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1. The history and antiquities of the county of Essex : compiled from the best and most ancient historians, from Domesday-book, Inquisitiones post mortem, and other the most valuable records and mss. &c. / the whole digested, improved, perfected, and brought down to the present time, by Philip Morant ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Creator:
Morant, Philip, 1700–1770
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. (some folded), 9 maps, plan ; 48 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Choix de vues de l'Inde : dessinées sur les lieux, pendant les années 1780, 1781, 1782, et 1783 / et exécutées en aqua tinta, par W. Hodges ... = Select views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, and executed in aqua tinta by William Hodges, R.A.

Choix de vues de l'Inde : dessinées sur les lieux, pendant les années 1780, 1781, 1782, et 1783 / et exécutées en aqua tinta, par W. Hodges ... = Select views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, and executed in aqua tinta by William Hodges, R.A.
Creator:
Hodges, William, 1744–1797
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
[44] leaves, [49] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Select views of the antiquities and harbours in the south of France : with topographical and historical descriptions / by the author of The Rhaetian Alps &c. &c.

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Creator:
Beaumont, Albanis, 1755–1812
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[2], 56 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Travels through the Maritime Alps, from Italy to Lyons, across the Col de Tende, by the way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, &c. : with topographical and historical descriptions : to which are added, some philosophical observations on the various appearances in mineralogy, &c. found in those countries / by Albanis Beaumont ; author of the Rhaetian Alps, &c. &c. &c.

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Creator:
Beaumont, Albanis, 1755–1812
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
[6], 127 pages, [3] pages, [24] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760 : with observations upon the state of the colonies / by the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester and Vicat of Greenwich.

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Creator:
Burnaby, Andrew, 1732–1812
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 209, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The antiquities of Magna Graecia / by William Wilkins, Jun., M.A. F.A.S., fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

The antiquities of Magna Graecia / by William Wilkins, Jun., M.A. F.A.S., fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Creator:
Wilkins, William, 1778–1839
Date:
MDCCCVII [1807]
Physical Description:
[6], xxii, 74, [2] pages, [73] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States : with biographical particulars of public characters : hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade / by Charles William Janson, Esq. late of the state of Rhode Island, counsellor at law ; illustrated by engravings.

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Creator:
Janson, Charles William
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
xiii, [2], 16-22, 499, [7] pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Travels through the Canadas, containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes : with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners and customs of several of the Indian nations of North and South America / by George Heriot, Esq., Deputy Post Master general of British North American ; illustrated with a map and numerous engravings, from drawings made at the several places by the author.

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Creator:
Heriot, George, 1759–1839
Date:
[1807]
Physical Description:
xii, 602 pages, [28] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Voyages dans la partie septentrionale du Bresil depuis 1809 jusqu'en 1815 : comprenant les provinces de Pernambuco (Fernambouc), Seara, Paraiba, Maragran, etc. / par Henri Koster ; traduits de l'anglais par M. A. Jay ; ornes de huit planches colories et de deux cartes.

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Creator:
Koster, Henry, 1793–approximately 1820
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A picturesque tour along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne : with illustrations of the scenes of remarkable events and of popular traditions / by Baron J.J. von Gerning ; embellished with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings from the drawings of M. Schuetz ; and accompanied by a map ; translated from the German by John Black.

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Creator:
Gerning, J. I. (Johann Isaac), 1767–1837
Date:
MDCCCXX [1820]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 178 pages, [25] leaves of plates (1 folded) : color illustrations, map ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry : with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.

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Creator:
Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790–1855
Date:
MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:
[8], xxix, [3], 310, [2], clxxix, [3] pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

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Creator:
Sauvan, Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar
Date:
MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:
[2], viii, 177 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The Durobrivae of Antoninus : identified and illustrated in a series of plates : exhibiting the excavated remains of that Roman station, in the vicinity of Castor, Northamptonshire : including the mosaic pavements, inscriptions, paintings in fresco, baths, iron and glass furnaces, potters' kilns, implements for coining, and the manufacture of earthen vessels, war and other instruments in brass, iron, ivory, &c / discovered by E.T. Artis, F.S.A.F.G.S. &c. &c.

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Creator:
Artis, Edmund Tyrell, 1789–1847
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages, LX leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The West India sketch book : in two volumes.

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Creator:
Wentworth, Trelawney
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Public works of Great Britain : consisting of railways, rails, chairs, blocks, cuttings, embankments, tunnels, oblique arches, viaducts, bridges, stations, locomotive engines &c : cast iron bridges, iron and gas works : canals, lock gates, centering, masonry and brick work for canal tunnels, canal boats, the London and Liverpool docks, plans and dimensions, dock gates, walls, quays and their masonry, mooring chains : plan of the harbour and port of London, and other important engineering works with descriptions and specifications : the whole rendered of the utmost utility to the civil engineer, to the nobility and gentry, as monuments of the useful arts in this country and as examples to the foreign engineer / edited by F.W. Simms, C.E. ; 153 plates.

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Date:
1838
Physical Description:
[5], viii-xii, 72, 32, 24, 70 pages, [142] leaves of plates in various foliations : illustrations, maps, plans ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Aedes Hartwellianae, or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell / by Captain W.H. Smyth.

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Creator:
Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788–1865
Date:
MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 414, [2] p., XIII leaves of plates : ill. (1 col.) maps, plans, ports. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.