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The magic ring : a new game : replete with humour and pleasant variety.
Date:
November 1st, 1796
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 42 x 57 cm, folded to 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...
Creator:
Rogers, Charles, 1711–1784
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
2 v. illus., plates, ports. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Le souvenir, or, Pocket remembrancer for MDCCXCIX.
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
[38], 64 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bill of receipt by Nicholas Watson, on behalf of his mother Ann Watson, for the purchase of coffee and sugar by Mrs. De Sausmarez, 1793].
Creator:
Watson, Nicholas, active 1793
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 70 x 164 mm
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
[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
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
Twelve prints, representing the surprising events in the life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe [graphic].
Date:
publish'd as the act directs, 18 Jan. 1783
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An arithmetical pastime : intended to infuse the rudiments of arithmetic, under the idea of amusement.
Date:
April 19th, 1798
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 33 x 70 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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
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
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
Will of Patrick Collins.
Creator:
Collins, Patrick, -1781
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 18 x 21 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
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
Beautiful Nuthatch (Sitta formosa), with hazel (Corylus avellana L.), oak (Quercus L.) and bramble (cf. Rubus), 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)
Riding. To the public in general, but more particularly to lovers, learners, encouragers and adepts in the art of horsemanship.
Creator:
Wharam, Ann
Date:
[1790?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) and eggs, with bramble (Rubus L.) and Purple Emperor (Apatura iris) and longhorned beetle (?Desmocerus sp.), 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 rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China.
Date:
[1770?]
Physical Description:
24 leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld
The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake.
Date:
12th May 1794
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 38 x 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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
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

246. 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
Chinese landskips.
Date:
[ca. 1752?]
Physical Description:
12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John Palmer mail coach token.
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; diameter 27 mm, depth 1 mm
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
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
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
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
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
Double flower cultivar of Wood anemone (Anemone cf. nemorosa L. cultivar), with Painted handmaiden moth (Euchromia polymena), both open and closed, with Blister beetle / Spanish fly (Myalabris sp.), Sawyer beetle (?Monochamus sp.) and (Cypraea pantherina Lightfoot, 1786), 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)
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
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
Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[not after 1778]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the man[o]r of Graney : situat'd in the county of Kildare, belonging to the Right Honble. James Earl of Kildare / by Jno. Rocque ...
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1], 14, [13] leaves, bound) : ms., 14 col. maps ; 54 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thirty different drafts of Guinea / by William Smith, Surveyor to the Royal African Company of England.
Creator:
Smith, William, surveyor
Date:
[not before 1727]
Physical Description:
30 leaves (1 folded) : chiefly ill., maps, plans (etchings) ; 28 x 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the arts of smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning, bricklayery : to which is added Mechanick dyalling : shewing how to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane ... / by Joseph Moxon, ...
Creator:
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:
1703
Physical Description:
[viii], 287, [305]-352 p., [26] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) and eggs, with red currant (Ribes cf. rubrum L.) and Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae), both closed and open, 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)
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
?Subalpine warbler (Sylvia cantillans), male, and eggs, with strawberry (Fragaria L.), and Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), both closed and open, with wasp cocoon, ants and cocoons, 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)
[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
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
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