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31001. 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

31002. 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

31003. 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

31004. 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

31005. 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

31006. 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

31007. 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

31008. 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

31009. 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

31010. 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

31011. 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

31012. 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

31013. 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

31014. 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

31015. 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

31016. The exhibition and grand London sights.

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

31017. 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

31018. 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

31019. 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

31020. 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

31021. 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

31022. 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

31023. 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

31024. 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

31025. 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

31026. Books which have influenced me.

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

31027. 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

31028. 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

31029. 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

31030. 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

31031. 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

31032. 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

31033. 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.

31034. 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

31035. 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

31036. 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

31037. 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

31038. 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

31039. 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

31040. 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

31041. 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

31042. 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

31043. 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

31044. 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

31045. Rostrevor.

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

31046. 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

31047. 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

31048. 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

31049. 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

31050. 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

31051. 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

31052. Kalendar MDCCCC.

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

31053. 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

31054. 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

31055. 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

31056. 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

31057. 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

31058. 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

31059. 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

31060. 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

31061. [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

31062. 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

31063. 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

31064. 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

31065. 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

31066. 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

31067. 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

31068. 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

31069. 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

31070. 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

31071. 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

31072. 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

31073. 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

31074. 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

31075. 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

31076. 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

31077. 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

31078. 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

31079. 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

31080. Instructive gleanings, moral and scientific, from the best writers, on painting and drawing; arranged as a book of reference to the pupil and amateur; and containing much information for professional students. By Rowland Mainwaring ...

Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 4 p.., viii, 169 p. front. (port.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31081. Cruchley's illustrated London.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: 1854]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 46 col. plates. 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31082. A treatise on the formation of flues of chimnies, investigating the causes of smoky houses, and an introduction of the new patent brick flue, and chimney bar, invented by J. Chadley. Together with three lithographic plates, shewing how the same can be applied by numerous figures and sections to a large scale.

Creator:: Chadley, J
Date:: [1831?]
Physical Description:: 32 p. 3 fold. diagrs. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31083. The artist's assistant; or School of science. Being an introduction to painting in oil, water, and crayons, with biographical accounts of some of the principal artists; the arts of drawing, designing, colouring, and engraving in all its different modes, on copper and wood; of enamelling, gilding on metal, wood, glass, and leather; japanning, dying, casting, &c. With a great variety of miscellaneous information, relative to arts and manufactories ...

Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xvi, 296 p. front., 10 plates (part. fold.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31084. Descriptive catalogue of the Cyclorama: "Storming of Missionary Ridge" and "Battle above the clouds." ...

Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: 15, [1] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31085. Memoir of the late Mr. Thomas Holloway; by one of his executors: and most respectfully dedicated to the subscribers to the engravings from the cartoons of Raphael.

Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 70, x p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31086. The art of painting portraits, landscapes, animals, draperies, satins, &c. in oil colours : practically explained by coloured palettes : with an appendix on cleaning and restoring ancient paintings on panel or canvas / by John Cawse.

Creator:: Cawse, John, 1779–1862
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: 47 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31087. A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental; viz. books of plans and elevations for cottages, farm-houses, mansions, &c. ... Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at J. Taylor's architectural library... where may be had the works of the most celebrated French architects and engineers.

Creator:: Taylor, J. (Josiah)
Date:: [1808]
Physical Description:: 4 p. 38 cm. (in case 42 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31088. Oil paintings, by J. Glover. Exhibited at Emerald Hill, Industrial and Fine Arts Exhibition, by J. Purves, at Melbourne, Australia, on June 8, 1871.

Date:: 1871?]
Physical Description:: broadside. 10 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31089. The mansions of England : one hundred and forty-six coloured engravings of country seats of the royal family, nobility, and gentry / after original designs by W. Westall, R. A., T.H. Shepherd, J. Gendall, and others ; two volumes.

Date:: [between 1844 and 1850]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31090. The history and antiquities of the see and cathedral church of Lichfield; illustrated by a series of engravings of views, elevations, plans, and details of the architecture of the church: with biographical anecdotes of the bishops of Lichfield and Coventry. By John Britton ...

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 74 p. XVI plates (incl. plan) 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31091. Index to Worcester wills---from 1519.

Creator:: Worcester, Eng. (Diocese). Consistory Court
Date:: 18--]
Physical Description:: 5-28 p. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31092. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: iv, 414 pages : illustrations. ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31093. Plans and views of buildings : executed in England and Scotland, in the castellated and other styles / R. Lugar, architect ; elegantly engraved on thirty-two plates.

Creator:: Lugar, Robert
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 28 p., 32 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31094. Finden's gallery of the graces : a series of portrait illustrations of British poets / from paintings designed expressly for this work by the most eminent British artists.

Creator:: Finden, William, 1787–1852
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: vi, [72] p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31095. Oxford and Locke / by Lord Grenville.

Creator:: Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759–1834
Date:: MDCCCXXIX [1829]
Physical Description:: 87, [1], 16 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31096. Works on horses and equitation : a bibliographical record of hippology / by F.H. Huth.

Creator:: Huth, F. H. (Frederick Henry), 1844–
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: x, [2], 439, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31097. The illustrated horse doctor : being an accurate and detailed account of the various diseases to which the equine race are subjected, together with the latest mode of treatment, and all the requisite prescriptions, written in plain English / by Edward Mayhew.

Creator:: Mayhew, Edward, 1813?-1868
Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: 522 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31098. Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse, la vénerie & la fauconnerie : publiés ou composés depuis le XVe siècle jusqu'à ce jour en français, latin, allemand, anglais, espagnol, italien, etc. : avec des notes critiques et l'indication de leur prix et de leur valeur dans les différentes ventes / par R. Souhart.

Creator:: Souhart, Roger François
Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: [2], vii, [1] p., 750 columns, [6] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31099. A picturesque tour of the river Thames in its western course : including particular descriptions of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court / by John Fisher Murray ; illustrated with upward of one hundred highly-finished wood engravings by Orrin Smith, Branston, Landells and other eminent artists.

Creator:: Murray, John Fisher, 1811–1865
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xii, 356 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31100. Narrative of a journey into Persia, in the suite of the imperial Russian embassy, in the year 1817 / by Moritz von Kotzebue ; translated from the German ; illustrated by plates.

Creator:: Kotzebue, Moritz von, 1789–1861
Date:: 1819,
Physical Description:: viii, 328 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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31002. 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.

31004. 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.

31005. 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.

31007. 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.

31008. Polyorama panoptique.

31009. A collection of fragments illustrative of the history and antiquities of Derby : compiled from authentic sources / by Robert Simpson.

31010. 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.".

31011. 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.

31012. Sports & anecdotes of bygone days in England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy and the Sunny South. By C. T. S. Birch Reynardson.

31013. American notes and Pictures from Italy / by Charles Dickens ; with eighteen illustrations by A.B. Frost and Gordon Thomson.

31014. The thaumatrope, an optic wonder.

31016. The exhibition and grand London sights.

31017. 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.

31018. The Royal menagerie : a collection of the best caricatures which have appeared in Paris since the late Revolution.

31019. 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.

31020. 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.

31021. Landscape & velvet painting.

31022. The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse, comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.

31023. 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.

31024. Winged thoughts.

31025. 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.

31026. Books which have influenced me.

31027. 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.

31028. 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.

31029. 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 ...

31030. 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.

31031. 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.

31032. 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.

31033. 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.

31035. The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby / by Charles Kingsley.

31036. Gemmarum antiquarum delectus : ex praestantioribus desumptus, quae in dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur = Choix de pierres antiques gravées du cabinet du duc de Marlbourough.

31037. Views of Oxford.

31038. Sunday scenes in London and its suburbs / by Percy Cruikshank.

31039. 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.

31040. 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.

31041. An essay on that earliest species of idolatry : the worship of the elements / by J. Christie.

31042. 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.

31043. Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii, the result of excavations since 1819 / by Sir William Gell.

31045. Rostrevor.

31046. 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 ...

31047. Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey, and Greece, in 1828-9 / by Thomas Alcock ...

31048. Kenilworth [graphic].

31049. 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.

31050. 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.

31051. United States sporting magazine : and annals of the American and English turf.

31052. Kalendar MDCCCC.

31055. The new book of nonsense : a contribution to the Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, June, 1864 : in aid of the Sanitary Commission.

31056. North & central Italy and the island of Corsica / [cartographic material] / by Keith Johnston.

31057. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

31059. The breeds of our different domestic animals / engraved from portraits painted from life by Howe.

31060. A journal of a tour on the continent in the years 1844 and 1845 . part 1st.

31061. [Album of gem tintype portraits].

31062. Sweet Suzanne / written by Howard Graham ; composed by Chas. Graham ; sung by Miss Lil Hawthorne.

31063. The adventures of General Beauregard and his charger : in four parts : illustrated.

31064. 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.

31065. Pictures of life and character : from the collection of Mr. Punch / by John Leech.

31066. Map of the Alpine country, in the south of Europe / by A. Arrowsmith.

31068. 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.

31069. 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.

31070. Holbein's Dance of Death : with an historical and literary introduction.

31071. The ladies' knitting and netting book : second series / by Miss Watts.

31072. Wee baby stories.

31073. James Bruce archive, ca. 1750-ca.1850.

31074. A selection of twelve heads from the Last judgment of Michael Angelo.

31076. Lifebuoy soap : lifebuoy royal disinfectant soap.

31078. Old England: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities ...

31079. 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 ...

31080. Instructive gleanings, moral and scientific, from the best writers, on painting and drawing; arranged as a book of reference to the pupil and amateur; and containing much information for professional students. By Rowland Mainwaring ...

31081. Cruchley's illustrated London.

31084. Descriptive catalogue of the Cyclorama: "Storming of Missionary Ridge" and "Battle above the clouds." ...

31085. Memoir of the late Mr. Thomas Holloway; by one of his executors: and most respectfully dedicated to the subscribers to the engravings from the cartoons of Raphael.

31086. The art of painting portraits, landscapes, animals, draperies, satins, &c. in oil colours : practically explained by coloured palettes : with an appendix on cleaning and restoring ancient paintings on panel or canvas / by John Cawse.

31088. Oil paintings, by J. Glover. Exhibited at Emerald Hill, Industrial and Fine Arts Exhibition, by J. Purves, at Melbourne, Australia, on June 8, 1871.

31089. The mansions of England : one hundred and forty-six coloured engravings of country seats of the royal family, nobility, and gentry / after original designs by W. Westall, R. A., T.H. Shepherd, J. Gendall, and others ; two volumes.

31090. The history and antiquities of the see and cathedral church of Lichfield; illustrated by a series of engravings of views, elevations, plans, and details of the architecture of the church: with biographical anecdotes of the bishops of Lichfield and Coventry. By John Britton ...