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Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 item (1 shell, 30 seaweed specimens) ; 13 x 12 x 4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan; from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Home; with historical descriptions.
Creator:
Home, Robert, 1752–1834
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 p.., [v]-vii p., 1 leaf, 48 p. 29 plates, fold. map, 3 fold plans. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of Swaine, Alport & Lowthian, distillers, London, recording gin purchased by Thomas Tebbitt, 1828]
Creator:
Swaine, Alport & Lothian (London, England)
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration, 11 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Savoy Hotel : London.
Creator:
Savoy Hotel (London, England)
Date:
[192-?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 15 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
[3 postcards from the Franco-British Exhibition].
Date:
[1908]
Physical Description:
3 photographic postcards : b/ w ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Views of the ruins of the principal houses destroyed during the riots at Birmingham = Vues des ruines des principaux batiments qui ont souffert dans les emeutes de Birmingham.
Creator:
Witton, Philip Henry
Date:
1791 [i.e. 1792]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads : with computed and measured distances and the distinction of market and post townes.
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1679
Physical Description:
[13], 27 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Post Office Jubilee of Uniform Penny Postage at South Kensington Museum, 2nd July, 1890.
Date:
[1890]
Physical Description:
1 card : illustrations ; 11 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The wood demon, or the hour of one
Date:
[between 1835-1837]
Physical Description:
21 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
A token of faithful love! To my dearest Valentine!
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
W. Burt scrapbook : manuscript.
Date:
1820s?-1867 (bulk 1820s)
Physical Description:
1 volume (80 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 44 x 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Admission ticket for the Mary Linwood exhibition at Hanover Sqr. Concert Rooms, 1802 : manuscript.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
1 item ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sample books for printed cotton fabrics manufactured by Koechlin & Frères.
Creator:
Koechlin, Camille, 1811–1890
Date:
1841-1843
Physical Description:
2 volumes (395; 357 pages) ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The panoramic alphabet of peace.
Date:
[1856]
Physical Description:
[28] pages : illustrations ; 16 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Broadside addressed to the Rev. G. A. Rogers, Vicar of Leominster].
Date:
January 10, 1850
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

617. Moka.

Moka.
Creator:
Gilmour, Chris, 1973–
Date:
2004
Physical Description:
1 sculpture : cardboard and glue ; 16.5 x 16.0 x 10 cm, in box 17.8 x 16.0 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Leslie Zirinsky Melnick and her family
King Richard II.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
[not after 1828]
Physical Description:
1 printing block ; 35 mm high x 45 mm wide x 24 mm deep
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Game of the Great Exhibition of 1851 / W.P. Metchim, lith., 1 Adam St., Strand.
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 50 x 62 cm, folded to 17 x 21 cm, in covers 18 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
ABC of animals.
Date:
[approximately 1896?]
Physical Description:
[6] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Prendergast family photograph album.
Date:
late 1860s-1870s
Physical Description:
1 album (48 photographs) : albumen prints ; volume 31 x 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter / Lee sc.
Date:
[1800?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 37 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In loving memory of Emily Clifford, dearly beloved wife of George Clifford : who died October 24th, 1905 : aged 41 years.
Date:
1905
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 70 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In affectionate remembrance of John Farres, who died November 5th, 1885 : aged 72 years.
Date:
1885
Physical Description:
1 card : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Set of three postcards made to accompany "Estate : a book of collected drawings."]
Creator:
Dilnot, John
Date:
1991
Physical Description:
[3] postcards : color ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
In montibus sanctis : studies of mountain form and of its visible causes : collected and completed out of Modern painters / by John Ruskin.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1885
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Trattato di architectura civile e militare.
Creator:
Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439–1502
Date:
not after 1521
Physical Description:
1 volume (178 pages) : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
North & south Devonshire.
Creator:
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
Date:
1840
Physical Description:
1 v. ([64] p., with blanks) : ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jersey algae.
Date:
1860
Physical Description:
1 volume (21 leaves) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new book of Chinese designs, calculated to improve the present taste : consisting of figures, buildings, & furniture, landskips, birds, beasts, flow.rs and ornaments, &c. / by Messrs. Edwards, and Darly.
Creator:
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720–approximately 1778
Date:
MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:
[4] p., 120 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views in India : chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains / taken during tours in the direction of Mussooree, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, &c. &c., in 1829-31-32 ; with notes and descriptive illustrations.
Creator:
White, George Francis, 1808–1898
Date:
1836-1837
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Advertisement [graphic] : All noble men and gentlemen that please to have their mansion houses design'd on copper plates, to be printed for composeing a volume of the prospects of the principall houses of England, may have them done by Mr Hen. Winstanley by way of subscription ...
Creator:
Winstanley, Henry, 1644–1703
Date:
1670s?]
Physical Description:
1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 35.2 x 40.9 cm., on sheet 35.4 x 47.5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
F. Furness, painter and gilder : Repository of Arts, High Street, Stockton / W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinb.
Creator:
Furness, F.
Date:
[between 1826 and 1840?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 7 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lithographic views / from drawings by T. Binns.
Creator:
Binns, T. B. (Theodore Barker)
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
[10] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches for college rooms / from the portfolio of a gentleman of the University of Cambridge.
Creator:
Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751–1835
Date:
[ca. 1820?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An alphabet / by William Nicholson.
Creator:
Nicholson, William Sir, 1872–1949
Date:
1898
Physical Description:
[27] leaves : color illlustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972
Bill from the Daily Post Waggon Office, Edinburgh for carriage expenses fo Mr. G. Alexander, Banff.
Date:
4th November, 1812
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 7 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[ A Ballad singer / by John Smith after Lorenzo Castro]
Creator:
Smith, J. (John), 1652–1743
Date:
[1680?]
Physical Description:
1 print : mezzotint ; 17 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Pike & Garnham, linen drapers, silk mercers & hosiers : 12, Red Lion Street, Holborn.
Creator:
Pike & Garnham
Date:
[1830?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 90 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sacred to the memory of the heroes slain in the Battles of Alma, Inkerman, & The Eastern War.
Date:
[approximately 1854]
Physical Description:
3 cards : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of cut-paper flowers.
Creator:
C. P. A. F
Date:
1842-1849
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pictures) ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Scotiae Regni Antiqvissimi Accvrata Descriptio / Io Leslavs, Epus Rossen.
Creator:
Leslie, John, 1527–1596
Date:
MDLXXVIII [1578]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 40.5 x 53.5 cm, on sheet, 41.5 x 54.5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
89 p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Baxter's gems of the Great Exhibition. Dedicated by special command to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria, by his most humble servant, George Baxter.
Creator:
Baxter, George, 1804–1867
Date:
[1854]
Physical Description:
[11] p. ill., mounted col. plates. 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Children's tea party held on board R.M.S. "Ivernia" : in the dining room at 3:45 p.m. on Monday, August 22, 1955.
Creator:
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd.
Date:
1955
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 16 x 26 cm, folded to 16 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Twelve views of the island of Bombay and its vicinity].
Creator:
Wales, James, 1746 or 1747–1795
Date:
[May 1, 1800]
Physical Description:
12 prints : hand-colored etchings ; images 39 x 65 cm, on sheets 44 x 71 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Relics of old London.
Date:
1875-1886]
Physical Description:
2 portfolios (120 carbon photoprints) ; 49 x 38 cm. + 14 leaves of text.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of cut-paper flowers.
Creator:
W., Ellen
Date:
circa 1835
Physical Description:
1 volume (23 collages) : cut paper, collage ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cyder Cellars, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.
Date:
[early 19th century]
Physical Description:
1 advertisement : illustration ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
George Fisher : 149 Leadenhall Street.
Creator:
Fisher, George (Barber)
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ellen Fenton diaries.
Creator:
Fenton, Ellen, b. ca. 1813
Date:
1854-1862
Physical Description:
9 v. : ill. ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Great Exhibition "wot is to be", or, Probable results of the industry of all nations in the year '51 : showing what is to be exhibited, who is to exhibit it; in short, how its [!] all going to be done / By Vates Secundus.
Creator:
Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
22 leaves : col. ill. 14 x 586 cm. fold. to 14 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brian and Linda Gracie
Happy may they birthday be.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 item : color illustrations ; 22 x 8 cm, folded to 12 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches in Scinde.
Creator:
Edwards, William, d. 1890
Date:
1846
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Virtual orchard.
Creator:
Rook, Anne
Date:
2009
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([10] panels) : color illustrations ; 30 x 136 cm, folded to 30 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Advertisement for Liverine Limited's "Longlivs."
Creator:
Liverine Limited (Firm)
Date:
[1920?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 40 x 80 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Britain at home to the world : May-September 1951 : The London Programme.
Creator:
Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([12] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 43 x 31 cm folded to 11 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Let anthems rise! With heart with voice. Let earth rejoice! - Let Anthems rise!
Date:
[approximately 1870]
Physical Description:
1 bookmark ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
Animal and vegetable substances used in the arts and manufactures, illustrative of the imports and exports of Great Britain & her colonies, and explanatory of Dexter's cabinet of objects.
Creator:
Dexter, Thomas E.
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
viii, 184, [2] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures in London, arranged according to schools and in chronological order, with remarks on each picture, by William Young Ottley. The executive part under the management of Peltro William Tomkins ...
Creator:
Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758–1833
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
4 v. (viii, iii, 143 p.) col. plates, col. plans. 61 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Les delices de l'Italie : contenant une description exacte du pais, des principales villes, de toutes les antiquitez, & de toutes les raretez qui s'y trouvent : ouvrage enrichi d'un tres-grand nombre de figures en taille-douce.
Creator:
Rogissart, sieur de, fl. 1706
Date:
1707
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles
On the elements of light and their identity with those of matter, radiant and fixed / by John Howard Kyan.
Creator:
Kyan, John Howard, 1774–1850
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
xiv, 130 p., [4] leaves of plates ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Picturesque illustrations of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of the island of Ceylon.
Creator:
Daniell, Samuel, 1775–1811
Date:
1808
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper featherwork illustrations of birds.
Date:
1830s?
Physical Description:
6 paper trays ; in box 23 x 19 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.
Creator:
Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
18 p., 38 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Annals of the artists of Spain / by William Stirling, M.A.
Creator:
Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818–1878
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Historical and descriptive essays accompanying a series of engraved specimens of the architectural antiquities of Normandy. Ed. by John Britton ... the subjects measured and drawn by Augustus Pugin, architect ... and engraved by John and Henry Le Keux.
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
3 p.., [v]-viii, xx, 40, 4 p. 73 plates (2 col., 6 double) incl. plans. 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bill from Wainwright and Watkins for Sir J.G. Cotterell, 1812]
Creator:
Wainwright and Watkins (Firm : Hereford, England)
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ; 39 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketchbook, 1995.
Creator:
Pierce, Constance, born 1946
Date:
1995
Physical Description:
1 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Constance Pierce
The feathered game of Hindostan : the birds introduced in pairs, covies, or otherwise as in nature, accompanied with appropriate scenery / the birds by Christopher Webb Smith, Esqr. ; the landscapes by Sir Charles D'Oyly, Bart.
Creator:
Smith, Christopher Webb, 1793–1871
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Father's garden / Ken Campbell.
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:
1989
Physical Description:
[51] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks.
Date:
1805-1822
Physical Description:
1 volume (65 leaves, rectos only) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Silver metallic cut paper album card].
Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
1 album card : chromolithograph ; 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Tazza, with representation of Heracles and the Garden of the Hesperides.
Creator:
Wyon, Edward William, 1811?-1885
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 tazza : cast iron ; diameter 33 cm (43 cm including handles), height 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
Kindergarten and transition class : Collegiate House, Leicester : Principal, Miss. L. Crossley.
Date:
[approximately 1900]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
In sacred memory of the victims of the great explosion in the East End of London on Friday evening, January, 19th, 1917.
Date:
1917
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 80 x 110 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A couple of hundred just to go with : wishing you a ton of real Xmas joy.
Creator:
London & County Banking Company
Date:
1900
Physical Description:
1 card : illustrations ; 24 x 9 cm folded to 12 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A. Jacques Molay : 172 & 181, rue du Temple et rue des Fontaines.
Creator:
Molay, A. Jacques
Date:
[1870?-1890?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 10 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.
Creator:
Garneray, Jean-François, 1755–1837
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
[4] pages, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
x, 525, [1] p. ill. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Description of the panorama of the superb city of Mexico : and the surrounding scenery / painted on twenty-seven hundred square feet of canvass by Robert Burford, Esq. ; from drawings made on the spot, at the request of the Mexican government, by Mr. W. Bullock, Junior.
Creator:
Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, plan ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The antiquities of Magna Graecia / by William Wilkins, Jun., M.A. F.A.S., fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Creator:
Wilkins, William, 1778–1839
Date:
MDCCCVII [1807]
Physical Description:
[6], xxii, 74, [2] pages, [73] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Essay on transparent prints.
Creator:
Orme, Edward, 1775–1848
Date:
1807
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

699. Without.

Without.
Creator:
Lydiat, Anne
Date:
[1999]
Physical Description:
[50] leaves ; 21 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
Charles Siddall, tailor, &c., Eppleby.
Creator:
Siddall, Charles, 1804–
Date:
March 31st 1840
Physical Description:
1 unnumbered page ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts