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1. Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland ...

Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland ...
Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
xii, 159, [1] pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portrait ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.
Creator:
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Date:
MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:
[8], 458, [32] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Hyakunin isshu karuta.

Hyakunin isshu karuta.
Date:
late 18th century?
Physical Description:
200 playing cards
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.

Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.
Creator:
Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614
Date:
1575
Physical Description:
[16], 156, [12], 207, [13] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : geneal. tables, coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses : vvith all the secrets thereto belonging discouered: An arte neuer heere-to-fore vvritten by any authour. Also a discourse of horsmanship, wherein the breeding, and ryding of horses for seruice, in a briefe manner, is more methodically sette downe, then hath been heeretofore: vvith a more easie and direct course for the ignorant, to attaine to the sayd arte or knowledge. Together with a newe addition for the cure of the horses diseases, of what kinde or nature soeuer.

How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses : vvith all the secrets thereto belonging discouered: An arte neuer heere-to-fore vvritten by any authour. Also a discourse of horsmanship, wherein the breeding, and ryding of horses for seruice, in a briefe manner, is more methodically sette downe, then hath been heeretofore: vvith a more easie and direct course for the ignorant, to attaine to the sayd arte or knowledge. Together with a newe addition for the cure of the horses diseases, of what kinde or nature soeuer.
Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1599
Physical Description:
[126] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysshe The golden legende : for lyke as passeth golde in valewe all other metallys so this legende excelleth all other bookes.

Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysshe The golden legende : for lyke as passeth golde in valewe all other metallys so this legende excelleth all other bookes.
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Date:
[8 January 1498/99?]
Physical Description:
2 parts in 1 volume ([1], lij, [1], [MC]CCClxxxxviii [i.e. CCC.lxxxix], [1] leaves) : illustrations (woodcuts) 29cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]
Physical Description:
[2], 5-60, [32] leaves (last leaf blank), [92] leaves of plates : ill., 47 maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Mediciues for horses.

Mediciues for horses.
Date:
[approximately 1565?]
Physical Description:
[28] pages : illustration ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. De architectura libri dece traducti de latino in vulgare, affigurati: cōmentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti [da Cæsare Cæsariano] ...

De architectura libri dece traducti de latino in vulgare, affigurati: cōmentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti [da Cæsare Cæsariano] ...
Creator:
Vitruvius Pollio
Date:
1521]
Physical Description:
IIII numb. leaves, 4 leaves, CLXXXIII numb. leaves, 1 leaf. ill. 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.
Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591-1667
Date:
anno MDCXXIX [1629]
Physical Description:
[22], 134 p., 20 leaves of double plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. De i commentarii del viaggio in Persia di m. Caterino Zeno il K. & delle guerre fatte nell' imperio persiano, dal tempo di Vssuncassano in quà libri due : Et dello scoprimento dell'isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engrouelanda, Estotilanda, & Icaria, fatto sotto il Polo artico, da due fratelli Zeni, m. Nicolò il K. e m. Antonio. Libro vno. Con vn disegno particolare di tutte le dette parte di Tramontana da lor scoperte.

De i commentarii del viaggio in Persia di m. Caterino Zeno il K. & delle guerre fatte nell' imperio persiano, dal tempo di Vssuncassano in quà libri due : Et dello scoprimento dell'isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engrouelanda, Estotilanda, & Icaria, fatto sotto il Polo artico, da due fratelli Zeni, m. Nicolò il K. e m. Antonio. Libro vno. Con vn disegno particolare di tutte le dette parte di Tramontana da lor scoperte.
Creator:
Zeno, Niccolò, 1515-1565
Date:
MDLVIII [1558]
Physical Description:
58 leaves, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (1 map) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The noble arte of venerie or hunting : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiueteene sundrie chaces together, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued 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 England. The contents vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.

The noble arte of venerie or hunting : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiueteene sundrie chaces together, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued 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 England. The contents vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.
Creator:
Gascoigne, George, -1577
Date:
[1575]
Physical Description:
[10], 202, 359-362, 205-248, [4] p. : ill. (music) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.

A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.
Date:
1596
Physical Description:
[40] p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. De humana physiognomonia : libri IIII ... / Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani.

De humana physiognomonia : libri IIII ... / Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani.
Creator:
Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615
Date:
1586
Physical Description:
265 [i.e. 272] p. : ill., port. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto.

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

16. The Canterbury tales.

The Canterbury tales.
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1483]
Physical Description:
[312] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Champ fleury : au quel est contenu lart & science de la deue & vraye proportio[n] des lettres attiques, quo[n] dit autreme[n]t lettres antiques, & vulgairement lettres romaines proportionnees selon le corps & visage humain ...

Champ fleury : au quel est contenu lart & science de la deue & vraye proportio[n] des lettres attiques, quo[n] dit autreme[n]t lettres antiques, & vulgairement lettres romaines proportionnees selon le corps & visage humain ...
Creator:
Tory, Geoffroy, ca. 1480-ca. 1533
Date:
1529
Physical Description:
[8], lxxx leaves : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The first volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande : conteyning, the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest, the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde, 1571, the description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the firste originall of that nation, vntill the yeare 1547 / faithfully gathered and set forth, by Raphaell Holinshed.

The first volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande : conteyning, the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest, the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde, 1571, the description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the firste originall of that nation, vntill the yeare 1547 / faithfully gathered and set forth, by Raphaell Holinshed.
Creator:
Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?
Date:
1577
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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.

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

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

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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

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

No cover image available
Date:
1481]
Physical Description:
[100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

23. [De re militari]

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

24. 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.

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

25. 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 ...

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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

26. 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.

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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

27. 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.

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

28. 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 ...

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

29. Europa tabulis aeneis 166 secundum rationes geographicas delineata : dorsis tabularum, nonnulla magni momenti, & ad rem geographicam historicamque provinciae, quam tabula ob oculos ponit, facientia, sunt impressa, singularum videlicet natura, coeli solique constitutio, & mores incolarum, deinde quae in ijs sunt ciuitates oppidaque recensentur, simul eorum commerica, quibusque rebus excellant, quidque in ijs rarum visendumque sit, principum quoque, qui provincijs praefuerunt, series ac genus aeditur, vt meriro ea enarratio, pro compendio historico vniuscuiusque provinciae haberi possit / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

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Creator:
Matal, Jean, 1520-1597
Date:
anno domini MDC [1600]
Physical Description:
1 atlas : maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. 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.

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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

31. De Moluccis insulis : itemq[ue] alijs pluribus mira[n]dis, quae nouissima Castellanorum nauigatio Sereniss. Imperatoris Caroli. V. auspicio suscepta, nuper inuenit / Maximiliani Transyluani ad Reuerendiss. Cardinalem Saltzburgensem epistola lectu perquam iucunda.

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Creator:
Maximilian, of Transylvania, active 1522
Date:
Anno uirginei partus. MDXXIII mense Ianuario [1523]
Physical Description:
[32] pages ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555 / Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, Gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford.

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Creator:
Galvão, António, -1557
Date:
1601
Physical Description:
[12], 97, [3] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Le fortificationi di Buonaiuto Lorini, nobile fiorentino : con la scienza e con la pratica, l'ordine di fortificare le città & altri luoghi, con tutti gli auuertimenti, che più possono apportar benficio per la sicurtà delle fortezze.

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Creator:
Lorini, Buonaiuto, fl. 1600
Date:
MDCIX [1609]
Physical Description:
[12], 303, [1] p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Plenarium Epistolarum et Evangeliorum.

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Date:
[20 Sept. 1474]
Physical Description:
167, 191 leaves ; 300 x 205 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. [Elders in adoration]

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Date:
[18 December 1472]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut ; image 21 x 15 cm, on sheet 26 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The horse-mans honour: or, The beautie of horse-man-ship : As the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses. With the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer. Not innented [sic] and drawn from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise: and now published at the request of diuers honorable and worthy persons, for the generall good of this noble nation of Great Britaine.

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Creator:
Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:
1620
Physical Description:
[16], 188, 191-255, 266-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Abbreuiamentum statuto[rum].

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Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
9 Oct. 1499
Physical Description:
[7], clxxxviij, [1] leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Iohannes von Monteuilla, Ritter.

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Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
1488
Physical Description:
[180] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The schoole of horsmanship : vvherein is discovered vvhat skill and knowledge is required in a good horseman, practised by perfect experience. And also how to reforme anie restie horse, of what nature and disposition so euer. Briefely touching the knowledge of the breeder, sadler, smith, and the horseleach: with a strange and rare inuention how to make a new kinde of racke, and how to teach a horse to lie vpon his bellie vntill the rider take his backe / By Christ. Clifford, Gent.

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Creator:
Clifford, Christopher
Date:
1585
Physical Description:
[7], 24, 29-99, [1] leaves : ill. (diagrs.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The Bible : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.

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Date:
[1607]
Physical Description:
[6], 294, 294-299, 301-361, [1], 359-362, 361-444, 135, [7] leaves : ill., maps (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

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Creator:
Saviolo, Vincentio
Date:
1595
Physical Description:
[6], 17 [i.e. 21] leaves, [250] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Scanderbeg : Warhaffte eigentliche vnd kurtze Beschreibung, aller namhafften Ritterlichen Schlachten vnd Thaten, so der allerstreytbarst vnd theurest Fürst vnd Herr, Herr Georg Castriot, genannt Scanderbeg, Hertzog in Epiro vnd Albanien ... wider beyde Türckische Keyser, Amurath vnd Mahometh ... / Erstlich von dem hochgelehren vnd aller hisotrien wol ersanen Marino Barletio von Scodra auss Epiro, in Latein beschriben, Darnach durch Johannem Pinicianum verteutscht. Jetzt von neuwem mit sonderm fleiss durchsehen, gebessert, vnd gemeiner Teutscher Nation zu gut an tag geben.

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Creator:
Barleti, Marin, approximately 1460-1512 or 1513
Date:
MDLXXVII [1577]
Physical Description:
[5], 156, [4] leaves : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Della fortificatione delle città / di m. Girolamo Maggi, e del capitan Iacomo Castriotto ... libri III. Ne'quali, oltra le molte inuentioni di questi autori, si contiene tutto quello di più importanza, che fino ad hora è stato scritto di questa materia; con infinite cose, che da molti signori, capitani, & ingegnieri dell'età nostra si sono hauute. 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, ò uero battaglie del capitan Giovacchino da Coniano. Ragionamento del sudetto Castriotto sopra le fortezze della Francia. Con privilegio.

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Creator:
Maggi, Girolamo, -1572
Date:
MDLXIIII [1564]
Physical Description:
[4], 139, [1] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Claudii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis libri octo / Bilibaldo Pirckeym hero interprete ; annotationes Ioannis de Regio Monte in errores commissos a Iacobo Angelo in translatione sua.

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Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
Anno a Christi natiuitate MDXXV, tertio Kal[ends] Apriles [30 March 1525]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (82 leaves, [96] pages, [98] leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. An hipponomie or The vineyard of horsemanship : deuided into three bookes. 1. The theorick part, intreating of the inward knowledge of the man. 2. The first practicke part, shewing how to worke according to that knowledge. 3. The second practicke part, declaring how to apply both hunting and running horses to the true grounds of this art. In which is plainly laid open the art of breeding, riding, training and dieting of the said horses. Wherein also many errors in this art, heretofore published, are manifestly detected / by Michaell Baret, practitioner and professor of the same art.

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Creator:
Baret, Michael
Date:
1618
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 v. ([20], 48, 51-122, [20], 139, [13], 101, [1], 23, [3] p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. L'instruction du roy en l'exercice de monter à cheual. / Par Antoine de Pluuinel, son sous-gouuerneur, conseiller en son conseil d'estat, chambellan ordinaire, & son escuyer principal. Lequel respondant à sa Majesté, luy faict remarquer l'excellance de sa methode pour reduire les cheuaux en peu de temps à l'obeyssance des iustes proportions de tous les plus beaux airs & maneiges. Le tout enrichy de grandes figures en taille douce, representant les vrayes et naïfues actions des hommes et des cheuaux en tous les aires, et maneiges, courses de bagnu, rompre en lice au Quintan, et combatre à l'Espée. Ensemble les figures des brides, les plus necessaires à cet vsage, desseignées et grauées par Chrispian de Pas.

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Creator:
Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555-1620
Date:
M.DC.XXVII. [1627]
Physical Description:
[12], 207, [1] p., [1], 15, [1] 16-56 double leaves of plates : ill. (engravings, woodcuts, ports.) ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. An almanac of twelve sports / by William Nicholson ; words by Rudyard Kipling.

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Creator:
Nicholson, William, 1872-1949
Date:
1898
Physical Description:
[17] leaves, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Cauelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
[16], 88, [4], 212, 233-264, [4], 67, 58-72, [4], 54, [4], 56, [4], 64, [4], 11, 10-81, [5], 20, 25-40 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. [Chronicles of England with the Fruit of times].

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Date:
[1485 or 1486]
Physical Description:
[580] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

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Date:
1583
Physical Description:
[28] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage / Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.

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Creator:
Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Date:
1577
Physical Description:
[10], 466, [6] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Ludouici patritii Romani nouum itinerarium Aethiopiae, Aegipti, utriusque Arabiae, Persidis, Siriae, ac Indiae, intra et extra Gangem.

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Creator:
Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century
Date:
[1511]
Physical Description:
[8], LXII leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Secondo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio Battista Ramusio, et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto ; nel quale si contengono l'historia delle cose de Tartari, & diuersi fatti de' loro imperatori, descritta da M. Marco Polo gentilhuomo venetiano, & da Hayton Armeno : varie descrittioni di diversi auttori, dell' Indie Orientali, della Tartaria, della Persia, Armenia, Mengrelia, Zorzania, & altre prouincie : nelle quali si raccontano molte imprese d'Vssuncassan, d'Ismael Soffi, del Soldano di Babilonia, di diuersi imperatori Ottomani, & particolarmente de Selim contro Tomombei, vltimo Soldano de Mamalucchi, & d'altri principi : et il viaggio della Tana ; con la descrittione de' nomi de' popoli, città, fiumi, & porti d'intorno al Mar Maggiore, come si nominauano al tempo dell'Imperator Adriano, & molte altre narrationi, cosi dello stato de Moscouiti, Sciti, & Circassi, come d'altre genti barbare a gli antichi incognite, et il naufragio di M. Pietro Quirino gentilhuomo venetiano, portato per fortuna settanta gradi sotto la Tramontana ; con l'indice diligentemente ordinato, delle cose piu notabili.

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Creator:
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557
Date:
l'anno MDLXXIIII [1574]
Physical Description:
5, [1], 9-30, 17, 20-22, 25-36, 39-42, 45-65, 58-248 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien : wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt / door Ioannes de Laet, ende met noodighe kaerten ende tafels voorsien.

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Creator:
Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
[24], 510, [16] p., [18] leaves of plates : maps ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and improume[n]tes.

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Creator:
Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531
Date:
1523
Physical Description:
124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia.

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Date:
[not after 1475]
Physical Description:
ccclxxxxvij, [3] leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... / by Henry Peacham ...

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Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
1634
Physical Description:
[8], 163 p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Mundus imperiorum, siue de mundi imperiis libri quatuor : das ist, Beschreibung aller Keyserthumb vnd Königreich, auch aller fürnembsten Fürstenthumb vnd Herzschafften der ganssen Welt, sampt volkomlicher Erzehlung ihrer Macht, Reichthumb, vnd Vermögens, in 4. Theil abgetheiler ... / Auss Italianischer Sprach ins Teutsch gebracht, durch Johann von Brüssel, die ander Edition sehr gemehret vnd gebessert.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617
Date:
im Iahr MDCII [1602]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([120] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Fl. Vegetii Renati viri illustris De re militari libri quatuor. Sexti Julii Frontini viri consularis De strategematis libri totidem. Aeliani De instruendis aciebus liber vnus. Modesti De vocabulis rei militaris liber vnus. Item picturae bellicae CXX passim Vegetio adiectae. / Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maxime Budaei, quod testabitur Aelianus.

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Date:
Anno M.D.XXXII. [1532] decimo Kalendas Septembres
Physical Description:
[8], 279, [1] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... / by Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

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Date:
anno 1599-1600
Physical Description:
3 v. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Leben der Heiligen.

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Date:
1471-1472
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Cosmographiae uniuersalis : lib. VI. in quibus iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum traditionem describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partium situs, propriæq[ue] dotes : regionum topographicæ effigies : terræ ingenia, quibus fit ut tam differentes & uarias specieres, & animatas, & inanimatas, ferat : animalium peregrinorum naturæ & picturæ : nobiliorum ciuitatum icones & descriptiones : regnorum initia, incrementa & translationes : regum & principum genealogiæ : item omnium gentium mores, leges, religio, mutationes : atq[ue] memorabilium in hunc usque annum 1559 : gestarum rerum historia / autore Sebast. Munstero.

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Creator:
Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Date:
[1559]
Physical Description:
[24], 1162 [i.e. 1178], [2] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., maps. ports, plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata / schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correcta a Marco Beneuentano monacho caelestino & Ioanne Cotta Veronensi uiris mathematicis consultissimis ; figura de proiectione spherae in plano quae in libro octauo desiderabatur ab ipsis no[n]dum instaurata sed fere ad inuenta eius. n. uestigia in nullo etiam Graeco codice extabant ; maxima quantitas dier[um] ciuitatu[m], & distantiae locor[um] ab Alexa[n]dria Aegypti cuiusq[ue] ciuitatis quae in alijs codicibus no[n] erant ; planisphaerium Cl. Ptolemaei recognitu[m] & diligentiss. emendatum a Marco Benuentano ... ; noua orbis descriptio ac nuoa oceani nauigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicu[m] peruenitur pelagus Marco Benuentano ... aedita ; noua & uniuersalior orbis tabula Ioa[n]. Ruysch ... elaborata ; sex tabulae nouiter confectae uidelicet Liuoniae, Hyspaniae, Galliae, Germaniae, Italiae, & Iudeae.

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Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
anno Virginei partus 1508
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([284] pages, [68] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 34 maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Scala perfecc[i]onis.

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Creator:
Hilton, Walter, -1396
Date:
1494]
Physical Description:
[298] p. : ill. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. [Proof for the Kelmscott Chaucer, pages 223-224].

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Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1896
Physical Description:
[2] pages : illustration ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The booke of falconrie or havvking : for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile gentleman ; and now newly reviued, corrected, and augmented, with many new additions proper to these present times.

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Creator:
Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
Date:
An. Dom. 1611
Physical Description:
[8], 370, [6] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Date:
15 Feb. 1512
Physical Description:
406 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Intrationu[m] excellentissimus liber : perq[uam] necessaries o[mn]ibus leg[um] hominib[us]: fere in se continens o[mn]em medullam diuersar[um] materiar[um] ... Necno[n] multorum breuium tam executionu[m] q[uam] aliorum valde vtilium illis hunc librum inspecturis aut inscrutandis. Que quide[m] supradicta facilit[ate] possunt inueniri p[er] indice[m] alphabeticu[m] p[er]uigila[n]ti studio co[n]fectu[m] [et] p[er] ordine[m] l[ite]raru[m] redactu[m] ...

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Date:
anno n[ost]re redemptionis, MCCCCCx, die vero vltima mensis Februarii [1510 February 28]
Physical Description:
[10], l, lii-liij, lv-clxxxv, [1] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The art of riding : set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent, horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present work hath put the same into practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale / written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art.

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Creator:
Astley, John, d. 1595
Date:
1584
Physical Description:
[8], 79, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. De agricultura vulgare / Piero Crescentio.

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Creator:
Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233-approximately 1320
Date:
die nono mẽsis Iulii anno dñi M.D.XIX [9 July 1519]
Physical Description:
235 (i.e. 234), [6] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe : that is to say, the office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keeper, and of the ferrer. In the first parte wherof is declared the order of breeding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make them horses of seruice. Conteyninge the whole art of ryding latelye set foorth, and nowe newelye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrst printing, as well touchyng the byttes as otherwyse. Thirdely, howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they traueyle by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiecte togither with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. which bookes are not onely painefully collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure countrey / By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.

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Creator:
Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:
[1570?]
Physical Description:
[5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Supplementum chronicharum.

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Creator:
Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434-1520
Date:
anno a natiuitate D[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij [1493]
Physical Description:
[2], 256, [12] leaves : illustrations; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations : containing a discourse of the generall art of fishing with the angle, or otherwise, and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyetting of the fighting cocke. Being a worke neuer in that nature handled by any former author.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1614
Physical Description:
[2], 51, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Libri Johan[n]is Boccaccij de Certaldo De mulieribus claris : ad Andrea de Acciarolis de Florencia ... incipiunt feliciter.

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Creator:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Date:
[1473]
Physical Description:
[2], Cxvj leaves : illustrations ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. This booke was giuen by legacie from Thomas Braythwait of Ambleside gent. who died in the yeare of our Lord 1607, vnto George Preston of Houlker gent.

No cover image available
Date:
1607?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 33 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. FlauI VegetI Ren. v. inl. De re militari libri quatuor : post omnes omnium editiones ope veterum librorum correcti, a Godescalco Stewechio Heusdano. Accesserunt Sex. IulI Frontini Strategematô̂n libri quatuor; in eosdem Francisci Modii notae, & G. StewechI coniectanea : Aelianus De instruendis aciebus; Modestus De vocabulis rei militaris : Castrametatio Rom. ex historiis Polybii, Latinitate donata à Iano Lascari, &c. Accessit seorsum eiusdem G. StewechI in Fl. Vegetium commentarius.

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Creator:
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Date:
M.D.LXXXV [1585]
Physical Description:
[12], 248, [4], 249-276, [16], 376, [2] p., pp. 399-419, [37] p. : ill. fold. table, port. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Thurnier Buch : warhafftige Beschreibunge aller Kurtzweil vnd Ritterspil so der durchleuchtigst grossmechtigst Fürst vnd Herr Herr Maximilian Künig zu Beheym Ertzhertzog zu Oesterreich Hertzog zu Burgund &c. dem allerdurchleuchtigsten vnüberwindlichsten Fürsten vnd Herrn Herrn Ferdinand erwehlten Römischen Keyser & c ir K.W. Herr Vatter zu gehorsamsten wolgefallen vnd zu frölicher ankunfft dess hochgebornen Fürsten vnd Herrn Herrn Albrecht Hertzogen in Beyern auch jrer K.W. geliebsten Brüdern vnd Schwestern in das fruchtbar Ertzhertzogthumb Oesterreich zu Ehren bey vnd in der weiterümpten Statt Wien zu Rossz vnd Fluss auff Wasser vnd Land mit fonderer Verwanderung vnd frolockung lassen halten.

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Creator:
Francolin, Hans von, 1520-1580
Date:
MDLXVI [1566]
Physical Description:
[4], LXXXI leaves, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, coats of arms ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Stultifera Nauis, : qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis [et] necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, / è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do. 1570. = The ship of fooles, : wherin is shewed the folly of all states, with diuers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. ; Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay Priest.

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Creator:
Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521
Date:
[1570]
Physical Description:
[12], 259, [68] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta / Joannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

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Creator:
Matal, Jean, 1520-1597
Date:
anno MDC [1600]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([36] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. The history and antiquities of the county of Essex : compiled from the best and most ancient historians, from Domesday-book, Inquisitiones post mortem, and other the most valuable records and mss. &c. / the whole digested, improved, perfected, and brought down to the present time, by Philip Morant ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Creator:
Morant, Philip, 1700-1770
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. (some folded), 9 maps, plan ; 48 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Aureus hic liber est : non est preciosior ulla ge[m]ma kalendario ...

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Creator:
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476
Date:
1476
Physical Description:
32 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. The holy apostle and doctour of the peple saynt Poule sayth in his epystle.

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322
Date:
[1483]
Physical Description:
[165] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

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Date:
[1519?]
Physical Description:
[72] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus ss. patrvm illustrata / authore Hermanno Hvgone, Societatis Iesv ... ; sculpsit Christophorus à Sichem ...

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Creator:
Hugo, Herman, 1588-1629
Date:
1628
Physical Description:
456 p., 16 leaves : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Terzo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio nel quale si contengono le nauigationi al Mondo Nuouo, à gli antichi incognito, fatte da don Christoforo Colombo Genouese, che fu il primo à scoprirlo à i Re Catholici, detto hora l'Indie occidentali, con gl' acquisti fatti da lui, & accresciuti poi da Fernando Cortese, da Francesco Pizzarro, & altri valorosi capitani, in diuerse parti delle dette Indie, in nome di Carlo V Imp. ; con lo scoprire la gran città di Temistitan nel Mexico, doue hora è detto la Nuova Spagna, & la gran prouincia del Perù, il grandissimo fiume Maragnon, et altre città, regni & prouincie ; la nauigationi fatte dipoi alle dette Indie, poste nella parte verso Maestro Tramontana, dette hora la Nuoua Francia, scoperta al Re Christianiss, la prima volta da Bertoni & Normandi, et dipoi da Giouanni da Verrazzano Fiorentino, & dal Capitano Iacques Carthier ; si come si legge nelle diuerse relationi, tradotte dal Ramusio di lingua spagnuola & francese nella nostra, & raccolte in questo volume, con tauole di geographia, che dimostrano il sito di diuerse isole, città, & paesi, et figure diuerse di piante, & altre cose à noi incognite, et con l'indice copiosissimo di tutte le cose piu notabili in esso contenute.

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Creator:
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557
Date:
l'anno MDLXV [1565]
Physical Description:
[6], 34, 453, 455-456 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Speculum humanae salvationis : cum Speculo S. Mariae Virginis/

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Date:
[1473]
Physical Description:
540 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:
3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Der furnembsten, notwendigsten, der gantzen Architectur angehörigen mathematischen vnd mechanischen Künst, eygentlicher Bericht, vnd vast klare, verstendliche Vnterrichtung : zu rechtem Verstandt der Lehr Vitruuij, in drey furneme Bücher abgetheilet ... : allen künstlichen Handtwerckern, Werckmeistern, Steinmetzen ... zu sonderlichem Nutz und vilfeltigem Vortheil in Truck verordnet / durch Gualtherum H. Riuium Medi. & Math. ...

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Creator:
Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548
Date:
Anno 1547
Physical Description:
[6], XLII, LII, XLVII, [1], LII, XLVII, [5], XLVII, [1], IX, [4], XIX, XII leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in diuers places, as also beutified and enlarged with new mapps and tables by the studious industrie of Iodocus Hondy ; englished by W.S. generosus & regin. Oxoniae.

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Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Date:
1637
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([22], 56, 55-56, [2], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 5 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende warhafftige vnd volkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften, Insulen, Königreichen vnd Provintzien, Seecusten ... in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyses : dessgleichen, gründlicher Bericht von der Innwohner Beschaffenkeit, Sitten ... vnd Gebräuchen ... / alles auss verscheidenen west-indianischen Historien-Schreibern, vnnd mancherley Sprachen ... zusammen getragen, extrahirt, in ein richtige Ordnung der Materien vnd Zeit, vnd in diese käuffliche Form bracht durch Johan Ludwig Gottfriedt ; mit zugehörigen Landtafeln, Contrafacturen vnd ... Kupfferstücken ... geziert vnd verlegt, durch Mattheum Merian ...

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Creator:
Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
Date:
1631
Physical Description:
[12], 562, 72 p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.

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Creator:
Manwood, John, -1610
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Il ballarino di M. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta : diuiso in due trattati : nel primo de' quali si dimostra la diuersità de i nomi, che si danno à gli atti, & mouimenti, che interuengono ne i balli: & con molte regole si dichiara con quali creanze, & in che modo debbano farsi : nel secondo s'insegnano diuerse sorti di balli, & balletti sì all'uso d'Italia, come à quello di Francia, & Spagna : ornato di molte figure, et con l'intauolatura di liuto, & il soprano della musica nella sonata di ciascun ballo : opera nuouamente mandata in luce ...

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Creator:
Caroso, Fabritio
Date:
MDLXXXI [1581]
Physical Description:
[8], 16; 184, [4] leaves : ill., port., music ; 25 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Philalethes veritas.

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Creator:
Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458
Date:
[ca. 1474-1475]
Physical Description:
[24] pages : illustration ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

95. 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.

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

96. Thoukudidou tou Olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto = Thucydidis Olori filii De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Iidem Latinè / ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita.

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Creator:
Thucydides
Date:
anno MDLXIIII [1564]
Physical Description:
[16], 297, [3], 216, [8] p. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini : olim a Bilibaldo Pirckheimherio traslata, at nunc multis codicibus graecis collata, pluribusque in locis ad pristinam ueritatem redacta / a Iosepho Moletio mathematico ; addita sunt in primum, & septimum librum amplissima eiusdem commentaria, quibus omnia, quae ad geographiam attinent, & quae praetermissa sunt a Ptolemaeo declarantur: atque nominibus antiquis regionum, ciuitatem, oppidorum, montium, syluarum, fluuiorum, lacuum, caeterorumque locorum, apposita sunt recentiora ; adsunt LXIIII, tabulae XXVII, nempe antiquae, & reliquae nouae, quae totam continent terram, nostrae, ac Ptolemaei aetati cognitam, typis[que] aeneis excussae, indices rerum quae tractantur copiosissimi.

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Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
MDLXII [1562]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([8], 112, 286, [66] pages, 64 double leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. 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 ...

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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

99. 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 ...

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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

100. 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.

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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