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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Date 1855

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1. Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley.

Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley.
Creator:
Stapley, W. B.
Date:
1855-1870
Physical Description:
1 v. ([42] leaves) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The coinage of the British Empire : an outline of the progress of the coinage in Great Britain and her dependencies : from the earliest period to the present time / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; illustrated by facsimiles of the coins of each period, worked in gold, silver, and copper.

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Creator:
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
160 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. D'Albert's Album : 1855.

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Creator:
Albert, Charles d', 1809–1886
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
117 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Christmas with the poets : a collection of songs, carols, and descriptive verses relating to the festival of Christmas : from the Anglo-Norman period to the present time / embellished with fifty-three tinted ilustrations by Birket Foster ; and with initial letters and other ornaments.

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Date:
1855
Physical Description:
x, [2], 202 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The geological staircase : containing the steps of rocks and floors of alluvium / by Professor Donaldson ...

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Creator:
Donaldson, John, 1799–1876
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
ix, 525 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), charts ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Examples of ornament : selected chiefly from works of art in the British Museum, the Museum of Economic Geology, the Museum of Ornamental Art in Marlborough House, and the new Crystal Palace / drawn from original sources by Francis Bedford, Thomas Scott, Thomas Macquoid, and Henry O'Neill ; ... edited by Joseph Cundall.

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Date:
1855
Physical Description:
5, [4] p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The story of the campaign of Sebastopol / written in the camp by Lieut. Col. E. Bruce Hamley ; with illustrations drawn in camp by the author.

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Creator:
Hamley, Edward Bruce, Sir, 1824–1893
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xv, 339 p. : ill., fold. map. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Eight years' wanderings in Ceylon / by S.W. Baker.

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Creator:
Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821–1893
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 423 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The history and description of St. George's Church at Doncaster : destroyed by fire February 28, 1853 / by John Edward Jackson ...

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Creator:
Jackson, John Edward, 1805–1891
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
viii, 144, xci p., 15 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of a tour in the north of Italy / by George Edmund Street.

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Creator:
Street, George Edmund, 1824–1881
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xx, 287, 32 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. English Gothic architecture, or, Suggestions relative to the designing of domestic buildings, ornaments, church-yard memorials, chimney pieces, and alphabets / by John Gibbs ...

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Creator:
Gibbs, John, architect
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
13 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The visit of Their Imperial Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of the French, to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, April, l855. From drawings executed, at the command of Her Majesty, by Louis Haghe, Edouard Morin, and George Thomas, with letter-press descriptions by Shirley Brooks.

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Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
1 p.l., 5, [1] p., 8 col. pl. 63 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah / by Richard F. Burton.

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Creator:
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821–1890
Date:
1855-1856
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico : its middle state in the Cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis ... / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

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Creator:
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 178 p., 28 [i.e. 30] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Illustrations of the British paper manufacture / manufactured by Mr. T. H. Saunders ...

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Creator:
Saunders, T. H
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[20] leaves, [3] leaves of plates (1 folding) : ill. ; 70 cm. + 123, [6] paper samples
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The last of the Arctic voyages : being a narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54 / With notes on the natural history, by Sir John Richardson, Professor Owen, Thomas Bell, J.W. Salter and Lovell Reeve.

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Creator:
Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799–1877
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts