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1. Manuscript daybook for George Romney, in the hand of Richard Williams.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1794-1796
Physical Description:: 1 volume ([4], 85, [57] pages) (many pages blank) ; 41 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

Creator:: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. An illustrated lecture on sketching from nature in pencil and water colour : with hints on light and shadow, on a method of study, etc., to be practically illustrated, when possible, by a series of lessons out of doors / by George Stubbs, of Alexander Square, Brompton ; with seventeen plates in tinted and chromo-lithography.

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: [between 1862 and 1868]
Physical Description:: 12 pages, 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Letters of Edward Lear, author of "The book of nonsense" : to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave / edited by Lady Strachey of Sutton Court ; illustrated.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: [approximately 1908?]
Physical Description:: xl, 327 pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

5. Book of nonsense.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: [1846]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ([74] leaves) : illustrations ; 15 x 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The British sportsman.

Creator:: Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822
Date:: published March 1st, 1800
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [72] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The roadsters album.

Creator:: Newhouse, Charles B., ca. 1805–1877
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [17] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.

Date:: [1824?]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

10. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

Creator:: Saviolo, Vincentio
Date:: 1595
Physical Description:: [6], 17 [i.e. 21] leaves, [250] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Turf celebrities I have known / by William Day ; author of "The Racehorse in training," "Reminiscences of the turn," "The horse, how to breed and rear him," etc., etc.

Creator:: Day, William, 1823–1908
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: [8], 290, [2], 18 pages ([1] leaf of plates) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The laws relating to horses : considered as the subject of property, sale, hire, wager, distress, heriot, or of criminal charge : and intended for practical as well as professional reference.

Creator:: Jeremy, Henry
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: viii, 111, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Portraits of the winning horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster : from the year 1815 to the year 1824, inclusive.

Date:: [1825]
Physical Description:: [26] p., [10] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 66 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Newmarket : collection d'onze planches lithographiques, representant la vue de Newmarket, et la vie du cheval de course depuis l'instant ou il est dans le haras jusqu'a celui de sa vente, figure sous les formes des plus celebres chevaux de course anglais en 1809 : comprenant les principaux sites et points de vue de Newmarket, les portraits de plusieurs amateurs de course et des plus fameux jockeys, auxquels sont joints une notice sur Newmarket et un texte explicatif des planches, les actes du Parlement d'Angleterre relatifs aux courses, les regles des courses en general, et les regles et ordonnances du Jockey-Club / par A. Dubost, ex-capitaine adjoint du Genie, auteur des tableaux de Damocles, Ulysse et Penelope, Venus et Diane, Cleosthene ou le jouer depouille; Brutus et Porcia, perparatifs de course, la vue de Hyde-Park, l'Arabe du desert, etc., etc., etc. = Newmarket, a collection of eleven plates, executed in lithography, representing a view of Newmarket, and the life of the race horse, from the moment of his entering the stud until that of his sale, delineated under the forms of the most celebrated English race horses in 1809 ...

Creator:: Dubost, Antoine, 1769–1825
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: [22] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 52 x 70 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The Epping hunt / by Thomas Hood, esq., author of "Whims and Oddities" ; illustrated with six engravings on wood, by Branston and Wright, Bonner, Slader, and T. Williams ; after the designs of George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Hood, Thomas, 1799–1845
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: 29, [3] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

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

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

17. 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.

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

18. 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.

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

19. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.

Creator:: Manwood, John, -1610
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

Creator:: Rogers, Robert, 1731–1795
Date:: MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 264 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore / by W.H. Pyne ; illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: MDCCCXIX [1819]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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.

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

23. 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.

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

24. 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.

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

25. Observations on fox-hunting and the management of hounds in the kennel and the field : addressed to a young sportsman, about to undertake a hunting establishment / by Colonel Cook, H.P. 28th Dragoons.

Creator:: Cook, John, 1773–1829
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: xvi, 292 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Journal of an embassy from the governor general of India to the court of Ava in the year 1827 / by John Crawfurd ... late envoy ; with an appendix containing a description of fossil remains by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift.

Creator:: Crawfurd, John, 1783–1868
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 516, 89, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam : perillustris ac magnifici domini Ignatii Christophori nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall, sacri Romani imperii, & Regni Hungariae equitis, sacrae Caesareae Majestatis consiliarii Aulico-Bellici ab augustissimo, & invictissimo Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I. ad serenissimum, ac potentissimum Tzarum, & magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII / ablegati extraordinarii descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb, p.t. secretario ablegationis Caesareae ; accessit reditus suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

Creator:: Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:: [1700?]
Physical Description:: [6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 3 maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

29. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

Date:: [not after 18 November 1477]
Physical Description:: [78] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Supplementum chronicharum.

Creator:: Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
Date:: anno a natiuitate D[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij [1493]
Physical Description:: [2], 256, [12] leaves : illustrations; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

Creator:: Melzo, Lodovico, 1567–1617
Date:: MDCXI [1611]
Physical Description:: [12], 221, [3] pages, [25] leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Hē tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa.

Creator:: Homer
Date:: [9 December 1488, i.e. not before 13 January 1488/9]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ([880] pages) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. 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 ...

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

36. Primo volume, & terza editione delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio, & con molti & vaghi discorsi, da lui in molti luoghi dichiarato & illustrato ; nel quale si contengono la descrittione dell'Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varij viaggi, dalla città di Lisbona, & dal Mar Rosso insino à Calicut, & all'isole Molucche, doue nascono le spetierie, et la nauigatione attorno il mondo ; con la relatione dell'isola Giapan, scoperta nella parte del settentrione ; et alcuni capitoli appartenenti alla geographia, estratti dell'historia del S. Giouan di Barros Portoghese ; con tre tavole di geographia in disegno, che hanno le marine, secondo le carte da nauigare de Portoghesi, & fra terra, secondo gli scrittori che hanno descritto li detti viaggi ; con due indici ...

Creator:: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:: l'anno MDLXIII [1563]
Physical Description:: [4], 34, 162, 162-394 leaves, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

Creator:: Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

39. Hunting songs, ballads, &c. / by R.E.E. W-Esq ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Egerton-Warburton, R. E. (Rowland Eyles), 1804–1891
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 47 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. 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.

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

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

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

42. Hans of Iceland.

Creator:: Hugo, Victor, 1802–1885
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [6], 225 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

43. 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.

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

44. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: iv, 414 pages : illustrations. ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Portraits of the game and wild animals of Southern Africa : delineated from life in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, with sketches of the field sports / by Captain W. Cornwallis Harris ... ; drawn on stone by Frank Howard.

Creator:: Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
Date:: 1840 [i.e. 1840-1842]
Physical Description:: vi, [6], 175, [1] pages, [31] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 61 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A voyage of discovery : made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage / by John Ross, K.S. Captain Royal Navy.

Creator:: Ross, John, Sir, 1777–1856
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [4], xxxix, [1], 252, cxliv p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Harvey's scenes of the primitive forest of America : at the four periods of the year, spring, summer, autumn & winter : engraved from his original paintings : accompanied with descriptive letter-press.

Creator:: Harvey, George, approximately 1800–1878
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [7] leaves, [4] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The natural and civil history of the French dominions in North and South America : giving a particular account of the climate, soil, minerals, animals, vegetables, manufactures, trade, commerce and languages, together with the religion, government, genius, character, manners and customs of the Indians and other inhabitants, illustrated by maps and plans of the principal places / collected from the best authorities, and engraved by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Creator:: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:: MDCCLX [1760]
Physical Description:: 2 parts in 1 ([8], 132, *129-*142, 168 pages; [4], 246, [18] folded leaves of plates) : 8 maps, 10 plans ; 37 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.

Creator:: Ellis, Henry, 1721–1806
Date:: MDCCXLVII [1748]
Physical Description:: xxviii, 336 [i.e. 344] pages, [9] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

Creator:: Gosden, Thomas, 1780–1843
Date:: MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:: 92 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. A new treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner for many years practice and experience : with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies / by William Gibson, surgeon, in Duke-Sreet, Grosvenor-Square ; illustrated with thirty-two copper-plates.

Creator:: Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750
Date:: MDCCLI [1751]
Physical Description:: [12], 464, [12] pages, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

Creator:: Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:: MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, [2], 316, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

Creator:: Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. 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

55. Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.

Creator:: Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708–1742
Date:: MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:: 16 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Lower Eatington : its manor house and church.

Creator:: Shirley, Evelyn Philip, 1812–1882
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: 73, [3] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

57. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

Creator:: Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

58. An historical tour in Monmouthshire : illustrated with views by Sir R.C. Hoare, Bart., a new map of the county, and other engravings / by William Coxe, A.M. F.R.S. F.A.S., Rector of Bemerton and Stourton.

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([12], v, [3], 433 [i.e. 435], [9] p., [92] leaves of plates) : ill., genealogical tables, maps, plans, ports. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland ; to which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

Creator:: Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Date:: 1698
Physical Description:: [22], 243, [1], [32], 228 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Transatlantic sketches : comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies : with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration / by Capt. J.E. Alexander, 42D Royal Highlanders, F.R.G.S. M.R.A.S. etc. ; author of Travels in Ava, Persia, etc.

Creator:: Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803–1885
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. A history of the University of Cambridge : its colleges, halls, and public buildings.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 2 v. : col. ill., port., plans ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A history of the western division of the county of Sussex : including the rapes of Chichester, Arundel, and Bramber, with the city and diocese of Chichester / by James Dallaway ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Date:: 1815-1832
Physical Description:: 2 volumes in 3 : illustrations, maps, plans ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

Creator:: Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: [4], 182, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1843-1844
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:: xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. To India and back by the Cape / by a traveller ; with numerous drawings on wood and stone, by John Corbet Anderson.

Creator:: Francis, C. R. (Charles Richard), 1821–1901
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: [4], 28 p., 18, [i.e. 19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Journal of a voyage to Greenland, in the year 1821 : with graphic illustrations / by George William Manby, Esq.

Creator:: Manby, George William, 1765–1854
Date:: MDCCCXXII [1822]
Physical Description:: viii, 143, [1] pages, [21] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, map ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCI [1789-1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A history or description, general and circumstantial, of Burghley House, the seat of the Right Honorable the earl of Exeter.

Creator:: Horn, John, active 1791–1817
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 205, [3] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

72. The Hampton L. Carson collection of engraved portraits of Jefferson, Franklin, and Lafayette : catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels : at the art auction rooms of Davis & Harvey ... Philadelphia, Pa.

Creator:: Carson, Hampton L. (Hampton Lawrence), 1852–1929
Date:: 1904]
Physical Description:: 6, 157, 5 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Observations upon the Windward coast of Africa : the religion, character, customs &c., of the natives : with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe : and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country : made in the years 1805 and 1806 / by Joseph Corry ; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade.

Creator:: Corry, Joseph
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xiv, [2],163 p., [9] leaves of plates ([7] folding) : ill., map, 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The habit and the horse : a treatise on female equitation / by Mrs. J. Stirling Clarke ; with illustrations, lithographed by Messrs. Day & Son, from photographs by Herbert Watkins.

Creator:: Clarke, J. Stirling, Mrs.
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 216 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Catalogue of the extensive, genuine, and highly valuable collection of pictures / late the property of the Hon. John Clerk of Eldin ; ... also the superb and entire collection of engravings, painters' etchings, and original drawings by the greatest masters : and a splendid and rare assemblage of ancient china, bronzes, terra-cottas, casts from the antique, coins, &c. &c. : which will be unreservedly sold by auction by Messrs Thomas Winstanley & Sons (of Liverpool), at No. 16 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, on ... the 14th day of March 1833, and thirteen following days ...

Creator:: Eldin, John Clerk, Lord, 1757–1832
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: [6], 2, 32, [2], 33-103, 11 pages, [6] leaves of plates (1 folded) : 6 illustrations (engravings) ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in four parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ; recommended by many workmen of the first abilities in London, who have themselves inspected the work.

Creator:: Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: viii, viii, [1], 6-120, 171-446, [3], 4-60, 24 pages, [124] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. A selection of twelve heads from the Last judgment of Michael Angelo.

Creator:: Duppa, Richard, 1770–1831
Date:: MDCCCI [1801]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 9, [1] pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 66 x 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Cruise of the "Doris" 1882.

Creator:: Stewart, Alexander Blair, 1849–1936
Date:: 1882
Physical Description:: 1 album (71 photographs) ; 27 x 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, collected by Lieutenant General James Dormer, / which will be sold by auction (by order of the administrator) by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent -Garden : to begin on Monday, February the 20th, 1764, and to continue the nineteen following evenings, beginning each evening exactly at six o'clock.

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1764]
Physical Description:: 2 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Indication of memorials, monuments, paintings, and engravings of persons of the Howard family : and of their wives and children, and of those who have married ladies of the name, and of the representatives of some of its branches now extinct, as far as they have been ascertained by Henry Howard.

Creator:: Howard, Henry, 1757–1842
Date:: [1834-1841]
Physical Description:: 97, [98] pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, coats of arms, genealogical tables ; 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brooke Allen and Peter Aaron

81. [Domestic animals from the most esteemed Masters].

Creator:: Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 20 prints in 1 volume : etchings ; volume 29 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. [Additional illustrations for Nimrod's The life of a sportsman].

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 4 prints : hand-colored aquatints ; sheets 15 x 22 cm, in mats 19 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Voyage de S.M. Louis-Philippe Ier, roi des Français au château de Windsor : dédié à S. M. Victoria, reine d'Angleterre / par Édouard Pingret.

Creator:: Pingret, Edouard, 1788–1875
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: 72 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, map, plans, portraits ; 60 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. La belle dame sans merci / by John Keats.

Creator:: Keats, John, 1795–1821
Date:: MCXXXXVI [1906]
Physical Description:: [28] pages : illustrations ; 80 x 110 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

85. The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c. / written by himself, now alive.

Creator:: Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Date:: 1720
Physical Description:: [3], page viii, 72, 136, 179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

Creator:: Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: [12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The Donnington run.

Date:: [between 1821 and 1824]
Physical Description:: 8 pages : 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. : qui prostabunt venales sub hasta apud Samuelem Baker, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 18vo. Novembris, M. DCC. LIV. iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M. DCC. LV.

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1754]
Physical Description:: [4], 116, [2], 117-242 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan / by F. Catherwood, archt.

Creator:: Catherwood, Frederick
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [2], 24 pages, 25, [2] leaves of plates : color illustrations, map ; 56 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The practical gardener, and modern horticulturist : containing the latest and most approved methods for the management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower-garden, the green-house, hot-house, &c., &c., for every month in the year : each department being distinctly and separately arranged : illustrated by numerous designs of the most eligible plans for the formation of kitchen and pleasure-gardens, the erection of hot-houses, hot-beds, green-houses, conservatories, walls, fences, &c., &c. including the new method of heating forcing-houses with hot water only : forming a complete system of modern practice, in the various branches of horticultural science : embellished with highly-finished engravings of some of the most choice and valuable fruits and flowers now cultivated in this country / by Charles McIntosh, C.M.C.H.S. ...

Creator:: McIntosh, Charles, 1794–1864
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (viii, 1122 pages, [28] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Holbein's Dance of Death : with an historical and literary introduction.

Date:: MDCCCXLIX [1849]
Physical Description:: iv, 146 pages, [53] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

92. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Barthomley : in letters from a former rector to his eldest son / by the Rev. Edward Hinchliffe ...

Creator:: Hinchliffe, Edward, 1801?-1878
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: viii, 370, [16] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The history of a voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764 : under the command of M. de Bougainville, in order to form a settlement there : and of two voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with an account of the Patagonians / translated from Dom Pernety's Historical journal, written in French ; illustrated with copper plates.

Creator:: Pernety, Antoine-Joseph, 1716–1801
Date:: MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:: [4], xvii, [1], 294 p., 16 leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. An historical and topographical account of the town of Woburn, its abbey, and vicinity : containing also a concise genealogy of the house of Russell, and memoirs of the late Francis Duke of Bedford.

Creator:: Dodd, Stephen, active 1818
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 140 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

96. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

Creator:: Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:: MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:: [8], 42 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Terzo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio nel quale si contengono le nauigationi al Mondo Nuouo, à gli antichi incognito, fatte da don Christoforo Colombo Genouese, che fu il primo à scoprirlo à i Re Catholici, detto hora l'Indie occidentali, con gl' acquisti fatti da lui, & accresciuti poi da Fernando Cortese, da Francesco Pizzarro, & altri valorosi capitani, in diuerse parti delle dette Indie, in nome di Carlo V Imp. ; con lo scoprire la gran città di Temistitan nel Mexico, doue hora è detto la Nuova Spagna, & la gran prouincia del Perù, il grandissimo fiume Maragnon, et altre città, regni & prouincie ; la nauigationi fatte dipoi alle dette Indie, poste nella parte verso Maestro Tramontana, dette hora la Nuoua Francia, scoperta al Re Christianiss, la prima volta da Bertoni & Normandi, et dipoi da Giouanni da Verrazzano Fiorentino, & dal Capitano Iacques Carthier ; si come si legge nelle diuerse relationi, tradotte dal Ramusio di lingua spagnuola & francese nella nostra, & raccolte in questo volume, con tauole di geographia, che dimostrano il sito di diuerse isole, città, & paesi, et figure diuerse di piante, & altre cose à noi incognite, et con l'indice copiosissimo di tutte le cose piu notabili in esso contenute.

Creator:: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:: l'anno MDLXV [1565]
Physical Description:: [6], 34, 453, 455-456 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Songs, naval and national, of the late Charles Dibdin : with a memoir and addenda / collected and arranged by Thomas Dibdin ... ; with characteristic sketches by George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 336 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

99. The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster : with the Charter-House, the schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-school of Christ's Hospital.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: MDCCCXVI [1816]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 56, 72, 27, [1], 32, 34, 22, 40, 34, 43, [1] p., [48] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: [1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:: 102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Manuscript daybook for George Romney, in the hand of Richard Williams.

2. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

4. Letters of Edward Lear, author of "The book of nonsense" : to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave / edited by Lady Strachey of Sutton Court ; illustrated.

5. Book of nonsense.

6. The British sportsman.

7. The roadsters album.

8. The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.

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

10. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

11. Turf celebrities I have known / by William Day ; author of "The Racehorse in training," "Reminiscences of the turn," "The horse, how to breed and rear him," etc., etc.

12. The laws relating to horses : considered as the subject of property, sale, hire, wager, distress, heriot, or of criminal charge : and intended for practical as well as professional reference.

13. Portraits of the winning horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster : from the year 1815 to the year 1824, inclusive.

15. The Epping hunt / by Thomas Hood, esq., author of "Whims and Oddities" ; illustrated with six engravings on wood, by Branston and Wright, Bonner, Slader, and T. Williams ; after the designs of George Cruikshank.

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

18. 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.

25. Observations on fox-hunting and the management of hounds in the kennel and the field : addressed to a young sportsman, about to undertake a hunting establishment / by Colonel Cook, H.P. 28th Dragoons.

26. Journal of an embassy from the governor general of India to the court of Ava in the year 1827 / by John Crawfurd ... late envoy ; with an appendix containing a description of fossil remains by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift.

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

29. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

30. Supplementum chronicharum.

31. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

32. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

33. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

34. Hē tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa.

37. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

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

39. Hunting songs, ballads, &c. / by R.E.E. W-Esq ; with illustrations.

40. 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.

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

42. Hans of Iceland.

43. 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.

44. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

46. A voyage of discovery : made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage / by John Ross, K.S. Captain Royal Navy.

47. Harvey's scenes of the primitive forest of America : at the four periods of the year, spring, summer, autumn & winter : engraved from his original paintings : accompanied with descriptive letter-press.

50. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

52. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

54. 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.

55. Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.

56. Lower Eatington : its manor house and church.

57. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

58. An historical tour in Monmouthshire : illustrated with views by Sir R.C. Hoare, Bart., a new map of the county, and other engravings / by William Coxe, A.M. F.R.S. F.A.S., Rector of Bemerton and Stourton.

60. Transatlantic sketches : comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies : with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration / by Capt. J.E. Alexander, 42D Royal Highlanders, F.R.G.S. M.R.A.S. etc. ; author of Travels in Ava, Persia, etc.

61. A history of the University of Cambridge : its colleges, halls, and public buildings.

62. A history of the western division of the county of Sussex : including the rapes of Chichester, Arundel, and Bramber, with the city and diocese of Chichester / by James Dallaway ; in two volumes.

63. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

64. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

67. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

68. To India and back by the Cape / by a traveller ; with numerous drawings on wood and stone, by John Corbet Anderson.

69. Journal of a voyage to Greenland, in the year 1821 : with graphic illustrations / by George William Manby, Esq.

70. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

71. A history or description, general and circumstantial, of Burghley House, the seat of the Right Honorable the earl of Exeter.

72. The Hampton L. Carson collection of engraved portraits of Jefferson, Franklin, and Lafayette : catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels : at the art auction rooms of Davis & Harvey ... Philadelphia, Pa.

74. The habit and the horse : a treatise on female equitation / by Mrs. J. Stirling Clarke ; with illustrations, lithographed by Messrs. Day & Son, from photographs by Herbert Watkins.

76. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in four parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ; recommended by many workmen of the first abilities in London, who have themselves inspected the work.

77. A selection of twelve heads from the Last judgment of Michael Angelo.

78. Cruise of the "Doris" 1882.

81. [Domestic animals from the most esteemed Masters].

82. [Additional illustrations for Nimrod's The life of a sportsman].

83. Voyage de S.M. Louis-Philippe Ier, roi des Français au château de Windsor : dédié à S. M. Victoria, reine d'Angleterre / par Édouard Pingret.

84. La belle dame sans merci / by John Keats.

87. The Donnington run.

88. Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. : qui prostabunt venales sub hasta apud Samuelem Baker, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 18vo. Novembris, M. DCC. LIV. iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M. DCC. LV.

89. Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan / by F. Catherwood, archt.

91. Holbein's Dance of Death : with an historical and literary introduction.

92. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

93. Barthomley : in letters from a former rector to his eldest son / by the Rev. Edward Hinchliffe ...

95. An historical and topographical account of the town of Woburn, its abbey, and vicinity : containing also a concise genealogy of the house of Russell, and memoirs of the late Francis Duke of Bedford.

96. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

98. Songs, naval and national, of the late Charles Dibdin : with a memoir and addenda / collected and arranged by Thomas Dibdin ... ; with characteristic sketches by George Cruikshank.

99. The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster : with the Charter-House, the schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-school of Christ's Hospital.

100. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...