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1. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Industry and idleness [graphic] / design'd by Wm. Hogarth.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

Creator:: Daniel, William Barker, 1753?-1833
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:: [16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: 36 pt. : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S., ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: [1662?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 36 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The method of cutting up a stag.

Date:: Jany. 1st, 1793
Physical Description:: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 22.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 23.7 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in four parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ; recommended by many workmen of the first abilities in London, who have themselves inspected the work.

Creator:: Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: viii, viii, [1], 6-120, 171-446, [3], 4-60, 24 pages, [124] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Walker's tour through England and Wales : a new pastime.

Date:: January 2nd 1809
Physical Description:: 1 game (1 board) : paper mounted on linen, color ; 53 x 65 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy, left by the late George Steevens ... : with a series of engravings from original designs by Henry Fuseli ... : and a selection of explanatory and historical notes from the most emminent commentaries : a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare by Alexander Chalmers : in 10 volumes.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: 10 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.

Creator:: Busby, C. A. (Charles Augustin), 1786–1834
Date:: [not before 1819]
Physical Description:: 25 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts : also, a catalogue of engravers who have been born or resided in England / collected by the late George Vertue ; digested and published from his original mss. by Horace Walpole ; with additions by the Rev. James Dallaway ; ... in three volumes.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland : with an accurate travelling map : engraved charts and views of the scenery : plans of Edinburgh and Glasgow : and a copious itinerary.

Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: xi, 500 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Plans, sections, and elevations of Chiswick House and the Assembly Rooms, York.

Creator:: Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694–1753
Date:: [approximately 1735?]
Physical Description:: 11 prints in 1 volume ; sheets 50 x 70 cm, in volume 50 x 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The white charger : that cost me two hundred pounds, lost me seventy thousand pounds, drove me from society, eventually deprived me of my friends, and finally compelled me to quit the service / by the author of "The horse guards," "The days when we had tails on us," &c.

Creator:: Hort, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1803 or 4–1857
Date:: MDCCCL [1850]
Physical Description:: [4], 65, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. [Four sporting prints].

Date:: [between 1754 and 1764]
Physical Description:: 4 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The graphic scrap book : a collection of engravings / by Jas. Storer, from original drawings by Mrs. Chas. Rhys ; with descriptions.

Creator:: Rhys, Harriet Susanna Anne, 1790–1827
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 1 volume ([4], 106, [4] pages, [14] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Map of the county of Monmouth : from an actual survey made in the years 1829 & 1830 / by C. & H. Greenwood ; engraved by Josiah Neele ; R. Creighton, del.

Creator:: C. & H. Greenwood
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col. ; 55 x 67 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Sketches in Scandinavia & Germany by Anne Beresford Cosby.

Creator:: Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872
Date:: circa 1859-1872
Physical Description:: 1 volume : 73 drawings, 47 prints ; 43 x 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan. By Edward Earl of Clarendon.

Creator:: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609–1674
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: 5 p. ., 322 p. illus. 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Memoirs of the life of the late George Morland : with critical and descriptive observations on the whole of his works hitherto before the public / by J. Hassell ...

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), 1767–1825
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: [2], vii, [1], 204 p, [8] leaves of plates : ill., port.; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The land of the Veda : India briefly described in some of its aspects, physical, social, intellectual and moral : including the substance of the course of lectures delivered at St. Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury / by Rev. Peter Percival.

Creator:: Percival, P
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: xii, 515 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The history of Belvoir castle, from the Norman conquest to the nineteenth century : accompanied by a description of the present castle, and critical notices of the paintings, tapestry, statuary, &c. : with which it is enriched / by the Rev. Irvin Eller, of Queen's College Cambridge.

Creator:: Eller, Irvin
Date:: MDCCCXLI [1841]
Physical Description:: viii, 410 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

26. [Old series Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales]

Creator:: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
Date:: [1839-1874?]
Physical Description:: 110 sheets : mounted on linen ; sheets 69 x 98 cm, or smaller + index.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The Royal Pavilion at Brighton : published by the command of & dedicated by permission to the King / by His Majesty's dutiful subject and servant, John Nash.

Creator:: Nash, John, 1752–1835
Date:: [1826]
Physical Description:: [58] leaves : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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, Esq., surveyor of Her Majesty's park and palaces, author of 'Gleaning in natural history.'.

Creator:: Jesse, Edward, 1780–1868
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: viii, 142, [1] pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

29. Sample book of intaglio prints.

Creator:: Redaway, James C., active 1818–1857
Date:: 1850s?
Physical Description:: 1 volume (39 prints) : engraving, etching, steel engraving ; 29 x 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Plâs Newydd, and Vale Crucis Abbey, correctly drawn from nature, and engraved, by S. & G. Nicholson.

Creator:: Nicholson, Samuel, d. 1825
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 11 p. ill., 6 plates. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Ars pictoria; or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching. To which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Neanderthal authors. By Alexander Browne ...

Creator:: Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: 4 p.l., 110, [2] p. front. (port.) plates. 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The post and the paddock : with recollections of George IV, Sam Chifney and other turf celebrites / by the Druid.

Creator:: Dixon, Henry Hall, 1822–1870
Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: [8], 376, xxxii pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

Creator:: Lewis, John, 1675–1747
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: viii, 204, [4], 112, 105-124 pages, [1], XXV leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans, genealogical tables ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Oxonia illustrata : views of the Bodleian Library, the theatre, publick schools, colleges, halls and other publick buildings of the University of Oxford : with an account of their foundations and endowments and a succinct description of the buildings.

Creator:: Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:: [ca. 1720]
Physical Description:: [34] p. : all ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

Creator:: Cruso, John, d. 1681
Date:: MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:: [10], 108 p., 16 leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey / De motu cordis 1628; De circulatione sanguinis 1649 : the first English text of 1653 now newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Harvey, William, 1578–1657
Date:: [1928]
Physical Description:: xvi, 202, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A genealogical deduction of the family of Rose of Kilravock : with illustrative documents from the family papers, and notes.

Creator:: Rose, Hugh, 1633–1686
Date:: 1848
Physical Description:: viii, 531, [1] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. [Trade catalog for Thomas Goode & Co.].

Date:: [approximately 1900?]
Physical Description:: 16 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Froggett's survey of the country thirty miles round London, 1836 [cartographic material].

Creator:: Froggett, John, active 1808–1821
Date:: [1836]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets : hand col., mounted on linen ; 113 x 137 cm, sheets 56 x 68 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The gem of the peak, or, Matlock Bath and its vicinity : an account of Derby, a tour from Derby to Matlock, excursions to Chatsworth, Haddon, Monsal Dale, Dovedale, Ilam, Alton Towers, Hardwick, Wingfield, Ashbourne, Buxton, and Castleton, historical and geological : brief history of the Fluor Spar, from the earliest period, down to the present time, a review of the geology of Derbyshire, catalogue of minerals and rocks, and of the flora of the high and low peak : illustrated with maps and numerous engravings / by W. Adam.

Creator:: Adam, William, -1873
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: xvi, [4], 432, [4] pages, [10] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

42. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

Date:: [1791-1792]
Physical Description:: XII parts ([48] p., [37] leaves of plates ) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The complete modern joiner, or, A collection of original designs in the present taste for chimney-pieces and door-cases : with their mouldings and enrichments at large, frizes, tablets, ornaments for pilasters, bases, sub-bases and cornices for rooms, &c. : with a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures to rooms of any size / by N. Wallis, Architect.

Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: [1772]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

Creator:: Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:: MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 46-52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:: [between 1726 and 1736]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

Creator:: Burton, William, 1575–1645
Date:: [1622]
Physical Description:: 10, 320, [12] p., 2 leaves of plates (one folded) : port., ill., coats of arms, map ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The American shooter's manual : comprising, such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to introduce the inexperienced into a full knowledge of all that relates to the dog, and the correct use of the gun : also a description of the game of this country / by a gentleman of the Philadelphia county.

Creator:: Gentleman of Philadelphia County
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [5], x-xii, [1], 14-249, [9] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The history of the British plantations in America : with a chronological account of the most remarkable things, which happen'd to the first adventurers in their several discoveries of that new world : Part I. Containing The history of Virginia; with remarks on the trade and commerce of that colony / by Sir William Keith, Bart.

Creator:: Keith, William, Sir, 1680–1749
Date:: MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Physical Description:: [8], 187, [1] pages, ([2] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. R. Ackermann's repository of fashions : containing elegant coloured engravings, with descriptions of fashionable female costumes, English and French.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: 9 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing. Wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore. Whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation. With an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

Creator:: Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673–1721
Date:: 1686
Physical Description:: [10], 158, [10], 187, [5], 78; [2], 98 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Mouchoir des connaissances utiles : résumé des meilleures recettes indispensables à tous les ménages / A. Buquet, desr. gravr.

Creator:: Buquet, Alexandre, 1801–1846
Date:: [ca. 1850-ca. 1870?]
Physical Description:: 1 printed handkerchief : cotton ; 69 x 77 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Versailles illustrated, or Divers views of the several parts of the royal palace of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, groves, parterras, ye labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens, wherein are represented whatever is remarkable, whether statues, groups of figures, water falls, pleasure houses &c. : drawn on the spot by the order & with the approbation of the French king.

Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [29] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Recollections of Tunbge Wells.

Date:: [between 1845 and 1866]
Physical Description:: 16 pictures on 2 joined sheets : engravings ; sheets end-to-end 6 x 75 cm, accordion folded to 58 x 50 mm, in boards 65 x 53 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A descriptive and historical account of Dudley Castle : and its surrounding scenery : with graphic illustrations / by the Rev. Luke Booker.

Creator:: Booker, Luke, 1762–1835
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: x, 144, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates, ([2]) folded : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

56. The Englishwoman's domestic magazine.

Date:: 1852-1879
Physical Description:: 44 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. A new map of the English plantations in America [cartographic material] : both continent and ilands : shewing their true situation and distance from England or one with another / by Robert Morden ... and William Berry.

Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: [ca. 1677]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 42 x 52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Mechanick exercises, or, the doctrine of handy-works ... / by Joseph Moxon.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Physical Description:: [4], 234, [8] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The ornaments of architecture : containing compartments, shields, mantlings, foldige, festones, monuments for tombs, alphabets of large letters plain and enrich'd, with the order of making them : with some new designes for carving and painting of eminent coaches : useful for painters, stone-cutters, carvers, plaisterers / collected out of the work of several eminent masters, and set forth by Robert Pricke.

Creator:: Pricke, Robert
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: [51] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Polyorama, or Endless changes of landscapes.

Date:: [1824?]
Physical Description:: 11 pts. in case. col. ill. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. New description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough : to which is prefixed, Blenheim, a poem.

Creator:: Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: ix, [3], 172 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

62. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

Creator:: Laurie, Richard Holmes
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 61 x 80 cm., folded to 22 x 13 cm., in case 23 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

Creator:: Boothby, Brooke, Sir, 1743–1824
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 89 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Billhead recording purchase by Mr. McKenna from Thomas & Edward Gilks, engravers on wood.

Creator:: Thomas & Edward Gilks
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 10 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The castles and abbeys of England, from the national records, early chronicles, and other standard authors. By William Beattie ... Illustrated by upwards of two hundred engravings.

Creator:: Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:: [between 1852 and 1856]
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts. (incl. port.) ill., plates. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A vindication of Stone-Heng restored : in which the orders and rules of architecture observed by the ancient Romans, are discussed. Together with the customs and manners of several nations of the world in matters of building of greatest antiquity. As also an historical narration of the most memorable actions of the Danes in England. / By John Webb ...

Creator:: Webb, John, 1611–1672
Date:: MDCLXV [l665]
Physical Description:: [8], 232 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. (Fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay : through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Ship Griper, in the year MDCCCXXIV / by Captain G.F. Lyon, R.N. ; with a chart and engravings.

Creator:: Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:: MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:: xvi, 198, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The kingdome of England & principality of Wales : exactly described whith every sheere & the small townes in euery one of them : in six mappes, portable for every man's pocket ... : vseful for all commanders for quarteringe of souldiers ... / described by one that travailed throughout the whole kingdome for its purpose ... W. Hollar, fecit.

Creator:: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:: 1644
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([1], [6] leaves) : 6 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Cynegetica, or, Essays on sporting : consisting of observations on hare hunting : containing, an account of the hare hunting and coursing of the ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian : a philosophical enquiry into the nature and properties of the scent : remarks on the different kinds of hounds, with the manner of training them : directions for the choice of a hunter : the qualifications requisite for a huntsman : and other general rule to be observed in every contingency incident to the chase : together with an account of the vizier's manner of hunting in the Mogul empire by William Blane, Esq. : to which is added The chace, a poem by William Somervile, Esq.

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: [8], 292, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A natural and civil history of California : containing an accurate description of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours, lakes, rivers, and seas : its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fishery for pearls : the customs of the inhabitants, their religion, government and manner of living, before their conversion to the Christian religion by the missionary Jesuits : together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California and taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, and coast of the south sea : illustrated with copper plates, and an accurate map of the country and the adjacent seas / translated from the original Spanish of Miguel Venegas, a Mexican Jesuit, published at Madrid 1758.

Creator:: Venegas, Miguel, 1680–1764
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, map ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. 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

72. [Drawing book of wild boars].

Date:: [ca. 1770?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange, and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings, after the most celebrated heads in the cartoons at the Queen's palace : to which are now added, the outlines of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing : and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

Creator:: Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:: MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:: 21, [1] pages, [102] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Explanation of an allegorical, emblematical & characteristic design for the arms of Buonaparte : designed, drawn & invented by E.F. Stratton Reader / G. Alexander sculp., 130, Strand.

Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 1 print : engraving ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The phoenix : copper-engravings & haiku / by Brian Hanscomb.

Creator:: Hanscomb, Brian
Date:: [2005]
Physical Description:: [22] leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

76. History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster. By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W. R. Whatton ...

Creator:: Baines, Edward, 1774–1848
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 4 v. fronts., ill. (part col.) plates, ports., maps (part col., part fold., part double) plans, facsim., geneal. tables. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Lothian's historical atlas of Scotland : consisting of five general maps.

Creator:: Lothian, John
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 1 atlas [2] p. : 6 colored maps : 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions : illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands : a map of England shewing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals : and a plan of London and its environs : and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishoprics, universities, colleges, corporate towns, and boroughs : and of the seals of the several municipal corporations / by Samuel Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, Samuel, -1865
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: 4 volumes ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Sketches, illustrative of the topography and history of New and Old Sleaford, in the county of Lincoln, and of several places in the surrounding neighbourhood ...

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., ii, [8], 378, [6] p. front., ill., plates, geneal. tab. (part. fold.) 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Britannia, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones ...

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:: [14], 464 p., [113] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 50 maps plan ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Travels to the seat of war in the East, through Russia and the Crimea, in 1829 : with sketches of the Imperial Fleet and Army, personal adventures, and characteristic anecdotes / by Captain James Edward Alexander.

Creator:: Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803–1885
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. The rose, shamrock, & thistle.

Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 17 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Ulick and Soracha / by George Moore.

Creator:: Moore, George, 1852–1933
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [6], 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Portfolio, second edition, with additions, of fragments, relative to the history and atiquities of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster ... / by Matthew Gregson ... in three parts with addition, stitched, and two large pedigrees, portraits, prints, a large sheet map of the county, and upwards of 1600 engraved coats of arms and quarterings of Lancashire families and their alliances.

Creator:: Gregson, Matthew, 1749–1824
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 4, [vii]-viii, [v]-vii, [3], vii-x, 302 (i.e.324), cviii p. : ill. (some fold.) ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Description of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire / illustrated by views, drawn and engraved by James Storer.

Creator:: Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [2], 24 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

86. Ichnographia urbis Londinii : post magnum et fatale incendium ano. Dni. MDCLXVI, cum idea novæ urbis qualem tunc temporis / ex cineribus renatam esse designibat clarissimus vir Dns. Christophorus Wren = A plan of the city of London : after the great fire, in the year of our Lord 1666, with the modell of the new city / according to the design and proposal of Sr. Christopher Wren ... for rebuilding thereof.

Creator:: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632–1723
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 35 x 70 cm., on sheet 49 x 72 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Royal Exchange : report to the Court of Common Council from the Royal-Exchange and Gresham Trusts Committee : presented 23d January, 1845.

Creator:: Royal Exchange (London, England). Joint Committee for Gresham Affairs
Date:: [1845]
Physical Description:: 4, 223, [1] p., [4], 4 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. A collection of ornamental designs after the manner of the antique : composed for the use of architects, ornamental painters, statuaries, carvers, casters in metal, paper makers, carpet, silk, and calico manufacturers, and every trade dependent on the fine arts / by G. Smith ; engraved on forty-three plates.

Creator:: Smith, George, upholsterer to His Majesty
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: [1], [43] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Chubb's drawing book, and artists' assistant : illustrated with nearly sixty well-executed copper plate engravings of the human figure.

Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 77, [3] pages, [50] leaves of plates (in various foliations) : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Copper plate used to print an illustration of St. Uldibrand, in a scene from Undine.

Date:: between 1840 and 1860?
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 22 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Voyage of the United States frigate Potomac, under the command of Commodore John Downes, during the circumnavagation of the globe, in the years 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834 : including a particular account of the engagement at Quallah-Battoo, on the coast of Sumatra : with all the official documents relating to the same / by J.N. Reynolds ; illustrated by several engravings.

Creator:: Reynolds, J. N. (Jeremiah N.), 1799–1858
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [7], vi-x, [1], vi-x, [1], 12-560 pages, [10] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

Creator:: Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [6], 31 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

Creator:: Fontaine, Nicolas, 1625–1709
Date:: 1688-1690
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

Creator:: Percy, Sholto, 1788–1852
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., port., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The poetical works of Robert Ferguson : with his life / engravings on wood by Bewick.

Creator:: Fergusson, Robert, 1750–1774
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. History and antiquities of Kensington : interspersed with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished personages, and a descriptive catalogue of the collection of pictures in the palace, from a survey made by the late B. West ... by command of His Majesty / by Thomas Faulkner ...

Creator:: Faulkner, Thomas, 1777–1855
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: xvi, [2], 624, [11] p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, geneal. tables ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Tuba stentoro-phonica : an instrument of excellent use, as well as at sea, as at land : invented and variously experimented in the year 1670 : and humbly presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty Charles II, In the year, 1671 / by S. Morland ; the instruments (or speaking-trumpets) of all sizes and dimensions, are made and sold by Mr. Simon Beal, one of His Majesties Trumps. in Suffolk-street.

Creator:: Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625–1695
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [2], 14 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Le beau monde and monthly register.

Date:: 1809-1810
Physical Description:: 13 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A picturesque tour of Italy : from drawings made in 1816-1817 / by James Hakewill, archt.

Creator:: Hakewill, James, 1778–1843
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [98] pages, [63] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. [All the bubbles]

Date:: [1720]
Physical Description:: 52 playing cards : illustrations ; each card 9.7 x 6.4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

2. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

3. Industry and idleness [graphic] / design'd by Wm. Hogarth.

4. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

6. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

7. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S., ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.

8. The method of cutting up a stag.

9. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in four parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ; recommended by many workmen of the first abilities in London, who have themselves inspected the work.

10. Walker's tour through England and Wales : a new pastime.

12. A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.

14. Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland : with an accurate travelling map : engraved charts and views of the scenery : plans of Edinburgh and Glasgow : and a copious itinerary.

15. Plans, sections, and elevations of Chiswick House and the Assembly Rooms, York.

16. The white charger : that cost me two hundred pounds, lost me seventy thousand pounds, drove me from society, eventually deprived me of my friends, and finally compelled me to quit the service / by the author of "The horse guards," "The days when we had tails on us," &c.

17. [Four sporting prints].

18. The graphic scrap book : a collection of engravings / by Jas. Storer, from original drawings by Mrs. Chas. Rhys ; with descriptions.

19. Map of the county of Monmouth : from an actual survey made in the years 1829 & 1830 / by C. & H. Greenwood ; engraved by Josiah Neele ; R. Creighton, del.

20. Sketches in Scandinavia & Germany by Anne Beresford Cosby.

21. A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan. By Edward Earl of Clarendon.

22. Memoirs of the life of the late George Morland : with critical and descriptive observations on the whole of his works hitherto before the public / by J. Hassell ...

23. The land of the Veda : India briefly described in some of its aspects, physical, social, intellectual and moral : including the substance of the course of lectures delivered at St. Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury / by Rev. Peter Percival.

24. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

25. The history of Belvoir castle, from the Norman conquest to the nineteenth century : accompanied by a description of the present castle, and critical notices of the paintings, tapestry, statuary, &c. : with which it is enriched / by the Rev. Irvin Eller, of Queen's College Cambridge.

26. [Old series Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales]

27. The Royal Pavilion at Brighton : published by the command of & dedicated by permission to the King / by His Majesty's dutiful subject and servant, John Nash.

29. Sample book of intaglio prints.

30. Plâs Newydd, and Vale Crucis Abbey, correctly drawn from nature, and engraved, by S. & G. Nicholson.

32. The post and the paddock : with recollections of George IV, Sam Chifney and other turf celebrites / by the Druid.

33. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

34. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

35. Oxonia illustrata : views of the Bodleian Library, the theatre, publick schools, colleges, halls and other publick buildings of the University of Oxford : with an account of their foundations and endowments and a succinct description of the buildings.

36. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

37. The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey / De motu cordis 1628; De circulatione sanguinis 1649 : the first English text of 1653 now newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

38. A genealogical deduction of the family of Rose of Kilravock : with illustrative documents from the family papers, and notes.

39. [Trade catalog for Thomas Goode & Co.].

40. Froggett's survey of the country thirty miles round London, 1836 [cartographic material].

42. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

43. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

45. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

46. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

47. The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ...

50. R. Ackermann's repository of fashions : containing elegant coloured engravings, with descriptions of fashionable female costumes, English and French.

52. Mouchoir des connaissances utiles : résumé des meilleures recettes indispensables à tous les ménages / A. Buquet, desr. gravr.

54. Recollections of Tunbge Wells.

55. A descriptive and historical account of Dudley Castle : and its surrounding scenery : with graphic illustrations / by the Rev. Luke Booker.

56. The Englishwoman's domestic magazine.

57. A new map of the English plantations in America [cartographic material] : both continent and ilands : shewing their true situation and distance from England or one with another / by Robert Morden ... and William Berry.

58. Mechanick exercises, or, the doctrine of handy-works ... / by Joseph Moxon.

60. Polyorama, or Endless changes of landscapes.

61. New description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough : to which is prefixed, Blenheim, a poem.

62. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

63. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

64. Billhead recording purchase by Mr. McKenna from Thomas & Edward Gilks, engravers on wood.

65. The castles and abbeys of England, from the national records, early chronicles, and other standard authors. By William Beattie ... Illustrated by upwards of two hundred engravings.

67. A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay : through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Ship Griper, in the year MDCCCXXIV / by Captain G.F. Lyon, R.N. ; with a chart and engravings.

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

72. [Drawing book of wild boars].

74. Explanation of an allegorical, emblematical & characteristic design for the arms of Buonaparte : designed, drawn & invented by E.F. Stratton Reader / G. Alexander sculp., 130, Strand.

75. The phoenix : copper-engravings & haiku / by Brian Hanscomb.

76. History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster. By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W. R. Whatton ...

77. Lothian's historical atlas of Scotland : consisting of five general maps.

79. Sketches, illustrative of the topography and history of New and Old Sleaford, in the county of Lincoln, and of several places in the surrounding neighbourhood ...

81. Travels to the seat of war in the East, through Russia and the Crimea, in 1829 : with sketches of the Imperial Fleet and Army, personal adventures, and characteristic anecdotes / by Captain James Edward Alexander.

82. The rose, shamrock, & thistle.

83. Ulick and Soracha / by George Moore.

85. Description of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire / illustrated by views, drawn and engraved by James Storer.

87. Royal Exchange : report to the Court of Common Council from the Royal-Exchange and Gresham Trusts Committee : presented 23d January, 1845.

89. Chubb's drawing book, and artists' assistant : illustrated with nearly sixty well-executed copper plate engravings of the human figure.

90. Copper plate used to print an illustration of St. Uldibrand, in a scene from Undine.

92. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

93. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

94. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

95. The poetical works of Robert Ferguson : with his life / engravings on wood by Bewick.

96. History and antiquities of Kensington : interspersed with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished personages, and a descriptive catalogue of the collection of pictures in the palace, from a survey made by the late B. West ... by command of His Majesty / by Thomas Faulkner ...