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1. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The colonial quarter race horse : America's first breed of horses, America's native breed of running horses, the world's oldest breed of race horses, prime source of short speed / by Alexander Mackay-Smith ; with a foreword by Robert Moorman Denhardt.

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Creator:
Mackay-Smith, Alexander
Date:
1983
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 328 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The complete works of Robert Burns / edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with a glossarial index and a biographical memoir by Alexander Smith.

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Creator:
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:
[1891]
Physical Description:
lxii, [4], 636, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

5. Streiflichter : six inscribed fragments concerning the French Revolution 1789-1805 / Ian Hamilton Finlay, Annet Stirling ; commentary by Siegfried Blasche.

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Creator:
Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Date:
1994
Physical Description:
[24] p. : ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jock Reynolds

6. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
[1874]
Physical Description:
x, 322 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

7. A tale of two cities / by Charles Dickens ; with twenty-five illustrations by F. Barnard.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
[1874]
Physical Description:
[8], 176 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

8. The history and present state of Virginia : in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time -- II. The natural productions and conveniencies of the country, suited to trade and improvement -- III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace. -- IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

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Creator:
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:
MDCCV [1705]
Physical Description:
[12], 104, 40, 64, 83, [1], 16, [4] pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.
Creator:
Livingston, William, 1723–1790
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[4], 144 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. An original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American war, from its commencement to the year 1783 / by R. Lamb, late Serjeant in the Royal Welch Fuzileers.

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Creator:
Lamb, Roger, 1756–1830
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
iv, xxiv, [1], 6-438 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Strictures on Lt.-Col. Tarleton's History "of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America" ... Wherein military characters and corps are vindicated from injurious aspersions, and several important transactions placed in their proper point of view. In a series of letters to a friend, by Roderick Mackenzie ... To which is added, a detail of the siege of Ninety Six, and the re-capture of the island of New-Providence.

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Creator:
Mackenzie, Roderick
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
1 p.l., vi, 1 l. 186 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The Virginians : a tale of the last century / by W. M. Thackeray, author of "Esmond," "Vanity Fair," "The Newcomes," &c. &c. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author.

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Creator:
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Date:
1858-1859
Physical Description:
2 v. (24 nos.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

13. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

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Date:
MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:
[2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

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Creator:
Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:
MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:
[8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam : perillustris ac magnifici domini Ignatii Christophori nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall, sacri Romani imperii, & Regni Hungariae equitis, sacrae Caesareae Majestatis consiliarii Aulico-Bellici ab augustissimo, & invictissimo Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I. ad serenissimum, ac potentissimum Tzarum, & magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII / ablegati extraordinarii descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb, p.t. secretario ablegationis Caesareae ; accessit reditus suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

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Creator:
Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:
[1700?]
Physical Description:
[6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 3 maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with descriptions in English and French.

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Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
[4], iii, [1] iii, [149] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Das Römische Carneval.

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Creator:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
69, [3] p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

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Creator:
Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:
1953
Physical Description:
73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

20. The lives of the English poets : and a criticism on their works / by Samuel Johnson.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
MDCCLXXIX-MDCCLXXXI [1779-81]
Physical Description:
3 volumes ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara R. and Richard C. Glowacki, Yale BA 1954

21. The natural and civil history of the French dominions in North and South America : giving a particular account of the climate, soil, minerals, animals, vegetables, manufactures, trade, commerce and languages, together with the religion, government, genius, character, manners and customs of the Indians and other inhabitants, illustrated by maps and plans of the principal places / collected from the best authorities, and engraved by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
MDCCLX [1760]
Physical Description:
2 parts in 1 ([8], 132, *129-*142, 168 pages; [4], 246, [18] folded leaves of plates) : 8 maps, 10 plans ; 37 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

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Creator:
Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

23. A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland ; to which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

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Creator:
Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Date:
1698
Physical Description:
[22], 243, [1], [32], 228 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann ... / now first published from the originals in the possession of the Earl of Waldegrave ; edited by Lord Dover.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
3 v. : port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

28. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

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Creator:
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:
1923
Physical Description:
[1], 4-67, [9] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

30. The adventures of Commodore Paul : the naval hero.

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Date:
[1884]
Physical Description:
15 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

31. Billesdon Coplow : Monday, February 24th, 1800.

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Creator:
Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
9, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A catalogue of the genuine, capital, and valuable collection of pictures, by the most esteemed masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Schools : selected by that eminent artist and esteemed connoisseur Benjamin van der Gucht, Esq. deceased : this celebrated collection contains some of the most rare and capital pictures ever offered to the public : comprising the following most remarkable viz. : A Venus disarming Cupid by Corregio, brought to England by Sir William Hamilton : two, a most capital Landscape, and a Sea Port, by Claude : A landscape, a Chef D'oeuvre, by Cuyp : A Ditto by Rubens : and one Ditto, very capital, by Berghem : Le Retour de Chasse, an elegant Cabinet Picture, by Wouvermans : the Judgment of Paris by Vander Werf : A Conversation by Teniers : The Madona and Infant Christ by C. Dolce : The Transfiguration by Julio Romano : several fine portraits by Vandyck, F. Hals, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction (by order of the administratrix) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, March 11th, 1796, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had at the room in Pall Mall, at one shilling each.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
14, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

35. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

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Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Barnaby Rudge.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
xix, [3], 685, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A tale of two cities.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
xiv, 363, [3] pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Two hymns to Pan : from the faithful shepherdess, 1610 / by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher.

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Creator:
Beaumont, Francis, 1584–1616
Date:
MM [2000]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

39. Britannia's triumph in the year MDCCLXII : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, &c. &c. ... / these drawings were made by Lieutenant Philip Ousbridge, an officer on the spot ...

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Creator:
Orsbridge, Philip, -1767
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
4, [4] pages, 11, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Poems / by Thomas Gray.

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Creator:
Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:
MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:
87, [3] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

41. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

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Date:
1528
Physical Description:
384 p. ; 19 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. 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

43. A new drawing book.

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Date:
[175-?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
[2] p., p. 407-412 ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

46. The history of Virginia, in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706 : II. The natural productions and conveniences of the country, suited to trade and improvement : III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace : IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land, the 10th of June 1702 / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

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Creator:
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:
1722
Physical Description:
[8], 284, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

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Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
v, [132] p., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States : with biographical particulars of public characters : hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade / by Charles William Janson, Esq. late of the state of Rhode Island, counsellor at law ; illustrated by engravings.

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Creator:
Janson, Charles William
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
xiii, [2], 16-22, 499, [7] pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

50. Don Quixote de la Mancha : the history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha / written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; Motteux' translation revised anew (1743) & corrected, rectified and filled up in numberless places by J. Ozell who likewise added the explanatory notes from the best editions in English & Spanish. Reprinted with twenty-one illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer.

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Creator:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616
Date:
[1930]
Physical Description:
2 v. : fronts., plates ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

53. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

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Creator:
Boothby, Brooke, Sir, 1743–1824
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
89 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Songs & poems / by Henry Carey ; with decorations by Robert Gibbings.

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Creator:
Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743
Date:
1924
Physical Description:
[4], 9-64, [4] pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

56. Botanical dialogues : between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry. Designed for the use of schools, / by a lady.

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Creator:
Jackson, Maria Elizabeth
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[2], xlv, [1], 335, [3] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Saint James's, or, The court of Queen Anne : an historical romance / by William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., ; author of "The Tower of London," "Windsor Castle," etc. ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in three volumes.

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Creator:
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805–1882
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

58. Narrative sketches of the conquest of the Mysore, effected by the British troops and their allies in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory / collected from authentic materials.

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Date:
MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:
134, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Paul et Virginie / par Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.

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Creator:
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737–1814
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
xcii, 194, [5] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The punishments of China / illustrated by twenty-two engravings with explanations in English and French.

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Creator:
Mason, George Henry
Date:
1801 [i.e. 1822?]
Physical Description:
[54] p., 22 leaves of plates : 22 col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Reisen, Entdeckungen und Unternehmungen des Schifs-Capitain Johann Schmidt, oder John Smith : welche den wahren Ursprung derer englischen Colonien in Nord-Amerika bewirkt haben ... / gröstentheils aus dessilben eigenen Schriften beschrieben von Carl Friedrich Scheibler ...

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Creator:
Scheibler, Carl Friedrich
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
232, [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde / par Antoine de Herrera ... ; translatee d'espagnol en françois ; a la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la navigation du vaillant capitaine de mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres ...

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Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:
1622
Physical Description:
[6], 103, [7], 107-254 p., [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

65. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

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Creator:
Beatson, Robert, 1742–1818
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 211, [1], 372, 117, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

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Creator:
Morosini, Andrea, 1558–1618
Date:
1623
Physical Description:
[18], 729, [22] p., : port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / by Samuel Johnson : in four volumes.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
4 v. : port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. A letter to the people of Scotland on the alarming attempt to infringe the articles of the Union : and introduce a most pernicious innovation, by diminishing the number of the lords of Session / by James Boswell.

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
107 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Mrs. Thrale, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi : a sketch of her life and passages from her diaries, letters & other writings / edited by L. B. Seeley ... with nine illustrations after Hogarth, Reynolds, Zoffany, & others.

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Creator:
Seeley, L. B. (Leonard Benton), 1831–1893
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
x, 336 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

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Creator:
Hoofnail, John
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
vi, 2, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
xxi, 3, 382 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. 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.

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

75. Every man his own brewer : a small treatise, explaining the art and mystery of brewing porter, ale, twopenny, and table-beer; recommending and proving the ease and possibility of every man's brewing his own beer, in any quantity from one peck to a hundred quarters of malt, calculated by exposing the deception in brewing; to reduce the expence of a family and lessen the destructive practice of public-house tipling / by Samuel Child, brewer.

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Creator:
Child, Samuel
Date:
[1794?]
Physical Description:
20, [4] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Six picturesque views in North Wales / engraved in aquatinta by Alken, from drawings made on the spot ; with poetical reflections on leaving that country by Brian Broughton.

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Creator:
Broughton, Brian, 1767?-1839
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
32 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

78. The Polygraphic Society, to the patrons and admirers of the polite arts.

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Creator:
Polygraphic Society (London, England)
Date:
ca. 1789.]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

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Creator:
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
30 p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

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Creator:
Tower of London (London, England)
Date:
[approximately 169-?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page.) ; 17 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The life of David Garrick : from original family papers, and numerous published and unpublished sources / by Percy Fitzgerald ; in four volumes.

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Creator:
Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington, 1834–1925
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, counsellor of state to His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, Knight, &c.

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Creator:
Pallas, Peter Simon, 1741–1811
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

84. To the Queen this book of etchings, from papers cut by the Right Honourable Lady Templeton in the collection of Her Majesty, is with permission most humbly dedicated / by most devoted and very much obliged serv. P. W. Tomkins.

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Creator:
Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. An authentic historical racing calendar of all the plates, sweepstakes, matches, &c. run for at York, from the first commencement of the races there in the year 1709, to the year 1785 inclusive : comprehending a period of seventy-seven years: with an account of the cock-matches fought at York in each race-week for upwards of forty years. To which is added, an account of the races for the royal plates, run for by five years old mares, at Hambleton, York, and Richmond; and of the races that were run at Hambleton from the year 1748 to the year 1757, also of the races from the first commencement of the Gold Cups at Richmond and Doncaster; likewise for the Gold Cups at Beverley. In which is also given pedigrees and performances of the most celebrated race-horses, that have appeared upon the English turf since the time of Basto, Bay Bolton, Flying Childers, Brocklesby Betty, Bonny Black, &c. With an historical account of the most favourite Arabians, Turks, Barbs, English-stallions, and brood-mares. Likewise a complete alphabetical list of the subscribers to the York Assembly-Rooms in each race-week from 1752 to 1777. And an account of the Earls of March and Eglingtoun's carriage-match; of Mr. Shafto's time-match; of Mr. Thornhill's road-match; of Mr. Woodcock's riding 2900 miles; the late Sir C. Turner's leaping-match; fox-chaces, &c. The whole carefully compiled from authehtic materials / by W. Pick of York.

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Creator:
Pick, W. (William), 1759?-1816
Date:
[1785]
Physical Description:
viii, 198, 132 p. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays : Number II. containing a letter, representing the impropriety of sending forces to Virginia : the importance of taking Frontenac : and that the preservation of Oswego was owing to General Shirley's proceeding thither : containing objections to those parts of Evan's general map and analysis, which relate to the French title to the country, on the north-west side of St. Laurence River, between Fort Frontenac and Montreal, &c. : published in the New-York Mercury, no. 178. Jan. 5, 1756 : with an answer to so much thereof as concerns the public : and the several articles set in a just light / by Lewis Evans.

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Creator:
Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:
v, [1], 7-35, [1] pages ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Relation de l'expedition aux Indes Occidentales, contre la Martinique : avec la reduction de la Guadelupe, et autres Isles Sous Vent, appartenant au roi de France, en 1759 / par Mons. Gardiner, capitaine des Mousquetaires Royaux de S.M., autrefois capitaine des Troupes de Marine à bord le Rippon, vaisseau de S.M. employé à cette expedition.

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Creator:
Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[6] pages, 91, [1] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Catalogue of pictures : copied or multiplied (for sale) by a chymical and mechanical process ; exhibited with the capital originals from which they have been taken, by the Polygraphic Society, at their rooms, in Pall-Mall : being their seventh exhibition : opened in January, 1792 : as specimens of what the Society engage to deliver to purchase.

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Creator:
Polygraphic Society (London, England)
Date:
[1792]
Physical Description:
14 p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Remarks concerning certain pictures supposed to be photographs of early date / by M.P.W. Boulton.

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Creator:
Boulton, M. P. W. (Matthew Piers Watt), -1894
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
74 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. An account of the expedition to the West Indies against Martinico : with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands : subject to the French king, 1759 / by Captain Gardiner of the King's Royal Musqueteers, late Captain of Marines on board his Majesty's Ship Rippon, employed on this expedition.

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Creator:
Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[6], 91, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates (2 folded) : i lllustrations, maps ; 31 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The works of the English poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical / by Samuel Johnson.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1779-1781
Physical Description:
68 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

93. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

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Creator:
Labat, maître d'armes
Date:
MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:
[2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Stedman's Nachrichten von Surinam und von seiner Expedition gegen die rebellischen Neger in dieser Kolonie in den Jahren 1772 bis 1777 : ein Auszug aus dem englischen Original.

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Creator:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744–1797
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
xiv, 522 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Atlas chinensis : being a second part of A relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tartar against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly, both of the whole empire of China in general, and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces / collected out of their several writing and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq. ...

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Creator:
Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636–1689
Date:
MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:
[6], 723, [1] pages, [72] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The fine arts of the English school : illustrated by a series of engravings, from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists : with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays, by various authors / edited, and partly written by John Britton, F.S.A.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[128] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

98. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

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Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building : ... rules of carpentry ... : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
[20] p., 83 plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. [The passions delineated].

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Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts