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

Cut-paper featherwork illustrations of birds

1830s?

The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter

[1800?]

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

Le Mexique en 1823,

1824

Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900

Wild flowers worth notice

1861

Album of pressed wild flowers

1882-1899

Blunt, John, surgeon

Practical farriery, or, The complete directory

MDCCLXXIII [1773]

Wyon, Edward William, 1811?-1885

Tazza, with representation of Heracles and the Garden of the Hesperides

1851

Harrow School

1931

Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895

The great glass house opend;

1851

Rocque, John, -1762

A plan of Rome

1750

Anniversary dinner of the St. Nicholas Society, at the St. Nicholas Hotel, December 6th, 1853

1853

John V. Harrison & Co.

[approximately 1840?]

Nightingall, Miles

A catalogue of the genuine collection of pictures, of Mrs. Gamberini, widow of the late Charles Gamberini Esq., deceased, by whom these pictures were collected, at a great expence out of the principal cabinets abroad : consisting of the most eminent and approved masters of the Italian and other schools, amongst which are the undoubted works of Titian, Corregio, Raphael, Rembrant, Rubens, Vandyke, Poussin, Albert Durer, Carracci, Guercino, Guido, Zucharelli, Demenichino, Gio. Dom. Porta, Michael Angelo and other scarce performances, some remarkably curious : also her houshold furniture, an exceeding fine ton'd double key'd harpsichord, by Hawes of Hamburgh : a ditto single key'd harpsichord, with two unison, by Jos. Shudi, in a neat mahogany case : a neat brass measuring wheel, by Adams, on a new construction; and a great variety of other valuable effects : which by order of the executrix will be sold at publick auction by Miles Nightingall, on Wednesday the 10th May, 1775, and two following days, at his great room, the end of Saville Row, next Conduit-Street : beginning each day punctually at 12 o'clock : catalogues may be had as above, the Rainbow Coffee-House Cornhill, and at the auctioneer's in Golden Square

[1775]

Coalbrookdale Company

[Catalogue of specimens of iron and brass castings

[185-?]

Line of march of a Bengal regiment of infantry

[1845?]

Milton, Thomas, 1743?-1827

A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland

[1783-1793]

Waddington, George, 1793–1869

Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia

1822

Carrick, Robert, active 1853–1895

The blue lights

[1853?]

Cooper, Thomas Sidney, 1803–1902

Thomas Sydney Cooper's cattle subjects

[Published by E. Gambart & Co.],

W. Alexander & Son

W. Alexander & Son, printers, booksellers, stationers, and book-binders

[approximately 1830?]

Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854

Topographical sketches of Brighthelmston and its neighbourhood

[1824]

Views of Blaise Hamlet, Henbury Church, etc

[1840?]

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Collection of drawings depicting specimens from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 184-?]

Harlequin & little Tom Tucker

[between 1835-1837]

A correct plan and elevation of the famous French raft

Feby. 1st 1798

To be seen alive!

[1824?]

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

The meet

[1880]

Bodington, John, -1727

Reward notice for recovery of a silver quart tankard

1727

Game of the star-spangled banner,

[between 1842 and 1845]

Hofland, T. C. (Thomas Christopher), 1777–1843

Fourteen views of the mansion and garden seats of White-Knights,

[1819?]

White, John, active 1757–1759

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales

MDCCXC [1790]

Cope, Charles West, 1811–1890

Views of Bolton Abbey and its environs

1822

Boazio, Baptista

The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes

[1589?]

Happy families

[186-?]

Hume, David, 1711–1776

The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688

1806

Sullivan, Dennis

A picturesque tour through Ireland

1824

London manners and dandy fashions

[approximately 1825?]

Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863

Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond

[1824]

Sayers, Henry, 1819 or 1820–1891

Toy soldier paper dolls

ca. 1830

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800–1877

The pencil of nature

1844 [i.e. 1844-1846]

Anti-Corn Law League

[Campaign card advertising the free trade movement, and the Free Trade Star]

[approximately 1844]

Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879

The origin and progress of the art of writing

MDCCCLIII [1853]

Scott, Walter, 1771–1832

The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland

1826

The language of flowers

[approximately 1860]

Sturmy, Samuel, 1633–1669

The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts

1669

Hunsley, William

Costumes of the Madras Army

1841

James, H. G. (Henry Gould), -1842

This work, comprising a series of the most interesting views of old halls, buildings &c. in Manchester and the neighbourhood

[1821]

Affidavit certifying the burial in wool of Mary Harvey of Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire

1680 April 1

J. Beagles & Co. Ltd.

Queen Victoria Memorial

1911

Sansom, Francis, active 1784–1799

Pigmy revels, or, All alive at Lilliput

1800-1801

Sinclair, George, 1786–1834

Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey

MDCCCXXV [1825]

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637

How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses

1599

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), male, with Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) and Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa), both open and closed, and Pupa (Lepidoptera Pieridae), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

Mazeppa

[between 1837-1840]

Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840

[Views in Calcutta]

1786-1788

Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877

Fantascope

1833

Pine, John, 1690–1756

The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords

[1739]

Aglio, Agostino, 1777–1857

A series of panoramic views of Sant Jago, the capital of Chili

1823

Panorama of the city of Dacca

[ca. 1850]

Soffe's panoramic representation of the grand procession on the day of the Queen's coronation

[1838]

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Caesalpinoid legume, possibly a species of Caesalpinia L.; Blackburn's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes blackburnii), Seven-Spotted Ladybird Beetle (Coccinella septumpunctata), Purple Emperor (Apatura iris), (Lepidoptera Hesperiidae) and (Nymphalidae cf. Haematera); shells, from left: (Cypraea ocellata L. 1758), (Conus marmoreus L. 1758), and (Semicassis granulate Born, 1778), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791

A treatise on ancient armour and weapons,

A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints,

1647

Angus, William, 1752–1821

The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales

Feby. 1, 1787 [i.e. 1787-1815]

Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643

The art of dravving vvith the pen,

1607

Lucas, Fielding, Jr., 1781–1854

Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts

1827

Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841

Sketches in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt

1843

Der freischutz

[between 1840-1850]

Constant as the sun in heaven above, this heart that thou has won will be to see in love

mid-19th century

Coles, Frederick Rhenius, 1853 or 1854–

This book contains drawings of marine shells (from Forbes & Hanley) generally considered as specially British

1884

Crane, Walter, 1845–1915

The Graphic

[1876?]

Dry drug jar

circa 1750

The Woodman's hut

[between 1837-1840]1

Middleton, John Izard, 1785–1849

Grecian remains in Italy

1812 [i.e. not before 1819]

Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887

London labour and the London poor

1861-1862

Temple, R. (Richard), active 1809–1811

Sixteen views of places in the Persian Gulph taken in the years 1809-10

1813

Miller, Thomas, 1799 or 1800–1854

Thomas Miller, manufacturer of the most improved water and oil colours

[approximately 1840]

Taylor Institution. Library

The Taylor Building and the University Galleries

June 19th, 1841

Ireland, Samuel, -1800

Original watercolors for A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France,

1789

C. Goodall & Son

Goodall's Royal Bezique register

[approximately 1900]

Schöner, Johann, 1477–1547

[Celestial globe]

[ca. 1522]

Photogram of ferns

1860s?

Irby family commonplace book

1823-1852

Please to imagine lady fair, If you my passion truly share, that in these gloves our hands combine, Mine in yours, love, and yours in mind

[approximately 1860]

Wood, Hugh

Views in France, Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Italy

[1840?]

Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684–1756

Album of Rococo ornamental designs of gardens, flora and fauna, games and pastimes, costume, chinoiserie, hermits and grottoes, occupations, cities and villages, saints and martyrs, and biblical scenes

circa 1735-1750