Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Image Use: Free to Use

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29

1773 January 29

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse

[1753]

Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1853

Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number

[1802]

Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1766

Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

Hogarth moralized

1831

Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Views in Rome and its environs

1841

Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Alphabet

1857

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Picturesque views in England and Wales

MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant

MDCCLVIII [1758]

Payne, John, 1710–1771

Twelve designs of country-houses

1757

Rodler, Hieronymus

Perspectiua

1546

Medhurst, Walter Henry, 1796–1857

China : its state and prospects

1838

Paine, James, 1717?-1789

Plans, elevations, and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses,

1783

Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple

1788

The royal and entertaining Game of the goose

[between 1761 and 1794]

The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways

1848

Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694

A genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain, &C

1683

To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity

[1773]

Moore, Joseph

Rangoon views and combined operations in the Birnam Empire

1825-1826

Rickman, Thomas, 1776–1841

An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the conquest to the reformation

[1817]

Ruskin, John, 1819–1900

Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1855

1855

Taunt, Henry

A new map of the river Thames from Oxford to London

[1873]

Driver & Shaw

Catalogue of improved superfine colours, and drawing materials

1824

Cox, David, 1783–1859

The young artist's companion, or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments

1825

Ireland, Samuel, -1800

Picturesque views on the River Wye

1797

Tregear's Black jokes

1834

Blanchet, Etienne

Blanchet, artistes capillaires

not before 1866?

St. John Ambulance Association

Triangular bandage, printed with illustrations of bandage use

approximately 1920

Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890

The seaweed collector

[1872]

Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849

Key to the picture of the fancy going to a fight at Moulsey-Hurst

1819

Antiquities of Great Britain, illustrated in views

Gardiner, William, 1809?-1852

Twenty lessons on British mosses, or, First steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants

1846

A letter on the nature and state of curiosity as at present with us ..

1736

Vues de la ville de Londres

1758

Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833

Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life

March 1st 1807

The Illustrated London news Colosseum view of London

[1843]

Dean's steam-boat alphabet

[1855?]

Barker, Henry Aston, 1774–1856

Explanation of the view of the splendid victory gained by the Marquis of Wellington over the French army, consisting of 65,000 men, commanded by Joseph Bonaparte, on the plains of Vittoria

1814

Sowerby, James, 1757–1822

A botanical drawing-book, or, An easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature

[1807?]

Shoubridge, James

Billhead recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Clough from James Shoubridge, hatter, London

1807

Barber, J. T

A tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire

1803

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

The works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896]

Bridgens, Richard

West India scenery with illustrations of Negro character, the process of making sugar, &c. from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad

[1836?]

Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798

The journey from Chester to London

MDCCLXXXII [1782]

Witton, Philip Henry

Views of the ruins of the principal houses destroyed during the riots at Birmingham =

1791 [i.e. 1792]

Gascoigne, George, -1577

The noble arte of venerie or hunting

[1575]

The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park

[1851]

Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887

London labour and the London poor

1851[-1861]

T. C. L. (London, England)

Catalogue of up to date suites & chairs in Chippendale, Sheraton, Queen Anne, Jacobean, Hepplewhite, & Louis Styles

[1890?]

The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich

[approximately 1825]

The brigand

[between 1840-1850]

Ogilby, John, 1600–1676

Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads

1679

Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa

MDCXXXII [1632]

Celebrated horses of America

1881-1882

In affectionate remembrance of Moses

1875

Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)

Panorama, Leicester Square

1805

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 1820?]

[Teleorama]

[approximately 1825?]

Six views of Buxton & neighbourhood

[185-?]

Rocque, John, -1762

Plan of the house, gardens, park & hermitage of Their Majesties at Richmond

1734

Scott, Allan N. (Allan Newton), 1824–1870

Sketches in India

1862

Boulton, George

The route of the mail & post coaches, George Boulton & Co. proprietors

[between 1796 and 1809]

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

?House wren (Troglodytes aedon) and eggs, with a specimen from the rose family (Rosaceae), Peacock butterflies (Nymphalis io), both closed and open, and butterfly chrysalis, larva caterpillar, daddy longlegs spider (Phalangida) egg case, and snout beetle, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

Tegetmeier, W. B. (William Bernhard), 1816–1912

The poultry book

1867

Kruyff, Cornelis de, 1771–1854

Vues choisies d'Amsterdam et ses environs

[1825?]

Freeling, Arthur

Lacey's railway companion and Liverpool and Manchester guide

[1832]

Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733

Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde

1723

Rigaud, Jacques, 1681–1754

Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, belonging to the right honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : laid out by Mr. Bridgman, principal gardener to their majesties King George I and II / delineated in a large plan and fifteen perspective views : drawn on the spot by Mons. Rigaud, and engraved by him and Mons. Bernard Baron =

MDCCXLVI [1746]

Decalcomania sample book

circa 1870

Panorama, Leicester-Square

[1793]

[One cut-paper work]

[approximately 1880]

Jones and Co. (London, England)

Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance

[1833?]

The forty thieves

[between 1837-1840]

Whereas the game within the manor of Pinkhurst, and in several parts of the parishes of Itchingfield, Slinfold, Billingshurst, and Rudgwick, in the county of Sussex, has of late years, and up to the present time, been greatly destroyed by poachers, unqualified, and unlicenced persons ..

[1797]