Creator Gender: unknown / Date: 1855 / Language: English / Classification: Books

1. Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1855 / by the author of Modern painters.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 30 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Lessons on trees / by J. D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Guide and Companion to Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

Lessons on trees / by J. D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Guide and Companion to Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: [8] p., 30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 89 p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Sketches of Malvern.

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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. 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

55. 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

56. 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

57. 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

58. 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

59. 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

60. 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

61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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

68. Flowers from many lands : a Christian companion for hours of recreation.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: iv, 251 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico : its middle state in the Cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis ... / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Creator:: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 178 p., 28 [i.e. 30] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. 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

71. Reliquiæ antiquæ eboracenses, or, Remains of antiquity, relating to the county of York : illustrated by plates and woodcuts / by William Bowman ... ; assisted by several local antiquaries.

Creator:: Bowman, William
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [6], 96 p., 15 leaves of plates (somee folded) : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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

75. 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

76. 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

77. Aunt Jane's verses for children / by Jane Crewdson ; illustrated ; from the second London edition.

Creator:: Crewdson, T. D., Mrs., 1808–1863
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: 144 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

78. Transparency painting on linen : for decorative purposes, panoramic and dioramic effects, ornamental blinds : with instructions for the preparation of the linen, the combination and transfer of ornamental designs, combined surfaces, &c. / by W. Williams ; with illustrations by Charles Sibley ; engraved by Dalziel.

Creator:: Williams, W.
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: viii, [9]-52, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Six views in Kent, coloured.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 11 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Selections from the works of the late Sylvester Genin, esq., in poetry, prose, and historical design. With a biograpical sketch.

Creator:: Genin, Sylvester, 1822–1850
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 252 p. front. (port.) 15 plates (incl. ports.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The world's metropolis, or Mighty London, Illustrated by a series of views beautifully engraved on steel. Of its palaces, public buildings, monuments & streets, from original drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd, Esqr. To which is added a comprehensive history from the earliest period to the present day.

Date:: 1855]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 236, [4] p. front. (port.) plates (part col., part double) port. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Ornamental coloured designs, for the use of students, house decorators, and others ...

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 10 pts. col. plates (1 double) 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. 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

84. The grammar of form.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin Richard, 1808–1876
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: XXIV leaves : all ill. : 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

88. 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

89. A practical treatise on mine engineering. By G.C. Greenwell ...

Creator:: Greenwell, George Clementson, 1821–1900
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 204 p. double col. front., illus., 61 col. plates (part double, incl. maps, plans, diagrs.) 31 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The seat of war in the East by William Simpson ...

Creator:: Brackenbury, George
Date:: 1855-1856
Physical Description:: 2 v. 81 col. plates. 57 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The Dead Sea, a new route to India : with other fragments and gleanings in the east / by Captain William Allen.

Creator:: Allen, William, 1793–1864
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Scutari and its hospitals / by the Hon. and Rev. Sydney Godolphin Osborne.

Creator:: Osborne, Sidney Godolphin, Lord, 1808–1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: vii, 54 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Assignatio dotis Elizabethæ Comitissæ de Ferrers anno 29 H. VI.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 7 p. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Colbran's new guide for Tunbridge Wells, being a full and accurate description of the Wells and its neighbourhood within a circuit of nearly twenty miles, and notices of the London and Dover railway; illustrated with plates, wood engravings, etc. of most of the principal places.

Creator:: Phippen, James
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., [v]-x, 353, [1], 4, 28 p. front., ill., plates (part fold.) fold. map. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Illustrated military hand-book : giving a familiar description of a fortress, the method of besieging it, and an explanation of all military terms.

Creator:: Old Soldier
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 25, [4] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. [Plan of a camp at Sevastopol, and plate of Purley font.

Date:: ca. 1855]
Physical Description:: 2 plates. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. An account of the history and manufacture of ancient and modern terra cotta : and of its use in architecture as a durable and elegant material for decoration / by J.M. Blashfield ...

Creator:: Blashfield, John Marriott
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 32 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. New palace (Westminster) : return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 10 May 1855, for, "Copies of so much of the plans of the architect of the new palace at Westminster as will show the manner in which he purposes to extend the buildings from the clock tower westwards, along Bridge-Street and around New Palace Yard, together with a statement of the purposes for which such buildings are proposed, and a report thereon from the Board of Works.".

Date:: 21 June 1855
Physical Description:: 7, [3] p., 5, [1] folding leaves of plates : ill, plans. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Lights along the line : a geographical and topographical description of the salubrious city of Southport, its literature and its art : with geological, historical, and metaphorical pencillings by the way / by Yrneh Koorbezarg.

Creator:: Koorbezarg, Yrneh
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [7]-60, [4] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Blackwood's comic Zadkiel : an almanac at once prophetical and profitable, logical and astrological, quizzical and physical, ombrological and symbolical, astronomically comical and comically astronomical, for the year 1855 : a work devoted to all the "ologies" except tautology, and containing full prophecies upon everything which nobody wishes to know : and truthfully foretelling every future event, from the winner of the Derby to the next revolution in the wheel of time / edited by Hain Friswell, author of "The shadow of St. Paul's," "Twelve insides," "Houses with the fronts off," "The Russian empire," etc. etc. ; and illustrated by William McConnell.

Date:: MDCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:: [10], [v]-viii, [9]-96 p., [7] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1855 / by the author of Modern painters.

2. Lessons on trees / by J. D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Guide and Companion to Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

3. A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

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

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

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

20. 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.

22. Souvenir of the North.

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

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

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

26. Sketches of Malvern.

27. 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.

28. 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.] ...

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

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

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

32. Visitors' souvenir of the sea side.

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

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

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

36. 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.

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

38. 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.

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

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

42. Tam O'Shanter / by Robert Burns.

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

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

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

48. 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.

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

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

51. 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.

52. 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.

53. 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.

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

55. 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.

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

57. 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 ...

59. The poetical works of Lord Byron.

60. 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.

61. 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.

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

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

66. 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.

68. Flowers from many lands : a Christian companion for hours of recreation.

70. 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.

71. Reliquiæ antiquæ eboracenses, or, Remains of antiquity, relating to the county of York : illustrated by plates and woodcuts / by William Bowman ... ; assisted by several local antiquaries.

74. 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 ...

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

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

77. Aunt Jane's verses for children / by Jane Crewdson ; illustrated ; from the second London edition.

79. Six views in Kent, coloured.

80. Selections from the works of the late Sylvester Genin, esq., in poetry, prose, and historical design. With a biograpical sketch.

82. Ornamental coloured designs, for the use of students, house decorators, and others ...

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

84. The grammar of form.

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

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

88. 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.

89. A practical treatise on mine engineering. By G.C. Greenwell ...