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Views of the Neilgherries.
Creator:
MacCurdy, E. A
Date:
1830
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views in Orkney and on the north-eastern coast of Scotland : taken in MDCCCV and etched MDCCCVII.
Creator:
Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 1765–1839
Date:
[1810?]
Physical Description:
[4], 27 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Portraits of the princes & people of India / by the Honble. Miss Eden ; drawn on the stone by L. Dickinson.
Creator:
Eden, Emily, 1797–1869
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
24, [1] leaves, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Chesterfield travestie, or, School for modern manners : embellished with ten caricatures / engraved by Woodward from original drawings by Rowlandson.
Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:
1808 [i.e. 1809]
Physical Description:
iv, [2], 70, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
London and its environs in the nineteenth century : illustrated by a series of views from original drawings / by Thomas H. Shepherd ; with historical, topographical and critical notices ; series the first, comprising the earlier edifices, antiquities, &c.
Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
[1829, i.e. 1829-1831]
Physical Description:
160 p., [81] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A treatise on Ackermann's superfine water colours : with directions how to prepare and use them : including succinct hints on drawing and painting.
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1801]
Physical Description:
24 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The history of the abbey church of St. Peter's Westminster : its antiquities and monuments.
Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Morris & Company : 449, Oxford Street, London : we beg to call the attention of the public to some of the numerous kinds of goods which we produce.
Creator:
Morris & Co. (London, England)
Date:
not before 1882]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968
Ocean and river gardens: a history of the marine and fresh-water aquaria, with the best methods for their establishment and preservation ... By H. Noel Humphreys ...
Creator:
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
2 pts. in l v. illus., 20 col. pl. (incl. front.) 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Snow-flakes and the stories they told the children / by M. Betham-Edwards ... ; illustrated by H.K. Browne.
Creator:
Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836–1919
Date:
[1862]
Physical Description:
46, [2] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Holy Bible.
Date:
1800-1816
Physical Description:
8 v. : ill. ; 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...
Creator:
Rogers, Charles, 1711–1784
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
2 v. illus., plates, ports. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cocking and its votaries.
Creator:
Taylor, S. A
Date:
1885]
Physical Description:
36, i-iv p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Antiquarian and topographical cabinet, containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain. Accompanied with letter-press descriptions.
Creator:
Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:
1807-11
Physical Description:
10 v. illus., plates. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views in France, Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Italy.
Creator:
Wood, Hugh
Date:
[1840?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Constitutiones provinciales ecclesiae Anglicanae]
Creator:
Lyndwood, William, 1375?-1446
Date:
[1483]
Physical Description:
[350] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Daylight / [Pauline Lamont-Fisher].
Creator:
Lamont-Fisher, Pauline
Date:
2006
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, William B. Sarsfield (William Benjamin Sarsfield), 1781–1850
Date:
[1819-1820]
Physical Description:
3 parts (72 p., [9] leaves of plates) : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Monastic and baronial remains : with other interesting fragments of antiquity in England, Wales, and Scotland ... / by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...
Creator:
Parkyns, George Isham, approximately 1750–approximately 1820
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
London : a pilgrimage / by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold.
Creator:
Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826–1884
Date:
1872
Physical Description:
[14], xii, 191, [1] p., [52] leaves of plates ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Itinerarium curiosum, or, An account of the antiquities and remarkable curiositys in nature or art : observ'd in travels thro' Great Brittan : illustrated with copper plates : Centuria I / by William Stukeley, M.D. CML. & SRS.
Creator:
Stukeley, William, 1687–1765
Date:
MDCCXXIV [1724]
Physical Description:
[12], 198, [6] pages, 100 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Memento of the Mission for Children and Young People hald at Eastbourne : and conducted by Mr. E. Arrowsmith (Arabin House, Loughton, Essex)
Date:
[approximately 1890]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
The New album of Waverly views.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([12] panels) : all illustrations ; 8 x 133 cm folded to 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new system of geography : designed in a most plain and easy method ... : accommodated with new mapps of ... the whole world : with geographical tables explaining the divisions in each mapp / by John Seller ...
Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:
[1685]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4], 112 [i.e. 110 p.], [53] leaves of plates : 51 maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Le catalogue des statues, bas-reliefs, busts, &c. : qui se vendent chez le Sieur Harris, sculpteur, vis-à-vis de la Nouvelle Eglise, dans le Strand, a Londre.
Creator:
Harris, Charles, -1795?
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
16 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History and antiquities of the county of Leicester.
Creator:
Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:
1795-1811
Physical Description:
4 vols. in 8
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / designed by G. M. Woodward ; and etch'd by T. Rowlandson.
Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
20 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre : divisez en trois parties ... : ouvrage enrichi de plus de quatre-cens planches gravées en taille-douce / par Allain Manesson Mallet ...
Creator:
Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?
Date:
1696
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The costume of Great Britain / designed, engraved, and written by W.H. Pyne.
Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1804 [that is, not before 1819]
Physical Description:
[2], iii, [101] pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Salisbury races, 1804.
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
1 race card ; 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The antiquaries museum : illustrating the antient architecture, painting, and sculpture of Great Britain, from the time of the Saxons to the introduction of the Grecian and Roman architecture by Inigo Jones in the reign of King James I. / By Jacob Schnebbelie ...
Creator:
Schnebbelie, Jacob, 1760–1792
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791, i.e. 1800]
Physical Description:
[148] p. in various pagings, [58] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Moor Park, Rickmansworth : a series of photographs / by Alvin Langdon Coburn ; with an introduction by Lady Ebury.
Creator:
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882–1966
Date:
1914
Physical Description:
11, [1], 53-55, [1] pages, XX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
The high mettled racer / by the late Charles Dibdin ; to which are added many interesting anecdotes of the race-horse ; illustrated by ten first-rate engravings on wood by G.W. Bonner, from designs by Robert Cruikshank.
Creator:
Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814
Date:
MDCCCXXXI [1831]
Physical Description:
36 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letters on India : political, commercial, and military : relative to subjects important to the British interests in the East : addressed to a proprietor of East-India stock / by Lieut. Colonel Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, John, 1808–1887
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
xxiv, 270 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The history of Wem, : and the following villages and townships, viz Edstaston, Cotton, Lowe and Ditches, Horton, Newtown, Wolverley, Northwood, Tilley, Sleap, Astoin, and Lacon. / Taken from the manuscript of the late Rev. Sam. Garbet, ...
Creator:
Garbett, Samuel
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
[v]-viii, [1], 368, [4] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The costume of Yorkshire / illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being fac-similes of original drawings, with descriptions in English and French.
Creator:
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
10 parts ([7], 96 pages, [1], 40 leaves of plates) : color illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
POETree / Andrew Norris.
Creator:
Norris, Andrew
Date:
2005
Physical Description:
[14] birch leaves ; leaves approximately 60 x 110 cm, in paper box 75 x 135 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
London : a brief account of its many beautiful and interesting sights.
Date:
[approximately 1951]
Physical Description:
74, [6] pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Catalog for Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory]
Creator:
Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory
Date:
[1784?]
Physical Description:
[36] leaves : ill. 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Father Tuck's kindergarten paper modelling. Series 2. Toyland : models of doll's house, toy soldiers, sentry box & numerous other objects.
Date:
[between 1910 and 1925]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : color illustrations ; 26 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sylva Italica, or Portraits of forest trees in Italy.
Creator:
Strutt, Jacob George, 1790–1864
Date:
1844
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
School of painting for the imitation of woods and marbles / as taught and practised by A.R. Van der Burg and P. Van der Burg, directors of the Rotterdam Painting Institution.
Creator:
Burg, A. R. van der
Date:
1887
Physical Description:
48 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The habit makes the man = L'habit forme l'homme.
Date:
18--]
Physical Description:
1 game (26 pieces) : paper, col. ; in case, 12 x 8 x 2 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The seven lamps of architecture / by John Ruskin ; with illustrations, drawn and etched by the author.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
viii, [4], 205, [1] p., 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Ticket for 1951 Festival of Britain special bus service].
Creator:
London Transport Executive
Date:
[1951]
Physical Description:
1 ticket ; 31 x 100 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Specimens of the ancient sculpture and painting now remaining in England.
Creator:
Carter, John, 1748–1817
Date:
1780-1787
Physical Description:
2 vols. in one.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 / by W. H. Maxwell ...
Creator:
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 477, [1] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
Description of a view of Macao in China : now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square / painted by the proprietor, Robert Burford.
Creator:
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861
Date:
1840
Physical Description:
12 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
With the best Christmas and New Year's wishes of Wm. P. Thompson, F.C.S. : international agent for foreign and Colonial patent solicitors : 1894 (aluminium).
Creator:
Thompson, W. P. (William Phillips)
Date:
1894
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Graphic scenes in the Japan Expedition / by William Heine, artist of the expedition ; comprising ten plates and an illustrated title-page, printed in colors and tints by Sarony & Co. ...
Creator:
Heine, Wilhelm, 1827–1885
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
[12] leaves, [1], 10 leaves of plates : color illustrations, portrait ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.
Creator:
Moon, Francis Graham, 1796–1871
Date:
[1846?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 29 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Novel and interesting exhibition of fancy shell-work!.
Creator:
Le Lacheur, Madame, active 1845
Date:
[1845]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 23 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Conversations on geology : comprising a familiar explanation of the Huttonian and Wernerian systems ; the Mosaic geology / as explained by Granville Penn ; and the late discoveries of Professor Buckland, Humboldt, Dr. MacCulloch and others.
Creator:
Penn, Granville, 1761–1844
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
xxii, [2], 371 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Advertisement for household items made by blind workers].
Creator:
London Association for the Blind
Date:
[approximately 1930]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Advertisement for Hull General Cemetery, Spring Bank, citing charges, fees and regulations].
Creator:
Hull General Cemetery (Kingston upon Hull, England)
Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Menu : 22nd, March, 1939 : dinner, 2/6.
Date:
1939
Physical Description:
1 menu : illustration ; 21 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ladies' Festival : Wednesday, 6th November, 1929 : Wharncliffe Rooms, Hotel Great Central, N.W.
Creator:
Freemasons. Chilterns Lodge, No. 4634 (Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
1929
Physical Description:
4 pages : illlustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Three advertisements for American Fluid leather treatment, manufactured by W. Webb, London.
Creator:
Webb, W., active 1813
Date:
not before 1813
Physical Description:
3 sheets ; 17 x 21 cm, and smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The grammar of ornament by Owen Jones. Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament. One hundred and twelve plates.
Creator:
Jones, Owen, 1809–1874
Date:
[1865]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 157 p. ill., col. plates. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Alhambra court in the Crystal Palace / erected and described by Owen Jones ...
Creator:
Jones, Owen, 1809–1874
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
119, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., plans ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Buck's antiquities; or venerable remains of above four hundred castles, monasteries, palaces, &c. &c. in England and Wales. With near one hundred views of cities and chief towns. By Messrs. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck ...
Creator:
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., map, port., plates (some folded) ; 47 cm. (v. 3, 32 x 46 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wild flowers. by Anne Pratt ...
Creator:
Pratt, Anne, 1806–1893
Date:
1852-53
Physical Description:
2 v. ill., col. plates. 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
You're never alone in the ocean : life of plankton / Nicholas Phillips.
Creator:
Phillips, Nicholas
Date:
1981.]
Physical Description:
1 v. (4 p.) : ill. ; 18 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A series of subjects from the works of the late R. P. Bonington : drawn on stone by T. D. Harding.
Creator:
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801–1828
Date:
1829
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ackermann's new drawing book of light and shadow : in imitation of Indian ink.
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
[2], ii, [12] p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A history of British birds. By Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Alice's adventures in Wonderland / by Lewis Carroll ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham ; with a proem by Austin Dobson.
Creator:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832–1898
Date:
[1907]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 161, [3] pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sylvia Van Sinderen in honor of Elisabeth Fairman
Facts from Gweedore : with useful hints to Donegal tourists / compiled from notes by Lord George Hill ...
Creator:
Hill, George, Lord, 1801–1879
Date:
1845 [i.e. 1846]
Physical Description:
37, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A natural history of fishes : forty engravings on wood.
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
36 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Iliad of Homer / translated by Mr. Pope ...
Creator:
Homer
Date:
1715-1720
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 28cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Specimens of ancient furniture drawn from existing authorities / by Henry Shaw ... ; with description by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick ...
Creator:
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
57 p., LXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Chinese landskips.
Date:
[ca. 1752?]
Physical Description:
12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Coates & Yates, artistic printers : 20, Yorkshire Street, Rochdale.
Creator:
Coates & Yates (Rochdale, England)
Date:
[approximately 1890]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Views of the remains of ancient buildings in Rome and its vicinity : with a descriptive and historical account of each subject / by M. Dubourg.
Creator:
Dubourg, Matthew
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[33] pages, 26 leaves of plates : colored illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Costumes of India / by Sir Charles D'Oyly Bart. ; XII plates.
Creator:
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
[13] leaves : lithographs ; 26 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.
Creator:
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778–1823
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 44 [i.e. 34] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Cornelius Osgood, transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Harper's Magazine for September (Vol. 77, No. 460), published Aug. 1888.
Creator:
Harper & Brothers
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977