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Universal building-blocks box = Boite à construction en bois = Universal-Holzbaukasten.
Date:
[late 19th century?]
Physical Description:
1 set of building blocks (63 pieces) : wood ; various sizes, in wooden box 17 x 24 x 5
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
J. Smithson, dealer in every description of watches, jewellery, plated goods &c. : Birkenhead : watches, clocks, jewellery and every description of fancy articles cleaned and repaired.
Date:
[1850?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
The blue lights / by R. Carrick ; after J.M.W. Turner, Esqre. R.A. ; shewing the progress of the printing.
Creator:
Carrick, Robert, active 1853–1895
Date:
[1853?]
Physical Description:
27 prints in 1 volume : chromolithography volume 62 x 87 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views in India, Saint Helena, and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by Major John Luard.
Creator:
Luard, John, 1790–1875
Date:
[1838]
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) ill. 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Select illustrations of Hampshire : comprising picturesque views of the seats of the nobility & gentry, lodge entrances &c. / with descriptions by G.F. Prosser.
Creator:
Prosser, George Frederick
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
[114] p., [53] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Funeral procession of Arthur, Duke of Wellington [graphic] / H. Alken and G.A. Sala exc.
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
1 print on 27 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 14 x 2042 cm, accordion folded to to 14 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Regency. Ramsgate : Sunday, 18th October, 1953 : dinner 7/-.
Creator:
Regency Hotel (Ramsgate, England)
Date:
1953
Physical Description:
1 menu ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of J. Fallon & Co., fish merchant, Leek, Staffordshire, for purchases made by Mr. Russell, 1887].
Creator:
J. Fallon & Co. (Leek, England)
Date:
1887
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 28 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wet drug jar.
Date:
circa 1660
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 21 cm high (including handle) x 17 cm in diameter (22 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
The Napoleon Museum will be open at Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, for a short time only ...
Date:
[1843?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 20 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Catharine Muriel commonplace book : manuscript.
Creator:
Muriel, Catharine
Date:
1825-circa 1840
Physical Description:
1 volume (228 pages, some blank) : illustrations ; 23 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Tax bill for Samuel Staneforth Esqr of Attercliff [illegible] Darnall, dated July 12, 1814]
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 22 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of Francis M. Herring, chemist].
Creator:
Herring, Francis M.
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 19 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Osbourne's Fort [graphic] / Trollup fecit.
Creator:
Trollope, Robert, -1686
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
2 drawings : watercolor and pen and black ink ; sheets 29 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce Marshall Rare Books
In sacred memory of the victims of the great explosion in the East End of London on Friday evening, January, 19th, 1917.
Date:
1917
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 80 x 110 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead recording shoes purchased by Mr. Roberts from P. Roche, boot maker, Liverpool.
Creator:
Roche, Patrick (Bootmaker)
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 12 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[ A Ballad singer / by John Smith after Lorenzo Castro]
Creator:
Smith, J. (John), 1652–1743
Date:
[1680?]
Physical Description:
1 print : mezzotint ; 17 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Pike & Garnham, linen drapers, silk mercers & hosiers : 12, Red Lion Street, Holborn.
Creator:
Pike & Garnham
Date:
[1830?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 90 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of cut-paper flowers.
Creator:
C. P. A. F
Date:
1842-1849
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pictures) ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pizarro : a drama in five acts : written expressly for and adapted only to Skelt's characters and scenes in the same.
Date:
[between 1850--1862]
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
Prize medal of the Exhibition : Hullmandel & Walton, Class XXX
Creator:
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 medal : bronze ; 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], ii p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A present from the Crystal Palace.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[1868?]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 24 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of drawings after John Flaxman's illustrations for The divine comedy, as engraved by Étienne Achille Reveil.
Date:
not before 1833
Physical Description:
1 volume (107 drawings) : graphite ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund; Gift of Diane Nixon
Scotiae Regni Antiqvissimi Accvrata Descriptio / Io Leslavs, Epus Rossen.
Creator:
Leslie, John, 1527–1596
Date:
MDLXXVIII [1578]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 40.5 x 53.5 cm, on sheet, 41.5 x 54.5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks.
Date:
1805-1822
Physical Description:
1 volume (65 leaves, rectos only) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wild flowers worth notice : being a selection from the British flora of some of our native plants, which are most attractive from their beauty, uses, or associations / by Mrs. Lankester ; fully illustrated by J.E. Sowerby.
Creator:
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
xiv, 138, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
[Panorama of popular printed images].
Date:
[circa 1680]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching ; 85 x 1340 mm, in a box 99 x 84 x 25 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A plan of the city of Bristol / survey'd and drawn by John Rocque ; engraved by John Pine, 1742.
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
1 map on 2 sheets ; 100 x 228 cm., sheets 110 x 122 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Gerardi de Lairesse, Leodiensis pictoris, Opus elegantissimum.
Creator:
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:
[ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:
[56] double leaves of plates : all ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Practical farriery, or, The complete directory : in whatever relates to the food, management, and cure of the diseases incident to horses ; the whole alphabetically digested, and illustrated with copper-plates / by John Blunt, surgeon, at Leominster, Hereforshire.
Creator:
Blunt, John, surgeon
Date:
MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:
viii, 316, [8] p., III leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (engraving) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Children's tea party held on board R.M.S. "Ivernia" : in the dining room at 3:45 p.m. on Monday, August 22, 1955.
Creator:
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd.
Date:
1955
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 16 x 26 cm, folded to 16 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of James Cracknall, clothier, London, for tailoring provided to Lord Strathallen, 1830.
Creator:
Cracknall, James
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billheads of John Vindin, oil & colourman, Knightsbridge for purchases by Mr. Gibbs, 1823].
Creator:
Vindin, John, 1795–1852
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
5 sheets ; 12 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Queen Hotel : Chester.
Creator:
Queen Hotel (Chester, England)
Date:
[188-?]
Physical Description:
4 pages : illustrations ; 120 x 80 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A progress of female virtue / engraved by A. Cardon from original drawings by Mrs. Cosway.
Creator:
Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759–1838
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
[1], 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of Joseph Osborn, maltster, for purchases made by H. Brandreth, 1848].
Creator:
Osborn, Joseph (Maltster)
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 9 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
J. Pigot, engraver, and copper plate printer : 11, Fountain Street, Manchester.
Creator:
Pigot, James, 1769–1843
Date:
[between 1810 and 1821]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 56 x 84 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sailing and fighting instructions for His Majesties fleet.
Creator:
Great Britain. Admiralty
Date:
[approximately 1711]
Physical Description:
34 pages ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Chinese sensitive leaf.
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 19 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cygnea cantio : swan song.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([3] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John V. Harrison & Co. : (successors to R. Wootten & Co.) : (late Josh. Barton) : glue manufacturers, Grange Road, Bermondsey.
Creator:
John V. Harrison & Co.
Date:
[approximately 1840?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 7 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses at King's Lodge Academy, Exeter, to be paid to the Messrs. Quicke.
Creator:
King's Lodge Academy (Exeter, England)
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages ; 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts