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1. The high mettled racer / by the late Charles Dibdin ; to which are added many interesting anecdotes of the race-horse ; illustrated by ten first-rate engravings on wood by G.W. Bonner, from designs by Robert Cruikshank.

The high mettled racer / by the late Charles Dibdin ; to which are added many interesting anecdotes of the race-horse ; illustrated by ten first-rate engravings on wood by G.W. Bonner, from designs by Robert Cruikshank.
Creator:
Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814
Date:
MDCCCXXXI [1831]
Physical Description:
36 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The story of Jack and the beanstalk / retold by Alfred Wareing.

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Date:
1926
Physical Description:
31, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Salter Family.

3. Hunting England : a survey of the sport, and of its chief grounds / by Sir William Beach Thomas ; illustrated from old prints and pictures, and from modern photographs.

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Creator:
Thomas, William Beach, Sir, 1868–1957
Date:
1936
Physical Description:
vii, 120 p. col. front., 1 illus., plates (part col., part double) 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Official handbook of the Air Union, 1927 : the first air line in the world.

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Date:
1927
Physical Description:
48 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

5. Photograph album of scenes in the Lake District, Cheshire, Scotland, and Wales.

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Creator:
Mudd, James, 1821–1906
Date:
1860s
Physical Description:
1 album (40 photographic prints) : albumen prints from wet collodion negatives ; prints 30 x 38 cm, or smaller, in album 38 x 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

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Creator:
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:
1843-1844
Physical Description:
4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Catalogue of a remarkably choice collection of old Sèvres porcelain, the property of a well-known collector ... : also a small collection of Dresden and other porcelain and ornamental objects and a choice collection of old English porcelain, the property of a lady / which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... March 19, 1874.

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
1874
Physical Description:
16 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Annual report / the Royal Veterinary College.

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Creator:
Royal Veterinary College (London, England)
Physical Description:
v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. British Isles.

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Creator:
Keystone View Company
Date:
[1895-1913]
Physical Description:
99 photographs in 1 box : gelatin silver prints on card mounts ; mounts 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format), box 20 x 10 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection, the property of a Gentleman : consisting of about thirty pictures of the first class of the different schools of Italy, recently arrived from Rome and Naples : together with a capital selection of the most perfect cabinet pictures, of the Flemish and Dutch schools : collected by him with great taste and liberality, during several journies on the Continent, at different periods, since the beginning of the French Revolution : with the nicest attention to their state of preservation, and by the most favourite Masters : comprising the works of Giorgione, Schiavoni, Paduanino, Domenichino, Carracci, Parmegiano, N. Poussin, Guido, Baroccio, Polydore, S. Ferrato, Rubens, Rembrandt, G. Dow, Wouvermans, Du Jardin, A. V. de Velde, Pynaker, Ostade, Bega, Poelemberg, Waterloo, Palamedes, &c. : particularly three exquisite cabinet pictures by Domenichino, and a capital portrait by Giorgione : among them are very few pictures ever on view in this country; of those few, are the Fiddler, by G. Dow, from the Orlean's Collection : and several first-rate pictures from the same and from the collections of Mons. De Calonne, Baron Nagel, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, May 9th, 1800, and following day, at twelve o'clock : note, no person can be admitted to the Museum through the late residence of Lord Cawder's, the only admittance is from Cumberland Mews.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
6 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A catalogue of the capital and very valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch, and English pictures, and a few casts from the antique, of the late Right Hon. Lord Gwydir, deceased : brought from the family seat, Grimsthorpe Castle, in Lincolnshire, and from the London mansion at Whitehall : they comprise a charming marine landscape, with the Rape of Europa by Claude : a noble landscape by Both, with figures by Poelemborg : a cabinet chef-d'oeuvre by P. Potter : five by Teniers : three capital landscapes with figures by Cuyp : three very spirited and fine by Wouvermans : two by Berghem : a capital ditto, by Is. Ostade : two charming sea pieces by W. V. Velde : a grand historical composition of Perseus changing Phineus and his armed attendants into stone, by N. Poussin : a Holy Family by C. Dolce, in his sweetest manner : a grand interior by P. Panini : a large landscape and figures, one of the most brilliant chef-d'oeuvres of Gainsborough : and the celebrated Holy Family by Sir Joshua Reynolds, known by the engraving made from it by the late Mr. Sharpe : and superior productions of the following Masters : G. Romano, Bassano, Parmegiano, L. Carracci, Biscaino, Murillo, G. Poussin, Rubens, V. Der Neer, Rembrandt, Duart, Metzu, Bega, Schalken, Ruysdael, Wynants, Moucheron, Verboom, Swaneveldt, Ferg, Steenwyck, Fytm, Borgognone, Canaletti : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room on Friday, May the 8th, 1829, and following day, at one o'clock : may be viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had (at one shilling each) at Mr. Christie's office, King Street, St. James's Square.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Catalogue of the entire and valuable collection of Italian, Flemish, Dutch, and French pictures, the property of the Earl of Ashburnham : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on July 20, 1850.

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Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
[1850]
Physical Description:
20 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949 : three volumes in one.

Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949 : three volumes in one.
Creator:
Golden Cockerel Press
Date:
1975
Physical Description:
47, [1], 51, [1], 112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. [Views in England and France].

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Creator:
Underwood & Underwood
Date:
[1896-1907]
Physical Description:
74 photographs : gelatin silver prints on card mounts ; mounts 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Life in eighteenth century England, by Robert J. Allen ...

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Creator:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Division of Museum Extension
Date:
[©1941]
Physical Description:
42 plates including portraits, plans 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Catalogue of the splendid and valuable library of the late John Rennie, esq. ... : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans at his house, no. 93, Pall Mall, on Monday July 13, and four following days.

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Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
2 volumes 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The mansions of England in the olden time / by Joseph Nash.

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Creator:
Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878
Date:
1839-1849
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of Greek, Roman, Saxon, English, and Irish, gold, silver, and brass coins and medals, of the learned and ingenious Mr. James Simon, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquaries Society of London, author of the historical account of Irish coins, late of the city of Dublin, merchant, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in the Hay-Market, on Thursday, the 8th of December, 1757, and the following day.

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Creator:
Ford, Mr., active 1741–1757
Date:
[1757]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. English & Irish delftware 1570-1840 / Aileen Dawson.

English & Irish delftware 1570-1840 / Aileen Dawson.
Creator:
Dawson, Aileen
Date:
2010
Physical Description:
320 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

20. Bridging the gap : bridges / Peter Ashley.

Bridging the gap : bridges / Peter Ashley.
Creator:
Ashley, Peter, 1948–
Date:
[2001]
Physical Description:
79, [1] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Table of the reciprocal distances of the principal towns of Cambridgeshire, from Magna Britannia]

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Date:
[1738]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] pages) ; 22 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

22. The universal system of houshold furniture : consisting of above 300 designs on the most elegant taste, both useful & ornamental : finely engraved, in which the nature of ornament & perspective, is accurately exemplified : the whole made convenient to the nobility and gentry, in their choice, & comprehensive to the workman, by directions for executing the several designs, with specimens of ornament for young practitioners in drawing / by Ince & Mayhew cabinet-makers & upholders, in Bond Street, Golden Square, London ...

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Creator:
Ince, William, active 18th century
Date:
[1762?]
Physical Description:
iii-iv, 11, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The churches of the Middle Ages : being select specimens of early and middle pointed structures, with a few of the purest late pointed examples / by Henry Bowman and J.S. Crowther, arcs.

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Creator:
Bowman, Henry, 1814–1883
Date:
[1853?]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of Greek and Roman medals and medalions in gold, silver, and brass, of the learned Dr. Kennedy, deceas'd : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his great room the end of Savile-Row, next Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square, on Thursday and Friday, the 8th and 9th of May, 1760.

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Creator:
Prestage, John, -1767
Date:
[1760]
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Baronagium genealogicum; or, The pedigrees of the English peers, deduced from the earliest times, of which there are any attested accounts including, as well collateral as lineal descents. Originally comp. from the publick records and most authentic evidences; by Sr. William Segar ... and continued to the present time, by Joseph Edmondson.

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Creator:
Segar, William, Sir, -1633
Date:
[1764-84]
Physical Description:
5 volumes genealogical tables, coats of arms 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. English Delftware in the Bristol collection / Frank Britton ; foreword by Arnold Wilson ; preface by Michael Archer.

English Delftware in the Bristol collection / Frank Britton ; foreword by Arnold Wilson ; preface by Michael Archer.
Creator:
Britton, Frank
Date:
1982
Physical Description:
335 pages : some color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer