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The rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China.
Date:
[1770?]
Physical Description:
24 leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld
Italian scenery : representing the manners, customs, and amusements of the different states of Italy : containing thirty-two coloured engravings / by James Godby ; from original drawings by P. Van Lerberghi ; the narrative by M. Buonaiuti.
Creator:
Godby, James, 1767–1949
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
[4], 74, [2] p., 32 leaves of plates : ill., music ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Musée des dames et des demoiselles : règne animal [--règne minéral--règne végétal].
Date:
[ca. 1825?]
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The first[-fift] booke of architecture / made by Sebastian Serly ... Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English.
Creator:
Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475–1554
Date:
1611
Physical Description:
5 v. in 1. ill., plans, diagrs. 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mediciues for horses.
Date:
[approximately 1565?]
Physical Description:
[28] pages : illustration ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection of eight prize awards given in dog shows.
Date:
1924-1925
Physical Description:
8 pieces ; 8 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fashion and court elegance.
Creator:
Fiske, Mrs
Date:
1812
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.
Creator:
Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593–1649
Date:
MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Physical Description:
196, [4] pages : maps ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Twelve views in the interior of Guiana.
Creator:
Schomburgk, Robert H. (Robert Hermann), Sir, 1804–1865
Date:
1841
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
Kew Gardens : a series of twenty-four drawings on stone / by G.E. Papendiek.
Creator:
Papendiek, George Ernest, 1788–1835
Date:
[1820?]
Physical Description:
[24] leaves ; 16 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition / by John Dinsdale.
Creator:
Dinsdale, John
Date:
[1886]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Street life in London : with permanent photographic illustrations taken from life expressly for this publication / by J. Thomson and Adolphe Smith.
Creator:
Thomson, J. (John), 1837–1921
Date:
[1877-1878]
Physical Description:
100 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Festival pleasure gardens : Battersea Park London.
Creator:
Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 44 x 21 cm, folded to 22 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Front views of F. & R. Sparrow & Co.'s original London genuine tea warehouses.
Creator:
Frederick & Robert Sparrow & Co.
Date:
[1823]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm, folded to 23 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extraordinary talent, for a short time only ... you may have a correct likeness ... by that celebrated artist, Mr. Seville.
Creator:
Seville, William, 1797–1866
Date:
[approximately 1830]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 12 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views in the Madeiras.
Creator:
Bulwer, James
Date:
1827
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sturgeon / [Pauline Lamont-Fisher].
Creator:
Lamont-Fisher, Pauline
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([7] leaves) : ill. ; 15 x 85 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm, in paper cover 16 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Swedish army.
Creator:
Eben, Frederic, Baron
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
29 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Program for performance by Marion Hood in Dorothy at the Prince of Wales theatre]
Creator:
Prince of Wales Theatre (London, England)
Date:
[approximately 1887]
Physical Description:
[8] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The shooting directory / by R.B. Thornhill.
Creator:
Thornhill, R. B. (Richard Badham)
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
xvi, ix, [1], 432 p., [8] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Half a cwt. of coals, Mr. Breame's Wharf, near the bridge.
Creator:
Breame, James, born 1793 or 1794
Date:
[approximately 1845?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 60 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Switzerland in miniature : description of the grand model of Switzerland, by professor Gaudin, of Geneva, 26 feet by 21 feet, now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
iv, [1], 6-32 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Aunt Louisa's Alphabet book : comprising alphabet of fruits, country alphabet, London alphabet, alphabet of games & sports / with twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Evans and Kronheim.
Creator:
Valentine, L. (Laura), d. 1899
Date:
[1870?]
Physical Description:
[58] leaves : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Some account of London / Thomas Pennant.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
vi, [4], 479, [9] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.
Creator:
Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
viii, 571 p., [23] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., plan : 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The last days of Lord Byron : with his lordship's opinions on various subjects, particularly on the state and prospects of Greece / by William Parry, Major of Lord Byron's Brigade, commanding officer of artillery, and engineer in the service of the Greeks.
Creator:
Parry, William, fl. 1825
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 360 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ten years of Uzbekistan : a commemoration / by Ken Campbell and David King.
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:
1994
Physical Description:
[60] p. : ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
Exposition anatomique des organes des sens : jointe à la névrologie entière du corps humain et conjecture sur l'électricité animale : avec des planches imprimées en coleurs naturelles, suivant le nouvel art / par M. Dagoty.
Creator:
Gautier Dagoty, 1717–1785
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[2], 46 p., VIII leaves of plates : ill. (mezzotints) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[A tour in Wales MDCCLXX.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1778-1781]
Physical Description:
2 v. ill., plates, plans, ports. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The beautiful scenery and chief places of interest throughout the Crimea from paintings by Carlo Bossoli.
Creator:
Bossoli, Carlo, 1815–1884
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
2 p.l., 52 mounted col. plates. 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick ...
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1797 [i.e. 1798]-1804
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Six progressive lessons for flower painting : with letter-press directions for drawing and coloring of flowers upon botanical principles.
Date:
January 1, 1802
Physical Description:
14, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parnell & Banner : ship & insurance brokers : No. 57 Gracechurch Street, London.
Creator:
Parnell & Banner
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The darlings delight, or, Easy ABC : being the first step of the ladder to learning.
Date:
[between 1814 and 1817]
Physical Description:
15 unnumbered leaves : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.
Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
[10] pages, [48] leaves, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fourteenth autumn exhibition of pictures in oil and water-colours : and inauguration of the extension of the Walker Art Gallery.
Creator:
Walker Art Gallery
Date:
[1884]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mexico illustrated, with descriptive letter-press, in English and Spanish / by John Phillips ...
Creator:
Phillips, John
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
1 p.l., 25 l. : 26 col. pl. ; 57 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
L'ecole des armes : avec l'explication générale des principales attitudes et positions concernant l'escrime / Dediée à Leurs Altesses Royales les Princes Guillaume-Henry & Henry-Frédéric. Par Mr. Angelo.
Creator:
Angelo, Domenico, 1717?-1802
Date:
MDCCLXIII [1763]
Physical Description:
[61] leaves, 47 leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 x 57 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Short account of Lord Nelson's defeat of the French at the Nile : ... The view of Margate is in the upper circle : open from eight till dusk, 1799.
Creator:
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : ill. ; 42 x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new book of stags / drawn from that eminent master I.E. Ridinger.
Creator:
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698–1767
Date:
[ca. 1730]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : all ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Interesting selections from animated nature : with illustrative scenery / drawn, engraved, and published by William Daniell, A.R.A., no. 9, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London.
Creator:
Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:
[1809?]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ([122] leaves, [120] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 27 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The attractive picture book : a new gift from the Old Corner : the illustrations by J. Absolon ... [et al.]
Date:
[1867]
Physical Description:
[2], 30 leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The low back'd chair : air "The low back'd car.".
Date:
[mid 19th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Kate Middleton in her own words : "official" Royal Wedding souvenir / transcribed by David O'Connell.
Creator:
O'Connell, David
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
[6] pages : illustrations ; 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Caricature card depiciting a sepia illustration of a shop assistant, with verse]
Creator:
Dean & Son
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 card ; illustrations ; 16 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Behar amateur lithographic scrap book.
Creator:
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845
Date:
[1828?]
Physical Description:
[27] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 29 x 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dean's new magic picture book : showing wonderful & lifelike effects of real distance & space : book I : contains The Crystal Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, The Thames Tunnel.
Date:
[between 1857 and 1865]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The therd booke of flowers fruits beastes birds and flies exactly drawne. With additions by Iohn Dunstall.
Date:
1661
Physical Description:
20 plates. 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sepulchral monuments in Great Britain; applied to illustrate the history of families, manners, habits and arts, at the different periods from the Norman conquest to the seventeenth century. With introductory observations ...
Creator:
Gough, Richard, 1735–1809
Date:
1786-1796
Physical Description:
2 v. in 3. illus., plates (part fold.), geneal. tables (part fold.) 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The industrial arts of the nineteenth century : a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851 : dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert / by M. Digby Wyatt, architect.
Creator:
Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820–1877
Date:
1851-53
Physical Description:
2 volumes (xii, [58] pages, [1], 78 leaves of plates; 166 pages, [1], 80 leaves of plates) : color illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Prison sketches : comprising portraits of the Cabul prisoners and other subjects / by Lieut. V. Eyre ; adapted for binding up with the journals of Lieut. V. Eyre and Lady Sale ; lithographed by Lowes Dickinson.
Creator:
Eyre, Vincent, Sir, 1811–1881
Date:
[1843?]
Physical Description:
[4], [1] p., [32] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Establishment for the education of young ladies conducted by the Misses Sadler, Chignell House, near the turnpike, Uxbridge road, Ealing W.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ; 19 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Linwood gallery of pictures in needle-work : with a biographical sketch of the painters.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vi, [1], 8-71, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[African scenery and animals]
Creator:
Daniell, Samuel, 1775–1811
Date:
[1804-1805]
Physical Description:
[10] leaves, [32] leaves of plates ; 50 x 61 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe.
Date:
1841-1842
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
[14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sailing boats & dhows / Mandy Bonnell ; [text by Gabriel Gbadamosi].
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy
Date:
[1994]
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The union of architecture, sculpture, and painting; exemplified by a series of illustrations, with descriptive accounts of the house and galleries of John Soane ... By John Britton ...
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
1 p. l., [v]-xvi, 60 p. col. front., ill., 21 plates (incl. plan) 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Oxonia depicta sive Collegiorum et aularum in inclyta Academia Oxoniensi ichnographica, orthographica & scenographica delineatio : LXV tabulis æneis / expressa a Guilielmo Williams cui accedit uniuscujusque collegij aulæque notitia.
Creator:
Williams, William, active 1724–1733
Date:
[1733]
Physical Description:
[66] leaves (1 folded) : illustrations, maps, plans 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique.
Creator:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Date:
1810 [that is, 1813?]
Physical Description:
2 volumes (xvi, 350 pages, 69 leaves of plates) : 69 illustrations (engraving, aquatint, some color) ; 59 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Luncheon menu for the University Arms Hotel, Cambridge, Sept. 6th, 1939].
Date:
1939
Physical Description:
1 menu ; 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Stevens Art Gallery : fine etchings : picture frames made to order : Lowry Building, 340 St. Peter St., St. Paul, Minn.
Creator:
Stevens Art Gallery (St. Paul, Minn.)
Date:
early 20th century
Physical Description:
1 label ; 50 x 50 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H. B. M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855 / by Henry Barth.
Creator:
Barth, Heinrich, 1821–1865
Date:
1857-1858
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Palatial and parliamentary edifices of Westminster.
Date:
[1835]
Physical Description:
[126] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extra Behar amateur lithographic scrap book : containing a variety of Indian subjects.
Creator:
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845
Date:
[1829?]
Physical Description:
[29] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Simpson's in-the-Strand, Grand Divan Tavern : bill of fare.
Creator:
Simpson's-in-the-Strand
Date:
1960
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 28 x 36 cm, folded to 28 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
William's return.
Date:
[18th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) : illustration ; 22 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Plunge / Chisato Tamabayashi.
Creator:
Tamabayashi, Chisato, 1975–
Date:
[2010]
Physical Description:
[12] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To the diletanti [sic] and lovers of the fine arts : drawings let out to copy at Stoddart & Craggs' literary repository, Lowgate, Hull.
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bugle Hotel, Newport, Isle of Wight.
Creator:
Bugle Hotel (Newport, England)
Date:
[late 19th century]
Physical Description:
1 tariff card : map ; 76 x 114 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Menu : at Lyons' Popular Café, Piccadilly.
Creator:
J. Lyons & Company
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
1 menu ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Advertisement for hats and caps sold by John Perring, 85 Strand, London.
Creator:
Perring, John
Date:
between 1834-1845
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 28 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letters upon subjects of general interest from John Ruskin to various correspondents.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1892
Physical Description:
xii, 101, [3] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts