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The English connoisseur: containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. in the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country. With many additions not in the London edition, particularly the British Museum. In two volumes. ...
Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825.Date: 1767- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England: or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, ... in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper plate cuts, neatly engraved. Volume the first.
Date: 1776- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England: or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemens [sic] and gentlemens [sic] seats, and other curiosities, ... in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper plate cuts, neatly engraved. ...
Date: 1776-77- Pictures
Buen Retiro palace, Madrid. Coloured etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 3185510i- Pictures
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Handel festival in the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London: a large audience attending a concert. Wood engraving by J. Mahoney, 1865.
Date: 1865Reference: 33939i- Pictures
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Medical and surgical staff of St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, London. Autotype by Barraud & Jerrard, ca. 1880.
Date: [1880?]Reference: 569770i- Books
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The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years. With their several characters from the best historians, as Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c. and A Table shewing how the respective Sentences were Executed, and which of them were Mitigated, or Pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the state-tryals.
Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, Walls, Gates, Bridges, Monasteries, Priories, Sanctuaries, Nunneries, Religious Houses, Cathedrals, Churches, Chapels, Colleges, Inns of Court, Hospitals, Schools and other Magnificent Buildings; as Exchanges, Halls, Crosses, Markets, Goals; and all Publick Edifices; Also Rivers, Brooks, Bourns, Springs, &c. and many other curious Matters in Antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the Difference between the Ancient and Present State of these two Famous Cities. By N. B.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: 1722- Books
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The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious, or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, Walls, Gates, Bridges, Monasteries, Priories, Sanctuaries, Nunneries, Religious Houses, Cathedrals, Churches, Chapels, Colleges, Inns of Court, Hospitals, Schools, and other Magnificent Buildings, as Exchanges, Halls, Crosses, Markets, Gaols, and all Publick Edifices. Also Rivers, Brooks, Bourns, Springs, &c. And many other curious Matters in Antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the Difference between the Ancient and Present State of these two Famous Cities. By N. Bailey, Author of the Universal, Etymological, English Dictionary.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: [1734]- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England: or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper-plate cuts, neatly engraved. Volume the second.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A curious collection of prints by the best masters viz. prospects of cities, churches, palaces, triumphal arches, and Antiquities of Rome, and other Parts of Italy, as well as savoy piemont &c. The Effigies of Famous Persons; the Several sorts of Shipping, besides a Great number of other Extraordinary prints.
Mortier, David.Date: [1706?]- Books
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Modern science and modern thought / by S. Laing.
Laing, S. (Samuel), 1812-1897.Date: 1886- Books
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Geology and inhabitants of the ancient world / described by Richard Owen. ; the animals constructed by B.W. Hawkins.
Owen, Richard, Sir, 1804-1892.Date: 1862- Books
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Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia By R. Adam F.R.S F.S.A architect to the king and to the qveen
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792.Date: MDCCLXIIII [1764]- Books
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The beauties of England: or, a comprehensive view of the chief villages, market-towns, and cities; antiquities; remains of palaces; monasteries; camps; and castles; the two universities: London and Westminster. Divided into the respective counties: and intended as a travelling pocket companion: pointing out whatever is curious, both in art and nature.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: MDCCLXVII [1767]- Books
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A medical man's plea for a winter garden in the Crystal Palace.
Date: 1851- Books
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A New description of Spain. Containing an account of its kingdoms, Islands, cities, court, royal palaces of Aranjuez, and the Escurial, the nature of the country, products, customs, language, manners, habits, way of travelling, diet, and coins. As also their religion, Inquisition, ecclesiasticks, forts of devotion, councils, and administration of justice; their orders of the golden fleece, &c. With an account of their grandees, and nobility, of their indies, revenues and forces; their bull-fights and other divertisements. To which is added, a brief account of Portugal.
Date: 1701- Ephemera
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[Illustrated handbill advertising appearances by Madame Polonawsky, the Bearded Lady (Albert Palace, 15 February 1886)].
Date: 1886- Pictures
Cartoons for murals to be painted in the new Palace of Westminster, 1843. Lithographs, 1846.
Date: 1846Reference: 493422i- Books
A new description of Paris. Containing a particular account of all the churches, palaces, monasteries, colledges, hospitals, libraries, cabinets of rarities, academies of the virtuosi, paintings, medals, statues and other sculptures, monuments and publick inscriptions. With all other remarkable matters in that great and famous city / Translated out of French [by Thomas Wright] [Anon].
Brice, Germain, 1652-1727.Date: 1687- Books
A catalogue of manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, MSS. 1907-2340 / E.G.W. Bill.
Lambeth Palace Library.Date: 1976- Ephemera
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[Handbill advertising appearances by Madame Polonawsky, the Living Russian Bearded Lady (Albert Palace, 15 February 1886)].
Date: 1886- Books
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The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace, in the county of Surrey. Including biographical sketches / by Thomas Allen.
Allen, Thomas, 1803-1833.Date: 1826- Books
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A History of the whole realm of Scotland, civil, natural, and ecclesiastical: Comprehending an account of all its kings, and remarkable events, with a description of its situation, commodities, distances of towns, &c. Also, of cities, royal borroughs, abbeys, palaces, forts, castles, towns, roads, and rivers; together with a list of the shires, synods, presbyteries, parishes, &c. And likewise, a description of the orkneys, and the other isles, with the genealogy of the saxons, danes, and normans. With a variety of other curious and interesting particulars, proper to be known and perused by every scotsman.
Date: 1765- Books
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A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster, the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality. To which are added, Some proper cautions to the Merchants, Tradesmen, and Shop-Keepers; Journeymen, Apprentices, Porters, Errand Boys, Book-Keepers, and Inn-Keepers; also very necessary for every Person going to London either on Business or Pleasure. By Sir John Fielding, One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex, Essex, and Surry, and for the City and Liberty of Westminster.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]