
MDCII [1602]
Physical Description:
500, [12] pages : illustrations, music ; 38 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The kingdome of England & principality of Wales : exactly described whith every sheere & the small townes in euery one of them : in six mappes, portable for every man's pocket ... : vseful for all commanders for quarteringe of souldiers ... / described by one that travailed throughout the whole kingdome for its purpose ... W. Hollar, fecit.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:
1644
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1], [6] leaves) : 6 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen, tot den iare M.VI.c XII : nu de laestemael bij hem voor sijne doodt merckelijck verbetert en[de] in, XXXII, boecken voltrocken, is mede' hier by gevoegt des autheurs leven ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535–1612
Date:
1614
Physical Description:
[10], 302, 304-671, [15] leaves : ill., map, ports. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world / by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" and "The herb of the field" ; illustrated with 31 colored plates ; arranged by Robert M. Stark, Fellow of The Botanical and Royal Physical Societies, Edinburgh, author of "A Popular History of British Mosses.".

No cover image available
Creator:
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823–1901
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
22, [2] p., xxxi leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / de novo multis in locis emendatus novisq[ue] tabulis auctus studio Judoci Hondius.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:
anno 1632
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([6], 749 [i.e. 743], [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates) : 179 maps ; 22 x 29 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Explication des cent estampes qui representent differentes nations du Levant : avec de nouvelles estampes de ceremonies turques qui ont aussi leurs explications.

No cover image available
Date:
MDCCXV [1715]
Physical Description:
[6], 26 pages, [1], 100 [i.e. 101], [4] leaves of plates (6 folded) : illustrations, portraits, music ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. 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.

No cover image available
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

49. Letters and journals of Lord Byron : with notices of his life by Thomas Moore.

No cover image available
Creator:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Cambridge Shire / Sutton Nicholls sculp.

No cover image available
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

51. Topographia Archiepiscopatuvm Moguntinensis, Trevirensis, et Coloniensis : das ist, Beschreibung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Plätz in denen Ertzbistumen Maÿnz, Trier, vnd Cöln.

No cover image available
Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
1646
Physical Description:
54, [6] p., 43, [34] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; fol.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Sample book of intaglio prints.

No cover image available
Creator:
Redaway, James, 1797–1858
Date:
1850s?
Physical Description:
1 volume (39 prints) : engraving, etching, steel engraving ; 29 x 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A. de Banke, milliner and dress maker : 59, South Street, Exeter, opposite Palace Gate / Smith sc., Exeter.

No cover image available
Creator:
Banke, A. de
Date:
between and 1840 and 1850?
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 49 x 87 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Commonplace book, with verse, newspaper clippings and prints.

No cover image available
Date:
circa 1812-1816
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 350 pages) illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

No cover image available
Creator:
Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[6], 31 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. 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.

No cover image available
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

57. Li giardini di Roma / disegnate da Giovanni Battista Falda.

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Creator:
Falda, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640–1678
Date:
[1685?]
Physical Description:
19 prints in 1 volume : etching and engraving ; plate marks 32 x 43 cm, or smaller, on sheets 37 x 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Album.

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Creator:
Sharpe, S
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 200 leaves, with blanks) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. [Statues et bustes antiques des maisons royales].

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Creator:
Mellan, Claude, 1598–1688
Date:
[1669-1681]
Physical Description:
1 volume ([61] leaves) : engraving ; 50.3 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens, 1708-1875, bulk 1768-1836.

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Creator:
Upcott, William, 1779–1845
Date:
1708-1875,
Physical Description:
2.0 linear feet (6 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

61. Atlas Anglicanus et Cambria, or, A book of mapps of all the countyes in the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales / collected by John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.

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Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:
[1694?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([115] leaves) : 57 hand-colored maps ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[101] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Typus mundi in quo eius calamitates et pericula nec non diuini : humanique amoris antipathia : emblematice proponuntur à RR.C.S.I.A.

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Date:
1627
Physical Description:
99, 200-240, [4] p. : ill. ; 13 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gordon S. Haight

64. M.Z. Topographia Bohemiæ, Moraviæ et Silesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten vnd bekandtisten Stätte, vnd Plätze, in dem Königreich Boheim vnd einverleibten Landern Mähren, vnd Schlesien.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
1650
Physical Description:
192, [16] p., [37] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 32 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A specimen of ancient carpentry : consisting of variety of designs for roofs ... : collected by James Smith : to which are added designs of frontispieces to doors, gateways, piers ... : & other useful decorations never before published by Jones ; the whole illustrated with 66 copper plates nearly engraven.

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Creator:
Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
[5], [3], [66] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Livre de figures antiques de Rome / dessigné et graué par C. Melan, pour seruir d'estude a la jeunesse.

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Creator:
Mellan, Claude, 1598–1688
Date:
[circa 1670?]
Physical Description:
9 prints : engraving and etching ; plate marks 31 x 28 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descripto : nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata / Guilielmo Camdeno, authore.

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Creator:
Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
[16], 860, [23] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Conference of Monsieur Le Brun : cheif [sic] painter to the French King, Chancellor and Director of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture ; upon expression, general and particular; translated from the French, and adorned with 43 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
1701
Physical Description:
[16], 17, [1], 47, [1] pages, 43 : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:
1630
Physical Description:
[8], 644, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

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Creator:
Burton, William, 1575–1645
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
10, 320, [12] p., 2 leaves of plates (one folded) : port., ill., coats of arms, map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. [Selections from A new book of landskips].

No cover image available
Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Europa tabulis aeneis 166 secundum rationes geographicas delineata : dorsis tabularum, nonnulla magni momenti, & ad rem geographicam historicamque provinciae, quam tabula ob oculos ponit, facientia, sunt impressa, singularum videlicet natura, coeli solique constitutio, & mores incolarum, deinde quae in ijs sunt ciuitates oppidaque recensentur, simul eorum commerica, quibusque rebus excellant, quidque in ijs rarum visendumque sit, principum quoque, qui provincijs praefuerunt, series ac genus aeditur, vt meriro ea enarratio, pro compendio historico vniuscuiusque provinciae haberi possit / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

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

73. Short stories, in words of two syllables / by the author of Short stories, in one syllable, Godmothers' tales, Cup of sweets.

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Creator:
Semple, Elizabeth, active 1804–1816
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
62, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The graphic scrap book : a collection of engravings / by Jas. Storer, from original drawings by Mrs. Chas. Rhys ; with descriptions.

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Creator:
Rhys, Harriet Susanna Anne, 1790–1827
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
1 volume ([4], 106, [4] pages, [14] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Sketches in Scandinavia & Germany by Anne Beresford Cosby.

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Creator:
Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872
Date:
circa 1859-1872
Physical Description:
1 volume : 73 drawings, 47 prints ; 43 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. A picturesque tour of Italy : from drawings made in 1816-1817 / by James Hakewill, archt.

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Creator:
Hakewill, James, 1778–1843
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[98] pages, [63] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Precetti della militia moderna, tanto per mare, quanto per terra / trattati da diuersi nobilissimi ingegni & raccolti con molta diligenza dal signor Girolamo Ruscelli ; ne' quali si contiene tutta l'arte del bombardiero & mostra l'ordine che ha da tenere il maestro di campo, quando vuole accampare il suo essercito ; opera ... molto necessaria a' principi & a tutti coloro che desiderano di apprendere compitamente la disciplina militare.

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Creator:
Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565
Date:
1568
Physical Description:
[4], 59, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank) : ill., diagrams ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. [Jewelry and ornament design]

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Creator:
Mignot, Daniel, fl. 1590
Date:
[16--]
Physical Description:
[86] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Della caualleria = Grundtlicher Bericht von allem was zu der Reutterei gehorig vnd einem Cauallier dauon zu wissen geburt.

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Creator:
Löhneyss, Georg Engelhard von, 1552–1622
Date:
1609 [-1610]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., music ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Tales of many lands / by the author of "Tales of the great and the brave".

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Creator:
Tytler, Margaret Fraser
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
418, [6] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima : priùs quidem per Episcopum Bartholomæum Casaum, natione Hispanum Hispanicè conscripta, & Anno 1551. Hispali, Hispanicè, Anno verò hoc 1598.

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Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:
Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]
Physical Description:
[8], 141, [3] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata / schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correcta a Marco Beneuentano monacho caelestino & Ioanne Cotta Veronensi uiris mathematicis consultissimis ; figura de proiectione spherae in plano quae in libro octauo desiderabatur ab ipsis no[n]dum instaurata sed fere ad inuenta eius. n. uestigia in nullo etiam Graeco codice extabant ; maxima quantitas dier[um] ciuitatu[m], & distantiae locor[um] ab Alexa[n]dria Aegypti cuiusq[ue] ciuitatis quae in alijs codicibus no[n] erant ; planisphaerium Cl. Ptolemaei recognitu[m] & diligentiss. emendatum a Marco Benuentano ... ; noua orbis descriptio ac nuoa oceani nauigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicu[m] peruenitur pelagus Marco Benuentano ... aedita ; noua & uniuersalior orbis tabula Ioa[n]. Ruysch ... elaborata ; sex tabulae nouiter confectae uidelicet Liuoniae, Hyspaniae, Galliae, Germaniae, Italiae, & Iudeae.

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Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
anno Virginei partus 1508
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([284] pages, [68] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 34 maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. An introduction to perspective, practical geometry, drawing, and painting : a new and perfect explanation of the mixture of colours with full and practical directions for miniature, crayons, and oil painting : in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : and an epistolary instruction to pupils : properly adapted for the instruction of females, and equally for all professional students / by Charles Hayter.

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Creator:
Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
xxvi, 259 p., [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure Bookes.

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Creator:
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563–1611
Date:
[1598]
Physical Description:
[10], 197, [4], 198-259 [i.e. 295], [3], 307-462 p., [23] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Speculum romanae magnificentiae : omnia fere quaecunq[ue], in urbe monumenta extant, partim iuxta antiquam, partim iuxta hodiernam formam accuratiss, delineata repraesentans : accesserunt non paucae, tum antiquarum, tum modernarum rerum urbis figurae nunquam antehac aeditae.

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Creator:
Lafréry, Antoine, 1512–1577
Date:
[1546-1590]
Physical Description:
125 prints in 1 volume : engraving ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. De zee-atlas, ofte, water-weereld : waer in vertoont werden alle de zee-kusten van het bekende des Aerd-Bodems : seer dienstigh voor alle heeren en kooplieden, als oock voor alle schippers en stuurlieden.

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Creator:
Goos, Pieter, approximately 1616–1675
Date:
1666
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([20] pages, [82] leaves of plates (2 folded)) : 41 maps ; 59 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. [Costumes of Constantinople].

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Creator:
Smith, Francis, 1705–1778 or 1779
Date:
1768-1769
Physical Description:
[2] pages, XXIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Diploma issued by the Royal Company of Scottish Archers to William Robertson of Kinlockmoidart.

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Creator:
Royal Company of Archers
Date:
1824 January 14
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 24 x 35 cm ; + 1 wax seal, 6 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The dance of life : a poem / by the author of "Doctor Syntax" ; illustrated with coloured engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, ii, ii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Le pays d'Israel : collection de cent vues prises d'après nature dans la Syrie et la Palestine / par C.W.M. van de Velde, ancien officier de la Marine royale des Pays-Bas, chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, etc., pendant son voyage d'exploration géographique en 1851 et 1852 ...

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Creator:
Velde, Charles William Meredith van de, 1818–1898
Date:
MDCCCLVII [1857]
Physical Description:
viij, [1], 10-88 pages, [1], 99, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 58 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all [the] direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales : wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all [the] cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &c. scituate on or near the roads, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles ... / by Eman. Bowen engraver.

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 atlas (5, [3] pages, [2], 273, [1] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Britannia depicta : a series of one hundred and thirty views of the most interesting and picturesque objects in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, & Derbyshire / engraved by John Landsheer, Wm. Byrne, S. Middiman, Geo. Cooke, John Scott, John Pye, and J. Neagle, from drawings made by J. Farington, R.A., Thos. Hearne, F.S.A., W. Turner, R.A., and others ; with brief descriptions by Samuel Lysons, F.R.S., F.S.A.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
6 pt. in 1 v. : ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A brief account of the coronation of His Majesty, George IV, July 19, 1821.

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Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[2], 32 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The compleat horseman and expert ferrier : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts, as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge, and prescribing the best manner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not hitherto so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses: a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leech: the cures placed alphabetically: with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any author. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the whole kingdome: and dedicated to His most excellent Majestie / By Thomas de Gray Esquire.

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Creator:
De Grey, Thomas
Date:
1639
Physical Description:
[32], 356, [8] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Descrittione di M. Lodovico Gvicciardini patritio fiorentino, di tvtti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore : con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & con ritratto naturale di molte terre principali riueduta di nuovo, & ampliata per tutto piu che la meta dal medesimo autore ... Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.

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Creator:
Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521–1589
Date:
1581
Physical Description:
[24], 558, [18] pages : illustrations (maps, portrait, coats of arms) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester ... / by Valentine Green.

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Creator:
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Rokeby : in six cantos : the vision of Don Roderick / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

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Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
MDCCCXXXVI [1836]
Physical Description:
[4], 320 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini : olim a Bilibaldo Pirckheimherio traslata, at nunc multis codicibus graecis collata, pluribusque in locis ad pristinam ueritatem redacta / a Iosepho Moletio mathematico ; addita sunt in primum, & septimum librum amplissima eiusdem commentaria, quibus omnia, quae ad geographiam attinent, & quae praetermissa sunt a Ptolemaeo declarantur: atque nominibus antiquis regionum, ciuitatem, oppidorum, montium, syluarum, fluuiorum, lacuum, caeterorumque locorum, apposita sunt recentiora ; adsunt LXIIII, tabulae XXVII, nempe antiquae, & reliquae nouae, quae totam continent terram, nostrae, ac Ptolemaei aetati cognitam, typis[que] aeneis excussae, indices rerum quae tractantur copiosissimi.

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Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
MDLXII [1562]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([8], 112, 286, [66] pages, 64 double leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Hints on architecture.

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Creator:
Sayers, F. (Frank), 1763–1817
Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
p. 59-84 : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The history and antiquities of the deanery of Craven in the county of York / by Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

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Creator:
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759–1821
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[2], vii, 530 p., [73] leaves plates (some folded) : ill., geneal. tables, map, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts