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1. Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus : illustrated with plates and a map : with a sketch of the history of Rutch : and an appendix / by James Burnes.

Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus : illustrated with plates and a map : with a sketch of the history of Rutch : and an appendix / by James Burnes.
Creator:
Burnes, James, 1801–1862
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xviii, 168, xviii, 74, 73., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.

Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.
Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:
1813 [i.e. 1839]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign insects : also for collecting and preserving crustacea and shells / by Abel Ingpen.

Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign insects : also for collecting and preserving crustacea and shells / by Abel Ingpen.
Creator:
Ingpen, Abel, -1854
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
106 p., 3 leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. An historical and descriptive account of Brimham Rocks in the West Riding of Yorkshire : intended as a guide to visitors.

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Date:
1839
Physical Description:
24 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The Silurian system : founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caernarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford : with descriptions of the coalfields and overlying formations / by Roderick Impey Murchison ... ; in two parts.

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Creator:
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792–1871
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The mansions of England in the olden time / by Joseph Nash.

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Creator:
Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878
Date:
1839-1849
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The wild sports of Southern Africa : being the narrative of an expedition from the cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the chief Moselekatse, to the tropic of Capricorn / by Captain William Cornwallis Harris, of the H.E.I. Company's engineers on the Bombay establishment.

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Creator:
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
Date:
MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:
xxiv, 387, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The royal lodges in Windsor Great Park / from drawings by H.B. Ziegler, executed by L. Haghe in lithography by express command for Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.

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Creator:
Ziegler, H. B. (Henry Bryan), 1798–1874
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Tales of many lands / by the author of "Tales of the great and the brave".

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Creator:
Tytler, Margaret Fraser
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
418, [6] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Notes descriptive of a panoramic sketch of Athens, taken May, 1839 : sold in aid of the London Benevolent Repository.

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Creator:
Bracebridge, Selina
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
8 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Windsor, with its surrounding scenery, the parks, the Thames, Eton college &c. / by J.B. Pyne.

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Creator:
Pyne, J. B. (James Baker), 1800–1870
Date:
[1839]
Physical Description:
[14] leaves : illustrations ; 47-56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Antiquities of Chester : by J.S. Prout.

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Creator:
Prout, J. S. (John Skinner), 1806–1876
Date:
[1839]
Physical Description:
2 p., [19] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The art of painting in oil, and in fresco : being a history of various ... by Hubert and John van Eyck, to the present time / translated from the original French treatise of M. J.F.L. Mérimée ; with original observations on the rise and progress of British art ... by W.B. Sarsfield Taylor.

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Creator:
Mérimée, J.-F.-L. (Jean-François-Léonor), 1757–1836
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xliv, 371, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The history and topography of Ashbourn, the Valley of the Dove, and the adjacent villages : with biographical sketches of eminent natives, &c ; illustrated by numerous original drawings on stone, and wood cuts.

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Date:
1839
Physical Description:
[10], 380 p., [26] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. California : a history of Upper and Lower California from their first discovery to the present time, comprising an account of the climate, soil, natural productions, agriculture, commerce, &c. : a full view of the missionary establishments and condition of the free and domesticated Indians : with an appendix relating to steam navigation in the Pacific : illustrated with a new map, plans of the harbours, and numerous engravings / by Alexander Forbes, Esq.

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Creator:
Forbes, Alexander, 1778–1862
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xvi, 352 pages, [11] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A series of ornamental timber gables : from existing examples in England and France, of the sixteenth century / drawn on stone by B. Ferrey, under the direction of A. Pugin, architect ; with descriptive letterpress by E.J. Willson, architect, F.S.A.

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Creator:
Pugin, Augustus, 1762–1832
Date:
MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:
15 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The Great Western, Cheltenham and Great Western, and Bristol and Exeter railway guides : containing a topographical, antiquarian, and geological account of the country and of the towns and villages in the neighbourhood of the railways : with a preliminary description of the construction of the Great Western and other railways : illustrated with numerous and accurate engravings on wood, and guides to Windsor, Reading, Oxford, Glocester, Hereford, Cheltenham, Bath, Wells, and Bristol.

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Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 284 p. [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Woodland sketches : a series of characteristic portraits of trees adapted for studies for artists and amateurs / by George Childs ...

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Creator:
Childs, George
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
iv, 32 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Morgan's Improved protean scenery : the brute tamer of Pompeii ...

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Date:
1839
Physical Description:
1 sheet : col. ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A journal of a voyage to, and residence in, the island of Jamaica, from 1801 to 1805 : and of subsequent events in England from 1805 to 1811 / by Maria, Lady Nugent ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Nugent, Maria, Lady, 1771?-1834
Date:
MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The book of royalty : characteristics of British palaces / by Mrs. S. C. Hall ; the drawings by W. Perring and J. Brown.

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Creator:
Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800–1881
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
42, [2] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The rock : illustrated with various legends and original songs, and music, descriptive of Gibraltar / by Major Hort, Eighty-First Regiment ; with drawings, taken on the spot, by William Lacey, Esq., Lieutenant, Forty-Sixth Regiment ; dedicated, by special permission, to Her Majesty, Victoria, Queen of England.

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Creator:
Hort, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1803 or 4–1857
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
[2], x, [6], 171, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The Rhine, legends, traditions, history, from Cologne to Mainz. By Joseph Snowe ...

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Creator:
Snowe, Joseph
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts., (1 col.) ill., plates. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia : with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales / by T.L. Mitchell ...

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Creator:
Mitchell, T. L. (Thomas Livingstone), 1792–1855
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Sketches in Scotland / drawn from nature and on stone by S.D. Swarbreck.

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Creator:
Swarbreck, S. D. (Samuel Dukinfield)
Date:
June 1st, 1839
Physical Description:
[2] pages, [26] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The art of dress, or, Guide to the toilette : with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure, hints on cosmetics, &c. / embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard, Esq.

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Date:
MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:
x, 68, [2] p., VI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Sketches on the Wye / by A.J. Waudby.

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Creator:
Waudby, A. J.
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts