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1. London and Westminster improved : illustrated by plans : to which is prefixed, A discourse on publick magnificence, with observations on the state of arts and artists in this kingdom, wherein the study of the polite arts is recommended as necessary to a liberal education : concluded by some proposals relative to places not laid down in the plans / by John Gwynn.

London and Westminster improved : illustrated by plans : to which is prefixed, A discourse on publick magnificence, with observations on the state of arts and artists in this kingdom, wherein the study of the polite arts is recommended as necessary to a liberal education : concluded by some proposals relative to places not laid down in the plans / by John Gwynn.
Creator:
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
Date:
MDCCLXVU [1766]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 132 pages, IIII folded leaves of plates : plans ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique.

Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique.
Creator:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Date:
1810 [that is, 1813?]
Physical Description:
2 volumes (xvi, 350 pages, 69 leaves of plates) : 69 illustrations (engraving, aquatint, some color) ; 59 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.

Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.
Creator:
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778–1823
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 44 [i.e. 34] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Cornelius Osgood, transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

4. Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.

Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.
Creator:
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778–1823
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 44 [i.e. 34] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 62 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. [Engravings of the principal mosaic pavements which have been discovered in the course of the last and present centuries, in various parts of Great Britain : also, engravings of several subjects in stained glass, in the windows of the cathedrals of York, Lincoln, &c. &c. : the whole executed on twenty-seven plates, and each impression accurately coloured, after the original subject of the respective plates / by William Fowler, of Winterton, in the county of Lincoln].

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Creator:
Fowler, William, 1761–1832
Date:
1796-1804
Physical Description:
[2], 3, [1] pages, [28] leaves of plates : chiefly color illustrations ; 67 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [Engravings of the principal mosaic pavements which have been discovered in the course of the last and present centuries, in various parts of Great Britain : also, engravings of several subjects in stained glass, in the windows of the cathedrals of York, Lincoln, &c. &c. : the whole executed on twenty-seven plates, and each impression accurately coloured, after the original subject of the respective plates / by William Fowler, of Winterton, in the county of Lincoln].

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Creator:
Fowler, William, 1761–1832
Date:
1810-1824
Physical Description:
27 unnumbered leaves of plates : chiefly color illustrations ; 67 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Voyage en Abyssinie : exécuté pendant les années 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843 / par une commission scientifique composée de MM. Théophile Lefebvre ... A. Petit et Quartin-Dillon ... Vignaud ...

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Creator:
Lefebvre, Théophile, 1811–1860
Date:
[1845-1851]
Physical Description:
11 volumes : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25-50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Groote vissery / S. Vdr. Meulen delineavit ; Petrus Schenk excudit ; A. van der Laan fecit.

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Creator:
Meulen, Sieuwert van der
Date:
[1720?]
Physical Description:
[17] leaves : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. [Engravings of the principal mosaic pavements which have been discovered in the course of the last and present centuries, in various parts of Great Britain : also, engravings of several subjects in stained glass, in the windows of the cathedrals of York, Lincoln, &c. &c. : the whole executed on twenty-seven plates, and each impression accurately coloured, after the original subject of the respective plates / by William Fowler, of Winterton, in the county of Lincoln].

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Creator:
Fowler, William, 1761–1832
Date:
1805-1809
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, [27] leaves of plates : chiefly color illustrations, genealogical table ; 67 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Forty etchings from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828 / by Captain Basil Hall, R.N.

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Creator:
Hall, Basil, 1788–1844
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
[2], ii, [2] pages, [21] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, map ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Scenes in Ethiopia : designed from nature / by John Martin Bernatz ... with descriptions of the plates, and extracts from a journal of travel in that country in two volumes...

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Creator:
Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802–1878
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
2 volumes in 1 : illustrations, map ; 43 x 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts