Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Period: 18th century

101. Les delices des chateaux royaux, or, A pocket companion to the royal palaces of Windsor, Kensington, Kew, and Hampton Court : containing an account of their buildings, gardens, paintings, monuments and curiosities : with the institution and ceremonies of the order of the Garter : also a concise description of the towns, villages, and villas within XIV miles of Windsor : to which are added short sketches of the lives of the most eminent painters ...

Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: [6], 90, [2], 44, [2], 26, 32 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. 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

103. Characters / by Williams.

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Date:: ca. 1800?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. 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

106. The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning ano: 1584 to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journeyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes / by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.

Creator:: Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:: 1624
Physical Description:: [14], 96, 105-248 p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. 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

108. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

Creator:: Saunders, George, 1762–1839
Date:: MDCCXC [1790 ]
Physical Description:: x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. Variety: a collection of essays. Written in the year 1787 ...

Creator:: Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: viii, [3], 297 p., 1 leaf. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

Creator:: Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 14 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. The library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Early English literature, 1519-1700, collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark, jr. ...

Creator:: Clark, William Andrews, 1877–1934
Date:: 1920-25
Physical Description:: 4 v. mounted front. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. Comforts of Bath.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : aquatint ; 19 x 24 cm, mounted to leaves in an album 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

Creator:: Forbes, Miss
Date:: 1780-1781
Physical Description:: 1 v. (115 leaves, with blanks) ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Proposals for publishing by subscription, an engraving from the historical picture painted by John Singleton Copley, R.A. : and now exhibiting in a pavilion, erected through the gracious permission of the King for the purpose, in the Green Park : this work ... is to be placed in the council chamber of Guildhall as a testimony of respect to the late Lord Heathfield, then governor of Gibralter, Earl Howe, commander of the fleet ... for their gallant conduct displayed in the defence and relief of that important fortress.

Date:: [180-]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. 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

118. 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

119. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. 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

121. 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

122. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. Inventory of the trunk of Samuel Evers.

Creator:: Evers, Samuel
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: 1 item (3 pages) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. Posthumous memoirs of his own time / by Sir N.W. Wraxall.

Creator:: Wraxall, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751–1831
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. Six landscapes from original paintings.

Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. in folder 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. 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

127. 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

128. The North American atlas : selected from the most authentic maps, charts, plans, &c. hitherto published.

Creator:: Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:: MDCCLXXVII [1777, i.e. 1778]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([74] leaves, some folded) : 40 maps ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Map of lower Egypt / from various surveys communicated by Major Bryce and other officers ; drawn by A. Arrowsmith 1807 ; Jas. Palmer sculp.

Creator:: Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 1 map on 2 sheets : hand col. ; 120 x 157 cm., sheets 65 x 164 cm. and 66 x 164 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

Creator:: Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 16 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: xxi, 3, 382 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century : consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons : and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes.

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1817-1858
Physical Description:: 8 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. 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

134. 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

135. 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

136. 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

137. 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

138. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1779-1781
Physical Description:: 10 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. 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

140. Fabbriche e disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi, architetto di S.M. l'Imperatore di Russia : cavaliere di Malta e di S. Walodimiro / illustrate dal cav. Giulio, suo figlio.

Creator:: Quarenghi, Giacomo, 1744–1817
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: 46 pages, [1], LIX leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. [Batch of cakes]

Date:: 1818?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Instruction sur l'art de séparer le cuivre du métal des cloches / publié par ordre du Comité de salut public.

Creator:: Pelletier, Bertrand, 1761–1797
Date:: l'an 2me. de la République française [1794]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam perillustris ac magnifici Domini Ignatii Christophori, nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall ... ab ... Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I ad ... Tzarum & Magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII ablegati extraordinarii / descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb ... ; 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 (13 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. Boydell's heads of illustrious and celebrated persons, generally connected with the history of Great Britain in the reigns of James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. The portraits painted by Van Dyke, Lely, Kneller, Riley, &c. Engraved by John Smith, &c. And revised by Richard Earlom. With biographical memoirs, by John Watkins, LL.D.

Creator:: Boydell and Co
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: viii, 94 p. front. (port.) ports. 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes / par M. Fossé, officier Régiment d'Infanterie du Roi ; dédié a M. Le Duc du Chatelet.

Creator:: Fossé, Charles-Louis-François, 1734–1812
Date:: MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:: [12], 116, 60, [2] p., 11 leaves of plates (10 folded) : col. ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1804 [i.e. not before 1819]
Physical Description:: [134] p., 60 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

Creator:: Pocklington, Joseph, 1736–1817
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([15] p.) ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. Commonplace book, with views of Lord Charlemont's garden at Marino.

Creator:: Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson, 1783–1853
Date:: circa 1816
Physical Description:: 1 volume : illulstrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. The glorious recovery by the Vaudois of their valleys, from the original by Henri Arnaud, their commander and pastor. With a compendious history of that people, previous and subsequent to that event. By Hugh Dyke Acland.

Creator:: Arnaud, Henri, 1641–1721
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: cxxii, xxv, 239, [1] p. front. (map) plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. A country dance / designed by John Nixon, Esqr.

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818
Date:: Dec. 1, 1789
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([9] p.) : all ill. ; 31 x 229 cm., folded to 31 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. 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

153. 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

154. A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent : containing whatever is most worthy of notice in their ancient and present state ... with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of this great metropolis ... / by the Rev. John Entick ...

Creator:: Entick, John, 1703?-1773
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill., plans, ports., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. 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

156. Memoirs of Josias Rogers, esq. commander of His Majesty's ship Quebec. By the late William Gilpin ... Published by his trustees, for the benefit of his school, at Boldre.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., iii, 184 p. front. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. 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

158. 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

159. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

Creator:: Anburey, Thomas, author
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, counsellor of state to His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, Knight, &c.

Creator:: Pallas, Peter Simon, 1741–1811
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. 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

162. 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

163. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

Creator:: Tower of London (London, England)
Date:: [approximately 169-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page.) ; 17 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. 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

165. 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

166. New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

Creator:: Hoofnail, John
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: vi, 2, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 96 pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, baron of Melcombe Regis : from March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761 : with an appendix, containing some curious and intersting [!] papers, which are either referred to, or alluded to, in the diary / published from His Lordship's original manuscripts by Henry Penruddocke Wyndham ...

Creator:: Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691–1762
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: xv, 504 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Twelve views of the Greenland and whale fishery [graphic].

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

170. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

Creator:: Labat, maître d'armes
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. Billesdon Coplow, hunt : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

Creator:: Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. A copy of the last will and testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. : with an act (passed 11th George the First) for incorporating the executors of the said will.

Creator:: Guy, Thomas, 1645?-1725
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 55, [1], 43, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. 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:: MDCCCIII [1803]
Physical Description:: [164] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

Date:: [ca. 1725?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century : comprizing biographical memoirs of William Boywer, printer, F.S.A., and many of his learned friends : an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century: and biographical anecdotes of a considerable number of eminent writers and ingenious artists : with a very copious index / by John Nichols ...

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1812-1816
Physical Description:: 9 v. : fronts (v. 1-6, 8-9) plates, ports., 2 facsim. (1 fold.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

Creator:: Wilson, James Holbert, 1809–1873
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: [4], 68 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

Creator:: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555–1628
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Reisen, Entdeckungen und Unternehmungen des Schifs-Capitain Johann Schmidt, oder John Smith : welche den wahren Ursprung derer englischen Colonien in Nord-Amerika bewirkt haben ... / gröstentheils aus dessilben eigenen Schriften beschrieben von Carl Friedrich Scheibler ...

Creator:: Scheibler, Carl Friedrich
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: 232, [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. 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

181. 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

182. Commonplace book.

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

183. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

Creator:: Morosini, Andrea, 1558–1618
Date:: 1623
Physical Description:: [18], 729, [22] p., : port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. Relation de l'expedition aux Indes Occidentales, contre la Martinique : avec la reduction de la Guadelupe, et autres Isles Sous Vent, appartenant au roi de France, en 1759 / par Mons. Gardiner, capitaine des Mousquetaires Royaux de S.M., autrefois capitaine des Troupes de Marine à bord le Rippon, vaisseau de S.M. employé à cette expedition.

Creator:: Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [6] pages, 91, [1] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

Date:: [ca. 1780?]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. Appendiculae historicae, or, Shreds of history hung on a horn / by Fred. W. Lucas.

Creator:: Lucas, Fred. W. (Frederic William)
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: iv, 216 p., [9] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. 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

188. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

Creator:: Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:: 24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. 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

190. Commonplace book.

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

191. 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

192. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... By E. Hargrove.

Creator:: Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 4, 382 p. front., ill., plates, plan, col. fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. 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

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

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: [164] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. Dutch historical card game.

Date:: [approximately 1788]
Physical Description:: 1 game (180 cards) : illustrations ; 5 x 7 cm-9 x 6 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. To the Queen this book of etchings, from papers cut by the Right Honourable Lady Templeton in the collection of Her Majesty, is with permission most humbly dedicated / by most devoted and very much obliged serv. P. W. Tomkins.

Creator:: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 4 v. : port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. Coaching days of England : containing an account of whatever was most remarkable for grandeur, elegance and curiosity in the time of the coaches of England, comprehending the year 1750 until 1850 : together with an historical commentary by Anthony Burgess, and in addition decorated and illustrated with a great number of drawings, prints, and views in perspective gathered on purpose for this work.

Date:: 1966
Physical Description:: [2], 96 p., 25 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports., maps, facsims. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

199. The Polygraphic Society, to the patrons and admirers of the polite arts.

Creator:: Polygraphic Society (London, England)
Date:: ca. 1789.]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. Catalogue of pictures : copied or multiplied (for sale) by a chymical and mechanical process ; exhibited with the capital originals from which they have been taken, by the Polygraphic Society, at their rooms, in Pall-Mall : being their seventh exhibition : opened in January, 1792 : as specimens of what the Society engage to deliver to purchase.

Creator:: Polygraphic Society (London, England)
Date:: [1792]
Physical Description:: 14 p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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102. 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.

103. Characters / by Williams.

104. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

105. 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.

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

108. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

109. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

110. Variety: a collection of essays. Written in the year 1787 ...

111. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

112. The library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Early English literature, 1519-1700, collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark, jr. ...

113. Comforts of Bath.

114. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

116. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

117. 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.

118. 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.

119. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

120. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

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

122. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

123. Inventory of the trunk of Samuel Evers.

124. Posthumous memoirs of his own time / by Sir N.W. Wraxall.

125. Six landscapes from original paintings.

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

128. The North American atlas : selected from the most authentic maps, charts, plans, &c. hitherto published.

129. Map of lower Egypt / from various surveys communicated by Major Bryce and other officers ; drawn by A. Arrowsmith 1807 ; Jas. Palmer sculp.

130. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

131. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

132. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century : consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons : and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes.

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

138. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

140. Fabbriche e disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi, architetto di S.M. l'Imperatore di Russia : cavaliere di Malta e di S. Walodimiro / illustrate dal cav. Giulio, suo figlio.

141. [Batch of cakes]

142. Instruction sur l'art de séparer le cuivre du métal des cloches / publié par ordre du Comité de salut public.

146. Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes / par M. Fossé, officier Régiment d'Infanterie du Roi ; dédié a M. Le Duc du Chatelet.

147. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

148. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

149. Commonplace book, with views of Lord Charlemont's garden at Marino.

150. The glorious recovery by the Vaudois of their valleys, from the original by Henri Arnaud, their commander and pastor. With a compendious history of that people, previous and subsequent to that event. By Hugh Dyke Acland.

151. A country dance / designed by John Nixon, Esqr.

152. 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.

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

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

156. Memoirs of Josias Rogers, esq. commander of His Majesty's ship Quebec. By the late William Gilpin ... Published by his trustees, for the benefit of his school, at Boldre.

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

159. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

160. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, counsellor of state to His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, Knight, &c.

163. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

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

165. 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.

167. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

169. Twelve views of the Greenland and whale fishery [graphic].

170. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

171. Billesdon Coplow, hunt : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

172. A copy of the last will and testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. : with an act (passed 11th George the First) for incorporating the executors of the said will.

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

174. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

176. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

177. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

178. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

179. Reisen, Entdeckungen und Unternehmungen des Schifs-Capitain Johann Schmidt, oder John Smith : welche den wahren Ursprung derer englischen Colonien in Nord-Amerika bewirkt haben ... / gröstentheils aus dessilben eigenen Schriften beschrieben von Carl Friedrich Scheibler ...

181. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

182. Commonplace book.

183. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

185. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

186. Appendiculae historicae, or, Shreds of history hung on a horn / by Fred. W. Lucas.

187. 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.

188. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

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

190. Commonplace book.

191. 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 ...

193. 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.

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

195. Dutch historical card game.

196. To the Queen this book of etchings, from papers cut by the Right Honourable Lady Templeton in the collection of Her Majesty, is with permission most humbly dedicated / by most devoted and very much obliged serv. P. W. Tomkins.