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1. [Flower groups].

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Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. [Plates from William Coxe's Travels in Switzerland]

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Creator:
Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
[24] leaves ([1] folded) : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. [The coronation of George the Fourth]

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Date:
[1841]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 77 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A bibliographical antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany / by the Rev. Tho. Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S. S.A.

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Creator:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A brief account of the coronation of His Majesty, George IV, July 19, 1821.

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Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[2], 32 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.

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Creator:
Busby, C. A. (Charles Augustin), 1786–1834
Date:
[not before 1819]
Physical Description:
25 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A collection of Gloucestershire antiquities / by Samuel Lysons ...

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
[4], iv, 38, [4] p., 110 leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A companion to The Leasowes, Hagley and Enville : with a sketch of Fisherwick near Lichfield : illustrated with copper plates.

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Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
130, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A course of the five orders of civil architecture : with a plan, and some geometrical elevations of town gates of fortified places : for the use of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich / by I. Landmann, Professor of Fortification and Artillery ; the five orders are taken from Mr. Chambers's elegant treatise on civil architecture.

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Creator:
Landmann, Isaac, 1741–1826
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
[2], 25, [1] pages, XIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A disquisition upon Etruscan vases : displaying their probable connection with the shows at Eleusis, and the Chinese feast of lanterns, with explanations of a few of the principal allegories depicted upon them.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
[2], vi, 99, [1] p., XVI leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A history of Hartlepool / by Sir Cuthbert Sharp ...

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Creator:
Sharp, Cuthbert, Sir, 1781–1849
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
vi, 180, [iii]-xxvi p., [3], [1], [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plates, plans, geneal. tables ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A history of the University of Cambridge : its colleges, halls, and public buildings.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
2 v. : col. ill., port., plans ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A memoir, explanatory of the chart and survey of the county of London-Derry, Ireland / by the Rev. George Vaughan Sampson.

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Creator:
Sampson, George Vaughan
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 359 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople : between the years 1810 and 1816 : with a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian gulf : together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under His Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley ... / by James Morier ; .. with two maps and engravings from the designs of the author.

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Creator:
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 435 p, [19] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A view of the origin and conduct of the war with Tippoo Sultaun : comprising a narrative of the operations of the army under the command of Lieutenant-General George Harris, and of the siege of Seringapatam / by Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Beatson.

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Creator:
Beatson, Alexander, 1759–1833
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 265, [1], clxxii p., [7] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., port., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East passage : undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue : illustrated with numerous plates and maps : in three volumes.

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Creator:
Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A voyage to Hudson's Bay during the summer of 1812 : containing a particular account of the icebergs and other phenomena which present themselves in those regions : also, a description of the Esquimeaux and North American Indians : their mannners, customs, dress, language, &c. &c. &c. / by Thomas M'Keevor, M.D. of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital.

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Creator:
MacKeevor, Thomas
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
78 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Account of the Skerryvore lighthouse, with notes on the illumination of lighthouses; by Alan Stevenson ... By order of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.

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Creator:
Stevenson, Alan, 1807–1865
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
x p., 2 leaves, [9]-439, [1] p. front., ill., XXXIII plates (3 fold.; incl. charts, plans) diagrs. 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Aedes Hartwellianae, or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell / by Captain W.H. Smyth.

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Creator:
Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788–1865
Date:
MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 414, [2] p., XIII leaves of plates : ill. (1 col.) maps, plans, ports. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

20. An analysis of horsemanship : teaching the whole art of riding, in the manege, military, hunting, racing, and travelling system : together with the method of breaking horses, for every purpose to which those noble animals are adapted / by John Adams, ridingmaster ; in three volumes.

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Creator:
Adams, John (Riding master)
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. An historical and topographical sketch of Knole, in Kent : with a brief genealogy of the Sackville family : embellished with engravings / by John Bridgman.

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Creator:
Bridgman, John
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[5], p. viii, 164 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

22. An historical survey of the County of Cornwall: to which is added a complete heraldry of the same; with numerous engravings. / By C. S. Gilbert.

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Creator:
Gilbert, Charles Sandoe, 1760–1831
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms, map, portraits ; [57] leaves of plates (some folded), [20] p. of plates : 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. An illustrated record of important events in the annals of Europe, during the last four years : comprising a series of views of the principal places, battles, etc. connected with those events : together with a history of those momentous transactions, compiled from official and other authentic documents.

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Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[2], 32, 20 pages, [11] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.

Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1791-[1800]
Physical Description:
[96] leaves : chiefly ill., ports. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Antiquities of Westminster; the Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, (now the House of Commons) &c. &c. Containing two hundred and forty-six engravings of topographical objects, of which one hundred and twenty-two no longer remain. By John Thomas Smith ...

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
4 p. ., [iii]-xv p., 1 leaf, 276 p. 36 plates (part col.) 2 plans. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Boxiana, or, Sketches of ancient and modern pugilism ... / by P. Egan.

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Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1823-1829
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Cocking and its votaries.

Cocking and its votaries.
Creator:
Taylor, S. A
Date:
1885]
Physical Description:
36, i-iv p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton, His Britannick Maiesty's envoy extraordinary at the Court of Naples = Antiquités etrusques, grecques et romaines tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, envoyé extraordinaire de S.M. Britannique en Cour de Naples.

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Creator:
Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719–1805
Date:
MDCCLXVI-MDCCLVII [1766-1767]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations (some color, some folded) ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Clive Caplan

29. Cottage architecture : being a supplement to the first [-second] series of Goodwin's Rural architecture, lately published : this supplement contains designs of peasants' cottages, both plain and ornamental, separate and in groups, gate lodges, small dairy farm houses, &c. with specifications and estimates of each design : the whole planned and carefully revised in aid of the improving state of rural economy / by Francis Goodwin.

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Creator:
Goodwin, Francis, 1784–1835
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

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Creator:
Birch, William, 1760–1794?
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
[8] pages, x, [36] leaves, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey / by John Rutter, Shaftesbury.

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Creator:
Rutter, John, 1796–1851
Date:
MDCCCXXII [1823]
Physical Description:
xxvi, 127, [1] pages, 13, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

32. Designs and examples of cottages, villas, and country houses : being the studies of several eminent architects and builders, consisting of plans, elevations, and perspective views, with approximate estimates of the cost of each / collected, edited, and published by John Weale.

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Date:
1857
Physical Description:
8 p., 67 leaves of plates : ill., chiefly plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Eastbury illustrated : by elevations, plans, sections, views, and other delineations of that once magnificent mansion, measured, drawn engraved, and architecturally described by Thomas Hutchings Clarke / with a historical sketch by William Henry Black.

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Creator:
Clarke, T. H. (Thomas Hutchings)
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
14, [2] p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. 37 in.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Elements of the veterinary art : containing an essay on the proportions of the celebrated eclipse : six lectures on farriery, or the art of horse-shoeing, and on the diseases of the foot : an essay on the grease, which obtained the prize given by the Royal Society of Medicine : an essay on the glanders : and observations on the gripes : the whole illustrated with nine anatomical, geometrical, and mechanical engravings / by Charles Vial de Sainbel, late equerry to the King and Professor to the Veterinary College ; to which is prefixed, a short account of his life.

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Creator:
Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753–1793
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
29, [1], 83, [1], 2, [3], vi-xii, [5], ii-iii, [2], 6-202, [2]; 127, [1] pages, [2], III, 2, III-IV leaves of plates (4 folded) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire : with heraldical and genealogical notices of the Beckford family / by John Britton.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[3], vi-viii, [5]-68, [8] pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

36. Grecian remains in Italy : a description of Cyclopian walls, and of Roman antiquities, with topographical and picturesque views of ancient Latium / by J.J. Middleton.

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Creator:
Middleton, John Izard, 1785–1849
Date:
1812 [i.e. not before 1819]
Physical Description:
[4], 50 pages, 27 [i.e. 23], A-B leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Hints for dwellings : consisting of original designs for cottages, farm-houses, villas, &c., plain and ornamental : with plans to each : in which strict attention is paid to unite convenience and elegance with economy : including some designs for town houses / by D. Laing, architect and surveyor ; elegantly engraved, in aqua-tinta, on thirty-four plates, with appropriate scenery.

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Creator:
Laing, David, 1774–1856
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
15, [1] p., [34] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. History and antiquities of Kensington : interspersed with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished personages, and a descriptive catalogue of the collection of pictures in the palace, from a survey made by the late B. West ... by command of His Majesty / by Thomas Faulkner ...

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Creator:
Faulkner, Thomas, 1777–1855
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
xvi, [2], 624, [11] p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, geneal. tables ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.

Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.
Creator:
Sinclair, George, 1786–1834
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 42 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Illustrations of Japan : consisting of private memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning dynasty of the Djogouns, or sovereigns of Japan : a description of the feasts and ceremonies observed throughout the year at their court : and of the ceremonies customary at marriages and funerals : to which are subjoined, observations on the legal suicide of the Japanese, remarks on their poetry, and explanation of their mode of reckoning time, particulars respecting the Dosia powder, the preface of a work Confoutzee on filial piety, &c. &c. / by M. Titsingh ; formerly chief agent to the Dutch East India Company at Nangasaki ; translated from the French, by Frederic Shoberl ; with colored plates ; faithfully copied from Japanese original designs.

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Creator:
Titsingh, Isaac, 1744–1812
Date:
MDCCXXII [1822]
Physical Description:
xvi, 325, [3] pages, [13] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting / by Lt. Col. P. Hawker.

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Creator:
Hawker, Peter, 1786–1853
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[3], vi-xxii, 470 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry : with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.

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Creator:
Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790–1855
Date:
MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:
[8], xxix, [3], 310, [2], clxxix, [3] pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Journal of the late campaign in Egypt : including descriptions of that country, and of Gibralter, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri : with an appendix, containing official papers and documents / by Thomas Walsh, Captain in His Majesty's ninety-third regiment of foot, aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir Eyre Coots, K. B. and K.c. M. P. &c. ; illustrated by numerous engravings of antiquities, views, costumes, plans, positions, &c.

Journal of the late campaign in Egypt : including descriptions of that country, and of Gibralter, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri : with an appendix, containing official papers and documents / by Thomas Walsh, Captain in His Majesty's ninety-third regiment of foot, aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir Eyre Coots, K. B. and K.c. M. P. &c. ; illustrated by numerous engravings of antiquities, views, costumes, plans, positions, &c.
Creator:
Walsh, Thomas, fl. 1801
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
viii, [20], 261, [7], *145, [1] p., 49 [i.e.41] leaves of plates ([9] folded) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts : ... consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.

Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts : ... consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.
Creator:
Lucas, Fielding, Jr., 1781–1854
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 24 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Memoir of the conquest of Java : with the subsequent operations of the British forces, in the Oriental archipelago : to which is subjoined a statistical and historical sketch of Java with an account of its dependencies / by Major William Thorn, Late Deputy Quarter-Master-General to the forces serving in Java ; illustrated by plans, charts, views, ec.

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Creator:
Thorn, William
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
xxiv, 369, [1] pages, [36] leaves of plates (16 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c. : particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816, and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824 : with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern archipelago, and selections from his correspondence / by his widow.

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Creator:
Raffles, Sophia, Lady, 1786–1858
Date:
MDCCCXXX [1830]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 723, [1], 100 pages, [11] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson / written by herself ; in four volumes.

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Creator:
Wilson, Harriette, 1786–1846
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Memoirs of the ancient earls of Warren and Surrey : and their descendants to the present time / by the Rev. John Watson, M.A. F.A.S. late fellow of the Brasen-Nose College in Oxford, and rector of Stockport in Cheshire.

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Creator:
Watson, John, 1725–1783
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782, that is 1785]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

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Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
ix, [1], 218 pages, [19] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

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Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
[2], ix, [3], 206, [2] pages, [19] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts