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101. 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

102. 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.

Creator:: Ellinger, Johann, of Arheiligen
Date:: Anno 1629
Physical Description:: 56 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. 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

104. 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

105. [Armorial bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg]

Date:: [between 1465 and 1485?]
Physical Description:: 1 print : woodcut ; image 6.8 x 6.6 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. 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

107. 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

108. 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

109. 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

110. 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

111. 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

112. 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

113. 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

114. 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.

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

115. Ars vitae contemplativae.

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

116. 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

117. A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred scriptures / set fourth by that moste famous clerke, Huldrich Zwinglius and now translated out of Laten into Englysshe by Ihon Veron ...

Creator:: Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531
Date:: 1550
Physical Description:: [208] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. 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

119. 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.

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

120. 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.

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

121. The pretty ABC : being a complete alphabet to entice children to learn their letters.

Date:: [between 1829 and 1839]
Physical Description:: 16 pages : illustrations ; 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. 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

123. 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

124. Incipit liber moraliu[m] su[per] trenis iheremie [pro]phete.

Creator:: Lathbury, John
Date:: [31 July 1482]
Physical Description:: [584] pages ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. [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

126. 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.

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

127. 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

128. 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

129. Eyn schrecklicht Geschicht vnd Gericht Gottes / vber Thomas Müntzer ; daryn[n] Gott offentlich desselbigen geyst lugenstrafft vud verdamnet Mart. Luther.

Creator:: Münzer, Thomas, approximately 1490-1525
Date:: 1525]
Physical Description:: [12] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. De arte supputandi libri quattuor Cutheberti Tonstalli.

Creator:: Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559
Date:: Anno Verbi incarnati, MDXXII, pridie idus Octobris [1522 October 14]
Physical Description:: [408] pages ; 24 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. Architectura civilis, das ist, Eigentliche Beschreibung wie ma[n] nach bester Form vnd gerechter Regul ... aufführen vnnd erbawen soll / alles auss vielfaltiger Erfahrnuss zusammengetragen, beschrieben vnd mit 40 Kupfferstucken für Augen gestellt durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Creator:: Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591-1667
Date:: anno MDC XXVIII [1628]
Physical Description:: [22], 78 pages, 40, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Pomponij Mellae Cosmographi geographia : Prisciani quoq[ue] ex Dionysio Thessalonicensi de situ orbis interpretatio. Pomponij Mellae de orbis situ Liber primus. Prooemium.

Creator:: Mela, Pomponius
Date:: .15. Calen[das] Augusti anno salutis nostr[ae] 1482 [18 July 1482]
Physical Description:: [96] pages : map ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Policronicon.

Creator:: Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Date:: ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth. And of the incarnacyon of our lord: MCCCC lxxxxv [13 April 1495]
Physical Description:: [50], CCCxxxvi, CCCxxxvi-CCCxlvi, [1] leaves : illustrations, music ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori / scritte da M. Giorgio Vasari pittore et architetto aretino, di nuouo dal medesimo riuiste et ampliate ; con i ritratto loro et con l'aggiunta delle vite de'viui, & de'morti dall'anno 1550 infino al 1567.

Creator:: Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574
Date:: 1568
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince, Iames, the first of that name, King, of England, and the sixt of Scotland : at His Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London, vpon the 15th day of March 1603 / invented and published by Stephen Harrison, ioyner and architect, and graven by William Kip.

Creator:: Harrison, Stephen (Joiner and architect)
Date:: 1604
Physical Description:: [9] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. Vegecivs De re miltari / PVM.

Creator:: Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Date:: [1511 or 1512?]
Physical Description:: CLXXXXV pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Cy commance le livre du roy Modus et de la royne Racio : le quel fait mencion co[m]mant on doit deviser de toutez manieres de chasses ...

Creator:: Ferrières, Henri de, fl. 1377
Date:: [20 Oct. 1486]
Physical Description:: [103] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Here begynneth a lytell cronycle / translated & imprinted at the cost & charge of Rycharde Pynson, by the co[m]maundement of the ryght high and mighty prince, Edwarde Duke of Buckingham, Yerle of Gloucestre, Staffarde, and of Northamton.

Creator:: Hayton, Frère, approximately 1235-approximately 1314
Date:: [approximately 1520?]
Physical Description:: [2], xliiii, [1] leaf ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Dell'anotomia et dell'infirmità del cauallo / di Carlo Ruini senatore Bolognese.

Creator:: Ruini, Carlo, d. 1598
Date:: MDXCVIII [1598]
Physical Description:: 2 pt. in 1 v. ([36], 295, [5], 386, [30] p.) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. America, sive novus orbis, tabulis Aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineatus / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

Creator:: Matal, Jean, 1520-1597
Date:: anno à partu Virgineo MDC [1600]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([84] pages) : illustrations, 20 maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. Nouus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum : una cum tabula cosmographica, & aliquot alijs consimilis argumenti libellis, nunc nouis nauigationibus auctus, quorom omnium catalogus sequenti patebit pagina : his accessit copiosus rerum memorabilium index : adiecta est huic postremae editioni Nauigatio Caroli Cæsaris auspicio in comitijs augus︠t︡anis ins︠t︡ituta.

Date:: 1555
Physical Description:: [52], 1-99, 200-677, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ÿmagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di.

Creator:: Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514
Date:: duodecima mensis Iulij anno salutis n[ost]r[a]e. 1493
Physical Description:: [20], CCXCIX, [9] leaves : 1809 illustrations, 2 maps (woodcuts) ; 50 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. The art of riding : conteining diuerse necessarie instructions, demonstrations, helps, and corrections apperteining to horssemanship, not heretofore expressed by anie other author / Written at large in the Italian toong, by maister Claudio Corte, a man most excellent in this art. Here brieflie reduced into certeine English discourses to the benefit of gentlemen and other desirous of such knowledge.

Creator:: Corte, Claudio
Date:: 1584
Physical Description:: [12], 112 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. Diuina proportione : opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia, prospectiua, pictura sculpura, architectura, musica, e altre mathematice, suauissima, sottile, e admirabile doctrina consequira : co[n] varie questione de secretissima scientia / M. Antonio Capella eruditiss. recensente.

Creator:: Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517
Date:: anno redemptionis nostre MDVIIII Klen. Iunii [1509 June 1]
Physical Description:: [6], 33, [1], 27 [i.e. 26], [27], LXI [i.e. LIX], [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. Novvelle invention de lever l'eau plvs havlt que sa source auec quelques machines mouantes par le moyen de l'eau et vn discours de la conduite d'ycelle / par Isaac de Cavs.

Creator:: Caus, Isaac de, 1590-1648
Date:: 1644
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. The perfection of horse-manship : dravvne from nature, arte, and practise / By Nicholas Morgan of Crolane, in the countye of Kent, gent.

Creator:: Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:: 1609
Physical Description:: [28], 188, 191-255, 266-272, [4], 273-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [5] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische compagnie : zedert haer begin, tot het eynde van't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-endewrtich : begrepen in derthien boecken, ende met verscheyden koperen platen verciert / beschreven door Ioannes de Laet ...

Creator:: Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649
Date:: 1644
Physical Description:: [32], 544, 31, [11] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. The Spanish colonie, or Briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe World, for the space of XL. yeeres / written in the Castilian tongue by the reuerend Bishop Bartholomew de las Casas or Casaus, a Friar of the order of S. Dominicke. And nowe first translated into English, by M. M. S.

Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Date:: 1583
Physical Description:: [148] p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. Here begynneth the famous cronycle of the warre which the Romayns had agaynst Iugurth vsurper of the kyngdome of Numidy / whiche cronycle is compyled in Latyn by the renowmed Romayn Salust ; and translated into Englysshe by Syr Alexander Barclay preest, at c[om]maundement of the right hye and mighty prince: Thomas duke of Northfolke.

Creator:: Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
Date:: [1523 or 1524?]
Physical Description:: [8], xCii, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weales in the worlde : relating their scituations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters / translated into English, and enlarged, with an addition of the relation of the states of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary, and Spaine; in no language euer before imprinted.

Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617
Date:: 1603
Physical Description:: [4], 268 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Libro di Frate Hieronymo da Ferrare ... : della uerita della fede christiana : sopra il glorioso Trio[m]pho della croce di Christo.

Creator:: Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498
Date:: 1516
Physical Description:: 151 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. L'histoire naturelle et generalle des Indes, isles, et terre ferme de la grand mer oceane / traduicte de castillan en francois.

Creator:: Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557
Date:: 1556
Physical Description:: [6], 134 leaves : ill. coats of arms ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

Date:: 1609
Physical Description:: [8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. De origine, moribus, et rebua gestis Scotorum libri decem : e quibus septem, ueterum Scotorum res in primis memorabiles contractius, reliqui uero tres, posteriorum regum ad nostra tempora historiam, quæ hucusque desiderabatur fusius explicant : accessit noua & accurata regionum & insularum Scotiae, cum vera eiusdem tabula topographica, descriptio / authore Ioaune Leslæo, Scoto, episcopo, Rossensi.

Creator:: Leslie, John, 1527-1596
Date:: 1578
Physical Description:: [40], 588, [32] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : coat of arms, port., geneal. tables, maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Frater Philippus Mulart decretorum doctor sacri et apostolici hospitalis sancti Spiritus in Saxia de vrbe Romana ...

Creator:: Catholic Church. Pope (1513-1521 : Leo X)
Date:: [1519]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 169 x 253 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. Globi stelliferi, sive Sphaerae stellarum fixaru[m] usus, & explicationes, quibus quicquid de primo mobili demonstrari solet, id uniuersum prope continetur, directionum aute[m] ipsarum quas uocant, ratio accuratiss. est exposita / Autore Ioanne Schonero Carolostadio ; atq[ue] haec omnia multò quàm ante emendatiora & coplosiora singulari cura ac studio in lucem edita fuere Anno Christi MDXXXIII.

Creator:: Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547
Date:: 1533
Physical Description:: [56] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. Thurnier Buch : von Anfang, Vrsachen, Vrsprung vnd Herkommen der Thurnier im Heyligen Römischen Reich Teutscher Nation, wie viel offentlicher Landthurnier von Keyser Heinrich dem Ersten dieses Namens an biss auff den jetztregierenden Keyser Maximilian den Andern ... vnd in welchen Stetten die alle gehalten ... Alles jetzunder von neuwem zusammen getragen, mit schönen neuwen Figuren, sonderlich auch der adelischen Wappen, auffs schönest zugericht ...

Creator:: Rugen, Jörg, active 15th century
Date:: MDLXVI [1566]
Physical Description:: [6], CCXLIII, [3] leaves, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, coats of arms ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. Here endeth this presente Cronycle of Englande with the fruyte of tymes, compyled in a boke, & also impry[n]ted by one sumtyme scole mayster of Seynt Albons ...

Date:: in the yere of oure lorde god MCCCCC and xx [1520]
Physical Description:: [6], Clxiii, [23] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. The present state of Virginia : giving a particular and short account of the Indian, English, and Negroe inhabitants of that colony : shewing their religion, manners, government, trade, way of living, &c., with a description of the country : from whence is inferred a short view of Maryland and North Carolina : to which are added, schemes and propositions for the better promotion of learning, religion, inventions, manufactures, and trade in Virginia, and the other plantations : for the information of the curious, and for the service of such as are engaged in the propagation of the Gospel and advancement of learning, and for the use of all persons concerned in the Virginia trade and plantation / by Hugh Jones, A.M. chaplain to the honourable Assembly, and lately minister of James-Town, &c. in Virginia.

Creator:: Jones, Hugh, 1669-1760
Date:: MDCCXXIV [1724]
Physical Description:: [4], viii, 151, [1] pages ; 19 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. The discovery of a world in the moone, or, A discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet ...

Creator:: Wilkins, John, 1614-1672
Date:: 1638
Physical Description:: 8, 209 (i.e. 211), [4] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Primo volume, & terza editione delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio, & con molti & vaghi discorsi, da lui in molti luoghi dichiarato & illustrato ; nel quale si contengono la descrittione dell'Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varij viaggi, dalla città di Lisbona, & dal Mar Rosso insino à Calicut, & all'isole Molucche, doue nascono le spetierie, et la nauigatione attorno il mondo ; con la relatione dell'isola Giapan, scoperta nella parte del settentrione ; et alcuni capitoli appartenenti alla geographia, estratti dell'historia del S. Giouan di Barros Portoghese ; con tre tavole di geographia in disegno, che hanno le marine, secondo le carte da nauigare de Portoghesi, & fra terra, secondo gli scrittori che hanno descritto li detti viaggi ; con due indici ...

Creator:: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557
Date:: l'anno MDLXIII [1563]
Physical Description:: [4], 34, 162, 162-394 leaves, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Opera diletteuole da intendere, nella qual si contiene doi itinerarij in Tartaria : per alcuni frati dell'Ordine Minore, è di S. Dominico, mandati da Papa Innocentio IIII, nella detta prouincia de Scithia per ambasciatori, non più uulgarizata.

Creator:: Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, -1252
Date:: Ne l'anno del Signore, MDXXXVII Adi 17 Ottobrio [1537]
Physical Description:: [112] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. Luculentissima quaeda[m] terrae totius descriptio : cu[m] multis vtilissimis cosmographiae iniciis, Nouaq[ue], & q[uan] ante fuit verior Europae nostrae formatio, praeterea, fluuioru[m], montiu[m], prouintiaru[m], urbiu[m] & gentium, q[uan]plurimoru[m] vetustissima nomina recentioribus admixta vocabulis ...

Creator:: Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547
Date:: anno Domini 1515
Physical Description:: [15], 65 leaves : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. The first booke of the Historie of the discouerie and conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales, in their daungerous nauigations, in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name. : VVhich historie conteineth much varietie of matter, very profitable for all nauigators, and not vnpleasaunt to the Readers. / Set foorth in the Portingale language, by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda. And now translated into English by N.L. Gentleman.

Creator:: Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de, -1559
Date:: 1582
Physical Description:: [6], 164 leaves ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. The post of the world : vvherin is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe with their trade and traficke, with their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country, with the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their mynts, with al their martes and fayres, and the raignes of all the kinges of England : a book right necessary and profitable for all sortes of persons, the like before this tyme not imprinted ...

Creator:: Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640
Date:: 1576
Physical Description:: [24], 112 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. Nouuelles inuentions pour bien bastir et à petits fraiz / trouuees n'agueres par Philibert de L'Orme Lyonnois, Architecte, Conseiller & Aumonier ordinaire du feu Roy Henry, & Abbé de S. Eloy les Noyon.

Creator:: L'Orme, Philibert de, 1515?-1570
Date:: 1576
Physical Description:: [12], 94, [6] p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. That this is writen in this lytel boke ought the prestes to lerne and teche to theyr parysshes : and also it is necessary for symple prestes that understode not the scriptures : and it is made for symple peple and put into englisshe ...

Creator:: Roye, Guy de, Abp., ca. 1345-1409
Date:: 7 May 1489
Physical Description:: [184] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. Corona e palma militare di arteglieria : nellaquale si tratta dell'inuentione di essa, e dell'operare nelle fattioni da terra e mare, fuochi artificiati da giuoco e guerra, & d'un nuouo instrumento per misurare distanze : con vna giunta della fortificatione moderna, e delli errori scoperti nelle fortezze antiche, tutto a proposito per detto essercitio dell'artiglieria, con dissegni apparenti & assai intendenti / nuouamente composta e data in luce dallo strenuo capitano Alessandro Capo Bianco Vicentino delli Bombardieri della città di Crema ...

Creator:: Capo Bianco, Alessandro, -1610
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [4], 58 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. De architectura Iacobi Androuetii du Cerceau, opus : quo descriptae sunt aedificiorum quinquaginta planè dissimilium ichnographiae, in omnium non modò potentiorum, sed etiam mediocrium & tenuiorum gratia[m], quos aedificandi studium oblectat: adiunctâ vsus & commoditatis in habitationibus singulis expositione, vnà cum integra cuisque aedificij dimensione. Hûc accedit breuis explicatio de structurarum, quibus aedifica constant, dimensione per orgyiam, que Gallica est architectorum mensura, sex longa pedes: quâ certè methodo nemo non aedificia quaevis metiri, & futuri in aedificando sumptus rationem secum inire poterit ...

Creator:: Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584
Date:: 1559
Physical Description:: [32] pages, [69] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Vitas patrum.

Date:: the yere of Our Lorde MCCCClxxxxv ... [1495]
Physical Description:: [8], CCCxlvii [that is, 348] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. Quae intus continentur. : Syria, ad Ptolomaici operis rationem. Praeterea Strabone, Plinio, & Antonio auctoribus locupletata. : Palestina, iisdem auctoribus. Praeterea historia sacra, & Iosepho, & diuo Hieronymo locupletata. : Arabia Petraea, siue, Itinera filiorum Israel per desertum, iisdem auctoribus. Aegyptus, iisdem auctoribus. Praeterea Ioanne Leone arabe grammatico, secundum recentiorum locorum situ[m] illustrata. : Schondia, tradita ab auctoribus, qui in eius operis prologo memorantur. Holmiae, ciuitatis regi[ae] Suetiae, deplorabilis excidij per Christiernum Datiae cimbricae regem, historia. Regionum superiorum, singulae tabulae geographicae.

Creator:: Ziegler, Jacob, 1480-1549
Date:: MDXXXII. [1532]
Physical Description:: cvii, ciii-cx, [18] leaves : ill., maps diagrams ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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104. Blank page.

105. [Armorial bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg]

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

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

110. 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.

114. 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.

115. Ars vitae contemplativae.

117. A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred scriptures / set fourth by that moste famous clerke, Huldrich Zwinglius and now translated out of Laten into Englysshe by Ihon Veron ...

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

119. 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.

121. The pretty ABC : being a complete alphabet to entice children to learn their letters.

122. 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.

123. Concilium zu Constencz.

124. Incipit liber moraliu[m] su[per] trenis iheremie [pro]phete.

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

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

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

129. Eyn schrecklicht Geschicht vnd Gericht Gottes / vber Thomas Müntzer ; daryn[n] Gott offentlich desselbigen geyst lugenstrafft vud verdamnet Mart. Luther.

130. De arte supputandi libri quattuor Cutheberti Tonstalli.

131. Architectura civilis, das ist, Eigentliche Beschreibung wie ma[n] nach bester Form vnd gerechter Regul ... aufführen vnnd erbawen soll / alles auss vielfaltiger Erfahrnuss zusammengetragen, beschrieben vnd mit 40 Kupfferstucken für Augen gestellt durch Josephum Furttenbach.

132. Pomponij Mellae Cosmographi geographia : Prisciani quoq[ue] ex Dionysio Thessalonicensi de situ orbis interpretatio. Pomponij Mellae de orbis situ Liber primus. Prooemium.

133. Policronicon.

134. Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori / scritte da M. Giorgio Vasari pittore et architetto aretino, di nuouo dal medesimo riuiste et ampliate ; con i ritratto loro et con l'aggiunta delle vite de'viui, & de'morti dall'anno 1550 infino al 1567.

136. Vegecivs De re miltari / PVM.

137. Cy commance le livre du roy Modus et de la royne Racio : le quel fait mencion co[m]mant on doit deviser de toutez manieres de chasses ...

138. Here begynneth a lytell cronycle / translated & imprinted at the cost & charge of Rycharde Pynson, by the co[m]maundement of the ryght high and mighty prince, Edwarde Duke of Buckingham, Yerle of Gloucestre, Staffarde, and of Northamton.

139. Dell'anotomia et dell'infirmità del cauallo / di Carlo Ruini senatore Bolognese.

140. America, sive novus orbis, tabulis Aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineatus / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

142. Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ÿmagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di.

145. Novvelle invention de lever l'eau plvs havlt que sa source auec quelques machines mouantes par le moyen de l'eau et vn discours de la conduite d'ycelle / par Isaac de Cavs.

146. The perfection of horse-manship : dravvne from nature, arte, and practise / By Nicholas Morgan of Crolane, in the countye of Kent, gent.

147. Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische compagnie : zedert haer begin, tot het eynde van't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-endewrtich : begrepen in derthien boecken, ende met verscheyden koperen platen verciert / beschreven door Ioannes de Laet ...

151. Libro di Frate Hieronymo da Ferrare ... : della uerita della fede christiana : sopra il glorioso Trio[m]pho della croce di Christo.

152. L'histoire naturelle et generalle des Indes, isles, et terre ferme de la grand mer oceane / traduicte de castillan en francois.

155. Frater Philippus Mulart decretorum doctor sacri et apostolici hospitalis sancti Spiritus in Saxia de vrbe Romana ...

158. Here endeth this presente Cronycle of Englande with the fruyte of tymes, compyled in a boke, & also impry[n]ted by one sumtyme scole mayster of Seynt Albons ...

160. The discovery of a world in the moone, or, A discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet ...

162. Opera diletteuole da intendere, nella qual si contiene doi itinerarij in Tartaria : per alcuni frati dell'Ordine Minore, è di S. Dominico, mandati da Papa Innocentio IIII, nella detta prouincia de Scithia per ambasciatori, non più uulgarizata.

166. Nouuelles inuentions pour bien bastir et à petits fraiz / trouuees n'agueres par Philibert de L'Orme Lyonnois, Architecte, Conseiller & Aumonier ordinaire du feu Roy Henry, & Abbé de S. Eloy les Noyon.

167. That this is writen in this lytel boke ought the prestes to lerne and teche to theyr parysshes : and also it is necessary for symple prestes that understode not the scriptures : and it is made for symple peple and put into englisshe ...

170. Vitas patrum.