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1. Harmonicolor : disque d'harmonie des couleurs / par Louis Cabanes, C. Bellenfant.

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Creator:
Cabanes, Louis François, 1867–1947
Date:
[193-?]
Physical Description:
2 sheets : illlustrations ; 25 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

2. Werner's nomenclature of colours : with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences, particularly zoology,botany, chemistry, mineralogy, and morbid anatomy : annexed to which are examples selected from well-known objects in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms / by Patrick Syme.

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Creator:
Werner, Abraham Gottlob, 1749–1817
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[2], 47 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Red letter days.

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Creator:
Turpin, Adrian
Date:
2000 October 29
Physical Description:
pages 26-39 : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Coloritto, or, The harmony of colouring in painting : reduced to mechanical practice, under early precepts, and infallible rules : together with some colour'd figures, in order to render the said precepts and rules intelligible, not only to painters, but even to all lovers of painting / by J.C. le Blon.

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Creator:
Le Blon, J. C., 1667–1741
Date:
[1725]
Physical Description:
[4], vii, [2], 6-27, [1], 7, [1] pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The theory of color in its relation to art and art-industry / by Wilhelm von Bezold ... ; translated from the German by S.R. Koehler ; with an introduction and notes by Edward C. Pickering ... ; illustrated by chromo-lithographic plates and woodcuts.

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Creator:
Bezold, Wilhelm von
Date:
1876
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [1], 274 pages, 13 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs : et de l'assortiment des objets colorés, considéré d'après cette loi dans ses rapports avec la peinture, les tapisseries des Gobelins, les tapisseries de Beauvais pour meubles, les tapis, la mosaïque, les vitraux colorés, l'impression des étoffes, l'imprimerie, l'enluminure, la décoration des édifices, l'habillement et l'horticulture / par M.E. Chevreul, membre de l'Institue de France, de la Société royale de Londres, de la Société royale des sciences de Copenhague, de l'Académie royale des sciences de Stockholm, de l'Académie royale des sciences de Berlin, de la Société royale et centrale d'agriculture du département de la Seine, etc. Officier de la Légion d'honneur et chevalier de l'ordre danois de Danebrog.

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Creator:
Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786–1889
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 735, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 atlas ([2], 2 p., 40 [i.e. 31] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Map / John Dilnot.

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Creator:
Dilnot, John
Date:
[2004]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([8] panels) : illustrations ; 18 x 28 cm, folded to 9 x 7 cm, attached to folded card 10 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist