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Letter to John Thomas Smith.
Creator:
Constable, John, 1776–1837
Date:
1797, between January 16 and March 23
Physical Description:
1 item (1 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Alphabet.
Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
1 v. ([26] leaves) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of North America.
Date:
not before 1634
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor, on parchment ; 21.9 x 42.8 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 45.8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Flora of the British Isles.
Creator:
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Date:
circa 1790-1810?
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth : performed by a student there 177[blank].
Creator:
Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801
Date:
approximately 1798-1799
Physical Description:
518 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Drawings of houses and gardens.
Creator:
Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747
Date:
1736-1743
Physical Description:
1 v. (circa 280 pages, with blanks) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Liber acquisitionis Te[r]re Sa[n]te de ultra mare : [Christi] no[m]i[n]e invocato : Regi Francie i[n]tytulato.
Creator:
Vigevano, Guido da, approximately 1280–approximately 1350
Date:
1375
Physical Description:
1 v. ([52] pages, with 2 blank pages) : ill. ; 29 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Maximiliani König Zeughauss.
Creator:
Kölderer, Jörg, d. 1540
Date:
between 1504 and 1508
Physical Description:
1 volume (63 drawings on 68 pages) : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Catherine Hamilton commonplace book.
Creator:
Hamilton, Catherine
Date:
1822-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London.
Creator:
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
1 volume ([14], 365, [11] pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks.
Date:
1805-1822
Physical Description:
1 volume (65 leaves, rectos only) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Treatise on the art of weaving, with a full description of the Jacquard machine / Bryan Rotherham.
Creator:
Rotherham, Bryan, 1876–
Date:
1897
Physical Description:
1 volume ([131] leaves) : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A full & true account of a pleasure party to Rockingham in 1817 by C.R., illustrated by J.P.
Date:
1817?
Physical Description:
2 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A journal of a voyage to Madrass : in the year of our Lord Christ, 1761 : manuscript / by Richard Rose, Leiutenant [sic] in the 96th Regiment of Foot.
Creator:
Rose, Richard, 1728–1770
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
1 volume ([6], 80 pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens.
Creator:
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Date:
1879-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 18 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Henry Seebohm ornithological notebook and diary.
Creator:
Seebohm, Henry, 1832–1895
Date:
1860-1866
Physical Description:
1 volume (140 pages) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Helmingham herbal and bestiary.
Date:
circa 1500
Physical Description:
1 v. ([20] leaves, with 1 blank leaf) : ill. ; 45 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Journals of James Nicholas Dick, British naval surgeon, and James Douglas Dick, naval officer.
Creator:
Dick, James Nicholas, 1832–1920
Date:
1853-1898
Physical Description:
2 volumes ([150], [84] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sailing and fighting instructions for His Majesties fleet.
Creator:
Great Britain. Admiralty
Date:
[approximately 1711]
Physical Description:
34 pages ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Trattato di architectura civile e militare.
Creator:
Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439–1502
Date:
not after 1521
Physical Description:
1 volume (178 pages) : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
North & south Devonshire.
Creator:
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
Date:
1840
Physical Description:
1 v. ([64] p., with blanks) : ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley.
Creator:
Stapley, W. B.
Date:
1855-1870
Physical Description:
1 v. ([42] leaves) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A tour in North Wales.
Creator:
Walter, John
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
1 volume (184, 15 pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches of Teignmouth and Torquay.
Creator:
Luxmoore, Mary
Date:
circa 1830
Physical Description:
1 v. ([20] leaves) : ill. ; 14 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Della architettura militare : manuscript.
Creator:
Marchi, Francesco de, 1504–1577
Date:
mid-16th century
Physical Description:
1 volume : 85 drawings, one print ; 43 cm + 8 items
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Character of forest trees.
Date:
circa 1817
Physical Description:
1 v. (31 leaves) : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Osbourne's Fort [graphic] / Trollup fecit.
Creator:
Trollope, Robert, -1686
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
2 drawings : watercolor and pen and black ink ; sheets 29 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce Marshall Rare Books
A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], ii p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
William Field scrapbook.
Creator:
Field, William, 1854–1932
Date:
1895
Physical Description:
1 v. (68 p.) ; 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketchbook.
Creator:
Palairet, Septimus Henry, 1807–1854
Date:
circa 1830
Physical Description:
1 album ([88] leaves of drawings) : watercolor over pen and ink ; 10 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rebecca Salter, in memory of her father Samuel Salter.
The Fort Devereux placed uppon the Ferne Islande.
Date:
circa 1600
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 31 x 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John Hearne commonplace book.
Creator:
Hearne, John, 1795 or 6–1849
Date:
1820-1849
Physical Description:
1 v. ([28], 292 p., with blanks) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of the southeastern part of North America.
Creator:
Hammerton, William, -1732
Date:
1721
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and black and brown ink, with red, yellow, and blue-gray wash ; 78 x 132 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Acorn Foundation, Inc., Alexander O. Vietor, Yale BA 1936, President, in honor of Paul Mellon
A survey of the estate of John Plampin Esquire, taken in 1774, 1774.
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
1 v. (45, [3] p., with blanks) : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of the work of William Walter Burch, engraver on gold and silver.
Creator:
Burch, William Walter, approximately 1796–1873
Date:
1821-1871
Physical Description:
1 volume (226 pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Plan of the town of Hull and its immediate surroundings.
Creator:
Archer, James, approximately 1632–approximately 1680
Date:
ca. 1680
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 67 x 94 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sir Joseph Banks's fishery book of the River Witham in Lincolnshire.
Creator:
Banks, Sarah Sophia, 1744–1818
Date:
1784-1800
Physical Description:
2 v. ; ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The bounds of the fortificatie of Gosport.
Creator:
De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
Date:
approximately 1678
Physical Description:
1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 74 x 93 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of watercolors of British birds.
Date:
circa 1820-circa 1830
Physical Description:
1 album (94 drawings) : watercolor ; 20 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Scraps collected from all books, at all times, in all places and on all subjects / by Edward Bradley, 1847.
Creator:
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Date:
circa 1841-1872
Physical Description:
1 album (approximately 110 drawings, on 71 leaves) ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Haustellata lepidoptera diurna.
Creator:
Stephens, James Francis, 1792–1853
Date:
circa 1839
Physical Description:
1 v. (169 pages, some blank) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Prendergast family photograph album.
Date:
late 1860s-1870s
Physical Description:
1 album (48 photographs) : albumen prints ; volume 31 x 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Kyngeston vpon Hvll.
Creator:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:
circa 1642
Physical Description:
1 view : illustrations ; 31 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of comic sketches.
Creator:
A.J.K.H.
Date:
1869-1873
Physical Description:
1 album (91 drawings) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An excursion to Horace's Sabine farm, April 1st 1846.
Creator:
Pett, A
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 8, [1] leaves) : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The First [... fourth] booke of architecture.
Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
not before 1611
Physical Description:
1 volume (272 leaves) : pen and ink on paper ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Edith C. Crafton science notebook, completed at South End House, Croydon.
Creator:
Crafton, Edith Caroline, 1833–
Date:
ca.1850
Physical Description:
[41] leaves : illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Quartettes.
Date:
circa 1860?
Physical Description:
53 cards (rectos only) ; 92 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The young companion.
Date:
1897 January-1898 December
Physical Description:
2 volumes (204, 130 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of maritime and figure sketches.
Creator:
Jones, Calvert Richard, 1802–1877
Date:
1849 September 4-1850 April 22
Physical Description:
1 v. (31 leaves) ; 18 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of animal drawings and lithographs.
Date:
1832-1834
Physical Description:
1 v. ([9] leaves, with many blanks) : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Little Gertrude's picture book, from mamma, 1864.
Creator:
Egerton, Mary Sarah Amherst, Lady, 1837–1892
Date:
1864
Physical Description:
1 v. (ca. 140 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketchbook.
Creator:
Garnett, John, b. ca. 1791?
Date:
circa 1811
Physical Description:
1 v. ([74] leaves) : ill. ; 16 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Survey of Hertford Castle.
Creator:
Basil, Simon, -1615
Date:
1608
Physical Description:
1 volume (3 leaves) : on parchment ; 38 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Charles Dashwood diaries and commissions relating to Xalapa and Guatemala City.
Creator:
Dashwood, Charles, 1787–1832
Date:
1826-1830
Physical Description:
2 v. + (2 commissions) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Field poppy : Papaver rhoeas / T. Bush.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
2006
Physical Description:
1 collage ; 40 x 28 cm, on sheet 42 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crowquills and goosequills.
Date:
circa 1855-1857
Physical Description:
2 v. (104, 108 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the estate of Richard Moore, Esq., Kentwell Hall, Suffolk.
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
1 volume : illustrations, maps ; 16 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collinson family playlet.
Date:
circa 1840
Physical Description:
1 item ([4] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of domestic interiors and figures in fashionable dress.
Date:
circa 1860
Physical Description:
1 v. ([32] p.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Dandelion] : [Taraxacum officinale].
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
2005-2006
Physical Description:
1 collage ; 40 x 39 cm, on sheet 42 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Plans for the fortifications at Hull.
Creator:
Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:
1681-1682
Physical Description:
13 sheets : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheets 68 x 72 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketchbook of views of Rome and its environs.
Creator:
Bunsen, Frances Waddington, Baroness, 1791–1876
Date:
1817-1837
Physical Description:
38 drawings, on 23 leaves (in 1 sketchbook) ; 18 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Meadow buttercup : Ranunculus acris / T. Bush.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
2006
Physical Description:
1 collage ; 39 x 26 cm, on sheet 42 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Outlines of a portion of the life of Trelawny Spoon, gent. : making known to the world for the first time many adventures and incidents of the most thrilling interest which might possibly have occurred had such a person as Trelawny Spoon, gent. ever existed / designed and sketched by John L. Roget.
Creator:
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Date:
1847-1848
Physical Description:
1 volume ([2], 33, [1] leaves) : chiefly illustrations ; 15 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Diane Nixon
Sketches of John & George from home / by John Cowell Junr., expressly for his brother dot.
Creator:
Cowell, John
Date:
June 25th, 1842
Physical Description:
1 volume (17 leaves) : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A selection of maps / by Mary Anne Ball ; completed Novbr. 26th, 1818.
Creator:
Ball, Mary Anne
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
1 atlas : 25 maps ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Original drawings for Designs for small picturesque cottages and hunting boxes.
Creator:
Gyfford, E
Date:
[not after 1807]
Physical Description:
19 drawings : watercolor ; 22 x 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Countess Winifred, and her children : a tale / by Louisa Agnes McClure ; edited by Margaret McClure.
Creator:
McClure, Louisa Agnes, 1884 or 1885–
Date:
1896
Physical Description:
[4], 28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Signal manual from the French ship Neptune.
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
1 v. (44 pages) : ill. ; 18 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Record books.
Creator:
Roberts, David, 1796–1864
Date:
1829-1864
Physical Description:
2 volumes (171, 60 leaves) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Drawings and notebooks on porcelain painting.
Creator:
Hancock, John, 1804–1839
Date:
circa 1821-1836
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 27 small sheets of drawings
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Gladiatoria fencing manual.
Date:
1440s
Physical Description:
1 v. ([86] p.) : ill. ; 18 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Drawings of London street life.
Creator:
Moser, Robert James, 1828–1908
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
1 volume (37 drawings) : pen and black ink ; 8.3 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts