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23801. Shakspere [!] fresh chiselled on stone, by J. V. Barret.

Creator:: Barret, J. V
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 13 col. plates (incl. front.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23802. The British Museum. The Townley Gallery.

Date:: MDCCCXXXVI [1836]
Physical Description:: 2 v., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23803. Premiums offered by the Dublin Society, for agriculture, planting : and fine arts, also, premiums offered by the farming society, under the patronage of the Dublin Society: and premiums of the London Society extending to Ireland.

Creator:: Royal Dublin Society
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [4], 65 p. : 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23804. The elements of heraldry: ... embellished with several fine cuts, and twenty-four copper plates containing above five hundred different examples of escutcheons, arms, &c. ... To which is annexed, a dictionary of the technical terms made use of in heraldry. / By Mark Anthony Porny ...

Creator:: Porny, Mr
Date:: MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description:: xx, 199, [41] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 20 cm (8 vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23805. Art and work. : As shown in the artistic industries employed in the use of marble, stone, and terra-cotta; metal, wood, and textile fabrics; as well as in the various details associated with decorative art:-- the whole exemplified by 85 lithographic drawings (each with some descriptive explanation, of antique, mediæval, Italian, renaissance, and oriental examples) including some illustrations from the best unpublished works of the "Brothers Adam;" together with other designs from more recent authorities. / By Owen W. Davis ...

Creator:: Davis, Owen W
Physical Description:: 36 p., 85 leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23806. A catalogue of paintings, drawings, &c. bequeathed to the University of Cambridge, by the late Daniel Mesman ... in the year 1834 / by John Massey ...

Creator:: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 22 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23807. Eucharistica : meditations and prayers on the most holy eucharist : from old English divines / with an introduction by Samuel Wilberforce.

Date:: [184-?]
Physical Description:: 210 p. : ill (some col.) ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23808. Warley : a satire addressed to the first artist in Europe ...

Creator:: Huddesford, George, 1749–1809
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 2 pts. (25, [4]; 32, [3] p.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23809. Progressive sketches for the lead pencil / by G.F. Bragg.

Creator:: Bragg, G.. F
Date:: [1835?]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves : all ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23810. Descriptive catalogue of the drawings by the old masters, forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, esq. by J.C. Robinson.

Creator:: Malcolm, John, 1805–1893
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: xi, 280 p. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23811. A tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland, and Denmark. In a series of letters. By Matthew Consett, esq.

Creator:: Consett, Matthew
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: [4] p. ., 148 p. front. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23812. Metrical legends of Northumberland : containing the traditions of Dunstanborough castle, and other poetical romances : with notes and illustrations / by James Service.

Creator:: Service, James
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: [v]-viii, [9]-160 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23813. A series of antient allegorical, historical, and legendary paintings, in fresco : discovered in the summer of 1804 on the walls of the chapel of the Trinity, belonging to the Gild of the Holy Cross, at Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire / from drawings made at the time of their discovery by Thomas Fisher ... ; also, a plan of the Chapel, facsimiles of various grants and indulgences to the gild ; with representations of one hundred and fifty public and private seals appended to them, facsimile extracts from the register of the gild ...

Creator:: Fisher, Thomas, 1781?-1836
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: [6], 8 p., [55] leaves of plates : ill., plan, facsims. ; 49 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23814. Rustic architecture : the picturesque and pleasing appearance of rough wood, thatch, etc. when applied as the only decorations of rural buildings : illustrated by xlii zincographic drawings consisting of plans, elevations, sections and perspective views : the doors, windows, chimney shafts, etc. drawn geometrically to a large scale, with a description and the estimated cost of each design / by T.J. Ricauti ...

Creator:: Ricauti, T. J
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: [9], 42 plates : ill., plans ; 26 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23815. Recueil des meilleurs desseins de Raimond La Fage gravé par cinq des plus habiles graveurs / et mis en lumière par les soins de Vander-Bruggen ...

Creator:: La Fage, Raymond, 1656–1684
Date:: [168-]
Physical Description:: [8] p., [49] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23816. A companion and useful guide to the beauties of Scotland, to the lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the curiosities in the district of Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire : to which is added, a more particular description of Scotland, especially that part of it called the Highlands / by the Hon. Mrs. Murray ...

Creator:: Murray, Sarah, 1744–1811
Date:: 1799-1805
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23817. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved : being an actual survey of all the direct and principal cross roads of England and Wales : shewing all the cities, towns, villages, churches, gentlemen's seats, &c. situated on, or near any of the roads ... / engraved by Emanuel Bowen ... ; to which is added an accurate historical and topographical description of all the cities, boroughs, towns corporate, and other places of note ; compiled from the best authorities, by John Owen ... ; the whole illustrated with maps of all the counties of South-Britain, and a summary description of each.

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1764
Physical Description:: 12, 273 p. : coats of arms, maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23818. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23819. The Chester guide : giving an account of its antiquities, buildings, customs, churches, government, trade, &c. : together with a list of the earls of Chester, embellished with views of the cathedral, old East-Gate and Bridge-Gate, Outer Castle-Gate, and the Barrs : to which is added a directory.

Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [6], 96 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23820. The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, from its foundation : extracted out of original charters, records, leiger-books, and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ... ; with a continuation and additions, including the republication of Sir William Dugdale's life from his own manuscript by Henry Ellis ...

Creator:: Dugdale, William, 1605–1686
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: xxxi, 500 p., [69] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23821. Journal of a tour round the southern coasts of England ...

Creator:: Rutland, John Henry Manners, Duke of, 1778–1857
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [8], 229, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23822. Catalogue of the works of the late Sir Edwin Landseer : dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen / compiled by Algernon Graves.

Creator:: Graves, Algernon
Date:: [1874?]
Physical Description:: 55 p. ; 25cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23823. Nimrod's hunting tours : interspersed with characteristic anecdotes, sayings, and doings of sporting men, including notices of the principal crack riders of England : with analytical contents and general index of names : to which are added Nimrod's letters on riding to hounds.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: xvi, 598 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23824. Ippologia, ossia Trattato universale de' cavalli / Opera compilata da Gio. Anto. Maria Gazzola di Torino, antico uffiziale di cavalleria in ritiro.

Creator:: Gazzola, Giovanni Antonio Maria
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: [2], 576 p., [36] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23825. Pope's own miscellany : being a reprint of Poems on several occasions, 1717, containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others / edited by Norman Ault.

Date:: MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:: xcvii, [1], 165, [3] pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23826. Religio medici / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician, of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:: [1], 4-81, [9] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23827. Spills and thrills / by Paul Brown.

Creator:: Brown, Paul, 1893–1958
Date:: 1933
Physical Description:: [6] p., [48] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23828. Finchcocks estate.

Creator:: Adams, John
Date:: 1829
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23829. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

Creator:: Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Date:: [1808?]
Physical Description:: 67, 16 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23830. Shadows : second series / by Charles Bennett.

Creator:: Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829–1867
Date:: [between 1858 and 1860]
Physical Description:: [37] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23831. Carter's Views of Worthing.

Date:: 18--]
Physical Description:: 12 leaves : ill ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23832. Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches.

Creator:: United Church of England and Ireland
Date:: 1813
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23833. Historical record of the Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or the Carabineers : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent services to 1839.

Creator:: Cannon, Richard, 1779–1865
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [6], viii, 104 p., [3] leaves of plate : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23834. Views of the seats of the noblemen and gentlemen in the county of Suffolk / by Henry Davy, author of The architectural antiquities of Suffolk.

Creator:: Davy, Henry, active 1829
Date:: [1824-1826?]
Physical Description:: 4 parts (21 p., 20 leaves of plates) : chiefly ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23835. Antiquities of Italy.

Creator:: Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655–1741
Date:: 1725
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23836. Sketches illustrative of the native inhabitants and islands of New Zealand.

Creator:: Earle, Augustus
Date:: 1838
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23837. Memoirs of the family of Grace / by Sheffield Grace.

Creator:: Grace, Sheffield, 1788–1850
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 104, 2, 16, [2], [1], 5, 4, [4], 34, [1] p., [73] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23838. Voyages dans la partie septentrionale du Bresil depuis 1809 jusqu'en 1815 : comprenant les provinces de Pernambuco (Fernambouc), Seara, Paraiba, Maragran, etc. / par Henri Koster ; traduits de l'anglais par M. A. Jay ; ornes de huit planches colories et de deux cartes.

Creator:: Koster, Henry, 1793–approximately 1820
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23839. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: [4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23840. View of the entrance of the River Teign [graphic] : taken at high water from the summit of the Ness Point : opposite Teignmouth / H.Haseler delt. ; F.C. Lewis sculp.

Creator:: Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779–1856
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; sheet 33 x 92 cm, rolled to 33 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23841. Panoramic view of King George's Sound, part of the colony of Swan River [graphic] / drawn by Lieut. R. Dale, 63rd Regt. ; engd. by R. Havell.

Creator:: Havell, Robert, 1793–1878
Date:: Octr. 1834
Physical Description:: 1 print on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 19 x 275 cm, accordion folded to 19 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23842. Imitative art, or, The means of representing the pictorial appearances of objects: as governed by aerial and linear perspective : being a manual of details for amateur sketcher and the man of business : with a chapter on finish/ by Frank Howard.

Creator:: Howard, Frank, 1805–1866
Date:: [1840]
Physical Description:: viii, 117, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23843. The martial achievements of Great Britain and her allies : from 1799 to 1815.

Date:: 1814-1815
Physical Description:: viii, [122] p., [51] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23844. Coronation of ... George IV.

Creator:: Nayler, George
Date:: 1839
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23845. Record of British naval valour.

Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: [12] disc-shaped sheets : color illustrations ; each 8 cm in diameter, in case 9 x 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23846. Modern finishings for rooms : a series of designs for vestibules, halls, stair cases, dressing rooms, boudoirs, libraries, and drawing rooms; with their doors, windows, chimney-pieces, and other finishings, to a large scale : and the several mouldings [sic] and cornices at full size : showing their construction and relative proportions : to which are added some designs for villas and porticos : with the rules for drawing the columns, &c. at large : the whole adapted for use and direction of every person engaged in the practical parts of building / engraved on eighty-six plates, from designs by W. F. Pocock, Architect.

Creator:: Pocock, W. F. (William Fuller), 1779–1849
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 23, [1] p., 86 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23847. Fabbriche e disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi, architetto di S.M. l'Imperatore di Russia : cavaliere di Malta e di S. Walodimiro / illustrate dal cav. Giulio, suo figlio.

Creator:: Quarenghi, Giacomo, 1744–1817
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: 46 pages, [1], LIX leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23848. The fern garden, how to make, keep, and enjoy it, or, Fern culture made easy / by Shirley Hibberd ; illustrated with eight coloured plates and forty wood engravings.

Creator:: Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: vi, 148, [6] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23849. Castles of the English and Scottish Border.

Creator:: Richardson, Thomas Miles
Date:: 1834
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23850. Catalogue of books, prints, maps, acts of Parliament, &c. &c. : relating to the topography and antiquities of Wiltshire.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [1], 16 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23851. Walk around Oxford.

Creator:: Rundt, Carl
Date:: [1850?]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23852. Six views of Torquay and neighborhood.

Creator:: Salter, John
Date:: 1838
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23853. Picturesque views of the city of Paris and its environs.

Creator:: Scott, John, 1784–1821
Date:: 1820
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23854. Little sea torch.

Creator:: Serres, John Thomas, 1759–1825
Date:: 1801
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23855. An outline of architecture : Grecian, Roman and Gothic / by W. Hawkes Smith.

Creator:: Smith, W. Hawkes (William Hawkes)
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [1], 33 [i.e. 32] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23856. Ten lithographic drawings of scenery in the vicinity of the lakes.

Date:: 1826
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23857. Reprint of a description of the Portland vase : formerly the Barberini : the manner of its formation, and the various opinions hitherto advanced on the subjects of the bas reliefs / by Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S., F.S.A ; with the addition of notes by Thomas Windus, F.S.A. in juxtaposition to the most favoured theories, with his contrary opinions thereon.

Creator:: Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730–1795
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [2] p., 66 columns, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23858. The life of Mansie Wauch : tailor in Dalkeith / written by himself.

Creator:: Moir, D. M. (David Macbeth), 1798–1851
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [8], 384 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

23859. Gibbs's Bath visitant, or, New guide to Bath : containing an account of that city and its environs : together with every information that can interest the stranger : including the institutions, charities, topography and celebrated characters : the list of fares for chairs and hackney carriages : with copious information respecting the celebrated baths and waters : and a plan of the city : corrected to the present time and engraved expressly for the work.

Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 121 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23860. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

Creator:: Sutcliffe, J. V. (John V.)
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23861. A catalogue of a most superb and distinguished collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : a selection formed with peculiar taste and judgment by John Trumbull, Esq. during his late residence in Paris, from some of the most celebrated cabinets in France : consisting of the undoubted works of the following great masters, in the highest state of preservation : Raphael, Titian, Pordenone, Bassan, Spagnoletto, Guercino, Guido, Salvator Rosa, Murillo, Poussin, Rubens, V. Dyck, Teniers, Berghem, Wouvermans, Ger. Douw, Ch. V. Werff, Rembrandt, Vernet / which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, February 17th, 1797, and following day, at one o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: iv, [1], 6-13, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23862. One X.

Creator:: Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894–1962
Date:: 1993
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ([2] p.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23863. The family topographer : being a compendious account of the ancient and present state of the counties of England / by Samuel Tymms ...

Creator:: Tymms, Samuel, 1808–1871
Date:: 1832-43
Physical Description:: 7 v. : maps ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23864. The Lady of the lake / by Sir Walter Scott ; illustrated by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.

Creator:: Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: 339 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23865. Burning waters : second version : visual and poetic images / by Victor Pasmore.

Creator:: Pasmore, Victor, 1908–1998
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: [30] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23866. An A-Z of bird song / John Bevis.

Creator:: Bevis, John, 1954–
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: [20] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23867. To the country.

Creator:: Dilnot, John
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23868. The half-muffled clappers.

Creator:: Kemplen, Tony
Date:: 1997
Physical Description:: [2] leaves ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23869. Three words.

Creator:: Clark, Thomas A
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 9 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23870. The bad man chase.

Creator:: Smith, Andrew
Date:: 1997
Physical Description:: [52] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23871. Sermons by artists / Paul Nash, David Low, Robert Gibbings [and others] ...

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 79, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23872. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4], 35, [3], 7, [1], 79, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23873. Six views in the west of England.

Creator:: Tomkins, Charles, 1757–1823
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23874. Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water works of London, : and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries. / By William Matthews ...

Creator:: Matthews, William, 1771–1836
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: xx, 454, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans, port. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23875. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

Creator:: Beatson, Robert, 1742–1818
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 211, [1], 372, 117, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23876. Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others : in three parts ... to which are prefixed The life of Aesop, and An essay upon fable / by Oliver Goldsmith ... ; with the original wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, and an illustrated preface by Edwin Pearson ; to which are added select supplementary illustrations of Bewick's genius.

Date:: 1879
Physical Description:: [4], xl, 384 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., ports ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23877. Britania insula quae duo regna continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia adiacente / Ferando de Berteli exc. i56i.

Creator:: Lily, George, active 1528–1559
Date:: anno MDLXII [1562]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 47.0 x 34.2 cm, on sheet 53.2 x 40.0 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23878. A steam voyage down the Danube : with sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, and Turkey, &c. / by Michael J. Quin.

Creator:: Quin, Michael J. (Michael Joseph), 1796–1843
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23879. Riding reflections, by Piero Santini ... with a foreword by Lida L. Fleitmann (Mrs. J. Van S. Bloodgood, ex-M.F.H.) illustrations by Vincent Fane Handley.

Creator:: Santini, Piero, 1881–1960
Date:: [c1932]
Physical Description:: 3 p. l., xiii, [1] 117, [1] p., 1 l. incl. plates. front., illus., plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23880. Be a better horseman : an illustrated guide to the enjoyment of modern riding / by Vladimir S. Littauer ; with two hundred and thirty photographs by Bert Clark Thayer.

Creator:: Littauer, Vladimir S
Date:: c1941
Physical Description:: xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23881. British romantic artists / by John Piper ; with 12 plates in colour and 28 illustrations in black and white.

Creator:: Piper, John, 1903–1992
Date:: 1942
Physical Description:: 46, [2] p. ill. (some col.), facsim. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23882. Trigonometrie, or, The doctrine of triangles : divided into two bookes : the first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles : the second of sphericall, with grounds and demonstrations thereof : both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithmes, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath beene formerly taught : whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen), a treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing, with certaine necessary tables used in navigation / by Richard Norvvood ...

Creator:: Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: 8, 129, [180] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23883. A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English, coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford deceas'd : which will be sold by auction, By Mr. Cock, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Thursday the 18th of March, 1741-2, and the five following days ; the whole may be view'd, at the place of sale, on Monday the 15th, and every day after till the hour of sale, which will begin precisely at eleven o'clock, by reason of the great number of lots to be sold each day.

Creator:: Cock, Mr. (Christopher), fl. 1720–1749
Date:: [1742]
Physical Description:: 50 [id est 46] pages ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23884. The beauties of Brighton ...

Creator:: Sicklemore, Richard
Date:: [ca.1830]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : ill., maps; 18 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23885. The history of Brighton, with the latest improvements, to 1834 : describing the several public buildings, churches, and other places of worship, most esteemed rides ... / by John Bruce.

Creator:: Bruce, John of Brighton
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: [2], x, [2], 128, [2] p., [9] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23886. The Arab war : confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret "Arab bulletin" / introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920.

Creator:: Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868–1926
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 50, [2] pages ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23887. The history of Virginia, in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706 : II. The natural productions and conveniences of the country, suited to trade and improvement : III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace : IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land, the 10th of June 1702 / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: [8], 284, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23888. Shaw-Ede : T. E. Lawrence's letters to H.S. Ede, 1927-1935 / foreword and running commentary by H.S. Ede.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1942
Physical Description:: [2], 5-62, [10] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23889. The wild sports of Southern Africa : being the narrative of an expedition from the cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the chief Moselekatse, to the tropic of Capricorn / by Captain William Cornwallis Harris, of the H.E.I. Company's engineers on the Bombay establishment.

Creator:: Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 387, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23890. Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piemont, and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses, Protestant inhabitants of the Cottian Alps : with maps, plates, and an appendix, containing copies of ancient manuscripts, and other interesting documents, in illustration of the history and manners of that extraordinary people / by the Rev. William Stephen Gilly, M. A. Rector of North Fambridge, Essex; author of "The spirit of the gospel," "Academic errors," &c.

Creator:: Gilly, William Stephen, 1789–1855
Date:: MDCCCXXIV [1824]
Physical Description:: xx, 279, [1], ccxxiv p., [14] leaves of plates, ([2] folded) : ill., maps, facsimiles ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23891. Catalogue of the Napoleon Museum, or, Illustrated history of Europe, from Louis XIV to the end of the reign and death of the Emperor Napoleon : comprising state papers and manuscripts, marbles, bronzes, carvings, gems, decorations, medallions, drawings, miniatures, portraits, pictures, prints, vignettes, coins, medals, books, &c. / Collected, arranged, and described, during the last 25 years, by John Sainsbury.

Creator:: Sainsbury, John A
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 100 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23892. [T]o the moste excellente, moste redoubted and most crysten kyng, Kyng Edward the fourth / Johan Kay hys humble poete lawreate ...

Creator:: Caoursin, Guillaume, d. 1501
Date:: 1482?]
Physical Description:: [48] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23893. The legend of the hounds; pictures by Gordon Ross, with an introduction by Owen Culbertson.

Creator:: Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823–1890
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xi, 30, [2] p. col. front. (port.) col. illus. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23894. Business and diversion inoffensive to God, and necessary for the comfort and support of human society. : A discourse utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg-Falls, in the fishing-season. 1739.

Creator:: Seccombe, Joseph, 1706–1760
Date:: MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 5-21, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23895. The sportsman's companion; or, An essay on shooting : illustriously shewing in what manner to fire at birds of game ... and, directions to gentlemen for the treatment and breaking their own pointers and spaniels ... / By a gentleman, who has made shooting his favourite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America.

Creator:: Gentleman, who has made shooting his favorite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: viii, [9]-89, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23896. Britannia, volume the first, or, An illustration of the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales : by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof : actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps : accomodated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns; and compleated by an accurate account of the more remarkable passages of antiquity, together with a novel discourse of the present state / by John Ogilby Esq. ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([26], 200, [4] pages, [203] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23897. Voyages and travels in various parts of the world, during the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807 / by G.H. von Langsdorff ; ... illustrated by engravings from original drawings.

Creator:: Langsdorff, G. H. von (Georg Heinrich), 1774–1852
Date:: 1813-1814
Physical Description:: 2 v. (xxi, [3], 362, [6] p., [16] leaves of plates; [8], 386, [6] p., [6] leaves of plates (1 folded)) : ill., map, music, ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23898. A catalogue of the large and capital collection of pictures : by the most admired Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch masters : also prints and drawings, framed and glazed, of James West, Esq; of King Street, Covent Garden, deceased, late President of the Royal Society : which (by order of the administratrix,) will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford's at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden : on Wednesday the 31st of this Instant March 1773, and the three following days : to be viewed on March the 27th, and till the time of sale, (Sunday excepted) which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues may be then had gratis on Mess. Langford's aforesaid : condition of sale as usual.

Creator:: Mr. Langford and Son
Date:: [London] :
Physical Description:: 9, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23899. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

Creator:: Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p., [3] folding leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23900. The Princes fire-flash & fire-fade / told to children by Mrs. T.H. James.

Date:: Meiji 20 [1887]
Physical Description:: [28] p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elizabeth and Horace Tower in memory of Cynthia Gay Wright

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23801. Shakspere [!] fresh chiselled on stone, by J. V. Barret.

23802. The British Museum. The Townley Gallery.

23803. Premiums offered by the Dublin Society, for agriculture, planting : and fine arts, also, premiums offered by the farming society, under the patronage of the Dublin Society: and premiums of the London Society extending to Ireland.

23804. The elements of heraldry: ... embellished with several fine cuts, and twenty-four copper plates containing above five hundred different examples of escutcheons, arms, &c. ... To which is annexed, a dictionary of the technical terms made use of in heraldry. / By Mark Anthony Porny ...

23806. A catalogue of paintings, drawings, &c. bequeathed to the University of Cambridge, by the late Daniel Mesman ... in the year 1834 / by John Massey ...

23807. Eucharistica : meditations and prayers on the most holy eucharist : from old English divines / with an introduction by Samuel Wilberforce.

23808. Warley : a satire addressed to the first artist in Europe ...

23809. Progressive sketches for the lead pencil / by G.F. Bragg.

23810. Descriptive catalogue of the drawings by the old masters, forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, esq. by J.C. Robinson.

23811. A tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland, and Denmark. In a series of letters. By Matthew Consett, esq.

23812. Metrical legends of Northumberland : containing the traditions of Dunstanborough castle, and other poetical romances : with notes and illustrations / by James Service.

23815. Recueil des meilleurs desseins de Raimond La Fage gravé par cinq des plus habiles graveurs / et mis en lumière par les soins de Vander-Bruggen ...

23818. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

23821. Journal of a tour round the southern coasts of England ...

23822. Catalogue of the works of the late Sir Edwin Landseer : dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen / compiled by Algernon Graves.

23823. Nimrod's hunting tours : interspersed with characteristic anecdotes, sayings, and doings of sporting men, including notices of the principal crack riders of England : with analytical contents and general index of names : to which are added Nimrod's letters on riding to hounds.

23824. Ippologia, ossia Trattato universale de' cavalli / Opera compilata da Gio. Anto. Maria Gazzola di Torino, antico uffiziale di cavalleria in ritiro.

23825. Pope's own miscellany : being a reprint of Poems on several occasions, 1717, containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others / edited by Norman Ault.

23826. Religio medici / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician, of Norwich.

23827. Spills and thrills / by Paul Brown.

23828. Finchcocks estate.

23829. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

23830. Shadows : second series / by Charles Bennett.

23831. Carter's Views of Worthing.

23832. Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches.

23833. Historical record of the Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or the Carabineers : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent services to 1839.

23834. Views of the seats of the noblemen and gentlemen in the county of Suffolk / by Henry Davy, author of The architectural antiquities of Suffolk.

23835. Antiquities of Italy.

23836. Sketches illustrative of the native inhabitants and islands of New Zealand.

23837. Memoirs of the family of Grace / by Sheffield Grace.

23838. Voyages dans la partie septentrionale du Bresil depuis 1809 jusqu'en 1815 : comprenant les provinces de Pernambuco (Fernambouc), Seara, Paraiba, Maragran, etc. / par Henri Koster ; traduits de l'anglais par M. A. Jay ; ornes de huit planches colories et de deux cartes.

23840. View of the entrance of the River Teign [graphic] : taken at high water from the summit of the Ness Point : opposite Teignmouth / H.Haseler delt. ; F.C. Lewis sculp.

23841. Panoramic view of King George's Sound, part of the colony of Swan River [graphic] / drawn by Lieut. R. Dale, 63rd Regt. ; engd. by R. Havell.

23842. Imitative art, or, The means of representing the pictorial appearances of objects: as governed by aerial and linear perspective : being a manual of details for amateur sketcher and the man of business : with a chapter on finish/ by Frank Howard.

23843. The martial achievements of Great Britain and her allies : from 1799 to 1815.

23844. Coronation of ... George IV.

23845. Record of British naval valour.

23847. Fabbriche e disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi, architetto di S.M. l'Imperatore di Russia : cavaliere di Malta e di S. Walodimiro / illustrate dal cav. Giulio, suo figlio.

23848. The fern garden, how to make, keep, and enjoy it, or, Fern culture made easy / by Shirley Hibberd ; illustrated with eight coloured plates and forty wood engravings.

23849. Castles of the English and Scottish Border.

23850. Catalogue of books, prints, maps, acts of Parliament, &c. &c. : relating to the topography and antiquities of Wiltshire.

23851. Walk around Oxford.

23852. Six views of Torquay and neighborhood.

23853. Picturesque views of the city of Paris and its environs.

23854. Little sea torch.

23855. An outline of architecture : Grecian, Roman and Gothic / by W. Hawkes Smith.

23856. Ten lithographic drawings of scenery in the vicinity of the lakes.

23858. The life of Mansie Wauch : tailor in Dalkeith / written by himself.

23860. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

23862. One X.

23863. The family topographer : being a compendious account of the ancient and present state of the counties of England / by Samuel Tymms ...

23864. The Lady of the lake / by Sir Walter Scott ; illustrated by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.

23865. Burning waters : second version : visual and poetic images / by Victor Pasmore.

23866. An A-Z of bird song / John Bevis.

23867. To the country.

23868. The half-muffled clappers.

23869. Three words.

23870. The bad man chase.

23871. Sermons by artists / Paul Nash, David Low, Robert Gibbings [and others] ...

23872. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

23873. Six views in the west of England.

23874. Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water works of London, : and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries. / By William Matthews ...

23875. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

23877. Britania insula quae duo regna continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia adiacente / Ferando de Berteli exc. i56i.

23878. A steam voyage down the Danube : with sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, and Turkey, &c. / by Michael J. Quin.

23879. Riding reflections, by Piero Santini ... with a foreword by Lida L. Fleitmann (Mrs. J. Van S. Bloodgood, ex-M.F.H.) illustrations by Vincent Fane Handley.

23880. Be a better horseman : an illustrated guide to the enjoyment of modern riding / by Vladimir S. Littauer ; with two hundred and thirty photographs by Bert Clark Thayer.

23881. British romantic artists / by John Piper ; with 12 plates in colour and 28 illustrations in black and white.

23884. The beauties of Brighton ...

23885. The history of Brighton, with the latest improvements, to 1834 : describing the several public buildings, churches, and other places of worship, most esteemed rides ... / by John Bruce.

23886. The Arab war : confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret "Arab bulletin" / introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920.

23888. Shaw-Ede : T. E. Lawrence's letters to H.S. Ede, 1927-1935 / foreword and running commentary by H.S. Ede.

23889. The wild sports of Southern Africa : being the narrative of an expedition from the cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the chief Moselekatse, to the tropic of Capricorn / by Captain William Cornwallis Harris, of the H.E.I. Company's engineers on the Bombay establishment.

23892. [T]o the moste excellente, moste redoubted and most crysten kyng, Kyng Edward the fourth / Johan Kay hys humble poete lawreate ...

23893. The legend of the hounds; pictures by Gordon Ross, with an introduction by Owen Culbertson.