17 A. LIII, LIV 'A NEW FORME of greate artillerie, invented by the master of th' ordenaunce' [George Carew, Baron Carew 1605, and Earl of Totnes 1626]: description designed to accompany a copper model of a new plan for casting ordnance in sections instead of in one mould. Two copies. At the beginning and end of the second copy are two notes by Carew relative to the proving of these new pieces, once at S. James's about the beginning of March, 1610[11] and on 7 May, 1612, at the house of Henr...
'THE BOOKE of Hunting called The Maister of the Game, dedicated to Henrie the Fifth, then Prince of Wales': the Master of Game by Edward, second Duke of York, Master of the Game to Henry IV. Printed, from the 15th cent. Cotton MS. Vesp. B. XII, by W. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, 1904 (smaller ed. ...
1. 'THE ARGUMENT of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, his Maiestes Sollicitor generall, in the case of the Postnati of Scotland in the Exchequer Chamber, before the Lord Chauncellor and all the judges of England', delivered before Easter term, 1608. With a few minute corrections by Bacon himself accord...
'THE BRITISH INDIA, or a compendious discourse tending to advancement', by Capt. Edward Wynne, Governor of Ferryland, in Newfoundland: a treatise on the advantages of colonizing Newfoundland, with addresses to Charles I and to Sir Kenelm Digby. On the fly-leaves (ff. 1, 2, 2 b, 36 b) are rough p...
'THE DESCRIPTION and vse of such lines and circles as are drawne vppon ye stone-Dialls in his Maiesties Garden att Hampton-courte', by John Mar; with a dedication to Charles I. Paper; ff. 75. 53/4 in. x 33/4 in. Circ. 1631. Bound with 17 A. IV. Not in the old catalogues.
MAXIMS from the Old and New Testaments, in alpha. betical order, by Christopher Hamonde, of Isleworth, a student of the Inner Temple; with a dedication to the Duchess of Somerset, viz. Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope, 2nd wife of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, who is spo...
DEVOTIONAL MANUAL, in French, English, and Italian, containing the ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer (both in Fr. verse), a few psalms, &c. ; with a dedication to a 'Treshaulte tresillustre et tresexcellente Dame' (also called 'vostre hautesse'), whose name is not ...
MEDICAL COLLECTION in English, &c., viz.: 1. '[Here beginnes gode medicines for diuers euill þat men has, for god lechis has drawin þem out of many gode bokes Galien and] Asc[lopus, for þei were þe best lechis] Pat war [in þe werld, and wha so wil] do als þe boke wyll te[che he may be] syker...