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1. The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.

The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.
Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
[10] pages, [48] leaves, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Views in the seven Ionian islands / by Edward Lear ; drawn from nature & on stone by Edward Lear.

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Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:
December 1st, 1863
Physical Description:
[24] leaves, [1], 20 leaves of plates : illustrations. ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

3. A history of the Holtes of Aston, baronets : with a description of the family mansion, Aston Hall, Warwickshire / by Alfred Davidson ; with illustrations from drawings by Allen E. Everitt.

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Creator:
Davidson, Alfred, of Aston
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
76 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

4. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from His Lordship's mss. / by James Kennedy.

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Creator:
Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[10], xxxviii, 116, [2] pages, 25 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

5. An historical list of horse-matches run : and of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland, in ... with a list also of the principal cock-matches of the year above ... / by Reginald Heber.

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Creator:
Heber, Reginald
Date:
1751-1769
Physical Description:
18 v. ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Letters from America, historical and descriptive : comprising occurrences from 1769 to 1777 inclusive / by William Eddis, late surveyor of the customs, &c. at Annapolis, in Maryland.

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Creator:
Eddis, William, 1738–1825
Date:
MDCCXCII [1792]
Physical Description:
[50], 455, [1] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster : containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities / written at first in the year MDXCVIII ... since ... augmented by the author, and afterwards by A.M., H.D., and others ; now lastly corrected ... and ... brought down from ... 1633 ... to the present time by John Strype ... ; to which is prefixed the life of the author, writ by the editor ... added an appendix ... concerning the state of the city of London ...

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
MDCCXX [1720]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., maps, plans ; 41 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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.

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

9. An historical and topographical account of the town of Woburn, its abbey, and vicinity : containing also a concise genealogy of the house of Russell, and memoirs of the late Francis Duke of Bedford.

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Creator:
Dodd, Stephen, active 1818
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
140 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

10. The Stowe catalogue : priced and annotated / by Henry Rumsey Forster.

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Creator:
Forster, Henry Rumsey, 1815–1884
Date:
MDCCCXLVII [1848]
Physical Description:
xliii, [1], 310, 22 pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

11. Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire : with heraldical and genealogical notices of the Beckford family / by John Britton.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[3], vi-viii, [5]-68, [8] pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

12. Ten views in the vicinity of Bristol / drawn from nature & lithograph'd by Willm. Arnee Frank.

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Creator:
Frank, William Arnee, 1808–1897, ill
Date:
[1831]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [11] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Huntsmen past and present / written by Lionel Edwards and illustrated from contemporary prints and from original watercolour drawings by the author.

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Creator:
Edwards, Lionel, 1878–1966
Date:
1929
Physical Description:
91 p., [21] leaves of plates : ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Portraits of the winning horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster : from the year 1815 to the year 1824, inclusive.

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Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
[26] p., [10] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 66 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A treatise on the care, treatment, and training of the English race horse : in a series of rough notes / by R. Darvill, V.S. 7th Hussars.

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Creator:
Darvill, Richard
Date:
1828-34
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. 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.

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Creator:
Soane, John, Sir, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
[6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

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Creator:
Anburey, Thomas, author
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:
[12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Burghley, the life of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasuer of England, etc. : biographical notices of his successors the Earls and Marquises of Exeter : a description of Burghley House, with a complete and accurate guide to the several paintings, tapestries, antiquities, and other articles of interest and vertu with which it is enriched : and a brief notice of the family monuments, &c., in St. Martin's Church, Stamford Baron : to which is appended a list of the artists by whom the collection of picures in the above residence was painted, with the places where they were born, and the dates of their births and deaths / by the Rev. W.H. Charlton, M.A., rector of St. George's, Stamford, and domestic chaplain to the Marquis of Exeter.

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Creator:
Charlton, William Henry, 1814–
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xxi, [1], 319, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Portraits of the game and wild animals of Southern Africa : delineated from life in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, with sketches of the field sports / by Captain W. Cornwallis Harris ... ; drawn on stone by Frank Howard.

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Creator:
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
Date:
1840 [i.e. 1840-1842]
Physical Description:
vi, [6], 175, [1] pages, [31] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 61 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Regal heraldry : the armorial insignia of the kings and queens of England, from coeval authorities / by Thomas Willement, heraldic artist to His Majesty King George the Fourth.

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Creator:
Willement, Thomas, 1786–1871
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[5], viii-x, [2], 116 pages, XXXVI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. An historical list, of all horse-matches run, and of all plates and prizes run for in England ... : with a list also of all the principal cock-matches ... / by John Cheny.

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Creator:
Cheny, John, active 1729–1750
Date:
MDCCXXVII [1727-1751]
Physical Description:
[24] volumes ; 16-17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied ; mit 48 Kupfern, 33 Vignetten, vielen Holzschnitten und einer Charte.

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Creator:
Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782–1867
Date:
1839-1841
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, map ; 32-61 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A description of the country from thirty to forty miles round Manchester : containing its geography, natural and civil; principal productions; river and canal navigations; a particular account or its towns and chief villages; their history, population, commerce, and manufactures; buildings, government, &c. / The materials arranged, and the work composed by J. Aikin, M.D. embellished and illustrated with seventry-three plates.

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Creator:
Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, [8], 624 pages, [62] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The history and antiquities of Haddon Hall : with an account of the Hall in its present state / by S. Rayner ; illustrated from numerous highly-finished sketches by Cattermole.

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Creator:
Rayner, Samuel, 1806–1879
Date:
MDCCCVLII [1842]
Physical Description:
[10], 35, [4], 38-53, [7] pages, [10], 6 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

26. Practical hints on decorative printing : with illustrations engraved on wood, and printed in colours at the type press / By William Savage.

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Creator:
Savage, William, 1770–1843
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
6 p.l., [iii]-vi, [2], 118 p., 5 leaves. col. front., 51 plates (part. col.) on 47 leaves. 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The geognosy of the island of St. Helena : illustrated in a series of views, plans and sections, accompanied with explanatory remarks and observations / by Robert F. Seale, Honourable East India Company's Civil Service, &c.

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Creator:
Seale, Robert F.
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
26 pages, [1], 10 leaves of plates : illustrations, map : 37 x 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts