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1. The history and antiquities of the county of Essex : compiled from the best and most ancient historians, from Domesday-book, Inquisitiones post mortem, and other the most valuable records and mss. &c. / the whole digested, improved, perfected, and brought down to the present time, by Philip Morant ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Creator:
Morant, Philip, 1700–1770
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. (some folded), 9 maps, plan ; 48 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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

3. Journal of a voyage to Greenland, in the year 1821 : with graphic illustrations / by George William Manby, Esq.

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Creator:
Manby, George William, 1765–1854
Date:
MDCCCXXII [1822]
Physical Description:
viii, 143, [1] pages, [21] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, map ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Memoir : prepared at the request of a committee of the Common council of the city of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals / by Cadwallader D. Colden.

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Creator:
Colden, Cadwallader D. (Cadwallader David), 1769–1834
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
v, [3], 408, [2], pages, [53] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Sketches of Bermuda, or Somers' islands / by Richard Cotter, Purser, R.N.

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Creator:
Cotter, Richard
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
viii, 69, [1] pages, [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Durobrivae of Antoninus : identified and illustrated in a series of plates : exhibiting the excavated remains of that Roman station, in the vicinity of Castor, Northamptonshire : including the mosaic pavements, inscriptions, paintings in fresco, baths, iron and glass furnaces, potters' kilns, implements for coining, and the manufacture of earthen vessels, war and other instruments in brass, iron, ivory, &c / discovered by E.T. Artis, F.S.A.F.G.S. &c. &c.

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Creator:
Artis, Edmund Tyrell, 1789–1847
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages, LX leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe / exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville : publié par ordonnance de Sa Majesté.

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Creator:
Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César, 1790–1842
Date:
1830-1834
Physical Description:
13 volumes in 20 : illustrations, maps ; 24-54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's strait : to co-operate with the polar expeditions : performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. F.R.S., F.R.A.S., and F.R.G.S in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28 : published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty : in two parts.

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Creator:
Beechey, Frederick William, 1796–1856
Date:
MDCCCXXXI [1831]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The West India sketch book : in two volumes.

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Creator:
Wentworth, Trelawney
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The journal and letters of the late Thomas Browne Parker, of Sweeney in the County of Salop, Esq. : during a tour with his friend Edward Joshua Cooper of Markree Castle in the Co. of Sligo, Esqre. M.P. : through Bavaria, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, & the Crimea, in the years 1824, 1825, & 1826 / transcribed, arranged, and illustrated (with copies of the drawings made during the tour by the artist Sig. Bossi, sketches in the Crimea by T.B.P. &c., and insertion of portraits, prints, &c. collected by T.B.P. in his travels) by his affectionate sister Mary Leighton, Loton Park, 1835.

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Creator:
Parker, Thomas Browne, 1797–1833
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
3 volumes (544 pages) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'empereur Nicolas 1er, sur la corvette le Séniavine, dans les années 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829 / par Frédéric Lutké, Capitaine de Vaisseau ; aide-de-camp de S.M. L'Empereur, commandant de l'expedition.

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Creator:
Litke, F. P. (Fedor Petrovich), graf, 1797–1882
Date:
1835-36
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, maps, diagrams ; 23 cm + 2 atlases (58 and 67 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Journal de la navigation autour du globe, de la frégate La Thétis et de la corvette L'Espérance, pendant les années 1824, 1825, et 1826 : publié par ordre du roi sous les auspices du Département de la marine / par M. le baron de Bougainville ... chef de l'expédition.

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Creator:
Bougainville, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, baron de, 1781–1846
Date:
MDCCCXXXVII [1837]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, tables, 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. California : a history of Upper and Lower California from their first discovery to the present time, comprising an account of the climate, soil, natural productions, agriculture, commerce, &c. : a full view of the missionary establishments and condition of the free and domesticated Indians : with an appendix relating to steam navigation in the Pacific : illustrated with a new map, plans of the harbours, and numerous engravings / by Alexander Forbes, Esq.

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Creator:
Forbes, Alexander, 1778–1862
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xvi, 352 pages, [11] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The paths of life / by J.H. Cotterell ; drawn on stone by C. Burton.

The paths of life / by J.H. Cotterell ; drawn on stone by C. Burton.
Creator:
Cotterell, J. H. (Jacob Henry), -1868
Date:
[circa 1840]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 55 x 64 cm, folded to 16 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

15. Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Vénus, pendant les années 1836-1839 : publié par ordre du Roi, sous les auspices du ministre de la marine / par Abel Du Petit-Thomas, Capitaine de vaisseau, Commandeur de la Legion-d'Honneur.

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Creator:
Du Petit-Thouars, Abel Aubert, 1793–1864
Date:
1840-1864
Physical Description:
11 volumes in 9 : illustrations ; 24-25 cm + 4 atlases
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts