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Creator:: Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:: Apr. 23d., 1791]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [7] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 40 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hankins.

732. William Hermes album drawing copies : figures.

Creator:: Hermes, Wilhelm
Date:: [185-?]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

733. A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: xxiv, 250 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

734. Bernard Delfont & Tom Arnold present Harry Secombe in Pickwick : a new musical.

Creator:: Saville Theatre (London, England)
Date:: [approximately 1963?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

735. A catalogue of the valuable collection of engravings, the property of the late John Hoppner, Esq. R.A., sold by order of the executors : consisting of a very choice series of portraits after Sir Joshua Reynolds ... : ... nearly complete set of the engravings from Mr. Hoppner's own works : Dutch etchings, works of the old masters, &c. : copper plates, with duplicate impressions, amongst which is an unpublished one of the late Mr. Pitt : books, and sets of prints, &c. : also the engravings of the late Rev. Dr. Willis ... comprising scarce British & foreign portraits, specimens of the Italian and German Masters : drawings, capital modern productions of Raphael Morghen, Wille, Strange, Wollett, &c. ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby, at his house, Wellington Street, Strand, on Thursday, 22d May 1820, and three following days at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: 40 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

736. A catalogue of the capital and well-chosen collection of cabinet picture, of James Kirke, Esq., deceased : late one of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Victualling-Office : consisting of the undoubted works of the following, and other much esteemed artists : Parmegiano, Domenichino, Soleminie, Pasquilinie, Carache, Morillio, S. Darattie, De Vinci, Rubens, Vandyke, Poussin, Teniers, Ostade, Brower, Ge Gelder, J. Miel, Berghem, Scalken, A. Vandevelde, Ruysdael, Swanvelte, Cuyp, Watteau, Polemburgh : particularly, a select number of original and capital sea-pieces, by those great masters, Vandevelde, Bakhusen, De Vlieger, Stork, Brooking, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Greenwood, at his rooms in Leicester-Square, on Thursday the 21st, and Saturday the 23d of February, 1788, at twelve o'clock each day : to be viewed, and catalogues had two days preceding the sale.

Creator:: Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

737. Royal Exchange : report to the Court of Common Council from the Royal-Exchange and Gresham Trusts Committee : presented 23d January, 1845.

Creator:: Royal Exchange (London, England). Joint Committee for Gresham Affairs
Date:: [1845]
Physical Description:: 4, 223, [1] p., [4], 4 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

738. The Lord's song : a sermon / by Eric Gill.

Creator:: Gill, Eric, 1882–1940
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

739. Roses of Sharon : poems chosen from the flower of ancient Hebrew literature / with an introduction, by W.O.E. Oesterley, D.D. ; 12 wood-engravings by Mary Groom.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 58, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

740. Paddington Cemetery, Willesden Lane, Kilburn : grave no. 16780 : section 10.

Date:: [approximately 1890]
Physical Description:: 1 card ; 8 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

741. A catalogue of a most valuable collection of Oriental manuscripts : the property of a Gentleman, late in the East India Company's Service, and collected by him at great expence in Bengal : consisting of the most celebrated poetical and some are historical works in the Persian language, richly illuminated and embellished with miniatures : specimens of calligraphy, and books of high-finished miniature paintings, illustrating the mythology, the modes of music, and the costume of India : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Thursday the 9th March, 1809, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1809]
Physical Description:: 8, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

742. A catalogue of a very select and valuable collection of pictures, the entire property of a gentleman : including particularly an Italian Fair, a capital picture by J. Both : a March of Cavalry, by S. Rosa : a group of dogs, by Paul Potter : a pair of English views, by Callcott, R. A. : a view of Stourhead, by Barrett : an interior, a capital picture, by Morland : a pair from Telemachus, by Westall : also capital specimens of the following Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch Masters, viz Parmegiano, Palma, L. Carracci, Guido, Albano, Cantarini, S. Rosa, Mola, F. Lauri, Vernet, Claude, Hobbima, Terburg, G. Dow, Berghem, Wouvermans, V. Der Neer, V. De Velde, Wynants, Teniers, P. Potter, J. Steen, Lingelback, Maas : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May the 28th, 1831, at one o'clock precisely : may be publicly viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had at Messrs. Christie & Manson's Office, 8, King Street, St. James's Square.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1831]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

743. Catalogue of a valuable portion of the library of a gentleman : to which is added, another collection ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, No. 93, Pall-Mall, on Monday, July 16, and following day.

Creator:: Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:: [1832]
Physical Description:: 21, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

744. A popular handbook to the National Gallery : including, by special permission, notes collected from the works of Mr. Ruskin ... / compiled by Edward T. Cook ; with preface by John Ruskin ...

Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: xviii, [4], 703 p. : plan ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

745. Souvenir of the programme of the unveiling of Lord Kitchener's Memorial by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 9th June 1926.

Date:: [1926]
Physical Description:: [4] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

746. A catalogue of the very valuable collection of Dutch and English pictures, of Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq. deceased and removed from Bushey House, Herts. : comprising the ... first premium landscape by Smith of Chichester : ... landscape, by Ruysdael : the Bath of Diana, by Stothard : ... portrait of Baretti, by Barry : Dead Birds, by Fyt : ... and some modern drawings : also, "Thomyris" and the "Continence of Scipio" ... pictures from the Orleans Gallery : the Holy Family and one other by Andrea Del Sarto, from the collection of the Cardinal Albany : landscape by Ruysdael, &c. : Leda, by P. Veronese ... : ... landscape by Teniers : head of a young girl, by Greuze : View of Scheveling, by Terburg : the Holy Family, by Raffaelle, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, the 24th of June, 1837, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1837]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

747. Catalogue of the small choice collection of Italian and Dutch pictures of Bertie B. Mathew, Esq., Deceased and removed from the Mansion in Cavendish Square : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May the 15th, 1846, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1846]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

748. English Delftware apothecary jars and their contents : the Victor Hoffbrand Collection / Alan Humphries, Henry Oakeley, Victor Hoffbrand.

Creator:: Humphries, Alan
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 211 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

749. A catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 48 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

750. The plain and painted picture play book for exercises in colouring : second series.

Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: [27] leaves : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

751. Catalogue of Twenty Pictures, chiefly of the Spanish School, the property of the late Lionel Charles Hervey, Esq., H. M. Chargé d'Affaires at Madrid : comprising fine works of Velasquez, Murillo, and Morales : ... altarpiece, by Sebastian Del Piombo, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, June the 8th, 1844, at two o'clock.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1844]
Physical Description:: 5, [3] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

752. A catalogue of an exceedingly select collection of engravings, formed with the object of comprising first rate specimens of the most eminent masters in the art, from the earliest period to the present time : it accordingly comprehends the Italian, German, Flemish, Dutch, French, and English Schools : also included several specimens of works in niello, and engravings ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Hessey, at Mr. Curtis's Rooms, 265, Regent Street, on Monday, March 8, 1830, at half past twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Hessey
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

753. A catalogue of a truly superb and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, of the first class, and in the highest state of preservation : selected with very superior taste, and at a liberal expence, from several of the most distinguished cabinets on the Continent : the genuine property of Walsh Porter, Esq. going abroad : among numerous chef d'œuvres of the great and most celebrated masters in this collection are : the Virgin with the rabbit, by Corregio, from the collection of the King of Naples : Virgin and Child, Leon. da Vinci, truly capital : the Young card players, Carravagio, from the Aldobrandini palace : two brilliant landscapes, by Claude, from the Duke de Choiseuil's collection : the Tambour battant, Teniers, from the duc de Praslin's ditto : Le roi dépouillé, a surprising picture, by Schalken, formerly in the collection of the late King of France : various capital landscapes by S. Rosa, Cuyp, V. de Velde, C. du Jardin, and Pynaker : the celebrated Phaeton, by Wilson : and a landscape, by Gainsborough : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Tuesday, March the 22d, 1803, and following day, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1803]
Physical Description:: 10 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

754. A catalogue of divers excellent Italian pictures of the most eminent masters : both ancient and modern : which will be exposed to sale in the Banqueting-House at White-Hall, by way of publick out-cry, on Munday the 2d day of June next.

Date:: 1684
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

755. Letters from Conrad, 1895 to 1924 / edited with introduction and notes by Edward Garnett ; with two portraits.

Creator:: Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 334, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

756. Entrance book.

Creator:: Artists' and Amateurs' Conversazione (London, England)
Date:: 1829 Nov. 4-1832 Oct. 17
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([98] p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

757. A catalogue of the very splendid collection of Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish, Dutch, and English pictures of Monsieur Nieuwenhuys : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May 10, and following day, at one for two o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: 74 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

758. [Admission ticket for The Diapharama : Linwood Gallery, Leicester Square].

Date:: [approximately 1851?]
Physical Description:: 1 ticket ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

759. A Catalogue of the capital collection of optical, mathematical, and philosophical Instruments and machines : late the property of The Right Hon. the Earl of Bute, Deceased : consisting of a great variety of elegant and valuable articles : including a grand orrery, a nicely-finished new universal equatorial, by Ramsden : a large armillary sphere, a cabinet selection of silver and brass drawing instruments and scales, air pumps, electrical machines, and apparatus, by Nairne : a silver compound microscope; elegant solar, lucernal, and other microscopes, by Adams, &c. reflecting telescopes, by Short, &c. achromatic telescopes, by Dollond and Ramsden : a large universal ring dial, with dials of other constructions : improved barometers, and thermometers; loadstones, silver-mounted : sets of artificial magnets; perspective machines : a curious assortment of French recreations, by Guyot ... : which will be sold by auction by Mess. Skinner & Dyke, on Tuesday the 5th February, and the two following days at twelve o'clock, at Mr. Hutchin's Rooms, King-Street, Covent-Garden.

Creator:: Skinner and Dyke
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: 23, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

760. Thames Tunnel : Rotherhithe entrance.

Date:: [approximately 1843]
Physical Description:: 1 card : illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

761. Catalogue of the very important and valuable collection of pictures, by Old Masters and modern English artists, of that well-known amateur, James Wadmore, Esq., deceased, removed from his late residence, upper Clapton : which (by order of the administrators) will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May 5, 1854, and following day, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 25, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

762. A catalogue of the first part of the very valuable and extensive collection of engravings, in the portfolio of Sir Thomas Lawrence, late President of the Royal Academy, deceased : comprising his rare and fine engravings by M. Antonio and the old Italian engravers : engravings by and after the great Italian painters : prints from the works of Rubens : his rare and valuable etchings by Rembrandt : many from the sale of Mr. Josi : the works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, all proofs : and prints by distinguished modern artists : also books of prints; among which are a fine and complete copy of the Pitture, &c. d'Ercolano / which (by order of the executor) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his great room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Monday, May the 10th, 1830, and following days, at one o'clock precisely : may be viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had (at 1s. 6d each) at Mr. Christie's Office, 8, King Street, St. James's Square.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 40 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

763. "Orientals" Swimming Club's annual dinner held at the St. Stephen's Restaurant, Bridge Street, Westminster 7th March 1887 : programme.

Creator:: Liberty & Co.
Date:: [1887]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : color lithography ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

764. A catalogue of a very valuable and highly important collection of pictures chiefly of the early Flemish and German schools, together with some by Italian and Dutch masters : comprising the very celebrated work of Hubert and John Van Eyck : the Adoration of the Lamb, formerly in the Chapel of the Hotel de Ville at Ghent : ... work by Margaretha Van Eyck : Ecce Homo, by Martin Schoen : three by Albert Durer : and ... specimens of Ghielandaio, Masaccio, P. Perugino, M. Venusti, Le. Credi, Correggio, Caravaggio, Guido, Salice, C. Dolce, Guercino, C. Maratti, L. Cranach, Hemlinck, Scoorlels, Wohlgemu, Schwartz, L. v. Leyden, Jordaens, G. Crayer, Cuyp, Brauwer, Haussman, Ruysdael : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, the 26th of April, 1839, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

765. Special exhibition of national portraits on loan to the South Kensington Museum : galleries and bays of the national portrait exhibition, 1866 : shown in seventy-seven photographs.

Creator:: South Kensington Museum
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: [4], [81] p. : ports., photos. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

766. Miscellaneous poems / by Andrew Marvell.

Creator:: Marvell, Andrew, 1621–1678
Date:: MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:: [4], 148, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

767. The garden of caresses / translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint ; now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 91, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

768. A catalogue of the reserved part of the most magnificent and valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : this collection consists of the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Corregio, Caracci, Guercino, Caravaggio, Cl. Lorain, L. Da Vinci, Parmegiano, C. Maratti, Mola, Murillo, V. Castelli, Rembrandt, Titian, P. Veronese, Tintoret, S. Rosa, Rubens, Vandyke, Velasquez, Poussin, Borgognone, S. Bourdon, Polemburg, Bassan, Vanderwerf, Mieris, &c. : and will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms, late belonging to the Society of Arts &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand, on Friday, April 10, and the following day : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Wednesday and Thursday the 8th and 9th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock ; descriptive catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

Creator:: Mr. Langford and Son
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 23, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

769. The catalogue of a small but superb selection of important paintings of the very first distinction and quality : the renowned works of Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo Buonaroti, Domenichino, Hans Holbein, Parmegiano, Andrea Sacchi, Venusti, Murillo, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Peter Coxe at Mr. Squibb's Great Room, Saville Passage, Saville Row, on Saturday, June the 11th, 1808, at two o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:: [1808]
Physical Description:: 9, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

770. The catalogue of a very splendid collection of cabinet pictures of the Dutch and Flemish schools : the genuine property of a gentleman of fortune and member of Parliament : which (the the exception of one picture) will be sold without reserve by Peter Coxe & Co. in Maddox Street, Hanover Square on Saturday, the 28th of May, 1814 at two o'clock : may be viewed : and catalogues, at one shilling each, had at the room.

Creator:: Peter Coxe & Co.
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 18 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

771. A catalogue of the entire cabinet of beautiful Boule & Reisner furniture : choice and valuable paintings, Italian and Roman bronzes, Sèvre, Dresden, Persian, and Oriental China, Boule, Florentine and Parisian cabinets, a few valuable books of prints, superb clocks and therms, candelabras, girandoles and tripods, fourteen brilliant glasses, in costly frames, and miscellaneous furniture of a superior class, removed ... from the residence of T. Theed, Esq. of Stanhope Street, May Fair : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at his Rooms, 73, New Bond Street, on Tuesday, the 22d day of May, 1832, and two following days, at twelve o'clock, without reserve.

Creator:: Phillips, H., -1840
Date:: [1832]
Physical Description:: 26 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

772. A catalogue of the magnificent and celebrated gallery of pictures by the great Italian, Spanish, Flemish, French, & Dutch Masters of the Right Hon. Lord Northwick : removed from Connaught Place, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 24th of May, 1838, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1838]
Physical Description:: 79, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

773. An exhibition of paintings and drawings by James Pryde, 1886-1941 : to be held at the Redfern Gallery , 20 Cork Street, London W1 22 September-26 October 1988 : in association with The Fine Art Society and James Kirkman Ltd.

Creator:: Pryde, James, 1866–1941
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: [16] pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

774. On the first of March, 1814, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, price four shillings, No. I. (To be continued monthly) of Restituta, or, The titles and characters of old books in English literature and their authors, revived by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

775. S. Stockwell underground map [cartographic material].

Creator:: Stockwell, Susan
Date:: [2012]
Physical Description:: 1 map : red embroidery on white and red cotton cloth ; 40 x 40 cm, folded to 20 x 20 cm + 1 box (24 x 24 x 2 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

776. Catalogue of the entire collection of pictures of the highest class, formed by that accomplished amateur, J. B. West, Esq., late member for Dublin : and removed from his late residence in Stephen's Green, Dublin, where this choice Collection has so long been one of the great attractions to Amateurs in that Metropolis : which (by order of the Executrix) will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May the 20th, 1843, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1827]
Physical Description:: 11, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

777. British colour linocuts of the 1920s & 1930s by Sybil Andrews, Claude Flight, Cyril E. Power and the artists of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art : exhibition March 26th-May 4th 1985.

Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 36 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

778. Is this tomorrow? : visions of the future by architects and artists.

Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 160 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

779. Perspective practical. Or, a plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art... By a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisian. Faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts. Set forth in English by Robert Pricke ...

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1698
Physical Description:: 8 p. ., 150, [6] p. 150 engraved plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

780. Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy, the old and new Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists, and the French Exhibition : no. V, 1859 / by John Ruskin ...

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 56 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

781. Men in print : essays in literary criticism / by T.E. Lawrence ; introduction by A.W. Lawrence.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: [6], 9-58, [2] pages, [1] leaf, [3] leaves of plates ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

782. Catalogue of an extensive and valuable collection of books ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son, Wellington Street, Strand, on Thursday, November the 19th, and four following days (Sunday excepted), at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Sotheby and Son
Date:: [1829?]
Physical Description:: 46, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

783. A catalogue of a very beautiful collection of the etchings by Rembrandt : the property of the late Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew, consisting of his various works, scriptural, fancy, landscapes and portraits, including the hundred guilder print, Raising of Lazarus ; Christ before Pilate ; Advocate tolling ; Burgomaster Six : and other celebrated works : the whole in the most desirable condition, and many of them in early and curious states, collected with great judgment out of the Barnard, Hibbert, Haring, and Bute collections: with some original drawings by Rembrandt : etchings by his scholars ; portfolios, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Wheatley, at his Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Wednesday, May 13, 1835, and two following days.

Creator:: Wheatley, Benjamin, -1837
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: [4], 30, [2] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

784. Catalogue of the whole of the remaining works of that highly distinguished artist, Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., deceased, including the original sketches and drawings made during his various tours, among which are those made during his journey, in 1824, in France, Switzerland, and Italy ; 1828, at St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall ; 1830, in Germany, the Tyrol, and Italy ; 1837, on the Moselle ; 1838 and 1839, in Switzerland and Italy, including the series of drawings made during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Christmas, 1838 ; 1843, tour in Holland ; the drawings made between 1847 and 1851, at Hampstead, Dover, and in Wales ; 1851, tour in the South of France and North of Spain and Pyrenees ; 1856, in Ireland : also, the contents of the studio, consisting of armour and arms, bronzes, costumes, a large collection of models of boats of different countries, Rembrandt etchings and engravings, pictures by Le Poitevin, Constable, and Bright ; and water-colour drawings by Sir E. Landseer, R.A., Sir A.W. Callcott, Sir D. Wilkie, C.R. Leslie, R.A., D. Cox, Müller, Bonington : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their great rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May 8, 1868, and five following days, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:: [1868]
Physical Description:: 58 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

785. Catalogue of the remaining portion of the collection of rare old porcelain of Colonel Grant, most of which is well known from having been exhibited at the South Kensington Museum : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square. on Thursday, March 7, 1872, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

786. The National Gallery : its pictures and their painters : a hand-book for visiters [sic] / by Henry G. Clarke ...

Creator:: Clarke, Henry G. (Green)
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 29, [11] p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

787. Shakespeare'e England at Earl's Court, 1912 : Shakespeare's Village showing Porch House.

Date:: [1912]
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : black and white ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

788. Catalogue of a valuable collection of pictures of the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch schools, in their genuine & speculative condition : the property of a private gentleman ... especially a landscape and cattle, a morning scene, by A. Cuyp ; St. John preaching in the wilderness, Vander Eckhout ... Wynants and Lingleback ... P. Neefs ... Gaspar de Crayer ... Jan Stein [Jan Steen] ... P. Wouvermans ... De Koningh and others by the following masters, viz. Cannaletti [Canaletto], Domenichino, Poelemberg, Artois, Vanderwerf, Backhuysen, Jan Stein [Steen], Teniers, Berchem, De Wytt [Wit], Ruysdael, Begyn, Vandyck, Snyders, De Vries, Mireveldt [Mierevelt] and many others of celebrity.

Creator:: Edward Foster (Firm)
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

789. Catalogue of the very choice collection of Italian, Flemish, French, and Dutch pictures of the highest class : formed by the late Peter Rainier, Esq. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May the 24th, 1845, at two o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1845]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

790. Programme of the opening of the new Blackfriars Bridge, and the Holborn Viaduct : with a detailed description of each of these monuments of architectural and engineering skill : compiled with great card, from personal observation & official records.

Date:: [1869]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

791. A catalogue of a magnificent, truly superb, and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures : selected with very superior taste, and at an unbounded expence, from several of the most distinguished cabinets in Europe, the property of Robert Heathcote, Esq. : among the numerous chef d'oeuvres of the great and most admired Masters in this splendid collection are two celebrated pictures by Claude, which formerly graced the cabinet of the Duc de Choiseuil : the Magdalen, Dominichino, from the Udney Collection : a magnificent portrait of Lorenzo di Medici : a production of the united efforts of Mich. Angelo and Seb. Del Piombo : the Virgin and Child, L. Da Vinci : various beautiful landscapes, by S. Rosa, G. & N. Poussin, Cuyp, Wouvermans, Du Jardin, Teniers, Potter, &c. &c. &c. : sea pieces by Vandevelde & Backhuysen : choice gems by G. Dow, Mieris, Metzu, Jan Stein, Turburgh, &c : flower and fruit pieces, by Van Huysem and R. Ruysch : a fine statue of the Apollo Sauroctonos : which will be sold by auction, (without reserve) by Mr. H. Phillips, at his Great Room, New Bond Street, on Friday, April 5th, 1805, and following day, at half-past twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Phillips, H., -1840
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: 16 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

792. Part II of the collection of engravings &c. of Christian Josi, Esq., deceased : consisting of the works of Hollar.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: 33 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

793. Catalogue of the valuable collection of engravings : including specimens of the Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Flemish, French, and English schools : amongst which will be found works of the following Masters, viz. : Aldegrever, Both, Durer (Albert), De Leu, Earlom, Goltzius, Houbraken, Hollar, Leyden (Lucas Van), Naiwincx, Ostade, Pentz, Rembrandt, Schoen (Martin), Sharpe, Visscher (John), Woollett &c. &c. : and a very complete collection of the works of Callot, containing many variations and drawings : likewise a set of the works of S. Della Bella, books of prints, &c. &c. : the property of that distinguished amateur, Charles Scarisbrick, Esq., deceased, removed from Scarisbrick Hall, Lancashire : which (by direction of the Will, and by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Monday, May 13, 1861, and following day, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:: [1861]
Physical Description:: 29, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

794. Catalogue of a collection of ancient & modern pictures, the property of a gentleman, including a fine whole-length portrait of the first Duchess of Grafton, by Sir. G. Kneller, from Lady Dungannon's collection : a pair of garden-scenes, by Dietricy : and works of T.S. Cooper, R.A., Th. Frere, and Verschuur : also, some capital portraits, the property of the right hon. James Wilson, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, February 24, 1872, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: 19, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

795. Catalogue of the renowned collection of works of art, formed by that distinguished connoisseur, Alexander Barker, Esq., deceased, late of 103, Piccadilly : which (by order of the executor) will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, June 6, and on Monday, June 8, 1974, and three following days, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: 60 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

796. A catalogue of a capital and valuable collection of modern drawings : framed and glazed, and in portfolios : modern prints :a few fine Dutch etchings : and some pictures : the property of the late Mr. T. Sheldrake, Senr.. (of the Strand) Deceased : the drawings comprise some of the finest ppecimens of the following celebrated and admired Masters, viz. : Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Mortimer, Worlidge, Benwell, Wheatly, Gainsborough, Barrett, Marlow, Gilpin, P. Sandby, Hearne, Meye, Greffe, Hills, Serres, Pillement, Chatelain, &c. &c. : also many fine iImpressions by Bartolozzi, Weston, Collier, Sharp, &c. : a number of fine etchings of cattle, &c. by V. de Velde, Potter, Jardin, Bergehm : a large collection of drawings by Hearnel : and a few fine pictures by Ruysdael, Lingelback, Wilson, Barrett, Morland, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, February 21, 1800, and following Day, at twelve o'clock : may be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

797. A catalogue of the capital set of highly finished original drawings, in water colors, which have furnished the plates for that admired work entitled View of the city of Dublin, by the late ingenious and scientific artist, James Malton, Esq. deceased, together with the copper plates, impressions and letter press of that and his other popular works, viz. on cottage architecture, ornamental villas, the painter's maulstick, Stonehenge, and others on geometry and perspective : also his collection of architectural designs, studies, and models, books of architecture and prints, sketches and views from nature, and a choice assemblage of original drawings by the late W. Hamilton, Esq. R.A. : which will be sold by auction, (by order of the executors) by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Thursday, March 8, 1804, and following day, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1804]
Physical Description:: 10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

798. A catalogue of a genuine, superb and truly valuable assemblage of vases, marbles, and other objects of virtù : the property of, and collected by a Man of Fashion, during a recent visit to Rome and Naples : comprising a numerous collection of singularly-fine Etruscan Vases, of the early Sicilian and Compana Classes : besides many rare and novel specimens of the smaller Greek pottery : slabs of the most rare and precious Antique Marbles : part of the shaft of a column of the beautiful Egyptian Granite : a few bustos of exquisite modern sculpture, particularly a colossal bust from the Antinous and a noble copy, in marble, from the celebrated vase in the Villa Borghese, 3 feet 9 inches high : a fine plaster cast, moulded expressly for the proprietor from the Apollo of the Belvidere : and a few elegant Alabaster Vases of Beautiful Florentine Sculpture : also, two fine antique gems : a capital set of the Nine Muses, in Mable, antique : and original models in terra cotta, by the celebrated Roubiliac, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March the 29th, 1805, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1804]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

799. A catalogue of a pleasing collection of drawing, by the most celebrated modern Masters : including the works of Girton, Gainsborough, Pocock, Anderson, La Porte, Dayes, Rooker, Cozens, Oben, &c. : likewise, thirty-six most beautiful, exquisitely-finished copies, in water colors, from paintings in Herculaneum, a unique set, lately bought from the Continent : also, a complete set of the large Shakspeare proof prints, framed and glazed, which composed the 57th prize in the Shakspeare Lottery : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, June the 8th, 1805, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

800. A catalogue of a capital and most precious assemblage of superlatively fine Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, consigned within a few weeks past from the Continent : in the view of this collection the connoisseurs will enjoy an exquisite treat, and the admirers of Rembrandt especially will have an opportunity of witnessing the finest picture, without exception, ever painted by that master, the Woman taken in adultery, executed by Rembrandt, for his patron and friend, the Burgomaster Six : it is a chef d'œuvre, for which language cannot furnish adequate description or praise, replete with sublimity and awful magic effect : besides this, are a Holy Family by Corregio, from the Modena Gallery : a sea port, near Genoa, by Claude, a warm, clear and delicately-finished picture, one of his very finest : a companion landscape, and two others, by ditto : two capital portraits, an historical, and a marine subject, by Rembrandt ; the Angels confounding the men of Gomorrah, N. Poussin, and others by L. da Vinci, Titian, Domenichino, P. da Cortona, Romanelli, G. Poussin, Rubens, V. Dyck, Teniers, Neefs, G. Dow, A. Ostade, Du Jardin, Potter, V. de Velde, Dusart, Bega, Terburg, Mieris, Backhuysen, Lenain, Lingelback : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, on his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, June the 13th, 1807, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1807]
Physical Description:: 11, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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703. A handbook to the public galleries of art in and near London : with catalogues of the pictures accompanied by critical, historical, and biographical notices, and copious indexes to facilitate reference / by Mrs. Jameson.

704. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a prose translation / with an introductory essay by Gwyn Jones ; with six engravings in colour by Dorothea Braby.

705. Reges, reginæ, nobiles, & alij in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti vsque ad annum reparatæ salutis 1600 ...

706. Catalogue of the various works of art forming the collection of the late Matthew Uzielli ... : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their great rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Friday, the 12th of April, and seven following days.

707. [Catalogue of pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and English masters : with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution, June, 1829.]

708. [Prospectus for Somerset Struben de Chair's The silver crescent]

710. Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper : a fairy drama, in three acts : adapted for the scenes and characters in the miniature theatre.

716. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

717. Ulick and Soracha / by George Moore.

718. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

723. Catalogue of a portion of the gallery of His Royal HIghness the Duke of Lucca : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, July the 25th, 1840, at one o'clock precisely.

730. Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Benjamin Way, Esq. of Denham. ... / Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, No. 93, Pall-Mall, on Friday, May 30, and two following days, (Sunday excepted).

732. William Hermes album drawing copies : figures.

733. A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.

734. Bernard Delfont & Tom Arnold present Harry Secombe in Pickwick : a new musical.

737. Royal Exchange : report to the Court of Common Council from the Royal-Exchange and Gresham Trusts Committee : presented 23d January, 1845.

738. The Lord's song : a sermon / by Eric Gill.

739. Roses of Sharon : poems chosen from the flower of ancient Hebrew literature / with an introduction, by W.O.E. Oesterley, D.D. ; 12 wood-engravings by Mary Groom.

740. Paddington Cemetery, Willesden Lane, Kilburn : grave no. 16780 : section 10.

743. Catalogue of a valuable portion of the library of a gentleman : to which is added, another collection ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, No. 93, Pall-Mall, on Monday, July 16, and following day.

744. A popular handbook to the National Gallery : including, by special permission, notes collected from the works of Mr. Ruskin ... / compiled by Edward T. Cook ; with preface by John Ruskin ...

745. Souvenir of the programme of the unveiling of Lord Kitchener's Memorial by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 9th June 1926.

748. English Delftware apothecary jars and their contents : the Victor Hoffbrand Collection / Alan Humphries, Henry Oakeley, Victor Hoffbrand.

749. A catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery.

750. The plain and painted picture play book for exercises in colouring : second series.

754. A catalogue of divers excellent Italian pictures of the most eminent masters : both ancient and modern : which will be exposed to sale in the Banqueting-House at White-Hall, by way of publick out-cry, on Munday the 2d day of June next.

755. Letters from Conrad, 1895 to 1924 / edited with introduction and notes by Edward Garnett ; with two portraits.

756. Entrance book.

758. [Admission ticket for The Diapharama : Linwood Gallery, Leicester Square].

760. Thames Tunnel : Rotherhithe entrance.

763. "Orientals" Swimming Club's annual dinner held at the St. Stephen's Restaurant, Bridge Street, Westminster 7th March 1887 : programme.

765. Special exhibition of national portraits on loan to the South Kensington Museum : galleries and bays of the national portrait exhibition, 1866 : shown in seventy-seven photographs.

766. Miscellaneous poems / by Andrew Marvell.

767. The garden of caresses / translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint ; now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford.

773. An exhibition of paintings and drawings by James Pryde, 1886-1941 : to be held at the Redfern Gallery , 20 Cork Street, London W1 22 September-26 October 1988 : in association with The Fine Art Society and James Kirkman Ltd.

775. S. Stockwell underground map [cartographic material].

777. British colour linocuts of the 1920s & 1930s by Sybil Andrews, Claude Flight, Cyril E. Power and the artists of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art : exhibition March 26th-May 4th 1985.

778. Is this tomorrow? : visions of the future by architects and artists.

780. Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy, the old and new Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists, and the French Exhibition : no. V, 1859 / by John Ruskin ...

781. Men in print : essays in literary criticism / by T.E. Lawrence ; introduction by A.W. Lawrence.

782. Catalogue of an extensive and valuable collection of books ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son, Wellington Street, Strand, on Thursday, November the 19th, and four following days (Sunday excepted), at twelve o'clock.

786. The National Gallery : its pictures and their painters : a hand-book for visiters [sic] / by Henry G. Clarke ...

787. Shakespeare'e England at Earl's Court, 1912 : Shakespeare's Village showing Porch House.

790. Programme of the opening of the new Blackfriars Bridge, and the Holborn Viaduct : with a detailed description of each of these monuments of architectural and engineering skill : compiled with great card, from personal observation & official records.

792. Part II of the collection of engravings &c. of Christian Josi, Esq., deceased : consisting of the works of Hollar.