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1. The stones of Venice / by John Ruskin ; with illustrations drawn by the author.

The stones of Venice / by John Ruskin ; with illustrations drawn by the author.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1851-1853
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Illustrated excursions in Italy / by Edward Lear.

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Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:
MDCCCXLVI [1846]
Physical Description:
xii, 144 pages, [1], 30 leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

3. Diary of my tour in Italy in October 1892 / J.S. Maber.

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Creator:
Maber, John Stroud, 1836–1899
Date:
1892, October 3-1896, April 24
Physical Description:
1 v. ([230] p.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
Creator:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

5. American notes : Pictures from Italy : A child's history of England : The life of our Lord.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1938
Physical Description:
xxii, 891, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Der Italienische Wiegendruck in Original-Typenbeispielen : 120 Inkunabelproben / beschrieben von Konrad Haebler.

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Creator:
Haebler, Konrad, 1857–1946
Date:
1927
Physical Description:
71 p. : ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Footsteps of Our Lord and His apostles in Syria, Greece, and Italy : a succession of visits to the scenes of New Testament narrative / by W.H. Bartlett ...

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Creator:
Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809–1854
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
4, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The schools of painting in Italy : translated, from the German of Kugler, by a Lady / edited, with notes, by Sir Charles L. Eastlake, P.R.A., F.R.S. ; with upwards of one hundred illlustrations, drawn on wood, by George Scharf, Jun., from the works of the old masters mentioned in this book ; engraved by John Thompson and Samuel Williams.

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Creator:
Kugler, Franz, 1808–1858
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. American notes and Pictures from Italy / by Charles Dickens ; with eighteen illustrations by A.B. Frost and Gordon Thomson.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
[1878]
Physical Description:
[6], 210 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

10. The science of gems, jewels, coins, and medals, ancient and modern / by Archibald Billing, M.D. A.M. F.R.S. F.R.G.S. F.R.M.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians ; Member of the Senate of the University of London ; Honorary and corresponding member of the medical societies of Florence, Brussels, Dresden, and New York ; formerly professor of clinical medicine and of the theory and practice in the school of medicine, and physician, of the London Hospital; examiner in medicine in the University of London ; President of the Hunterian Society ; Vice-President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Etc. author of "First principles of Medicine;" "Practical observations on diseases of the lungs and heart;" "On the treatment of Asiatic Cholera," etc.

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Creator:
Billing, Archibald, 1791–1881
Date:
MDCCCLXVII [1867]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 221, [3] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Viaggiana, or, Detached remarks on the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of ancient and modern Rome.

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Creator:
Weston, Stephen, 1747–1830
Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
iv, 176 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books : of painting in three books and of statuary in one book : translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli : and now first into English, and divided into three volumes / by James Leoni, Venetian, architect ; to which are added several designs of his own, for buildings both public and private.

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Creator:
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404–1472
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Voyage of Italy, or, A compleat journey through Italy : in two parts : with the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries, pallaces (sic), villas, gardens, pictures, statues, and antiquities : as also of the interest government, riches, force, &c. of all the Princes : with instructions concerning travel / by Richard Lassels ... ; never before extant.

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Creator:
Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668
Date:
1670
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The ecclesiastical architecture of Italy. From the time of Constantine to the fifteenth century, with an introduction and text by Henry Gally Knight ...

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Creator:
Knight, Henry Gally, 1786–1846
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
2 v. ill., 81 plates (part. col., incl. plan) 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The prettiest love letters in the world : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo, 1503 to 1519 / translation and preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

The prettiest love letters in the world : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo, 1503 to 1519 / translation and preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
Creator:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:
1987
Physical Description:
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

16. Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of a tour in the north of Italy / by George Edmund Street.

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Creator:
Street, George Edmund, 1824–1881
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xx, 287, 32 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Travels through Italy, in the years 1771 and 1772 : described in a series of letters to Baron Born, on the natural history, particularly the mountains and volcanoes of that country / by John James Ferber ... ; translated from the German ; with explanatory notes, and a preface on the present state and future improvement of mineralogy by R. E. Raspe.

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Creator:
Ferber, Johann Jakob, 1743–1790
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [1], 377, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Roma illustrata, or, A description of the most beautiful pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture, antique and modern, at and near Rome.

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Creator:
Raguenet, François, 1660?-1722
Date:
[172-?]
Physical Description:
[20], 195, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Letters from the bye-ways of Italy / by Mrs. Henry Stisted ; with illustrations by Colonel Stisted.

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Creator:
Stisted, Henry, Mrs
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
[2], xviii, 496 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The stones of Venice / by John Ruskin ... ; with illustrations drawn by the author.

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Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1886
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts