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101. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... By E. Hargrove.

Creator:: Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 4, 382 p. front., ill., plates, plan, col. fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: x, 322 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

103. 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.

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

104. A plan of the city, and fortifications of Louisburg / from a survey made by Richard Gridley ... ; A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg : with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the siege in 1745.

Creator:: Gridley, Richard, 1711–1796
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet ; 38 x 47 cm. and 38 x 45 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

106. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. Inventory of the trunk of Samuel Evers.

Creator:: Evers, Samuel
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: 1 item (3 pages) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. The library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Early English literature, 1519-1700, collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark, jr. ...

Creator:: Clark, William Andrews, 1877–1934
Date:: 1920-25
Physical Description:: 4 v. mounted front. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. The establishment of the yearly charge of our dyett, with incidents for housekeeping : also wages & boardwages to the officers & servants of our house, chamber, chappells, & stables, with provisions for horses : also allowances, stipends, and pentions to old & supernumerary servants and widows, to commence the first day of October, 1714.

Creator:: George I, King of Great Britain, 1660–1727
Date:: 1714-1716
Physical Description:: 1 volume (159, [1] pages) ; 47 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

Creator:: Saunders, George, 1762–1839
Date:: MDCCXC [1790 ]
Physical Description:: x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:: [6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. At Mr. de Poggi's new room, No. 91, New Bond Street, near Oxford Road, are now exhibiting two large pictures painted by Mr. Robert Cleveley of the Royal Navy : representing the great and important victory obtained by the British fleet, under the command of the Earl Howe, over the French, on the first of June, 1794.

Creator:: Poggi, A. C. de
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 leaflet ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. Billesdon Coplow : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

Creator:: Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 9, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Characters / by Williams.

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Date:: ca. 1800?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. Les delices des chateaux royaux, or, A pocket companion to the royal palaces of Windsor, Kensington, Kew, and Hampton Court : containing an account of their buildings, gardens, paintings, monuments and curiosities : with the institution and ceremonies of the order of the Garter : also a concise description of the towns, villages, and villas within XIV miles of Windsor : to which are added short sketches of the lives of the most eminent painters ...

Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: [6], 90, [2], 44, [2], 26, 32 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

Creator:: Boyn, John
Date:: 1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:: 1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. Account book.

Creator:: Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Date:: 1784 January 1-December 31
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. Album of cut-paper work.

Date:: circa 1800
Physical Description:: 1 volume (33 pages) ; 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: [2] pages ; 21cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens ; with appendixes and notes by D.K. Swan.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: 533 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

123. Plan of the fortification at Sandown, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 69 x 80 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

Creator:: Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement of Sydney cove / compiled from the original documents in the Public Record office, with extracts from the log-books of H.M.S. Sirius and an introduction and notes, by Owen Rutter ; forward by the Hon. B.S.B. Stevens, M.L.A., Premier of New South Wales ; five engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 149, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

Date:: 1758 April 27
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : parchment ; 71 x 86 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Andrew F. Petryn

127. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. The complete works of Robert Burns / edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with a glossarial index and a biographical memoir by Alexander Smith.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: lxii, [4], 636, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

129. A catalogue of historical prints, various subjects, landscapes, sea pieces, views, &c. : after the most capital pictures in England / engraved by the most celebrated artists ; published by John and Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside.

Creator:: Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:: 1787-1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([4], 88; viii, 23 p.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

Creator:: Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 16 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Sketchbook of drawings and designs by Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street, Worcester

Creator:: Simpson, Miss
Date:: circa 1795
Physical Description:: 1 volume (35 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. A tale of two cities.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xiv, 363, [3] pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted window at New-College Oxford / by Thomas Warton ...

Creator:: Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: [2], 8 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. A copy of the last will and testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. : with an act (passed 11th George the First) for incorporating the executors of the said will.

Creator:: Guy, Thomas, 1645?-1725
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 55, [1], 43, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. The costume of the Russian Empire / illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings ; with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: MDCCCIII [1803]
Physical Description:: [164] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink ; sheet 102 x 72 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Billesdon Coplow, hunt : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

Creator:: Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Strictures on Lt. Col. Tarleton's History of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America : wherein military characters and corps are vindicated from injurious aspersions, and several important transactions placed in their proper point of view, in a series of letters to a friend / by Roderick Mackenzie, late lieutenant in the 71st Regiment ; to which is added a detail of the siege of Ninety Six and the re-capture of the island of New-Providence.

Creator:: Mackenzie, Roderick, lieutenant
Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [2], 186 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. The diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, baron of Melcombe Regis : from March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761 : with an appendix, containing some curious and intersting [!] papers, which are either referred to, or alluded to, in the diary / published from His Lordship's original manuscripts by Henry Penruddocke Wyndham ...

Creator:: Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691–1762
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: xv, 504 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States : with biographical particulars of public characters : hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade / by Charles William Janson, Esq. late of the state of Rhode Island, counsellor at law ; illustrated by engravings.

Creator:: Janson, Charles William
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xiii, [2], 16-22, 499, [7] pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent : containing whatever is most worthy of notice in their ancient and present state ... with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of this great metropolis ... / by the Rev. John Entick ...

Creator:: Entick, John, 1703?-1773
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill., plans, ports., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. The North American atlas : selected from the most authentic maps, charts, plans, &c. hitherto published.

Creator:: Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:: MDCCLXXVII [1777, i.e. 1778]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([74] leaves, some folded) : 40 maps ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

Date:: 1756-1817
Physical Description:: 144 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Description des tableaux qui ornent le grand appartement de l'Hôtel de Montcalm.

Creator:: Hôtel de Montcalm (Montpellier, France)
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 70 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, counsellor of state to His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, Knight, &c.

Creator:: Pallas, Peter Simon, 1741–1811
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano habita idibus Aprilibus, MDCCXLIX. die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae ...

Creator:: King, William, 1685–1763
Date:: [1749]
Physical Description:: [6], 34 p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. Commonplace book.

Date:: 1829-1834
Physical Description:: 1 volume (70 leaves, some blank) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 96 pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

Creator:: Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 111 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam perillustris ac magnifici Domini Ignatii Christophori, nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall ... ab ... Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I ad ... Tzarum & Magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII ablegati extraordinarii / descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb ... ; 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.

Creator:: Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:: [1700?]
Physical Description:: [6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (13 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Twelve views of the Greenland and whale fishery [graphic].

Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. Britannia's triumph in the year MDCCLXII : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, &c. &c. ... / these drawings were made by Lieutenant Philip Ousbridge, an officer on the spot ...

Creator:: Orsbridge, Philip, -1767
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 4, [4] pages, 11, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. Six landscapes from original paintings.

Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. in folder 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. Posthumous memoirs of his own time / by Sir N.W. Wraxall.

Creator:: Wraxall, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751–1831
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1779-1781
Physical Description:: 10 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Pope's own miscellany : being a reprint of Poems on several occasions, 1717, containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others / edited by Norman Ault.

Date:: MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:: xcvii, [1], 165, [3] pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

Creator:: Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:: 24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

Date:: [ca. 1780?]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

Creator:: Livingston, William, 1723–1790
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [4], 144 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [1], 4-67, [9] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

Date:: [1758?]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. Album.

Creator:: Cockburn, James Pattison, 1779–1847
Date:: 1823-1825
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([226] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The four Indian kings.

Date:: [1780?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 22 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Relation de l'expedition aux Indes Occidentales, contre la Martinique : avec la reduction de la Guadelupe, et autres Isles Sous Vent, appartenant au roi de France, en 1759 / par Mons. Gardiner, capitaine des Mousquetaires Royaux de S.M., autrefois capitaine des Troupes de Marine à bord le Rippon, vaisseau de S.M. employé à cette expedition.

Creator:: Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [6] pages, 91, [1] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Memoirs of Josias Rogers, esq. commander of His Majesty's ship Quebec. By the late William Gilpin ... Published by his trustees, for the benefit of his school, at Boldre.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., iii, 184 p. front. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: v, [132] p., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

Creator:: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555–1628
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

Creator:: Wilson, James Holbert, 1809–1873
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: [4], 68 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. Reisen, Entdeckungen und Unternehmungen des Schifs-Capitain Johann Schmidt, oder John Smith : welche den wahren Ursprung derer englischen Colonien in Nord-Amerika bewirkt haben ... / gröstentheils aus dessilben eigenen Schriften beschrieben von Carl Friedrich Scheibler ...

Creator:: Scheibler, Carl Friedrich
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: 232, [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

Creator:: Grierson, George, -1753
Date:: 1740]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century : consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons : and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes.

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1817-1858
Physical Description:: 8 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. Commonplace book.

Date:: 1874-1924
Physical Description:: 1 volume (approximately 200 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Bill of expenses incurred by John Lawford for the funeral of William Bodimeade : manuscript.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 26 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde / par Antoine de Herrera ... ; translatee d'espagnol en françois ; a la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la navigation du vaillant capitaine de mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres ...

Creator:: Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:: 1622
Physical Description:: [6], 103, [7], 107-254 p., [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. Barnaby Rudge.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xix, [3], 685, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. The history and present state of Virginia : in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time -- II. The natural productions and conveniencies of the country, suited to trade and improvement -- III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace. -- IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: MDCCV [1705]
Physical Description:: [12], 104, 40, 64, 83, [1], 16, [4] pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

Creator:: Labat, maître d'armes
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. An excursion to Cheltenham, Birmingham, & Oxford, &c. &c. &c. : August the 26th, 1782.

Creator:: Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: 1 volume ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. Map of lower Egypt / from various surveys communicated by Major Bryce and other officers ; drawn by A. Arrowsmith 1807 ; Jas. Palmer sculp.

Creator:: Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 1 map on 2 sheets : hand col. ; 120 x 157 cm., sheets 65 x 164 cm. and 66 x 164 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. De Londres et de ses environs.

Creator:: Cambry, Jacques, 1749–1807
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 p.., v [i.e. iv], 147 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: xxi, 3, 382 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

Creator:: Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

189. Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays : Number II. containing a letter, representing the impropriety of sending forces to Virginia : the importance of taking Frontenac : and that the preservation of Oswego was owing to General Shirley's proceeding thither : containing objections to those parts of Evan's general map and analysis, which relate to the French title to the country, on the north-west side of St. Laurence River, between Fort Frontenac and Montreal, &c. : published in the New-York Mercury, no. 178. Jan. 5, 1756 : with an answer to so much thereof as concerns the public : and the several articles set in a just light / by Lewis Evans.

Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: v, [1], 7-35, [1] pages ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. Essays, biographical, critical and historical illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler : and of the various periodical papers, which in imitation of the writings of Steele and Addison, have been published .... / by Nathan Drake.

Creator:: Drake, Nathan, 1766–1836
Date:: 1809-1810
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan : with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company : as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah : and a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell, esq.

Creator:: Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711–1798
Date:: 1766-1771
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

Date:: [ca. 1725?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century : comprizing biographical memoirs of William Boywer, printer, F.S.A., and many of his learned friends : an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century: and biographical anecdotes of a considerable number of eminent writers and ingenious artists : with a very copious index / by John Nichols ...

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1812-1816
Physical Description:: 9 v. : fronts (v. 1-6, 8-9) plates, ports., 2 facsim. (1 fold.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. Life in eighteenth century England, by Robert J. Allen ...

Creator:: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Division of Museum Extension
Physical Description:: 42 plates including portraits, plans 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR.

Creator:: Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:: 1750-1778
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([83] p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. The costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [1] iii, [149] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. Plan of fortification, possibly at Newtown, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: December, 1671
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 76 x 120 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. Specimens of rare and beautiful needlework / designed and executed by Mrs. Delany and her friend the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton ; photographed from the originals in the possession of Lady Hall of Llanover.

Creator:: Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
Date:: [approximately 1860]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. French engravings of the eighteenth century : in the collection of Joseph Widener, Lynnewood Hall.

Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: 4 v. (641 p.) : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 64 x 75 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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102. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

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

106. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

107. Inventory of the trunk of Samuel Evers.

108. The library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Early English literature, 1519-1700, collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark, jr. ...

110. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

111. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

113. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

114. Billesdon Coplow : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

115. Characters / by Williams.

116. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

118. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

119. Account book.

120. Album of cut-paper work.

121. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

122. A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens ; with appendixes and notes by D.K. Swan.

123. Plan of the fortification at Sandown, Isle of Wight.

124. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

126. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

127. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

128. The complete works of Robert Burns / edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with a glossarial index and a biographical memoir by Alexander Smith.

129. A catalogue of historical prints, various subjects, landscapes, sea pieces, views, &c. : after the most capital pictures in England / engraved by the most celebrated artists ; published by John and Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside.

130. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

131. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

132. Sketchbook of drawings and designs by Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street, Worcester

133. A tale of two cities.

134. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted window at New-College Oxford / by Thomas Warton ...

135. A copy of the last will and testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. : with an act (passed 11th George the First) for incorporating the executors of the said will.

136. The costume of the Russian Empire / illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings ; with descriptions in English and French.

137. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

138. Billesdon Coplow, hunt : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

143. The North American atlas : selected from the most authentic maps, charts, plans, &c. hitherto published.

144. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

145. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

146. Description des tableaux qui ornent le grand appartement de l'Hôtel de Montcalm.

147. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, counsellor of state to His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, Knight, &c.

148. Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano habita idibus Aprilibus, MDCCXLIX. die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae ...

149. Commonplace book.

151. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

152. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

155. Twelve views of the Greenland and whale fishery [graphic].

157. Six landscapes from original paintings.

158. Posthumous memoirs of his own time / by Sir N.W. Wraxall.

159. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

160. Pope's own miscellany : being a reprint of Poems on several occasions, 1717, containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others / edited by Norman Ault.

161. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

162. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

164. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

166. Album.

168. The four Indian kings.

170. Memoirs of Josias Rogers, esq. commander of His Majesty's ship Quebec. By the late William Gilpin ... Published by his trustees, for the benefit of his school, at Boldre.

171. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

172. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

173. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

174. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

175. Reisen, Entdeckungen und Unternehmungen des Schifs-Capitain Johann Schmidt, oder John Smith : welche den wahren Ursprung derer englischen Colonien in Nord-Amerika bewirkt haben ... / gröstentheils aus dessilben eigenen Schriften beschrieben von Carl Friedrich Scheibler ...

177. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century : consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons : and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes.

178. Commonplace book.

179. Bill of expenses incurred by John Lawford for the funeral of William Bodimeade : manuscript.

181. Barnaby Rudge.

183. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

184. An excursion to Cheltenham, Birmingham, & Oxford, &c. &c. &c. : August the 26th, 1782.

185. Map of lower Egypt / from various surveys communicated by Major Bryce and other officers ; drawn by A. Arrowsmith 1807 ; Jas. Palmer sculp.

186. De Londres et de ses environs.

187. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

188. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

190. Essays, biographical, critical and historical illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler : and of the various periodical papers, which in imitation of the writings of Steele and Addison, have been published .... / by Nathan Drake.

192. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

194. Life in eighteenth century England, by Robert J. Allen ...

195. Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR.

196. The costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with descriptions in English and French.

197. Plan of fortification, possibly at Newtown, Isle of Wight.

198. Specimens of rare and beautiful needlework / designed and executed by Mrs. Delany and her friend the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton ; photographed from the originals in the possession of Lady Hall of Llanover.

199. French engravings of the eighteenth century : in the collection of Joseph Widener, Lynnewood Hall.

200. Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight.