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1. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

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

Date:: [approximately 1492]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves : illustrations ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

5. De planctu ecclesiae.

Creator:: Pelagius, Alvarus, 1280?-1353
Date:: [Oct. 26, 1474]
Physical Description:: [408] leaves ; 49 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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.

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

7. Sermones Bernardi in Duytssche.

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

8. 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.

Creator:: England and Wales. Sovereign (1625–1649 : Charles I)
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: [2], 49, [2] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. De las propiedades de la cosas.

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

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

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

11. 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.

Creator:: Torquemada, Juan de, 1388–1468
Date:: [17 October 1473]
Physical Description:: [62] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [De re militari]

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

13. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: an sant Iacobs abēt [24 July],
Physical Description:: 312 leaves ; fol
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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.

Creator:: Poole, William, farrier
Date:: 1648
Physical Description:: [8], 24, p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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 ...

Creator:: Barker, Henry Aston, 1774–1856
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. ; 39 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino.

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

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

Date:: [1482]
Physical Description:: [60] pages : illustrations ; (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Biblia.

Date:: [2 May 1485]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : woodcuts: illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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.

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

20. 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 ...

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

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

Date:: 1481]
Physical Description:: [100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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 ...

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

23. 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.

Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] pages) : illustrations ; 40 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Zeitglöcklein des lebens und leidens Christi.

Creator:: Berthold, der Deutsche, -approximately 1350
Date:: 1493
Physical Description:: [248] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. [Historia Romana].

Creator:: Appianus, of Alexandria
Date:: M.CCCC.LXXVII [1477]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ([264], [424] pages) ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. 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.

Creator:: Virgil
Date:: [not before 23 June 1490]
Physical Description:: [172] p. ; 26 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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.

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

28. Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini.

Creator:: Barbieri, Filippo de', 1426–1487
Date:: [1 Dec. 1481]
Physical Description:: [164] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Ecclesiological Society
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [2], 119 p., [29] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Date:: MCCCLXXV [1475]
Physical Description:: [912] pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 38 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 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

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

32. [Bible].

Date:: [14 Nov. 1489]
Physical Description:: [1224] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) 27 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

34. 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 ...

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

35. 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.

Date:: [19 November 1494]
Physical Description:: [984] pages : illustrations ; 38 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. [Digestum novum]

Date:: [approximately 1478]
Physical Description:: [820] pages ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. La mer des hystoires.

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

38. 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.

Creator:: Bert, Edmund
Date:: 1619
Physical Description:: [16], 109, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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 ...

Creator:: Ball, Isaac
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: 64, 67-90 pages : color illustration ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

43. Chronecken der Sassen.

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

44. 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.

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

45. 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.

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

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

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

47. The golden legend.

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

48. 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 ...

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

49. Blank page.

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

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

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

51. Concilium zu Constencz.

Creator:: Richental, Ulrich von, approximately 1365–1437?
Date:: [1483]
Physical Description:: [1], ii-ccxlvii (i.e. ccxlix), [1] leaves : illustrations, coats of arms (woodcuts) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Das büch sagt vo[n] Herczog Ernsten. : Auch von dem Schildtberger vnd von Sant Brandon. Vnd von den selczsamen wundern so sy erfaren vnd gesehen habent auf de[n] möre vnd aufdem land.

Date:: [approximately 1485]
Physical Description:: [224] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Quadragesimale nouum editu[m] ac predicatu[m] a quoda[m] fratre minore de obseruantia in inclita ciuitate Basilien[sis]. de filio prodigo [et] de angeli ip[s]ius ammonit[i]one salubri p[er] sermones diuisu[m].

Creator:: Meder, Johannes, -1518
Date:: 1495
Physical Description:: [232] leaves : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Das vntrew Spiel : Welcher ein schöen Weyb Bülen wil : der musz auch von jhr leyden vil : Das sie der vntrew mit ihm spil / Hans Sachs.

Creator:: Sachs, Hans, 1494–1576
Date:: [ca. 1553]
Physical Description:: [8] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Date:: 1589
Physical Description:: [16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. 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 ...

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

57. Stultifera nauis : Narragonice [pro]fectio[n]is nunq[uam] satis laudata nauis / per Sebastianum Bra[n]t: vernaculo vulgari[que] sermo[n]e & rythmo pro cu[n]cto[rum] mortaliu[m] fatuitatis semitas effugere cupie[n]tiu[m] directio[n]e, speculo, co[m]modo[que] & salute: pro[que] inertis ignaue[que] stultiticie [per]petua infamia, execrato[n]e, et co[n]futato[n]e, nu[per] fabricata: atq[ue] ia[m] pridem per Iacobu[m] Locher cognome[n]to Philomusum: Sueuu[m]: in latinu[m] traducta eloquiu[m]: & per Sebastinu[m] Brant: denuo sedulo[que] reuisa: f[ae]lici exordit[ur] principio.

Creator:: Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Date:: anno salutis nostre Mccccxcvij kale[n]dis Iunij [1 June 1497]
Physical Description:: 116 [that is, 112] leaves : 118 illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. [Missale Romanum]

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

59. 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.

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

60. 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.

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

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

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

62. Soit co[m]me[n]ce ce liure appelle so[m]me rural / collegie et somme par moi iehan le boutillier homme rural ...

Creator:: Boutillier, Jean, -1395 or 1396
Date:: [1486]
Physical Description:: [10], Clxviii, [4], lxxi, [1] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Aeliani De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more Graecorum / liber à Francisco Robertello Vtinensi in Latinum sermonem versus, & ab eodem picturis quamplurimis illustratus.

Creator:: Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century
Date:: MDLII [1552]
Physical Description:: [8], 65, [3], 73-77, [27] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Old plans and views of Bristol.

Creator:: Pritchard, John E
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: p. 325-353, [26] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Chronik von allen Königen und Kaisern.

Creator:: Lirer, Thomas, active 12th? century
Date:: [January 12, 1486]
Physical Description:: [68] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Guillelmi Caonrsin [sic] Rhodiorum Uicecancellarij: obsidionis Rhodie urbis descriptio.

Creator:: Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501
Date:: Anno d[omi]ni &c. Mccccxcvj. Die. xxiiij Octob[ris]. [24 October 1496]
Physical Description:: [60] leaves ; ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

68. [Postilla super epistolas et evangelia]

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

69. 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.

Creator:: Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:: 1605
Physical Description:: [164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Chronik von allen Kaisern und Königen und Päpsten.

Creator:: Bämler, Johann, approximately 1430–1503
Date:: [1476]
Physical Description:: 196 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus.

Creator:: Molitor, Ulrich, active 1470–1501
Date:: [approximately 1500]
Physical Description:: [2], tercium-xxij leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandu[m] et gloriosum sepulcru[m] Dominicu[m] in Iherusale[m] ...

Creator:: Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440–1497
Date:: anno salutis 1486 die xj Februarij
Physical Description:: [148] leaves (5 folded) : ill. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

Creator:: Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:: 1704
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: 16 Feb. 1503 [i.e. 1504]
Physical Description:: 296 leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

Creator:: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:: 1582
Physical Description:: [124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Iohannes von Monteuilla, Ritter.

Creator:: Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:: Anno domini. M.CCCC.lxxxiij. [1483]
Physical Description:: [176] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

Creator:: Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: 56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The carpenters rule, or, A booke shewing many plain waies, truly to measure ordinarie timber, and other extraordinarie sollids, or timber : with a detection of sundrie great errors, generally committed by carpenters and others in measuring of timber; tending much to the buyers great losse : published especially for the good of the Companie of Carpenters in London, and other also; ... / by Richard More.

Creator:: More, Richard (Carpenter)
Date:: 1602
Physical Description:: [8], 56 p. : ill. ; 16 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.

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

80. Cronick von dem hochwirdigen vnd loblichen heyltum auff dẽ heyligen Perg Andechs genant In obern Bayren.

Date:: [approximately 1495]
Physical Description:: 79 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

Creator:: Otto, von Passau, active 1386
Date:: [1477 or 1478?]
Physical Description:: [308] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

Creator:: Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770
Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. [Historiae Romanae decades]

Creator:: Livy
Date:: [11 Feb. 1493]
Physical Description:: [382] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. 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.

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

86. Der deutsche wiegendruck in original-typenbeispielen : 115 inkunabelproben / beschrieben von Konrad Haebler.

Creator:: Haebler, Konrad, 1857–1946
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: [5], 7-72 p. : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Pia desideria. lib. III Ad Vrbanvm VIII. Authore Herm. Hvgone Soc. Iesu.

Creator:: Hugo, Herman, 1588–1629
Date:: M.DC.XXXII
Physical Description:: 16 p.l., 442, [4] p. illus., plates, coat of arms. 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Catholic Church
Date:: 17 August 1493
Physical Description:: [14], 224, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

90. The pilgrim's progress, from the world, to that which is to come : the third part : delivered under the similitude of a dream : shewing the several difficulties and dangers he met with and the many victories he obtain'd over the world, the flesh, and the devil : together with his happy arrival at the celestial city, and the glory and joy he found to his eternal comfort : to which is added, the life and death of John Bunyan, author of the first and second part : compleating the whole progress.

Date:: [1725?]
Physical Description:: [10], 138, 31, [1] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

92. Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens.

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

93. Ars vitae contemplativae.

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

94. [Four leaves from Le Roman de Mélusine]

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

95. Inuentariũ eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur.

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

96. Versehu[n]g leib sel er vnnd gutt.

Date:: [1489]
Physical Description:: [1], clxxj, [10] leaves (leaf [clxxj] blank) : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1486 or 7]
Physical Description:: [196] p. : ill. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Date:: [7 Oct. 1476]
Physical Description:: [156] leaves : illustrations ; c 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Virginia impartially examined, and left to publick view : to be considered by all iudicious and honest men. Under which title, is comprehended the degrees from 34 to 39, wherein lyes the rich and healthfull countries of Roanock, the now plantations of Virginia and Mary-land. Looke not upon this booke, as those that are set out by private men, for private ends; for being read, you'l find, the publick good is the authors onely aime. For this piece is no other than the adventurers faithfull steward, disposing the adventure for the best advantage, advising people of all degrees, from the highest master, to the meanest servant, how suddenly to raise their fortunes. Peruse the table, and you shall finde the way plainely layd downe / By William Bvllock, gent.

Creator:: Bullock, William, b. 1617?
Date:: 1649
Physical Description:: [12], 66 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. [Vita et Fabulae]

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

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

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

5. De planctu ecclesiae.

7. Sermones Bernardi in Duytssche.

8. 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.

9. De las propiedades de la cosas.

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

11. 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.

12. [De re militari]

13. [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]

15. 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 ...

16. Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino.

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

18. Biblia.

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

22. 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 ...

23. 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.

24. Zeitglöcklein des lebens und leidens Christi.

25. [Historia Romana].

27. 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.

28. Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini.

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

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

32. [Bible].

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

35. 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.

36. [Digestum novum]

37. La mer des hystoires.

39. 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 ...

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

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

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

43. Chronecken der Sassen.

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

47. The golden legend.

48. 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 ...

49. Blank page.

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

51. Concilium zu Constencz.

52. Das büch sagt vo[n] Herczog Ernsten. : Auch von dem Schildtberger vnd von Sant Brandon. Vnd von den selczsamen wundern so sy erfaren vnd gesehen habent auf de[n] möre vnd aufdem land.

53. Quadragesimale nouum editu[m] ac predicatu[m] a quoda[m] fratre minore de obseruantia in inclita ciuitate Basilien[sis]. de filio prodigo [et] de angeli ip[s]ius ammonit[i]one salubri p[er] sermones diuisu[m].

54. Das vntrew Spiel : Welcher ein schöen Weyb Bülen wil : der musz auch von jhr leyden vil : Das sie der vntrew mit ihm spil / Hans Sachs.

56. 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 ...

58. [Missale Romanum]

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

62. Soit co[m]me[n]ce ce liure appelle so[m]me rural / collegie et somme par moi iehan le boutillier homme rural ...

63. Aeliani De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more Graecorum / liber à Francisco Robertello Vtinensi in Latinum sermonem versus, & ab eodem picturis quamplurimis illustratus.

64. Old plans and views of Bristol.

65. Chronik von allen Königen und Kaisern.

66. Guillelmi Caonrsin [sic] Rhodiorum Uicecancellarij: obsidionis Rhodie urbis descriptio.

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

68. [Postilla super epistolas et evangelia]

69. 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.

70. Chronik von allen Kaisern und Königen und Päpsten.

71. De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus.

72. Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandu[m] et gloriosum sepulcru[m] Dominicu[m] in Iherusale[m] ...

73. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

74. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

76. Iohannes von Monteuilla, Ritter.

77. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

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

80. Cronick von dem hochwirdigen vnd loblichen heyltum auff dẽ heyligen Perg Andechs genant In obern Bayren.

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

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

83. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

84. [Historiae Romanae decades]

85. 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.

86. Der deutsche wiegendruck in original-typenbeispielen : 115 inkunabelproben / beschrieben von Konrad Haebler.

87. Pia desideria. lib. III Ad Vrbanvm VIII. Authore Herm. Hvgone Soc. Iesu.

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

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

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

92. Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens.