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Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.
Creator:
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan; from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Home; with historical descriptions.
Creator:
Home, Robert, 1752–1834
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 p.., [v]-vii p., 1 leaf, 48 p. 29 plates, fold. map, 3 fold plans. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity : and are desirous of inspecting the striking parts of the creation : there is to be seen, at the [blank] the beautiful zebra, or wild ass ... : it was brought from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1762, by Sir Thomas Adams.
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph Reed, Yale BA 1954, and Kit Reed
Mrs. Stewart's concert Hanover Square.
Date:
[1789]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching ; sheet 13 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The costume of Hindostan : elucidated by sixty coloured engravings / with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799 by Balt. Solvyns, of Calcutta.
Creator:
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760–1824
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
[132] pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth : performed by a student there 177[blank].
Creator:
Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801
Date:
approximately 1798-1799
Physical Description:
518 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter / Lee sc.
Date:
[1800?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 37 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A journal of a voyage to Madrass : in the year of our Lord Christ, 1761 : manuscript / by Richard Rose, Leiutenant [sic] in the 96th Regiment of Foot.
Creator:
Rose, Richard, 1728–1770
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
1 volume ([6], 80 pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Twelve prints of sea engagements [graphic].
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
Will of Patrick Lynch.
Creator:
Lynch, Richard, -1781
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Twelve remarkable views in North America and West Indies.
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
A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], ii p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Osbourne's Fort [graphic] / Trollup fecit.
Creator:
Trollope, Robert, -1686
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
2 drawings : watercolor and pen and black ink ; sheets 29 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce Marshall Rare Books
The naval achievements of Great Britain, from the year 1793 to 1817.
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
viii, [150] p., [56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Catherine Hamilton commonplace book.
Creator:
Hamilton, Catherine
Date:
1822-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.
Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
[10] pages, [48] leaves, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Remains of the Spartan monuments seen from the opposite side]
Creator:
Tennant, Smithson, 1761–1815
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 16 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China.
Date:
[1770?]
Physical Description:
24 leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld
Land tax bill for William Bourn, April 5th, 1798.
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 6 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sir Joseph Banks's fishery book of the River Witham in Lincolnshire.
Creator:
Banks, Sarah Sophia, 1744–1818
Date:
1784-1800
Physical Description:
2 v. ; ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Viaggio nel Basso ed Alto Egitto, illustrato dietro alle tracce e ai disegni, del Sig. Denon.
Creator:
Denon, Vivant, 1747–1825
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
2 v. plates, double map, plans. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 / by W. H. Maxwell ...
Creator:
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 477, [1] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre : divisez en trois parties ... : ouvrage enrichi de plus de quatre-cens planches gravées en taille-douce / par Allain Manesson Mallet ...
Creator:
Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?
Date:
1696
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The ... Fashions of London and Paris.
Physical Description:
v. : ill. (hand-colored) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The bounds of the fortificatie of Gosport.
Creator:
De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
Date:
approximately 1678
Physical Description:
1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 74 x 93 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Kyngeston vpon Hvll.
Creator:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:
circa 1642
Physical Description:
1 view : illustrations ; 31 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Newmarket, Mildenhall, and Swaffham stage waggons : by Thomas Archer.
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 handbill ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[not after 1778]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Will of Patrick Collins.
Creator:
Collins, Patrick, -1781
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 18 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Some account of London / Thomas Pennant.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
vi, [4], 479, [9] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Cyrill Clough, at Henry Lloyd's school.
Creator:
Lloyd, Mr., active 1795
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 25 x 42 cm, folded to 25 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper diorama of the HMS Sutherland.
Creator:
Walker, Augustine
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
1 diorama ; 50 x 60 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 42 leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:
2002
Physical Description:
[54] p. : ill ; 21 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
1962
Physical Description:
[36] p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
2002
Physical Description:
296 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
[1995?]
Physical Description:
34 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Turner's modern world / David Blaney Brown, Amy Concannon, James Finch and Sam Smiles.
Creator:
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Date:
2020
Physical Description:
240 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Mack, Maynard, 1909-2001
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
xii, 957 p. : ill., plates, port. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837 / Linda Colley.
Creator:
Colley, Linda
Date:
1992
Physical Description:
x, 429 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909–1997
Date:
1999
Physical Description:
xvi, 171 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Hughes, Eleanor
Date:
2016
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 streaming video file (101 minutes))
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
viii, [3], 297 p., 1 leaf. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Fussell, Paul, 1924–2012
Date:
1965
Physical Description:
ix, 314 p. front. 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Sutherland, James Runcieman, 1900–
Date:
1948
Physical Description:
vi, 175 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Olson, Roberta J. M
Date:
1998
Physical Description:
xiv, 369 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
Date:
c2005
Physical Description:
viii, 243 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Craske, Matthew
Date:
1992
Physical Description:
2 v. in 3 : ill.
Collection:
Reference Library
Watercolours and drawings : Lowell Libson Ltd.
Date:
2007
Physical Description:
[76] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Anton Raphael Mengs' Wirken in Spanien / Pia Hollweg.
Creator:
Hollweg, Pia
Date:
c2008
Physical Description:
421 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
The restoration of Blythburgh Church, 1881-1906 : the dispute between the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Blythburgh Church Restoration Committee / edited by Alan Mackley.
Date:
2017
Physical Description:
lix, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
British Museum
Date:
[2015]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (6 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
A check list of prose fiction published in England, 1740-1749. Compiled by Jerry C. Beasley.
Creator:
Beasley, Jerry C
Date:
[1972]
Physical Description:
xiv, 213 p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Dressed to kill : British naval uniform, masculinity and contemporary fashions, 1748-1857 / Amy Miller.
Creator:
Miller, Amy
Date:
2007
Physical Description:
191 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Redford, Bruce
Date:
c2008
Physical Description:
x, 220 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Popular recreations in English society, 1700-1850 [by] Robert W. Malcolmson.
Creator:
Malcolmson, Robert W
Date:
1973
Physical Description:
x, 188 p. illus. 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
Date:
1945
Physical Description:
vi, 621 p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Painters and engraving : the reproductive print from Hogarth to Wilkie / David Alexander and Richard T. Godfrey.
Creator:
Alexander, David (David S.)
Date:
1980
Physical Description:
iv, 73 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Plumb, J. H. (John Harold), 1911–2001
Date:
1980
Physical Description:
160 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
No cover image available
Creator:
Longaker, John Mark, 1900–
Date:
1931
Physical Description:
ix p., 1 l., 519 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Herdt, Anne de
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
[61] p. : ill. ; 17 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
xxi, 432 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Purefoy, Henry, 1697–1762
Date:
1931
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, folded map, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical table ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Date:
1994
Physical Description:
89 p.: ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Date:
ca. 1800?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Paston, George, d. 1936
Date:
[1968]
Physical Description:
xiii, 143 p. illus., ports. 34 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Start of play : cricket and culture in eithteenth-century England / David Underdown.
Creator:
Underdown, David
Date:
c2000
Physical Description:
xx, 257 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., 1 map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Makdisi, Saree
Date:
2003
Physical Description:
xviii, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Enlightenment : discovering the world in the eighteenth century / edited by Kim Sloan, with Andrew Burnett.
Date:
c2003
Physical Description:
304 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Downes, Kerry
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
72 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Lenihan, Liam
Date:
[2014]
Physical Description:
xii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:
[2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Weiss Gallery (London, England)
Date:
[2001?]
Physical Description:
54 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
No cover image available
Creator:
Boyn, John
Date:
1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Date:
1784 January 1-December 31
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[179-?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (ca. 33 p.) ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts