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1. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

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Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

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Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

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Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Baronagium genealogicum; or, The pedigrees of the English peers, deduced from the earliest times, of which there are any attested accounts including, as well collateral as lineal descents. Originally comp. from the publick records and most authentic evidences; by Sr. William Segar ... and continued to the present time, by Joseph Edmondson.

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Creator:: Segar, William, Sir, -1633
Date:: [1764-84]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes genealogical tables, coats of arms 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Views in England, Wales, and Scotland.

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Creator:: Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:: circa 1787-circa 1819
Physical Description:: approximately 400 drawings in 3 volumes ; 54 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

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Date:: [1740]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts