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1. The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, its primeval phases in Egypt, China, Mexico, etc ; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis, to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew, Phœnician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys, author of the "Illuminated books of the Middle Ages," "The art of illumination," "Ancient coins and medals," etc. ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, its primeval phases in Egypt, China, Mexico, etc ; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis, to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew, Phœnician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys, author of the "Illuminated books of the Middle Ages," "The art of illumination," "Ancient coins and medals," etc. ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
Creator:
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:
MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:
viii, 176 pages, xxviii leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The blue lights / by R. Carrick ; after J.M.W. Turner, Esqre. R.A. ; shewing the progress of the printing.

The blue lights / by R. Carrick ; after J.M.W. Turner, Esqre. R.A. ; shewing the progress of the printing.
Creator:
Carrick, Robert, active 1853–1895
Date:
[1853?]
Physical Description:
27 prints in 1 volume : chromolithography volume 62 x 87 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Castile and Andalucia / by Lady Louisa Tenison.

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Creator:
Tenison, Louisa Mary Anne Anson, Lady, d. 1882
Date:
MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:
xi, [3], 488 p., [24] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Sketches of Gibraltar / by the Rev. L.H. Irving ; published on behalf of the Presbyterian church now erecting there.

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Creator:
Irving, L. H. (Lewis Hay), 1806–1877
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
8 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. History of the ruined church of St. Mary Magdalene : discovered A.D. 1846 within the old town-hall of Doncaster / by the Rev. John Edward Jackson ... ; illustrated by John P. Seddon ...

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Creator:
Jackson, John Edward, 1805–1891
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
[8], 36 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A summer search for Sir John Franklin : with a peep into the polar basin / by Commander E.A. Inglefield, R.N. ; with short notices by Professor Dickie, on the botany, and by Dr. Sutherland, on the meteorology and geology ; and a new chart of the Arctic Sea.

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Creator:
Inglefield, E. A. (Edward Augustus), 1820–1894
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
[2], xxi, [1], 232 p., [5] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. What I heard, saw and did at the Australian gold fields / by C. Rudston Read.

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Creator:
Read, C. Rudston
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
viii, 327 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The Gretna-Green bolt-a, or, Young ladies' man-ual / edited by Arthur O'Bradley, esq.

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Creator:
O'Bradley, Arthur
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
69, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : col. front. ; 15 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Solitary rambles and adventures of a hunter in the prairies / by John Palliser ; with illustrations.

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Creator:
Palliser, John, 1807–1887
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 326 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The Russian shores of the Black Sea in the autumn of 1852 : with a voyage down the Volga, and a tour through the country of the Don Cossacks / by Laurence Oliphant.

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Creator:
Oliphant, Laurence, 1829–1888
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
xiii, 366 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded ) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Journal of a cruise among the islands of the Western Pacific : including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian negro races, in Her Majesty's ship Havannah / by John Elphinstone Erskine ... ; with maps and plates.

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Creator:
Erskine, John Elphinstone, 1806–1887
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
vi, 488, 32 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., mapd ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

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Creator:
Wilson, James Holbert, 1809–1873
Date:
MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:
[4], 68 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Map of the Ottoman Empire, the Black Sea and the frontiers of Russia and Persia / by James Wyld.

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Creator:
Wyld, James, 1812–1887
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 39 x 59 cm., folded to 17 x 11 cm., in covers 18 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A letter addressed to the Rt. Hon. Lord John Russell ... : on the formation of a new national gallery, and the preservation of works of art : illustrated with plans / by an Old Traveller.

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Creator:
Traveller, Old
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
26 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : plans ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The dwellings of the labouring classes, their arrangement and construction; illustrated by a reference to the model houses of the Society for improving the condition of the labouring classes, with other buildings recently erected: and an appendix, containing H.R.H. Prince Albert's exhibition model houses, Hyde Park, 1851; the model cottages &c., built by the Windsor royal society; with plans and elevations of dwellings adapted to towns, as well as to agricultural and manufacturing districts. By Henry Roberts.

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Creator:
Roberts, Henry, 1803–1876
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
3 p. ., 65 p. incl. illus., plates, plans. 12 pl. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The marine botanist : an introduction to the study of the British sea-weeds : containing descriptions of all the species, and the best method of preserving them / by Isabella Gifford.

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Creator:
Gifford, Isabella
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
xl, 357 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa / by Francis Galton ... ; with coloured maps, plates, and woodcuts.

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Creator:
Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822–1911
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 314 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Sketches on the Nile.

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Creator:
Melly, Ellen Maria, 1807–1894
Date:
[1853?]
Physical Description:
[26] leaves : illustrations ; 25 cm x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

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Creator:
Lucas, Ralph Willett, 1796–1874
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
iv, 45 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 1853.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A treatise on the curvilinear perspective of nature : and its applicability to art / by William Gawain Herdman.

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Creator:
Herdman, William Gawin, 1805–1882
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
vi, [1], 118 p., [27] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. De zieke reiziger, or, Rambles in Java and the straits : in 1852 / by a Bengal civilian ; with illustrations.

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Creator:
Kinloch, C. W. (Charles Walter), -1893
Date:
MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:
xii, 139, [1] pages, [2̃5] leaves of plates : illustraions, map ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Travels in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua : with a description of its aboriginal monuments, scenery and people, their languages, institutions, religion, &c., illustrated by numerous maps and coloured illustrations / by E.G. Squier, late chargé-d'affaires of the United States to the Republics of Central America ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821–1888
Date:
MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Habitants de l'Inde / dessinés d'après nature par le Prince Alexis Soltykoff ; lithographiés à deux teintes par J. Trayer.

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Creator:
Soltykoff, Alexis, prince, 1806–1859
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
42, [1] leaves, [1], 42 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The churches of the Middle Ages : being select specimens of early and middle pointed structures, with a few of the purest late pointed examples / by Henry Bowman and J.S. Crowther, arcs.

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Creator:
Bowman, Henry, 1814–1883
Date:
[1853?]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy / by James D. Forbes.

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Creator:
Forbes, James David, 1809–1868
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
[4], [vii]-xxiv, 349 p., [10] colored leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts