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Album of British grasses.
Date:
circa 1800
Physical Description:
1 volume (40 leaves, with additional blanks) ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Medical miscellany.
Date:
second half of the 15th century
Physical Description:
1 volume : paper ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Photograph album of pottery manufactured by Albert Wenger.
Creator:
Wenger, Albert Francis, 1837 or 1838–1924
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 26 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An elegy : to the memory of our illustrious and lamented Queen Caroline of England.
Creator:
Parmenter, S., active 1821
Date:
[1821?]
Physical Description:
1 broadside : illustrations ; 47 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Character of forest trees.
Date:
circa 1817
Physical Description:
1 v. (31 leaves) : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Four views in Germany.
Creator:
Papendiek, G. E. (George Ernest), 1788–1835
Date:
1820
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
"Curry & rice," on forty plates, or, The ingredients of social life at "our station" in India / by George Francklin Atkinson.
Creator:
Atkinson, George Francklin
Date:
[1859]
Physical Description:
[90] p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The poetry box / [Eileen Hogan].
Creator:
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
Date:
[2003]
Physical Description:
[80] cards : col. ill., ports. ; 55 x 90 mm. + 1 booklet ([36] p.) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Princes Restaurant, Piccadilly : London, W.
Date:
[191-?]
Physical Description:
1 postcard ; 88 x 138 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mr. Ingham, general dealer, Sheffield : dealer in marine stores, cast-off wearing apparel, &c. &c.
Date:
[approximately 1840?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Westminster Abbey fund : 1065, 1920.
Creator:
Parkinson, W. (William), 1871–1927
Date:
1920
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 16 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Rowe collection of botanical specimens, 1861-1862.
Creator:
Rowe, Miss
Date:
1861-1862
Physical Description:
5 linear feet (6 boxes, 1 oversize)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Regency. Ramsgate : Sunday, 18th October, 1953 : dinner 7/-.
Creator:
Regency Hotel (Ramsgate, England)
Date:
1953
Physical Description:
1 menu ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John V. Harrison & Co. : (successors to R. Wootten & Co.) : (late Josh. Barton) : glue manufacturers, Grange Road, Bermondsey.
Creator:
John V. Harrison & Co.
Date:
[approximately 1840?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 7 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G. W.'s transparencies : Tintern Abbey.
Date:
[approximately 1840?]
Physical Description:
1 print : lithograph, hand colored ; 19 x 15 cm, on mount 27 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Tax bill for William Hanham, Cranleigh, Surrey, August 27th, 1843.
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The blue lights / by R. Carrick ; after J.M.W. Turner, Esqre. R.A. ; shewing the progress of the printing.
Creator:
Carrick, Robert, active 1853–1895
Date:
[1853?]
Physical Description:
27 prints in 1 volume : chromolithography volume 62 x 87 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fresco decorations and stuccoes of churches and palaces in Italy : during the fifteenth & sixteenth centuries / with descriptions by Lewis Gruner ...
Creator:
Grüner, Ludwig, 1801–1882
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
[6] p., 56 leaves of plates (some folded) : chiefly ill. (some col.), plans ; 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To George Dance Esquire R.A., architect to the city of London, &c., these six views of the metropolis of the British Empire are respectfully dedicated / by William Daniell.
Creator:
Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:
January 1st, 1805
Physical Description:
7 prints in 1 portfolio : soft ground etching and aquatint ; platemarks 48 x 72 cm, on sheets 53 x 78 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of J. Fallon & Co., fish merchant, Leek, Staffordshire, for purchases made by Mr. Russell, 1887].
Creator:
J. Fallon & Co. (Leek, England)
Date:
1887
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 28 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
J. Smithson, dealer in every description of watches, jewellery, plated goods &c. : Birkenhead : watches, clocks, jewellery and every description of fancy articles cleaned and repaired.
Date:
[1850?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Royal Navy & Military Tournament : Olympia : Royal Naval Field Battery Display.
Date:
[approximately 1910]
Physical Description:
1 postcard : photomechanical print ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views in India, Saint Helena, and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by Major John Luard.
Creator:
Luard, John, 1790–1875
Date:
[1838]
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) ill. 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of S.G. Morrison, general merchant in Fraserburgh, for purchases made by Mr. Bird, 1911 : with advertisement for Lipton's Tea]
Creator:
Morrison, S. G.
Date:
1911
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 22 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of Joseph Osborn, maltster, for purchases made by H. Brandreth, 1848].
Creator:
Osborn, Joseph (Maltster)
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 9 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the ladyes of Englande doe dresse.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : etching ; 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
J. Pigot, engraver, and copper plate printer : 11, Fountain Street, Manchester.
Creator:
Pigot, James, 1769–1843
Date:
[between 1810 and 1821]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 56 x 84 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sailing and fighting instructions for His Majesties fleet.
Creator:
Great Britain. Admiralty
Date:
[approximately 1711]
Physical Description:
34 pages ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Chinese sensitive leaf.
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 19 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Universal building-blocks box = Boite à construction en bois = Universal-Holzbaukasten.
Date:
[late 19th century?]
Physical Description:
1 set of building blocks (63 pieces) : wood ; various sizes, in wooden box 17 x 24 x 5
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome, during the year l8l9. By Maria Graham ...
Creator:
Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 305, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Forty-eight views of cottages and scenery at Sidmouth, Devon / drawn from nature and on stone by G. Rowe.
Creator:
Rowe, George, 1796–1864
Date:
[1826]
Physical Description:
[4] p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In loving memory of Frederick Charles : the dear little son of Sidney and Edith Penny : who died February 12th, 1911 : aged 5 years and 11 months.
Date:
1911
Physical Description:
1 folded card : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Recueil des scènes familières, et de société de Paris / par J.S., Pigal, &c. &c.
Creator:
Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798–1872
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
3 parts (21 leaves of plates) : all ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Packet of embossed gilt paper ornaments.
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
1810?
Physical Description:
1 packet ; 45 x 62 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
British butterflies.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
[2004]
Physical Description:
8 cut-paper butterflies ; in box 13 x 18 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketchbooks.
Creator:
Estcourt, Thomas Grimston Bucknall, 1775–1853
Date:
1826-1851
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 19 x 27 cm, and smaller.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hints to form the taste & regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape.
Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
circa 1790
Physical Description:
1 v. (44 leaves, with blanks) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Official catalogue / Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures.
Creator:
Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (1875 : Leeds, West Yorkshire)
Date:
1875
Physical Description:
[8], 319, [1], [80] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The sailing and fighting instructions, or, Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.
Creator:
Greenwood, Jonathan
Date:
[1715?]
Physical Description:
[72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
H.R.H Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton on the occasion of their engagement, 16th November 2010.
Date:
2010
Physical Description:
1 postcard : illustrations ; 15 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Six mid-19th century silhouette cut-outs]
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
6 cut-paper works ; 8 to130 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dison & Co., lace manufacturers : special appointment to their Royal Highnesses, the Princess Augusta, Duchess of Gloucester, Duchess of Kent and Duchess of Cambridge : 257, Regent Street, London.
Creator:
Dison & Co. (Firm : London, England)
Date:
[circa 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Why, what, and because, or, The road to the temple of knowledge / T.H. Jones, del. et litho.
Date:
[approximately 1855]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 33 x 44 cm folded to 33 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque. A poem.
Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
1 p.., iii, [1], 275 p., 1 leaf. 30 col. plates (incl. front.) 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In Disgraceful Memory of the Russian Navy, in their terrible encounter with nine unarmed fishing smacks.
Date:
[1904]
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 90 x 130 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Apolla Quadrille Party
Date:
[approximately 1860?]
Physical Description:
1 invitation : illustrations ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The ladies history of England : from the descent of Julius Cæsar, to the summer of 1780 : calculated for the use of the ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland : and likewise adapted to general use, entertainment, and instruction / by Charlotte Cowley ...
Creator:
Cowley, Charlotte
Date:
1780 [i.e. 1781]
Physical Description:
vi, 7-704, [12] p., [60] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., maps. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the house, gardens & park of Claremount : one of the seats of the Right Honble. Lord Clive = Plan des jardins & parc de Claremount : une des maisons de plaisance de Mylord Clive ...
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
1 map ; 25 x 50 cm., on sheet 39 x 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Line of march of a Bengal regiment of infantry.
Date:
[1845?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([22] p.) : ill. ; 8 x 711 cm. folded to 8 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Whitstable in an oyster shell.
Date:
[approximately 1930]
Physical Description:
1 postcard : color illustrations ; 10 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The cabinet : containing portraits of Sir R. Peel, The Duke, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Stanley, Sir H. Hardinge, Earl Aberdeen, Sir J. Graham / drawn on stone by Charles J. Basebé.
Creator:
Basebé, Charles Jones, approximately 1818–1880
Date:
[1841?]
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; 26 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wild flowers and their teachings.
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
iv, 94 pages, [37] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Receipt from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, E.C.].
Date:
[approximately 1930?]
Physical Description:
1 bill ; 14 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Portrait plate of Albert Smith.
Creator:
W.T. Copeland & Sons
Date:
circa [1859?]
Physical Description:
1 plate : ceramic, transferware ; 23 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
We must be united!
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 14 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letters from Portugal and Spain, written during the march of the British troops under Sir John Moore. With a map of the route, and appropriate engravings. By an officer.
Creator:
Broughton, Samuel Daniel, 1787–1837
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
xiv p., 1l., 320 p. front., plates, 1 fold. map. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
89 p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views of the Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham. From drawings by eminent artists, and photographs by P. H. Delamotte. With a title-page and literary notices by M. Digby Wyatt ... First series.
Creator:
Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820–1877
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
4 p. ., [7]-39 p. 24 [i. e. 23] col. plates. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
For life or death : heroism on land.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[1880]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 5 x 15 cm, in mount 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sun Sculpture stereoscope.
Creator:
Underwood & Underwood
Date:
not before 1901
Physical Description:
1 stereoscope : wood, metal, and velvet ; 32 cm long x 18 cm wide x 14 cm tall
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In memory of the late John Distance : who died May 16th, 1854 : aged 25 years.
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
1 embossed print : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Medal commemorating the abolition of the apprenticeship system in the British West Indies.
Creator:
Davis, Joseph, active 1818–1857
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
1 medal : white metal ; 38 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Office Anthem.
Date:
[approximately 193-?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bartholomew's one inch to the mile environs of London.
Creator:
John Bartholomew and Son
Date:
[not before 1921]
Physical Description:
1 map : color, mounted on linen ; 70 x 91 cm, folded to 19 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
May Christmas bring you many blessings.
Creator:
Castell Brothers (Firm : London, England)
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 Christmas card : color illustrations ; 10 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Birthday card with floral illustration].
Date:
[approximately 1874]
Physical Description:
1 birthday card : chromolithograph ; 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The pocket book of sea creatures.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
[24] p. : chiefly ill. ; 52 x 98 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of Whitehead Steam Navigation Company for Mr. L Whittle for goods that have been delivered.
Creator:
Whitehaven Steam Navigation Company
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 15 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways. A humourous game.
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 57 x 43 cm., fold. to 21 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The royal and entertaining Game of the goose.
Date:
[between 1761 and 1794]
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 49 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
China : its state and prospects : with especial reference to the spread of the gospel : containing allusions to the antiquity, extent, population, civilization, literature, and religion of the Chinese / by W.H. Medhurst ... ; illustrated with engravings on wood by G. Baxter.
Creator:
Medhurst, Walter Henry, 1796–1857
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 592 p., [7] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance / by William Morris.
Creator:
Morris, William, 1834–1896
Date:
[1892]
Physical Description:
[6], 305, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views of the forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire / by Lieut. George Abbott, 15th Reg. NI.
Creator:
Abbott, George, 1803–1838
Date:
[1827]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 13 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 x 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thomas Macdonald, sketch maker & designer.
Creator:
Macdonald, Thomas (Engraver)
Date:
[approximately 1880?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustration ; 12 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In remembrance of the late Robert Minto of Barton-Upon-Humber : who died January 29th, 1857, aged 76 years.
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
1 embossed print : letterpress ; 78 x 116 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity : and are desirous of inspecting the striking parts of the creation : there is to be seen, at the [blank] the beautiful zebra, or wild ass ... : it was brought from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1762, by Sir Thomas Adams.
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph Reed, Yale BA 1954, and Kit Reed
[Atlas of the counties of England and Wales].
Creator:
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:
[1590?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([74] leaves) : 34 maps (some folded) ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
This newly constructed and extended map of India : from the latest surveys of the best authorities, published principally for the use of the officers of the army in India, is respectfully inscribed to Major General Sir John Malcolm ... / drawn & engraved by John Walker.
Creator:
Walker, John, 1786–1873
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 158 x 151 cm., folded to 26 x 17 cm., in case 27 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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. By R. Bridgens ...
Creator:
Bridgens, Richard
Date:
[1836?]
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) 27 plates (part col. with accompanying text) 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dinner : 13th January, 1951 / the Bonnington Hotel, Southampton Row, London, W.C.1.
Creator:
Bonnington Hotel (London, England)
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
1 menu ; 23 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington : occasion'd by his publishing Palladio's designs of the baths, arches, theatres, &c. of ancient Rome / by Mr. Pope.
Creator:
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
Date:
1731
Physical Description:
14, [1] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts