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

101. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

Creator:: Boyn, John
Date:: 1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:: 1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Account book.

Creator:: Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Date:: 1784 January 1-December 31
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. Commonplace book.

Date:: circa 1830
Physical Description:: 1 v. (ca. 230 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. Botanical dialogues : between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry. Designed for the use of schools, / by a lady.

Creator:: Jackson, Maria Elizabeth
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [2], xlv, [1], 335, [3] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

Creator:: Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Date:: circa 1776-circa 1832
Physical Description:: 1 v. (270 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. 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

107. Narrative sketches of the conquest of the Mysore, effected by the British troops and their allies in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory / collected from authentic materials.

Date:: MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:: 134, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. Paul et Virginie / par Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.

Creator:: Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737–1814
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: xcii, 194, [5] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. The punishments of China / illustrated by twenty-two engravings with explanations in English and French.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1801 [i.e. 1822?]
Physical Description:: [54] p., 22 leaves of plates : 22 col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. 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

111. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde / par Antoine de Herrera ... ; translatee d'espagnol en françois ; a la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la navigation du vaillant capitaine de mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres ...

Creator:: Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:: 1622
Physical Description:: [6], 103, [7], 107-254 p., [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. 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

113. 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

114. 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

115. 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

116. A general map of North America : in which is express'd the several new roads, forts, engagements, & c, taken from actual surveys and observations made in the army employ'd there, from the years 1754, to 1761 / drawn by the late John Rocque, topographer to his majesty = Cartes generales de l'Amérique Septentrionale; en les quelles sont exprimis les nouvelles routes, forts, batailles, &c. d'apres les observations qui ou été faites depuis l'an 1754, jusqu'a l'an 1761: recuellies par feu Jean Rocque, topographe de sa Majesté Britannique.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [1762?]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets : hand colored ; 87 x 89 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 54 x 46 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. A plan of the city, and fortifications of Louisburg / from a survey made by Richard Gridley ... ; A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg : with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the siege in 1745.

Creator:: Gridley, Richard, 1711–1796
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet ; 38 x 47 cm. and 38 x 45 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

Creator:: Grierson, George, -1753
Date:: 1740]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / by Samuel Johnson : in four volumes.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 4 v. : port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

Creator:: Armstrong, John, -1758
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 66 x 45 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. 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

123. A letter to the people of Scotland on the alarming attempt to infringe the articles of the Union : and introduce a most pernicious innovation, by diminishing the number of the lords of Session / by James Boswell.

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 107 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. Mrs. Thrale, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi : a sketch of her life and passages from her diaries, letters & other writings / edited by L. B. Seeley ... with nine illustrations after Hogarth, Reynolds, Zoffany, & others.

Creator:: Seeley, L. B. (Leonard Benton), 1831–1893
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: x, 336 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. 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

126. 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

127. 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

128. 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

129. Every man his own brewer : a small treatise, explaining the art and mystery of brewing porter, ale, twopenny, and table-beer; recommending and proving the ease and possibility of every man's brewing his own beer, in any quantity from one peck to a hundred quarters of malt, calculated by exposing the deception in brewing; to reduce the expence of a family and lessen the destructive practice of public-house tipling / by Samuel Child, brewer.

Creator:: Child, Samuel
Date:: [1794?]
Physical Description:: 20, [4] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. Six picturesque views in North Wales / engraved in aquatinta by Alken, from drawings made on the spot ; with poetical reflections on leaving that country by Brian Broughton.

Creator:: Broughton, Brian, 1767?-1839
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: 32 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. A catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes) : illustrated in many instances, with two and three sets of proof and other plates : generally of the most choice editions : selected with great care, and the utmost liberality, during the last forty years : also, of the books of prints, galleries of art, curious missals and manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese drawings, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the Abbey, on Tuesday, the 9th of September, 1823, and nine following days : on Friday, the 3d of October, & four following days : and on Thursday, 23d October, 1823, & four following days, (Sundays and Mondays excepted) : at half-past twelve each day precisely.

Creator:: Phillips, H., -1840
Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: [12],113, [4], [121]-175, [3], 291-342, [6], 231-278, [1], 176-222, [2], 343-391, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. The Polygraphic Society, to the patrons and admirers of the polite arts.

Creator:: Polygraphic Society (London, England)
Date:: ca. 1789.]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 30 p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. 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

135. 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

136. 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

137. Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, the present bookseller, Finsbury-Square, London / written by himself ; in forty-seven letters to a friend.

Creator:: Lackington, James, 1746–1815
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: xix, [20]-352 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Comforts of Bath.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : aquatint ; 19 x 24 cm, mounted to leaves in an album 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. To the Queen this book of etchings, from papers cut by the Right Honourable Lady Templeton in the collection of Her Majesty, is with permission most humbly dedicated / by most devoted and very much obliged serv. P. W. Tomkins.

Creator:: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. A book of maps / by Geo. Hutson Jun., MDCCLXXVII.

Creator:: Hutson, George, 1754 or 5–1794
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 1 volume (37 leaves) : maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. Geometry exercise book.

Date:: circa 1780
Physical Description:: 1 v. (71 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1795, April 16-1816, September 10.

Creator:: Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Date:: 1795, April 16-1816, September 10
Physical Description:: 1 volume ([225] p.) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

143. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

Creator:: Forbes, Miss
Date:: 1780-1781
Physical Description:: 1 v. (115 leaves, with blanks) ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. Album.

Creator:: Cockburn, James Pattison, 1779–1847
Date:: 1823-1825
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([226] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street, Worcester.

Creator:: Simpson, Miss
Date:: ca. 1795
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([35] p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

Creator:: Pocklington, Joseph, 1736–1817
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([15] p.) ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR.

Creator:: Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:: 1750-1778
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([83] p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. An authentic historical racing calendar of all the plates, sweepstakes, matches, &c. run for at York, from the first commencement of the races there in the year 1709, to the year 1785 inclusive : comprehending a period of seventy-seven years: with an account of the cock-matches fought at York in each race-week for upwards of forty years. To which is added, an account of the races for the royal plates, run for by five years old mares, at Hambleton, York, and Richmond; and of the races that were run at Hambleton from the year 1748 to the year 1757, also of the races from the first commencement of the Gold Cups at Richmond and Doncaster; likewise for the Gold Cups at Beverley. In which is also given pedigrees and performances of the most celebrated race-horses, that have appeared upon the English turf since the time of Basto, Bay Bolton, Flying Childers, Brocklesby Betty, Bonny Black, &c. With an historical account of the most favourite Arabians, Turks, Barbs, English-stallions, and brood-mares. Likewise a complete alphabetical list of the subscribers to the York Assembly-Rooms in each race-week from 1752 to 1777. And an account of the Earls of March and Eglingtoun's carriage-match; of Mr. Shafto's time-match; of Mr. Thornhill's road-match; of Mr. Woodcock's riding 2900 miles; the late Sir C. Turner's leaping-match; fox-chaces, &c. The whole carefully compiled from authehtic materials / by W. Pick of York.

Creator:: Pick, W. (William), 1759?-1816
Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: viii, 198, 132 p. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. General inventory of Colonel Aston's furniture, plate, linen, china &c. September the 1, 1796 / Wm. Hadlow.

Creator:: Hadlow, William, fl. 1796
Date:: 1796-1802
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([4], 99 p., with blanks) : 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. John Morphett drawing and writing exercise book.

Creator:: Morphett, John
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 1 v. (12 leaves) : ill. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. The elegancies of fashion and general remembrancer of taste and manners, or, Impartial record of painting, music, elegant literature, the theatre, costume, and arts conducive to the ornament or amusement of polished life / by Florio Honeysuckle. Vol. I.

Creator:: Honeysuckle, Florio
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 1 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays : Number II. containing a letter, representing the impropriety of sending forces to Virginia : the importance of taking Frontenac : and that the preservation of Oswego was owing to General Shirley's proceeding thither : containing objections to those parts of Evan's general map and analysis, which relate to the French title to the country, on the north-west side of St. Laurence River, between Fort Frontenac and Montreal, &c. : published in the New-York Mercury, no. 178. Jan. 5, 1756 : with an answer to so much thereof as concerns the public : and the several articles set in a just light / by Lewis Evans.

Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: v, [1], 7-35, [1] pages ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. 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

154. Catalogue of pictures : copied or multiplied (for sale) by a chymical and mechanical process ; exhibited with the capital originals from which they have been taken, by the Polygraphic Society, at their rooms, in Pall-Mall : being their seventh exhibition : opened in January, 1792 : as specimens of what the Society engage to deliver to purchase.

Creator:: Polygraphic Society (London, England)
Date:: [1792]
Physical Description:: 14 p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Remarks concerning certain pictures supposed to be photographs of early date / by M.P.W. Boulton.

Creator:: Boulton, M. P. W. (Matthew Piers Watt), -1894
Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: 74 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. An account of the expedition to the West Indies against Martinico : with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands : subject to the French king, 1759 / by Captain Gardiner of the King's Royal Musqueteers, late Captain of Marines on board his Majesty's Ship Rippon, employed on this expedition.

Creator:: Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [6], 91, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates (2 folded) : i lllustrations, maps ; 31 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. The works of the English poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical / by Samuel Johnson.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1779-1781
Physical Description:: 68 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. 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

159. 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

160. Stedman's Nachrichten von Surinam und von seiner Expedition gegen die rebellischen Neger in dieser Kolonie in den Jahren 1772 bis 1777 : ein Auszug aus dem englischen Original.

Creator:: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744–1797
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: xiv, 522 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Mirroir de la mode.

Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: 100 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Atlas chinensis : being a second part of A relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tartar against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly, both of the whole empire of China in general, and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces / collected out of their several writing and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq. ...

Creator:: Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636–1689
Date:: MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:: [6], 723, [1] pages, [72] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. 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

164. 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

165. The model republic, or, Cato Potts in Paris [graphic] / by Watts Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, Watts, 1825–1874
Date:: [1850?]
Physical Description:: 19 pictures on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored etchings ; sheets end-to-end 15 x 179 cm, accordion folded to 14 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. 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

167. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building : ... rules of carpentry ... : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [20] p., 83 plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. [The passions delineated].

Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Antiquités d'Herculanum / gravées par Th. Piroli, et publiées par F. et P. Piranesi, frères.

Creator:: Piroli, Tommaso, approximately 1752–1824
Date:: 1804-1806
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

Date:: [1758?]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. 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

172. 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

173. 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

174. Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century : comprizing biographical memoirs of William Boywer, printer, F.S.A., and many of his learned friends : an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century: and biographical anecdotes of a considerable number of eminent writers and ingenious artists : with a very copious index / by John Nichols ...

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1812-1816
Physical Description:: 9 v. : fronts (v. 1-6, 8-9) plates, ports., 2 facsim. (1 fold.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. The prices of cabinet work, with tables and designs : illustrating the various articles of manufacture : revised and corrected by a committee of masters cabinet makers.

Creator:: Committee of Masters Cabinet Makers (London, England)
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: xvi, 259 p., xvi leaves, 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

Creator:: Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: [1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. 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

178. Essays, biographical, critical and historical illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler : and of the various periodical papers, which in imitation of the writings of Steele and Addison, have been published .... / by Nathan Drake.

Creator:: Drake, Nathan, 1766–1836
Date:: 1809-1810
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Letters from America, historical and descriptive : comprising occurrences from 1769 to 1777 inclusive / by William Eddis, late surveyor of the customs, &c. at Annapolis, in Maryland.

Creator:: Eddis, William, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCXCII [1792]
Physical Description:: [50], 455, [1] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. The naval and military exploits which have distinguished the reign of George the Third : Accurately described, and methodically arranged / by Jehoshaphat Aspin.

Creator:: Aspin, Jehoshaphat, 18th/19th cent
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: viii, [2], 784 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. 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

182. 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

183. 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

184. The history of Newmarket : and the annals of the turf : with memoirs and biographical notices of the habitués of Newmarket, and the notable turfites, from the earliest times to the end of the seventeenth century / by J.P. Hore ; in three volumes.

Creator:: Hore, John Philip
Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 306 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

186. A residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 / described in a series of letters from an English lady : with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners ; prepared for the press by John Gifford ...

Creator:: Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. Supper at Beaucaire / by Napoleon Bonaparte ; translated into English for the first time, by Somerset De Chair.

Creator:: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
Date:: MCMXLV [1945]
Physical Description:: 38, [1] pages : portrait ; 15 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. 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

189. 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

190. Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan : with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company : as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah : and a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell, esq.

Creator:: Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711–1798
Date:: 1766-1771
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. 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

192. A copy of the last will and testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. : with an act (passed 11th George the First) for incorporating the executors of the said will.

Creator:: Guy, Thomas, 1645?-1725
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 55, [1], 43, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. The costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with decriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: [164] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. Zbior wzorowy rozmaitych polskick ubiorów : nedzlem znanego malarza Norblin wydanych a przez slawnego Debucourt, na miedzi wyrznielych w. Warszawie = Collection de costumes polanais : dessineés d'après nature / par Norblin et gravés par Debucourt.

Creator:: Norblin de La Gourdaine, Jean-Pierre, 1745–1830
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [50] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. 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

196. 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

197. 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

198. Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes / par M. Fossé, officier Régiment d'Infanterie du Roi ; dédié a M. Le Duc du Chatelet.

Creator:: Fossé, Charles-Louis-François, 1734–1812
Date:: MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:: [12], 116, 60, [2] p., 11 leaves of plates (10 folded) : col. ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. The "Ladies of Llangollen", as sketched by many hands : with notices of other objects of interest in "that sweetest of vales" / by John Hicklin.

Creator:: Hicklin, John
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 31 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. The necessary qualifications of a man of fashion : twelve plates / designed and etched by D. T. Egerton.

Creator:: Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 12 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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101. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

102. Account book.

103. Commonplace book.

104. Botanical dialogues : between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry. Designed for the use of schools, / by a lady.

105. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

106. 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.

107. Narrative sketches of the conquest of the Mysore, effected by the British troops and their allies in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory / collected from authentic materials.

108. Paul et Virginie / par Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.

109. The punishments of China / illustrated by twenty-two engravings with explanations in English and French.

110. 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 ...

112. 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.

114. 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 ...

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

117. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

120. The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / by Samuel Johnson : in four volumes.

121. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

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

123. A letter to the people of Scotland on the alarming attempt to infringe the articles of the Union : and introduce a most pernicious innovation, by diminishing the number of the lords of Session / by James Boswell.

124. Mrs. Thrale, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi : a sketch of her life and passages from her diaries, letters & other writings / edited by L. B. Seeley ... with nine illustrations after Hogarth, Reynolds, Zoffany, & others.

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

127. 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.

130. Six picturesque views in North Wales / engraved in aquatinta by Alken, from drawings made on the spot ; with poetical reflections on leaving that country by Brian Broughton.

132. The Polygraphic Society, to the patrons and admirers of the polite arts.

133. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

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

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

136. 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.

137. Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, the present bookseller, Finsbury-Square, London / written by himself ; in forty-seven letters to a friend.

138. Comforts of Bath.

139. To the Queen this book of etchings, from papers cut by the Right Honourable Lady Templeton in the collection of Her Majesty, is with permission most humbly dedicated / by most devoted and very much obliged serv. P. W. Tomkins.

140. A book of maps / by Geo. Hutson Jun., MDCCLXXVII.

141. Geometry exercise book.

142. Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1795, April 16-1816, September 10.

143. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

144. Album.

145. Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street, Worcester.

146. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

147. Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR.

149. General inventory of Colonel Aston's furniture, plate, linen, china &c. September the 1, 1796 / Wm. Hadlow.

150. John Morphett drawing and writing exercise book.

151. The elegancies of fashion and general remembrancer of taste and manners, or, Impartial record of painting, music, elegant literature, the theatre, costume, and arts conducive to the ornament or amusement of polished life / by Florio Honeysuckle. Vol. I.

155. Remarks concerning certain pictures supposed to be photographs of early date / by M.P.W. Boulton.

157. The works of the English poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical / by Samuel Johnson.

159. 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.

160. Stedman's Nachrichten von Surinam und von seiner Expedition gegen die rebellischen Neger in dieser Kolonie in den Jahren 1772 bis 1777 : ein Auszug aus dem englischen Original.

161. Mirroir de la mode.

163. 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.

165. The model republic, or, Cato Potts in Paris [graphic] / by Watts Phillips.

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

167. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building : ... rules of carpentry ... : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

168. [The passions delineated].

169. Antiquités d'Herculanum / gravées par Th. Piroli, et publiées par F. et P. Piranesi, frères.

172. 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.

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

175. The prices of cabinet work, with tables and designs : illustrating the various articles of manufacture : revised and corrected by a committee of masters cabinet makers.

176. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

177. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

178. Essays, biographical, critical and historical illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler : and of the various periodical papers, which in imitation of the writings of Steele and Addison, have been published .... / by Nathan Drake.

179. Letters from America, historical and descriptive : comprising occurrences from 1769 to 1777 inclusive / by William Eddis, late surveyor of the customs, &c. at Annapolis, in Maryland.

180. The naval and military exploits which have distinguished the reign of George the Third : Accurately described, and methodically arranged / by Jehoshaphat Aspin.

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

184. The history of Newmarket : and the annals of the turf : with memoirs and biographical notices of the habitués of Newmarket, and the notable turfites, from the earliest times to the end of the seventeenth century / by J.P. Hore ; in three volumes.

185. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

186. A residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 / described in a series of letters from an English lady : with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners ; prepared for the press by John Gifford ...

187. Supper at Beaucaire / by Napoleon Bonaparte ; translated into English for the first time, by Somerset De Chair.

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

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

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

192. A copy of the last will and testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. : with an act (passed 11th George the First) for incorporating the executors of the said will.

193. The costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with decriptions in English and French.

194. Zbior wzorowy rozmaitych polskick ubiorów : nedzlem znanego malarza Norblin wydanych a przez slawnego Debucourt, na miedzi wyrznielych w. Warszawie = Collection de costumes polanais : dessineés d'après nature / par Norblin et gravés par Debucourt.

197. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

198. Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes / par M. Fossé, officier Régiment d'Infanterie du Roi ; dédié a M. Le Duc du Chatelet.