Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Associated Places: Great Britain / Image Use: Free to Use

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse

[1753]

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]

Davis, Joseph, active 1818–1857

Medal commemorating the abolition of the apprenticeship system in the British West Indies

1838

White Hill Kiln (Luton, England)

Receipts by John Williams, of White Hill Kiln, for chimney tunnel tiles purchased by Breandveath, of Houghton, 1848

1848

Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617

The destruction of the Spanish Armada

1588

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

For life or death

[1880]

Clarke, J., active 1820

J. Clarke

[approximately 1820?]

Martyn, Thomas, fl. 1760–1816

The English entomologist

MDCCXCII [1792, i.e. 1793]

Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833

Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life

March 1st 1807

Gardiner, William, 1809?-1852

Twenty lessons on British mosses, or, First steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants

1846

In affectionate remembrance of Elizabeth Heap, of Bent Clough Farm, Colne

1914

Blanchet, Etienne

Blanchet, artistes capillaires

not before 1866?

St. John Ambulance Association

Triangular bandage, printed with illustrations of bandage use

approximately 1920

Tregear's Black jokes

1834

Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890

The seaweed collector

[1872]

Our Boys Clothing Company

"Our Boys" Clothing Company's universal progressive drawing book

[ca. 1885?]

The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich

[approximately 1825]

The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways

1848

To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity

[1773]

Payne, John, 1710–1771

Twelve designs of country-houses

1757

Rickman, Thomas, 1776–1841

An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the conquest to the reformation

[1817]

The royal and entertaining Game of the goose

[between 1761 and 1794]

Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694

A genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain, &C

1683

Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860

The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide

1827

Perkins, John (Gardener)

Floral designs for the table

1877

Decalcomania sample book

circa 1870

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?]

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827

Miseries of human life

[1808]

T. C. L. (London, England)

Catalogue of up to date suites & chairs in Chippendale, Sheraton, Queen Anne, Jacobean, Hepplewhite, & Louis Styles

[1890?]

Ogilby, John, 1600–1676

Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads

1679

Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798

The journey from Chester to London

MDCCLXXXII [1782]

A book of eighteen leaves

1757

Gascoigne, George, -1577

The noble arte of venerie or hunting

[1575]

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

[1839]

Stevens, Francis, 1781–1823

Domestic architecture

[between 1844 and 1850]

Greenwood, Jonathan

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

[1715?]

Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809

The virtuosi's museum

1778[-1781]

Harrow School

1931

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?]

Basebé, Charles Jones, approximately 1818–1880

The cabinet

[1841?]

To the diletanti [sic] and lovers of the fine arts

[1830]

Fisher, George (Barber)

George Fisher

mid-19th century

Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843

Microcosm, or, A picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c. of Great Britain : in a series of above six hundred groups of small figures for the embellishment of landscape ... : the whole accurately drawn from nature, and etched

1808

Dexter, Thomas E.

Animal and vegetable substances used in the arts and manufactures, illustrative of the imports and exports of Great Britain & her colonies, and explanatory of Dexter's cabinet of objects

1857

Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863

Myriorama

[1824]

To the Queen's private apartments

1843]

London & North Western Railway

[1897?]

Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691

Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie

1670. (fol.)

Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843

Microcosm, or, A picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, & c. of Great Britain,

1806

Boazio, Baptista

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

[1589?]

Happy families

[186-?]

British School

Prospectus and catalogue of the British School

1802

A correct plan and elevation of the famous French raft

Feby. 1st 1798

Dance, George, 1741–1825

A collection of portraits sketched from the life since the year 1793

1809-1814

E. & S.R. Richards

Billheads recording clothing purchased by Robert W. Stevenson from E. & S.R. Richards, clothiers, London

1891

Mills, W. C.

The bible wheel

[1881?]

Miller, Thomas, 1799 or 1800–1854

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

[approximately 1840]

Game of the star-spangled banner,

[between 1842 and 1845]

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 184-?]

Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836

A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure

1796

Photogram of ferns

1860s?

Neville, Alexander, 1544–1614

Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus

1575

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

Fantascope

1833

Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745

Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation

1742

Crane, Walter, 1845–1915

The Graphic

[1876?]

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

mid-19th century

Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813

Flora of the British Isles

circa 1790-1810?

In affectionate remembrance of Moses

1875

Freeling, Arthur

Lacey's railway companion and Liverpool and Manchester guide

[1832]

Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863

Lessons on trees

[1855]

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 1820?]

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

Octr 11, [18]51

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

mid-19th century

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

[1817]

Parmenter, S., active 1821

An elegy

[1821?]

Simons, Matthew, d. 1654

A direction for the English traviller

1643

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

[Bookmark from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents]

[approximately 1970?]

St. John Ambulance Association

The triangular bandage

[circa 1915?]

The Chinese sensitive plant, or, The living leaf

[approximately 1850]

Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1799–1872

Contrasts

1832

In loving memory of Frederick Charles

1911

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

1860-1862

In loving memory of George Bye

1895

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