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

Young's London Drapery House (Firm : Tynemouth and Whitley)

Advertisement for Young's London Drapery House

1886

Broughton, Thomas Duer, 1778–1835

Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809

1813

Capper, Benjamin Pitts

Cambridgeshire

[1808]

Rocque, John, -1762

A plan of the palace gardens and town of Kensington ... = Plan du palais jardins et bourg de Kensington

[1736?]

Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809

The virtuosi's museum

1778[-1781]

Aglio, Agostino, 1777–1857

[Six views of Hastings]

Novr. 1, 1823

C. W

Portraits of brood mares belonging to the Royal Stud at Hampton Court

1837

Yarmouth

[approximately 1880?]

The naval achievements of Great Britain, from the year 1793 to 1817

[1817]

J. R. Jaffray & Son (Firm : New York)

The prize embroidery from the World Fair, 1851 will be exhibited from 1st, February to 1st, May 1852 : Messrs. J. R. Jaffray & Sons, 73, Broadway, New York

1851

Uncle Tom's cabin

1852

What gives us comfort in this world of woe? ..

mid-19th century

Album of cartes-de-visite depicting royalty of Britain and Europe and other contemporary notables

1860-1862

In loving memory of George Bye

1895

Gascoigne, George, -1577

The noble arte of venerie or hunting

[1575]

Scott, Allan N. (Allan Newton), 1824–1870

Sketches in India

1862

Boulton, George

The route of the mail & post coaches, George Boulton & Co. proprietors

[between 1796 and 1809]

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

Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786

Principles of beauty, relative to the human head

MDCCLXXVIII [1778]

Cordiner, James

A description of Ceylon

1807

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]

The Chinese sensitive plant, or, The living leaf

[approximately 1850]

George Gordons Glasgow Ginghams original standard qualities

[approximately 1846?]

Fox, William, active 1851

A brief history of the Wesleyan missions on the western coast of Africa

1851

Archbald, the property of Mr. George Wilson, of Walkington, will serve mares this season, 1839, at one guinea and a-half each

[1839]

St. John Ambulance Association

The triangular bandage

[circa 1915?]

[Folded sheet of stationery with engraved satirical vignette at top]

Octr 11, [18]51

Browne, Frederick, (Wig maker)

Description of the various head dresses exhibited by Fredk. Brown, of 47, Fenchurch St. , in Section 18, no. 245, of the Exhibition Building, Hyde Park

1851

Laurie, Richard Holmes

A new drawing book

[1824]

Perspectivische Ansicht des Tunnels unter der Themse

ca. 1825]

Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615

De humana physiognomonia

1586

The fables of Aesop, and others

1818

Bickham, George, 1706?-1771

The beauties of Stow, or, A description of the pleasant seat, and noble gardens, of the right honourable Lord Viscount Cobham

1750

Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828

The dove and the bee

1818?

Agas, Ralph, 1545–1621

London and Westminster in the reign of Queen Elizabeth anno dom. 1563

October 30th, 1789

Phoenix (Restaurant : London, England)

The Phoenix soup & dining-rooms

[early 19th century]

Hakewill, James, 1778–1843

A picturesque tour of the island of Jamaica, from drawings made in the years 1820 and 1821

1825

[Trade card for The London Hotel]

1862

Belnos, S. C., Mrs.

Twenty four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European manners in Bengal

[1832]

[India Orientalis]

1597[-1628]

Barrow, John, Sir, 1764–1848

A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793

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

Catalogue of the exhibition, called Modern Mexico

1824

Greenwood, Jonathan

The sailing and fighting instructions, or, Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain

[1715?]

Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842

Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome,

1820

The microcosm of London

[1808-10]

Richter, Henry, 1772–1857

Illustrations of the works of Henry Richter. 1st ser. ..

1822

Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (1875 : Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Official catalogue

1875

Simons, Matthew, d. 1654

A direction for the English traviller

1643

Cowper, William, 1666–1709

Myotomia reformata

1724

Stevens, Francis, 1781–1823

Domestic architecture

[between 1844 and 1850]

Roberts

Spurgeon's

[approximately 1870]

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

The Canterbury tales

1483]

Lathbury, John

Incipit liber moraliu[m] su[per] trenis iheremie [pro]phete

[31 July 1482]

Rowe, George, 1796–1864

Forty-eight views of cottages and scenery at Sidmouth, Devon

[1826]

Tatham, Charles Heathcote, 1771–1842

Gallery at Brocklesby, in Lincolnshire

1811

Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798–1872

Recueil des scènes familières, et de société de Paris

1833

In loving memory of Frederick Charles

1911

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

Decalcomania sample book

circa 1870

Gwynn, John, 1713–1786

London and Westminster improved

MDCCLXVU [1766]

The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park

[1851]

Freeling, Arthur

Lacey's railway companion and Liverpool and Manchester guide

[1832]

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]

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827

Miseries of human life

[1808]

Panorama, Leicester-Square

[1793]

[One cut-paper work]

[approximately 1880]

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?]

The forty thieves

[between 1837-1840]

Moffat, James

Views in Calcutta

s.d.]

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), male, with Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

Parmenter, S., active 1821

An elegy

[1821?]

Angelo, Henry, 1780–1852

Angelo's infantry sword exercise

Octr. 1, 1816

Wet drug jar

circa 1660

The Napoleon Museum will be open at Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, for a short time only ..

[1843?]

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

Full cry

[1879]

Carrick, Robert, active 1853–1895

The blue lights

[1853?]

Luard, John, 1790–1875

Views in India, Saint Helena,

[1838]

Grüner, Ludwig, 1801–1882

Fresco decorations and stuccoes of churches and palaces in Italy

1854

John V. Harrison & Co.

[approximately 1840?]

Constable & Company (Firm : London, England)

Constable & Compy

[approximately 1850]

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]