Date: 1855 - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

301. Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours : avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter / publiée par MM. Firmin Didot frères, sous la direction de M. le Dr Hoefer.

Date:: 1855-1866
Physical Description:: 46 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

302. Hand-book of water-colours : a brief treatise on their qualities and effects when employed in painting : with some account of the general nature of colours / by W. Winsor and H.C. Newton ...

Creator:: Winsor, W
Date:: [ca. 1855]
Physical Description:: 34, [8] p. ; 19 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

303. Cruchley's railway & telegraphic map of Somerset [cartographic material] : showing all the railways & names of stations, also the telegraph lines & stations ; improved from the Ordnance Surveys.

Date:: [between 1855 and 1875?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 46.0 x 52.7 cm, folded to 25.5 x 20.0 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

304. Tam O'Shanter / by Robert Burns.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [5] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

305. Hand-book for young painters / by C.R. Leslie ... ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xiii, [1], 315 p., [1], 32 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

306. Catalogue of the very choice collection of pictures, of the highest class, by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, and English masters, of S.M. Mawson, esq., by whom they have been selected with great taste and judgment, chiefly on the continent : they are now dispersed, without reserve, in consequence of his retiring from business :which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Chistie & Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May 19, 1855, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 16 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

307. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton, 1855-1875.

Creator:: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Date:: 1855-1875
Physical Description:: 53 letters (1 box)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

308. Art of landscape painting in water colours / by Thomas Rowbotham and Thomas L. Rowbotham.

Creator:: Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson, 1783-1853
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: vii, 2, 47 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

309. Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin : with twenty illustrations by Percy Cruikshank.

Creator:: Cowper, William, 1731-1800
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([20] p.) : ill. ; 13 x 260 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm, in boards 14 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

310. The gathered lilies / the illuminations designed by Mrs. Howard Vyse and Miss Fanny Greville ; the original poem by F.H.

Creator:: Hodgson, Frances S.
Date:: not after 1857
Physical Description:: [11] leaves : illustrations ; 22 x 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

311. A catalogue of a collection of twenty English pictures, of high merit and great importance, being a portion of the well-known collection of Charles Birch, esq. of Westfield House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, whose cabinet of British art has justly obtained a more than local celebrity : including Waiting for the deer to rise, by Sir Edwin Landseer, R. A. : Alfred in the Danish Camp, by D. Baclise : The Lock, by ... J.M.W. Turner : A Pyrenean Pass, with smugglers, C. Stanfield, R. A. : Spezzia Bay by ... Sir Augustus Calcot, R. A. : The first ear ring by ... Sir David Wilkie, R.A., engraved : Beating for recruits, by Thomas Webster, R. A. : The Lock, by ... J. Consable, R. A. : The Mountain Pass, by P. F. Poole, A.R.A. : Dolly Varden, by W. P. Frith, R.A. : The Tambourine Player, by J. Uwine, R.S. : A Golden Landscape, Linnell : ... The Fleur De Lis, by ... William Etty, R.A. : Which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Foster and Son, at the Gallery, 54, Pall Mall, on Thursday, February 15th, 1855, at two precisely.

Creator:: Foster and Son (London, England)
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 18, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

312. A month at Malvern under the water cure : with the sequel, etc., etc.. / by R.J. Lane ...

Creator:: Lane, Richard James, 1800-1872
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xxii, 215, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

313. The philosophy of the beautiful / by John G. Macvicar ...

Creator:: Macvicar, John Gibson, 1800-1884
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xvi, 175 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

314. A catalogue of a collection of pictures, the works of first-class living artists : particularly Dumblane Cathedral, by D. Roberts, R.A. : View on the Scheldt, by E. Cooke, A.R.A. : Two other works, by the same Master : Falstaff and Pistol, by A. Egg, A.R.A. : A pair of river views, by F. Lee, R.A. : Summer Noon ... by S. Cooper, A.R.A. ... : The Thistle, by Frank Stone : The Lattice, by W. Etty, R.A. : specimens of J. D. Harding, F. Stone, E.W. Cooke, T. Faed Groonland, F. Danby, D. Roberts, Sir A. Calcott, F.R. Le, T.S. Cooper, A.L. Egg, W. Etty : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Foster and Son, at the Galery, 54, Pall Mall, on Thursday, the 15th of February, 1855 (after the sale of Mr. Birch's Pictures, at three o'clock in the afternoon)

Creator:: Foster and Son (London, England)
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 21-30 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

315. The history and description of St. George's Church at Doncaster : destroyed by fire February 28, 1853 / by John Edward Jackson ...

Creator:: Jackson, John Edward, 1805-1891
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: viii, 144, xci p., 15 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

316. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. After lithographs by Louis Haghe from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly.

Creator:: Roberts, David, 1796-1864
Date:: 1855-1856
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : color illustrations, 1 portrait, 3 maps (lithographs), plates ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

317. Alliance ribbon, produced to commemorate the Crimean War.

Creator:: Hart, James, active 1850s-1870s
Date:: circa 1855
Physical Description:: 1 ribbon : machine-woven silk ; 34.5 x 5.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

318. Fred. Adam Schwartz & Co. Solenhofen Bavaria : principal owners of the quarries of superior lithographic stones : Vulcan Wharf, 14, Earl Street, Blackfriars, London.

Creator:: Frederick Adam Schwartz & Co.
Date:: [approximately 1855?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card ; 8 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

319. Wheatsheaf.

Creator:: Dudson, James, 1812-1882
Date:: ca. 1860
Physical Description:: 1 jug : relief-molded white stoneware, glazed ; height 21 cm, width 13 cm (including handle), depth 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

320. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

Creator:: Sutcliffe, J. V. (John V.)
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

321. D'Albert's Album : 1855.

Creator:: Albert, Charles d', 1809-1886
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 117 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

322. A visit to the exhibition : in eight changeable pictures, showing its beautiful objects of art and how they were made.

Date:: [approximately 1855]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves : 8 color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

323. Christmas with the poets : a collection of songs, carols, and descriptive verses relating to the festival of Christmas : from the Anglo-Norman period to the present time / embellished with fifty-three tinted ilustrations by Birket Foster ; and with initial letters and other ornaments.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: x, [2], 202 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

324. A series of fourteen sketches made during the voyage up Wellington channel in search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H. and the missing crews of H.M. Discovery-ships Erebus and Terror : together with a short account of each drawing / by Commander Walter W. May, R.N., late Lieutenant of H. M. Discovery-ship Assistance (Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.)

Creator:: May, Walter W.
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 6, [1] p., [xiv] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

325. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland / illustrated by Robert William Billings, architect, 1845-52 ; in four volumes.

Creator:: Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

326. Neues Panorama des Rheins und seiner nächsten Umgebungen von Mainz bis Coeln : auf's Neue nach der Natur gezeichnet und mit den interessantesten architektonischen und geschichtlichen Denkmälern als Randbilder geziert = Nouveau panorama du Rhin et de ses environs depuis Mayence jusqu'a Cologne : nouvellement dessiné d'après nature et enrichi des esquisses des monuments, ruines et édifices les plus remarquables, situés sur les deux rives / Friedr. Wilh. Delkeskamp.

Creator:: Delkeskamp, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1794-1872
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 27 x 215 cm. folded in cover to 27 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

327. Voyage aux pays aurifères Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie, Russie par le capitaine A.C. de La Carrières. Illustré de 12 gravures à deux teintes et d'un très-grand nombre de vignettes sur bois. Par J.B. Arnout père.

Creator:: La Carrières, A. C. de
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 328 p. front., ill., 11 plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

328. Sporting adventures in the new world, or, Days and nights of moose-hunting in the pine forests of Acadia / by Lieut. Campbell Hardy, Royal Artillery ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Hardy, Campbell
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

329. The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain. By Anne Pratt ...

Creator:: Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 5 v. front. (v. 1) col. plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

330. Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art, from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize, of that distinguished collector, Ralph Bernal ... : also, of the beautiful decorative furniture and service plate : which ... will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at the mansion, No. 93, Eaton Square, commencing on Monday, March the 5th, 1855, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 357 pages, [33] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

331. Engelsmännens senaste upptäcktsresor till trakterna kring nordpolen, den Franklinska expeditionens hemlighetsfulla försvinnande, försöken till dess tillrättafinnande samt upptäcken af den nordvestliga genomfarten. Af Dr. Carl Brandes ... Öfversättning från tyskan med några tillägg.

Creator:: Brandes, Karl Heinrich
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 339, [2] p. front., fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

332. The campaign in the Crimea: an historical sketch, by George Brackenbury ... Illustrated by forty plates, from drawings taken on the spot by William Simpson.

Creator:: Brackenbury, George
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [iii]-viii, 112 p. 40 col. plates. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

333. The poetical works of Lord Byron.

Creator:: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Date:: 1855-1856
Physical Description:: 6 v. : port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

334. Souvenir of the North.

Date:: 1855?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([40] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 400 cm., folded to 14 x 10 cm., attached to boards 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

335. Assault of Sevastopol : two topographical & panoramic sketches, representing the advanced lines of attack, and the Russian defences, in front of Sevastopol : with a description and remarks / the sketches by Captain M.A. Biddulph.

Creator:: Biddulph, Michael Anthony Shrapnel
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

336. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake valley / illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts from sketches made by Frederick Piercy ; including views of Nauvoo and the ruins of the temple, with a historical account of the city ; views of Carthage jail ; and portraits and memoirs of Joseph and Hyrum Smith ; their mother, Lucy Smith ; Joseph and David Smith, sons of the prophet Joseph ; president Brigham Young ; Heber C. Kimball ; Willard Richards ; Jedidiah M. Grant ; John Taylor ; the late chief patriarch, Father John Smith ; and the present chief patriarch, John Smith, son of Hyrum ; together with a geographical and historical description of Utah, and a map of the overland routes to that territory from the Missouri River ; also an authentic history of the Latter-Day Saints' emigration from Europe from the commencement up to the close of 1855, with statistics ; edited by James Linforth.

Creator:: Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, 1830-1891
Date:: MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:: viii, 120 pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

337. Embossed picture cards.

Creator:: Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: 16 cards : color illustrations ; each 10 x 7 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

338. The story of the campaign of Sebastopol / written in the camp by Lieut. Col. E. Bruce Hamley ; with illustrations drawn in camp by the author.

Creator:: Hamley, Edward Bruce, Sir, 1824-1893
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xv, 339 p. : ill., fold. map. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

339. Norge fremstillet i Tegninger med oplysende text.

Creator:: Tønsberg, Chr. (Christian), 1813-1897
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 72 unnumbered pages plates (some color) 26 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

340. Studio portrait of a woman.

Date:: Great Britain,
Physical Description:: 1 photograph : ambrotype, in leather case ; visible image approximately 7.2 x 5.8 cm (sixth plate format), in case 9.5 x 8.3 x 0.8 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

341. The task, a poem by William Cowper. Illustrated by Birket Foster.

Creator:: Cowper, William, 1731-1800
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 263 p. ill. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

342. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Bede, Cuthbert, 1827-1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [9], 14-83, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

343. Visitors' souvenir of the sea side.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

344. Flowers from many lands : a Christian companion for hours of recreation.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: iv, 251 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

345. Lights along the line : a geographical and topographical description of the salubrious city of Southport, its literature and its art : with geological, historical, and metaphorical pencillings by the way / by Yrneh Koorbezarg.

Creator:: Koorbezarg, Yrneh
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [7]-60, [4] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

346. Hints on bivouac & camp life : issued by the authority of His Excellency Major General Sir Gaspard Le Marchant, for the guidance of young officers in the Halifax garrison while under canvas for the summer months at the north west arm, Point Pleasant / by Captain Wilford Brett, 76th Regt., aide-de camp.

Creator:: Brett, Wilford, 1824-1901
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: [6], 101, [1] p., [29] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

347. Catlin's North American Indian portfolio : hunting scenes and amusements of the Rocky Mountains and prairies of America / from drawings and notes of the author made during eight years' travel amongst forty-eight of the wildest and most remote tribes of savages in North America.

Creator:: Catlin, George, 1796-1872
Date:: [not before 1855]
Physical Description:: 12 pages, [25] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 60 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

348. John Samuel Enys album of cartes de visite.

Creator:: Enys, John Samuel, 1796-1872
Date:: circa 1860-1885?
Physical Description:: 1 album (58 cartes de visite) : albumen prints ; 16 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

349. The Dead Sea, a new route to India : with other fragments and gleanings in the east / by Captain William Allen.

Creator:: Allen, William, 1793-1864
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

350. Blackwood's comic Zadkiel : an almanac at once prophetical and profitable, logical and astrological, quizzical and physical, ombrological and symbolical, astronomically comical and comically astronomical, for the year 1855 : a work devoted to all the "ologies" except tautology, and containing full prophecies upon everything which nobody wishes to know : and truthfully foretelling every future event, from the winner of the Derby to the next revolution in the wheel of time / edited by Hain Friswell, author of "The shadow of St. Paul's," "Twelve insides," "Houses with the fronts off," "The Russian empire," etc. etc. ; and illustrated by William McConnell.

Date:: MDCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:: [10], [v]-viii, [9]-96 p., [7] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

351. New palace (Westminster) : return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 10 May 1855, for, "Copies of so much of the plans of the architect of the new palace at Westminster as will show the manner in which he purposes to extend the buildings from the clock tower westwards, along Bridge-Street and around New Palace Yard, together with a statement of the purposes for which such buildings are proposed, and a report thereon from the Board of Works.".

Date:: 21 June 1855
Physical Description:: 7, [3] p., 5, [1] folding leaves of plates : ill, plans. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

352. The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico : its middle state in the Cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis ... / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Creator:: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 178 p., 28 [i.e. 30] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

353. Mosaic amusement.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 50 tiles : wood, black & yellow ; in wooden box 14 x 14 x 2 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

354. México y sus alrededores : colección de monumentos, trajes y paisajes dibujados al natural y litografiados / por los artistas mexicanos C. Castro, J. Campillo, L. Auda y G. Rodríquez, bajo la dirección de Decaen ... .

Date:: 1855-56
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., [3]-32 p. : 30 pl. (part col.) ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

355. Reliquiæ antiquæ eboracenses, or, Remains of antiquity, relating to the county of York : illustrated by plates and woodcuts / by William Bowman ... ; assisted by several local antiquaries.

Creator:: Bowman, William
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [6], 96 p., 15 leaves of plates (somee folded) : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

356. Buckinghamshire : places of the meeting of foxhounds / by J. & C. Walker.

Date:: [between 1855 and 1873]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 39 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

357. Royal Marionette Theatre : Lowther Arcade, West Strand : this elegant theatre is open every evening at eight o'clock, and on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday at three, with a grand moving diorama by some of the first artists, strikingly illustrating the principal events of the Russian War : comprising 30 brilliant pictures, to which is added, a great pictorial map of the seat of war : a descriptive lecture will be given with each representation, by W. Knight, Esq., (lecturer at the Turkish Museum), accompanied with military vocal & instrumental music.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

358. Colbran's new guide for Tunbridge Wells, being a full and accurate description of the Wells and its neighbourhood within a circuit of nearly twenty miles, and notices of the London and Dover railway; illustrated with plates, wood engravings, etc. of most of the principal places.

Creator:: Phippen, James
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., [v]-x, 353, [1], 4, 28 p. front., ill., plates (part fold.) fold. map. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

359. A practical treatise on mine engineering. By G.C. Greenwell ...

Creator:: Greenwell, George Clementson, 1821-1900
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 204 p. double col. front., illus., 61 col. plates (part double, incl. maps, plans, diagrs.) 31 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

360. The seat of war in the East by William Simpson ...

Creator:: Brackenbury, George
Date:: 1855-1856
Physical Description:: 2 v. 81 col. plates. 57 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

361. The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the ... : a poem.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742-1823
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

362. The last of the Arctic voyages : being a narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54 / With notes on the natural history, by Sir John Richardson, Professor Owen, Thomas Bell, J.W. Salter and Lovell Reeve.

Creator:: Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799-1877
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

363. Catalogue of a portio of the collection of pictures, of the late most Noble the Duke of Argyll, removed from upper Brook Street : comprising The Virgin and Sleeping Infant ... example of Guido : ... work of Sir Joshua Reynolds : Blaise ... by Sir Edwin Landseer : landscape by Sir Augustus Callcott : several ... historical and noble portraits : drawings in water-colours- including an early work of Turner, R.A. : and some modern engravings : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, March 17, 1855, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie & Manson
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

364. [Vues d'Angleterre]

Creator:: Graf, C
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

365. Ornamental coloured designs, for the use of students, house decorators, and others ...

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 10 pts. col. plates (1 double) 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

366. Selections from the works of the late Sylvester Genin, esq., in poetry, prose, and historical design. With a biograpical sketch.

Creator:: Genin, Sylvester, 1822-1850
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 252 p. front. (port.) 15 plates (incl. ports.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

367. The world's metropolis, or Mighty London, Illustrated by a series of views beautifully engraved on steel. Of its palaces, public buildings, monuments & streets, from original drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd, Esqr. To which is added a comprehensive history from the earliest period to the present day.

Date:: 1855]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 236, [4] p. front. (port.) plates (part col., part double) port. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

368. Six views in Kent, coloured.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 11 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

369. An account of the history and manufacture of ancient and modern terra cotta : and of its use in architecture as a durable and elegant material for decoration / by J.M. Blashfield ...

Creator:: Blashfield, John Marriott
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 32 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

370. [Plan of a camp at Sevastopol, and plate of Purley font.

Date:: ca. 1855]
Physical Description:: 2 plates. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

371. Scutari and its hospitals / by the Hon. and Rev. Sydney Godolphin Osborne.

Creator:: Osborne, Sidney Godolphin, Lord, 1808-1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: vii, 54 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

372. Assignatio dotis Elizabethæ Comitissæ de Ferrers anno 29 H. VI.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 7 p. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

373. Illustrated military hand-book : giving a familiar description of a fortress, the method of besieging it, and an explanation of all military terms.

Creator:: Old Soldier
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 25, [4] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

374. Aunt Jane's verses for children / by Jane Crewdson ; illustrated ; from the second London edition.

Creator:: Crewdson, T. D., Mrs., 1808-1863
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: 144 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

375. Transparency painting on linen : for decorative purposes, panoramic and dioramic effects, ornamental blinds : with instructions for the preparation of the linen, the combination and transfer of ornamental designs, combined surfaces, &c. / by W. Williams ; with illustrations by Charles Sibley ; engraved by Dalziel.

Creator:: Williams, W.
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: viii, [9]-52, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

376. Nests and eggs of familiar British birds : described and illustrated, with an account of the haunts and habits of the feathered architects : and their times and modes of building / by H.G. Adams ... ; with eight coloured plates of eggs, containing forty-eight different species.

Creator:: Adams, H. G. (Henry Gardiner), 1811 or 1812-1881
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: iv, 78, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

377. The Wabash, or, Adventures of an English gentleman's family in the interior of America / By J. Richard Beste, Esq. ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Beste, J. Richard (John Richard), 1806-1885
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

378. A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. By Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814-1892
Date:: 1854-55
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., plates, coats of arms. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

379. Taylor's illustrated guide to the banks of the Wye : including Chepstow, Piercefield, Wyndcliff, the magnificient ruins of Tintern Abbey, Monmouth, Ross, Raglan and Goodrich Castles and other parts of the old Welsh borders : with six tinted engravings and a local map.

Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: 80 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

380. Adams's illustrated guide to the English lakes / E.L. Blanchard.

Creator:: Blanchard, E. L. (Edward L.), 1820-1889
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: viii, 98 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

381. Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: viii, 386 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

382. Historical notices of the Society of Dilettanti. Printed for Private circulation only ...

Creator:: Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: iv, 128 p. front. (port.) 33 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

383. Life of William Etty, R. A., by Alexander Gilchrist.

Creator:: Gilchrist, Alexander, 1828-1861
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 v. front. (port.) 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

384. Reed's illustrated guide to Whitby, and visitor's hand-book of the town and neighbourhood : containing a history of the Abbey & town, and a full description of the rides and walks in the environs, with a map of the neighbourhood, etc. : an an Essay on sea-bathing / by John Dowson.

Creator:: Reed, Silvester
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 101 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

385. The Ruins of Reculver : from its earliest history to the present time : illustrated with ten engravings on wood and a copperplate of the ancient church of Reculver.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [24] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

386. A handbook for travellers in southern Italy : being a guide for the continental portion of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies : with a travelling map and plans.

Creator:: John Murray (Firm)
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: liii, 392, 34 p., [5] leaves of plates (3 fold.) : maps (1 fold.in pocket), plans ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

387. Guide to the castles and abbeys of the land of Scott.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 140 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

388. The New palace of Westminster.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 47 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., 1 plan ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

389. History of Kent / by Alfred John Dunkin of Dartford, Kent.

Creator:: Dunkin, Alfred John, 1812-1879
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

390. The archaeological mine: a collection of antiquarian nuggets, relating to the county of Kent : excavated from abandoned and new lodes : including the laws of Kent during the Saxon epoch, Kent notes and queries, reviews of publications relating to Kent, etc. / by Alfred John Dunkin. Vol. I.

Creator:: Dunkin, Alfred John, 1812-1879
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 146, 15 p., [25] leaves of plates (2 fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

391. The Columbia Lippincott gazetteer of the world. Edited by Leon E. Seltzer with the geographical research staff of Columbia University Press and with the cooperation of the American Geographical Society. With 1961 supplement.

Date:: [1962]
Physical Description:: x, 2148, 22 p. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

392. Life of William Etty, R.A. / by Alexander Gilchrist.

Creator:: Gilchrist, Alexander, 1828-1861
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

393. Analytical ethnology: the mixed tribes in Great Britain and Ireland examined, and the political, physical, and metaphysical blunderings on the Celt and Saxon exposed. By Richard Tuthill Massy.

Creator:: Massy, Richard Tuthill
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., iii-v, 245 p. front., plates. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

394. Curiosities of London: exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis; with nearly fifty years' personal relations. By John Timbs ...

Creator:: Timbs, John, 1801-1875
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: viii, 800 p. front. (port.) illus. 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

395. History and topography of the city of York; the Ainsty wapentake; and the East Riding of Yorkshire; embracing a general review of the early history of Great Britain, and a general history and description of the county of York. By J.J. Sheahan and T. Whellan ...

Creator:: Sheahan, James Joseph
Date:: 1855-56
Physical Description:: 2 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

396. Catalogue of pictures at Walton Hall, near Wakefield.

Creator:: Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [16] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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301. Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours : avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter / publiée par MM. Firmin Didot frères, sous la direction de M. le Dr Hoefer.

302. Hand-book of water-colours : a brief treatise on their qualities and effects when employed in painting : with some account of the general nature of colours / by W. Winsor and H.C. Newton ...

303. Cruchley's railway & telegraphic map of Somerset [cartographic material] : showing all the railways & names of stations, also the telegraph lines & stations ; improved from the Ordnance Surveys.

304. Tam O'Shanter / by Robert Burns.

305. Hand-book for young painters / by C.R. Leslie ... ; with illustrations.

307. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton, 1855-1875.

308. Art of landscape painting in water colours / by Thomas Rowbotham and Thomas L. Rowbotham.

309. Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin : with twenty illustrations by Percy Cruikshank.

310. The gathered lilies / the illuminations designed by Mrs. Howard Vyse and Miss Fanny Greville ; the original poem by F.H.

312. A month at Malvern under the water cure : with the sequel, etc., etc.. / by R.J. Lane ...

313. The philosophy of the beautiful / by John G. Macvicar ...

315. The history and description of St. George's Church at Doncaster : destroyed by fire February 28, 1853 / by John Edward Jackson ...

316. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. After lithographs by Louis Haghe from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly.

317. Alliance ribbon, produced to commemorate the Crimean War.

318. Fred. Adam Schwartz & Co. Solenhofen Bavaria : principal owners of the quarries of superior lithographic stones : Vulcan Wharf, 14, Earl Street, Blackfriars, London.

319. Wheatsheaf.

320. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

321. D'Albert's Album : 1855.

322. A visit to the exhibition : in eight changeable pictures, showing its beautiful objects of art and how they were made.

323. Christmas with the poets : a collection of songs, carols, and descriptive verses relating to the festival of Christmas : from the Anglo-Norman period to the present time / embellished with fifty-three tinted ilustrations by Birket Foster ; and with initial letters and other ornaments.

325. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland / illustrated by Robert William Billings, architect, 1845-52 ; in four volumes.

327. Voyage aux pays aurifères Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie, Russie par le capitaine A.C. de La Carrières. Illustré de 12 gravures à deux teintes et d'un très-grand nombre de vignettes sur bois. Par J.B. Arnout père.

328. Sporting adventures in the new world, or, Days and nights of moose-hunting in the pine forests of Acadia / by Lieut. Campbell Hardy, Royal Artillery ; in two volumes.

329. The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain. By Anne Pratt ...

332. The campaign in the Crimea: an historical sketch, by George Brackenbury ... Illustrated by forty plates, from drawings taken on the spot by William Simpson.

333. The poetical works of Lord Byron.

334. Souvenir of the North.

335. Assault of Sevastopol : two topographical & panoramic sketches, representing the advanced lines of attack, and the Russian defences, in front of Sevastopol : with a description and remarks / the sketches by Captain M.A. Biddulph.

337. Embossed picture cards.

338. The story of the campaign of Sebastopol / written in the camp by Lieut. Col. E. Bruce Hamley ; with illustrations drawn in camp by the author.

339. Norge fremstillet i Tegninger med oplysende text.

340. Studio portrait of a woman.

341. The task, a poem by William Cowper. Illustrated by Birket Foster.

342. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

343. Visitors' souvenir of the sea side.

344. Flowers from many lands : a Christian companion for hours of recreation.

345. Lights along the line : a geographical and topographical description of the salubrious city of Southport, its literature and its art : with geological, historical, and metaphorical pencillings by the way / by Yrneh Koorbezarg.

347. Catlin's North American Indian portfolio : hunting scenes and amusements of the Rocky Mountains and prairies of America / from drawings and notes of the author made during eight years' travel amongst forty-eight of the wildest and most remote tribes of savages in North America.

348. John Samuel Enys album of cartes de visite.

349. The Dead Sea, a new route to India : with other fragments and gleanings in the east / by Captain William Allen.

353. Mosaic amusement.

354. México y sus alrededores : colección de monumentos, trajes y paisajes dibujados al natural y litografiados / por los artistas mexicanos C. Castro, J. Campillo, L. Auda y G. Rodríquez, bajo la dirección de Decaen ... .

355. Reliquiæ antiquæ eboracenses, or, Remains of antiquity, relating to the county of York : illustrated by plates and woodcuts / by William Bowman ... ; assisted by several local antiquaries.

356. Buckinghamshire : places of the meeting of foxhounds / by J. & C. Walker.

358. Colbran's new guide for Tunbridge Wells, being a full and accurate description of the Wells and its neighbourhood within a circuit of nearly twenty miles, and notices of the London and Dover railway; illustrated with plates, wood engravings, etc. of most of the principal places.

359. A practical treatise on mine engineering. By G.C. Greenwell ...

360. The seat of war in the East by William Simpson ...

361. The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the ... : a poem.

364. [Vues d'Angleterre]

365. Ornamental coloured designs, for the use of students, house decorators, and others ...

366. Selections from the works of the late Sylvester Genin, esq., in poetry, prose, and historical design. With a biograpical sketch.

368. Six views in Kent, coloured.

369. An account of the history and manufacture of ancient and modern terra cotta : and of its use in architecture as a durable and elegant material for decoration / by J.M. Blashfield ...

370. [Plan of a camp at Sevastopol, and plate of Purley font.

371. Scutari and its hospitals / by the Hon. and Rev. Sydney Godolphin Osborne.

372. Assignatio dotis Elizabethæ Comitissæ de Ferrers anno 29 H. VI.

373. Illustrated military hand-book : giving a familiar description of a fortress, the method of besieging it, and an explanation of all military terms.

374. Aunt Jane's verses for children / by Jane Crewdson ; illustrated ; from the second London edition.

376. Nests and eggs of familiar British birds : described and illustrated, with an account of the haunts and habits of the feathered architects : and their times and modes of building / by H.G. Adams ... ; with eight coloured plates of eggs, containing forty-eight different species.

377. The Wabash, or, Adventures of an English gentleman's family in the interior of America / By J. Richard Beste, Esq. ; in two volumes.

378. A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. By Sir Bernard Burke.

379. Taylor's illustrated guide to the banks of the Wye : including Chepstow, Piercefield, Wyndcliff, the magnificient ruins of Tintern Abbey, Monmouth, Ross, Raglan and Goodrich Castles and other parts of the old Welsh borders : with six tinted engravings and a local map.

380. Adams's illustrated guide to the English lakes / E.L. Blanchard.

381. Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

382. Historical notices of the Society of Dilettanti. Printed for Private circulation only ...

383. Life of William Etty, R. A., by Alexander Gilchrist.

384. Reed's illustrated guide to Whitby, and visitor's hand-book of the town and neighbourhood : containing a history of the Abbey & town, and a full description of the rides and walks in the environs, with a map of the neighbourhood, etc. : an an Essay on sea-bathing / by John Dowson.

385. The Ruins of Reculver : from its earliest history to the present time : illustrated with ten engravings on wood and a copperplate of the ancient church of Reculver.

386. A handbook for travellers in southern Italy : being a guide for the continental portion of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies : with a travelling map and plans.

387. Guide to the castles and abbeys of the land of Scott.

388. The New palace of Westminster.

389. History of Kent / by Alfred John Dunkin of Dartford, Kent.

390. The archaeological mine: a collection of antiquarian nuggets, relating to the county of Kent : excavated from abandoned and new lodes : including the laws of Kent during the Saxon epoch, Kent notes and queries, reviews of publications relating to Kent, etc. / by Alfred John Dunkin. Vol. I.

391. The Columbia Lippincott gazetteer of the world. Edited by Leon E. Seltzer with the geographical research staff of Columbia University Press and with the cooperation of the American Geographical Society. With 1961 supplement.

392. Life of William Etty, R.A. / by Alexander Gilchrist.