Creator Gender: unknown / Date: 1855 / Image Available: Unavailable / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances

1. Coaxing Mother

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches (20.2 x 17.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. In Church

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 11/16 x 6 7/16 inches (22 x 16.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Assault of Sevastopol : two topographical & panoramic sketches, representing the advanced lines of attack, and the Russian defences, in front of Sevastopol : with a description and remarks / the sketches by Captain M.A. Biddulph.

Creator:: Biddulph, Michael Anthony Shrapnel
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The history of Sandford and Merton: a book for the young. By Thomas Day.

Creator:: Day, Thomas, 1748–1789
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., [9]-408 p. front., plates. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The poetical works of Lord Byron.

Creator:: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:: 1855-1856
Physical Description:: 6 v. : port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland / illustrated by Robert William Billings, architect, 1845-52 ; in four volumes.

Creator:: Billings, Robert William, 1813–1874
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Visitors' souvenir of the sea side.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [9], 14-83, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake valley / illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts from sketches made by Frederick Piercy ; including views of Nauvoo and the ruins of the temple, with a historical account of the city ; views of Carthage jail ; and portraits and memoirs of Joseph and Hyrum Smith ; their mother, Lucy Smith ; Joseph and David Smith, sons of the prophet Joseph ; president Brigham Young ; Heber C. Kimball ; Willard Richards ; Jedidiah M. Grant ; John Taylor ; the late chief patriarch, Father John Smith ; and the present chief patriarch, John Smith, son of Hyrum ; together with a geographical and historical description of Utah, and a map of the overland routes to that territory from the Missouri River ; also an authentic history of the Latter-Day Saints' emigration from Europe from the commencement up to the close of 1855, with statistics ; edited by James Linforth.

Creator:: Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, 1830–1891
Date:: MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:: viii, 120 pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Sporting adventures in the new world, or, Days and nights of moose-hunting in the pine forests of Acadia / by Lieut. Campbell Hardy, Royal Artillery ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Hardy, Campbell
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Examples of ornament : selected chiefly from works of art in the British Museum, the Museum of Economic Geology, the Museum of Ornamental Art in Marlborough House, and the new Crystal Palace / drawn from original sources by Francis Bedford, Thomas Scott, Thomas Macquoid, and Henry O'Neill ; ... edited by Joseph Cundall.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 5, [4] p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A panoramic view of the town, harbour, forts & defences of Sebastopol & the siege works of the allied armies of England & France : shewing the trenches, approaches, batteries & the present position of the French & English armies from Balaklava to Sebastopol : also the streets, public buildings, forts, dock yards, recent defences, the town, the redoubts on Mount Sapoune & the approaches of the French for their reduction ...

Creator:: Packer, Thomas
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : all ill. ; 54 x 77 cm. folded to 19 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

Creator:: Sutcliffe, J. V. (John V.)
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain. By Anne Pratt ...

Creator:: Pratt, Anne, 1806–1893
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 5 v. front. (v. 1) col. plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. D'Albert's Album : 1855.

Creator:: Albert, Charles d', 1809–1886
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 117 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The coinage of the British Empire : an outline of the progress of the coinage in Great Britain and her dependencies : from the earliest period to the present time / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; illustrated by facsimiles of the coins of each period, worked in gold, silver, and copper.

Creator:: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 160 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A series of fourteen sketches made during the voyage up Wellington channel in search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H. and the missing crews of H.M. Discovery-ships Erebus and Terror : together with a short account of each drawing / by Commander Walter W. May, R.N., late Lieutenant of H. M. Discovery-ship Assistance (Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.)

Creator:: May, Walter W.
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 6, [1] p., [xiv] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Christmas with the poets : a collection of songs, carols, and descriptive verses relating to the festival of Christmas : from the Anglo-Norman period to the present time / embellished with fifty-three tinted ilustrations by Birket Foster ; and with initial letters and other ornaments.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: x, [2], 202 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Neues Panorama des Rheins und seiner nächsten Umgebungen von Mainz bis Coeln : auf's Neue nach der Natur gezeichnet und mit den interessantesten architektonischen und geschichtlichen Denkmälern als Randbilder geziert = Nouveau panorama du Rhin et de ses environs depuis Mayence jusqu'a Cologne : nouvellement dessiné d'après nature et enrichi des esquisses des monuments, ruines et édifices les plus remarquables, situés sur les deux rives / Friedr. Wilh. Delkeskamp.

Creator:: Delkeskamp, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1794–1872
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 27 x 215 cm. folded in cover to 27 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A visit to the exhibition : in eight changeable pictures, showing its beautiful objects of art and how they were made.

Date:: [approximately 1855]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves : 8 color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The geological staircase : containing the steps of rocks and floors of alluvium / by Professor Donaldson ...

Creator:: Donaldson, John, 1799–1876
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: ix, 525 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), charts ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Street architecture; a series of shop fronts and façades, characteristic of and adapted to different branches of commerce, by Victor Delassaux and John Elliott, architects. Engraved on steel by Philip Brannon.

Creator:: Delassaux, Victor
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 16 p. 22 plates (incl. added t.-p., engr.) 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851. Catalogue of a collection of works on or having reference to the exhibition of 1851, in the possession of C. Wentworth Dilke.

Creator:: Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 1789–1864
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., 116 p. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The arms of the colleges of Oxford / by Henry Shaw, F.S.A. author of Dress and decoration of the Middle Ages, &c. &c. ; with historical notices of the colleges by John W. Burgon, M.A. Fellow of Oriel College.

Creator:: Shaw, Henry, 1800–1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [206] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Horses and hounds : a practical treatise on their management / by "Scrutator" ; illustrated by Harrison Weir.

Creator:: Horlock, Knightley William, 1802–1882
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xii, 302 pages, [4] leaves of plates ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Engelsmännens senaste upptäcktsresor till trakterna kring nordpolen, den Franklinska expeditionens hemlighetsfulla försvinnande, försöken till dess tillrättafinnande samt upptäcken af den nordvestliga genomfarten. Af Dr. Carl Brandes ... Öfversättning från tyskan med några tillägg.

Creator:: Brandes, Karl Heinrich
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 339, [2] p. front., fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The campaign in the Crimea: an historical sketch, by George Brackenbury ... Illustrated by forty plates, from drawings taken on the spot by William Simpson.

Creator:: Brackenbury, George
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [iii]-viii, 112 p. 40 col. plates. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Alliance ribbon, produced to commemorate the Crimean War.

Creator:: Hart, James, active 1850s-1870s
Date:: circa 1855
Physical Description:: 1 ribbon : machine-woven silk ; 34.5 x 5.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Fred. Adam Schwartz & Co. Solenhofen Bavaria : principal owners of the quarries of superior lithographic stones : Vulcan Wharf, 14, Earl Street, Blackfriars, London.

Creator:: Frederick Adam Schwartz & Co.
Date:: [approximately 1855?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card ; 8 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Wheatsheaf.

Creator:: Dudson, James, 1812–1882
Date:: ca. 1860
Physical Description:: 1 jug : relief-molded white stoneware, glazed ; height 21 cm, width 13 cm (including handle), depth 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

31. Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art, from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize, of that distinguished collector, Ralph Bernal ... : also, of the beautiful decorative furniture and service plate : which ... will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at the mansion, No. 93, Eaton Square, commencing on Monday, March the 5th, 1855, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 357 pages, [33] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Studio portrait of a woman.

Date:: Great Britain,
Physical Description:: 1 photograph : ambrotype, in leather case ; visible image approximately 7.2 x 5.8 cm (sixth plate format), in case 9.5 x 8.3 x 0.8 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The battles of Balaklava and Inkerman : a military spectacle, in two acts : written expressly for and adapted to Webb's characters & scenes in the same.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 18 pages ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.

34. Norge fremstillet i Tegninger med oplysende text.

Creator:: Tønsberg, Chr. (Christian), 1813–1897
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 72 unnumbered pages plates (some color) 26 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Illustrations of missionary scenes : an offering to youth.

Date:: [approximately 1855]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : 40 illustrations ; 22 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Śakoontalá, or, The lost ring : an Indian drama / translated into English prose and verse, from the Sanskrit of Kālidāsa, by Monier Williams, M.A., Professor of Sanskrit at the East-India College, Haileybury, formerly Boden scholar in the University of Oxford.

Creator:: Kālidāsa
Date:: MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:: xxv, [5], xxvii-xxviii, 227, [1], 24, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The task, a poem by William Cowper. Illustrated by Birket Foster.

Creator:: Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 263 p. ill. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Voyage aux pays aurifères Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie, Russie par le capitaine A.C. de La Carrières. Illustré de 12 gravures à deux teintes et d'un très-grand nombre de vignettes sur bois. Par J.B. Arnout père.

Creator:: La Carrières, A. C. de
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 328 p. front., ill., 11 plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Embossed picture cards.

Creator:: Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: 16 cards : color illustrations ; each 10 x 7 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Souvenir of the North.

Date:: 1855?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([40] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 400 cm., folded to 14 x 10 cm., attached to boards 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The story of the campaign of Sebastopol / written in the camp by Lieut. Col. E. Bruce Hamley ; with illustrations drawn in camp by the author.

Creator:: Hamley, Edward Bruce, Sir, 1824–1893
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xv, 339 p. : ill., fold. map. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Four short chapters on horses, hunting, and the turf / by the late Major Rose, 55th Regiment.

Creator:: Rose, Major (John Baillie), 1809–1854
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, vii p., [1] leaf, 50 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Hand-book of water-colours : a brief treatise on their qualities and effects when employed in painting : with some account of the general nature of colours / by W. Winsor and H.C. Newton ...

Creator:: Winsor, W
Date:: [ca. 1855]
Physical Description:: 34, [8] p. ; 19 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours : avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter / publiée par MM. Firmin Didot frères, sous la direction de M. le Dr Hoefer.

Date:: 1855-1866
Physical Description:: 46 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A companion to the new rifle musket : comprising, practical information on the cleaning and management of arms, and on the making of cartridges ; illustrated by tinted plates.

Creator:: Browne, S. Bertram
Date:: MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:: 38, [6], 41-56, 61-62, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Landscape scenery : illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson, New South Wales.

Creator:: Terry, Frederick Charles, 1826–1869
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [39] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The natural history of man : comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family / by James Cowles Pritchard ...

Creator:: Prichard, James Cowles, 1786–1848
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Ashbee and Dangerfield, lithographic artists & printers in colors, ornamental designers and engravers on wood & copper : 22 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.

Creator:: Ashbee & Dangerfield
Date:: [between 1855 and 1860]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 32 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Tam O'Shanter / by Robert Burns.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [5] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

50. The music master : a love story ; and two series of day and night songs / by William Allingham ; with nine woodcuts, seven designed by Arthur Hughes, one by D. G. Rossetti, and one by John E. Millais, A.R.A.

Creator:: Allingham, William, 1824–1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xiii, [2], 221, [3] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alicia Faxon in memory of Richard B. Faxon, Yale BA 1949

51. History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk; : comprising, under a lucid arrangement of subjects, a general survey of the county, and separate histories, & statistical & topographical descriptions of all the hundreds, liberties, unions, ... showing their extent and population ... in one volume, with a map of the county. / By William White ...

Creator:: White, William M
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [9]-823, [1] p. : 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Biographical memoir of John Montagu : with a sketch of some of the public affairs connected with the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, during his administration as colonial secretary, from 1843 to 1853 / by W.A. Newman.

Creator:: Newman, William Abiah, 1811–1864
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xvi, 612 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Stanford's map of the roads &c. between Odessa, Nikolaief, Perekop, Simferopol and Sebastopol / compiled from Russian maps in possession of the Royal Geographical Society, the Admiralty Charts, and other documents.

Creator:: Stanford, Edward, 1827–1904
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 74.3 x 64.5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Eight years' wanderings in Ceylon / by S.W. Baker.

Creator:: Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821–1893
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xix, [1], 423 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A month at Malvern under the water cure : with the sequel, etc., etc.. / by R.J. Lane ...

Creator:: Lane, Richard James, 1800–1872
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xxii, 215, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Art of landscape painting in water colours / by Thomas Rowbotham and Thomas L. Rowbotham.

Creator:: Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson, 1783–1853
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: vii, 2, 47 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin : with twenty illustrations by Percy Cruikshank.

Creator:: Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([20] p.) : ill. ; 13 x 260 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm, in boards 14 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The art of transparent painting on glass : comprising the method of painting, and an account of the implements and materials employed in producing subjects for dissolving views, magic lanterns, etc., chromatropes, and mechanical slides and contrivances for obtaining effects of motion and colour / by Edward Groom.

Creator:: Groom, Edward
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 55 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Hand-book for young painters / by C.R. Leslie ... ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xiii, [1], 315 p., [1], 32 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A catalogue of a collection of pictures, the works of first-class living artists : particularly Dumblane Cathedral, by D. Roberts, R.A. : View on the Scheldt, by E. Cooke, A.R.A. : Two other works, by the same Master : Falstaff and Pistol, by A. Egg, A.R.A. : A pair of river views, by F. Lee, R.A. : Summer Noon ... by S. Cooper, A.R.A. ... : The Thistle, by Frank Stone : The Lattice, by W. Etty, R.A. : specimens of J. D. Harding, F. Stone, E.W. Cooke, T. Faed Groonland, F. Danby, D. Roberts, Sir A. Calcott, F.R. Le, T.S. Cooper, A.L. Egg, W. Etty : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Foster and Son, at the Galery, 54, Pall Mall, on Thursday, the 15th of February, 1855 (after the sale of Mr. Birch's Pictures, at three o'clock in the afternoon)

Creator:: Foster and Son (London, England)
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 21-30 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. After lithographs by Louis Haghe from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly.

Creator:: Roberts, David, 1796–1864
Date:: 1855-1856
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : color illustrations, 1 portrait, 3 maps (lithographs), plates ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Sketches of Malvern.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 11 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Set of drawing instruments.

Creator:: Elliott Brothers (London)
Date:: circa 1860
Physical Description:: 14 instruments in 1 case : wood, steel, brass ; 36 cm wide, 11 cm deep, 5 cm high
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The history and description of St. George's Church at Doncaster : destroyed by fire February 28, 1853 / by John Edward Jackson ...

Creator:: Jackson, John Edward, 1805–1891
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: viii, 144, xci p., 15 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Cruchley's railway & telegraphic map of Somerset [cartographic material] : showing all the railways & names of stations, also the telegraph lines & stations ; improved from the Ordnance Surveys.

Date:: [between 1855 and 1875?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 46.0 x 52.7 cm, folded to 25.5 x 20.0 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Hunter's Ottawa scenery in the vicinity of Ottawa City, Canada.

Creator:: Hunter, William S., 1823–1894
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 19, [1] pages, [16] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illlustrations, map ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Catalogue of the very choice collection of pictures, of the highest class, by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, and English masters, of S.M. Mawson, esq., by whom they have been selected with great taste and judgment, chiefly on the continent : they are now dispersed, without reserve, in consequence of his retiring from business :which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Chistie & Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May 19, 1855, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 16 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The magic ring : a merry game.

Date:: [between 1855 and 1870]
Physical Description:: 1 game (56 playing cards, 1 game board, 1 sheet of instructions) ; in box 19 x 17 x 4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A fire-side pantomine for great and small children. By Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [pseud.] ...

Creator:: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: iv, 128 p. front., illus., plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Shadows of the East, or, Slight sketches of scenery, persons, and customs : from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece / by Catherine Tobin ; with maps and illustrations.

Creator:: Tobin, Catherine, Lady
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xiv, 256, ix p., [21] leaves of plates : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of a tour in the north of Italy / by George Edmund Street.

Creator:: Street, George Edmund, 1824–1881
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xx, 287, 32 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Album and commonplace book.

Creator:: H. C. B
Date:: ca. 1855?
Physical Description:: 1 v. (approximately 70 leaves) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. List of colours and materials for drawing and water colour painting : manufactured and sold by Winsor and Newton, no. 38, Rathbone Place, London.

Creator:: Winsor & Newton
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: 32 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The Sportsman's portfolio of American field sports.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 43, [1] p. : illus. ; 21 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The gathered lilies / the illuminations designed by Mrs. Howard Vyse and Miss Fanny Greville ; the original poem by F.H.

Creator:: Hodgson, Frances S.
Date:: not after 1857
Physical Description:: [11] leaves : illustrations ; 22 x 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. A catalogue of a collection of twenty English pictures, of high merit and great importance, being a portion of the well-known collection of Charles Birch, esq. of Westfield House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, whose cabinet of British art has justly obtained a more than local celebrity : including Waiting for the deer to rise, by Sir Edwin Landseer, R. A. : Alfred in the Danish Camp, by D. Baclise : The Lock, by ... J.M.W. Turner : A Pyrenean Pass, with smugglers, C. Stanfield, R. A. : Spezzia Bay by ... Sir Augustus Calcot, R. A. : The first ear ring by ... Sir David Wilkie, R.A., engraved : Beating for recruits, by Thomas Webster, R. A. : The Lock, by ... J. Consable, R. A. : The Mountain Pass, by P. F. Poole, A.R.A. : Dolly Varden, by W. P. Frith, R.A. : The Tambourine Player, by J. Uwine, R.S. : A Golden Landscape, Linnell : ... The Fleur De Lis, by ... William Etty, R.A. : Which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Foster and Son, at the Gallery, 54, Pall Mall, on Thursday, February 15th, 1855, at two precisely.

Creator:: Foster and Son (London, England)
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 18, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Album.

Date:: circa 1855-circa 1880
Physical Description:: 1 volume (144 pages) ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Wanderings and pencillings amongst ruins of the olden time, a series of seventy-three etchings, by George Cuitt. With descriptive letterpress.

Creator:: Cuit, George, 1743–1818
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 38 pages frontispiece, mounted illustrations, plates 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The theory and practice of landscape painting in water colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-four designs, coloured diagrams, and numerous woodcuts; with two extra plates on simultaneous contrasts. By George Barnard. Leighton brothers' chromatic process.

Creator:: Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 176 p. illus., XXVI col. pl. (incl. front.) 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Illustrations of the British paper manufacture / manufactured by Mr. T. H. Saunders ...

Creator:: Saunders, T. H
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [20] leaves, [3] leaves of plates (1 folding) : ill. ; 70 cm. + 123, [6] paper samples
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Description of a view of the city of Sebastopol and the surrounding fortifications, the attack of the allied armies, the British & French camps, &c. : now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square ; painted by the proprietor, Mr. Robert Burford ; the figures by H.C. Selous.

Creator:: Burford, Robert, 1791–1861
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 19 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Illustrated catalogue of the distinguished collection of works of art and vertû, from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize, collected by the late Ralph Bernal, Esq. : sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson : with the purchasers' names and prices.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:: 357, 66 pages, [35] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The philosophy of the beautiful / by John G. Macvicar ...

Creator:: Macvicar, John Gibson, 1800–1884
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xvi, 175 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton, 1855-1875.

Creator:: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Date:: 1855-1875
Physical Description:: 53 letters (1 box)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Milton's L'allegro and Il penseroso / illustrated with etchings on steel by Birket Foster.

Creator:: Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:: MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Exhibition of water-colour drawings and pictures by amateur artists : and art contributions in aid of the Fund for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of British Officers Engaged in the War with Russia : gallery, 121, Pall Mall, opposite the opera colonnade.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 52 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. A catalogue of the original pictures by eminent British artists: purchased by Messrs. Lloyd & Co ... : including two pictures of the late J.M.W. Turner, R.A. viz. The Grand Canal at Venice ... and Burning of the Houses of Parliament : Infant Prayer, by W. P. Frith .... : Did you ring, by the same artist ,,, : The Fight for the Standard, by R. Ansdell, ... : Cromwell & his daughter, engraved by Tomkins, and Nelson in his Cabin on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar ... both by J. Lucy : The wood nymphs surprised .... by W.E. Frost ... a set of four hunting pictures, by Herring ... : The Golden Aga ... by F. Danby : and specimens of T. Faed, J. Linnell, J. Phillip, W. Muller, R.S. Lauder, T. Uwins, R.A., Lee & Cooper, D. Roberts, R.A., Linnell, Jun., A. Johnston, R.S., T. Creswick, R.A., W. Douglas : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Foster & Son at the Gallery, 54, Pall Mall, on Wednesday, the 13th of June, 1855, at twelve for one o'clock.

Creator:: Foster and Son (London, England)
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 20 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Greening : tanner, currier, saddler, collar and harness maker : Dorchester.

Date:: ca. 1855?
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 90 x 70 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

89. The visit of Their Imperial Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of the French, to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, April, l855. From drawings executed, at the command of Her Majesty, by Louis Haghe, Edouard Morin, and George Thomas, with letter-press descriptions by Shirley Brooks.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., 5, [1] p., 8 col. pl. 63 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The position on the Alma [graphic] : in seven sketches from the field on the day after the battle / by Major E.B. Hamley, Capt. R.A.

Creator:: Hamley, Edward Bruce, Sir, 1824–1893
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 print on 2 joined sheets : hand-colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 152 cm, accordion folded to 13 x 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. México y sus alrededores : colección de monumentos, trajes y paisajes dibujados al natural y litografiados / por los artistas mexicanos C. Castro, J. Campillo, L. Auda y G. Rodríquez, bajo la dirección de Decaen ... .

Date:: 1855-56
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., [3]-32 p. : 30 pl. (part col.) ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Nests and eggs of familiar British birds : described and illustrated, with an account of the haunts and habits of the feathered architects : and their times and modes of building / by H.G. Adams ... ; with eight coloured plates of eggs, containing forty-eight different species.

Creator:: Adams, H. G. (Henry Gardiner), 1811 or 1812–1881
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: iv, 78, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Buckinghamshire : places of the meeting of foxhounds / by J. & C. Walker.

Date:: [between 1855 and 1873]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 39 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Royal Marionette Theatre : Lowther Arcade, West Strand : this elegant theatre is open every evening at eight o'clock, and on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday at three, with a grand moving diorama by some of the first artists, strikingly illustrating the principal events of the Russian War : comprising 30 brilliant pictures, to which is added, a great pictorial map of the seat of war : a descriptive lecture will be given with each representation, by W. Knight, Esq., (lecturer at the Turkish Museum), accompanied with military vocal & instrumental music.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the ... : a poem.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

96. The last of the Arctic voyages : being a narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54 / With notes on the natural history, by Sir John Richardson, Professor Owen, Thomas Bell, J.W. Salter and Lovell Reeve.

Creator:: Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799–1877
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Catalogue of a portio of the collection of pictures, of the late most Noble the Duke of Argyll, removed from upper Brook Street : comprising The Virgin and Sleeping Infant ... example of Guido : ... work of Sir Joshua Reynolds : Blaise ... by Sir Edwin Landseer : landscape by Sir Augustus Callcott : several ... historical and noble portraits : drawings in water-colours- including an early work of Turner, R.A. : and some modern engravings : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, March 17, 1855, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The Wabash, or, Adventures of an English gentleman's family in the interior of America / By J. Richard Beste, Esq. ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Beste, J. Richard (John Richard), 1806–1885
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah / by Richard F. Burton.

Creator:: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821–1890
Date:: 1855-1856
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. English Gothic architecture, or, Suggestions relative to the designing of domestic buildings, ornaments, church-yard memorials, chimney pieces, and alphabets / by John Gibbs ...

Creator:: Gibbs, John, architect
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 13 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Coaxing Mother

2. In Church

3. Assault of Sevastopol : two topographical & panoramic sketches, representing the advanced lines of attack, and the Russian defences, in front of Sevastopol : with a description and remarks / the sketches by Captain M.A. Biddulph.

4. The history of Sandford and Merton: a book for the young. By Thomas Day.

5. The poetical works of Lord Byron.

6. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland / illustrated by Robert William Billings, architect, 1845-52 ; in four volumes.

7. Visitors' souvenir of the sea side.

8. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

10. Sporting adventures in the new world, or, Days and nights of moose-hunting in the pine forests of Acadia / by Lieut. Campbell Hardy, Royal Artillery ; in two volumes.

13. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

14. The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain. By Anne Pratt ...

15. D'Albert's Album : 1855.

16. The coinage of the British Empire : an outline of the progress of the coinage in Great Britain and her dependencies : from the earliest period to the present time / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; illustrated by facsimiles of the coins of each period, worked in gold, silver, and copper.

18. Christmas with the poets : a collection of songs, carols, and descriptive verses relating to the festival of Christmas : from the Anglo-Norman period to the present time / embellished with fifty-three tinted ilustrations by Birket Foster ; and with initial letters and other ornaments.

20. A visit to the exhibition : in eight changeable pictures, showing its beautiful objects of art and how they were made.

21. The geological staircase : containing the steps of rocks and floors of alluvium / by Professor Donaldson ...

22. Street architecture; a series of shop fronts and façades, characteristic of and adapted to different branches of commerce, by Victor Delassaux and John Elliott, architects. Engraved on steel by Philip Brannon.

23. Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851. Catalogue of a collection of works on or having reference to the exhibition of 1851, in the possession of C. Wentworth Dilke.

24. The arms of the colleges of Oxford / by Henry Shaw, F.S.A. author of Dress and decoration of the Middle Ages, &c. &c. ; with historical notices of the colleges by John W. Burgon, M.A. Fellow of Oriel College.

25. Horses and hounds : a practical treatise on their management / by "Scrutator" ; illustrated by Harrison Weir.

27. The campaign in the Crimea: an historical sketch, by George Brackenbury ... Illustrated by forty plates, from drawings taken on the spot by William Simpson.

28. Alliance ribbon, produced to commemorate the Crimean War.

29. Fred. Adam Schwartz & Co. Solenhofen Bavaria : principal owners of the quarries of superior lithographic stones : Vulcan Wharf, 14, Earl Street, Blackfriars, London.

30. Wheatsheaf.

32. Studio portrait of a woman.

33. The battles of Balaklava and Inkerman : a military spectacle, in two acts : written expressly for and adapted to Webb's characters & scenes in the same.

34. Norge fremstillet i Tegninger med oplysende text.

35. Illustrations of missionary scenes : an offering to youth.

36. Śakoontalá, or, The lost ring : an Indian drama / translated into English prose and verse, from the Sanskrit of Kālidāsa, by Monier Williams, M.A., Professor of Sanskrit at the East-India College, Haileybury, formerly Boden scholar in the University of Oxford.

37. The task, a poem by William Cowper. Illustrated by Birket Foster.

38. Voyage aux pays aurifères Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie, Russie par le capitaine A.C. de La Carrières. Illustré de 12 gravures à deux teintes et d'un très-grand nombre de vignettes sur bois. Par J.B. Arnout père.

39. Embossed picture cards.

40. Souvenir of the North.

41. The story of the campaign of Sebastopol / written in the camp by Lieut. Col. E. Bruce Hamley ; with illustrations drawn in camp by the author.

42. Four short chapters on horses, hunting, and the turf / by the late Major Rose, 55th Regiment.

43. Hand-book of water-colours : a brief treatise on their qualities and effects when employed in painting : with some account of the general nature of colours / by W. Winsor and H.C. Newton ...

44. Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours : avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter / publiée par MM. Firmin Didot frères, sous la direction de M. le Dr Hoefer.

45. A companion to the new rifle musket : comprising, practical information on the cleaning and management of arms, and on the making of cartridges ; illustrated by tinted plates.

46. Landscape scenery : illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson, New South Wales.

47. The natural history of man : comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family / by James Cowles Pritchard ...

48. Ashbee and Dangerfield, lithographic artists & printers in colors, ornamental designers and engravers on wood & copper : 22 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.

49. Tam O'Shanter / by Robert Burns.

50. The music master : a love story ; and two series of day and night songs / by William Allingham ; with nine woodcuts, seven designed by Arthur Hughes, one by D. G. Rossetti, and one by John E. Millais, A.R.A.

52. Biographical memoir of John Montagu : with a sketch of some of the public affairs connected with the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, during his administration as colonial secretary, from 1843 to 1853 / by W.A. Newman.

53. Stanford's map of the roads &c. between Odessa, Nikolaief, Perekop, Simferopol and Sebastopol / compiled from Russian maps in possession of the Royal Geographical Society, the Admiralty Charts, and other documents.

54. Eight years' wanderings in Ceylon / by S.W. Baker.

55. A month at Malvern under the water cure : with the sequel, etc., etc.. / by R.J. Lane ...

56. Art of landscape painting in water colours / by Thomas Rowbotham and Thomas L. Rowbotham.

57. Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin : with twenty illustrations by Percy Cruikshank.

59. Hand-book for young painters / by C.R. Leslie ... ; with illustrations.

61. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. After lithographs by Louis Haghe from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly.

62. Sketches of Malvern.

63. Set of drawing instruments.

64. The history and description of St. George's Church at Doncaster : destroyed by fire February 28, 1853 / by John Edward Jackson ...

65. Cruchley's railway & telegraphic map of Somerset [cartographic material] : showing all the railways & names of stations, also the telegraph lines & stations ; improved from the Ordnance Surveys.

66. Hunter's Ottawa scenery in the vicinity of Ottawa City, Canada.

68. The magic ring : a merry game.

69. The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A fire-side pantomine for great and small children. By Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [pseud.] ...

70. Shadows of the East, or, Slight sketches of scenery, persons, and customs : from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece / by Catherine Tobin ; with maps and illustrations.

71. Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of a tour in the north of Italy / by George Edmund Street.

72. Album and commonplace book.

73. List of colours and materials for drawing and water colour painting : manufactured and sold by Winsor and Newton, no. 38, Rathbone Place, London.

74. The Sportsman's portfolio of American field sports.

75. The gathered lilies / the illuminations designed by Mrs. Howard Vyse and Miss Fanny Greville ; the original poem by F.H.

77. Album.

78. Wanderings and pencillings amongst ruins of the olden time, a series of seventy-three etchings, by George Cuitt. With descriptive letterpress.

79. The theory and practice of landscape painting in water colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-four designs, coloured diagrams, and numerous woodcuts; with two extra plates on simultaneous contrasts. By George Barnard. Leighton brothers' chromatic process.

80. Illustrations of the British paper manufacture / manufactured by Mr. T. H. Saunders ...

81. Description of a view of the city of Sebastopol and the surrounding fortifications, the attack of the allied armies, the British & French camps, &c. : now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square ; painted by the proprietor, Mr. Robert Burford ; the figures by H.C. Selous.

82. Illustrated catalogue of the distinguished collection of works of art and vertû, from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize, collected by the late Ralph Bernal, Esq. : sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson : with the purchasers' names and prices.

83. The philosophy of the beautiful / by John G. Macvicar ...

84. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton, 1855-1875.