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Laurie's new and entertaining game of the golden goose.
Date:
[1831]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand colored engraving ; 40 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The Alhambra court in the Crystal Palace / erected and described by Owen Jones ...
Creator:
Jones, Owen, 1809–1874
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
119, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., plans ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A map of Hindoostan or the Mogul Empire : from the latest authorities ... / by J. Rennell.
Creator:
Rennell, James, 1742–1830
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 105 x 124 cm., folded to 27 x 21 cm., in case 27 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Gentleman's monthly magazine of fashion and costumes de Paris.
Date:
1853-1858
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples / by Edward Kennion.
Creator:
Kennion, E
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
x, 48 p., L, [II] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Rome [graphic].
Creator:
Rawle, S.
Date:
[ca. 1840]
Physical Description:
1 print : aquatint ; 46 x 354 cm, folded to 46 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
[14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sailing boats & dhows / Mandy Bonnell ; [text by Gabriel Gbadamosi].
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy
Date:
[1994]
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of maritime and figure sketches.
Creator:
Jones, Calvert Richard, 1802–1877
Date:
1849 September 4-1850 April 22
Physical Description:
1 v. (31 leaves) ; 18 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Family tea establishment : Hollis, Walford & Co. : 2, Bold Street & 8, Dale Street, Liverpool.
Creator:
Hollis, Walford & Co.
Date:
[after 1842]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 21 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for house repairs provided to Mr. Wadsworth, 1822.
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 13 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper diorama of the HMS Defiance.
Creator:
Walker, Augustine
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
1 diorama ; 48 x 59 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[not after 1778]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection of nine printed specimens of silver foil stamped labels.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
A map of the Zoological Society Gardens in Regents Park commonly called The Zoo : first open'd to the public in 1828 and later containing "the most comprehensive assemblage of animated nature in the whole kingdom" : drawn by J.P. Sayer.
Creator:
Zoological Society of London
Date:
[approximately 1947]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet : color maps ; 42 x 28 cm, folded to 21 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A pottle of strawberries, to beguile a short journey, or a long half hour / by Albert Smith ; with illustrations by Gilbert and Henning.
Creator:
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:
MDCCCXLVIII [1848]
Physical Description:
62 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Julia Maria Barmby and Charlotte Elizabeth Barmby commonplace books.
Creator:
Barmby, Julia Maria, 1823–1892
Date:
ca. 1844-1865
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The youths drawing book complete.
Creator:
Fussell, Joseph, 1818–1912
Date:
[1832?]
Physical Description:
v. ; illustrations ; 15 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Costumes of India / by Sir Charles D'Oyly Bart. ; XII plates.
Creator:
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
[13] leaves : lithographs ; 26 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The elements of drawing : in three letters to beginners / by John Ruskin ; with illustrations drawn by the author.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
xxii [2], 350 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the man[o]r of Graney : situat'd in the county of Kildare, belonging to the Right Honble. James Earl of Kildare / by Jno. Rocque ...
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1], 14, [13] leaves, bound) : ms., 14 col. maps ; 54 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Geology familiarly illustrated / by C.M.W.
Creator:
Webber, Catherine Mary, 1831–1900
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
31 images on 8 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 14 x 305 cm, accordion folded to 14 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thirty different drafts of Guinea / by William Smith, Surveyor to the Royal African Company of England.
Creator:
Smith, William, surveyor
Date:
[not before 1727]
Physical Description:
30 leaves (1 folded) : chiefly ill., maps, plans (etchings) ; 28 x 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.
Creator:
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778–1823
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 44 [i.e. 34] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Cornelius Osgood, transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Album of animal drawings and lithographs.
Date:
1832-1834
Physical Description:
1 v. ([9] leaves, with many blanks) : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Little Gertrude's picture book, from mamma, 1864.
Creator:
Egerton, Mary Sarah Amherst, Lady, 1837–1892
Date:
1864
Physical Description:
1 v. (ca. 140 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Robert Hesketh travel diary.
Creator:
Hesketh, Robert (Architect)
Date:
1839 October 22-1840 February 19
Physical Description:
1 v. ([64] p., with blanks) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Tractatus de armis.
Creator:
Bado Aureo, Johannes de
Date:
circa 1450
Physical Description:
1 v. (72 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for clothes, notions, and fabrics, 1801.
Creator:
Watson (Clothier)
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 24 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Emergency bulletin : lunch edition. No. 3, Thursday, May 6th.
Date:
[1926]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 26 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Advertisement for Pinoli's Restaurant, London].
Creator:
Pinoli's Restaurant
Date:
[192-?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustration ; 90 x 60 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Photographic postcard of an unidentified group of people seated in an open top bus].
Date:
[approximately 1910-1920?]
Physical Description:
1 postcard : sepia tint ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Harper's Magazine for September (Vol. 77, No. 460), published Aug. 1888.
Creator:
Harper & Brothers
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Funeral biscuits : made by A. Butterworth, Confectioner, Ardwick.
Date:
[approximately 1825]
Physical Description:
1 biscuit wrapper ; 110 x 100 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Vere Foster's Copy books : Original series.
Creator:
Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Date:
[approximately 1897?]
Physical Description:
[24] pages : illustrations ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
May the first fruits of your undertakings be timely and bountiful.
Date:
[1890?]
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 13 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
G. H. Hovey & Sons : general drapers, cabinet makers and upholsterers, Angel Street and Castle Street, Sheffield.
Creator:
Smith, J.A.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
In affectionate remembrance of [George Christopher Woods] : who died [1st June] 190[5] : aged [1 years 8 months] : interred at Forest Hill Cemetery : in grave no. [blank]
Date:
1905
Physical Description:
1 folded card : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lady Fanny Flutter, at home on midsummer night : for waltzing and flirting, (the latter the natural consequence of the former).
Date:
circa 1800
Physical Description:
1 card ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Forget me not bookmark.
Date:
ca. 1870?
Physical Description:
1 bookmark ; 21 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John Palmer mail coach token.
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; diameter 27 mm, depth 1 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mary Linwood letter, to an unidentified recipient, July 27, about trilobite and fossil specimens she has obtained : manuscript.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
circa 1830? July 27
Physical Description:
1 item (4 pages) ; 19 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Remembrances of the Great Exhibition : a series of views beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made on the spot : including a general history of its origin, progress, and close.
Date:
[1852]
Physical Description:
10 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia.
Creator:
Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
Date:
1764
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Rokeby : a poem / by Walter Scott, Esq.
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
[8], 330, cxvi, 3 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the arts of smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning, bricklayery : to which is added Mechanick dyalling : shewing how to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane ... / by Joseph Moxon, ...
Creator:
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:
1703
Physical Description:
[viii], 287, [305]-352 p., [26] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Portraits of children of the mobility / drawn from nature by J. Leech ; with memoirs and characteristic sketches by the author of "The comic English grammar," etc.
Creator:
Leech, John, 1817–1864
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
[4], 47, [1] p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Behar amateur lithographic scrap book.
Creator:
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845
Date:
[1828?]
Physical Description:
[27] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 29 x 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An excursion to Horace's Sabine farm, April 1st 1846.
Creator:
Pett, A
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 8, [1] leaves) : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Terrestrial globe]
Date:
[ca. 1522]
Physical Description:
1 globe : paint and gesso over hollow wood sphere, brass (stand) ; 368 mm in diam.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Menu : 22nd, March, 1939 : dinner, 2/6.
Date:
1939
Physical Description:
1 menu : illustration ; 21 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ladies' Festival : Wednesday, 6th November, 1929 : Wharncliffe Rooms, Hotel Great Central, N.W.
Creator:
Freemasons. Chilterns Lodge, No. 4634 (Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
1929
Physical Description:
4 pages : illlustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Three advertisements for American Fluid leather treatment, manufactured by W. Webb, London.
Creator:
Webb, W., active 1813
Date:
not before 1813
Physical Description:
3 sheets ; 17 x 21 cm, and smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of Frederick Hammond, London clothier, recording purchases by Lord G. Beauclerk, 1871.
Creator:
Hammond, Frederick (Hosier)
Date:
1871
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 18 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dean's new magic picture book : showing wonderful & lifelike effects of real distance & space : book I : contains The Crystal Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, The Thames Tunnel.
Date:
[between 1857 and 1865]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The First [... fourth] booke of architecture.
Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
not before 1611
Physical Description:
1 volume (272 leaves) : pen and ink on paper ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Turnwright's Toffee De-light : the Death's-head moth (Acherontia Afropos)
Creator:
Turner & Wainwright Ltd
Date:
[1930?]
Physical Description:
1 card : illustrations ; 82 x 122 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Robin on a crabapple branch.
Creator:
Sutton, Emily, 1983–
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
1 embroidered bird ; 13 x 23 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy and Robert Lindemeyer.
Pattern book of fabric designs.
Date:
ca. 1832?
Physical Description:
1 volume (88 leaves, approximately 500 drawings) ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Edith C. Crafton science notebook, completed at South End House, Croydon.
Creator:
Crafton, Edith Caroline, 1833–
Date:
ca.1850
Physical Description:
[41] leaves : illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Palestine Pavilion.
Date:
[1924]
Physical Description:
1 photographic postcard : tinted ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dry drug jar.
Date:
between 1665 and 1680
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 21 cm high x 14 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
Wedding tour.
Creator:
Jerningham, Hubert E. H., 1842–1914
Date:
1874-1875
Physical Description:
1 volume (231 photographs) ; 34 x 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The grammar of ornament by Owen Jones. Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament. One hundred and twelve plates.
Creator:
Jones, Owen, 1809–1874
Date:
[1865]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 157 p. ill., col. plates. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The therd booke of flowers fruits beastes birds and flies exactly drawne. With additions by Iohn Dunstall.
Date:
1661
Physical Description:
20 plates. 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sepulchral monuments in Great Britain; applied to illustrate the history of families, manners, habits and arts, at the different periods from the Norman conquest to the seventeenth century. With introductory observations ...
Creator:
Gough, Richard, 1735–1809
Date:
1786-1796
Physical Description:
2 v. in 3. illus., plates (part fold.), geneal. tables (part fold.) 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fables, original and selected : second series / by the late James Northcote ; illustrated by 280 engravings on wood.
Creator:
Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
lx, 248 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Gems of American scenery : consisting of stereoscopic views among the White Mountains : with descriptive text : illustrations by the Albertype process, Bierstadt Patent, March 21, 1876.
Date:
1878
Physical Description:
[4], 99, [1] pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The botanic garden : a poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing The economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes.
Creator:
Darwin, Erasmus, 1731–1802
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Conversations on geology : comprising a familiar explanation of the Huttonian and Wernerian systems ; the Mosaic geology / as explained by Granville Penn ; and the late discoveries of Professor Buckland, Humboldt, Dr. MacCulloch and others.
Creator:
Penn, Granville, 1761–1844
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
xxii, [2], 371 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Taxes assessed to William Moody, of Ampthill.
Date:
Michaelmas, 1820 and 1823
Physical Description:
2 sheets ; 16 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Antiquities of Scotland in a series of etchings / David Roberts.
Creator:
Roberts, David, 1796–1864
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
[9] prints : etchings ; plate marks 26 x 20 cm, on sheets 54 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Diary of Alfred Gurton during a trip to India.
Creator:
Gurton, Alfred
Date:
1918
Physical Description:
1 volume (152 pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Advertisement for household items made by blind workers].
Creator:
London Association for the Blind
Date:
[approximately 1930]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Royal race course : a merry round game / designed & lithographed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington Street, Strand.
Date:
[ca. 1845?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 48 x 48, folded in covers 18 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
T. Pellow's price current of teas, coffees, and general groceries, Italian and proprietary goods : Borough Supply Stores, Honey Street, Bodmin.
Creator:
Pellow, T.
Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
[32] pages : 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ladies and Gentlemen! : Robert Harvin will now entertain you.
Date:
[approximately 195-?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([12] pages) : illustrations ; 35 x 25 cm, folded to 17 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Oh! Woe is me. My tender heart is pierced with cupid's fatal dart ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views of the remains of ancient buildings in Rome and its vicinity : with a descriptive and historical account of each subject / by M. Dubourg.
Creator:
Dubourg, Matthew
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[33] pages, 26 leaves of plates : colored illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Specimens of ancient furniture drawn from existing authorities / by Henry Shaw ... ; with description by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick ...
Creator:
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
57 p., LXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Chinese landskips.
Date:
[ca. 1752?]
Physical Description:
12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Composite world atlas.]
Creator:
Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676–1751
Date:
ca. 1686]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Facts from Gweedore : with useful hints to Donegal tourists / compiled from notes by Lord George Hill ...
Creator:
Hill, George, Lord, 1801–1879
Date:
1845 [i.e. 1846]
Physical Description:
37, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Vinters in Kent, a seat of James Whatman Esqr.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
1 v. ([20] leaves) : ill. ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Flora : an album of pressed floral arrangements.
Date:
approximately 1860
Physical Description:
1 volume ([12] leaves) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper basket.
Date:
Great Britain,
Physical Description:
1 cut-paper basket : hand-cut paper with watercolor, stitched with silk thread ; 24 x 29 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts