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Barber, J. T

A tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire

(1803)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionsxiii, 359, [1] p., 2 leaves of plates (1 folding) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Rocque, John, -1762

The environs of London

([1763])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 map on 4 sheets ; 86 x 125 cm., sheets 58 x 79 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Walsh, Thomas, fl. 1801

Journal of the late campaign in Egypt

(1803)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionsviii, [20], 261, [7], *145, [1] p., 49 [i.e.41] leaves of plates ([9] folded) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22684507150008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

King, Daniel, died 1664

The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated

(1656)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions12 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 239 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 55 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 34 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 29 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22867082350008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794

Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

(MDCCXCVI [1796])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22948829200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Dubourg, Matthew

Views of the remains of ancient buildings in Rome and its vicinity

(1820)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[33] pages, 26 leaves of plates : colored illustrations ; 42 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22907580180008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and... [Read more]

(1707-1725)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 v., XI, 274 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. (frontispiece), map (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22614543960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847

Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria

(1796-1803)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 volume (74 drawings) : watercolor and gouache over graphite ; 40 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22799215510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711

Gerardi de Lairesse, Leodiensis pictoris, Opus elegantissimum

([ca. 1690?])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[56] double leaves of plates : all ill. ; 52 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

The Illustrated exhibitor,

([1851])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionsxliv, 556 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22792812340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878

A slice of bread and butter

([1857])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions16 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22716226370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

Loggan, David, 1635–1700?

Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis... [Read more]

(ano. Dni. MDCLXXV [1675])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[85] leaves (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22653461250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Philips, F. C. (Francis Charles), 1849–1921

As in a looking glass

(1889)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[10], 293, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22606354980008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847

A collection of English grasses

(circa 1792-1808)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 v. ([1], 105 leaves) : ill. ; 38 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22977217390008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Clarke, James Stanier, 1765?-1834

The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B.

(1809)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 volumes : illustrations ; 36 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22874613610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Havell, Robert, 1769–1832

A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats

(1823)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[42] pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22617888730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Godby, James, 1767–1849

Italian scenery

(1806)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], 74, [2] p., 32 leaves of plates : ill., music ; 35 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22609484170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Vanderbank, John, 1694–1739

Twenty five actions of the manage horse

(1729)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], 8 p., 29, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22967466270008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Album of cartes-de-visite depicting royalty of Britain and Europe... [Read more]

(1860-1862)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 album (50 photographs) ; 15 x 12 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22831146070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Temple, R. (Richard), active 1809–1811

Sixteen views of places in the Persian Gulph taken in the years 1809-10

(1813)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions7 pages, [1], 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 x 52 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22714684610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809

XII views in aquatinta from drawings taken on the spot in South-Wales

(MDCCLXXV [1775-1776])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions39 prints in 1 album : aquatints with etching ; album 29 x 40 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22654701280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Garneray, Jean-François, 1755–1837

Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils... [Read more]

([1796])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4] pages, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22667217330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Williamson, Thomas, Captain

The European in India

(1813)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[6], 149, [9] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22682796470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?

Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre

(1696)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions3 v. : ill., plans ; 19 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22728244530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the... [Read more]

(1788)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 v. 162 plates (incl. fronts., engr. t.-p.'s, ports. plans) on 133 leaves. 69 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22783708470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840

A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China

(1810)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[2], ii p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 31 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22709725340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Lathbury, John

Incipit liber moraliu[m] su[per] trenis iheremie [pro]phete

([31 July 1482])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[584] pages ; 30 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22642013560008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Grindlay, Robert Melville, 1786–1877

Scenery, costumes and architecture, chiefly on the western side of India

(1826-1830)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22744286120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Pine, John, 1690–1756

The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords

([1739])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[6], 23, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 50 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22637269960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Edwards, James, 1756–1816

A companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex

(1801)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[3],viii, [1], 31, 86, [3] p., [15] leaves of plates, ([2] folded) : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22826437930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Dart, John, -1730

Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St.... [Read more]

([between 1723 and 1727])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 v. : ill., ports, plan ; 40 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798

The journey from Chester to London

(MDCCLXXXII [1782])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[2], iv, 452, [6] pages, 22 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

A book of eighteen leaves

(1757)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[18] leaves : all ill. ; 36 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711376580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Illustrations to the novels of Walter Scott

(1830s?)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 volumes (108 drawings) : watercolors ; drawings each approximately 8.5 x 11 cm, in volumes 19 x 25 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711687330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Blunt, John, surgeon

Practical farriery, or, The complete directory

(MDCCLXXIII [1773])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionsviii, 316, [8] p., III leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (engraving) ; 17 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22712177970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Johnson, John

Costumes of the French Pyrenees

(1832)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[2], iv, [2], 60 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22862871040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853–1942

Racial photographs from the Egyptian monuments

([1887])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions190 photographs mounted on XVI folded sheets : albumen prints ; photographs each 7 x 10 cm, in covers 19 x 13 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22945319980008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus, Jr.

William Stevenson Owen, judge

(between 1884 and 1909)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 bookplate : engraving ; 115 x 78 mm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22685493560008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

White, John, active 1757–1759

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales

(MDCCXC [1790])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[16], 299, [37] pages, [66] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22684481890008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

The Canterbury tales

(1483])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[312] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22871870630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection