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Ointment pot.
Date:
between 1650 and 1700
Physical Description:
1 jar : polychrome Italian albarello delftware ; 8 cm high x 6 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads : with computed and measured distances and the distinction of market and post townes.
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Date:
1679
Physical Description:
[13], 27 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.
Creator:
Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695
Date:
MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[24], 795, [1] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of North America.
Date:
not before 1634
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor, on parchment ; 21.9 x 42.8 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 45.8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani : nec non urbis totius scenographia / delineavit & sculpsit Dav. Loggan Univ. Oxon. chalcographus.
Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635-1700?
Date:
ano. Dni. MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:
[85] leaves (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Affidavit certifying the burial in wool of Mary Harvey of Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire.
Date:
1680 April 1
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) ; 31 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Survey of Hertford Castle.
Creator:
Basil, Simon, -1615
Date:
1608
Physical Description:
1 volume (3 leaves) : on parchment ; 38 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wet drug jar.
Date:
between 1675 and 1680
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 16 cm high (including handle) x 14 cm in diameter (18 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
The first[-fift] booke of architecture / made by Sebastian Serly ... Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English.
Creator:
Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554
Date:
1611
Physical Description:
5 v. in 1. ill., plans, diagrs. 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali ac regiones adiacentes : a C. de May usque ad Lineam Aequinoctialem / per Nicolaum Visscher.
Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702
Date:
ca. 1682]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col. ; 44.8 x 55.1 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Kyngeston vpon Hvll.
Creator:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677
Date:
circa 1642
Physical Description:
1 view : illustrations ; 31 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Austriae, ducis Burg. Bra. &c. / veris imaginibus expressa a Iacobo Francquart archit. reg. ; eiusdem principis morientis vita, scriptore E. Puteano, consil. et historiogr. reg.
Creator:
Francquart, Jacques, 1577-1651
Date:
MDCXXIII [1623]
Physical Description:
A-M p., [130] leaves of plates ([2] folded) ; ill., ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John Webb account book : manuscript.
Creator:
Webb, John, 1611-1672
Date:
1630s
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
St. George and the dragon.
Creator:
Marshal, Alexander
Date:
circa 1630-1682
Physical Description:
1 painting : watercolor, pen and ink, on paper ; image 204 x 192 mm., on sheet 220 x 199 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis / auctore Antonio de Herrera ... ; metaphraste C. Barlæo ; accesserunt & aliorum Indiæ Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperæ Australis Jacobi le Maire historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.
Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:
1622
Physical Description:
[4], 81 [i.e. 82], [1], 11, [1] leaves, [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps, port. ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Africa [cartographic material].
Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651-1726
Date:
[ca. 1686?]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand colored ; 57 x 94 cm, on sheet 62 x 102 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt / by Iohn Greaves ...
Creator:
Greaves, John, 1602-1652
Date:
1646
Physical Description:
13, 142 [i.e. 120] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Advertisement [graphic] : All noble men and gentlemen that please to have their mansion houses design'd on copper plates, to be printed for composeing a volume of the prospects of the principall houses of England, may have them done by Mr Hen. Winstanley by way of subscription ...
Creator:
Winstanley, Henry, 1644-1703
Date:
1670s?]
Physical Description:
1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 35.2 x 40.9 cm., on sheet 35.4 x 47.5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Academiarum totius Europae seu orbis Christiani iuxta suas provincias nova tabula ad usum studiosorum emendate accomodate [cartographic material] / W. Kip sculp.
Creator:
Kip, William
Date:
An 1602
Physical Description:
1 map ; 80 mm in diameter, on sheet 13 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Memento mori ring.
Date:
1689
Physical Description:
1 ring : gold, glass, ivory, gold wire, and hair ; face 21 x 17mm, band 20 mm in depth
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan M. Yecies, Yale BA 1971
A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...
Date:
1647
Physical Description:
[3], 18 [i.e. 33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...
Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660-1677
Date:
1675
Physical Description:
[8], 110, [2], [4], 39, [2] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Thomas Braythwait writing his will]
Date:
ca. 1607
Physical Description:
1 painting : pen and ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper, with gold ; image 24.0 x 15.8 cm, on sheet 33.3 x 22.1 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The bounds of the fortificatie of Gosport.
Creator:
De Gomme, Bernard, 1620-1685
Date:
approximately 1678
Physical Description:
1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 74 x 93 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The characters of the passions / done after the originalls of Monsr. Le Brun.
Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
[1], 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre : divisez en trois parties ... : ouvrage enrichi de plus de quatre-cens planches gravées en taille-douce / par Allain Manesson Mallet ...
Creator:
Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?
Date:
1696
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new map of the English empire in America : viz Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Jarsey, Carolina, New England, Pennsylvania, Newfoundland, New France &c. / by Rob. Morden. ; J. Harris sculp.
Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650-1703
Date:
[ca. 1695]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 51 x 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Fort Devereux placed uppon the Ferne Islande.
Date:
circa 1600
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 31 x 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658-1698
Date:
[1685]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4], 112 [i.e. 110 p.], [53] leaves of plates : 51 maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Aesop's Fables : with his life, in English, French and Latin : newly translated : illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures : to this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life / by Francis Barlow.
Date:
1687
Physical Description:
[6], 40, 40, 17, 2-221, [3] pages, [2], 31 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576-approximately 1643
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
4, 70 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wet drug jar.
Date:
circa 1660
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 21 cm high (including handle) x 17 cm in diameter (22 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
Osbourne's Fort [graphic] / Trollup fecit.
Creator:
Trollope, Robert, -1686
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
2 drawings : watercolor and pen and black ink ; sheets 29 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce Marshall Rare Books
London before the fire in 1666 = Plan de Londres tel quil etoi avant l'incendie de 1666 / gravé par Hollar.
Creator:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677
Date:
[1666?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 14 x 24 cm., on sheet 37 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto.
Creator:
Neade, William
Date:
[approximately 1630]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Marchionatus Brandenburgicus / authore Olao Iohannis Gotho, Gustavi Mag. R.S. Cosmographo.
Creator:
Gothus, Olaus Joannis, 1600-1644
Date:
[ca. 1681]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 46 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[The Popish Plot]
Date:
[1679?]
Physical Description:
52 cards : ill. ; 90 x 54 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Americae pars meridionalis.
Creator:
Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
Date:
[between 1641 and 1680]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 45 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for assorted coats, hose, and other clothing.
Date:
1673
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 23 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Gerardi de Lairesse, Leodiensis pictoris, Opus elegantissimum.
Creator:
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711
Date:
[ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:
[56] double leaves of plates : all ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[ A Ballad singer / by John Smith after Lorenzo Castro]
Creator:
Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743
Date:
[1680?]
Physical Description:
1 print : mezzotint ; 17 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
[Panorama of popular printed images].
Date:
[circa 1680]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching ; 85 x 1340 mm, in a box 99 x 84 x 25 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae Regiae / ad praesentis temporis faciem expressum a Ioanne Blaeu, Amstelaedamensi.
Creator:
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Date:
[1649]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([470] pages) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Chart of the Thames estuary with a view of the English fleet burning in the Medway] [cartographic material].
Creator:
Allard, Hugo, approximately 1628-1691
Date:
1667
Physical Description:
1 map ; 34 x 45 cm, on sheet 45 x 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A list of pictures at Kingsweston, taken July 1695.
Date:
1695
Physical Description:
1 v. ([22] p.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A large and accurate map of the city of London : ichnographically describing all the streets, lanes, alleys, courts, yards, churches, halls, and houses, &c. / actually surveyed and delineated by John Ogilby ...
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Date:
1677]
Physical Description:
1 map : 160 x 255 cm. on 20 sheets 40 x 51 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Novi Belgii Novaeque, Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula : multis in locis emendata / per Nicolaum Visscher.
Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679
Date:
[ca. 1684]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 46.1 x 55.9 cm, on sheet 52.4 x 62.9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning : with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within [the] kingdome of England / divided and described by Iohn Speed.
Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
[1612]
Physical Description:
[14], 146 [that is 280], [10] pages : illustrations (woodcuts), 67 maps (metal cuts) ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere dv roy tres-chrestien, dans la Grande-Bretaigne : enrichie de planches / par le sr. de la Serre ...
Creator:
La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600-1665
Date:
1639
Physical Description:
72 p., [9] leaves of plates (some folded) : port., ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
America [cartographic material].
Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651-1726
Date:
[ca. 1686]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand colored ; 56.5 x 95 cm, on sheet 63.5 x 102 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
[14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The First [... fourth] booke of architecture.
Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Date:
not before 1611
Physical Description:
1 volume (272 leaves) : pen and ink on paper ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dry drug jar.
Date:
between 1665 and 1680
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 21 cm high x 14 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
The therd booke of flowers fruits beastes birds and flies exactly drawne. With additions by Iohn Dunstall.
Date:
1661
Physical Description:
20 plates. 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thuringia landgraviatus / auct. Adolario Erichio Anderslebiano.
Creator:
Erich, Adolar, 1559-1634
Date:
[1650?]
Physical Description:
1 map; 40 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606-1688
Date:
1675-1679
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., ports. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Date:
1633 [i.e. 1636]-1638
Physical Description:
2 volumes (462 pages) : maps ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Puteanus, Erycius, 1574-1646
Date:
1646
Physical Description:
[24], 146, [12] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1597[-1628]
Physical Description:
13 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650-1703
Date:
[1678]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 50 x 57 cm, on sheet 54 x 63 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Date:
[1663]
Physical Description:
166 pages in various pagings, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1660?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676
Date:
1664
Physical Description:
[1], A-V leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
Date:
Año de MMCLIII [1653]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (4 volumes) : maps ; 50 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
No cover image available
Creator:
Bisschop, Jan de, 1628-1671
Date:
1671
Physical Description:
2 p.., 4 p., 1 leaf, 4, [4] p. 157 plates. 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Smellie, William
Date:
1693-ca. 1767
Physical Description:
1 volume : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652
Date:
1652
Physical Description:
1 map ; 29 x 43 cm, on sheet 45 x 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bate, John
Date:
1635
Physical Description:
288 p. illus., port. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Morosini, Andrea, 1558-1618
Date:
1623
Physical Description:
[18], 729, [22] p., : port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts