Creator Gender: unknown / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Period: 18th century / Classification: Books

1. A catalogue of curious and true original pictures, by the best Italian and other masters : viz. Mich. Angelo, Lucas Jordans, Vanderdoes, Vanzon, Burguignon, Hondecoeter, Saftleven, Brower, Rubens, Polenbergh, Dobson, Wyck, Wenix, Baptist, Huisman, &c. : will be sold by auction at the Marlborough Coffee-House the corner of Great Marlborough-Street, on Thursday next, being the 7th of this instant February, 1712 : the sale to begin exactly at three a clock in the afternoon, and must be all sold off that day : the pictures may be seen on the Tuesday and Wednesday before, and catalogues had gratis, at the place of sale.

A catalogue of curious and true original pictures, by the best Italian and other masters : viz. Mich. Angelo, Lucas Jordans, Vanderdoes, Vanzon, Burguignon, Hondecoeter, Saftleven, Brower, Rubens, Polenbergh, Dobson, Wyck, Wenix, Baptist, Huisman, &c. : will be sold by auction at the Marlborough Coffee-House the corner of Great Marlborough-Street, on Thursday next, being the 7th of this instant February, 1712 : the sale to begin exactly at three a clock in the afternoon, and must be all sold off that day : the pictures may be seen on the Tuesday and Wednesday before, and catalogues had gratis, at the place of sale.

Creator:: Marlborough Coffee House (London, England)
Date:: [1712]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 36 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: [2] pages ; 21cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

Creator:: Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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

10. The complete modern joiner, or, A collection of original designs in the present taste for chimney-pieces and door-cases : with their mouldings and enrichments at large, frizes, tablets, ornaments for pilasters, bases, sub-bases and cornices for rooms, &c. : with a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures to rooms of any size / by N. Wallis, Architect.

Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: [1772]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:: [6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Versailles illustrated, or Divers views of the several parts of the royal palace of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, groves, parterras, ye labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens, wherein are represented whatever is remarkable, whether statues, groups of figures, water falls, pleasure houses &c. : drawn on the spot by the order & with the approbation of the French king.

Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [29] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Proposals for publishing by subscription, an engraving from the historical picture painted by John Singleton Copley, R.A. : and now exhibiting in a pavilion, erected through the gracious permission of the King for the purpose, in the Green Park : this work ... is to be placed in the council chamber of Guildhall as a testimony of respect to the late Lord Heathfield, then governor of Gibralter, Earl Howe, commander of the fleet ... for their gallant conduct displayed in the defence and relief of that important fortress.

Date:: [180-]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

Creator:: Boothby, Brooke, Sir, 1743–1824
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 89 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Variety: a collection of essays. Written in the year 1787 ...

Creator:: Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: viii, [3], 297 p., 1 leaf. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning ano: 1584 to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journeyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes / by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.

Creator:: Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:: 1624
Physical Description:: [14], 96, 105-248 p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq., comprising his diary from 1641 to 1705-6 and a selection of his familiar letters, edited by John Evelyn.

Creator:: Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: 783 p. ill. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

Creator:: Saunders, George, 1762–1839
Date:: MDCCXC [1790 ]
Physical Description:: x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

Creator:: Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens ; with appendixes and notes by D.K. Swan.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: 533 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

23. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Views of the several parts of the palace, or castle of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, basins, groves, parterras, and other the most beautifull parts of the gardens : wherein are represented whatever are remarkable, as, statues, groups of figures, water-falls, &c. : drawn on the spot, by order, and with ye approbation of the French king : engraved in the year 1725.

Date:: [1725?]
Physical Description:: [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Characters / by Williams.

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Date:: ca. 1800?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Les delices des chateaux royaux, or, A pocket companion to the royal palaces of Windsor, Kensington, Kew, and Hampton Court : containing an account of their buildings, gardens, paintings, monuments and curiosities : with the institution and ceremonies of the order of the Garter : also a concise description of the towns, villages, and villas within XIV miles of Windsor : to which are added short sketches of the lives of the most eminent painters ...

Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: [6], 90, [2], 44, [2], 26, 32 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Billesdon Coplow : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

Creator:: Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 9, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Voyage historique de l'Amerique Meridionale : fait par ordre du roi d'Espagne / par Don George Juan ... et par Don Antoine de Ulloa ... ouvrage orné des figures, plans et cartes necessaires ; et qui contient une histoire de Yncas du Perou, et les observations astronomiques & physiques, faites pour déterminer la figure & la grandeur de la terre.

Creator:: Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716–1795
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The life of David Garrick : from original family papers, and numerous published and unpublished sources / by Percy Fitzgerald ; in four volumes.

Creator:: Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington, 1834–1925
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed / by Alexander Mackay-Smith ; with a foreword by Robert Moorman Denhardt.

Creator:: Mackay-Smith, Alexander
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 328 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

Creator:: Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement of Sydney cove / compiled from the original documents in the Public Record office, with extracts from the log-books of H.M.S. Sirius and an introduction and notes, by Owen Rutter ; forward by the Hon. B.S.B. Stevens, M.L.A., Premier of New South Wales ; five engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 149, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

Creator:: Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782
Date:: [between 1775 and 1780?]
Physical Description:: [2], 13, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Gallery of poets, Pall-Mall and Fleet Street : April 2, 1790 : catalogue of the third exhibition of pictures / painted for Mr. Macklin by the artists of Britain ; illustrative of the British poets and the Bible ...

Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: vii, 42 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [1], 4-67, [9] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Clemency to brutes : the substance of two sermons preached on a Shrove-Sunday, with a particular view to dissuade from that species of cruelty annually practised in England, the throwing at cocks.

Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by uparwards of seventy richly coloured engravings.

Creator:: Harding, Edward
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [152] p., [71] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1800 [i.e. not before 1821]
Physical Description:: [134] p., 60 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The complete works of Robert Burns / edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with a glossarial index and a biographical memoir by Alexander Smith.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: lxii, [4], 636, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

44. Religio philosophi: or, The principles of morality and Christianity, illustrated prom [!] a view of the universe, and of man's situation in it. By William Hay ...

Creator:: Hay, William, 1695–1755
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 4 p.l., 232 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1843-1844
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A catalogue of historical prints, various subjects, landscapes, sea pieces, views, &c. : after the most capital pictures in England / engraved by the most celebrated artists ; published by John and Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside.

Creator:: Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:: 1787-1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([4], 88; viii, 23 p.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Strictures on Lt.-Col. Tarleton's History "of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America" ... Wherein military characters and corps are vindicated from injurious aspersions, and several important transactions placed in their proper point of view. In a series of letters to a friend, by Roderick Mackenzie ... To which is added, a detail of the siege of Ninety Six, and the re-capture of the island of New-Providence.

Creator:: Mackenzie, Roderick
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., vi, 1 l. 186 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Appendiculae historicae, or, Shreds of history hung on a horn / by Fred. W. Lucas.

Creator:: Lucas, Fred. W. (Frederic William)
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: iv, 216 p., [9] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Fabbriche e disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi, architetto di S.M. l'Imperatore di Russia : cavaliere di Malta e di S. Walodimiro / illustrate dal cav. Giulio, suo figlio.

Creator:: Quarenghi, Giacomo, 1744–1817
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: 46 pages, [1], LIX leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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

51. Instruction sur l'art de séparer le cuivre du métal des cloches / publié par ordre du Comité de salut public.

Creator:: Pelletier, Bertrand, 1761–1797
Date:: l'an 2me. de la République française [1794]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

Creator:: Hoofnail, John
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: vi, 2, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

Creator:: Labat, maître d'armes
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

Creator:: Wilson, James Holbert, 1809–1873
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: [4], 68 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Reisen, Entdeckungen und Unternehmungen des Schifs-Capitain Johann Schmidt, oder John Smith : welche den wahren Ursprung derer englischen Colonien in Nord-Amerika bewirkt haben ... / gröstentheils aus dessilben eigenen Schriften beschrieben von Carl Friedrich Scheibler ...

Creator:: Scheibler, Carl Friedrich
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: 232, [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

Creator:: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555–1628
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: xxi, 3, 382 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century : consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons : and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes.

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1817-1858
Physical Description:: 8 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. De Londres et de ses environs.

Creator:: Cambry, Jacques, 1749–1807
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 p.., v [i.e. iv], 147 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Posthumous memoirs of his own time / by Sir N.W. Wraxall.

Creator:: Wraxall, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751–1831
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Six landscapes from original paintings.

Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. in folder 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Britannia's triumph in the year MDCCLXII : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, &c. &c. ... / these drawings were made by Lieutenant Philip Ousbridge, an officer on the spot ...

Creator:: Orsbridge, Philip, -1767
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 4, [4] pages, 11, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Illustrations of Shakspeare : being a selection of scenes, from the works of that great author / engraved on forty plates from designs by Stothard & Smirke.

Date:: [1787]
Physical Description:: [41] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. [Carriage and harness manufacturer's pattern book].

Date:: [179-?]
Physical Description:: [41] folded leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The history and present state of Virginia : in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time -- II. The natural productions and conveniencies of the country, suited to trade and improvement -- III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace. -- IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: MDCCV [1705]
Physical Description:: [12], 104, 40, 64, 83, [1], 16, [4] pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The costume of the Russian Empire / illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings ; with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: MDCCCIII [1803]
Physical Description:: [164] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

Date:: [ca. 1725?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Boydell's heads of illustrious and celebrated persons, generally connected with the history of Great Britain in the reigns of James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. The portraits painted by Van Dyke, Lely, Kneller, Riley, &c. Engraved by John Smith, &c. And revised by Richard Earlom. With biographical memoirs, by John Watkins, LL.D.

Creator:: Boydell and Co
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: viii, 94 p. front. (port.) ports. 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The glorious recovery by the Vaudois of their valleys, from the original by Henri Arnaud, their commander and pastor. With a compendious history of that people, previous and subsequent to that event. By Hugh Dyke Acland.

Creator:: Arnaud, Henri, 1641–1721
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: cxxii, xxv, 239, [1] p. front. (map) plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Billesdon Coplow : February 24th, 1800.

Creator:: Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:: [ca. 1827]
Physical Description:: [14] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

Creator:: Morosini, Andrea, 1558–1618
Date:: 1623
Physical Description:: [18], 729, [22] p., : port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Relation de l'expedition aux Indes Occidentales, contre la Martinique : avec la reduction de la Guadelupe, et autres Isles Sous Vent, appartenant au roi de France, en 1759 / par Mons. Gardiner, capitaine des Mousquetaires Royaux de S.M., autrefois capitaine des Troupes de Marine à bord le Rippon, vaisseau de S.M. employé à cette expedition.

Creator:: Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [6] pages, 91, [1] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

Creator:: Tower of London (London, England)
Date:: [approximately 169-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page.) ; 17 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

Creator:: Beatson, Robert, 1742–1818
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 211, [1], 372, 117, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The history of Virginia, in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706 : II. The natural productions and conveniences of the country, suited to trade and improvement : III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace : IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land, the 10th of June 1702 / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: [8], 284, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Streiflichter : six inscribed fragments concerning the French Revolution 1789-1805 / Ian Hamilton Finlay, Annet Stirling ; commentary by Siegfried Blasche.

Creator:: Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Date:: 1994
Physical Description:: [24] p. : ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jock Reynolds

78. Saint James's, or, The court of Queen Anne : an historical romance / by William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., ; author of "The Tower of London," "Windsor Castle," etc. ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in three volumes.

Creator:: Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805–1882
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

79. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

Creator:: Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 16 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 96 pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1779-1781
Physical Description:: 10 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States : with biographical particulars of public characters : hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade / by Charles William Janson, Esq. late of the state of Rhode Island, counsellor at law ; illustrated by engravings.

Creator:: Janson, Charles William
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xiii, [2], 16-22, 499, [7] pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, baron of Melcombe Regis : from March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761 : with an appendix, containing some curious and intersting [!] papers, which are either referred to, or alluded to, in the diary / published from His Lordship's original manuscripts by Henry Penruddocke Wyndham ...

Creator:: Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691–1762
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: xv, 504 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent : containing whatever is most worthy of notice in their ancient and present state ... with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of this great metropolis ... / by the Rev. John Entick ...

Creator:: Entick, John, 1703?-1773
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill., plans, ports., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: v, [132] p., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: x, 322 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

88. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The four Indian kings.

Date:: [1780?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 22 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. A catalogue of more than five thousand copper plates : engraved by the most esteemed British artists, during the last and present century, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, English, and other schools ... : the copper plates of the whole of these great works, with their impressions ... will be sold without reserve by Robert H. Evans ... on Monday June 1, 1818, and the five following days ... : comprising the entire stock of Messrs. John and Josiah Boydell, deceased ...

Creator:: Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: 58 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The complete works of Sir John Vanbrugh / the plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée : the letters edited by Geoffrey Webb.

Creator:: Vanbrugh, John, 1664–1726
Date:: MCMXXVII-MCMXXVIII [1927-1928]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Memoirs of Josias Rogers, esq. commander of His Majesty's ship Quebec. By the late William Gilpin ... Published by his trustees, for the benefit of his school, at Boldre.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., iii, 184 p. front. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. 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.

Creator:: Pallas, Peter Simon, 1741–1811
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam perillustris ac magnifici Domini Ignatii Christophori, nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall ... ab ... Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I ad ... Tzarum & Magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII ablegati extraordinarii / descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb ... ; accessit reditus Suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

Creator:: Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:: [1700?]
Physical Description:: [6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (13 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam : perillustris ac magnifici domini Ignatii Christophori nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall, sacri Romani imperii, & Regni Hungariae equitis, sacrae Caesareae Majestatis consiliarii Aulico-Bellici ab augustissimo, & invictissimo Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I. ad serenissimum, ac potentissimum Tzarum, & magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII / ablegati extraordinarii descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb, p.t. secretario ablegationis Caesareae ; accessit reditus suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

Creator:: Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:: [1700?]
Physical Description:: [6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 3 maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... By E. Hargrove.

Creator:: Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 4, 382 p. front., ill., plates, plan, col. fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Early English literature, 1519-1700, collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark, jr. ...

Creator:: Clark, William Andrews, 1877–1934
Date:: 1920-25
Physical Description:: 4 v. mounted front. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Description des tableaux qui ornent le grand appartement de l'Hôtel de Montcalm.

Creator:: Hôtel de Montcalm (Montpellier, France)
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 70 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

3. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

4. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

5. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

6. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

7. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

8. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

9. 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.

11. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

14. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

15. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

16. Variety: a collection of essays. Written in the year 1787 ...

18. Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq., comprising his diary from 1641 to 1705-6 and a selection of his familiar letters, edited by John Evelyn.

19. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

20. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

21. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

22. A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens ; with appendixes and notes by D.K. Swan.

25. Characters / by Williams.

27. Billesdon Coplow : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

29. The life of David Garrick : from original family papers, and numerous published and unpublished sources / by Percy Fitzgerald ; in four volumes.

30. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

31. The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed / by Alexander Mackay-Smith ; with a foreword by Robert Moorman Denhardt.

32. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

33. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

34. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

36. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

37. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

38. Gallery of poets, Pall-Mall and Fleet Street : April 2, 1790 : catalogue of the third exhibition of pictures / painted for Mr. Macklin by the artists of Britain ; illustrative of the British poets and the Bible ...

39. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

40. Clemency to brutes : the substance of two sermons preached on a Shrove-Sunday, with a particular view to dissuade from that species of cruelty annually practised in England, the throwing at cocks.

41. Costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by uparwards of seventy richly coloured engravings.

42. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

43. The complete works of Robert Burns / edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with a glossarial index and a biographical memoir by Alexander Smith.

44. Religio philosophi: or, The principles of morality and Christianity, illustrated prom [!] a view of the universe, and of man's situation in it. By William Hay ...

45. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

46. A catalogue of historical prints, various subjects, landscapes, sea pieces, views, &c. : after the most capital pictures in England / engraved by the most celebrated artists ; published by John and Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside.

48. Appendiculae historicae, or, Shreds of history hung on a horn / by Fred. W. Lucas.

49. Fabbriche e disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi, architetto di S.M. l'Imperatore di Russia : cavaliere di Malta e di S. Walodimiro / illustrate dal cav. Giulio, suo figlio.

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

51. Instruction sur l'art de séparer le cuivre du métal des cloches / publié par ordre du Comité de salut public.

53. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

54. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

55. Reisen, Entdeckungen und Unternehmungen des Schifs-Capitain Johann Schmidt, oder John Smith : welche den wahren Ursprung derer englischen Colonien in Nord-Amerika bewirkt haben ... / gröstentheils aus dessilben eigenen Schriften beschrieben von Carl Friedrich Scheibler ...

56. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

57. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

58. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

59. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century : consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons : and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes.

60. De Londres et de ses environs.

61. Posthumous memoirs of his own time / by Sir N.W. Wraxall.

62. Six landscapes from original paintings.

64. Illustrations of Shakspeare : being a selection of scenes, from the works of that great author / engraved on forty plates from designs by Stothard & Smirke.

65. [Carriage and harness manufacturer's pattern book].

67. The costume of the Russian Empire / illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings ; with descriptions in English and French.

68. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

70. The glorious recovery by the Vaudois of their valleys, from the original by Henri Arnaud, their commander and pastor. With a compendious history of that people, previous and subsequent to that event. By Hugh Dyke Acland.

71. Billesdon Coplow : February 24th, 1800.

72. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

74. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

75. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

77. Streiflichter : six inscribed fragments concerning the French Revolution 1789-1805 / Ian Hamilton Finlay, Annet Stirling ; commentary by Siegfried Blasche.

78. Saint James's, or, The court of Queen Anne : an historical romance / by William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., ; author of "The Tower of London," "Windsor Castle," etc. ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in three volumes.

79. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

80. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

81. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

82. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

86. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

87. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

89. The four Indian kings.

91. The complete works of Sir John Vanbrugh / the plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée : the letters edited by Geoffrey Webb.

92. Memoirs of Josias Rogers, esq. commander of His Majesty's ship Quebec. By the late William Gilpin ... Published by his trustees, for the benefit of his school, at Boldre.

93. 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.

98. The library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Early English literature, 1519-1700, collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark, jr. ...