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401. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

Date:: [1791-1792]
Physical Description:: XII parts ([48] p., [37] leaves of plates ) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

402. Explication des cent estampes qui representent differentes nations du Levant : avec de nouvelles estampes de ceremonies turques qui ont aussi leurs explications.

Date:: MDCCXV [1715]
Physical Description:: [6], 26 pages, [1], 100 [i.e. 101], [4] leaves of plates (6 folded) : illustrations, portraits, music ; 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

403. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

404. Views of the several parts of the palace, or castle of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, basins, groves, parterras, and other the most beautifull parts of the gardens : wherein are represented whatever are remarkable, as, statues, groups of figures, water-falls, &c. : drawn on the spot, by order, and with ye approbation of the French king : engraved in the year 1725.

Date:: [1725?]
Physical Description:: [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

405. Hibernia's free trade, or, A plan for the general improvement of Ireland : peculiarly adapted to a free trade : in three parts : Parts I. and II. On building in water, ... : Part III. On improving the commercial and landed interest of Ireland : ... illustrated with sixty-four copper plates / by George Semple.

Creator:: Semple, George, 1700?-1782?
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: x, 190 p., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

406. Poems written chiefly at the University of Cambridge : together with a Latin oration upon the history and genius of the Roman and canon laws, with a comparison of the laws of England, spoken in the chapel at Trinity-Hall, Cambridge, December 21, 1756 ...

Creator:: Marriott, James, Sir, 1730?-1803
Date:: 1760]
Physical Description:: 2 p.., viii, viii p., 1 leaf, 156 p. front., ill. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

407. Letters to a young nobleman ...

Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 230 p., 1 leaf. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

408. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

Creator:: Matthews, John, 1748–
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

409. Natura, philosophia, & ars in concordia. Or, Nature, philosophy, and art in friendship, an essay. In four parts. I. Demonstrating the necessity and practicability of building all manner of houses proof against fire and vermin ... II. An entire new plan of constructing chimnies ... III. Plain methods pointed out, by which smoky chimnies may be effectually cured. IV. Certain and easy directions to all mechanics in wood, how to finish household furniture, and the wainscotting of rooms, so as no vermin can exist therein ... By W. Cauty, cabinet-maker.

Creator:: Cauty, William, fl. 1757–1780
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xvi, 110 p., 1 leaf. fold. plate. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

410. A catalogue of a known capital collection of pictures, in which are the works of the following masters : Raphael, Titian, Guido, P. Veronese, An. Del Sarto, L. Jordano, C. Maratti, C. Dolci, Spagnoletto, Ciro Ferri, Battolomeo, Bourgognone, F. Mola, P. Panini, Marieski, Amiconi, Rubens, Van Dyke, Teniers, Bergham, Ruysdael : also of the capital antique and modern busts, figures, &c. the whole property of a nobleman brought from his seat in Oxfordshire : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Walsh, at his room, opposite Mr. Almack's, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May 12, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

Creator:: Walsh, Mr.
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

411. A catalogue of a most capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures, by the most esteemed Masters, in the highest state of preservation : also a valuable selection of capital high-finished drawings, remarkable fine prints, books of prints and bronzes : small but well-chosen library of books in elegant and uniform bindings : a number of fine casts in plaster from the rarest subjects of the antique : capital models, a great variety of drawing implements : mathematical and musical instruments : a quantity of choice music : also all the elegant household furniture : fine china : a fine-toned piano forte by Longman and Broderip : a modern chaise and harness : and a great variety of curious and valuable effects : the property of John Alexander Gress, Esq. deceased, eminently and most deservedly distinguished for his knowledge in the fine arts, at his late house, No. 24, on the west side of Tottenham Court Road, nearly opposite Tavistock Street, Bedford Square : which will be sold by auction (by order of the executor) by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Monday, April 7th, 1794, and five following days, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed Frida and Saturday preceding the sale.--catalogues may be had on the premises : at the Rainbow Coffee House : and in Pall Mall : also, at one o'clock, on the first day's sale, will be sold, the valuable lease of the premises--particulars may be had : N.B. the first and second days sale, will consist of prints, books of prints, &c. : third and fourth days, the drawings, drawing implements, models, &c. : fifth day, the capital collection of pictures, and library of books : sixth day, all the houshold furniture, china, musical instruments, &c.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

412. Afteekening van Solomons Eylande of Isles de Salomon, geleegen inde Zuid Zee, tussen 5 en 12 gr. Zuyder Brete.

Creator:: Keulen, Gerard van
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 map : manuscript, color ; 52 x 63 cm, on sheet 54 x 68 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

413. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

Creator:: Chiffinch, William, 1602?-1688
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: iv, 144, 51, [3] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

414. The exhibition, or a second anticipation : being remarks on the principal works to be exhibited next month, at the Royal Academy ; / By Roger Shanhagan, ...

Creator:: Shanhagan, Roger
Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: [2], 101 p., [2] p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

415. Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen halbinsel Californien : mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten / geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher land darinn diese letztere Jahr gelbt hat ...

Creator:: Baegert, Jacob, 1717–1772
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: [16], 358, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

416. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

Creator:: Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 64 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

417. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [2], 347-350 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

418. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera.

Creator:: Horace
Date:: MDCCXXXIII-MDCCXXXVII [1733-1737]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. (engraved), maps (engraved) ; 24 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

419. A new book of ornaments : very necessary for the instruction of those unacquainted with that useful part of drawing / by Copland & others.

Creator:: Copeland, Henry, approximately 1706–1753
Date:: [approximately 1752?]
Physical Description:: 6 leaves : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

420. Views taken on and near the river Rhine, at Aix La chapelle, and on the river Maese / engraved in aqua tinta by Rev. J. Gardnor and Richard Gardnor, jr.

Creator:: Gardnor, John, 1729–1808
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: 156 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

421. Voyage historique de l'Amerique Meridionale : fait par ordre du roi d'Espagne / par Don George Juan ... et par Don Antoine de Ulloa ... ouvrage orné des figures, plans et cartes necessaires ; et qui contient une histoire de Yncas du Perou, et les observations astronomiques & physiques, faites pour déterminer la figure & la grandeur de la terre.

Creator:: Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716–1795
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

422. A general system of horsemanship / William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle ; foreword by W.C. Steinkraus ; technical commentary by E. Schmit-Jensen.

Creator:: Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:: 1970
Physical Description:: [12], viii, [1], 12-142, [102] p. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

423. Sculptura; or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise, John Evelyn ...

Creator:: Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 3 p.l., [iii]-xxxvi, 140 p. front. (port.) 2 plates (1 fold.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

424. A new pocket companion for Oxford: or, Guide through the university. Containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges ... To which are added descriptions of the buildings, tapestry, paintings, sculpture, temples, gardens, &c. at Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham, and Stow ...

Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., 152 p. plates, fold. plan. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

425. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

426. An essay on design in gardening.

Creator:: Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

427. Letters from Italy in the years 1754 and 1755 / by the late Right Honorable John earl of Corke and Orrery ; published from the originals, with explanatory notes, by John Duncombe.

Creator:: Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707–1762
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: xlvi, 268 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

428. 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:: 1773
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

429. A survey of the cathedral church of Bangor, and the edifices belonging to it : containing an account of all the inscriptions on the monuments and gravestones ... : together with a large appendix of records, and other curious matter relating to Bangor Church and bishoprick ... : to which is also subjoined several supplementary additions and records to the like history of St. Asaph Cathedral ... / collected by Browne Willis ... ; illustrated with draughts of the iconography and upright of Bangor Cathedral, and view of Bodowen Chapel.

Creator:: Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:: 1721
Physical Description:: 372, [8] p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

430. Captain Cook's Voyages round the world : the first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 : the second in 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775 : the third and last in 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 : for making discoveries in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, by order of His present Majesty : containing a relation of all the interesting transactions which occurred in the course of the voyages : including Captain Furneaux's Journal of his proceedings during the separation of the ships : with a narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole, and an abridgement of Foster's introduction to his History of northern discoveries on the progress of navigation : to which is added, Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany-Bay, with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, &c. &c.

Creator:: Cook, James, 1728–1779
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

431. Letters concerning taste ...

Creator:: Cooper, John Gilbert, 1723–1769
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 7 p.., 143 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

432. The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity in Winton. / By Samuel Gale, ...

Creator:: Gale, Samuel, 1682–1754
Date:: MDCCXV [1715]
Physical Description:: 35, [4], 25-143, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill.; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

433. The new Bath guide; or, Useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this ancient city. : Giving an account of the first discovery of its medicinal waters by King Bladud; nature and efficacy of the warm baths and sudatories, with the rules and prices of bathing and pumping ...

Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 78, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates (some folding), 1 p. of plates : ill., ports, plan ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

434. B. Seeley, bookseller and stationer in Buckingham : sells Bibles and common prayer books in all sizes and in all kinds of binding, modern books in divinity, history, travels, poetry, &c. ...

Date:: [17--]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

435. Ambulator, or, A pocket companion in a tour round London : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty : including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and bibliographical observations : to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described.

Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [4], 312 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

436. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

437. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 31 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

438. A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof : their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [10], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

439. Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

440. The English baronetage : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... to which are added, an account of such Nova-Scotia baronets as are of English families, now resident in England : and a list of such persons names who were deemed fit and qualifiwed at the restoration, to be made Knights of the Royal Oak ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 5 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

441. Cynegetica, or, Essays on sporting : consisting of observations on hare hunting : containing, an account of the hare hunting and coursing of the ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian : a philosophical enquiry into the nature and properties of the scent : remarks on the different kinds of hounds, with the manner of training them : directions for the choice of a hunter : the qualifications requisite for a huntsman : and other general rule to be observed in every contingency incident to the chase : together with an account of the vizier's manner of hunting in the Mogul empire by William Blane, Esq. : to which is added The chace, a poem by William Somervile, Esq.

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: [8], 292, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

442. The gentleman's complete jockey : with the perfect horseman and experienced farrier ... to which is added, The art of vermine-killing / by A.S. gent.

Date:: Printed in the year, 1782
Physical Description:: vi [i.e. iv], [5]-228 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

443. A natural and civil history of California : containing an accurate description of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours, lakes, rivers, and seas : its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fishery for pearls : the customs of the inhabitants, their religion, government and manner of living, before their conversion to the Christian religion by the missionary Jesuits : together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California and taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, and coast of the south sea : illustrated with copper plates, and an accurate map of the country and the adjacent seas / translated from the original Spanish of Miguel Venegas, a Mexican Jesuit, published at Madrid 1758.

Creator:: Venegas, Miguel, 1680–1764
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, map ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

444. Minutes of the proceedings at a court-martial assembled for the trial of the Honourable Admiral Augustus Keppel : on a charge exhibited against him by Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, as taken by George Jackson, Esq; Judge-Advocate of His Majesty's Fleet. Published by order of the Right Honourble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. : With an appendix containing all the letters and papers that have any relation to the trial.

Creator:: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725–1786
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: [4], 182 p. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

445. Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum, per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur.

Creator:: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
Date:: [approximately 1716?]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2] pages, 95, 132 leaves of plates) : 227 maps ; 54 x 68 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

446. A catalogue of a small collection, of principally the works of Morland : also a capital and beautiful landscape, cattle, and figures : A View in Suffolk, by that esteemed and revered artist, Gainsborough : together with a few pictures by Old Masters : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Wednesday, January the 30th, 1799, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Tuesday, and to the sale.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 5 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

447. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

Creator:: Hipwell, John
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

448. Remarks made in a tour from London to the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland in the summer of M.DCC.XCI. Originally published in the Whitehall Evening Post, and now reprinted with additions and corrections. To which is annexed, A sketch of the police, religion, arts, and agriculture of France, made in an excursion to Paris in M.DCC.LXXXV. By A. Walker, ...

Creator:: Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31–1821
Date:: M,DCC,XCII [1792]
Physical Description:: [6], 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

449. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 38 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

450. Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760 : with observations upon the state of the colonies / by the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester and Vicat of Greenwich.

Creator:: Burnaby, Andrew, 1732–1812
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: xix, [1], 209, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

451. Icones aliquot quas olim ex operibus Equitis Antonii van Dyck, et Josephi Nogari : delegit, delineavit atque in aere incisit : nunc vero collectas in unum in lucem editorus Reverendissimon Patri D. Camillo Tacchetti ... / Felix Polanzani, anoalensis humillime ...

Creator:: Polanzani, Francesco, 1700–ca. 1783
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: [21] leaves : all ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

452. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

453. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies / compiled from authentic memoirs, revised by gentlemen who have resided many years in the Spanish settlements ; and illustrated with thirty-two maps and plans, chiefly from original drawings taken from the Spaniards in the last war, and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

Creator:: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [4], xxiv, 106, [2] pages, 32 folded leaves of plates : maps, plans ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

454. The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : wherein their pedastals, columns, entablatures, imposts, and arches, are taken from the best examples of the ancients, and proportioned by equal parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy manner, than has been done in any language : for the instruction of apprentices and journeymen, masons and bricklayers ... : and others who desire a just knowledge of the fundamental rule of that noble art / B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: [2], 8 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

455. [Album of cut paper work].

Date:: [179-?]
Physical Description:: 1 volume (ca. 33 p.) ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

456. [All the bubbles]

Date:: [1720]
Physical Description:: 52 playing cards : illustrations ; each card 9.7 x 6.4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

457. The polite arts, or, A dissertation on poetry, painting, musick, architecture, and eloquence.

Date:: MDCCXLIX [1749]
Physical Description:: xii, 160 p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

458. A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the Mss. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added an account of the life and works of the latter ...

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 128, 14, 20 p., 4 leaves. ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

459. Les delices des chateaux royaux, or, A pocket companion to the royal palaces of Windsor, Kensington, Kew, and Hampton Court : containing an account of their buildings, gardens, paintings, monuments and curiosities : with the institution and ceremonies of the order of the Garter : also a concise description of the towns, villages, and villas within XIV miles of Windsor : to which are added short sketches of the lives of the most eminent painters ...

Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: [6], 90, [2], 44, [2], 26, 32 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

460. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

Creator:: Boyn, John
Date:: 1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:: 1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

461. Account book.

Creator:: Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Date:: 1784 January 1-December 31
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

462. [Landscape views].

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 6 prints : etching ; 17 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

463. Notebook of accounting exercises.

Creator:: Clément, R
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 1 v. (approximately 175 pages) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

464. A catalogue of a valuable collection of ancient and modern prints, beautiful high-finished drawings, coloured etchings, &c. elegantly framed and glazed : comprising a capital proof impression of the Descent from the Cross, after Rubens : high-finished drawings, by Clevely, Serres, and Atkins : two views of the source of the Rivers Arr and Rhone : fine impressions of the Death of Wolfe : Battles of the Boynes and La Hogue : the Resurrection, after Peters, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Monday, January the 19th, 1795, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

465. A catalogue of that superlatively capital assemblage of valuable pictures, formed from the sales of the several celebrated collections of M. de Calonne, Baron Nagel, and Sir Joshua Reynolds : with other capital pictures of the first class : forming together an assemblage, superior to any collection that has ever been offered to pubolic attention in this or any other country, comprising the inestimable works of the most-admired Masters :: which will be sold by private contract, at Mr. Bryan's gallery, in Savile Row, on Monday the 27th day of April, 1795, and following days.

Creator:: Bryan, Michael, 1757–1821
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 22, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

466. [Claude glass].

Date:: [ca. 1780?]
Physical Description:: 1 Claude glass : dark-tinted mirror, in a hinged paper-covered wooden case ; 15 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

467. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

Creator:: Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

468. [Receipt for drawing and engrossing lycence for Mr Skynnor and Lady].

Creator:: Martin, Phil., active 18th century
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 19 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

469. The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church : according to the use of the Church of England : together with the psalter and psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung and said in Church : pointed as they are to be sung and said in churches.

Creator:: Church of England. Book of common prayer. 1774
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: [428] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

470. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [12], 131 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : table ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

471. A catalogue of the curious museum of a Gentleman, deceased : consisting of a collection of cabinet pictures, drawings, fine prints, framed and glazed, bronzes, marbles, carvings in ivory, roman earthen ware, curious and valuable shells, minerals, fossils, and petrifactions, fine dresden, oriental, and old Chelsea ornamental procelane, some pieces of engraved crystal, a few volumes of very rare scarce books, two library book cases, a paair of elegnat inlaid commodes, curious old Japan cabinets, a capital piece of grotto work, and other valuable miscellaneous articles : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at this Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Wednesday, May 11th."

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [13]-[14], 15-19, [1] pages ; 22 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

472. Draft announcement on the employment of boys from the Blue Coat Hospital in Manchester : manuscript.

Creator:: Chetham's Hospital (Manchester, England)
Date:: 1797? December 4
Physical Description:: 1 item ; 25 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

473. Arts improvement: or, Choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, gardening, mechanicks, chimistry, painting, japaning, varnishing ... And in other arts and sciences profitable and pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several languages; manuscripts, experiments communicated by several ingenious gentlemen, and the author's own experience. By T.S.

Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1703
Physical Description:: 24 p.., 96, 8, 97-240 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

474. Tour of the Isle of Wight. The drawings taken and engraved by J. Hassell.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 2 v. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

475. Observations sur les arts, et sur quelques morceaux de peinture & de sculpture, exposés au Louvre en 1748 ...

Creator:: Saint Yves, fl. 1750
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 211, [1] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

476. 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 ...

Creator:: Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: 2 v. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

477. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

Creator:: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: 4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

478. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

Creator:: Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

479. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

Creator:: Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

480. The Seraglio & gardens of the Grand Seignior = Serrail & jardins du Grand Seigneur.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 31 x 26 cm., on sheet 36 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

481. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

Creator:: Lewis, John, 1675–1747
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: viii, 204, [4], 112, 105-124 pages, [1], XXV leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans, genealogical tables ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

482. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

483. Magna Carta Regis Johannis.

Date:: [1790?]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

484. 119 etchings after original designs of Raffaelle ...

Creator:: Canale, Giuseppe, 1725–1802
Date:: 1775
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

485. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer : either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country. Engraved on thirty plates. To which is added, an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building; tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences / by the late Mr. J. Wood, of Bath, Architect.

Creator:: Wood, John, -1782
Date:: MDCCXCII (1792)
Physical Description:: [2], 38 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

486. [Views in the West Indies].

Creator:: Forrest, Charles, Lieut
Date:: 1783-1785]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

487. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-46 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

488. The shepherd's week. In six pastorals. by Mr. J. Gay ...

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: 9 p.., [3]-60, [4] p. incl. front., plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

489. Essays moral and literary. By Vicesimus Knox... In three volumes...

Creator:: Knox, Vicesimus, 1752–1821
Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:: 3 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

490. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: [2] pages ; 21cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

491. [Four sporting prints].

Date:: [between 1754 and 1764]
Physical Description:: 4 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

492. Summary and free reflections, in which the great outline only, and principal features, of several interesting subjects, are impartially traced, and candidly examined.

Creator:: Jennings, Henry Constantine, 1731–1819
Date:: 1798 [i.e., 1800]
Physical Description:: [428] p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

493. Poems on various occasions: consisting of original pieces and translations by Samuel Bentley ...

Creator:: Bentley, Samuel, 1722–1803
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 2 p.., xxiv, 205 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

494. A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens near Pekin: In a letter from F. Attiret, a French missionary, now employ'd by that emperor to paint the apartments in those gardens, to his friend at Paris. Translated from the French, by Sir Harry Beaumont.

Creator:: Attiret, Jean Denis, 1702–1768
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: vi, 50 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

495. Eboracum : or, The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its origin to this time : together with an account of the Ainsty, or, county of the same, and a description and history of the cathedral church, from its first foundation to the present year ...

Creator:: Drake, Francis, 1696–1771
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 2 v., 17 leaves of plates (some folded) ill., plan; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

496. Disquisitions on several subjects.

Creator:: Jenyns, Soame, 1704–1787
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:: iv, 182 p. : 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

497. Book of aquatint landscapes / drawn and engraved by S. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Samuel, 1756–1815
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

498. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

499. Plans, sections, and elevations of Chiswick House and the Assembly Rooms, York.

Creator:: Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694–1753
Date:: [approximately 1735?]
Physical Description:: 11 prints in 1 volume ; sheets 50 x 70 cm, in volume 50 x 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

500. [Views of English cathedrals and churches]

Creator:: Buckler, John, 1770–1851
Date:: [1798-1814]
Physical Description:: 66 prints and 1 drawing in 1 portfolio : etching, aquatint, and watercolor ; sheets 56 x 73 cm or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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401. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

402. Explication des cent estampes qui representent differentes nations du Levant : avec de nouvelles estampes de ceremonies turques qui ont aussi leurs explications.

406. Poems written chiefly at the University of Cambridge : together with a Latin oration upon the history and genius of the Roman and canon laws, with a comparison of the laws of England, spoken in the chapel at Trinity-Hall, Cambridge, December 21, 1756 ...

407. Letters to a young nobleman ...

412. Afteekening van Solomons Eylande of Isles de Salomon, geleegen inde Zuid Zee, tussen 5 en 12 gr. Zuyder Brete.

413. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

414. The exhibition, or a second anticipation : being remarks on the principal works to be exhibited next month, at the Royal Academy ; / By Roger Shanhagan, ...

415. Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen halbinsel Californien : mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten / geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher land darinn diese letztere Jahr gelbt hat ...

416. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

417. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

418. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera.

419. A new book of ornaments : very necessary for the instruction of those unacquainted with that useful part of drawing / by Copland & others.

420. Views taken on and near the river Rhine, at Aix La chapelle, and on the river Maese / engraved in aqua tinta by Rev. J. Gardnor and Richard Gardnor, jr.

422. A general system of horsemanship / William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle ; foreword by W.C. Steinkraus ; technical commentary by E. Schmit-Jensen.

426. An essay on design in gardening.

427. Letters from Italy in the years 1754 and 1755 / by the late Right Honorable John earl of Corke and Orrery ; published from the originals, with explanatory notes, by John Duncombe.

428. 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 ...

431. Letters concerning taste ...

432. The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity in Winton. / By Samuel Gale, ...

434. B. Seeley, bookseller and stationer in Buckingham : sells Bibles and common prayer books in all sizes and in all kinds of binding, modern books in divinity, history, travels, poetry, &c. ...

436. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

437. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

442. The gentleman's complete jockey : with the perfect horseman and experienced farrier ... to which is added, The art of vermine-killing / by A.S. gent.

445. Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum, per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur.

447. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

449. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

450. Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760 : with observations upon the state of the colonies / by the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester and Vicat of Greenwich.

451. Icones aliquot quas olim ex operibus Equitis Antonii van Dyck, et Josephi Nogari : delegit, delineavit atque in aere incisit : nunc vero collectas in unum in lucem editorus Reverendissimon Patri D. Camillo Tacchetti ... / Felix Polanzani, anoalensis humillime ...

452. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

455. [Album of cut paper work].

456. [All the bubbles]

457. The polite arts, or, A dissertation on poetry, painting, musick, architecture, and eloquence.

458. A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the Mss. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added an account of the life and works of the latter ...

460. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

461. Account book.

462. [Landscape views].

463. Notebook of accounting exercises.

466. [Claude glass].

467. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

468. [Receipt for drawing and engrossing lycence for Mr Skynnor and Lady].

470. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

472. Draft announcement on the employment of boys from the Blue Coat Hospital in Manchester : manuscript.

474. Tour of the Isle of Wight. The drawings taken and engraved by J. Hassell.

475. Observations sur les arts, et sur quelques morceaux de peinture & de sculpture, exposés au Louvre en 1748 ...

476. 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 ...

477. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

478. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

479. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

480. The Seraglio & gardens of the Grand Seignior = Serrail & jardins du Grand Seigneur.

481. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

482. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

483. Magna Carta Regis Johannis.

484. 119 etchings after original designs of Raffaelle ...

486. [Views in the West Indies].

487. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

488. The shepherd's week. In six pastorals. by Mr. J. Gay ...

489. Essays moral and literary. By Vicesimus Knox... In three volumes...

490. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

491. [Four sporting prints].

492. Summary and free reflections, in which the great outline only, and principal features, of several interesting subjects, are impartially traced, and candidly examined.

493. Poems on various occasions: consisting of original pieces and translations by Samuel Bentley ...

494. A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens near Pekin: In a letter from F. Attiret, a French missionary, now employ'd by that emperor to paint the apartments in those gardens, to his friend at Paris. Translated from the French, by Sir Harry Beaumont.

495. Eboracum : or, The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its origin to this time : together with an account of the Ainsty, or, county of the same, and a description and history of the cathedral church, from its first foundation to the present year ...

496. Disquisitions on several subjects.

497. Book of aquatint landscapes / drawn and engraved by S. Alken.

498. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

499. Plans, sections, and elevations of Chiswick House and the Assembly Rooms, York.

500. [Views of English cathedrals and churches]