Collection of short texts including a manual on the astrolabe, treatises on the zodiac, several horoscopes, and a map of England.
Description:
1 map; parchment, some col.; 20.5 x 31 cm. and The manuscript is a composite of many separate treatises, some on paper,others on vellum, of varying sizes bound together. Bound in brown calf, gilt.
Catalogus variorum librorum theologicorum, philologicorum prae-caeteris selectiorum bibliothecae instructissimae, R.D.D. H. Cornwalli
Description:
Imperfect: title page and pp. 1-6 mutilated, affecting text. Bookplate: Gertrude Dale. Annotated with prices., Several blank pages at front and end not digitized., and Signatures: pi1 A-C².
Publisher:
Catalogues may be had at Mr. Thurlburn's ... Mr. J. Pindar's coffee-house in Cambridge, and of Edw. Millington ... London,
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, H.--Library--Catalogs and Dale, Gertrude--Bookplate
Subject (Topic):
Catalogs, Booksellers'--England--Cambridge--Early works to 1800
From Speed's The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine., Hand col. Sheet measures 42 x 55 cm. Lanman Collection., Left and right borders contain illustrations of notable persons from each of the 14 political districts., and Running title on verso: Heptarchiae
Publisher:
Are to be sold by John Sudbury & Georg. Humble,
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Humble, George, d. 1640, Speed, John, 1552?-1629. Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, and Sudbury, John
Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum praesertim durante illorum heptarchia.
Description:
Border illustrations include seven Anglo-Saxon kings on the left; the conversion to Christianity of a further seven are depicted on the right., Manuscript number in upper left corner: 7., Relief shown pictorially., and Shows kingdom boundaries, rivers, settlements and shields.