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Some account of London / Thomas Pennant.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
vi, [4], 479, [9] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.
Creator:
Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
viii, 571 p., [23] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., plan : 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The last days of Lord Byron : with his lordship's opinions on various subjects, particularly on the state and prospects of Greece / by William Parry, Major of Lord Byron's Brigade, commanding officer of artillery, and engineer in the service of the Greeks.
Creator:
Parry, William, fl. 1825
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 360 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Alice's adventures in Wonderland / by Lewis Carroll ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham ; with a proem by Austin Dobson.
Creator:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832–1898
Date:
[1907]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 161, [3] pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sylvia Van Sinderen in honor of Elisabeth Fairman
Fortunio & his seven gifted servants.
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
1 game : color lithograph ; 57 x 44 cm, folded to 20 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Geo. G. Laidler and Co. 35 Fawcett Street, Sunderland : decorators, cabinet makers, and upholsterers.
Creator:
Shepherd, A. G.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) female, and eggs, with Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) and Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis Paphia), both closed and open, with Long-legged Fly 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)
ABC of animals.
Date:
[approximately 1896?]
Physical Description:
[6] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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 elements of gymnastics for boys and of calisthenics for young ladies : illustrated by forty-three engravings / by Gustavus Hamilton ...
Creator:
Hamilton, Gustavus
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
vi, [7]-72 p., [43] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Woodcuts of British fishes / engraved by Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1878
Physical Description:
[25] leaves : all ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Floral photo-medallion souvenir of Glastonbury].
Date:
[approximately 1880?]
Physical Description:
8 views : photolithographs ; each 42 mm in diameter, on sheet 24 x 24 cm (unfolded)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...
Creator:
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front., plates, diagrs. 27 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
The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
[14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper diorama of the HMS Defiance.
Creator:
Walker, Augustine
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
1 diorama ; 48 x 59 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A pottle of strawberries, to beguile a short journey, or a long half hour / by Albert Smith ; with illustrations by Gilbert and Henning.
Creator:
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:
MDCCCXLVIII [1848]
Physical Description:
62 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Life in Bombay, and the neighboring out-stations : with illustrations.
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
xvi, 350 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Panorama of the Rhine and the adjacent country from Cologne to Mayence / drawn from nature by F. W. Delkeskamp ; engraved by John Clark ; to which are now added maps showing the routes from Calais, Ostend, and Rotterdam, to Cologne, and from Mayence to the sources of the Rhine, together with the steam boat companion, describing the places between Rotterdam and Mayence.
Creator:
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:
[between 1834 and 1839]
Physical Description:
3 prints on 6 sheets : engraving ; sheets end-to-end 284 x 28 cm, accordion folded to 19 x 23 cm, in covers 21 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Collection of prints illustrating Victoria and Albert and their children].
Date:
ca. 1845]
Physical Description:
[10] sheets : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Queen's visit to Jersey, September 3rd, 1846.
Creator:
Le Capelain, John, 1814?-1848
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[6] pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Views on the River Wye].
Creator:
Jukes, Francis, 1745–1812
Date:
[1797-1802]
Physical Description:
16 prints : aquatint and etching ; platemarks 37 x 47 cm, on sheets 41 x 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Picturesque antiquities of Bristol / drawn from nature & on stone by J.S. Prout.
Creator:
Prout, J. S. (John Skinner), 1806–1876
Date:
[1835]
Physical Description:
29 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Gentleman's magazine.
Date:
1731-1907
Physical Description:
v. [plates (part col.) ports., maps (part fold.) facsims. 22 cm.
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
Wallis's new dissected map of America : engraved from the latest authorities, for the use of young students in geography [cartographic material].
Creator:
Wallis, J. (John), -1818
Date:
[between 1812 and 1818]
Physical Description:
1 jigsaw puzzle (39 pieces) : paper on wood, hand colored ; 26 x 21 cm, on sheet 28 x 23 cm, in wooden box 16 x 13 x 4 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
The road to the temple of honour and fame : an instructive and entertaining game.
Date:
May 20, 1811
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 59 x 43 cm, folded to 20 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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
A U.P.L. shopping expedition.
Date:
[ca. 1945?]
Physical Description:
1 game ; in box 22 x 15 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
Skelton's Engraved illustrations of the principal antiquities of Oxfordshire / from original drawings by F. Mackenzie ; accompanied with descriptive & historical notices.
Creator:
Skelton, Joseph, 1783–1871
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., map ; 42cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pen & pencil reminiscences of a campaign in South Africa / by Thomas J. Lucas ... ; illustrated with beautiful colour-tinted lithographs.
Creator:
Lucas, Thomas J
Date:
[1861]
Physical Description:
[10], 35 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A dream of John Ball and A king's lesson / by William Morris.
Creator:
Morris, William, 1834–1896
Date:
1892
Physical Description:
123 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Geographical and statistical memoir of the Konkun : the revenue and land tenures of the western part of India, considered with reference to their institution and present working / by Major T.B. Jervis, Engineers, E.I.C.S.
Creator:
Jervis, T. B. (Thomas Best), 1796–1857
Date:
1840
Physical Description:
[4],149 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Ph.D. 1978.
Sketches of character : in illustration of the habits, occupation, and costume of the Negro population, in the island of Jamaica / drawn after nature, and in lithography, by I.M. Belisario.
Creator:
Belisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795–1849
Date:
1837[-1838]
Physical Description:
[20] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ten views in the island of Antigua : in which are represented the process of sugar making, and the employment of the Negroes, in the field, boiling-house and distillery / from drawings made by William Clark.
Creator:
Clark, W. A. V. (William A. V.)
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[10] p., 10 leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 x 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 / by Sir Robert Ker Porter ; with numerous engravings of portraits, costumes, antiquities, &c.
Creator:
Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777–1842
Date:
1821-1822
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Crystal Palace game : a voyage round the world, an entertaining excursion in search of knowledge, whereby geography is made easy / by Smith Evans, F.R.G.S.
Creator:
Evans, Henry Smith
Date:
[1854?]
Physical Description:
1 game : color, mounted on linen ; 45.5 x 65 cm, folded to 20.3 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Polyorama, or, Endless changes of landscapes.
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
16 pts. in case. ill. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Floral tableaux / drawn and coloured by James Andrews ; with poetical illustrations.
Creator:
Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:
MDCCCXLVII [1847]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Quadrilling [music] : a favourite song / by the author of "Rejected Addresses" ; the decorations designed and executed by William Hawkes Smith.
Date:
[1822]
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill., music ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Joyful mystery birthday card jig-saw puzzle.
Date:
[approximately 1930]
Physical Description:
1 puzzle (20 pieces) : card ; 10 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Studio portrait of Maharani Bamba Duleep Singh.
Creator:
Claudet, A. (Antoine), 1797–1867
Date:
1864
Physical Description:
1 carte de visite : albumen print ; 8.2 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Alderman Akeinside's "Bit of dinner at the club"!
Date:
[1860s?]
Physical Description:
[30] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A description of the Oxford baths, and school of natation / illustrated with four lithographic plates, by N. Whittock.
Creator:
Richardson, Andrew Hude
Date:
[ca. 1830]
Physical Description:
8 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Etchings of remarkable beggars, itinerant traders and other persons of notoriety in London and its environs / by John Thomas Smith, draughtsman and etcher of London and Westminster topography.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
[24] leaves : all. ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
This Cabinet : formed entirely of Whigs and Blocks ingeniously constructed by His Most Gracious Majesty was presented to the British Nation A. D. 1831.
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
1 sheet : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The shepherd's tower : a series of photographs of the sculptures of Giotto's tower : to illustrate part VI of Mornings in Florence / by John Ruskin ...
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
iv p., [29] leaves of plates : chiefly photographs ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of the routes in India : with tables of distances between the principal towns and military stations.
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 77 x 65 cm., folded to 21 x 13 cm., in covers 22 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Rodwell and Martin's Lithographic drawing book for students / by J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandell, A. Aglio, &c.
Date:
[1821]
Physical Description:
volumes : all illustrations ; 16 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The railway companion : describing an excursion along the Liverpool Line : accompanined with a succint and popular history of the rise and progress of rail-roads : illustrated with several lithographic views / by a tourist.
Creator:
Tourist
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:
46, [2] p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Account book, trade cards, and printed labels of George Sprackett, chemist and druggist, of Bristol, England.
Creator:
Sprackett, George
Date:
1853 January 1-1882 May 1
Physical Description:
1 volume (195 pages) ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Illustrations of the mission, the camp and the Zenána / drawn by Mrs. Colin Mackenzie.
Creator:
MacKenzie, Colin, Mrs.
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
[21] pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Avril Winks
Billhead of Henry Leath, London clothier, recording purchases by J. Challinor, 1851.
Creator:
Leath, Henry
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration, 19 x 14 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
The battle of Alma : a grand military spectacle in two acts : written expressly for and adapted to Webb's characters & scenes in the same.
Date:
[1857]
Physical Description:
18 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, [1857]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Views of the South of Germany, the Tyrol and Italy / drawn on stone by J.D. Harding, W. Westall, & C. Hullmandel, from sketches by C. Hullmandel.
Creator:
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789–1850
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
[20] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Going to a fight : the sporting world in all its variety of style and costume along the road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst.
Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789–1856
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
42 pictures on 8 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatints ; sheets end-to-end 6 x 360 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 10 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Original Menagerie, New Road, near Fitzroy Square, London : revived by the late Mr. Brooks's son, Paul.
Creator:
Brookes's Menagerie (London, England)
Date:
between 1803 and 1813?
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 25 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Nouveau livre de vases / par F. Bo...
Creator:
Boucher, François, 1703–1770
Date:
Oct. 22, 1771
Physical Description:
1, [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crimson topaz hummingbird (Topaza pella), male, with Cyclamen (cf. Cyclamen L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae), open, and Red Postman (Heliconius erato phyllis), closed; shells, from left: (Conus tessulatus Born, 1778), (cf. Cypraecassis testiculus L. 1758), and (cf. Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791), 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)
Lines on the melancholy catastrophe at Holmfirth : on the fourth of February, by the bursting of the reservoir, causing the loss of upwards of 100 lives.
Date:
[ca. 1852]
Physical Description:
([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jas. Middleton, portable writing desk and dressing box manufacturer : 8 Lombard Street from the Strand.
Date:
[approximately 1830?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 5 x 6 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A Turkish atrocity : where is the victim?
Date:
[ca. 1876]
Physical Description:
1 print ; 8 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To thee my heart beats with affection sincerely.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Account book of Joseph English, undertaker.
Creator:
English, Joseph, 1798 or 1799–1871
Date:
1829-1837
Physical Description:
58 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Huggins, William John, 1781–1845
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
3 leaves, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
May 1, 1825
Physical Description:
1 peepshow (7 sheets) : hand-colored etchings ; 11 x 14 cm, 75 cm in depth (extended)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460
Date:
1892]
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
circa 1830-1831
Physical Description:
1 volume (6 pages, 86 leaves) ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts