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Hindoostan : containing a description of the religion, manners, customs, trades, arts, sciences, literature, diversions, &c. of the Hindoos.
Date:
[1822]
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches with the microscope : in a letter to a friend.
Creator:
Ward, Mary, 1827–1869
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
56 pages, [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688 / by David Hume.
Creator:
Hume, David, 1711–1776
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
5 v. in 10 : ill. ; 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Ginsberg.
A picturesque tour through Ireland / by Dennis Sullivan, esq. ; illustrated with numerous coloured views of the most interesting scenery.
Creator:
Sullivan, Dennis
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[52] p., 23, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 x 28 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
London manners and dandy fashions.
Date:
[approximately 1825?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 24 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of B. Smallwood, London haberdasher, for purchase of ribbon by an unidentified buyer.
Creator:
Smallwood, B.
Date:
180-?
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 13 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Advertisement for patent doors, windows, & shutters for the prevention of burglary]
Date:
[1817?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 32 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts : ... consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.
Creator:
Lucas, Fielding, Jr., 1781–1854
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 24 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A full & true account of a pleasure party to Rockingham in 1817 by C.R., illustrated by J.P.
Date:
1817?
Physical Description:
2 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Graphic : 190 Strand, London.
Creator:
Crane, Walter, 1845–1915
Date:
[1876?]
Physical Description:
1 print : chromoxylograph ; 14 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Called to the rescue : heroism at sea.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[1880]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 5 x 15 cm, in mount 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Der freischutz.
Date:
[between 1840-1850]
Physical Description:
36 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Constant as the sun in heaven above, this heart that thou has won will be to see in love.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 17 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.
Creator:
Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:
Jany. 2nd, 1837
Physical Description:
[14] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Toy soldier paper dolls.
Creator:
Sayers, Henry, 1819 or 1820–1891
Date:
ca. 1830
Physical Description:
245 toy soldier paper dolls ; in box 33 x 27 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crosse & Blackwell : purveyors by appointment to the Queen : Soho Square, London.
Creator:
Crosse & Blackwell
Date:
[1876?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustration ; 77 x 118 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A correct likeness, handsomely framed, in one minute, for one shilling.
Creator:
Stanley, C. (Portraitist)
Date:
[approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : portrait ; 47 x 32 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Miss Mason at St. Helens School, Clifton, Bristol.
Creator:
St. Helens (Clifton, Bristol)
Date:
1884
Physical Description:
3 items ; 23 x 14 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Amateurs repository of Indian sketches. Pt. 1.
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
11 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 27 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead recording shoes purchased by Mr. Roberts from P. Roche, boot maker, Liverpool.
Creator:
Roche, Patrick (Bootmaker)
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 12 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of drawings after John Flaxman's illustrations for The divine comedy, as engraved by Étienne Achille Reveil.
Date:
not before 1833
Physical Description:
1 volume (107 drawings) : graphite ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund; Gift of Diane Nixon
Pike & Garnham, linen drapers, silk mercers & hosiers : 12, Red Lion Street, Holborn.
Creator:
Pike & Garnham
Date:
[1830?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 90 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sacred to the memory of the heroes slain in the Battles of Alma, Inkerman, & The Eastern War.
Date:
[approximately 1854]
Physical Description:
3 cards : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of cut-paper flowers.
Creator:
C. P. A. F
Date:
1842-1849
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pictures) ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pizarro : a drama in five acts : written expressly for and adapted only to Skelt's characters and scenes in the same.
Date:
[between 1850--1862]
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Music is the voice of love. My love for thee is pure and ardent.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Palatial and parliamentary edifices of Westminster.
Date:
[1835]
Physical Description:
[126] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of Silver & Co., clothiers, London, recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Lambert.
Creator:
Silver & Co. (London, England)
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 26 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for F. Blanchard at B. Barrett's boarding school, Great Yarmouth.
Creator:
Barrett, B., Mr., active 1847
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages ; 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Annals of the artists of Spain / by William Stirling, M.A.
Creator:
Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818–1878
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter / Lee sc.
Date:
[1800?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 37 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In affectionate remembrance of John Farres, who died November 5th, 1885 : aged 72 years.
Date:
1885
Physical Description:
1 card : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The miller's maid : a drama in two acts : written expressly for, and adapted only to Skelt's characters & scenes in the same.
Date:
[between 1840 and 1850]
Physical Description:
18 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
The Great Exhibition "wot is to be", or, Probable results of the industry of all nations in the year '51 : showing what is to be exhibited, who is to exhibit it; in short, how its [!] all going to be done / By Vates Secundus.
Creator:
Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
22 leaves : col. ill. 14 x 586 cm. fold. to 14 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brian and Linda Gracie
A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
x, 525, [1] p. ill. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letters upon subjects of general interest from John Ruskin to various correspondents.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1892
Physical Description:
xii, 101, [3] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Please to imagine lady fair, If you my passion truly share, that in these gloves our hands combine, Mine in yours, love, and yours in mind.
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 folded card ; 30 x 110 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Three-dimensional cut-paper album card].
Date:
[approximately 1890]
Physical Description:
1 album card : color illustrations ; 100 x 60 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jennens, Bettridge & Sons, manufacturers to Her Majesty & The Royal Family : 6, Halkin St. West-Belgrave Squ., London and 99, Constitution Hill, Birmingham.
Creator:
Jennens, Bettridge & Sons
Date:
[approximately 1849?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 8 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Travels in the interior of southern Africa / by William J. Burchell ; with an entirely new map, and numerous engravings.
Creator:
Burchell, William J. (William John), 1781–1863
Date:
1822-1824
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

247. Stencils.

Stencils.
Date:
late 19th century
Physical Description:
91 items
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Catherine Hamilton commonplace book.
Creator:
Hamilton, Catherine
Date:
1822-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Postmortem portrait of an infant and mother.
Date:
1850s
Physical Description:
1 photograph : ambrotype, hand-colored ; visible image 9.0 x 6.5 cm (quarter plate format), in case 12.0 x 9.5 x 1.5 cm (closed)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A series of twenty-eight panoramic views of Calcutta : extending from Chandpaul Ghaut to the end of Chowringhee Road, together with the hospital, the two bridges, and the fort / by William Wood, jun.
Creator:
Wood, William
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:
[2] pages, 28 leaves of plates (1 folded) : all illustrations ; 35 x 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Boys Clothing House, A.B. Joseph & Co. : 150 Regent St., London : Grey St. Newcastle.
Creator:
Boys Clothing House (London, England)
Date:
[approximately 1864?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 14 x 11 cm
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
Grecian remains in Italy : a description of Cyclopian walls, and of Roman antiquities, with topographical and picturesque views of ancient Latium / by J.J. Middleton.
Creator:
Middleton, John Izard, 1785–1849
Date:
1812 [i.e. not before 1819]
Physical Description:
[4], 50 pages, 27 [i.e. 23], A-B leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thomas Miller, manufacturer of the most improved water and oil colours : (52, Long Acre), and 33, Rathbone Place, London.
Creator:
Miller, Thomas, 1799 or 1800–1854
Date:
[approximately 1840]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 14 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To be seen alive! [graphic] : the wonderful Cumberland.
Date:
[1824?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut, with text in letterpress ; 27 x 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Taylor Building and the University Galleries.
Creator:
Taylor Institution. Library
Date:
June 19th, 1841
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 62 x 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

259. The meet.

The meet.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[1880]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 5 x 15 cm, in mount 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Twenty-four views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt / from drawings by Henry Salt, Esq.
Creator:
Salt, Henry, 1780–1827
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 36-79 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A series of panoramic views of Sant Jago, the capital of Chili / from the original drawings, made by the Hon. Capt. William Waldegrave, in 1821 ; drawn on stone by A. Aglio.
Creator:
Aglio, Agostino, 1777–1857
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, V leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 x 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Treatise on the art of weaving, with a full description of the Jacquard machine / Bryan Rotherham.
Creator:
Rotherham, Bryan, 1876–
Date:
1897
Physical Description:
1 volume ([131] leaves) : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Woodman's hut : a drama, in three acts, written expressly for, and adapted only to Skelt's characters & scenes in the same.
Date:
[between 1837-1840]1
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
This small tribute, dearest, take keep it for thy lovers sake ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of South Metropolitan Cemetery, opposite St. Luke's Church, Norwood : Office, 70, King William Street for the burial of Emily Westear on Tuesday 28th November 1865 [illegible]].
Creator:
South Metropolitan Cemetery (London, England)
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 29 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fantascope : 2nd series / by T.T. Bury.
Creator:
Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
6 phenakistoscope discs ; each 25 cm, in case 26 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Juliens' New progressive drawing book of the human figure / drawn from nature by Monsieur Julien ... ; lithographed by Thomas Fairland.
Creator:
Fairland, Thomas, 1804–1852
Date:
[18--]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In memory of Jane, the beloved wife of William Stead, of Sherburn : who died January 27th, 1865 : aged 34 years.
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
1 embossed print : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sarah Annette Jones photograph album.
Date:
1853-1855
Physical Description:
1 volume (78 photographs) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Photogram of ferns.
Date:
1860s?
Physical Description:
1 photograph : albumen print, photogram ; 33 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland : with descriptive illustrations / by Walter Scott.
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
2 v. (lii, 208 p., [2] leaves, [52] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pigmy revels, or, All alive at Lilliput [graphic] / Woodward delin.
Creator:
Sansom, Francis, active 1784–1799
Date:
1800-1801
Physical Description:
8 prints : hand-colored etchings ; sheets 45 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.
Creator:
Sinclair, George, 1786–1834
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 42 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To be disposed of : for terms inquire within.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 card : color lithograph ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
[Valentines card].
Date:
[approximately 1870]
Physical Description:
1 folded valentines card ; 100 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of F. Henderson, clothier & outfitter, recording purchases by Mr. G. Duncan, Imperial Hotel, 1888].
Creator:
Henderson, F. (Clothier)
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 18 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

279. Mazeppa

Mazeppa
Date:
[between 1837-1840]
Physical Description:
22 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick ...
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1797-1804
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, William B. Sarsfield (William Benjamin Sarsfield), 1781–1850
Date:
[1819-1820]
Physical Description:
3 parts (72 p., [9] leaves of plates) : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens.
Creator:
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Date:
1879-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 18 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Henry Seebohm ornithological notebook and diary.
Creator:
Seebohm, Henry, 1832–1895
Date:
1860-1866
Physical Description:
1 volume (140 pages) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Costumes of the Madras Army / drawn and colored by W. Hunsley.
Creator:
Hunsley, William
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
[40] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lawrence & Co.'s cheap clothing establishment : 153, Caledonia Road (near the canal bridge).
Creator:
Lawrence & Co. (London, England)
Date:
[not before 1882]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of J.S. Moss & Son, draper and general outfitter, Manchester.
Creator:
J.S. Moss & Son (Firm : Manchester, England)
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 27 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The language of flowers.
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm, folded to 15 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
National Panorama, 21, York Street, Westminster : Battle of Tel el Kebir, by Oliver Pichat.
Creator:
National Panorama (London, England)
Date:
[1883?]
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 11 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A tribute to beautiful love! : vous seulement! J'estime et en vérité J'aime.
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
1 card ; 19 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
By penning these misc lines, to prove a pledge of my unceasing love ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
May mutual loves count us blest.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sallis's comic play grammar.
Creator:
Sallis, William, 1782–1865
Date:
[ca. 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 card game (41 cards) : illustrations ; each card 9.8 x 7 cm, in box 10.5 x 7.3 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.
Creator:
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[42] pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
William Field scrapbook.
Creator:
Field, William, 1854–1932
Date:
1895
Physical Description:
1 v. (68 p.) ; 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Monastic and baronial remains : with other interesting fragments of antiquity in England, Wales, and Scotland ... / by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...
Creator:
Parkyns, George Isham, approximately 1750–approximately 1820
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketchbook.
Creator:
Palairet, Septimus Henry, 1807–1854
Date:
circa 1830
Physical Description:
1 album ([88] leaves of drawings) : watercolor over pen and ink ; 10 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rebecca Salter, in memory of her father Samuel Salter.
W. Herring, dealer in all sorts of pheasants, fancy poultry, swans, water fowl, gold and silver fish, sporting and fancy dogs : menagerie, New Road, near Regents Park, London, late Brookes.
Creator:
Herring, William
Date:
approximately 1835
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 70 x 100 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts