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1. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Industry and idleness [graphic] / design'd by Wm. Hogarth.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Letter ordering a camera obscura for Count Alessandro Baldeschi Eugeni.

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Date:
Florence?,
Physical Description:
1 item ([4] pages) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. To China and back : being a diary kept, out and home / by Albert Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
[2], ii, [1], 6-72 pages, [1] leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by Colonel George Greenwood ...

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Creator:
Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:
1871
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 110, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The complete farrier and British sportsman : containing a systematic enquiry into the structure and animal economy of the horse, the causes, symptoms, and most approved methods of prevention and cure for every disease to which he is liable : a detection and exposure of the erroneous and bad methods of treatment generally adopted, with numerous approved and original recipes for various diseases : the whole rendered easy and familiar, with a view to general utility, and founded on the latest discoveries and experimental facts, to which the progress of improvement for the last twenty years in the veterinary act has led : including a faithful delineation of the various dogs used in the sports of the field, with canine pathology : interspersed with sporting anecdotes, and an account of the most celebrated horses, dogs, &c. &c. : equally important and interesting to The British Sportsman : as well as inn-keepers, coach-masters, farmers, owners of stage-waggons, &c. : embellished with a series of engravings, executed in the first style of the art, from original drawings in the possession of noblemen and Gentlemen of the Turf, and compiled, by permission, exclusively for this work / by Richard Lawrence ...

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Creator:
Lawrence, Richard, active 1801–1816
Date:
[1816?]
Physical Description:
iv, [1], 6-510 pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Ferdinand VII.

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Date:
[ca. 1814]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; 23 x 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The gentleman's new pocket farrier : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal, the horse; together with the quickest and simplest mode of fattening : necessary treatment while undergoing excessive fatigue : also, a concise account of the diseases to which the horse is subject : with such remedies as long experience has proved to be effectual / by Richard Mason.

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Creator:
Mason, Richard, active 1808–1861?
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
300 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens, 1708-1875, bulk 1768-1836.

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Creator:
Upcott, William, 1779–1845
Date:
1708-1875,
Physical Description:
2.0 linear feet (6 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. The gentleman's new pocket companion : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal the horse : together with the quickest and simplest mode of fattening, necessary treatment while undergoing excessive fatigue or on a journey : the construction and management of stables : different marks for ascertaining the age of a horse, from three to nine years old : with a concise account of the diseases to which the horse is most subject, with such remedies as long experience has proven effectual / by Richard Mason, of Surry County, Virginia.

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Creator:
Mason, Richard, active 1808–1861?
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[2], 4, [1], iv-vii, 176, [3], 11, [1] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The gentleman's new pocket farrier : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal the horse : together with the quickest and simplest mode of fattening, necessary treatment while undergoing excessive fatigue, or on a journey, the construction and management of stables, different marks for ascertaining the age of a horse : also, a concise account of the diseases to which the horse is subject, with such remedies as long experience has proved to be effectual / by Richard Mason ; to which is added a prize essay on mules and an appendix containing observations and receipts for the cure of most of the common distempers incident to horses, oxen, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, swine, dogs, &c., selected from different authors ; also, an addenda, containing annals of the turf, American stud book, rules for training, racing, &c.

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Creator:
Mason, Richard, active 1808–1861?
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
388 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Topographia Helvetiæ, Rhætiæ et Valesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornemsten Stätte vnd Plätze in der hochlöblichen Eydgnossschafft, Graubündten, Wallis, vnd etlicher zugewandten Orthen / M.Z.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
Im Jahr MDCLIV [1654]
Physical Description:
90, [8] p., [80] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. British family antiquity : illustrative of the origin and progress of the rank, honours, and personal merit of the nobility of the United Kingdom : accompanied with an elegant set of chronological charts / by William Playfair.

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Creator:
Playfair, William, 1759–1823
Date:
1809-1811
Physical Description:
9 volumes : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris : das ist Beschreibung der vornehmsten Stätte vnnd Plätz in dem hochl: Nider Sachs: Crayss.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
MDCLIII [1653]
Physical Description:
242 [i.e. 218], [6] p., [41] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. [Drawing book of wild boars].

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Date:
[ca. 1770?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

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Creator:
Lamy, Bernard, 1640–1715
Date:
MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:
[16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The poetical works of Lord Byron / edited, with a critical memoir, by William Michael Rossetti ; illustrated by Ford Madox Brown.

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Creator:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:
[1870]
Physical Description:
[2], xx, 604 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

19. Dante's Inferno / translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A., from the original of Dante Alighieri ; and illustrated with the designs of Gustave Doré.

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Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
Date:
[1866]
Physical Description:
[2], xxiv, 183, [1] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

20. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

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Creator:
Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:
[1739]
Physical Description:
1 map on 20 sheets ; sheets 53 x 72 cm or smaller, bound 53 x 41 cm. + 1 key map (48 x 47 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : with illustrations.

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Creator:
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807–1882
Date:
[c1894]
Physical Description:
xvi, [2], 677, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

22. Instructions in brigade drill for the practice of regiments and depots of infantry.

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Date:
1852
Physical Description:
53, [1] p., VIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Descriptive guide of Leamington Priors : containing a brief account of that celebrated and fashionable spa : with general rules for drinking the waters, and the use of the baths : (as recommended by the most eminent physicians,) : comprising also various interesting county sketches, including a particular account of Kenilworth and Warwick Castles, Stonley-Abbey, Off-Church, Guy's Cliff, Birmingham, Coventry, Ragley Park, and Stratford-on-Avon, &c. : illustrated with elegant vignettes and a perspective view of the castle and borough of Warwick : likewise with views of the Royal Pump Room and New Baths, of the Assembly Rooms, the theatre, and other superb embellishments / by J. Bisset, (Late of Birmingham,) proprietor of the historic picture gallery, of the Public Reading Room, and the Museum of Natural History at Leamington ; with a map of ten miles round the spa.

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Creator:
Bisset, J. (James), 1762?-1832
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 114, [12] p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map : 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. [Fire insurance policy for Mr. Thomas Mason, May 9th, 1891 from the Phœnix Fire Office]

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Creator:
Phœnix Fire Office (Firm : London, England)
Date:
1891-1892
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet : illustrations ; 52 x 38 cm, folded to 27 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The Art Student : an illustrated monthly magazine of the fine & industial arts and guide to their principles and practice.

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Date:
1864-1865
Physical Description:
17 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Thomas Gillbank, basket maker and turner : 50 Grays Inn Lane.

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Creator:
Gillbank, Thomas
Date:
[approximately 1808]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 80 x 100 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

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Date:
[approximately 1730]
Physical Description:
11 leaves : illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Hubert von Herkomer archive, 1862-1943.

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Creator:
Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849–1914
Date:
1862-1943
Physical Description:
21 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius

29. Advertisement for riding belt, waistband, and waistcoat back, sold by Henry Adcock, London.

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Creator:
Adcock, Henry, active 1824
Date:
approximately 1824?
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A. de Banke, milliner and dress maker : 59, South Street, Exeter, opposite Palace Gate / Smith sc., Exeter.

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Creator:
Banke, A. de
Date:
between and 1840 and 1850?
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 49 x 87 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The journal and letters of the late Thomas Browne Parker, of Sweeney in the County of Salop, Esq. : during a tour with his friend Edward Joshua Cooper of Markree Castle in the Co. of Sligo, Esqre. M.P. : through Bavaria, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, & the Crimea, in the years 1824, 1825, & 1826 / transcribed, arranged, and illustrated (with copies of the drawings made during the tour by the artist Sig. Bossi, sketches in the Crimea by T.B.P. &c., and insertion of portraits, prints, &c. collected by T.B.P. in his travels) by his affectionate sister Mary Leighton, Loton Park, 1835.

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Creator:
Parker, Thomas Browne, 1797–1833
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
3 volumes (544 pages) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. An atlas, comprising maps of the several counties, divided into unions, and of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man : with a map of England and Wales, and a plan of London and its environs.

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Creator:
Lewis, Samuel, -1865
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
1 atlas (57 maps) ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Stokes, maker, 52 Cheapside.

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Creator:
Stokes, Edward (Hatter)
Date:
[approximately 1830?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illlustrations ; 50 x 40 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. An introduction to the study of perspective : elucidated by easy and familiar examples in question and answer : so as to enable the student of drawing, to apply the principles of the science with facility, to sketching from nature / by Stephen Humble ; teacher of drawing and painting, Edinburgh ; illustrated with seventeen copperplates.

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Creator:
Humble, Stephen
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
27, [1] p., 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Billhead of John Connell, cheesemonger, Edinburgh, for purchases made by Mr. Cadell, 1829.

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Creator:
Connell, John
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 28 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The history and present state of Virginia : in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time -- II. The natural productions and conveniencies of the country, suited to trade and improvement -- III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace. -- IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

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Creator:
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:
MDCCV [1705]
Physical Description:
[12], 104, 40, 64, 83, [1], 16, [4] pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. An inquiry into the structure and animal economy of the horse : comprehending the diseases to which his limbs and feet are subject, with proper directions for shoeing : and pointing out a method for ascertaining his age until his twelfth year : to which is added, an attempt to explain the laws of his progressive motion, on mechanical and anatomical principles : illustrated by seventeen copper plates / by Richard Lawrence ...

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Creator:
Lawrence, Richard, active 1801–1816
Date:
[approximately 1804]
Physical Description:
[3], vi-xxiv, 224, [30] pages, 15 (i.e. 17) leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

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Creator:
Terry, Garnet
Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
26, [1] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Observations on the mechanism of the horse's foot : its natural spring explained, and a mode of shoeing recommended, by which the foot is defended from external injury, with the least impediment to its spring : illustrated by copperplates / by Strickland Freeman, Esq.

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Creator:
Freeman, Strickland, 1754?-1821
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
[4], viii, 107, [33] pages, 16, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A sentimental journey through France and Italy / by Laurence Sterne ; with six engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

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Creator:
Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:
MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:
151, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / by John Caspar Lavater ... : illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied, and some duplicates added from originals ; executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway ; translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D., Minister of the Scots Church, London-Wall.

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Creator:
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741–1801
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCVIII [1789-1798, i.e. 1799]
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 5 : illustrations, 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The ladies' pocket book of etiquette / by A. F. (1838) ; with engravings by Hester Sainsbury.

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Creator:
Freeling, Arthur
Date:
MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:
[10], 55, [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Silk and scarlet / by the Druid.

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Creator:
Dixon, Henry Hall, 1822–1870
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
[2], iv, [4], 398, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. An analysis of horsemanship : teaching the whole art of riding, in the manege, military, hunting, racing, and travelling system : together with the method of breaking horses, for every purpose to which those noble animals are adapted / by John Adams, ridingmaster ; in three volumes.

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Creator:
Adams, John (Riding master)
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Enoch Arden / by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L. Poet-Laureate.

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Creator:
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
vi, 3-57, [1] leaves, [18] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

46. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

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Creator:
Daniel, William Barker, 1753?-1833
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Ulick and Soracha / by George Moore.

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Creator:
Moore, George, 1852–1933
Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
[6], 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

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Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Boxiana, or, Sketches of ancient and modern pugilism ... / by P. Egan.

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Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1823-1829
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay : through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Ship Griper, in the year MDCCCXXIV / by Captain G.F. Lyon, R.N. ; with a chart and engravings.

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Creator:
Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xvi, 198, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The anatomy of an horse : containing an exact and full description of the frame, situation and connexion of all his parts, (with their actions and uses) exprest in forty nine copper-plates : to which is added an appendix, containing two discourses: the one, of the generation of animals; and the other, of the motion of the chyle, and the circulation of the bloud / by Andrew Snape, Jun. Farrier to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Snape, Andrew, 1644–
Date:
An. Dom. 1683
Physical Description:
[14], 237, [1], 45, [7] p., XLIX leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The office of the holy week according to the Missall and Roman breviary : translated out of French with a new and ample explication taken out of the Holy Fathers, of the mysteries, ceremonies, gospels, lessons, psalms, and of all that belongs to this off

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Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
1670
Physical Description:
[8], 611 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
[4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Illustrations of Japan : consisting of private memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning dynasty of the Djogouns, or sovereigns of Japan : a description of the feasts and ceremonies observed throughout the year at their court : and of the ceremonies customary at marriages and funerals : to which are subjoined, observations on the legal suicide of the Japanese, remarks on their poetry, and explanation of their mode of reckoning time, particulars respecting the Dosia powder, the preface of a work Confoutzee on filial piety, &c. &c. / by M. Titsingh ; formerly chief agent to the Dutch East India Company at Nangasaki ; translated from the French, by Frederic Shoberl ; with colored plates ; faithfully copied from Japanese original designs.

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Creator:
Titsingh, Isaac, 1744–1812
Date:
MDCCXXII [1822]
Physical Description:
xvi, 325, [3] pages, [13] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues, and with former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches.

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Date:
MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:
[1296] pages : illustrations ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases, in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fourteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
[16], 80 p., pp. 79-394, [2], 26, 49, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards, or dice : to which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.

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Creator:
Cotton, Charles, 1630–1687
Date:
1680
Physical Description:
[16], 175, [1] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in diuers places, as also beutified and enlarged with new mapps and tables by the studious industrie of Iodocus Hondy ; englished by W.S. generosus & regin. Oxoniae.

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Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:
1637
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([22], 56, 55-56, [2], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 5 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

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Creator:
Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
xii, 240 pages, 4 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Rules and instructions for playing at skittles / by a Society of gentlemen.

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Creator:
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustration, plan ; 46 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David : and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

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Creator:
Church of England
Date:
MDCCVI [1706]
Physical Description:
[372], 18, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Horda angel-cynnan, or, A compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the inhabitants of England : from the arrival of the Saxons, till the reign of Henry the Eighth : with a short account of the Britons, during the government of the Romans : in two volumes / by Joseph Strutt ; author of the regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England.

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Creator:
Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:
MDCCLXXV-MDCCLXXVI [1775-1776]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed, undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver.

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Creator:
Vancouver, George, 1757–1798
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 31 x 24 cm (4to) + 1 atlas ([16] leaves of plates (6 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm (folio))
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possesion of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, Esq.

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Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., port., map ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Bibliotheca Spenceriana, or, A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century in the library of George John, Earl Spencer, K.G. &c. &c. &c. / by the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin., F.R.S. S.S. Librarian to His Lordship.

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Creator:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758–1834
Date:
1814-23
Physical Description:
7 volumes : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The American shooter's manual : comprising, such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to introduce the inexperienced into a full knowledge of all that relates to the dog, and the correct use of the gun : also a description of the game of this country / by a gentleman of the Philadelphia county.

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Creator:
Gentleman of Philadelphia County
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
[5], x-xii, [1], 14-249, [9] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

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Creator:
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734–1794
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[8], 128 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

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Creator:
Cox, Nicholas, active 1673–1721
Date:
1677
Physical Description:
[12], 158, [2], 159-254, [4], 78, 89-95, [3], 78, [12] pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner / with introductory verses by Bernard Barton, and illustrated with numerous engravings from drawings by George Cruikshank expressly designed for this edition.

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Creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

70. The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing / by Nimrod.

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Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
MDCCCXLII [1842]
Physical Description:
viii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Il ballarino di M. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta : diuiso in due trattati : nel primo de' quali si dimostra la diuersità de i nomi, che si danno à gli atti, & mouimenti, che interuengono ne i balli: & con molte regole si dichiara con quali creanze, & in che modo debbano farsi : nel secondo s'insegnano diuerse sorti di balli, & balletti sì all'uso d'Italia, come à quello di Francia, & Spagna : ornato di molte figure, et con l'intauolatura di liuto, & il soprano della musica nella sonata di ciascun ballo : opera nuouamente mandata in luce ...

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Creator:
Caroso, Fabritio
Date:
MDLXXXI [1581]
Physical Description:
[8], 16; 184, [4] leaves : ill., port., music ; 25 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Descriptio publicae gratulationis, spectaculorum et ludorum, in aduentu Sereniss. Principis Ernesti Archiducis Austriae ... Belgicis provincijs a Regia Ma[iesta]te Cathol. praefecti, : an. MDXCIIII. XVIII. Kal. Iulias, alijsque diebus Antuerpiae editorum. Cui est praefixa, De Belgij principatu a Romano in ea prouincia imperio ad nostra usq[ue] tempora breuis narratio. : Ad Principem Sereniss. et S.R.E. Cardinalem, Archiepiscopum Toletanum Albertum Archiducem Austriae, Ducem Burgundiae, &c. Cum carmine panegyrico in eiusdem Principis Ernesti, suscepto a Regia Ma[iesta]te Catholica Belgicarum ditionum imperio, in easdem prouincias aduentum. Accessit denique oratio funebris, in Archiducis Ernesti obitum ijsdem prouincijs luctuosissimum. / Omnia a Ioanne Bochio S.P.Q.A. a secretis conscripta.

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Creator:
Bochius, Joannes, 1555–1609
Date:
MDXCV [1595]
Physical Description:
174 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, music ; 41 cm (folio in 6s and 4s)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. FlauI VegetI Ren. v. inl. De re militari libri quatuor : post omnes omnium editiones ope veterum librorum correcti, a Godescalco Stewechio Heusdano. Accesserunt Sex. IulI Frontini Strategematô̂n libri quatuor; in eosdem Francisci Modii notae, & G. StewechI coniectanea : Aelianus De instruendis aciebus; Modestus De vocabulis rei militaris : Castrametatio Rom. ex historiis Polybii, Latinitate donata à Iano Lascari, &c. Accessit seorsum eiusdem G. StewechI in Fl. Vegetium commentarius.

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Creator:
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Date:
M.D.LXXXV [1585]
Physical Description:
[12], 248, [4], 249-276, [16], 376, [2] p., pp. 399-419, [37] p. : ill. fold. table, port. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Cantabrigia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis, collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae academicae scholarum publicarum, sacelli coll. regalis : regalis nec non totius oppidi ichnographia / deliniatore and sculptore Dav. Loggan utriusque academiae calcographo.

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Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
[1690?]
Physical Description:
[64] leaves : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The art of horsemanship : altered and abbreviated, according to the principles of the late Sir Sidney Medows / by Strickland Freeman, Esq.

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Creator:
Freeman, Strickland, 1754?-1821
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
[8], xix, [1], 254, [2] pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The chace, the turf, and the road / by Nimrod ; with illustrations by Henry Alken, and a portrait by D. Maclise, R.A.

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Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
MDCCCXXXVII [1837]
Physical Description:
[2], xx, 301, [1] pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Iconologia deorum, oder, Abbildung der Götter : welche von den Alten verehret worden ... samt dero eigentlicher Beschreibung und Erklärung der heidnischen Tempel-Ceremonien, auch Vorbildung der Thiere und anderer Sachen ... / durch Joachim von Sandrart ...

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Creator:
Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:
anno MDCLXXX [1680]
Physical Description:
[42], 212, [16] pages, [43] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Memoir : prepared at the request of a committee of the Common council of the city of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals / by Cadwallader D. Colden.

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Creator:
Colden, Cadwallader D. (Cadwallader David), 1769–1834
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
v, [3], 408, [2], pages, [53] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The Gentleman's jocky and approved farrier : instructing, in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use; as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities / collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire; T.D. N.S. R.B. J.W. and others.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, John, active 1671
Date:
1671
Physical Description:
[16], 300, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Maneige royal ou lon peut remarquer le defaut et la perfection du cheualier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne des princes, fait & pratiqué en l'instruction du roy par Antoine Pluuinel son escuyer principal, conseiller en son conseil d'estat, son chambellan ordinaire, & sous-gouuerneur de sa Majesté. Le tout graué & representé en grandes figures de taille douce par Crispian de Pas, Flamand, à l'honneur du roy, & à la memoire de Monsieur de Pluvinel. Imprimé pour la secunde foijs & mis en alleman a la ville de Brunsvic Au despens de Gotfried Muller = Königliche Reitschul. Da beydes der Mangel vnd Volkommenheit eines Reuters zu vermercken, in allen Exercitijs dieser fürst. vnd adelichen Kunst, gebraucht vnd practisirt bey Vnterweisung des Königs, durch Antonium Pluvinel, Kön. May. Oberstalmeistern, Rath vom Staedt, Ordinari Kemmerern, vnd vnter Gouuernatorn. Alles nach Ahrt vnd Invention Crisp. de Pass. den Jüngern in schönen grossen Figuren abgebildet, zu Ehren Königlicher Mayest. vnd christlicher Angedächtnis des Monsieur de Pluvinel. Zum Andernmahl aussgelegt vnd in vnsere hochdeutsche Sprach vertirt.

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Creator:
Pluvinel, Antoine de, 1555–1620
Date:
Anno 1626
Physical Description:
[28], 40, 40 p., 64 double leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

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Creator:
Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation : exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals and boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen : with a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries, independent of locks and aqueducts : including observations on the great importance of water communications : with thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood : illustrated with seventeen plates / by R. Fulton, civil engineer.

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Creator:
Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
xvi, 144 pages, 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. A description of the English province of Carolana : by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane : as also of the great and famous river Meschacebe or Missisipi : the five vast navigable lakes of fresh water, and the parts adjacent : together with an account of the commodities of the growth and production of the said province : and a preface containing some considerations of the consequences of the French making settlements there / by Daniel Coxe, Esq.

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Creator:
Coxe, Daniel, 1673–1739
Date:
MDCCXXII [1722]
Physical Description:
[54], 122 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Architectura civilis, das ist, Eigentliche Beschreibung wie ma[n] nach bester Form vnd gerechter Regul ... aufführen vnnd erbawen soll / alles auss vielfaltiger Erfahrnuss zusammengetragen, beschrieben vnd mit 40 Kupfferstucken für Augen gestellt durch Josephum Furttenbach.

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Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:
anno MDC XXVIII [1628]
Physical Description:
[22], 78 pages, 40, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's strait : to co-operate with the polar expeditions : performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. F.R.S., F.R.A.S., and F.R.G.S in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28 : published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty : in two parts.

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Creator:
Beechey, Frederick William, 1796–1856
Date:
MDCCCXXXI [1831]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A natural and civil history of California : containing an accurate description of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours, lakes, rivers, and seas : its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fishery for pearls : the customs of the inhabitants, their religion, government and manner of living, before their conversion to the Christian religion by the missionary Jesuits : together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California and taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, and coast of the south sea : illustrated with copper plates, and an accurate map of the country and the adjacent seas / translated from the original Spanish of Miguel Venegas, a Mexican Jesuit, published at Madrid 1758.

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Creator:
Venegas, Miguel, 1680–1764
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, map ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The present state of the European settlements on the Missisippi : with a geographical description of that river / illustrated by plans and draughts by Captain Philip Pittman.

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Creator:
Pittman, Philip, active 1760–1770
Date:
MDCCLXX [1770]
Physical Description:
viii, 99, [1] pages, [8] leaves of plates (7 folded) : maps, plans ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Hippodonomia, or The true structure, laws, and economy of the horse's foot : also, Podophthora, or, A ruinous defect in the principle of the common shoe detected, and demonstrated by experiments : with a proposition for a new principle of shoeing, which abundant practice has since confirmed / by Bracy Clark, F.L.S. ...

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Creator:
Clark, Bracy, 1771–1860
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
viii, [1], 10-140, 79, [1] pages, 11 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting / by Lt. Col. P. Hawker.

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Creator:
Hawker, Peter, 1786–1853
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[3], vi-xxii, 470 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1704
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

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Creator:
Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific oceans ; in the years 1789 and 1793 : with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country ; illustrated with maps / by Alexander Mackenzie, Esq.

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Creator:
Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764–1820
Date:
MDCCCI [1801]
Physical Description:
[4], viii, [2], cxxxii, 412, [2] pages, [4] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : portrait, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The Byron gallery ; a series of historical embellishments to illustrate the poetical works of Lord Byron.

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Date:
1833
Physical Description:
[3] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The dance of life : a poem / by the author of "Doctor Syntax" ; illustrated with coloured engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, ii, ii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

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Creator:
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747–1827
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
2 volumes : maps, charts ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East passage : undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue : illustrated with numerous plates and maps : in three volumes.

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Creator:
Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The private journal of Captain G.F. Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, during the recent voyage of discovery under Captain Parry : with a map and plates.

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Creator:
Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
xiii, [1] 468 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, folded map ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry : with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.

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Creator:
Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790–1855
Date:
MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:
[8], xxix, [3], 310, [2], clxxix, [3] pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A voyage round the world : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : embellished with twenty copper-plates : dedicated, by permission, to His Majesty / by Captain Nathaniel Portlock.

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Creator:
Portlock, Nathaniel, 1748?-1817
Date:
MDCCLXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
xii, 384, xl pages, [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. A voyage round the world : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America : performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon / by Captain George Dixon.

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Creator:
Beresford, William, active 1788
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
xxix [i.e., 27], [3], 360, 47, [1] pages, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts