Date: 1851 / Classification: Books - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Journals of a landscape painter in Albania, &c. / By Edward Lear.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [4], 428 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An overland journey to the Great Exhibition showing a few extra articles & visitors. By Richard Doyle.

Creator:: Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 14 col. plates. 13 x 275 cm. fold. to 13 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Easy boots.

Creator:: Grundy, T., (Boot maker)
Date:: [approximately 1851]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. [Price list for items produced and sold by Henry Urch, Saddle and Harness Manufacturer, 84, Long Acre, London].

Creator:: Urch, Henry
Date:: May, 1851
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Sketches in Madeira / drawn from nature and on stone by Lady Susan Vernon Harcourt.

Creator:: Harcourt, Susan Vernon, 1829–1894
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [16] leaves : tinted lithographs
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Gregory Kane, 68 & 69 Dame-Street, Dublin, begs to call the attention of visitors to his portable travelling cabinet ... : containing the complete furniture of a drawing-room, and forms its own case for travelling.

Gregory Kane, 68 & 69 Dame-Street, Dublin, begs to call the attention of visitors to his portable travelling cabinet ... : containing the complete furniture of a drawing-room, and forms its own case for travelling.

Creator:: Kane, Gregory, active 1851
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Tender feet : the elastic enamelled cloth for boots & shoes for tender feet : invented by Richard Hall, manufacturer of elastic spring ankle boots, for ladies and gentlemen, of the same material.

Tender feet : the elastic enamelled cloth for boots & shoes for tender feet : invented by Richard Hall, manufacturer of elastic spring ankle boots, for ladies and gentlemen, of the same material.

Creator:: Hall, Richard, (Boot maker)
Date:: [approximately 1851]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A brief history of the Wesleyan missions on the western coast of Africa : including biographical sketches of all the missionaries who have died in that important field of labour. : with some account of the European settlements, and of the slave-trade : illustrated with a map and six engravings / by William Fox.

A brief history of the Wesleyan missions on the western coast of Africa : including biographical sketches of all the missionaries who have died in that important field of labour. : with some account of the European settlements, and of the slave-trade : illustrated with a map and six engravings / by William Fox.

Creator:: Fox, William, active 1851
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xx, 624 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill.,map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Description of the various head dresses exhibited by Fredk. Brown, of 47, Fenchurch St. , in Section 18, no. 245, of the Exhibition Building, Hyde Park.

Creator:: Browne, Frederick, (Wig maker)
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work / by Henry Mayhew.

London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work / by Henry Mayhew.

Creator:: Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
Date:: 1851[-1861]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The house that Paxton built. By G.A.S.

Creator:: Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 23 leaves. ill. 13 x 237 cm. fold. to 13 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The stones of Venice / by John Ruskin ; with illustrations drawn by the author.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1851-1853
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.

Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.

Creator:: Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 18 p., 38 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The great glass house opend; the exhibition wot is!! ... / by G. A. Sala.

Creator:: Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 24 leaves. : col. ill. : 14 x 555 cm. fold. to 14 x 25 cm. (in case 26 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Prize medal of the Exhibition : Hullmandel & Walton, Class XXX

Creator:: Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 medal : bronze ; 8 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Punch's comic guide to the exhibition, showing how to see everything that is in London, as well as a great deal that is not. An immense number of comic engravings.

Punch's comic guide to the exhibition, showing how to see everything that is in London, as well as a great deal that is not. An immense number of comic engravings.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 16 p. ill. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Illustrations of the mode of preparing the Indian opium intended for the Chinese market / from drawings made by Captain Walter S. Sherwill.

Creator:: Sherwill, Walter Stanhope
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [8] leaves, [7] leaves of plates : col ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The Illustrated exhibitor, a tribute to the world's industrial jubilee; comprising sketches, by pen and pencil, of the principal objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations.

The Illustrated exhibitor, a tribute to the world's industrial jubilee; comprising sketches, by pen and pencil, of the principal objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: xliv, 556 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The industrial arts of the nineteenth century : a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851 : dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert / by M. Digby Wyatt, architect.

The industrial arts of the nineteenth century : a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851 : dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert / by M. Digby Wyatt, architect.

Creator:: Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820–1877
Date:: 1851-53
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (xii, [58] pages, [1], 78 leaves of plates; 166 pages, [1], 80 leaves of plates) : color illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Catalogue of the very choice collection of pictures, of the highest class : the property of William Theobald Esq., deceased : which (by order of the executors,) will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May 10, 1851, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 16 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Catalogue of the portraits of distinguished naval commanders and represenations of their warlike achievements : exhibited in the Naval Gallery of Greenwich hospital.

Creator:: Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
Date:: MDCCXLI [1851]
Physical Description:: 35 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. [The Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851. Lithographed by Joseph Nash from his drawing in possession of Her Majesty ...

Creator:: Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878
Date:: 1851]
Physical Description:: 4 double col. plates. 67 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. An earnest address, on the establishment of the hierarchy / by A. Welby Pugin ...

Creator:: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [2], 32 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A treatise on the æropleustic art, or, Navigation in the air : by means of kites, or buoyant sails : with a description of the charvolant, or kite carriage : and containing numerous most amusing and interesting anecdotes connected with several extraordinary excursions both by sea and land : with characteristic illustrations, drawn on stone by Rose Gilbert ; from designs by David Cox, jun.

Creator:: Pocock, George
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 54 p., [7] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Souvenir of the Emperor Napoleon : consisting of six drawings made in the Island of Saint Helena, representing the various spots rendered generally interesting from their association with the history of Napoleon / drawn from nature by Lieutenant F.R. Stack, and lithographed by Charles Haghe, Esq. ; with descriptive letter-press by Mrs. Ward.

Creator:: Stack, Frederick Rice
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves, [1], 6 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 62 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849 : with a glance at California / by a merchant long resident at Tahiti ; with four illustrations printed in colours ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Lucett, Edward, 1815–1853
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The seven periods of English architecture defined and illustrated / by Edmund Sharpe ... architect ; twelve steel engravings and woodcuts.

Creator:: Sharpe, Edmund, 1809–1877
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xiii, [3], 37, [3], 2 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A treatise on chancel screens and rood lofts : their antiquity, use, and symbolic signification / by A. Welby Pugin ; illustrated with figures copied on stone from drawings by the author.

Creator:: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: viii, 124 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. [Collection of reprints and pamphlets relating to St. Mary Redcliffe].

Date:: 1851-1927]
Physical Description:: [5] pieces : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Papeterie for all nations.

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 box ; 12 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Facsimile of the Illustrated Arctic News : published on board H.M.S. Resolute, Captn. Horatio T. Austin, C.B. in search of the expedition under Sir John Franklin / Lieut. Sherard Osborne & Mr. Geo. F. McDougall, the editors.

Date:: 15th March, 1852
Physical Description:: [4], 31, [1], 32-40, [1], 41-53, [1], 54-57 pages : illustrations, map ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The hunter-naturalist : romance of sporting, or, Wild scenes and wild hunters / by C.W. Webber.

Creator:: Webber, Charles W. (Charles Wilkins), 1819–1856
Date:: c1851
Physical Description:: 6, 8, 17-610 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. (part col.) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The pilgrim's progress / with forty illustrations by David Scott, R.S.A., &c. ; a life of Bunyan by the Rev. J.M. Wilson ; and explanatory notes abridged from the Rev. Thomas Scott.

Creator:: Bunyan, John, 1628–1688
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: [2], xlviii, 147, [3] p., [41] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. An alphabet of colour : reduced from the works of Field, Hay, Chevreuil, and others / by H. W. FSA ...

Creator:: H. W
Date:: ca. 1851]
Physical Description:: 29 p. : col. samples ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Air-navigation, by means of the rotary balloon / by John Luntley ; provisionally registered, April 26th, 1851.

Creator:: Luntley, John, b. 1820
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 20 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Catalogue of the valuable Italian, Spanish and Dutch pictures of a collector, of great taste and judgment : among the leading works will be found The Triumphal Entry of a Warrior into Rome, Rembrandt : Adam and Eve, by C. Cignani ... : Christ Mocked, Luini : Ceres, by L. Da Vinci ... : St. Katherine, Domenichino ... : The Entombment, by Caracci ... : Holy Family, Innocenzo Da Imola : Dead Christ and Angels, Murillo : Portrait of Velasquez, by himself ... another of Rembrandt, by Maas : and another by G. Douw, by himself : A Virgin and Child, by Schidone : Madonna, S. Ferrato : Portrait of Lord Strattford, Vandyck : The Bowl Players, by David Teniers : Landscapes, by Moucheron, Both, J. and S. Ruysdael : Sea Pieces by Backhuysen and Vernet : Study for La Cruche Cassee, by Greuze : together with ... examples by Salvator Rosa, Garofalo, Tiepolo, Le Duc, Morone, De Vlieger, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips at his Great Rooms, New Bond Street, on Wednesday, 30th of April, 1851, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Phillips, Mr.
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The west of England and the exhibition, 1851. By Herbert Byng Hall ... With illustrations.

Creator:: Hall, Herbert Byng, 1805?-1883
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. col. fronts., ill., plates. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The new casket : a gift book for all occasions.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: iv, 188 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Records of the Royal Military Academy.

Creator:: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [8], 152, [2], p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The works of James Gillray, from the original plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected.

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756–1815
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 65 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. "All the world's a cheese!" : and all the men and women merery [sic] maggots : they have their crummy and their crusty bits : and one in his time eats much blue mould : a caseous cosmos of caricatures and characters : comic cheese parings with sketches of mites and maggots / G. A. Sala.

Creator:: Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([7] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. x 189 cm. folded to 17 cm. x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The Paradise lost of Milton : illustrated in a series of 54 plates of the human figure for the use of sculptors, artists, &c. / by J.J. Flatters.

Creator:: Flatters, Johann Jakob, b.1784
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [54] leaves : ill. ; 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Arctic searching expedition : a journal of a boat-voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in search of the discovery ships under command of Sir John Franklin : with an appendix on the physical geography of North America / by Sir John Richardson, C.B., F.R.S., inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets, etc. etc. etc. ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Richardson, John, Sir, 1787–1865
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Outline sketches of old buildings in Bruges / by E.S. Cole.

Creator:: Cole, Edward Sherratt, 1817–1905
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Holmes's Great metropolis : or, Views and history of London in the nineteenth century. Being a grand national exhibition of the British capital. With historical and topographical notices of each place / Ed. by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and Thomas Harrel [!] ...

Creator:: Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:: [1851?]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 211 p. 34 pl. incl. front. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. History of General Sir Charles Napier's administration of Scinde, and campaign in the Cutchee hills / by Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Napier ...

Creator:: Napier, William Francis Patrick, Sir, 1785–1860
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 415 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plan ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica / by Philip Henry Gosse, A.L.S., &c. ; assisted by Richard Hill, Esq., Cor. M.Z.S. Lond., Mem. Counc. Roy. Soc. Agric. of Jamaica.

Creator:: Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810–1888
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xxiv, 508 p., [1], VII leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Modern Athenians : being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland.

Creator:: Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803–1847
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 48 leaves of plates : ports. ; 28 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John E. Hankins

49. London in 1850-1851 : from the geographical dictionary of J.R. McCulloch.

Creator:: McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay), 1789–1864
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 132 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Selections from views of the residences and county seats of the nobility and gentry : which illustrate the most important national work entitled The mansions of England and Wales / by John Bartlett.

Creator:: Bartlett, John, architect
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [15] leaves, [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue. By authority of the Royal commission. ...

Creator:: Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 3 v. ill., plates (part. fold. and col.) maps (part. fold.) plans. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Flowers and their poetry.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 120 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Illustrations of Stratford-upon-Avon and the life of Shakespeare : from original drawings.

Date:: MDCCCLI[1851]
Physical Description:: [2], 2, [2], 2, 2, 2 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The Illustrated London News grand panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations, 1851.

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : col. ill. ; 29 x 710 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Ænæ Sylvii Piccolomini, Pii secundi Papæ, electionis suæ narratio. A. D. 1458. (Ex suorum libro primo Commentariorum.)

Creator:: Pius II, Pope, 1405–1464
Date:: 1851]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 10 p. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Rudimentary treatise on the art of painting on glass or glass-staining : comprising directions for preparing the pigments and fluxes, for laying them upon the glass, and for firing or burning in the colours / from the German of Dr. M.A. Gessert ... ; to which is added an appendix on the art of enamelling, &c.

Creator:: Gessert, M. A
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Catalogue of the very choice and unique cabinet of Dutch, Flemish, and English pictures of Richard Artis, Esq., removed from his residence at Ramsgate : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May 17, 1851, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. What I saw at the worlds fair, or, Notes of the Great Exhibition / by Mr. Comic-eye.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([14] p.) : all ill. ; 161 x 15 cm. folded to 15 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Western scenery, or, Land and river, hill and dale, in the Mississippi Valley : superbly lithographed from original sketches / literary department by William Wells.

Creator:: Wells, William Franklin
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 52 pages, [18] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The early connexion of the Anglo-Norman families of Stokeport, Fitz-Roger, Banastre and Gernet / by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S.,F.S.A..

Creator:: Ormerod, George, 1785–1873
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: 8, [1] p. : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The Art journal illustrated catalogue. The industry of all nations, 1851.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 24 parts in 16. plates, ill. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Dahomey and the Dahomans: : being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the years 1849 and 1850. / by Frederick E. Forbes.

Creator:: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The history and topography of Ketteringham, in the county of Norfolk : the seat of Sir J.P. Boileay, Baronet / by Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., an assistant keeper of the public records.

Creator:: Hunter, Joseph, 1783–1861
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 70 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Catalogue of Italian, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, of the very highest class : including the choice portion of the well-known collection of the late General Sir John Murray : the remainder being selections from some of the most important galleries on the Continent : also, two fine Imperial Roman busts, in porphyry : Bust of the Duke of Marlborough : and a statuette of Leda : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, July 17, 1851, at two o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 218 pages, [19] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Modern tombs, gleaned from the public cemeteries, of London. Measured, drawn and etched by Arthur William Hakewill ...

Creator:: Hakewill, Arthur William, 1808–1856
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., [3]-9 p. ill., 30 plates. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Mr. Goggleye's visit to the Exhibition of National Industry to be held in London on the 1st of April 1851 : with a catalogue containing notes & remarks on the most remarkable works in the exhibition.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: [1851?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : chiefly ill. ; 13 x 219 cm. folded to 13 x 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. R.M. Vick : saddler, harness & collar maker : & inventor of the improved hame : 89, Southgate Street, Gloucester.

Creator:: Vick, R. M.
Date:: [approximately 1851]
Physical Description:: [4] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The turf / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [2], viii, 144, 8 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Plowman's copyist, or, Portable copying letter case : for rapidly taking off copies of letters on any writing in ink, by the mere pressure of the hand.

Creator:: Plowman, Joseph
Date:: [approximately 1851]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Sketches in the Pacific : the South Sea islands drawn from nature and on stone / by Conway Shipley.

Creator:: Shipley, Conway
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [6], 35, [1] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The Royal Exchange and the Palace of Industry, or, The possible future of Europe and the world : in three parts ...

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [8], 176 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The hand book on making paper flowers ... / by Foster, Son, & Duncan, of 16 Wigmore Street, artificial florists & plumassiers, importers & manufacturers of materials used by artifical flower makers.

Creator:: Foster, Son & Duncum
Date:: [approximately 1851]
Physical Description:: 2, 6 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The geometric beauty of the human figure defined; to which is prefixed a system of aesthetic proportion applicable to architecture and the other formative arts, by D.R. Hay ...

Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [vii]-xiv p. 1 ., 68 p. diagrs. on xvi pl. 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The Cambrian Mountains, or, A tour through Wales : describing the scenery and general characters of that romantic country : embellished with a series of highly-finished coloured views, engraved from original drawings / by Messrs. Turner, R.A ... [et al.].

Creator:: Compton, Thomas, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [110] p., [51] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. London exhibited in 1851 : elucidating its natural and physical characteristics, its antiquity and architecture : its arts, manufactures, trade, and organization : its social, literary, and scientific institutions : and its numerous galleries of fine art : with 205 illustrations, executed by Mr. Robert Branston, Mr. O. Jewitt, Mr. J.R. Jobbins, and others : including a newly-constructed map, engraved by Mr. Wilson Lowry.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 910, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Animals from the sketch-book of Harrison Weir.

Creator:: Weir, Harrison, 1824–1906
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Friendly observations : addressed in a spirit of kindness and candour to the sculptors and artists of Great Britain, and also to foreigners : on the moral blemishes of their statuary, viewed in the light of artistic taste and analogy / by a lover of painting and sculpture.

Creator:: Lover of painting and sculpture
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: vi, [7]-30 ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Reede's patent girth regulator.

Date:: [approximately 1851]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. An authentic account of the Chinese commission : which was sent to report on the Great Exhibition : wherein the opinion of China is shown as not corresponding at all with our own / the whole from the Chinese reports now collated by Sutherland Edwards, and by him translated and put into rhyme ; with about enough reason to suit the demands of the holiday season.

Creator:: Edwards, H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland), 1828–1906
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.); 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Knight's cyclopaedia of London, 1851.

Date:: [1851]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Restitution du temple d'Empédocle à Sélinonte, ou, L'architecture polychrôme chez les Grecs / par J.J. Hittorff ;... avec un atlas.

Creator:: Hittorff, Jacques Ignace, 1792–1867
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xxvi, 843 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. + 1 atlas (3 p., 25 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 62 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. [Admission ticket for a lecture at the Royal Academy : Thursday [13] day of [March 1851]

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 ticket ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The Temple : an essay on the forms of the Ark, the Tabernacle, and the Temple of Jerusalem : shewing their correspondence with the forms of classic architecture, and the universality of its use in the temple architecture of the mosaic dispensation, as of gothic, for the same purpose, during the Christian dispensation / by Edward Charles Hakewill.

Creator:: Hakewill, Edward Charles, 1816–1872
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [1], 120, [3] p., 13 leaves of plates [1 folded] : ill., plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Examples of the architecture of Venice : selected and drawn to measurement from the edifices / by John Ruskin, author of "The stones of Venice" ...

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: [2], 6 pages, 15 [that is 16] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The power of form applied to geometric tracery. One hundred designs and their foundations resulting from one diagram. By Robert William Billings ...

Creator:: Billings, Robert William, 1813–1874
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: vi, [7]-26 p. ill., plates, diagrs. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The Crystal Palace: its architectural history and constructive marvels. By Peter Berlyn, and Charles Fowler, Junr.

Creator:: Berlyn, Peter
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: viii, 92, xix, [1] p. fold front., ill., plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The British metropolis in 1851 : a classified guide to London, so arranged as to show, in separate chapters, every object in London interesting to special tastes and occupations.

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xx, 299, 16, [14] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Choice examples of art workmanship : selected from the exhibition of ancient and mediaeval art at the Society of Arts. / Drawn and engraved under the superintendence of Philip de La Motte.

Creator:: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: [iii]-viii, 14 p., [59] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Historical record of the Seventy-third Regiment: containing an account of the formation of the regiment from the period of its being raised as the Second Battalion of the Forty-second Royal Highlanders in 1780, and of its subsequent services to 1851.

Creator:: Cannon, Richard, 1779–1865
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xxxii, 76 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The world in its workshops: a practical examination of British and foreign processes of manufacture, with a critical comparison of the fabrics, machinery, and works of art contained in the Great exhibition.

Creator:: Ward, James, Esq
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 4 p.l., 284 p., front. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. A treatise on the arrangement and construction of agricultural buildings / by John Ewart ...

Creator:: Ewart, John
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: [8], 28, [2] pages, 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. "Coming home" : a comic panorama / drawn by "Leech" ; delineating, with irresistible humour, the fun, mishaps, and queer occurrences, to which the votaries of the sports are subjected "Coming Home" from the races ; exhibiting the laughter-moving effects of this talented artist's comic pencil, presented to the public in a perfectly novel and unique style of elegance ; suitable for the drawing-room, and in price adapted to the cottage.

Creator:: Leech, John, 1817–1864
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: [1] folded sheet ([15] p.): ill. ; 107 x 11 cm., folded to 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Winged thoughts.

Creator:: Bacon, M. A. (Mary Ann)
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [24] p. 16 col. plates. 27 cm. (in case 28 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages by Henry Shaw, F.S.A.

Creator:: Shaw, Henry, 1800–1889
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 4 p.., [5]-32, [86] p. ill., 41 col. plates (part. fold.) 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Parentalia : genealogical memoirs / compiled by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., of Tyldesley and Sedbury Park.

Creator:: Ormerod, George, 1785–1873
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: iv, 114, [4] p., [9] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Exhibition of Industry of All Nations, 1851 : space left for drawing elevation and sections.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : plan ; 53 x 93 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Catalogue of interesting modern English pictures, forming the collection of G. T. Andrews, Esq., of York : including many pleasing works by artists of high repute : in particular, many charming works by Etty, R. A., among others, the celebrated picture of "Robinson Crusoe Shipwrecked" : Venus asleep in the greenwood shade, the Bather, Somnolency, The Graces, The Toilet, &c. &c. &c. : and equally interesting examples of Collins, R. A., Webster, R. A., Leslie, R. A., Sydney Cooper, R.A., Lee, R.A., Creswick, R. A., Redgrave, R.A., Frith, A.R.A., Newton, R.A., Linnell, Müller, Harding, Pyne, Hurlstone, Philip, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May 31, 1851, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A guide to the Great Exhibition : containing a description of every principal object of interest. With a plan, pointing out the easiest and most systematic way of examining the contents of the Crystal Palace.

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [iii]-vi, 220 p. fold. front. (plan) 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Iconography of the west front of Wells Cathedral : with an appendix on the sculptures of other medieval churches in England / by Charles Robert Cockerell, R.A. ...

Creator:: Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788–1863
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: [4], xxiii, [2], 26-115, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., plan ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Journals of a landscape painter in Albania, &c. / By Edward Lear.

2. An overland journey to the Great Exhibition showing a few extra articles & visitors. By Richard Doyle.

3. Easy boots.

4. [Price list for items produced and sold by Henry Urch, Saddle and Harness Manufacturer, 84, Long Acre, London].

5. Sketches in Madeira / drawn from nature and on stone by Lady Susan Vernon Harcourt.

6. Gregory Kane, 68 & 69 Dame-Street, Dublin, begs to call the attention of visitors to his portable travelling cabinet ... : containing the complete furniture of a drawing-room, and forms its own case for travelling.

7. Tender feet : the elastic enamelled cloth for boots & shoes for tender feet : invented by Richard Hall, manufacturer of elastic spring ankle boots, for ladies and gentlemen, of the same material.

9. Description of the various head dresses exhibited by Fredk. Brown, of 47, Fenchurch St. , in Section 18, no. 245, of the Exhibition Building, Hyde Park.

10. London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work / by Henry Mayhew.

11. The house that Paxton built. By G.A.S.

12. The stones of Venice / by John Ruskin ; with illustrations drawn by the author.

13. Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.

14. The great glass house opend; the exhibition wot is!! ... / by G. A. Sala.

15. Prize medal of the Exhibition : Hullmandel & Walton, Class XXX

16. Punch's comic guide to the exhibition, showing how to see everything that is in London, as well as a great deal that is not. An immense number of comic engravings.

17. Illustrations of the mode of preparing the Indian opium intended for the Chinese market / from drawings made by Captain Walter S. Sherwill.

18. The Illustrated exhibitor, a tribute to the world's industrial jubilee; comprising sketches, by pen and pencil, of the principal objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations.

19. The industrial arts of the nineteenth century : a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851 : dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert / by M. Digby Wyatt, architect.

21. Catalogue of the portraits of distinguished naval commanders and represenations of their warlike achievements : exhibited in the Naval Gallery of Greenwich hospital.

22. [The Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851. Lithographed by Joseph Nash from his drawing in possession of Her Majesty ...

23. An earnest address, on the establishment of the hierarchy / by A. Welby Pugin ...

26. Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849 : with a glance at California / by a merchant long resident at Tahiti ; with four illustrations printed in colours ; in two volumes.

27. The seven periods of English architecture defined and illustrated / by Edmund Sharpe ... architect ; twelve steel engravings and woodcuts.

28. A treatise on chancel screens and rood lofts : their antiquity, use, and symbolic signification / by A. Welby Pugin ; illustrated with figures copied on stone from drawings by the author.

29. [Collection of reprints and pamphlets relating to St. Mary Redcliffe].

30. Papeterie for all nations.

31. Facsimile of the Illustrated Arctic News : published on board H.M.S. Resolute, Captn. Horatio T. Austin, C.B. in search of the expedition under Sir John Franklin / Lieut. Sherard Osborne & Mr. Geo. F. McDougall, the editors.

32. The hunter-naturalist : romance of sporting, or, Wild scenes and wild hunters / by C.W. Webber.

33. The pilgrim's progress / with forty illustrations by David Scott, R.S.A., &c. ; a life of Bunyan by the Rev. J.M. Wilson ; and explanatory notes abridged from the Rev. Thomas Scott.

34. An alphabet of colour : reduced from the works of Field, Hay, Chevreuil, and others / by H. W. FSA ...

35. Air-navigation, by means of the rotary balloon / by John Luntley ; provisionally registered, April 26th, 1851.

37. The west of England and the exhibition, 1851. By Herbert Byng Hall ... With illustrations.

38. The new casket : a gift book for all occasions.

39. Records of the Royal Military Academy.

40. The works of James Gillray, from the original plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected.

41. "All the world's a cheese!" : and all the men and women merery [sic] maggots : they have their crummy and their crusty bits : and one in his time eats much blue mould : a caseous cosmos of caricatures and characters : comic cheese parings with sketches of mites and maggots / G. A. Sala.

42. The Paradise lost of Milton : illustrated in a series of 54 plates of the human figure for the use of sculptors, artists, &c. / by J.J. Flatters.

44. Outline sketches of old buildings in Bruges / by E.S. Cole.

45. Holmes's Great metropolis : or, Views and history of London in the nineteenth century. Being a grand national exhibition of the British capital. With historical and topographical notices of each place / Ed. by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and Thomas Harrel [!] ...

46. History of General Sir Charles Napier's administration of Scinde, and campaign in the Cutchee hills / by Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Napier ...

47. A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica / by Philip Henry Gosse, A.L.S., &c. ; assisted by Richard Hill, Esq., Cor. M.Z.S. Lond., Mem. Counc. Roy. Soc. Agric. of Jamaica.

48. Modern Athenians : being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland.

49. London in 1850-1851 : from the geographical dictionary of J.R. McCulloch.

50. Selections from views of the residences and county seats of the nobility and gentry : which illustrate the most important national work entitled The mansions of England and Wales / by John Bartlett.

51. Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue. By authority of the Royal commission. ...

52. Flowers and their poetry.

53. Illustrations of Stratford-upon-Avon and the life of Shakespeare : from original drawings.

54. The Illustrated London News grand panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations, 1851.

55. Ænæ Sylvii Piccolomini, Pii secundi Papæ, electionis suæ narratio. A. D. 1458. (Ex suorum libro primo Commentariorum.)

58. What I saw at the worlds fair, or, Notes of the Great Exhibition / by Mr. Comic-eye.

59. Western scenery, or, Land and river, hill and dale, in the Mississippi Valley : superbly lithographed from original sketches / literary department by William Wells.

60. The early connexion of the Anglo-Norman families of Stokeport, Fitz-Roger, Banastre and Gernet / by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S.,F.S.A..

61. The Art journal illustrated catalogue. The industry of all nations, 1851.

62. Dahomey and the Dahomans: : being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the years 1849 and 1850. / by Frederick E. Forbes.

63. The history and topography of Ketteringham, in the county of Norfolk : the seat of Sir J.P. Boileay, Baronet / by Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., an assistant keeper of the public records.

65. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

66. Modern tombs, gleaned from the public cemeteries, of London. Measured, drawn and etched by Arthur William Hakewill ...

67. Mr. Goggleye's visit to the Exhibition of National Industry to be held in London on the 1st of April 1851 : with a catalogue containing notes & remarks on the most remarkable works in the exhibition.

68. R.M. Vick : saddler, harness & collar maker : & inventor of the improved hame : 89, Southgate Street, Gloucester.

69. The turf / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations.

70. Plowman's copyist, or, Portable copying letter case : for rapidly taking off copies of letters on any writing in ink, by the mere pressure of the hand.

71. Sketches in the Pacific : the South Sea islands drawn from nature and on stone / by Conway Shipley.

72. The Royal Exchange and the Palace of Industry, or, The possible future of Europe and the world : in three parts ...

73. The hand book on making paper flowers ... / by Foster, Son, & Duncan, of 16 Wigmore Street, artificial florists & plumassiers, importers & manufacturers of materials used by artifical flower makers.

74. The geometric beauty of the human figure defined; to which is prefixed a system of aesthetic proportion applicable to architecture and the other formative arts, by D.R. Hay ...

75. The Cambrian Mountains, or, A tour through Wales : describing the scenery and general characters of that romantic country : embellished with a series of highly-finished coloured views, engraved from original drawings / by Messrs. Turner, R.A ... [et al.].

77. Animals from the sketch-book of Harrison Weir.

78. Friendly observations : addressed in a spirit of kindness and candour to the sculptors and artists of Great Britain, and also to foreigners : on the moral blemishes of their statuary, viewed in the light of artistic taste and analogy / by a lover of painting and sculpture.

79. Reede's patent girth regulator.

81. Knight's cyclopaedia of London, 1851.

82. Restitution du temple d'Empédocle à Sélinonte, ou, L'architecture polychrôme chez les Grecs / par J.J. Hittorff ;... avec un atlas.

83. [Admission ticket for a lecture at the Royal Academy : Thursday [13] day of [March 1851]

85. Examples of the architecture of Venice : selected and drawn to measurement from the edifices / by John Ruskin, author of "The stones of Venice" ...

86. The power of form applied to geometric tracery. One hundred designs and their foundations resulting from one diagram. By Robert William Billings ...