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10801. 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.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [3]-106 p. col. front., ill. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10802. 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 ...

Creator:: Brooke, S
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 1 leaf. ; 26 cm. (in case 30 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10803. 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.

Creator:: Norgate, Edward, d. 1650
Date:: 1919
Physical Description:: xxix, 111, [1] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10804. Analytical essay on the construction of machines / translated from the French of M.M. Lanz & Bétancourt.

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

10805. 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.

Creator:: Harting, James Edmund, 1841–1928
Date:: 1901
Physical Description:: x, 336 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10806. 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.

Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10807. 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 ...

Creator:: Webb's Worcester Tileries Company
Date:: [1889]
Physical Description:: [11] leaves : chiefly col. ill. ; 51 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10808. 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.

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

10809. 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.

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

10810. 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 ...

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

10811. 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.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1878]
Physical Description:: 146 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10812. Researches about atmospheric phaenomena / by Thomas Forster ...

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

10813. 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.

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

10814. A crown for Branwen / Harri Webb ; wood engraving by Yvonne Skargon.

Creator:: Webb, Harri, 1920–1994
Date:: c1988
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10815. 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.

Creator:: Lockington, John
Date:: [1785?]
Physical Description:: 25 leaves : all ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10816. 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.

Creator:: Twiti, William, d. 1328
Date:: 1908
Physical Description:: xii, 163 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10817. 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.

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

10818. 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.

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

10819. 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.

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

10820. 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.

Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 6-69 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10821. 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.

Date:: [1868?]
Physical Description:: 42, [6] p., [9] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10822. Churches of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely / published by the Cambridge Camden Society.

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

10823. An elementary treatise on sketching from nature : with the principles of light and shade, the theory of colours, &c. / by John Wood.

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

10824. Chimneys in artificial stone : manufactured by Austin and Seeley.

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

10825. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

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

10826. [Elegantiolae].

Creator:: Dati, Agostino, 1420–1478
Date:: [circa 1480]
Physical Description:: [48] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10827. Preparing for the press, an historical description of the cathedral church of Salisbury : including an account of the monuments, chiefly extracted from Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," and other authentic documents : also, biographical memoirs of the Bishops of Salisbury, from the earliest period by W. Dodsworth, verger of the Cathedral.

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

10828. Examples of ancient & modern furniture, metal work, tapestries, decorations by B. J. Talbert, archt.

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

10829. 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 ...

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

10830. Planting and ornamental gardening; a practical treatise.

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

10831. 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 ...

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

10832. 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 ...

Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: xviii, [4], 703 p. : plan ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10833. 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.

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

10834. Wonders of art.

Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: 23 leaves. col. front., col. ill. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10835. The album of Nottingham views.

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

10836. The visitor's guide to Knole, in the county of Kent : with catalogues of the pictures contained in the mansion, and biographical notices of the principal persons whose portraits form part of the collection / by John H. Brady, F.R.A.S.

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

10837. 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.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-49 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10838. Rural churches, their histories, architecture and antiquities, by Sidney Corner. With coloured illustrations from paintings by the author.

Creator:: Corner, Sidney
Date:: [1869]
Physical Description:: viii, 72 p. 18 col. pl. (incl. front.) 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10839. 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 ...

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

10840. The poetical works of Thomas Adams, Warkworth : consisting of The battle of Trafalgar and some miscellaneous pieces.

Creator:: Blum, Richard H
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 208 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10841. 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 ...

Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10842. Simpson's in-the-Strand, Grand Divan Tavern : bill of fare.

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

10843. Souvenir of the programme of the unveiling of Lord Kitchener's Memorial by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 9th June 1926.

Date:: [1926]
Physical Description:: [4] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10844. 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.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1837]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10845. 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.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1846]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10846. The aboriginal port folio ... / by J.O. Lewis.

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

10847. Catalogue de tableaux originaux des écoles françoise et hollandoise, d'un bon choix : très-belle collection d'histoire naturelle, consistant en minéraux, pétrifications, madrépores, coquilles, univalves & bivalves, suite d'oiseaux rares & parfaitement conservés, groupes, figures en bronze, & autres objets curieux, provenans du cabinet de M. *** : dont la vente commencera au plus offrant, le lundi 21 février 1780, 4 heures & demi de relevée, dans la grande salle de l'Hôtel de Bullion, rue Plâtrière, où les objets seront exposés pendant les trois jours qui précéderont la vente, depuis dix heures jusqu'à une heure.

Creator:: Chariot, C.-L. (Claude-Louis)
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: 19, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10848. 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

10849. Colla : ICA, August-September, 1959, London.

Date:: 1959
Physical Description:: 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10850. Pravoslav Sovák.

Date:: [1966]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4]) pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10851. 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.

Date:: [London] :
Physical Description:: 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10852. 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.

Date:: [London] :
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([6] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10853. Buenos Ayrès et le Paraguay, ou, Histoire, moeurs, usages et costumes des habitans de cette partie de l'Amérique / par Ferdinand Denis.

Creator:: Denis, Ferdinand, 1798–1890
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10854. 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 ...

Creator:: Meller, Henry James
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: viii, 128, 36 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10855. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

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

10856. Catalogue of the thirty-third annual exhibition.

Creator:: National Academy of Design (U.S.)
Date:: 1858
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10857. Fabbriche e i disegni.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 4 v.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10858. Faerie queene.

Creator:: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 3 vols.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10859. Illustrations of the University of Cambridge / by J. & H.S. Storer ; comprising thirty-two views.

Creator:: Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:: [1827]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [32] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10860. Stubb's lithographic views of Scarborough / taken, published and sold by him.

Creator:: Stubbs, Ralph, 1774–1845
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10861. 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.

Date:: 1833?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10862. A catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 48 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10863. Sketches.

Creator:: Morland, George, 1763–1804
Date:: 1792-1793
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10864. 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

10865. 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.

Creator:: Whellan, William
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: xv, [1], [11]-962 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10866. The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; with 15 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

Creator:: Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:: 1929-1930
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10867. The history of the flea : with notes and observations / by L. Bertolotto.

Creator:: Bertolotto, L
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: 28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10868. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1486 or 7]
Physical Description:: [196] p. : ill. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10869. 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

10870. The plain and painted picture play book for exercises in colouring : second series.

Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: [27] leaves : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10871. A hundred Grand nationals by T. H. Bird. Illustrated from contemporary prints, and photographs.

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

10872. Madam D'Arc's Waxworks of Famous Crimes.

Date:: [after 1928]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10873. Wild flowers and their teachings.

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

10874. 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

10875. 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.

Date:: [1931]
Physical Description:: 1 folded card ; 12 x 8 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10876. 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]

Date:: 1918
Physical Description:: 1 folded card : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10877. 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.

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

10878. 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.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1844]
Physical Description:: 5, [3] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10879. The Bible.

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

10880. 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.

Creator:: Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:: [1853?]
Physical Description:: 24, [16] pages, : illustrations ; 12 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10881. 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.

Creator:: King, Thomas
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: [4], 44 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10882. 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,

Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: 1 card : embossing ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10883. Harold Wilson on immigration : Birmingham, October 6th, 1964.

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

10884. 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).

Creator:: Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:: [1826]
Physical Description:: 106, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10885. 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.

Creator:: Hessey
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10886. Landscape / John Dilnot.

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

10887. A catalogue of a truly superb and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, of the first class, and in the highest state of preservation : selected with very superior taste, and at a liberal expence, from several of the most distinguished cabinets on the Continent : the genuine property of Walsh Porter, Esq. going abroad : among numerous chef d'œuvres of the great and most celebrated masters in this collection are : the Virgin with the rabbit, by Corregio, from the collection of the King of Naples : Virgin and Child, Leon. da Vinci, truly capital : the Young card players, Carravagio, from the Aldobrandini palace : two brilliant landscapes, by Claude, from the Duke de Choiseuil's collection : the Tambour battant, Teniers, from the duc de Praslin's ditto : Le roi dépouillé, a surprising picture, by Schalken, formerly in the collection of the late King of France : various capital landscapes by S. Rosa, Cuyp, V. de Velde, C. du Jardin, and Pynaker : the celebrated Phaeton, by Wilson : and a landscape, by Gainsborough : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Tuesday, March the 22d, 1803, and following day, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1803]
Physical Description:: 10 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10888. Voyage aux pays aurifères Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie, Russie par le capitaine A.C. de La Carrières. Illustré de 12 gravures à deux teintes et d'un très-grand nombre de vignettes sur bois. Par J.B. Arnout père.

Creator:: La Carrières, A. C. de
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 328 p. front., ill., 11 plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10889. A general description of Sir John Soane's Museum, with brief notices of some of the more interesting works of art therein.

Creator:: Sir John Soane's Museum
Date:: [1860?]
Physical Description:: 63 p. ill. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10890. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xv, 99 p. plates, port. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10891. The practice of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor: in a series of examples, from the most simple and easy, to the most complicated, and difficult cases ... Written many years since, but now first pub., by Joseph Highmore.

Creator:: Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: xvi, 129, [1] p. diagrs. on 50 fold. pl. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10892. Drawing book of trees : including the elements of foliage and finished studies / by George Barnard.

Creator:: Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: [1], 24 leaves : all ill. ; 21 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10893. A catalogue of divers excellent Italian pictures of the most eminent masters : both ancient and modern : which will be exposed to sale in the Banqueting-House at White-Hall, by way of publick out-cry, on Munday the 2d day of June next.

Date:: 1684
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10894. Time and tide, by Weare and Tyne : twenty-five letters to a working man of Sunderland on the laws of work / by John Ruskin ...

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: viii, 199, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10895. The history of little Jack / by Thomas Day, ... ; embellished with twenty-two beautiful prints, cut by Bewick.

Creator:: Day, Thomas, 1748–1789
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [3]-113 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10896. The history and description of Colchester : (the Camulodunum of the Britans, and the first Roman colony in Britain) : with an account of the antiquities of that most ancient borough ...

Creator:: Strutt, Benjamin
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10897. Ten aquatint colored engravings / by Theodore Fielding ; from a work containing forty-eight subjects of landscape scenery, principally views in and near Bath, painted in oil by Benjamin Barker.

Creator:: Barker, Benjamin, 1776–1838
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [10] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10898. Letters from Conrad, 1895 to 1924 / edited with introduction and notes by Edward Garnett ; with two portraits.

Creator:: Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 334, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10899. The tutor's assistant, or, Comic figures of arithmetic : slightly altered and elucidated from walking-game / by Alfred Crowquill.

Creator:: Crowquill, Alfred
Date:: MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:: xiv, [2], 128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10900. Fourteen views in lithography of Bolton Abbey.

Creator:: Davis, J. Scarlett (John Scarlett), 1804–1845 or 6
Date:: 1829
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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10801. 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.

10803. 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.

10804. Analytical essay on the construction of machines / translated from the French of M.M. Lanz & Bétancourt.

10805. 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.

10806. 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.

10807. 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 ...

10808. 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.

10809. 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.

10810. 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 ...

10811. 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.

10812. Researches about atmospheric phaenomena / by Thomas Forster ...

10813. 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.

10814. A crown for Branwen / Harri Webb ; wood engraving by Yvonne Skargon.

10815. 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.

10816. 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.

10817. 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.

10818. 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.

10820. 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.

10821. 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.

10822. Churches of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely / published by the Cambridge Camden Society.

10823. An elementary treatise on sketching from nature : with the principles of light and shade, the theory of colours, &c. / by John Wood.

10824. Chimneys in artificial stone : manufactured by Austin and Seeley.

10825. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

10826. [Elegantiolae].

10828. Examples of ancient & modern furniture, metal work, tapestries, decorations by B. J. Talbert, archt.

10829. 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 ...

10830. Planting and ornamental gardening; a practical treatise.

10832. 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 ...

10833. 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.

10834. Wonders of art.

10835. The album of Nottingham views.

10836. 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.

10838. Rural churches, their histories, architecture and antiquities, by Sidney Corner. With coloured illustrations from paintings by the author.

10839. 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 ...

10840. The poetical works of Thomas Adams, Warkworth : consisting of The battle of Trafalgar and some miscellaneous pieces.

10841. 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 ...

10842. Simpson's in-the-Strand, Grand Divan Tavern : bill of fare.

10843. Souvenir of the programme of the unveiling of Lord Kitchener's Memorial by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 9th June 1926.

10846. The aboriginal port folio ... / by J.O. Lewis.

10848. English Delftware apothecary jars and their contents : the Victor Hoffbrand Collection / Alan Humphries, Henry Oakeley, Victor Hoffbrand.

10849. Colla : ICA, August-September, 1959, London.

10850. Pravoslav Sovák.

10851. 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.

10852. 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.

10853. Buenos Ayrès et le Paraguay, ou, Histoire, moeurs, usages et costumes des habitans de cette partie de l'Amérique / par Ferdinand Denis.

10855. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

10856. Catalogue of the thirty-third annual exhibition.

10857. Fabbriche e i disegni.

10858. Faerie queene.

10859. Illustrations of the University of Cambridge / by J. & H.S. Storer ; comprising thirty-two views.

10860. Stubb's lithographic views of Scarborough / taken, published and sold by him.

10861. 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.

10862. A catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery.

10863. Sketches.

10864. Four quartets / T.S. Eliot.

10866. The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; with 15 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

10867. The history of the flea : with notes and observations / by L. Bertolotto.

10868. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

10869. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes, based on Elias Canetti's novel Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ronald King.

10870. The plain and painted picture play book for exercises in colouring : second series.

10871. A hundred Grand nationals by T. H. Bird. Illustrated from contemporary prints, and photographs.

10872. Madam D'Arc's Waxworks of Famous Crimes.

10873. Wild flowers and their teachings.

10874. Stone soup / Paula Rego ; Cas Willing.

10875. 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.

10876. 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]

10877. 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.

10879. The Bible.

10880. 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.

10882. 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,

10883. Harold Wilson on immigration : Birmingham, October 6th, 1964.

10886. Landscape / John Dilnot.

10888. Voyage aux pays aurifères Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie, Russie par le capitaine A.C. de La Carrières. Illustré de 12 gravures à deux teintes et d'un très-grand nombre de vignettes sur bois. Par J.B. Arnout père.

10889. A general description of Sir John Soane's Museum, with brief notices of some of the more interesting works of art therein.

10890. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.