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1. Key to the picture of the fancy going to a fight at Moulsey-Hurst : dedicated, by permission, to Mr. Jackson and the Pugilistic Club / designed and etched by I.R. Cruickshank, under the direction of P. Egan.

Key to the picture of the fancy going to a fight at Moulsey-Hurst : dedicated, by permission, to Mr. Jackson and the Pugilistic Club / designed and etched by I.R. Cruickshank, under the direction of P. Egan.
Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
36 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Views in India : chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains / taken during tours in the direction of Mussooree, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, &c. &c., in 1829-31-32 ; with notes and descriptive illustrations.

Views in India : chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains / taken during tours in the direction of Mussooree, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, &c. &c., in 1829-31-32 ; with notes and descriptive illustrations.
Creator:
White, George Francis, 1808–1898
Date:
1836-1837
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The beauties & defects in the figure of the horse / comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.

The beauties & defects in the figure of the horse / comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
2, [18] pages, 19 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Happy families [game] : a new and most diverting game for juveniles : forty-four grotesque characters, beautifully colored.

Happy families [game] : a new and most diverting game for juveniles : forty-four grotesque characters, beautifully colored.
Date:
[186-?]
Physical Description:
1 card game (44 cards) : col. ill. ; in box 10 x 8 x 3 cm. + 1 instruction card (93 x 65 mm.), 1 instruction sheet (1 folded sheet ([4] p. ; 19 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia / by George Waddington ... and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury ... ; with maps and other engravings.

Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia / by George Waddington ... and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury ... ; with maps and other engravings.
Creator:
Waddington, George, 1793–1869
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 333, [3] p., [18] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Royal race course : a merry round game / designed & lithographed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington Street, Strand.

Royal race course : a merry round game / designed & lithographed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington Street, Strand.
Date:
[ca. 1845?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 48 x 48, folded in covers 18 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

7. Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts in possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, esq. ; assisted by his son, J. Adey Repton, F.A.S.

Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts in possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, esq. ; assisted by his son, J. Adey Repton, F.A.S.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xii, 238, [2] pages, [43] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Wales illustrated : in a series of views, comprising the picturesque scenery, towns, castles, seats of the nobility & gentry, antiquities, &c. / engraved on steel from original drawings by Henry Gastineau ; accompanied by historical and topographical descriptions.

No cover image available
Creator:
Gastineau, Henry G., 1791–1876
Date:
1830-1831
Physical Description:
44 parts ([4], 18, 222 p., [113] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Rambling recollections of a soldier of fortune / by W.H. Maxwell ... ; with a portrait of the author, and illustrations by H.K. Browne.

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Creator:
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
ix, [3], 296 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The dyer's guide : being a compendium of the art of dyeing linen, cotton, silk, wool, muslin, dresses, furniture, &c. &c. with the method of scouring wool, bleaching cotton, &c. and directions for ungumming silk, and for whitening and sulphuring silk and wool : and also an introductory epitome of the leading facts in chemistry, as connected with the art of dyeing / by Thomas Packer, dyer and practical chemist.

No cover image available
Creator:
Packer, Thomas
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
[7], vi-viii, 156 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The Warwick woodlands, or, Things as they were, ten years ago / by Frank Forester, Henry William Herbert ...

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Creator:
Herbert, Henry William, 1807–1858
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
iv, [1], 6-168 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Studies of cottages and rural scenery : drawn and etched in imitation of chalk / by Samuel Prout ; the work will consist of four numbers, to be published monthly, commencing the first of May, 1816 ; and is intended as a companion to the 'Studies of boats and coast scenery', also contained in four numbers by the same artist, just published.

No cover image available
Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
4 pts : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Stable secrets, or, Puffy Doddles : his sayings and sympathies / by John Mills ...

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Creator:
Mills, John, -approximately 1885
Date:
1863
Physical Description:
[5], 8-112 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A catalogue of a very select and valuable collection of prints, recently consigned from Holland : (the property of a Burgomaster of Amsterdam, lately deceased) : comprising the works of Rubens, and his schools : among which are many proofs and curious variations by Bolswert, Pontius, Vosterman, &c. : etchings by Rembrandt, Ostade, Du Sart, Bega, Everdingen, and other Masters, chiefly in the first state : fine proofs by Cornelius Visscher : the works of Wouverman, Teniers, &c. : and of the principal painters of the French school, including a beautiful set of the Battles of Alexander, by Gerard Audran : together with a nearly complete set of Houbraken proofs : portraits after Sir Joshua Reynolds : theatrical and other portraits : and engravings by Strange, Woollett, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Stewart, Wheatley, & Adlard, at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Thursday, April 17th, 1828, and three following days, (Sunday excepted,) at twelve o'clock.

No cover image available
Creator:
Stewart, Wheatley & Adlard
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
34, [2] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Twelve crochet edgings, with illustrative engravings / edited by G. Curling Hope, author of "The Art of Crochet," "My Working Friend," Etc.

No cover image available
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
25, [7] pages, [1], ([1] folded leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Plain rules for the stable / by Professor Gamgee, Senr., Superintendent of the Albert Veterinary College Infirmary and Professor John Gamgee, principal of the Albert Veterinary College, Queen's Road, Bayswater, London.

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Creator:
Gamgee, Joseph, 1801–1895
Date:
1866
Physical Description:
viii, [1], 10-59, 5 pages ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Cynegetica, or, Essays on sporting : consisting of observations on hare hunting : containing, an account of the hare hunting and coursing of the ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian : a philosophical enquiry into the nature and properties of the scent : remarks on the different kinds of hounds, with the manner of training them : directions for the choice of a hunter : the qualifications requisite for a huntsman : and other general rule to be observed in every contingency incident to the chase : together with an account of the vizier's manner of hunting in the Mogul empire by William Blane, Esq. : to which is added The chace, a poem by William Somervile, Esq.

No cover image available
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
[8], 292, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. William Hermes album drawing copies : figures.

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Creator:
Hermes, Wilhelm
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
[24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The gem of the peak, or, Matlock Bath and its vicinity : an account of Derby, a tour from Derby to Matlock, excursions to Chatsworth, Haddon, Monsal Dale, Dovedale, Ilam, Alton Towers, Hardwick, Wingfield, Ashbourne, Buxton, and Castleton, historical and geological : brief history of the Fluor Spar, from the earliest period, down to the present time, a review of the geology of Derbyshire, catalogue of minerals and rocks, and of the flora of the high and low peak : illustrated with maps and numerous engravings / by W. Adam.

No cover image available
Creator:
Adam, William, -1873
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
xvi, [4], 432, [4] pages, [10] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

20. A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.

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Creator:
Busby, C. A. (Charles Augustin), 1786–1834
Date:
[not before 1819]
Physical Description:
25 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Songs and verses on sporting subjects / by R.E. Egerton-Warburton, author of "Hunting Sons."

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Creator:
Egerton-Warburton, R. E. (Rowland Eyles), 1804–1891
Date:
1879
Physical Description:
35 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Catalogue of the very select collection of prints and drawings, the property of the late Isaac Pilleau, Esq. formerly of the Bank of England : consisting of the most esteemed productions of the Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, French, and English schools : including the works of Woollett, Strange, Hogarth, Bartolozzi, Wille, Cornelius Visscher, Edelinck, Drevet, Poilly, Rembrandt, &c. &c. many of them in a beautiful proof state : a choice set of the cartoons by Holloway, on India paper : a few very capital drawings, framed and glazed, &c. : to which is added a collection of engravings and pictures, the property of a gentleman : embracing many distinguished works of the great engravers of the English, French, and Italian Schools : amongst the pictures are specimens of Hobbima, Morland, Hofland, Cuyp : also, a grand gallery one by N. Poussin, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, no. 93. Pall Mall, on Friday, June 6, and following day.

No cover image available
Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Catalogue of the valuable and extensive library of the late Earl of Guilford. Part the First ... : including Biblia Sacra Latina jussu Sixti V ... Romæ, ex Typographia Apostolica Vaticana (per Aldum), 1590 : Debry, Collectio Peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem, XII Parts in 4 Vol. ... 1596 ... : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans, at his house, no. 83, Pall Mall on Monday, December 15, and eight following days (Sunday excepted), 1828.

No cover image available
Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
73, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Sporting adventures in the new world, or, Days and nights of moose-hunting in the pine forests of Acadia / by Lieut. Campbell Hardy, Royal Artillery ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hardy, Campbell
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. My lily of the valley / written and composed by Frank Leo ; introduced by Miss Sable Fern.

No cover image available
Creator:
Leo, Frank, 1874–1940
Date:
c1903
Physical Description:
1 score ([2], 4, [2] p.) : port. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

26. Nimrod abroad / by C.J. Apperly, Esq. ; author of "The chase, the rurf, and the road," etc. etc. ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A catalogue of a most beautiful collection of the works of Raphael Morghen : selected by that distinguished artist for his own private cabinet, including the whole of his most celebrated works in the choicest proof state : also, very fine impressions with letters, etchings, &c. : amongst them will be found the Transfiguration, the Aurora, Magdalen after Murilla, Madonna della Seggiola, Portrait of the Marquis de Moncada, the Last Supper after Leonardo da Vinci in four different states : the whole collection is in the most perfect preservation : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans, at his house, no. 93, Pall Mall, on Wednesday, June 4, 1828.

No cover image available
Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
[2], 7, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781–1826
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Petty's standard drawing book.

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1891]
Physical Description:
13 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Arctic searching expedition : a journal of a boat-voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in search of the discovery ships under command of Sir John Franklin : with an appendix on the physical geography of North America / by Sir John Richardson, C.B., F.R.S., inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets, etc. etc. etc. ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Richardson, John, Sir, 1787–1865
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Sweet Suzanne / written by Howard Graham ; composed by Chas. Graham ; sung by Miss Lil Hawthorne.

No cover image available
Creator:
Graham, Charles, -1899
Date:
c1899
Physical Description:
1 score (5 p.) : port. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

32. Observations on Milford-Haven : to which is annexed an accurate chart of the 'Haven, assisted by correct views.

No cover image available
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[4], 91, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The magic ring : a merry game.

No cover image available
Date:
[between 1855 and 1870]
Physical Description:
1 game (56 playing cards, 1 game board, 1 sheet of instructions) ; in box 19 x 17 x 4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The ladies' knitting and netting book : first series / by Miss Watts.

No cover image available
Creator:
Watts, Miss
Date:
[approximately 1840]
Physical Description:
xiii, [1], 136, [2] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The new guide to knitting & crochet / by Marie Jane Cooper.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cooper, Marie Jane
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
[4], 68 pages : illustrations ; 11 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. My name is Norval [graphic] / travestied by F.R.S., etched by F.R. Stock.

No cover image available
Creator:
Stock, F. R.
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
21 pictures on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored etchings ; sheets end-to-end 14 x 274 cm, accordion folded to 14 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The stocking-knitter's manual : a handy book for the work-table / by Mrs. George Cupples.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cupples, George, Mrs., 1839–1898
Date:
[1872]
Physical Description:
32 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The practical paper fruit maker : a new and original kindergarten occupation for girls and infants / by Veronica Vassey, author of "The practical paper flower maker."

No cover image available
Creator:
Vassey, Veronica
Date:
[approximately 1900]
Physical Description:
xi, [2], 14-52, [12] pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East passage : undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue : illustrated with numerous plates and maps : in three volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The boat race and who went to it.

No cover image available
Date:
[between 1868 and 1885]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([16] panels) : illustrations ; 29 x 89 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Physical geography / by Mary Somerville ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Somerville, Mary, 1780–1872
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
381 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson

42. The hare : natural history / by the Rev. H.A. Macpherson ; Shooting by the Hon. Gerald Lascelles ; Coursing by Charles Richardson ; Hunting by J.S. Gibbons and G.H. Longman ; Cookery by Col. Kenney Herbert ; illustrations by G.D. Giles, A. Thorburn, and C. Whymper.

No cover image available
Creator:
Macpherson, H. A. (Hugh Alexander), 1858–1901
Date:
1896
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 263, [1] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Catalogue of the valuable and extensive library of the late Earl of Guilford. Part the Second : including Museé François ... 4 vols., 1803 : Rapin's History of England : ... Collection of the proclamations issued by Charles the Second ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, no. 93, Pall-Mall, on Monday, January 12, and five following days, (Sunday excepted).

No cover image available
Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
75, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Essays towards the history of painting / by Mrs. Callcott.

No cover image available
Creator:
Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
[4], iv, [2], 269, [3] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Unasked advice : a series of articles on horses and hunting, reprinted from "The field" / by "Impecuniosus."

No cover image available
Creator:
Impecuniosus
Date:
1872
Physical Description:
[6], 233, [1] pages, 11 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Tatting, or, Frivolité / by Mrs. Mee and Miss Austin, 71, Brook Steet, Grosvenor Square, London (late of Bath).

No cover image available
Creator:
Mee, Cornelia, 1815–1875
Date:
[1862]
Physical Description:
viii, [1], 10-21, [3] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 10 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A course of water-colour painting / by R.P. Leitch.

No cover image available
Creator:
Leitch, R. P. (Richard Pettigrew)
Date:
[1884?]
Physical Description:
36, [4] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The stud farm, or, Hints on breeding for the turf, the chase, and the road : addressed to breeders of race-horses and hunters, to landed proprietors, and especially to tenant farmers / by Cecil.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cecil
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
xiii, [3], 202 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Six studies of trees : the oak, the ash, the fir, the lopped elm, the willow, weeping willow / drawn and engraved in imitation of chalk-drawing by Harriet Gouldsmith.

No cover image available
Creator:
Arnold, Harriet, 1786 or 1787–1863
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : soft-ground etchings ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Caricature history of the Georges, or, Annals of the House of Hanover : compiled from squibs, broadsides, window pictures, lampoons, and pictorial caricatures of the time / by Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A. ; with nearly four hundred illustrations on steel and wood.

No cover image available
Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:
1876
Physical Description:
xiii, [3], 639 pages, [13] leaves of plates : some color illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

51. Frith's photo-pictures.

No cover image available
Creator:
F. Frith & Co
Date:
ca. 1860s-1870s
Physical Description:
1 album (24 photographs) : albumen prints ; each photograph approximately 17 x 21 cm, in album 26 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Hints for sketching trees from nature, in water colours : with numerous illustrations / by Thomas Hatton.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hatton, Thomas
Date:
[ca. 1890]
Physical Description:
[2], 61, [1] p., IX leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The present picture of New South Wales : illustrated with four large coloured views, from drawings taken on the spot, of Sydney, the seat of government : with a plan of the colony taken from actual survey by public authority : including the present state of agriculture and trade, prices of provisions and labour, internal regulations, state of society and manners, later discoveries in natural history, and other interesting subjects : with hints for the further improvement of the settlement / by D.D. Mann ; many years resident in several official situations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mann, D. D. (David Dickinson), 1775?-
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vi, 99, [1] pages, [5] folded leaves of plates : plans, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The visitor's guide to Knole, in the county of Kent : with catalogues of the pictures contained in the mansion, and biographical notices of the principal persons whose portraits form part of the collection / by John H. Brady, F.R.A.S.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brady, John Henry
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xx, 258, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates, ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

55. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

No cover image available
Creator:
Miles, Leonidas Clint
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
85, 48 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Struwwelpeter / by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann.

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Creator:
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809–1894
Date:
[1909]
Physical Description:
24 leaves : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Salter Family.

57. Five views of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway / from drawings taken on the spot by Andrew Nichol ; with a description of this important national work.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nicholl, Andrew, 1804–1866
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
8 p., V leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : all color illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Lectures on horses and stables / by Lieut.-Col. Fitzwygram, 15th (the King's) Hussars.

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Creator:
Fitzwygram, Frederick, Sir, 1823–1904
Date:
M.DCCC.LXIII [1862]
Physical Description:
173 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Mossoo's run of the season, 1880 / illustrated by G.B.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dragon, active 1880–1885
Date:
1880
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. 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.

No cover image available
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

62. Soundness and age of horses : a veterinary and legal guide to the examination of horses for soundness / by M. Horace Hayes, M.R.C.V.A. ... ; one hundred illustrations.

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Creator:
Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842–1904
Date:
1887
Physical Description:
[2], viii, 110, [52] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The illustrated horse doctor : being an accurate and detailed account of the various diseases to which the equine race are subjected, together with the latest mode of treatment, and all the requisite prescriptions, written in plain English / by Edward Mayhew.

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Creator:
Mayhew, Edward, 1813?-1868
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
522 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The night-flyers : a series of moth pictures.

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1860?]
Physical Description:
[30] pages : hand-colored illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Eulalie Gavotte : for the pianoforte / composed by Angelo Costa.

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Creator:
Costa, Angelo
Date:
[1884]
Physical Description:
1 score (5) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

67. Rhymes and pictures about bread, tea, sugar, coals, cotton, gold : 72 illustrations.

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Creator:
Newman, William
Date:
[approximately 1860-1861?]
Physical Description:
6 volumes in 1 (11, 11, 12, 11, 12, 10 leaves) : ill. ; 13 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The turf / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations.

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Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
[2], viii, 144, 8 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The history of signboards : from the earliest times to the present day / by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten ; with one hundred illustrations in facsimile by J. Larwood.

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Creator:
Larwood, Jacob, 1827–1918
Date:
1884
Physical Description:
x, 536 pages, 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

70. Views of Tintern Abbey and Chepstow / drawn from nature and lithographed by Louis Haghe.

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Creator:
Haghe, Louis, 1806–1885
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Principles of effect and colour : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips, member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

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Creator:
Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:
[ca. 1840]
Physical Description:
30, [2] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. An introduction to the field sports of France : being a practical view of hunting, shooting and fishing, on the continent : with a concise notice of the habits and instincts of the several animals in question, and a sufficient sketch of the game and piscatory laws of France, for the guidance of sportsmen / by R. O'Connor, Esq., barrister at law.

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Creator:
O'Connor, Roderic, 1794–1868
Date:
MDCCCXLVI [1846]
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 303, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The kind uncle and his dog Ganges.

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Date:
1828
Physical Description:
29, [3] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The hunting-field / by Harry Hieover, author of "The Stud," "Practical horsemanship," etc. etc.

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Creator:
Hieover, Harry, 1796–1859
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
xvi, 221, [3], 32 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A catalogue of the prints of Benjamin Heath Malkin, Esq. LL.D.

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Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Katechismus der Zeichnung und Mahlerei : aus dem Englischen übersetzt, nebst einigen historisch-ästhetischen Andeutungen über diese Künste, um Zeichnungen und Gemälde zu beurtheilen / von C.F. Michaelis.

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Creator:
Pinnock, William, 1782–1843
Date:
[1819?]
Physical Description:
iv, 96, [8] pages : 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Nimrod abroad / by C.J. Apperley, Esq. ; author of "The Chase, The Turf, and The Road," etc. etc. ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Catalogue of the extraordinary, curious, and extensive collection of manuscripts of the late Earl of Guilford : including Evangelia Quatuor Graece ... : Actus et Epistole Sanctorum Apostolorum ... : Evangelistarium et Menologium Graecum ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, no. 93, Pall-Mall on Wednesday, December 8, and four following days, Sunday excepted, 1830.

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Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
66, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Nothing to wear : an episode in city life : (from Harpers weekly.) : illustrated by Hoppin.

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Creator:
Butler, William Allen, 1825–1902
Date:
MDCCCLVII [1857]
Physical Description:
68 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. American scenery, or, Land, lake, and river : illustrations of transatlantic nature / from drawings by W.H. Bartlett, engraved in the first style of the art, by R. Wallis, J. Cousen, Wilmore, Brandard, Adlard, Richardson, &c. ; the literary department by N.P. Willis, Esq. author of "Pencillings by the way," "Inklings of adventure," etc.

No cover image available
Creator:
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806–1867
Date:
MDCCCXL [1840]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : ilustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A tour in America in 1798,1799, and 1800 : exhibiting sketches of society and manners, and a particular account of the America system of agriculture, with its recent improvements / by Richard Parkinson ; late of Orange Hill, near Baltimore ; (author of the "Experienced Farmer," &c.)

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Creator:
Parkinson, Richard, 1748–1815
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey / by Adam Neale.

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Creator:
Neale, Adam, d. 1832
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xiii, [1], 295, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Orme's graphic history of the life, exploits, and death of Horatio Nelson : Viscount and Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham-Thorpe and the county of Norfolk : Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Hilborough in the said county : Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath : Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron of the Fleet : also, Duke of Bronte in Sicily : Knight Grand Cross of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and of merit : member of the Ottoman Order of the Crescent : and Knight Grand Commander of the order of St. Joachim : containing fifteen engravings, and intended as an accompaniment to the three celebrated whole-sheet plates of His Lordship's splendid victories, viz. the battles of St. Vincent's, the Nile, and Trafalgar, which are explained by references and keys / the memoirs by Francis William Blagdon.

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Creator:
Blagdon, Francis William, 1778–1819
Date:
[1806]
Physical Description:
[4], 66, viii, [11] pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A guide to Burghley House, Northamptonshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter : containing a catalogue of all the paintings, antiquities, &c. : with biographical notices of the artists.

No cover image available
Creator:
Blore, Thomas, 1764–1818
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
x, 292, [4] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

85. Advertising and British art : an introduction to a vast subject /, by Walter Shaw Sparrow ; with thirty-six illustrations in colour, a hundred and twenty-one half-tone prints and twenty-seven line blocks in the text.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862–1940
Date:
1924
Physical Description:
[3], vi-xvii, [1], 189, [1], 6 pages, [96] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

86. Five years' residence in the West Indies / by Charles William Day, Esq., author of "Hints on Etiquette" ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Day, Charles William
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Among men and horses / by M. Horace Hayes, F.R.C.V.S. ... ; illustrated by reproductions from photographs.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842–1904
Date:
MDCCCXCIV [1894]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 358, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Pink and scarlet, or, Hunting as a school for soldiering / by Bt. Lt.-Colonel E.A.H. Alderson, P.S.C. The Queen's Own Regiment ...

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Creator:
Alderson, E. A. H. (Edwin Alfred Hervey), Sir, 1859–1927
Date:
1900
Physical Description:
xii, 217, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Hints to horse-keepers : a complete manual for horsemen : embracing how to breed a hors, how to buy a horse, how to break a horse, how to use a horse, how to feed a horse, how to physic a horse (allopathy and homoeopathy), how to groom a horse, how to drive a horse, how to ride a horse, and chapters on mules and ponies / by Henry William Herbert (Fank Forester) ; with additions, including "Baucher's system of horsemanship," also, giving directions for the selection and care of carriages and harness of every description, and a memoir of the author ; beautifully illustrated.

No cover image available
Creator:
Herbert, Henry William, 1807–1858
Date:
[1859]
Physical Description:
425, [7] pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Parlour magic.

No cover image available
Date:
MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Physical Description:
vii, [2], iv-viii, [2],183, [1] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The practical carver and gilder's guide, and picture frame makers companion : containing information on the various departments of the trade in gilding and re-gilding picture and looking glass frames, console tables, what-nots, &c. : interior and exterior gilding : silvering plate glass : the restoration of oil paintings, cleaning old engravings, &c. : with chapters on mitreing-up mouldings, mount cutting, mounting engravings, maps, photographs, etc. : French polishing, varnishing, and staining : and a number of useful receipts / by Charles H. Savory.

No cover image available
Creator:
Savory, Charles H.
Date:
[approximately 1877?]
Physical Description:
xv, [2], 18-205, [19] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Historical tablets and medallions illustrative of an improved system of artificial memory for the more easy remembrance of remarkable events and date : exhibiting in a series of tinted engravings (including more than one hundred medallic portraits) a connected outline of historical and biographical chronology, the complete succession of all the Roman Emperors, and of the sovereigns of England and France, down to the present time : together with an appropriate introduction, appendix, and vocabulary / designed and arranged by John Henry Todd.

No cover image available
Creator:
Todd, John Henry
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
[4], viii, [2], 43, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Preparing for the press, Memoirs of John, Duke of Marlborough : chiefly drawn from his private correspondence and family documents, preserved at Blenheim : as well as from other authentic sources never before published : by William Cox, Archdeacon of Wilts. : with portraits, maps, plans, genealogical tables, coats of arms, and fac-similes of the hand-writing of the most illustrious persons, whose letters appear in this work : in two volumes, quarto.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1817?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Sketches in Flanders and Holland : with some account of a tour through parts of those countries, shortly after the battle of Waterloo : in a series of letters to a friend / by Robert Hills.

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Creator:
Hills, Robert
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
viii, 215, [1] p., XXXVI leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India : comprising a view of the Afghaun nation, and a history of the Dooraunee monarchy / by the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone.

No cover image available
Creator:
Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779–1859
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
xxi, 675 p., [16] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Studies of the horse, and other animals, landscape-figures, &c. / by H. Alken.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1841]
Physical Description:
29 prints in 1 volume : soft-ground etchings, lithographs ; sheet 18 x 26 cm, in volume 20 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The present state of Virginia : giving a particular and short account of the Indian, English, and Negroe inhabitants of that colony : shewing their religion, manners, government, trade, way of living, &c., with a description of the country : from whence is inferred a short view of Maryland and North Carolina : to which are added, schemes and propositions for the better promotion of learning, religion, inventions, manufactures, and trade in Virginia, and the other plantations : for the information of the curious, and for the service of such as are engaged in the propagation of the Gospel and advancement of learning, and for the use of all persons concerned in the Virginia trade and plantation / by Hugh Jones, A.M. chaplain to the honourable Assembly, and lately minister of James-Town, &c. in Virginia.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jones, Hugh, 1669–1760
Date:
MDCCXXIV [1724]
Physical Description:
[4], viii, 151, [1] pages ; 19 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire : with heraldical and genealogical notices of the Beckford family / by John Britton.

No cover image available
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[3], vi-viii, [5]-68, [8] pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

99. The history of Punch & Judy.

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1860?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([10] pages) : hand colored woodcuts ; 11 x 100 cm, accordion folded to 11 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. A brief narrative of the shipwreck of the transport "Premier" : near the mouth of the river St. Lawrence, on the 4th November, 1843, having on board the headquarter wing of the second battalion of the First or Royal regiment, proceeding from North America to the West Indies / illustrated with several engravings from sketches made on the spot by George R. Dartnell ; the drawings in lithotint by J.A. Hammersley.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dartnell, George R., 1799–1878
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 37, [1], 2 pages, 6 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts