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401. 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

402. Dionysius Longinus On the sublime / translated from the Greek, with notes and observations, and some account of the life, writings, and character of the author by William Smith ...

Creator:: Longinus, 1st cent
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: [16], xxxiv, 187 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

403. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 21, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

404. 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

405. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

Creator:: Taylor, George (Geographer), active 1778
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([3], 61 p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : 62 maps ; 22 x 53 cm. folded to 22 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

406. A map of the county of Middlesex : reduced from an actual survey in four sheets / by John Rocque = Carte de la province de Middlesex : reduite d'apres un arpantage en quatre feuilles / par Jean Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 50 x 68 cm., on sheet 55 x 72 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

407. 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

408. 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

409. 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

410. 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

411. New designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for various buildings, comprised in XLIV folio plates / designed and engraved by George Richardson = Nouveaux desseins d'architecture, ou, Plans, elévations, et coupes de divers bâtimens : compris en XLIV planches in folio / dessinées et gravées par George Richardson architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [2], 40 pages, [2], XLIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

412. The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates : containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs ... : the whole correctly and neatly engraved on sixteen copper plates from the original drawings of J.H. Morris ... and J. Crunden.

Creator:: Morris, J. H
Date:: 1765
Physical Description:: [2], [16] plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

413. De anima brutorum commentaria.

Creator:: Soldini, Francesco Maria
Date:: anno MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: [10], 256 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

414. 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

415. 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

416. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

Creator:: Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 2, 2, [8], xvii, [1], 88 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

417. 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

418. 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

419. [All the bubbles]

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

420. 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

421. 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

422. 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

423. Valuation of pictures at the Grainge : manuscript.

Creator:: Batt, John Thomas, 1746–1831
Date:: 1786-1787
Physical Description:: 1 item (10 pages) ; 24 x 19 cm. + accompanying material
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

424. 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

425. Opuscoli di Agostino Gerli.

Creator:: Gerli, Agostino
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 5 p. l., 99 p., [14] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

426. Roma illustrata, or, A description of the most beautiful pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture, antique and modern, at and near Rome.

Creator:: Raguenet, François, 1660?-1722
Date:: [172-?]
Physical Description:: [20], 195, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

427. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

Creator:: Guarini, Guarino, 1624–1683
Date:: MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:: [8], 307, [1] pages, [80] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

428. Collection of drawings of arms.

Creator:: Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:: [ca. 1779?]
Physical Description:: 2 vols.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

429. A familiar introduction to the theory and practice of perspective / by Joseph Priestley.

Creator:: Priestley, Joseph, 1733–1804
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [2], xv, [1], 132, [10] p., [25] folded leaves of plates ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

430. Notebook of accounting exercises.

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

431. 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

432. A treatise on the art of painting, and the composition of colours, containing instructions for all the various processes of painting. Together with observations upon the qualities and ingredients of colours. Translated from the French of M. Constant de Massoul.

Creator:: Massoul, Constant de
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 1 p.., v, [7]-242 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

433. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the roads of Ireland, surveyed 1777.

Creator:: Taylor, George (Geographer), active 1778
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (xvi, 288, 16 p., [1] folded leaf of plates) : maps ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

434. The topography of Freebridge Hundred and Half, in the county of Norfolk : containing the history and antiquities of the borough of King's Lynn, and of the towns, villages, hamlets, monasteries, churches, chapels, chanteries, and other religious buildings in that Hundred and Half, including a circuit of about fifteen miles round Lynn ... / by the Rev. Charles Parkin ...

Creator:: Parkin, Charles, 1689–1765
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [4], 318, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

435. Letters from a young painter abroad to his friends in England : adorned with copper plates.

Creator:: Russel, James, ca. 1720–1763
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

436. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

437. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:: MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

438. The anatomy of painting, or, A short and easy introduction to anatomy : being a new edition, on a smaller scale, of six tables of Albinus, with their linear figures ; also, a new translation of Albinus's history of that work, and of his index to the six tables : to which are added the anatomy of Celsus, with notes, and the physiology of Cicero : with an introduction, giving a short view of picturesque anatomy / by John Brisbane ...

Creator:: Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697–1770
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: xxvi, [5]-76 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

439. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

Creator:: Association of Architects (London, England)
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [5]-31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

440. La rigenerazione dell'Olanda : specchio a tutti i popoli rigenerati.

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756–1815
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [21], 20 leaves : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

441. The lives of the two illustrious generals, John, Duke of Marlborough, and Francis Eugene, Prince of Savoy ...

Date:: 1713
Physical Description:: [8], 3, [3]-174, [2], 175-283 p., [2] leaves of plates : ports. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

442. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

443. Grotesque architecture, or, Rural amusement : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries ... : the whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs ... : to which is added a full explanation, in letter press, and true method of executing them / by William Wrighte.

Creator:: Wrighte, William
Date:: 1767
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

444. The antiquities of Athens / measured by and delineated by James Stuart, F.R.S. and F.S.A., and Nicholas Revett, painters, and architects ...

Creator:: Stuart, James, 1713–1788
Date:: MDCCLXII-MDCCXXX [1762-1830]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 57 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

445. Malpas, engraver : in Church Street near Greek Street, Soho / Malpas del. et sculp.

Creator:: Malpas, Edward
Date:: [approximately 1775]
Physical Description:: 1 print : engraving ; sheet 125 x 87 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

446. 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

447. 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

448. 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

449. The method of cutting up a stag.

Date:: Jany. 1st, 1793
Physical Description:: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 22.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 23.7 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

450. 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

451. Watercolor box.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: between 1799 and 1827
Physical Description:: 1 watercolor box : wood ; 10 x 26 x 4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

452. 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

453. Letters concerning taste ...

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

454. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 27 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

455. Practical treatise on painting in oil-colours ...

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xvi, 246 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

456. Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks ... Book 11.

Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: fold. col. plate. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

457. [A collection of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays.

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:: 1792-1796]
Physical Description:: 20 col. plates. 48 x 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

458. 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

459. 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

460. 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

461. 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

462. 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

463. 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

464. Cary's Actual survey of Middlesex : on a scale of an inch to a mile : wherein the roads, rivers, woods and commons, as well as every market town, village &c. are distinguished, and every seat theron, with the name of the possessor, preceded by a general map of the county, divided into hundreds, to which is added an index of all the names contained in the plates.

Creator:: Cary, John, approximately 1754–1835
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], [2], 28, [9] leaves) : ill., col. maps ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

465. A plan of Paris and the adjacent country : in which is contained a description of the villages, seats, great roads & others, valleys, woods, vinyards, plowd & pasture lands / surveyd by Monr. Roussel, capt. ingineer ... = Plan de Paris et de ses fauxbourgs avec ses environs : ou se trouve le detail des villages, chateaux, grands chemins et autres, des hauteurs, bois, vignes, champs et prez / levé par Monr. Roussel, capne. ingenieur ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 1 map on 6 sheets ; 222 x 262 cm., sheets 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

466. A description of Hagley, Envil and the Leasowes : wherein all the Latin inscriptions are translated, and every particular beauty described : interspersed with critical observations.

Creator:: Heely, Joseph
Date:: [1775?]
Physical Description:: 142 pages ; 17 cm (12 mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

467. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful : with an introductory discourse concerning taste, and several other additions.

Creator:: Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:: ix, [7], 342, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

468. Observations sur l'histoire naturelle, sur la physique et sur la peinture : avec des planches imprimées en couleur : cet ouvrage renferme les secrets des arts, les nouvelles découvertes, & les disputes des philosophes & des artistes modernes : année 1752[-1755] ...

Creator:: Gautier Dagoty, 1717–1785
Date:: [1752-1755]
Physical Description:: 18 pts. : ill. (some col., some folded), maps ; 27 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

469. 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

470. 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

471. The complete English traveller, or, A new survey and description of England and Wales : containing a full account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several counties of England and Wales, the isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the crown of Great Britain ... : to which is added, a concise and accurate description of ... Scotland .../ by Nathaniel Spencer ...

Creator:: Sanders, Robert, 1727–1783
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: iv, 696 [i.e. 700], [12] p., [61] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

472. 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

473. Collection choisie de desseins : tirés de pierres precieuses antiques, pour la plupart dans la possession de la grande et petite noblesse de ce royaume, gravés dans le goût de Rembrandt / par T. Worlidge, peintre.

Creator:: Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700–1766
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [5], 48 p., [182] plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

474. [Engravings of horses]

Creator:: Ravenet, Simon François, 1706–1774
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 8 prints : engravings ; plate marks 14 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

475. A catalogue of the capital collection of pictures, pketches, and high-finished drawings, the property of the late much esteemed artist, John Baptiste Cipriani Esq. deceased : consisting of a few finished pictures, and many of his sketches in oil : a small collection of old Masters, among which is a Magdalen by A. Furini, remarkably fine : a high-finished Portrait of Prince Rupert by Verelst : a capital Head of Vasari by Himself : Marc Anthony and Cleopatry by A. Veronese : a numerous collection of high finished drawings, sketches, &c. that inestimable high finish-finished Drawing of the Diploma, done for the Royal Academy : a finished drawing in colors of the Death of Dido : and many of his large cartoons &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall on Wednesday March the 22d, 1786 and three following days : to be publickly viewed on Monday and Tuesday preceding the sale, which will begin each day at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803, e publisher
Date:: [London] :
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

476. Della architettura di Leon Battista Alberti.

Creator:: Leoni, Giacomo, ca. 1686–1746
Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: 3 v.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

477. Outline engravings and descriptions of the Woburn Abbey Marbles.

Creator:: Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766–1839
Date:: 1822
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

478. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

Creator:: Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:: 1779?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

479. Le cabinet des plus beaux portraits des plusieurs princes & princesses, hommes illustres, fameux peintres & autres / faits par le fameux Antoine Van Dyck, Chevalier et Peintre du Roi, quel l'auteur a fait graver à ses propres dépens, par les meilleurs graveurs de son temps ; cette ouvrage peut aussi servir pour supplement au Cabinet du fameux van Dyck, imprimez à Anvers.

Creator:: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [49] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

480. 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

481. [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

482. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange, and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings, after the most celebrated heads in the cartoons at the Queen's palace : to which are now added, the outlines of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing : and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

Creator:: Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:: MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:: 21, [1] pages, [102] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

483. The theory of perspective demonstrated; in a method entirely new. By which the several planes, lines, and points, made use of in this art, are shewn in the true positions in which they are to be considered. Invented, and now published for the use of the Royal Academy at Woolwich. By John Lodge Cowley ...

Creator:: Cowley, John Lodge, 1719–1797
Date:: 1765
Physical Description:: 2 v. plates. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

484. Explication des peintures, sculptures, et autres ouvrages de messieurs de l'Academie royale; dont l'exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l'intention de Sa Majeste', par M. Le Normand de Tournehem ...

Creator:: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 14 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

485. The spirit of nations. Translated from the French.

Creator:: Espiard, François Ignace d', Abbé, 1707–1777
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: xvi, 406 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

486. Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabve in qva, per le quali si dimostra come, e per chi le bell'arti di pittura, scultura, e architettura lasciata la rozzezza delle maniere greca, e gottica, si siano in questi secoli ridotte all' antica loro perfezione. Opera di Filippo Baldinvcci Fiorentino distinta in secoli, e decennali ...

Creator:: Baldinucci, Filippo, 1625–1696
Date:: 1681-1728
Physical Description:: 6 v. in 3. fold. geneal. tables. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

487. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux du roy : avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres, fait par ordre de Sa Majeste / par M. Lépicié.

Creator:: Lépicié, François Bernard, 1698–1755
Date:: 1752-1754
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

488. The plan of a dictionary of the English language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., 34 p. 26 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

489. Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell, esq.

Creator:: Erskine, Andrew, 1739–1793
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [3], 156 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

490. Versailles illustrated, or Divers views of the several parts of the royal palace of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, groves, parterras, ye labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens, wherein are represented whatever is remarkable, whether statues, groups of figures, water falls, pleasure houses &c. : drawn on the spot by the order & with the approbation of the French king.

Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [29] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

491. The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth / from a drawing of the time supposed to be by the hand of William Camden, then Clarencieux King at Arms in the posession of John Wilmot, Esq., F.A.S., who found it among the papers of his wife's grandfather, Peter Sainthill, Esq., and has since presented it to the British Museum

Creator:: Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:: Apr. 23d., 1791]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [7] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 40 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hankins.

492. The history of the British plantations in America : with a chronological account of the most remarkable things, which happen'd to the first adventurers in their several discoveries of that new world : Part I. Containing The history of Virginia; with remarks on the trade and commerce of that colony / by Sir William Keith, Bart.

Creator:: Keith, William, Sir, 1680–1749
Date:: MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Physical Description:: [8], 187, [1] pages, ([2] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

493. An account of the statues, bas-reliefs, drawings, and pictures in Italy, France, &c. with remarks / by Mr. Richardson, Sen. and Jun.

Creator:: Richardson, Jonathan, 1665–1745
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: [2], [50], 357, [5] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

494. A survey of Dorsetshire / publish'd from an original manuscript, written by Mr. Coker [i.e. Thomas Gerard].

Creator:: Gerard, Thomas, 1592–1634
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: 128 p. : front. (fold. map) pl. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

495. Geometry exercise book.

Date:: circa 1780
Physical Description:: 1 v. (71 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

496. Essays on subjects connected with civilization. By Benjamin Heath Malkin ...

Creator:: Malkin, Benjamin Heath, 1769–1842
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 p.., ii, [2], 293 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

497. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:: [6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

498. Some anecdotes of the life of Julio Bonasoni, a Bolognese artist ... : accompanied by a catalogue of the engravings ... of the works of that ... composer ... : to which is prefixed, A plan for the improvement of the arts in England / by George Cumberland ...

Creator:: Cumberland, George, 1754–1848
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 100 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

499. A catalogue 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 : in this collection are the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Rubens, Rembrandt, S. Rosa, Mola, Corregio, Guerchino, C. Maratti, P. Veronese, Murillo, L. Da Vinci, Tintoret, Titian, Carracci, Claude, Cignani, Beughel, Poussin, Vandyke, Castigione, P. Cortona, Elsheimer, Schidone, &c. : which 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 Thursday, March 26, and the two following days : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday the 24th and 25th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1778]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

500. A catalogue of all the valuable copper plates, with their etchings, proofs, and impressions : an assemblage of original drawings, finished in the finest stile of the several admired Masters : viz. Cipriani, Morland, Wheatley, Angelica, Benwel, Bellange, Westall, Hamilton, &c. &c. &c. : a few pictures and many capital prints, framed and glazed : French and English printing paper, &c.: being the entire stock of Mrs. Diemar, Printseller and Publisher of the Strand : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, June the 1st, 1799 : to begin precisely at twelve o'clock, on account of the number of lots : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had a the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : at Mrs. Diemar's Strand : and in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

402. Dionysius Longinus On the sublime / translated from the Greek, with notes and observations, and some account of the life, writings, and character of the author by William Smith ...

403. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

404. 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 ...

405. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

406. A map of the county of Middlesex : reduced from an actual survey in four sheets / by John Rocque = Carte de la province de Middlesex : reduite d'apres un arpantage en quatre feuilles / par Jean Rocque.

407. 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 ...

408. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

412. The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates : containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs ... : the whole correctly and neatly engraved on sixteen copper plates from the original drawings of J.H. Morris ... and J. Crunden.

413. De anima brutorum commentaria.

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

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

416. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

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

419. [All the bubbles]

420. 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 ...

423. Valuation of pictures at the Grainge : manuscript.

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

425. Opuscoli di Agostino Gerli.

426. Roma illustrata, or, A description of the most beautiful pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture, antique and modern, at and near Rome.

427. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

428. Collection of drawings of arms.

429. A familiar introduction to the theory and practice of perspective / by Joseph Priestley.

430. Notebook of accounting exercises.

432. A treatise on the art of painting, and the composition of colours, containing instructions for all the various processes of painting. Together with observations upon the qualities and ingredients of colours. Translated from the French of M. Constant de Massoul.

433. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the roads of Ireland, surveyed 1777.

435. Letters from a young painter abroad to his friends in England : adorned with copper plates.

439. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

440. La rigenerazione dell'Olanda : specchio a tutti i popoli rigenerati.

441. The lives of the two illustrious generals, John, Duke of Marlborough, and Francis Eugene, Prince of Savoy ...

442. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

444. The antiquities of Athens / measured by and delineated by James Stuart, F.R.S. and F.S.A., and Nicholas Revett, painters, and architects ...

445. Malpas, engraver : in Church Street near Greek Street, Soho / Malpas del. et sculp.

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

449. The method of cutting up a stag.

451. Watercolor box.

453. Letters concerning taste ...

454. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

455. Practical treatise on painting in oil-colours ...

456. Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks ... Book 11.

457. [A collection of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays.

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

460. 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. ...

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

466. A description of Hagley, Envil and the Leasowes : wherein all the Latin inscriptions are translated, and every particular beauty described : interspersed with critical observations.

467. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful : with an introductory discourse concerning taste, and several other additions.

468. Observations sur l'histoire naturelle, sur la physique et sur la peinture : avec des planches imprimées en couleur : cet ouvrage renferme les secrets des arts, les nouvelles découvertes, & les disputes des philosophes & des artistes modernes : année 1752[-1755] ...

469. 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 ...

470. Disquisitions on several subjects.

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

473. Collection choisie de desseins : tirés de pierres precieuses antiques, pour la plupart dans la possession de la grande et petite noblesse de ce royaume, gravés dans le goût de Rembrandt / par T. Worlidge, peintre.

474. [Engravings of horses]

476. Della architettura di Leon Battista Alberti.

477. Outline engravings and descriptions of the Woburn Abbey Marbles.

478. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

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

481. [Four sporting prints].

484. Explication des peintures, sculptures, et autres ouvrages de messieurs de l'Academie royale; dont l'exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l'intention de Sa Majeste', par M. Le Normand de Tournehem ...

485. The spirit of nations. Translated from the French.

487. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux du roy : avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres, fait par ordre de Sa Majeste / par M. Lépicié.

488. The plan of a dictionary of the English language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield ...

489. Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell, esq.

493. An account of the statues, bas-reliefs, drawings, and pictures in Italy, France, &c. with remarks / by Mr. Richardson, Sen. and Jun.

494. A survey of Dorsetshire / publish'd from an original manuscript, written by Mr. Coker [i.e. Thomas Gerard].

495. Geometry exercise book.

496. Essays on subjects connected with civilization. By Benjamin Heath Malkin ...

497. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

498. Some anecdotes of the life of Julio Bonasoni, a Bolognese artist ... : accompanied by a catalogue of the engravings ... of the works of that ... composer ... : to which is prefixed, A plan for the improvement of the arts in England / by George Cumberland ...