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)
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]
Edited by Bryan Duppa D.D., Lord Bp. of Winchester., Extra signature d inserted between D and E, paged 28-32., Imprimatur (dated Jan. 23. 1637): Tho: Wykes, R.O. Episc Lond. Capell: Domest., In verse ; English, Latin, and Greek., Poems by Lord Falkland, Sir John Beaumont the younger, Sir Thomas Hawkins, Henry King, W. Abington, Edmund Waller, James Howell, J. Cl.[eveland?], W. Cartwright, Owen Feltham, Shackerley Marmion, John Ford, and others., and Signatures: A2, B-D4, d4, E-I4, K4, [L]2 ([L]2 blank).
Publisher:
Printed by E.P. for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Tygers Head in Fleet-street, over-against Saint Dunstans Church,
Subject (Name):
Duppa, Brian, bishop of Winchester, 1588-1662. and Jonson, Ben,--1573?-1637--Poetry.
Autograph manuscript treatise in two parts, containing definitions and problems in mathematics. The first part, dated 1708, concerns arithmetic operations. The second part, dated 1710, concerns geometry and trigonometry, with sections on applications in construction trades and astronomy and with extensive sections on navigation. Sections are illustrated with ink drawings and geometric diagrams. Several linear scales and volvelles are sewn in.
Description:
Chiefly in English; explanations in part one are in Latin, some with English translations.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy --Early works to 1800 and Mathematics --Early works to 1800
[Medals, coins, great-seals, impressions, from the elaborate works of Thomas Simon]
Description:
Added engraved title page is numbered plate No. 1., Erratum: p. [96]., First published in 1753 under title: Medals, coins, great-seals, impressions, from the elaborate works of Thomas Simon, Imperfect: wanting leaf L2 (p. 73-74), and the final advertisement leaf., Signatures: pi1, engraved t.p., A-I⁴ K⁸ L² M-O⁴., and With a final advertisement leaf.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Nichols ... : and Sold by T. Payne and Son; C. Dilly; H. Payne; J. Walter; and N. Conant,
"One of the most important of the books containing contemporary references to William Shakespeare"--cf. Pforzheimer. and Issued later under title: Wits Common Wealth.
Publisher:
Printed by P. Short, for Cuthbert Burbie, and are to be solde at his shop at the Royall Exchange,
Subject (Name):
Grave, Robert--Ownership, Heber, Richard,--1773-1833--Stamp, Hering, C.--Binding, and Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616