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12001. Plâs Newydd, and Vale Crucis Abbey, correctly drawn from nature, and engraved, by S. & G. Nicholson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nicholson, Samuel, d. 1825
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
11 p. ill., 6 plates. 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12002. Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

No cover image available
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
fold. col. plate. 18 x 31 cm. fold. to 18 x 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12003. The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Salisbury; illustrated with a series of engravings, of views, elevations, plans, and details of that edifice: also etchings of the ancient monuments and sculpture: including biographical anecdotes of the bishops, and of other eminent persons connected with the church. By John Britton, F. S. A.

No cover image available
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
3 p. l., [v]-viii, 113, [1] p. ill., 31 plates (incl. front., plans) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12004. A guide to the lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. By the author of The antiquities of Furness ...

No cover image available
Creator:
West, Thomas, d. 1779
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 311 p. fold. front. (map) 1 ill. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12005. The world's fair; or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein; with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them; and how they live when at home.

No cover image available
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
2 p. ., [3]-106 p. col. front., ill. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12006. Just published, Fragmenta antiquitatis : or, Ancient tenures of Land, and jocular customs of manors. Originally published by Thomas Blount, esq. of the Inner Temple. Enlarged and corrected by Josiah Beckwith ... with considerable additions from authentic sources, by Hercules Malebysse Beckwith ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Brooke, S
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
1 leaf. ; 26 cm. (in case 30 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12007. Miniatura; or, The art of limning, by Edward Norgate; ed. from the manuscript in the Bodleian library and collated with other manuscripts by Martin Hardie.

No cover image available
Creator:
Norgate, Edward, d. 1650
Date:
1919
Physical Description:
xxix, 111, [1] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12008. Analytical essay on the construction of machines / translated from the French of M.M. Lanz & Bétancourt.

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Creator:
Lanz, Philippe Louis
Date:
[1820?]
Physical Description:
[8], 158, [6] p., [25] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12009. Our summer migrants : an account of the migratory birds which pass the summer in the British Islands / by J.E. Harting ... ; illustrated from designs by Thomas Bewick.

No cover image available
Creator:
Harting, James Edmund, 1841–1928
Date:
1901
Physical Description:
x, 336 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12010. Robin Hood : a collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw : to which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life.

No cover image available
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12011. Worcester tiles : "amongst the best in the front rank," Architect, April l6, 1881 : designs from Webb's Worcester Tileries, Company, Limited, manufacturers of encaustic and geometrical paving tiles : for hearths, mantel checks, walls, furniture ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Webb's Worcester Tileries Company
Date:
[1889]
Physical Description:
[11] leaves : chiefly col. ill. ; 51 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12012. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

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Creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:
1779
Physical Description:
4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12013. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

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Creator:
Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12014. Description of a view of Athens and the surrounding country : now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square / painted by the proprietor, Robert Burford ; assisted by H.C. Selous, from drawings taken on the spot, in 1845, by George Knowles ...

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Creator:
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
16 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12015. Notes by Mr. Ruskin. Part I. On his drawings by the late J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Part II. On his own handiwork illustrative of Turner : the above being exhibited at the Fine Art Society's galleries, 148, New Bond Street, 1878.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1878]
Physical Description:
146 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12016. A new pocket plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

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Creator:
Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 46 x 92 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 16 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12017. The Seraglio & gardens of the Grand Seignior = Serrail & jardins du Grand Seigneur.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
1 map ; 31 x 26 cm., on sheet 36 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12018. Researches about atmospheric phaenomena / by Thomas Forster ...

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Creator:
Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789–1860
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
xiv [i.e. xvi], 442 [i.e. 448] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12019. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
[6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12020. A crown for Branwen / Harri Webb ; wood engraving by Yvonne Skargon.

No cover image available
Creator:
Webb, Harri, 1920–1994
Date:
c1988
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12021. Bowles's New and complete book of cyphers : designed and engraved on twenty-four copper-plates / by John Lockington ; including a curious print of the emperor Charlemagne's crown, &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lockington, John
Date:
[1785?]
Physical Description:
25 leaves : all ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12022. The art of hunting, or, Three hunting mss : a revised edition of The art of hunting by William Twici, huntsman to King Edward the Second, by H. Dryden, 1844 : The craft of venery : a translation of La chasse du cerf / edited by Alice Dryden.

No cover image available
Creator:
Twiti, William, d. 1328
Date:
1908
Physical Description:
xii, 163 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12023. A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook : to which are added some particulars, concerning his life and character, and observations respecting the introduction of the venereal disease into the Sandwich Islands / by David Samwell, surgeon of the Discovery.

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Creator:
Samwell, David, 1751–1798
Date:
MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Physical Description:
[4], 34 pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12024. 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.

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

12025. Chemical amusement : comprising a series of curious and instructive experiments in chemistry, which are easily performed and unattended by danger / by Fredrick Accum, Operative Chemist, Lecturer on Practical Chemistry, on Mineralogy, and on Chemistry applied to the Arts and Manufactures, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Linnæan Society, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts of Berlin, &c. &c.

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Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 360, [4], 59, [1] p., II leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12026. Directions for breeding game cocks : including instructions for the choice of a cock and hens to breed from : with calculations for betting, etc. ; being the result of many years of experience.

No cover image available
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
6-69 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12027. A description of the Hundred of Salford Assize Courts of the county of Lancaster : to which are appended some particulars of the new Gaol of the Salford Hundred : also a brief outline of St. George's Hall, Liverpool and the Leeds Town Hall.

No cover image available
Date:
[1868?]
Physical Description:
42, [6] p., [9] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12028. Churches of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely / published by the Cambridge Camden Society.

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Creator:
Ecclesiological Society
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
[2], 119 p., [29] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12029. An elementary treatise on sketching from nature : with the principles of light and shade, the theory of colours, &c. / by John Wood.

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Creator:
Wood, John
Date:
[1850]
Physical Description:
52 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12030. Chimneys in artificial stone : manufactured by Austin and Seeley.

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Creator:
Austin & Seeley
Date:
[ca. 1840]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12031. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12032. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brodie and Dowding
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12033. Examples of ancient & modern furniture, metal work, tapestries, decorations by B. J. Talbert, archt.

No cover image available
Creator:
Talbert, Bruce J. (Bruce James), d. 1881
Date:
1876
Physical Description:
2 p. ., 6, [6] p. plates. 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12034. The autograph souvenir, a collection of autograph letters, interesting documents, &c, executed in facsimile, by Frederick George Netherclift, with transcriptions & occasional translations, by Richard Sims ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Sims, Richard, 1816–1898
Date:
[1863-65]
Physical Description:
2 p. l., 74 l. 89 pl. (facsims.) 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12035. Planting and ornamental gardening; a practical treatise.

No cover image available
Creator:
Marshall, Mr. (William), 1745–1818
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
xi, [2] p., 1 l., 638 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12036. Ars pictoria; or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching. To which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Neanderthal authors. By Alexander Browne ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:
1669
Physical Description:
4 p.l., 110, [2] p. front. (port.) plates. 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12037. 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 ...

No cover image available
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
xviii, [4], 703 p. : plan ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12038. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

No cover image available
Creator:
Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12039. Wonders of art.

No cover image available
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
23 leaves. col. front., col. ill. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12040. The Scholar's slate pencils : for clever boys & girls.

No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1900
Physical Description:
7 pencil pieces : slate ; 13 cm or shorter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12041. Horizon : a review of literature and art.

No cover image available
Date:
1940-1950
Physical Description:
20 v. : ill., plates (part col.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12042. The album of Nottingham views.

No cover image available
Date:
[circa 1880]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (14 panels) : photolithography ; folded to 18 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judy Sirota Rosenthal and Philip B. Rosenthal, Yale BA 1967, MA 1970, PhD 1974

12043. 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.

No cover image available
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.

12044. Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia : humbly dedicated and recommended to country gentlemen ; and if they please, to be repeated as their own, after a hunt, at horse races, in watering-places, and other such polite assemblies, round the bottle and fire-side.

No cover image available
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-49 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12045. Rural churches, their histories, architecture and antiquities, by Sidney Corner. With coloured illustrations from paintings by the author.

No cover image available
Creator:
Corner, Sidney
Date:
[1869]
Physical Description:
viii, 72 p. 18 col. pl. (incl. front.) 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12046. Ancient coins and medals : an historical sketch of the origin and progress of coining money in Greece and her colonies : its progress with the extension of the Roman empire : and its decline with the fall of that power / by Henry Noel Humphreys ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
vi, 208 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12047. The poetical works of Thomas Adams, Warkworth : consisting of The battle of Trafalgar and some miscellaneous pieces.

No cover image available
Creator:
Blum, Richard H
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
208 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12048. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

No cover image available
Date:
1660
Physical Description:
[5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12049. To His Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales : this actual survey of the county of Salop is most humbly inscribed / by ... John Rocque = Carte topographique de la comté de Salop ou Shropshire ... / par ... J. Rocque ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets ; 244 x 204 cm., sheets 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12050. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : portrait ; 81 x 45 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12051. Featherwork picture of a common pheasant.

No cover image available
Date:
late 19th century?
Physical Description:
1 picture : bird feathers, watercolor ; image 10 x 12 cm, on sheet 11 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce Marshall Rare Books

12052. Simpson's in-the-Strand, Grand Divan Tavern : bill of fare.

No cover image available
Creator:
Simpson's-in-the-Strand
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 28 x 36 cm, folded to 28 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jay Clifford

12053. Souvenir of the programme of the unveiling of Lord Kitchener's Memorial by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 9th June 1926.

No cover image available
Date:
[1926]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12054. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
[1837]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12055. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
[1846]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12056. In memory of our beloved Queen : born May 24th, 1819, died Jan. 22nd, 1901 : reigned 68 yrs. 216 days.

No cover image available
Date:
1901
Physical Description:
1 pin ; 5 x 4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12057. The aboriginal port folio ... / by J.O. Lewis.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lewis, James Otto, 1799–1858
Date:
1835-[1836]
Physical Description:
10 parts (80 unnumbered plates) : color illustrations, portraits ; 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12058. English Delftware apothecary jars and their contents : the Victor Hoffbrand Collection / Alan Humphries, Henry Oakeley, Victor Hoffbrand.

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

12059. Joseph Southall archive, 1898-1910.

No cover image available
Creator:
Southall, Joseph E
Date:
1898-1910
Physical Description:
.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12060. Colla : ICA, August-September, 1959, London.

No cover image available
Date:
1959
Physical Description:
10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12061. Pravoslav Sovák.

No cover image available
Date:
[1966]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4]) pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12062. City Sculpture : a touring exhibition arranged with the support of the Arts Council of Great Britain in collaboration with the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation City Sculpture Project.

No cover image available
Date:
[London] :
Physical Description:
10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12063. Remember Bangladesh? : two exhibitions of paintings, photographs, posters, slides, films & music by and about the people of the World's youngest nation : presented by Simon Dring.

No cover image available
Date:
[London] :
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([6] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12064. Nicotiana, or, The smoker's and snuff-taker's companion : containing the history of tobacco, culture, medical qualities and the laws relative to its importation and manufacture : with an essay in its defence : the whole elegantly embellished and interspersed with original poetry and anecdotes, being intended as an amusing and instructive volume for all genuine lovers of the herb / by Henry James Meller ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Meller, Henry James
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
viii, 128, 36 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12065. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

No cover image available
Creator:
Munn, Paul Sandby, 1773–1845
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
4 leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm. x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12066. Illustrations of the University of Cambridge / by J. & H.S. Storer ; comprising thirty-two views.

No cover image available
Creator:
Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:
[1827]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [32] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12067. Stubb's lithographic views of Scarborough / taken, published and sold by him.

No cover image available
Creator:
Stubbs, Ralph, 1774–1845
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12068. Extraordinary exhibition! : under the patronage of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, the nobility, gentry, &c. &c. : 209, Regent Street, the industrious fleas : performing most astonishing feats : the whole different from last season.

No cover image available
Date:
1833?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1]) p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12069. A catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery.

No cover image available
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
48 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12070. Four quartets / T.S. Eliot.

Four quartets / T.S. Eliot.
Creator:
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888–1965
Date:
1996
Physical Description:
47 p. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gaffney J. Feskoe in honor of Duncan Robinson

12071. History, gazetteer, and directory of Northamptonshire : comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the diocese of Peterborough : with separate historical, statistical, and topographical description of all the towns, parishes, townships, hundreds, and manors : to which is subjoined a list of the seats of the nobility, clergy, & gentry / by William Whellan and co.

No cover image available
Creator:
Whellan, William
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
xv, [1], [11]-962 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12072. The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; with 15 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:
1929-1930
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12073. Liver & lights.

No cover image available
Date:
1984-
Physical Description:
v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12074. A general map of the middle British colonies in America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode-Island : of Aquanishuonigy the country of the confederate Indians comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio & Thuchsochruntie their deer hunting countries, Couchsachrage & Skaniadarade their beaver hunting countries, of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain : wherein is also shewn the antient & present seats of the Indian nations / carefully copied from the original published at Philadelphia, by Lewis Evans.

No cover image available
Creator:
Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand colored ; 48 x 63 cm, on sheet 53 x 71 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12075. The history of the flea : with notes and observations / by L. Bertolotto.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bertolotto, L
Date:
[1835]
Physical Description:
28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12076. Elizabeth Alexandra Crompton-Stansfield diary.

No cover image available
Creator:
Crompton-Stansfield, Elizabeth Alexandra, 1866–1936
Date:
1884-1885 and 1896-1897
Physical Description:
2 v. (280, 176 p.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12077. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes, based on Elias Canetti's novel Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ronald King.

The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes, based on Elias Canetti's novel Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ronald King.
Creator:
Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
[64] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12078. The plain and painted picture play book for exercises in colouring : second series.

No cover image available
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
[27] leaves : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12079. A hundred Grand nationals by T. H. Bird. Illustrated from contemporary prints, and photographs.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bird, Thomas Henry, 1890–
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
204 p. col. front., plates, ports. 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12080. In loving remembrance of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria : born at Kensington Palace, May 24th 1819 : acceded to the throne, June 20th, 1837 : crowned at Westminster Abbey, June 28th, 1838 : entered into rest at Osborne, Isle of Wight, January 22nd, 1901.

No cover image available
Date:
1901
Physical Description:
1 folded card ; 120 x 80 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12081. [Postcard addressed to Mrs. Wilson].

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1916]
Physical Description:
1 postcard : color ; 10 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12082. Madam D'Arc's Waxworks of Famous Crimes.

No cover image available
Date:
[after 1928]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12083. Wild flowers and their teachings.

No cover image available
Creator:
Howard, Mary M. (Mary Matilda), 1804–1893
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
ix, 92 pages, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12084. Stone soup / Paula Rego ; Cas Willing.

Stone soup / Paula Rego ; Cas Willing.
Creator:
Rego, Paula, Dame, 1935–2022
Date:
2014
Physical Description:
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 print (color illustrations ; 53 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12085. In loving memory of our dear daughter, Olga May Moore : 15, Weston Terrace, Ynyshir. : born May 24th, 1916, died August 14th, 1931 : interred at the Rhondda Joint Cemetery on Wednesday, August 19th, 1931 : the Rev. D. Overton, Ynyshir, will officiate.

No cover image available
Date:
[1931]
Physical Description:
1 folded card ; 12 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12086. In loving memory of [Chrystle Barrett] : who died [6th January], 19[18] : aged [1 hour] : interred at [Streatham Park] Cemetery : [9 January] : grave no [10770 Sq. 9]

No cover image available
Date:
1918
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12087. The English pilot : the fourth book, describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones : particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein : as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands : also, a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. : with many other things necessary to be known in navigation : the whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions / by the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.

No cover image available
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (4, 3-66 pages, [43] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12088. Nautical remarks and observations on the coasts and harbours of Nova Scotia : surveyed pursuant to orders from the Right Honble. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the use of the Royal Navy of Great-Britain / by J.F.W. Des Barres.

No cover image available
Creator:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729–1824
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
iv, 27, [1] pages : tables ; 23 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12089. Photograph album depicting a British family at home and relocating to Ceylon.

No cover image available
Date:
1910s?
Physical Description:
1 album (175 photographs, on 47 leaves) : gelatin silver prints ; photographs 11 x 9 cm or smaller, in album 14 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12090. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
[1844]
Physical Description:
5, [3] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12091. The Bible.

The Bible.
Creator:
Perry, Mark (Vocalist)
Date:
1978
Physical Description:
80 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12092. A hand-book of Mr. Albert Smith's ascent of Mont Blanc : illustrated by Mr. William Beverley : with nineteen outline engravings of the views : first represented at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Monday Evening, March 15, 1852.

No cover image available
Creator:
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:
[1853?]
Physical Description:
24, [16] pages, : illustrations ; 12 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12093. A catalogue of a capital collection of prints, the work of that incomparable artist Wenceslaus Hollar : formed at a considerable degree of expense by the late John Towneley, Esq. ... : and abounding throughout in valuable proofs and curious variations : particularly comprising his extremely rare British Portraits and typography ... : containing eleven plates more than are generally known to be in existence : together with a matchless collection of drawings in colours, of natural history, inimitably executed by Hollar : ... which will be sold at auction by Mr. King, at his Great Room, No. 38, King Street, Covent Garden on Tuesday, the 26th day of May, 1818, and four following days, at twelve o'clock.

No cover image available
Creator:
King, Thomas
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
[4], 44 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12094. In memory of nearly six hundred passengers, who perished by the sinking of the saloon steamer, "Princess Alice", in the Thames, off Woolwich, September 3rd, 1878,

No cover image available
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
1 card : embossing ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12095. Harold Wilson on immigration : Birmingham, October 6th, 1964.

No cover image available
Creator:
Labour Party (Great Britain)
Date:
[1964]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 20 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

12096. Gothic arches with armored soldiers.

No cover image available
Date:
ca. [1850?]
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded tan stoneware ; height 15 cm (including handle), width 15 cm (including handle), depth 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

12097. Catalogue of a singularly curious and valuable selection from the library of a gentleman : including three extradordinary specimens of block-printing ; books printed in the fifteenth century ; books printed on vellum ; fine copies of works from the presses of Caxton, Machlinia, Wynkyn de Worde, Pynson, Julian Notary, Verard, & ... also a most extensive collection relating to the rise and progress of the Reformation in England. Likewise, several manuscripts on vellum ... which will be sold by Mr Sotheby at his house, no. 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Friday the 9th of June, 1826, and seven following days (Sunday excepted).

No cover image available
Creator:
Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:
[1826]
Physical Description:
106, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12098. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hessey
Date:
[1833]
Physical Description:
14, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12099. Royal Pavilion treenware box.

No cover image available
Date:
circa 1830
Physical Description:
1 box : painted treenware ; 5 cm x 13 cm x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler in memory of John Morley

12100. Landscape / John Dilnot.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dilnot, John
Date:
Apr. 1994
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([15] panels) : illustrations ; 50 x 680 mm, folded to 50 x 50 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist