Creator Gender: unknown / Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse

[1753]

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29

1773 January 29

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

Alphabet

1857

Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Views in Rome and its environs

1841

Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

Hogarth moralized

1831

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

No. [blank] of Liber studiorum

[1807-1819]

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

Picturesque views in England and Wales

MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936

The absent minded beggar

c1899

G.A.E. Wilmot (Firm)

G. A. E. Wilmot, undertaker

[1850?]

Dean's steam-boat alphabet

[1855?]

First lessons in plain sewing for home or school

[approximately 1900?]

Howle, J. (Tailor)

[Gentlemen's fitting measurements diagram for use by tailors]

[approximately 1820-1830]

Guest, T. R. (Thomas Robert)

A new pocket sketch book

1807

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

mid-19th century

The Illustrated London news Colosseum view of London

[1843]

Black Lion Inn (Scarthingmoor, England)

[Inn tally for food and drink at the Black Lion Inn, Scarthingmoor]

[early 19th century]

Shoubridge, James

Billhead recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Clough from James Shoubridge, hatter, London

1807

George Wostenholm & Son (Sheffield, England)

Geo. Wostenholm & Son's, Ltd.

[not before 1875]

Mathiss, Madeleine

Album of pressed seaweed specimens

1869

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

For life or death

[1880]

Map of North America

not before 1634

John Bartholomew and Son

Bartholomew's one inch to the mile environs of London

[not before 1921]

In memory of the late John Distance

1854

Bowers, George Frederick

Crimean War

1856?

Glasgow looking glass

[1825]

Cavanders, Ltd. (Firm)

Ancient Chinese

[1926]

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

1914

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

Underwood & Underwood

Sun Sculpture stereoscope

not before 1901

Castell Brothers (Firm : London, England)

May Christmas bring you many blessings

[1880?]

Perkins, John (Gardener)

Floral designs for the table

1877

[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

Clarke, J., active 1820

J. Clarke

[approximately 1820?]

Office Anthem

[approximately 193-?]

Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people

[approximately 1850]

Open house London

[2011]

Masters, W. G. R. (William Godfrey Rays)

The Chinese expedition, 1859-1860

[1861]

Leighton, George Cargill, 1826–1895

Grand architectural panorama of London

1849

Martyn, Thomas, fl. 1760–1816

The English entomologist

MDCCXCII [1792, i.e. 1793]

Waldie, Mrs., active 1808

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

1808

Barker, Henry Aston, 1774–1856

Explanation of the view of the splendid victory gained by the Marquis of Wellington over the French army, consisting of 65,000 men, commanded by Joseph Bonaparte, on the plains of Vittoria

1814

Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714

A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after

[between 1726 and 1736]

Sage, John (Painter)

J. Sage

[approximately 1830]

White Hill Kiln (Luton, England)

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

1848

Levinstein Limited (firm)

Fast khakis and blues, for government requirements

1914?

Corporal Violette!!

[1815?]

Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617

The destruction of the Spanish Armada

1588

Cullum (Firm)

The most extensive and cheapest establishment in the West of England

[1840s?]

Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

?House wren (Troglodytes aedon) and eggs, with a specimen from the rose family (Rosaceae), Peacock butterflies (Nymphalis io), both closed and open, and butterfly chrysalis, larva caterpillar, daddy longlegs spider (Phalangida) egg case, and snout beetle, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)

Panorama, Leicester Square

1805

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 1820?]

Gascoigne, George, -1577

The noble arte of venerie or hunting

[1575]

Scott, Allan N. (Allan Newton), 1824–1870

Sketches in India

1862

Boulton, George

The route of the mail & post coaches, George Boulton & Co. proprietors

[between 1796 and 1809]

Armer's (Flookborough, England]

Armer's, Flookborough

[early 19th century]

Celebrated horses of America

1881-1882

Crompton, Elizabeth Jane, 1791–1869

Scotch scenery,

circa 1814

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

Valentine card

mid-19th century

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834

R. Ackermann's repository of fashions

1829

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

Six months' residence and travels in Mexico

1824

Savoy Hotel (London, England)

Savoy Hotel

[192-?]

[3 postcards from the Franco-British Exhibition]

[1908]

In ever loving memory of William George Banks

1928

Lever Brothers Ltd.

Lifebuoy royal disinfectant soap

[approximately 1894?]

Whereas the game within the manor of Pinkhurst, and in several parts of the parishes of Itchingfield, Slinfold, Billingshurst, and Rudgwick, in the county of Sussex, has of late years, and up to the present time, been greatly destroyed by poachers, unqualified, and unlicenced persons ..

[1797]