Creator Gender: unknown / Work Type: engraving and armorial bookplates (provenance)

1. Descrittione di M. Lodovico Gvicciardini patritio fiorentino, di tvtti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore : con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & con ritratto naturale di molte terre principali riueduta di nuovo, & ampliata per tutto piu che la meta dal medesimo autore ... Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.

Creator:: Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521–1589
Date:: 1581
Physical Description:: [24], 558, [18] pages : illustrations (maps, portrait, coats of arms) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo, matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo, e matematico primario del Serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano : proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l'vna, quanto per l'altra parte.

Creator:: Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
Date:: MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:: [8], 458, [32] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated : wherein is contained a geographical and historical description of that famous county, with all its hundreds and seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders; its rivers, towns, castles, buildings ancient and modern. Adorned with maps and prospects, and the coats of arms belonging to every individual family of the whole county / performed by William Smith, and William Webb, gentlemen. Published by Mr. Daniel King. To which is annexed, an exact chronology of all its rulers and governors both in church and state, from the time of the foundation of the stately city of Chester, to this very day: fixed by eclipses, and other chronological characters. Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants. Of the state ecclesiasticall. Of the civil government. Of the trade; and, of the strength of the island.

The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated : wherein is contained a geographical and historical description of that famous county, with all its hundreds and seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders; its rivers, towns, castles, buildings ancient and modern. Adorned with maps and prospects, and the coats of arms belonging to every individual family of the whole county / performed by William Smith, and William Webb, gentlemen. Published by Mr. Daniel King. To which is annexed, an exact chronology of all its rulers and governors both in church and state, from the time of the foundation of the stately city of Chester, to this very day: fixed by eclipses, and other chronological characters. Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants. Of the state ecclesiasticall. Of the civil government. Of the trade; and, of the strength of the island.

Creator:: King, Daniel, -1664?
Date:: 1656
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 239 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 55 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 34 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A nevv book of architecture : wherein is represented fourty figures of gates and arches triumphant, composed of different inventions according to the five orders of columnes, viz. the Tuscane, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite / by Alexander Francine ... ; with a description of each figure ; set forth by Robert Pricke, for the use and benefit of all ingenious workmen that are concerned in eminent building.

Creator:: Francine, Alexandre, -1648
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [4] pages, XXXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani : nec non urbis totius scenographia / delineavit & sculpsit Dav. Loggan Univ. Oxon. chalcographus.

Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani : nec non urbis totius scenographia / delineavit & sculpsit Dav. Loggan Univ. Oxon. chalcographus.

Creator:: Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:: ano. Dni. MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: [85] leaves (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [Portraits of figures of the court of Louis XIV].

Creator:: Dieu, Jean, 1654–1695
Date:: [1678-1698]
Physical Description:: [114] prints : engraving ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Gerardi de Lairesse, Leodiensis pictoris, Opus elegantissimum.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: [ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:: [56] double leaves of plates : all ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre : divisez en trois parties ... : ouvrage enrichi de plus de quatre-cens planches gravées en taille-douce / par Allain Manesson Mallet ...

Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre : divisez en trois parties ... : ouvrage enrichi de plus de quatre-cens planches gravées en taille-douce / par Allain Manesson Mallet ...

Creator:: Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?
Date:: 1696
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people. With the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties. Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.

Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: MDCXCIX [1699]
Physical Description:: [8], 248, 40 p., [2] double plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

Creator:: Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:: 1704
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David : and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

Creator:: Church of England
Date:: MDCCVI [1706]
Physical Description:: [372], 18, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

Creator:: Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:: 1707-1725
Physical Description:: 2 v., XI, 274 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. (frontispiece), map (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The life of Ælfred the Great / by Sir John Spelman Kt. ; from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library ; with considerable additions, and several historial remarks by the publisher Thomas Hearne, M.A..

Creator:: Spelman, John, Sir, 1594–1643
Date:: MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:: [6], 238, [10] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues, and with former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches.

Date:: MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:: [1296] pages : illustrations ; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c. / written by himself, now alive.

Creator:: Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Date:: 1720
Physical Description:: [3], page viii, 72, 136, 179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peters Westminster : containing an account of its ancient and modern building ... : with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it : together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats, collected from ancient mss. of that convent, and historians, & the lives of the deans to this time : and also, a survey of the church and cloysters, taken in the year 1723, with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands ... / by Mr. John Dart ; to which is added, Westminster Abbey, a poem, by the same author.

Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peters Westminster : containing an account of its ancient and modern building ... : with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it : together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats, collected from ancient mss. of that convent, and historians, & the lives of the deans to this time : and also, a survey of the church and cloysters, taken in the year 1723, with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands ... / by Mr. John Dart ; to which is added, Westminster Abbey, a poem, by the same author.

Creator:: Dart, John, -1730
Date:: [between 1723 and 1727]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports, plan ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Le cabinet des plus beaux portraits des plusieurs princes & princesses, hommes illustres, fameux peintres & autres / faits par le fameux Antoine Van Dyck, Chevalier et Peintre du Roi, quel l'auteur a fait graver à ses propres dépens, par les meilleurs graveurs de son temps ; cette ouvrage peut aussi servir pour supplement au Cabinet du fameux van Dyck, imprimez à Anvers.

Creator:: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [49] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The works of Edmund Waller, esqr., in verse and prose : published by Mr. Fenton.

Creator:: Waller, Edmund, 1606–1687
Date:: MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:: 9 p.l., 450, xci, [1] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

Creator:: Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:: MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

Creator:: Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:: MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:: [8], 42 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Fabbriche' antiche' / disegnate' da Andrea Palladio Vicentino e date in luce' da Riccardo Conte' di Burlington.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXX [1730, i.e. 1735]
Physical Description:: [42] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:: [12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

Date:: [1739-1753]
Physical Description:: [104] prints : engravings ; 24 x 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

Creator:: Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:: [1739]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 20 sheets ; sheets 53 x 72 cm or smaller, bound 53 x 41 cm. + 1 key map (48 x 47 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.

Creator:: Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708–1742
Date:: MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:: 16 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta : quibus Romanorum veterum ritus varii tam sacri quam profani, tum Graecorum atque Aegyptiorum nonnulli illustrantur / Romæ olim maxima ex parte collecta ; ac dissertationibus jam singulis instructa, a Conyers Middleton, S.T.P. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Protobibliothecario ; his appendicis item loco adjuncta est mumiae Cantabrigiensis descriptio.

Creator:: Middleton, Conyers, 1683–1750
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: xii, 266, [8] p., 23 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.

Creator:: Ellis, Henry, 1721–1806
Date:: MDCCXLVII [1748]
Physical Description:: xxviii, 336 [i.e. 344] pages, [9] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:: [12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A new treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner for many years practice and experience : with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies / by William Gibson, surgeon, in Duke-Sreet, Grosvenor-Square ; illustrated with thirty-two copper-plates.

Creator:: Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750
Date:: MDCCLI [1751]
Physical Description:: [12], 464, [12] pages, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Les ruines de Palmyre, autrement dite, Tedmor au desert.

Creator:: Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771
Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: [6], 50 pages, LVII leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Réflexions sur l'alphabet et sur la langue dont on se servoit autrefois à Palmyre / par M. l'Abbé Barthelemy.

Creator:: Barthélemy, J.-J. (Jean-Jacques), 1716–1795
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 8 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

Creator:: Aheron, John
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: vi, 110, 8, [20] pages, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

Creator:: Lacombe de Prézel, Honoré, 1725–
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 307, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [18] leaves : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies / compiled from authentic memoirs, revised by gentlemen who have resided many years in the Spanish settlements ; and illustrated with thirty-two maps and plans, chiefly from original drawings taken from the Spaniards in the last war, and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

Creator:: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [4], xxiv, 106, [2] pages, 32 folded leaves of plates : maps, plans ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

Creator:: Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734–1794
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [8], 128 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682–1761
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Monumenti antichi inediti / spiegati ed illustrati da Giovanni Winckelmann ; prefetto delle antichità di Roma.

Creator:: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from His Lordship's mss. / by James Kennedy.

Creator:: Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [10], xxxviii, 116, [2] pages, 25 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

42. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: [1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:: 102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Practical farriery, or, The complete directory : in whatever relates to the food, management, and cure of the diseases incident to horses ; the whole alphabetically digested, and illustrated with copper-plates / by John Blunt, surgeon, at Leominster, Hereforshire.

Practical farriery, or, The complete directory : in whatever relates to the food, management, and cure of the diseases incident to horses ; the whole alphabetically digested, and illustrated with copper-plates / by John Blunt, surgeon, at Leominster, Hereforshire.

Creator:: Blunt, John, surgeon
Date:: MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:: viii, 316, [8] p., III leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (engraving) ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: January 12, 1773
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

Creator:: Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: [12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Horda angel-cynnan, or, A compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the inhabitants of England : from the arrival of the Saxons, till the reign of Henry the Eighth : with a short account of the Britons, during the government of the Romans : in two volumes / by Joseph Strutt ; author of the regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCLXXV-MDCCLXXVI [1775-1776]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Variety of capitals, freezes, and corniches : and how to increase, or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original : likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates / published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani.

Creator:: Columbani, Placido
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 12, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The journey from Chester to London.

Creator:: Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:: MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 452, [6] pages, 22 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Proposal for county naval free-schools : to be built on waste lands, giving such effectual instructions to poor boys, as may nurse them for the sea service : teaching them also to cultivate the earth, that in due time tey may furnish their own food : & to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, etc. with a view to provide their own raiment, while good regulations and discipline, diffuse a moral & religious oeconomy through the land.

Creator:: Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:: [1783]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, [1], x-xxii, [2], 2, 90, [4], 91-120, [2], 121-141, [1], 48, [4], v, [3], 67, [1] pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

Creator:: Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:: 24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The history and antiquities of the archiepiscopal palace of Lambeth : from its foundation to the present time / by Dr. Ducarel, F.R. and A.SS.

Creator:: Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713–1785
Date:: MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Physical Description:: [4], vi-ix, 132, 72 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment : containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories ... : accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions ... a complete set of county-maps ... together with an authentic account of Doomsday-Book ... / published under the inspection of Henry Boswell ... assisted by Robert Hamilton ... and other ingenious gentlemen ...

Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment : containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories ... : accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions ... a complete set of county-maps ... together with an authentic account of Doomsday-Book ... / published under the inspection of Henry Boswell ... assisted by Robert Hamilton ... and other ingenious gentlemen ...

Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elizabeth Langhorne

53. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

Creator:: Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 4-194 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. (4vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy H. Bartels

54. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. New description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough : to which is prefixed, Blenheim, a poem.

Creator:: Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: ix, [3], 172 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

56. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

Creator:: Anburey, Thomas, author
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCI [1789-1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture : in the newest and most approved taste, displaying a great variety of patterns ... : also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... / from drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. cabinet-makers.

Creator:: A. Hepplewhite and Co
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: iv, 24, [1] p., 125 plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions / by John White, esqre., surgeon general to the settlement.

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions / by John White, esqre., surgeon general to the settlement.

Creator:: White, John, active 1757–1759
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: [16], 299, [37] pages, [66] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Antiquités nationales, ou, Recueil de monuments : pour servir à l'histoire générale et particulière de l'empire françois, tels que tombeaux, inscriptions, statues, vitraux, fresque, etc. ; tirés des abbayes, monastères, châteaux, et autres lieux devenus domaines nationaux / par Aubin-Louis MIllin.

Creator:: Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759–1818
Date:: 1790-1797
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

Creator:: Birch, William, 1760–1794?
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [8] pages, x, [36] leaves, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Catalogue raisonné d'une collection generale de pierres gravées antiques et modernes, tant en creux que camées, tirées des cabinets les plus celébres de l'Europe : moulées en pâtes de couleurs a l'imitation des pierres, emaux blancs, et soufres, par Jacques Tassie, sculpteur / mis en ordre et le texte rédigé par R.E. Raspe ; orné de planches gravées ; au quel on a ajouté un discours preliminaire sur les differents usages de cette collection, sur l'origine de l'art de graver les pierres dures, et le progrès de l'invention des pâtes.

Creator:: Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737–1794
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A collection of English grasses.

Creator:: Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:: circa 1792-1808
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([1], 105 leaves) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England / with explanatory observations on armorial ensigns, by James Dallaway, A.M. of Trinity College Oxford, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Creator:: Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:: [4], xiii, [1], 424, [4], cxii pages, [28] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 164, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

67. Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Date:: MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 27, [3] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed, undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver.

Creator:: Vancouver, George, 1757–1798
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 31 x 24 cm (4to) + 1 atlas ([16] leaves of plates (6 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm (folio))
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

Creator:: La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747–1827
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : maps, charts ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in four parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ; recommended by many workmen of the first abilities in London, who have themselves inspected the work.

Creator:: Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: viii, viii, [1], 6-120, 171-446, [3], 4-60, 24 pages, [124] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, counsellor of state to His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, Knight, &c. ; in two volumes ; with many coloured vignettes, plates and maps.

Creator:: Pallas, Peter Simon, 1741–1811
Date:: MDCCCII-MDCCCIII [1802-1803]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Journal of the late campaign in Egypt : including descriptions of that country, and of Gibralter, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri : with an appendix, containing official papers and documents / by Thomas Walsh, Captain in His Majesty's ninety-third regiment of foot, aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir Eyre Coots, K. B. and K.c. M. P. &c. ; illustrated by numerous engravings of antiquities, views, costumes, plans, positions, &c.

Journal of the late campaign in Egypt : including descriptions of that country, and of Gibralter, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri : with an appendix, containing official papers and documents / by Thomas Walsh, Captain in His Majesty's ninety-third regiment of foot, aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir Eyre Coots, K. B. and K.c. M. P. &c. ; illustrated by numerous engravings of antiquities, views, costumes, plans, positions, &c.

Creator:: Walsh, Thomas, fl. 1801
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: viii, [20], 261, [7], *145, [1] p., 49 [i.e.41] leaves of plates ([9] folded) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. An historical account of Corsham House, in Wiltshire, the seat of Paul Cobb Methuen, Esq. : with a catalogue of his celebrated collection of pictures dedicated to the patrons of the British Institution, and embracing a concise historical essay on the fine arts : with a brief account of the different schools, and a review of the progressive state of the arts in England : also biographical sketches of the artists, whose works constitute this collection / by John Britton ; embellished with a view and plan of the house.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: [4], 108 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

75. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

Creator:: Daniel, William Barker, 1753?-1833
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Travels through the Canadas, containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes : with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners and customs of several of the Indian nations of North and South America / by George Heriot, Esq., Deputy Post Master general of British North American ; illustrated with a map and numerous engravings, from drawings made at the several places by the author.

Creator:: Heriot, George, 1759–1839
Date:: [1807]
Physical Description:: xii, 602 pages, [28] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. : from His Lordship's manuscripts / by the Rev. James Stanier Clarke, F.R.S., Librarian to the Prince, and Chaplain of His Royal Highness's Household, and John M'Arthur, Esq. LL.D., Late Secretary to Admiral Lord Viscount Hood.

The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. : from His Lordship's manuscripts / by the Rev. James Stanier Clarke, F.R.S., Librarian to the Prince, and Chaplain of His Royal Highness's Household, and John M'Arthur, Esq. LL.D., Late Secretary to Admiral Lord Viscount Hood.

Creator:: Clarke, James Stanier, 1765?-1834
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. An historical survey of the ecclesiastical antiquities of France : with a view to illustrate the rise and progress of Gothic architecture in Europe / by the late Rev. G.D. Whittington, of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Creator:: Whittington, G. D. (George Downing)
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: [2], xv, [3], 188 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The history and delineation of the horse, in all his varieties : comprehending the appropriate uses, management, and progressive improvement of each : with a particular investigation of the character of the race-horse, and the business of the turf : illustrated by anecdotes and biographical notices of distinguished sportsmen : the engravings from original paintings : with instructions for breeding, breaking, training, and the general management of the horse, both in a state of health and of disease / by John Lawrence, author of "A philosophical and practical treatise on horses," &c. &c.

Creator:: Lawrence, John, 1753–1839
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: iv, [1], 6-288, [4] pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Thoughts on hunting : in a series of familiar letters to a friend / by William Beckford, Esq. ; illustrated by plates, from original paintings, engraved by Mr. John Scott.

Creator:: Beckford, Peter, 1740–1811
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: vi, 314 pages, [10] leaves of plates, ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Views of Oxford / by T. Malton.

Creator:: Malton, Thomas, 1748–1804
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 1 leaf, [44] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Views of Oxford / by T. Malton.

Creator:: Malton, Thomas, 1748–1804
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 31 leaves : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The itinerary of Greece : with a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country : compiled in the years 1801-06 / by W. Gell Esq. M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A.

Creator:: Gell, William, Sir, 1777–1836
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [6], 171, [9] p., 28 leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The fine arts of the English school : illustrated by a series of engravings, from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists : with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays, by various authors / edited, and partly written by John Britton, F.S.A.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [128] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1813-1817
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. (some col.), port., plans, map ; 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A memoir, explanatory of the chart and survey of the county of London-Derry, Ireland / by the Rev. George Vaughan Sampson.

Creator:: Sampson, George Vaughan
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 359 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions & views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! / written in French by Alexander de Humboldt & translated into English by Helen Maria Williams.

Creator:: Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. A history of the University of Cambridge : its colleges, halls, and public buildings.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 2 v. : col. ill., port., plans ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. A history of the western division of the county of Sussex : including the rapes of Chichester, Arundel, and Bramber, with the city and diocese of Chichester / by James Dallaway ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Date:: 1815-1832
Physical Description:: 2 volumes in 3 : illustrations, maps, plans ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The history of Java / by Thomas Stamford Raffles, Esq., late Lieut.-Governor of that Island and its dependencies, F.R.S. and A.S., member of that Asiatic Society at Calcutta, Honorary Member of the Literary Society at Bombay, and late President of the Society of Arts and Science at Batavia ; in two volumes ; with a map and plates.

Creator:: Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781–1826
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The dance of life : a poem / by the author of "Doctor Syntax" ; illustrated with coloured engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 4 unnumbered pages, ii, ii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. An historical and topographical account of the town of Woburn, its abbey, and vicinity : containing also a concise genealogy of the house of Russell, and memoirs of the late Francis Duke of Bedford.

Creator:: Dodd, Stephen, active 1818
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 140 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

93. Introduction to the Original delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, intituled The beauties of England and Wales : comprising observations on the history and antiquities of the Britons ... : together with remarks on the progress of ... architecture in succeeding ages / by J. Norris Brewer.

Creator:: Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: xl, 676 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. A picturesque tour of Italy : from drawings made in 1816-1817 / by James Hakewill, archt.

Creator:: Hakewill, James, 1778–1843
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [98] pages, [63] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Vases from the collection of Sir Henry Englefield, bart. / drawn and engraved by H. Moses.

Creator:: Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752–1822
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: [2], 60, [4] p., 39 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. An historical and topographical sketch of Knole, in Kent : with a brief genealogy of the Sackville family : embellished with engravings / by John Bridgman.

Creator:: Bridgman, John
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [5], p. viii, 164 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

97. A bibliographical antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany / by the Rev. Tho. Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S. S.A.

Creator:: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Regal heraldry : the armorial insignia of the kings and queens of England, from coeval authorities / by Thomas Willement, heraldic artist to His Majesty King George the Fourth.

Creator:: Willement, Thomas, 1786–1871
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [5], viii-x, [2], 116 pages, XXXVI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Views of the cathedral churches of England and Wales : with descriptions / by John Chessell Buckler.

Creator:: Buckler, John Chessell, 1793–1894
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [180] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

Creator:: Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

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5. Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani : nec non urbis totius scenographia / delineavit & sculpsit Dav. Loggan Univ. Oxon. chalcographus.

6. [Portraits of figures of the court of Louis XIV].

7. Gerardi de Lairesse, Leodiensis pictoris, Opus elegantissimum.

8. Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre : divisez en trois parties ... : ouvrage enrichi de plus de quatre-cens planches gravées en taille-douce / par Allain Manesson Mallet ...

10. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

13. The life of Ælfred the Great / by Sir John Spelman Kt. ; from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library ; with considerable additions, and several historial remarks by the publisher Thomas Hearne, M.A..

14. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues, and with former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches.

18. The works of Edmund Waller, esqr., in verse and prose : published by Mr. Fenton.

20. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

21. Fabbriche' antiche' / disegnate' da Andrea Palladio Vicentino e date in luce' da Riccardo Conte' di Burlington.

24. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

25. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

26. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

27. Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.

32. Les ruines de Palmyre, autrement dite, Tedmor au desert.

33. Réflexions sur l'alphabet et sur la langue dont on se servoit autrefois à Palmyre / par M. l'Abbé Barthelemy.

34. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

35. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

36. A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

38. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

40. Monumenti antichi inediti / spiegati ed illustrati da Giovanni Winckelmann ; prefetto delle antichità di Roma.

42. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

43. Practical farriery, or, The complete directory : in whatever relates to the food, management, and cure of the diseases incident to horses ; the whole alphabetically digested, and illustrated with copper-plates / by John Blunt, surgeon, at Leominster, Hereforshire.

48. The journey from Chester to London.

50. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

51. The history and antiquities of the archiepiscopal palace of Lambeth : from its foundation to the present time / by Dr. Ducarel, F.R. and A.SS.

53. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

54. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

55. New description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough : to which is prefixed, Blenheim, a poem.

56. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

57. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

59. Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions / by John White, esqre., surgeon general to the settlement.

61. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

63. A collection of English grasses.

64. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England / with explanatory observations on armorial ensigns, by James Dallaway, A.M. of Trinity College Oxford, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

65. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

66. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

67. Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

68. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

70. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

71. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in four parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ; recommended by many workmen of the first abilities in London, who have themselves inspected the work.

72. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, counsellor of state to His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, Knight, &c. ; in two volumes ; with many coloured vignettes, plates and maps.

75. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

77. The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. : from His Lordship's manuscripts / by the Rev. James Stanier Clarke, F.R.S., Librarian to the Prince, and Chaplain of His Royal Highness's Household, and John M'Arthur, Esq. LL.D., Late Secretary to Admiral Lord Viscount Hood.

78. An historical survey of the ecclesiastical antiquities of France : with a view to illustrate the rise and progress of Gothic architecture in Europe / by the late Rev. G.D. Whittington, of St. John's College, Cambridge.

80. Thoughts on hunting : in a series of familiar letters to a friend / by William Beckford, Esq. ; illustrated by plates, from original paintings, engraved by Mr. John Scott.

81. Views of Oxford / by T. Malton.

82. Views of Oxford / by T. Malton.

83. The itinerary of Greece : with a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country : compiled in the years 1801-06 / by W. Gell Esq. M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A.

84. The fine arts of the English school : illustrated by a series of engravings, from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists : with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays, by various authors / edited, and partly written by John Britton, F.S.A.

85. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

86. A memoir, explanatory of the chart and survey of the county of London-Derry, Ireland / by the Rev. George Vaughan Sampson.

87. Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions & views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! / written in French by Alexander de Humboldt & translated into English by Helen Maria Williams.

88. A history of the University of Cambridge : its colleges, halls, and public buildings.

89. A history of the western division of the county of Sussex : including the rapes of Chichester, Arundel, and Bramber, with the city and diocese of Chichester / by James Dallaway ; in two volumes.

91. The dance of life : a poem / by the author of "Doctor Syntax" ; illustrated with coloured engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.

92. An historical and topographical account of the town of Woburn, its abbey, and vicinity : containing also a concise genealogy of the house of Russell, and memoirs of the late Francis Duke of Bedford.

94. A picturesque tour of Italy : from drawings made in 1816-1817 / by James Hakewill, archt.

95. Vases from the collection of Sir Henry Englefield, bart. / drawn and engraved by H. Moses.

96. An historical and topographical sketch of Knole, in Kent : with a brief genealogy of the Sackville family : embellished with engravings / by John Bridgman.

97. A bibliographical antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany / by the Rev. Tho. Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S. S.A.

98. Regal heraldry : the armorial insignia of the kings and queens of England, from coeval authorities / by Thomas Willement, heraldic artist to His Majesty King George the Fourth.

99. Views of the cathedral churches of England and Wales : with descriptions / by John Chessell Buckler.

100. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.