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1. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 1 volume (approximately 42 leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Proposals for publishing by subscription, an engraving from the historical picture painted by John Singleton Copley, R.A. : and now exhibiting in a pavilion, erected through the gracious permission of the King for the purpose, in the Green Park : this work ... is to be placed in the council chamber of Guildhall as a testimony of respect to the late Lord Heathfield, then governor of Gibralter, Earl Howe, commander of the fleet ... for their gallant conduct displayed in the defence and relief of that important fortress.

Date:: [180-]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: [2] pages ; 21cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Les delices des chateaux royaux, or, A pocket companion to the royal palaces of Windsor, Kensington, Kew, and Hampton Court : containing an account of their buildings, gardens, paintings, monuments and curiosities : with the institution and ceremonies of the order of the Garter : also a concise description of the towns, villages, and villas within XIV miles of Windsor : to which are added short sketches of the lives of the most eminent painters ...

Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: [6], 90, [2], 44, [2], 26, 32 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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.

Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 54 x 46 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Characters / by Williams.

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Date:: ca. 1800?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed / by Alexander Mackay-Smith ; with a foreword by Robert Moorman Denhardt.

Creator:: Mackay-Smith, Alexander
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 328 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

Creator:: Boyn, John
Date:: 1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:: 1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Account book.

Creator:: Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Date:: 1784 January 1-December 31
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. [Album of cut paper work].

Date:: [179-?]
Physical Description:: 1 volume (ca. 33 p.) ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning ano: 1584 to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journeyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes / by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.

Creator:: Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:: 1624
Physical Description:: [14], 96, 105-248 p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

Creator:: Saunders, George, 1762–1839
Date:: MDCCXC [1790 ]
Physical Description:: x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq., comprising his diary from 1641 to 1705-6 and a selection of his familiar letters, edited by John Evelyn.

Creator:: Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: 783 p. ill. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Billesdon Coplow : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

Creator:: Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 9, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The model republic, or, Cato Potts in Paris [graphic] / by Watts Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, Watts, 1825–1874
Date:: [1850?]
Physical Description:: 19 pictures on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored etchings ; sheets end-to-end 15 x 179 cm, accordion folded to 14 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The life of David Garrick : from original family papers, and numerous published and unpublished sources / by Percy Fitzgerald ; in four volumes.

Creator:: Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington, 1834–1925
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

Creator:: Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement of Sydney cove / compiled from the original documents in the Public Record office, with extracts from the log-books of H.M.S. Sirius and an introduction and notes, by Owen Rutter ; forward by the Hon. B.S.B. Stevens, M.L.A., Premier of New South Wales ; five engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 149, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Views of the several parts of the palace, or castle of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, basins, groves, parterras, and other the most beautifull parts of the gardens : wherein are represented whatever are remarkable, as, statues, groups of figures, water-falls, &c. : drawn on the spot, by order, and with ye approbation of the French king : engraved in the year 1725.

Date:: [1725?]
Physical Description:: [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The complete modern joiner, or, A collection of original designs in the present taste for chimney-pieces and door-cases : with their mouldings and enrichments at large, frizes, tablets, ornaments for pilasters, bases, sub-bases and cornices for rooms, &c. : with a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures to rooms of any size / by N. Wallis, Architect.

Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: [1772]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:: [6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Versailles illustrated, or Divers views of the several parts of the royal palace of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, groves, parterras, ye labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens, wherein are represented whatever is remarkable, whether statues, groups of figures, water falls, pleasure houses &c. : drawn on the spot by the order & with the approbation of the French king.

Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [29] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Geometry exercise book.

Date:: circa 1780
Physical Description:: 1 v. (71 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

Creator:: Hipwell, John
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. At Mr. de Poggi's new room, No. 91, New Bond Street, near Oxford Road, are now exhibiting two large pictures painted by Mr. Robert Cleveley of the Royal Navy : representing the great and important victory obtained by the British fleet, under the command of the Earl Howe, over the French, on the first of June, 1794.

Creator:: Poggi, A. C. de
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 leaflet ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

Creator:: Boothby, Brooke, Sir, 1743–1824
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 89 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk.

Creator:: De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
Date:: 1661-1662?
Physical Description:: 7 drawings : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheets 20 x 30 cm to 39 x 100 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The elegancies of fashion and general remembrancer of taste and manners, or, Impartial record of painting, music, elegant literature, the theatre, costume, and arts conducive to the ornament or amusement of polished life / by Florio Honeysuckle. Vol. I.

Creator:: Honeysuckle, Florio
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 1 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Comforts of Bath.

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

39. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1800 [i.e. not before 1821]
Physical Description:: [134] p., 60 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

Creator:: Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

Creator:: Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 111 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

Date:: 1756-1817
Physical Description:: 144 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. An excursion to Cheltenham, Birmingham, & Oxford, &c. &c. &c. : August the 26th, 1782.

Creator:: Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Six landscapes from original paintings.

Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. in folder 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

Creator:: Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

46. Essays, biographical, critical and historical illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler : and of the various periodical papers, which in imitation of the writings of Steele and Addison, have been published .... / by Nathan Drake.

Creator:: Drake, Nathan, 1766–1836
Date:: 1809-1810
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays : Number II. containing a letter, representing the impropriety of sending forces to Virginia : the importance of taking Frontenac : and that the preservation of Oswego was owing to General Shirley's proceeding thither : containing objections to those parts of Evan's general map and analysis, which relate to the French title to the country, on the north-west side of St. Laurence River, between Fort Frontenac and Montreal, &c. : published in the New-York Mercury, no. 178. Jan. 5, 1756 : with an answer to so much thereof as concerns the public : and the several articles set in a just light / by Lewis Evans.

Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: v, [1], 7-35, [1] pages ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

Creator:: Pocklington, Joseph, 1736–1817
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([15] p.) ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

Creator:: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555–1628
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

Creator:: Grierson, George, -1753
Date:: 1740]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century : consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons : and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes.

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1817-1858
Physical Description:: 8 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Barnaby Rudge.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xix, [3], 685, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted window at New-College Oxford / by Thomas Warton ...

Creator:: Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: [2], 8 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The history of Virginia, in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706 : II. The natural productions and conveniences of the country, suited to trade and improvement : III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace : IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land, the 10th of June 1702 / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: [8], 284, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

Creator:: Tower of London (London, England)
Date:: [approximately 169-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page.) ; 17 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Streiflichter : six inscribed fragments concerning the French Revolution 1789-1805 / Ian Hamilton Finlay, Annet Stirling ; commentary by Siegfried Blasche.

Creator:: Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Date:: 1994
Physical Description:: [24] p. : ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jock Reynolds

57. Boydell's heads of illustrious and celebrated persons, generally connected with the history of Great Britain in the reigns of James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. The portraits painted by Van Dyke, Lely, Kneller, Riley, &c. Engraved by John Smith, &c. And revised by Richard Earlom. With biographical memoirs, by John Watkins, LL.D.

Creator:: Boydell and Co
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: viii, 94 p. front. (port.) ports. 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The glorious recovery by the Vaudois of their valleys, from the original by Henri Arnaud, their commander and pastor. With a compendious history of that people, previous and subsequent to that event. By Hugh Dyke Acland.

Creator:: Arnaud, Henri, 1641–1721
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: cxxii, xxv, 239, [1] p. front. (map) plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Billesdon Coplow : February 24th, 1800.

Creator:: Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:: [ca. 1827]
Physical Description:: [14] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. [Views in the South Seas]

Creator:: Jukes, Francis, 1745–1812
Date:: 1787-1788
Physical Description:: 4 prints : etching and aquatint ; plate marks 50.1 x 66.5, or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. A country dance / designed by John Nixon, Esqr.

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818
Date:: Dec. 1, 1789
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([9] p.) : all ill. ; 31 x 229 cm., folded to 31 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The costume of the Russian Empire / illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings ; with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: MDCCCIII [1803]
Physical Description:: [164] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink ; sheet 102 x 72 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Commonplace book.

Date:: 1829-1834
Physical Description:: 1 volume (70 leaves, some blank) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A copy of the last will and testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. : with an act (passed 11th George the First) for incorporating the executors of the said will.

Creator:: Guy, Thomas, 1645?-1725
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 55, [1], 43, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

Date:: [ca. 1725?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century : comprizing biographical memoirs of William Boywer, printer, F.S.A., and many of his learned friends : an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century: and biographical anecdotes of a considerable number of eminent writers and ingenious artists : with a very copious index / by John Nichols ...

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1812-1816
Physical Description:: 9 v. : fronts (v. 1-6, 8-9) plates, ports., 2 facsim. (1 fold.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

Creator:: Labat, maître d'armes
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The "Ladies of Llangollen", as sketched by many hands : with notices of other objects of interest in "that sweetest of vales" / by John Hicklin.

Creator:: Hicklin, John
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 31 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1804 [i.e. not before 1819]
Physical Description:: [134] p., 60 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 64 x 76 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Commonplace book, with views of Lord Charlemont's garden at Marino.

Creator:: Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson, 1783–1853
Date:: circa 1816
Physical Description:: 1 volume : illulstrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: v, [132] p., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Appendiculae historicae, or, Shreds of history hung on a horn / by Fred. W. Lucas.

Creator:: Lucas, Fred. W. (Frederic William)
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: iv, 216 p., [9] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

Creator:: Anburey, Thomas, author
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The four Indian kings.

Date:: [1780?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 22 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1779-1781
Physical Description:: 10 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Posthumous memoirs of his own time / by Sir N.W. Wraxall.

Creator:: Wraxall, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751–1831
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Britannia's triumph in the year MDCCLXII : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, &c. &c. ... / these drawings were made by Lieutenant Philip Ousbridge, an officer on the spot ...

Creator:: Orsbridge, Philip, -1767
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 4, [4] pages, 11, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, counsellor of state to His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, Knight, &c.

Creator:: Pallas, Peter Simon, 1741–1811
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A catalogue of more than five thousand copper plates : engraved by the most esteemed British artists, during the last and present century, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, English, and other schools ... : the copper plates of the whole of these great works, with their impressions ... will be sold without reserve by Robert H. Evans ... on Monday June 1, 1818, and the five following days ... : comprising the entire stock of Messrs. John and Josiah Boydell, deceased ...

Creator:: Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: 58 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. A plan of the city, and fortifications of Louisburg / from a survey made by Richard Gridley ... ; A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg : with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the siege in 1745.

Creator:: Gridley, Richard, 1711–1796
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet ; 38 x 47 cm. and 38 x 45 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Map of lower Egypt / from various surveys communicated by Major Bryce and other officers ; drawn by A. Arrowsmith 1807 ; Jas. Palmer sculp.

Creator:: Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 1 map on 2 sheets : hand col. ; 120 x 157 cm., sheets 65 x 164 cm. and 66 x 164 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The history and present state of Virginia : in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time -- II. The natural productions and conveniencies of the country, suited to trade and improvement -- III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace. -- IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: MDCCV [1705]
Physical Description:: [12], 104, 40, 64, 83, [1], 16, [4] pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: xxi, 3, 382 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Billesdon Coplow, hunt : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

Creator:: Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. A tale of two cities.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xiv, 363, [3] pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street, Worcester.

Creator:: Simpson, Miss
Date:: ca. 1795
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([35] p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Twelve views of the Greenland and whale fishery [graphic].

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

91. Memoirs of Josias Rogers, esq. commander of His Majesty's ship Quebec. By the late William Gilpin ... Published by his trustees, for the benefit of his school, at Boldre.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., iii, 184 p. front. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: x, 322 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

93. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Bill of expenses incurred by John Lawford for the funeral of William Bodimeade : manuscript.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 26 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. A catalogue of historical prints, various subjects, landscapes, sea pieces, views, &c. : after the most capital pictures in England / engraved by the most celebrated artists ; published by John and Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside.

Creator:: Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:: 1787-1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([4], 88; viii, 23 p.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The complete works of Robert Burns / edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with a glossarial index and a biographical memoir by Alexander Smith.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: lxii, [4], 636, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

98. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

Creator:: Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Date:: circa 1776-circa 1832
Physical Description:: 1 v. (270 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The complete works of Sir John Vanbrugh / the plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée : the letters edited by Geoffrey Webb.

Creator:: Vanbrugh, John, 1664–1726
Date:: MCMXXVII-MCMXXVIII [1927-1928]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, baron of Melcombe Regis : from March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761 : with an appendix, containing some curious and intersting [!] papers, which are either referred to, or alluded to, in the diary / published from His Lordship's original manuscripts by Henry Penruddocke Wyndham ...

Creator:: Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691–1762
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: xv, 504 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

2. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

3. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

5. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

6. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

8. 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.

9. Characters / by Williams.

10. The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed / by Alexander Mackay-Smith ; with a foreword by Robert Moorman Denhardt.

11. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

12. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

13. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

14. Account book.

15. [Album of cut paper work].

17. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

18. Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq., comprising his diary from 1641 to 1705-6 and a selection of his familiar letters, edited by John Evelyn.

19. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

20. Billesdon Coplow : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

21. The model republic, or, Cato Potts in Paris [graphic] / by Watts Phillips.

22. The life of David Garrick : from original family papers, and numerous published and unpublished sources / by Percy Fitzgerald ; in four volumes.

23. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

28. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

30. Geometry exercise book.

31. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

33. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

34. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

35. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

36. Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk.

37. The elegancies of fashion and general remembrancer of taste and manners, or, Impartial record of painting, music, elegant literature, the theatre, costume, and arts conducive to the ornament or amusement of polished life / by Florio Honeysuckle. Vol. I.

38. Comforts of Bath.

39. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

40. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

41. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

42. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

43. An excursion to Cheltenham, Birmingham, & Oxford, &c. &c. &c. : August the 26th, 1782.

44. Six landscapes from original paintings.

45. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

46. Essays, biographical, critical and historical illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler : and of the various periodical papers, which in imitation of the writings of Steele and Addison, have been published .... / by Nathan Drake.

48. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

49. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

51. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century : consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons : and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes.

52. Barnaby Rudge.

53. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted window at New-College Oxford / by Thomas Warton ...

55. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

56. Streiflichter : six inscribed fragments concerning the French Revolution 1789-1805 / Ian Hamilton Finlay, Annet Stirling ; commentary by Siegfried Blasche.

58. The glorious recovery by the Vaudois of their valleys, from the original by Henri Arnaud, their commander and pastor. With a compendious history of that people, previous and subsequent to that event. By Hugh Dyke Acland.

59. Billesdon Coplow : February 24th, 1800.

60. [Views in the South Seas]

61. A country dance / designed by John Nixon, Esqr.

62. The costume of the Russian Empire / illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings ; with descriptions in English and French.

63. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

64. Commonplace book.

65. A copy of the last will and testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. : with an act (passed 11th George the First) for incorporating the executors of the said will.

66. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

68. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

69. The "Ladies of Llangollen", as sketched by many hands : with notices of other objects of interest in "that sweetest of vales" / by John Hicklin.

70. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

71. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

72. Commonplace book, with views of Lord Charlemont's garden at Marino.

73. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

75. Appendiculae historicae, or, Shreds of history hung on a horn / by Fred. W. Lucas.

76. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

77. The four Indian kings.

78. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

79. Posthumous memoirs of his own time / by Sir N.W. Wraxall.

81. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, counsellor of state to His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, Knight, &c.

84. Map of lower Egypt / from various surveys communicated by Major Bryce and other officers ; drawn by A. Arrowsmith 1807 ; Jas. Palmer sculp.

86. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

87. Billesdon Coplow, hunt : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

88. A tale of two cities.

89. Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street, Worcester.

90. Twelve views of the Greenland and whale fishery [graphic].

91. Memoirs of Josias Rogers, esq. commander of His Majesty's ship Quebec. By the late William Gilpin ... Published by his trustees, for the benefit of his school, at Boldre.

92. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.