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Creator:: A. & S. Henry & Co
Date:: 1846 February 6
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (1 page) : autograph letter signed ; sheet 26 x 42 cm, folded to 26 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Advertisement for silver, brass and metal polish]

Creator:: A. Davis's (Firm : London, England)
Date:: [1843?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 25 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. [Billhead of A. Garstin & Co., London, for purchases made by Messrs Odell, 8th, September, 1917].

Creator:: A. Garstin & Co. (London, England)
Date:: 1917
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. [Billhead of A. Garstin & Co., London, for purchases made by Messrs Odell, 1st, September, 1917].

Creator:: A. Garstin & Co. (London, England)
Date:: 1917
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A. Gotelee, bookseller, stationer, binder and a general printer, Post Office, Oldham : begs to announce that his Christmas Sale will be opened on Tuesday, November 22nd, 1892, and following days, when a choice selection of English & foreign goods, suitable for presents, will be on view.

A. Gotelee, bookseller, stationer, binder and a general printer, Post Office, Oldham : begs to announce that his Christmas Sale will be opened on Tuesday, November 22nd, 1892, and following days, when a choice selection of English & foreign goods, suitable for presents, will be on view.

Creator:: A. Gotelee (Oldham, England)
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

16. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture : in the newest and most approved taste, displaying a great variety of patterns ... : also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... / from drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. cabinet-makers.

Creator:: A. Hepplewhite and Co
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: iv, 24, [1] p., 125 plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A. Lynes & Son's new and novel styles for the season : Kensington 2 guinea suits, £1 coats & 14s. trousers.

Creator:: A. Lynes and Son
Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card ; 16 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Advertisement for A. M. Redfern,

Creator:: A. M. Redfern (Firm : Leek)
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Sketches of Portugese life, manners, costume, and character / by A.P.D.G. ; illustrated with twenty coloured plates.

Creator:: A. P. D. G
Date:: 1826
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A.H. Swiss No. 7 hunting map.

Creator:: A.H. Swiss & Co
Date:: [189-?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col., mounted on cloth webbing ; 78 x 101 cm. folded in cover 17 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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

22. Hastings and St. Leonards [graphic] / drawn & printed by Newman & Co. 48, Watling St. London.

Creator:: A.K. Newman & Co.
Date:: [circa 1835]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 2 joined sheets : hand colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 28 x 188 cm, rolled to 28 x 7 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Newman & Co. engravings of Bath, Matlock, Buxton, and Castleton.

Creator:: A.K. Newman & Co.
Date:: ca. 1870
Physical Description:: 1 volume (46 prints) : steel engravings ; 15 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The House at Chiswick in the County of Middlesex

Creator:: Print made by Pieter van der Aa, 1659–1733
Date:: 1727
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (15.9 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

25. Windsor Castle

Creator:: Print made by Pieter van der Aa, 1659–1733
Date:: 1727
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 6 7/8 inches (15.6 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

26. La Bibliotheque Bodleinne & les Auditoires des Arts Liberaux a Oxford, vus du cote du Midi

Creator:: Print made by Pieter van der Aa, 1659–1733
Date:: 1707
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 3/16 inches (13 × 15.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

27. Vue de la Bibliotheque Bodléienne du Côté interieur de l'occident

Creator:: Print made by Pieter van der Aa, 1659–1733
Date:: 1707
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 6 1/4 inches (12.7 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

28. Vûës des villes de Londres, de Canterbury, de Colchester, et autres lieux circonvoisens : avec leur principales eglises, palais, edifices, maison de campagne & autres choses remarquables. Representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec un courte description sous chaque figure ...

Creator:: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659–1733
Date:: [ca. 1710]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : all ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Vûës des villes de Yorck, de Lancaster et autres lieux circonvoisins : avec leurs principales maisons de campagne & autre choses remarquables : representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec une courte description sous chaque figure.

Creator:: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659–1733
Date:: [ca. 1710]
Physical Description:: [100] p. : all ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Bibliotheca exquisitissima, sive Librorum selectissimorum collectio in omni facultate, arte, scientia & lingua, nitidissime compactorum ... : Quos ... collegit, et magnam eorum partem propriis studiis / designavit Petrus vander Aa ... ; Horum publica auctio habebitur in ejus ædibus in Academia Lugduno Batava, ad diem 20 Septembris stili novi 1729. & seqq.

Creator:: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659–1733
Date:: [1729]
Physical Description:: 3 v. ([10], 903, [1] p.) ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Catalogus Bibliothecæ monasterii Corbeiensis. Codex sœculi [!] X1. Ex no. 762 in catalogo Bibliothecæ Meerman, nunc in Bibliotheca Phillippica conservato.

Creator:: Abbaie de Saint Pierre (Corbie, France)
Date:: 1830?]
Physical Description:: p. 5-8. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A Dialogue Betwixt Himself, and Mistress Eliza Wheeler by Robert Herrick

Creator:: Print made by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852–1911
Date:: 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Line photoengraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

33. To an Old Woman, by Robert Herrick

Creator:: Print made by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852–1911
Date:: 1883
Materials & Techniques:: Line photoengraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

34. English bindings, 1490-1940 : in the library of J. R. Abbey / edited by G.D. Hobson.

Creator:: Abbey, J. R. (John Roland), 1896–1969
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: xvi, 201 p. : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860; architecture, drawing books, art collections, magazines, navy and army, panoramas, etc., from the library of J. R. Abbey; a bibliographical catalogue.

Creator:: Abbey, J. R. (John Roland), 1896–1969
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: xxi, 427 p. illus. 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. A briefe description of the whole worlde : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: newly augmented and enlarged; with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning.

Creator:: Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:: 1605
Physical Description:: [164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Antiquities of Rome : comprising twenty-four select views of its principal ruins : illustrated by a panoramic outline of the modern city, taken from the capitol / from drawings by Henry Abbott, Esq., made in the year 1818.

Creator:: Abbot, Henry, 1768–1840
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [25] leaves, [25] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 61 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. James Joyce

Creator:: Berenice Abbott, 1898–1991
Date:: 1928
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 × 3 inches (8.9 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Parnassus Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein

39. A View of Core's Library, Dawlish, Devon

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid on contemporary mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 8 inches (13.3 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Canonteign, Devon

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink on six joined sheets of medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/4 x 29 3/8 inches (60.3 x 74.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. The Courtyard of Mr. Bank's House, Northernhay, Exeter

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (26.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Slate Quarry at Widecombe, Devon

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 1/2 inches (23.8 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Warren Near Exmouth, Devon: Figures on Rocks at the Sea's Edge

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and pen and gray ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (18.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Mouth of the Cavern at Castleton in the Peak of Derby

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (26.7 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Canonteign

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (26.7 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Trees in a Wood

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and pen and gray ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 7 3/8 inches (26.7 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. View from a Wood, Overlooking the River and Hills at Teignmouth, Devon

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen, gray ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 5/8 inches (18.4 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Figures on a Rocky River Bank at Canonteign, Devon

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (22.5 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Trees Overhanging a Lake

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: between 1803 and 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (29.8 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. The Warren near Exmouth, Devon: Steep Cliffs Rising at Right, Sea and Rocky Shore at Left

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, pen and gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (18.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Classical Composition

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 3/4 × 5 1/8 inches (19.7 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elizabeth S. Robinson

52. A catalogue of the genuine household furniture : comprising a superb state bed with rich figured silk hangings : window curtains, gilt frame sofa & fauteuils en suite : marble tables, 8-day clocks, fire arms, wines, 5 cwt of sugar, spices, coals, brewing utensils, casks : culinary utensils, and numerous valuable articles : which will be sold by Mr. Abbott, on the premises, Rutland House, near the Horse Barracks, Kensington Road, Knightsbridge, on Monday, November 19, 1827, & four following days, at eleven o'clock, without reserve, by order of the executors.

Creator:: Abbott, Mr.
Date:: [1827]
Physical Description:: 45, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A set of new designs for coach & chariot bodies = Receuil de diverse nouveau desseins en carosses et carosses coupé / by Edw. Abbott, painter.

Creator:: Abbott, Edward, 1737–1791
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [13] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Views of the forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire / by Lieut. George Abbott, 15th Reg. NI.

Creator:: Abbott, George, 1803–1838
Date:: [1827]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, 13 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 x 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Drawings for Views of the forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire.

Creator:: Abbott, George, 1803–1838
Date:: 1827?
Physical Description:: 13 drawings : graphite ; each approximately 19 x 31 cm, on sheets 32 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Catalogue of a collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of Henry Abbott, M.D., now exhibiting at the Stuyvesant institute ...

Creator:: Abbott, Henry
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 68 p. illus., plates. 23.5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The history of Alfred the Great / by Jacob Abbott ; with engravings.

Creator:: Abbott, Jacob, 1803–1879
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 184 p. : ill., map, port. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. History of King Alfred of England / by Jacob Abbott ; with engravings.

Creator:: Abbott, Jacob, 1803–1879
Date:: [1849?]
Physical Description:: [7], 14-270, [6], 10, 4, 5, [1] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Journal of a residence and tour in the United States of North America : from April, 1833, to October, 1834 / by E.S. Abdy, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Creator:: Abdy, E. S. (Edward Strutt), 1791–1846
Date:: MDCCCXXXV [1835]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. 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.

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

61. Suite du Neptune françois, ou, Atlas nouveau des cartes marines : levées par ordre expres des roys de Portugal, sous qui on a fait la découverture de l'Afrique &c., et données au public par les soins de feu Monsieur d'Ablancourt ... / le tout fait sur les observations & l'experience des plus habiles ingenieurs & pilotes.

Creator:: Ablancourt, sieur d', 1621–1696
Date:: MDCC [1700]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (5, [1] pages, [80] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, 37 maps ; 65 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Trees by a Pool

Creator:: John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 5/8 × 21 7/8 inches (42.2 × 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Peasant Girls

Creator:: attributed to John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 9 1/2 inches (32.4 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Family Group

Creator:: John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 x 14 7/8 inches (50.8 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Group of Peasants with Musical Instruments

Creator:: Attributed to John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, pen, and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (23.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Explication des peintures, sculptures, et autres ouvrages de messieurs de l'Academie royale; dont l'exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l'intention de Sa Majeste', par M. Le Normand de Tournehem ...

Creator:: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 14 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Seven conferences held in the King of France's cabinet of paintings, between Mr. Le Brun, Mr. Bourdon, Mr. de Champagne, Mr. Perrault, &c. on some of the most celebrated pictures of Raphael, Titian, Paulo Veronese, Poussin, &c. in which the method of forming a judgment on paintings, is laid down with the greatest elegance and perspicuity. Translated from the French of Felibien. With a curious preface.

Creator:: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Date:: 1740
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [iii]-lxii, 170, [2] p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Chemical amusement : comprising a series of curious and instructive experiments in chemistry, which are easily performed and unattended by danger / 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 Linnæan Society, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts of Berlin, &c. &c.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: xxxvi, 360, [4], 59, [1] p., II leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. A system of theoretical and practical chemistry : in two volumes, with plates / by Fredrick Accum, teacher of practical chemistry, pharmacy, and mineralogy, and chemical operator in the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Guide to the chalybeate spring of Thetford : exhibiting the general and primary effects of the Thetford spa : rules essential to be observed whilst taking a course of the waters, an account of the diseases in which it will most probably be found in efficacious : cautionary hints against the indiscriminate use of this water in diseases to which it is inapplicable, and testimonials of medical men ... / by Fredrick Accum ...

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xiv, 159 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. 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.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: MDCCXX [1820]
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 334, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. 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 / by Fredrick Accum.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xv, 334 p., [6] fold. plates : col. diagrs ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons : exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spiritous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy, and methods of detecting them / by Fredrick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Linnean Society; member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts of Berlin, &c, &c.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Culinary chemistry : exhibiting the scientific principles of cookery, with concise instructions for preparing good and wholesome pickles, vinegar, conserves, fruit jellies, marmalades, and various other alimentary substances employed in domestic economy, with observations on the chemical constitution and nutritive qualities of different kinds of food : with copper 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 Linnaean Society; member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts Berlin, &c. &c.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xxii, [2], 356 (i.e. 336) p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. 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.

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

76. A practical treatise on gas-light : exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal-gas; with remarks on the utility, safety, and general nature of this new branch of civil economy / by Frederick 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 Linnæn Society, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [1], v, [1], 186 p., VII leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Fiscalitis, or, John Bull's Bore / written and composed by Ace.

Creator:: Ace
Date:: [189-?]
Physical Description:: 1 score (3 p.) ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

78. Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798-1799. By Joseph Acerbi ...

Creator:: Acerbi, Giuseppe, 1773–1846
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts. (incl. port.), illus. (music), plates, fold. map. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Ackermann and Compy.'s Catalogue of prints, comprising all the new, important, and standard engravings, selected from their own and the stock of every other publisher.

Creator:: Ackermann and Co
Date:: [between 1845 and 1847]
Physical Description:: 24 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. [Advertisement] Eclipse Sporting Gallery

Creator:: Rudolf Ackermann, 1764–1834
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Letterpress
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. The Castle of Isola, Italy

Creator:: Published by Rudolf Ackermann, 1764–1834
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

82. The Repository of Arts, Royal Waterloo Bath

Creator:: Published by Rudolf Ackermann, 1764–1834
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

83. Packet of embossed gilt paper ornaments.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1810?
Physical Description:: 1 packet ; 45 x 62 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A fourth book, containing twelve imitations of drawings, of modern carriages : on a half inch scale to a foot.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 12 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. A list of caricatures, suitable to the present times; just published by R. Ackermann ...

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1814]
Physical Description:: broadside. 19 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. R. Ackermann, Junr's : established for the sale of sporting, prints, drawings & paintings : 191, Regent Street, London.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1793–1868
Date:: [approximately 1825]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : engraving ; 9 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. 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

88. A treatise on Ackermann's superfine water colours : with directions how to prepare and use them : including succinct hints on drawing and painting.

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

89. Watercolor box.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: between 1799 and 1827
Physical Description:: 1 watercolor box : wood ; 10 x 26 x 4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. R. Ackermann's repository of fashions : containing elegant coloured engravings, with descriptions of fashionable female costumes, English and French.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: 9 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Selection of ornaments ... for the use of sculptors, painters, carvers, modellers, chasers, embossers, &c.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1817-19
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1. 120 plates. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Change of proposals for publishing by subscription in monthly numbers, forming one volume, The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton & Westminster; : with the charter-house, the free schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors', Harrow and Rugby, and the school of Christ Hospital ...

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1816.]
Physical Description:: 2 p. 24 cm. (in case 30 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Watercolor box.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1793–1868
Date:: between 1825 and 1829
Physical Description:: 1 watercolor box : mahogany ; 18 x 28 x 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Number I. Of a new series of Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashion, &c. ...

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1815.]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ; 23 cm. (in case 26 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Proposals for publishing by subscription in monthly numbers, forming one volume, The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton & Westminster; : with the charterhouse, the free schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors', Harrow and Rugby, and the school of Christ Hospital ...

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1815.]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ; 24 cm. (in case 30 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Books, &c. published by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand, London.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: 18, [3] pages ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Historical sketch of Moscow : illustrated by twelve views of different parts of that imperial city, the Kremlin, &c.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: [4], 27 p., 12 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Ackermann's manual of colours, used in the different branches of water-colour painting: : with an ample description of the value and properties of each color. Also directions for mixing into all the various tints such only as are most suitable to each other. Interspersed with Hints on painting in landscape, miniatures, flowers, etc. By T. H. Fielding ...

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: MDCCCXLIV [1844]
Physical Description:: 63, [1], 8 p., 1 leaf of plates, : portrait ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in twenty monthly numbers, forming two volumes, The history of the University of Cambridge : illustrated by eighty highly finished and coloured engravings ... representing exterior and interior views of the colleges, halls, public buildings, and costume, as well as of the more striking parts of the town ...

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1814.]
Physical Description:: 3 p. ; 27 cm. (in case 30 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1821?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Wild lone; the story of a Pytchley fox, by "BB" ; illustrated by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford ; foreword by Sir Charles Frederick.

2. Beauties of the Dutch school.

3. [London and its vicinity]

4. [Collection of engravings, etchings, aquatints, and lithographs of the topography, people, buildings, and events in Hampshire.]

5. Design for a chapel and catacombs ... proposed to be erected at Kensall Green.

6. [Composite Marine world atlas].

7. View of the celebrated Logan Rock taken in 1824.

8. Advertisement for Pears' transparent soap.

9. [Bill of A. & M. Bradley Dresses, Manchester, for purchases by Mrs. Davenport].

10. [Billhead of A. & R. Thwaites & Co., Dublin].

11. A. & S. Henry & Co. letter to I. Edmondson & Co., requesting samples of woolen goods.

12. [Advertisement for silver, brass and metal polish]

13. [Billhead of A. Garstin & Co., London, for purchases made by Messrs Odell, 8th, September, 1917].

14. [Billhead of A. Garstin & Co., London, for purchases made by Messrs Odell, 1st, September, 1917].

15. A. Gotelee, bookseller, stationer, binder and a general printer, Post Office, Oldham : begs to announce that his Christmas Sale will be opened on Tuesday, November 22nd, 1892, and following days, when a choice selection of English & foreign goods, suitable for presents, will be on view.

17. A. Lynes & Son's new and novel styles for the season : Kensington 2 guinea suits, £1 coats & 14s. trousers.

18. Advertisement for A. M. Redfern,

19. Sketches of Portugese life, manners, costume, and character / by A.P.D.G. ; illustrated with twenty coloured plates.

20. A.H. Swiss No. 7 hunting map.

21. Album of comic sketches.

22. Hastings and St. Leonards [graphic] / drawn & printed by Newman & Co. 48, Watling St. London.

23. Newman & Co. engravings of Bath, Matlock, Buxton, and Castleton.

24. The House at Chiswick in the County of Middlesex

25. Windsor Castle

26. La Bibliotheque Bodleinne & les Auditoires des Arts Liberaux a Oxford, vus du cote du Midi

27. Vue de la Bibliotheque Bodléienne du Côté interieur de l'occident

28. Vûës des villes de Londres, de Canterbury, de Colchester, et autres lieux circonvoisens : avec leur principales eglises, palais, edifices, maison de campagne & autres choses remarquables. Representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec un courte description sous chaque figure ...

29. Vûës des villes de Yorck, de Lancaster et autres lieux circonvoisins : avec leurs principales maisons de campagne & autre choses remarquables : representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec une courte description sous chaque figure.

31. Catalogus Bibliothecæ monasterii Corbeiensis. Codex sœculi [!] X1. Ex no. 762 in catalogo Bibliothecæ Meerman, nunc in Bibliotheca Phillippica conservato.

32. A Dialogue Betwixt Himself, and Mistress Eliza Wheeler by Robert Herrick

33. To an Old Woman, by Robert Herrick

34. English bindings, 1490-1940 : in the library of J. R. Abbey / edited by G.D. Hobson.

35. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860; architecture, drawing books, art collections, magazines, navy and army, panoramas, etc., from the library of J. R. Abbey; a bibliographical catalogue.

36. A briefe description of the whole worlde : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: newly augmented and enlarged; with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning.

37. Antiquities of Rome : comprising twenty-four select views of its principal ruins : illustrated by a panoramic outline of the modern city, taken from the capitol / from drawings by Henry Abbott, Esq., made in the year 1818.

38. James Joyce

39. A View of Core's Library, Dawlish, Devon

40. Canonteign, Devon

41. The Courtyard of Mr. Bank's House, Northernhay, Exeter

42. Slate Quarry at Widecombe, Devon

43. The Warren Near Exmouth, Devon: Figures on Rocks at the Sea's Edge

44. The Mouth of the Cavern at Castleton in the Peak of Derby

45. Canonteign

46. Trees in a Wood

47. View from a Wood, Overlooking the River and Hills at Teignmouth, Devon

48. Figures on a Rocky River Bank at Canonteign, Devon

49. Trees Overhanging a Lake

50. The Warren near Exmouth, Devon: Steep Cliffs Rising at Right, Sea and Rocky Shore at Left

51. Classical Composition

53. A set of new designs for coach & chariot bodies = Receuil de diverse nouveau desseins en carosses et carosses coupé / by Edw. Abbott, painter.

54. Views of the forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire / by Lieut. George Abbott, 15th Reg. NI.

55. Drawings for Views of the forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire.

56. Catalogue of a collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of Henry Abbott, M.D., now exhibiting at the Stuyvesant institute ...

57. The history of Alfred the Great / by Jacob Abbott ; with engravings.

58. History of King Alfred of England / by Jacob Abbott ; with engravings.

59. Journal of a residence and tour in the United States of North America : from April, 1833, to October, 1834 / by E.S. Abdy, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

62. Trees by a Pool

63. Peasant Girls

64. Family Group

65. Group of Peasants with Musical Instruments

66. Explication des peintures, sculptures, et autres ouvrages de messieurs de l'Academie royale; dont l'exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l'intention de Sa Majeste', par M. Le Normand de Tournehem ...

69. A system of theoretical and practical chemistry : in two volumes, with plates / by Fredrick Accum, teacher of practical chemistry, pharmacy, and mineralogy, and chemical operator in the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

77. Fiscalitis, or, John Bull's Bore / written and composed by Ace.

78. Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798-1799. By Joseph Acerbi ...

79. Ackermann and Compy.'s Catalogue of prints, comprising all the new, important, and standard engravings, selected from their own and the stock of every other publisher.

80. [Advertisement] Eclipse Sporting Gallery

81. The Castle of Isola, Italy

82. The Repository of Arts, Royal Waterloo Bath

83. Packet of embossed gilt paper ornaments.

84. A fourth book, containing twelve imitations of drawings, of modern carriages : on a half inch scale to a foot.

85. A list of caricatures, suitable to the present times; just published by R. Ackermann ...

86. R. Ackermann, Junr's : established for the sale of sporting, prints, drawings & paintings : 191, Regent Street, London.

87. Ackermann's new drawing book of light and shadow : in imitation of Indian ink.

88. A treatise on Ackermann's superfine water colours : with directions how to prepare and use them : including succinct hints on drawing and painting.

89. Watercolor box.