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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Date 1817

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1. A full & true account of a pleasure party to Rockingham in 1817 by C.R., illustrated by J.P.

A full & true account of a pleasure party to Rockingham in 1817 by C.R., illustrated by J.P.
Date:
1817?
Physical Description:
2 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Nicklin & Son : wire workers, drawers and weavers, gimlet & bit makers : no. 2 Bradford Street, Birmingham & 139 Aldersgate Street, London.

Nicklin & Son : wire workers, drawers and weavers, gimlet & bit makers : no. 2 Bradford Street, Birmingham & 139 Aldersgate Street, London.
Creator:
Nicklin & Son (Birmingham, England)
Date:
[approximately 1817]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 19 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

3. Character of forest trees.

Character of forest trees.
Date:
circa 1817
Physical Description:
1 v. (31 leaves) : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. One hundred new fables : embellished with designs to each fable / by James Northcote, R.A.

One hundred new fables : embellished with designs to each fable / by James Northcote, R.A.
Creator:
Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:
1817-1825
Physical Description:
331, 4 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The antiquarian and topographical cabinet; containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain.

No cover image available
Creator:
Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:
1817-19
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. History made easy; or, A genealogical chart of the kings and queens of England. By Francis Reynard ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Reynard, Francis
Date:
1817]
Physical Description:
col. plate. 39 x 47 cm., fold. to 17 x 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Picturesque rides and walks, with excursions by water, thirty miles round the British metropolis; illustrated in a series of engravings, coloured after nature; with an historical and topographical description of the country within the compass of that circle. By J. Hassell ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:
1817-18
Physical Description:
2 v. 120 col. plates (incl. front.) 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Cary's new itinerary: or, An accurate delineation of the great roads: both direct and cross throughout England and Wales with many of the principal roads in Scotland. / From an actual admeasurement by John Cary; made by command of His Majesty's Postmaster General, for official purposes under the direction and inspection of Thomas Hasker ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Cary, John, approximately 1754–1835
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[54] p., 124 col., [70] p., 874 col., 875-950, [1] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The magic swans, or Feather'd conjurers who will discover any secret number, or age of any person in company.

No cover image available
Date:
[between 1817 and 1839]
Physical Description:
6 cards. ill. 7 x 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1817-1818]
Physical Description:
8 pt. : all ill. (engravings) ; 31 x 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Record of British naval valour.

No cover image available
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
[12] disc-shaped sheets : color illustrations ; each 8 cm in diameter, in case 9 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The bibliographical decameron, or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography / by the Rev. T.F. Dibdin ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Original topographical & antiquarian delineations of Great Britain; comprising views of curious & interesting subjects in England, Scotland, & Wales, in ninety-seven copperplate engravings.

No cover image available
Creator:
Greig, John, active 1803–1853
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 96 plates. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A treatise explanatory of a new system of naval, military and political telegraphic communication of general application : in which a comprehensive numerical dictionary, calculated to espress, in the most east, and most obvious manner ... is applied under a copious illustration, to different descriptions of terrestrial and nocturnal telegraphs on new and simple principles, in order to mature, and render general a science, hitherto in its infancy / by John Macdonald, Esq. F.R.S. F.A.S. late Lieutenant-Colonel and engineer, translator of The French tactics; author of a Treatise on telegraphic communication and of several other works.

No cover image available
Creator:
Macdonald, John, 1759–1831
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[10], 77, [78]-[841] p., XIX [i.e.33] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The royal kalendar and court and city register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year 1817 : including a complete and correct list of the 6th Imperial Parliament of Great Britain summoned to meet for their first session in Nov. 1812 : upon a new and more extensive plan than any hitherto offered to the public containing: England : lists of both Houses of Parliament : all the state, law, revenue, and public, offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different parts of the Kingdom : the army and navy ; baronets, universities, hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland : II. All the peers, baronets : state, law, revenue, and public, offices : universities, physicians, &c. Ireland : III. All the peers, baronets ; all the law, state, revenue, and public, offices ; bankers, deans &c. &c. Colonies : IV. Governors, law and revenue officers, &c. &c. : carefully corrected at the respective offices.

No cover image available
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
396 , 142, 168, 12, 37, [1], 170-178 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. [Trade Advertisement for George Frederick Urling, lace maker to Queen Charlotte].

No cover image available
Date:
[publisher not identified],
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Voyage en Angleterre, pendant les années 1810 et 1811; avec des observations sur l'état politique et moral, les arts et la littérature de ce pays, et sur les moeurs et les usages de ces habitans; par Ls Simond ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Simond, L. (Louis), 1767–1831
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts., illus., plates, plans, tables. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The world in miniature : consisting of groups of figures, for the illustration of landscape-scenery / drawn and etched by T. Rowlandson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[40] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The annual biography and obituary for the year ...

No cover image available
Date:
1817-
Physical Description:
21 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A catalogue of a collection of prints the property of Thomas Lloyd ... : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Sotheby ... April 10, 1817 ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Lloyd, Thomas, print collector
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
viii, 51 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Bill for a coffin for Doctor Thompson : manuscript.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lavey, John
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 12 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Elton's miniature transparent orrery.

No cover image available
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
1 model : paper, col. ; in box, 25 x 20 x 7 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Specimens of English ecclesiastical costume : from the earliest period down to the sixteenth century, selected from sculptures, paintings, and brasses, remaining in this kingdom / by John Carter, F.S.A. ; extracted from the new edition of Fosbrooke's "British monachism."

No cover image available
Creator:
Carter, John, 1748–1817
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
27, [1], 4 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving / by Ben Tally Ho.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts