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BT1.132.17, added drawing of William of Wykeham opposite title page, Thomas Martin's History of William of Wykeham (1597)
BT3.253.12, Francis Sandford’s The history of the coronation ... James II (1687)
BT1.128.4, flyleaf, Edward Burne Jones’s drawing of “Spes”, Thomas More’s Utopia, 1893 (Kelmscott Press)
BT1.5.3, plate 19 of 118ÍĽżâ, David Loggan’s Oxonia illustrata (1675)
BT3.161.29, vol. II, p. 185, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort’s Voyage au Levant (1718)
BT3.187.1(2), p.ccxlv, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544)
BT3.187.1(2), p. dcxix, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544)
BT3.187.1(2), opp. p. dcxxxi, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544)
BT1.47.1, La mer des histoires (Paris, 1488)
BT1.130.9(1), title page verso, Thomas More’s Utopia (1516)
BT3.250.13, p.12, Johannes Indagine’s Chiromantia (1531)
BT1.5.15, title page, Walter Raleigh’s History of the World (1614)
BT1.25.14, p.983, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia universalis (1572)
BT1.25.14, p.1005, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia universalis (1572)
BT3.267.5, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (1542), illustration of artists and the engraver, opp. p. 896
BT3.63.9(23) Robert Wild’s The recantation of a penitent Proteus (1663) (manuscript bound with 38 printed works; printed versions of this appeared also in 1663)
BT3.201.1, p.352, John Gerrard’s The herball (1633)
BT3.201.1, p.1262, John Gerrard’s The herball (1633)
BT1.112.2, f.1r, Arnoldus de Geilhoven’s Gnotosolitos, sive Speculum conscientiae (1476)
BT1.74.9, Erasmus’s inscription to the title-page of St Jerome, Omnium operum Diui Eusebij Hieronymi Stridonensis tomus primus (1516)
BT3.247.18, end flyleaf verso, Robert Boyle’s signature, Robert Boyle’s Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de vi aeris elastica (1661)
BT1.47.9, frontispiece, Christopher Saxton’s Atlas of the counties of England and Wales (1579)
BT1.19.2, fol. 1 (Bi), Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works (1602)
BT1.19.2, precedes bj, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works (1602)
BT1.31.14, pl. xxxiii, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665)
BT1.31.13, title page, John Parkinson’s Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris (1629)
BT1.31.13, p.485, John Parkinson’s Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris (1629)
BT1.112.8, binding, The Book of Common Prayer (1669)
BT1.1.1, G2, Scriptores astronomici veteres (Aldus Manutius, 1499)
BT1.1.1, G3v, Scriptores astronomici veteres (Aldus Manutius, 1499)
BT1.17.6, p.6, Martin Luther’s De deux monstres prodigieux (1557)
BT1.17.6(1), p.29, Martin Luther’s De deux monstres prodigieux (1557)
BT3.154.9, 1st flyleaf, Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s Almagestum novum (1653)
BT3.154.9, 2nd flyleaf, Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s Almagestum nouum (1653)
NB.91.18, frontispiece, Alexander Pope’s Works (1717)
BT3.182.6, frontispiece, Isaac Newton’s The method of fluxions and infinite series (1736)
BT3.18.7, Vellum tab indexing, Biblia Hebraica (1635)
BT1.127.9, wire thread binding, Julius Caesar’s De bello Gallico (1512)
BT1.70.2, GIIIv-GIIIIr, Peter Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum (1540)
BT1.70.2, final leaf, Apian’s coat of arms, Peter Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum (1540)
BT1.128.26, pp. 50-51, Isaac Newton’s Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica (1687)
BT1.32.8, between pp. 8-9 of second sequence, Andreas Celarius’s Harmonia macrocosmica (1560)
BT1.132.6, 1st flyleaf verso, Herbert of Cherbury’s The life and raigne of King Henry the Eighth (1649)
BT1.134.19(4), title page, Henry King’s An elegy upon the most incomparable K. Charls the I (1661)
BT3.188.2, p. 164, John Wilkins’s An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668)
BT1.3.7, f1r, Thomas Linacre's signature, Aristotle’s Works (1495)
BT3.206.24(1), pp. 4-5, Francis Lodwick’s The ground-work, or foundation laid, (or so intended) for the framing of a new perfect language (1652)
BT3.179.10, p. 2, Edward Wright’s Certaine errors in nauigation, detected and corrected (1610)
NB.160.21-3, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)
BT3.180.17, plate p. 76, Kepler, De stella nova in pede Serpentarii (1606)
BT3.214.7, Olaus Magnus’s Historia de gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555), p. 735
BT3.106.17, Saint Asterius of Amasea’s Homiliae (1615), portrait of Philip Rubens
BT3.181.7, Galileo, Systema cosmicum (1641)
BT1.132.17, added drawing of William of Wykeham opposite title page, Thomas Martin's History of William of Wykeham (1597)
BT3.253.12, Francis Sandford’s The history of the coronation ... James II (1687)
BT1.128.4, flyleaf, Edward Burne Jones’s drawing of “Spes”, Thomas More’s Utopia, 1893 (Kelmscott Press)
BT1.5.3, plate 19 of 118ÍĽżâ, David Loggan’s Oxonia illustrata (1675)
BT3.161.29, vol. II, p. 185, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort’s Voyage au Levant (1718)
BT3.187.1(2), p.ccxlv, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544)
BT3.187.1(2), p. dcxix, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544)
BT3.187.1(2), opp. p. dcxxxi, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544)
BT1.47.1, La mer des histoires (Paris, 1488)
BT1.130.9(1), title page verso, Thomas More’s Utopia (1516)
BT3.250.13, p.12, Johannes Indagine’s Chiromantia (1531)
BT1.5.15, title page, Walter Raleigh’s History of the World (1614)
BT1.25.14, p.983, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia universalis (1572)
BT1.25.14, p.1005, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia universalis (1572)
BT3.267.5, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (1542), illustration of artists and the engraver, opp. p. 896
BT3.63.9(23) Robert Wild’s The recantation of a penitent Proteus (1663) (manuscript bound with 38 printed works; printed versions of this appeared also in 1663)
BT3.201.1, p.352, John Gerrard’s The herball (1633)
BT3.201.1, p.1262, John Gerrard’s The herball (1633)
BT1.112.2, f.1r, Arnoldus de Geilhoven’s Gnotosolitos, sive Speculum conscientiae (1476)
BT1.74.9, Erasmus’s inscription to the title-page of St Jerome, Omnium operum Diui Eusebij Hieronymi Stridonensis tomus primus (1516)
BT3.247.18, end flyleaf verso, Robert Boyle’s signature, Robert Boyle’s Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de vi aeris elastica (1661)
BT1.47.9, frontispiece, Christopher Saxton’s Atlas of the counties of England and Wales (1579)
BT1.19.2, fol. 1 (Bi), Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works (1602)
BT1.19.2, precedes bj, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works (1602)
BT1.31.14, pl. xxxiii, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665)
BT1.31.13, title page, John Parkinson’s Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris (1629)
BT1.31.13, p.485, John Parkinson’s Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris (1629)
BT1.112.8, binding, The Book of Common Prayer (1669)
BT1.1.1, G2, Scriptores astronomici veteres (Aldus Manutius, 1499)
BT1.1.1, G3v, Scriptores astronomici veteres (Aldus Manutius, 1499)
BT1.17.6, p.6, Martin Luther’s De deux monstres prodigieux (1557)
BT1.17.6(1), p.29, Martin Luther’s De deux monstres prodigieux (1557)
BT3.154.9, 1st flyleaf, Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s Almagestum novum (1653)
BT3.154.9, 2nd flyleaf, Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s Almagestum nouum (1653)
NB.91.18, frontispiece, Alexander Pope’s Works (1717)
BT3.182.6, frontispiece, Isaac Newton’s The method of fluxions and infinite series (1736)
BT3.18.7, Vellum tab indexing, Biblia Hebraica (1635)
BT1.127.9, wire thread binding, Julius Caesar’s De bello Gallico (1512)
BT1.70.2, GIIIv-GIIIIr, Peter Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum (1540)
BT1.70.2, final leaf, Apian’s coat of arms, Peter Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum (1540)
BT1.128.26, pp. 50-51, Isaac Newton’s Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica (1687)
BT1.32.8, between pp. 8-9 of second sequence, Andreas Celarius’s Harmonia macrocosmica (1560)
BT1.132.6, 1st flyleaf verso, Herbert of Cherbury’s The life and raigne of King Henry the Eighth (1649)
BT1.134.19(4), title page, Henry King’s An elegy upon the most incomparable K. Charls the I (1661)
BT3.188.2, p. 164, John Wilkins’s An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668)
BT1.3.7, f1r, Thomas Linacre's signature, Aristotle’s Works (1495)
BT3.206.24(1), pp. 4-5, Francis Lodwick’s The ground-work, or foundation laid, (or so intended) for the framing of a new perfect language (1652)
BT3.179.10, p. 2, Edward Wright’s Certaine errors in nauigation, detected and corrected (1610)
NB.160.21-3, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)
BT3.180.17, plate p. 76, Kepler, De stella nova in pede Serpentarii (1606)
BT3.214.7, Olaus Magnus’s Historia de gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555), p. 735
BT3.106.17, Saint Asterius of Amasea’s Homiliae (1615), portrait of Philip Rubens
BT3.181.7, Galileo, Systema cosmicum (1641)
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