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1. The environs of London : reduced from an actual survey in 16 sheets / by the late John Rocque ... ; with new improvements to the year 1763.

The environs of London : reduced from an actual survey in 16 sheets / by the late John Rocque ... ; with new improvements to the year 1763.
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets ; 86 x 125 cm., sheets 58 x 79 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The journey from Chester to London.

The journey from Chester to London.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 452, [6] pages, 22 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

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

4. Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.
Creator:
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Flora of the British Isles.

Flora of the British Isles.
Creator:
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Date:
circa 1790-1810?
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, belonging to the right honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : laid out by Mr. Bridgman, principal gardener to their majesties King George I and II / delineated in a large plan and fifteen perspective views : drawn on the spot by Mons. Rigaud, and engraved by him and Mons. Bernard Baron = Les jardins de Stowe dans le Comte de Bucks, appartenant a le Tres-Honorable Seigneur Le Vicomte de Cobham / tracé par Mr Bridgman, jardinier principal aux S. Maj. Brit. George I & II ; en une grande plan & XV. veües perspective ; designé sur la place par M. Rigaud, & gravé par le mesme & M. Bernard Baron.

Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, belonging to the right honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : laid out by Mr. Bridgman, principal gardener to their majesties King George I and II / delineated in a large plan and fifteen perspective views : drawn on the spot by Mons. Rigaud, and engraved by him and Mons. Bernard Baron = Les jardins de Stowe dans le Comte de Bucks, appartenant a le Tres-Honorable Seigneur Le Vicomte de Cobham / tracé par Mr Bridgman, jardinier principal aux S. Maj. Brit. George I & II ; en une grande plan & XV. veües perspective ; designé sur la place par M. Rigaud, & gravé par le mesme & M. Bernard Baron.
Creator:
Rigaud, Jacques, 1681–1754
Date:
MDCCXLVI [1746]
Physical Description:
1 leaf, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...

A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
2 v. 162 plates (incl. fronts., engr. t.-p.'s, ports. plans) on 133 leaves. 69 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.

Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.
Creator:
Garneray, Jean-François, 1755–1837
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
[4] pages, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Practical farriery, or, The complete directory : in whatever relates to the food, management, and cure of the diseases incident to horses ; the whole alphabetically digested, and illustrated with copper-plates / by John Blunt, surgeon, at Leominster, Hereforshire.

Practical farriery, or, The complete directory : in whatever relates to the food, management, and cure of the diseases incident to horses ; the whole alphabetically digested, and illustrated with copper-plates / by John Blunt, surgeon, at Leominster, Hereforshire.
Creator:
Blunt, John, surgeon
Date:
MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:
viii, 316, [8] p., III leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (engraving) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions / by John White, esqre., surgeon general to the settlement.

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions / by John White, esqre., surgeon general to the settlement.
Creator:
White, John, active 1757–1759
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
[16], 299, [37] pages, [66] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peters Westminster : containing an account of its ancient and modern building ... : with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it : together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats, collected from ancient mss. of that convent, and historians, & the lives of the deans to this time : and also, a survey of the church and cloysters, taken in the year 1723, with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands ... / by Mr. John Dart ; to which is added, Westminster Abbey, a poem, by the same author.

Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peters Westminster : containing an account of its ancient and modern building ... : with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it : together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats, collected from ancient mss. of that convent, and historians, & the lives of the deans to this time : and also, a survey of the church and cloysters, taken in the year 1723, with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands ... / by Mr. John Dart ; to which is added, Westminster Abbey, a poem, by the same author.
Creator:
Dart, John, -1730
Date:
[between 1723 and 1727]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., ports, plan ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords : representing the several engagments between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII ... : to which are added, from a book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio, A.D. 1588 ... ten charts of the sea coasts of England, and a general one of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c. shewing the places of action between the two fleets ... : also an historical account of each day's action, collected from the most authentic manuscripts and writers / by John Pine, engraver.

The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords : representing the several engagments between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII ... : to which are added, from a book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio, A.D. 1588 ... ten charts of the sea coasts of England, and a general one of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c. shewing the places of action between the two fleets ... : also an historical account of each day's action, collected from the most authentic manuscripts and writers / by John Pine, engraver.
Creator:
Pine, John, 1690–1756
Date:
[1739]
Physical Description:
[6], 23, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria.

Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
1796-1803
Physical Description:
1 volume (74 drawings) : watercolor and gouache over graphite ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. XII views in aquatinta from drawings taken on the spot in South-Wales [graphic] : dedicated to the Honourable Charles Greville and Ioseph Banks Esquire / by their ever grateful and much obliged servant Paul Sandby, R.A.

XII views in aquatinta from drawings taken on the spot in South-Wales [graphic] : dedicated to the Honourable Charles Greville and Ioseph Banks Esquire / by their ever grateful and much obliged servant Paul Sandby, R.A.
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775-1776]
Physical Description:
39 prints in 1 album : aquatints with etching ; album 29 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.
Creator:
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:
1707-1725
Physical Description:
2 v., XI, 274 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. (frontispiece), map (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Twenty five actions of the manage horse / engrav'd by Josephus Sympson, from original drawings of Mr. John Vanderbanck ; to which are added, two of the English hunter ; with the figure of a fine horse measured from the life, shewing all the proportions ; as also a draught of the true shape of the branch ; with short remarks on some parts of horsemanship.

Twenty five actions of the manage horse / engrav'd by Josephus Sympson, from original drawings of Mr. John Vanderbanck ; to which are added, two of the English hunter ; with the figure of a fine horse measured from the life, shewing all the proportions ; as also a draught of the true shape of the branch ; with short remarks on some parts of horsemanship.
Creator:
Vanderbank, John, 1694–1739
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
[4], 8 p., 29, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment : containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories ... : accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions ... a complete set of county-maps ... together with an authentic account of Doomsday-Book ... / published under the inspection of Henry Boswell ... assisted by Robert Hamilton ... and other ingenious gentlemen ...

Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment : containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories ... : accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions ... a complete set of county-maps ... together with an authentic account of Doomsday-Book ... / published under the inspection of Henry Boswell ... assisted by Robert Hamilton ... and other ingenious gentlemen ...
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elizabeth Langhorne

18. A collection of English grasses.

A collection of English grasses.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
circa 1792-1808
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 105 leaves) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts