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1. St. Pauls Church, Dedham, Massachusetts

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 11 15/16 inches (42.3 × 30.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W

2. Architectural sketch

Creator:: Louis I. Kahn, 1901–1974
Materials & Techniques:: Black pen on wove paper
Dimensions:: Overall: 5 × 3 inches (12.7 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

3. Architectural sketch

Creator:: Louis I. Kahn, 1901–1974
Materials & Techniques:: Black pen on wove paper
Dimensions:: Overall: 5 × 3 inches (12.7 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

4. Architectural sketch

Creator:: Louis I. Kahn, 1901–1974
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on lined paper
Dimensions:: Overall: 8 1/2 × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

5. Architectural sketch

Creator:: Louis I. Kahn, 1901–1974
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on lined paper
Dimensions:: Overall: 8 1/2 × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

6. Views of New York, Park Row

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Pennell, 1860–1926
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Image: 11 7/8 × 14 3/4 inches (30.2 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

7. David Hockney on Lounge at Rising Glen, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles

Creator:: Michael Childers, born 1944
Date:: 1978
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on semi-gloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist

8. Edward McKnight Kauffer photographic negatives, ca. 1930s.

Creator:: Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890–1954
Date:: ca. 1930s
Physical Description:: approximately 990 photographs
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

9. Hoofprints of the century : excerpts from America's oldest journal of horse racing and breeding, the Thoroughbred Record, and its predecessor publications, the Livestock Record and Kentucky Livestock Record, / as compiled and annotated by William Robertson (covering 1875-1919 and 1966-1974) and Dan Farley (1920-1965)..

Date:: 1975?]
Physical Description:: 580, [30] p., [16] pages of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Transatlantic sketches, or, Sixty days in America.

Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: 34 pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 x 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Messenger, the great progenitor, by John Hervey.

Creator:: Hervey, John, 1870–1947
Date:: [c1935]
Physical Description:: 63 p. illus. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed / by Alexander Mackay-Smith ; with a foreword by Robert Moorman Denhardt.

Creator:: Mackay-Smith, Alexander
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 328 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A dictionary catalogue of the library of sports in the Racquet and Tennis Club : with special collections on tennis, lawn tennis and early American sport, New York.

Creator:: Racquet and Tennis Club (New York, N.Y.). Library
Date:: 1970
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Memoirs of The Gloucester Fox Hunting Club near Philadelphia.

Creator:: Milnor, William, 1769–1848
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: 47, [2] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Tackroom tattles, by John McKenney; illustrated by Paul Brown.

Creator:: McKenney, John
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 l., 230 p. incl. plates. front. (port.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Masters of foxhounds / by Alexander Mackay-Smith.

Creator:: Mackay-Smith, Alexander
Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: xiv, 216 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Peb 73 : a limited edition of Secretariat and Riva Ridge caricatures, reviewing the joys and sorrows of these two most famous equine stablemates.

Creator:: Peb, 1926–
Date:: [1973]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [1], 3-50 [i.e. 49] leaves of plates (1 folded) : chiefly ill. ; 34 x 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The gentleman's new pocket farrier : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal the horse : together with the quickest and simplest mode of fattening, necessary treatment while undergoing excessive fatigue, or on a journey, the construction and management of stables, different marks for ascertaining the age of a horse : also, a concise account of the diseases to which the horse is subject, with such remedies as long experience has proved to be effectual / by Richard Mason ; to which is added a prize essay on mules and an appendix containing observations and receipts for the cure of most of the common distempers incident to horses, oxen, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, swine, dogs, &c., selected from different authors ; also, an addenda, containing annals of the turf, American stud book, rules for training, racing, &c.

Creator:: Mason, Richard, active 1808–1861?
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: 388 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Racing in America : 1960-1979 / written for the Jockey Club by William H. Rudy.

Creator:: Rudy, William H
Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: xi, 383 p., [54] p. of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The history of thoroughbred racing in America [by] William H.P. Robertson.

Creator:: Robertson, William H. P. (William Harris P.), 1920–
Date:: [1964]
Physical Description:: 621 p. illus., ports.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Tommy Hitchcock, an American hero / by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.

Creator:: Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841–1915
Date:: [1984]
Physical Description:: 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Centennial book to take home.

Date:: [1876]
Physical Description:: 16 p. : ill. ; 8 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit / by Charles Dickens ; with fifty-nine illustrations by J. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 423, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

24. American notes and Pictures from Italy / by Charles Dickens ; with eighteen illustrations by A.B. Frost and Gordon Thomson.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1878]
Physical Description:: [6], 210 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

25. American notes and reprinted pieces / by Charles Dickens ; with eight illustrations.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1868]
Physical Description:: [8], 316, 172 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

26. Racing in America : 1937-1959 / written for the Jockey Club by Robert F. Kelley.

Creator:: Kelley, Robert F. (Robert Fulton)
Date:: c1960
Physical Description:: xiv, 264 p., [53] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The racing memoirs of John Hertz as told to Evan Shipman.

Creator:: Hertz, John, 1879–
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: 156 p. illus. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. American racetracks and contemporary racing art, by John O. Humphreys.

Creator:: Humphreys, John O
Date:: [1966]
Physical Description:: 240 p. illus. (part col.) 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Lady Suffolk, the Old Grey Mare of Long Island, by John Hervey, with a foreword by Harry T. Peters ...

Creator:: Hervey, John, 1870–1947
Date:: [c1936]
Physical Description:: xv p., 1 l., 128 p. incl. front. plates. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

Creator:: Livingston, William, 1723–1790
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [4], 144 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Cherished portraits of thoroughbred horses from the collection of William Woodward / with notes by W.S. Vosburgh.

Creator:: Woodward, William
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: [6], v-vii, 297 p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

Creator:: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780–1863
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. An original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American war, from its commencement to the year 1783 / by R. Lamb, late Serjeant in the Royal Welch Fuzileers.

Creator:: Lamb, Roger, 1756–1830
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: iv, xxiv, [1], 6-438 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Strictures on Lt.-Col. Tarleton's History "of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America" ... Wherein military characters and corps are vindicated from injurious aspersions, and several important transactions placed in their proper point of view. In a series of letters to a friend, by Roderick Mackenzie ... To which is added, a detail of the siege of Ninety Six, and the re-capture of the island of New-Providence.

Creator:: Mackenzie, Roderick
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., vi, 1 l. 186 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

Creator:: Rogers, Robert, 1731–1795
Date:: MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 264 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Racing in America : 1922-1936 / written for the Jockey Club by John Hervey.

Creator:: Hervey, John, 1870–1947
Date:: c1937
Physical Description:: x, 293 p., [59] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Five years' residence in the Canadas : including a tour through part of the United States of America, in the year 1823 / by Edward Allen Talbot, Esq., of the Talbot Settlement, Upper Canada ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Talbot, Edward Allen, 1801–1839
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The Virginians : a tale of the last century / by W. M. Thackeray, author of "Esmond," "Vanity Fair," "The Newcomes," &c. &c. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author.

Creator:: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Date:: 1858-1859
Physical Description:: 2 v. (24 nos.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

40. The Sportsman's portfolio of American field sports.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 43, [1] p. : illus. ; 21 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The American shooter's manual : comprising, such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to introduce the inexperienced into a full knowledge of all that relates to the dog, and the correct use of the gun : also a description of the game of this country / by a gentleman of the Philadelphia county.

Creator:: Gentleman of Philadelphia County
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [5], x-xii, [1], 14-249, [9] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois, with a winter residence at Philadelphia : solely to ascertain the actual prospects of the emigrating agriculturist, mechanic, and commercial speculator / by Adlard Welby, Esq., South Rauceby, Lincolnshire.

Creator:: Welby, Adlard
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xii, 224 pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Diary of a journey from the Mississippi to the coasts of the Pacific with a United States government expedition / by Baldwin Möllhausen, topographical draughtsman and naturalist to the expedition ; with an introduction by Alexander von Humboldt and illustrations in chromo-lithography ; translated by Mrs. Percy Sinnett ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825–1905
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The hunter-naturalist : romance of sporting, or, Wild scenes and wild hunters / by C.W. Webber.

Creator:: Webber, Charles W. (Charles Wilkins), 1819–1856
Date:: c1851
Physical Description:: 6, 8, 17-610 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. (part col.) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Essays on various subjects : written for the amusement of everybody / by one who is considered nobody.

Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [6], 149, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake valley / illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts from sketches made by Frederick Piercy ; including views of Nauvoo and the ruins of the temple, with a historical account of the city ; views of Carthage jail ; and portraits and memoirs of Joseph and Hyrum Smith ; their mother, Lucy Smith ; Joseph and David Smith, sons of the prophet Joseph ; president Brigham Young ; Heber C. Kimball ; Willard Richards ; Jedidiah M. Grant ; John Taylor ; the late chief patriarch, Father John Smith ; and the present chief patriarch, John Smith, son of Hyrum ; together with a geographical and historical description of Utah, and a map of the overland routes to that territory from the Missouri River ; also an authentic history of the Latter-Day Saints' emigration from Europe from the commencement up to the close of 1855, with statistics ; edited by James Linforth.

Creator:: Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, 1830–1891
Date:: MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:: viii, 120 pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

Creator:: La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747–1827
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : maps, charts ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor : with an account of the lead and copper deposits in Wisconsin ; of the gold region in the Cherokee country ; and sketches of the popular manners, &c. &c. &c. / by G. W. Featherstonhaugh., F.R.S., F.G.S. ; author of 'Excursion through the Slave States' ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780–1866
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Forty etchings from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828 / by Captain Basil Hall, R.N.

Creator:: Hall, Basil, 1788–1844
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [2], ii, [2] pages, [21] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, map ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Wild scenes and song birds / by C.W. Webber ... ; illustrated with twenty-five colored lithographs, drawn by Mrs. C.W. Webber and Alfred J. Miller.

Creator:: Webber, Charles W. (Charles Wilkins), 1819–1856
Date:: MDCCCLIV [1854]
Physical Description:: x, [2], 347, [1] pages, [20] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied ; mit 48 Kupfern, 33 Vignetten, vielen Holzschnitten und einer Charte.

Creator:: Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782–1867
Date:: 1839-1841
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, map ; 32-61 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and 1820 : by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers : compiled from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the party / by Edwin James, botanist and geologist to the expedition ; in three volumes.

Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, near Philadelphia ...

Creator:: Milnor, William, 1769–1848
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: 56, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. (lithographs) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War ; under the command of Major Stephen H. Long : from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party / compiled by Edwin James, botanist and geologist for the expedition ; in two vols., with an atlas.

Creator:: James, Edwin, 1797–1861
Date:: 1822-1823
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 25-30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Harvey's scenes of the primitive forest of America : at the four periods of the year, spring, summer, autumn & winter : engraved from his original paintings : accompanied with descriptive letter-press.

Creator:: Harvey, George, approximately 1800–1878
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [7] leaves, [4] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. British modernist prints, 1900-1940 / essays and checkist by Matthew Marks.

Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: [32] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

59. The American traveller: or, observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable; with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively,--and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively: together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great Britain therefrom. In a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honorable the Earl of ********* by an old and experienced trader.

Creator:: Clúny, Alexander
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: 4 p. l., 122 p. front., fold. map. 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Transatlantic sketches : comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies : with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration / by Capt. J.E. Alexander, 42D Royal Highlanders, F.R.G.S. M.R.A.S. etc. ; author of Travels in Ava, Persia, etc.

Creator:: Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803–1885
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Making the American thoroughbred : especially in Tennessee, 1800-1845 / by James Douglas Anderson ; including Reminiscences of the turf, by Balie Peyton, with notes by the author.

Creator:: Anderson, James Douglas, 1868–1948
Date:: 1916
Physical Description:: xv, [5], 300 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Recollections of men and horses, by Hamilton Busbey ...

Creator:: Busbey, Hamilton, 1840–1924
Date:: 1907
Physical Description:: xii, 354 p. front., plates, ports. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The Hampton L. Carson collection of engraved portraits of Jefferson, Franklin, and Lafayette : catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels : at the art auction rooms of Davis & Harvey ... Philadelphia, Pa.

Creator:: Carson, Hampton L. (Hampton Lawrence), 1852–1929
Date:: 1904]
Physical Description:: 6, 157, 5 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The autobiography of a garden : on twelve engraved plates / by Andrew Raftery ; thoughts by Cary Liebowitz.

Creator:: Raftery, Andrew, 1962–
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: [72] pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 x 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the author

65. English inspirations : wood engravings by members of the Wood Engravers' Network in honor of their visit in May of 2014 : the artists are listed in order: Laurie Corral, Nancy Darrell, Tony Drehfal, Amy Fujimoto, Mirka Hokkanen, James Horton, John McWilliams, Carl Montford, William Myers, Sylvia Pixley, Joanne Price, Anders Sandstrom, Rowena Villarias.

Creator:: Wood Engravers' Network
Date:: [2014]
Physical Description:: 16 prints : wood engraving ; in accordion-folded portfolio 17 x 192 cm, folded to 17 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nigel Hamway.

66. Guest book.

Creator:: Lallier, Monique
Date:: [1995?]
Physical Description:: 1 volume ([74] leaves) ; 18 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

67. The dark side of dazzle / by Marilyn Lysohir.

Creator:: Lysohir, Marilyn, 1950–
Date:: [1998]
Physical Description:: [76] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky

68. Fine prints by modern masters.

Creator:: Catherine E. Burns (Gallery)
Date:: [approximately 1990?]
Physical Description:: [40] pages : illustrations ; 18 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

69. Rhymes and pictures about bread, tea, sugar, coals, cotton, gold : 72 illustrations.

Creator:: Newman, William
Date:: [approximately 1860-1861?]
Physical Description:: 6 volumes in 1 (11, 11, 12, 11, 12, 10 leaves) : ill. ; 13 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Martin Chuzzlewit.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xxiv, [2], 844, [2] pages, [44] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. American notes : Pictures from Italy : A child's history of England : The life of our Lord.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xxii, 891, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. A series of views of the most remarkable localities celebrated for picturesque beauty of historical and other associations / exquisitely engraved by Cooke, from original drawings ; 34 plates.

Creator:: Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [34] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

Creator:: Clúny, Alexander
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Illustrations for Nathaniel Parker Willis's American scenery.

Creator:: Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809–1854
Date:: 1839-1840
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : steel engravings ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Field notes : workshop 11.5.14 Chicago, Illinois / Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman.

Creator:: Ciurej, Barbara
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: [24] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman Collaborative Projects

76. The magic ring : a merry game.

Date:: [approximately 1850]
Physical Description:: 1 game ; in box 16 x 15 x 3 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Field notes : workshop 11.5.14 Chicago, Illinois / Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman.

Creator:: Ciurej, Barbara
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 4 sheets (3 folded) : illustrations ; in paper slipcase 27 x 10 x 2 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk

78. Harvey's scenes of the primitive forest of America : at the four periods of the year, spring, summer, autumn & winter : engraved from his original paintings : accompanied with descriptive letter-press.

Creator:: Harvey, George, approximately 1800–1878
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [7] leaves, [4] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. [Advertising card for Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton].

Creator:: Clark's O.N.T. (Firm)
Date:: [approximately 1900]
Physical Description:: 1 advertising card : chromolithograph ; 90 x 120 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. [Die cut advertisement for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton].

Creator:: Clark's O.N.T. (Firm)
Date:: [approximately 1880]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : chromolithograph ; 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Horses and heroes : the story of the horse in America for 450 years / by Frazier Hunt and Robert Hunt.

Creator:: Hunt, Frazier, b. 1885
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: xii, 306 p ., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Tales of an old horsetrader : the first hundred years / by Leroy Judson Daniels ; as told to Helen S. Herrick.

Creator:: Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882–1988
Date:: 1987
Physical Description:: viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. A map of ye English Empire in ye continent of America : viz Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, New York, New Iarsey, New England, Pennsilvania / W. Binneman sculpsit ; by R. Daniel, Esq.

Creator:: Daniel, R. (Richard)
Date:: [19--?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 48 x 59 cm., on sheet 64 x 78 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The great ones.

Creator:: Blood-Horse, Inc
Date:: [1970]
Physical Description:: VIII, 327 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760 : with observations upon the state of the colonies / by the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester and Vicat of Greenwich.

Creator:: Burnaby, Andrew, 1732–1812
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: xix, [1], 209, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The gentle art of making enemies : as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right.

Creator:: Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903
Date:: MDCCCXC [1890]
Physical Description:: [16], 292 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

87. The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States : with biographical particulars of public characters : hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade / by Charles William Janson, Esq. late of the state of Rhode Island, counsellor at law ; illustrated by engravings.

Creator:: Janson, Charles William
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xiii, [2], 16-22, 499, [7] pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America : viz. Jamaica, Barbadoes, S. Christophers, Mevis, Antego, S. Vincent, Dominica, New-Jersey, Pensilvania, Monserat, Anguilla, Bermudas, Carolina, Virginia, New-England, Tobago, New-found-land, Mary-land, New-York. With new maps of every place. Together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands; from the year 1686, to 1700. Also a table by which, at any time of the day or night here in England, you may know what hour it is in any of those parts. And how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1687
Physical Description:: [8], 262, [42] p., [9] leaves of plates ([8] folded) : ill. (port., 7 fold. maps, fold. diagr.) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Craftool : Japanese hand made papers.

Date:: [circa 1960?]
Physical Description:: [11] leaves : samples ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

90. Life of William T. Porter / by Francis Brinley.

Creator:: Brinley, Francis, 1800–1889
Date:: MDCCCLX [1860]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 273, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A description of the island of Jamaica : with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related, viz. Barbadoes, St. Christophers, Nievis, or Mevis, Antego, St. Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Barbada, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New-England, New-Found-Land / published by Richard Blome. Together with The present state of Algiers.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1678
Physical Description:: [8], 88, [2], 17, [5] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill. (port., maps) ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The collector as bookbinder : the piscatorial bindings of S.A. Neff, Jr. / essays by Elisabeth R. Agro, Stanley I Grand ; binder's statement, catalogue entries, and glossary by S.A. Neff, Jr.

The collector as bookbinder : the piscatorial bindings of S.A. Neff, Jr. / essays by Elisabeth R. Agro, Stanley I Grand ; binder's statement, catalogue entries, and glossary by S.A. Neff, Jr.

Creator:: Neff, S. A.
Date:: c1999
Physical Description:: 68 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

93. The Cosmopolitan Art Association illustrated catalogue.

Creator:: Cosmopolitan Art Association
Date:: 1854-
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 23.5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The progress of genius, or, Authentic memoirs of the early life of Benjamin West, Esq. : compiled from materials furnished by himself / by John Galt.

Creator:: Galt, John, 1779–1839
Date:: 1832, c1830
Physical Description:: iv, 88 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

95. Catalogue of the exhibition of the New York Gallery of the Fine Arts : now open in the Rotunda in the park.

Creator:: New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: 12, 12 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. National exhibition : 1869.

Creator:: American Institute of the City of New York
Date:: [1869]
Physical Description:: 14 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The transactions of the Cosmopolitan Art Association.

Creator:: Cosmopolitan Art Association
Date:: 1855-
Physical Description:: v.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Can drowning be fun? : a nonsense book / by Stella Snead.

Creator:: Snead, Stella
Date:: 1992
Physical Description:: [64] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The Biglow papers / by James Russell Lowell ; with additional notes, an enlarged glossary ; and coloured illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Lowell, James Russell, 1819–1891
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: xvi, 200 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

100. The gallery of pictures painted by Benjamin West Esqr : historical painter to His Majesty, and president of the Royal Academy / engraved in outline by Henry Moses.

Creator:: West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: [4], 22 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

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1. St. Pauls Church, Dedham, Massachusetts

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6. Views of New York, Park Row

7. David Hockney on Lounge at Rising Glen, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles

8. Edward McKnight Kauffer photographic negatives, ca. 1930s.

10. Transatlantic sketches, or, Sixty days in America.

11. Messenger, the great progenitor, by John Hervey.

12. The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed / by Alexander Mackay-Smith ; with a foreword by Robert Moorman Denhardt.

13. A dictionary catalogue of the library of sports in the Racquet and Tennis Club : with special collections on tennis, lawn tennis and early American sport, New York.

14. Memoirs of The Gloucester Fox Hunting Club near Philadelphia.

15. Tackroom tattles, by John McKenney; illustrated by Paul Brown.

16. Masters of foxhounds / by Alexander Mackay-Smith.

17. Peb 73 : a limited edition of Secretariat and Riva Ridge caricatures, reviewing the joys and sorrows of these two most famous equine stablemates.

19. Racing in America : 1960-1979 / written for the Jockey Club by William H. Rudy.

20. The history of thoroughbred racing in America [by] William H.P. Robertson.

21. Tommy Hitchcock, an American hero / by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.

22. Centennial book to take home.

23. The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit / by Charles Dickens ; with fifty-nine illustrations by J. Barnard.

24. American notes and Pictures from Italy / by Charles Dickens ; with eighteen illustrations by A.B. Frost and Gordon Thomson.

25. American notes and reprinted pieces / by Charles Dickens ; with eight illustrations.

26. Racing in America : 1937-1959 / written for the Jockey Club by Robert F. Kelley.

27. The racing memoirs of John Hertz as told to Evan Shipman.

28. American racetracks and contemporary racing art, by John O. Humphreys.

29. Lady Suffolk, the Old Grey Mare of Long Island, by John Hervey, with a foreword by Harry T. Peters ...

31. Cherished portraits of thoroughbred horses from the collection of William Woodward / with notes by W.S. Vosburgh.

32. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

34. An original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American war, from its commencement to the year 1783 / by R. Lamb, late Serjeant in the Royal Welch Fuzileers.

37. Racing in America : 1922-1936 / written for the Jockey Club by John Hervey.

38. Five years' residence in the Canadas : including a tour through part of the United States of America, in the year 1823 / by Edward Allen Talbot, Esq., of the Talbot Settlement, Upper Canada ; in two volumes.

39. The Virginians : a tale of the last century / by W. M. Thackeray, author of "Esmond," "Vanity Fair," "The Newcomes," &c. &c. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author.

40. The Sportsman's portfolio of American field sports.

43. A visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois, with a winter residence at Philadelphia : solely to ascertain the actual prospects of the emigrating agriculturist, mechanic, and commercial speculator / by Adlard Welby, Esq., South Rauceby, Lincolnshire.

46. The hunter-naturalist : romance of sporting, or, Wild scenes and wild hunters / by C.W. Webber.

47. Essays on various subjects : written for the amusement of everybody / by one who is considered nobody.

49. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

51. Forty etchings from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828 / by Captain Basil Hall, R.N.

52. Wild scenes and song birds / by C.W. Webber ... ; illustrated with twenty-five colored lithographs, drawn by Mrs. C.W. Webber and Alfred J. Miller.

53. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied ; mit 48 Kupfern, 33 Vignetten, vielen Holzschnitten und einer Charte.

55. Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, near Philadelphia ...

57. Harvey's scenes of the primitive forest of America : at the four periods of the year, spring, summer, autumn & winter : engraved from his original paintings : accompanied with descriptive letter-press.

58. British modernist prints, 1900-1940 / essays and checkist by Matthew Marks.

60. Transatlantic sketches : comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies : with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration / by Capt. J.E. Alexander, 42D Royal Highlanders, F.R.G.S. M.R.A.S. etc. ; author of Travels in Ava, Persia, etc.

61. Making the American thoroughbred : especially in Tennessee, 1800-1845 / by James Douglas Anderson ; including Reminiscences of the turf, by Balie Peyton, with notes by the author.

62. Recollections of men and horses, by Hamilton Busbey ...

63. The Hampton L. Carson collection of engraved portraits of Jefferson, Franklin, and Lafayette : catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels : at the art auction rooms of Davis & Harvey ... Philadelphia, Pa.

64. The autobiography of a garden : on twelve engraved plates / by Andrew Raftery ; thoughts by Cary Liebowitz.

66. Guest book.

67. The dark side of dazzle / by Marilyn Lysohir.

68. Fine prints by modern masters.

69. Rhymes and pictures about bread, tea, sugar, coals, cotton, gold : 72 illustrations.

70. Martin Chuzzlewit.

71. American notes : Pictures from Italy : A child's history of England : The life of our Lord.

72. A series of views of the most remarkable localities celebrated for picturesque beauty of historical and other associations / exquisitely engraved by Cooke, from original drawings ; 34 plates.

74. Illustrations for Nathaniel Parker Willis's American scenery.

75. Field notes : workshop 11.5.14 Chicago, Illinois / Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman.

76. The magic ring : a merry game.

77. Field notes : workshop 11.5.14 Chicago, Illinois / Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman.

78. Harvey's scenes of the primitive forest of America : at the four periods of the year, spring, summer, autumn & winter : engraved from his original paintings : accompanied with descriptive letter-press.

79. [Advertising card for Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton].

80. [Die cut advertisement for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton].

81. Horses and heroes : the story of the horse in America for 450 years / by Frazier Hunt and Robert Hunt.

82. Tales of an old horsetrader : the first hundred years / by Leroy Judson Daniels ; as told to Helen S. Herrick.

83. A map of ye English Empire in ye continent of America : viz Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, New York, New Iarsey, New England, Pennsilvania / W. Binneman sculpsit ; by R. Daniel, Esq.

84. The great ones.

85. Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760 : with observations upon the state of the colonies / by the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester and Vicat of Greenwich.

86. The gentle art of making enemies : as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right.

89. Craftool : Japanese hand made papers.

90. Life of William T. Porter / by Francis Brinley.

92. The collector as bookbinder : the piscatorial bindings of S.A. Neff, Jr. / essays by Elisabeth R. Agro, Stanley I Grand ; binder's statement, catalogue entries, and glossary by S.A. Neff, Jr.

93. The Cosmopolitan Art Association illustrated catalogue.