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1. A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.

A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
89 p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset.

Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset.
Date:
ca. 1855
Physical Description:
1 item : painted alabaster and glass ; 62 mm in diameter, 110 mm long
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Horses and hounds : a practical treatise on their management / by "Scrutator" ; illustrated by Harrison Weir.

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Creator:
Horlock, Knightley William, 1802–1882
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xii, 302 pages, [4] leaves of plates ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Christmas with the poets : a collection of songs, carols, and descriptive verses relating to the festival of Christmas : from the Anglo-Norman period to the present time / embellished with fifty-three tinted ilustrations by Birket Foster ; and with initial letters and other ornaments.

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Date:
1855
Physical Description:
x, [2], 202 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A fire-side pantomine for great and small children. By Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [pseud.] ...

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Creator:
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
iv, 128 p. front., illus., plates. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of a tour in the north of Italy / by George Edmund Street.

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Creator:
Street, George Edmund, 1824–1881
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xx, 287, 32 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake valley / illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts from sketches made by Frederick Piercy ; including views of Nauvoo and the ruins of the temple, with a historical account of the city ; views of Carthage jail ; and portraits and memoirs of Joseph and Hyrum Smith ; their mother, Lucy Smith ; Joseph and David Smith, sons of the prophet Joseph ; president Brigham Young ; Heber C. Kimball ; Willard Richards ; Jedidiah M. Grant ; John Taylor ; the late chief patriarch, Father John Smith ; and the present chief patriarch, John Smith, son of Hyrum ; together with a geographical and historical description of Utah, and a map of the overland routes to that territory from the Missouri River ; also an authentic history of the Latter-Day Saints' emigration from Europe from the commencement up to the close of 1855, with statistics ; edited by James Linforth.

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Creator:
Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, 1830–1891
Date:
MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:
viii, 120 pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland / illustrated by Robert William Billings, architect, 1845-52 ; in four volumes.

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Creator:
Billings, Robert William, 1813–1874
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The history of Sandford and Merton: a book for the young. By Thomas Day.

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Creator:
Day, Thomas, 1748–1789
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
3 p. ., [9]-408 p. front., plates. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Śakoontalá, or, The lost ring : an Indian drama / translated into English prose and verse, from the Sanskrit of Kālidāsa, by Monier Williams, M.A., Professor of Sanskrit at the East-India College, Haileybury, formerly Boden scholar in the University of Oxford.

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Creator:
Kālidāsa
Date:
MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:
xxv, [5], xxvii-xxviii, 227, [1], 24, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. List of colours and materials for drawing and water colour painting : manufactured and sold by Winsor and Newton, no. 38, Rathbone Place, London.

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Creator:
Winsor & Newton
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
32 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Reliquiæ antiquæ eboracenses, or, Remains of antiquity, relating to the county of York : illustrated by plates and woodcuts / by William Bowman ... ; assisted by several local antiquaries.

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Creator:
Bowman, William
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[6], 96 p., 15 leaves of plates (somee folded) : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The art of transparent painting on glass : comprising the method of painting, and an account of the implements and materials employed in producing subjects for dissolving views, magic lanterns, etc., chromatropes, and mechanical slides and contrivances for obtaining effects of motion and colour / by Edward Groom.

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Creator:
Groom, Edward
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
55 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The natural history of man : comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family / by James Cowles Pritchard ...

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Creator:
Prichard, James Cowles, 1786–1848
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Hand-book for young painters / by C.R. Leslie ... ; with illustrations.

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Creator:
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xiii, [1], 315 p., [1], 32 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Transparency painting on linen : for decorative purposes, panoramic and dioramic effects, ornamental blinds : with instructions for the preparation of the linen, the combination and transfer of ornamental designs, combined surfaces, &c. / by W. Williams ; with illustrations by Charles Sibley ; engraved by Dalziel.

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Creator:
Williams, W.
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
viii, [9]-52, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Blackwood's comic Zadkiel : an almanac at once prophetical and profitable, logical and astrological, quizzical and physical, ombrological and symbolical, astronomically comical and comically astronomical, for the year 1855 : a work devoted to all the "ologies" except tautology, and containing full prophecies upon everything which nobody wishes to know : and truthfully foretelling every future event, from the winner of the Derby to the next revolution in the wheel of time / edited by Hain Friswell, author of "The shadow of St. Paul's," "Twelve insides," "Houses with the fronts off," "The Russian empire," etc. etc. ; and illustrated by William McConnell.

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Date:
MDCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:
[10], [v]-viii, [9]-96 p., [7] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An account of the history and manufacture of ancient and modern terra cotta : and of its use in architecture as a durable and elegant material for decoration / by J.M. Blashfield ...

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Creator:
Blashfield, John Marriott
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
32 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts