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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29

1773 January 29

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse

[1753]

Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1853

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]

Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1766

Constable, John, 1776–1837

Letter to John Thomas Smith

1797, between January 16 and March 23

Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Views in Rome and its environs

1841

Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Alphabet

1857

Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

Hogarth moralized

1831

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Picturesque views in England and Wales

MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]

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]

Douglas, Helen, 1952–

Field notes

2006

[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

The family coach

[1851]

A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia

1788

The Historical and local new Bath guide,

[ca. 1832]

North America, and the West Indies

[1764?]

Neade, William

Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto

[approximately 1630]

Stapley, W. B.

Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley

1855-1870

Hogan, Eileen, 1946–

The poetry box

[2003]

Mr. Ingham, general dealer, Sheffield

[approximately 1840?]

Parkinson, W. (William), 1871–1927

Westminster Abbey fund

1920

Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778–1823

Six new plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia

1822

When the hearts feeling burns with concealing, oh, what an anguish silent to languish

mid-19th century

Carrick, Robert, active 1853–1895

The blue lights

[1853?]

Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851

The Funeral procession of Arthur, Duke of Wellington

[1853]

South Bank Centre

Summer of smiles

2011

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]

Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854

Topographical sketches of Brighthelmston and its neighbourhood

[1824]

Documents concerning "James II receiving the mathematical scholars of Christ's Hospital"

1837

An artistic calendar

[approximately 1950?]

For the information of travellers passing through the Turnpike Gates at Strood, and on the New Road, near Rochester

May 1792

Kindergarten and transition class

[approximately 1900]

J. Smithson, dealer in every description of watches, jewellery, plated goods &c.

[1850?]

Royal Navy & Military Tournament

[approximately 1910]

Constable & Company (Firm : London, England)

Constable & Compy

[approximately 1850]

W. Alexander & Son

W. Alexander & Son, printers, booksellers, stationers, and book-binders

[approximately 1830?]

Line of march of a Bengal regiment of infantry

[1845?]

Milton, Thomas, 1743?-1827

A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland

[1783-1793]

Waddington, George, 1793–1869

Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia

1822

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 184-?]

Gothus, Olaus Joannis, 1600–1644

Marchionatus Brandenburgicus

[ca. 1681]

Simons, Matthew, d. 1654

A direction for the English traviller

1643

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

The Canterbury tales

1483]

Stevens, Francis, 1781–1823

Domestic architecture

[between 1844 and 1850]

Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798–1872

Recueil des scènes familières, et de société de Paris

1833

Gilpin, William, 1724–1804

Hints to form the taste & regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape

circa 1790

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

Cooper, Thomas Sidney, 1803–1902

Thomas Sydney Cooper's cattle subjects

[Published by E. Gambart & Co.],

Wild flowers and their teachings

1848

Alfred Savage Ltd.

Oxford University

[between 1961 and 1963]

Barth, Heinrich, 1821–1865

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa

1857-1858

We must be united!

mid-19th century

Jesuits

Allerhand so lehr- als geist-reiche Brief, Schrifften und Reis-Beschreibungen

1726-1758

Williams, William, active 1724–1733

Oxonia depicta sive Collegiorum et aularum in inclyta Academia Oxoniensi ichnographica, orthographica & scenographica delineatio

[1733]

Dick, James Nicholas, 1832–1920

Journals of James Nicholas Dick, British naval surgeon, and James Douglas Dick, naval officer

1853-1898

Rawstorne, John, 1761?-1832

Rawstorne, architect, Birmingham

approximately 1800

Notebook of recipes and taxidermic instructions

1830-1834

Muriel, Catharine

Catharine Muriel commonplace book

1825-circa 1840

Herring, Francis M.

[Billhead of Francis M. Herring, chemist]

1849

[Tax bill for Samuel Staneforth Esqr of Attercliff [illegible] Darnall, dated July 12, 1814]

1814

Trollope, Robert, -1686

Osbourne's Fort

1676

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

Full cry

[1879]

Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks

1805-1822

Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900

Wild flowers worth notice

1861

[Panorama of popular printed images]

[circa 1680]

Album of pressed wild flowers

1882-1899

Blunt, John, surgeon

Practical farriery, or, The complete directory

MDCCLXXIII [1773]

Vindin, John, 1795–1852

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

1823

Queen Hotel (Chester, England)

Queen Hotel

[188-?]

Sheffield General Cemetery Company (Sheffield, England), creator

Grant of exclusive right of burial

1864

Baxter, George, 1804–1867

Baxter's gems of the Great Exhibition

[1854]

Rocque, John, -1762

A plan of Rome

1750

Palatial and parliamentary edifices of Westminster

[1835]

Silver & Co. (London, England)

Billhead of Silver & Co., clothiers, London, recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Lambert

1825

William's return

[18th century]

The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates

[between 1771 and 1785]

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus L.), with tiphiid wasp (Hymenoptera ?Tiphidae), Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines), soldier fly (Diptera ?Stratiomyidae), longhorned beetle (Chlorida festiva), and shell (Natica euzona Récluz 1844) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768