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The aboriginal port folio; or, a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians. / J.O. Lewis and others. (1836)
Album of drawings of Sioux Indians. (1851-1863)
Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische. French = Ichtylogie, ou Histoire naturelle : generale et particuliere des poissons / par Marc Elieser Bloch. (1785-97)
American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and.... (1817-20)
[America] / by Theodor de Bry (1590)
An authentic narrative of the Seminole war; and of the miraculous escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and her four female children. Annexed is a minute detail of the horrid massacres of the Whites, by the In.... (1836)
Benjamin K. Miller collection of United States stamps (1845-1926)
Benjamin K. Miller collection of United States stamps
The birds of Great Britain. (1862-1873)
Bref om de Forenta Staterna, föfattade under en resa till Amerika ... en 1818, 1819, 1820, af friherre Axel Klinkowström. (1824)
The Buttolph collection of menus
Candide, ou, L'optimisme / traduit de l'allemand de Mr. le docteur Ralph. (1759)
Candide, ou, L'optimisme / traduit de l'allemand de Mr. le Docteur Ralph. (1759)
Candide, ou, L'optimisme / traduit de l'allemand de Mr. le docteur Ralph. (1759)
Catlin's North American Indian portfolio. Hunting scenes and amusements of the Rocky mountains and prairies of America. (1845)
Central park in 1862. [Collection of photographs in portfolio, without text] Published by special permission of the commission. (1862)
The Classic Grounds of American Authors: Irving (1864)
A collection of roses from nature. (1799)
Commentaire historique sur les oeuvres de l'auteur de la Henriade, &c : avec les pieces originales & les preuves. (1776)
Commentaire historique sur les oeuvres de l'auteur de la Henriade, &c. : avec les pièces originales & les preuves. (1776)
Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio, ære exarata / per Thomam Geminum (1545])
A description of the genus Pinus : illustrated with figures; directions relative to the cultivation, and remarks on the uses of the several species: also descriptions of many other trees of the family.... (1837)
A description of the province and city of New York; with plans of the city and several forts as they existed in the year 1695. By the Rev. John Miller. Now first printed from the original manuscript. .... (1843)
Der Deutsche Ptolemaeus. ([ca. 1493])
Eidodendron : views of the general character and appearance of trees foreign and indigenous connected with picturesque scenery. (1827)
Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton. (1738)
The ferns of Great Britain and Ireland / by Thomas Moore ; edited by John Lindley ; nature-printed by Henry Bradbury. (1857)
The fishes of New-York, described and arranged / by Samuel L. Mitchill. [Literary and Philosophical Society of New York. Transactions ; v. l, no. 5] (1815)
The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles ... to this present 1626. ... By Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes Governour in those countryes & admirall of New England. (1627)
Geology of New York.
Harbour of New Archangel in Sitca or Norfolk Sound. (1814)
La Henriade / de Mr. de Voltaire (1728)
The hierarchie of the blessed angells. Their names, orders and offices. The fall of Lucifer with his angells, by Thomas Heywood (1635)
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus, par Francois Levaillant.... (1806)
Hortus Romanus juxta systems Tournefortianum paulo. (1772-1793)
Illustrations of Indian zoology; chiefly ... from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke ... (1830-34)
Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and.... (1862 [c1855])
Incidents of travel in Yucatan. By John L. Stephens ... Illustrated by 120 engravings.... (1843)
Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson et des parties latérales de l'Amérique du Nord. ([1828-1829])
Jacobi, Nobilis Dani, Friderici II. Regis Legati, Hodoeporicon Rvthenicvm, In Quo De Moscovitarvm Regione, Moribvs, Religione, gubernatione, & Aulâ Imperatoriâ quo potuit compendio & eleganter exequit.... (1608)
Journal of a voyage to Brazil, and residence there (1824)
[Liber chronicarum] (1493)
Les liliacées / par P.J. Redouté. (1805-1816)
Martin J. Gross Collection of selected manuscripts of Voltaire 1727-1778. (1753234)
Men of mark. (1913)
The Mermaid "at home!" illustrated with elegant engravings, on copper-plate. (1809)
Microcosm of London. ([1808-11?])
Milton, a poem in 2 books. (1804 [i.e. 1808?])
A monograph of the Phasianidae, or, Family of the pheasants. [By D. J. Elliot] (1872)
Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland Ceylon ... Nevens een omstandige en grondigh doorzochte ontdekking en wederlegginge van de a.... (1672)
The natural history of British fishes : including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates. (1802-1808)
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands...2nd ed. (1754)
The new and heretofore unfigured species of birds of North America. (1869)
A new general collection of voyages and travels; consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language; comprehending everything remarkable in its kind, in Euro.... (1745-47)
North American herpetology; or, A description of the reptiles inhabiting the United States. (1842)
A north-west prospect of Nassau-Hall, with a front view of the presidents house, in New-Jersey. ([1764])
Odezhdy Russkago gosudarstva
Of the Russe Common Wealth (1591)
The Orchidaceæ of Mexico & Guatemala / by Jas Bateman, esqre. ([1837-43])
Oscar Lion Collection.
Le paradis perdu. Traduction de Chateaubriand. Precede de reflexions sur la vie et les ecrits de Milton par Lamartine. Et enrichi de vingt-cinq magnifiques estampes originales gravees au burin sur aci.... (1855)
[Photographs of Hopi, Zuni and Navaho Indians, and their communal life.] (1873?)
Les pigeons, par Madame Knip, nee Pauline de Courcelles paintre d'histoire naturelle ... Le texte par ... Themminck. (1811)
A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey. ([1731])
Pomona Britannica ; or, A collection of the most esteemed fruits...with the blossoms and leaves... (1812)
Pomona Italiana : Trattato degli alberi fruttiferi conteneate la Descrizione delle megliori varietáa dei Frutte coltivati in Italia, accompagnato da Figure disegnate, e colorite sul vero. (1817-39)
Prodromo, ouero, Saggio di alcune inuentioni nuoue premesso all'Arte maestra, opera che prepara il p. Francesco Lana Bresciano della Compagnia di Giesv. Per mostrare li piu reconditi principij della n.... (1670)
Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum continens mysterium cosmographicum, de admirabili proportione orbium coelestium, de que causis coelorum numeri, magnitudinis, motuumâque periodicorum genuinis.... (1596)
La Pucelle d'Orleans : poëme heroïcomique : manuscript, [175-?] / par Mr. de Voltaire. ([175-?])
Recueil de pièces pour servir à l'histoire de la révolte des princes, (1614)
Rhetorica / data a Carolo Poreo Societ. Jesu anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo quinto, 1715. (1715)
A selection of hexandrian plants, belonging to the natural orders Amaryllidae and Liliacæ, from drawings by Mrs. Edward Bury, Liverpool / engraved by R. Havell. (1831-1834)
Souvenir of the N. American Indians, as they were in the nineteenth century. ... / Geo. Catlin. (1850)
Specimen of Leavenworth's patent wood type, manufactured by J.M. Debow, Allentown, N.J. ([184-?])
Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre / par Duhamel. ([1801-1819])
Victoria Regia : or, Illustrations of the Royal water-lily, in a series of figures chiefly made from specimens flowering at Syon and at Kew by Walter Fitch; with descriptions by Sir W.J. Hooker. (1851)
Villas on the Hudson : a collection of photo-lithographs of thirty-one country residences. (1860)
The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. (1845-1848)
Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique du Nord, ... 1832, 1833 et 1834, par le prince Maximilien de Wied-Neuwied. / Charles Bodmer. (1840-1843)
Wolf Dieter Zander Collection
The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage...to the Pacific and Behring's Straits performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey by J. Richardson ... N. A. Vigors ....... (1839)
Zoology of New York; or, The New York fauna [Series: Natural history of New York] (1842-44)
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher ... during the years 1843-46. By John Edward Gray ... Sir John Richardson ... Arthur Adams ... Published u.... (1850)

Digital Gallery Collection Guides


Africana & Black History
After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture
Books by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900
Icons and Images of Cultures: Plate Books from the Russian Empire, Early Soviet Russia, and Eastern Europe, 1730-1935
Miss Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1851-1930
Nature Illustrated: Flowers, Plants, and Trees, 1550-1900
Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States
Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City, 1860-1942
The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
Walt Whitman Manuscripts
William Blake: Illustrated Books

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1c blue Franklin type III
Digital ID: 2005_6603_3_4_6

1c blue Franklin type III plate 4 single on cover

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1851-1856 [7].






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