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2401. Ward's Northumberland and Durham directory ... : accompanied by an almanac & town & county guide, a record of local & general events, a diary, and an annual commercial advertiser ... / Robert Ward.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ward, Robert
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
viii, 359, 102 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2402. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Practical hints on decorative printing; with specimens in colours, engraved on wood. Containing instructions for forming black and coloured printing inks; for producing fine presswork; and for printing in colours. By William Savage ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Savage, William, 1770–1843
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
[4] p. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2403. Studies of figures by Gainsborough. Executed in exact imitation of the originals, by Richard Lane ...

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Creator:
Lane, Richard James, 1800–1872
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
2 pts. ill. (port.) col. plates. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2404. Memoirs of the Royal academicians; being an attempt to improve the national taste. By Anthony Pasquin ...

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Creator:
Williams, John, 1754–1818?
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
3 p.., [5]-148 p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2405. Materials for thinking. By W. Burdon ...

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Creator:
Burdon, William, 1764–1818
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
428 p., 1 leaf. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2406. Description of a painting of Jerusalem and the surrounding country, as it appears at this time from the Mount of Olives. Painted by E. Donovan ... The original drawing by his son, Mr. J. Donovan; & M. Pierre Jacques. The view taken in the year 1811, 1812. This picture ... will remain open to public inspection, in the saloon of the great apartment of the London Museum, Fleet-Street ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
8 p. fold. diagr. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2407. The Britton testimonial. An account of a public dinner given to John Britton, F.S.A. at the Castle Hotel, Richmond, on the 74th anniversary of his birth, July 7, 1845, with the toasts & speeches on the occasion, a list of subscribers; and an explanatory preface, by T.E. Jones.

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Creator:
Jones, T. E
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
xvi, 28 p. front. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2408. Antiquarian and topographical sketches of Hampshire, by Henry Moody.

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Creator:
Moody, Henry
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
x, 426 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2409. Proposals for publishing by subscription in monthly numbers, forming one volume, The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton & Westminster; : with the charterhouse, the free schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors', Harrow and Rugby, and the school of Christ Hospital ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
1815.]
Physical Description:
2 p. ; 24 cm. (in case 30 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2410. The antiquities of the abbey or cathedral church of Durham : also a particular description of the county palatine of Durham, compiled from the best authorities and original manuscripts. To which is added, the succession of the bishops, deans, archdeacons, and prebends: the bishop's courts, and his officers: and the castles and mansion-houses of the nobility and gentry: with other particulars.

No cover image available
Creator:
Davies, John, 1625–1693
Date:
MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:
[2], iii, 141, 147, [1] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2411. The last of the fairies / by G.P.R. James ... ; with illustrations from designs by John Gilbert ; engraved by Henry Vizetelly.

No cover image available
Creator:
James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
230, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2412. Journal of a tour to the western counties of England : performed in the summer of 1807 / by the author of a tour in Ireland.

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Creator:
Twiss, Richard, 1747–1821
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
32 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2413. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

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Creator:
Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vii, [2] p., pp. 12-17, [2] p., pp. x-xxiii [i.e. xiii], [2] p., 10-241, [7] p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2414. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast; thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean / by David Livingstone ... ; with portrait; maps by Arrowsmith; and numerous illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Livingstone, David, 1813–1873
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
ix, [1], 687, [1] p., [27] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2415. A treatise on chancel screens and rood lofts : their antiquity, use, and symbolic signification / by A. Welby Pugin ; illustrated with figures copied on stone from drawings by the author.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
viii, 124 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2416. Of the friendship of Amis and Amile.

No cover image available
Date:
1894]
Physical Description:
[4], 67 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2417. Essays on Gothic architecture / by the Rev. T. Warton, Rev. J. Bentham, Captain Grose, and the Rev. J. Milner ; (with a letter to the publisher) ; illustrated by twelve plates of ornaments, &c. selected from ancient buildings ; calculated to exhibit the various styles of different periods ; to which is added, a list of the cathedrals of England,with their dimensions.

No cover image available
Creator:
Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
[ii], [1], *iv-*vi, [1], iv-xxiv,176 p., 12 leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2418. Views of Netley Abbey / by W. Westall, A.R.A.

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Creator:
Westall, William, 1781–1850
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
[14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2419. Śakoontalá, or, The lost ring : an Indian drama / translated into English prose and verse, from the Sanskrit of Kālidāsa, by Monier Williams, M.A., Professor of Sanskrit at the East-India College, Haileybury, formerly Boden scholar in the University of Oxford.

No cover image available
Creator:
Kālidāsa
Date:
MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:
xxv, [5], xxvii-xxviii, 227, [1], 24, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2420. Five lithographic views in the Isle of Man.

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Creator:
Wilkinson, G., lithographer
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
[5] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2421. Complete poetry and selected prose / edited by John Hayward.

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Creator:
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:
1929
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 793, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2422. Bacchus and the tee-totallers / by Rumfusticus Bibulus, Esq., president of the Anti-temperance society.

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Creator:
Bibulus, Rumfusticus
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
19, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2423. Comicalities.

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Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789–1856
Date:
1830?]
Physical Description:
[24] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2424. [Collection of reprints and pamphlets relating to St. Mary Redcliffe].

No cover image available
Date:
1851-1927]
Physical Description:
[5] pieces : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2425. A treatise on diamonds, and precious stones : including their history-natural and commercial : to which is added, the methods of cutting & polishing : with colored plates / by John Mawe, honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, &c. &c., author of Travels through the gold and diamond district of Brazil, Lessons on mineralogy and geology, New descriptive catalogue, &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mawe, John, 1764–1829
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
xx, 148 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2426. The universities : Le Keux's memorials of Cambridge : a series of views of the colleges, Halls, and public buildings : engraved by J. Le Keux / with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.

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Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:
1841-42
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2427. The Royal Windsor guide : with a brief account of Eton, Virginia Water and the surrounding neighbourhood.

No cover image available
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
80 p., [3] leaves of plates (some fold). : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2428. A description of the Royal Hospital for seamen at Greenwich.

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Creator:
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
24 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2429. Picture of Paris : being a complete guide to all the public buildings, places of amusement and curiosities in that metropolis : accompanied with six descriptive routes from the coast to Paris : with full directions to strangers on their first arrival in that capital : embellished with maps and views / by Louis Tronchet.

No cover image available
Creator:
Tronchet, Louis
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
252 p., [8] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., maps ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2430. The blue diver.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, John, 1945–
Date:
1995
Physical Description:
[34] p. : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2431. Kubla can't : an out of sorts edition of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Tony Kemplen.

No cover image available
Creator:
Kemplen, Tony
Date:
1996
Physical Description:
[22] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2432. McDowall's new guide to Roslin : being a historically descriptive account of the chapel & castle of Roslin and Hawthornden : with engravings on steel.

No cover image available
Date:
[1839?]
Physical Description:
[2], 36 p., [2] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2433. Remarks and observations on the plain of Troy : made during an excursion in June, 1799 / by William Francklin, Captain in the service of the East India Company, and author of a Tour to Persia.

No cover image available
Creator:
Francklin, William, 1763–1839
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 53, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2434. Horse-racing in France; a history, by Robert Black.

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Creator:
Black, Robert
Date:
1886
Physical Description:
387 p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2435. Architectural views and details of Netley Abbey : partly shown as it originally existed, with brief historical associations of that ancient ruin, and description of late discoveries / by George Guillaume, architect.

No cover image available
Creator:
Guillaume, George, 1808 or 9–1868
Date:
MDCCCXLVIII [1848]
Physical Description:
[4], 35, [1] p., [X] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2436. An historical record of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster : with the muster rolls from the first formation of the regiment, MDCCLXXIX, to the relodgement of the standards in the tower, MDCCCXXIX.

No cover image available
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
vi, 279, [1], [108], xviii, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2437. The vision of Sir Launfal / by James Russell Lowell. With illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lowell, James Russell, 1819–1891
Date:
1871
Physical Description:
28, [2] leaves, [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

2438. Books as art.

No cover image available
Date:
[2000?]
Physical Description:
33 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2439. Liberty : 1935.

No cover image available
Creator:
Liberty & Co
Physical Description:
[30] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2440. A century of foxhunting with the Warwickshire hounds : being a sketch history of the hunt from 1791 to 1891 / by Castor.

No cover image available
Creator:
Castor
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 206, [2] pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2441. Zen gardens / poems by James Kirkup ; with original prints by Birgit Skiöld.

No cover image available
Creator:
Kirkup, James, 1918–2009
Date:
1973
Physical Description:
1 v. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2442. [Collection of headed notepaper with selected views of London & vicinity].

No cover image available
Date:
[after 1863]
Physical Description:
[202] leaves : all ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2443. Mark Fairnington, Unnatural history : published on the occasion of Unnatural history at Mannheimer Kunstverein and Galerie Peter Simmermann in January-March 2012.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fairnington, Mark, 1957–
Date:
2012
Physical Description:
108 p. ; col. ill. ; 22 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist

2444. The maiden's prayer = La prière d'une Vièrge / par T. Badarzewska.

No cover image available
Creator:
Badarzewska, Thekla, 1834–1861
Date:
[189-?]
Physical Description:
1 score (6 p.) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

2445. The shepherd true / sacred solo by Wm. Geo. Pearce.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pearce, William George
Date:
[c1896]
Physical Description:
5 p. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

2446. Stanford's half-inch map of the battle front between the Somme and Soissons.

No cover image available
Creator:
Edward Stanford Ltd
Date:
1917
Physical Description:
1 map : color ; 50 x 62, folded to 19 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2447. Northey.

No cover image available
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
[4] folded sheets : ill. ; 12 cm. + 1 screen printed drop-back box.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2448. Books, &c. published by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand, London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1823]
Physical Description:
18, [3] pages ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2449. William Smellie notebook on weaving.

No cover image available
Creator:
Smellie, William
Date:
1693-ca. 1767
Physical Description:
1 volume : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2450. The journal and letters of the late Thomas Browne Parker, of Sweeney in the County of Salop, Esq. : during a tour with his friend Edward Joshua Cooper of Markree Castle in the Co. of Sligo, Esqre. M.P. : through Bavaria, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, & the Crimea, in the years 1824, 1825, & 1826 / transcribed, arranged, and illustrated (with copies of the drawings made during the tour by the artist Sig. Bossi, sketches in the Crimea by T.B.P. &c., and insertion of portraits, prints, &c. collected by T.B.P. in his travels) by his affectionate sister Mary Leighton, Loton Park, 1835.

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

2451. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2452. Papeterie for all nations.

No cover image available
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 box ; 12 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2453. A catalogue of a genuine, capital and valuable collection of pictures, the property of a Nobleman : selected with great judgment, and removed from his house in Grosvenor Square : the collection comprises many chef d'oeuvres of the most great and admired masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch schools : more particularly the following viz : Titian, Corregio, P. Veronese, C. Marratti, Velasquez, Dominichino, L. Carracci, Caravaggio, M. Angelo, Vandyke, Rubens, Barroccio, L. Jordaens, D. Fetti, Rembrandt, Poussin, Wouvermans, Ruysdael, Claude, Vernet, P. Potter, Cuyp, C. Du Jardin, Backhusen, &c. : the greatest part in fine preservation, and will merit the attention of the cognoscenti : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Rom in Pall Mall, on Friday, May 16th, 1794, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : when catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : and in Pall Mall.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2454. The twelve churches, or, Tracings along the Watling street / by the authoress of "The red rose" ; illustrated by H.H.T.

No cover image available
Date:
1860
Physical Description:
56 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2455. The catalogue of all that perfect and beautiful assemblage of cabinet pictures, the property of the Greffiers Fagel : selected with infinite taste and judgement, brought from the Hague to England : which will be sold by auction by Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster at Mr. Squibb's Great Room, Saville Passge, Conduit Street, on Friday, the 22d of May, 1801, and following day, at one o'clock : may be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had at Saville Passage and of Messrs. Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster, Throgmorton Street, price one shilling, to be returned to purchasers.

No cover image available
Creator:
Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster (London, England)
Date:
[1801]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2456. Translation of a report by Álvaro de Bazan, marquês de Santa Cruz, on the defense of Spain and the West Indies from Sir Francis Drake : manuscript.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:
circa 1597
Physical Description:
1 sheet : pen and black ink ; 29 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2457. You have been warned : a complete guide to the road / by Fougasse and McCullough.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fougasse
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
[8], 141, [1] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

2458. Catalogue of a valuable assemblage of old pictures, by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, & French masters, including the collection of the late Comtesse de Laval, of St. Petersburg : also, a splendid whole-length portrait of Miss Leigh, by Sir J. Reynolds, and the felon portrait of Shakespeare : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May 29, 1869, at one o'clock precisely.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1869]
Physical Description:
20 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2459. Picture fare

No cover image available
Date:
[London] :
Physical Description:
1 card ([2]) pages : illiustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2460. A portfolio of rubbings from early American stone sculpture found in the burying grounds of New England / by Ann Parker & Avon Neal.

No cover image available
Creator:
Parker, Ann
Date:
[1963]
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages, 42 plates 43 x 54-96 x 64 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2461. Silenus.

No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1831
Physical Description:
1 mug : relief-molded gray-green stoneware ; height 14 cm (including handle), width 19 cm (including handle), depth 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

2462. Bug balls.

No cover image available
Creator:
Moynihan, Claire
Date:
2015
Physical Description:
24 bug balls ; in display case 30 x 41 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk

2463. Joseph Fenson and Sons : Sykes Works, Bridge St., Sheffield.

No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1870?
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 12 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

2464. Drawing folder, with four travel scenes.

No cover image available
Date:
approximately [1840?]
Physical Description:
1 folder : embossed paperboard ; 27 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2465. Collection of eight ham radio QSL calling cards. 1936-1939.

No cover image available
Date:
1936-1939
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

2466. Two cut paper Christmas cards.

No cover image available
Creator:
Morpeth, Sarah
Date:
[2014?]
Physical Description:
2 cut-paper works ; each 10 x 26 cm, folded to 10 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sarah Morpeth.

2467. Edgeworthstown archive, 1796-1815.

No cover image available
Creator:
Beaufort, Daniel Augustus, 1739–1821
Date:
1796-1815
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box, approximately 50 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2468. The catalogue of a select and valuable collection of capital drawings, by Guercino, Ganisborough, Cipriani, and other favorite Masters : the property of the late most noble The Marquis of Lansdowne : which (by order by his executors) will be sold by auction, by Peter Coxe, Burrell and Fosters, (without reserve) on the premises, Lansdown House, Berkley Square, on Tuesday, March 25th, 1806, at twelve o'clock.

No cover image available
Creator:
Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster (London, England)
Date:
[1806]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2469. A catalogue of those highly celebrated and matchless chef d'œuvres of the Italian and English schools, viz. the Madonna del Sacco by Andrea del Sarto, and the Niobe, by the immortal Wilson : the former well known by the engravings of Morghen, and Bartolozzi, and the latter, of the incomparable Woollett : with a few other pictures by different masters, among which is, a landscape and figures by Ruysdael, in his best style : the genuine property of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, deceased, and removed from his mansion in upper Grosvenor Street : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, the 17th of May, 1806, at twelve o'clock.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, James
Date:
[1806]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2470. A catalogue of a valuable and capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, and prints, elegantly framed and glazed : the property of a Gentleman, dec., brought from his seat in the country : among which are, a grand picture by Snyders and Rubens : a landscape by Nicolo Poussin : the celebrated picture, the Death of Germanicus, by the same Maser : and the Horrors of War, by Rubens : besides other capital specimens of : Paul Veronese, Bassan, Caracci, Salvator Rosa, Velasquez, Paul Bril, Borgognone, Carlo Maratti, Albert Durer, Zucchero, Vandyck, Jordaens, Adrian Vandevelde, Wynants, Mieris, Waterloo, Breughel, Molinaer, Heemskirk, Vernet, Lely, Kneller, Hogarth, Sir J. Reynolds : which (by order of the executors,) will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, April 29, 1808, and following day, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
[12] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2471. Patent water-proof manufactories.

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Creator:
Ackermann, Suardy & Co
Date:
[1802?]
Physical Description:
1 print : stipple engraving ; plate mark 40.5 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2472. And so to embroider.

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Creator:
Needlework Development Scheme (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:
-[1961]
Physical Description:
volumes : illustrations, diagrams ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2473. A synopsis of the peerage of England : exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement, the date of creation, descent and present state of every title of peerage which has existed in this country since the conquest ... / by Nicholas Harris Nicolas.

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Creator:
Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir, 1799–1848
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2474. The life of Napoleon : a Hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos / by Doctor Syntax ; embellished with thirty engravings by G. Cruikshank.

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Date:
1815
Physical Description:
260 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

2475. The marine botanist : an introduction to the study of algology : containing descriptions of the commonest British sea-weeds, and the best method of preserving them, with figures of the most remarkable species. By Isabella Gifford.

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Creator:
Gifford, Isabella
Date:
[1848?]
Physical Description:
x, [4], xiii, [15]-144 p. col. front., 10 plates (part col.) 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2476. The mysteries of nature and art, in 4 severall pts.

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Creator:
Bate, John
Date:
1635
Physical Description:
288 p. illus., port. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2477. Eighteen designs for glebe houses and rural cottages, with ground plans ...

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Date:
1841]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 18 plates, 18 (i.e. 20) plans. 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2478. Six of Her Majesty's pictures / drawn and engraved from the originals of Paulo Veronese, Jac. Tintoreto, Old Palma, Jul. Romano, and Andr. Shiavone ; in the royal galleries of Windsor and Kensington ; are most humbly dedicated to Her most excellent and sacred Majesty, Anne (by the Grace of God) Queen of Great Britain, France, and Ireland ... ; by Her Majesty's most humble and faithful subject, Sim. Gribelin.

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Creator:
Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 2–1733
Date:
1712
Physical Description:
[1], [6] leaves : all ill ; 33 x 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2479. The Scots compendium, or, Pocket peerage of Scotland : including the dormant, attainted, & extinct titles, with their descent, marriage, issue ...

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Date:
1826
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2480. Wallis's pocket itinerary : being a new and accurate guide to all the principal direct and cross roads throughout England, Wales, & Scotland : ... the whole presenting to the travellor every information ... : illustrated with accurate maps of the roads of England and Scotland.

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Date:
1803
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-14, [2]-432, [55] p., [2] folded leaves of plates, : maps ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2481. The roads of Great Britain / by William Faden ...

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Creator:
Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 75 x 61 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2482. Wyld's Map of the Baltic or East Sea : including the Gulf of Finland and the surrounding countries, embracing the present seat of war.

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Creator:
Wyld, James, 1812–1887
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 46 x 68 cm., folded to 17 x 10 cm., in covers 18 x 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2483. Cuzco : a journey to the ancient capital of Peru : with an account of the history, language, literature, and antiquities of the Incas: and Lima: a visit to the capital and provinces of modern Peru: with a sketch of the viceregal government, history of the republic, and a review of the literature and society of Peru / with illustrations and a map by Clements R. Markham.

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Creator:
Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir, 1830–1916
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
iv, 419 p., [9] leaves of plate (mostly col.) : ill., fold. map ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2484. The modern English boxer, or, Scientific art and practice of attack and self defence : explained in an easy manner that any person may comprehend this useful art without the aid of a master with descriptions of correct pugilistic attitudes as practised by the most celebrated boxers of the present day / by A. Pugilist.

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Creator:
Pugilist, A
Date:
1847?]
Physical Description:
20, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2485. History of the town of Greenock / by Daniel Weir ...

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Creator:
Weir, Daniel
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
viii, 126, [4] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2486. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1589
Physical Description:
[16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2487. The puppet show / by Martin Armstrong.

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Creator:
Armstrong, Martin, 1882–1974
Date:
MCMXXII [1922]
Physical Description:
[7], 10-153, [3] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2488. Orme's collection of British field sports / illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

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Creator:
Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822
Date:
[1807-1808]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 20 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 47 x 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2489. A visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois, with a winter residence at Philadelphia : solely to ascertain the actual prospects of the emigrating agriculturist, mechanic, and commercial speculator / by Adlard Welby, Esq., South Rauceby, Lincolnshire.

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Creator:
Welby, Adlard
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
xii, 224 pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2490. Markhams maister-peece : Contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publicke practise of all the forraine horse-marshals in Christendome; and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome. Being divided into two bookes. The first contayning all cures physicall: the second all belonging to chyrurgery; with an addition of 160. principall chapters, and 370. most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any author whatsoever. Together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke / Written by Gervase Markham, Gent.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1636
Physical Description:
[16], 588, 599-601, [15] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2491. Healers on horseback; the reminiscences of an English veterinary surgeon.

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Creator:
Smythe, R. H. (Reginald Harrison)
Date:
[1963]
Physical Description:
135 p. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2492. A month in the forests of France / by the Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley.

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Creator:
Berkeley, Grantley F. (Grantley Fitzhardinge), 1800–1881
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 286 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2493. Cantabrigia illustrata : views of the publick schools, librarys, halls, colleges and other publick buildings of the University of Cambridge : with an account of their foundations and endowments &c.

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Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
[ca. 1720]
Physical Description:
[85] p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2494. Hunting in the United States and Canada : being an illustrated history of each of the hunt clubs and individual packs on the North American continent : and presenting first-hand information of early colonial foxhunting, hitherto unpublished, as well as reproductions of portraits of early celebrities the existence of which has not been known to hunting men / by A. Henry Higginson & Julian Ingersoll Chamberlain.

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Creator:
Higginson, A. Henry (Alexander Henry), 1876–
Date:
1928
Physical Description:
xxix p., [1] leaf, 369 p., [1] leaf, [109] leaves of plates : ill. (some fold.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2495. The present picture of New South Wales : illustrated with four large coloured views, from drawings taken on the spot, of Sydney, the seat of government : with a plan of the colony taken from actual survey by public authority : including the present state of agriculture and trade, prices of provisions and labour, internal regulations, state of society and manners, later discoveries in natural history, and other interesting subjects : with hints for the further improvement of the settlement / by D.D. Mann ; many years resident in several official situations.

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Creator:
Mann, D. D. (David Dickinson), 1775?-
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vi, 99, [1] pages, [5] folded leaves of plates : plans, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2496. The Matsuyama mirror / told in English by Mrs. T.H. James.

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Date:
Meiji 19 [1886]
Physical Description:
[22] p. : col. ill. ; 16 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

2497. Our noblest friend the horse, by Francis M. Ware.

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Creator:
Ware, Francis M
Date:
1903 [c1902]
Physical Description:
vi, [3] p., 1 l., 11-368 p. front., pl. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2498. French scenery : from drawings made in 1819 / by Captain Batty of the Grenadier Guards.

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Creator:
Batty, Captain (Robert), -1848
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[130] p., 64 (i.e. 65) leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2499. The Land of Scott, or, Tourists' guide to Abbotsford, the country of the Tweed and its tributaries, and St. Mary's Loch.

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Date:
1858
Physical Description:
iv, 64 p. : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2500. Two views of the ruins of Furness Abbey / from drawings by Mr. Crosthwaite, of Ulverston ; and Mr. Shaw, of London ; in lithotint by Mr. Walton, of London ; with a compendious account of the monastery.

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Date:
[1843]
Physical Description:
9, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts