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1. Supplementum chronicharum.

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Creator:
Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
Date:
anno a natiuitate D[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij [1493]
Physical Description:
[2], 256, [12] leaves : illustrations; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

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 and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

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Creator:
Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The wife, or, Women as they are : a domestic drama.

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Creator:
Knowles, James Sheridan, 1784–1862
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
ix, 84 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

6. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues, and with former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches.

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Date:
MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:
[1296] pages : illustrations ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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

8. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

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Creator:
Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
[4], xii, 128, [16] p., III folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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

10. 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.

11. An authentic history of the celebrated horse American Eclipse : containing an account of his pedigree and performances, with some general information on the subject of the turf, and the means adopted at various times to improve the breed of horses : embellished with a correct likeness of this famous horse, engraved on wood, in the best style by Dr. A. Anderson.

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Creator:
Conrad, Ephraim, 1769?-1834
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
6, [3], 8-37, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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

13. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

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Creator:
Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

14. Poetical magazine : dedicated to the lovers of the muse / by the agent of the goddess, R. Ackermann.

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Date:
Nov. 1, 1809-May 1, 1811
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times : collected from the best authorities, both printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary ...

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Date:
1747-1766
Physical Description:
6 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Halinitro-pyrobolia. : Beschreibu[n]g einer newen Büchsen-Meisterey, nemlichen: gründlicher Bericht, wie der Salpeter, Schwefel, Kohlen, vnnd das Pulfer zu praepariren, zu probieren, auch langwirrig gut zu behalten: das Fewrwerck zur Kurtzweil vnd Ernst zu laboriren. Dann, wie der Pöler, das grobe Geschütz, vnd der Petardo zu gobernirn: ingleichem die Lunden bey Tag- vnd Nachtszeiten, sicherlich vnd ohne gesehen zu tragen, &c. Sampt einer kurtzen geometrishcen Einlaytung, die Weite vnd Höhe gar gering zu erfahren. Alles ausz eygener Experientza; neben etlichen newen, zuvor nicht gesehnen Inventionen, gantz fleissig und vertrewlich beshrieben; vber das, mit. 44. Kupfferstucken delinirt vnd für Augen gestellt / durch Josephum Furttenbach..

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Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:
Anno MDCXXVII [1627]
Physical Description:
[20], 107, [1] p., [1], 44 [i.e. 88] leaves of plates (44 folded) : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta : quibus Romanorum veterum ritus varii tam sacri quam profani, tum Graecorum atque Aegyptiorum nonnulli illustrantur / Romæ olim maxima ex parte collecta ; ac dissertationibus jam singulis instructa, a Conyers Middleton, S.T.P. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Protobibliothecario ; his appendicis item loco adjuncta est mumiae Cantabrigiensis descriptio.

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Creator:
Middleton, Conyers, 1683–1750
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
xii, 266, [8] p., 23 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An essay upon prints : containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters : illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces : to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 4, [2], 249, [13] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

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Date:
1832-1845
Physical Description:
v. : ill. ; 20-29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Regal heraldry : the armorial insignia of the kings and queens of England, from coeval authorities / by Thomas Willement, heraldic artist to His Majesty King George the Fourth.

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Creator:
Willement, Thomas, 1786–1871
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[5], viii-x, [2], 116 pages, XXXVI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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

22. Hē tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa.

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Creator:
Homer
Date:
[9 December 1488, i.e. not before 13 January 1488/9]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ([880] pages) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

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Creator:
Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:
1748
Physical Description:
[4], 182, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Some remarkable passages in the life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner : who was slain at the battle of Preston-Pans, September 21, 1745 : with an appendix relating to the antient family of the Munro's of Fowlis / by P. Doddridge, D.D.

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Creator:
Doddridge, Philip, 1702–1751
Date:
MDCCXLVII [1747]
Physical Description:
[16], 260 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts