16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library

Lloyd (Lodowick) The Stratagems of Jerusalem: with the martiall lawes and militarie discipline, as well of the Jewes, as of the Gentiles, first ed...

Melton (Sir John) A Sixe-folde Politician. Together with a Sixe-folde Precept of Policy, first edition, title within woodcut border, woodcut decor...

Shirley (James) The Grateful Servant. A Comedie. As it was lately presented with good applause at the private House in Drury Lane, by her Majestie...

[Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, fourth edition, with initial 'Argument of the Frontispiece' leaf, engraved titl...

B[asset] (R[obert], translator) The Lives of All the Roman Emperors, being exactly Collected, from Julius Caesar, unto the now reigning Ferdinand ...

Alexander (William, Earl of Stirling) Recreations with the Muses, first edition, woodcut title foxed, trimmed and mounted, engraved portrait from ...

[Contzen (Adam)] Looke About You. The Plot of Contzen, the Moguntine Jesuite, to cheate a Church of the Religion Established therein, and to serve...

Ross (Alexander) The Philosophicall Touch-Stone: or Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie's Discourses of the nature of Bodies, and of the reasonabl...

Cookery.- May (Robert) The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery, second edition, title with typographic border, engraved portrait f...

Boyle (Robert) Tracts...containing New Experiments, touching the Relation betwixt Flame and Air. And about Explosions..., first edition, first iss...

Strange (Richard) The Life and Gests of S. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, and some time before L. Chancellor of England, first edition, err...

Otway (Thomas) Titus and Berenice, a Tragedy, Acted at the Duke's Theatre. With a Farce called the Cheats of Scapin, first edition, with a final e...

Acid & alkali.- Tachenius (Otto) His Hippocrates Chymicus Discovering the Ancient Foundation of the late Viperine Salt with his Clavis thereunto a...

Sheffield (John, Duke of Buckingham) An Essay Upon Poetry, first edition, title with woodcut device, patch of soiling to title, A2 trimmed at foot...

Ayres (Philip) Emblemata Amatoria...In Four Languages, first edition, engraved throughout, frontispiece, title, 2 leaves 'Sonnet', 44 plates with ...

Secret messages.- F[alconer] (J[ohn]) Cryptomenysis Patefacta: Or the Art of Secret Information Disclosed without a Key, first edition, lacking A1...

Horses.- [Langbaine (Gerard)] The Hunter. A Discourse of Horsemanship: directing the Right Way to breed, keep, and train a Horse, first edition, t...

Sedley (Sir Charles) Bellamira: or The Mistress. A Comedy: As it is Acted by Their Majesties' Servants, first edition, A4 (advertisement f.) bound...

Dryden (John) King Arthur: or, the British Worthy. A Dramatick Opera. Perform'd at the Queens Theatre by Their Majesties Servants, first edition, ...