Date: 1839 / Classification: Books - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. 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

2. 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

3. Archbald, the property of Mr. George Wilson, of Walkington, will serve mares this season, 1839, at one guinea and a-half each.

Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Thomas Sydney Cooper's cattle subjects.

Creator:: Cooper, Thomas Sidney, 1803–1902
Date:: [Published by E. Gambart & Co.],
Physical Description:: 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The mansions of England in the olden time.

Creator:: Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878
Date:: 1839-1849
Physical Description:: 2 v.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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

7. A catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 48 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A journal from the year 1811 till the year 1815 : including a voyage to and residence in India, with a tour to the north-western parts of the British possessions in that country, under the Bengal government / by Maria, Lady Nugent ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Nugent, Maria, Lady, 1771?-1834
Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Views in the vicinity of the city of Kingston Jamaica : drawn on stone / by J.B. Pyne and P. Gauci, from sketches by Capt. I.S. Whitty.

Creator:: Whitty, I. S
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 6 p.l. ; 43 x 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A catalogue of a very valuable and highly important collection of pictures chiefly of the early Flemish and German schools, together with some by Italian and Dutch masters : comprising the very celebrated work of Hubert and John Van Eyck : the Adoration of the Lamb, formerly in the Chapel of the Hotel de Ville at Ghent : ... work by Margaretha Van Eyck : Ecce Homo, by Martin Schoen : three by Albert Durer : and ... specimens of Ghielandaio, Masaccio, P. Perugino, M. Venusti, Le. Credi, Correggio, Caravaggio, Guido, Salice, C. Dolce, Guercino, C. Maratti, L. Cranach, Hemlinck, Scoorlels, Wohlgemu, Schwartz, L. v. Leyden, Jordaens, G. Crayer, Cuyp, Brauwer, Haussman, Ruysdael : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, the 26th of April, 1839, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Synopsis of a valuable collection of old Italian paintings : and other rare articles of fine arts / in the possession of Mr. John Clark ; now exhibiting at No. 281 Broadway, opposite the Washington Hotel ...

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 12 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Memoir of the life and character of the Right. Hon. Edmund Burke : with specimens of his poetry and letters ... / by James Prior.

Creator:: Prior, James, Sir, 1790?-1869
Date:: 1839
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. On painting in oil and water colours, for landscape and portraits : including the preparation of colours, vehicles, oils &c., methods of painting in wax, or encaustic : also on the chemical properties and permanency of colours, and on the best methods of cleaning and repairing old paintings, &c. ... / by T. H. Fielding ...

Creator:: Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: viii, 159 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26-28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Rambles in the south of Ireland during the year 1838 / by Lady Chatterton ...

Creator:: Chatterton, Georgiana, Lady, 1806–1876
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The visitor's guide to Knole, in the county of Kent : with catalogues of the pictures contained in the mansion, and biographical notices of the principal persons whose portraits form part of the collection / by John H. Brady, F.R.A.S.

Creator:: Brady, John Henry
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xx, 258, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates, ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

16. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xv, 99 p. plates, port. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A letter on ecclesiastical architecture : as applicable to modern churches : addressed to the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of London / by John Shaw.

Creator:: Shaw, John, 1803–1870
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 32 p. : [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Some account of the progress of the Trigonometrical Survey now carrying on in India / extracted from the correspondence of Colonel Everest, and communicated by Major T.B. Jervis.

Creator:: Jervis, T. B. (Thomas Best), 1796–1857
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 5 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Ph.D. 1978.

19. A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical. With upwards of three hundred illustrations engraved on wood, by John Jackson.

Creator:: Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xvi, 749, [1] p., 1 leaf. ill. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Twelve views in Italy / engraved by W.B. Cooke ; with descriptions to each plate by T.L. Donaldson ...

Creator:: Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [6], 48 [i.e. 30] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Harding's Sketches at home and abroad.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 50 pl. 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier : containing, I. The most best approved method of ordering, dieting, exercising, purging, scowring, and cleansing of horses: also choice restoratives to chear the heart, procure an appetite, and to clear the lungs and pipes, so as to strengthen wind, and give large breath to the running or race-horse. II. A certain sure method to know the true state of any horse's body, as to sickness or health. III. The true shape of a horse explained; with choice directions for buying. IV. An experienced and approved method for raising of horses, as to ordering, keeping, etc. Also mares, colts and stallions. V. A sure and certain rule to know the age of any horse, from one year to ten, with good observations as he further advances in years. VI. The best and experienced way of keeping the common hackney, or hunting horse, so as to keep him lively, chearful, free from colds, strains, windgalls, and gross humours. VII. An approved method of purging, bleeding and feeding cattle; with choice approved receipts for the diseases they are incident to: with signs to know the disease, and directions for the use of medicines : To all of which is added, a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world, for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses, of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease / by J. Markham, G. Jefferies, and discreet Indians.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: viii, 9-332, [10] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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.

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

24. The history and survey of the antiquities of Winchester, / by the late Right Rev. John Milner ... With supplementary notes. Also a biographical memoir, by the Rev. F. C. Husenbeth.

Creator:: Milner, John, 1752–1826
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 2 v., 21 leaves of plates : ill; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A hand-book for travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Russia: being a guide to the principal routes in those countries : with a minute description of Copenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Creator:: John Murray (Firm)
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xi, 276 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The history of Chesterfield : with particulars of the hamlets contiguous to the town, and descriptive accounts of Chatsworth, Hardwick, and Bolsover Castle ...

Creator:: Hall, George
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [2], vi, [2], 504 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Some account of the beard and the moustachio, chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. By John Adey Repton, F. S. A.

Creator:: Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775–1860
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 36 p. front., plate. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Le livre du roy Modus et de la royne Racio.

Creator:: Ferrières, Henri de, fl. 1377
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 16 p., [2], cxxxjx leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Historical record of the Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or the Carabineers : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent services to 1839.

Creator:: Cannon, Richard, 1779–1865
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [6], viii, 104 p., [3] leaves of plate : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The life of Mansie Wauch : tailor in Dalkeith / written by himself.

Creator:: Moir, D. M. (David Macbeth), 1798–1851
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [8], 384 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

31. McDowall's new guide to Roslin : being a historically descriptive account of the chapel & castle of Roslin and Hawthornden : with engravings on steel.

Date:: [1839?]
Physical Description:: [2], 36 p., [2] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

33. Salsette and Elephanta : a prize poem, recited in the theatre, Oxford, June 12, 1839 / by John Ruskin.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 19 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The history of the rise and progress of the new British province of South Australia : including particulars descriptive of its soil, climate, natural productions, &c. : and proofs of its superiority to all other British Colonies ... : embracing also a full account of the South Australian Company, with hints to various classes of emigrants, and numerous letters from settlers concerning wages, provisions, their satisfaction with the colony, &c. / by John Stephens.

Creator:: Stephens, John, active 1838–1847
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 224 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Character and costume in Turkey and Italy. Designed and drawn from nature, by Thomas Allom ... with descriptive letter-press, by Emma Reeve.

Creator:: Allom, Thomas, 1804–1872
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., [5]-47, [1] p. 20 col. plates. 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

38. Goodwood : its house park and grounds, with a catalogue raisonné of the pictures in the gallery of His Grace the Duke of Richmond, K.G. : to which are added an account of the antient encampment, tumuli, and British village of the adjacent downs : and a deailed record of Goodwood races from their first establishment : with six illustrations / by William Hayley Mason, librarian of Goodwood.

Creator:: Mason, William Hayley, -1864
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 215, [1] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

39. 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.

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

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

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

41. The voyages and travels of Captains Ross, Parry, Franklin, and Mr. Belzoni : forming an interesting history of the manners, customs, and characters of various nations / selected by Captain John Frederick Dennett ...

Creator:: Dennett, John Frederick
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [4], 992 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. An essay on the education of the eye : with reference to painting / illustrated by copper plates and wood cuts by John Burnet ; author of Practical hints on painting.

Creator:: Burnet, John, 1784–1868
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: viii, [6], 73 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Illustrations of the Bible / designed and engraved by John Martin.

Creator:: Martin, John, 1789–1854
Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

44. Man in his intellectual faculties and adaptations. By Robert Mudie ...

Creator:: Mudie, Robert, 1777–1842
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xi, 282 p. col. front. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Chronicles of London bridge / by an antiquary.

Creator:: Thomson, Richard, 1794–1865
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xiv, 518 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A third preface to "A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical;" exposing the fallacies contained in the first, restoring the passages suppressed in the second, and containing an account of Mr. John Jackson's actual share in the composition and illustration of that work. In a letter to Stephen Oliver. By William A. Chatto, author of the first seven chapters of the work, and the writer of the whole as originally printed. ...

Creator:: Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 36 p. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Report (addressed to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings) as the result of an inquiry, undertaken under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury / by Charles Barry ... [et al.] with reference to the selection of stone for building the new Houses of Parliament.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 36, [2] p. : tables (11 folding) ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. 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.

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

49. Greece, pictorial, descriptive and historical / by Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. ... ; with upwards of three hundred and fifty engravings on wood and twenty-eight on steel, illustrative of the scenery, architecture, and costume of that country, by Copley Fielding, F. Creswick, D. Cox, Jun., Harvey, Paul Huet, Meissonier, Sargent, Daubigny, Jaques, and other artists.

Creator:: Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807–1885
Date:: MDCCCXL [1839]
Physical Description:: [2], xxvii, 356 p. : ill., map. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A summer in Andalucia.

Creator:: Dennis, George, 1814–1898
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. An explanation of the works of the tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping.

Creator:: Brunel, Marc Isambard, Sir, 1769–1849
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 23 p., [11] leaves of plates (four folded) : ill., plans ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. A catalogue of a selection of twenty-six valuable first class original pictures, being a portion of the celebrated collection of John Knight, Esq. No. 52 Portland Place : among which are the celebrated landscape, cattle and figures by Cuyp : a pair, dives feasting, and seized by Satan, Teniers : Virgin & Child, Vandyck : Descent from the Cross, Tintoretto : Noli me tangere, a capital picture, Albano : landscapes by Rembrandt, A. Vandevelde, and Ruysdael : and others undoubted by Murillo, Rubens, Guido, Caracci, N. Poussin, Bartolomeo, P. Veronese, Titian &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Phillips, Mr.
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The history and antiquities of the parish of Hammersmith : interspersed with biographical notices of illustrious and eminent persons, who have been born, or who have resided in the parish, during the three preceding centuries / by Thomas Faulkner ...

Creator:: Faulkner, Thomas, 1777–1855
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 1, [v]-xiv, [2], 446 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The monuments and genii of St. Paul's Cathedral and of Westminster Abbey : with historical sketches and descriptions of both churches : forming an entirely new and correct biography of all that is interesting in the lives and achievements of the most illustrious characters of the United Kingdoms / by George Lewis Smyth.

Creator:: Smyth, George Lewis, 1800–1853
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Rudiments of curvilinear design / by George Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, George
Date:: [1839?]
Physical Description:: [2], v, [6]-96 p., [47] leaves of plates : ill. ; 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The handbook for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont : including the Protestant valleys of the Waldenses.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xcix, [1], 517 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The stranger's guide to the Roman antiquities of the city of Treves / from the German of Professor John Hugh Wyttenbach ; to which are added, plates from unpublished drawings, and other illustrations ; edited under the direction of Dawson Turner.

Creator:: Wyttenbach, Johann Hugo, 1767–1820
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: vi, 143 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Views in Renfrewshire : with historical and descriptive notices / by Philip A. Ramsay.

Creator:: Ramsay, Philip A
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xii, 148 p., 29 leaves of plates : ill., map ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A dictionary of printers and printing : with the progress of literature, ancient and modern; bibliographical illustrations, etc., etc. / by C.H. Timperley.

Creator:: Timperley, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1795?-1861
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: vi, 996 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. [Catalogue of pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French masters : with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution, June, 1839.]

Creator:: British Institution
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 14 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

62. Solenne processione vaticana del Corpus Domini : diretta da uno de' cerimonieri di Sua Santità Gregorio XVI ...

Creator:: Busuttil, Salvatore
Date:: [1839?]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [1], 33 leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 x 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Home and country scenes on each side of the London and Birmingham and Grand junction railways. With steel plates, and numerous wood engravings.

Creator:: Roscoe, Thomas, 1791–1871
Date:: n.d.]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 104 p., 1 leaf, 136 p. front., ill., plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The history and antiquities of Newbury and its environs : including twenty-eight parishes, situate in the county of Berks : also a catalogue of plants, found in the neighbourhood.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xii, 340 p., [14] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Picturesque architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc., drawn from nature on stone by Thomas Shotter Boys.

Creator:: Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803–1874
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [2] p. 25 col. plates. 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A catalogue of the very precious cabinet of Dutch and English pictures of James Stewart, Esq., who is quitting his residence : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, the 20th of April, 1839, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1839
Physical Description:: 11, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

68. The ancient half-timbered houses of England. By M. Habershon ...

Creator:: Habershon, Matthew, 1789–1852
Date:: 1836 [i.e. 1839]
Physical Description:: xxviii, 26 p. ill., 36 plates. 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs : et de l'assortiment des objets colorés, considéré d'après cette loi dans ses rapports avec la peinture, les tapisseries des Gobelins, les tapisseries de Beauvais pour meubles, les tapis, la mosaïque, les vitraux colorés, l'impression des étoffes, l'imprimerie, l'enluminure, la décoration des édifices, l'habillement et l'horticulture / par M.E. Chevreul, membre de l'Institue de France, de la Société royale de Londres, de la Société royale des sciences de Copenhague, de l'Académie royale des sciences de Stockholm, de l'Académie royale des sciences de Berlin, de la Société royale et centrale d'agriculture du département de la Seine, etc. Officier de la Légion d'honneur et chevalier de l'ordre danois de Danebrog.

Creator:: Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786–1889
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 735, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 atlas ([2], 2 p., 40 [i.e. 31] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Versailles / by Leitch Ritchie ; with highly finished engravings.

Creator:: Ritchie, Leitch, 1800?-1865
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: vi, 256 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The gallery of pictures painted by Benjamin West Esqr : historical painter to His Majesty, and president of the Royal Academy / engraved in outline by Henry Moses.

Creator:: West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: [4], 22 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

72. 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.

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

73. Quiggin's illustrated guide and visitor's companion through the Isle of Man : with a directory for Douglas.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 130 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Science of drawing; being a progressive series of the characteristic forms of nature ... By Frank Howard.

Creator:: Howard, Frank, 1805–1866
Date:: 1839-
Physical Description:: v. front., plates. 16.5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A narrative of the Greek mission; or, Sixteen years in Malta and Greece ... By the Rev. S.S. Wilson ...

Creator:: Wilson, S. S. (Samuel Sheridan)
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., xiii, 596 p. col. front. illus., 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Groups of cattle / drawn from nature by T.S. Cooper, 1839.

Creator:: Cooper, Thomas Sidney, 1803–1902
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 26 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by an Officer of the Household Brigade of Cavalry.

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: [6], 105, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries : with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world.

Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: viii, 340 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people : with forty illustrations / by George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: viii, 526 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

80. 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.

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

81. A catalogue of the collection of pictures of David Baillie, Esq. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, the 25th of May, 1839, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 9, [1] ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. 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.

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

83. Catalogue of the works of art in the possession of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, at the time of his decease : together with two letters from Sir Balthazar Gerbier, and a facsimile of an original unpublished letter from himself.

Creator:: Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir, 1577–1640
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 22 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : facsim. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A practical treatise on drawing and on painting in water colours : with illustrative examples in pencil, in sepia, and in water colours leading the pupil progressively ... : comprehending the treatment of coast scenery, river scenery, and general landscape / by G.F. Phillips ; with twenty plates ...

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [iv], vi, 48 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

86. Jack Sheppard : a romance / by W. Harrison Ainsworth ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; original issue in Bentley's Miscellany.

Creator:: Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805–1882
Date:: 1839-40
Physical Description:: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

87. British India in its relation to the decline of Hindooism, and the progress of Christianity: containing remarks on the manners, customs, and literature of the people ... By the Rev. William Campbell ... Illustrated with engravings on wood, by G. Baxter.

Creator:: Campbell, William, 1799–1878
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., [iii]-xii, 596 p. : col. front., plates ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The noble science: a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club. By F. P. Delmé Radcliffe ... With numerous illustrations from original designs by his brother.

Creator:: Radcliffe, Frederick Peter Delmé, 1804–1875
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xii, 327 p. illus. (incl. plans) 7 pl., port. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. 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.

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

90. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied ; mit 48 Kupfern, 33 Vignetten, vielen Holzschnitten und einer Charte.

Creator:: Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782–1867
Date:: 1839-1841
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, map ; 32-61 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A summer's day at Hampton Court : being a guide to the palace and gardens : with an illustrative catalogue of the pictures according to the new arrangement, including those in the apartments recently opened to the public / by Edward Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, Edward, 1780–1868
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: viii, 135, 8, 4, 7 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The falls of Niagara, or, Tourist's guide to this wonder of nature : including notices of the whirlpool, islands, &c., and a complete guide thro' the Canadas : embellished with engravings / by S. De Veaux.

Creator:: De Veaux, Samuel, 1789–1852
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 18-168, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Vectis scenery : being a series of original & select views exhibiting the picturesque beauties and places of particular interest in the Isle of Wight / drawn from nature & engraved by George Brannon, many years a local resident ; to which are prefixed a complete topographical description and the general tours of the island ; embracing every information in the least degree useful to strangers.

Creator:: Brannon, George
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 54 p., [35] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Details of Elizabethan architecture by Henry Shaw F.S.A.

Creator:: Shaw, Henry, 1800–1889
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 56 p. 60 plates (incl. front.; 3 col.) 38 cm. (in case 41 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. 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.

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

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

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

97. Sergeant Bell and his raree-show : embellished with wood cuts / by Cruikshanks [sic], Thompson, Williams, etc.

Creator:: Old Humphrey, 1787–1854
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: viii, 447, [1] p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

98. Romulus, the property of Mr. Richard Bell, of Argam, will serve mares this season, 1839 : blood mares at five guineas, the country mares at two guineas each, and half-a-crown the groom.

Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Guide du voyageur à Londres et dans ses environs : précédé d'un itinéraire topographique des diverses routes de Paris à Londres : et comprenant, 1 ̊une notice détaillée de Londres ... 2 ̊l'indication complète des hôtels, messageries, voitures de cette capitale, 3 ̊toutes les lignes de chemins de fer ... / par Lake ; revu et corrigé par Richard.

Creator:: Lake, J. W
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 563 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., col. maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The history and topography of the Isle of Axholme: being that part of Lincolnshire which is west of Trent. / By the Rev. W. B. Stonehouse ...

Creator:: Stonehouse, William Brocklehurst, 1792–1862
Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: xviii, 9-463, [5] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), coats of arms, genealogical tables, col. maps, plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. 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.

3. Archbald, the property of Mr. George Wilson, of Walkington, will serve mares this season, 1839, at one guinea and a-half each.

4. Thomas Sydney Cooper's cattle subjects.

5. The mansions of England in the olden time.

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

7. A catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery.

8. A journal from the year 1811 till the year 1815 : including a voyage to and residence in India, with a tour to the north-western parts of the British possessions in that country, under the Bengal government / by Maria, Lady Nugent ; in two volumes.

9. Views in the vicinity of the city of Kingston Jamaica : drawn on stone / by J.B. Pyne and P. Gauci, from sketches by Capt. I.S. Whitty.

11. Synopsis of a valuable collection of old Italian paintings : and other rare articles of fine arts / in the possession of Mr. John Clark ; now exhibiting at No. 281 Broadway, opposite the Washington Hotel ...

12. Memoir of the life and character of the Right. Hon. Edmund Burke : with specimens of his poetry and letters ... / by James Prior.

14. Rambles in the south of Ireland during the year 1838 / by Lady Chatterton ...

15. The visitor's guide to Knole, in the county of Kent : with catalogues of the pictures contained in the mansion, and biographical notices of the principal persons whose portraits form part of the collection / by John H. Brady, F.R.A.S.

16. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

17. A letter on ecclesiastical architecture : as applicable to modern churches : addressed to the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of London / by John Shaw.

18. Some account of the progress of the Trigonometrical Survey now carrying on in India / extracted from the correspondence of Colonel Everest, and communicated by Major T.B. Jervis.

19. A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical. With upwards of three hundred illustrations engraved on wood, by John Jackson.

20. Twelve views in Italy / engraved by W.B. Cooke ; with descriptions to each plate by T.L. Donaldson ...

21. Harding's Sketches at home and abroad.

23. 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.

24. The history and survey of the antiquities of Winchester, / by the late Right Rev. John Milner ... With supplementary notes. Also a biographical memoir, by the Rev. F. C. Husenbeth.

25. A hand-book for travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Russia: being a guide to the principal routes in those countries : with a minute description of Copenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Moscow.

26. The history of Chesterfield : with particulars of the hamlets contiguous to the town, and descriptive accounts of Chatsworth, Hardwick, and Bolsover Castle ...

27. Some account of the beard and the moustachio, chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. By John Adey Repton, F. S. A.

28. Le livre du roy Modus et de la royne Racio.

29. Historical record of the Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or the Carabineers : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent services to 1839.

30. The life of Mansie Wauch : tailor in Dalkeith / written by himself.

31. McDowall's new guide to Roslin : being a historically descriptive account of the chapel & castle of Roslin and Hawthornden : with engravings on steel.

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

33. Salsette and Elephanta : a prize poem, recited in the theatre, Oxford, June 12, 1839 / by John Ruskin.

35. Character and costume in Turkey and Italy. Designed and drawn from nature, by Thomas Allom ... with descriptive letter-press, by Emma Reeve.

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

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

39. 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.

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

41. The voyages and travels of Captains Ross, Parry, Franklin, and Mr. Belzoni : forming an interesting history of the manners, customs, and characters of various nations / selected by Captain John Frederick Dennett ...

42. An essay on the education of the eye : with reference to painting / illustrated by copper plates and wood cuts by John Burnet ; author of Practical hints on painting.

43. Illustrations of the Bible / designed and engraved by John Martin.

44. Man in his intellectual faculties and adaptations. By Robert Mudie ...

45. Chronicles of London bridge / by an antiquary.

50. A summer in Andalucia.

51. An explanation of the works of the tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping.

53. The history and antiquities of the parish of Hammersmith : interspersed with biographical notices of illustrious and eminent persons, who have been born, or who have resided in the parish, during the three preceding centuries / by Thomas Faulkner ...

55. Rudiments of curvilinear design / by George Phillips.

56. The handbook for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont : including the Protestant valleys of the Waldenses.

57. The stranger's guide to the Roman antiquities of the city of Treves / from the German of Professor John Hugh Wyttenbach ; to which are added, plates from unpublished drawings, and other illustrations ; edited under the direction of Dawson Turner.

58. Views in Renfrewshire : with historical and descriptive notices / by Philip A. Ramsay.

59. A dictionary of printers and printing : with the progress of literature, ancient and modern; bibliographical illustrations, etc., etc. / by C.H. Timperley.

60. [Catalogue of pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French masters : with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution, June, 1839.]

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

62. Solenne processione vaticana del Corpus Domini : diretta da uno de' cerimonieri di Sua Santità Gregorio XVI ...

63. Home and country scenes on each side of the London and Birmingham and Grand junction railways. With steel plates, and numerous wood engravings.

64. The history and antiquities of Newbury and its environs : including twenty-eight parishes, situate in the county of Berks : also a catalogue of plants, found in the neighbourhood.

65. Picturesque architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc., drawn from nature on stone by Thomas Shotter Boys.

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

68. The ancient half-timbered houses of England. By M. Habershon ...

70. Versailles / by Leitch Ritchie ; with highly finished engravings.

71. The gallery of pictures painted by Benjamin West Esqr : historical painter to His Majesty, and president of the Royal Academy / engraved in outline by Henry Moses.

72. 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.

73. Quiggin's illustrated guide and visitor's companion through the Isle of Man : with a directory for Douglas.

74. Science of drawing; being a progressive series of the characteristic forms of nature ... By Frank Howard.

75. A narrative of the Greek mission; or, Sixteen years in Malta and Greece ... By the Rev. S.S. Wilson ...

76. Groups of cattle / drawn from nature by T.S. Cooper, 1839.

77. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by an Officer of the Household Brigade of Cavalry.

78. The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries : with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world.

79. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people : with forty illustrations / by George Cruikshank.

80. 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.

81. A catalogue of the collection of pictures of David Baillie, Esq. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, the 25th of May, 1839, at one o'clock precisely.

82. 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.

83. Catalogue of the works of art in the possession of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, at the time of his decease : together with two letters from Sir Balthazar Gerbier, and a facsimile of an original unpublished letter from himself.

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

86. Jack Sheppard : a romance / by W. Harrison Ainsworth ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; original issue in Bentley's Miscellany.

87. British India in its relation to the decline of Hindooism, and the progress of Christianity: containing remarks on the manners, customs, and literature of the people ... By the Rev. William Campbell ... Illustrated with engravings on wood, by G. Baxter.

88. The noble science: a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club. By F. P. Delmé Radcliffe ... With numerous illustrations from original designs by his brother.

90. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied ; mit 48 Kupfern, 33 Vignetten, vielen Holzschnitten und einer Charte.