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201. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

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Creator:
Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

202. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

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Creator:
Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770
Date:
MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:
[8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

203. Suggestions for the architectural improvement of the western part of London / by Sydney Smirke, F.S.A., F.G.A.

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Creator:
Smirke, Sydney, 1798–1877
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
[4], 117 p., [3] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plan ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

204. An historical account of Corsham House, in Wiltshire, the seat of Paul Cobb Methuen, Esq. : with a catalogue of his celebrated collection of pictures dedicated to the patrons of the British Institution, and embracing a concise historical essay on the fine arts : with a brief account of the different schools, and a review of the progressive state of the arts in England : also biographical sketches of the artists, whose works constitute this collection / by John Britton ; embellished with a view and plan of the house.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
[4], 108 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

205. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

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Creator:
Vitruvius Pollio
Date:
1486 or 7]
Physical Description:
[196] p. : ill. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

206. Supplementum chronicharum.

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Creator:
Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
Date:
anno a natiuitate D[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij [1493]
Physical Description:
[2], 256, [12] leaves : illustrations; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

207. The dance of life : a poem / by the author of "Doctor Syntax" ; illustrated with coloured engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, ii, ii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

208. A memoir, explanatory of the chart and survey of the county of London-Derry, Ireland / by the Rev. George Vaughan Sampson.

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Creator:
Sampson, George Vaughan
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 359 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

209. Burke's descriptive guide, or, The visitors' companion to Niagara Falls : its strange and wonderful localities / by an old resident.

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Creator:
Burke, Andrew, active 19th century
Date:
[1850]
Physical Description:
[4], 106 pages, [5] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

210. Hans of Iceland.

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Creator:
Hugo, Victor, 1802–1885
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[6], 225 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

211. Yorkshire scenery, or, Excursions in Yorkshire : with delineations of some of the most interesting objects / engraved by G. Cooke, Esq. and other eminent artists, from drawings made for the purpose, by T.C. Hofland, Esq., W. Cowen, R. Thompson, &c., &c. ; by E. Rhodes, author of "Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire.".

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Creator:
Rhodes, Ebenezer, 1762–1839
Date:
MDCCCXXVI [1826]
Physical Description:
viii, 167 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

212. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times : collected from the best authorities, both printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary ...

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Date:
1747-1766
Physical Description:
6 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

213. The works of Edmund Waller, esqr., in verse and prose : published by Mr. Fenton.

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Creator:
Waller, Edmund, 1606–1687
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
9 p.l., 450, xci, [1] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

214. Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.

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Creator:
Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708–1742
Date:
MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:
16 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

215. The adventures of a post captain / by a naval officer ; with characteristic engravings by Mr. Williams.

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Creator:
Thornton, Alfred, active 1820
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
[4], 282, [2] p., [1], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

216. Picturesque views on the upper, or Warwickshire Avon : from its sources at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

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Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
xviii, 284, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

217. A critical inquiry into antient armour : as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain from the Norman conquest to the reign of King Charles II ... / by Samuel Rush Meyrick.

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Creator:
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

218. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

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Creator:
Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

219. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le Ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

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Date:
[172-?]
Physical Description:
[74] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

220. Windsor, with its surrounding scenery, the parks, the Thames, Eton college &c. / by J.B. Pyne.

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Creator:
Pyne, J. B. (James Baker), 1800–1870
Date:
[1839]
Physical Description:
[14] leaves : illustrations ; 47-56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

221. The field book, or, Sports and pastimes of the United Kingdom : compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern / by the author of "Wild sports of the West."

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Creator:
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
viii, 616 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

222. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

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Creator:
Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

223. Monastic remains of the religious houses at Witham, Bruton, & Stavordale, com. Somerset / collected by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., anno 1824.

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Creator:
Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir, 1758–1838
Date:
[1824]
Physical Description:
[2],151, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

224. The Donnington run.

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Date:
[between 1821 and 1824]
Physical Description:
8 pages : 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

225. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:
3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

226. Selections of the ancient costume of Great Britain & Ireland : from the seventh to the sixteenth century, out of the collection in the possession of the author / by Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.

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Creator:
Smith, Charles Hamilton
Date:
1814 [i.e. 1815?]
Physical Description:
[6], viii, [iv], [120] p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38-46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

227. The history and antiquities of the Tower of London : with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished persons, deduced from records, state papers, and manuscripts, and from other original and authentic sources / by John Bayley, Esq., F.S.A. of the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, and one of His Majesty's Sub-Commissioners on the Public Records ; in two parts ; Part I[-II].

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Creator:
Bayley, John, -1869
Date:
1821-1825
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

228. An account of the grand musical festival, held in September, 1823, in the cathedral church of York : for the benefit of the York County Hospital, and the general infirmaries at Leeds, Hull, and Sheffield : to which is prefixed, a sketch of the rise and progress of musical festivals in Great Britain : with biographical and historical notes / by John Crosse, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., M.G.S. ...

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Creator:
Crosse, John, 1786–1833
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 436, xxvi, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

229. Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan : with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company : as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah : and a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell, esq.

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Creator:
Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711–1798
Date:
1766-1771
Physical Description:
3 pt. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

230. Biographical anecdotes of William Hogarth; and a catalogue of his works chronologically arranged; with occasional remarks.

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Creator:
Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
157 [i.e. 159] p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

231. Terzo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio nel quale si contengono le nauigationi al Mondo Nuouo, à gli antichi incognito, fatte da don Christoforo Colombo Genouese, che fu il primo à scoprirlo à i Re Catholici, detto hora l'Indie occidentali, con gl' acquisti fatti da lui, & accresciuti poi da Fernando Cortese, da Francesco Pizzarro, & altri valorosi capitani, in diuerse parti delle dette Indie, in nome di Carlo V Imp. ; con lo scoprire la gran città di Temistitan nel Mexico, doue hora è detto la Nuova Spagna, & la gran prouincia del Perù, il grandissimo fiume Maragnon, et altre città, regni & prouincie ; la nauigationi fatte dipoi alle dette Indie, poste nella parte verso Maestro Tramontana, dette hora la Nuoua Francia, scoperta al Re Christianiss, la prima volta da Bertoni & Normandi, et dipoi da Giouanni da Verrazzano Fiorentino, & dal Capitano Iacques Carthier ; si come si legge nelle diuerse relationi, tradotte dal Ramusio di lingua spagnuola & francese nella nostra, & raccolte in questo volume, con tauole di geographia, che dimostrano il sito di diuerse isole, città, & paesi, et figure diuerse di piante, & altre cose à noi incognite, et con l'indice copiosissimo di tutte le cose piu notabili in esso contenute.

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Creator:
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:
l'anno MDLXV [1565]
Physical Description:
[6], 34, 453, 455-456 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

232. An historical and topographical account of the town of Woburn, its abbey, and vicinity : containing also a concise genealogy of the house of Russell, and memoirs of the late Francis Duke of Bedford.

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Creator:
Dodd, Stephen, active 1818
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
140 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

233. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England / with explanatory observations on armorial ensigns, by James Dallaway, A.M. of Trinity College Oxford, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

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Creator:
Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:
[4], xiii, [1], 424, [4], cxii pages, [28] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

234. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti perugini / scritta, e dedicate alla maesta di Carlo Emanuel re di Sardegna da Lione Pascoli.

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Creator:
Pascoli, Lione, 1674–1744
Date:
MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:
[12], 259, [9] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

235. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

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Date:
[1739-1753]
Physical Description:
[104] prints : engravings ; 24 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

236. The elements of heraldry ... : To which is annexed, A dictionary of the technical terms made use of in heraldry. By M. A. Porny ...

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Creator:
Porny, Mr
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
2 p. ., [vii]-xxiv, 278, [81] p. : ill., coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

237. Architecture of the middle ages / drawn from nature and on stone by Joseph Nash.

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Creator:
Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878
Date:
May, 1838
Physical Description:
[28] leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

238. The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore / by W.H. Pyne ; illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists.

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Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
MDCCCXIX [1819]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

239. A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland ; to which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

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Creator:
Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Date:
1698
Physical Description:
[22], 243, [1], [32], 228 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

240. Solenne processione vaticana del Corpus Domini : diretta da uno de' cerimonieri di Sua Santità Gregorio XVI ...

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Creator:
Busuttil, Salvatore
Date:
[1839?]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [1], 33 leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 x 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

241. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

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Date:
[1519?]
Physical Description:
[72] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

242. Romola / by George Eliot ; with illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Eliot, George, 1819–1880
Date:
1880
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

243. An essay upon prints : containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters : illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces : to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 4, [2], 249, [13] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

244. Oxonia antiqua restaurata : containing upwards of one hundred and seventy engravings, amongst which are numerous representations of buildings in Oxford, now either altered or demolished, and which have never been before engraved : the whole forming an illustration of the colleges, halls, and public buildings in this university / by Joseph Skelton.

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Creator:
Skelton, Joseph, 1783–1871
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

245. The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin / arranged by Thomas Sheridan, A.M., with notes, historical and critical.

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Creator:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
19 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

246. The history and doctrine of Budhism : popularly illustrated : with notices of the Kappooism, or demon worship, and of the Bali, or planetary incantations, of Ceylon / by Edward Upham, M.R.A.S. ; with forty-three lithographic prints from original Singalese designs.

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Creator:
Upham, Edward, 1776–1834
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
[4], vii, [1], 136 p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

247. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

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Creator:
Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
viii, [1], 4-194 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. (4vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy H. Bartels

248. Bucaniers of America, or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies, by the bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French : wherein are contained more especially, the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama &c. / written originally in Dutch, by John Esquemeling, one of the Bucaniers, who was present at those tragedies ; and then translated into Spanish by Alonso de Bonne-maison, Doctor of Physick and practitioner at Amsterdam ; now faithfully rendered into English.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1684-1685
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illlustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

249. A bibliographical antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany / by the Rev. Tho. Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S. S.A.

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Creator:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

250. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

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Creator:
Saviolo, Vincentio
Date:
1595
Physical Description:
[6], 17 [i.e. 21] leaves, [250] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

251. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

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Creator:
Darly, Matthias
Date:
[1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:
102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

252. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / illustrated with copper plates in aqua tinta from drawings on the spot, by Samuel Ireland ...

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Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

253. Cruise of the "Doris" 1882.

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Creator:
Stewart, Alexander Blair, 1849–1936
Date:
1882
Physical Description:
1 album (71 photographs) ; 27 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

254. A history of Lichfield Cathedral : from its foundation to the present time : with a description of its architecture and monuments : with photographic illustrations / by J.B. Stone, F.G.S., member of the Society of Arts, etc.

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Creator:
Stone, John Benjamin, Sir, 1838–1914
Date:
MDCCCLXX [1870]
Physical Description:
[10], 120 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

255. The art of tying the cravat : demonstrated in sixteen lessons, including thirty-two different styles, forming a pocket manual, and exemplifying the advantages arising from an elegant arrangement of this important part of the costume : preceded by a history of the cravat, from its origin to the present time, and remarks on its influence on society in general / by H. Le Blanc, Esq. ; with explanatory plates, and a portait of the author.

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Creator:
Le Blanc, H., -1887
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
vii, [2], 72 pages, [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

256. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta : quibus Romanorum veterum ritus varii tam sacri quam profani, tum Graecorum atque Aegyptiorum nonnulli illustrantur / Romæ olim maxima ex parte collecta ; ac dissertationibus jam singulis instructa, a Conyers Middleton, S.T.P. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Protobibliothecario ; his appendicis item loco adjuncta est mumiae Cantabrigiensis descriptio.

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Creator:
Middleton, Conyers, 1683–1750
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
xii, 266, [8] p., 23 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

257. An historical survey of the ecclesiastical antiquities of France : with a view to illustrate the rise and progress of Gothic architecture in Europe / by the late Rev. G.D. Whittington, of St. John's College, Cambridge.

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Creator:
Whittington, G. D. (George Downing)
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
[2], xv, [3], 188 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

258. Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808 / by Robert Ker Porter ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777–1842
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

259. Records of the Fife Fox-hounds / compiled by Lieut.-Col. Babington, late 7th Hussars ; with portraits.

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Creator:
Babington, John, 1826–
Date:
MDCCCLXXXIII [1883]
Physical Description:
ix, [3], 260, [3] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

260. Bibliographie instructive: ou, Traite de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers ... Par Guillaume-François De Bure, le jeune ...

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Creator:
Bure, Guillaume-François de, 1731–1782
Date:
1763-1768
Physical Description:
7 v. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

261. Catalogue of the works of art in the possession of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, at the time of his decease : together with two letters from Sir Balthazar Gerbier, and a facsimile of an original unpublished letter from himself.

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Creator:
Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir, 1577–1640
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 22 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : facsim. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

262. Views of Oxford / by T. Malton.

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Creator:
Malton, Thomas, 1748–1804
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
1 leaf, [44] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

263. Leonora / translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq ; with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc.

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Creator:
Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747–1794
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[8], 35, [1] p. [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

264. A history of the University of Oxford : its colleges, halls, public buildings : in two volumes.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1814 [i.e. 1813-1815]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

265. The lives of the most eminent modern painters, who have lived since, or were omitted by Mons. De Piles / by J.B.

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Creator:
Burgess, James, 18th cent
Date:
1754
Physical Description:
[24], 140, [4] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

266. Italian school of design : a series of select studies, engraved by F. Bartolozzi, and others : from the original pictures and drawings of Guercino, Michael Angelo, Domenichino, Annibale, Ludovico, and Agostino Carracci, P. Da Cortona, Carlo Maratti, Elisabetta Sirani, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Francheshino, &c. &c. : now preserved in the collection of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.

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Creator:
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
4 p., [91] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

267. The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school.

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Creator:
Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:
[1754?]
Physical Description:
8 p.l., 439 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

268. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

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Creator:
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCI [1789-1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

269. Travels through the Maritime Alps, from Italy to Lyons, across the Col de Tende, by the way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, &c. : with topographical and historical descriptions : to which are added, some philosophical observations on the various appearances in mineralogy, &c. found in those countries / by Albanis Beaumont ; author of the Rhaetian Alps, &c. &c. &c.

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Creator:
Beaumont, Albanis, 1755–1812
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
[6], 127 pages, [3] pages, [24] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

270. The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

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Date:
1832-1845
Physical Description:
v. : ill. ; 20-29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

271. A nevv book of architecture : wherein is represented fourty figures of gates and arches triumphant, composed of different inventions according to the five orders of columnes, viz. the Tuscane, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite / by Alexander Francine ... ; with a description of each figure ; set forth by Robert Pricke, for the use and benefit of all ingenious workmen that are concerned in eminent building.

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Creator:
Francine, Alexandre, -1648
Date:
1669
Physical Description:
[4] pages, XXXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

272. Panorama du Mont Righi [graphic] / gravé par H. Siegfried.

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Creator:
Siegfried, Heinrich, 1814–1889
Date:
[ca. 1830]
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; 16 x 71 cm, accordion folded to 16 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

273. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

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Creator:
Lacombe de Prézel, Honoré, 1725–
Date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:
xxiv, 307, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

274. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

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Creator:
Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

275. A catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes) : illustrated in many instances, with two and three sets of proof and other plates : generally of the most choice editions : selected with great care, and the utmost liberality, during the last forty years : also, of the books of prints, galleries of art, curious missals and manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese drawings, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the Abbey, on Tuesday, the 9th of September, 1823, and nine following days : on Friday, the 3d of October, & four following days : and on Thursday, 23d October, 1823, & four following days, (Sundays and Mondays excepted) : at half-past twelve each day precisely.

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Creator:
Phillips, H., -1840
Date:
[1823]
Physical Description:
[12],113, [4], [121]-175, [3], 291-342, [6], 231-278, [1], 176-222, [2], 343-391, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

276. The Spectator, with illustrative notes : to which are prefixed the lives of the authors : comprehending Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Thomas Parnell, John Hughes, Eustace Budgel, Lawrence Eusden, Thomas Tickell, Alexander Pope : with critical remarks on their respective writings ... / by Robert Bisset, L.L.D. author of the Life of Burke, &c. &c.

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
8 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

277. The old English 'squire : "a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free" : a poem in ten cantos / by John Careless, Esq. ; illustrated with plates by one of the family.

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Creator:
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
viii, 136 pages, [24] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

278. Catalogue raisonné d'une collection generale de pierres gravées antiques et modernes, tant en creux que camées, tirées des cabinets les plus celébres de l'Europe : moulées en pâtes de couleurs a l'imitation des pierres, emaux blancs, et soufres, par Jacques Tassie, sculpteur / mis en ordre et le texte rédigé par R.E. Raspe ; orné de planches gravées ; au quel on a ajouté un discours preliminaire sur les differents usages de cette collection, sur l'origine de l'art de graver les pierres dures, et le progrès de l'invention des pâtes.

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Creator:
Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737–1794
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

279. Portraits of the game and wild animals of Southern Africa : delineated from life in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, with sketches of the field sports / by Captain W. Cornwallis Harris ... ; drawn on stone by Frank Howard.

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Creator:
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
Date:
1840 [i.e. 1840-1842]
Physical Description:
vi, [6], 175, [1] pages, [31] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 61 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

280. Regal heraldry : the armorial insignia of the kings and queens of England, from coeval authorities / by Thomas Willement, heraldic artist to His Majesty King George the Fourth.

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Creator:
Willement, Thomas, 1786–1871
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[5], viii-x, [2], 116 pages, XXXVI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

281. Indication of memorials, monuments, paintings, and engravings of persons of the Howard family : and of their wives and children, and of those who have married ladies of the name, and of the representatives of some of its branches now extinct, as far as they have been ascertained by Henry Howard.

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Creator:
Howard, Henry, 1757–1842
Date:
[1834-1841]
Physical Description:
97, [98] pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, coats of arms, genealogical tables ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brooke Allen and Peter Aaron

282. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.

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Creator:
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671–1713
Date:
1732
Physical Description:
3 v. front. (port.) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

283. Travels through the Canadas, containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes : with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners and customs of several of the Indian nations of North and South America / by George Heriot, Esq., Deputy Post Master general of British North American ; illustrated with a map and numerous engravings, from drawings made at the several places by the author.

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Creator:
Heriot, George, 1759–1839
Date:
[1807]
Physical Description:
xii, 602 pages, [28] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

284. An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people. With the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties. Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.

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Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:
MDCXCIX [1699]
Physical Description:
[8], 248, 40 p., [2] double plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

285. A comparative view of the form and character of the English racer and saddle-horse during the last and present centuries : illustrated by eighteen plates of horses.

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Date:
. Hookham,
Physical Description:
v, [1],155, [1] pages, 18 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

286. The fables of John Dryden : ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc.

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Creator:
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[4], xviii, 241, [1] p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

287. Voyage to Locuta : a fragment : with etchings, and notes of illustration ; dedicated to Theresa Tidy, author of the "Eighteen Maxims of Neatness and Order." / by Lemuel Gulliver, Jun.

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Creator:
Graham, Elizabeth Susanna Davenport, 1762 or 1763–1844
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
47, [5] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

288. Travels in Europe and Africa / by Colonel Keatinge ; author of, A history of the conquest of Mexico, from the Spanish, Eidometria, or Optic Mensuration, etc. Comprising a journey through France, Spain, and Portugal , to Morocco : with a particular account of that empire : also a second tour through France in 1814, in which a comparison is drawn between the present and former state of that country and its inhabitants : illustrated by numerous plates of scenery, antiquities, and costume, from drawings made by the author.

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Creator:
Keatinge, Maurice, -1835
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

289. Plans, and views in perspective, with descriptions, of buildings erected in England and Scotland : and also an essay, to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic architecture, accompanied with designs / by Robert Mitchell, architect = Plans, descriptions, et vues en perspective, des édifices érigés en Angleterre et en Écosse: suivis d'un essai sur l'architecture greque, romaine et gothique, avec des desseins illustratifs / par Robert Mitchell, architecte.

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Creator:
Mitchell, Robert, active 1800
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
[4], 32 pages, 18 leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

290. Halinitro-pyrobolia. : Beschreibu[n]g einer newen Büchsen-Meisterey, nemlichen: gründlicher Bericht, wie der Salpeter, Schwefel, Kohlen, vnnd das Pulfer zu praepariren, zu probieren, auch langwirrig gut zu behalten: das Fewrwerck zur Kurtzweil vnd Ernst zu laboriren. Dann, wie der Pöler, das grobe Geschütz, vnd der Petardo zu gobernirn: ingleichem die Lunden bey Tag- vnd Nachtszeiten, sicherlich vnd ohne gesehen zu tragen, &c. Sampt einer kurtzen geometrishcen Einlaytung, die Weite vnd Höhe gar gering zu erfahren. Alles ausz eygener Experientza; neben etlichen newen, zuvor nicht gesehnen Inventionen, gantz fleissig und vertrewlich beshrieben; vber das, mit. 44. Kupfferstucken delinirt vnd für Augen gestellt / durch Josephum Furttenbach..

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Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:
Anno MDCXXVII [1627]
Physical Description:
[20], 107, [1] p., [1], 44 [i.e. 88] leaves of plates (44 folded) : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

291. Songs, naval and national, of the late Charles Dibdin : with a memoir and addenda / collected and arranged by Thomas Dibdin ... ; with characteristic sketches by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 336 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

292. The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster : with the Charter-House, the schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-school of Christ's Hospital.

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Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
MDCCCXVI [1816]
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 56, 72, 27, [1], 32, 34, 22, 40, 34, 43, [1] p., [48] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

293. A history of the University of Cambridge : its colleges, halls, and public buildings.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
2 v. : col. ill., port., plans ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

294. Journal of a voyage to Greenland, in the year 1821 : with graphic illustrations / by George William Manby, Esq.

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Creator:
Manby, George William, 1765–1854
Date:
MDCCCXXII [1822]
Physical Description:
viii, 143, [1] pages, [21] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, map ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

295. Inscriptionum antiquarum Græc. et Latin. liber. : Accedit, numismatum Ptolemæorum, imperatorum, Augustarum, et Cæsarum, in Ægypto cusorum, e scriniis Britannicis, catalogus. / A Richardo Pococke, LLD. Societatis Regalis, et antiquariorum, Londini, Socio.

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Date:
Anno MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:
[8], 127, [1] p. ; 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

296. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

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Creator:
Birch, William, 1760–1794?
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
[8] pages, x, [36] leaves, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

297. The history of the Charter-House : dedicated by permission to the Rev. W. Fisher, D.D. Master of the Charter-House, and prependary of Norwich.

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Date:
1816
Physical Description:
32 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

298. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

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Date:
[not before 1803]
Physical Description:
[182] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

299. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

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Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
1782-1783
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

300. The Epping hunt / by Thomas Hood, esq., author of "Whims and Oddities" ; illustrated with six engravings on wood, by Branston and Wright, Bonner, Slader, and T. Williams ; after the designs of George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Hood, Thomas, 1799–1845
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
29, [3] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer