Creator Gender: unknown / Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Period: 18th century / Work Type: armorial bookplates (provenance)

1. A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [18] leaves : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

Creator:: Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

Creator:: Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: [4], 182, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:: xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, collected by Lieutenant General James Dormer, / which will be sold by auction (by order of the administrator) by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent -Garden : to begin on Monday, February the 20th, 1764, and to continue the nineteen following evenings, beginning each evening exactly at six o'clock.

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1764]
Physical Description:: 2 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

Creator:: Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 4-194 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. (4vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy H. Bartels

9. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

Creator:: Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [4], xii, 128, [16] p., III folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A collection of English grasses.

Creator:: Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:: circa 1792-1808
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([1], 105 leaves) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:: 1782-1783
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

Creator:: Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:: MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: January 12, 1773
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

Creator:: Rogers, Robert, 1731–1795
Date:: MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 264 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from His Lordship's mss. / by James Kennedy.

Creator:: Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [10], xxxviii, 116, [2] pages, 25 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

16. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies / compiled from authentic memoirs, revised by gentlemen who have resided many years in the Spanish settlements ; and illustrated with thirty-two maps and plans, chiefly from original drawings taken from the Spaniards in the last war, and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

Creator:: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [4], xxiv, 106, [2] pages, 32 folded leaves of plates : maps, plans ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

Creator:: Aheron, John
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: vi, 110, 8, [20] pages, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A history or description, general and circumstantial, of Burghley House, the seat of the Right Honorable the earl of Exeter.

Creator:: Horn, John, active 1791–1817
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 205, [3] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

19. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

Creator:: Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:: [1739]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 20 sheets ; sheets 53 x 72 cm or smaller, bound 53 x 41 cm. + 1 key map (48 x 47 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

Creator:: Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734–1794
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [8], 128 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A new treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner for many years practice and experience : with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies / by William Gibson, surgeon, in Duke-Sreet, Grosvenor-Square ; illustrated with thirty-two copper-plates.

Creator:: Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750
Date:: MDCCLI [1751]
Physical Description:: [12], 464, [12] pages, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / illustrated with copper plates in aqua tinta from drawings on the spot, by Samuel Ireland ...

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A review of the Landscape : a didactic poem : also of An essay on the picturesque : together with practical remarks on rural ornament / by the author of "Planting and Ornamental Gardening; a Practical Treatise."

Creator:: Marshall, Mr. (William), 1745–1818
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 275, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...

A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 v. 162 plates (incl. fronts., engr. t.-p.'s, ports. plans) on 133 leaves. 69 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed, undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver.

Creator:: Vancouver, George, 1757–1798
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 31 x 24 cm (4to) + 1 atlas ([16] leaves of plates (6 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm (folio))
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.

Creator:: Ellis, Henry, 1721–1806
Date:: MDCCXLVII [1748]
Physical Description:: xxviii, 336 [i.e. 344] pages, [9] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682–1761
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

Creator:: Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:: 1707-1725
Physical Description:: 2 v., XI, 274 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. (frontispiece), map (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Album of English bookplates.

Date:: approximately 1700-1950?
Physical Description:: 1 volume ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria.

Creator:: Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:: 1796-1803
Physical Description:: 1 volume (74 drawings) : watercolor and gouache over graphite ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [6], 20, [4], 21, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

Creator:: Gosden, Thomas, 1780–1843
Date:: MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:: 92 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. An essay upon prints : containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters : illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces : to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 4, [2], 249, [13] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. An historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich : MDCCLXXXIX.

Creator:: Cooke, John, 1738–1823
Date:: [1789]
Physical Description:: viii, 120, 125-132, *129-*132, 133-142, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Antiquités nationales, ou, Recueil de monuments : pour servir à l'histoire générale et particulière de l'empire françois, tels que tombeaux, inscriptions, statues, vitraux, fresque, etc. ; tirés des abbayes, monastères, châteaux, et autres lieux devenus domaines nationaux / par Aubin-Louis MIllin.

Creator:: Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759–1818
Date:: 1790-1797
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Art de la verrerie / de Neri, Merret et Kunckel ; auquel on a ajouté le Sol sine veste d'Orschall ; l'Helioscopium videndi sine veste solem chymicum; le Sol non sine veste ; le chapitre XI. du Flora saturnizans de Henckel, sur la vitrification des végétaux ; un Mémoire sur la manière de faire le saffre ; le Secret des vraies porcelaines de la Chine & de Saxe ; ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de fair le verre & le crystal, d'y porter des couleurs, d'imiter les pierres prétieuses, de préparer & colorer les emaux, de faire la potasse, de peindre sue le verre, de préparer des vernis, de composer des couvertes pour les fayances & poteries, d'extraire la couleur pourpre de l'or, de contrefaire les rubis, de fair le saffre, de faire & peindre les porcelaines, &c. ; traduits de l'allemand, par M. D * * *.

Creator:: Neri, Antonio, 1576–1614
Date:: MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:: [4], lv, [1], 629, [3] p., 16 leaves of plates (14 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Bibliographie instructive: ou, Traite de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers ... Par Guillaume-François De Bure, le jeune ...

Creator:: Bure, Guillaume-François de, 1731–1782
Date:: 1763-1768
Physical Description:: 7 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. : qui prostabunt venales sub hasta apud Samuelem Baker, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 18vo. Novembris, M. DCC. LIV. iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M. DCC. LV.

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1754]
Physical Description:: [4], 116, [2], 117-242 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

Creator:: Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770
Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Bibliothecae Americanae primordia : an attempt towards laying the foundation of an American library, in several books, papers, and writings, humbly given to the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for the perpetual use and benefit of their members, their missionaries, friends, correspondents, and others concern'd in the good design of planting and promoting Christianity within Her Majesties colonies and plantations in the West-Indies / by a member of the said Society.

Creator:: Kennett, White, 1660–1728
Date:: 1713 [i.e. 1714]
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [1], xvi, 3-132,125-275, [225] p. ; 22 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times : collected from the best authorities, both printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary ...

Date:: 1747-1766
Physical Description:: 6 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Biographical anecdotes of William Hogarth; and a catalogue of his works chronologically arranged; with occasional remarks.

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 157 [i.e. 159] p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 164, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

47. Catalogue raisonné d'une collection generale de pierres gravées antiques et modernes, tant en creux que camées, tirées des cabinets les plus celébres de l'Europe : moulées en pâtes de couleurs a l'imitation des pierres, emaux blancs, et soufres, par Jacques Tassie, sculpteur / mis en ordre et le texte rédigé par R.E. Raspe ; orné de planches gravées ; au quel on a ajouté un discours preliminaire sur les differents usages de cette collection, sur l'origine de l'art de graver les pierres dures, et le progrès de l'invention des pâtes.

Creator:: Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737–1794
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.

Creator:: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671–1713
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: 3 v. front. (port.) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.

Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.

Creator:: Garneray, Jean-François, 1755–1837
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [4] pages, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

Creator:: Birch, William, 1760–1794?
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [8] pages, x, [36] leaves, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

3. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

4. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

8. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

9. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

10. A collection of English grasses.

11. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

17. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

18. A history or description, general and circumstantial, of Burghley House, the seat of the Right Honorable the earl of Exeter.

19. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

20. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

22. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / illustrated with copper plates in aqua tinta from drawings on the spot, by Samuel Ireland ...

23. A review of the Landscape : a didactic poem : also of An essay on the picturesque : together with practical remarks on rural ornament / by the author of "Planting and Ornamental Gardening; a Practical Treatise."

24. A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...

25. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

30. Album of English bookplates.

31. Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria.

32. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

33. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

34. An essay upon prints : containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters : illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces : to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints.

35. An historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich : MDCCLXXXIX.

40. Bibliographie instructive: ou, Traite de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers ... Par Guillaume-François De Bure, le jeune ...

41. Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. : qui prostabunt venales sub hasta apud Samuelem Baker, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 18vo. Novembris, M. DCC. LIV. iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M. DCC. LV.

42. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

45. Biographical anecdotes of William Hogarth; and a catalogue of his works chronologically arranged; with occasional remarks.

46. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

48. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.

49. Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.

50. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.