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1. A catalogue of curious and true original pictures, by the best Italian and other masters : viz. Mich. Angelo, Lucas Jordans, Vanderdoes, Vanzon, Burguignon, Hondecoeter, Saftleven, Brower, Rubens, Polenbergh, Dobson, Wyck, Wenix, Baptist, Huisman, &c. : will be sold by auction at the Marlborough Coffee-House the corner of Great Marlborough-Street, on Thursday next, being the 7th of this instant February, 1712 : the sale to begin exactly at three a clock in the afternoon, and must be all sold off that day : the pictures may be seen on the Tuesday and Wednesday before, and catalogues had gratis, at the place of sale.

A catalogue of curious and true original pictures, by the best Italian and other masters : viz. Mich. Angelo, Lucas Jordans, Vanderdoes, Vanzon, Burguignon, Hondecoeter, Saftleven, Brower, Rubens, Polenbergh, Dobson, Wyck, Wenix, Baptist, Huisman, &c. : will be sold by auction at the Marlborough Coffee-House the corner of Great Marlborough-Street, on Thursday next, being the 7th of this instant February, 1712 : the sale to begin exactly at three a clock in the afternoon, and must be all sold off that day : the pictures may be seen on the Tuesday and Wednesday before, and catalogues had gratis, at the place of sale.
Creator:
Marlborough Coffee House (London, England)
Date:
[1712]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 36 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Account book.

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

3. The complete modern joiner, or, A collection of original designs in the present taste for chimney-pieces and door-cases : with their mouldings and enrichments at large, frizes, tablets, ornaments for pilasters, bases, sub-bases and cornices for rooms, &c. : with a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures to rooms of any size / by N. Wallis, Architect.

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Creator:
Wallis, N
Date:
[1772]
Physical Description:
[4] p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Gallery of poets, Pall-Mall and Fleet Street : April 2, 1790 : catalogue of the third exhibition of pictures / painted for Mr. Macklin by the artists of Britain ; illustrative of the British poets and the Bible ...

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Date:
1790
Physical Description:
vii, 42 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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.

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

6. A catalogue of more than five thousand copper plates : engraved by the most esteemed British artists, during the last and present century, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, English, and other schools ... : the copper plates of the whole of these great works, with their impressions ... will be sold without reserve by Robert H. Evans ... on Monday June 1, 1818, and the five following days ... : comprising the entire stock of Messrs. John and Josiah Boydell, deceased ...

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Creator:
Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
58 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

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Creator:
Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
[4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

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

9. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

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Creator:
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:
1843-1844
Physical Description:
4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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.

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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

11. Pope's own miscellany : being a reprint of Poems on several occasions, 1717, containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others / edited by Norman Ault.

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Date:
MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:
xcvii, [1], 165, [3] pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The complete works of Sir John Vanbrugh / the plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée : the letters edited by Geoffrey Webb.

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Creator:
Vanbrugh, John, 1664–1726
Date:
MCMXXVII-MCMXXVIII [1927-1928]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A catalogue of historical prints, various subjects, landscapes, sea pieces, views, &c. : after the most capital pictures in England / engraved by the most celebrated artists ; published by John and Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside.

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Creator:
Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:
1787-1794
Physical Description:
2 v. ([4], 88; viii, 23 p.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. An excursion to Cheltenham, Birmingham, & Oxford, &c. &c. &c. : August the 26th, 1782.

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Creator:
Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. De Londres et de ses environs.

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Creator:
Cambry, Jacques, 1749–1807
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
2 p.., v [i.e. iv], 147 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A copy of the last will and testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. : with an act (passed 11th George the First) for incorporating the executors of the said will.

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Creator:
Guy, Thomas, 1645?-1725
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
55, [1], 43, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Gray's Elegy written in a country church-yard / with a foreword by Christopher Sandford ; and eight engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

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Creator:
Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:
McMxlvi [1946]
Physical Description:
19, [3] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Life in eighteenth century England, by Robert J. Allen ...

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Creator:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Division of Museum Extension
Date:
[©1941]
Physical Description:
42 plates including portraits, plans 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Catalogue raisonné d'un recueil d'estampes : d'après les plus beaux tableaux qui soient en Angleterre / les planches sont dans la possession de Jean Boydell, et ont été gravées par lui & les meilleurs artistes de Londres.

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Creator:
Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:
1779-1783
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 (vi, 199 p.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A catalogue of prints : engraved from the finest paintings of the most eminent masters : in the collection of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Monsgr. le Duc D'Orleans, Monsgr. le Marquis D'Argenson, Monsr. le Comte de Vence, Monsr. le Chevalier de la Rocque ... : the whole collection are printed on grand eagle paper, to be had either in sheets or bound fit for gentlemen's libraries.

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Creator:
Major, Thomas, 1720–1799
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 38 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Candide, or, Optimism / François Marie Arouet de Voltaire ; translated from the French by Richard Aldington ; with an introduction by Paul Morand ; and twenty illustrations in colour by Sylvain Sauvage.

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Creator:
Voltaire, 1694–1778
Date:
1939
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 147 [1] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The prices of cabinet work, with tables and designs : illustrating the various articles of manufacture : revised and corrected by a committee of masters cabinet makers.

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Creator:
Committee of Masters Cabinet Makers (London, England)
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
xvi, 259 p., xvi leaves, 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The confessions of J.J. Rousseau : in an anonymous English version first published in two parts in 1783 & 1790 / now revised and completed by A.S.B. Glover ; with an introduction by Havelock Ellis ; ornamented with wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone.

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Creator:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712–1778
Date:
MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Specimens of rare and beautiful needlework / designed and executed by Mrs. Delany and her friend the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton ; photographed from the originals in the possession of Lady Hall of Llanover.

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Creator:
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes) : illustrated in many instances, with two and three sets of proof and other plates : generally of the most choice editions : selected with great care, and the utmost liberality, during the last forty years : also, of the books of prints, galleries of art, curious missals and manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese drawings, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the Abbey, on Tuesday, the 9th of September, 1823, and nine following days : on Friday, the 3d of October, & four following days : and on Thursday, 23d October, 1823, & four following days, (Sundays and Mondays excepted) : at half-past twelve each day precisely.

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Creator:
Phillips, H., -1840
Date:
[1823]
Physical Description:
[12],113, [4], [121]-175, [3], 291-342, [6], 231-278, [1], 176-222, [2], 343-391, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, the present bookseller, Finsbury-Square, London / written by himself ; in forty-seven letters to a friend.

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Creator:
Lackington, James, 1746–1815
Date:
[1810]
Physical Description:
xix, [20]-352 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Catalogue of Mr. Strange's works : engraved after pictures of the most celebrated painters of the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, and other schools : to be had at his house in Castle-Street, Leicester-Fields.

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Creator:
Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721–1792
Date:
[1768?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The universal system of houshold furniture : consisting of above 300 designs on the most elegant taste, both useful & ornamental : finely engraved, in which the nature of ornament & perspective, is accurately exemplified : the whole made convenient to the nobility and gentry, in their choice, & comprehensive to the workman, by directions for executing the several designs, with specimens of ornament for young practitioners in drawing / by Ince & Mayhew cabinet-makers & upholders, in Bond Street, Golden Square, London ...

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Creator:
Ince, William, active 18th century
Date:
[1762?]
Physical Description:
iii-iv, 11, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The seasons / by James Thomson : with five pictures by Jacquier and an introduction by John Beresford.

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Creator:
Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:
1927
Physical Description:
xx, [2], 198, [2] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A dictionary of artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions from 1760 to 1893 / compiled by Algernon Graves.

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Creator:
Graves, Algernon
Date:
1895
Physical Description:
xii, 314 p. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A lovers progress : seventeenth century lyrics / selected by Nancy Quennell.

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Date:
1938
Physical Description:
[2], 5-84, [2] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Sketches in architecture : containing plans and elevations of cottages, villas, and other useful buildings, with characteristic scenery / by John Soane ... ; to which are added, Six designs for improving and embellishing of grounds, with sections and explanations, by an amateur ; the whole engraved on fifty-four plates.

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCXCVIII [1798]
Physical Description:
[6], iv, iv, 20 pages, XLI, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Exhibition of Mr. Wright's Pictures at Robin's Rooms, Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

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Creator:
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 v. (26 p.) ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts