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Date 1668

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1. 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 antient 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:
1668
Physical Description:
8 p.., 121 p. ill., fold. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An idea of the perfection of painting: demonstrated from the principles of art, and by examples conformable to the observations, which Pliny and Quintilian have made upon the most celebrated pieces of the ancient painters, parallel'd with some works of the most famous modern painters, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Julio Romano, and N. Poussin. Written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray, and rendred English by J. E. esquire, fellow of the Royal Society.

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Creator:
Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676
Date:
1668
Physical Description:
12 p.., [16], 136 p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse : adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations. By John Ogilby ...

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Date:
1668
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. plates. 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world : viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America ...

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Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
1668
Physical Description:
[2], 206 p. : maps ; 11 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The first book of architecture / by Andrea Palladio ; translated out of Italian ; with an appendix touching doors and windows, by Pr. LeMuet ... ; translated out of French by G. R. ...

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Date:
1668
Physical Description:
[10], 32, [1], 36-159, [29], 191-198, [19] p. 218, [3], p. 220, [3], p. 226, [3], p. 230, [3], p. 234, [2], 237-239 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts