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Creator:: Church of England
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: xxviii, 584 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70115. A description of a set of prints of ancient history : contained in a set of easy lessons : in two parts / by Mrs. Trimmer.

Creator:: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741–1810
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: vi, 7-104, iv, 5-120 p. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70116. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

Date:: [1698]
Physical Description:: [3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70117. Special exhibition of national portraits on loan to the South Kensington Museum : galleries and bays of the national portrait exhibition, 1866 : shown in seventy-seven photographs.

Creator:: South Kensington Museum
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: [4], [81] p. : ports., photos. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70118. Circular respecting memorial studies of St. Marks, Venice : now in progress under Mr. Ruskin's direction ...

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: [1879]
Physical Description:: 8 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70119. Mr. Ruskin's inaugural address delivered at Cambridge, 0ct. 29, 1858.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: [6], 40 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70120. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:: 1630
Physical Description:: [8], 644, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70121. Description of a view of the Battle of Sobraon with the defeat of the Sikh army of the Punjab : now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square / painted by the proprietor, Robert Burford ; assisted by H.C. Selous.

Creator:: Burford, Robert, 1791–1861
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: 16 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70122. Leoni : a legend of Italy.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Physical Description:: p. 217-226 : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70123. The sequel to Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor : in familiar conversations, on a variety of interesting subjects, in which are introduced, lectures on astronomy and natural philosophy, expressed in terms suited to the comprehension of juvenile readers ... / by Ann Murry.

Creator:: Murry, Ann, 18th cent
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: xii, 325, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70124. The Child's companion, and juvenile instructor.

Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70125. Bath : a poem ...

Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 32 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70126. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59 / by Laurence Oliphant ... ; with illustrations from original drawings & photographs.

Creator:: Oliphant, Laurence, 1829–1888
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70127. A voyage round the world by way of the great South Sea : perform'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty's commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish crown) till she was cast away on the island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720 : and afterwards continu'd in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c. / by Capt. George Shelvocke, Commander of the Speedwell, Recovery, &c. in this expedition.

Creator:: Shelvocke, George
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:: [8], xxxii, [4], 468 pages, [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70128. Gallops / by David Gray.

Creator:: Gray, David, 1870–1968
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: [10], 226 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70129. Miscellaneous poems / by Andrew Marvell.

Creator:: Marvell, Andrew, 1621–1678
Date:: MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:: [4], 148, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70130. The remarkable Mr. Jerome; illustrated with photos.

Creator:: Leslie, Anita
Date:: [1954]
Physical Description:: 312 p. illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70131. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70132. Count Stefan / by A.E. Coppard.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: [12], 56, [4] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70133. The present state of the European settlements on the Missisippi : with a geographical description of that river / illustrated by plans and draughts by Captain Philip Pittman.

Creator:: Pittman, Philip, active 1760–1770
Date:: MDCCLXX [1770]
Physical Description:: viii, 99, [1] pages, [8] leaves of plates (7 folded) : maps, plans ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70134. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1843-1844
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70135. The comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals. By A. Chauveau. Translated and edited by George Fleming. With 450 illustrations.

Creator:: Chauveau, A. (Auguste), 1827–1917
Date:: 1873
Physical Description:: xliv, 957 p. illus. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70136. Scott and Sebright / by the Druid.

Creator:: Dixon, Henry Hall, 1822–1870
Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [3], vii, [1], 426 pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70137. Mr. Carteret and others / by David Gray ...

Creator:: Gray, David, 1870–1968
Date:: 1910
Physical Description:: [10], 218 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70138. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70139. Jon Duan : a twofold journey with manifold purposes / by the authors of "The coming k---" and "The Siliad."

Creator:: Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831–1877
Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: vi, 94 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70140. The spirit of Don Quixote : being a selection of the episodes and incidents, with a summary sketch of the story of that popular romance : plates.

Creator:: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616
Date:: MDCCCXXXI [1831]
Physical Description:: 310 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70141. Sixteen perspective views together with a general plan of the buildings and gardens at Stow.

Creator:: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste Claude, 1710?-1771?
Date:: 1753
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70142. Travels in Asia and Africa : including a journey from Scanderoon to Aleppo, and over the desert to Bagdad and Bussora, a voyage from Bussora to Bombay, and along the western coast of India, a voyage from Bombay to Mocha and Suez in the Red Sea, and a journey from Suez to Cairo and Rosetta, in Egypt / by the late Abraham Parsons ...

Creator:: Parsons, Abraham, d. 1785
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: vi, 346 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70143. A visit to the monastery of La Trappe, in 1817 : with notes taken during a tour through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjoy, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the environs of Paris / by W.D. Felllowes.

Creator:: Fellowes, W. D. (William Dorset)
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: xii, 188 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70144. Travels in Spain : containing a ... comprehensive view of the state of that country, down to the year 1806 / by J. F. Bourgoing ... ; Translated from the French, and embellished with engravings.

Creator:: Bourgoing, Jean-François, baron de, 1748–1811
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: 442 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70145. Life of Napoleon.

Date:: 1850
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70146. A treatise explanatory of a new system of naval, military and political telegraphic communication of general application : in which a comprehensive numerical dictionary, calculated to espress, in the most east, and most obvious manner ... is applied under a copious illustration, to different descriptions of terrestrial and nocturnal telegraphs on new and simple principles, in order to mature, and render general a science, hitherto in its infancy / by John Macdonald, Esq. F.R.S. F.A.S. late Lieutenant-Colonel and engineer, translator of The French tactics; author of a Treatise on telegraphic communication and of several other works.

Creator:: Macdonald, John, 1759–1831
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [10], 77, [78]-[841] p., XIX [i.e.33] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70147. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

Creator:: Manwaring, Robert
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: [2] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70148. Sketches and hints on landscape gardening. Collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made. The whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground. By H. Repton, esq.

Creator:: Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: xvi, 83, [2] p. XVI col. pl. 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70149. World described.

Creator:: Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:: 1740-1745
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70150. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : began Jan. 1, 1677 : and intended to be continued monthly / by Joseph Moxon.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: 1677-1680
Physical Description:: 1-48, 51-114, 119-242, [243-250] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70151. Select views of the rock and fortress of Gilbralter.

Creator:: Carter, John Money
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70152. Inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving.

Creator:: Ottley, William Young, 1771–1836
Date:: 1816
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70153. Peuples de la Russie.

Date:: 1813
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70154. Racing in America : 1866-1921 / written for the Jockey Club, by W. S. Vosburgh.

Creator:: Vosburgh, Walter Spencer
Date:: c1922
Physical Description:: x, 249 p., [56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70155. The carpenter and joiner, stair builder and hand-railer / by Robert Riddell ; with fifty-nine plates, comprising a series of card-board models.

Creator:: Riddell, Robert
Date:: [1870?]
Physical Description:: 125 p., 57 leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70156. Rambles in Egypt and Candia : with details of the military power and resources of those countries, and observations on the government, policy, and commercial system of Mohammed Ali / by C. Rochfort Scott ...

Creator:: Scott, C. Rochfort (Charles Rochfort), -1872
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70157. XXX. pieces d'architecture : tirees du tres exellent auteur Vincent Scamozze : et autres : tres necessaire a ceux qui sont Proffession de cet Art = XXX. pieces of architecture : taken out of the famous Author Vincent Scamozze : and others : Very necessary for all those that are affected to the said Art.

Creator:: Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:: 1660.]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70158. [Artificial slate roofs].

Creator:: Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:: 178-?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70159. Picturesque views of all the bridges belonging to the County of Norfolk : in a series of eighty-four prints in lithography : most respectfully dedicated to the Hon. John Wodehouse, His Majesty's Lieutenant, and to the magistrates of the County of Norfolk / by Francis Stone, architect and county surveyor.

Creator:: Stone, Francis, 1775–1834
Date:: 1831]
Physical Description:: [85] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70160. The Iliad of Homer / translated by A. Pope ; adorned with plates.

Creator:: Homer
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70161. The lives of the most eminent British painters and sculptors. / By Allan Cunningham. ; In five volumes. Vol. IV[-V].

Creator:: Cunningham, Allan, 1784–1842
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ports. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

70162. Sketchbook of Indian scenes and British colonial life.

Creator:: Johnson, Edward Reginald, b. 1846
Date:: 1869-1872
Physical Description:: 1 v. (ca. 170 p., with many blanks) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70163. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

Creator:: W.J. Adams & Sons
Date:: [ca. 1887?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 17.7 x 25.3 cm., folded in cover 14.1 x 9.2 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

70164. Regulations and instructions for the infantry sword exercise / Adjutant-General's Office, Horse Guards, 10th September, 1819.

Creator:: Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office
Date:: [1824?]
Physical Description:: 63 p., [1] folded leaf of plates: ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70165. Essays towards the history of painting / by Mrs. Callcott.

Creator:: Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: [4], iv, [2], 269, [3] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70166. Hound, horse, hoof and turf / by Tom Andrews ("Gin and Beer") ; (a medley of sporting and horse and cattle dealing memoirs) ; edited and with an introduction by J. Fairfax-Blakeborough.

Creator:: Andrews, Tom, 1863–
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: vii, [3], 11-167, [1] pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70167. The horse how to breed and rear him : race-horse : hunter : hack : troop-horse : draught-horse : shire-horse : carriage-horse : pony. / by William Day ; author of "The race-horse in training," "Reminiscences of the turf," etc.

Creator:: Day, William, 1823–1908
Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: [2], xxiii, [1], 453, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70168. Recent acquisitions, 1998 / catalogue by Carolyn Leder.

Creator:: Leder, Carolyn
Date:: [1999]
Physical Description:: 52 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

70169. 4 Engelse grafici : Joan Hassall, Alan Reynolds Stone, Leo Wyatt, Richard Shirley Smith.

Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 48 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

70170. Wordage / Colin Sackett.

Creator:: Sackett, Colin
Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 62 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70171. Microscope camera lucida.

Date:: approximately 1850?
Physical Description:: 1 camera lucida : brass ; 45 mm in width, band 27 mm in diameter, 35 mm in height
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70172. A guide to Woburn Abbey / by J.D. Parry, M.A.

Creator:: Parry, J. D. (John Docwra), -1833?
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: 137, [1] pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

70173. The garden of caresses / translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint ; now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 91, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70174. The forty thieves : a drama : 12 plates of characters, 15 scenes, 6 plates of wings, total 33 : adapted only for Pollock's characters and scenes.

Date:: [between 1876 and 1917]
Physical Description:: 16 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus

70175. The Corsican brothers, or, The fatal duel : a legendary drama, in three acts : six plates characters, 5 scenes, 2 wings, total 13 plates : adapted only for Pollock's characters and scenes.

Date:: [between 1876 and 1917]
Physical Description:: 16 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus

70176. The Talbotype : sun-pictures.

Date:: [1846]
Physical Description:: pages 143-144, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70177. The works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, doctor in physick : containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds & sayings of Gargantua, and his sonne Pantagruel : together with the Pantagrueline prognostication, the Oracle of the divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle : hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding isle, and the isle of the Apedefts : as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin epistle / all done by Mr. Francis Rabelais, in the French tongue, and now faithfully translated into English ; illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

Creator:: Rabelais, François, approximately 1490–1553?
Date:: 1904
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson

70178. Hood family pattern book and related material.

Date:: ca. 1822
Physical Description:: 1 volume (94 leaves) ; 26 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

70179. Cottagers' Horticultural Society : August, 1888 : first prize for neatest, best arranged, and best cropped garden in the Parish of Gresford, and the best in the four parishes : awarded to Edwin Evison, LLay.

Creator:: Jones, Robert (Printer)
Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

70180. A catalogue of the reserved part of the most magnificent and valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : this collection consists of the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Corregio, Caracci, Guercino, Caravaggio, Cl. Lorain, L. Da Vinci, Parmegiano, C. Maratti, Mola, Murillo, V. Castelli, Rembrandt, Titian, P. Veronese, Tintoret, S. Rosa, Rubens, Vandyke, Velasquez, Poussin, Borgognone, S. Bourdon, Polemburg, Bassan, Vanderwerf, Mieris, &c. : and will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms, late belonging to the Society of Arts &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand, on Friday, April 10, and the following day : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Wednesday and Thursday the 8th and 9th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock ; descriptive catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

Creator:: Mr. Langford and Son
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 23, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70181. The Great Exhibition "wot is to be".

Creator:: Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:: [1851?]
Physical Description:: 1 printed handkerchief : linen ; 40 x 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70182. The catalogue of a small but superb selection of important paintings of the very first distinction and quality : the renowned works of Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo Buonaroti, Domenichino, Hans Holbein, Parmegiano, Andrea Sacchi, Venusti, Murillo, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Peter Coxe at Mr. Squibb's Great Room, Saville Passage, Saville Row, on Saturday, June the 11th, 1808, at two o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:: [1808]
Physical Description:: 9, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70183. The catalogue of a very splendid collection of cabinet pictures of the Dutch and Flemish schools : the genuine property of a gentleman of fortune and member of Parliament : which (the the exception of one picture) will be sold without reserve by Peter Coxe & Co. in Maddox Street, Hanover Square on Saturday, the 28th of May, 1814 at two o'clock : may be viewed : and catalogues, at one shilling each, had at the room.

Creator:: Peter Coxe & Co.
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 18 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70184. Lace sample book.

Date:: 1930s?
Physical Description:: 1 volume (28 leaves) : approximately 300 lace samples ; 64 x 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70185. The quarters of the globe, or, Geographical dominoes : an instructive game.

Date:: [ca. 1845?]
Physical Description:: 1 game (48 pieces) ; in box 17 x 13 x 4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70186. J. & S. Kelly saddlery halfpenny token.

Creator:: J. & S. Kelly (London, England)
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 token : copper ; 27 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70187. A catalogue of the entire cabinet of beautiful Boule & Reisner furniture : choice and valuable paintings, Italian and Roman bronzes, Sèvre, Dresden, Persian, and Oriental China, Boule, Florentine and Parisian cabinets, a few valuable books of prints, superb clocks and therms, candelabras, girandoles and tripods, fourteen brilliant glasses, in costly frames, and miscellaneous furniture of a superior class, removed ... from the residence of T. Theed, Esq. of Stanhope Street, May Fair : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at his Rooms, 73, New Bond Street, on Tuesday, the 22d day of May, 1832, and two following days, at twelve o'clock, without reserve.

Creator:: Phillips, H., -1840
Date:: [1832]
Physical Description:: 26 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70188. The third thing : a selection, by Ralph Kiggell, of writing on the subject of water / woodblock prints by Ralph Kiggell.

Creator:: Kiggell, Ralph
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 34 x 29 cm, in box 36 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70189. A catalogue of the magnificent and celebrated gallery of pictures by the great Italian, Spanish, Flemish, French, & Dutch Masters of the Right Hon. Lord Northwick : removed from Connaught Place, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 24th of May, 1838, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1838]
Physical Description:: 79, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70190. A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick.

Creator:: Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: viii, 456 p. ill. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70191. Chinese caricatures, or Puzzles representing the human figure, being each composed of the seven pieces used in Chinese puzzles, no. 1 [-3], designed by a young lady, and engraved by Miss Lowry ...

Creator:: Varley, Delvalle Lowry
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: 3 pts. plates. 10 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70192. The history of the island of Guernsey : part of the ancient duchy of Normandy, from the remotest period of antiquity to the year 1814 : containing an interesting account of the island : its government, civil, military, and ecclesiastical : peculiar privileges, customs, etc. with particulars of the neighbouring islands of Alderney, Serk, and Jersey : compiled from the valuable collections of the late Henry Budd, Esq., His Majesty's receiver, and more than thirty years resident in the island : (collected by him for the purpose of publication, which his death prevented) : as well as from authentic documents, Royal Charters, public records, and private manuscripts / by William Berry, Late of the college of arms, London ; embellished and illustrated with a correct map of the island ; view of the town ; plates of the churches, castles, and other public buildings, gentlemen's sets, &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Berry, William, 1774–1851
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: vii, [5], 348 p., [30] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70193. A natural history of new and rare ferns: containing species and varieties, none of which are included in any of the eight volumes of "Ferns, British and exotic", amongst which are the new hymenophyllums and Trichomanes. By E.J. Lowe ... With coloured illustrations and wood-cuts.

Creator:: Lowe, E. J. (Edward Joseph), 1825–1900
Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: viii, 192 p. ill., LXXII col. plates. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70194. An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind. By the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith ...

Creator:: Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750–1819
Date:: M,DCC,LXXXVIII
Physical Description:: viii, [9]-217 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70195. Dionysius Longinus On the sublime: translated from the Greek. With notes and observations, and an account of the life, writings, and character of the author.

Creator:: Longinus, 1st cent
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 4 p.., xxiv, 148 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70196. A catalogue of more than five thousand copper plates : engraved by the most esteemed British artists, during the last and present century, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, English, and other schools ... : the copper plates of the whole of these great works, with their impressions ... will be sold without reserve by Robert H. Evans ... on Monday June 1, 1818, and the five following days ... : comprising the entire stock of Messrs. John and Josiah Boydell, deceased ...

Creator:: Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: 58 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70197. Peak scenery, or, Excursions in Derbyshire : made chiefly for the purpose of picturesque observation / illustrated with engravings by Messrs. W.B. and Geo. Cooke, from drawings made by F.L. Chantrey ... ; by E. Rhodes.

Creator:: Rhodes, Ebenezer, 1762–1839
Date:: 1818-1823
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 1 : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70198. A plan of the city, and fortifications of Louisburg / from a survey made by Richard Gridley ... ; A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg : with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the siege in 1745.

Creator:: Gridley, Richard, 1711–1796
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet ; 38 x 47 cm. and 38 x 45 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70199. Learning the ropes / John Mole ; with a wood engraving by Colin Paynton.

Creator:: Mole, John, 1941–
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: [16] p. : 1 ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70200. The compleat horseman and expert ferrier : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts, as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge, and prescribing the best manner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not hitherto so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses: a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leech: the cures placed alphabetically: with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any author. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the whole kingdome: and dedicated to His most excellent Majestie / By Thomas de Gray Esquire.

Creator:: De Grey, Thomas
Date:: 1639
Physical Description:: [32], 356, [8] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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70101. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

70102. Valentine verses; or, Lines of truth, love, and virtue. By the Reverend Richard Cobbold ...

70103. Fables for the female sex.

70104. Chromatography, or, A treatise on colours and pigments : and of their powers in painting, &c. / by George Field.

70105. Bibliotheca urbis Constantinopolitanae. Anno 1578.

70106. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

70107. Flowers and their kindred thoughts.

70108. Flowers from nature / by Peter Pasquin.

70109. Essays and treatises on several subjects / by David Hume ...

70110. Examples of mediæval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress. By James Kellaway Colling ...

70111. A concise description of the Royal hospital, for seamen at Greenwich. Extracted from the historical account published by the chaplains.

70112. A commonplace book of thoughts, memories, and fancies : original and selected / by Mrs. Jameson ...

70113. The library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Early English literature, 1519-1700, collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark, jr. ...

70114. The pictorial edition of the Book of Common Prayer : according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts : to which are added explanatory notes.

70115. A description of a set of prints of ancient history : contained in a set of easy lessons : in two parts / by Mrs. Trimmer.

70116. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

70117. Special exhibition of national portraits on loan to the South Kensington Museum : galleries and bays of the national portrait exhibition, 1866 : shown in seventy-seven photographs.

70118. Circular respecting memorial studies of St. Marks, Venice : now in progress under Mr. Ruskin's direction ...

70119. Mr. Ruskin's inaugural address delivered at Cambridge, 0ct. 29, 1858.

70120. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

70121. Description of a view of the Battle of Sobraon with the defeat of the Sikh army of the Punjab : now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square / painted by the proprietor, Robert Burford ; assisted by H.C. Selous.

70122. Leoni : a legend of Italy.

70123. The sequel to Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor : in familiar conversations, on a variety of interesting subjects, in which are introduced, lectures on astronomy and natural philosophy, expressed in terms suited to the comprehension of juvenile readers ... / by Ann Murry.

70124. The Child's companion, and juvenile instructor.

70125. Bath : a poem ...

70126. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59 / by Laurence Oliphant ... ; with illustrations from original drawings & photographs.

70128. Gallops / by David Gray.

70129. Miscellaneous poems / by Andrew Marvell.

70130. The remarkable Mr. Jerome; illustrated with photos.

70132. Count Stefan / by A.E. Coppard.

70133. The present state of the European settlements on the Missisippi : with a geographical description of that river / illustrated by plans and draughts by Captain Philip Pittman.

70134. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

70135. The comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals. By A. Chauveau. Translated and edited by George Fleming. With 450 illustrations.

70136. Scott and Sebright / by the Druid.

70137. Mr. Carteret and others / by David Gray ...

70138. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

70139. Jon Duan : a twofold journey with manifold purposes / by the authors of "The coming k---" and "The Siliad."

70140. The spirit of Don Quixote : being a selection of the episodes and incidents, with a summary sketch of the story of that popular romance : plates.

70141. Sixteen perspective views together with a general plan of the buildings and gardens at Stow.

70143. A visit to the monastery of La Trappe, in 1817 : with notes taken during a tour through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjoy, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the environs of Paris / by W.D. Felllowes.

70144. Travels in Spain : containing a ... comprehensive view of the state of that country, down to the year 1806 / by J. F. Bourgoing ... ; Translated from the French, and embellished with engravings.

70145. Life of Napoleon.

70147. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

70148. Sketches and hints on landscape gardening. Collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made. The whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground. By H. Repton, esq.

70149. World described.

70150. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : began Jan. 1, 1677 : and intended to be continued monthly / by Joseph Moxon.

70151. Select views of the rock and fortress of Gilbralter.

70152. Inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving.

70153. Peuples de la Russie.

70154. Racing in America : 1866-1921 / written for the Jockey Club, by W. S. Vosburgh.

70155. The carpenter and joiner, stair builder and hand-railer / by Robert Riddell ; with fifty-nine plates, comprising a series of card-board models.

70156. Rambles in Egypt and Candia : with details of the military power and resources of those countries, and observations on the government, policy, and commercial system of Mohammed Ali / by C. Rochfort Scott ...

70158. [Artificial slate roofs].

70160. The Iliad of Homer / translated by A. Pope ; adorned with plates.

70161. The lives of the most eminent British painters and sculptors. / By Allan Cunningham. ; In five volumes. Vol. IV[-V].

70162. Sketchbook of Indian scenes and British colonial life.

70163. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

70164. Regulations and instructions for the infantry sword exercise / Adjutant-General's Office, Horse Guards, 10th September, 1819.

70165. Essays towards the history of painting / by Mrs. Callcott.

70166. Hound, horse, hoof and turf / by Tom Andrews ("Gin and Beer") ; (a medley of sporting and horse and cattle dealing memoirs) ; edited and with an introduction by J. Fairfax-Blakeborough.

70167. The horse how to breed and rear him : race-horse : hunter : hack : troop-horse : draught-horse : shire-horse : carriage-horse : pony. / by William Day ; author of "The race-horse in training," "Reminiscences of the turf," etc.

70168. Recent acquisitions, 1998 / catalogue by Carolyn Leder.

70169. 4 Engelse grafici : Joan Hassall, Alan Reynolds Stone, Leo Wyatt, Richard Shirley Smith.

70170. Wordage / Colin Sackett.

70171. Microscope camera lucida.

70172. A guide to Woburn Abbey / by J.D. Parry, M.A.

70173. The garden of caresses / translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint ; now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford.

70174. The forty thieves : a drama : 12 plates of characters, 15 scenes, 6 plates of wings, total 33 : adapted only for Pollock's characters and scenes.

70175. The Corsican brothers, or, The fatal duel : a legendary drama, in three acts : six plates characters, 5 scenes, 2 wings, total 13 plates : adapted only for Pollock's characters and scenes.

70176. The Talbotype : sun-pictures.

70178. Hood family pattern book and related material.

70179. Cottagers' Horticultural Society : August, 1888 : first prize for neatest, best arranged, and best cropped garden in the Parish of Gresford, and the best in the four parishes : awarded to Edwin Evison, LLay.

70181. The Great Exhibition "wot is to be".

70184. Lace sample book.

70185. The quarters of the globe, or, Geographical dominoes : an instructive game.