Period: 19th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

30801. The Virginians : a tale of the last century / by W. M. Thackeray, author of "Esmond," "Vanity Fair," "The Newcomes," &c. &c. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author.

Creator:: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Date:: 1858-1859
Physical Description:: 2 v. (24 nos.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

30802. The Carriage builders' and harness makers' art journal.

Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30803. The paradise lost of John Milton : with illustrations by John Martin.

Creator:: Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: [8], 373, [2] pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Virgil R. & Mary L. Bierman.

30804. A guide to the lakes in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire ... / by the author of The antiquities of Furness ...

Creator:: West, Thomas, -1779
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: v, [3], 312 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., map (folded) ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30805. The Sandgate, Hythe and Folkestone guide : containing an account of their ancient and present state and a description of the principal objects worthy of attention in the neighbourhood : to which is subjoined a brief history of the Cinque-Ports.

Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: xii, 120, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30806. The gallery of modern sculpture : ed. by S.C. Hall.

Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: [178] p. front., 76 pl. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30807. Cowper, illustrated by a series of views : in, or near, the park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks. : accompanied with copious descriptions, and a brief sketch of the poet's life.

Creator:: Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: 51 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30808. Illustrations of Harriette Wilson's Memoirs.

Creator:: Heath, H. (Henry)
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : all color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30809. Spain and Portugal : containing a description of the character, manners, customs, dress, diversions and other peculiarities of the inhabitants of those countries.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30810. Account of Mr. Mathews' at home : as delivered in an annual lecture on peculiarities, characters, and manners : founded on his own observations and adventures during his late trip to America : interspersed with most laughable tales, anecdotes and eccentricities : being a critique on the piece and performance : including seven original popular comic songs, namely, Mrs. Bradish's boarding house, Opossum up a gum tree, Militia muster folk, Ode to General Jackson, Boston post office, Illinois inventory, and a Farewell finale : with all the speaking &c. &c. : also a monopolylogue, called All well at Natchitoches, embellished with a representation of the scene, &c. &c.

Creator:: Mathews, Charles, 1776–1835
Date:: [approximately 1824]
Physical Description:: 28 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30811. A catalogue of the renowned and valuable collection of Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : late the property of John Purling, Esq., deceased .: whose accurate judgment, pure taste and liberality in purchasing, rendered his Cabinet equal to most of the private galleries in Europe, and exhibits a magnificent assemblage of the works of Raphael, Correggio, Carracci, Guido, Domenichino, P. Da Cortona, Pamegiano, Titian, Tintoretto, S. Ricci, P. Veronese, C. Maratti, Claude, Poussin, Murillo, Cuyp, Rubens, Teniers, Wouvermans, P. Potter, Vanderwerff, Vandervelde, Berchem, Ferg, Zuccarelli,Wilson, &c. : including the beautiful picture La Vierge au Peloton, by Guido, well known to have occupied a most distinguished place in the Royal Collection of France : which will be sold by auction (by authority of the executors without the least reserve) by Mr. White, on the premises, no. 68 Portland Place on Monday, the 16th of February, 1801 and following day, at twelve o-clock : to be viewed till the sale, admission of each person by catalogues (only) which may be had at one shilling each at the place of Sale, and of Mr. White, Storey's Gate, Westminster.

Creator:: White, John, active 1785–1816
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: 22, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30812. Mêlanges de regles physiognomiques : manuscrit pour des amis : avec quelques lignes characteristiques : 1ere centaine : pour le profit des pauvres : respectez la misère et ce qui la soulage!.

Creator:: Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741–1801
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [3], 98 leaves : illustrations ; 21 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30813. International Exhibition of London, 1862 : Extra feine Zinn Compositions Figuren.

Date:: [circa 1862?]
Physical Description:: 1 set of model buildings and figures (60 pieces) : hand-painted white metal ; in box 24 x 39 x 5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30814. A catalogue of the very choice collection of original cabinet paintings : the property of the late Quarles Harris, Esq. whose liberality in purchasing, and good judgment in selecting, secured to him the possession of some of the best works of the most esteemed Masters ... : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Farebrother and Co. at the auction rooms, no. 26, Conduit Street, Bond Street, on Saturday, the 10th of Juen, 1837, at one o'clock, by direction of the executors.

Creator:: Farebrother & Co.
Date:: [1837]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30815. Catalogue of drawings and prints, in the portfolio : books of prints and illustrated books : maps, charts, and atlases : autograph letters of eminent literary persons : works relative to architecture, geography, natural history, and the arts and sciences in general : the property of the late Richard Heber, Esq. : which shall be sold by auction, by Mr. Stanley, at his rooms, 21, Old Bond Street, on Thursday, the 15th of May, 1834, and four following days, at twelve o'clock, by order of the executrix.

Creator:: Mr. Stanley (Firm)
Date:: [1834]
Physical Description:: 40 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30816. The kiss in the railway train / words by Watkin Williams ; composed by C.H. Mackney ; sung ... by Emma Thornton, Kate Harley, Emma Kerridge, Ada Marion, Emma Mowbrey [and] Louise Fowler.

Creator:: Mackney, C. H.
Date:: [1864]
Physical Description:: 1 score (7 pages) : color illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30817. A catalogue of a valuable and splendid collection of books, prints, books of prints, Persian Mss., Music, &c. : including the library of John Green, Esq. of Dell Lodge, Blackheath, deceased ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Hodgson at his Great Room, "The Poet's Gallery," 192. Fleet-Street, near Chancery Lane, (Removed from no. 39), on Friday, December 11th, 1829, and 3 following days (Sunday excepted) at half past 12 o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Hodgson, Edmund
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: 16 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30818. A catalogue of a most singular, rare and valuable collection of portraits by the Passes, Delaram, &c. &c., some of them unique : being the contents of a very celebrated book that has been preserved 150 years in the Delabere family, and is cited by the Rev. Mr. Grainger ... : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March 29, 1811, at one o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1811]
Physical Description:: 44 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30819. [Admission ticket for a lecture at the Royal Academy : Thursday [12] day of Dec.1850]

Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: 1 ticket ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30820. [Sketchbook from travels in Switzerland and France]

Creator:: Mouton
Date:: [September 1869]
Physical Description:: 59 drawings in 1 sketchbook : black ink on wove paper ; 21 x 27 cm. + 2 bills
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30821. Robert Bruce letter concerning the wax sculpture of his mother, Rose Bruce : manuscript.

Creator:: Bruce, Robert, 1782–
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 1 item ; 28 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30822. Views in Egypt / from the original drawings in the possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer ; engraved by and under the direction of Thomas Milton ; with historical observations, and incidental illustrations of the manners and customs of the natives of that country.

Creator:: Mayer, Luigi
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [4], 102 pages, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30823. A rudimentary and practical treatise on perspective for beginners : simplified for the use of juvenile students and amateurs in architecture, painting, etc. : also adapted for schools and private instructors / by George Pyne, artist ; eighty-six illustrations.

Creator:: Pyne, George, 1800?-1884
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: v, [3], 165, [3] p., XIII leaves of plates ([6] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30824. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in three volumes, historical and literary botany : containing the qualities, anecdotes, and superstitions relative to these trees, plants, and flowers, which are mentioned in sacred and profane history : the particulars of some rare and curious plants which bear the names of celebrated persons : and also of those which are used in the religious worship and civil ceremonies of divers nations : together with the devices, proverbs, &c. which derive their original from those vegetables : concluding with a romantic story, entitled Flowers ; or the artists, from the French of Madame de Genlis : with explanatory notes, &c. &c. by Eliza P. Reid.

Creator:: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:: [1826?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30825. Familiar illustrations of the language of mathematics, or, A new picture-alphabet for well-behaved undergraduates : wherein a ray to illuminate their path is transmitted through nine plates of a rare medium by means of the eccentrical pencil of W.A.G.

Creator:: Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: [2] p., IX leaves : ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30826. Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, during the years 1817 & 1818 / by the Hon. Charles Leonard Irby, and James Mangles ; printed for private distribution.

Creator:: Irby, Charles Leonard, 1789–1845
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: xxxiii, [1], 560 p., [15] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30827. Now exhibiting at the large exhibition room near the foot of Waterloo Bridge, a small distance from the Coburg theatre, the ancient vessel : this celebrated remains of antiquity is caulked with moss : and is supposed to have been on of the vessels used by the Danes when they invaded England in the time of Alfred the Great.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30828. The history, topography, and antiquities of the parish of St. Mary Islington, in the county of Middlesex : including biographical sketches of the most eminent and remarkable persons who have been born, or have resided there / illustrated by seventeen engravings by John Nelson.

Creator:: Nelson, John, of Islington
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: viii, 416 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30829. Polyorama panoptique.

Date:: 1850s
Physical Description:: 1 optical toy : wood, paper, glass ; 23 cm high x 27 cm wide x 17 cm deep (closed)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30830. A collection of fragments illustrative of the history and antiquities of Derby : compiled from authentic sources / by Robert Simpson.

Creator:: Simpson, Robert, fl. 1847
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 3 pts. in 2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30831. The history of Ilium or Troy : including the adjacent country, and the opposite coast of the Chersonesus of Thrace / by the author of "Travels in Asia Minor and Greece.".

Creator:: Chandler, Richard, 1738–1810
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: xvii, [1], 167, [1] p. : map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30832. A pictorial tour in the Mediterranean : including Malta, Dalmatia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Grecian Archipelago, Egypt, Nubia, Greece, Ionian Islands, Sicily, Italy, and Spain / by John H. Allan, member of the Athenian Archaeological Society and of the Egyptian Society of Cairo.

Creator:: Allan, John Harrison
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: [8], 96 p., [41] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30833. Sports & anecdotes of bygone days in England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy and the Sunny South. By C. T. S. Birch Reynardson.

Creator:: Reynardson, C. T. S. Birch (Charles Thomas Samuel Birch), 1810–1889
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: 3 p. l. [v]-vii p., 2 l., 294 p. 6 col. pl. (incl. front., 2 port.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30834. American notes and Pictures from Italy / by Charles Dickens ; with eighteen illustrations by A.B. Frost and Gordon Thomson.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1878]
Physical Description:: [6], 210 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

30835. The thaumatrope, an optic wonder.

Creator:: H.G. Clarke & Co
Date:: [ca. 1868]
Physical Description:: 12 cards ; each 8 x 12 cm, in box 9 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30836. The Parliamentary gazetteer of Ireland : adapted to the new poor-law, franchise, municipal and ecclesiastical arrangements : and compiled with a special reference to the lines of railroad and canal communication as existing in 1843-44 : illustrated by a series of maps, and other plates : and presenting the results, in detail, of the census of 1841, compared with that of 1831.

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 10 : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30837. The exhibition and grand London sights.

Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30838. Game fowls, their origin and history : with a description of the breeds, strains, and crosses : the American and English modes of feeding, training, and heeling : how to breed and cross, together with a description and treatment of all diseases incident to game fowls / by J.W. Cooper, M.D.

Creator:: Cooper, J. W. (John W.), approximately 1803–
Date:: [1869]
Physical Description:: 304 pages, [2] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30839. The Royal menagerie : a collection of the best caricatures which have appeared in Paris since the late Revolution.

Date:: MDCCCXXXI [1831]
Physical Description:: [8] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill ; 12 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30840. The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin / arranged by Thomas Sheridan, A.M., with notes, historical and critical.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: 19 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30841. The history and doctrine of Budhism : popularly illustrated : with notices of the Kappooism, or demon worship, and of the Bali, or planetary incantations, of Ceylon / by Edward Upham, M.R.A.S. ; with forty-three lithographic prints from original Singalese designs.

Creator:: Upham, Edward, 1776–1834
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [4], vii, [1], 136 p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30842. Landscape & velvet painting.

Creator:: Watt, Alexander George
Date:: circa 1819?
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([3], 42, VI p., [3] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30843. The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse, comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ℓ., 2, [18] p. 18 col. pl. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30844. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons : with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: iv, 108 p., [104] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30845. 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

30846. A handbook to the gallery of British paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition : being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 127 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30847. Books which have influenced me.

Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: 123 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30848. A biographical index to the present House of Lords : corrected to October 1808 / by the author of Political index to the House of Commons, to which work this volume is intended as a companion.

Creator:: Wilson, Joshua
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: xliv, 676 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30849. A topographical account of the parish of Scampton : in the county of Lincoln and of the Roman antiquities lately discovered there : together with anecdotes of the family of Bolles.

Creator:: Illingworth, Cayley, 1758?-1823
Date:: [1808]
Physical Description:: [4], 63 p., 12 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, ports, geneal. table ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30850. Morte Arthure : the alliterative romance of the death of King Arthur : now first printed from a manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral / edited by James Orchard Halliwell ...

Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: xxii, 368 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30851. The horseman's manual : being a treatise on soundness, the law of warranty, and generally on the laws relating to horses / by R.S. Surtees, gent.

Creator:: Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: xii, 132 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30852. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 / by Captain Back, R.N., commander of the expedition ; illustrated by a map and plates.

Creator:: Back, George, Sir, 1796–1878
Date:: MDCCCXXXVI [1836]
Physical Description:: x, [2], 663, [1] pages, [17] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, 1 map ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30853. An historical tour in Monmouthshire : illustrated with views by Sir R.C. Hoare, Bart., a new map of the county, and other engravings / by William Coxe, A.M. F.R.S. F.A.S., Rector of Bemerton and Stourton.

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([12], v, [3], 433 [i.e. 435], [9] p., [92] leaves of plates) : ill., genealogical tables, maps, plans, ports. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30854. Monograph of Aston Hall, Warwickshire : geometrical drawings and views with a brief historical sketch and description / by William Niven, architect, author of "Old Worcestershire houses," "Old Warwickshire houses," etc.

Creator:: Niven, William, -1921
Date:: [1881]
Physical Description:: [4], 4 pages, 15 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

30855. Pictorial relics of ancient Liverpool : accompanied with descriptions of the antique buildings, etc. : compiled from original evidences, private muniments, and unpublished collections / by William Gawin Herdman, member of The Liverpool Academy, of The London Artists' Fund Society, and London Institute of Fine Arts, author of A Folio of Continental Sketches, etc. etc.

Creator:: Herdman, William Gawin, 1805–1882
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: [4], vii, [1], 109 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30856. The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby / by Charles Kingsley.

Creator:: Kingsley, Charles, 1819–1875
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: [6], 371, [1] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

30857. Gemmarum antiquarum delectus : ex praestantioribus desumptus, quae in dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur = Choix de pierres antiques gravées du cabinet du duc de Marlbourough.

Creator:: Marlborough, George Spencer, Duke of, 1739–1817
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30858. Views of Oxford.

Date:: [1873]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.): chiefly ill. ; 8 x 156 cm., folded to 8 x 12 cm., attached to boards 9 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30859. Sunday scenes in London and its suburbs / by Percy Cruikshank.

Creator:: Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840–1860
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 63, [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30860. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours : being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers's educational course / by John Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 212 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30861. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens & shrubberies : with full directions for their culture / by Mrs. Louden.

Creator:: Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807–1858
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: viii, 355 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30862. An essay on that earliest species of idolatry : the worship of the elements / by J. Christie.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [4], iv, 26 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30863. Cupid turned volunteer : in a series of prints / designed by ***** ; and engraved by W. N. Gardiner, B.A. ; with poetical illustrations by Thomas Park, F.S.A.

Creator:: Park, Thomas, 1759–1834
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: [4], 11, [1] leaves, [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30864. Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii, the result of excavations since 1819 / by Sir William Gell.

Creator:: Gell, William, Sir, 1777–1836
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30865. Historical memoirs of Barbary as connected with the plunder of the seas : including a sketch of Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis : an account of the various attacks made upon them by several states of Europe : considerations on their present means of defence : and the original treaties entered into them by King Charles II.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: viii, 112 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : col ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30866. Rostrevor.

Creator:: Henderson, Henry Barkley, 1793–1862
Date:: [1840]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30867. Voyages to Portugal, Spain, Sicily, Malta, Asia Minor, Egypt, &c. &c. from 1796 to 1801 : with an historical sketch, and occasional reflections / by Francis Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Francis, -1921
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: 105 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30868. Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey, and Greece, in 1828-9 / by Thomas Alcock ...

Creator:: Alcock, Thomas, 1801–1866
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: v, 227 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30869. Kenilworth [graphic].

Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 2 joined sheets : tinted lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 18 x 130 cm, accordion folded to 18 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30870. The order of proceeding and ceremonies observed in the public funeral of the late Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.G. : solemnized in St. Paul's Cathedral, on Thursday, the XVIII. day of November, MDCCCLII.

Date:: [1852]
Physical Description:: 39 p. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30871. A topographical dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland : compiled from local information, and the most recent and official authorities / by John Gorton ; the Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright ; with 54 quarto maps, drawn and engraved by Sidney Hall.

Creator:: Gorton, John, d. 1835
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 3 v. : maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30872. United States sporting magazine : and annals of the American and English turf.

Physical Description:: 1 v. : plates (some fold.) ; 24-25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30873. Kalendar MDCCCC.

Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: 28 p. : ill. ; 8 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30874. The perfect horse : how to know him, how to breed him, how to train him, how to shoe him, how to drive him / by William H.H. Murray ; with an introduction by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ; and a treatise on agriculture and the horse, by Hon. George B. Loring ; containing illustrations of the best trotting stock-horses in the United States, done from life, with their pedigrees, records, and full descriptions.

Creator:: Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1840–1904
Date:: 1873
Physical Description:: xi, [5], 480 pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30875. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

Creator:: Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30876. The new book of nonsense : a contribution to the Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, June, 1864 : in aid of the Sanitary Commission.

Date:: 1864
Physical Description:: [1], 53 leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 15 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30877. North & central Italy and the island of Corsica / [cartographic material] / by Keith Johnston.

Creator:: Johnston, Keith, 1844–1879
Date:: [1863?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 43 x 57 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30878. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30879. The blue ribbon of the turf : a chronicle of the race for the Derby, from the victory of Diomed to that of Donovan; with notes on the winning horses, the men who trained them, the jockeys who rode them, and the gentlemen to whom they belonged : also notices of the betting and the betting men of the period : together with an account of the surroundings of the race, and brief accounts of the Oaks / by Louis Henry Curzon.

Creator:: Bertram, James Glass, 1824–1892
Date:: 1890
Physical Description:: x, [2], 364, 32 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30880. The breeds of our different domestic animals / engraved from portraits painted from life by Howe.

Creator:: Highland Society of Scotland
Date:: 1829-1831
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : col. ill. ; 45 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30881. A journal of a tour on the continent in the years 1844 and 1845 . part 1st.

Date:: 1844 July 4-December 8
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([262] p.) ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30882. [Album of gem tintype portraits].

Date:: [ca. 1860-1880]
Physical Description:: 1 album (20 photographs) : tintype ; 48 x 42 mm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Martha Lovejoy

30883. Sweet Suzanne / written by Howard Graham ; composed by Chas. Graham ; sung by Miss Lil Hawthorne.

Creator:: Graham, Charles, -1899
Date:: c1899
Physical Description:: 1 score (5 p.) : port. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

30884. The adventures of General Beauregard and his charger : in four parts : illustrated.

Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: 1 print : wood engraving with letterpress ; 20 x 20 cm, folded to 7 x 7 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30885. British family antiquity : illustrative of the origin and progress of the rank, honours, and personal merit of the nobility of the United Kingdom : accompanied with an elegant set of chronological charts : in four volumes / by William Playfair.

Creator:: Playfair, William, 1759–1823
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30886. Pictures of life and character : from the collection of Mr. Punch / by John Leech.

Creator:: Leech, John, 1817–1864
Date:: [between 1872 and 1890?]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustrations ; 32 x 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30887. Map of the Alpine country, in the south of Europe / by A. Arrowsmith.

Creator:: Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823
Date:: June 11th 1804
Physical Description:: 1 map : mounted on linen ; 124 x 150 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30888. A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library of books of Robert Morse, Esq. deceased, late of Clarges Street, Piccadilly : comprising a very extensive collection of the best editions of the classics in the learned languages : the whole of Dugdale's works -- King's Vale Royal -- Ashmole's Berkshire and Order of the Garter -- Atkyn's Gloucestershire -- Bloomefield's Norfolk -- Gunestone's Peterborough, t.p. -- Bentham's Ely -- Holingshed and Hall's Chronicles, b. letter -- Manning's Surry -- Montfaucon's Antiquities -- Picart's Relifious Ceremonies -- Stukeley's Works -- Thoroton's Nottinghamshire -- Voyages Pittoresque de la Grece, de Istria, de Naples et de Sicile, et de la Suisse -- and all the celebrated works of Voyages and travels : also, in all the miscellaneous branches of literature, particularly the belle lettres, history, biography, poetry, arts, sciences, philosophy, plays, &c. &c. : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction by Mr. Thomas Dodd, at no. 42, Old Bond Street, (four doors from Piccadilly,) on Thursday, 20th of June, 1816, and seven following days (Sunday excepted), at twelve o'clock each day.

Creator:: Dodd, Thomas, 1771–1850
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: 47, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30889. A series of views of the most remarkable localities celebrated for picturesque beauty of historical and other associations / exquisitely engraved by Cooke, from original drawings ; 34 plates.

Creator:: Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [34] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30890. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

Creator:: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808–1889
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 168 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30891. Holbein's Dance of Death : with an historical and literary introduction.

Date:: MDCCCXLIX [1849]
Physical Description:: iv, 146 pages, [53] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

30892. The ladies' knitting and netting book : second series / by Miss Watts.

Creator:: Watts, Miss
Date:: [approximately 1840]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 129, [3] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30893. Wee baby stories.

Date:: [1883?]
Physical Description:: [28] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

30894. James Bruce archive, ca. 1750-ca.1850.

Creator:: Bruce, James, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1750-ca.1850
Physical Description:: approximately 1,500 items
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30895. A selection of twelve heads from the Last judgment of Michael Angelo.

Creator:: Duppa, Richard, 1770–1831
Date:: MDCCCI [1801]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 9, [1] pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 66 x 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30896. A catalogue of a choice collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch painting : a few capital drawings by Ducros, and other admired Masters : the property of a Gentleman : among them are the works of the following Masters : A. Del Sarto, Tintoretto, Bassano, P. Veronese, Caravaggio, Velequez, Poussin, Le. Seur, Rubens, V. Dyck, Teniers, P. Neess, Rembrandt, Hobbima, Van Goyen, V. Huysum : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, June 22, 1804, and following day, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1804]
Physical Description:: 10 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30897. Lifebuoy soap : lifebuoy royal disinfectant soap.

Creator:: Lever Brothers Ltd.
Date:: [approximately 1894?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : color illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30898. A catalogue of a small but extremely precious cabinet of exquisitely finished Flemish and Dutch pictures , of the most distinguished class, and in the purest state of preservation : the property of a connoisseur who has spared no expense in the purchase of (a few) the choicest specimens of certain great and favourite masters : it comprises a musical conversation, by Terborg, the famous picture of that Master from the Cabinet de Choiseul : the Abreuvoir, by Phil Wouvermans, formerly in that of the Comtesse de Verrue, engraved by Moyreau : an interior, by Teniers, from the collection of Monsieur Bramcamp, and a Halt at a Camaret, by Is. Ostade, from that of the Prince Gallitzin : and others by Berghem, Both, Hobbima, Wynants, G. Dow, Old F. Mieris, Maas, C. Bega, C. De Moor, V. Der Heyde, V. De Velde, V. Der Neer : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his great room, no. 8 King Street, St. James Square, on Saturday, May the 6th, 1826, at two o'clock : may be publicly viewed two days preceding, when catalogues may be had of Mr. Christie, No. 8, King Street, St. James's Square.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1826]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30899. Old England: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities ...

Creator:: Knight, Charles, 1791–1873
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus., col. plates. 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30900. Designs for farm buildings, with a view to prove that the simplest forms may be rendered pleasing and ornamental by a proper disposition of the rudest materials. In fifty-six plates. By P.F. Robinson ...

Creator:: Robinson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1776–1858
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: vii, [46] p. 56 plates. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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30801. The Virginians : a tale of the last century / by W. M. Thackeray, author of "Esmond," "Vanity Fair," "The Newcomes," &c. &c. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author.

30802. The Carriage builders' and harness makers' art journal.

30803. The paradise lost of John Milton : with illustrations by John Martin.

30804. A guide to the lakes in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire ... / by the author of The antiquities of Furness ...

30805. The Sandgate, Hythe and Folkestone guide : containing an account of their ancient and present state and a description of the principal objects worthy of attention in the neighbourhood : to which is subjoined a brief history of the Cinque-Ports.

30806. The gallery of modern sculpture : ed. by S.C. Hall.

30807. Cowper, illustrated by a series of views : in, or near, the park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks. : accompanied with copious descriptions, and a brief sketch of the poet's life.

30808. Illustrations of Harriette Wilson's Memoirs.

30809. Spain and Portugal : containing a description of the character, manners, customs, dress, diversions and other peculiarities of the inhabitants of those countries.

30812. Mêlanges de regles physiognomiques : manuscrit pour des amis : avec quelques lignes characteristiques : 1ere centaine : pour le profit des pauvres : respectez la misère et ce qui la soulage!.

30813. International Exhibition of London, 1862 : Extra feine Zinn Compositions Figuren.

30816. The kiss in the railway train / words by Watkin Williams ; composed by C.H. Mackney ; sung ... by Emma Thornton, Kate Harley, Emma Kerridge, Ada Marion, Emma Mowbrey [and] Louise Fowler.

30819. [Admission ticket for a lecture at the Royal Academy : Thursday [12] day of Dec.1850]

30820. [Sketchbook from travels in Switzerland and France]

30821. Robert Bruce letter concerning the wax sculpture of his mother, Rose Bruce : manuscript.

30823. A rudimentary and practical treatise on perspective for beginners : simplified for the use of juvenile students and amateurs in architecture, painting, etc. : also adapted for schools and private instructors / by George Pyne, artist ; eighty-six illustrations.

30825. Familiar illustrations of the language of mathematics, or, A new picture-alphabet for well-behaved undergraduates : wherein a ray to illuminate their path is transmitted through nine plates of a rare medium by means of the eccentrical pencil of W.A.G.

30826. Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, during the years 1817 & 1818 / by the Hon. Charles Leonard Irby, and James Mangles ; printed for private distribution.

30828. The history, topography, and antiquities of the parish of St. Mary Islington, in the county of Middlesex : including biographical sketches of the most eminent and remarkable persons who have been born, or have resided there / illustrated by seventeen engravings by John Nelson.

30829. Polyorama panoptique.

30830. A collection of fragments illustrative of the history and antiquities of Derby : compiled from authentic sources / by Robert Simpson.

30831. The history of Ilium or Troy : including the adjacent country, and the opposite coast of the Chersonesus of Thrace / by the author of "Travels in Asia Minor and Greece.".

30832. A pictorial tour in the Mediterranean : including Malta, Dalmatia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Grecian Archipelago, Egypt, Nubia, Greece, Ionian Islands, Sicily, Italy, and Spain / by John H. Allan, member of the Athenian Archaeological Society and of the Egyptian Society of Cairo.

30833. Sports & anecdotes of bygone days in England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy and the Sunny South. By C. T. S. Birch Reynardson.

30834. American notes and Pictures from Italy / by Charles Dickens ; with eighteen illustrations by A.B. Frost and Gordon Thomson.

30835. The thaumatrope, an optic wonder.

30837. The exhibition and grand London sights.

30838. Game fowls, their origin and history : with a description of the breeds, strains, and crosses : the American and English modes of feeding, training, and heeling : how to breed and cross, together with a description and treatment of all diseases incident to game fowls / by J.W. Cooper, M.D.

30839. The Royal menagerie : a collection of the best caricatures which have appeared in Paris since the late Revolution.

30840. The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin / arranged by Thomas Sheridan, A.M., with notes, historical and critical.

30841. The history and doctrine of Budhism : popularly illustrated : with notices of the Kappooism, or demon worship, and of the Bali, or planetary incantations, of Ceylon / by Edward Upham, M.R.A.S. ; with forty-three lithographic prints from original Singalese designs.

30842. Landscape & velvet painting.

30843. The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse, comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.

30844. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons : with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

30845. Winged thoughts.

30846. A handbook to the gallery of British paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition : being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

30847. Books which have influenced me.

30848. A biographical index to the present House of Lords : corrected to October 1808 / by the author of Political index to the House of Commons, to which work this volume is intended as a companion.

30849. A topographical account of the parish of Scampton : in the county of Lincoln and of the Roman antiquities lately discovered there : together with anecdotes of the family of Bolles.

30850. Morte Arthure : the alliterative romance of the death of King Arthur : now first printed from a manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral / edited by James Orchard Halliwell ...

30851. The horseman's manual : being a treatise on soundness, the law of warranty, and generally on the laws relating to horses / by R.S. Surtees, gent.

30852. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 / by Captain Back, R.N., commander of the expedition ; illustrated by a map and plates.

30853. An historical tour in Monmouthshire : illustrated with views by Sir R.C. Hoare, Bart., a new map of the county, and other engravings / by William Coxe, A.M. F.R.S. F.A.S., Rector of Bemerton and Stourton.

30854. Monograph of Aston Hall, Warwickshire : geometrical drawings and views with a brief historical sketch and description / by William Niven, architect, author of "Old Worcestershire houses," "Old Warwickshire houses," etc.

30856. The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby / by Charles Kingsley.

30857. Gemmarum antiquarum delectus : ex praestantioribus desumptus, quae in dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur = Choix de pierres antiques gravées du cabinet du duc de Marlbourough.

30858. Views of Oxford.

30859. Sunday scenes in London and its suburbs / by Percy Cruikshank.

30860. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours : being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers's educational course / by John Clark.

30861. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens & shrubberies : with full directions for their culture / by Mrs. Louden.

30862. An essay on that earliest species of idolatry : the worship of the elements / by J. Christie.

30863. Cupid turned volunteer : in a series of prints / designed by ***** ; and engraved by W. N. Gardiner, B.A. ; with poetical illustrations by Thomas Park, F.S.A.

30864. Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii, the result of excavations since 1819 / by Sir William Gell.

30866. Rostrevor.

30867. Voyages to Portugal, Spain, Sicily, Malta, Asia Minor, Egypt, &c. &c. from 1796 to 1801 : with an historical sketch, and occasional reflections / by Francis Collins ...

30868. Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey, and Greece, in 1828-9 / by Thomas Alcock ...

30869. Kenilworth [graphic].

30870. The order of proceeding and ceremonies observed in the public funeral of the late Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.G. : solemnized in St. Paul's Cathedral, on Thursday, the XVIII. day of November, MDCCCLII.

30871. A topographical dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland : compiled from local information, and the most recent and official authorities / by John Gorton ; the Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright ; with 54 quarto maps, drawn and engraved by Sidney Hall.

30872. United States sporting magazine : and annals of the American and English turf.

30873. Kalendar MDCCCC.

30876. The new book of nonsense : a contribution to the Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, June, 1864 : in aid of the Sanitary Commission.

30877. North & central Italy and the island of Corsica / [cartographic material] / by Keith Johnston.

30878. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

30880. The breeds of our different domestic animals / engraved from portraits painted from life by Howe.

30881. A journal of a tour on the continent in the years 1844 and 1845 . part 1st.

30882. [Album of gem tintype portraits].

30883. Sweet Suzanne / written by Howard Graham ; composed by Chas. Graham ; sung by Miss Lil Hawthorne.

30884. The adventures of General Beauregard and his charger : in four parts : illustrated.

30885. British family antiquity : illustrative of the origin and progress of the rank, honours, and personal merit of the nobility of the United Kingdom : accompanied with an elegant set of chronological charts : in four volumes / by William Playfair.

30886. Pictures of life and character : from the collection of Mr. Punch / by John Leech.

30887. Map of the Alpine country, in the south of Europe / by A. Arrowsmith.

30889. A series of views of the most remarkable localities celebrated for picturesque beauty of historical and other associations / exquisitely engraved by Cooke, from original drawings ; 34 plates.

30890. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

30891. Holbein's Dance of Death : with an historical and literary introduction.