Genre: Early works to 1800 - Yale University Library Search Results

Published / Created:: [1450?]
Call Number:: PLAYING CARDS GEN 966
Image Count:: 32
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 966: Imperfect: 16 cards only. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Italy
Subject (Topic):: Tarot cards
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Este tarocchi cards].

Published / Created:: printed upon the Thames, January 12, 1740.
Call Number:: File 646 740 F939
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text
Alternative Title:: Noble art and mystery of printing was first invented by John Guttenburg a soldier in the year of our Lord 1440, and brought into England by John Islip, an abbot of Westminster, in the year 1447
Description:: Title from dealer's invoice; remainder of title from item.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England and London
Subject (Topic):: Fairs and Rivers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Frost Fair souvenir, 1740] : Mr. Phineas Pateshall

Published / Created:: [early 20th century]
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1486 (Oversize)
Container / Volume:: Box (Oversize)
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507).
Description:: A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with...
Subject (Geographic):: America
Subject (Name):: Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
Subject (Topic):: Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].

Published / Created:: [1800?]
Call Number:: JAP56
Image Count:: 38
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: BEIN JAP56: Imperfect: 10 cards wanting? From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Japan
Subject (Topic):: Playing cards
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Hana-tori awase playing cards].

Published / Created:: [not before 1774]
Call Number:: Folio 75 B935 805 folder 20 Box 2
Collection Title:: [Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Watercolor drawing depicting a large ungulate, probably a wildebeest (gnu). Drawing could have been made from a captive or preserved specimen
Description:: Title from local catalog card; title based on descriptive note in Richard Bull's hand on a separate sheet (7.8 x 18.7 cm) that accompanies the drawing: This animal, very rarely to be met with, was taken in the year 1774 in land in Africa, latitude 25 ...
Subject (Topic):: Biological illustration
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'] [art original].

Published / Created:: [not before 1774]
Call Number:: Folio 75 B935 805 folder 20 Box 2
Collection Title:: [Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Watercolor drawing depicting a large ungulate, probably a wildebeest (gnu). Drawing could have been made from a captive or preserved specimen
Description:: Title from local catalog card; title based on descriptive note in Richard Bull's hand on a separate sheet (7.8 x 18.7 cm) that accompanies the drawing: This animal, very rarely to be met with, was taken in the year 1774 in land in Africa, latitude 25 ...
Subject (Topic):: Biological illustration
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'] [art original].

Published / Created:: 1729?]
Call Number:: 534 1729
Image Count:: 2
Alternative Title:: Mameluke Iran
Description:: BEIN 534 1729: Preliminary record.
Publisher:: Ibrahim Müteferrika
Subject (Geographic):: Iran
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Ibrahim Müteferrika's engraved map of the Persian Empire, showing also the Caucasus, southern Russia, Transcaucasian Turkestan, Iraq and part of Anatolia ... A.H. 1142 - A.D. 1729/30] [cartographic material].

Published / Created:: [not after 1624]
Call Number:: Lanman 5626 1624
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: cartographic image
Alternative Title:: Map of Yuanzhou Fu, Jiangxi Province : prefecture and 3 counties
Description:: Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Yichun (Jiangxi Sheng, China), Wanzai Xian (China), and Fenyi Xian (China)
Subject (Topic):: Maps
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Jiangxi Yuanzhou Fu tu]., [江西袁州府圖].

Published / Created:: [not after 1806]
Call Number:: Folio 75 B935 805 folder 21 Box 2
Collection Title:: [Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Watercolor drawing depicting a bovine, probably an ox.
Description:: Title from local catalog card.
Subject (Topic):: Biological illustration and Oxen
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Long eared horned animal] [art original].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1679]
Call Number:: Globe 41
Image Count:: 11
Resource Type:: cartographic three dimensional form
Description:: BEIN Globe 41: From the library of Stephen F. Gates. Accompanied by display plate.
Publisher:: Sumptibus J. Moxon
Subject (Geographic):: Earth (Planet)
Subject (Name):: Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596 and Cavendish, Thomas, 1555?-1592
Subject (Topic):: Travel, Maps, and Constellations
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Pocket terrestrial globe] [cartographic material].

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