Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29
1773 January 29
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse
[1753]
3
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]
4
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
The anatomy of the horse
1853
5
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
The anatomy of the horse
1766
6
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Hogarth moralized
1831
7
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Views in Rome and its environs
1841
8
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Alphabet
1857
9
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Picturesque views in England and Wales
MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
10
London & Sunderland royal mail coach
[ca. 1800]
11
Dreyfus, John
Type specimen facsimiles;
1963
12
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
13
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Panorama, Leicester Square
1805
14
The Chinese sensitive leaf
[approximately 1820?]
15
Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
Principles of beauty, relative to the human head
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
16
[The Souvenir Rose]
[approximately 1865?]
17
Tegetmeier, W. B. (William Bernhard), 1816–1912
The poultry book
1867
18
Kruyff, Cornelis de, 1771–1854
Vues choisies d'Amsterdam et ses environs
[1825?]
19
Freeling, Arthur
Lacey's railway companion and Liverpool and Manchester guide
[1832]
20
Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
London labour and the London poor
1851[-1861]
21
T. C. L. (London, England)
Catalogue of up to date suites & chairs in Chippendale, Sheraton, Queen Anne, Jacobean, Hepplewhite, & Louis Styles
[1890?]
22
Decalcomania sample book
circa 1870
23
[One cut-paper work]
[approximately 1880]
24
The forty thieves
[between 1837-1840]
25
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads
1679
26
Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849
Six months' residence and travels in Mexico
1824
27
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Flora of the British Isles
circa 1790-1810?
28
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]
29
In affectionate remembrance of Moses
1875
30
Home, Robert, 1752–1834
Select views in Mysore,
1794
31
Celebrated horses of America
1881-1882
32
Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733
Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde
1723
33
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]
34
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?]
35
The royal and entertaining Game of the goose
[between 1761 and 1794]
36
The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways
1848
37
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant
MDCCLVIII [1758]
38
Payne, John, 1710–1771
Twelve designs of country-houses
1757
39
Rickman, Thomas, 1776–1841
An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the conquest to the reformation
[1817]
40
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
[Atlas of the counties of England and Wales]
[1590?]
41
Medhurst, Walter Henry, 1796–1857
China : its state and prospects
1838
42
To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity
[1773]
43
Moore, Joseph
Rangoon views and combined operations in the Birnam Empire
1825-1826
44
Rodler, Hieronymus
Perspectiua
1546
45
Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple
1788
46
Walker, John, 1786–1873
This newly constructed and extended map of India
1841
47
Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694
A genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain, &C
1683
48
Paine, James, 1717?-1789
Plans, elevations, and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses,
1783
49
Morris, William, 1834–1896
News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest
[1892]
50
Abbott, George, 1803–1838
Views of the forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire
[1827]
51
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
The works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896]
52
Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820–1877
Views of the Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham
1854
53
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire
MDCCXCVI [1796]
54
Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern
MDCLXIV [1664]
55
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
For life or death
[1880]
56
Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823–1875
Masterpieces of industrial art & sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862
1863
57
Ackermann's drawing book for 1824
1824
58
Perkins, John (Gardener)
Floral designs for the table
1877
59
[Birthday card with floral illustration]
[approximately 1874]
60
Cox, David, 1783–1859
The young artist's companion, or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments
1825
61
Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Picturesque views on the River Wye
1797
62
Taunt, Henry
A new map of the river Thames from Oxford to London
[1873]
63
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Key to the picture of the fancy going to a fight at Moulsey-Hurst
1819
64
Tregear's Black jokes
1834
65
Driver & Shaw
Catalogue of improved superfine colours, and drawing materials
1824
66
Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890
The seaweed collector
[1872]
67
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1855
1855
68
Blanchet, Etienne
Blanchet, artistes capillaires
not before 1866?
69
St. John Ambulance Association
Triangular bandage, printed with illustrations of bandage use
approximately 1920
70
The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park
[1851]
71
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Miseries of human life
[1808]
72
Panorama, Leicester-Square
[1793]
73
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
London and Westminster improved
MDCCLXVU [1766]
74
Burnes, James, 1801–1862
Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus
1839
75
Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Editio Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldie[n]sis grammatices magistri et protouatis Anglie i[n] florentissima Oxoniensi academia laureati
Anno d[omi]ni. MCCCCCxxi [1521]
76
Edwards, James, 1756–1816
A companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex
1801
77
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
[Bookmark from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents]
[approximately 1970?]
78
Dillon, Frank, 1823–1909
Sketches in the island of Madeira
1850
79
Gibson, Joseph (Merchant)
Billhead recording purchases for repairs to a trunk and items of clothing purchased by John Hancock in 1820, from Joseph Gibson, Portsmouth
1820
80
Wet drug jar
between 1700 and 1725
81
Austin & Seeley
Collection of ornaments at Austin & Seeley's artificial stone works ..
1841
82
The noble game of the elephant and castle,
1822
83
L'orient, or, The Indian travellers : a geographical and historical game
[1846]
84
Pidcock's Royal Menagerie (London, England)
Pidcock's Royal Menagerie farthing token
[approximately 1800]
85
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1799–1872
Contrasts
1832
86
Rocque, John, -1762
Plan of the house, gardens, park & hermitage of Their Majesties at Richmond
1734
87
Witton, Philip Henry
Views of the ruins of the principal houses destroyed during the riots at Birmingham =
1791 [i.e. 1792]
88
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Lessons on trees
[1855]
89
Gascoigne, George, -1577
The noble arte of venerie or hunting
[1575]
90
Scott, Allan N. (Allan Newton), 1824–1870
Sketches in India
1862
91
Boulton, George
The route of the mail & post coaches, George Boulton & Co. proprietors
[between 1796 and 1809]
92
[Teleorama]
[approximately 1825?]
93
Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa
MDCXXXII [1632]
94
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760–1824
The costume of Hindostan
1807
95
Zeno, Niccolò, 1515–1565
De i commentarii del viaggio in Persia di m. Caterino Zeno il K. & delle guerre fatte nell' imperio persiano, dal tempo di Vssuncassano in quà libri due
MDLVIII [1558]
96
St. John Ambulance Association
The triangular bandage
[circa 1915?]
97
Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
The house that Paxton built
1851
98
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy
1786
99
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
An aeronautical view of London
1831
100
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
London before the fire in 1666 = Plan de Londres tel quil etoi avant l'incendie de 1666