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

Tregear's Black jokes

1834

Bowles & Carver

Bowles & Carver's new and enlarged catalogue, of accurate and useful maps, plans, and prints,

1795]

Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794

Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

MDCCXCVI [1796]

Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619–1695

Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent

MDCLXXVI [1676]

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

For life or death

[1880]

Map of North America

not before 1634

John Bartholomew and Son

Bartholomew's one inch to the mile environs of London

[not before 1921]

Perkins, John (Gardener)

Floral designs for the table

1877

Barber, J. T

A tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire

1803

Sowerby, James, 1757–1822

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

[1807?]

Vues de la ville de Londres

1758

Philips, F. C. (Francis Charles), 1849–1921

As in a looking glass

1889

Masters, W. G. R. (William Godfrey Rays)

The Chinese expedition, 1859-1860

[1861]

Clarke, J., active 1820

J. Clarke

[approximately 1820?]

[Birthday card with floral illustration]

[approximately 1874]

Davis, Joseph, active 1818–1857

Medal commemorating the abolition of the apprenticeship system in the British West Indies

1838

Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823–1875

Masterpieces of industrial art & sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862

1863

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676

A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern

MDCLXIV [1664]

Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652

Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent

1744

Guest, T. R. (Thomas Robert)

A new pocket sketch book

1807

Loggan, David, 1635–1700?

Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani

ano. Dni. MDCLXXV [1675]

Bowers, George Frederick

Crimean War

1856?

Glasgow looking glass

[1825]

Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617

The destruction of the Spanish Armada

1588

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

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

circa 1768

Corporal Violette!!

[1815?]

Morris, William, 1834–1896

News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest

[1892]

Jonathan Bradford, or, The murder at the road side inn

[between 1835-1837]

The red rover

[between 1835-1837]

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

1788

Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844

Sketches in the grounds of Marshalls, the seat of Rowland Stephenson Esqr

1824]

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

Shoubridge, James

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

1807

Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833

Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life

March 1st 1807

White Hill Kiln (Luton, England)

Receipts by John Williams, of White Hill Kiln, for chimney tunnel tiles purchased by Breandveath, of Houghton, 1848

1848

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

1736

The Illustrated London news Colosseum view of London

[1843]

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

Dean's steam-boat alphabet

[1855?]

Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744

An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington

1731

Rocque, John, -1762

A map of London and the adjacent country 10 miles round

1748

Stuart, James, 1713–1788

Critical observations on the buildings and improvements of London

MDCCLXXI [1771]

The brigand

[between 1840-1850]

The temple of taste

[1796]

The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich

[approximately 1825]

Belnos, S. C., Mrs.

Twenty four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European manners in Bengal

[1832]

Medical miscellany

second half of the 15th century

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), male, with Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

St. John Ambulance Association

The triangular bandage

[circa 1915?]

Ruskin, John, 1819–1900

The stones of Venice

1851-1853

Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677

London before the fire in 1666 = Plan de Londres tel quil etoi avant l'incendie de 1666

[1666?]

Halfpenny, William, -1755

New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings &c. ...

1750-1752

Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?

Illuminated illustrations of Froissart

1845

Parmenter, S., active 1821

An elegy

[1821?]

[Folded sheet of stationery with engraved satirical vignette at top]

Octr 11, [18]51

Aglio, Agostino, 1777–1857

[Six views of Hastings]

Novr. 1, 1823

Album of cartes-de-visite depicting royalty of Britain and Europe and other contemporary notables

1860-1862

In loving memory of George Bye

1895

Archbald, the property of Mr. George Wilson, of Walkington, will serve mares this season, 1839, at one guinea and a-half each

[1839]

Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842

Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome,

1820

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

The Canterbury tales

1483]

Barrow, John, Sir, 1764–1848

A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793

Stevens, Francis, 1781–1823

Domestic architecture

[between 1844 and 1850]

Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849

Catalogue of the exhibition, called Modern Mexico

1824

Greenwood, Jonathan

The sailing and fighting instructions, or, Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain

[1715?]

Roberts

Spurgeon's

[approximately 1870]

Richter, Henry, 1772–1857

Illustrations of the works of Henry Richter. 1st ser. ..

1822

Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (1875 : Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Official catalogue

1875

Simons, Matthew, d. 1654

A direction for the English traviller

1643

Cowper, William, 1666–1709

Myotomia reformata

1724

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]

Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887

London labour and the London poor

1851[-1861]

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834

A list of caricatures,

1814]

Yarmouth

[approximately 1880?]

J. R. Jaffray & Son (Firm : New York)

The prize embroidery from the World Fair, 1851 will be exhibited from 1st, February to 1st, May 1852 : Messrs. J. R. Jaffray & Sons, 73, Broadway, New York

1851

Thomson, James, 1700–1748

The seasons,

1797

Ruskin, John, 1819–1900

In montibus sanctis

1885

Liverine Limited (Firm)

Advertisement for Liverine Limited's "Longlivs."

[1920?]

Let anthems rise! With heart with voice. Let earth rejoice! - Let Anthems rise!

[approximately 1870]

Dexter, Thomas E.

Animal and vegetable substances used in the arts and manufactures, illustrative of the imports and exports of Great Britain & her colonies, and explanatory of Dexter's cabinet of objects

1857