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1. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:
xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, collected by Lieutenant General James Dormer, / which will be sold by auction (by order of the administrator) by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent -Garden : to begin on Monday, February the 20th, 1764, and to continue the nineteen following evenings, beginning each evening exactly at six o'clock.

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Creator:
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:
[1764]
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A catalogue of the highly valuable collection of prints : the property of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart ... : part the first consisting of a series of British portraits, from the heptarchy to the end of the reign of William III : comprising a capital assemblage of extremely rare and curious prints : including several unique beautiful equestrian and historical engravings, by Delaram, Elstracke, Rogers, the Pass Family, &c. : the principal works of W. Hollar : a matchless display of the productions of that celebrated artist W. Faithorne, many of them brilliant proofs, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby, at his rooms, No. 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, 29th of March, 1824, and eleven following days, Sunday excepted, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:
[1824]
Physical Description:
5 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

7. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

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Creator:
Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
viii, [1], 4-194 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. (4vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy H. Bartels

8. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

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Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A history of the University of Oxford : its colleges, halls, public buildings : in two volumes.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1814 [i.e. 1813-1815]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[6], 20, [4], 21, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. : qui prostabunt venales sub hasta apud Samuelem Baker, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 18vo. Novembris, M. DCC. LIV. iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M. DCC. LV.

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Creator:
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:
[1754]
Physical Description:
[4], 116, [2], 117-242 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Catalogue of the collection of pictures, works of art, and decorative objects, the property of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, K. T. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods at their Great Rooms, 8 King Street, St. James's Square ...

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1882]
Physical Description:
234 pages, 78 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

13. Country rambles in England, or, Journal of a naturalist / with notes and additions by the author of "Rural hours"

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Creator:
Knapp, J. L. (John Leonard), 1767–1845
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
x, [1], 12-336, [2] pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Der Freischütz, travestie / by Septimus Globus, Esq. ... ; with twelve etchings, by George Cruikshank, from drawings by an amateur; and the original tale whereon the German opera is founded.

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Creator:
Globus, Septimus
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[4], 68 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

15. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

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Creator:
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:
1843-1844
Physical Description:
4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting / illustrated by examples by Samuel Prout.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
[4], 16, [36] p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples / by Samuel Prout, F. S. A., painter in water colours in ordinary to Her Majesty.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 16 p., [20] leaves, [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Horda angel-cynnan, or, A compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the inhabitants of England : from the arrival of the Saxons, till the reign of Henry the Eighth : with a short account of the Britons, during the government of the Romans : in two volumes / by Joseph Strutt ; author of the regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England.

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Creator:
Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:
MDCCLXXV-MDCCLXXVI [1775-1776]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Illustrations of domestic architecture in England, : during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, as exemplified in the interior of the residence of John Danby Palmer, Esq. situated in the borough-town of Great Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk, with notices of the house and its proprietors. / By Charles John Palmer ... The plates engraved by H. Shaw ...

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Creator:
Palmer, Charles John, 1805–1882
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
25, [11] p., [44] leaves of plates : ill., plans, port. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Indication of memorials, monuments, paintings, and engravings of persons of the Howard family : and of their wives and children, and of those who have married ladies of the name, and of the representatives of some of its branches now extinct, as far as they have been ascertained by Henry Howard.

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Creator:
Howard, Henry, 1757–1842
Date:
[1834-1841]
Physical Description:
97, [98] pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, coats of arms, genealogical tables ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brooke Allen and Peter Aaron

21. Picturesque views on the upper, or Warwickshire Avon : from its sources at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

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Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
xviii, 284, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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.

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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

23. Suggestions for the architectural improvement of the western part of London / by Sydney Smirke, F.S.A., F.G.A.

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Creator:
Smirke, Sydney, 1798–1877
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
[4], 117 p., [3] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plan ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The adventures of a post captain / by a naval officer ; with characteristic engravings by Mr. Williams.

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Creator:
Thornton, Alfred, active 1820
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
[4], 282, [2] p., [1], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politicks, and literature for the year ...

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Date:
[1762?]-1838
Physical Description:
80 v. : ill., maps ; 21-23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David : and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

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Creator:
Church of England
Date:
MDCCVI [1706]
Physical Description:
[372], 18, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The Donnington run.

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Date:
[between 1821 and 1824]
Physical Description:
8 pages : 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The fables of John Dryden : ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc.

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Creator:
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[4], xviii, 241, [1] p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts