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The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, and glands / illustrated by twenty-four plates by George Stubbs, painter.
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
68 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
[4], 47, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 x 60 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29.
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
1773 January 29
Physical Description:
1 item (4 pages) ; 23 x 38 cm, folded to 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse.
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
[1753]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) : autograph letter signed ; 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views in Rome and its environs.
Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:
1841
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Alphabet.
Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
1 v. ([26] leaves) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hogarth moralized : a complete edition of all the most capital and admired works of William Hogarth / accompanied with concise and comprehensive explanations of their moral tendency by ... Dr. Trusler ; an introduction, and many additional notes ...
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
xxvi, 293 p., [55] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Picturesque views in England and Wales / from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, Esq. R.A. ; engraved under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath ; with descriptive and historic illustrations by H.E. Lloyd., Esq. ; in two volumes.
Creator:
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Date:
MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The destruction of the Spanish Armada
Creator:
Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617
Date:
1588
Physical Description:
1 medallion : silver ; 51 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Masterpieces of industrial art & sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862 / selected and described by J.B. Waring ... ; chromo-lithographed by and under the direction of W.R. Tymms, A. Warren, and G. Macculloch, from photographs supplied by the London Photographic and Stereoscopic Company, taken exclusively for this work by Stephen Thompson ...
Creator:
Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823–1875
Date:
1863
Physical Description:
3 volumes ([8], 14, [200]; [204]; [2], 14, [202] pages, 300 (i.e. 301) plates) : illustrations (some color) ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views of the Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham. From drawings by eminent artists, and photographs by P. H. Delamotte. With a title-page and literary notices by M. Digby Wyatt ... First series.
Creator:
Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820–1877
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
4 p. ., [7]-39 p. 24 [i. e. 23] col. plates. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.
Creator:
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Miseries of human life / designed and etched by T. Rowlandson.
Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
[50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[The Souvenir Rose].
Date:
[approximately 1865?]
Physical Description:
([1] folded sheet) ; 26 x 26 cm, folded to 14 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Phyliss Anscombe in honor of her husband, Professor Francis J. Anscombe, founder of Yale's Department of Statistics
Principles of beauty, relative to the human head / by Alexander Cozens.
Creator:
Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
[6], 15, [5], 15, [1] p, [3], 2-17 leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 53 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The costume of Hindostan : elucidated by sixty coloured engravings / with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799 by Balt. Solvyns, of Calcutta.
Creator:
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760–1824
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
[132] pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Clough from James Shoubridge, hatter, London.
Creator:
Shoubridge, James
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
2 sheets : illustration, 20 x 24 cm and 9 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A botanical drawing-book, or, An easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature / by James Sowerby ... ; originally designed for the use of his pupils ...
Creator:
Sowerby, James, 1757–1822
Date:
[1807?]
Physical Description:
11 leaves, 10 leaves of plates : col. ill. 19 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Antiquities of Great Britain, illustrated in views.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life / by one of the wretched.
Creator:
Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833
Date:
March 1st 1807
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [17] leaves of plates : ill ; 20 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Twenty lessons on British mosses, or, First steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants / by William Gardiner.
Creator:
Gardiner, William, 1809?-1852
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
46 p. : samples ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Illustrated London news Colosseum view of London.
Date:
[1843]
Physical Description:
1 print (2 sheets) : wood engraving ; full sheet 30 x 254 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cambridgeshire : in which is laid down every parish and place containing upwards of 40 houses / Cooper delt. et sculpt.
Creator:
Capper, Benjamin Pitts
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 18 x 11 cm, on sheet 21 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972
Portraits of brood mares belonging to the Royal Stud at Hampton Court / by C.W.
Creator:
C. W
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
[2] p., [24] leaves, [24] leaves plates : ill. ; 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[India Orientalis].
Date:
1597[-1628]
Physical Description:
13 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Twenty four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European manners in Bengal / drawn on the stone by A. Colin from sketches by Mrs. Belnos.
Creator:
Belnos, S. C., Mrs.
Date:
[1832]
Physical Description:
[52] pages, [1], 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views in Calcutta.
Creator:
Moffat, James
Date:
s.d.]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Description of the various head dresses exhibited by Fredk. Brown, of 47, Fenchurch St. , in Section 18, no. 245, of the Exhibition Building, Hyde Park.
Creator:
Browne, Frederick, (Wig maker)
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Uncle Tom's cabin : a drama in three acts : written expressly for and adapted only to Webb's characters & scenes in the same.
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
20 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
What gives us comfort in this world of woe? ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Folded sheet of stationery with engraved satirical vignette at top].
Date:
Octr 11, [18]51
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet : illustrations ; 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dean's steam-boat alphabet : a companion to the Railway alphabet.
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
1 scroll : illustrations ; in box 18 x 23 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani : nec non urbis totius scenographia / delineavit & sculpsit Dav. Loggan Univ. Oxon. chalcographus.
Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
ano. Dni. MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:
[85] leaves (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.
Creator:
Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619–1695
Date:
MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[24], 795, [1] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G. Purt, licensed compounder & manufacturer of elder cordial : 13, St. Mary at Hill, Lower Thames Street, London.
Date:
[approximately 1842]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The forty thieves.
Date:
[between 1837-1840]
Physical Description:
24 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Pidcock's Royal Menagerie farthing token.
Creator:
Pidcock's Royal Menagerie (London, England)
Date:
[approximately 1800]
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; 21 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The stones of Venice / by John Ruskin ; with illustrations drawn by the author.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1851-1853
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex : consisting of a set of topographical maps from actual surveys, on a scale of two inches to a mile ... / by J. Edwards, topographer.
Creator:
Edwards, James, 1756–1816
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
[3],viii, [1], 31, 86, [3] p., [15] leaves of plates, ([2] folded) : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of China and the adjacent countries : drawn from the latest surveys and other authentic documents ... / by William H. Allen & Co.
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 59 x 74 cm., folded to 19 x 10 cm., in covers 23 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Corporal Violette!!
Date:
[1815?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 31 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crimean War.
Creator:
Bowers, George Frederick
Date:
1856?
Physical Description:
1 jug : white transferware; 24 cm high (including handle) x 13 cm in diameter (17 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
Ackermann's drawing book for 1824.
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
1 p.., 99 plates. 20 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Glasgow looking glass.
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
1 v. : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
For life or death : heroism on land.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[1880]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 5 x 15 cm, in mount 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of North America.
Date:
not before 1634
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor, on parchment ; 21.9 x 42.8 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 45.8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A plan of the palace gardens and town of Kensington ... = Plan du palais jardins et bourg de Kensington : situé à deux mile de Londres / par Jean Rocque ...
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[1736?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 28 x 48 cm., on sheet 39 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Six views of Hastings].
Creator:
Aglio, Agostino, 1777–1857
Date:
Novr. 1, 1823
Physical Description:
6 prints in 1 volume : lithography ; volume 35 x 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Yarmouth : photo-medallion souvenir.
Date:
[approximately 1880?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (16 views) : photolithographs ; each 42 mm in diameter, case 50 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In loving memory of George Bye : who died December 9th, 1895 : aged 4 years : interred at St. Pancras Cemetery, Finchley.
Date:
1895
Physical Description:
1 folded card : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The prize embroidery from the World Fair, 1851 will be exhibited from 1st, February to 1st, May 1852 : Messrs. J. R. Jaffray & Sons, 73, Broadway, New York.
Creator:
J. R. Jaffray & Son (Firm : New York)
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 card : embossing ; 10 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The virtuosi's museum : containing select views, in England, Scotland and Ireland / drawn by P. Sandby, Esqr. R.A.
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
1778[-1781]
Physical Description:
[222] p., 108 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The naval achievements of Great Britain, from the year 1793 to 1817.
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
viii, [150] p., [56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of cartes-de-visite depicting royalty of Britain and Europe and other contemporary notables.
Date:
1860-1862
Physical Description:
1 album (50 photographs) ; 15 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views ... of the gardens of the Zoological Society in Regent's Park.
Creator:
Hakewill, James
Date:
1831
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), male, with Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Medical miscellany.
Date:
second half of the 15th century
Physical Description:
1 volume : paper ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The microcosm of London : this work already honoured ...
Date:
[1808-10]
Physical Description:
3 v. : col. ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Incipit liber moraliu[m] su[per] trenis iheremie [pro]phete.
Creator:
Lathbury, John
Date:
[31 July 1482]
Physical Description:
[584] pages ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Forty-eight views of cottages and scenery at Sidmouth, Devon / drawn from nature and on stone by G. Rowe.
Creator:
Rowe, George, 1796–1864
Date:
[1826]
Physical Description:
[4] p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Gallery at Brocklesby, in Lincolnshire.
Creator:
Tatham, Charles Heathcote, 1771–1842
Date:
1811
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Recueil des scènes familières, et de société de Paris / par J.S., Pigal, &c. &c.
Creator:
Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798–1872
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
3 parts (21 leaves of plates) : all ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Trade card for The London Hotel].
Date:
1862
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 13 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fresco decorations and stuccoes of churches and palaces in Italy : during the fifteenth & sixteenth centuries / with descriptions by Lewis Gruner ...
Creator:
Grüner, Ludwig, 1801–1882
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
[6] p., 56 leaves of plates (some folded) : chiefly ill. (some col.), plans ; 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Catalogue of specimens of iron and brass castings : from the Coalbrookdale Company Foundry, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire]
Creator:
Coalbrookdale Company
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
37 leaves : all ill. ; 22 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Topographical sketches of Brighthelmston and its neighbourhood / by E.W. Brayley ... ; illustrated with twelve engravings by R. Havell, jun.
Creator:
Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:
[1824]
Physical Description:
82, [2] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Line of march of a Bengal regiment of infantry.
Date:
[1845?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([22] p.) : ill. ; 8 x 711 cm. folded to 8 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views of Blaise Hamlet, Henbury Church, etc.
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
[5] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia / by George Waddington ... and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury ... ; with maps and other engravings.
Creator:
Waddington, George, 1793–1869
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 333, [3] p., [18] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John V. Harrison & Co. : (successors to R. Wootten & Co.) : (late Josh. Barton) : glue manufacturers, Grange Road, Bermondsey.
Creator:
John V. Harrison & Co.
Date:
[approximately 1840?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 7 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection of drawings depicting specimens from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
20 drawings : watercolor and gouache over graphite on parchment.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
The Chinese sensitive leaf.
Date:
[approximately 184-?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 22 x 14 cm + 2 printed 'sensitive' leaves.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Marchionatus Brandenburgicus / authore Olao Iohannis Gotho, Gustavi Mag. R.S. Cosmographo.
Creator:
Gothus, Olaus Joannis, 1600–1644
Date:
[ca. 1681]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 46 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bookmark from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents].
Creator:
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Date:
[approximately 1970?]
Physical Description:
1 bookmark ; 17 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wet drug jar.
Date:
between 1700 and 1725
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 18 cm high (including handle) x 15 cm in diameter (20 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
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
The Chinese sensitive plant, or, The living leaf : patronized by the Emperor of China, the principal court of Europe, the Royal Family, and nobility of Great Britain.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
George Gordons Glasgow Ginghams original standard qualities : entirely new designs, most expensive colors : made only from the finest yarns.
Date:
[approximately 1846?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977