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1. Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. By the Rev.d Mr. Spence.

Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. By the Rev.d Mr. Spence.

Creator:: Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: xii, 361, [1] p. front. (port.) illus., XLI pl. (part fold.) 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The First [... fourth] booke of architecture.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: not before 1611
Physical Description:: 1 volume (272 leaves) : pen and ink on paper ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : recently executed from drawings made upon the spot.

Creator:: Merigot, James
Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [72] p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 51 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The Eclogues / translated by James Michie ; introduction by Gilbert Highet ; decorations by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Virgil
Date:: 2000
Physical Description:: xvi, 61 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

5. The comic history of Rome / by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett ; illustrated by by John Leech.

Creator:: À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
Date:: [1852]
Physical Description:: xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Caesar, Julius
Date:: 1951
Physical Description:: 311, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Langlands & Bell.

Creator:: Langlands & Bell
Date:: [1991]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : ill. ; 22 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Langlands & Bell

8. Travels in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, in 1796 and 1797 : written for the amusement of an absent daughter.

Creator:: Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:: 1796-1799
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Daily life in ancient Rome : the people and the city at the height of the Empire / Jérôme Carcopino ; edited by Henry T. Rowell ; translated from the French by E.O. Lorimer ; introduced by Keith Hopkins.

Creator:: Carcopino, Jérôme, 1881–1970
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: xxiii, 387 p, [24] p of plates : ill, maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

10. A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : executed from drawings made upon the spot in the year 1791 ...

Creator:: Merigot, James
Date:: 1797[-1799]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Veües des plus beaux endroits de la ville de Rome / Jacques Prou delin. et sculp.

Creator:: Prou, Jacques, approximately 1639–approximately1686
Date:: [circa 1680?]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 x 52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1813-1817
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. (some col.), port., plans, map ; 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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

14. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:: [12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Dictionary of Greek and roman biography and mythology / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood ; in three volumes.

Creator:: Smith, William, 1813–1893
Date:: [1844-1849]
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Antony & Cleopatra / William Shakespeare ; designed and produced by Ronald King ; with notes and an introductory essay, "The elusive absolute," by Keith Please.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 59 p. : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

Creator:: Austin, William, 1721–1820
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 6, [2] p., [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: xii, 1293, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The lives of the noble Grecians & Romanes : compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea / translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot, and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North ; the illustrations by T.L. Poulton ; with the fifteen supplementary lives of 1603.

Creator:: Plutarch
Date:: 1929-30
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : recently executed from drawings made upon the spot.

Creator:: Merigot, James
Date:: [1819?]
Physical Description:: [72] p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Selections from Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: second half of the 15th century
Physical Description:: 1 volume ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Recollections of Rome in 1843, by the ladies A and H C------.

Creator:: Cadogan, Augusta Sarah, Lady
Date:: [1845?]
Physical Description:: [1] p. 11 col. plates (incl. t.-p.) 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Antiquities of Rome : comprising twenty-four select views of its principal ruins : illustrated by a panoramic outline of the modern city, taken from the capitol / from drawings by Henry Abbott, Esq., made in the year 1818.

Creator:: Abbot, Henry, 1768–1840
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [25] leaves, [25] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 61 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Photograph album of scenes in Rome.

Creator:: Macpherson, Robert, 1815 or 1816–1872
Date:: circa 1865?
Physical Description:: 59 photographic prints in 1 album : albumen prints, from wet collodion negatives ; 33 x 41 cm or smaller, in volume 48 x 64 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Enchiridion Romæ: or, manual of detached remarks of the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of ancient and modern Rome. By S. Weston ...

Creator:: Weston, Stephen, 1747–1830
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: viii, 183 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Cartonensia, or, An historical and critical account of the tapestries in the palace of the Vatican : copied from the designs of Raphael of Urbino, and of such of the cartoons whence they were woven, as are now in preservation, with notes and illustrations : to which are subjoined remarks on the causes which retard the progress of the higher departments of the art of painting in this country / by the Rev. W. Gunn ...

Creator:: Gunn, William, 1750–1841
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: [4], xvi, 198 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. By the Rev.d Mr. Spence.

2. The First [... fourth] booke of architecture.

3. A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : recently executed from drawings made upon the spot.

4. The Eclogues / translated by James Michie ; introduction by Gilbert Highet ; decorations by Richard Shirley Smith.

5. The comic history of Rome / by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett ; illustrated by by John Leech.

6. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

7. Langlands & Bell.

8. Travels in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, in 1796 and 1797 : written for the amusement of an absent daughter.

9. Daily life in ancient Rome : the people and the city at the height of the Empire / Jérôme Carcopino ; edited by Henry T. Rowell ; translated from the French by E.O. Lorimer ; introduced by Keith Hopkins.

10. A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : executed from drawings made upon the spot in the year 1791 ...

11. Veües des plus beaux endroits de la ville de Rome / Jacques Prou delin. et sculp.

12. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

13. 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.

14. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

15. Dictionary of Greek and roman biography and mythology / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood ; in three volumes.

16. Antony & Cleopatra / William Shakespeare ; designed and produced by Ronald King ; with notes and an introductory essay, "The elusive absolute," by Keith Please.

17. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

18. Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

20. A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : recently executed from drawings made upon the spot.

21. Selections from Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura.

22. Recollections of Rome in 1843, by the ladies A and H C------.

23. Antiquities of Rome : comprising twenty-four select views of its principal ruins : illustrated by a panoramic outline of the modern city, taken from the capitol / from drawings by Henry Abbott, Esq., made in the year 1818.

24. Photograph album of scenes in Rome.

25. Enchiridion Romæ: or, manual of detached remarks of the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of ancient and modern Rome. By S. Weston ...