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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
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
Catharine Muriel commonplace book : manuscript.
Creator:
Muriel, Catharine
Date:
1825-circa 1840
Physical Description:
1 volume (228 pages, some blank) : illustrations ; 23 x 17 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
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
The Funeral procession of Arthur, Duke of Wellington [graphic] / H. Alken and G.A. Sala exc.
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
1 print on 27 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 14 x 2042 cm, accordion folded to to 14 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Kindergarten and transition class : Collegiate House, Leicester : Principal, Miss. L. Crossley.
Date:
[approximately 1900]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
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
Description of the panorama of the superb city of Mexico : and the surrounding scenery / painted on twenty-seven hundred square feet of canvass by Robert Burford, Esq. ; from drawings made on the spot, at the request of the Mexican government, by Mr. W. Bullock, Junior.
Creator:
Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, plan ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new book of Chinese designs / by Pillement.
Creator:
Pillement, Jean, 1728–1808
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches illustrating the manners and customs of the Indians and Anglo-Indians.
Creator:
Tayler, William
Date:
1842
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Oxonia depicta sive Collegiorum et aularum in inclyta Academia Oxoniensi ichnographica, orthographica & scenographica delineatio : LXV tabulis æneis / expressa a Guilielmo Williams cui accedit uniuscujusque collegij aulæque notitia.
Creator:
Williams, William, active 1724–1733
Date:
[1733]
Physical Description:
[66] leaves (1 folded) : illustrations, maps, plans 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Panoramacopia. Designed by T.T. Dales, drawing master.
Creator:
Dales, T. T
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
18 col. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A progress of female virtue / engraved by A. Cardon from original drawings by Mrs. Cosway.
Creator:
Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759–1838
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
[1], 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The mansions of England in the olden time.
Creator:
Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878
Date:
1839-1849
Physical Description:
2 v.
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
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
Lithographic views / from drawings by T. Binns.
Creator:
Binns, T. B. (Theodore Barker)
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
[10] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An alphabet / by William Nicholson.
Creator:
Nicholson, William Sir, 1872–1949
Date:
1898
Physical Description:
[27] leaves : color illlustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972
Amateurs repository of Indian sketches. Pt. 1.
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
11 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 27 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], ii p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Gerardi de Lairesse, Leodiensis pictoris, Opus elegantissimum.
Creator:
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:
[ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:
[56] double leaves of plates : all ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sacred to the memory of the heroes slain in the Battles of Alma, Inkerman, & The Eastern War.
Date:
[approximately 1854]
Physical Description:
3 cards : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of cut-paper flowers.
Creator:
C. P. A. F
Date:
1842-1849
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pictures) ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks.
Date:
1805-1822
Physical Description:
1 volume (65 leaves, rectos only) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wild flowers worth notice : being a selection from the British flora of some of our native plants, which are most attractive from their beauty, uses, or associations / by Mrs. Lankester ; fully illustrated by J.E. Sowerby.
Creator:
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
xiv, 138, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
[Panorama of popular printed images].
Date:
[circa 1680]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching ; 85 x 1340 mm, in a box 99 x 84 x 25 mm.
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
Cygnea cantio : swan song.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([3] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 23 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
Splendid show of spring fashions.
Creator:
John Sanderson & Co
Date:
[1890?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Summer of smiles : London Guitar Festival : E4 Udderbelly : Ray Davies' Meltdown : Light Fantastic.
Creator:
South Bank Centre
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
25 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Constable & Compy : successor to John Meabry & Son : wholesale and retail tea, coffee & grocery warehouse : No. 1 Broad Street, Bloomsbury, London.
Creator:
Constable & Company (Firm : London, England)
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 100 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Catalogue of specimens of iron and brass castings : from the Coalbrookdale Company Foundry, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire]
Creator:
Coalbrookdale Company
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
37 leaves : all ill. ; 22 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views of Blaise Hamlet, Henbury Church, etc.
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
[5] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of J. Christie & Son, Edinburgh clothiers, for purchases by Joseph Markland, 1850.
Creator:
J. Christie & Son (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 26 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Specimens of articles in common use.
Date:
between 1840 and 1860?
Physical Description:
1 box (141 specimens) ; 16 x 25 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[The Popish Plot]
Date:
[1679?]
Physical Description:
52 cards : ill. ; 90 x 54 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
x, 525, [1] p. ill. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The environs of London : reduced from an actual survey in 16 sheets / by the late John Rocque ... ; with new improvements to the year 1763.
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets ; 86 x 125 cm., sheets 58 x 79 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Annals of the artists of Spain / by William Stirling, M.A.
Creator:
Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818–1878
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper featherwork illustrations of birds.
Date:
1830s?
Physical Description:
6 paper trays ; in box 23 x 19 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Happy may they birthday be.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 item : color illustrations ; 22 x 8 cm, folded to 12 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In loving memory of Emily Clifford, dearly beloved wife of George Clifford : who died October 24th, 1905 : aged 41 years.
Date:
1905
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 70 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In montibus sanctis : studies of mountain form and of its visible causes : collected and completed out of Modern painters / by John Ruskin.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1885
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates [graphic].
Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 26 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus L.), with tiphiid wasp (Hymenoptera ?Tiphidae), Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines), soldier fly (Diptera ?Stratiomyidae), longhorned beetle (Chlorida festiva), and shell (Natica euzona Récluz 1844) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.
Creator:
Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
18 p., 38 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...
Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:
1675
Physical Description:
[8], 110, [2], [4], 39, [2] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life = Les cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.
Creator:
Laroon, Marcellus, 1653–1702
Date:
1711
Physical Description:
[74] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.
Creator:
Garneray, Jean-François, 1755–1837
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
[4] pages, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Menu : at Lyons' Popular Café, Piccadilly.
Creator:
J. Lyons & Company
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
1 menu ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead recording cloth purchases from Joseph Osborn, linen and woollen draper, Dunstable].
Creator:
Osborn, Joseph (Draper)
Date:
[approximately 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 12 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London.
Creator:
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
1 volume ([14], 365, [11] pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Naval chronicle.
Date:
1799-1818
Physical Description:
40 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches in Scinde.
Creator:
Edwards, William, d. 1890
Date:
1846
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Trattato di architectura civile e militare.
Creator:
Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439–1502
Date:
not after 1521
Physical Description:
1 volume (178 pages) : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fortune teller's notebook.
Date:
[1829?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (15 pages) : illustrations ; 11 cm, in boards 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billheads recording clothing purchased by Robert W. Stevenson from E. & S.R. Richards, clothiers, London.
Creator:
E. & S.R. Richards
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
2 sheets : illustration, 19 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fast khakis and blues, for government requirements / Levinstein, Limited, Blackley, Manchester.
Creator:
Levinstein Limited (firm)
Date:
1914?
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 23 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cyclamen (cf. Cyclamen L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Pyrrhogyra sp.), with Northern dune tiger beetle (Cicindela ?hybrida), Leaf beetle (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae), Flesh fly (Diptera Sarcophagidae), Wasp beetle (Clytus arietis), Red-breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma throracica) and, Sexton or Burying beetle (Nicrophorus humator), with shell (Mauritia arabica) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Antiquities of Ionia, by the Society of dilettanti. [pt. 1]-5.
Creator:
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Date:
1769-1915
Physical Description:
5 v. illus., plates, maps, plans, diagrs. 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.
Creator:
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.
Creator:
Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619–1695
Date:
MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[24], 795, [1] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of pressed seaweed specimens.
Creator:
Mathiss, Madeleine
Date:
1869
Physical Description:
1 volume (30 leaves) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Novi Belgii Novaeque, Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula : multis in locis emendata / per Nicolaum Visscher.
Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618–1679
Date:
[ca. 1684]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 46.1 x 55.9 cm, on sheet 52.4 x 62.9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Amid'st a meadow green and gay ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Photograph album of Sir John Edge in Allahabad, India.
Creator:
Edge, John, 1873–1896
Date:
ca. 1888-1894
Physical Description:
1 album (120 photographs) : albumen prints ; album 32 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fortunio & his seven gifted servants.
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
1 game : color lithograph ; 57 x 44 cm, folded to 20 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Richard Turpin, the highwayman : a drama in two acts : written expressly for & adapted only to Skelt's characters & scenes in the same.
Date:
[between 1850-1862]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani : nec non urbis totius scenographia / delineavit & sculpsit Dav. Loggan Univ. Oxon. chalcographus.
Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
ano. Dni. MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:
[85] leaves (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
As in a looking glass / by F.C. Philips ; iIllustrated by G. du Maurier.
Creator:
Philips, F. C. (Francis Charles), 1849–1921
Date:
1889
Physical Description:
[10], 293, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
The Chinese expedition, 1859-1860 / by Major W.G.R. Masters, Royal Marine Light Infantry ; a series of eight views ...
Creator:
Masters, W. G. R. (William Godfrey Rays)
Date:
[1861]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Glasgow looking glass.
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
1 v. : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings : [game]
Date:
[ca. 1815?]
Physical Description:
[26] pictorial cards : ill. ; 65 x 45 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A pottle of strawberries, to beguile a short journey, or a long half hour / by Albert Smith ; with illustrations by Gilbert and Henning.
Creator:
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:
MDCCCXLVIII [1848]
Physical Description:
62 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 14 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
Ancient Chinese.
Creator:
Cavanders, Ltd. (Firm)
Date:
[1926]
Physical Description:
25 cards : illustrations ; 70 x 40 mm
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
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