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1. Historical and descriptive essays accompanying a series of engraved specimens of the architectural antiquities of Normandy. Ed. by John Britton ... the subjects measured and drawn by Augustus Pugin, architect ... and engraved by John and Henry Le Keux.

Historical and descriptive essays accompanying a series of engraved specimens of the architectural antiquities of Normandy. Ed. by John Britton ... the subjects measured and drawn by Augustus Pugin, architect ... and engraved by John and Henry Le Keux.
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
3 p.., [v]-viii, xx, 40, 4 p. 73 plates (2 col., 6 double) incl. plans. 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Views in the eastern archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan &c. &c. &c. : from drawings made on the spot by Captn. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.C., Commander L.G. Heath, R.N., and others / the descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John, Esqr., author of manners & customs of the Ancient Greek ; drawn on stone by J.W. Giles.

Views in the eastern archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan &c. &c. &c. : from drawings made on the spot by Captn. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.C., Commander L.G. Heath, R.N., and others / the descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John, Esqr., author of manners & customs of the Ancient Greek ; drawn on stone by J.W. Giles.
Creator:
St. John, James Augustus, 1795–1875
Date:
Augt., 1847
Physical Description:
3 portfolios : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Views in the Neilgherry & Koondah ranges, Western Ghauts, Madras : at and about the stations of Ootacamund and Conoor, and the Legoor, Koondah, and Conoor Passes / by Captain Peacocke.

Views in the Neilgherry & Koondah ranges, Western Ghauts, Madras : at and about the stations of Ootacamund and Conoor, and the Legoor, Koondah, and Conoor Passes / by Captain Peacocke.
Creator:
Peacocke, Stephen Ponsonby, fl. 1833–1855
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A history of British birds. By Thomas Bewick.

A history of British birds. By Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The Queen's visit to Jersey, September 3rd, 1846.

The Queen's visit to Jersey, September 3rd, 1846.
Creator:
Le Capelain, John, 1814?-1848
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[6] pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Floral tableaux / drawn and coloured by James Andrews ; with poetical illustrations.

Floral tableaux / drawn and coloured by James Andrews ; with poetical illustrations.
Creator:
Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:
MDCCCXLVII [1847]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The comic history of England / by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett ; with ten coloured etchings, and one hundred and twenty woodcuts by John Leech.

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Creator:
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
Date:
MDCCCXLVII-MDCCCXLIX [1847-1848]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Views of Fountains Abbey and Studley Park, Yorkshire / drawn and engraved by W. Westall, A.R.A.

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Creator:
Westall, William, 1781–1850
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Abstract of the marine surveying services of Captn. Henry Mangles Denham ...

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Creator:
Denham, H. M. (Henry Mangles), Sir, 1800–1887
Date:
1847?]
Physical Description:
[2], 14 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Catalogue of an extensive collection of valuable engravings from the works of the Old Italian, German, French, Dutch, and Flemish Masters : numerous specimens of the works of engravers from the earliest period to the present time : collected for the illustration of Pilkington's Dictionary of Engravers : a few English prints, foreign and British portraits : drawings, portfolios : also the plates and copyright of Ottlety's Italian School of Design and Ottley's Florentine School of Design : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Foster and Son at the Gallery, 54, Pall Mall, on Saturday, June 26th, Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th June, 1847, at one precisely each day : on Wednesday 30th, the collection of ancient Italian pictures : the whole being the property of the late Warner Ottley, Esq. by order of the executors.

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Creator:
Foster and Son (London, England)
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
34 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The sea: a popular view of the phenomena of tides; the inhabitants and uses of the ocean. By Robert Mudie ...

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Creator:
Mudie, Robert, 1777–1842
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
x, 242 p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The new descriptive lesson for carbonic drawing / by Rawson Walker ; carbonic drawing is the only known mode of drawing that can imitate the photographs, calotypes, or sun pictures.

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Creator:
Walker, John Rawson, 1796–1873
Date:
[ca. 1847]
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Catalogue of Chambers's educational course and other publications : 1847.

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Creator:
William and Robert Chambers
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. History of the Bank of England : its times and traditions / by John Francis.

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Creator:
Francis, John, of the Bank of England
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Designs for ornamental window glass : with explanatory remarks and an index : 1st March, 1847

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Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[51] leaves (some folded) : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Sketches, graphic and descriptive, &c. for a history of the decorative painting : applied to English architecture during the middle ages / by E.L. Blackburne, F.S.A., architect ...

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Creator:
Blackburne, Edward Lushington
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
iv, 88, [2] pages, [23] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs, embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War at Washington / by Thomas L. McKenney, late of the Indian Department, Washington, and James Hall, Esq., of Cincinnati ; in three volumes.

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Creator:
McKenney, Thomas L. (Thomas Loraine), 1785–1859
Date:
1848 [i.e. 1847]-1850
Physical Description:
3 volumes : portraits ; 27 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The rural cyclopedia : or a general dictionary of agriculture, and of the arts, sciences, instruments, and practice, necessary to the farmer, stockfarmer, gardener, forester, landsteward, farrier, &c. / edited by the Rev. John M. Wilson.

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Creator:
Wilson, John M. (John Marius)
Date:
1847-1849
Physical Description:
4 v., 64 leaves of plates : ill., (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. London out of town, or, The adventures of the Browns at the seaside / by Luke Limner, esq.

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Creator:
Leighton, John, 1822–1912
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
[3], [3] p., [xvi] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 11 cm. x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The Epwell hunt : The Raby hunt : The Melton hunt.

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Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[2], 6 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Materials for a history of oil painting / by Charles Lock Eastlake.

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Creator:
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793–1865
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xii, 561 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Description of a view of the Himalaya Mountains with the British stations of Kussowlee, Soobathoo, and Simla, and a vast extent of the plains of Hindostan : now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square / painted by the proprietor, Robert Burford ; assisted by H.C. Selous ; from drawings taken in 1846, by Captain George J. White ...

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Creator:
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
12 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Description of Buxton, Chatsworth, and Castleton : with a tabular view of the principal drives and objects of interest throughout the county / abridged from Adam's Gem of the Peak.

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Creator:
Adam, W. (William), fl. 1838–1864
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
72 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The history of China & India, : pictorial & descriptive; / by Miss Corner ...

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Creator:
Corner, Miss (Julia), 1798–1875
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
iv, ii, iii, iv, iii, [1], iii, [1], 402 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The drawing-room dances / by Cellarius.

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Creator:
Cellarius, Henri
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xii, 149, [1] p., viii leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Mrs. Perkins's ball / by M.A. Titmarsh.

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Creator:
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
46, [4] p., [22] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Savage life and scenes in Australia and New Zealand : being an artist's impressions of countries and people at the Antipodes ... / by George French Angas.

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Creator:
Angas, George French, 1822–1886
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The mountains and lakes of Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Italy / from drawings made during a tour through those countries by George E. Hering ; with descriptive letterpress.

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Creator:
Hering, G. (George), 1805–1879
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[26] p., [20] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A voyage of discovery and resarch in the southern and Antarctic regions during the years 1839-43 / by Sir James Clark Ross.

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Creator:
Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800–1862
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington ... during the years 1844-1845. By Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt ...

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Creator:
Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813–1848
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xx, 544 p. front., plates, 3 fold. maps. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The life of Mrs. Godolphin / now first published and edited by Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford.

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Creator:
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xviii, 265 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Monumental brasses and slabs : an historical and descriptive notice of the incised monumental memorials of the Middle Ages with numerous illustrations / by Charles Boutell.

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Creator:
Boutell, Charles, 1812–1877
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xv, 235, [6] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Catalogue of the choice collection of pictures and of some antique and modern bronzes : the property of Claudius Tarral, Esq., removed from his residence in Paris : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, June the 11th, 1847, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
13, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A sketch of Assam : with some account of the hill tribes / by an officer in the Hon. East India Company's Bengal native infantry in civil employ.

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Creator:
Butler, John
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
vi p., [v]-viii, 220, [32] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The good Shunammite : ii. Kings, chap. iv, v.

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Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xxi p. : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Feriæ sacræ; or, Short notes on the great festivals of the church and the services appointed for their celebration; with appropriate chants and hymns. Compiled and edited by the Rev. T. Tunstall Haverfield ...

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Creator:
Haverfield, Thomas Tunstall, 1788?-1866
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
3 p. ., [3]-151 (i. e. 175) p., 1 leaf. 24 plates (music) 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The last of the fairies / by G.P.R. James ... ; with illustrations from designs by John Gilbert ; engraved by Henry Vizetelly.

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Creator:
James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
230, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The voyage of the Jamestown on her errand of mercy .

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Creator:
Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804–1889
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
ix, [2], 8-27, [3], cliv pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Old England's worthies: a gallery of portraits, from authentic copies, of the most eminent statesmen, lawyers, warriors, men of letters and science, and artists of our country. Accompanied by full and original biographies, with illustrative woodcuts, and twelve splendid illuminated engravings.

No cover image available
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 p. ., 272 p. col. front., col. plates, ports. 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Interesting and remarkable places : with historical and topographical descriptions / by C. Mackenzie ... ; illustrated with two hundred and fifty engravings.

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Creator:
Mackenzie, Charles
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
296 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The modern English boxer, or, Scientific art and practice of attack and self defence : explained in an easy manner that any person may comprehend this useful art without the aid of a master with descriptions of correct pugilistic attitudes as practised by the most celebrated boxers of the present day / by A. Pugilist.

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Creator:
Pugilist, A
Date:
1847?]
Physical Description:
20, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. History of art by its monuments, from its decline in the fourth century to its restoration in the sixteenth; translated from the French of Seroux d'Agincourt ...

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Creator:
Seroux d'Agincourt, Jean Baptists Louis Georges, 1730–1814
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
3 v. in 1. 328 plates (incl. plans) 53 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. "The greatest plague of life", or, The adventures of a lady in search of a good servant / by one who has been "almost worried to death" ; illustrated by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Mayhew, Augustus, 1826–1875
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
[6] parts : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

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

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Creator:
Cooper, Marie Jane
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
[4], 68 pages : illustrations ; 11 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Elegy written in a country churchyard / by T. Gray ; illustrated by the Etching Club.

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Creator:
Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[3], 18 leaves : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Burghley, the life of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasuer of England, etc. : biographical notices of his successors the Earls and Marquises of Exeter : a description of Burghley House, with a complete and accurate guide to the several paintings, tapestries, antiquities, and other articles of interest and vertu with which it is enriched : and a brief notice of the family monuments, &c., in St. Martin's Church, Stamford Baron : to which is appended a list of the artists by whom the collection of picures in the above residence was painted, with the places where they were born, and the dates of their births and deaths / by the Rev. W.H. Charlton, M.A., rector of St. George's, Stamford, and domestic chaplain to the Marquis of Exeter.

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Creator:
Charlton, William Henry, 1814–
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xxi, [1], 319, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Orphanhood : free will offerings to the fatherless ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
xxi, [1], 92, [8] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

49. Catalogue d'une belle collection de Tableaux des écoles Italienne, Flamande, Hollandaise et Française : formant le Cabinet de M. Stevens : dont la vente aura lieu les Lundi 1, Mardi 2, Mercredi 3, et Jeudi 4, Mars 1847 a une heur précise, par le ministere de M. Bonnefons De Lavialle, Comms-Priseur, rue Choiseul, 11 : assite de M. Simonet, expert, rue l'Eveque 1, Hotel des Ventes, Rue Des Jeuneurs, n. 16, Salle no. 1.

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Creator:
Bonnefons de Lavialle (Firm)
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
72 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, by S.C. Brees ...

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Creator:
Brees, S. C. (Samuel Charles)
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 p.l., [3]-36 p. front., plates. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Henage Jesse.

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Creator:
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Selections from a sketch book : twenty-four views.

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Creator:
Lee, John Edward, 1808–1887
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Description of Banvard's panorama of the Mississippi River : painted on three miles of canvas : exhibiting a view of country 1200 miles in length, extending from the mouth of the Missouri River to the city of New Orleans : being by far the largest picture ever executed by man.

No cover image available
Creator:
Banvard, John, 1815–1891
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
48 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The complete cattle-doctor : a treatise on diseases of horned cattle and calves / written in plain language, which those who can read may easily understand ; the whole being the result of seventy years extensive practice of the author, John C. Knowlson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Knowlson, John C
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
64 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The laws of harmonious colouring, adapted to interior decorations with observations on the practice of house painting. By D. R. Hay.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
ix, 198 p. col. front., diagr. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Two letters from Athens / F. C. Penrose, Esq. ; Published for the Soiety of Dilettanti.

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Creator:
Penrose, F. C. (Francis Cranmer), 1817–1903
Date:
1847?]
Physical Description:
14 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Morte Arthure : the alliterative romance of the death of King Arthur : now first printed from a manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral / edited by James Orchard Halliwell ...

No cover image available
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xxii, 368 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

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Creator:
Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808–1889
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
168 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Memoranda, or, Chronicles of the Foundling hospital : including memoirs of Captain Coram, &c. &c. / by John Brownlow.

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Creator:
Brownlow, John
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
iv, 231 p., [9] leaves of plates (some folded) : port., facsims. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor : with an account of the lead and copper deposits in Wisconsin ; of the gold region in the Cherokee country ; and sketches of the popular manners, &c. &c. &c. / by G. W. Featherstonhaugh., F.R.S., F.G.S. ; author of 'Excursion through the Slave States' ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780–1866
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The good genius that turned everything into gold, or, The queen bee and the magic dress : a Christmas fairy tale / by the brothers Mayhew ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[4], 194, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

62. The expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the suppression of piracy : with extracts from the journal of James Brooke ... / by Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel.

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Creator:
Keppel, Henry, Sir, 1809–1904
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Rough recollections of rambles abroad and at home / by Calder Campbell ; author of "The Palmer's Last Lesson " etc. ; in three volumes.

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Creator:
Campbell, Robert Calder, 1798–1857
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Handbook for travellers in northern Italy : states of Sardinia, Lombardy and Venice, Parma and Piacenza, Modena, Lucca, Massa-Carrara, and Tuscany as far as the Val d'Arno : with travelling map and plans.

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Creator:
John Murray (Firm)
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xxxii, 608, [24] p., [3] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Travels in Western Africa, in 1845 & 1846, : comprising a journey from Whydah, through the kingdom of Dahomey, to Adofoodia, in the interior. / by John Duncan.

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Creator:
Duncan, John, 1805–approximately 1884
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The factory girl, or, Gardez la coeur / by A.I. Cummings, M.D.

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Creator:
Cummings, A. I. (Ariel Ivers), 1823–1863
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
viii, [1], 10-167, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The lady's practical guide to the science of horsemanship : with a dedication to her most gracious majesty, Queen Victoria / by George Reeves and Son, riding masters.

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Creator:
George Reeves and Son
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
v, [1], 58 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Remarkable instances of the protection of certain ships of Her Majesty's Navy, from the destructive effects of lightning : collected from official and other authenticated documents ; to which is added a list of two hundred and twenty cases of ships of Her Majesty's Navy struck and damaged by lightning, abridged from the official logs of the ships / by W. Snow Harris, F.R.S. &c.

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Creator:
Harris, W. Snow (William Snow), Sir, 1791–1867
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
61, [3], 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Catalogue of the very interesting and valuable collection of Italian pictures, of the Rafaelle period, formed by Edward Solly, Esq., deceased : whose profound knowledge and discriminating taste, particularly in Italian Art, have established the reputation of this noble collection throughout Europe : which will be sold, by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May the 8th, 1847, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
24 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. An historical record of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards or Oxford Blues : its services, and the transactions in which it has been engaged, from its first establishment to the present time / by Edmund Packe ...

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Creator:
Packe, Edmund
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xix, 152 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The first six books of the Elements of Euclid : in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners / by Oliver Byrne surveyor of Her Majesty's settlements in the Falkland Islands and author of numerous mathematical works.

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Creator:
Byrne, Oliver
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xxix, [1], 268 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The art of weaving, by hand and power: with an account of recent improvements in the art, and a sketch of the history of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times. For the use of manufactures and practical weavers, &c. By Clinton G. Gilroy ... Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood.

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Creator:
Gilroy, Clinton G
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
537, [1] p. ill. (part. col., incl. diagrs.) plates (part. fold.) 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Italy, classical, historical, and picturesque. : Illustrated in a series of views from drawings by Stanfield, R. A., Roberts, R. A., Harding, Prout, Leitch, Brockedon, Barnard, &c. &c. With descriptions of the scenes. Preceded by an introductory essay on the recent history and present condition of Italy and the Italians / by Camillo Mapei ...

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Date:
[1847?]
Physical Description:
2 p. ., ii, 2, CVIII, 160 p. front., plates. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. A treatise on the esculent funguses of England, : containing an account of their classical history, uses, characters, development, structure, nutritious properties, modes of cooking and preserving, &c., / By Charles David Badham ...

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Creator:
Badham, David, 1806–1857
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
x, 138, 16 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The history and antiquities of the county of Buckingham / by George Lipscomb.

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Creator:
Lipscomb, George, 1773–1846
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The manual of oil-painting, for young artists and amateurs : condensed from the works of Bouvier, Merimee, Montabert, and other distinguished Continental artists : with a glossary of terms of art.

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Date:
1847
Physical Description:
128 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Parables of our Lord.

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Date:
MDCCCXLVII [1847]
Physical Description:
[32] pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

78. The knowledge and restoration of old paintings : the modes of judging between copies and originals : and a brief life of the principal masters in the different schools of painting / by T.H. Fielding ...

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Creator:
Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xv, 217 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The analysis of the hunting field : being a series of sketches of the principal characters that compose one : the whole forming a slight souvenir of the season, 1845-6.

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Creator:
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
Date:
1846 [i.e. 1847]
Physical Description:
5 p.l., [v]-vi, 326 p. : illus., 6 col. plates (incl. front.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Notitia venatica : a treatise on fox-hunting. Embracing the general management of hounds and the diseases of dogs ...

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Creator:
Vyner, Robert T. (Robert Thomas), 1804–1879
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
iv p., 2 l., [vii]-ix p., 1 l., 172 p. : col. front. (port.) illus., 8 col. pl., plan. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. On the art of mosaic : antient and modern / by Digby Wyatt ... ; read to the meeting held Feb. 3, 1847.

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Creator:
Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820–1877
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[17]-36 p., [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Notices of the churches of Warwickshire, Deanery of Warwick : under the superintendence of the Architectural Committee of the Warwickshire Nat. His. and Arch. Society.

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Creator:
Warwickshire Natural History & Archaeological Society. Architectural Committee
Date:
1847-58
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : fronts., illus., plates, plans. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Hand-book for travellers in Egypt : including descriptions of the course of the Nile to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the pyramids, and Thebes, the overland transit to India, the peninsula of Mount Sinai, the oases, &c. : being a new edition, corrected and condensed, of "Modern Egypt and Thebes" / by Sir Gardner Wilkinson.

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Creator:
John Murray (Firm)
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xxx, [1], [xxxi]-xxxvii, 448, 36 p. ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The polychromatic ornament of Italy, by Edward Adams, architect.

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Creator:
Adams, Edward
Date:
[1846?]
Physical Description:
iv, 16 p., 11 col. pl. (1 double) 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Architectural maxims and theorems in elucidation of some of the principles of design and construction: and lecture on the education and character of the architect. By Thomas Leverton Donaldson ...

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Creator:
Donaldson, Thomas Leverton, 1795–1885
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 p.., [viii]-xii, 105 p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The Yule log, for everybody's Christmas hearth : showing where it grew, how it was cut and brought home ; and how it was burnt / by the author of "The chronicles of the Bastille" ; iIllustrated by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Chamerovzow, Louis Alexis
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[6], 190, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

87. The book of family crests : comprising nearly every family bearing, properly blazoned and explained, accompanied by upwards of four thousand engravings ... : with the surnames of the bearers alphabetically arranged, a dictionary of mottoes, an essay on the origins of arms, crests, and a glossary of terms.

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Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. ; l9 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Remains of ecclesiastical woodwork / by T. Talbot Bury.

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Creator:
Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
[1] p., [1], [20] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Northern antiquities; or, An historical account of the manners, customs, religion and laws, maritime expeditions and discoveries, language and literature of the ancient Scandinavians ... Tr. from the French of M. Mallet, by Bishop Percy.

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Creator:
Mallet, Paul Henri, 1730–1807
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
3 p.l., 578 p. front. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. History and antiquities of Norwich Castle / by the late Samuel Woodward

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Creator:
Woodward, Samuel, 1790–1838
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xii, 50 p., [26] leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The amateur gardener's calendar : being a monthly guide as to what should be avoided, as well as what should be done, in a garden each month : with plain rules how to do what is requisite : directions for laying out and planting kitchen and flower gardens, pleasure grounds, and shrubberies : and a short account, in each month, of the quadrupeds, birds, and insects then most injurious to gardens / by Mrs. Loudon, author of "The Lady's country companion," "The Ladies' flower garden of ornamental greenhouse plants," "The Ladies companion to the flower garden," etc. ; with numerous illustrations.

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Creator:
Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807–1858
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xx, 372 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. An inquiry into the difference of style observable in ancient glass paintings, : especially in England: with hints on glass painting, / by an amateur ...

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Creator:
Winston, Charles, 1814–1864
Date:
MDCCCXLVII [1847]
Physical Description:
2 v., [77] leaves of plates (some colored) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The hand-book for modelling wax flowers / by John and Horatio Mintorn.

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Creator:
Mintorn, J. H. (John Haynes)
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xi, 84 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The church goer, rural rides, or, Calls at country churches : to which are added, notices of the Reverends Drs. Pusey, Joseph Wolff, Henry Philpotts, Bishop of Exeter, and Francis Close, Vicar of Cheltenham.

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Creator:
Leech, Joseph
Date:
1847-50
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The pictorial guide to Cambridge : containing descriptions of its colleges, halls, libraries, churches, and public buildings : illustrated with a variety of engravings on wood.

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Date:
1847
Physical Description:
54 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The mansions of England and Wales : illustrated in a series of views of the principal seats with historical and topographical descriptions by Edward Twycross ...

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Creator:
Twycross, Edward
Date:
1847-1850
Physical Description:
5 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Three years' wanderings in the northern provinces of China : including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries : with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. / by Robert Fortune ... ; with illustrations.

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Creator:
Fortune, Robert, 1813–1880
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xiv, [4], 406, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The tradesmans book of ornamental designs.

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Creator:
Leith, Samuel
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 4 p. 40 plates (incl. front.) 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. English hexameter translations from Shiller, Göthe, Homer, Callinus, and Meleager.

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Date:
1847
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 278 p. ; 15 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Tallis's street views and pictorial directory, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a faithful history and description of every object of interest, by William Gaspey ...

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Creator:
Tallis, John, 1817–1876
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 3-88 p. front., ill., 18 double plans. 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts