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1. A treatise of japaning and varnishing : being a compleat discovery of those arts : with the best of making all sorts of varnish for japan, wood, prints, or pictures : the method of guilding, burnishing, and lackering, with the art of guilding, separating, and refining metals and of painting mezzo-tinto prints ... / by John Stalker and George Parker.

A treatise of japaning and varnishing : being a compleat discovery of those arts : with the best of making all sorts of varnish for japan, wood, prints, or pictures : the method of guilding, burnishing, and lackering, with the art of guilding, separating, and refining metals and of painting mezzo-tinto prints ... / by John Stalker and George Parker.
Creator:
Stalker, John. no_linkage
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
[10], 84 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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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
Credit Line:
22610713510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Atlas.

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Creator:
Wit, Frederik de, 1629 or 1630–1706
Date:
[not before 1688]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1] leaf, [117] leaves of plates) : 58 maps ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22805255340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Treatise on artillery.

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Creator:
Falconetto, Gio. Batta. no_linkage
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
1 volume (66 pages) : drawings ; 12 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22710850570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Topographia Italiæ : das ist, warhaffte und curiöse Beschreibung von gantz Italien, ... deme beygefügt eine kurtze und aussführliche Beschreibung derer im Königreich Morea befinden vornehmsten Städte und Plätze ... alles auss denem bewährtesten, alten und neuen Scribenten, mit netten Kupffer-Abbildungen aller hauptsächlichsten Städte, Fürstl. und anderer Palläste wie auch accuraten und künstlichen Land-Karten aussgefertiget und zumersten mal heraus gegeben : nebst einem vollständigen Register.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
MDCLXXXIIX [1688]
Physical Description:
[viii], 160, [11] p., 49 folded leaves of plates; 29, [3] p., 3 folded leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22738131850008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Arts treasury: or, A profitable and pleasing invitation to the lovers of ingenuity. Contained in many extraordinary experiments, rareties, and curious inventions ...

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Creator:
White, John, -1671
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
6 p. ., 154 [i. e. 156] p. 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

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Date:
1688
Physical Description:
1 p. ., [11], 123 p. front., illus., plates (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

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Creator:
Fontaine, Nicolas, 1625–1709
Date:
1688-1690
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22754279310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A particular account of the grants of each session of Parliament : from the 5th of November 1688 to the 16th of April 1697 : & from thence to the end of the year 1715, with a state of the publick debts as subscribed into the South Sea Corporation.

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Date:
1688-1715
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22836741400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The sentiments of the most excellent painters concerning the practice of painting / collected and composed in tables of precepts by Henry Testling ... ; translated into English with remarques on the words of art, with an addition of the grounds, and the practical method in perspective.

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Creator:
Testelin, Henri, 1616–1695
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
[10] leaves, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22714641960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases, in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fourteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
[16], 80 p., pp. 79-394, [2], 26, 49, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22782234160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Cantabrigia illustrativa sive omnium celeberrime istius universitatis.

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Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
1688
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22642032100008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Geography rectified: or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy six maps.

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Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
8 p.., 596 [i.e. 592] p. ill. (maps) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts