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101. Vases from the collection of Sir Henry Englefield, bart. / drawn and engraved by H. Moses.

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Creator:
Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752–1822
Date:
[1820]
Physical Description:
[2], 60, [4] p., 39 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples / by Samuel Prout, F. S. A., painter in water colours in ordinary to Her Majesty.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 16 p., [20] leaves, [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[6], 20, [4], 21, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill., 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. 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

106. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

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Creator:
Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

109. Views in Spain / by Edward Hawke Locker, Esqr. F.R.S.

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Creator:
Locker, Edward Hawke, 1777–1849
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[138] p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

111. Suggestions for the architectural improvement of the western part of London / by Sydney Smirke, F.S.A., F.G.A.

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Creator:
Smirke, Sydney, 1798–1877
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
[4], 117 p., [3] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plan ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

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Creator:
Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

114. Costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by uparwards of seventy richly coloured engravings.

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Creator:
Harding, Edward
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[152] p., [71] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

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Creator:
Daniel, William Barker, 1753?-1833
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Leonora / translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher by W.R. Spencer, Esq. ; with designs by the Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.

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Creator:
Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747–1794
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
[10], 35, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. [Deer stalking].

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Date:
[ca. 1810]
Physical Description:
[10] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 39 x 52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

119. Addenda to the Aedes Hartwellianae / by Admiral W.H. Smyth.

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Creator:
Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788–1865
Date:
MDCCCLXIV [1864]
Physical Description:
[4], viii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

120. A history of the Holtes of Aston, baronets : with a description of the family mansion, Aston Hall, Warwickshire / by Alfred Davidson ; with illustrations from drawings by Allen E. Everitt.

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Creator:
Davidson, Alfred, of Aston
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
76 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

121. Journal of an embassy from the governor general of India to the court of Ava in the year 1827 / by John Crawfurd ... late envoy ; with an appendix containing a description of fossil remains by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift.

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Creator:
Crawfurd, John, 1783–1868
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 516, 89, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. The poetical works of S. Johnson : with the life of the author.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[6], 83, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm. (12 mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. A new treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner for many years practice and experience : with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies / by William Gibson, surgeon, in Duke-Sreet, Grosvenor-Square ; illustrated with thirty-two copper-plates.

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Creator:
Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750
Date:
MDCCLI [1751]
Physical Description:
[12], 464, [12] pages, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. Journal of a tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, during the years 1813 and 1814 / by J.T. James, Esq. student of Christ Church, Oxford.

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Creator:
James, John Thomas, 1786–1828
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
viii, [4], 527, [1] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682–1761
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. Observations on fox-hunting and the management of hounds in the kennel and the field : addressed to a young sportsman, about to undertake a hunting establishment / by Colonel Cook, H.P. 28th Dragoons.

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Creator:
Cook, John, 1773–1829
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
xvi, 292 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. 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.

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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

128. Myttonian feats : the sketches from nature / by Captain Parr ; furnished (along with many authentic anecdotes) to Nimrod (Charles Apperley, Esq.), for his work, "The life and death of John Mytton, Esq., of Halston Hall, Shropshire.".

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Creator:
Parr, Frederick, 1806–1871
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
[26] leaves : ill. ; 30 x 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in four parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ; recommended by many workmen of the first abilities in London, who have themselves inspected the work.

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Creator:
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
viii, viii, [1], 6-120, 171-446, [3], 4-60, 24 pages, [124] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions : illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands : a map of England shewing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals : and a plan of London and its environs : and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishoprics, universities, colleges, corporate towns, and boroughs : and of the seals of the several municipal corporations / by Samuel Lewis.

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Creator:
Lewis, Samuel, -1865
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
4 volumes ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. Points of a racehorse / by Major-General Sir John Hills.

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Creator:
Hills, John, Sir
Date:
1903
Physical Description:
x p., 113 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. The union of honovr : containing the armes, matches and issves of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640 : with the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being : and of the gentry of Lincolnshire : whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the conquest, till the yeere 1602 / collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-Smith.

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Creator:
Yorke, James, fl. 1640
Date:
1640
Physical Description:
16, 331, 52, 76 p. : coats of arms ; 31 cm. (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

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Creator:
Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:
MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:
[2], viii, [2], 316, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. Supplementum chronicharum.

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Creator:
Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
Date:
anno a natiuitate D[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij [1493]
Physical Description:
[2], 256, [12] leaves : illustrations; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. The dance of life : a poem / by the author of "Doctor Syntax" ; illustrated with coloured engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, ii, ii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. Panoramic view from the flag tower of Windsor Castle.

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Creator:
Kretschmar, Ed.
Date:
Jan 26th, 1843
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([8] p.) : ill. ; 35 x 183 cm. folded to 35 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. The costume of Turkey / illustrated by a series of engravings ; with descriptions in English and French.

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Creator:
Dalvimart, Octavien
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
[134] p., LX leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

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Creator:
Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:
MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:
24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c. / written by himself, now alive.

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Creator:
Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Date:
1720
Physical Description:
[3], page viii, 72, 136, 179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. Louthiana, or, An introduction to the antiquities of Ireland : in upwards of ninety views and plans : representing, with proper explanation, the principal ruins, curiosities, and antient dwellings, in the County of Louth : divided into three books / taken upon the spot by Thomas Wright, author of The physical and mathematical elements of astronomy, &c. ; engraved by Paul Fourdrinier.

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Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1711–1786
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. Historical account [of Beleigh Abbey, Essex].

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Creator:
Draper, George, approximately 1796–
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
5 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues, and with former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches.

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Date:
MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:
[1296] pages : illustrations ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

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Date:
[not after 18 November 1477]
Physical Description:
[78] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1704
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Album of English bookplates.

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Date:
approximately 1700-1950?
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

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Creator:
Darly, Matthias
Date:
January 12, 1773
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Illustrations of Windsor Castle / by the late Sir Jeffry Wyatville, R.A. ; edited by Henry Ashton, architect.

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Creator:
Wyatville, Jeffry, Sir, 1776–1840
Date:
MDCCCXLI [1841]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 69 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions, for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling / illustrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the author / by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. ; Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice.

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Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:
1st Jany. 1825
Physical Description:
xxvii, [2], 30-75, [4], lxxx-xcix, [2], 102-201, [1] pages, [27] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. Views of the cathedral churches of England and Wales : with descriptions / by John Chessell Buckler.

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Creator:
Buckler, John Chessell, 1793–1894
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[180] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1813-1817
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. (some col.), port., plans, map ; 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Lectures on horses and stables / by Lieut.-Col. Fitzwygram, 15th (the King's) Hussars.

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Creator:
Fitzwygram, Frederick, Sir, 1823–1904
Date:
M.DCCC.LXIII [1862]
Physical Description:
173 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. Select views of the antiquities and harbours in the south of France : with topographical and historical descriptions / by the author of The Rhaetian Alps &c. &c.

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Creator:
Beaumont, Albanis, 1755–1812
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[2], 56 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
27, [3] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Variety of capitals, freezes, and corniches : and how to increase, or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original : likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates / published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani.

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Creator:
Columbani, Placido
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
12, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. Portraits of the winning horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster : from the year 1815 to the year 1824, inclusive.

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Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
[26] p., [10] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 66 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. The works of Edmund Waller, esqr., in verse and prose : published by Mr. Fenton.

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Creator:
Waller, Edmund, 1606–1687
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
9 p.l., 450, xci, [1] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. The history of a voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764 : under the command of M. de Bougainville, in order to form a settlement there : and of two voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with an account of the Patagonians / translated from Dom Pernety's Historical journal, written in French ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Creator:
Pernety, Antoine-Joseph, 1716–1801
Date:
MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:
[4], xvii, [1], 294 p., 16 leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. Hans of Iceland.

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Creator:
Hugo, Victor, 1802–1885
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[6], 225 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

160. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

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Creator:
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747–1827
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
2 volumes : maps, charts ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. A critical inquiry into antient armour : as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain from the Norman conquest to the reign of King Charles II ... / by Samuel Rush Meyrick.

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Creator:
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

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Creator:
Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. The adventures of a post captain / by a naval officer ; with characteristic engravings by Mr. Williams.

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Creator:
Thornton, Alfred, active 1820
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
[4], 282, [2] p., [1], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. Picturesque views on the upper, or Warwickshire Avon : from its sources at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

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Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
xviii, 284, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Yorkshire scenery, or, Excursions in Yorkshire : with delineations of some of the most interesting objects / engraved by G. Cooke, Esq. and other eminent artists, from drawings made for the purpose, by T.C. Hofland, Esq., W. Cowen, R. Thompson, &c., &c. ; by E. Rhodes, author of "Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire.".

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Creator:
Rhodes, Ebenezer, 1762–1839
Date:
MDCCCXXVI [1826]
Physical Description:
viii, 167 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. Réflexions sur l'alphabet et sur la langue dont on se servoit autrefois à Palmyre / par M. l'Abbé Barthelemy.

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Creator:
Barthélemy, J.-J. (Jean-Jacques), 1716–1795
Date:
1754
Physical Description:
8 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. Sexti Iulii Frontini uiri consularis De aquis que in urbem influunt : libellus mirabilis.

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Creator:
Frontinus, Sextus Julius
Date:
1486 or 7?]
Physical Description:
[32] p. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. Introduction to the Original delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, intituled The beauties of England and Wales : comprising observations on the history and antiquities of the Britons ... : together with remarks on the progress of ... architecture in succeeding ages / by J. Norris Brewer.

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Creator:
Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xl, 676 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England : from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time : illustrated by engravings taken from the most authentic remains of antiquity : to which is prefixed an introduction, containing a general description of the ancient habits in use among mankind, from the earliest period of time to the conclusion of the seventh century / by Joseph Strutt.

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Creator:
Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:
MDCCCXLII [1842]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. An historical and topographical sketch of Knole, in Kent : with a brief genealogy of the Sackville family : embellished with engravings / by John Bridgman.

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Creator:
Bridgman, John
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[5], p. viii, 164 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

171. Monumenti antichi inediti / spiegati ed illustrati da Giovanni Winckelmann ; prefetto delle antichità di Roma.

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Creator:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Date:
MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. Picturesque views on the River Thames : from its source in Gloucestershire to the Nore : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

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Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
2 v. (xvi, 209, viii, 258 p., [29, 27] leaves of plates) : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. A memoir, explanatory of the chart and survey of the county of London-Derry, Ireland / by the Rev. George Vaughan Sampson.

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Creator:
Sampson, George Vaughan
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 359 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Burke's descriptive guide, or, The visitors' companion to Niagara Falls : its strange and wonderful localities / by an old resident.

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Creator:
Burke, Andrew, active 19th century
Date:
[1850]
Physical Description:
[4], 106 pages, [5] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from His Lordship's mss. / by James Kennedy.

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Creator:
Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[10], xxxviii, 116, [2] pages, 25 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

176. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture : in the newest and most approved taste, displaying a great variety of patterns ... : also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... / from drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. cabinet-makers.

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Creator:
A. Hepplewhite and Co
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
iv, 24, [1] p., 125 plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. Histoire générale du costume civil, religieux et militaire du IVe au XIIe siècle (Occident, 315-1100) / par R. Jacquemin, peintre-graveur ... ; ouvrage illustré de quarante-huit planches coloriées hors texte, dessinées et gravées par l'auteur.

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Creator:
Jacquemin, Raphaël, 1821–1881?
Date:
[1876]
Physical Description:
407 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. : qui prostabunt venales sub hasta apud Samuelem Baker, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 18vo. Novembris, M. DCC. LIV. iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M. DCC. LV.

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Creator:
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:
[1754]
Physical Description:
[4], 116, [2], 117-242 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. A comparative view of the form and character of the English racer and saddle-horse during the last and present centuries : illustrated by eighteen plates of horses.

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Date:
. Hookham,
Physical Description:
v, [1],155, [1] pages, 18 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. Secondo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio Battista Ramusio, et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto ; nel quale si contengono l'historia delle cose de Tartari, & diuersi fatti de' loro imperatori, descritta da M. Marco Polo gentilhuomo venetiano, & da Hayton Armeno : varie descrittioni di diversi auttori, dell' Indie Orientali, della Tartaria, della Persia, Armenia, Mengrelia, Zorzania, & altre prouincie : nelle quali si raccontano molte imprese d'Vssuncassan, d'Ismael Soffi, del Soldano di Babilonia, di diuersi imperatori Ottomani, & particolarmente de Selim contro Tomombei, vltimo Soldano de Mamalucchi, & d'altri principi : et il viaggio della Tana ; con la descrittione de' nomi de' popoli, città, fiumi, & porti d'intorno al Mar Maggiore, come si nominauano al tempo dell'Imperator Adriano, & molte altre narrationi, cosi dello stato de Moscouiti, Sciti, & Circassi, come d'altre genti barbare a gli antichi incognite, et il naufragio di M. Pietro Quirino gentilhuomo venetiano, portato per fortuna settanta gradi sotto la Tramontana ; con l'indice diligentemente ordinato, delle cose piu notabili.

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Creator:
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:
l'anno MDLXXIIII [1574]
Physical Description:
5, [1], 9-30, 17, 20-22, 25-36, 39-42, 45-65, 58-248 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions & views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! / written in French by Alexander de Humboldt & translated into English by Helen Maria Williams.

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Creator:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politicks, and literature for the year ...

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Date:
[1762?]-1838
Physical Description:
80 v. : ill., maps ; 21-23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Anthony Hamilton ; to which are prefixed, a biographical sketch of Count Hamilton, and a translation of the epistle to Count Grammont ; illustrated with sixty-four portraits, engraved by Edward Scriven, &c.

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Creator:
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646–1720
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
2 volumes : portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. Selections of the ancient costume of Great Britain & Ireland : from the seventh to the sixteenth century, out of the collection in the possession of the author / by Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.

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Creator:
Smith, Charles Hamilton
Date:
1814 [i.e. 1815?]
Physical Description:
[6], viii, [iv], [120] p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38-46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. The history and antiquities of the Tower of London : with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished persons, deduced from records, state papers, and manuscripts, and from other original and authentic sources / by John Bayley, Esq., F.S.A. of the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, and one of His Majesty's Sub-Commissioners on the Public Records ; in two parts ; Part I[-II].

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Creator:
Bayley, John, -1869
Date:
1821-1825
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. An account of the grand musical festival, held in September, 1823, in the cathedral church of York : for the benefit of the York County Hospital, and the general infirmaries at Leeds, Hull, and Sheffield : to which is prefixed, a sketch of the rise and progress of musical festivals in Great Britain : with biographical and historical notes / by John Crosse, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., M.G.S. ...

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Creator:
Crosse, John, 1786–1833
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 436, xxvi, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. Fabbriche' antiche' / disegnate' da Andrea Palladio Vicentino e date in luce' da Riccardo Conte' di Burlington.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXX [1730, i.e. 1735]
Physical Description:
[42] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. The landscape : a didactic poem : in three books : addressed to Uvedale Price ... / by R.P. Knight.

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Creator:
Knight, Richard Payne, 1751–1824
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
xv, 104 p., 3 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.

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Creator:
Manwood, John, -1610
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

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Date:
[1739-1753]
Physical Description:
[104] prints : engravings ; 24 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. The practical gardener, and modern horticulturist : containing the latest and most approved methods for the management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower-garden, the green-house, hot-house, &c., &c., for every month in the year : each department being distinctly and separately arranged : illustrated by numerous designs of the most eligible plans for the formation of kitchen and pleasure-gardens, the erection of hot-houses, hot-beds, green-houses, conservatories, walls, fences, &c., &c. including the new method of heating forcing-houses with hot water only : forming a complete system of modern practice, in the various branches of horticultural science : embellished with highly-finished engravings of some of the most choice and valuable fruits and flowers now cultivated in this country / by Charles McIntosh, C.M.C.H.S. ...

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Creator:
McIntosh, Charles, 1794–1864
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
2 volumes (viii, 1122 pages, [28] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. Collins's Peerage of England : genealogical, biographical, and historical / greatly augmented, and continued to the preent time, by Sir Egerton Brydges ...

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Date:
1812
Physical Description:
9 v. : coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.
Creator:
Rogers, Robert, 1731–1795
Date:
MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 264 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. [Portraits of figures of the court of Louis XIV].

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Creator:
Dieu, Jean, 1654–1695
Date:
[1678-1698]
Physical Description:
[114] prints : engraving ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school.

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Creator:
Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:
[1754?]
Physical Description:
8 p.l., 439 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

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Creator:
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCI [1789-1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

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Date:
1832-1845
Physical Description:
v. : ill. ; 20-29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

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Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
1782-1783
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts