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1. [Armorial bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg]

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Date:
[between 1465 and 1485?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut ; image 6.8 x 6.6 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The flyers of the hunt / by John Mills ... ; illustrated by John Leech.

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Creator:
Mills, John, -approximately 1885
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
[10], 114, [2] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The British sportsman, or, Nobleman, Gentleman, and farmer's dictionary, of recreation and amusement : Including a most improved system of modern farriery, and anatomical dissections of a horse : with concise rules for chusing good horses, and the secrets of training them with wind and vigour for the course, field, and road : particular instructions for riding, racing, hunting, coursing, hawking, shooting, setting, & fishing : with the most approved methods of breeding, curing, and managing all sorts of cattle : particularly oxen, cows, deer, and sheep : and for breeding, training, and managing dogs, hawks, cocks, doves, pigeons, singing-birds, &c. : with a new and interesting description of all the traps, nets, engines, baits, and magical contrivances, for taking birds, and all sorts of game, alive : and for destroying vermin of every kind that annoy poultry, or infest the farmer's yard : the whole comprised under one alphabetical arrangement, and each article explained under its proper name : Compiled from the latest discoveries, and improved by many years real practice and observation / by William Augustus Osbaldiston, Esq. ; embellished with elegant copper plates, adapted to each subject.

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Creator:
Osbaldiston, William Augustus
Date:
[1792-1796?]
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-664, [2] pages, [41] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The elements of botany : with illustrations / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins, professor of botanical flower painting.

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Creator:
Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 268 p., [1], 18 leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The poetical works of John Milton : with a life of the author / by William Hayley.

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Creator:
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:
1794-1797
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 43 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The principles of ancient masonry, or, A general system of building compleated : wherein the theory and practice of architecture are universally demonstrated : comprising all the arts and sciences necessary to be understood for the attaining a just knowledge of building, in a more concise and easy manner than has been yet attempted to be made public, viz : arithmetick, vulgar and decimal : practical geometry : plain trigonometry : mensuration in general : surveying of land, &c. : architecture universally apply'd : perspective : mechanicks : dialing : painting and staining glass : interspersed with proper introductions, remarks, and observations : in which great care is taken to omit everything that is superfluous, and insert nothing but what is really useful : the whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty large folio copper plates, engraven by the best hands : exemplifying the several arts and proportions of the five order of columns, in a very great variety of useful designs of plans, elevations, and sections of building in general : by a society of the most experienced practitioners and workmen in building, and the several branches of learning relating thereto.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1733
Physical Description:
[2], 434, xi, [23] pages : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton, His Britannick Maiesty's envoy extraordinary at the Court of Naples = Antiquités etrusques, grecques et romaines tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, envoyé extraordinaire de S.M. Britannique en Cour de Naples.

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Creator:
Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719–1805
Date:
MDCCLXVI-MDCCLVII [1766-1767]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations (some color, some folded) ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Clive Caplan

8. Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ÿmagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di.

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Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440–1514
Date:
duodecima mensis Iulij anno salutis n[ost]r[a]e. 1493
Physical Description:
[20], CCXCIX, [9] leaves : 1809 illustrations, 2 maps (woodcuts) ; 50 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts