The Library & Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey

Book of Hours (Use of Rome). Illuminated manuscript on prepared parchment in Latin, Northern France or Flanders, circa 1450, 84 x 61 mm, 132 folio...

Marbodus of Rennes. De lapidibus pretiosis Encheridion, cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Eivsdem Pictorii de lapide molari carmen, [Freiburg: F...

Zahrawi (Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-, & [Theodorus Priscianus]). Octavii Horatiani Rerum medicarum lib. quatuor.I. Logicus, De curationibus ...

Pseudo-Lull. Testamentum, duobus libris universam artem Chymicam complectens, antehac nunquam excusum. Item eiusdem compendium Animae Transmutatio...

[Partridge, John]. The Treasurie of Hidden Secrets. Commonlie called, the Good-huswives Closet of provision for the health of her Houshold. Gather...

Bible. The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages..., imprinted at Lond...

Milles (Thomas) . The Custumers Alphabet and Primer. Conteining, Their Creede or Beliefe in the true Doctrine of Christian Religion. Their Ten Com...

'N. F.' The Husbandmans fruitfull Orchard Shewing Divers rare new secrets for the true Ordering of all sortes of fruite in their due seasons. Also...

Guillemeau (Jacques). Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women. In the time of their breeding ch...

Stephens (John). Essayes and Characters, Ironicall, and Instructive. The second impression. With a new Satyre in defence of Common Law and Lawyers...

Fludd (Robert). Tractatus apologeticus integritatem Societatis de Rosea Cruce defendens, 1st edition, Leiden: Godefrid Basson, 1617, bound after: ...

Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, et picques ... Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten ende spiessen ... The Exercise...

Oudin (César). A Grammar, Spanish and English ... Composed in French ... the third time corrected and augmented. English, and of many Wants suppli...

Carpenter (Nathanael). Geography delineated forth in Two Bookes. Containing the Sphaericall and Topicall Parts thereof, 1st edition, Oxford: print...

Markham (Gervase). A Way To Get Wealth: Containing sixe Principall Vocations or Callings, in which every good Husband or House-wife may lawfully i...

Lilly (William). Monarchy or No Monarchy in England. Grebner his prophecy concerning Charles, son of Charles, his greatnesse, victories, conquests...

P[eter], H[ugh]. Good Work for a Good Magistrate. Or, a Short Cut to Great Quiet. By Honest, homely plain English Hints given from Scripture, Reas...

Gastronomy. A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, or The Art of Preserving, Conserving, and Candying. With the manner how to make divers kindes of ...

[Gracia?n y Morales, Baltasar]. The Heroe, of Lorenzo, or The Way to Eminencie and Perfection. A Piece of Serious Spanish Wit originally in that L...

Lunadoro (Girolamo, & Fioravante Martinelli). The Court of Rome. Wherein is sett forth the whole government thereof ... And a Direction for such a...

[Refuge, Eustache de]. Arcana Aulica: or, Walsingham's Manual; of Prudential Maxims, for the States-Man and the Courtier, 2nd edition in English, ...

Paracelsus (Philipp Aureol Theophrast Bombast von Hohenheim). Paracelsus. Of the Chymical Transmutation, Genealogy and Generation of Metals & Mine...

Account of a Murder. The Unhappy Marksman. Or, A Perfect and Impartial Discovery of that late Barbarous and Unparallel'd Murther committed by Mr. ...

[Bourgeois, Louise]. The Compleat Midwife's Practice Enlarged … The second edition corrected, by R.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. Practitioners of the said Art...

Caus (Isaac de). New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works Shewing the Easiest waies to Raise Water higher then the Spring. By which Invention the Pe...

Collins (John). Geometricall Dyalling: Or, Dyalling performed by a line of chords onely, or by the plain scale. Wherein is contained two several m...

Plat (Sir Hugh). The Garden of Eden. Or, An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now growing in England, with particular Rules how to ad...

Eniautos Terastion [Greek title]. Mirabilis Annus , or The Year of Prodigies and Wonders, being a faithful and impartial collection of several sig...

[Rabisha, William]. The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught, and fully manifested, Methodically, Artificially, and according to the best Tradi...

Prévost (Jean). Medicaments For the Poor; or, Physick for the Common People ... Hereunto is added an Excellent Book, called Health for the Rich an...

Netherlands. The Dutch Drawn to the Life, in I. An exact description and character of the several Provinces of the Netherlands. II. An account of ...

Boyle (Robert). New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun. To which are added an Examen of Antiper...

May (Robert). The Accomplisht Cook, or The Art and Mystery of Cookery ... Expert and ready Wayes for the Dressing of all Sorts of Flesh, Fowl, and...

Palmer (Roger, Earl of Castlemaine). An Account of the Present War between the Venetians and Turk; with the State of Candie: (In a Letter to the K...

Culpeper (Nicholas). A Directory for Midwives: Or a Guide for Women. In their conception, bearing: and suckling their children, now newly correcte...

[Coxe, Thomas, 1615-1685]. A Discourse, wherein the interests of the patient in reference to physick and physicians is soberly debated, many abuse...

[Miege, Guy]. A Relation of Three Embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of Muscovie, the King of Sweden, and the King of...

[Charleton, Walter]. Two Discourses. I. Concerning the Different Wits of Men. II. Of the Mysterie of Vintners, 1st edition, printed by R. W. for W...

'H. A.' Mirabile Pecci: or, The Non-Such Wonder of the Peak in Darby shire discovered In a full, though succinct and sober, Narrative of the more ...

Valentinus ( Basilius ). Of Natural & Supernatural Things. Also, Of the First Tincture, Route, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are...

Palafox y Mendoza (Juan de). The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars. Together with an account of several Remarkable Things, concernin...

Tanner (John). The Hidden Treasures of the Art of Physick; fully discovered, 3rd edition, with additions, printed by John Streater, 1672, some lig...

Webster (John). Metallographia: or, an History of Metals, 1st edition, for A[ndrew] C[larke], Walter Kettilby, 1671, advertisement leaf to rear, a...

Rivière (Lazare). The Practice of Physick, in Seventeen several Books. Wherein is plainly set forth, the Nature, Cause, Differences, and Several s...

Bolnest (Edward). Aurora Chymica: or a Rational Way of Preparing Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, for a Physical Use, by which Preparations they...

Sermon (William). A Friend to the Sick: or, the Honest English Mans Preservation. Shewing the causes, symptoms, and cures of most occult and dange...

Torriano (Giovanni). The Italian Reviv'd: or, The Introduction to the Italian Tongue... A New Store-house of Proper and Choice Dialogues, [with] C...

Reynell (Carew). The True English Interest: or an Account of the Chief National Improvements; in some Political Observations, demonstrating an Inf...

Godfrey (Robert). Various Injuries & Abuses in Chymical and Galenical Physick: committed both by Physicians & Apothecaries, detected. For the bene...

Petty (Sir William). The Discourse Made Before The Royal Society, the 26th. of November 1674. Concerning the Use of Duplicate Proportion in Sundry...

[Boursault, Edmé]. The Prince of Conde. Made English, 1st edition in English, printed for H. Herringman, 1675, with the initial blank (A1), woodcu...

Woolley (Hannah). The Queen-like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery. Very Pleas...

Vaughan (Rice). A Discourse of Coin and Coinage: The first Invention, Use, Matter, Forms, Proportions, and Differences, Ancient and Modern: with t...

Barbette (Paul). Thesaurus Chirurgiae. The Chirurgical & Anatomical Works of Paul Barbette, M. D. Practitioner at Amsterdam. Composed according to...

Debes (Lucas Jacobsen). Faeroae, & Foeroareserata: that is A Description of the Islands & Inhabitants of Foeroe: being seventeen islands, subject ...

Phillippes (Henry). The Purchasers Pattern, much enlarged. The First Part, shewing the True Value of Land or Houses, by Lease, or Otherwise... The...

Graaf (Reinier de). De Secco Pancreatico: Or, A Physical and Anatomical Treatise of the Nature and Office of the Pancreatick Juice ... translated ...

Child-rearing . The Fathers Legacy: or, Counsels to His Children. In Three Parts. Containing the Whole Duty of Man, I. To God. II. To Himself. III...

Harvey (Gideon). The Family-Physician, and the House-Apothecary, Containing I. Medicines against all such Diseases people usually advise with Apot...

Royal binding. An Abridgment of the English Military Discipline, 2nd edition, printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry ...