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1. Potter, No. 22, Old Bond Street, late foreman to Mr. Breach, hatter to Their Majesties.

Potter, No. 22, Old Bond Street, late foreman to Mr. Breach, hatter to Their Majesties.
Creator:
Potter, John (Hatter)
Date:
[approximately 1816]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 50 x 82 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland ...

Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland ...
Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
xii, 159, [1] pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portrait ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland : with descriptive illustrations / by Walter Scott.

The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland : with descriptive illustrations / by Walter Scott.
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
2 v. (lii, 208 p., [2] leaves, [52] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.

Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.
Creator:
Sinclair, George, 1786–1834
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 42 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales : in a collection of select views / engraved by W. Angus, from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales : in a collection of select views / engraved by W. Angus, from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.
Creator:
Angus, William, 1752–1821
Date:
Feby. 1, 1787 [i.e. 1787-1815]
Physical Description:
[130] p., [1], LXIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Drawings of houses and gardens.

Drawings of houses and gardens.
Creator:
Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747
Date:
1736-1743
Physical Description:
1 v. (circa 280 pages, with blanks) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Indenture placing Elizabeth Richardson into the service of Jane Horam.

Indenture placing Elizabeth Richardson into the service of Jane Horam.
Date:
1769 January 4
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.

Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.
Date:
1740 October 6
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt / by Iohn Greaves ...

Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt / by Iohn Greaves ...
Creator:
Greaves, John, 1602–1652
Date:
1646
Physical Description:
13, 142 [i.e. 120] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Jersey algae.

Jersey algae.
Date:
1860
Physical Description:
1 volume (21 leaves) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...
Date:
1647
Physical Description:
[3], 18 [i.e. 33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.

London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.
Date:
[1841-1844]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front., ill., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The characters of the passions / done after the originalls of Monsr. Le Brun.

The characters of the passions / done after the originalls of Monsr. Le Brun.
Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
[1], 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Catherine Hamilton commonplace book.

Catherine Hamilton commonplace book.
Creator:
Hamilton, Catherine
Date:
1822-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia / by George Waddington ... and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury ... ; with maps and other engravings.

Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia / by George Waddington ... and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury ... ; with maps and other engravings.
Creator:
Waddington, George, 1793–1869
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 333, [3] p., [18] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The antiquities of Magna Graecia / by William Wilkins, Jun., M.A. F.A.S., fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

The antiquities of Magna Graecia / by William Wilkins, Jun., M.A. F.A.S., fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Creator:
Wilkins, William, 1778–1839
Date:
MDCCCVII [1807]
Physical Description:
[6], xxii, 74, [2] pages, [73] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Select meditations and reflections on death : with other select pieces.

Select meditations and reflections on death : with other select pieces.
Creator:
Salisbury, W. T
Date:
circa 1782-1792
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 300 pages) ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Cambridgeshire : in which is laid down every parish and place containing upwards of 40 houses / Cooper delt. et sculpt.

Cambridgeshire : in which is laid down every parish and place containing upwards of 40 houses / Cooper delt. et sculpt.
Creator:
Capper, Benjamin Pitts
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 18 x 11 cm, on sheet 21 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

19. The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates [graphic].

The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates [graphic].
Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 26 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A direction for the English traviller : by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales : and also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great town, with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village, or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell till he come to the journies end ...

A direction for the English traviller : by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales : and also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great town, with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village, or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell till he come to the journies end ...
Creator:
Simons, Matthew, d. 1654
Date:
1643
Physical Description:
[48] leaves (some folded) : maps ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A tour in North Wales.

A tour in North Wales.
Creator:
Walter, John
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
1 volume (184, 15 pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Indenture placing William Spill into the service of William Beales, broad weaver.

Indenture placing William Spill into the service of William Beales, broad weaver.
Date:
1728 April 8
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Admission ticket for the balloon ascension of Vincenzo Lunardi on May 13, 1785.

Admission ticket for the balloon ascension of Vincenzo Lunardi on May 13, 1785.
Creator:
Lunardi, Vincent, 1759–1806
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket : engraving ; 7.5 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Panorama of the Rhine and the adjacent country from Cologne to Mayence / drawn from nature by F. W. Delkeskamp ; engraved by John Clark ; to which are now added maps showing the routes from Calais, Ostend, and Rotterdam, to Cologne, and from Mayence to the sources of the Rhine, together with the steam boat companion, describing the places between Rotterdam and Mayence.

Panorama of the Rhine and the adjacent country from Cologne to Mayence / drawn from nature by F. W. Delkeskamp ; engraved by John Clark ; to which are now added maps showing the routes from Calais, Ostend, and Rotterdam, to Cologne, and from Mayence to the sources of the Rhine, together with the steam boat companion, describing the places between Rotterdam and Mayence.
Creator:
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:
[between 1834 and 1839]
Physical Description:
3 prints on 6 sheets : engraving ; sheets end-to-end 284 x 28 cm, accordion folded to 19 x 23 cm, in covers 21 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A collection of English grasses.

A collection of English grasses.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
circa 1792-1808
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 105 leaves) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes. : Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen and others. ... Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death more since added, his also perused, & perfected. : All examined, abreuiated, illustrated w[i]th notes, enlarged w[i]th discourses, adorned w[i]th pictures, and expressed in mapps. : In fower parts, each containing fiue bookes. / By Samuel Purchas, B.D.

Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes. : Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen and others. ... Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death more since added, his also perused, & perfected. : All examined, abreuiated, illustrated w[i]th notes, enlarged w[i]th discourses, adorned w[i]th pictures, and expressed in mapps. : In fower parts, each containing fiue bookes. / By Samuel Purchas, B.D.
Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.

The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
[14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.

Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[not after 1778]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Julia Maria Barmby and Charlotte Elizabeth Barmby commonplace books.

Julia Maria Barmby and Charlotte Elizabeth Barmby commonplace books.
Creator:
Barmby, Julia Maria, 1823–1892
Date:
ca. 1844-1865
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Album of the work of William Walter Burch, engraver on gold and silver.

Album of the work of William Walter Burch, engraver on gold and silver.
Creator:
Burch, William Walter, approximately 1796–1873
Date:
1821-1871
Physical Description:
1 volume (226 pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure Bookes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563–1611
Date:
[1598]
Physical Description:
[10], 197, [4], 198-259 [i.e. 295], [3], 307-462 p., [23] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A picturesque tour of Italy : from drawings made in 1816-1817 / by James Hakewill, archt.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hakewill, James, 1778–1843
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[98] pages, [63] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world / by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" and "The herb of the field" ; illustrated with 31 colored plates ; arranged by Robert M. Stark, Fellow of The Botanical and Royal Physical Societies, Edinburgh, author of "A Popular History of British Mosses.".

No cover image available
Creator:
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823–1901
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
22, [2] p., xxxi leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Burton, William, 1575–1645
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
10, 320, [12] p., 2 leaves of plates (one folded) : port., ill., coats of arms, map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Short stories, in words of two syllables / by the author of Short stories, in one syllable, Godmothers' tales, Cup of sweets.

No cover image available
Creator:
Semple, Elizabeth, active 1804–1816
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
62, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The journal and letters of the late Thomas Browne Parker, of Sweeney in the County of Salop, Esq. : during a tour with his friend Edward Joshua Cooper of Markree Castle in the Co. of Sligo, Esqre. M.P. : through Bavaria, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, & the Crimea, in the years 1824, 1825, & 1826 / transcribed, arranged, and illustrated (with copies of the drawings made during the tour by the artist Sig. Bossi, sketches in the Crimea by T.B.P. &c., and insertion of portraits, prints, &c. collected by T.B.P. in his travels) by his affectionate sister Mary Leighton, Loton Park, 1835.

No cover image available
Creator:
Parker, Thomas Browne, 1797–1833
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
3 volumes (544 pages) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

No cover image available
Date:
1589
Physical Description:
[16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Markhams maister-peece : Contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publicke practise of all the forraine horse-marshals in Christendome; and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome. Being divided into two bookes. The first contayning all cures physicall: the second all belonging to chyrurgery; with an addition of 160. principall chapters, and 370. most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any author whatsoever. Together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke / Written by Gervase Markham, Gent.

No cover image available
Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1636
Physical Description:
[16], 588, 599-601, [15] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens, 1708-1875, bulk 1768-1836.

No cover image available
Creator:
Upcott, William, 1779–1845
Date:
1708-1875,
Physical Description:
2.0 linear feet (6 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. The history and antiquities of the deanery of Craven in the county of York / by Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759–1821
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[2], vii, 530 p., [73] leaves plates (some folded) : ill., geneal. tables, map, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The kingdome of England & principality of Wales : exactly described whith every sheere & the small townes in euery one of them : in six mappes, portable for every man's pocket ... : vseful for all commanders for quarteringe of souldiers ... / described by one that travailed throughout the whole kingdome for its purpose ... W. Hollar, fecit.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:
1644
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1], [6] leaves) : 6 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Letters and journals of Lord Byron : with notices of his life by Thomas Moore.

No cover image available
Creator:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Cambridge Shire / Sutton Nicholls sculp.

No cover image available
Date:
[1695?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 41 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

44. A prospect of the most famous parts of the world ... : together with all the prouinces, counties and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines Empire / performed by Iohn Speed.

No cover image available
Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
1627
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 44, 5-8 pages) : illustrations, 22 maps ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The Cabinet of modern art and literary souvenir.

No cover image available
Date:
1825-37
Physical Description:
13 volumes : illustrations ; 14-20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Cottage scenes : being a collection of pastoral tales, illustrative of rural manners : and calculated for the improvement of juvenile readers / by Anne Elizabeth Oulton.

No cover image available
Creator:
Oalton, Ann Elizabeth
Date:
[1825?]
Physical Description:
88, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Atlas of the counties of England : from actual surveys made from the years 1817 to 1833 / by C. & J. Greenwood.

No cover image available
Creator:
C. & J. Greenwood
Date:
April 1st, 1834
Physical Description:
[47] leaves : 47 maps ; 66 x 84 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A topographical map of Wiltshire : on a scale of 2 inches to a mile, from an actual survey / by John Andrews & Andrew Dury in the year 1773 ; J. Andrews sculp.

No cover image available
Creator:
Andrews, John, 1736–1809
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
1 map on 18 sheets ; 273 x 189 cm, sheets 54 x 72 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A topographical map of Hartford-shire, from an actual survey : in which is express'd all the roads, lanes, churches, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, and every thing remarkable in the county, together with the division of the parishes / by Andw. Dury & Jno. Andrews.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dury, Andrew
Date:
[1782]
Physical Description:
1 map on 9 sheets ; sheets 54 x 71 cm + 1 index map (52 x 71 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Hubert von Herkomer archive, 1862-1943.

No cover image available
Creator:
Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849–1914
Date:
1862-1943
Physical Description:
21 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius

51. The Bible : that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.

No cover image available
Date:
[1607]
Physical Description:
[6], 294, 294-299, 301-361, [1], 359-362, 361-444, 135, [7] leaves : ill., maps (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. A booke of drawinges : performed acording [sic] to the best order for use & brevity that is yet extant.

No cover image available
Date:
1650
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Investigation, or, Travels in the boudoir / by Caroline A. Halsted, author of "The little botanist."

No cover image available
Creator:
Halsted, Caroline Amelia, -1851
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 296 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Baziliōlogia : a booke of kings : beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English kings from the conquest vntill this present : with their seuerall coats of armes, impresses and devises : and a brief chronologie of their liues and deaths : elegantly grauen in copper.

No cover image available
Date:
1618
Physical Description:
[1], [99] leaves : all ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A map of the kingdom of France : according to the Treaty of Paris, November 20th. 1815 / divided into departments and districts from the map of M. Cassini de Theury.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cassini, César-François, 1714–1784
Date:
Augt. 2nd. 1838
Physical Description:
1 map : 121 x 121 cm on sheet 126 x 126 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. An history of the original parish of Whalley : and honor of Clitheroe in the counties of Lancaster and York : to which is subjoined an account of the parish of Cartmell / by Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759–1821
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
viii, 568 p., [57] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map, plan, geneal. tables ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Album of designs for fancy goods.

No cover image available
Date:
18th century
Physical Description:
1 volume (352 pages) : etching, engraving ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Journal of an excursion in the Lady Melville hatch boat / by T.G.W., London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Whitmore, Thomas Greenslade, 1799–1855
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
1 volume ([4], 154 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

No cover image available
Creator:
Aheron, John
Date:
MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:
vi, 110, 8, [20] pages, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Amusing stories : part I, for little boys and girls / by the author of "Stories of Old Daniel."

No cover image available
Creator:
Moore, Margaret King, 1772–1835
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
12 pages : color illlustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

61. An introduction to perspective, practical geometry, drawing, and painting : a new and perfect explanation of the mixture of colours with full and practical directions for miniature, crayons, and oil painting : in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : and an epistolary instruction to pupils : properly adapted for the instruction of females, and equally for all professional students / by Charles Hayter.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
xxvi, 259 p., [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Britannia depicta : a series of one hundred and thirty views of the most interesting and picturesque objects in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, & Derbyshire / engraved by John Landsheer, Wm. Byrne, S. Middiman, Geo. Cooke, John Scott, John Pye, and J. Neagle, from drawings made by J. Farington, R.A., Thos. Hearne, F.S.A., W. Turner, R.A., and others ; with brief descriptions by Samuel Lysons, F.R.S., F.S.A.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
6 pt. in 1 v. : ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A brief account of the coronation of His Majesty, George IV, July 19, 1821.

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Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[2], 32 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all [the] direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales : wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all [the] cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &c. scituate on or near the roads, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles ... / by Eman. Bowen engraver.

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 atlas (5, [3] pages, [2], 273, [1] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Theory on the classification of beauty and deformity, and their correspondence with physiognomic expression : exemplified in various works of art, and natural objects, and illustrated with four general charts, and thirty-eight copper plates / by Mary Anne Schimmelpennick, author of "A tour to Alet.".

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Creator:
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne, 1778–1856
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
xviii, 440, [2] p., [2], 38 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Cary's new universal atlas : containing distinct maps of all the principal states and kingdoms throughout the world ; from the latest and best authorities extant.

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Creator:
Cary, John, approximately 1754–1835
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4] pages, [114] leaves of plates) : 56 maps ; 56 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The dance of life : a poem / by the author of "Doctor Syntax" ; illustrated with coloured engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, ii, ii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Oxonia antiqua restaurata : containing upwards of one hundred and seventy engravings, amongst which are numerous representations of buildings in Oxford, now either altered or demolished, and which have never been before engraved : the whole forming an illustration of the colleges, halls, and public buildings in this university / by Joseph Skelton.

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Creator:
Skelton, Joseph, 1783–1871
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Susanna Potter commonplace book : with contributions from the family of Frederick Christian Lewis.

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Creator:
Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
Date:
1823-circa 1860
Physical Description:
1 volume (108 leaves) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Studies of flowers from nature ... : a selection of subjects from the choicest exotics, painted after nature, with a correct outline of each and instructions for producing a facsimile of the finished drawing / by Miss Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, Penelope
Date:
[ca. 1818]
Physical Description:
3 p., [20] leaves, [41] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Thomas Bewick [graphic] / James Ramsay, pinxt. ; F. Bacon sculpt.

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Creator:
Bacon, Frederick, 1803–1887
Date:
[1852]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 41 x 31 cm, on sheet 56 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The history and antiquities of the county of Essex : compiled from the best and most ancient historians, from Domesday-book, Inquisitiones post mortem, and other the most valuable records and mss. &c. / the whole digested, improved, perfected, and brought down to the present time, by Philip Morant ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Creator:
Morant, Philip, 1700–1770
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. (some folded), 9 maps, plan ; 48 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes [cartographic material] : wherin weare gotten the townes of St . Iago, Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines : the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September 1585 and ended at Portesmouth in Iulie 1586 : the whole course of the saide viadge beinge plainlie described by the pricked line / newlie come forth by Baptista B.

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Creator:
Boazio, Baptista
Date:
[1589?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 40.5 x 52.5 cm., on sheet 41.8 x 55.6 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The seasons / by James Thomson ; adorned with a set of engravings, from original paintings ; together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on the seasons. By Robert Heron.

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Creator:
Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:
6, lii, 250, 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The elements of botany : with illustrations / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins, professor of botanical flower painting.

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Creator:
Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 268 p., [1], 18 leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition : containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French and German schools, with biographical sketches of the painters, and critical notices of their productions.

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Creator:
Cassell, John, 1817–1865
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
viii, 512 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of that kingdom ... : collected from records, old wills, authentic manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities, which are cited / by Arthur Collins ...

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:
8 volumes : coats of arms ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A practical treatise on planting and the management of woods and coppices / by S.H.

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Creator:
Hayes, Samuel
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
ix, [2], 189 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c. : particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816, and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824 : with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern archipelago, and selections from his correspondence / by his widow.

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Creator:
Raffles, Sophia, Lady, 1786–1858
Date:
MDCCCXXX [1830]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 723, [1], 100 pages, [11] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in diuers places, as also beutified and enlarged with new mapps and tables by the studious industrie of Iodocus Hondy ; englished by W.S. generosus & regin. Oxoniae.

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Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:
1637
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([22], 56, 55-56, [2], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 5 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Great Britain's coasting-pilot ... : describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place, the setting and flowing of tydes, with directions for the knowing of any place; and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety ... / by Captain Greenvile Collins, Hydrographer in Ordinary to the King and Queens most excellent Majesties.

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Creator:
Collins, Greenvile, active 1669–1698
Date:
1693
Physical Description:
2 volumes : maps, illustrations ; 55 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester ... / by Valentine Green.

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Creator:
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Engravings of horses, from The spirit of the times.

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Date:
circa 1830-circa 1840
Physical Description:
15 prints : engraving
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Rokeby : in six cantos : the vision of Don Roderick / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

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Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
MDCCCXXXVI [1836]
Physical Description:
[4], 320 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[101] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Sketches in Scandinavia & Germany by Anne Beresford Cosby.

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Creator:
Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872
Date:
circa 1859-1872
Physical Description:
1 volume : 73 drawings, 47 prints ; 43 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

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Creator:
Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[6], 31 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Sample book of intaglio prints.

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Creator:
Redaway, James C., active 1818–1857
Date:
1850s?
Physical Description:
1 volume (39 prints) : engraving, etching, steel engraving ; 29 x 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The graphic scrap book : a collection of engravings / by Jas. Storer, from original drawings by Mrs. Chas. Rhys ; with descriptions.

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Creator:
Rhys, Harriet Susanna Anne, 1790–1827
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
1 volume ([4], 106, [4] pages, [14] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

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Creator:
Cruso, John, d. 1681
Date:
MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:
[10], 108 p., 16 leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A specimen of ancient carpentry : consisting of variety of designs for roofs ... : collected by James Smith : to which are added designs of frontispieces to doors, gateways, piers ... : & other useful decorations never before published by Jones ; the whole illustrated with 66 copper plates nearly engraven.

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Creator:
Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
[5], [3], [66] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

94. Atlas Anglicanus et Cambria, or, A book of mapps of all the countyes in the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales / collected by John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.

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Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:
[1694?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([115] leaves) : 57 hand-colored maps ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. [Costumes of Constantinople].

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Creator:
Smith, Francis, 1705–1778 or 1779
Date:
1768-1769
Physical Description:
[2] pages, XXIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Tales of many lands / by the author of "Tales of the great and the brave".

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Creator:
Tytler, Margaret Fraser
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
418, [6] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Diploma issued by the Royal Company of Scottish Archers to William Robertson of Kinlockmoidart.

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Creator:
Royal Company of Archers
Date:
1824 January 14
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 24 x 35 cm ; + 1 wax seal, 6 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Commonplace book.

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Date:
1874-1924
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 200 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Conference of Monsieur Le Brun : cheif [sic] painter to the French King, Chancellor and Director of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture ; upon expression, general and particular; translated from the French, and adorned with 43 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
1701
Physical Description:
[16], 17, [1], 47, [1] pages, 43 : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. A. de Banke, milliner and dress maker : 59, South Street, Exeter, opposite Palace Gate / Smith sc., Exeter.

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Creator:
Banke, A. de
Date:
between and 1840 and 1850?
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 49 x 87 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts