Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Associated Places: Great Britain

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]

In memory of the late John Distance

1854

Mathiss, Madeleine

Album of pressed seaweed specimens

1869

Cavanders, Ltd. (Firm)

Ancient Chinese

[1926]

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

For life or death

[1880]

Perkins, John (Gardener)

Floral designs for the table

1877

Davis, Joseph, active 1818–1857

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

1838

Clarke, J., active 1820

J. Clarke

[approximately 1820?]

Office Anthem

[approximately 193-?]

Bush, Tracey

The pocket book of sea creatures

1997

Potter, John (Hatter)

Potter, No. 22, Old Bond Street, late foreman to Mr. Breach, hatter to Their Majesties

[approximately 1816]

Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694

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

1683

Dempsey & Carroll

Prince Albert

between 1878 and 1900?

British Fire Office (London, England)

[Fire insurance policy for Mr. Robert Gibbs, March 1, 1808, from British Fire Office]

March 1st, 1808

The royal and entertaining Game of the goose

[between 1761 and 1794]

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

1848

Dearest name thee happy time that I in truth may all you mine

mid-19th century

Our Boys Clothing Company

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

[ca. 1885?]

Macdonald, Thomas (Engraver)

Thomas Macdonald, sketch maker & designer

[approximately 1880?]

In affectionate remembrance of Mary, the beloved wife of Joseph Hardy, of Alston

1870

In loving memory of Herbert, eldest son of Henry and Sarah Adlington, (of Croft House, Ripley,)

1896

In affectionate remembrance of Moses

1875

Ogilby, John, 1600–1676

Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads

1679

A book of eighteen leaves

1757

The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich

[approximately 1825]

Lever Brothers Ltd.

Lifebuoy royal disinfectant soap

[approximately 1894?]

A faithful tribute of affection! To my love

mid-19th century

Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding

mid-19th century

Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890

The seaweed collector

[1872]

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

St. John Ambulance Association

Triangular bandage, printed with illustrations of bandage use

approximately 1920

A heart that boasts a tender flame, sincere and constant too

mid-19th century

Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617

The destruction of the Spanish Armada

1588

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

1914

Waldie, Mrs., active 1808

Bill for school expenses for Jean Cockburn, at Mrs. Waldie's school, Hendersyde

1808

Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people

[approximately 1850]

G.A.E. Wilmot (Firm)

G. A. E. Wilmot, undertaker

[1850?]

White Hill Kiln (Luton, England)

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

1848

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 1820?]

Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813

Flora of the British Isles

circa 1790-1810?

Swaine, Alport & Lothian (London, England)

[Billhead of Swaine, Alport & Lowthian, distillers, London, recording gin purchased by Thomas Tebbitt, 1828]

1828

In ever loving memory of William George Banks

1928

Valentine card

mid-19th century

Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1799–1872

Contrasts

1832

In loving memory of Mary Ann, widow of the late Thomas Bowes, Snilesworth

1944

Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801

A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth

approximately 1798-1799

Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society

Scottish Widows' Fund Mutual LIfe Assurance Society

[approximately 1914]

Whitbread and Company

The Harrow, Wateringbury

[between 1949 and 1955]

T. C. L. (London, England)

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

[1890?]

C. Goodall & Son

Flower time & fruit time

[approximately 1880]

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

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

[approximately 1970?]

A lady's ticket for the anniversary sermon of the Small Pox Hospital

[1752]

Martyn, Thomas, fl. 1760–1816

The English entomologist

MDCCXCII [1792, i.e. 1793]

Tregear's Black jokes

1834

Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings

[ca. 1815?]

Blanchet, Etienne

Blanchet, artistes capillaires

not before 1866?

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]

Whitehaven Steam Navigation Company

Billhead of Whitehead Steam Navigation Company for Mr. L Whittle for goods that have been delivered

1851

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

1892

Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of art, in each quarter of the world

[ca. 1820]

Valentine card

mid-19th century

Bonnington Hotel (London, England)

Dinner

1951

Bill for building expenses

1760

Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860

The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide

1827

Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798

The journey from Chester to London

MDCCLXXXII [1782]

In remembrance of the late Robert Minto of Barton-Upon-Humber

1857

This small tribute, dearest, take keep it for thy lovers sake ..

mid-19th century

Dance, George, 1741–1825

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

1809-1814

Coq d'Or (London, England)

Carte du jour

1955

Smallwood, B.

Billhead of B. Smallwood, London haberdasher, for purchase of ribbon by an unidentified buyer

180-?

Godfreys, Amy, active 1879

Bills for school expenses for Miss Gleason, to be paid to Amy Godfreys, Vernon Street, Derby

1878-1879

By Her Majesty's command, Frogmore House & gardens to be shown to Miss Smith & her party

between 1792 and 1818?

Anti-Corn Law League

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

[approximately 1844]

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]

Bonnell, Mandy

The second life of shells

2001

Porter, John, fl. 1445–1485

John Porter manuscript

circa 1450

Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book

1793

Hume, David, 1711–1776

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

1806

Sansom, Francis, active 1784–1799

Pigmy revels, or, All alive at Lilliput

1800-1801

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