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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
The county of Dorset / surveyed and engraved by Isaac Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, Isaac, 1730–1807
Date:
June 1st, 1795
Physical Description:
1 map on 6 sheets : hand colored ; sheets 53 x 44 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
[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
[Catalog for Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory]
Creator:
Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory
Date:
[1784?]
Physical Description:
[36] leaves : ill. 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
European robin (Erithacus rubecula) and eggs, with wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
The lanner : tailpiece.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1797?
Physical Description:
1 printing block ; 22 mm high x 45 mm wide x 24 mm deep
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the estate of Richard Moore, Esq., Kentwell Hall, Suffolk.
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
1 volume : illustrations, maps ; 16 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[London from the roof of the Albion Mills] / Robt. Barker delin. ; Fredck. Birnie aquatinta.
Creator:
Barker, Robert, 1739–1806
Date:
1792-1793
Physical Description:
1 print on 6 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 49 x 342 cm, accordion folded to 49 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings : descriptive of the manners, customs and dresses of the Hindoos / by Balt. Solvyns.
Creator:
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760–1824
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[2], 66, [1], 35, [1], 8, [1], 8, [1], 8, [1], 8, [1], 10, [1], 13, [1], 17, [1], 8, [1], 36, [1], 22 leaves of plates : col. ill. (etchings) ; 52 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Newmarket, Mildenhall, and Swaffham stage waggons : by Thomas Archer.
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 handbill ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
?White-cheeked Starling (Sturnus cineraceus), with bramble (Rubus fruticosus L.), and Eurasian Comma (Polygonia c-album), both closed and open, and Seven-Spotted Ladybird Beetle (Coccinella septumpunctata) on leaf, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Vincent Lunardi Esqr., : secretary to the late Neapolitan ambassador, first aerial traveller in England : an honorary member of the Honble. Artillery Company of the City of London and Royal Archer of Scotland / Nesmith, pinxt. ; Burke, fecit.
Creator:
Burke, Thomas, 1749–1815
Date:
publish'd April 20th, 1786
Physical Description:
1 print : stipple engraving ; 20 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The soldier's return.
Creator:
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:
[1793]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) ; 23 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A walk through Wales, in August 1797 / by the Revd. Richard Warner, of Bath.
Creator:
Warner, Richard, 1763–1857
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
viii, 236 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cours d'hippiatrique, ou Traité complet de la médecine des chevaux : orné de soixante & cinq planches gravées avec soin / Par M. Lafosse, hippiatre.
Creator:
Lafosse, Philippe-Etienne, 1738–1820
Date:
M.DCC.LXXII [1772]
Physical Description:
[6] p., xvij, [1], xj, [1], 402, vj p., [72] leaves of plates : ill. ; 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the estate of John Plampin Esquire, taken in 1774, 1774.
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
1 v. (45, [3] p., with blanks) : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The ... Fashions of London and Paris.
Physical Description:
v. : ill. (hand-colored) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The landscape : a didactic poem : in three books : addressed to Uvedale Price ... / by R.P. Knight.
Creator:
Knight, Richard Payne, 1751–1824
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[4], 77 p., 3 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The school of fencing : with a general explanation of the principal attitudes and positions peculiar to the art / by Mr. Angelo.
Creator:
Angelo, Domenico, 1717?-1802
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
viii, 105, [9] p., [44] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 24 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Land tax bill for William Bourn, April 5th, 1798.
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 6 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Society for the Conversion &c. of Negroe Slaves.
Date:
ca. 1820
Physical Description:
1 seal : wax, with paper backing ; 6.4 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and digested and published from his original Mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]
Physical Description:
5 v. front. ports. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sir Joseph Banks's fishery book of the River Witham in Lincolnshire.
Creator:
Banks, Sarah Sophia, 1744–1818
Date:
1784-1800
Physical Description:
2 v. ; ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A catalogue of 250 coloured etchings : descriptive of the manners, customs, character, dress, and religious ceremonies of the Hindoos / By Balt. Solvyns, Calcutta.
Creator:
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760–1824
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[6], 28 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley.
Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
1 p.., 64 pl. 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new philosophico chorographical chart of East-Kent / invented and delineated by Christopher Packe, M.D.
Creator:
Packe, Christopher, 1686–1749
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
1 map : mounted on linen ; 122 x 140 cm., folded to 21 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indenture placing Elizabeth Richardson into the service of Jane Horam.
Date:
1769 January 4
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.
Date:
1740 October 6
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wet drug jar.
Date:
between 1700 and 1740
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 19 cm high (including handle) x 14 cm in diameter (20 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
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
Will of Patrick Collins.
Creator:
Collins, Patrick, -1781
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 18 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A map of Hindoostan or the Mogul Empire : from the latest authorities ... / by J. Rennell.
Creator:
Rennell, James, 1742–1830
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 105 x 124 cm., folded to 27 x 21 cm., in case 27 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A geometrical plan of the city and suburbs of Bristol / survey'd by John Rocque ...
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[175-?]
Physical Description:
1 map : ill. ; 48 x 45 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 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
Shellwork flower arrangement.
Creator:
Dennis, Sarah, 1712–1761
Date:
circa 1730
Physical Description:
1 shellwork flower arrangement : shell, silk, fish scales, wood, glass ; in cabinet 49 x 39 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Buck's antiquities; or venerable remains of above four hundred castles, monasteries, palaces, &c. &c. in England and Wales. With near one hundred views of cities and chief towns. By Messrs. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck ...
Creator:
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., map, port., plates (some folded) ; 47 cm. (v. 3, 32 x 46 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of John Roberts, hosier, London, recording purchases by B. Buggin].
Creator:
Roberts, John (Hosier)
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 19 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of the southeastern part of North America.
Creator:
Hammerton, William, -1732
Date:
1721
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and black and brown ink, with red, yellow, and blue-gray wash ; 78 x 132 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Acorn Foundation, Inc., Alexander O. Vietor, Yale BA 1936, President, in honor of Paul Mellon

264. Tree.

Tree.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
not after 1828
Physical Description:
1 printing block ; 41 mm high x 76 mm wide x 24 mm deep
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the city and suburbs of Bristol / survey'd by John Rocque ... = Plan de la ville et faubourgs de Bristol / levé par Jean Rocque.
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
1 map ; 48 x 45 cm., on sheet 57 x 78 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of Christopher Corrall and Daniel Blachford, gold and silver lacemen, London, for purchases made by Barrington Buggin Esq., May 13th, 1772.
Creator:
Corrall, Christopher, active 1772
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The combat with the giant : a new invented and entertaining game.
Date:
September 1st, 1796
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 40 x 40 cm, folded to 13 x 13 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
[Remains of the Spartan monuments seen from the opposite side]
Creator:
Tennant, Smithson, 1761–1815
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 16 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The rhinoceros.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1790?
Physical Description:
1 printing block ; 49 mm high x 73 mm wide x 22 mm deep
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
The botanic garden : a poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing The economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes.
Creator:
Darwin, Erasmus, 1731–1802
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 29 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
Chinese landskips.
Date:
[ca. 1752?]
Physical Description:
12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Vinters in Kent, a seat of James Whatman Esqr.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
1 v. ([20] leaves) : ill. ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava), male, with Marsh gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Pyrrhogyra sp.), common sawfly (Hymenoptera ?Tenthredinidae), and (Heliconius wallacei flavescens), Fluminense swallowtail (Parides ascanius) with shells, left and right, (Agaronia gibbosa Born, 1778), and center, (Voluta musica L. 1758), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Jug with hunting scenes after George Stubbs.
Creator:
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Date:
ca. 1780
Physical Description:
1 jug : Queen's ware, cream-colored earthenware ; 22 x 23 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson
The Iliad of Homer / translated by Mr. Pope ...
Creator:
Homer
Date:
1715-1720
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 28cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
H. Repton, landscape gardener [graphic] : Hare Street, near Romford, Essex / H. Repton inv. & delin. ; T. Medland sculpt.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
[ca. 1797?]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; sheet 66 x 95 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Selections from George Edwards' A natural history of uncommon birds : with additional watercolors and engravings by Eleazar Albin.
Creator:
Edwards, George, 1694–1773
Date:
approximately 1746
Physical Description:
1 volume (53 leaves, with blanks) : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Rose Bruce, of Dublin.
Creator:
Andras, Catherine, 1775–1860
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
1 sculpture : painted wax ; figure 18 cm high x 19 cm wide (at base), in shadow box 33 x 28 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Admission ticket for the balloon ascension of Vincenzo Lunardi on May 13, 1785.
Creator:
Lunardi, Vincent, 1759–1806
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket : engraving ; 7.5 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bernardi Siegfried Albini Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.
Creator:
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697–1770
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
[94] pages, XXV [i.e. 40] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 72 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
D. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Creator:
Orme, Daniel, 1766–1837
Date:
[between 1792 and 1797]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

295. Tygress.

Tygress.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
ca. 1798
Physical Description:
1 needlework picture : wool ; image 46 x 59 cm, in frame 61 x 74 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Cyrill Clough, at Henry Lloyd's school.
Creator:
Lloyd, Mr., active 1795
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 25 x 42 cm, folded to 25 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper diorama of the HMS Sutherland.
Creator:
Walker, Augustine
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
1 diorama ; 50 x 60 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indenture placing William Spill into the service of William Beales, broad weaver.
Date:
1728 April 8
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts