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Views of the ruins of the principal houses destroyed during the riots at Birmingham = Vues des ruines des principaux batiments qui ont souffert dans les emeutes de Birmingham.
Creator:
Witton, Philip Henry
Date:
1791 [i.e. 1792]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency / by Captain Allan N. Scott, Madras Artillery ; edited by Charles Richard Weld, barrister-at-law.
Creator:
Scott, Allan N. (Allan Newton), 1824–1870
Date:
1862
Physical Description:
1 volume (various pagings) : 101 albumen prints ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Armer's, Flookborough.
Creator:
Armer's (Flookborough, England]
Date:
[early 19th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 21 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The route of the mail & post coaches, George Boulton & Co. proprietors : which set out from the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, London, through the counties of Essex, Cambridge, Suffolk & Norfolk / V. Woodthorpe sc. 27 Fetter Lane.
Creator:
Boulton, George
Date:
[between 1796 and 1809]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 26 x 20 cm, on sheet 38 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
?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.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Panorama, Leicester Square : now exhibiting, in the first circle, Paris : and in the second circle is exhibiting a painting of Edinburgh and the surrounding country ...
Creator:
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 27 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Register of criminal offenders in Nottingham, England : manuscript.
Date:
circa 1879-circa 1921
Physical Description:
83 leaves (with blanks after leaf 50) : photographs ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The seasons, by James Thomson. Illustrated with engravings by F. Bartolozzi, R.A. and P.W. Tomkins, historical engravers to Their Majesties; from original pictures painted for the work by W. Hamilton, R.A.
Creator:
Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
7 p.l., 244 p. col. front., col. ill., col. plates. 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A list of caricatures, suitable to the present times; just published by R. Ackermann ...
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
1814]
Physical Description:
broadside. 19 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A chapbook of English tat.
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
[2002]
Physical Description:
[32] pages : chiefly ilustrations ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
Advertisement for Young's London Drapery House.
Creator:
Young's London Drapery House (Firm : Tynemouth and Whitley)
Date:
1886
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Chinese sensitive plant, or, The living leaf : patronized by the Emperor of China, the principal court of Europe, the Royal Family, and nobility of Great Britain.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Harrow, Wateringbury.
Creator:
Whitbread and Company
Date:
[between 1949 and 1955]
Physical Description:
1 metal card : illustration ; 80 x 60 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
Date:
not before 1787
Physical Description:
1 fob seal : gilding over copper or copper alloy, cornelian-colored glass ; face 31 x 24 mm, depth 43 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bookmark from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents].
Creator:
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Date:
[approximately 1970?]
Physical Description:
1 bookmark ; 17 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wet drug jar.
Date:
between 1700 and 1725
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 18 cm high (including handle) x 15 cm in diameter (20 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
George Gordons Glasgow Ginghams original standard qualities : entirely new designs, most expensive colors : made only from the finest yarns.
Date:
[approximately 1846?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Love has triumphed.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 14 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways. A humourous game.
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 57 x 43 cm., fold. to 21 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
China : its state and prospects : with especial reference to the spread of the gospel : containing allusions to the antiquity, extent, population, civilization, literature, and religion of the Chinese / by W.H. Medhurst ... ; illustrated with engravings on wood by G. Baxter.
Creator:
Medhurst, Walter Henry, 1796–1857
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 592 p., [7] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.
Creator:
Payne, John, 1710–1771
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
16, [8] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the conquest to the reformation : preceded by a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders : with notices of nearly five hundred English buildings / by Thomas Rickman.
Creator:
Rickman, Thomas, 1776–1841
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
iv, 146 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The royal and entertaining Game of the goose.
Date:
[between 1761 and 1794]
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 49 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity : and are desirous of inspecting the striking parts of the creation : there is to be seen, at the [blank] the beautiful zebra, or wild ass ... : it was brought from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1762, by Sir Thomas Adams.
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph Reed, Yale BA 1954, and Kit Reed
Rangoon views and combined operations in the Birnam Empire.
Creator:
Moore, Joseph
Date:
1825-1826
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Prince Albert / engraved by Messrs. Dempsey & Carroll, for their publications.
Creator:
Dempsey & Carroll
Date:
between 1878 and 1900?
Physical Description:
1 print : steel engraving ; 14 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
[Fire insurance policy for Mr. Robert Gibbs, March 1, 1808, from British Fire Office]
Creator:
British Fire Office (London, England)
Date:
March 1st, 1808
Physical Description:
4 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mrs. Stewart's concert Hanover Square.
Date:
[1789]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching ; sheet 13 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The pocket book of sea creatures.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
[24] p. : chiefly ill. ; 52 x 98 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Yelloly family watercolor albums.
Creator:
Yelloly, Sophia Mary, 1811–1840
Date:
1827-1839
Physical Description:
3 volumes ; 18 x 25 cm, and smaller.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Potter, No. 22, Old Bond Street, late foreman to Mr. Breach, hatter to Their Majesties.
Creator:
Potter, John (Hatter)
Date:
[approximately 1816]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 50 x 82 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketchbook of figures, cattle, and views in Kolkata.
Creator:
Reid, Jane Caroline, 1797–1834
Date:
between 1821 and 1831
Physical Description:
1 volume (22 drawings) : graphite on wove paper ; 15 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple : Marquis of Buckingham, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham.
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
54, [2] pages, [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
In memory of Jacob Henry Tillett, would-be-M.P. for his native city : November, 17th, 1868 : July, 12th, 1870 : February, 4th, 1874 : March, 5th, 1875.
Date:
1892
Physical Description:
1 card : illustrations ; 110 x 80 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Blanchet, artistes capillaires : hair cutter.
Creator:
Blanchet, Etienne
Date:
not before 1866?
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Triangular bandage, printed with illustrations of bandage use.
Creator:
St. John Ambulance Association
Date:
approximately 1920
Physical Description:
1 printed bandage : linen ; 144 x 69 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of Whitehead Steam Navigation Company for Mr. L Whittle for goods that have been delivered.
Creator:
Whitehaven Steam Navigation Company
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 15 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Costumes of the Madras Army / drawn and colored by W. Hunsley.
Creator:
Hunsley, William
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
[40] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.
Creator:
Sinclair, George, 1786–1834
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 42 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lawrence & Co.'s cheap clothing establishment : 153, Caledonia Road (near the canal bridge).
Creator:
Lawrence & Co. (London, England)
Date:
[not before 1882]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Valentines card].
Date:
[approximately 1870]
Physical Description:
1 folded valentines card ; 100 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letter : London, England to J. W. Crosby, Shirley, 1928 April 13th.
Creator:
Pollard, G.
Date:
1928 April 13th
Physical Description:
1 item (1 page) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of F. Henderson, clothier & outfitter, recording purchases by Mr. G. Duncan, Imperial Hotel, 1888].
Creator:
Henderson, F. (Clothier)
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 18 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Queen Victoria Memorial : unveiled by H. M. George V, May 18th, 1911.
Creator:
J. Beagles & Co. Ltd.
Date:
1911
Physical Description:
1 postcard : b/w; 14 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Mazeppa

Mazeppa
Date:
[between 1837-1840]
Physical Description:
22 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick ...
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1797-1804
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crosse & Blackwell : purveyors by appointment to the Queen : Soho Square, London.
Creator:
Crosse & Blackwell
Date:
[1876?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustration ; 77 x 118 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Juliens' New progressive drawing book of the human figure / drawn from nature by Monsieur Julien ... ; lithographed by Thomas Fairland.
Creator:
Fairland, Thomas, 1804–1852
Date:
[18--]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Views in Calcutta]
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
1786-1788
Physical Description:
12 prints : etching ; images 40 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Treatise on the art of weaving, with a full description of the Jacquard machine / Bryan Rotherham.
Creator:
Rotherham, Bryan, 1876–
Date:
1897
Physical Description:
1 volume ([131] leaves) : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Celestial globe]
Creator:
Schöner, Johann, 1477–1547
Date:
[ca. 1522]
Physical Description:
1 globe : paint and gesso over hollow wood sphere, brass (stand) ; 368 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wedding portrait of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, December 20, 1947.
Date:
1947
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : b&w ; 11 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sarah Annette Jones photograph album.
Date:
1853-1855
Physical Description:
1 volume (78 photographs) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Woodman's hut : a drama, in three acts, written expressly for, and adapted only to Skelt's characters & scenes in the same.
Date:
[between 1837-1840]1
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus : eiusdem Norvicus.
Creator:
Neville, Alexander, 1544–1614
Date:
1575
Physical Description:
[16], 156, [12], 207, [13] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : geneal. tables, coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts : ... consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.
Creator:
Lucas, Fielding, Jr., 1781–1854
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 24 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Graphic : 190 Strand, London.
Creator:
Crane, Walter, 1845–1915
Date:
[1876?]
Physical Description:
1 print : chromoxylograph ; 14 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in three parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ...
Creator:
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [5]-446 p., [65] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland : with descriptive illustrations / by Walter Scott.
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
2 v. (lii, 208 p., [2] leaves, [52] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pigmy revels, or, All alive at Lilliput [graphic] / Woodward delin.
Creator:
Sansom, Francis, active 1784–1799
Date:
1800-1801
Physical Description:
8 prints : hand-colored etchings ; sheets 45 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of J.S. Moss & Son, draper and general outfitter, Manchester.
Creator:
J.S. Moss & Son (Firm : Manchester, England)
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 27 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The language of flowers.
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm, folded to 15 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
National Panorama, 21, York Street, Westminster : Battle of Tel el Kebir, by Oliver Pichat.
Creator:
National Panorama (London, England)
Date:
[1883?]
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 11 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
To be disposed of : for terms inquire within.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 card : color lithograph ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
Hyakunin isshu karuta.
Date:
late 18th century?
Physical Description:
200 playing cards
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Affidavit certifying the burial in wool of Mary Harvey of Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire.
Date:
1680 April 1
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) ; 31 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A tribute to beautiful love! : vous seulement! J'estime et en vérité J'aime.
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
1 card ; 19 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.
Creator:
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[42] pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, William B. Sarsfield (William Benjamin Sarsfield), 1781–1850
Date:
[1819-1820]
Physical Description:
3 parts (72 p., [9] leaves of plates) : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens.
Creator:
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Date:
1879-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 18 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Chocolate box by J.S. Fry & Sons, with photograph of Lily Elsie.
Creator:
J.S. Fry & Sons
Date:
ca. 1909
Physical Description:
1 chocolate box ; 27 x 20 x 4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sallis's comic play grammar.
Creator:
Sallis, William, 1782–1865
Date:
[ca. 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 card game (41 cards) : illustrations ; each card 9.8 x 7 cm, in box 10.5 x 7.3 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
De architectura libri dece traducti de latino in vulgare, affigurati: cōmentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti [da Cæsare Cæsariano] ...
Creator:
Vitruvius Pollio
Date:
1521]
Physical Description:
IIII numb. leaves, 4 leaves, CLXXXIII numb. leaves, 1 leaf. ill. 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
La Fontaine in the game of the goose.
Date:
[ca. 1810]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : ill. ; 37 x 43 cm. folded to 19 x 12 cm. + 1 booklet ([8] leaves ; 12 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for C. Lamb, to be paid to Edwin R. Dibben, Classical School, Mount Pleasant, Sleaford.
Creator:
Classical School (Mount Pleasant, Sleaford, England)
Date:
1880
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 24 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
W. Herring, dealer in all sorts of pheasants, fancy poultry, swans, water fowl, gold and silver fish, sporting and fancy dogs : menagerie, New Road, near Regents Park, London, late Brookes.
Creator:
Herring, William
Date:
approximately 1835
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 70 x 100 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Photographic postcard of a three-quarter length portrait of a young woman / Henderson & Co., Day & Electric Light Studios Rochdale.
Creator:
Henderson & Co., Day & Electric Light Studios Rochdale
Date:
[189-?]
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : b & w ; 14 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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.
Creator:
Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684–1756
Date:
circa 1735-1750
Physical Description:
1 volume (197 leaves) : hand-colored etchings ; 18 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To my daughter, may the morn of thy existence be unclouded, thy noontide of dazzling light : and thy eventide like the sun which only sets to rise again in renewed splendour.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[approximately 1870]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 17 x 5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Remember me : blest with thy love.
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Origin of the Union Jack of Great Britain.
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ; 9 x 22 cm, folded to 9 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Valentines card].
Date:
[approximately 1890?]
Physical Description:
1 valentines card : chromolithograph ; 12 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Clare Jameson
Portraits of Cape Town figures.
Date:
ca. 1828
Physical Description:
1 volume (26 drawings) : watercolor and pen and ink, on embossed cards, mounted ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts