Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Image Available: Unavailable / Language: English / Subject Period: 18th century

1. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 1 volume (approximately 42 leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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

3. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed / by Alexander Mackay-Smith ; with a foreword by Robert Moorman Denhardt.

Creator:: Mackay-Smith, Alexander
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 328 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The complete works of Robert Burns / edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with a glossarial index and a biographical memoir by Alexander Smith.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: lxii, [4], 636, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

6. Streiflichter : six inscribed fragments concerning the French Revolution 1789-1805 / Ian Hamilton Finlay, Annet Stirling ; commentary by Siegfried Blasche.

Creator:: Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Date:: 1994
Physical Description:: [24] p. : ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jock Reynolds

7. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: x, 322 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

8. A tale of two cities / by Charles Dickens ; with twenty-five illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: [8], 176 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

9. An excursion to Cheltenham, Birmingham, & Oxford, &c. &c. &c. : August the 26th, 1782.

Creator:: Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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.

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

11. Captain Molloy's remarks on board the Caesar.

Creator:: Molloy, Anthony James Pye
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 v. (34 p.) : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

Creator:: Livingston, William, 1723–1790
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [4], 144 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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.

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

14. An original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American war, from its commencement to the year 1783 / by R. Lamb, late Serjeant in the Royal Welch Fuzileers.

Creator:: Lamb, Roger, 1756–1830
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: iv, xxiv, [1], 6-438 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Strictures on Lt.-Col. Tarleton's History "of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America" ... Wherein military characters and corps are vindicated from injurious aspersions, and several important transactions placed in their proper point of view. In a series of letters to a friend, by Roderick Mackenzie ... To which is added, a detail of the siege of Ninety Six, and the re-capture of the island of New-Providence.

Creator:: Mackenzie, Roderick
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., vi, 1 l. 186 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The Virginians : a tale of the last century / by W. M. Thackeray, author of "Esmond," "Vanity Fair," "The Newcomes," &c. &c. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author.

Creator:: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Date:: 1858-1859
Physical Description:: 2 v. (24 nos.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

17. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [1] iii, [149] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

Creator:: Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Pope's own miscellany : being a reprint of Poems on several occasions, 1717, containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others / edited by Norman Ault.

Date:: MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:: xcvii, [1], 165, [3] pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The lives of the English poets : and a criticism on their works / by Samuel Johnson.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: MDCCLXXIX-MDCCLXXXI [1779-81]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara R. and Richard C. Glowacki, Yale BA 1954

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann ... / now first published from the originals in the possession of the Earl of Waldegrave ; edited by Lord Dover.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 3 v. : port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The universal system of houshold furniture : consisting of above 300 designs on the most elegant taste, both useful & ornamental : finely engraved, in which the nature of ornament & perspective, is accurately exemplified : the whole made convenient to the nobility and gentry, in their choice, & comprehensive to the workman, by directions for executing the several designs, with specimens of ornament for young practitioners in drawing / by Ince & Mayhew cabinet-makers & upholders, in Bond Street, Golden Square, London ...

Creator:: Ince, William, active 18th century
Date:: [1762?]
Physical Description:: iii-iv, 11, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Sketches in architecture : containing plans and elevations of cottages, villas, and other useful buildings, with characteristic scenery / by John Soane ... ; to which are added, Six designs for improving and embellishing of grounds, with sections and explanations, by an amateur ; the whole engraved on fifty-four plates.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCXCVIII [1798]
Physical Description:: [6], iv, iv, 20 pages, XLI, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. 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

30. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [1], 4-67, [9] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

Creator:: Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 111 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Specimens of rare and beautiful needlework / designed and executed by Mrs. Delany and her friend the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton ; photographed from the originals in the possession of Lady Hall of Llanover.

Creator:: Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
Date:: [approximately 1860]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The adventures of Commodore Paul : the naval hero.

Date:: [1884]
Physical Description:: 15 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

34. Bill of expenses incurred by John Lawford for the funeral of William Bodimeade : manuscript.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 26 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Billesdon Coplow : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

Creator:: Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 9, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A catalogue of the genuine, capital, and valuable collection of pictures, by the most esteemed masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Schools : selected by that eminent artist and esteemed connoisseur Benjamin van der Gucht, Esq. deceased : this celebrated collection contains some of the most rare and capital pictures ever offered to the public : comprising the following most remarkable viz. : A Venus disarming Cupid by Corregio, brought to England by Sir William Hamilton : two, a most capital Landscape, and a Sea Port, by Claude : A landscape, a Chef D'oeuvre, by Cuyp : A Ditto by Rubens : and one Ditto, very capital, by Berghem : Le Retour de Chasse, an elegant Cabinet Picture, by Wouvermans : the Judgment of Paris by Vander Werf : A Conversation by Teniers : The Madona and Infant Christ by C. Dolce : The Transfiguration by Julio Romano : several fine portraits by Vandyck, F. Hals, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction (by order of the administratrix) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, March 11th, 1796, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had at the room in Pall Mall, at one shilling each.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: [2] pages ; 21cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Commonplace book.

Date:: 1874-1924
Physical Description:: 1 volume (approximately 200 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Commonplace book.

Date:: 1829-1834
Physical Description:: 1 volume (70 leaves, some blank) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Susanna Potter commonplace book : with contributions from the family of Frederick Christian Lewis.

Creator:: Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
Date:: 1823-circa 1860
Physical Description:: 1 volume (108 leaves) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

Creator:: Hipwell, John
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. [Views in the South Seas]

Creator:: Jukes, Francis, 1745–1812
Date:: 1787-1788
Physical Description:: 4 prints : etching and aquatint ; plate marks 50.1 x 66.5, or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

Date:: 1758 April 27
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : parchment ; 71 x 86 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Andrew F. Petryn

44. A lovers progress : seventeenth century lyrics / selected by Nancy Quennell.

Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: [2], 5-84, [2] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Barnaby Rudge.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xix, [3], 685, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A tale of two cities.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xiv, 363, [3] pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Two hymns to Pan : from the faithful shepherdess, 1610 / by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher.

Creator:: Beaumont, Francis, 1584–1616
Date:: MM [2000]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

49. Botanical collages from the circle of Booth Grey.

Creator:: Grey, Booth, 1740–1802
Date:: 1790s
Physical Description:: 40 linear feet (139 items)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk.

Creator:: De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
Date:: 1661-1662?
Physical Description:: 7 drawings : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheets 20 x 30 cm to 39 x 100 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Plan of the fortification at Sandown, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 69 x 80 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Britannia's triumph in the year MDCCLXII : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, &c. &c. ... / these drawings were made by Lieutenant Philip Ousbridge, an officer on the spot ...

Creator:: Orsbridge, Philip, -1767
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 4, [4] pages, 11, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink ; sheet 102 x 72 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 64 x 76 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 64 x 75 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Nautical chart of Grand Havre, Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and gray wash ; sheet 45 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Poems / by Thomas Gray.

Creator:: Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: 87, [3] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

58. Plan for the Citadel at Hull.

Creator:: De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
Date:: [1681?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 36 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Plan of Scarbrogh Castle & towne / delineated by Capt. James Archer, one of his Matie. of England's Ingeniers.

Creator:: Archer, James, approximately 1632–approximately 1680
Date:: circa 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and gray wash ; sheet 85 x 170 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Plans for the Citadel at Hull.

Date:: 1681-1682
Physical Description:: 2 maps : pen and ink and watercolor ; each sheet 39 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Plan of a fortification in Guernsey.

Date:: July 20, 1682
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 32 x 25 cm, on sheet 38 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Natural history and gardening commonplace book.

Date:: between 1830 and 1840
Physical Description:: 1 volume (131 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

Date:: 1528
Physical Description:: 384 p. ; 19 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. 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

65. A new drawing book.

Date:: [175-?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1740
Physical Description:: [2] p., p. 407-412 ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Account book of the surveyors of the highway in the parish of Healaugh.

Date:: 1768-1837
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The complete works of Sir John Vanbrugh / the plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée : the letters edited by Geoffrey Webb.

Creator:: Vanbrugh, John, 1664–1726
Date:: MCMXXVII-MCMXXVIII [1927-1928]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The history of Virginia, in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706 : II. The natural productions and conveniences 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, the 10th of June 1702 / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: [8], 284, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: v, [132] p., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States : with biographical particulars of public characters : hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade / by Charles William Janson, Esq. late of the state of Rhode Island, counsellor at law ; illustrated by engravings.

Creator:: Janson, Charles William
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xiii, [2], 16-22, 499, [7] pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Candide, or, Optimism / François Marie Arouet de Voltaire ; translated from the French by Richard Aldington ; with an introduction by Paul Morand ; and twenty illustrations in colour by Sylvain Sauvage.

Creator:: Voltaire, 1694–1778
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: xix, [1], 147 [1] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Don Quixote de la Mancha : the history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha / written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; Motteux' translation revised anew (1743) & corrected, rectified and filled up in numberless places by J. Ozell who likewise added the explanatory notes from the best editions in English & Spanish. Reprinted with twenty-one illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer.

Creator:: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616
Date:: [1930]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : fronts., plates ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The seasons / by James Thomson : with five pictures by Jacquier and an introduction by John Beresford.

Creator:: Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: xx, [2], 198, [2] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:: [6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

Creator:: Boothby, Brooke, Sir, 1743–1824
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 89 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Songs & poems / by Henry Carey ; with decorations by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: [4], 9-64, [4] pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. [Muster order for the enrollment into the Gloucestershire militia].

Date:: August 30, 1770
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Exhibition of Mr. Wright's Pictures at Robin's Rooms, Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

Creator:: Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 1 v. (26 p.) ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

Creator:: Boyn, John
Date:: 1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:: 1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Account book.

Creator:: Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Date:: 1784 January 1-December 31
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Commonplace book.

Date:: circa 1830
Physical Description:: 1 v. (ca. 230 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Botanical dialogues : between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry. Designed for the use of schools, / by a lady.

Creator:: Jackson, Maria Elizabeth
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [2], xlv, [1], 335, [3] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

Creator:: Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Date:: circa 1776-circa 1832
Physical Description:: 1 v. (270 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Saint James's, or, The court of Queen Anne : an historical romance / by William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., ; author of "The Tower of London," "Windsor Castle," etc. ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in three volumes.

Creator:: Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805–1882
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

87. Narrative sketches of the conquest of the Mysore, effected by the British troops and their allies in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory / collected from authentic materials.

Date:: MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:: 134, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The punishments of China / illustrated by twenty-two engravings with explanations in English and French.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1801 [i.e. 1822?]
Physical Description:: [54] p., 22 leaves of plates : 22 col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

Creator:: Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. A catalogue of more than five thousand copper plates : engraved by the most esteemed British artists, during the last and present century, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, English, and other schools ... : the copper plates of the whole of these great works, with their impressions ... will be sold without reserve by Robert H. Evans ... on Monday June 1, 1818, and the five following days ... : comprising the entire stock of Messrs. John and Josiah Boydell, deceased ...

Creator:: Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: 58 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

Creator:: Beatson, Robert, 1742–1818
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 211, [1], 372, 117, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. A general map of North America : in which is express'd the several new roads, forts, engagements, & c, taken from actual surveys and observations made in the army employ'd there, from the years 1754, to 1761 / drawn by the late John Rocque, topographer to his majesty = Cartes generales de l'Amérique Septentrionale; en les quelles sont exprimis les nouvelles routes, forts, batailles, &c. d'apres les observations qui ou été faites depuis l'an 1754, jusqu'a l'an 1761: recuellies par feu Jean Rocque, topographe de sa Majesté Britannique.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [1762?]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets : hand colored ; 87 x 89 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 54 x 46 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. A plan of the city, and fortifications of Louisburg / from a survey made by Richard Gridley ... ; A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg : with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the siege in 1745.

Creator:: Gridley, Richard, 1711–1796
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet ; 38 x 47 cm. and 38 x 45 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

Creator:: Grierson, George, -1753
Date:: 1740]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / by Samuel Johnson : in four volumes.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 4 v. : port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

Creator:: Armstrong, John, -1758
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 66 x 45 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A letter to the people of Scotland on the alarming attempt to infringe the articles of the Union : and introduce a most pernicious innovation, by diminishing the number of the lords of Session / by James Boswell.

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 107 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Mrs. Thrale, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi : a sketch of her life and passages from her diaries, letters & other writings / edited by L. B. Seeley ... with nine illustrations after Hogarth, Reynolds, Zoffany, & others.

Creator:: Seeley, L. B. (Leonard Benton), 1831–1893
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: x, 336 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

2. 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.

3. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

4. The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed / by Alexander Mackay-Smith ; with a foreword by Robert Moorman Denhardt.

5. The complete works of Robert Burns / edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with a glossarial index and a biographical memoir by Alexander Smith.

6. Streiflichter : six inscribed fragments concerning the French Revolution 1789-1805 / Ian Hamilton Finlay, Annet Stirling ; commentary by Siegfried Blasche.

7. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

8. A tale of two cities / by Charles Dickens ; with twenty-five illustrations by F. Barnard.

9. An excursion to Cheltenham, Birmingham, & Oxford, &c. &c. &c. : August the 26th, 1782.

11. Captain Molloy's remarks on board the Caesar.

14. An original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American war, from its commencement to the year 1783 / by R. Lamb, late Serjeant in the Royal Welch Fuzileers.

16. The Virginians : a tale of the last century / by W. M. Thackeray, author of "Esmond," "Vanity Fair," "The Newcomes," &c. &c. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author.

19. The costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with descriptions in English and French.

20. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

21. Pope's own miscellany : being a reprint of Poems on several occasions, 1717, containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others / edited by Norman Ault.

22. The lives of the English poets : and a criticism on their works / by Samuel Johnson.

24. 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.

26. Letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann ... / now first published from the originals in the possession of the Earl of Waldegrave ; edited by Lord Dover.

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

30. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

31. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

32. Specimens of rare and beautiful needlework / designed and executed by Mrs. Delany and her friend the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton ; photographed from the originals in the possession of Lady Hall of Llanover.

33. The adventures of Commodore Paul : the naval hero.

34. Bill of expenses incurred by John Lawford for the funeral of William Bodimeade : manuscript.

35. Billesdon Coplow : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

37. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

38. Commonplace book.

39. Commonplace book.

40. Susanna Potter commonplace book : with contributions from the family of Frederick Christian Lewis.

41. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

42. [Views in the South Seas]

43. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

44. A lovers progress : seventeenth century lyrics / selected by Nancy Quennell.

45. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

46. Barnaby Rudge.

47. A tale of two cities.

48. Two hymns to Pan : from the faithful shepherdess, 1610 / by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher.

49. Botanical collages from the circle of Booth Grey.

50. Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk.

51. Plan of the fortification at Sandown, Isle of Wight.

53. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

54. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

55. Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight.

56. Nautical chart of Grand Havre, Guernsey.

57. Poems / by Thomas Gray.

58. Plan for the Citadel at Hull.

59. Plan of Scarbrogh Castle & towne / delineated by Capt. James Archer, one of his Matie. of England's Ingeniers.

60. Plans for the Citadel at Hull.

61. Plan of a fortification in Guernsey.

62. Natural history and gardening commonplace book.

63. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

64. 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.

65. A new drawing book.

66. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

67. Account book of the surveyors of the highway in the parish of Healaugh.

68. The complete works of Sir John Vanbrugh / the plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée : the letters edited by Geoffrey Webb.

70. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

72. Candide, or, Optimism / François Marie Arouet de Voltaire ; translated from the French by Richard Aldington ; with an introduction by Paul Morand ; and twenty illustrations in colour by Sylvain Sauvage.

74. The seasons / by James Thomson : with five pictures by Jacquier and an introduction by John Beresford.

75. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

76. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

77. Songs & poems / by Henry Carey ; with decorations by Robert Gibbings.

78. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

79. [Muster order for the enrollment into the Gloucestershire militia].

80. Exhibition of Mr. Wright's Pictures at Robin's Rooms, Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

81. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

82. Account book.

83. Commonplace book.

84. Botanical dialogues : between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry. Designed for the use of schools, / by a lady.

85. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

86. Saint James's, or, The court of Queen Anne : an historical romance / by William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., ; author of "The Tower of London," "Windsor Castle," etc. ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in three volumes.

87. Narrative sketches of the conquest of the Mysore, effected by the British troops and their allies in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory / collected from authentic materials.