Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room

An arithmetical pastime

April 19th, 1798

Photograph album of Ernest Philipp Fleischer's panorama of the Battle of Bannockburn

1888

Wet drug jar

between 1675 and 1680

Geary, Stephen, ca. 1797-1854

Cemetery designs for tombs and cenotaphs,

1840

The rice manufactury in China

[1770?]

Godby, J. (James), active 1798-1812

Italian scenery

1806

Musée des dames et des demoiselles

[ca. 1825?]

Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593-1649

The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada

MCMXXXVIII [1938]

Schomburgk, Robert H. (Robert Hermann), Sir, 1804-1865

Twelve views in the interior of Guiana

1841

Smirke, Robert, Sir, 1780-1867

Specimens of continental architecture

1806

Papendiek, George Ernest, 1788-1835

Kew Gardens

[1820?]

Ubaldini, Petruccio, 1524?-1600?

A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete inuadinge Englande in the yeare 1588

1590

Dinsdale, John

Sketches at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition

[1886]

Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921

Street life in London

[1877-1878]

Barrett, Thomas Lawrence

[Billhead of T.L. Barrett, general warehouseman, Peterborough, for a purchase by Maude K. Kirkby]

1899

Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)

Festival pleasure gardens

1951

By His Majesty's Royal Letter Patent

[not after 1837]

Bacon Brothers (Cambridge, England)

Cromwell special

[approximately 1905]

Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)

Panorama, Leicester Square

1803

The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake

12th May 1794

If truest love can gain respect I may a mutual love expect ..

mid-19th century

Rehberg, Friedrich, 1758-1835

Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples

MDCCXCIV [1794]

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554

The first[-fift] booke of architecture

1611

Mediciues for horses

[approximately 1565?]

Havell, Robert, -1832

Costa Scena, or, A cruise along the southern coast of Kent

March, 1823

Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory

Coade's Lithodipyra, or, Artificial Stone Manufactory

[approximately 1784?]

[Songs for piano]

[190-?]

Hornor, Thomas, 1785-1844

Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country,

1822

Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849

An account of the family of Laplanders;

[1822?]

Linwood, Mary, 1755-1845

Miss Linwood's Gallery of pictures in worsted

1812

Rio, Antonio del

Description of the ruins of an ancient city

1822

Aglio, Agostino, 1777-1857

To Godfrey Wentworth Junr. Esqre. this series of sketches of the interior & temporary decorations in Woolley-Hall, Yorkshire, drawn, painted, & etched by A. Aglio, is, with permission, most humbly dedicated

Sept. 1, 1821

Fiske, Mrs

Fashion and court elegance

1812

Frederick & Robert Sparrow & Co.

Front views of F. & R. Sparrow & Co.'s original London genuine tea warehouses

[1823]

Seville, William, 1797-1866

Extraordinary talent, for a short time only ... you may have a correct likeness ... by that celebrated artist, Mr. Seville

[approximately 1830]

[Almanac for 1881]

[1880]

Charles Skipper & East (London, England)

Charles Skipper & East, engravers, printers

[between 1833 and 1877]

Skelton, William, 1763-1848

Skelton, copper plate printer

[approximately 1800?]

A Merry Christmas to you

[1880?]

Bolton, James, active 1775-1795

Beautiful Nuthatch (Sitta formosa), with hazel (Corylus avellana L.), oak (Quercus L.) and bramble (cf. Rubus), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

Reliance Rubber Company

Plastic gold

1889-1939 [that is, 1939]

Wharam, Ann

Riding. To the public in general, but more particularly to lovers, learners, encouragers and adepts in the art of horsemanship

[1790?]

Silver palace and the golden poppy, or, The water and fire kings

[between 1837-1840]

Accept these flowers thus gracefully combined ... thus in unison let our loves be twined

mid-19th century

Soane, John, 1753-1837

Description of the house and museum on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields,

[1835]

Graphic illustrations of the Colosseum, Regent's Park, in five plates

MDCCCXXIX [1829]

Six progressive lessons for flower painting

January 1, 1802

Bulwer, James

Views in the Madeiras

1827

Babes in the wood

1849

Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702

Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali ac regiones adiacentes

ca. 1682]

Coronation of Her Majesty

[1838]

Bonnington Hotel (London, England)

Luncheon

1951

Burkitt & Hudson

[not after 1818]

Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852

The last glimpse of Erin

[approximately 1850]

Reveley, Thomas, active 1904

£5 reward

approximately 1904

London Transport Executive

[Ticket for 1951 Festival of Britain special bus service]

[1951]

Album of the kings & queens of Victoria

[approximately 1880?]

Jones & Halton (Firm)

Jones & Halton

[approximately 1850]

Bolton, James, active 1775-1795

Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) and eggs, with bramble (Rubus L.) and Purple Emperor (Apatura iris) and longhorned beetle (?Desmocerus sp.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To the visitors at watering places, and to the owners and drivers of donkeys

approximately 1875

Bede, Cuthbert, 1827-1889

Scraps collected from all books, at all times, in all places and on all subjects

circa 1841-1872

Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828

Jupiter and the herdsman

1818?

Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1661-1736

A short historical account of London-bridge;

1736

Barker, Robert, 1739-1806

[London from the roof of the Albion Mills]

1792-1793

Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852

Lalla Rookh

1861

Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800

The winter day

1804

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759-1821

The history and antiquities of the deanery of Craven, in the county of York

1805

Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica

1707-1725

Forrest, Charles Ramus

A picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India

1824

Gruner, Ludwig, 1801-1882

The decorations of the garden-pavilion in the grounds of Buckingham palace

MDCCCXLVI [1846]

Paoletti impronte

[circa 1865?]

Mecham, Clifford Henry, 1832-1865

Sketches & incidents of the siege of Lucknow

[1858]

Parrott, William

Paris and its environs

[ca. 1845?]

Salmon, William, approximately 1703-1779

The Vitruvian principles of architecture, practically demonstrated

1737

Angelo, Michael, 18th cent

The drawing school for little masters and misses

1773

Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677

Kyngeston vpon Hvll

circa 1642

Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824

A collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings

1799

A.J.K.H.

Album of comic sketches

1869-1873

C. Goodall & Son

Time's footsteps for 1881

[1880]

Daveluy, Édouard, 1812-1894

Henry Halvoet & Cie.

[approximately 1840]

Newmarket, Mildenhall, and Swaffham stage waggons

1796

Bolton, James, active 1775-1795

?White-cheeked Starling (Sturnus cineraceus), with bramble (Rubus fruticosus L.), and Eurasian Comma (Polygonia c-album), both closed and open, and Seven-Spotted Ladybird Beetle (Coccinella septumpunctata) on leaf, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne

circa 1768