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2.
- Creator:
- Man, Thomas, d. 1625, bookseller
- Published / Created:
- 1603
- Call Number:
- Uzn73 603s
- Image Count:
- 78
- Alternative Title:
- Short discourse of hawking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes and Short discovrse of havvking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes
- Description:
- Armorial bookplate: Ex libris David Wagstaff. Binder’s stamp: J. Kulesho., P. [6]-[7], consists of a poem concerning falconry, that begins "A perfect plot how for to hawke ...", P. 73-76 omitted from pagination., Signatures: A-I⁸., and The author is unknown although it is thought he was from Kent as there are a number of references to the county in the work, including the following from p. 55: "... diuers Kentish ge[n]tlemen, some of my kindred and others of my acquaintance ..."
- Publisher:
- for Thomas Man
- Subject (Name):
- Wagstaff, David, 1882-1951
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry -- Early works to 1800 and Hunting -- Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A short discourse of hauuking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes, together with the sorting and ordering of spaniels : dedicated (as a sommers solace) vnto all such as either delight in, or hereafter shall vse that gentleman-like and pleasant recreation.
3.
- Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Published / Created:
- Printed in the year 1705.
- Call Number:
- Z17 219A
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- Review of the state of the British nation.
- Description:
- Bears the bookplate of Francis Charles Hastings Russell, Duke of Bedford., Includes An Appendix to the Review; The Contents of the Review, Feb. 1704-Jan. 1705; The Contents of the Supplement to the Advice from the Scandal Club, Sept. 1704-Jan. 1705., and Title vignette.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An appendix to the Review.
4.
- Creator:
- Williams, Phillip
- Published / Created:
- late 17th century
- Call Number:
- Osborn b309
- Image Count:
- 59
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a complete prognostication for someone born in the Haywards Heath region of Sussex, including his personality; the length of his life; his financial situation; his relationship to his father; the number of his marriages; satisfaction with his servants; the behavior of his "pretended friends"; and the kind of travel he will do. For example, the manuscript declares, "The Native should go many voyages or long journies...the chief end of his travelling should be to gain learning and honor; But the Moon and Mare being in opposition to the Ninth Hous, shewe that it should be very unproffitable to him." The volume also includes 7 horoscope drawings.
- Description:
- Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron; signature of Michael Lort (1725-90)., Binding: contemporary panelled calf, gilt., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Marbled endpapers., On title page: An Astrological Judgment Upon the Nativity of a Gentleman born in the Latitude of 51 degr. And from the Meridian of London to the Westward 13 min: Astronomically and Astrologically Performed by Phillip Williams, Student in Astrology., and Pages 46-50 blank, not digitized.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Sussex (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Williams, Phillip
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Divination, Fortune-telling, Horoscopes, and Planets
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An astrological judgment upon the nativity of a gentleman born in the latitude of 51 degr. and from the meridian of London to the westward 13 min, late 17th century
5.
- Creator:
- Pike, Albert, 1809-1891.
- Published / Created:
- 188-?].
- Call Number:
- Za P635 880f
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- A reply to John Yarker on the subject of Cerneauism., Bound with: Pike, Albert. A fragrant nosegay.[Washington, 188-?], Caption title., and Signed: Albert Pike.
- Subject (Name):
- Cerneau, Joseph,--1763-., Freemasons--United States., Scottish Rite (Masonic order), and Yarker, John,--1833-.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An inaccurate historian.
6.
- Creator:
- Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn d20
- Image Count:
- 121
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
- Description:
- Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
- Subject (Name):
- Robin Hood Society (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of archery: A thing of shreds and patches
7.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 66 726 T675
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 166 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
- Publisher:
- Anketell Jones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Anketell Jones [graphic].
8.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 66 726 T675
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 169 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
- Publisher:
- Ann Strange
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ann Strange [graphic].
9.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500; ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 847
- Image Count:
- 134
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Annales Sanctae Iustinae. The Annals deal with the regional history of Lombardy and the March of Treviso, but also with world history and cover the years 1207-1270. With Mantissa. Notes on the history and buildings of Padua from its legendary foundation to the death of Petrarch (1374), together with some facts of general history, written as a supplement to the preceding text.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, pasteboard covered with brown paper, and white parchment; flat spine with black leather title label with gold-tooled inscription: “MONACHI / PADUANI / CHRONICON / MS.”; below this label an oval label in the same material., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., In the original parts of the Annals, pale red headings; pale red stroking of the majuscules and plain alternately pale red and black 2-line initials, either Gothic with some decoration, or slovenly-made Humanistic ones. The parts copied by the second scribe are undecorated., Script: The Annals are copied by a single scribe writing Italian Hybrida Libraria under Humanistic influence, using only vertical d. Mantissa, as well as replacement leaves in the preceding text, are copied by a ca. 1600 hand writing Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva., and The original part of the manuscript is soiled and waterstained. It had lost two leaves that were later replaced.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Lombardy (Italy)--History, Padua (Italy), and Treviso (Italy)--History
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and World history
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annales Sanctae Iustinae
10.
- Creator:
- Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349. Disputatio contra perfidiam Judaeorum - Published / Created:
- December 1, 1498]
- Call Number:
- Zi +7763
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1498.
- Description:
- For fuller description (including earmarks of vol. 1-2) see collation slip in volume. Bookplates of Thomas Gage Gage and Nathan Comfort Starr.
- Publisher:
- Johann Froben and Johann Petri,
- Subject (Name):
- Gage, Thomas Gage,--1st viscount--Bookplate and Starr, Nathan Comfort--Bookplate
- Subject (Topic):
- Incunabula in Yale Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblia latina : [with the Postillae of Nicolaus de Lyra] : Nicolai de Lyra Disputatio contra perfidiam Judaeorum / [edited by Sebastian Brant].
