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2201. A catalogue of a known capital collection of pictures, in which are the works of the following masters : Raphael, Titian, Guido, P. Veronese, An. Del Sarto, L. Jordano, C. Maratti, C. Dolci, Spagnoletto, Ciro Ferri, Battolomeo, Bourgognone, F. Mola, P. Panini, Marieski, Amiconi, Rubens, Van Dyke, Teniers, Bergham, Ruysdael : also of the capital antique and modern busts, figures, &c. the whole property of a nobleman brought from his seat in Oxfordshire : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Walsh, at his room, opposite Mr. Almack's, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May 12, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

Creator:: Walsh, Mr.
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2202. A catalogue of a most capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures, by the most esteemed Masters, in the highest state of preservation : also a valuable selection of capital high-finished drawings, remarkable fine prints, books of prints and bronzes : small but well-chosen library of books in elegant and uniform bindings : a number of fine casts in plaster from the rarest subjects of the antique : capital models, a great variety of drawing implements : mathematical and musical instruments : a quantity of choice music : also all the elegant household furniture : fine china : a fine-toned piano forte by Longman and Broderip : a modern chaise and harness : and a great variety of curious and valuable effects : the property of John Alexander Gress, Esq. deceased, eminently and most deservedly distinguished for his knowledge in the fine arts, at his late house, No. 24, on the west side of Tottenham Court Road, nearly opposite Tavistock Street, Bedford Square : which will be sold by auction (by order of the executor) by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Monday, April 7th, 1794, and five following days, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed Frida and Saturday preceding the sale.--catalogues may be had on the premises : at the Rainbow Coffee House : and in Pall Mall : also, at one o'clock, on the first day's sale, will be sold, the valuable lease of the premises--particulars may be had : N.B. the first and second days sale, will consist of prints, books of prints, &c. : third and fourth days, the drawings, drawing implements, models, &c. : fifth day, the capital collection of pictures, and library of books : sixth day, all the houshold furniture, china, musical instruments, &c.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2203. A Shropshire lad / A.E. Housman ; with illustrations by Patrick Proctor.

Creator:: Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859–1936
Date:: 1986
Physical Description:: 101 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

2204. Catalogue of the very choice collection of works of art of Francis Broderip, Esq., deceased : comprising pictures, drawings, miniatures, engravings, sculpture, bronzes, and objects of art and vertu : which (by order of the Executors) will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, February 6, 1872, and eight following days, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie, Manson, & Woods
Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: 91 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2205. Six German painters : Bernd Berner, Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Reimer Joachims, Klaus Jurgen-Fisher, Eduard Micus, Lothar Quinte : July 7 until August 7 : Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Date:: [1965]
Physical Description:: 24 unnumbered [ates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2206. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: iv, 26 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2207. In-door plants, and how to grow them : for the drawing-room, balcony, and greenhouse : containing clear instructions by which ladies may obtain, at a small expense, a constant supply of flowers / by E.A. Maling ; with frontispiece.

Creator:: Maling, E. A
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: viii, 150 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2208. An historical and descriptive guide to Leamington Spa : with an account of Warwick, Kenilworth, Guy's Cliff, Grove Park, Stoneleigh, Baginton, Charlecote, Offchurch, &c. &c. / by Francis Smith.

Creator:: Smith, Francis, fl. 1820–1830
Date:: [183-?]
Physical Description:: [64] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2209. Recueil des dessins de différens bâtimens construits à Saint-Pétersbourg : et dans l'intérieur de l'empire de Russie.

Creator:: Rusca, Luigi
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 69 pages, [179] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 59 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2210. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2211. The scripture pocket-book, for 1849 : containing an almanack, also a passage of scripture for every day, with an arrangement by which the Bible may be read in the course of the year; and a variety of useful information.

Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: 191, [1] p., [1] col. plate ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2212. A dissertation on the pageants or dramatic mysteries anciently performed at Coventry, by the trading companies of that city : chiefly with reference to the vehicle, characters, and dresses of the actors : compiled, in a great degree, from sources hitherto unexplored : to which are added, the Pageant of the Shearmen & Taylors' company, and other municipal entertainers of a public nature / by Thomas Sharp.

Creator:: Sharp, Thomas, 1770–1841
Date:: MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:: [6], 226, [4] p., 10 leaves of plates : ill., music ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2213. Discorsi delle fortificationi / del. Sig. Carlo Tetti. Oue diffusamente si dimostra, quali debbano essere i siti delle fortezze, le forme, i recinti, fossi, baloardi, castelli, & altre cose à loro appartenenti, con le figure di esse. Hora di nuouo da lui medisimo ricorretti, & ampliati del secondo libro. Con gli elenchi di tutti i Capitoli; & Tauola di tutte le materie, che in essi si trattano. Con priuilegio.

Creator:: Theti, Carlo, 1529–1589
Date:: MDLXXV [1575]
Physical Description:: [8], 119, [9] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2214. Proposals, for publishing by subscription, in ten monthly parts, forming one handsome volume, the Costume of Yorkshire : illustrated by forty highly-finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings, descriptive of the peculiar dress, occupation and manners of various inhabitants of that extensive and populous County : the first part to be published on the first of September, 1813.

Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2215. Syntaxis : Roberti W.L. in florentissima Oxoniensi academia laureati Opusculum de Syntaxi, siue co[n]structione recensitu[m]. xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] n[ost]rae salutis anno. Idi. Februa. ...

Creator:: Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Date:: Christi ab incarnatione, anno. xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] Men. Noue[m] [1521]
Physical Description:: [68] pages ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2216. Scenes and characters, ed. and introduced by Cyril Ray.

Creator:: Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
Date:: [1948]
Physical Description:: 96 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2217. Co[n]iurationes demonum.

Date:: 1496-1498]
Physical Description:: [1] L., [17]p. : ill.: 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2218. Panoramic views of Rio Janeiro.

Creator:: Le Capelain, John
Date:: [185-]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2219. Lithographic impressions of sketches from nature.

Creator:: Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
Date:: 1821
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2220. The history and antiquities of Allerdale Ward above Derwent, in the county of Cumberland : with biographical notices and memoirs / by Samuel Jefferson.

Creator:: Jefferson, Samuel, 1809–1846
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: xiii, [5], 462 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2221. The history of the ancient palace and late Houses of Parliament at Westminster : embracing accounts and illustrations of St. Stephen's Chapel, and its cloisters, Westminster Hall, the Court of Requests, the Painted Chamber &c. &c. / by Edward Wedlake Brayley, and John Britton, Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries, &c., &c., &c. ; illustrated by engravings.

Creator:: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: xvi, [1], 8-476, [4] p., XXIX leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2222. A handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, &c., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danubel from Ulm to the Black Sea : including descriptions of the most frequented baths and watering places, the principal cities, their museums, picture galleries, etc., the great high roads, and the most interesting and picturesque districts : also, directions for travellers and hints for tours.

Creator:: John Murray (Firm)
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: xiv, 486, [24] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2223. British sports and sportsmen / compiled and edited by "The Sportsman".

Date:: [1908]-[1935]
Physical Description:: [16] v. ; ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2224. Coleridge's rime of the ancient mariner / illustrated by J. Noel Paton.

Creator:: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: 12 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 x 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

2225. En Algérie.

Date:: [1900]
Physical Description:: 8 pictures on 1 sheet : chromolithographs ; 9 x 94 cm, accordion folded to 9 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2226. Coastal movement / Ian Tyson ; John Christie.

Creator:: Tyson, Ian, 1933–2021
Date:: MMXV [2015]
Physical Description:: [22] leaves ; color illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2227. What Labour will do for pensioners.

Creator:: Labour Party (Great Britain)
Date:: [approximately 1960?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

2228. Delftware : the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles : a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Michael Archer.

Creator:: Archer, Michael, 1936–
Date:: 1997
Physical Description:: xv, 772 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

2229. Memorial edition of Thomas Bewick's works ...

Creator:: Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:: 1885-87]
Physical Description:: 5 v. front. (v. 5) ill., plates. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2230. Elementary and practical instructions on the art of building cottages and houses for the humbler classes; an easy method of constructing earthen walls, adapted to the erection of dwelling houses ... To which are added, practical treatises on the manufacture of bricks and lime ... By William Wilds ...

Creator:: Wilds, William
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: xxiv, 143 p. illus., VI pl. (incl. plans) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2231. Letters concerning taste ...

Creator:: Cooper, John Gilbert, 1723–1769
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 7 p.., 143 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2232. Changeable portraits of gentlemen.

Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: 84 pieces (ports.) 9 x 7 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2233. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours; being a supplement to the elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers' educational course. By John Clark ...

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: viii, 194 p. 24 plates (part col., incl. front.) 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2234. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 27 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2235. A list of books on architecture, the fine arts, &c. Now on sale, at the reduced prices affixed, by T. & W. Boone, No. 29, New Bond Street.

Creator:: Boone (T. & W.)
Date:: ca. 1852]
Physical Description:: 4 p. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2236. Excursion to Stratford upon Avon : with historical and descriptive notices of the town, church, Shakspeare's house, and other remarkable buildings : together with a compendious life of Shakspeare, being by far more complete than any other hitherto published : copious extracts from the Shakspearian album : account of the far-famed jubilee : catalogue of the Shakspeare relics : with the controversy on their authenticity : and an analysis of the proceedings on the proposed national monument to the memory of the immmortal bard : embellished with an elegant engraving of the interior of the church, &c. / by W.T. Moncrieff ; author of the Visitors' new guide to Leamington Spa, Excursions to Warwick, Kenilworth, &c. &c.

Creator:: Moncrieff, W. T. (William Thomas), 1794–1857
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4], 60 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

2237. Designs for coloured ornamental glass windows from the glass works of Chance Brothers & Co. near Birmingham 1853.

Creator:: Chance Brothers and Co. (Birmingham, England)
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: [6] p., XXXII leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2238. The English baronetage : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... to which are added, an account of such Nova-Scotia baronets as are of English families, now resident in England : and a list of such persons names who were deemed fit and qualifiwed at the restoration, to be made Knights of the Royal Oak ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 5 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2239. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 14 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2240. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2241. An introduction to painting in water colours in theory and practice : with an index of mixed tints, remarks on the chemical properties and permanency of colours, etc., and a manual of lithography / by T.H. Fielding ...

Creator:: Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 144 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2242. Rhymes of a Red cross man / by Robert W. Service. author of "The Spell of the Yukon," "The Ballads of a Cheechako," "Rhymes of a Rolling Stone," etc.

Creator:: Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874–1958
Date:: 1916
Physical Description:: 192 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daphne Deeds

2243. Sickelmore's Descriptive views of Brighton.

Creator:: Sicklemore, Richard
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: iv, iv, [5]-79 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 2 maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2244. Hand-book to the pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Creator:: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [4], 116 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2245. The horse in motion as shown by instantaneous photography : with a study on animal mechanics founded on anatomy and the revelations of the camera, in which is demonstrated the theory of quadrupedal locomotion / by J. D. B. Stillman ; executed and published under the auspices of Leland Stanford.

Creator:: Stillman, J. D. B. (Jacob Davis Babcock), 1819–1888
Date:: 1882
Physical Description:: 127 p., cvii leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2246. Cynegetica, or, Essays on sporting : consisting of observations on hare hunting : containing, an account of the hare hunting and coursing of the ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian : a philosophical enquiry into the nature and properties of the scent : remarks on the different kinds of hounds, with the manner of training them : directions for the choice of a hunter : the qualifications requisite for a huntsman : and other general rule to be observed in every contingency incident to the chase : together with an account of the vizier's manner of hunting in the Mogul empire by William Blane, Esq. : to which is added The chace, a poem by William Somervile, Esq.

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: [8], 292, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2247. [Waistcoat pocket Shakespeare].

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: 1904-1907
Physical Description:: 40 volumes ; 6.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

2248. Where the two came to their father : a Navaho war ceremonial / given by Jeff King ; text and paintings recorded by Maud Oakes ; commentary by Joseph Campbell ...

Creator:: King, Jeff, 1860–1964
Date:: c1943
Physical Description:: 84 p. ; 31 cm. + 1 portfolio (62 x 38 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2249. Minutes of the proceedings at a court-martial assembled for the trial of the Honourable Admiral Augustus Keppel : on a charge exhibited against him by Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, as taken by George Jackson, Esq; Judge-Advocate of His Majesty's Fleet. Published by order of the Right Honourble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. : With an appendix containing all the letters and papers that have any relation to the trial.

Creator:: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725–1786
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: [4], 182 p. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2250. Scenery of the river Dart : being a series of thirty-five views representing the most interesting features in its course, from its source in the wildest & most uncultivated parts of Dartmoor, to its mouth in the English Channel : executed to form as nearly as possible facsimilies of the drawings, and therefore calculated not only to interest the admirers of nature, and those unacquainted with the country, but also to form a set of studies for the learners of landscape drawing / drawn and engraved by F.C. Lewis, engraver to H.R.H. Prince Leopold and H.R.H. the late Princess Charlotte.

Creator:: Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779–1856
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves, 35 leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2251. Entomology in sport, and Entomology in earnest / by the Honorable Mrs. W. and Lady M.

Creator:: Ward, Mary, 1827–1869
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: 20, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2252. Old sports and sportsmen; or, The Willey country. With sketches of Squire Forester and his whipper-in Tom Moody ...

Creator:: Randall, John
Date:: 1873
Physical Description:: xviii, 204 p. front. (port.) illus., plates. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2253. Indian racing reminiscences / by M. Horace Hayes ... ; illustrated by J.K. Ferguson.

Creator:: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842–1904.
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: xvi, 291, [1] pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2254. Between poetry and painting.

Date:: [1965]
Physical Description:: 81 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2255. Guide to the beauties of Glyn Neath / by William Young.

Creator:: Young, William
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 85 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2256. Wanderings and excursions in North Wales / by Thomas Roscoe, esq ; with fifty engravings, from drawings by Cattermole, Cox, Creswick, etc.

Creator:: Roscoe, Thomas, 1791–1871
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xx, 360 p., [47] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2257. Excursions on land and sea : the world's wonders.

Date:: [ca. 1865]
Physical Description:: 1 panorama.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2258. Catalogue of a very valuable collection of paintings by the first masters / to be sold by auction by J. Taperell, at Bowden's Gallery, Frankfort-Place, Plymouth, on Thursday, February 20th, 1812, and two following days.

Creator:: Bowdens Gallery
Physical Description:: Plymouth : Bowden, Printer, [1812].
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2259. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 31 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2260. Leonora / translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher by W.R. Spencer, Esq. ; with designs by the Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.

Creator:: Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747–1794
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: [10], 35, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2261. Annals and legends of Calais : with sketches of émigré notabilities, and memoir of Lady Hamilton / by Robert Bell Calton.

Creator:: Calton, Robert Bell
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 220 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2262. A practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the late Rev. Wm. Gilpin ... ; with instructions in, and explanation of, the improved method of colouring, and painting in water colours by John Heaviside Clark.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [34] p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2263. Descrizione delle geste celebrate in Parma.

Date:: 1769
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2264. Costume ancien et modern, ou, histoire du gouvernement.

Creator:: Ferrario, Jules, Dr
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 17 v.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2265. Views of Robin Hood's house.

Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2266. Drawing book being studies of landscape.

Creator:: Hoppner, John, 1758–1810
Date:: 1823
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2267. Laying the Atlantic cable.

Creator:: Isaac, John Raphael
Date:: 1857
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2268. Jones' views of the seats, mansions, castles, etc. or the noblemen and gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Date:: 1829[-1831]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2269. Great Yarmouth illustrated : in a series of twenty-four engravings, including the principal objects of interest in its neighbourhood : with letter-press descriptions illustrative of their history, topography, & antiquities.

Creator:: Meall, Louis A., -1859
Date:: MDCCCXLVIII [1848]
Physical Description:: [50] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2270. Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2271. Bath, illustrated by a series of views.

Creator:: Nattes, John Claude, 1765?-1822
Date:: 1806
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2272. Four views of Richmond and its vicinity : drawn from nature ...

Date:: 1832
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2273. Historical and genealogical account of the family of Nevill.

Creator:: Rowland, Daniel
Date:: 1830
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2274. Collegiorum portae apud Cantabrigiam / à J. et H.S. Storer delineatae et insculptae.

Creator:: Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:: [1825?]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [19] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2275. Night feet on earth / by Ken Campbell.

Creator:: Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:: 1986
Physical Description:: [36] p. : col. ill. ; 26 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2276. General history of the county of York.

Creator:: Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759–1821
Date:: 1819-1822
Physical Description:: 3 vols.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2277. A treatise on silhouette likenesses / by Monsieur Edouart, silhouettist to the French Royal Family, and patronised by His Royal Highness the late Duke of Gloucester, and the principal nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Creator:: Edouart, Augustin-Amant-Constant-Fidèle, 1789–1861
Date:: MDCCCXXXV [1835]
Physical Description:: [3], vi-vii, [2], 4-122 p., 18 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2278. The seuen (sic) ages of man described by William Shakespeare / depicted by Robert Smirke.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: 1864
Physical Description:: xxiii : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2279. Philalethes.

Creator:: Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407–1458
Date:: ca. 1474-75]
Physical Description:: [24] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2280. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:: [16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2281. The game of cricket, by A. P. F. Chapman, P. G. H. Fender [and others]

Creator:: Chapman, A. P. F. (Arthur Percy Frank)
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2282. Museum Disneianum : being a description of a collection of ancient marbles, specimens of ancient bronze, and various ancient fictile vases, in the possession of John Disney, at the Hyde, near Ingatestone ; with engravings.

Date:: 1846-1849
Physical Description:: 3 volumes (xv, [1], 281 pages) : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

2283. Repetivity : platforms and approaches for publishing / selected by Simon Cutts and Colin Sackett.

Date:: 2000
Physical Description:: 39 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2284. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: 36 pt. : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2285. Evil eyes.

Creator:: Batey, Jackie
Date:: [2006]
Physical Description:: [24] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2286. [Deer stalking].

Date:: [ca. 1810]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 39 x 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2287. Catalogue of works of art sent in, pursuant to the notices issued by Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Fine Arts, for exhibition in Westminster Hall.

Creator:: Royal Commission of Fine Arts (London, England)
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 22 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2288. A catalogue of a valuable and extensive collection of ancient and modern prints, the property of a nobleman of high rank, part the second, consisting of the works of Wenceslaus Hollar .... : etchings by Rembrandt and his scholars ... : specimens of the German School, among which will be found the works of Albert Durer, Lucas Van Leyden, and the Little Masters : a continuation of the series of foreign portraits, engravings after French painters, works of Wille, &c. : which, together will the portfolios which contained this collection, will be sold by auction by Mr. Phillips at his Great Rooms, 73, Bond Street, on Monday, the 9th day of June, 1834, and nine following days ...

Creator:: Phillips, H., -1840
Date:: [1834]
Physical Description:: [6], 89-181, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2289. Catalogue of a choice collection of engravings after Sir Joshua Reynolds, formed by a gentleman : including one hundred proofs in first states, comprising Mrs. Abington, Duchess of Ancaster, Lady Bampfylde, Edmund Burke, Nelly O'Brien, Lady Pembroke, Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Mary Leslie, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Monday, February 10, 1873 at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:: [1873]
Physical Description:: 10 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2290. The paste papers of the Golden Hind Press / by James H. Fraser.

Creator:: Fraser, James H. (James Howard), 1934–2013
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: 17 pages, [9] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

2291. Race horse training / by Robert W. Collins (Venture All)

Creator:: Collins, Robert W
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: [10], 312, [6] p. (last is blank) ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2292. From Gladiateur to Persimmon; turf memoires of thirty years. With illustrations in colours.

Creator:: Dixon, Sydenham
Date:: 1901
Physical Description:: 304 p. illus.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2293. Famous foxhunters, compiled by Lionel Edwards, illustrated from contemporary pictures and from original drawings by the author.

Creator:: Edwards, Lionel, 1878–1966
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: xvi, 103 p. col. front., plates, ports. (part col.) 29 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2294. Horses and horsemanship through the ages [by] Luigi Gianoli & Mario Monti [and others] Translated by Iris Brooks.

Creator:: Gianoli, Luigi
Date:: [1969, c1967]
Physical Description:: 441 p. illus. (part col.), ports. (part col.) 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2295. Language magic : lost words, lost worlds / Ciara Healy.

Creator:: Healy, Ciara, 1979–
Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: [30] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2296. Endless journey / Tom Gauld.

Creator:: Gauld, Tom
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 12 cards : color illustrations ; each 17 x 8 cm, in box 17 x 8 x 1 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2297. Gallops 2 / by David Gray.

Creator:: Gray, David, 1870–1968
Date:: 1903
Physical Description:: [8], 255, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2298. A catalogue of the most magnificent and valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : in this collection are the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Rubens, Rembrandt, S. Rosa, Mola, Corregio, Guerchino, C. Maratti, P. Veronese, Murillo, L. Da Vinci, Tintoret, Titian, Carracci, Claude, Cignani, Beughel, Poussin, Vandyke, Castigione, P. Cortona, Elsheimer, Schidone, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms, late belonging to the Society of Arts &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand : on Thursday, March 26, and the two following days : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday the 24th and 25th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1778]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2299. A catalogue of the capital collection of pictures, pketches, and high-finished drawings, the property of the late much esteemed artist, John Baptiste Cipriani Esq. deceased : consisting of a few finished pictures, and many of his sketches in oil : a small collection of old Masters, among which is a Magdalen by A. Furini, remarkably fine : a high-finished Portrait of Prince Rupert by Verelst : a capital Head of Vasari by Himself : Marc Anthony and Cleopatry by A. Veronese : a numerous collection of high finished drawings, sketches, &c. that inestimable high finish-finished Drawing of the Diploma, done for the Royal Academy : a finished drawing in colors of the Death of Dido : and many of his large cartoons &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall on Wednesday March the 22d, 1786 and three following days : to be publickly viewed on Monday and Tuesday preceding the sale, which will begin each day at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803, e publisher
Date:: [London] :
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2300. A catalogue of all the valuable copper plates, with their etchings, proofs, and impressions : an assemblage of original drawings, finished in the finest stile of the several admired Masters : viz. Cipriani, Morland, Wheatley, Angelica, Benwel, Bellange, Westall, Hamilton, &c. &c. &c. : a few pictures and many capital prints, framed and glazed : French and English printing paper, &c.: being the entire stock of Mrs. Diemar, Printseller and Publisher of the Strand : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, June the 1st, 1799 : to begin precisely at twelve o'clock, on account of the number of lots : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had a the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : at Mrs. Diemar's Strand : and in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2203. A Shropshire lad / A.E. Housman ; with illustrations by Patrick Proctor.

2205. Six German painters : Bernd Berner, Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Reimer Joachims, Klaus Jurgen-Fisher, Eduard Micus, Lothar Quinte : July 7 until August 7 : Institute of Contemporary Arts.

2206. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

2207. In-door plants, and how to grow them : for the drawing-room, balcony, and greenhouse : containing clear instructions by which ladies may obtain, at a small expense, a constant supply of flowers / by E.A. Maling ; with frontispiece.

2208. An historical and descriptive guide to Leamington Spa : with an account of Warwick, Kenilworth, Guy's Cliff, Grove Park, Stoneleigh, Baginton, Charlecote, Offchurch, &c. &c. / by Francis Smith.

2209. Recueil des dessins de différens bâtimens construits à Saint-Pétersbourg : et dans l'intérieur de l'empire de Russie.

2210. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

2211. The scripture pocket-book, for 1849 : containing an almanack, also a passage of scripture for every day, with an arrangement by which the Bible may be read in the course of the year; and a variety of useful information.

2215. Syntaxis : Roberti W.L. in florentissima Oxoniensi academia laureati Opusculum de Syntaxi, siue co[n]structione recensitu[m]. xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] n[ost]rae salutis anno. Idi. Februa. ...

2216. Scenes and characters, ed. and introduced by Cyril Ray.

2217. Co[n]iurationes demonum.

2218. Panoramic views of Rio Janeiro.

2219. Lithographic impressions of sketches from nature.

2220. The history and antiquities of Allerdale Ward above Derwent, in the county of Cumberland : with biographical notices and memoirs / by Samuel Jefferson.

2223. British sports and sportsmen / compiled and edited by "The Sportsman".

2224. Coleridge's rime of the ancient mariner / illustrated by J. Noel Paton.

2225. En Algérie.

2226. Coastal movement / Ian Tyson ; John Christie.

2227. What Labour will do for pensioners.

2228. Delftware : the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles : a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Michael Archer.

2229. Memorial edition of Thomas Bewick's works ...

2231. Letters concerning taste ...

2232. Changeable portraits of gentlemen.

2233. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours; being a supplement to the elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers' educational course. By John Clark ...

2234. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

2235. A list of books on architecture, the fine arts, &c. Now on sale, at the reduced prices affixed, by T. & W. Boone, No. 29, New Bond Street.

2237. Designs for coloured ornamental glass windows from the glass works of Chance Brothers & Co. near Birmingham 1853.

2239. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

2240. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

2241. An introduction to painting in water colours in theory and practice : with an index of mixed tints, remarks on the chemical properties and permanency of colours, etc., and a manual of lithography / by T.H. Fielding ...

2242. Rhymes of a Red cross man / by Robert W. Service. author of "The Spell of the Yukon," "The Ballads of a Cheechako," "Rhymes of a Rolling Stone," etc.

2243. Sickelmore's Descriptive views of Brighton.

2244. Hand-book to the pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

2247. [Waistcoat pocket Shakespeare].

2248. Where the two came to their father : a Navaho war ceremonial / given by Jeff King ; text and paintings recorded by Maud Oakes ; commentary by Joseph Campbell ...

2251. Entomology in sport, and Entomology in earnest / by the Honorable Mrs. W. and Lady M.

2252. Old sports and sportsmen; or, The Willey country. With sketches of Squire Forester and his whipper-in Tom Moody ...

2253. Indian racing reminiscences / by M. Horace Hayes ... ; illustrated by J.K. Ferguson.

2254. Between poetry and painting.

2255. Guide to the beauties of Glyn Neath / by William Young.

2256. Wanderings and excursions in North Wales / by Thomas Roscoe, esq ; with fifty engravings, from drawings by Cattermole, Cox, Creswick, etc.

2257. Excursions on land and sea : the world's wonders.

2258. Catalogue of a very valuable collection of paintings by the first masters / to be sold by auction by J. Taperell, at Bowden's Gallery, Frankfort-Place, Plymouth, on Thursday, February 20th, 1812, and two following days.

2259. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

2260. Leonora / translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher by W.R. Spencer, Esq. ; with designs by the Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.

2261. Annals and legends of Calais : with sketches of émigré notabilities, and memoir of Lady Hamilton / by Robert Bell Calton.

2263. Descrizione delle geste celebrate in Parma.

2264. Costume ancien et modern, ou, histoire du gouvernement.

2265. Views of Robin Hood's house.

2266. Drawing book being studies of landscape.

2267. Laying the Atlantic cable.

2268. Jones' views of the seats, mansions, castles, etc. or the noblemen and gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

2269. Great Yarmouth illustrated : in a series of twenty-four engravings, including the principal objects of interest in its neighbourhood : with letter-press descriptions illustrative of their history, topography, & antiquities.

2271. Bath, illustrated by a series of views.

2272. Four views of Richmond and its vicinity : drawn from nature ...

2273. Historical and genealogical account of the family of Nevill.

2274. Collegiorum portae apud Cantabrigiam / à J. et H.S. Storer delineatae et insculptae.

2275. Night feet on earth / by Ken Campbell.

2276. General history of the county of York.

2277. A treatise on silhouette likenesses / by Monsieur Edouart, silhouettist to the French Royal Family, and patronised by His Royal Highness the late Duke of Gloucester, and the principal nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

2278. The seuen (sic) ages of man described by William Shakespeare / depicted by Robert Smirke.

2279. Philalethes.

2281. The game of cricket, by A. P. F. Chapman, P. G. H. Fender [and others]

2282. Museum Disneianum : being a description of a collection of ancient marbles, specimens of ancient bronze, and various ancient fictile vases, in the possession of John Disney, at the Hyde, near Ingatestone ; with engravings.

2283. Repetivity : platforms and approaches for publishing / selected by Simon Cutts and Colin Sackett.

2284. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

2285. Evil eyes.

2286. [Deer stalking].

2287. Catalogue of works of art sent in, pursuant to the notices issued by Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Fine Arts, for exhibition in Westminster Hall.

2290. The paste papers of the Golden Hind Press / by James H. Fraser.

2291. Race horse training / by Robert W. Collins (Venture All)

2292. From Gladiateur to Persimmon; turf memoires of thirty years. With illustrations in colours.

2293. Famous foxhunters, compiled by Lionel Edwards, illustrated from contemporary pictures and from original drawings by the author.

2294. Horses and horsemanship through the ages [by] Luigi Gianoli & Mario Monti [and others] Translated by Iris Brooks.

2295. Language magic : lost words, lost worlds / Ciara Healy.