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1. Charles Miller's habit and gown-warehouse, at the Crown and Cushion, in Tavistock-Street : where gentlemen and ladies may be furnish'd as usual.

Charles Miller's habit and gown-warehouse, at the Crown and Cushion, in Tavistock-Street : where gentlemen and ladies may be furnish'd as usual.
Date:
[1748]]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Monsieur Nattes, no. 41, Charles Street, Westminster.

Monsieur Nattes, no. 41, Charles Street, Westminster.
Creator:
Nattes, John Claude, 1765?-1822
Date:
[approximately 1781?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustration ; 95 x 95 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth : performed by a student there 177[blank].

A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth : performed by a student there 177[blank].
Creator:
Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801
Date:
approximately 1798-1799
Physical Description:
518 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Bill for building expenses.

Bill for building expenses.
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 11 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"

Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
Date:
not before 1787
Physical Description:
1 fob seal : gilding over copper or copper alloy, cornelian-colored glass ; face 31 x 24 mm, depth 43 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. For the information of travellers passing through the Turnpike Gates at Strood, and on the New Road, near Rochester : the Commissioners do give notice, that for coaches, chaises, and other travelling carriages, the following are the tolls payable at the said gates, viz.

For the information of travellers passing through the Turnpike Gates at Strood, and on the New Road, near Rochester : the Commissioners do give notice, that for coaches, chaises, and other travelling carriages, the following are the tolls payable at the said gates, viz.
Date:
May 1792
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 34 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Will of Patrick Lynch.

Will of Patrick Lynch.
Creator:
Lynch, Richard, -1781
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. William's return.

William's return.
Date:
[18th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) : illustration ; 22 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The particulars and inventories of the estates of the sub-governor, deputy governor, and directors of the South-sea company : and of Robert Surman, late deputy-cashier, and of John Grigsby, late accomptant of the said company : together with the abstracts of the same ...

The particulars and inventories of the estates of the sub-governor, deputy governor, and directors of the South-sea company : and of Robert Surman, late deputy-cashier, and of John Grigsby, late accomptant of the said company : together with the abstracts of the same ...
Date:
1721
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Letters of administration of William Morgan.

Letters of administration of William Morgan.
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Iter boreale, or, The northern expedition : commencing 10 July 1732, ending 18 Augt. 1732.

Iter boreale, or, The northern expedition : commencing 10 July 1732, ending 18 Augt. 1732.
Creator:
Tracy, Thomas
Date:
1732
Physical Description:
1 volume (60 pages) : pen and black ink ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. By Her Majesty's command, Frogmore House & gardens to be shown to Miss Smith & her party.

By Her Majesty's command, Frogmore House & gardens to be shown to Miss Smith & her party.
Date:
between 1792 and 1818?
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 8 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. English lotteries, 1569-1826.

English lotteries, 1569-1826.
Date:
mostly 18th-19th c
Physical Description:
1 albums (139 items) ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. [Bill of receipt by John Lingley, for the purchase of beer by Captain Richey, 1783].

[Bill of receipt by John Lingley, for the purchase of beer by Captain Richey, 1783].
Creator:
Lingley, John (Brewer)
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 77 x 172 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Signet ring, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"

Signet ring, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
Date:
not before 1787
Physical Description:
1 signet ring : gold with red stone (jasper?) ; face 28 x 21 mm, band 25 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan M. Yecies, Yale BA 1971

16. The magic ring : a new game : replete with humour and pleasant variety.

The magic ring : a new game : replete with humour and pleasant variety.
Date:
November 1st, 1796
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 42 x 57 cm, folded to 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

17. The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake.

The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake.
Date:
12th May 1794
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 38 x 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

18. Coade's Lithodipyra, or, Artificial Stone Manufactory : for all kind of statues, capitals, vases, tombs, coats of arms, & architectural ornaments &c. &c. particularly expressed in catalogues & books of prints of 800 articles & upwards, sold at [th]e manufactory near Kings Arms Stairs, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, opposite Whitehall Stairs, & at Mr. Strahan's, bookseller, No. 67 Strand, London / C.R. Ryley delt. ; P. Wray sculps.

Coade's Lithodipyra, or, Artificial Stone Manufactory : for all kind of statues, capitals, vases, tombs, coats of arms, & architectural ornaments &c. &c. particularly expressed in catalogues & books of prints of 800 articles & upwards, sold at [th]e manufactory near Kings Arms Stairs, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, opposite Whitehall Stairs, & at Mr. Strahan's, bookseller, No. 67 Strand, London / C.R. Ryley delt. ; P. Wray sculps.
Creator:
Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory
Date:
[approximately 1784?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : stipple engraving ; plate mark 11 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. [Billhead of John Roberts, hosier, London, recording purchases by B. Buggin].

[Billhead of John Roberts, hosier, London, recording purchases by B. Buggin].
Creator:
Roberts, John (Hosier)
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 19 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The combat with the giant : a new invented and entertaining game.

The combat with the giant : a new invented and entertaining game.
Date:
September 1st, 1796
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 40 x 40 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Newmarket, Mildenhall, and Swaffham stage waggons : by Thomas Archer.

Newmarket, Mildenhall, and Swaffham stage waggons : by Thomas Archer.
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 handbill ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Land tax bill for William Bourn, April 5th, 1798.

Land tax bill for William Bourn, April 5th, 1798.
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 6 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. [Bill of receipt by Nicholas Watson, on behalf of his mother Ann Watson, for the purchase of coffee and sugar by Mrs. De Sausmarez, 1793].

[Bill of receipt by Nicholas Watson, on behalf of his mother Ann Watson, for the purchase of coffee and sugar by Mrs. De Sausmarez, 1793].
Creator:
Watson, Nicholas, active 1793
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 70 x 164 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. An account of the charges for catching the red deer out of the woods of the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Salsbury at Hatfield, from Novre. the 9th, 1734, to February the 2nd 1734/5.

An account of the charges for catching the red deer out of the woods of the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Salsbury at Hatfield, from Novre. the 9th, 1734, to February the 2nd 1734/5.
Date:
1735
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 34 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Will of Patrick Collins.

Will of Patrick Collins.
Creator:
Collins, Patrick, -1781
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 18 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.

Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[not after 1778]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A collection of English grasses.

A collection of English grasses.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
circa 1792-1808
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 105 leaves) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Selections from George Edwards' A natural history of uncommon birds : with additional watercolors and engravings by Eleazar Albin.

Selections from George Edwards' A natural history of uncommon birds : with additional watercolors and engravings by Eleazar Albin.
Creator:
Edwards, George, 1694–1773
Date:
approximately 1746
Physical Description:
1 volume (53 leaves, with blanks) : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. D. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

D. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Creator:
Orme, Daniel, 1766–1837
Date:
[between 1792 and 1797]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Bill for school expenses for Cyrill Clough, at Henry Lloyd's school.

Bill for school expenses for Cyrill Clough, at Henry Lloyd's school.
Creator:
Lloyd, Mr., active 1795
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 25 x 42 cm, folded to 25 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. [Metamorphic pictures].

No cover image available
Date:
[circa 1775]
Physical Description:
7 drawings : watercolor on laid and wove paper ; sheets 10 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Account book of George Romney with his banker, Thomas Greene.

No cover image available
Creator:
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:
1788 August 19-1798 April 6
Physical Description:
1 v. ([18] p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
1773-1787
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., maps, port., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. [All the bubbles]

No cover image available
Date:
[1720]
Physical Description:
52 playing cards : illustrations ; each card 9.7 x 6.4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Remarks made in a tour from London to the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland in the summer of M.DCC.XCI. Originally published in the Whitehall Evening Post, and now reprinted with additions and corrections. To which is annexed, A sketch of the police, religion, arts, and agriculture of France, made in an excursion to Paris in M.DCC.LXXXV. By A. Walker, ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31–1821
Date:
M,DCC,XCII [1792]
Physical Description:
[6], 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. [Album of cut paper work].

No cover image available
Date:
[179-?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (ca. 33 p.) ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
1 map ; 54 x 46 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

No cover image available
Date:
1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:
[2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc
Date:
1721
Physical Description:
179, [21] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Valuation of pictures at the Grainge : manuscript.

No cover image available
Creator:
Batt, John Thomas, 1746–1831
Date:
1786-1787
Physical Description:
1 item (10 pages) ; 24 x 19 cm. + accompanying material
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. [Receipt for drawing and engrossing lycence for Mr Skynnor and Lady].

No cover image available
Creator:
Martin, Phil., active 18th century
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 19 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

No cover image available
Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
[4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:
MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 46-52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

No cover image available
Creator:
Morison, Robert
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The art of painting, and the lives of painters: containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints ... Done from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English-school, with the lives and characters of above 100 painters.

No cover image available
Creator:
Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:
1706
Physical Description:
480 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Wallis's tour through England and Wales, a new geographical pastime.

No cover image available
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 sheet 50 x 68 cm. fold. to 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
viii, xxiv p., 272 columns, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

No cover image available
Creator:
Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:
January 1st, 1779 [i.e. 1779-1786]
Physical Description:
[172] p., LXXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons or creation : their descents and collateral lines : their births, marriages, and issues ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1741
Physical Description:
4 v. : coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

No cover image available
Date:
1766-1769
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The copper plate magazine, or, Monthly treasure for the admirers of the imitative arts.

No cover image available
Date:
1774-1778
Physical Description:
[258] p., [126] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Monastic remains and ancient castles in England and Wales / drawn on the spot by James Moore ... ; finished and etched by J. Schnebbelie ... ; aquatinted by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Moore, James, 1762–1799
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
1 pt. ([6], 12 p., [6] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sketchley, William
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
45, [28] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. ...

No cover image available
Date:
Jany. 1, 1776, according to act of Parlt. (39 Strand)
Physical Description:
[240] prints : etchings ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Heraldry in miniature; containing all the arms, crests, supporters, and mottos, of the peers, peeresses, and bishops, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the baronets of Great Britain; and the insignia of the different orders of knighthood in the three kingdoms: also an introduction to the science of heraldry, a dictionary of heraldic terms ...

No cover image available
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
2 p.., 36, [20] p. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Letters and memorials of state : in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, part of the reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's usurpation / written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, the famous Sir Philip Sydney, and his brother Sir Robert Sydney ..., Robert, the second earl of Leicester ..., Philip, lord viscount Lisle ... and of his brother, Colonel Algernon Sydney ... ; together with letters of the other ministers of state, with whom they held a correspondence ; the whole containing the antient state of Ireland, with characters and private memoirs ; also, the antient government of the principality of Wales, the wars between the Spaniards, and the States-General in the Netherlands, negotiations between the courts of England, France, &c., the intriegues of the several courts of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First ; with other remarkable transactions, both at home and abroad, during those times, not hitherto known, faithfully transcribed from the originals ; whereunto is added, genealogical and historical observations, also memoirs of the lives and actions of the Sydneys, and their noble ancestors, the Dudleys, Grey, Talbot,

No cover image available
Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. [Rural views].

No cover image available
Creator:
John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Comforts of Bath.

No cover image available
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

62. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1720?]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. J. & S. Kelly saddlery halfpenny token.

No cover image available
Creator:
J. & S. Kelly (London, England)
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; 27 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. A tour to the west of England, in 1788 / By the Rev. S. Shaw, ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Shaw, Stebbing, 1762–1802
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
viii, 602 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The peerage of England : or, An historical and genealogical account of the present nobility : containing the descent, original creations, and most remarkable actions of them and their respective ancestors : also, the chief titles of honour, and preferment they now enjoy ... To which is prefix'd An introduction to the present royal family of Great Britain ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1710
Physical Description:
[10], 408, 158 p., [2] leaves of plates : portraits, coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. An Act for making the Act of the fifth year of Her Majesties reign, for the better preservation of the game, perpetual, and for making the same more effectual.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
[1711]
Physical Description:
[2], 531-533, [1] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

No cover image available
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[101] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. [Campaign box belonging to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn] [realia].

No cover image available
Creator:
Bramah, Joseph, 1749–1814
Date:
[London?] :
Physical Description:
1 campaign box : leather, brass, and velvet ; 12 x 28 x 10 cm + 1 metal key
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

69. The young ladies school of arts : containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, shell-work, gilding ... : also a great many curious receipts both useful and entertaining, never published / by Mrs. Hannah Robertson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Robertson, Hannah
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
xx, [2], 182 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. [Commercial traveler's catalog of silver-plated ware, possibly made in Sheffield].

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1780]
Physical Description:
13 prints (in 1 volume) : engravings ; 24 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. At a special committee of the Light-Horse Volunteers, held the 25th of October 1798.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain. Army. London and Westminster Light House Volunteers
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The establishment of the yearly charge of our dyett, with incidents for housekeeping : also wages & boardwages to the officers & servants of our house, chamber, chappells, & stables, with provisions for horses : also allowances, stipends, and pentions to old & supernumerary servants and widows, to commence the first day of October, 1714.

No cover image available
Creator:
George I, King of Great Britain, 1660–1727
Date:
1714-1716
Physical Description:
1 volume (159, [1] pages) ; 47 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
[2], 839-854 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

No cover image available
Date:
[1758?]
Physical Description:
15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Magna Britannia, aut Anglia, Scotia et Hibernia, quarum prior divisa in septem Regna, sive Provincias, dictas Northumbriam, Merciam, Angliam Orient. Essexiam, Cantium, Sussexiam, Westsexiam, et Princi. Walliae. posterior in Septent. et Austr. Scotiam. postrema in quatuor Provincias Ultoniam, Lageniam, Momoniam, et Conagtiam / typis G. et L. Valk.

No cover image available
Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Date:
[approximately 1705]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 46 x 58 cm, on sheet 54 x 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. William Smellie notebook on weaving.

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Creator:
Smellie, William
Date:
1693-ca. 1767
Physical Description:
1 volume : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The London calendar, or, Court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year ...

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Physical Description:
v. ; 16-17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1795, April 16-1816, September 10.

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Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Date:
1795, April 16-1816, September 10
Physical Description:
1 volume ([225] p.) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

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Creator:
Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

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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

81. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

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Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:
[1760?]
Physical Description:
vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:
MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Select views in Great Britain / engrav'd by S. Middiman ; from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions.

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Creator:
Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750–1831
Date:
[1784-1792]
Physical Description:
[112] p., 49 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The gentleman and farmer's architect : a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs : being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described : dutch, and other barns, cow-houses, stables, sheep-cots, huts, facades : with all offices appertaining to a well regulated farm : their situations rendered convenient, and aspects agreeable : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use / designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect ; and well engraved on twenty-five folio copper plates.

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Creator:
Lightoler, T. (Timothy), 18th cent
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
25 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

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Creator:
Garret, Daniel, -1753
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
[4], 11, [1] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

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Creator:
Bertram, Charles, 1723–1765
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
198 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1772, on several parts of England : particularly the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland ... / by William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Album of English bookplates.

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Date:
approximately 1700-1950?
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. One hundred & fifty new designs / by Thos. Johnson, carver ; consisting of cielings [sic], chimney pieces, slab, glass & picture frames, stands for china &c., clock & watch cases, girondoles, brackets, grates, lanthorns, &c. &c. ; the whole well adapted for decorating all kinds of ornamental furniture, in the present taste ; engrav'd on 56 copper plates.

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Creator:
Johnson, Thos. (Thomas), 1714?-approximately 1778
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
4 pt. in 1 : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. [Hunting scene]

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Date:
[18th century]
Physical Description:
1 print : on linen ; 71 x 74 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. 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] ...

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

92. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved : wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills ... The whole illustrated with copper plates ... And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method / by Jacob Rowe, Esq;.

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Creator:
Rowe, Jacob
Date:
1734
Physical Description:
[4], 38, [2] p. (last leaf blank), [5] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

No cover image available
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
[2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, to the present times : collected from the best authorities, printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary.

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Date:
1778-1793
Physical Description:
5 v. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

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Creator:
Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
64 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

96. Geometry exercise book.

No cover image available
Date:
circa 1780
Physical Description:
1 v. (71 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

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Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. An essay on design in gardening.

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Creator:
Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence, 1767-1917.

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Date:
1767-1917
Physical Description:
.84 linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

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Date:
[1786-1788]
Physical Description:
[101] leaves, [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts