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401. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

Date:: 1766-1769
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

402. A biographical dictionary : containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time, and a short list of their most esteemed works : with the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained : to which is prefixed, an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood : with several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: 1785-1786
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

403. The copper plate magazine, or, Monthly treasure for the admirers of the imitative arts.

Date:: 1774-1778
Physical Description:: [258] p., [126] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

404. The importance of the British plantations in America to this kingdom : with the state of their trade, and methods for improving it; as also a description of the several colonies there.

Creator:: Hall, Fayrer
Date:: MDCCXXXI [1731]
Physical Description:: [6], 114 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

405. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missis[s]ippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ... : with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missis[s]ippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ... / By James Adair.

Creator:: Adair, James, ca. 1709–1783
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 6 p. l., 464 p. front. (fold map) 28 x 22cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

406. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

407. General view of the agriculture in Berkshire, with observations on the means of its improvement. By William Pearce. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.

Creator:: Pearce, William
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 74 p. 3 plates 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

408. The history and antiquities of the ancient town of Leicester: attempted by John Throsby ...

Creator:: Throsby, John, 1740–1803
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 423, [1] p. front., 1 ill., 50 plates (partly col.) incl. port., plans, facsim. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

409. Voyage pittoresque de Paris, : ou Indication de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette ville, en peinture, sculpture & architecture: / Par M. D. ***.

Creator:: Dézallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Nicolas, -1794
Date:: M.DCC.LXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:: [2], xii, [2], 492, [4] p., VIII leaves of plates (some folding) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

410. An historical account of the ancient town of Lowestoft, in the county of Suffolk. To which is added some cursory remarks on the adjoining parishes, and a general account of the island of Lothingland. / By Edmund Gillingwater.

Creator:: Gillingwater, Edmund, 1735 or 6–1813
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 485, [7] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

411. Twelve prints of the most famous high bred running horses, by Shaw and others [graphic].

Date:: published 2d. Jany.,1773
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

412. Moral and literary dissertations, on the following subjects: 1. On truth and faithfulnss. 2. On habit and association. 3. On inconsistency of expectation in literary pursuits. 4. On a taste for the general beauties of nature. 5. On a taste for the fine arts. 6. On the alliance of natural history, and philosophy, with poetry. To which are added a tribute to the memory of Charles de Polier ... and an appendix. By Thomas Percival ...

Creator:: Percival, Thomas, 1740–1804
Date:: 1784
Physical Description:: 15, [5], 3-332, [8] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

413. Gustavus Vasa, the deliverer of his country : a tragedy / written by Henry Brooke, Esq. ; as intended to have been performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.

Creator:: Brooke, Henry, 1703?-1783
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 72 p. : ill., port. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

414. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

Creator:: Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770
Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

415. Miscellanies, or, Essays literary, political, and moral / by the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: [1756?]
Physical Description:: iv, [3]-259, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

416. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

Creator:: Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [4], xii, 128, [16] p., III folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

417. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

418. The antiquities of St. Peter's, or, The abbey-church of Westminster : containing all the inscriptions, epitaphs, &c. upon the tombs and grave-stones : with the lives, marriages and issue of the most eminent personages therein reposited and their coats of arms truly emblazon'd : adorn'd with draughts of the tombs, curiously engraven ...

Creator:: Crull, Jodocus, -1713?
Date:: 1713
Physical Description:: [10], 351, [15] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

419. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

420. A tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark : in a series of letters / by Matthew Consett.

Creator:: Consett, Matthew
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [16], 157 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

421. The London directory, or, A new and improved plan of London, Westminster & Southwark : with the adjacent country, the new buildings, the new roads, and the late alterations by opening of new streets, & widening of others, &c.

Creator:: Robert Laurie and James Whittle
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 31 x 5l cm., folded to 14 x 11 cm., in case 14 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

422. A short history of Brighthelmston : with remarks on its air, and an analysis of its waters, particularly of an uncommon mineral one, long discovered, though but lately used ... / by Anthony Relhan ...

Creator:: Relhan, Anthony, 1715–1776
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: [4], 75 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

423. Dictionnaire d'architecture, civile, militaire et navale, antique, ancienne et moderne : et de tous les arts et métiers qui en dépendent : dont tous les termes sont exprimés, en françois, latin, italien, espagnol, anglois et allemand : enrichi de cent une planches de figures en taille-douce, pour en faciliter l'intelligence,. auquel on a joint une notice des architectes, ingénieurs, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, & autres artistes les plus célèbres, dont on rapporte les principaux ouvrages / par m. C.F. Roland le Virloys, ci devant Architecte du Roi de Prusse, & depuis de l"Impératrice-Reine ; trois volumes in-quarto.

Creator:: Roland le Virloys, C. F. (Charles François), 1716–1772
Date:: 1770-1771
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

424. Amusemens des bains de Bade en Suisse, de Schintznach et de Pfeffers : avec la description, & la comparaison de leurs eaux avec celles des bains de Schwalbach & autres de l'empire : le tout accompagné d'histoires & d'anecdotes curieuses.

Creator:: Merveilleux, David-François de, -1748
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: 290 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

425. Panoramic survey of the Steine.

Creator:: Lay, Eleor
Date:: 1788
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

426. Liber veritatis, or, A collection of prints, after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire / executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings ; to which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print, together with the names of those for whom, and the places for which, the original pictures were first painted (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures.

Creator:: Lorrain, Claude, 1600–1682
Date:: [1777]-1819
Physical Description:: 3 v. : chiefly ill., ports. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

427. Picturesque and architectural views for cottages, farm houses, and country villas / engraved and designed by Charles Middleton.

Creator:: Middleton, Charles, 1756–approximately 1818
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [2], 16 pages, XX, [1] leaves of plates (some double) : illustrations, plans ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

428. The English pilot : the fourth book, describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones : particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein : as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands : also, a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. : with many other things necessary to be known in navigation : the whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions / by the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.

Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (4, 3-66 pages, [43] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

429. Nautical remarks and observations on the coasts and harbours of Nova Scotia : surveyed pursuant to orders from the Right Honble. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the use of the Royal Navy of Great-Britain / by J.F.W. Des Barres.

Creator:: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729–1824
Date:: MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:: iv, 27, [1] pages : tables ; 23 x 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

430. Monastic remains and ancient castles in England and Wales / drawn on the spot by James Moore ... ; finished and etched by J. Schnebbelie ... ; aquatinted by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...

Creator:: Moore, James, 1762–1799
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 1 pt. ([6], 12 p., [6] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

431. Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple : Viscount and Baron Cobham : one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and knight of the most noble order of the garter : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building with perspective views of the same.

Creator:: Seeley, B. (Benton)
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: 44 pages, [20] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

432. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

Creator:: Sketchley, William
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 45, [28] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

433. An essay towards the history of Leverpool / drawn up from papers left by the late Mr. George Perry, and from other materials since collected, by William Enfield. With views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour, and a map of the environs.

Creator:: Enfield, William, 1741–1797
Date:: MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:: vi, [6], 116 p., [10] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

434. A general map of the middle British colonies in America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode-Island : of Aquanishuonigy the country of the confederate Indians comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio & Thuchsochruntie their deer hunting countries, Couchsachrage & Skaniadarade their beaver hunting countries, of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain : wherein is also shewn the antient & present seats of the Indian nations / carefully copied from the original published at Philadelphia, by Lewis Evans.

Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand colored ; 48 x 63 cm, on sheet 53 x 71 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

435. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

436. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. ...

Date:: Jany. 1, 1776, according to act of Parlt. (39 Strand)
Physical Description:: [240] prints : etchings ; 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

437. The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste, including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches ... and other ornaments : to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture, with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified : the whole comprehended in two hundred copper-plates, neatly engraved : calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life / by Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London.

Creator:: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [4], 20 pages, CC leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 48 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

438. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

Creator:: Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782
Date:: [between 1775 and 1780?]
Physical Description:: [2], 13, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

439. Heraldry in miniature; containing all the arms, crests, supporters, and mottos, of the peers, peeresses, and bishops, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the baronets of Great Britain; and the insignia of the different orders of knighthood in the three kingdoms: also an introduction to the science of heraldry, a dictionary of heraldic terms ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 36, [20] p. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

440. A new guide to the city of Edinburgh : containing a description of all the public buildings, and a concise history of the city, from the earliest periods to the present time : embellished with elegant engravings of the principal public buildings.

Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 118 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

441. Ædes Walpolianæ, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: xxxv, 143 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

442. Letters and memorials of state : in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, part of the reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's usurpation / written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, the famous Sir Philip Sydney, and his brother Sir Robert Sydney ..., Robert, the second earl of Leicester ..., Philip, lord viscount Lisle ... and of his brother, Colonel Algernon Sydney ... ; together with letters of the other ministers of state, with whom they held a correspondence ; the whole containing the antient state of Ireland, with characters and private memoirs ; also, the antient government of the principality of Wales, the wars between the Spaniards, and the States-General in the Netherlands, negotiations between the courts of England, France, &c., the intriegues of the several courts of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First ; with other remarkable transactions, both at home and abroad, during those times, not hitherto known, faithfully transcribed from the originals ; whereunto is added, genealogical and historical observations, also memoirs of the lives and actions of the Sydneys, and their noble ancestors, the Dudleys, Grey, Talbot,

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1746
Physical Description:: 2 v. : port. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

443. Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la conoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval. Avec figures en taille-douce / Par M. de la Gueriniere , ecuyer du Roy.

Creator:: La Guérinière, François Robichon de, 1688–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:: [10], 276, [8] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

444. An essay towards the history of Leverpool / drawn up from papers left by the late Mr. George Perry, and from other materials since collected, by William Enfield. With views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour, and a map of the environs.

Creator:: Enfield, William, 1741–1797
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: vi, [6], 116 [i.e. 120] p., [12] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

445. Baths of the Romans.

Creator:: Cameron, Charles, ca. 1743–1812
Date:: 1775
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

446. The carpenter's rule made easy, or, The art of measuring superficies and solids : also a second way, being the ground-work of measuring timber, stone, board, glass, etc. : with a table of accounts, much enlarged, performing multiplications / by John Darling ; and also a treatise of practical gauging by Heber Lands.

Creator:: Darling, John, 17th cent
Date:: 1727
Physical Description:: viii, 264, 112 p. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

447. Sketchbooks of tours in Italy / 1792, July 21-1793, April 12.

Creator:: Swinburne, Edward, 1765–1847
Date:: 1792, July 21-1793, April 12
Physical Description:: 5 volumes ; 20 x 13 cm, or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

448. A voyage towards the South pole, and round the world. Performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux's narrative of his proceedings in the Adventure during the separation of the ships ... Illustrated with maps and charts, and a variety of portraits ... and views ... drawn during the voyage by Mr. Hodges ...

Creator:: Cook, James, 1728–1779
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 2 v. plates (part fold.) ports. (incl. front.) maps (part fold.) charts (part fold.) fold. plans. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

449. A journal from London to Rome, by way of Paris, Lyons, Turin, Florence, &c. and from Rome back to London, by way of Loretto, Venice, (giving a particular account of the government of that republic),) Milan, Strasburg, &c. By D. Jeffereys, teacher of the modern languages.

Creator:: Jefferies, David
Date:: [1743?]
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 120 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

450. Manière de bien juger des ouvrages de peinture. Par feu M. l'Abbé Laugier, mise au jour, & augmentée de plusieurs notes intéressantes par M. ***.

Creator:: Laugier, Marc-Antoine, 1711–1769
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: xii, 274, [2] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

451. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts, collected by the late Mr. George Vertue / and now digested and published from his original mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1765-1771 [i.e. 1765-1780]
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ports. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

452. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

453. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, : interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. / By William Coxe ...

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:: 3 v., plates : ill., geneal. tables ; 22 cm. (8 vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

454. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books : of painting in three books and of statuary in one book : translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli : and now first into English, and divided into three volumes / by James Leoni, Venetian, architect ; to which are added several designs of his own, for buildings both public and private.

Creator:: Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404–1472
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

455. [Rural views].

Creator:: John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

456. A picturesque guide through Wales and the Marches : interspersed with the most interesting subjects of antiquity in the principality / by James Baker.

Creator:: Baker, James, topographer
Date:: 1794-1795
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

457. Ricerche sull'architettura Egiziana e su di o che i Greci par abbia nooresi da quella nazione : in risposta al quesito della R.Accademia d'iscrizione e belle lettere di Parigi proposto per l'anno MDCCLXXXV.

Creator:: Del Rosso, Giuseppe, 1760–1831
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: [3], vii, [1], 224 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

458. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [70] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

459. A collection of landskips, and figures, &c. : on twenty-nine copper-plates / designed, etched, and engraved by Paul Sandby, and M. Chatlain.

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:: January 12, 1773
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [29] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

460. School of arts : or, An introduction to useful knowledge : being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science ... / by John Imison.

Creator:: Imison, John, d. 1788
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: xv, 319, 176 p., [24] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

461. Comforts of Bath.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : aquatint ; 19 x 24 cm, mounted to leaves in an album 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

462. Original letters relating to the hospitals in the diocese of Exeter : communicated at the instance of Seth [Ward] Lord Bishop of that see. Anno MDCLXV.

Date:: 1728]
Physical Description:: [2], 7, [1] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

463. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

Creator:: Forbes, Miss
Date:: 1780-1781
Physical Description:: 1 v. (115 leaves, with blanks) ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

464. Moral philosophy, &c On the duties of the young, by Dr. Hugh Blair. On the duties of school-boys, from Rollin.

Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 27 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

465. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:: [12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

466. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

467. The American wanderer : through various parts of Europe, in a series of letters to a lady (interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes) / by a Virginian.

Creator:: Virginian
Date:: MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 288 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

468. Voyage pittoresque; ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

Creator:: Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:: 1781-86
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill., maps (some fold.) ; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

469. The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation : consisting of plans, elevations and sections in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste : calculated for the ornamenting of parks, forests, woods, gardens ... &c. : together with a full explanation, in letter press, to each design, and exact scales for measurement / by Thomas Collins Overton.

Creator:: Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 19, [1] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

470. Voyages en Guinée et dans les îles Caraïbes en Amérique / par Paul Erdman Isert ... tirés de sa correspondance avec ses amis ; traduits de l'allemand ...

Creator:: Isert, Paul Erdmann, 1756–1789
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: viii, 343, [1], 48 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

471. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

Creator:: Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: xii, 123 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

472. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

Date:: [ca. 1720?]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

473. [Illustrations to Tom Jones]

Creator:: Newton, Richard, 1777–1798
Date:: Jany. 1, 1799
Physical Description:: 20 prints in 1 volume : etching and aquatint ; platemarks 14 x 23 cm, in volume 16 x 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

474. Titiani Vecelii, Pauli Caliarii, Jacobi Robusti, et Jacobi de Ponte opera selectiora / a Joanne Baptista Jackson anglo ligno cœlata et coloribus adumbrata.

Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [24] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 61 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

475. An account of the campaign in the West Indies, in the year 1794 , under the command of... Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K. B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis ... with the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, Guadaloupe, Marigalante, Desiada, &c. and the events that followed those unparalleled successes and caused the loss of Guadaloupe. By the Rev. Cooper Willyams...

Creator:: Willyams, Cooper, 1762–1816
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 10 p. l., 149, [3] p., 1 l., 62 p. map, plan. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

476. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [1] p., [100], [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

477. Lettre sur la peinture, sculpture, et architecture à M. ***.

Creator:: Baillet de Saint Julien, Louis Guillaume, Baron, fl. 1748–1775
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 239 (i.e. 139), [6] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

478. Extrait de l'Essai sur la peinture, la sculpture et l'architecture de M. de *** [i.e. L.P. de Bachaumont]. Par Monsieur Fréron. Tiré du tome quatrième de ses Lettres sur quelques écrits de ce tems. lettre XV. page 332 & suiv.

Creator:: Fréron, Elie-Catherine, 1718–1776
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 21 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

479. Hudibras : in three parts / written in the time of the late wars ; corrected and amended, with additions, to which is added annotations, with an exact index to the whole ; adorn'd with a new set of cuts, design'd and engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth.

Creator:: Butler, Samuel, 1612–1680
Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: 424 (i.e. 420) p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

480. Catalogue d'une belle collection de tableaux originaux des bons maitres des trois écoles : figures, bustes de marbre & de bronze, d'ancienne porcelaine de la Chine & du Japon : lacques, pierres gravées & autres, médailles, estampes & objets curieux, qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Duc de S. Aignan : dont la vent se fera le lundi 17 juin 1776, en son Hôtel rue Saint Avoye : par J.B.P. Lebrun.

Creator:: Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre, 1748–1813
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 50 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

481. Polygraphice: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. In two volumes ...

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Date:: 1701
Physical Description:: 2 v. front. (port.) plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

482. The young colorist.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm. x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

483. Treatise on perspective.

Date:: circa 1770
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([15] leaves) : ill.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

484. A catalogue of the reserved part of the most magnificent and valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : this collection consists of the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Corregio, Caracci, Guercino, Caravaggio, Cl. Lorain, L. Da Vinci, Parmegiano, C. Maratti, Mola, Murillo, V. Castelli, Rembrandt, Titian, P. Veronese, Tintoret, S. Rosa, Rubens, Vandyke, Velasquez, Poussin, Borgognone, S. Bourdon, Polemburg, Bassan, Vanderwerf, Mieris, &c. : and will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms, late belonging to the Society of Arts &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand, on Friday, April 10, and the following day : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Wednesday and Thursday the 8th and 9th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock ; descriptive catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

Creator:: Mr. Langford and Son
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 23, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

485. J. & S. Kelly saddlery halfpenny token.

Creator:: J. & S. Kelly (London, England)
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 token : copper ; 27 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

486. A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick.

Creator:: Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: viii, 456 p. ill. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

487. An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind. By the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith ...

Creator:: Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750–1819
Date:: M,DCC,LXXXVIII
Physical Description:: viii, [9]-217 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

488. Dionysius Longinus On the sublime: translated from the Greek. With notes and observations, and an account of the life, writings, and character of the author.

Creator:: Longinus, 1st cent
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 4 p.., xxiv, 148 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

489. A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of Liverpool, comprising, a review of its government, police, antiquities, and modern improvements; the progressive increase of streets, squares, public buildings, and inhabitants, together with a circumstantial account of the true causes of its extensive African trade ...

Creator:: Wallace, James
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., [v]-vi, 301 p., 1 leaf. front. (fold. plan) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

490. A tour to the west of England, in 1788 / By the Rev. S. Shaw, ...

Creator:: Shaw, Stebbing, 1762–1802
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: viii, 602 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

491. The peerage of England : or, An historical and genealogical account of the present nobility : containing the descent, original creations, and most remarkable actions of them and their respective ancestors : also, the chief titles of honour, and preferment they now enjoy ... To which is prefix'd An introduction to the present royal family of Great Britain ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1710
Physical Description:: [10], 408, 158 p., [2] leaves of plates : portraits, coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

492. Imperfect hints towards a new edition of Shakespeare, written chiefly in the year 1782 ...

Creator:: Felton, Samuel
Date:: 1787-1788
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

493. Essay on the life and character of John lord Somers, baron of Evesham : also sketches of an essay on the life and character of Philip earl of Hardwicke. Proposed to be inserted in a compendious history of Worcestershire / by Richard Cooksey, Esq. of the Inner Temple.

Creator:: Cooksey, Richard
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: [8], 167 [i.e. 169], [3] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : genealogical table ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

494. Polymetis, or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists : being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another ... / by the Revd. Mr. Spence.

Creator:: Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: vi, 361, [1] p., : port., ill., XLI pl. (part fold.) ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

495. St. Paul's Ballistrading.

Date:: [s.d.]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

496. Delineatio montis a metropoli Jasso-Cassellana uni circiter milliari ...

Date:: 1706
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

497. An Act for making the Act of the fifth year of Her Majesties reign, for the better preservation of the game, perpetual, and for making the same more effectual.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: [1711]
Physical Description:: [2], 531-533, [1] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

498. A catalogue of a genuine and capital collection of Roman earthen ware in dishes, plates, ewers, &c. : painted by Raphael, Benvenuto Garofolo, Julio Romano, Vasari, Paci, Roso, Perino del Vaga, and others : also, a curious collection of miniatures by Isaac Oliver, Hillier, Hoskins, and others : and likewise several pictures by various Master's : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday and Friday, the 17th and 18th of this instant March 1757 : to be viewed on Tuesday the 15th and every day after till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock :

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1757]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

499. Twelve prints representing the most interesting, sentimental, and humorous scenes in Tristram Shandy [graphic] / by R. Dighton.

Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814
Date:: published as the Act directs 3 Jan. 1785
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

500. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [101] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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401. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

403. The copper plate magazine, or, Monthly treasure for the admirers of the imitative arts.

404. The importance of the British plantations in America to this kingdom : with the state of their trade, and methods for improving it; as also a description of the several colonies there.

407. General view of the agriculture in Berkshire, with observations on the means of its improvement. By William Pearce. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.

408. The history and antiquities of the ancient town of Leicester: attempted by John Throsby ...

409. Voyage pittoresque de Paris, : ou Indication de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette ville, en peinture, sculpture & architecture: / Par M. D. ***.

410. An historical account of the ancient town of Lowestoft, in the county of Suffolk. To which is added some cursory remarks on the adjoining parishes, and a general account of the island of Lothingland. / By Edmund Gillingwater.

411. Twelve prints of the most famous high bred running horses, by Shaw and others [graphic].

413. Gustavus Vasa, the deliverer of his country : a tragedy / written by Henry Brooke, Esq. ; as intended to have been performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.

414. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

415. Miscellanies, or, Essays literary, political, and moral / by the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift.

416. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

417. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

419. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

420. A tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark : in a series of letters / by Matthew Consett.

421. The London directory, or, A new and improved plan of London, Westminster & Southwark : with the adjacent country, the new buildings, the new roads, and the late alterations by opening of new streets, & widening of others, &c.

422. A short history of Brighthelmston : with remarks on its air, and an analysis of its waters, particularly of an uncommon mineral one, long discovered, though but lately used ... / by Anthony Relhan ...

424. Amusemens des bains de Bade en Suisse, de Schintznach et de Pfeffers : avec la description, & la comparaison de leurs eaux avec celles des bains de Schwalbach & autres de l'empire : le tout accompagné d'histoires & d'anecdotes curieuses.

425. Panoramic survey of the Steine.

427. Picturesque and architectural views for cottages, farm houses, and country villas / engraved and designed by Charles Middleton.

429. Nautical remarks and observations on the coasts and harbours of Nova Scotia : surveyed pursuant to orders from the Right Honble. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the use of the Royal Navy of Great-Britain / by J.F.W. Des Barres.

430. Monastic remains and ancient castles in England and Wales / drawn on the spot by James Moore ... ; finished and etched by J. Schnebbelie ... ; aquatinted by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...

432. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

433. An essay towards the history of Leverpool / drawn up from papers left by the late Mr. George Perry, and from other materials since collected, by William Enfield. With views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour, and a map of the environs.

435. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

436. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. ...

438. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

440. A new guide to the city of Edinburgh : containing a description of all the public buildings, and a concise history of the city, from the earliest periods to the present time : embellished with elegant engravings of the principal public buildings.

441. Ædes Walpolianæ, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.

443. Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la conoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval. Avec figures en taille-douce / Par M. de la Gueriniere , ecuyer du Roy.

444. An essay towards the history of Leverpool / drawn up from papers left by the late Mr. George Perry, and from other materials since collected, by William Enfield. With views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour, and a map of the environs.

445. Baths of the Romans.

447. Sketchbooks of tours in Italy / 1792, July 21-1793, April 12.

449. A journal from London to Rome, by way of Paris, Lyons, Turin, Florence, &c. and from Rome back to London, by way of Loretto, Venice, (giving a particular account of the government of that republic),) Milan, Strasburg, &c. By D. Jeffereys, teacher of the modern languages.

450. Manière de bien juger des ouvrages de peinture. Par feu M. l'Abbé Laugier, mise au jour, & augmentée de plusieurs notes intéressantes par M. ***.

451. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts, collected by the late Mr. George Vertue / and now digested and published from his original mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole.

452. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

453. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, : interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. / By William Coxe ...

455. [Rural views].

456. A picturesque guide through Wales and the Marches : interspersed with the most interesting subjects of antiquity in the principality / by James Baker.

457. Ricerche sull'architettura Egiziana e su di o che i Greci par abbia nooresi da quella nazione : in risposta al quesito della R.Accademia d'iscrizione e belle lettere di Parigi proposto per l'anno MDCCLXXXV.

458. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

459. A collection of landskips, and figures, &c. : on twenty-nine copper-plates / designed, etched, and engraved by Paul Sandby, and M. Chatlain.

460. School of arts : or, An introduction to useful knowledge : being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science ... / by John Imison.

461. Comforts of Bath.

462. Original letters relating to the hospitals in the diocese of Exeter : communicated at the instance of Seth [Ward] Lord Bishop of that see. Anno MDCLXV.

463. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

464. Moral philosophy, &c On the duties of the young, by Dr. Hugh Blair. On the duties of school-boys, from Rollin.

465. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

466. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

467. The American wanderer : through various parts of Europe, in a series of letters to a lady (interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes) / by a Virginian.

468. Voyage pittoresque; ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

470. Voyages en Guinée et dans les îles Caraïbes en Amérique / par Paul Erdman Isert ... tirés de sa correspondance avec ses amis ; traduits de l'allemand ...

471. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

472. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

473. [Illustrations to Tom Jones]

474. Titiani Vecelii, Pauli Caliarii, Jacobi Robusti, et Jacobi de Ponte opera selectiora / a Joanne Baptista Jackson anglo ligno cœlata et coloribus adumbrata.

476. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

477. Lettre sur la peinture, sculpture, et architecture à M. ***.

478. Extrait de l'Essai sur la peinture, la sculpture et l'architecture de M. de *** [i.e. L.P. de Bachaumont]. Par Monsieur Fréron. Tiré du tome quatrième de ses Lettres sur quelques écrits de ce tems. lettre XV. page 332 & suiv.

479. Hudibras : in three parts / written in the time of the late wars ; corrected and amended, with additions, to which is added annotations, with an exact index to the whole ; adorn'd with a new set of cuts, design'd and engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth.

481. Polygraphice: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. In two volumes ...

482. The young colorist.

483. Treatise on perspective.

485. J. & S. Kelly saddlery halfpenny token.

486. A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick.

487. An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind. By the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith ...

488. Dionysius Longinus On the sublime: translated from the Greek. With notes and observations, and an account of the life, writings, and character of the author.

490. A tour to the west of England, in 1788 / By the Rev. S. Shaw, ...

492. Imperfect hints towards a new edition of Shakespeare, written chiefly in the year 1782 ...

493. Essay on the life and character of John lord Somers, baron of Evesham : also sketches of an essay on the life and character of Philip earl of Hardwicke. Proposed to be inserted in a compendious history of Worcestershire / by Richard Cooksey, Esq. of the Inner Temple.

494. Polymetis, or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists : being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another ... / by the Revd. Mr. Spence.

495. St. Paul's Ballistrading.

496. Delineatio montis a metropoli Jasso-Cassellana uni circiter milliari ...