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Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads : with computed and measured distances and the distinction of market and post townes.
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1679
Physical Description:
[13], 27 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Glasgow looking glass.
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
1 v. : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bartholomew's one inch to the mile environs of London.
Creator:
John Bartholomew and Son
Date:
[not before 1921]
Physical Description:
1 map : color, mounted on linen ; 70 x 91 cm, folded to 19 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Birthday card with floral illustration].
Date:
[approximately 1874]
Physical Description:
1 birthday card : chromolithograph ; 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The seaweed collector : a handy guide to the marine botanist : suggesting what to look for, and where to go, in the study of the British algae, and the British sponges / by Shirley Hibberd ...
Creator:
Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890
Date:
[1872]
Physical Description:
vii, 152 p. illus., 8 col. pl. (incl. front) 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Receipts by John Williams, of White Hill Kiln, for chimney tunnel tiles purchased by Breandveath, of Houghton, 1848.
Creator:
White Hill Kiln (Luton, England)
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
2 sheets ; 13 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent.
Creator:
Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:
1744
Physical Description:
3 p., 53 plates. 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
As in a looking glass / by F.C. Philips ; iIllustrated by G. du Maurier.
Creator:
Philips, F. C. (Francis Charles), 1849–1921
Date:
1889
Physical Description:
[10], 293, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
The destruction of the Spanish Armada
Creator:
Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617
Date:
1588
Physical Description:
1 medallion : silver ; 51 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cyclamen (cf. Cyclamen L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Pyrrhogyra sp.), with Northern dune tiger beetle (Cicindela ?hybrida), Leaf beetle (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae), Flesh fly (Diptera Sarcophagidae), Wasp beetle (Clytus arietis), Red-breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma throracica) and, Sexton or Burying beetle (Nicrophorus humator), with shell (Mauritia arabica) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Twelve prints of sea engagements [graphic].
Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Six new plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.
Creator:
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778–1823
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 62 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A progress of female virtue / engraved by A. Cardon from original drawings by Mrs. Cosway.
Creator:
Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759–1838
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
[1], 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The mansions of England in the olden time.
Creator:
Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878
Date:
1839-1849
Physical Description:
2 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sailing and fighting instructions for His Majesties fleet.
Creator:
Great Britain. Admiralty
Date:
[approximately 1711]
Physical Description:
34 pages ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Violettes du 20 Mars 1815 / Cana fecit.
Creator:
Canu, Jean Dominique Etienne, 1768–
Date:
20 Mars 1815
Physical Description:
1 print : hand colored engraving. ; 14 x 10 cm, on sheet 25 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
With best wishes for your birthday : may your future years of life gently pass unmarred by strife, solaced by sweet loves caress, health and every happiness.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[ca. 1870]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 20 x 5 cm (with tassel)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Till the boys come home : (keep the home fires burning).
Date:
1914 or 1915
Physical Description:
1 printed handkerchief : cotton ; 48 x 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Chinese sensitive leaf.
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 19 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Panoramacopia. Designed by T.T. Dales, drawing master.
Creator:
Dales, T. T
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
18 col. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, & Northumberland / illustrated from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, &c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose.
Creator:
Rose, Thomas, topographer
Date:
1832-1835
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Antiquities of Great Britain, illustrated in views.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life / by one of the wretched.
Creator:
Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833
Date:
March 1st 1807
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [17] leaves of plates : ill ; 20 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Twenty lessons on British mosses, or, First steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants / by William Gardiner.
Creator:
Gardiner, William, 1809?-1852
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
46 p. : samples ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Illustrated London news Colosseum view of London.
Date:
[1843]
Physical Description:
1 print (2 sheets) : wood engraving ; full sheet 30 x 254 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dean's steam-boat alphabet : a companion to the Railway alphabet.
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
1 scroll : illustrations ; in box 18 x 23 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Gentlemen's fitting measurements diagram for use by tailors].
Creator:
Howle, J. (Tailor)
Date:
[approximately 1820-1830]
Physical Description:
1 card : illustrations ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Atlas of the counties of England and Wales].
Creator:
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:
[1590?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([74] leaves) : 34 maps (some folded) ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views of the forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire / by Lieut. George Abbott, 15th Reg. NI.
Creator:
Abbott, George, 1803–1838
Date:
[1827]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 13 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 x 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The works of Geoffrey Chaucer : now newly imprinted.
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896]
Physical Description:
4 blank l., ii p., 1 l., 554 p. illus. 43 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches in the grounds of Marshalls, the seat of Rowland Stephenson Esqr.
Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:
1824]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves : all ill. ; 16 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G. Purt, licensed compounder & manufacturer of elder cordial : 13, St. Mary at Hill, Lower Thames Street, London.
Date:
[approximately 1842]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Diamond Jubilee souvenir badge.
Creator:
Whitehead & Hoag Company (Newark, N.J.)
Date:
[1897?]
Physical Description:
1 badge with ribbon ; 13.5 x 6 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sale of shop fittings and ready-made clothing, &c. : (under warrant from the Sheriff, in causa Cramb versus Orr.).
Creator:
Huchinson & Dixon
Date:
1876
Physical Description:
1 leave ([1] page) ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1855 / by the author of Modern painters.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
30 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Tregear's Black jokes : being a series of laughable caricatures on the march of manners amongst the Blacks : twenty plates.
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 20 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 27 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Blanchet, artistes capillaires : hair cutter.
Creator:
Blanchet, Etienne
Date:
not before 1866?
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
China : its state and prospects : with especial reference to the spread of the gospel : containing allusions to the antiquity, extent, population, civilization, literature, and religion of the Chinese / by W.H. Medhurst ... ; illustrated with engravings on wood by G. Baxter.
Creator:
Medhurst, Walter Henry, 1796–1857
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 592 p., [7] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of China and the adjacent countries : drawn from the latest surveys and other authentic documents ... / by William H. Allen & Co.
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 59 x 74 cm., folded to 19 x 10 cm., in covers 23 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Clough from James Shoubridge, hatter, London.
Creator:
Shoubridge, James
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
2 sheets : illustration, 20 x 24 cm and 9 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.
Creator:
Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619–1695
Date:
MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[24], 795, [1] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
For life or death : heroism on land.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[1880]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 5 x 15 cm, in mount 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of North America.
Date:
not before 1634
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor, on parchment ; 21.9 x 42.8 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 45.8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani : nec non urbis totius scenographia / delineavit & sculpsit Dav. Loggan Univ. Oxon. chalcographus.
Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
ano. Dni. MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:
[85] leaves (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Grand architectural panorama of London : Regent Street to Westminster Abbey [graphic] / from original drawings made expressly for the work by R. Sandeman, architect ; and executed on wood by G.C. Leighton.
Creator:
Leighton, George Cargill, 1826–1895
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
1 print on 8 sheets : wood engraving ; full image 15 x 677 cm, accordion folded to 15 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Corporal Violette!!
Date:
[1815?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 31 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48063. Crimean War.

Crimean War.
Creator:
Bowers, George Frederick
Date:
1856?
Physical Description:
1 jug : white transferware; 24 cm high (including handle) x 13 cm in diameter (17 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the conquest to the reformation : preceded by a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders : with notices of nearly five hundred English buildings / by Thomas Rickman.
Creator:
Rickman, Thomas, 1776–1841
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
iv, 146 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple : Marquis of Buckingham, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham.
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
54, [2] pages, [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
This newly constructed and extended map of India : from the latest surveys of the best authorities, published principally for the use of the officers of the army in India, is respectfully inscribed to Major General Sir John Malcolm ... / drawn & engraved by John Walker.
Creator:
Walker, John, 1786–1873
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 158 x 151 cm., folded to 26 x 17 cm., in case 27 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance / by William Morris.
Creator:
Morris, William, 1834–1896
Date:
[1892]
Physical Description:
[6], 305, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
West India scenery with illustrations of Negro character, the process of making sugar, &c. from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad. By R. Bridgens ...
Creator:
Bridgens, Richard
Date:
[1836?]
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) 27 plates (part col. with accompanying text) 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jonathan Bradford, or, The murder at the road side inn.
Date:
[between 1835-1837]
Physical Description:
24 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington : occasion'd by his publishing Palladio's designs of the baths, arches, theatres, &c. of ancient Rome / by Mr. Pope.
Creator:
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
Date:
1731
Physical Description:
14, [1] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The journey from Chester to London.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 452, [6] pages, 22 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich.
Date:
[approximately 1825]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet : hand-colored engraving, on linen ; 51 x 41 cm, folded (in slipcase) to 17 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Critical observations on the buildings and improvements of London.
Creator:
Stuart, James, 1713–1788
Date:
MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:
[4], 51, [1] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered and is comne to our knowledge ...
Creator:
Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615
Date:
[1599?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 43 x 62 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
"Our Boys" Clothing Company's universal progressive drawing book.
Creator:
Our Boys Clothing Company
Date:
[ca. 1885?]
Physical Description:
[16] p. : chiefly ill. ; 15 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48083. The brigand.

The brigand.
Date:
[between 1840-1850]
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan; from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Home; with historical descriptions.
Creator:
Home, Robert, 1752–1834
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 p.., [v]-vii p., 1 leaf, 48 p. 29 plates, fold. map, 3 fold plans. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48085. Dry drug jar.

Dry drug jar.
Date:
circa 1750
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 19 cm high x 15 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
Der freischutz.
Date:
[between 1840-1850]
Physical Description:
36 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Constant as the sun in heaven above, this heart that thou has won will be to see in love.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 17 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
This book contains drawings of marine shells (from Forbes & Hanley) generally considered as specially British / F.R. Coles, April 1884, Tongland.
Creator:
Coles, Frederick Rhenius, 1853 or 1854–
Date:
1884
Physical Description:
1 volume (22 leaves) : illustrations ; 75 x 71 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), male, with Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) and Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa), both open and closed, and Pupa (Lepidoptera Pieridae), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Affidavit certifying the burial in wool of Mary Harvey of Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire.
Date:
1680 April 1
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) ; 31 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland : with descriptive illustrations / by Walter Scott.
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
2 v. (lii, 208 p., [2] leaves, [52] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The language of flowers.
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm, folded to 15 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48096. Mazeppa

Mazeppa
Date:
[between 1837-1840]
Physical Description:
22 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.
Creator:
Neville, Alexander, 1544–1614
Date:
1575
Physical Description:
[16], 156, [12], 207, [13] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : geneal. tables, coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.
Creator:
Sinclair, George, 1786–1834
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 42 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick ...
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1797-1804
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts