Added illustrated title page., Imperfect: large stain of ink along top; small tears with no loss of text., and In ink after author's name: not then 20 years old.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Rome --Antiquities --Early works to 1800, and Venice (Italy)
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration --Spanish --Early works to 1800, America --Early accounts to 1600, Latin America --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Latin America --History --To 1600
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616, and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599
Subject (Topic):
Indians
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
"Ervditissimi viri hieroglyphicorvm commentariorvm liber prior[-secvndve]" by C.A. Curione., "Hieroglyphicurvm collectanes", "Pro sacerdotvm barbis", and "Poemata" have special title-pages, dated 1613., and Various pagings.
Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Elaborately engraved title page includes depictions of "The Kinge of Cochin" (present-day Goa, India) and "The Kinge of Tangil" (in present-day Alagoas, Brazil), as well as three ships and several animals.
Description:
Depicts coat of arms of King Henry IV (after having been restored by Queen Elizabeth I). and The title page is engraved and signed: Willms Rogers ciuis Londinensis inuentor et sculptor.
Subject (Name):
Windet, John, d. 1610, printer and Wolfe, John, d. 1601, printer
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[London] : Printed at London by [John Windet for] Iohn Wolfe, printer to ye Honorable Cittie of London, [1598]
Bornitz, Jakob, ca. 1560-1625 Bourgeat, Ludwig, -1714
Published / Created:
a[nno] s[alutae] MDCLXIV [1664]
Call Number:
Zg17 B639 664j
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Emblematum ethico-politicorum
Description:
All numbered leaves are engraved and printed on rectos only., Emblem captions in Latin and German., Foliation: v.1: [3], 50 leaves -- v.2: [1], 50 leaves., Manuscript notes on endpapers., Signatures: v.1: pi²(-pi1) ²pi² A-M⁴ N² -- v.2: pi²(-pi1) a-m⁴ n²., and Titles within engraved borders, each incorporating 10 emblems; head- and tail-piece; initial.
Publisher:
Apud Ludovicum Bourgeat bibliopolam,
Subject (Topic):
Emblem books, German--Germany--17th century, Emblem books, Latin--Germany--17th century, and Emblems--Early works to 1800
Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent. Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca. 1270
Published / Created:
ca. 1400
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 406
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun.
Description:
Imperfect: f. 1r-v mutilated with loss of text and image.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts and Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--14th cent
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Devotional literature, French, Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Early works to 1800