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The destruction of the Spanish Armada
Creator:
Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617
Date:
1588
Physical Description:
1 medallion : silver ; 51 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22934825480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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
Credit Line:
22728276550008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]
Physical Description:
[2], 5-60, [32] leaves (last leaf blank), [92] leaves of plates : ill., 47 maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22703262830008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered and is comne to our knowledge ...
Creator:
Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615
Date:
[1599?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 43 x 62 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Trattato di architectura civile e militare.
Creator:
Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439–1502
Date:
not after 1521
Physical Description:
1 volume (178 pages) : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22636055700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Account of the last voyage of Thomas Cavendish.
Creator:
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592
Date:
1592
Physical Description:
1 v. (38 leaves) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22699073710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Britannia insula quae duo regna continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia adiacente.
Creator:
Lily, George, active 1528–1559
Date:
MDLVI [1556]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 47.9 x 34.5 cm, on sheet 53.3 x 40.0 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22931384390008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[India Orientalis].
Date:
1597[-1628]
Physical Description:
13 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22823943510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Helmingham herbal and bestiary.
Date:
circa 1500
Physical Description:
1 v. ([20] leaves, with 1 blank leaf) : ill. ; 45 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22947723160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mediciues for horses.
Date:
[approximately 1565?]
Physical Description:
[28] pages : illustration ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22753119570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Terrestrial globe]
Date:
[ca. 1522]
Physical Description:
1 globe : paint and gesso over hollow wood sphere, brass (stand) ; 368 mm in diam.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22653803780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Atlas of the counties of England and Wales].
Creator:
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:
[1590?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([74] leaves) : 34 maps (some folded) ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22971086650008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Celestial globe]
Creator:
Schöner, Johann, 1477–1547
Date:
[ca. 1522]
Physical Description:
1 globe : paint and gesso over hollow wood sphere, brass (stand) ; 368 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22906924840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
British, Tudor-Stuart frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 16th century
Materials & Techniques:
Oak, later parcel gilding and black paint over original ebonized-&-gilt finish
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art