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

Tatham, Charles Heathcote, 1771–1842

Gallery at Brocklesby, in Lincolnshire

1811

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834

Packet of embossed gilt paper ornaments

1810?

Album of British grasses

circa 1800

Royal Academy (Gosport, England)

Bill for school expenses from the Royal Academy for Lord Augustus Beauclerk

August 2nd, 1834

Parmenter, S., active 1821

An elegy

[1821?]

Stevens, Francis, 1781–1823

Domestic architecture

[between 1844 and 1850]

Dison & Co. (Firm : London, England)

Dison & Co., lace manufacturers

[circa 1850?]

Stencilled friezes

[ca. 1900?]

Kikkuli, fl. ca. 1350 B.C

The Kikkuli text on the training of horses (ca. 1350 B.C.)

c1977

Forbes, James, 1749–1819

Oriental memoirs

1813 [i.e. 1839]

Winsor & Newton

Pocket watercolor box

[not before 1832]

[Bill for food and drink, Tunstead, 1773]

2d Novr. 1773

Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836

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

1796

White Hart Inn and Family Hotel (Winchester, England)

Clarke S. Mallett

[188-?]

Vignola, 1507–1573

Vignola, or the compleat architect

1655

Account of the print published March 24, 1807 by R. Cribb, 288, Holborn

[1807]

Nattes, John Claude, 1765?-1822

Monsieur Nattes, no. 41, Charles Street, Westminster

[approximately 1781?]

Medical miscellany

second half of the 15th century

Eastwood and Taylor (Firm)

Eastwood and Taylor

[approximately 1870]

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

Belnos, S. C., Mrs.

Twenty four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European manners in Bengal

[1832]

Walter, John

A tour in North Wales

1817

Wright, James, coach builder

Billhead recording repairs to the carriages of Sir George Musgrave in Penrith,Cumbria, from March, 1864 to January, 1865

1864-1865

Yarmouth

[approximately 1880?]

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

Roberts

Spurgeon's

[approximately 1870]

Why, what, and because, or, The road to the temple of knowledge / T.H. Jones, del. et litho

[approximately 1855]

Leslie, John, 1527–1596

Scotiae Regni Antiqvissimi Accvrata Descriptio

MDLXXVIII [1578]

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

Le Mexique en 1823,

1824

Album of pressed wild flowers

1882-1899

Blunt, John, surgeon

Practical farriery, or, The complete directory

MDCCLXXIII [1773]

Cunard Steamship Company, ltd.

Children's tea party held on board R.M.S. "Ivernia"

1955

Vindin, John, 1795–1852

[Billheads of John Vindin, oil & colourman, Knightsbridge for purchases by Mr. Gibbs, 1823]

1823

In affectionate remembrance of Frances Stenning

1874

[Silver metallic cut paper album card]

[approximately 1880]

Wyon, Edward William, 1811?-1885

Tazza, with representation of Heracles and the Garden of the Hesperides

1851

Harrow School

1931

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Cyclamen (cf. Cyclamen L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Pyrrhogyra sp.), with Northern dune tiger beetle (Cicindela ?hybrida), Leaf beetle (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae), Flesh fly (Diptera Sarcophagidae), Wasp beetle (Clytus arietis), Red-breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma throracica) and, Sexton or Burying beetle (Nicrophorus humator), with shell (Mauritia arabica) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744

An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington

1731

Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798

The journey from Chester to London

MDCCLXXXII [1782]

A book of eighteen leaves

1757

The temple of taste

[1796]

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

The works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896]

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676

A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern

MDCLXIV [1664]

Glasgow looking glass

[1825]

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

For life or death

[1880]

Map of North America

not before 1634

[Birthday card with floral illustration]

[approximately 1874]

Davis, Joseph, active 1818–1857

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

1838

Ogilby, John, 1600–1676

Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads

1679

Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813

Flora of the British Isles

circa 1790-1810?

Home, Robert, 1752–1834

Select views in Mysore,

1794

Celebrated horses of America

1881-1882

Crompton, Elizabeth Jane, 1791–1869

Scotch scenery,

circa 1814

Savoy Hotel (London, England)

Savoy Hotel

[192-?]

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

1870

Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890

The seaweed collector

[1872]

Ruskin, John, 1819–1900

Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1855

1855

Tregear's Black jokes

1834

Blanchet, Etienne

Blanchet, artistes capillaires

not before 1866?

St. John Ambulance Association

Triangular bandage, printed with illustrations of bandage use

approximately 1920

Cavanders, Ltd. (Firm)

Ancient Chinese

[1926]

Underwood & Underwood

Sun Sculpture stereoscope

not before 1901

In memory of the late John Distance

1854

Clarke, J., active 1820

J. Clarke

[approximately 1820?]

Office Anthem

[approximately 193-?]

London & Sunderland royal mail coach

[ca. 1800]

Dreyfus, John

Type specimen facsimiles;

1963

Gascoigne, George, -1577

The noble arte of venerie or hunting

[1575]

Whitbread and Company

The Harrow, Wateringbury

[between 1949 and 1955]

Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801

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

approximately 1798-1799

Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786

Principles of beauty, relative to the human head

MDCCLXXVIII [1778]

Luxmoore, Mary

Sketches of Teignmouth and Torquay

circa 1830

Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760–1824

The costume of Hindostan

1807

[Teleorama]

[approximately 1825?]

Whitehaven Steam Navigation Company

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

1851

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

[ca. 1820]

Valentine card

mid-19th century

Mrs. Stewart's concert Hanover Square

[1789]

Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple

1788

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

Yelloly, Sophia Mary, 1811–1840

Yelloly family watercolor albums

1827-1839

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

Potter, John (Hatter)

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

[approximately 1816]

Bridgens, Richard

West India scenery with illustrations of Negro character, the process of making sugar, &c. from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad

[1836?]