Date: 1853 / Classification: Books - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, and glands / illustrated by twenty-four plates by George Stubbs, painter.

The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, and glands / illustrated by twenty-four plates by George Stubbs, painter.

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 68 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, its primeval phases in Egypt, China, Mexico, etc ; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis, to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew, Phœnician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys, author of the "Illuminated books of the Middle Ages," "The art of illumination," "Ancient coins and medals," etc. ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, its primeval phases in Egypt, China, Mexico, etc ; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis, to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew, Phœnician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys, author of the "Illuminated books of the Middle Ages," "The art of illumination," "Ancient coins and medals," etc. ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Creator:: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: viii, 176 pages, xxviii leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. History of the ruined church of St. Mary Magdalene : discovered A.D. 1846 within the old town-hall of Doncaster / by the Rev. John Edward Jackson ... ; illustrated by John P. Seddon ...

Creator:: Jackson, John Edward, 1805–1891
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [8], 36 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Hop-o' my-thumb and the seven league boots / edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank.

Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: 30, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer.

5. Krider's sporting anecdotes : illustrative of the habits of certain varieties of American game / edited by H. Milnor Klapp.

Creator:: Krider, John
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [4], 292 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Our native songsters. By Anne Pratt ...

Creator:: Pratt, Anne, 1806–1893
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: vi, 350 p., 1 leaf. col. front., ill., col. plates. 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Rambles in Germany, France, Italy, and Russia in search of sport / by the Hon. Ferdinand St. John.

Creator:: St. John, Ferdinand
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: vii, 244, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The Cabinet-maker's assistant: a series of original designs for modern furniture, with descriptions and details of construction. Preceded by practical observations on the materials and manufacture of cabinet-work, and instructions in drawing adapted to the trade.

Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 4 p.., [vii]-viii, 4, lxxx, 60, 63 p. ill., 101 plates. 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The story of Mont Blanc. By Albert Smith ...

Creator:: Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xii, 219 p. col. front., ill. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The Christian wreath of prose, poetry, and art.

Date:: [1853?]
Physical Description:: iv, 252 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Rules and regulations for the allotment gardens in the township of Alnmouth : belonging to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland.

Date:: 2nd February, 1853
Physical Description:: 1 leave ([1] page) ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Sketches on the Nile.

Creator:: Melly, Ellen Maria, 1807–1894
Date:: [1853?]
Physical Description:: [26] leaves : illustrations ; 25 cm x 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A new matrimonial ladder / written by Edward Concanen, Esq. ; with twenty illustrations, designed by Onwhyn ; engraved by Charles Hunt.

Creator:: Concanen, Edward
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: [40] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Travels in South and North America / by Alexander Marjoribanks, of Marjoribanks ; author of Travels in New Zealand, Australia, &c.

Creator:: Marjoribanks, Alexander
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xiv, 480 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Besley's Devonshire views.

Date:: 1853?]
Physical Description:: 12 leaves : all ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Illustrations of the spires and towers of the mediaeval churches of England.

Creator:: Wickes, Charles
Date:: 1853-1854
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Chronicon Abbatiae S. Nicholai, de Exonia. Impensis dni T. Phillipps, Bart.

Date:: [1853?]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 22 p. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Ten months among the tents of the Tuski : with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst / by Lieut. W.H. Hooper, R.N.

Creator:: Hooper, William Hulme, 1827–1854
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 417, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A hand-book of Mr. Albert Smith's ascent of Mont Blanc : illustrated by Mr. William Beverley : with nineteen outline engravings of the views : first represented at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Monday Evening, March 15, 1852.

Creator:: Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:: [1853?]
Physical Description:: 24, [16] pages, : illustrations ; 12 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa / by Francis Galton ... ; with coloured maps, plates, and woodcuts.

Creator:: Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822–1911
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xiv, [2], 314 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Abbeokuta; or, Sunrise within the tropics: an outline of the origin and progress of the Yoruba mission. By Miss Tucker.

Creator:: Tucker, S. (Sarah), -approximately 1859
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 leaf, 278 p. col. front., 5 plates (1 col.), 2 fold. maps. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Wanderings and excursions in North Wales / by Thomas Roscoe, esq ; with fifty engravings, from drawings by Cattermole, Cox, Creswick, etc.

Creator:: Roscoe, Thomas, 1791–1871
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xx, 360 p., [47] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Sketches of Gibraltar / by the Rev. L.H. Irving ; published on behalf of the Presbyterian church now erecting there.

Creator:: Irving, L. H. (Lewis Hay), 1806–1877
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Catalogue of the entire and very choice cabinet of engravings & etchings, the property of a collector : comprising the works of the most eminent Masters of the Ancient and Modern Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish, French and English Schools : also containing many most interesting British Historical Portraits, the whole being of the very highest order, both as regards impression and condition : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, auctioneers of literary property and works illustrative of the fine arts, at their house, 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, the 23rd of May, 1853, and five following days.

Creator:: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm)
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 74 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Hand-book to the pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Creator:: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [4], 116 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Castile and Andalucia / by Lady Louisa Tenison.

Creator:: Tenison, Louisa Mary Anne Anson, Lady, d. 1882
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: xi, [3], 488 p., [24] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The marine botanist : an introduction to the study of the British sea-weeds : containing descriptions of all the species, and the best method of preserving them / by Isabella Gifford.

Creator:: Gifford, Isabella
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xl, 357 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The poets of the woods : twelve pictures of English song birds.

Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 56, [8] p., [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The rose-bud : a Christian gift to the young.

Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: iv, 250 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col) ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [8], [5]-145 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Catalogue of the important gallery of Italian, German, and Flemish pictures : the property of His Imperial Highness Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, March 12, 1853, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: 13, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Designs for coloured ornamental glass windows from the glass works of Chance Brothers & Co. near Birmingham 1853.

Creator:: Chance Brothers and Co. (Birmingham, England)
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: [6] p., XXXII leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. On the connection between the arts of design and the arts of production : an address delivered at Manchester on Thursday, April 28, 1853 / by His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman.

Creator:: Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick, 1802–1865
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 71 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. On the deteriorated condition of our saddle horses: the causes and the remedy : the state of our cavalry, and the imperfect system under which this force and that of ourarmy generally is administered.

Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 113 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Elementary principles of carpentry; a treatise on the pressure and equilibrium of timber framing, the resistance of timber, and the construction of floors, centres, bridges, roofs; uniting iron and stone with timber, etc. With practical rules and examples. To which is added an essay on the nature and properties of timber ... also numerous tables ... Illustrated by fifty-three engravings, a portrait of the author, and several wood cuts. By Thomas Tredgold ...

Creator:: Tredgold, Thomas, 1788–1829
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xxiv, 334 p. front. (port.) illus. (incl. tables) 53 plates (part fold.) 29 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Les petits voyageurs en Californie / par H. De Chavannes de la Giraudière.

Creator:: Chavannes de la Giraudière, H. de
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [4], 188 p., [8] leaves of colored plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Aquarell-lithographier och tontryck teckningar efter naturen sverige ...

Creator:: Billmark
Date:: [1853-1869]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Catalogue of a collection of drawings from pictures of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French schools : executed by J. F. Lewis, Esq. : the property of the Royal Scottish Academy : with notes on the styles of the artists, as illustrated by the drawings from their works : intended chiefly for students of the Academy.

Creator:: Royal Scottish Academy
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: 40 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

Creator:: Lucas, Ralph Willett, 1796–1874
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: iv, 45 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 1853.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Twenty-sixth annual report of the Council of the Royal Scottish Academy of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Creator:: Royal Scottish Academy
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: 25, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Ten scenes in the last ascent of Mont Blanc including five views from the summit.

Creator:: Browne, James D. Howe
Date:: 1853
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Barth's African sketches.

Date:: 1853?]
Physical Description:: [36] leaves : ill. ; 16 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Index to the pedes finium for Worcestershire. Impensis Dni. Thomæ Phillipps, Barti.

Creator:: Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 434 p. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A visit to the Indian archipelago, in H.M. ship Maeander : with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. / by Captn. the Hon. Henry Keppel ... ; with illustrations by Oswald W. Brierly ...

Creator:: Keppel, Henry, Sir, 1809–1904
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 2 v : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Revival of vandalism at the National Gallery : a reply to Messrs. Ruskin ... Heaphy, and Wornum's letters, in "The Times," ... with an appeal to the unprivileged artists of England ... / by Morris Moore.

Creator:: Moore, Morris
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 23 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The Gretna-Green bolt-a, or, Young ladies' man-ual / edited by Arthur O'Bradley, esq.

Creator:: O'Bradley, Arthur
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: 69, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : col. front. ; 15 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens & shrubberies : with full directions for their culture / by Mrs. Louden.

Creator:: Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807–1858
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: viii, 355 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A picturesque tour of the river Thames in its western course : including particular descriptions of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court / by John Fisher Murray ; illustrated with upward of one hundred highly-finished wood engravings by Orrin Smith, Branston, Landells and other eminent artists.

Creator:: Murray, John Fisher, 1811–1865
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xii, 356 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A summer search for Sir John Franklin : with a peep into the polar basin / by Commander E.A. Inglefield, R.N. ; with short notices by Professor Dickie, on the botany, and by Dr. Sutherland, on the meteorology and geology ; and a new chart of the Arctic Sea.

Creator:: Inglefield, E. A. (Edward Augustus), 1820–1894
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [2], xxi, [1], 232 p., [5] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Catalogue of the sea-charts, and other nautical works.

Creator:: Laurie, Richard Holmes
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 45, [3] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The cottar's Saturday night / by Robert Burns ; illustrated by John Faed.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [12] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 x 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

52. The progressive drawing book : containing a series of easy and comprehensive lessons for drawing landscape, architecture, the human figure, shipping, animals, &c. : without the aid of a master : also a complete treatise on perspective : with nearly three hundred engravings.

Date:: MLCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: [4], 56, [1] p., 88 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The poetical works of John Milton / from the text of Thomas Newton ; with illustrations by William Harvey.

Creator:: Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: viii, 570 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Second book of drawing / by John Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 91 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Journal of a cruise among the islands of the Western Pacific : including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian negro races, in Her Majesty's ship Havannah / by John Elphinstone Erskine ... ; with maps and plates.

Creator:: Erskine, John Elphinstone, 1806–1887
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: vi, 488, 32 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., mapd ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

Creator:: Wilson, James Holbert, 1809–1873
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: [4], 68 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The poetical works of Robert Southey : complete in one volume.

Creator:: Southey, Robert, 1774–1843
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xxviii, 828 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The Exhibition of Art-Industry in Dublin. 1853.

Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: viii, 64 p. front., ill., plates. 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. What I heard, saw and did at the Australian gold fields / by C. Rudston Read.

Creator:: Read, C. Rudston
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: viii, 327 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Hannah Bolton's first drawing book : a walk through a house shown by scenes in the journey.

Creator:: Bolton, Hannah
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: [5] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. A letter addressed to the Rt. Hon. Lord John Russell ... : on the formation of a new national gallery, and the preservation of works of art : illustrated with plans / by an Old Traveller.

Creator:: Traveller, Old
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 26 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : plans ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Mr. Sponge's sporting tour. By the author of "Handley Cross," Jorrocks's jaunts', etc., etc. With illustrations by John Leech.

Creator:: Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: x, [2], 408 p. : illus., 13 col. pl. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Historical account of the Cistercian abbey of Salley in Craven, Yorkshire, founded, A.D. 1147; its foundation, & benefactors, abbots, possessions, compotus, & dissolution; and its existing remains. Edited by J. Harland.

Creator:: Harland, John, 1806–1868
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 107 p. front. x plates, fold. plan. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Catalogue of a collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of Henry Abbott, M.D., now exhibiting at the Stuyvesant institute ...

Creator:: Abbott, Henry
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 68 p. illus., plates. 23.5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Barbarous views (a sequel to Barber's views) in the Isle of Wight.

Date:: ca. 1853.]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves : all ill. : 14 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Views of Ilkley in Yorkshire / by the Rev. Thomas Kilby.

Creator:: Kilby, Thomas, 1794–1868
Date:: [1835?]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The dwellings of the labouring classes, their arrangement and construction; illustrated by a reference to the model houses of the Society for improving the condition of the labouring classes, with other buildings recently erected: and an appendix, containing H.R.H. Prince Albert's exhibition model houses, Hyde Park, 1851; the model cottages &c., built by the Windsor royal society; with plans and elevations of dwellings adapted to towns, as well as to agricultural and manufacturing districts. By Henry Roberts.

Creator:: Roberts, Henry, 1803–1876
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 65 p. incl. illus., plates, plans. 12 pl. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio. Illustrated by Birket Foster.

Creator:: Fern, Fanny, 1811–1872
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., [v]-x p., 1 leaf, [l7]-326 p. col. front., 6 col. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. [Lithographs of two brasses in the church at Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire.

Date:: 1853?]
Physical Description:: 2 plates. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The glass and the new Crystal Palace : with cuts.

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 32 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The illustrated London architectural, engineering, & mechanical drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans / by Robert Scott Burn, M.E., M.S.A. editor of the "Illuminated London drawing-book," "Mechanics and mechanism," "Practical geometry," etc.

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [5], 10-151, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Catalogue of a collection of drawings and pictures, the property of Mr. Thomas Miller ... : amongst which will be found good specimens of Teniers, Cuyp, Wouvermans, Wynants, Lawrence, Armitage, Lance, Armfield, Taylor, Stanfield, Salvator Rosa, Carlo Maratti, Heemskirk, Van Goyen, Northcote, Corbould, Niemann, Hilder, Noble, Rippingille, Quentin Matsys Guercino, Morland, Snyders, Kidd, Winterhalter, Jackson, Ryder, Collins, Muller : also, a fine head of Sir Thomas Lawrence, painted shortly before his death by Jackson, R.A. : and the paintings, in silica colours, exhibited at the Crystal Palace, in 1851, by Mr. Miller, and which received honorable mention from the Royal Commission : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Monday, July 12, 1853, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: 13, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. [Playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, February 4-5, 1853].

Creator:: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 50 x 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lisa Kereszi, Yale MFA 2000

74. The stranger's guide and historical & biographical hand-book to Oxford from the earliest ages to the present time : containing a description of the colleges, halls, & public buildings : with an account of the dresses, degrees, manners, and customs of the members of the university : to which is added a description of Blenheim, the roman villa, and Shotover House.

Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: xxii, 258 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. John Gilpin.

Creator:: Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Date:: [between 1853 and 1862]
Physical Description:: 15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Abbeokuta; or, Sunrise within the tropics: an outline of the origin and progress of the Yoruba mission. By Miss Tucker ...

Creator:: Tucker, S. (Sarah), -approximately 1859
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 leaf, 278 p. col. front., 5 plates (1 col.), 2 fold. maps. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The vale of Lanherne and other poems / by H. Sewell Stokes.

Creator:: Stokes, Henry Sewell, 1808–1895
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: x, [2], 160 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter, from his autobiography and journals. Edited and compiled by Tom Taylor.

Creator:: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 2 v. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast. By Philip Henry Gosse ...

Creator:: Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810–1888
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [v]-xvi, 451 p. 28 plates (partly col., incl. front.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A popular account of the interesting priory of Llanthony, near Gloucester : with notices of its original foundation in Wales, and subsequent removal to England : also additional notices of contemporaneous buildings in Gloucester, and introductory remarks on the monastic system / by John Clarke ...

Creator:: Clarke, John Randall
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [2], 87, [5] p., [5] leaves of plates ; ill., plan ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Poetry of the year: passages from the poets descriptive of the seasons. With twenty-two coloured illustrations from drawings by eminent artists.

Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: viii, 103, [1] p. 22 col. plates. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. India in relation to Great Britain : considerations on its future administration / by Major Thomas Best Jervis, F.R.S.

Creator:: Jervis, T. B. (Thomas Best), 1796–1857
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: viii, 88 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Jane L. Jervis, Ph.D. 1978.

83. The practical draughtsman's book of industrial design: forming a complete course of mechanical, engineering, and architectural drawing. Translated from the French of m. Armengaud, ainé ... and mm. Armengaud, jeune, and Amouroux ... Rewritten and arranged, with additional matter and plates, selections from and examples of the most useful and generally employed mechanism of the day. By William Johnson ...

Creator:: Armengaud, aîné (Jacques-Eugène), 1810–1891
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: ix, [1], [7]-196 p. ill., plates (part double, part fold., part col.) tables. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro : with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon Valley / by Alfred R. Wallace.

Creator:: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823–1913
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: viii, 541, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. A short narrative of the second voyage of the Prince Albert, in search of Sir John Franklin / by William Kennedy.

Creator:: Kennedy, William, 1814–1890
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xiii, 202 p., [5] leaves of plates [some fold.] : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Campaigning in Kaffirland, or, Scenes and adventures in the Kaffir war of 1851-2 / by Capt. W. R. Ross... ; with illustrations.

Creator:: King, William Ross, 1822–1890
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: x, 331 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Solitary rambles and adventures of a hunter in the prairies / by John Palliser ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Palliser, John, 1807–1887
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xiv, [2], 326 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The Russian shores of the Black Sea in the autumn of 1852 : with a voyage down the Volga, and a tour through the country of the Don Cossacks / by Laurence Oliphant.

Creator:: Oliphant, Laurence, 1829–1888
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xiii, 366 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded ) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The history of Alfred the Great / by Jacob Abbott ; with engravings.

Creator:: Abbott, Jacob, 1803–1879
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 184 p. : ill., map, port. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The hand book of mediaeval alphabets and devices. By Henry Shaw ...

Creator:: Shaw, Henry, 1800–1889
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 5 p. l., 37 col. pl. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Barber's picturesque guide to the Isle of Wight; illustrated by forty-five views and maps engraved on steel. Including a geological map of the island by Dr. Mantell.

Creator:: Barber, Thomas, active 1818–1846
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 2 p.., ii, [2], 124 p. plates, port., 2 fold. col. maps. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Travels in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua : with a description of its aboriginal monuments, scenery and people, their languages, institutions, religion, &c., illustrated by numerous maps and coloured illustrations / by E.G. Squier, late chargé-d'affaires of the United States to the Republics of Central America ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821–1888
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Habitants de l'Inde / dessinés d'après nature par le Prince Alexis Soltykoff ; lithographiés à deux teintes par J. Trayer.

Creator:: Soltykoff, Alexis, prince, 1806–1859
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: 42, [1] leaves, [1], 42 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy / by James D. Forbes.

Creator:: Forbes, James David, 1809–1868
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [4], [vii]-xxiv, 349 p., [10] colored leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British Museum / by Austen H. Layard.

Creator:: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817–1894
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xxii, 686 p., [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. A treatise on the curvilinear perspective of nature : and its applicability to art / by William Gawain Herdman.

Creator:: Herdman, William Gawin, 1805–1882
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: vi, [1], 118 p., [27] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The senses.

Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: v, 160 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Catalogue of a choice collection of engravings and a few books of prints : the property of an amateur : including an extensive series of the works of Sir J. Reynolds--many of them proofs, and some rare private plates : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Monday, July 11, 1853, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: 13, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Suggestions in design for the use of artists and art-workmen containing hints for workers in metal, wood, ivory, glass, and leather; the potter, weaver, printer in colours, engraver, decorator, &c. &c. &c. By Luke Limner.

Creator:: Leighton, John, 1822–1912
Date:: 1852 [i.e. 1853]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., XLIV plates. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The churches of the Middle Ages : being select specimens of early and middle pointed structures, with a few of the purest late pointed examples / by Henry Bowman and J.S. Crowther, arcs.

Creator:: Bowman, Henry, 1814–1883
Date:: [1853?]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, and glands / illustrated by twenty-four plates by George Stubbs, painter.

3. History of the ruined church of St. Mary Magdalene : discovered A.D. 1846 within the old town-hall of Doncaster / by the Rev. John Edward Jackson ... ; illustrated by John P. Seddon ...

4. Hop-o' my-thumb and the seven league boots / edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank.

5. Krider's sporting anecdotes : illustrative of the habits of certain varieties of American game / edited by H. Milnor Klapp.

6. Our native songsters. By Anne Pratt ...

7. Rambles in Germany, France, Italy, and Russia in search of sport / by the Hon. Ferdinand St. John.

8. The Cabinet-maker's assistant: a series of original designs for modern furniture, with descriptions and details of construction. Preceded by practical observations on the materials and manufacture of cabinet-work, and instructions in drawing adapted to the trade.

9. The story of Mont Blanc. By Albert Smith ...

10. The Christian wreath of prose, poetry, and art.

11. Rules and regulations for the allotment gardens in the township of Alnmouth : belonging to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland.

12. Sketches on the Nile.

13. A new matrimonial ladder / written by Edward Concanen, Esq. ; with twenty illustrations, designed by Onwhyn ; engraved by Charles Hunt.

14. Travels in South and North America / by Alexander Marjoribanks, of Marjoribanks ; author of Travels in New Zealand, Australia, &c.

15. Besley's Devonshire views.

16. Illustrations of the spires and towers of the mediaeval churches of England.

17. Chronicon Abbatiae S. Nicholai, de Exonia. Impensis dni T. Phillipps, Bart.

18. Ten months among the tents of the Tuski : with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst / by Lieut. W.H. Hooper, R.N.

19. A hand-book of Mr. Albert Smith's ascent of Mont Blanc : illustrated by Mr. William Beverley : with nineteen outline engravings of the views : first represented at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Monday Evening, March 15, 1852.

20. The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa / by Francis Galton ... ; with coloured maps, plates, and woodcuts.

21. Abbeokuta; or, Sunrise within the tropics: an outline of the origin and progress of the Yoruba mission. By Miss Tucker.

22. Wanderings and excursions in North Wales / by Thomas Roscoe, esq ; with fifty engravings, from drawings by Cattermole, Cox, Creswick, etc.

23. Sketches of Gibraltar / by the Rev. L.H. Irving ; published on behalf of the Presbyterian church now erecting there.

25. Hand-book to the pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

26. Castile and Andalucia / by Lady Louisa Tenison.

27. The marine botanist : an introduction to the study of the British sea-weeds : containing descriptions of all the species, and the best method of preserving them / by Isabella Gifford.

28. The poets of the woods : twelve pictures of English song birds.

29. The rose-bud : a Christian gift to the young.

30. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

32. Designs for coloured ornamental glass windows from the glass works of Chance Brothers & Co. near Birmingham 1853.

33. On the connection between the arts of design and the arts of production : an address delivered at Manchester on Thursday, April 28, 1853 / by His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman.

34. On the deteriorated condition of our saddle horses: the causes and the remedy : the state of our cavalry, and the imperfect system under which this force and that of ourarmy generally is administered.

36. Les petits voyageurs en Californie / par H. De Chavannes de la Giraudière.

37. Aquarell-lithographier och tontryck teckningar efter naturen sverige ...

39. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

40. Twenty-sixth annual report of the Council of the Royal Scottish Academy of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

41. Ten scenes in the last ascent of Mont Blanc including five views from the summit.

42. Barth's African sketches.

43. Index to the pedes finium for Worcestershire. Impensis Dni. Thomæ Phillipps, Barti.

44. A visit to the Indian archipelago, in H.M. ship Maeander : with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. / by Captn. the Hon. Henry Keppel ... ; with illustrations by Oswald W. Brierly ...

45. Revival of vandalism at the National Gallery : a reply to Messrs. Ruskin ... Heaphy, and Wornum's letters, in "The Times," ... with an appeal to the unprivileged artists of England ... / by Morris Moore.

46. The Gretna-Green bolt-a, or, Young ladies' man-ual / edited by Arthur O'Bradley, esq.

47. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens & shrubberies : with full directions for their culture / by Mrs. Louden.

48. A picturesque tour of the river Thames in its western course : including particular descriptions of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court / by John Fisher Murray ; illustrated with upward of one hundred highly-finished wood engravings by Orrin Smith, Branston, Landells and other eminent artists.

49. A summer search for Sir John Franklin : with a peep into the polar basin / by Commander E.A. Inglefield, R.N. ; with short notices by Professor Dickie, on the botany, and by Dr. Sutherland, on the meteorology and geology ; and a new chart of the Arctic Sea.

50. Catalogue of the sea-charts, and other nautical works.

51. The cottar's Saturday night / by Robert Burns ; illustrated by John Faed.

52. The progressive drawing book : containing a series of easy and comprehensive lessons for drawing landscape, architecture, the human figure, shipping, animals, &c. : without the aid of a master : also a complete treatise on perspective : with nearly three hundred engravings.

53. The poetical works of John Milton / from the text of Thomas Newton ; with illustrations by William Harvey.

54. Second book of drawing / by John Clark.

55. Journal of a cruise among the islands of the Western Pacific : including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian negro races, in Her Majesty's ship Havannah / by John Elphinstone Erskine ... ; with maps and plates.

56. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

57. The poetical works of Robert Southey : complete in one volume.

58. The Exhibition of Art-Industry in Dublin. 1853.

59. What I heard, saw and did at the Australian gold fields / by C. Rudston Read.

60. Hannah Bolton's first drawing book : a walk through a house shown by scenes in the journey.

61. A letter addressed to the Rt. Hon. Lord John Russell ... : on the formation of a new national gallery, and the preservation of works of art : illustrated with plans / by an Old Traveller.

62. Mr. Sponge's sporting tour. By the author of "Handley Cross," Jorrocks's jaunts', etc., etc. With illustrations by John Leech.

63. Historical account of the Cistercian abbey of Salley in Craven, Yorkshire, founded, A.D. 1147; its foundation, & benefactors, abbots, possessions, compotus, & dissolution; and its existing remains. Edited by J. Harland.

64. Catalogue of a collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of Henry Abbott, M.D., now exhibiting at the Stuyvesant institute ...

65. Barbarous views (a sequel to Barber's views) in the Isle of Wight.

66. Views of Ilkley in Yorkshire / by the Rev. Thomas Kilby.

68. Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio. Illustrated by Birket Foster.

69. [Lithographs of two brasses in the church at Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire.

70. The glass and the new Crystal Palace : with cuts.

71. The illustrated London architectural, engineering, & mechanical drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans / by Robert Scott Burn, M.E., M.S.A. editor of the "Illuminated London drawing-book," "Mechanics and mechanism," "Practical geometry," etc.

73. [Playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, February 4-5, 1853].

75. John Gilpin.

76. Abbeokuta; or, Sunrise within the tropics: an outline of the origin and progress of the Yoruba mission. By Miss Tucker ...

77. The vale of Lanherne and other poems / by H. Sewell Stokes.

78. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter, from his autobiography and journals. Edited and compiled by Tom Taylor.

79. A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast. By Philip Henry Gosse ...

81. Poetry of the year: passages from the poets descriptive of the seasons. With twenty-two coloured illustrations from drawings by eminent artists.

82. India in relation to Great Britain : considerations on its future administration / by Major Thomas Best Jervis, F.R.S.

84. A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro : with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon Valley / by Alfred R. Wallace.