Emblems of rarities: or Choyce observations out of worthy histories of many remarkable passages, and renowned actions of divers princes and severall nations With exquisite variety, and speciall collections of the natures of most sorts of creatures: delightfull and profitable to the minde. Collected by D.L.

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Emblems of rarities: or Choyce observations out of worthy histories of many remarkable passages, and renowned actions of divers princes and severall nations With exquisite variety, and speciall collections of the natures of most sorts of creatures: delightfull and profitable to the minde. Collected by D.L.

Author

Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.

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London :: Printed by N. Okes,

1636.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE WORSHIP∣full, and truely Generous Captaines: Capt. NICHOLAS CRIPS. Capt. JAMES SLADE. AND Capt. SAMVEL CARLETON, all Happinesse here, and hereafter.
• To the Gentle Reader.
• The Table of all the Heads that are contained in this BOOKE.
• EMBLEMES OF RARITIES: OR, KQVISITE OBSER∣ATIONS DELIGHT∣FVLL TO THE MINDE.
  • Of the Temple of Ephesus.
  • M. Curius.
  • Of the warres and manners of the Turkes.
  • How the Turkes doe be∣leeve, and how they worship God.
  • The Opinion of the Turkes upon the World to come.
  • Of the miseries that Hierusalem suffered during the siege there∣of by Vespasianus and Titus.
  • Hierusalem taken and fired.
  • Of the Fasting and meats of the Turkes
  • Of the Circumcision of the Turkes.
  • What execution of Iustice the Turkes have, what kind of marriages, what man∣ner of apparrel and living.
  • Of Gold and Silver.
  • Of spirits appearing in Mines.
  • The Signes of the destruction of Hierusalem.
  • Of Ireland.
  • Of England and Scot∣land.
  • Of an Isle in Spaine, na∣med Gades.
  • Seneca the Schoole-master of Nero the Emperour.
  • To divers Nations in ancient times were obiected di∣vers vices and de∣formities.
  • Sugar groweth in a part of Italy.
  • A Mountaine alwayes casting forth flames and smoke.
  • The properties of the Eagle.
  • A Description of the Raven.
  • Certaine Rites and Lawes of the old Romans.
  • The lively and quicke Wit of Adrianus the Empe∣rour.
  • Sardinia.
  • The making of Sugar at Paler∣mo in Sicily.
  • The mountaine called Aet∣na in Sicily.
  • Election of a King.
  • Feare and care hindereth the growth.
  • The Rare Art and Mystery of Printing, first found out a∣mongst the Magun∣tines.
  • The Inventor of great Gunnes.
  • A notable History of a thing done at a Town in Germany called Bingium.
  • The Bathes called Badenses in Germany.
  • The Hernesewe.
  • A monster borne nigh unto Worms in Germany, in the yeare 1495.
  • How scrupulous the Iewes be to doe any thing on their Sabbath day.
  • The Famine of Ierusalem.
  • Of wilde Bulls in Prussia.
  • Of Iseland.
  • Of the Countrey called Laponia.
  • Of Whales.
  • How a marvellous horrible Dragon was destroyed in Polonia.
  • A strange History of a King devoured of Mice.
  • A Beare seeking for honey, was the cause of delivering a man out of an hollow tree.
  • Of Beares.
  • The treasure that was found in the Temple of Jerusalem by the Souldiers.
  • Lycurgus.
  • The Ceremonies of the burials of the Kings of Lacede∣monia.
  • The Lawes of Draco.
  • The Lawes of Solon.
  • Of Dame Flora.
  • Of the Ieat stone.
  • Of the Burialls of the Turke, and of divers observa∣tions and Customes.
  • How the Christians taken of the Turkes in warre be handled, and tormented, and how they are made free.
  • With what burden and exactions the Christian Princes are char∣ged and oppressed being over∣come of the Turkes.
  • The besieging of Samaria.
  • Of Tantalus.
  • Of Artemista the wife of Mausolus.
  • Sardanapalus.
  • The people called Amazones.
  • Of Harts in Cyprus.
  • Of the Date-tree.
  • Of the dead Sea.
  • Of Sand transforming things into Glasse.
  • Of the Fish called a Purple.
  • The City of Babylon.
  • Of the Phoenix.
  • The Description of the forme of the Ramme that Titus brought before the Walles of Ierusalem.
  • Of Mahomet the false Prophet of the Saracens, of his ori∣ginall and perver∣sity.
  • The manner of the Assy∣rians.
  • The manner of the Per∣sians.
  • Of the Panther and Tyger.
  • The conditions and nature of the Parthians.
  • Of the people of Carmania, and those which are called Icthiopagi.
  • Of the property of sundry Nations.
  • Of the severall wayes that the Romans put any offender to death.
  • Of the Tartarians.
  • The Sibyls prophesie of the destruction of Babell.
  • The 12 Sibyls.
  • Of India.
  • Of the Bragmans.
  • Of the Elepha.
  • Garments used by the high Priests of the Iewes.
  • Of the Dragons in India, and Ethiopia.
  • Of the Gryphin in India.
  • The notes of a good Horse.
  • Of certaine monstrous people in India.
  • Of the Ants of India.
  • Of Indian Apes.
  • Of the Diamond-stone.
  • The tenne persecutions under the Roman Em∣perors.
  • Of the Calechut the famous Mart of India.
  • The end of the Iewes answe∣rable to their lives.
  • The seven Wonders of the World.
  • The sixe Ages of the World.
  • Of the bridges of Singui and Quinsai.
  • Of certaine illusions of De∣vils about Tangut.
  • Of the Cocatrice.
  • Of the Crocodile.
  • The Twelve Apostles with their Martyrdomes.
  • The Seven Wise men of Greece.
  • Yong fowles hatched, and brought forth without the dammes and females.
  • The rites and manners of the Egyptians.
  • The seven Saxon Kingdomes that England was once divi∣ded into.
  • The foure Monarchies.
  • How the Torneyments and Iustes beganne first in Saxony.
  • The eight Parliaments of France.
  • Of the Oystridge.
  • Of the Empire of Cathay.
  • The thirteene Cantons of Swisserland.
  • The twelve Peeres, or Paires of France.
  • The foure parts of the World.
  • The eight times that Rome hath beene taken.
  • Sixe Orders of Chivalry, which continue at this day among Princes.
  • Of the Cannibals.
  • Of the Lyon.
  • Of the people called the Nigrites and others.
  • Of Prester Iohns land.
  • Of the Mice of the Alpes.
  • Of the Vnicorne.
  • The three seuerall Crownes of the Emperours of Rome.
  • Septem-Viri, or the seven E∣lectors of the Emperour of Germany.
  • Of the birth of Alexander, and of the Macedonian Feasts.
  • The severall Trophies of wor∣thy Captaines.
  • Of the birth of Mahomet.
  • Of the inauguration and a∣nointing of the great Duke of Muscovia, with the ceremo∣nies at their Corona∣tion.
  • The Nativity of our Savi∣viour Christ.
  • Of the ancient and strange ceremonies at the Electi∣on of the Prince of Carinthia.
  • The manner of the funerall pompe of the Grecians.
  • The great pompe and solemnity at the inauguration of the Pope of Rome.
  • The funerall pompe of the Romane Emperours.
  • Of the order of the inauguration and Coronation of the Kings of Persia.
  • The manner and order of the Indi∣ans in celebrating the nati∣vity of their Kings.
  • Of the Nativity of King Cyrus, and of the Persian feasts or ioy thereof.
  • Of the funerall pompe of the Egyptians.
  • Of the funerall pompe of the Thracians.
  • Of the sacred anointing of the Kings of Israel.
  • Of the solemnity on the birth-day of Prince Aratus by the A∣chaians, with feasts and sacrifice.
  • The birth of Minerva.
  • Of the birth of Xerxes, and of the solemne Feast thereof.