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4201. Shakespearian tales in verse : illustrated / by Mrs. Valentine.

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Creator:
Valentine, L. (Laura), 1814–1899
Date:
[1881]
Physical Description:
[100] p. : ill. (part. col.) 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4202. A tour through the valley of the Meuse: with the legends of the Walloon country and the Ardennes. By Dudley Costello ...

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Creator:
Costello, Dudley, 1803–1865
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
4 p. ., [v]-xiii, 316 p. col. front., ill. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4203. The British Museum. The Townley Gallery.

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Date:
MDCCCXXXVI [1836]
Physical Description:
2 v., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4204. Premiums offered by the Dublin Society, for agriculture, planting : and fine arts, also, premiums offered by the farming society, under the patronage of the Dublin Society: and premiums of the London Society extending to Ireland.

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Creator:
Royal Dublin Society
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
[4], 65 p. : 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4205. Art and work. : As shown in the artistic industries employed in the use of marble, stone, and terra-cotta; metal, wood, and textile fabrics; as well as in the various details associated with decorative art:-- the whole exemplified by 85 lithographic drawings (each with some descriptive explanation, of antique, mediæval, Italian, renaissance, and oriental examples) including some illustrations from the best unpublished works of the "Brothers Adam;" together with other designs from more recent authorities. / By Owen W. Davis ...

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Creator:
Davis, Owen W
Physical Description:
36 p., 85 leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4206. A catalogue of paintings, drawings, &c. bequeathed to the University of Cambridge, by the late Daniel Mesman ... in the year 1834 / by John Massey ...

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Creator:
Fitzwilliam Museum
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
22 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4207. The history of Little Fanny : exemplified in a series of figures.

The history of Little Fanny : exemplified in a series of figures.
Date:
1977
Physical Description:
15 p. : col. ill. ; 14 cm. + 4 sheets
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4208. Descriptive catalogue of the drawings by the old masters, forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, esq. by J.C. Robinson.

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Creator:
Malcolm, John, 1805–1893
Date:
1869
Physical Description:
xi, 280 p. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4209. A tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland, and Denmark. In a series of letters. By Matthew Consett, esq.

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Creator:
Consett, Matthew
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
[4] p. ., 148 p. front. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4210. Metrical legends of Northumberland : containing the traditions of Dunstanborough castle, and other poetical romances : with notes and illustrations / by James Service.

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Creator:
Service, James
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
[v]-viii, [9]-160 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4211. Rustic architecture : the picturesque and pleasing appearance of rough wood, thatch, etc. when applied as the only decorations of rural buildings : illustrated by xlii zincographic drawings consisting of plans, elevations, sections and perspective views : the doors, windows, chimney shafts, etc. drawn geometrically to a large scale, with a description and the estimated cost of each design / by T.J. Ricauti ...

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Creator:
Ricauti, T. J
Date:
1840
Physical Description:
[9], 42 plates : ill., plans ; 26 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4212. Ulric, the farm servant : a story of the Bernese lowland / by Jeremias Gotthelf ; translated into English from the original German by Julia Firth ; revised and edited, with notes, by John Ruskin ...

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Creator:
Gotthelf, Jeremias, 1797–1854
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
vii, 428 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4213. Lectures on art : delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 / by John Ruskin ...

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Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1890
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 236 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4214. Recueil des meilleurs desseins de Raimond La Fage gravé par cinq des plus habiles graveurs / et mis en lumière par les soins de Vander-Bruggen ...

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Creator:
La Fage, Raymond, 1656–1684
Date:
[168-]
Physical Description:
[8] p., [49] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4215. A companion and useful guide to the beauties of Scotland, to the lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the curiosities in the district of Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire : to which is added, a more particular description of Scotland, especially that part of it called the Highlands / by the Hon. Mrs. Murray ...

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Creator:
Murray, Sarah, 1744–1811
Date:
1799-1805
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4216. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved : being an actual survey of all the direct and principal cross roads of England and Wales : shewing all the cities, towns, villages, churches, gentlemen's seats, &c. situated on, or near any of the roads ... / engraved by Emanuel Bowen ... ; to which is added an accurate historical and topographical description of all the cities, boroughs, towns corporate, and other places of note ; compiled from the best authorities, by John Owen ... ; the whole illustrated with maps of all the counties of South-Britain, and a summary description of each.

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
12, 273 p. : coats of arms, maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4217. The Chester guide : giving an account of its antiquities, buildings, customs, churches, government, trade, &c. : together with a list of the earls of Chester, embellished with views of the cathedral, old East-Gate and Bridge-Gate, Outer Castle-Gate, and the Barrs : to which is added a directory.

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Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
[6], 96 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4218. The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, from its foundation : extracted out of original charters, records, leiger-books, and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ... ; with a continuation and additions, including the republication of Sir William Dugdale's life from his own manuscript by Henry Ellis ...

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Creator:
Dugdale, William, 1605–1686
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xxxi, 500 p., [69] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4219. A survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin : with the division of the parishes, reduced from the large plan in four sheets / by Iohn Rocque ... = Plan de la ville et faubourgs de Dublin : avec la divisions des paroisses, redui d'apres celui qui est en 4 feuilles / levé et publiez par Iean Rocque.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
1 map : 48 x 70 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4220. Salambo / Gustave Flaubert ; translated by E. Powys Mathers ; decorated with engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

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Creator:
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821–1880
Date:
1931
Physical Description:
[4], 317, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4221. The poems of Ossian / translated by James Macpherson ... ; to which are prefixed dissertations on the aera and poems of Ossian.

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Creator:
Macpherson, James, 1736–1796
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4222. The shepheardes calender : conteyning twelve æglogues, proportionable to the twelve monethes.

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Creator:
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Date:
1896]
Physical Description:
[4], 98 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4223. Colonel Weatherford and his friends,

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Creator:
Grand, Gordon
Date:
1933
Physical Description:
242 p., 6 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4224. Shadows : second series / by Charles Bennett.

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Creator:
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829–1867
Date:
[between 1858 and 1860]
Physical Description:
[37] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4225. Carter's Views of Worthing.

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Date:
18--]
Physical Description:
12 leaves : ill ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4226. Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches.

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Creator:
United Church of England and Ireland
Date:
1813
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4227. Picturesque views of the English cities / from drawings by G.F. Robson ; edited by J. Britton, F.S.A. etc. ; containing thirty-two engravings by Adlard, Barrenger, Barber, Higham, Le Keux, Jeavons, Varrall, Tombleson, Radaway, Taylor, Woolnoth, etc. ...

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Creator:
Robson, George Fennell, 1788–1833
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
[33] leaves of plates, [2] pages : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4228. Gothic furniture in the style of the 15th cent'y / designed & etched by A.W.N. Pugin.

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Creator:
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
[25] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4229. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

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Creator:
Leigh, Samuel
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
vi, [iii]-iv, 524, 36 p. fold. front., fold. plates, fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4230. Characters and criticisms upon the ancient and modern orators, poets, painters, musicians, statuaries, & other arts and sciences. With an heroick poem (in blank verse) intituled The age of Lewis the Great. Written originally in French by the Archbishop of Cambray, and made English by Capt. Bladen.

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Creator:
Callières, Monsieur de (François), 1645–1717
Date:
1714
Physical Description:
4 p.., 211, [13] p. fold. front. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4231. Remarks on the buildings and improvements in London, and elsewhere.

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Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 p.., ii, vi, [7]-155 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4232. Mr. John Glover's exhibition of his oil and water-colour paintings: (with a few by his son Mr. William Glover.) At the great rooms, no. 16, Old Bond Street, opposite Stafford Street ... 1824. J. Tyler, typ. Rathbone Place.

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Creator:
Glover, John, 1767–1849
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
8 p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4233. A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental; viz. books of plans and elevations for cottages, farm-houses, mansions, &c. ... Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at J. Taylor's architectural library ... Where may be had the works of the most celebrated French architects and engineers.

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Creator:
Taylor, J. (Josiah)
Date:
[between 1812 and 1816]
Physical Description:
4 p. 37 cm. (in case 48 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4234. Index to the Worcestershire visitation, 1684.

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Date:
18--]
Physical Description:
[1] p. 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4235. Description of a view of the city of Calcutta; now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester square. Painted by the proprietor, Robert Burford, from drawings taken for that purpose, by Capt. Robert Smith ...

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Creator:
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
12 p. fold. front. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4236. The history and antiquities of Rochester and its environs: to which is added, a description of the towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and ancient buildings, situate on, or near the road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover.

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Creator:
Denne, Samuel, 1730–1799
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
xvii, 419 p., 1 leaf. front. (fold. map) plates. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4237. The history and survey of the antiquities of Winchester, / by the late Right Rev. John Milner ... With supplementary notes. Also a biographical memoir, by the Rev. F. C. Husenbeth.

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Creator:
Milner, John, 1752–1826
Date:
[1839]
Physical Description:
2 v., 21 leaves of plates : ill; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4238. Engravings from the choicest works of Sir Thomas Lawrence ...

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Creator:
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830
Date:
[1846]
Physical Description:
54 l. 50 port. (incl. front.) 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4239. Chronicon mirabile; or, Extracts from parish registers; principally in the north of England ...

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Creator:
Sharp, Cuthbert, Sir, 1781–1849
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
2 p.l., [iii]-x, [3]-159, [1] p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4240. Camp of Aldershott.

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Date:
[18--]
Physical Description:
1 game (82 pieces) : lead and cloth, col. ; in box, 19 x 30 x 5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4241. Naval architecture : this day is published, in two volumes octavo, illustrated with plates, price 1 . in boards : A collection of papers on naval architecture, originally communicated through the channel of the European magazine / printed for J. Sewell, at the European magazine warehouse, No. 32, Cornhill ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
11-16, [2] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4242. The history of Chesterfield : with particulars of the hamlets contiguous to the town, and descriptive accounts of Chatsworth, Hardwick, and Bolsover Castle ...

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Creator:
Hall, George
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
[2], vi, [2], 504 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4243. The history of England / written in French by Mr. Rapin de Thoyras ; translated into English, with additional notes, by N. Tindal ...

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Creator:
Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661–1725
Date:
1743-1747
Physical Description:
4 v. in 5 : ill., geneal. tables, maps, ports. 40 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4244. St. Mary's Church, Stafford.

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Date:
1842?]
Physical Description:
23 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4245. Skeleton map of Afghanisatan and the countries of the north-west frontier of India : shewing the principal routes and passes / by John Walker ...

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Creator:
Walker, John, 1786–1873
Date:
[1850]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 70 x 64 cm., folded to 19 x 14 cm., in covers 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4246. Goat Green, or, The better gift / by Theodore Francis Powys ; engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

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Creator:
Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875–1953
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
61, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4247. The horse, a bibliography of British books, 1851-1976 : with a narrative commentary on the rôle of the horse in British social history, as revealed by the contemporary literature / Anne Grimshaw.

The horse, a bibliography of British books, 1851-1976 : with a narrative commentary on the rôle of the horse in British social history, as revealed by the contemporary literature / Anne Grimshaw.
Creator:
Grimshaw, Anne
Date:
1982
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 474 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4248. Shampooing, or, Benefits resulting from the use of the Indian medicated vapour bath : as introduced into this country / by S.D. Mahomed ... ; containing a brief but comprehensive view of the effects produced by the use of the warm bath, in comparison with steam or vapour bathing ...

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Creator:
Mahomed, S. D. (Sake Deen)
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[2], ix, [10]-127, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates : port., ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4249. Excerpta è statutis Academiæ Cantabrigiensis præfectorum interpretationibus, Senatus decretis, et literis regiis, ad scholarium officia pertinentia.

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Creator:
University of Cambridge
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
[2], 36 p. : 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4250. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam : perillustris ac magnifici domini Ignatii Christophori nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall, sacri Romani imperii, & Regni Hungariae equitis, sacrae Caesareae Majestatis consiliarii Aulico-Bellici ab augustissimo, & invictissimo Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I. ad serenissimum, ac potentissimum Tzarum, & magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII / ablegati extraordinarii descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb, p.t. secretario ablegationis Caesareae ; accessit reditus suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

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Creator:
Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:
[1700?]
Physical Description:
[6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 3 maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4251. Racing and steeple-chasing.

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Date:
1889
Physical Description:
xii, 419 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4252. Passages in the life of a soldier, or, Military service in the East and West / by Lieut.-Colonel Sir James E. Alexander, Knt., K.C.L.S. ; fellow of the Royal Geographical and Asiatic Societies, etc. ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803–1885
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4253. The Prince of Abissinia : a tale in two volumes.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4254. New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

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Creator:
Hoofnail, John
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
vi, 2, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4255. Bowles's art of painting in water-colours : exemplified in landscapes, flowers, &c. : together with instructions for painting on glass and in crayons : explained in a full and familiar manner : with particular directions for preparing the colours agreeable to the practice of the most eminent masters / by the author of Bowles's artist's assistant.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
[i]-iv, [5-7], 8-80 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4256. What we have we'll hold.

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Date:
1898
Physical Description:
1 postcard : color illustrations ; 100 x 140 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4257. Picturesque views of the city of Paris and its environs.

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Creator:
Nash, Frederick, 1782–1856
Date:
1820[-23]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4258. Biographical dictionary of painters, sculptors, engravers, and architects from the earliest ages to the present time : to which is added an introduction containing a brief account of various schools of art and an explanation of the techical terms used by painters / by John Gould.

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Creator:
Gould, John
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4259. Great events of the royal year, 1953.

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Date:
[1953?]
Physical Description:
[100] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Duncan and Lisa Robinson

4260. A Topographical Map of the Isle of Wight ... on a scale of 2 inches to a mile ... By J. Andrews ... Second edition. (A Plan of the Town of Newport).

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Date:
1775
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4261. Blue blue elefante : las voces de una escuela = the voices of a school / Eulàlia Bosch.

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Creator:
Bosch, Eulàlia
Date:
[2014]
Physical Description:
281, [9] pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the author

4262. Festival of Britain : your London souvenir stamps.

No cover image available
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
1 sheet : color illustrations ; 17 x 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4263. Samples of lace trimming.

No cover image available
Date:
circa 1880
Physical Description:
1 case
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4264. The country child's alphabet / by Eleanor Farjeon ; drawings by William Michael Rothenstein.

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Creator:
Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881–1965
Date:
1924
Physical Description:
[60] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4265. A catalogue of a capital and valuable collection of modern drawings : framed and glazed, and in portfolios : modern prints :a few fine Dutch etchings : and some pictures : the property of the late Mr. T. Sheldrake, Senr.. (of the Strand) Deceased : the drawings comprise some of the finest ppecimens of the following celebrated and admired Masters, viz. : Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Mortimer, Worlidge, Benwell, Wheatly, Gainsborough, Barrett, Marlow, Gilpin, P. Sandby, Hearne, Meye, Greffe, Hills, Serres, Pillement, Chatelain, &c. &c. : also many fine iImpressions by Bartolozzi, Weston, Collier, Sharp, &c. : a number of fine etchings of cattle, &c. by V. de Velde, Potter, Jardin, Bergehm : a large collection of drawings by Hearnel : and a few fine pictures by Ruysdael, Lingelback, Wilson, Barrett, Morland, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, February 21, 1800, and following Day, at twelve o'clock : may be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4266. Dressmaking : designing, cutting & fitting / by Mme. Jeanne Trois Fontaines ...

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Creator:
Trois Fontaines, Jeanne
Date:
1933
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 160 pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4267. A catalogue of the capital set of highly finished original drawings, in water colors, which have furnished the plates for that admired work entitled View of the city of Dublin, by the late ingenious and scientific artist, James Malton, Esq. deceased, together with the copper plates, impressions and letter press of that and his other popular works, viz. on cottage architecture, ornamental villas, the painter's maulstick, Stonehenge, and others on geometry and perspective : also his collection of architectural designs, studies, and models, books of architecture and prints, sketches and views from nature, and a choice assemblage of original drawings by the late W. Hamilton, Esq. R.A. : which will be sold by auction, (by order of the executors) by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Thursday, March 8, 1804, and following day, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1804]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4268. A catalogue of a genuine, superb and truly valuable assemblage of vases, marbles, and other objects of virtù : the property of, and collected by a Man of Fashion, during a recent visit to Rome and Naples : comprising a numerous collection of singularly-fine Etruscan Vases, of the early Sicilian and Compana Classes : besides many rare and novel specimens of the smaller Greek pottery : slabs of the most rare and precious Antique Marbles : part of the shaft of a column of the beautiful Egyptian Granite : a few bustos of exquisite modern sculpture, particularly a colossal bust from the Antinous and a noble copy, in marble, from the celebrated vase in the Villa Borghese, 3 feet 9 inches high : a fine plaster cast, moulded expressly for the proprietor from the Apollo of the Belvidere : and a few elegant Alabaster Vases of Beautiful Florentine Sculpture : also, two fine antique gems : a capital set of the Nine Muses, in Mable, antique : and original models in terra cotta, by the celebrated Roubiliac, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March the 29th, 1805, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1804]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4269. A catalogue of a capital and most precious assemblage of superlatively fine Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, consigned within a few weeks past from the Continent : in the view of this collection the connoisseurs will enjoy an exquisite treat, and the admirers of Rembrandt especially will have an opportunity of witnessing the finest picture, without exception, ever painted by that master, the Woman taken in adultery, executed by Rembrandt, for his patron and friend, the Burgomaster Six : it is a chef d'œuvre, for which language cannot furnish adequate description or praise, replete with sublimity and awful magic effect : besides this, are a Holy Family by Corregio, from the Modena Gallery : a sea port, near Genoa, by Claude, a warm, clear and delicately-finished picture, one of his very finest : a companion landscape, and two others, by ditto : two capital portraits, an historical, and a marine subject, by Rembrandt ; the Angels confounding the men of Gomorrah, N. Poussin, and others by L. da Vinci, Titian, Domenichino, P. da Cortona, Romanelli, G. Poussin, Rubens, V. Dyck, Teniers, Neefs, G. Dow, A. Ostade, Du Jardin, Potter, V. de Velde, Dusart, Bega, Terburg, Mieris, Backhuysen, Lenain, Lingelback : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, on his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, June the 13th, 1807, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1807]
Physical Description:
11, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4270. A catalogue of all the remaining property hitherto unoffered for sale, belonging to that very ingenious and celebrated artist, Guy Head, Esq. Deceased : consisting of a variety of original works and admirable copies from the Old Masters by his own hand : particularly of the celebrated Danæ by Titian, in the Capo Di Monte Gallery ... and other works : two small landscapes by Wilson : an extensive collection of original drawings, by Head, Ducrous, Kniep, Keiserman, and other Masters : which embrace the most beautiful scenery in and about Rome, Tivoli, and the environs, Naples, Sicily, and the Mediterranean : valuable prints ... : a set of twenty-four interior views of the Museo Clementino by Feoli : engravings by Cardon, Dunego, Morghen, &c. : capital books of prints including Albinus's Anatomical Tables, 1 vol. : Anatomia del disegno, 1 vol. : Le 'Antichita romane D'Albano, del Campo Marzio, &c. D'Piranesi, 4 vols : Il Museu Pio Clementino, 3 vols. : Les Ruines des Monuments de la Grece, 2 vols : Hamilton's Vases by Tischbein, 3 vols. : di Museo Capitolino, 3 vols : Mosaize Hisoire der Hebreeuwse Kerke, 4 vols. : Galleria Farnese di Annibale Caracci, 1 vol. : ... copy of Raphael's Bible : 1 Costumi Antichi Egiziani, &c. 1 vol. ... Costumes les Theatres Anciennes que Modernes, 2 vols. ... : and other scarce and valuable works : cork models of the Coloseum & Temples of Vesta & Minerva Medico : casts of medals and gems : a pair of black Etruscan vases : and a Patera : bronze heads : upwards of ninety lots of ultramarine : near twenty lots of Chinese Vermillion and other colours : drawing paper, drawing boards, port folios, and various other articles : which will be sold by auction, by Peter Coxe, at the auction mart, near the Bank of England, on Wednesday, the 11th of April, 1810, and two following days, at one o'clock, precisely, (by order of the administratrix.)

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Creator:
Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:
[1810]
Physical Description:
22 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4271. In loving remembrance of Mary Ann Lewis : who departed this life July 20th, 1888 : aged 27 years : Marsh, Undertaker, 80, St. Mary Street.

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Date:
[1888]
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4272. In affectionate remembrance of Charles Knott : who departed this life June 17th, 1911, in his 81st year : and was interred at Eccles Parish Church, June 21st, 1911 : also Alice, his wife, who departed this life June 14th, 1911 : in her 72nd year : and was interred at Eccles Parish Church, June 17th, 1911.

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Date:
[1911]
Physical Description:
1 card : photograph ; 8 x 13 cm, mounted on card 9 x 14 cm cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4273. A catalogue of a very valuable and interesting collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : including some, the property of a gentleman well-known in the fashionable world, particularly a grand landscape by Salvator Rosa, an historical subject by N. Poussin, portraits by Parmegiano and Holbein, and an interior by Terburg ; also, the Canterbury pilgrimage, by Stothard, R.A., and some interesting portraits ; and specimens of Guercino, G. Poussin, Parocel, Greuze, Breughel, Van der Neer, Ruysdael, Pynacker, Cuyp, Bega, Ostade, J. Steen, Du Jardin, Asselyn, Mieris, Teniers, Wynants, Van Stry, Wilson, Landseer : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May the 26th, 1832, at one o'clock precisely : may be viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had at Messrs. Christie & Manson's Office, 8 King Street, St. James's Square.

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Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4274. [Advertisement for Cramer's new Grand pianoforte].

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Creator:
Cramer & Co.
Date:
[approximately 1867]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4275. Experiment in embroidery design : hand and machine embroideries created from the original drawings of Mary Kessell.

No cover image available
Date:
[1950s]
Physical Description:
23 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4276. Veües des plus beaux endroits de la ville de Rome / Jacques Prou delin. et sculp.

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Creator:
Prou, Jacques, approximately 1639–approximately1686
Date:
[circa 1680?]
Physical Description:
8 leaves, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4277. [Postilla super epistolas et evangelia]

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Creator:
Guillermus, Parisiensis
Date:
[not before 1497]
Physical Description:
1 volume
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4278. Streiflichter : six inscribed fragments concerning the French Revolution 1789-1805 / Ian Hamilton Finlay, Annet Stirling ; commentary by Siegfried Blasche.

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Creator:
Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Date:
1994
Physical Description:
[24] p. : ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jock Reynolds

4279. Pierce Egan's Finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through life in and out of London / illustrated by the pencil of Mr. Robert Cruikshank, in 36 scenes from real life, & enriched with several designs on wood by the same artist ; dedicated to His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth.

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Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
xvi, 368 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4280. Pvrchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present. : Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Flovd, the heathenish, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / By Samuel Purchas, ...

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Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:
1626
Physical Description:
[44], 242, 241-636, 635-1047, [37] p. (the first four pages blank), [1] double leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4281. The world of tomorrow, New York World's Fair / copyright by Elizabeth Sage Hare and Warren Chappell.

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Creator:
Hare, Elizabeth Sage
Date:
1939]
Physical Description:
1 peepshow : cardboard and paper (col.) ; 13 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4282. List of books and manuscripts bought by William Morris, partly in his autograph.

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Creator:
Morris, William, 1834–1896
Date:
circa 1876
Physical Description:
1 v. ([38] p.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4283. Commonplace book.

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Date:
1833?
Physical Description:
1 v. ([8], 253, [2] p., rectos only) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4284. Routledges's every girl's annual / edited by Alicia A. Leith ; illustrated.

No cover image available
Date:
[1880]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 524 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4285. [Views in Yorkshire and Derbyshire].

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Creator:
Connop, John
Date:
[1810]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves, [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4286. Sweet Thames.

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Creator:
Chasseaud, Peter
Date:
MMXI [2011]
Physical Description:
1 print : letterpress, color ; 66 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4287. Spooner's protean views, no. 38 [graphic] : Roslin Chapel changing to iron works, in the north of England.

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Creator:
Spooner, William, active 1831–1854
Date:
[ca. 1838?]
Physical Description:
1 print : lithograph, hand colored ; image 15 x 19 cm, on mount 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4288. The stereoscope : a hand-made replica of the famous stereoscope developed by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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Creator:
Claymore Co. (Cedaredge, Colo.)
Date:
ca. 1980?
Physical Description:
1 stereoscope : wood, glass, leather, and brass ; 36 x 17 x 22 cm. + 12 stereoscopic photographs
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4289. Cobweb I / J. Hyslop.

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Creator:
Hyslop, Jane
Date:
2005
Physical Description:
1 cut-paper cobweb ; 12 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4290. The visitors' guide to Ripon : Studley Royal, Fountains Abbey, Brimham Rocks, Hackfall etc. with plates.

No cover image available
Date:
[1866]
Physical Description:
34 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4291. The Illustrated London News : coronation Week double number, May 30, 1953.

No cover image available
Date:
1953
Physical Description:
2, xvi, [1], 854-900, xvii-xxxii, 3-4 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt

4292. Comitatis Cantabrigiensis : vernacule Cambridge shire.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:
[not before 1647]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 39.9 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

4293. A catalogue of a collection of modern pictures & drawings, chiefly consisting of the works and property of Mr. Serres, Junior, marine painter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence going to Italy : to which are added, some by the most admired and esteemed masters, viz. : West, Barret, Wheatley, Ibberson, Morland, Rathbone, Ashford, Pether, Schweickhardt, Reinagle, De Bruyn, Carver, Bourgeois, Sandby, Payne, De Roye, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Greenwood at his room in Leicester-Square on Thursday the 22d of April, 1790, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday, preceding the sale.

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Creator:
Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4294. A catalogue of the truly capital and highly valuable collection of pictures, consisting of the choicest works of the most celebrated masters of the Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch schools, the genuine property of the late Richard Hulse, Esq., of Blackheath, dec. : eminently distinguished for his taste and liberality in the fine arts : this collection comprises a most capital picture of S. Rosa, the Lycian Peasants transformed into frogs ... : Guido, a rare Assumption of the Virgin : Tintoretto, a Holy Family, with Zacharias and other saints : Rubens, a Holy Family : Rembrandt, a domestic scene from sacred history : two charming landscapes, G. Poussin : two capital ditto, Cuyp : Four by Claude : a sea storm, Vandeveldt : portraits by Vandyck, &c. many small bijous, by the scarce Italian Masters : and an exquisite collection of high-finished Dutch cabinet pictures, viz. Bellini, Titian, Giorgione, Paduanino, Bassano, Palma, P. da Cortona, A. del Sarto, A. Solario, Baroccio, Vanni, Tibaldi, Carracci, Guido, Domenichino, Guercino, Albano, Mola, Murillo, N. Poussin, S. Bourdon, Watteau, Rubens, V. Dyck, Teniers, Berchem, Wouvermans, Du Jardin, Ruysdael, Barrett & Gilpin : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his great room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March 21, 1806, and following day, at twelve o'clock, without reserve.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1806]
Physical Description:
14 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4295. Presentation of the silver bugle to the 3rd Dorset Rifle Volunteers : (from the Dorset County Chronicle and Somersetshire Gazette of January 17, 1861.).

No cover image available
Date:
[1861]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : silk ; 38 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4296. Cherry Blossom perfume, toilet powder & soap / John Gosnell & Co.

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Creator:
John Gosnell & Co.
Date:
[1890]
Physical Description:
1 bookmark : illustrations ; 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4297. [Advertisement for Cramers' Pianoforte Gallery].

No cover image available
Date:
[after 1870]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4298. A catalogue of the splendid collection of Italian pictures, the property of W. G. Coesvelt, Esq. : removed from the gallery in Carlton Gardens, which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, the 2d of June, 1837, and following day, at two o'clock precisely.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
[1837]
Physical Description:
24 pages ; 21cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4299. Paintings by the old masters : exhibition : Exeter Hall, [London, 1833] : catalogue raisonné.

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1833?]
Physical Description:
31, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4300. Aaargh! a celebration of comics : bumper souvenir catalogue.

No cover image available
Date:
[1970]
Physical Description:
12 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts