Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Image Use: Free to Use

Burford, Robert, 1791–1861

Description of a view of the city of Nanking, and the surrounding country

1845

Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759–1838

A progress of female virtue

1800

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[185-?]

John V. Harrison & Co.

[approximately 1840?]

Views of Blaise Hamlet, Henbury Church, etc

[1840?]

Waddington, George, 1793–1869

Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia

1822

Burton, John, 1710–1771

An essay towards a complete new system of midwifry

1751

Cooper, Thomas Sidney, 1803–1902

Thomas Sydney Cooper's cattle subjects

[Published by E. Gambart & Co.],

Basebé, Charles Jones, approximately 1818–1880

The cabinet

[1841?]

Wilkins, William, 1778–1839

The antiquities of Magna Graecia

MDCCCVII [1807]

Orme, Edward, 1775–1848

Essay on transparent prints

1807

Angas, George French, 1822–1886

The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes

1849

Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878

The mansions of England in the olden time

1839-1849

Carrick, Robert, active 1853–1895

The blue lights

[1853?]

Prosser, George Frederick

Select illustrations of Hampshire

1833

Papendiek, G. E. (George Ernest), 1788–1835

Four views in Germany

1820

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827

[Transparent prints]

[1799]

Specimens of sea weed

circa 1840?

Neade, William

Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto

[approximately 1630]

Canu, Jean Dominique Etienne, 1768–

Violettes du 20 Mars 1815

20 Mars 1815

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

With best wishes for your birthday

[ca. 1870]

Till the boys come home

1914 or 1915

[Receipt from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, E.C.]

[approximately 1930?]

W.T. Copeland & Sons

Portrait plate of Albert Smith

circa [1859?]

Pillement, Jean, 1728–1808

A new book of Chinese designs

1755

Williams, William, active 1724–1733

Oxonia depicta sive Collegiorum et aularum in inclyta Academia Oxoniensi ichnographica, orthographica & scenographica delineatio

[1733]

Palatial and parliamentary edifices of Westminster

[1835]

D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845

Extra Behar amateur lithographic scrap book

[1829?]

W., Ellen

Album of cut-paper flowers

circa 1835

Description of Marshall's Grand historical peristrephic panorama of the coronation of His Majesty George IV

1823

Rocque, John, -1762

A plan of the house & gardens of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire at Chiswick

[17--]

Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840

Oriental scenery

1795-1807 [that is, 1808]

Johnson, John

Costumes of the French Pyrenees

1832

Relics of old London

1875-1886]

Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809

A collection of landscapes

MDCCLXXVII [1777]

The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates

[between 1771 and 1785]

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus L.), with tiphiid wasp (Hymenoptera ?Tiphidae), Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines), soldier fly (Diptera ?Stratiomyidae), longhorned beetle (Chlorida festiva), and shell (Natica euzona Récluz 1844) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

Ruskin, John, 1819–1900

Letters upon subjects of general interest from John Ruskin to various correspondents

1892

Britton, John, 1771–1857

Historical and descriptive essays

1847

Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677

Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching

1675

Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828

A general history of quadrupeds

1811

Rocque, John, -1762

The environs of London

[1763]

Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890

Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England

[1851]

The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter

[1800?]

Baxter, George, 1804–1867

Baxter's gems of the Great Exhibition

[1854]

Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843

Microcosm, or, A picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c. of Great Britain : in a series of above six hundred groups of small figures for the embellishment of landscape ... : the whole accurately drawn from nature, and etched

1808

White, George Francis, 1808–1898

Views in India

1836-1837

Winstanley, Henry, 1644–1703

1670s?]

Edwards, William, d. 1890

Sketches in Scinde

1846

To the diletanti [sic] and lovers of the fine arts

[1830]

D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845

Behar amateur lithographic scrap book

[1830?]

Coleman, Edmund T

Scenes from the snow-fields;

1859

Lindley, John, 1799–1865

Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London

1848

Perring, John

Advertisement for hats and caps sold by John Perring, 85 Strand, London

between 1834-1845

Dugdale, William, 1605–1686

The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated

MDCCXXX [1730]

Wales, James, 1746 or 1747–1795

[Twelve views of the island of Bombay and its vicinity]

[May 1, 1800]

Burford, Robert, 1791–1861

Description of a view of the city of Delhi, with an action between Her Majesty's troops and the revolted Sepoys

1858

Fisher, George (Barber)

George Fisher

mid-19th century

Garneray, Jean-François, 1755–1837

Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires

[1796]

Rocque, John, -1762

A plan of Rome

1750

Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895

The great glass house opend;

1851

The artist's vade mecum

1786

Dry drug jar

circa 1750

The miller's maid

[between 1840 and 1850]

Divine examples of God's severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers

1671

Liverine Limited (Firm)

Advertisement for Liverine Limited's "Longlivs."

[1920?]

Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863

Myriorama

[1824]

Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758–1833

Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures in London,

1818

Greaves, John, 1602–1652

Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt

1646

Josephus, Flavius

The works of Josephus

MDCLXXVI [1676]

Gilpin, William, 1724–1804

Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, &c.

MDCCLXXXIX [1789]

Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720–approximately 1778

A new book of Chinese designs, calculated to improve the present taste

MDCCLIV [1754]

Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833

Ancient topography of London

1815

To the Queen's private apartments

1843]

Oram, William, d. 1777

Precepts and observations on the art of colouring in landscape painting

1810

Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664

Americae pars meridionalis

[between 1641 and 1680]

Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900

Wild flowers worth notice

1861

Sowerby, James, 1757–1822

A botanical drawing-book, or, An easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature

[1807?]

Shoubridge, James

Billhead recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Clough from James Shoubridge, hatter, London

1807

Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847

Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria

1796-1803

Hall, Richard, (Boot maker)

Tender feet

[approximately 1851]

Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779

[A collection of engravings of castles, abbeys, etc. in England and Wales, by Saml. and Nathl. Buck]

1726-42

Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833

Antiquities of London and its environs

1791-[1800]

Havell, Robert, 1769–1832

A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats

1823

J. Somalvico & Co

Newly invented portable walking-stick telescope

[between 1842 and 1850]

Sallis, William, 1782–1865

Sallis's comic play grammar

[ca. 1850?]

The language of flowers

[approximately 1860]

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), male, with Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) and Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa), both open and closed, and Pupa (Lepidoptera Pieridae), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768