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Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde.
Creator:
Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733
Date:
1723
Physical Description:
11 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Four views in Germany.
Creator:
Papendiek, G. E. (George Ernest), 1788–1835
Date:
1820
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Essay on transparent prints.
Creator:
Orme, Edward, 1775–1848
Date:
1807
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new book of Chinese designs / by Pillement.
Creator:
Pillement, Jean, 1728–1808
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Six sketches in Germany.
Creator:
Papendiek, George Ernest, 1788–1835
Date:
[1822?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Souvenir of the bal costume.
Creator:
Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), 1796–1880
Date:
1843
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History and antiquities of the county of Leicester.
Creator:
Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:
1795-1811
Physical Description:
4 vols. in 8
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A panoramic view of the holy city of Benares.
Date:
1827
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The costume of Great Britain / designed, engraved, and written by W.H. Pyne.
Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1804 [that is, not before 1819]
Physical Description:
[2], iii, [101] pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Roman costumes drawn from nature.
Creator:
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781–1835
Date:
1820
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Paris and its environs.
Creator:
Parrott, William
Date:
[ca. 1845?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fashion and court elegance.
Creator:
Fiske, Mrs
Date:
1812
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Composite world atlas.]
Creator:
Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676–1751
Date:
ca. 1686]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Picturesque antiquities of Bristol / drawn from nature & on stone by J.S. Prout.
Creator:
Prout, J. S. (John Skinner), 1806–1876
Date:
[1835]
Physical Description:
29 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Relics of old London.
Date:
1875-1886]
Physical Description:
2 portfolios (120 carbon photoprints) ; 49 x 38 cm. + 14 leaves of text.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The pocket book of sea creatures.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
[24] p. : chiefly ill. ; 52 x 98 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cygnea cantio : swan song.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([3] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Holy Bible.
Date:
1800-1816
Physical Description:
8 v. : ill. ; 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Egerton's views in Mexico : being a series of twelve coloured plates / executed by himself from his original drawings ; accompanied with a short description.
Creator:
Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842
Date:
July 1st, 1840
Physical Description:
11, [1] pages ; 35 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
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
Sketches of character : in illustration of the habits, occupation, and costume of the Negro population, in the island of Jamaica / drawn after nature, and in lithography, by I.M. Belisario.
Creator:
Belisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795–1849
Date:
1837[-1838]
Physical Description:
[20] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ten views in the island of Antigua : in which are represented the process of sugar making, and the employment of the Negroes, in the field, boiling-house and distillery / from drawings made by William Clark.
Creator:
Clark, W. A. V. (William A. V.)
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[10] p., 10 leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 x 47 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
A collection of landscapes / drawn by P. Sandby, Esq. R.A. and engraved by Mr. Rooker, and Mr. Watts, with descriptions.
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Physical Description:
[4], 39, [1] p., 32 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Illustrations of Cairo / by Robert Hay, Esq., of Linplum ; drawn on stone by J.C. Bourne, under the superintendence of Owen B. Carter, architect.
Creator:
Hay, Robert, 1799–1863
Date:
1840
Physical Description:
23, [1] pages, [29] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Day-light : a recent discovery in the art of painting : with hints on the philosophy of the fine arts, and on that of the human mind, as first dissected by Emanuel Kant / by Henry Richter.
Creator:
Richter, Henry, 1772–1857
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[2], ix, [1], 67, [1] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 / by Sir Robert Ker Porter ; with numerous engravings of portraits, costumes, antiquities, &c.
Creator:
Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777–1842
Date:
1821-1822
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Six months' residence and travels in Mexico : containing remarks on the present state of New Spain, its natural productions, state of society, manufactures, trade, agriculture, and antiquities, &c. with plates and maps / by W. Bullock, F.L.S., proprietor of the late London Museum.
Creator:
Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
xii, 532 p., [19] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
"Curry & rice," on forty plates, or, The ingredients of social life at "our station" in India / by George Francklin Atkinson.
Creator:
Atkinson, George Francklin
Date:
[1859]
Physical Description:
[90] p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures / by Christopher Dresser, PH.D., F.L.S., etc.
Creator:
Dresser, Christopher
Date:
1882
Physical Description:
xi, 467, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
Facts from Gweedore : with useful hints to Donegal tourists / compiled from notes by Lord George Hill ...
Creator:
Hill, George, Lord, 1801–1879
Date:
1845 [i.e. 1846]
Physical Description:
37, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Stencilled friezes.
Date:
[ca. 1900?]
Physical Description:
[17] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 13 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The pencil of nature / by H. Fox Talbot.
Creator:
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800–1877
Date:
1844 [i.e. 1844-1846]
Physical Description:
[80] pages, [24] leaves of plates : 24 photographs ; 30.5 x 24.3 cm
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
Thomas Sydney Cooper's cattle subjects.
Creator:
Cooper, Thomas Sidney, 1803–1902
Date:
[Published by E. Gambart & Co.],
Physical Description:
30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 x 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
Views of Bolton Abbey and its environs.
Creator:
Cope, Charles West, 1811–1890
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
Myotomia reformata : or an anatomical treatise on the muscles of the human body ; illustrated with figures after the life / by the late Mr. William Cowper ; to which is prefix'd an introduction concerning muscular motion.
Creator:
Cowper, William, 1666–1709
Date:
1724
Physical Description:
[18], lxxvii, 194 p., 66 leaves of plates : ill. ; 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A progress of female virtue / engraved by A. Cardon from original drawings by Mrs. Cosway.
Creator:
Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759–1838
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
[1], 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Six illustrations to Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin / by George Cruikshank ; engraved on wood by Thompson, Branston, Wright, Slader, and White.
Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
MDCCCXXVIII [1828]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Vues choisies d'Amsterdam et ses environs / dessinées d'après nature par C. de Kruyf et autres artistes.
Creator:
Kruyff, Cornelis de, 1771–1854
Date:
[1825?]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [46] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches in the island of Madeira.
Creator:
Dillon, Frank, 1823–1909
Date:
1850
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], ii p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Oriental scenery.
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
1795-1807 [that is, 1808]
Physical Description:
(plate volumes): 6 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 80 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Behar amateur lithographic scrap book.
Creator:
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845
Date:
[1830?]
Physical Description:
[54] pages : 57 lithographs ; 26 x 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Picturesque illustrations of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of the island of Ceylon.
Creator:
Daniell, Samuel, 1775–1811
Date:
1808
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Panorama of the city of Dacca.
Date:
[ca. 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([22] p.) : ill. ; 15 x 528 cm., folded to 15 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The costume and customs of modern India : from a collection of drawings by Charles Doyley, Esq. : engraved by J.H. Clark and C. Dubourg / with a preface and copious descriptions, by Captain Thomas Williamson.
Creator:
Williamson, Thomas, Captain
Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
xxiii, [76] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches of the New Road in a journey from Calcutta to Gyah / by Sir Charles D'Oyly.
Creator:
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
[23] leaves, [22] leaves of plates : ill ; 29 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
Portraits of the princes & people of India / by the Honble. Miss Eden ; drawn on the stone by L. Dickinson.
Creator:
Eden, Emily, 1797–1869
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
24, [1] leaves, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches representing the native tribes, animals, and scenery of southern Africa / from drawings made by the late Mr. Samuel Daniell, engraved by William Daniell.
Creator:
Daniell, Samuel, 1775–1811
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[6] p., 48 leaves, [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 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
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
A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
London & Sunderland royal mail coach : fares to be paid by passengers travelling from Sunderland.
Date:
[ca. 1800]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 29 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
Sketches in Scinde.
Creator:
Edwards, William, d. 1890
Date:
1846
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new book of Chinese designs, calculated to improve the present taste : consisting of figures, buildings, & furniture, landskips, birds, beasts, flow.rs and ornaments, &c. / by Messrs. Edwards, and Darly.
Creator:
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720–approximately 1778
Date:
MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:
[4] p., 120 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views at Bombay / taken & drawn on stone by J.M. Gonsalv[es].
Creator:
Gonsalves, José M.
Date:
[1833?]
Physical Description:
6 leaves : illustrations ; 44 x 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views of Calcutta and its environs.
Creator:
Fraser, James Baillie, 1783–1856
Date:
1824-1826
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
Gentleman's monthly magazine of fashion and costumes de Paris.
Date:
1853-1858
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings &c. ... / by William Halfpenny.
Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1750-1752
Physical Description:
4 pts. in 1 : ill. ; 19 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
Sketches in Madeira / drawn from nature and on stone by Lady Susan Vernon Harcourt.
Creator:
Harcourt, Susan Vernon, 1829–1894
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
[16] leaves : tinted lithographs
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Geographical and statistical memoir of the Konkun : the revenue and land tenures of the western part of India, considered with reference to their institution and present working / by Major T.B. Jervis, Engineers, E.I.C.S.
Creator:
Jervis, T. B. (Thomas Best), 1796–1857
Date:
1840
Physical Description:
[4],149 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Ph.D. 1978.
As in a looking glass / by F.C. Philips ; iIllustrated by G. du Maurier.
Creator:
Philips, F. C. (Francis Charles), 1849–1921
Date:
1889
Physical Description:
[10], 293, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
The antiquities of Magna Graecia / by William Wilkins, Jun., M.A. F.A.S., fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Creator:
Wilkins, William, 1778–1839
Date:
MDCCCVII [1807]
Physical Description:
[6], xxii, 74, [2] pages, [73] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Father's garden / Ken Campbell.
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:
1989
Physical Description:
[51] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Illustrations of the mode of preparing the Indian opium intended for the Chinese market / from drawings made by Captain Walter S. Sherwill.
Creator:
Sherwill, Walter Stanhope
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
[8] leaves, [7] leaves of plates : col ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A description of the Oxford baths, and school of natation / illustrated with four lithographic plates, by N. Whittock.
Creator:
Richardson, Andrew Hude
Date:
[ca. 1830]
Physical Description:
8 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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