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8601. Panorama du Mont Righi = Panorama vom Rigi Berg : gezeichnet und herausgegeben von Heinrich Keller.

No cover image available
Creator:
Keller, Heinrich, 1778–1862
Date:
[1823]
Physical Description:
1 print on 4 sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; image 20 x 194 cm, accordion folded to 20 x 12 cm, in covers 20 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8602. Description de la Fête des vignerons, célébrée à Vevey, les 8 et 9 août 1833 : précédée d'une notice sur l'origine et l'institution de cette société qui porte maintenant le nom d'Abbaye des Vignerons, et de la manière dont procèdent les Conseillers lors des récompenses à donner et des médailles à décerner : suivie du tableau de la procession de la fête, dans son ordre de marche.

No cover image available
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
52 pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm, plates 20 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8603. Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land.

No cover image available
Creator:
Spilsbury, F. B. (Francis B.)
Date:
1803
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8604. Karta öfver segelleden från Stockholm kanalvägen till Götheborg [cartographic material] : jemte fyrtifyra utsigter.

No cover image available
Date:
[1856]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 234 x 24 cm, folded in covers 11 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8605. Royal kalendar and court and city register for the year 1829.

No cover image available
Date:
[1829?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8606. A tour through part of Belgium and the Rhenish provinces.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rutland, John Henry Manners, Duke of, 1778–1857
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[4], 131, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8607. Scenery in the north of Devon.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rowe, George, 1796–1864
Date:
[ca. 1837]
Physical Description:
[19] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8608. Universal harmony, or, The gentleman & ladie's social companion : consisting of a great variety of the best & most favourite English & Scots songs, cantatas &c. &c. : with a curious design by way of head piece expressive of the sense of each particulr. song : set to music for the voice, violin, hautboy, German & common flute, with a thorough base for the organ, harpsichd., spinet &c. / by the best masters ; the whole calculated to keep people in good spirits, good health, & good humour, to promote social friendship in all compys. and universal harmony in every neighbourhood.

No cover image available
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
1 score (129 leaves) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8609. Signorvm vetervm icones.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bisschop, Jan de, 1628–1671
Date:
167-?]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 100 plates. 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8610. The Thames tunnel. Report of the court of directors and of M. J. Brunel, esq., the engineer of the Thames Tunnel Company, upon the state of the works--the completion of the tunnel--the probable amount of tolls--and the plan for raising money for the purposes of the undertaking, under the authority of the act of Parliament recently passed. With the resolutions passed at a special general assembly on the 11th day of June, 1828.

No cover image available
Creator:
Thames Tunnel Company
Date:
1828]
Physical Description:
15, [1] p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8611. Some account of the beard and the moustachio, chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. By John Adey Repton, F. S. A.

No cover image available
Creator:
Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775–1860
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
36 p. front., plate. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8612. The history and antiquities of the parish of Tottenham High Cross, in the county of Middlesex; comprising an account of the manors, the church, and other miscellaneous matter: to which is added, an appendix, containing the late Henry Lord Coleraine's History of Tottenham ... and the Rev. W. Bedwell's Brief history of Tottenham, first printed in 1631, with the antient poem of The tournament of Tottenham, with a glossary: selected from eminent authors and authentic documents. By William Robinson, gent. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Robinson, William, 1777–1848
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
2 p. ., [vii]-xv, [1], 260, 52, 30, 15, [5] p. fold. col. front. (map) plates, col. map. facsim. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8613. The school of arts improv'd, or, Companion for the ingenious ... / compiled from various authors.

No cover image available
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
[4], 156 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8614. Picturesque views on the river Medway : from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood / by Samuel Ireland, author of "A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France", and of "Picturesque views on the river Thames.".

No cover image available
Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:
[5], p. viii, [1], viii-xii, 206, [2] p., [29] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8615. Memoirs of Thomas Hollis ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Blackburne, Francis, 1705–1787
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., ports. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8616. Beauties of antiquity, or, Remnants of feudal splendor and monastic times / by J. Hassell ; engraved in aquatinta.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:
1807 [i.e. 1810]
Physical Description:
104 p., [52] leaves of plates : ill. , 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8617. Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts / by Lemuel Gulliver ; first a surgeon, & then a captain of several ships.

No cover image available
Creator:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:
MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8618. Ashgill; or, The life and times of John Osborne, written and compiled by J. B. Radcliffe, "Saxon."

No cover image available
Creator:
Radcliffe, John B
Date:
1900
Physical Description:
xxii p., 1 l., 500 p. front., plates, ports. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8619. Les Philippines : histoire, géographie, mœurs, agriculture, industrie et commerce des colonies espagnoles dans l'Océanie / par J. Mallat.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mallat, J. (Jean), 1808–1863
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
3 volumes : color illustrations, maps (some color), music, plans ; 24-52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8620. Yr hebog uwch felindre / Alan Llwyd ; engrafiad ar bren gan David Esslemont.

Yr hebog uwch felindre / Alan Llwyd ; engrafiad ar bren gan David Esslemont.
Creator:
Llwyd, Alan
Date:
1990
Physical Description:
[3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8621. Six picturesque views in Derbyshire : descriptive of the journey of Piscator and Viator from Brailsford to Beresford Hall : illustrative of the second part of Walton's Angler / engraved and coloured by J. Meadows ; from original drawings by Alexander.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8622. Aeliani De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more Graecorum / liber à Francisco Robertello Vtinensi in Latinum sermonem versus, & ab eodem picturis quamplurimis illustratus.

No cover image available
Creator:
Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century
Date:
MDLII [1552]
Physical Description:
[8], 65, [3], 73-77, [27] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8623. Interregnum.

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Creator:
Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:
[18--]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8624. Horizon to horizon = Dún Na nGall / Hamish Fulton.

Horizon to horizon = Dún Na nGall / Hamish Fulton.
Creator:
Fulton, Hamish, born 1946
Date:
[1983]
Physical Description:
[6] p. ([2] folded) : ill. ; 10 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8625. The anti-gallican, or, Standard of British loyalty, religion and liberty : including a collection of the principal papers, tracts, speeches, poems, and songs, that have been published on the threatened invasion : together with many original pieces on the same subject.

No cover image available
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
496, iv p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8626. Anglo-Norman antiquities considered in a tour through part of Normandy.

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Creator:
Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713–1785
Date:
1767
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8627. Vines : poems / by David Burnett ; wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith.

No cover image available
Creator:
Burnett, David, 1937–2023
Date:
1984
Physical Description:
[19] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

8628. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

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Creator:
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[9], 14-83, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8629. The picture of Dublin, or, Stranger's guide to the Irish metropolis : containing an account of every object and institution worthy of notice : together with a brief description of the surrounding country and of its geology.

No cover image available
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
352 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8630. Descriptive travels in the southern and eastern parts of Spain and the Balearic isles in the year 1809 / by Sir John Carr ...

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Creator:
Carr, John, Sir, 1772–1832
Date:
18ll
Physical Description:
xii, 374, xx (i.e. xxi), [1], [2], [3] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8631. Travels in Sicily and Malta / translated from the French of M. De Non.

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Creator:
Denon, Vivant, 1747–1825
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
[4], 427, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8632. Catalogue of a very fine gallery of oil paintings, &c., collected by William Franquinet, Esq. : to be sold at auction at his residence, no. 12 Park Place, the 12th of April next, at 10 o'clock a.m. by Aaron Levy.

No cover image available
Creator:
Franquinet, William Hendrik, 1785–1854
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8633. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J. D. Harding.

No cover image available
Creator:
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:
MDCCCXXXIV[1834]
Physical Description:
[4], 80 p., [XXVI, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8634. Holden's annual London and country directory of the United Kingdom and Wales. . .for the year 1811.

No cover image available
Date:
1811
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8635. Views in Nassau, in the vicinity of Kronberg : from sketches taken in the autumn of 1834 / by Mary De Humboldt ; with descriptive letter-press.

No cover image available
Creator:
Humboldt, Mary de
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 24 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8636. Proposals for printing a new and elegant edition of the life of King Robert Bruce, by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen : and of the acts and deeds of Sir William Wallace, by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry with biographical sketches, notes, and a glossary by John Jamieson.

No cover image available
Creator:
James Ballantyne and Co
Date:
30th June, 1814
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8637. Proteo militare di Bartolomeo Romano. Diuso in tre libri. Nel primo si descrive la fabrica di detto proteo, & in esso nuovo instrumento, tutti gli altri instrumenti, di matematica che imaginar si possano. Nel secondo, e terzo si tratta dell'vso di detto instrumento, nelquale si formano tutte le figure di geometria, e diuersi instrumenti di prospettiua, pittura, scoltura, & architettura. S'insegna ancora l'arte del navigare, e puella del guerreggiare con nuouo, e facilissimo modo, come più distintamente nella tauola si potra redere.

No cover image available
Creator:
Crescentio Romano, Bartolomeo
Date:
1595
Physical Description:
8 p.l., 192 p. illus., tables, diagrs. (1 fold.) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8638. [Series of ten views of India and China.]

No cover image available
Creator:
Moffat, James
Date:
1800-1803
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8639. Six views of Scarborough / drawn from nature, and on stone by F. Nicholson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
6 leaves : illustrations ; 39 x 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8640. A catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery, Pall-Mall, 1830.

No cover image available
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
12 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8641. Wonderful love of god to men, or, Heaven opened in Earth.

No cover image available
Creator:
Peckitt, William, 1731–1795
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
viii, 190, [2] p ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8642. Huntsmen past and present / written by Lionel Edwards and illustrated from contemporary prints and from original watercolour drawings by the author.

No cover image available
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

8643. The Indian empire : its history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce : with a full account of the mutiny of the Bengal army; of the insurrection in western India; and an exposition of the alleged causes / by R. Montgomery Martin.

No cover image available
Creator:
Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868
Date:
[1858]-[1861]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, frontispieces, 2 folded maps, plates, portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan

8644. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
[1751]
Physical Description:
[2], 867-868 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8645. May I come home once more / written and composed by Robert Donnelly ; sung ... by Miss Dolly Clayton.

No cover image available
Creator:
Donnelly, Robert
Date:
[1904]
Physical Description:
1 score ([4] p.) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

8646. I ain't gwine to leave home in the rain : the new ragtime coon song / by William Hargreaves ; sung by Miss Victoria Monks.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hargreaves, William, 1880–1941
Date:
[190-?]
Physical Description:
1 score (4 p) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

8647. Tabula Islandiae [cartographic material] / auctore Georgio Carolo Flandro.

No cover image available
Creator:
Carolus Flandro, Joris, 1601–1625
Date:
[ca. 1660]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 36 x 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8648. Notes on trees, with leaf specimens

No cover image available
Creator:
Laskey, Walter
Date:
ca. 1950
Physical Description:
1 volume (80 pages, mostly blank) ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Underwood

8649. Jackson's map of the Bedale Hunt.

No cover image available
Creator:
Richard Jackson (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1896]
Physical Description:
1 map : color ; 90 x 71 cm, folded in cover to 20 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8650. The Coronation book of Queen Elizabeth II / including contributions by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Hector Bolitho, C.F.J. Hankinson, A.L. Rowse, Malcolm Thomson and Sir Thomas White.

No cover image available
Date:
[1953?]
Physical Description:
159, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Duncan and Lisa Robinson

8651. Prima Europa tabula.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1486]
Physical Description:
1 map : woodcut ; 35 x 39 cm, on sheet 41 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8652. A catalogue of the valuable collection of paintings, by ancient and modern masters, of Sir Thomas Lawrence, late President of the Royal Society, deceased : comprising ... specimens of the talent of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Wilson, Barrett, West, Fuseli, Opie, Cosway, Westall, Thomson, Owen, Howard, Sir George Beaumont, Jackson, Wilkie, Turner, Etty, Danby, Bonington, and Sir Thomas Lawrence : also of celebrated Italian, Flemish, and Dutch Masters : particularly a Pieta by Raffaelle, from the Orleans Gallery : a charity of the same, from the Borghese Palace : Christ driving the Money Changers out of the Temple by Marcella Venusta, also from the Borghese : a grand Bacchanalian Festival by Giorgione : a fresco and a fine cabinet specimen by P. Veronese : the Nativity by Parmegiano ... : the Wife of Potiphar accusing Joseph ... : and Bathsheba by Rembrandt ... : and various others : which (by order of the executor) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his great room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May the 15th, 1830, at one precisely : may be viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had at Mr. Christie's Office, 8, King Street, St. James's Square.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8653. Guidelines to the system / Verdi Yahooda.

Guidelines to the system / Verdi Yahooda.
Creator:
Yahooda, Verdi
Date:
c1990
Physical Description:
[24] leaves : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8654. Original sketches from nature / by various masters.

No cover image available
Date:
Jany. 2, 1804
Physical Description:
16 prints : crayon manner ; sheets 32 x 46 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8655. Excerpts from the Four books on architecture / Andrea Palladio ; translated by Robert Tavernor & Richard Schofield.

No cover image available
Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
[6], 14, [2] p. (last leaf folded) : ill. ; 44 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

8656. Hunting in Craven.

No cover image available
Creator:
Gomersall, William
Physical Description:
69 p. ; 8°.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8657. Naval victories of Great Britain : from the commencement of the war in the year 1803 to 1816 : being a series of coloured views of naval engagements / from drawings by officers in the actions represented.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sutherland, Thomas, approximately 1785–approximately 1825
Date:
[between 1819 and 1838]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8658. Natural history. Vol. 1 / John Dilnot.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dilnot, John
Date:
2009
Physical Description:
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 10 x 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8659. Making time : thoughts from a garden : a series of 50 / Jonathan Raisin & Elizabeth Willow.

No cover image available
Creator:
Raisin, Jonathan, 1964–
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
[50] cards : col. ill. ; 7 cm. + 1 paper wraparound.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8660. Studies of trees / by J.C. Deeley.

No cover image available
Creator:
Deeley, J. C
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8661. Réflexions sur l'alphabet et sur la langue dont on se servoit autrefois à Palmyre / par M. l'Abbé Barthelemy.

No cover image available
Creator:
Barthélemy, J.-J. (Jean-Jacques), 1716–1795
Date:
1754
Physical Description:
8 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8662. A check, 12 o'clock, tipping for the swine / Hy. Alken delt.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8663. Drawing for elementary schools : being a manual of method of teaching drawing, specially adapted for the use of masters of national and parochial schools / by Ellis A. Davidson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Davidson, Ellis A., -1878
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
viii, 65 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8664. What we have we'll hold.

No cover image available
Date:
1898
Physical Description:
1 postcard : color illustrations ; 100 x 140 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8665. Alan Hugh Ruthall Bartram : (second son of Rev. W. Bartram, M.A., Head Master of the Grammar School, Cirencester and Rector of Shorncote) : who died March 13th, 1876 : aged 21 years : and was buried at Shorncote March 17th, 1876.

No cover image available
Date:
1876
Physical Description:
1 card : letterpress ; 120 x 80 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8666. Excursion views of Narragansett bay and Block island.

No cover image available
Date:
patented 1878
Physical Description:
color lithograph view within wooden box ; 34 cm long x 13 cm high x 15 cm deep
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8667. A catalogue of the genuine and well-known collection of large and other pictures, brought from Buckingham-House : amongst the collection are the following masters, Ann. Carracci, Raphael, Fetti, Castiglione, Tintoret, Rembrandt, Parmegiano, Val. Castelli, Holbein, Car. Maretti, Calabresse, Salviati, and the remarkable fine picture of Endimion Porter's family, by Vandyke : likewise the fine drawings by Titian, Raphael, Palma, Rubens, &c. framed and glazed : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his Great Room the End of Savile-Row, next Conduit-street, Hanover-square, the 24th and 25th of Feb. 1763.

No cover image available
Creator:
Prestage, John, -1767
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8668. Sketch of a soldier.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jones, David, 1895–1974
Date:
1930s?
Physical Description:
1 drawing : pen and black ink ; drawing 21 x 12 cm, on sheet 33 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William S. Reese, Yale BA 1977, in honor of Elisabeth Fairman

8669. A catalogue of a capital and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : the property of a gentleman : comprising the works of the following much esteemed Masters, viz. : Raphael, Corregio, Giogione, Baldalocci, Claude, Poussin, Borgonione, Watteaux, Rembrandt, Wouvermans, Both, Ruysdael, Vandervelde, Teniers, Rottenhamer, Brughel, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Sharp, and Harper, at the Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday 13th, and Monday 15th of May, 1797, at twelve o'clock : to be publicly viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had in Pall Mall : and at no. 32, Winchester Street.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, Sharp, and Harper
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8670. The catalogue of a valuable collection of capital paintings, the works of the ancient and modern masters removed from Bowood Park, Wiltshire, the property of the late most noble, the Marquis of Lansdowne : comprising, among others, the performances of Van Dyck, Albano, Brughel, Guido, Carlo Cigniani, Rubens, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Wilson, Gainsborough, Barrett, Marieski, Canaleti, Slingelandt Zuccarelli, Knellwe, Blomaert, Holbein, P. Neefs, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Peter Coxe, Burrell and Foster at the Great Room (late Mr. Bryan's Gallery) 88, Pall Mall, on Tuesday, 25th of February, 1806, at twelve o'clock, by order of the executors.

No cover image available
Creator:
Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster (London, England)
Date:
[1806]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8671. A catalogue of a small but valuable assemblage of chiefly Italian pictures : the property of a Nobleman : including a few elegant subjects by Modern Masters : among them will be found works by J. Romano, P. Veronese, Tintoretto, Bassano, Pordenone, Caravagio, Parmigiano, Baroccio, Guido, S. Di Pesaro, Gaetano, Albano, P. Da Cortona, C. Marratti, Borgognone, Poussin, Bourdon, Ruysdael, Polemberg, Kauffman : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, June the 7th, 1806, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1806]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8672. Catalogue of a valuable collection of pictures of the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch schools, in their genuine & speculative condition : the property of a private gentleman ... especially a landscape and cattle, a morning scene, by A. Cuyp ; St. John preaching in the wilderness, Vander Eckhout ... Wynants and Lingleback ... P. Neefs ... Gaspar de Crayer ... Jan Stein [Jan Steen] ... P. Wouvermans ... De Koningh and others by the following masters, viz. Cannaletti [Canaletto], Domenichino, Poelemberg, Artois, Vanderwerf, Backhuysen, Jan Stein [Steen], Teniers, Berchem, De Wytt [Wit], Ruysdael, Begyn, Vandyck, Snyders, De Vries, Mireveldt [Mierevelt] and many others of celebrity.

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Creator:
Edward Foster (Firm)
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8673. Queer relations : a U.P.L. party game : no. 1, box no. 29.

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Date:
[ca. 1960]
Physical Description:
1 game (18 picture cards, 18 answer cards, 1 solutions sheet) ; in box 14 x 14 x 2 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8674. Shakespeare'e England at Earl's Court, 1912 : Shakespeare's Village showing Porch House.

No cover image available
Date:
[1912]
Physical Description:
1 postcard : black and white ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8675. Catalogue descriptif des tableaux de l'école hollandaise, flamande et française : provenant de l'ancienne galerie du Palais de l'Élysée par Charles Paillet, commissaire-expert honoraire du Musée Royal : la vente aura lieu les mardi 4, mercredi 5, et jeudi 6 avril 1837, à midi précis / par le ministère de M. Bataillard, commissaire-priseur ; assisté de M. Paillet : exposition publique, ... 4er et 2 avril.

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Creator:
Bataillard, Louis Napoleon
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
88 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8676. Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art, from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize, of that distinguished collector, Ralph Bernal ... : also, of the beautiful decorative furniture and service plate : which ... will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at the mansion, No. 93, Eaton Square, commencing on Monday, March the 5th, 1855, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
357 pages, [33] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8677. In loving memory of George Edward Dines : born 29th February 1856 ; died 4th December 1905.

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Date:
[approximately 1905]
Physical Description:
1 postcard : b/w ; 14 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8678. Manuscript notes on weaving. First year / by James Holmes, M.S.A.

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Creator:
Holmes, James (Weaver)
Date:
[1912]
Physical Description:
132 leaves : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8679. Portrait of three generations of women.

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Creator:
Jones, Baynham, 1806–1890
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; visible image 6.5 x 7 cm (sixth plate format), in mount 14 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8680. Catalogue of the valuable library of that eminent connoisseur, S. M. Smith, Esq., Deceased, late of 137 New Bond Street : comprising books of prints, picture gallerys, works on architecture and painting, lives of artists, and works in general literature : also, a set of Gould's Splendid Works on Ornithology, the property of a Nobleman : and some valuable illuminated manuscripts, illustrated books, picture galleries, etc. from different private collections : which will be sold by auctions, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Monday, June 29, 1874, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1874]
Physical Description:
26 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8681. Picturesque views in the island of Ascension / by Lieut. William Allen, R.N. ...

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Creator:
Allen, William, 1793–1864
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
[16] pages, [10] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, map ; 28 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8682. Views of the falls of Niagara / painted on the spot in the autumn of 1846, by Major Henry Davis, 52nd Light Infantry ; lithographed in exact imitation of the original pictures by A. Laby and J. Needham.

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Creator:
Davis, Henry Samuel, 1809–1851
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
[4] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 88 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8683. Der Ritter vom Turn : von den Exempel[n] der gotsforcht v[o]n erberkeit.

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Creator:
La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, active 14th century
Date:
in dem jor nach Christi geburt .M.cccc.xciii. jor gedruckt [1493]
Physical Description:
74 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8684. The handmaid to the arts.

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Creator:
Dossie, Robert, d. 1777
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8685. 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

8686. Fregatten Eugenies resa omkring jorden åren 1851-1853, under befäl af C.A. Virgin.

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Creator:
Skogman, C. (Carl), 1820–1907
Date:
[1854-55]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. illus. (part col.) fold. maps. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8687. 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

8688. A description of Bath, wherein the antiquity of the city, as well as the eminence of its founder; its magnitude, situation ... are respectively treated of ... Illustrated with the figure of King Bladud, the first founder of the city; together with proper plans and elevations from twenty-two copper plates. By John Wood ...

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1765
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part fold.) port., plans (part fold.) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8689. A concise history and analysis of all the principal styles of architecture; namely, Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, that of the dark ages, of the Arabians and of the Normans; including a detailed description of the origin, progress and decline of the Gothic. To which is added, a sketch of the architecture of England, down to the present time. By an amateur.

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Creator:
Boid, Edward
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
xx, [3]-212 p. 8 plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8690. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke, Esq., author of "The history of the peerage and baronetage," "of the extinct and dormant peerage," &c.

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Creator:
Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:
MDCCCXXXIV-MDCCCXXXVIII [1834-1838]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8691. Bowles's new preceptor in drawing ... Being the close study, for a series of years, of the late Mr. Lens ... On sixty-two copper-plates, engraved by himself. Designed chiefly for young beginners ... To which is prefixed, An introduction to drawing ... Translated from the French of monsieur Gerard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. du Fresnoy, Salmon, &c.

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Date:
[ca. 1799]
Physical Description:
20 p. 62 plates on 42 leaves. 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8692. Description of a second view of Pompeii, and surrounding country; representing the Tragic Theatre, Covered Theatre, Temple of Isis, Small Forum, now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square: painted, from drawings taken on the spot, by Mr. Burford ...

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Date:
1824
Physical Description:
12 p. fold. front. 23 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8693. 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

8694. 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

8695. Papyro-plastics, or The art of modelling in paper; being an instructive amusement for persons of both sexes. From the German, by D. Boileau.

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Creator:
Blasche, Bernhard Heinrich, 1766–1832
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
xiii p., 1 leaf, 102 p. col. front., 22 plates (part. fold.) 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8696. The artificer's complete lexicon, for terms and prices, adapted for gentlemen, engineers, architects, builders, mechanists, millwrights, manufacturers, tradesmen, etc. etc. comprehending great varieties of most useful and valuable calculations; with other information, both useful and curious ... By John Bennett ...

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Creator:
Bennett, John, engineer
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
476 p. diagrs. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8697. Felix Summerly's hand book for the National Gallery. With reminiscences of the most celebrated pictures drawn from the originals by John, James, and William Linnell.

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Creator:
Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808–1882
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
4 p.., [v]-ix, [1], 69, [1] p. front., ill. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8698. Australia as it really is, in its life, scenery, & adventure: with the character, habits, and customs of its aboriginal inhabitants, and the prospects and extent of its gold fields. By F. Eldershaw ...

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Creator:
Eldershaw, F
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
270 p. front. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8699. The pilgrim's progress / by John Bunyan ...

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Creator:
Bunyan, John, 1628–1688
Date:
[1857]
Physical Description:
[2], xxiv, 374, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8700. Catalogue of an exceedingly choice and varied collection of books and wood engravings by or relating to Thomas & John Bewick, and their pupils / collected by Mr. Edwin Pearson ; many of the volumes are in elegant bindings by Messrs. Bedford, Lewis, Zaehnsdorf, Hayday, and others ; also a few miscellaneous rare, curious and useful books which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge ... on Wednesday, 10th of June, 1868, and following day, at one o'clock precisely ...

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Date:
1868
Physical Description:
iv, [2], 67 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts