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

Published / Created:: ca. 163--1734]
Call Number:: 1973 Folio 18
Image Count:: 10
Description:: Maps numbered in manuscript 1 to 97; wanting 2, 42, 45, 51, 52, 74, 85, 89, 92 and 93.
Publisher:: s.n.
Subject (Topic):: Atlases, Dutch
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Composite atlas of the world].

Published / Created:: [1925?]
Call Number:: GER124
Image Count:: 11
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: BEIN GER124: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:: Kartenkunst Spielkartenfabrik
Subject (Geographic):: Germany
Subject (Topic):: Playing cards
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Deck of Kartenkunst playing cards].

Published / Created:: [between 1780 and 1787?]
Call Number:: Folio 633 780 En58
Image Count:: 26
Abstract:: An album of engravings of English cathedrals, sepluchres, cenotaph, family seals, and other antiquities
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and England.
Subject (Topic):: Buildings, structures, etc, Antiquities, Churches, Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Effigies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [English cathedrals and monuments] [graphic].

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].