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1. Armer's, Flookborough.

Armer's, Flookborough.
Creator:
Armer's (Flookborough, England]
Date:
[early 19th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 21 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.

A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.
Date:
1596
Physical Description:
[40] p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A chapbook of English tat.

A chapbook of English tat.
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
[2002]
Physical Description:
[32] pages : chiefly ilustrations ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist

4. Hyakunin isshu karuta.

Hyakunin isshu karuta.
Date:
late 18th century?
Physical Description:
200 playing cards
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. William's return.

William's return.
Date:
[18th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) : illustration ; 22 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A correct likeness, handsomely framed, in one minute, for one shilling.

A correct likeness, handsomely framed, in one minute, for one shilling.
Creator:
Stanley, C. (Portraitist)
Date:
[approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : portrait ; 47 x 32 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A chapbook of English tat.

A chapbook of English tat.
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
[2002?]
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (10 prints) : hand-colored woodcuts ; sheets 29 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Mockett

8. The journal of design and manufactures ...

No cover image available
Date:
1849-1852
Physical Description:
6 v. illus., plates, plans, mounted samples. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Coniuratio maligno[rum] spirituũ in corporib[us] hominum existentium prout in sancto Petro.

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1492]
Physical Description:
[10] leaves : illustrations ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Hye nach volget ein schoene matery von den syben todsünden und von den syben tugenden darwider.

No cover image available
Date:
[1482]
Physical Description:
[60] pages : illustrations ; (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini.

No cover image available
Creator:
Barbieri, Filippo de', 1426–1487
Date:
[1 Dec. 1481]
Physical Description:
[164] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Historia Romana].

No cover image available
Creator:
Appianus, of Alexandria
Date:
M.CCCC.LXXVII [1477]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ([264], [424] pages) ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat va[n] Coelle[n] : Sancta Colonia diceris hinc. quia sanguine tincta Sanctorum meritis. quo[rum] stas undiq[ue] cincta.

No cover image available
Date:
[23 August 1499]
Physical Description:
[12], lvij, [5], lix-cxxxv, [1], cxxxviij-cxlv, clxv-clxvi, cxlvii-cccl, [2] leaves : illustrations, coats of arms, genealogical tables ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Here fynyssheth the boke yf [sic] Eneydos / compyled by Vyrgyle, which hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wyll[ia]m Caxton, the xxij. daye of Iuyn. the yere of our lorde. M.iiij. Clxxxx. The fythe yere of the regne of kynge Henry the seuenth.

No cover image available
Creator:
Virgil
Date:
[not before 23 June 1490]
Physical Description:
[172] p. ; 26 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. [Rudime[n]tum nouicioru[m]].

No cover image available
Date:
MCCCLXXV [1475]
Physical Description:
[912] pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 38 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
an sant Iacobs abēt [24 July],
Physical Description:
312 leaves ; fol
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing. Wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore. Whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation. With an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673–1721
Date:
1686
Physical Description:
[10], 158, [10], 187, [5], 78; [2], 98 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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

19. Della fortificatione delle citta / di Girolamo Maggi, e del capitan Iacomo Castriotto ... Discorso del medesimo Maggi sopra la fortificatione de gli alloggiamenti de gli esserciti ; Discorso del capitan Francesco Montemellino sopra la fortificatione del Borgo di Roma ; Trattato dell'ordinanze, ouero battaglie del capitan Giovacchino da Coniano ; Ragionamento del sudetto Castriotto sopra le fortezze della Francia.

No cover image available
Creator:
Maggi, Girolamo, -1572
Date:
MDLXXXIII [1583]
Physical Description:
[4], 136 [i.e. 138] leaves : illustrations, maps, plans ; 37 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Fasciculus medicine : in quo continentur, videlicet ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Ketham, Joannes de, active 15th century
Date:
[15 Oct. 1495]
Physical Description:
40 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The golden legend.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
and finished on the 12th day of September in the year 1892
Physical Description:
3 volumes (xii, 1286 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The gentleman's dictionary : in three parts : viz. I. The art of riding the great horse: containing the terms and phrases us'd in the manage, and the diseases and accidents of horses : II. The military art; explaining the terms and phrases us'd in field or garison; the terms relating to artillery; the works and motions of attack and defence; and the post and duty of all the officers of the army: illustrated with historical instances, taken from the actions of our armies : III. The art of navigation; explaining the terms of naval affairs; as building, rigging, working, and fighting of ships; the post and duty of sea-officers, &c. : with historical examples taken from the actions of our fleet : each part done alphabetically, from the sixteenth edition of the original French, published by the Sieur Guillet, and dedicated to the Dauphin ; with large additions, alterations and improvements, adapted to the customs and actions of the English; and above forty curious cuts, that were not in the original.

No cover image available
Creator:
Guillet de Saint-Georges, Georges, 1625–1705
Date:
1705
Physical Description:
[384] pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Blank page.

No cover image available
Date:
1988-1991
Physical Description:
6 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund

24. Churches of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely / published by the Cambridge Camden Society.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ecclesiological Society
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
[2], 119 p., [29] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. [Armorial bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg]

No cover image available
Date:
[between 1465 and 1485?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut ; image 6.8 x 6.6 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Chronecken der Sassen.

No cover image available
Date:
In deme iare na Cristi gebort. Dusent vierhundert .lxxxxij. vppe den Sesten dach des Mertzen. [March 6, 1492]
Physical Description:
[568] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (Folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. [World map]

No cover image available
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1482]
Physical Description:
1 map : woodcut ; image 41 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. [Digestum novum]

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1478]
Physical Description:
[820] pages ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. De las propiedades de la cosas.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century
Date:
a[n]no del señor de mil [e] quatro çientos [e] nouenta quatro a diez [e] ocho del mes de setie[m]bre. [18 September 1494]
Physical Description:
[320] leaves : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Das buch Der Croniken vnnd geschichten mit figuren vnd pildnussen von Anbeginn der welt biss auff dise vnsere Zeÿt.

No cover image available
Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440–1514
Date:
18 September 1496
Physical Description:
CCCxxii [that is, 317], [15] leaves : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Allmodischer Kleyder Teuffel : das ist 1. Schimpff vnnd Ernstlicher Discurs vber den heuttigen Allmodischen : oder A-la-modischen Kleyder Teuffel &c : 2. Eröterung der Frage : Wie ein Erbarer Teutscher Mann thun solle wann sein Weib (da es doch sein Seckel nicht ertragen könte) sich Allmodisch tragen wolte damit er des Hauptcepters nicht gar verlustigt werde : 3. Regulœ eines Getrewen Ehe Weibs / Verfasset Durch M. Johann Ellinger.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ellinger, Johann, of Arheiligen
Date:
Anno 1629
Physical Description:
56 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A description of the island of Jamaica : with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related, viz. Barbadoes, St. Christophers, Nievis or Mevis, Antego, St. Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Barbada, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New England, New-Found-Land : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places. Illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.

No cover image available
Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
[8], 192 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. (maps) ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. An approued treatise of hawkes and hawking : Diuided into three bookes. The first teacheth, how to make a short-winged hawke good, with good conditions. The second, how to reclaime a hawke from any ill condition. The third, teacheth cures for all knowne griefes and diseases / by Edmund Bert, Gentleman.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bert, Edmund
Date:
1619
Physical Description:
[16], 109, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

35. The countrey farrier : Teaching divers and sundry approved medicines, to cure all sorts of cattell : as horse, kine, sheepe, hogs, and dogs. With directions how to find, or know, what the disease or infirmity is. Contrived into a little volume, for avoiding the charge of high-prised bookes. Very usefull and necessary for all country-farmers, and housholders; and generally, for all sorts of people / Exactly approved and collected, by the long travels, study, and experience of William Poole.

No cover image available
Creator:
Poole, William, farrier
Date:
1648
Physical Description:
[8], 24, p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschaft Stetten, Landen und Völckern chronicwürdiger Thaaten beschreibung : hierinn wirt auch die Gelegenheit der gantzen Europe, item ein kurtzuergriffne Chronica Germanie oder Teütschlands, insonders aber ein fleyssige History und ordenliche Beschreybung Galliæ oder Franckreychs fürgestellt, darauff denn obgedachte der Eydgnoschafft Beschreybung volget ... : jetz neüwlich zum anderen Mal in den Truck gäben an vilen Orten gebesseret, gemeeret, mit einer angehenckten Chronologey kurtzuer zeichneter Geschichten vom 1548, Jar biss auff diss Gegenwirtig 1586 / Jar durch Johan Rudolph Stumpffen ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Stumpf, Johannes, 1500–1576?
Date:
1586
Physical Description:
[9], DCCXXXII, [22] leaves : ill., coats of arms, ports, maps ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. An analytical view of the animal economy : calculated for the students of medicine, as well as private gentlemen : interspersed with many allegories and moral reflections, drawn from the subject, to awaken the mind to an elevated sense of the great author of nature / by Isaac Ball ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Ball, Isaac
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
64, 67-90 pages : color illustration ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Das Buch des Ritters Herr Hannsen von Montevilla ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
[18 July 1481]
Physical Description:
92 unnumbered leaves (the last blank, wanting) : 121 illustrations ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. De Biblie / mit vlitigher achtinghe: recht na deme latine in dudesck auerghesettet ; Mit vorluchtinghe vnde glose: des hochghelerden Postillatoers Nicolai de lyra vnde anderer velen hillighen doctoren.

No cover image available
Date:
[19 November 1494]
Physical Description:
[984] pages : illustrations ; 38 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. His Maiesties commission giuing power to enquire of the decayes of the cathedral church of St. Paul in London, and for repairing of the same.

No cover image available
Creator:
England and Wales. Sovereign (1625–1649 : Charles I)
Date:
1631
Physical Description:
[2], 49, [2] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Sermones Bernardi in Duytssche.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091–1153
Date:
[27 May 1495]
Physical Description:
[4], CCLXXIIII, [1] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Panorama, Leicester Square : in the lower circle, is represented a most magnificent view of Paris.

No cover image available
Creator:
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 42 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Meditationes Reuerendissimi patris domini Iohannis de Turrecremata Sacrosancte Romane ecclesie Cardinalis posite [et] depicte de ipsius ma[n]dato in eccl[es]ie ambitu sancte Marie de Minerua Rome.

No cover image available
Creator:
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388–1468
Date:
[17 October 1473]
Physical Description:
[62] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
Date:
del. MCCCCLXXXXI adi iii, Marzo [3 Mar. 1491]
Physical Description:
[10], CCLXXXXI, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. [Bible].

No cover image available
Date:
[14 Nov. 1489]
Physical Description:
[1224] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) 27 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. 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

47. Flauij Vegetij Renati, Vier bücher der Ritterschafft : mit manicherleyen gerüsten, bolwercken vn[d] gebewen, Als Büchsen, Katzen, Antriben, Uberwerffenden prucken, Wasserzeügen, Steyglaitern, Ziechtürnen, Schiffen vnd anders, zů Kryegsleuffen gehoerig, mit jren mustern vnnd fyguren darneben verzaychnet : zum anderen mal vbersehen, vnnd mit etlichen figuren gemeret vnd gebesseret

No cover image available
Creator:
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Date:
Vollendet am xvij.tag Nouembris, Jm[m] Jar M.D.XXXIIII [1534]
Physical Description:
[4], XXX, [66] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Biblia.

No cover image available
Date:
[2 May 1485]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : woodcuts: illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde or thymage of the same.

No cover image available
Date:
1481]
Physical Description:
[100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:
anno domini MDC [1600]
Physical Description:
1 atlas : maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Gronlandia antiqva : seu Veteris Gronlandiæ descriptio : ubi cœli marisqve natura, terræ, locorum & villarum situs, animalium terrestrium aqvatiliumqve varia genera, gentis origo & incrementa, status politicus & ecclesiasticus, gesta memorabilia & vicissitudines, ex antiqvis memoriis, præcipue Islandicis / qva fieri potuit industria collecta exponuntur authore Thormodo Torfæo ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Þormóður Torfason, 1636–1719
Date:
1715
Physical Description:
64, 369 [i.e. 269], [19] p., 5 folded leaves of plates : maps ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. La mer des hystoires.

No cover image available
Date:
[July 1488-Feb. 1489]
Physical Description:
2 v. (270, the last leaf blank; 310 leaves, leaf 274 blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. [Hie hebt sich an ein schöne Hÿstori wie Troÿa die kostliche Stat erstöret ward]

No cover image available
Creator:
Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century
Date:
[not before 24 April 1474]
Physical Description:
[144] leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Disz büch ist genant die vier vnd tzwenzig Alten oder der guldin tron.

No cover image available
Creator:
Otto, von Passau, active 1386
Date:
[1477 or 1478?]
Physical Description:
[308] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
Date:
Del M.CCCC.LXXXXVII. adi .XI. Octubrio. [11 Oct. 1497]
Physical Description:
[12], III-CCXCVII, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (Folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Discorsi delle fortificationi / del. Sig. Carlo Tetti. Oue diffusamente si dimostra, quali debbano essere i siti delle fortezze, le forme, i recinti, fossi, baloardi, castelli, & altre cose à loro appartenenti, con le figure di esse. Hora di nuouo da lui medisimo ricorretti, & ampliati del secondo libro. Con gli elenchi di tutti i Capitoli; & Tauola di tutte le materie, che in essi si trattano. Con priuilegio.

No cover image available
Creator:
Theti, Carlo, 1529–1589
Date:
MDLXXV [1575]
Physical Description:
[8], 119, [9] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. [Die Neue Ehe und das Passional von Jesu]

No cover image available
Date:
[7 Oct. 1476]
Physical Description:
[156] leaves : illustrations ; c 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. [Historiae Romanae decades]

No cover image available
Creator:
Livy
Date:
[11 Feb. 1493]
Physical Description:
[382] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Zeitglöcklein des lebens und leidens Christi.

No cover image available
Creator:
Berthold, der Deutsche, -approximately 1350
Date:
1493
Physical Description:
[248] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Tuba stentoro-phonica : an instrument of excellent use, as well as at sea, as at land : invented and variously experimented in the year 1670 : and humbly presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty Charles II, In the year, 1671 / by S. Morland ; the instruments (or speaking-trumpets) of all sizes and dimensions, are made and sold by Mr. Simon Beal, one of His Majesties Trumps. in Suffolk-street.

No cover image available
Creator:
Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625–1695
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
[2], 14 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. De planctu ecclesiae.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pelagius, Alvarus, 1280?-1353
Date:
[Oct. 26, 1474]
Physical Description:
[408] leaves ; 49 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Explanation of the Battle of Waterloo / painted on the largest scale from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Henry Aston Barker ... ; now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square ; the upper circle contains a view of the city of St. Petersburg ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774–1856
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. ; 39 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425–1502
Date:
[between 6 April 1490 and 1494]
Physical Description:
[6], XC, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Jncipit missale s[ecundu]m chor[um] ecclesie brixinens[is].

No cover image available
Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
17 August 1493
Physical Description:
[14], 224, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A briefe description of the whole worlde : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: newly augmented and enlarged; with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning.

No cover image available
Creator:
Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:
1605
Physical Description:
[164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Ars vitae contemplativae.

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Date:
1473
Physical Description:
[32] leaves : woodcuts ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. [Four leaves from Le Roman de Mélusine]

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Creator:
Couldrette, active 14th century-15th century
Date:
[ca. 1476?]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Elenchus & index rerum militarium quae singulis codicis huius in uoluminibus continetur ...

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Creator:
Valturio, Roberto, 1405–1475
Date:
anno D[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxxiii. xiii.februarii [13 Feb. 1483]
Physical Description:
254 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Inuentariũ eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur.

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Creator:
Gerson, Jean, 1363–1429
Date:
1489
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

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Date:
[approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : portrait ; 81 x 45 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet : atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat.

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Creator:
Colonna, Francesco, -1527
Date:
mense decembri MID [1499]
Physical Description:
[234] leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. [Postilla super epistolas et evangelia]

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Creator:
Guillermus, Parisiensis
Date:
[not before 1497]
Physical Description:
1 volume
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. [Missale Romanum]

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Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
[15 Oct., 1498]
Physical Description:
ccxl leaves : music ; 17 cm (8to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Markhams maister-peece : Contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publicke practise of all the forraine horse-marshals in Christendome; and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome. Being divided into two bookes. The first contayning all cures physicall: the second all belonging to chyrurgery; with an addition of 160. principall chapters, and 370. most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any author whatsoever. Together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke / Written by Gervase Markham, Gent.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1636
Physical Description:
[16], 588, 599-601, [15] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. La cosmographie vniverselle / d'André Thevet cosmographe du roy ; illustree de diverses figures des choses plus remarquables veuës par l'auteur, & incogneuës de noz anciens & modernes ...

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Creator:
Thevet, André, 1502–1590
Date:
1575
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Fasciculus te[m]po[rum] omnes antiquorum cronicas complecte[n]s.

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Creator:
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425–1502
Date:
[after 6 April 1490]
Physical Description:
[6], XC, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. [De re militari]

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Creator:
Valturio, Roberto, 1405–1475
Date:
An. M. CCCCLXXII [1472]
Physical Description:
[524] p. : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Short, but concise account of Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.

No cover image available
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] pages) : illustrations ; 40 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The bibliographical decameron, or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography / by the Rev. T.F. Dibdin ...

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Creator:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. [Vita et Fabulae]

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Date:
[circa 1476]
Physical Description:
[288] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Lauacrum conscientie.

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Gruytrode, active 1440–1475
Date:
[not after 1498]
Physical Description:
[1], CV, [2] leaves : 1 ill. (woodcut) ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. 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

83. Now exhibiting in the second circle, a view of Edinburgh and the surrounding country : the contemplation of this grand and delightful scene, and an earnest desire to represent it entire, were the first circumstances which impressed Mr. Barker's mind with the idea of a panorama : the public may now form a judgment of the comparative excellence of three views, reckoned by men of taste the finest in Europe, namely, Constantinople and Plymouth, which have been exhibited, and Edinburgh, which is now open.

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Creator:
Barker, Robert, 1739–1806
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; 27.3 x 22.1 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The child's alphabet : emblematically described & embellished by twenty-four pictures brought into easy verse, etc.

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Date:
[ca. 1820?]
Physical Description:
16 pages : illustrations ; 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia / Wyllyam Caxton].

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
[after 20 Nov. 1483]
Physical Description:
449 leaves : illustrations, portraits ; 33 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Canones Aurelii Augustini iuxta triplice[m] qua[m] edidit regulam omni statui modu[m] viuendi prestantes ...

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Date:
anno salut[is] 1490
Physical Description:
[2], CXXXIII, [13] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Typographical antiquities, or, The history of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland : containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them / begun by the late Joseph Ames ... considerably augmented by William Herbert ... and now greatly enlarged with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings ; comprehending the history of English literature, and a view of the progress of the art of engraving in Great Britain by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin ...

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Creator:
Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:
1810-1819
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The noble art of venerie or hunting : wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and kill euery one of them / translated & collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approoued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same, and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here in this noble realme of Great Britaine.

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Creator:
Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580
Date:
An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:
[8], 200, [4], 201-204, 207-250, [4] pages : illustrations, music ; 18 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The double-armed man, by the new inuention : briefly shewing some famous exploits atchieued by our Brittish bowmen: with seuerall portraitures proper for the pike and bow. / By W.N. archer.

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Creator:
Neade, William
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
[40] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio : ne'quali, dopo un breve trattato de'cinque ordini, & di quelli avertimenti, che sono piu necessarij nel fabricare : si tratta delle case private, delle vie, de i ponti, delle piazze, de i xisti, et de'tempij : con privilegi / di Andrea Palladio.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
1570
Physical Description:
4 pts. in 1 v. (67, [1], 66 [i.e. 78], [2], 46, [2], 128, [6] p.) : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Diss durchleüchtigest Werck [der] ganczen heilige[n] Geschrifft genannt die Bibel ...

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Date:
[3 January 1480]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ([11], cccxviiij, [1]; [11], ij-CCCxxxj, [1] leaves) : illustrations ; (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Auctor operum sequentium.

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Creator:
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
Date:
anno salutiferi virginalis partus nonagesimosecundo supra millesimum quaterque centesimum [1492]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. (woodcut) ; 32 cm (fol)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. [Missale Frisingense].

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Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
anno D[omi]ni MCCCCXCII, kalend[o] vero Aprilis XVI [16 April (i.e. 17 March) 1492]
Physical Description:
[12], CCLXXIIII, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts), music ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Ein schone newe Histori der hochen Lieb des kuniglichen Fursten Florio, unnd von seyner lieben Bianceffora.

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Creator:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313–1375
Date:
[1499]
Physical Description:
[4], cxxv, [1] leaves (leaf [cxxcj] blank) : illustrations ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. De viribus herbarum carmen.

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Creator:
Macer, Floridus
Date:
[1501-1606?]
Physical Description:
1 volume : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Itinerarium prouinciarum omniu[m] Antonini Augusti : cum Fragmento eiusdem necnon indice haudquaq[ue] asperna[n]do : cvm privilegio, ne quis temere hoc ab hinc duos annos imprimet.

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Date:
[1512]
Physical Description:
[8], 92, [60] leaves ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. 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

98. Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, Indien und Persien.

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Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
[1481 or 1482]
Physical Description:
[206] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Iohannes von Monteuilla, Ritter.

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Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
1488
Physical Description:
[180] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. 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