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101. Going to a fight : the sporting world in all its variety of style and costume along the road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst.

Going to a fight : the sporting world in all its variety of style and costume along the road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst.
Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789–1856
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
42 pictures on 8 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatints ; sheets end-to-end 6 x 360 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 10 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Microcosm, or, A picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, & c. of Great Britain, in a series of above a thousand groups of small figures ... the whole accurately drawn from nature and etched by W.H. Pyne, and aquatinted by J. Hill. To which are now added explanations of the plates, and essays relating to their various subjects, by C. Gray ...

Microcosm, or, A picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, & c. of Great Britain, in a series of above a thousand groups of small figures ... the whole accurately drawn from nature and etched by W.H. Pyne, and aquatinted by J. Hill. To which are now added explanations of the plates, and essays relating to their various subjects, by C. Gray ...
Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 29 x 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. Microcosm, or, A picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c. of Great Britain : in a series of above six hundred groups of small figures for the embellishment of landscape ... : the whole accurately drawn from nature, and etched / by W.H. Pyne and aquatinted by J. Hill ; to which are added explanations of the plates, and essays relating to their various subjects, by C. Gray.

Microcosm, or, A picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c. of Great Britain : in a series of above six hundred groups of small figures for the embellishment of landscape ... : the whole accurately drawn from nature, and etched / by W.H. Pyne and aquatinted by J. Hill ; to which are added explanations of the plates, and essays relating to their various subjects, by C. Gray.
Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 30 x 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J. G. Stedman ...

Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J. G. Stedman ...
Creator:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744–1797
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. The naval chronology of Great Britain, or, An historical account of naval and maritime events, from the commencement of the War in 1803, to the end of the year 1816 : also, particulars of the most important courts-martial, votes of Parliament, lists of flag-officers in commission, and of promotions for each year : the whole forming a complete naval history of the above period : illustrated with numerous engravings / by Mr. J. Ralfe ; in three volumes.

The naval chronology of Great Britain, or, An historical account of naval and maritime events, from the commencement of the War in 1803, to the end of the year 1816 : also, particulars of the most important courts-martial, votes of Parliament, lists of flag-officers in commission, and of promotions for each year : the whole forming a complete naval history of the above period : illustrated with numerous engravings / by Mr. J. Ralfe ; in three volumes.
Creator:
Ralfe, James, active 1820–1829
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
12 pts. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. Rome [graphic].

Rome [graphic].
Creator:
Rawle, S.
Date:
[ca. 1840]
Physical Description:
1 print : aquatint ; 46 x 354 cm, folded to 46 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. [Transparent prints].

[Transparent prints].
Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
6 prints : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets 52 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. Twenty-four views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt / from drawings by Henry Salt, Esq.

Twenty-four views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt / from drawings by Henry Salt, Esq.
Creator:
Salt, Henry, 1780–1827
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 36-79 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. Specimens of continental architecture / by Robert Smirke, Junr. F.A.S.

Specimens of continental architecture / by Robert Smirke, Junr. F.A.S.
Creator:
Smirke, Robert, Sir, 1780–1867
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 4 pages, VIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. 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.

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

111. Panorama of the Rhine : embracing a series of the most interesting views from Cologne, Coblentz, Mayence and Frankfort / panorama drawn by R.J. Steiner ; the views from sketches by R. Havell.

Panorama of the Rhine : embracing a series of the most interesting views from Cologne, Coblentz, Mayence and Frankfort / panorama drawn by R.J. Steiner ; the views from sketches by R. Havell.
Creator:
Steiner, R. J.
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
1 print on 6 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 120 x 40 cm, folded to 24 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.

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

113. A set of views in the island of Ceylon.

A set of views in the island of Ceylon.
Creator:
Dubourg, Matthew, active 1806–1838
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
6 prints in 1 volume : aquatint and etching ; volume 57 x 86 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.

Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.
Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:
1813 [i.e. 1839]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Twelve views of places in the Kingdom of Mysore : the country of Tippoo Sultan, from drawings taken on the spot : to which are annexed concise descriptions of the places drawn, with a brief detail of part of the operations of the Army under the Marquis of Cornwallis, during the late war, and a few other particulars / by R.H. Colebrook, Lieutenant in the service of the Honourable East-India Company, who attended the Army in the capacity of surveyor.

Twelve views of places in the Kingdom of Mysore : the country of Tippoo Sultan, from drawings taken on the spot : to which are annexed concise descriptions of the places drawn, with a brief detail of part of the operations of the Army under the Marquis of Cornwallis, during the late war, and a few other particulars / by R.H. Colebrook, Lieutenant in the service of the Honourable East-India Company, who attended the Army in the capacity of surveyor.
Creator:
Colebrook, Robert H.
Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Costumes of the members of the University of Oxford / drawn, engraved & published by N. Whittock.

Costumes of the members of the University of Oxford / drawn, engraved & published by N. Whittock.
Creator:
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([1], 17 p.) : all ill. ; 11 x 119 cm, folded to 11 x 7 cm, attached to boards 12 x 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. [Portraits of the winning horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster : from the year 1815 to the present year].

[Portraits of the winning horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster : from the year 1815 to the present year].
Date:
[1815-1844]
Physical Description:
30 prints : aquatint, hand-colored ; 56 x 77 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. Dia dos de Mayo de 1808, en Madrid : asesinan los franceses a los patriotas en el Prado.

No cover image available
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 print : aquatint ; 24 x 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. The roadsters album.

No cover image available
Creator:
Newhouse, Charles B., ca. 1805–1877
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
[17] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. A peep at the fox chace.

No cover image available
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
1 peepshow (7 panels) ; 12 x 14 cm, expanding to 62 cm (open)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.

No cover image available
Date:
[1824?]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. The youth's monthly visitor, or, Instructive and entertaining miscellany of useful knowledge : containing recreations and amusements in natural history, chemistry, astronomy, natural history, and botany, philosophical questions, moral tales, rules of life, and practical wisdom, manners and customs of different nations, biography, anecdotes, poetry, &c. &c. : intended for the moral and literary improvement of both sexes : illustrated by coloured plates, and numerous wood engravings.

No cover image available
Date:
1822-1823
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations (some colored) ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. The annual souvenir : with fine engravings for the year 1834.

No cover image available
Date:
MDCCCXXXIV [1834]
Physical Description:
[8],151, [3] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. An historical record of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster : with the muster rolls from the first formation of the regiment, MDCCLXXIX, to the relodgement of the standards in the tower, MDCCCXXIX.

No cover image available
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
vi, 279, [1], [108], xviii, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]

No cover image available
Creator:
Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:
[1822]
Physical Description:
24 pictures on 1 joined sheet : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 617 cm, in cylindrical case 16 cm x 7 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. Madras [graphic].

No cover image available
Creator:
Havell, Robert, -1832
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
1 print on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint : sheets end-to-end 13 x 285 cm, rolled (in wooden drum) to 13 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. Shetland : twelve etchings / Norman Ackroyd.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ackroyd, Norman, 1938–
Date:
2012
Physical Description:
12 prints : aquatints ; sheets 23 x 34 cm, in box 27 x 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jason Bacon, Yale BA 1956.

128. Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas : for the lighting of streets, houses, and public buildings : with elevations, sections, and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus now employed at the gas works in London, and the principal provincial towns of Great Britain : accompanied with comparative estimates, exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light : with seven plates / by Fredrick Accum, operative chemist ; lecturer on practical chemistry, on mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures, member of the Royal Irish Academy, fellow of the Limæan Society, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:
MDCCXIX [1819]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 334, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Dia 19 de Marzo de 1808, en Aranjuez : caida y prision del Principe de la Paz.

No cover image available
Date:
Nov. 1, 1813
Physical Description:
1 print : aquatint ; 21 x 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. Dia dos de Mayo de 1808, en Madrid : Mueren Daviz y Velarde defendiendo el Parque de Artilleria.

No cover image available
Date:
Dec. 15, 1813
Physical Description:
1 print : aquatint ; 25 x 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. Portraits of the winning horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster : from the year 1815 to the year 1824, inclusive.

No cover image available
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
[26] p., [10] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 66 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Costumes, or, A short sketch of the manners and customs of the principal foreign inhabitants of the globe / with beautiful coloured engravings.

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1816]
Physical Description:
[28] p. : . ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Tom Raw, the Griffin : a burlesque poem, in twelve cantos : illustrated by twenty-five engravings, descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India Company's service, from the period of his quitting England to his obtaining a staff situation in India / by a civilian and an officer on the Bengal establishment.

No cover image available
Creator:
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
viii, [3], 325 p., [25] leaves of plates : col ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. An analysis of horsemanship : teaching the whole art of riding, in the manege, military, hunting, racing, and travelling system : together with the method of breaking horses, for every purpose to which those noble animals are adapted / by John Adams, ridingmaster ; in three volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Adams, John (Riding master)
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. Essays by a society of gentlemen, at Exeter ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
viii, 573, 1 p., 5 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. Portugal illustrated : in a series of letters / by the Rev. W.M. Kinsey, B.D. Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Auckland ; embellished with a map, plates of coins, vignettes, modinhas, and various engravings of costumes, landscape scenery, &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Kinsey, William Morgan, 1788–1851
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
[4], xxxviii, [2], 564 p., x, [19], ix leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or, The reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments ... / Ben Tally Ho.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Rural sports.

No cover image available
Creator:
Daniel, William Barker, 1753?-1833
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Sporting anecdotes, original and selected : including numerous characteristic portraits of persons in every walk of life, who have acquired notoriety from their achievements on the turf, at the table, and in the diversions of the field : with sketches of various animals of the chase : to which is added, an account of noted pedestrians, trotting-matches, cricketers, &c. : the whole forming a complete delineation of the sporting world / by Pierce Egan.

No cover image available
Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
iv, [4], 592 pages, [6] leaves of plates, [1] folded : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. Boxiana, or, Sketches of ancient and modern pugilism ... / by P. Egan.

No cover image available
Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1823-1829
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving / by Ben Tally Ho.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. / from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. ; containing one hundred plates ; with a supplement of New South Wales.

No cover image available
Creator:
Williamson, Thomas, Captain
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[180] p., [110] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. Designs for the pavillon at Brighton : humbly inscribed to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales / by H. Repton, Esq. ; with the assistance of his sons, J.A. Repton and G.S. Repton, architects.

No cover image available
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
[4], x, 41, [1] pages, [10] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : executed from drawings made upon the spot in the year 1791 ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Merigot, James
Date:
1797[-1799]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. Orme's collection of British field sports / illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

No cover image available
Creator:
Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822
Date:
[1807-1808]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 20 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 47 x 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Illustrations of Japan : consisting of private memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning dynasty of the Djogouns, or sovereigns of Japan : a description of the feasts and ceremonies observed throughout the year at their court : and of the ceremonies customary at marriages and funerals : to which are subjoined, observations on the legal suicide of the Japanese, remarks on their poetry, and explanation of their mode of reckoning time, particulars respecting the Dosia powder, the preface of a work Confoutzee on filial piety, &c. &c. / by M. Titsingh ; formerly chief agent to the Dutch East India Company at Nangasaki ; translated from the French, by Frederic Shoberl ; with colored plates ; faithfully copied from Japanese original designs.

No cover image available
Creator:
Titsingh, Isaac, 1744–1812
Date:
MDCCXXII [1822]
Physical Description:
xvi, 325, [3] pages, [13] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Five years' residence in the Canadas : including a tour through part of the United States of America, in the year 1823 / by Edward Allen Talbot, Esq., of the Talbot Settlement, Upper Canada ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Talbot, Edward Allen, 1801–1839
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore / by W.H. Pyne ; illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
MDCCCXIX [1819]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. Letters from Nova Scotia : comprising sketches of a young country / by Captain W. Moorsom, 52D Light Infantry.

No cover image available
Creator:
Moorsom, W. S. (William Scarth), 1804–1863
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
viii, 371 p., [4] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. Gamonia, or, The art of preserving game : and an improved method of making plantations and covers, explained and illustrated / by Lawrence Rawstorne, Esq. ; with fifteen coloured drawings by J.T. [sic] Rawlins, taken on the spot.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rawstorne, Lawrence, 1774–1850
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
xiv, [3], 18-208 pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Sketches in North Wales / drawn and engraved by J.W. Harding.

No cover image available
Creator:
Harding, J. W., active 1796–1810
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[7] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possesion of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., port., map ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. Journal of an embassy from the governor general of India to the court of Ava in the year 1827 / by John Crawfurd ... late envoy ; with an appendix containing a description of fossil remains by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift.

No cover image available
Creator:
Crawfurd, John, 1783–1868
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 516, 89, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Travels into the interior of Southern Africa : in which are described the character and condition of the Dutch colonists of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the several tribes of natives beyond its limits : the natural history of such subjects as occurred in the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms : and the geography of the southern extremity of Africa : comprehending also a topographical and statistical sketch of the Cape Colony : with an inquiry into its importance as a naval and military station, as a commercial emporium : and as a territorial possession / by John Barrow, Esq. F.R.S ; author of "Travels in China", "Africa semper aliquid novi offert" ; in two volumes. Vol. I[-II]

No cover image available
Creator:
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764–1848
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, & c. &c. / from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. ; with a supplement of New South Wales ; containing one hundred and ten plates.

No cover image available
Creator:
Williamson, Thomas, 1758 or 1759–1817
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2], 170, [2] p., [110] leaves of plates : col ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793 ... : to which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation ... / by John Barrow.

No cover image available
Creator:
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764–1848
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
xviii, [2], 447, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 28 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

No cover image available
Creator:
Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. Hudibras : a poem / by Samuel Butler ; with historical, biographical, and explanatory notes, selected from Grey & other authors ; to which are prefixed, a life of the author, and a preliminary discourse on the civil war.

No cover image available
Creator:
Butler, Samuel, 1612–1680
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
2 v. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. Lessons of thrift : published for general benefit / by a member of the Save-all Club.

No cover image available
Creator:
Member of the Save-all Club
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 240 [i.e. 196], [2] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting / by Lt. Col. P. Hawker.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hawker, Peter, 1786–1853
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[3], vi-xxii, 470 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

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Creator:
Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. The dance of life : a poem / by the author of "Doctor Syntax" ; illustrated with coloured engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, ii, ii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East passage : undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue : illustrated with numerous plates and maps : in three volumes.

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Creator:
Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. The military costume of Turkey : illustrated by a series of engravings, from drawings made on the spot.

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Date:
1818
Physical Description:
[38] leaves, [2], 30 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry : with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.

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Creator:
Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790–1855
Date:
MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:
[8], xxix, [3], 310, [2], clxxix, [3] pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea : in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 / by John Franklin, captain R.N., F.R.S. ... ; with an appendix on various subjects relating to science and natural history ; illustrated by numerous plates and maps.

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Creator:
Franklin, John, 1786–1847
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 784 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

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Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
ix, [1], 218 pages, [19] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied ; mit 48 Kupfern, 33 Vignetten, vielen Holzschnitten und einer Charte.

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Creator:
Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782–1867
Date:
1839-1841
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, map ; 32-61 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith : with remarks, attempting to ascertain, chiefly from local observation, the actual scene of The deserted village / by R.H. Newell ; and illustrative engravings, by Mr. Alkin, from drawings taken upon the spot.

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Creator:
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
iv, 182 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6 : performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva / by Urey Lisiansky.

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Creator:
Lisi︠a︡nskiĭ, I︠U︡riĭ, 1773–1837
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
xxi, [3], 388 p., [13] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and 1820 : by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers : compiled from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the party / by Edwin James, botanist and geologist to the expedition ; in three volumes.

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Date:
1823
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. A voyage of discovery : made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage / by John Ross, K.S. Captain Royal Navy.

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Creator:
Ross, John, Sir, 1777–1856
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[4], xxxix, [1], 252, cxliv p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. The Grecian enchanted / by Phyllis Hartnoll ; with eight aquatints by John Buckland-Wright.

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Creator:
Hartnoll, Phyllis
Date:
1952
Physical Description:
80 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. An account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons, viz. Messieurs Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill, and Forrest : begun on Saturday, May 27th, 1732, and finished on the 31st of the same month.

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Creator:
Forrest, Ebenezer, active 1774
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
9, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 x 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. Harvey's scenes of the primitive forest of America : at the four periods of the year, spring, summer, autumn & winter : engraved from his original paintings : accompanied with descriptive letter-press.

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Creator:
Harvey, George, approximately 1800–1878
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
[7] leaves, [4] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1825, 1826, and 1827 / by John Franklin ... ; including an account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward, by John Richardson ... ; illustrated by numberous plates and maps.

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Creator:
Franklin, John, 1786–1847
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
xxiv, [xxi]-xxiv, 320, clvii, [1] p., 31, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. New designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for various buildings, comprised in XLIV folio plates / designed and engraved by George Richardson = Nouveaux desseins d'architecture, ou, Plans, elévations, et coupes de divers bâtimens : compris en XLIV planches in folio / dessinées et gravées par George Richardson architecte.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
[2], 40 pages, [2], XLIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. Scenery of the river Dart : being a series of thirty-five views representing the most interesting features in its course, from its source in the wildest & most uncultivated parts of Dartmoor, to its mouth in the English Channel : executed to form as nearly as possible facsimilies of the drawings, and therefore calculated not only to interest the admirers of nature, and those unacquainted with the country, but also to form a set of studies for the learners of landscape drawing / drawn and engraved by F.C. Lewis, engraver to H.R.H. Prince Leopold and H.R.H. the late Princess Charlotte.

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Creator:
Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779–1856
Date:
[1821]
Physical Description:
[5] leaves, 35 leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Travels in South Africa : undertaken at the request of the London missionary society : being a narrative of a second journey in the interior of that country / by the Rev. John Campbell ; witha map and coloured prints.

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Creator:
Campbell, John, 1766–1840
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. A new collection of chimney pieces ornamented, in the style of the Etruscan, Greek, and Roman architecture : containing thirty six designs, suitable to the most elegant range of apartments : with descriptions of the plates in English and French / composed, etched and engraved in aquatinta by George Richardson = Nouveau recueil de cheminées ornées dans le stile de l'architecture etrusque, grecque, & romaine : contenant trente six desseins : sortables aux appartements les plus elegants : avec les descriptions des planches en anglois & en françois / composés & gravés en aquatinta par George Richardson, architecte.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:
MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 pages, XXXVI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. Plans and views of buildings : executed in England and Scotland, in the castellated and other styles / R. Lugar, architect ; elegantly engraved on thirty-two plates.

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Creator:
Lugar, Robert
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
28 p., 32 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. A tour to the Isle of Wight : illustrated with eighty views / drawn and engraved in aqua tinta by Charles Tomkins ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Tomkins, Charles, 1757–1823
Date:
London :
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. A history of the University of Cambridge : its colleges, halls, and public buildings.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
2 v. : col. ill., port., plans ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. Sketches in architecture : containing plans and elevations of cottages, villas, and other useful buildings, with characteristic scenery / by John Soane ... ; to which are added, Six designs for improving and embellishing of grounds, with sections and explanations, by an amateur ; the whole engraved on fifty-four plates.

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCXCVIII [1798]
Physical Description:
[6], iv, iv, 20 pages, XLI, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. Tracts relative to the island of St. Helena : written during a residence of five years / by Major-General Alexander Beatson ; illustrated with views, engraved by Mr. William Daniell, from the drawings of Samuel Davis, Esq.

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Creator:
Beatson, Alexander, 1759–1833
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[4], xix, [1], lxxxvii, [1], 330 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. A voyage to Hudson's Bay during the summer of 1812 : containing a particular account of the icebergs and other phenomena which present themselves in those regions : also, a description of the Esquimeaux and North American Indians : their mannners, customs, dress, language, &c. &c. &c. / by Thomas M'Keevor, M.D. of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital.

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Creator:
MacKeevor, Thomas
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
78 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty's Ship, Le Tigre, surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns.

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Creator:
Spilsbury, F. B. (Francis B.)
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
viii, 70 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817 : containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited / by Clarke Abel, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. and member of the Geological Society, Chief Medical Officer and naturalist to the Embassy ; illustrated by maps and other engravings.

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Creator:
Abel, Clarke, 1780–1826
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
xvi, 420 pages, [23] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. Observations upon the Windward coast of Africa : the religion, character, customs &c., of the natives : with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe : and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country : made in the years 1805 and 1806 / by Joseph Corry ; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade.

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Creator:
Corry, Joseph
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
xiv, [2],163 p., [9] leaves of plates ([7] folding) : ill., map, 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. An account of the interior of Ceylon, and of its inhabitants : with travels in that island / by John Davy.

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Creator:
Davy, John, 1790–1868
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
viii, 530 p., [14] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. John Hardman & Co. album of stained glass designs.

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Creator:
John Hardman & Co
Date:
ca. 1850-ca. 2000
Physical Description:
1 volume (128 leaves) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. [Tales from the floating world].

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Creator:
Phillips, Nicholas
Date:
[1982]
Physical Description:
9 prints : color aquatints ; each 25 x 25 cm, in box 26 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Phillips.

193. Lines from Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray ; with etchings drawn in Sussex churchyards [by] Susan Allix.

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Creator:
Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:
[1997]
Physical Description:
[50] pages : illustrations ; 15 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds in memory of Steven Proctor

194. Stone soup / Paula Rego ; Cas Willing.

Stone soup / Paula Rego ; Cas Willing.
Creator:
Rego, Paula, Dame, 1935–2022
Date:
2014
Physical Description:
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 print (color illustrations ; 53 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. A panoramic view of London / drawn & engraved by J.H. Banks ... [cartographic material].

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Creator:
Banks, John Henry, 1816–1879
Date:
[1845]
Physical Description:
1 map ; image 39 x 101 cm, on sheet 45 x 105 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. Theatrorama, or, A peep at the playhouse.

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Date:
[circa 1825?]
Physical Description:
1 peepshow : hand-colored aquatints ; 12 x 13 cm (closed), expanding to 53 cm (open)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. The Atlantic Neptune [cartographic material].

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Creator:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729–1824
Date:
[1774-1800?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (8 volumes) : illustrations (some hand-colored), maps (some hand-colored) ; 83 x 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. The Hudson River portfolio.

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Creator:
Wall, William Guy, 1792–approximately 1864
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
XX leaves, 20 leaves of plates : hand-colored illustrations ; 48 x 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. Ten mezzo-tinto engravings : from original drawings ... / by Her Majesty's dutiful, grateful & affectionate servant, Carolina Courtenay Boyle ; engraved by Louis Marvy.

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Creator:
Boyle, Carolina Courtenay, 1803–1883
Date:
[circa 1849?]
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (10 prints) ; sheets 31 x 44 cm, in portfolio 31 x 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. Guest book.

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Creator:
Lallier, Monique
Date:
[1995?]
Physical Description:
1 volume ([74] leaves) ; 18 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.