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Bill for building expenses.
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 11 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jonathan Bradford, or, The murder at the road side inn.
Date:
[between 1835-1837]
Physical Description:
24 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
The red rover : a drama, in two acts, written expressly for, and adapted only to Skelt's characters & scenes in the same.
Date:
[between 1835-1837]
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple : Marquis of Buckingham, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham.
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
54, [2] pages, [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
In memory of Jacob Henry Tillett, would-be-M.P. for his native city : November, 17th, 1868 : July, 12th, 1870 : February, 4th, 1874 : March, 5th, 1875.
Date:
1892
Physical Description:
1 card : illustrations ; 110 x 80 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of art, in each quarter of the world.
Date:
[ca. 1820]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 46 x 62 cm, folded to 24 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
West India scenery with illustrations of Negro character, the process of making sugar, &c. from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad. By R. Bridgens ...
Creator:
Bridgens, Richard
Date:
[1836?]
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) 27 plates (part col. with accompanying text) 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity : and are desirous of inspecting the striking parts of the creation : there is to be seen, at the [blank] the beautiful zebra, or wild ass ... : it was brought from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1762, by Sir Thomas Adams.
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph Reed, Yale BA 1954, and Kit Reed
Rangoon views and combined operations in the Birnam Empire.
Creator:
Moore, Joseph
Date:
1825-1826
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.
Creator:
Payne, John, 1710–1771
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
16, [8] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the conquest to the reformation : preceded by a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders : with notices of nearly five hundred English buildings / by Thomas Rickman.
Creator:
Rickman, Thomas, 1776–1841
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
iv, 146 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dinner : 13th January, 1951 / the Bonnington Hotel, Southampton Row, London, W.C.1.
Creator:
Bonnington Hotel (London, England)
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
1 menu ; 23 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dearest name thee happy time that I in truth may all you mine.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ointment pot.
Date:
between 1650 and 1700
Physical Description:
1 jar : polychrome Italian albarello delftware ; 8 cm high x 6 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
The Canterbury tales.
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1483]
Physical Description:
[312] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
Wm. Walker & Son : family grocers & wine merchants : net cash : price list : 78 Main Street, Wexford.
Creator:
Wm Walker & Son (Firm)
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 29 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
[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
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
Views ... of the gardens of the Zoological Society in Regent's Park.
Creator:
Hakewill, James
Date:
1831
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views in Calcutta.
Creator:
Moffat, James
Date:
s.d.]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The coral aquarium / Mandy Bonnell ; with a poem by Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy
Date:
[1997]
Physical Description:
[21] leaves : ill. ; 25 x 594 cm, folded to 25 x 33 cm, attached to boards 26 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist; Paul Mellon Fund
Album of British grasses.
Date:
circa 1800
Physical Description:
1 volume (40 leaves, with additional blanks) ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome, during the year l8l9. By Maria Graham ...
Creator:
Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 305, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The sailing and fighting instructions, or, Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.
Creator:
Greenwood, Jonathan
Date:
[1715?]
Physical Description:
[72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Spurgeon's : registered cashmere capes from 12/9 to 5 guineas.
Creator:
Roberts
Date:
[approximately 1870]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 120 x 90 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Why, what, and because, or, The road to the temple of knowledge / T.H. Jones, del. et litho.
Date:
[approximately 1855]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 33 x 44 cm folded to 33 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Bill for school expenses for Mr. Bryans from Miss Thompson, 17 and 18 Holland Road, Brighton.
Creator:
Thompson, Miss, active 1889
Date:
April 1889
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 18 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A tour in North Wales.
Creator:
Walter, John
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
1 volume (184, 15 pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Sunday, December 14th, 1879. Admit one.
Creator:
Zoological Society of London
Date:
1879
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 70 x 80 mm
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
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
An elegy : to the memory of our illustrious and lamented Queen Caroline of England.
Creator:
Parmenter, S., active 1821
Date:
[1821?]
Physical Description:
1 broadside : illustrations ; 47 x 33 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
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
Character of forest trees.
Date:
circa 1817
Physical Description:
1 v. (31 leaves) : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Eleventh anniversary of the United Society of Master Chimney Sweeps : (established June 15th, 1825,) for the benefit of their apprentices.
Creator:
United Society of Master Chimney Sweeps (London, England)
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 27 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Permit for Thomas Cooper to receive one cask of foreign brandy, 1809]
Creator:
Great Britain. Commissioners of Excise
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 13 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Medical miscellany.
Date:
second half of the 15th century
Physical Description:
1 volume : paper ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Eastwood and Taylor : St. John Street, Manchester : decorators for banquets, balls, and bazaars, wedding celebrations, and coming-of-age festivals : stage scenery for amateur dramatic performances.
Creator:
Eastwood and Taylor (Firm)
Date:
[approximately 1870]
Physical Description:
1 folded card : color illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
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)
Photograph album of pottery manufactured by Albert Wenger.
Creator:
Wenger, Albert Francis, 1837 or 1838–1924
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 26 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Rock me to sleep Teddy.
Creator:
John Thridgould & Co.
Date:
[approximately 1905]
Physical Description:
1 postcard : color illustrations ; 15 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In loving memory of Mary Ann, widow of the late Thomas Bowes, Snilesworth : who died at Brewster Bill, Ardenside, on November 6th, 1944 : aged 83 years.
Date:
1944
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 80 x 120 mm
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
The seasons, by James Thomson. Illustrated with engravings by F. Bartolozzi, R.A. and P.W. Tomkins, historical engravers to Their Majesties; from original pictures painted for the work by W. Hamilton, R.A.
Creator:
Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
7 p.l., 244 p. col. front., col. ill., col. plates. 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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 triangular bandage / St. John Ambulance Association.
Creator:
St. John Ambulance Association
Date:
[circa 1915?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crosse & Blackwell : purveyors by appointment to the Queen : Soho Square, London.
Creator:
Crosse & Blackwell
Date:
[1876?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustration ; 77 x 118 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A correct likeness, handsomely framed, in one minute, for one shilling.
Creator:
Stanley, C. (Portraitist)
Date:
[approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : portrait ; 47 x 32 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Miss Mason at St. Helens School, Clifton, Bristol.
Creator:
St. Helens (Clifton, Bristol)
Date:
1884
Physical Description:
3 items ; 23 x 14 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of South Metropolitan Cemetery, opposite St. Luke's Church, Norwood : Office, 70, King William Street for the burial of Emily Westear on Tuesday 28th November 1865 [illegible]].
Creator:
South Metropolitan Cemetery (London, England)
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 29 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fantascope : 2nd series / by T.T. Bury.
Creator:
Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
6 phenakistoscope discs ; each 25 cm, in case 26 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
Menu : R.M.S. Carinthia, Friday, October 11, 1935.
Creator:
Cunard White Star, ltd
Date:
[1935]
Physical Description:
1 menu ([4] pages) : illustration ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wedding portrait of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, December 20, 1947.
Date:
1947
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : b&w ; 11 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Goodall's Royal Bezique register.
Creator:
C. Goodall & Son
Date:
[approximately 1900]
Physical Description:
1 Bezique register : color illustrations ; 80 x 100 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Sarah Annette Jones photograph album.
Date:
1853-1855
Physical Description:
1 volume (78 photographs) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Celestial globe]
Creator:
Schöner, Johann, 1477–1547
Date:
[ca. 1522]
Physical Description:
1 globe : paint and gesso over hollow wood sphere, brass (stand) ; 368 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A series of panoramic views of Sant Jago, the capital of Chili / from the original drawings, made by the Hon. Capt. William Waldegrave, in 1821 ; drawn on stone by A. Aglio.
Creator:
Aglio, Agostino, 1777–1857
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, V leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 x 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Original watercolors for A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France, 1789.
Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
46 drawings : watercolor ; 11 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In memory of Jane, the beloved wife of William Stead, of Sherburn : who died January 27th, 1865 : aged 34 years.
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
1 embossed print : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Treatise on the art of weaving, with a full description of the Jacquard machine / Bryan Rotherham.
Creator:
Rotherham, Bryan, 1876–
Date:
1897
Physical Description:
1 volume ([131] leaves) : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lawrence & Co.'s cheap clothing establishment : 153, Caledonia Road (near the canal bridge).
Creator:
Lawrence & Co. (London, England)
Date:
[not before 1882]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of J.S. Moss & Son, draper and general outfitter, Manchester.
Creator:
J.S. Moss & Son (Firm : Manchester, England)
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 27 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The language of flowers.
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm, folded to 15 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
National Panorama, 21, York Street, Westminster : Battle of Tel el Kebir, by Oliver Pichat.
Creator:
National Panorama (London, England)
Date:
[1883?]
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 11 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To be disposed of : for terms inquire within.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 card : color lithograph ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
Hyakunin isshu karuta.
Date:
late 18th century?
Physical Description:
200 playing cards
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letter : London, England to J. W. Crosby, Shirley, 1928 April 13th.
Creator:
Pollard, G.
Date:
1928 April 13th
Physical Description:
1 item (1 page) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of F. Henderson, clothier & outfitter, recording purchases by Mr. G. Duncan, Imperial Hotel, 1888].
Creator:
Henderson, F. (Clothier)
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 18 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Queen Victoria Memorial : unveiled by H. M. George V, May 18th, 1911.
Creator:
J. Beagles & Co. Ltd.
Date:
1911
Physical Description:
1 postcard : b/w; 14 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Six views of the ruins of Balbec; Four views of the ruins of Palmyra.
Creator:
Benazech, Peter Paul, ca. 1730–ca. 1783
Date:
ca. 1750
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, William B. Sarsfield (William Benjamin Sarsfield), 1781–1850
Date:
[1819-1820]
Physical Description:
3 parts (72 p., [9] leaves of plates) : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A general plan of the woods, park and gardens of Stowe, the seat of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : with several perspective views in the gardens.
Creator:
Rigaud, Jacques, 1681–1754
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
16 sheets : illustrations ; 97 x 63 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Field, William, 1854–1932
Date:
1895
Physical Description:
1 v. (68 p.) ; 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Affidavit certifying the burial in wool of Mary Harvey of Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire.
Date:
1680 April 1
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) ; 31 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

299. Mazeppa

Mazeppa
Date:
[between 1837-1840]
Physical Description:
22 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
A tribute to beautiful love! : vous seulement! J'estime et en vérité J'aime.
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
1 card ; 19 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts