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1. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:: MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions : illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands : a map of England shewing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals : and a plan of London and its environs : and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishoprics, universities, colleges, corporate towns, and boroughs : and of the seals of the several municipal corporations / by Samuel Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, Samuel, -1865
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: 4 volumes ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. This series of twelve drawings of the northern coast of Ireland / by A. Nicholl, A.K.H.A. ; is respectfully dedicated by permission to Her Excellency the Comtess of Mulgrave.

Creator:: Nicholl, Andrew, 1804–1866
Date:: [ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. In the course of the present month, will be published Part I. of Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, ESQ. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. author of the biographical tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

Creator:: Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

Creator:: Sauvan, Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, 177 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American war, from its commencement to the year 1783 / by R. Lamb, late Serjeant in the Royal Welch Fuzileers.

Creator:: Lamb, Roger, 1756–1830
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: iv, xxiv, [1], 6-438 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Bits of old Bristol : being fac-similes of twenty sketches / by W.J. Müller.

Creator:: Müller, William James, 1812–1845
Date:: [1883]
Physical Description:: [50] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A brief narrative of the shipwreck of the transport "Premier" : near the mouth of the river St. Lawrence, on the 4th November, 1843, having on board the headquarter wing of the second battalion of the First or Royal regiment, proceeding from North America to the West Indies / illustrated with several engravings from sketches made on the spot by George R. Dartnell ; the drawings in lithotint by J.A. Hammersley.

Creator:: Dartnell, George R., 1799–1878
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 37, [1], 2 pages, 6 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The book of bread / by Owen Simmons, F.C.S. (Owen and Owen).

Creator:: Simmons, Owen, author
Date:: [approximately 1903]
Physical Description:: 360 pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus Jr.

10. Historic, military, and naval anecdotes : of personal valour, bravery, and particular incidents which occured to the armies of Great Britain and her allies, in the last long-contested war, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo : under the patronage of, and dedicated with permission to His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief.

Creator:: Orme, Edward, 1775–1848
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [4], 94, [4] p., [40] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38-49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The Essex foxhounds : with notes upon hunting in Essex / by Richard Francis Ball & Tresham Gilbey.

Creator:: Ball, Richard Francis
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: xv, [1] 384 pages, [19] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Proposals for publishing by subscription the memoirs of Zerah Colburn : in one volume quarto, embellished with a portrait : a child of just nine years of age who possesses the singular faculty of solving a great variety of arithmetical questions by the mere operation of the mind, and without the usual assistance of any visible symbol or contrivance

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

14. 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.

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

15. The natural history of Cornwall : the air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides ; of stones, semimetals, metals, tin, and manner of mining ; the constitution of the stannaries ; iron, copper, silver, lead, and gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, rare birds, fishes, shells, reptiles, and quadrupeds : of the inhabitants, their manners, customs, plays or interludes, exercises, and festivals ; the Cornish language, trade, tenures, and arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the county, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from original drawing taken on the spot / by William Borlase, A.M. F.R.S. Rector of Ludgvan, and author of the Antiquities of Cornwall.

Creator:: Borlase, William, 1695–1772
Date:: MDCCLVII [1758]
Physical Description:: xix, 326 p., XXIX leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The antiquities of Herculaneum / translated from the Italian; by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice ... ; containing pictures.

Creator:: Reale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia
Date:: MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], lxxiii, [1], 236, [2] p., [50] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., map ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Sketches of the architectural beauties of Wells and Glastonbury : in sixteen plates / by Edward S. Cole.

Creator:: Cole, Edward Sherratt, 1817–1905
Date:: [1852?]
Physical Description:: [17] leaves, [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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

19. Twenty lithographic views of ecclesiastical edifices in the borough of Stroud / by Alfred Smith, artist ; with short notices appended to each drawing.

Creator:: Smith, Alfred Newland, 1812–1876
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [46] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 27, [3] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. An analytical view of the animal economy : calculated for the students of medicine, as well as private gentlemen : interspersed with many allegories and moral reflections, drawn from the subject, to awaken the mind to an elevated sense of the great author of nature / by Isaac Ball ...

Creator:: Ball, Isaac
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: 64, 67-90 pages : color illustration ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Just published, in large folio, complete in sixty-four maps, price six guineas, half-bound, a new and greatly improved edition of Lavoisne's genealogical, historical, chronological, & geographical atlas, by C. Gros and J. Aspin : containing the creation, the dispersion of mankind, the origin of nations, the establishment, continuation, and decline of empires and states, the genealogy, direct and collateral, of all the sovereigns and potentates, from the beginning of time to the year 1813 : forming the most complete system of history and geography ever produced.

Creator:: Barfield, John, active 1790–1842
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A series of fourteen sketches made during the voyage up Wellington channel in search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H. and the missing crews of H.M. Discovery-ships Erebus and Terror : together with a short account of each drawing / by Commander Walter W. May, R.N., late Lieutenant of H. M. Discovery-ship Assistance (Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.)

Creator:: May, Walter W.
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 6, [1] p., [xiv] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Preparing for the press, an historical description of the cathedral church of Salisbury : including an account of the monuments, chiefly extracted from Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," and other authentic documents : also, biographical memoirs of the Bishops of Salisbury, from the earliest period by W. Dodsworth, verger of the Cathedral.

Creator:: Brodie and Dowding
Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The visitor's guide to Knole, in the county of Kent : with catalogues of the pictures contained in the mansion, and biographical notices of the principal persons whose portraits form part of the collection / by John H. Brady, F.R.A.S.

Creator:: Brady, John Henry
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xx, 258, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates, ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

26. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Flowers from nature : with the botanical name, class, and order ; and instructions for copying : lithographed and coloured from drawings / by Anne Everard ; dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

Creator:: Everard, Anne
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [8] p., 13 leaves, 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Destruction of Troy : being the sequel of the Iliad / translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus. With Notes. By J. Merrick Scholar of Trinity Co.. Oxford.

Creator:: Tryphiodorus
Date:: [1739]
Physical Description:: [24], lxxxviii, 151 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The ancient costume of Great Britain and Ireland : from the seventh to the sixteenth century, selected from rare specimens in the possession of the author, and accompanied with suitable descriptions and illustrations / by Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.

Creator:: Smith, Charles Hamilton
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: [3], vi-viii, [124] pages, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Plans, elevations, and sections, of buildings public and private : executed in various parts of England, &c., including the new custom-house, London, with plans, details, and descriptions / engraved on fifty-nine plates by David Laing, F.S.A., architect and surveyor to the Board of Customs, &c.

Creator:: Laing, David, 1774–1856
Date:: MDCCCXVIII [1818]
Physical Description:: [10], xiv, [2], 44 pages, 57 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The social day : a poem, in four cantos / by Peter Coxe ; illustrated with thirty-two engravings.

Creator:: Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: x, [3], xii-xvi, [16], 354, [2] p., 32 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:: [12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.

Creator:: Ellis, Henry, 1721–1806
Date:: MDCCXLVII [1748]
Physical Description:: xxviii, 336 [i.e. 344] pages, [9] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Original sketches, drawn and engraved on stone / by Henry Stretton, Esq.

Creator:: Stretton, Henry
Date:: [1844?]
Physical Description:: [6] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / by John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zurich, and Minister of the Gospel ; illustrated by engravings, accurately copied, and some duplicates added from originals, executed by or under the inspection of, Thomas Hollloway ; translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D., Minister of the Scots Church, London-Wall.

Creator:: Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741–1801
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 5 : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Sporting reminiscences of Hampshire : from 1745 to 1862 / by Aesop.

Creator:: Aesop, active 1864
Date:: 1864
Physical Description:: xx, 380 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The gentleman's new pocket companion : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal the horse : together with the quickest and simplest mode of fattening, necessary treatment while undergoing excessive fatigue or on a journey : the construction and management of stables : different marks for ascertaining the age of a horse, from three to nine years old : with a concise account of the diseases to which the horse is most subject, with such remedies as long experience has proven effectual / by Richard Mason, of Surry County, Virginia.

Creator:: Mason, Richard, active 1808–1861?
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [2], 4, [1], iv-vii, 176, [3], 11, [1] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Wilton and its associations / by James Smith, author of "Rural Record," "Oracles from the British Poets," etc. ; with illustrations on wood, by W.F. Tiffin.

Creator:: Smith, James, 1805–1872
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: xiv, [2], 222, 2 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

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3. This series of twelve drawings of the northern coast of Ireland / by A. Nicholl, A.K.H.A. ; is respectfully dedicated by permission to Her Excellency the Comtess of Mulgrave.

5. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

6. An original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American war, from its commencement to the year 1783 / by R. Lamb, late Serjeant in the Royal Welch Fuzileers.

7. Bits of old Bristol : being fac-similes of twenty sketches / by W.J. Müller.

9. The book of bread / by Owen Simmons, F.C.S. (Owen and Owen).

11. The Essex foxhounds : with notes upon hunting in Essex / by Richard Francis Ball & Tresham Gilbey.

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

16. The antiquities of Herculaneum / translated from the Italian; by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice ... ; containing pictures.

17. Sketches of the architectural beauties of Wells and Glastonbury : in sixteen plates / by Edward S. Cole.

18. 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.

19. Twenty lithographic views of ecclesiastical edifices in the borough of Stroud / by Alfred Smith, artist ; with short notices appended to each drawing.

20. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

21. An analytical view of the animal economy : calculated for the students of medicine, as well as private gentlemen : interspersed with many allegories and moral reflections, drawn from the subject, to awaken the mind to an elevated sense of the great author of nature / by Isaac Ball ...

25. The visitor's guide to Knole, in the county of Kent : with catalogues of the pictures contained in the mansion, and biographical notices of the principal persons whose portraits form part of the collection / by John H. Brady, F.R.A.S.

26. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

27. Flowers from nature : with the botanical name, class, and order ; and instructions for copying : lithographed and coloured from drawings / by Anne Everard ; dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

28. Destruction of Troy : being the sequel of the Iliad / translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus. With Notes. By J. Merrick Scholar of Trinity Co.. Oxford.

29. The ancient costume of Great Britain and Ireland : from the seventh to the sixteenth century, selected from rare specimens in the possession of the author, and accompanied with suitable descriptions and illustrations / by Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.

30. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

31. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

32. Plans, elevations, and sections, of buildings public and private : executed in various parts of England, &c., including the new custom-house, London, with plans, details, and descriptions / engraved on fifty-nine plates by David Laing, F.S.A., architect and surveyor to the Board of Customs, &c.

33. The social day : a poem, in four cantos / by Peter Coxe ; illustrated with thirty-two engravings.

36. Original sketches, drawn and engraved on stone / by Henry Stretton, Esq.

38. Sporting reminiscences of Hampshire : from 1745 to 1862 / by Aesop.

40. Wilton and its associations / by James Smith, author of "Rural Record," "Oracles from the British Poets," etc. ; with illustrations on wood, by W.F. Tiffin.