Period: 18th century / Associated Places: Great Britain / Image Available: Unavailable

1. [Metamorphic pictures].

Date:: [circa 1775]
Physical Description:: 7 drawings : watercolor on laid and wove paper ; sheets 10 x 7 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Account book of George Romney with his banker, Thomas Greene.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1788 August 19-1798 April 6
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([18] p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Manuscript daybook for George Romney, in the hand of Richard Williams.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1794-1796
Physical Description:: 1 volume ([4], 85, [57] pages) (many pages blank) ; 41 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Industry and idleness [graphic] / design'd by Wm. Hogarth.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

Creator:: Matthews, John, 1748–
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

Creator:: Chiffinch, William, 1602?-1688
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: iv, 144, 51, [3] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

Creator:: Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 64 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

8. An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ...

Creator:: Mudge, William, 1762–1820
Date:: 1799-1811
Physical Description:: 3 v. plates (partly fold.) incl. maps, tables, diagrs. 29 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. At Mr. de Poggi's new room, No. 91, New Bond Street, near Oxford Road, are now exhibiting two large pictures painted by Mr. Robert Cleveley of the Royal Navy : representing the great and important victory obtained by the British fleet, under the command of the Earl Howe, over the French, on the first of June, 1794.

Creator:: Poggi, A. C. de
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 leaflet ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Hipwell, John
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

12. [Transparent prints published by Rudolph Ackermann]

Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 109 prints : aquatint
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

14. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

Creator:: Pindar, Peter, 1738–1819
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Minutes of the proceedings at a court-martial assembled for the trial of the Honourable Admiral Augustus Keppel : on a charge exhibited against him by Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, as taken by George Jackson, Esq; Judge-Advocate of His Majesty's Fleet. Published by order of the Right Honourble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. : With an appendix containing all the letters and papers that have any relation to the trial.

Creator:: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725–1786
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: [4], 182 p. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof : their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [10], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. An essay on design in gardening.

Creator:: Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Remarks made in a tour from London to the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland in the summer of M.DCC.XCI. Originally published in the Whitehall Evening Post, and now reprinted with additions and corrections. To which is annexed, A sketch of the police, religion, arts, and agriculture of France, made in an excursion to Paris in M.DCC.LXXXV. By A. Walker, ...

Creator:: Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31–1821
Date:: M,DCC,XCII [1792]
Physical Description:: [6], 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. [Album of cut paper work].

Date:: [179-?]
Physical Description:: 1 volume (ca. 33 p.) ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. [All the bubbles]

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

24. Notebook of accounting exercises.

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

25. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, to the present times : collected from the best authorities, printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary.

Date:: 1778-1793
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

Date:: [1786-1788]
Physical Description:: [101] leaves, [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

Date:: [1791-1792]
Physical Description:: XII parts ([48] p., [37] leaves of plates ) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [2], 347-350 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

Creator:: Morison, Robert
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

Creator:: Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc
Date:: 1721
Physical Description:: 179, [21] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 54 x 46 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

36. Plans, sections, and elevations of Chiswick House and the Assembly Rooms, York.

Creator:: Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694–1753
Date:: [approximately 1735?]
Physical Description:: 11 prints in 1 volume ; sheets 50 x 70 cm, in volume 50 x 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. [Views of English cathedrals and churches]

Creator:: Buckler, John, 1770–1851
Date:: [1798-1814]
Physical Description:: 66 prints and 1 drawing in 1 portfolio : etching, aquatint, and watercolor ; sheets 56 x 73 cm or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

39. Geometry exercise book.

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

40. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

Creator:: Robertson, David, active 1794
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12], 233, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Magnae Britanniae Notitia : or, The present state of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

Creator:: Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616–1703
Date:: MDCCXXIII (1723)
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [12], 672, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXII [1772]
Physical Description:: 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Ogilby's and Morgan's Pocket-book of the roads : with their computed and measured distances, and the distinction of market and post towns : also a table for the ready finding any road, city, or market-town, and its distance from London : a sheet-map of England, fitted to bind with the book : and an exact account of all the fairs, both fixed and movable, in alphabetical order, shewing the days on which they are held / by William Morgan ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: [40], 17-166 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : containing a full and accurate description of whatever is remarkable and worthy of notice in the works of nature and art in the several counties, cities, towns, villages &c. of England, Wales and Scotland : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment, &c. : carefully and faithfully displayed.

Date:: [1780?]
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Creator:: Orme, Daniel, b. 1767
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 15 cm. + [1] plate.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

Creator:: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. An answer to certain assertions : contained in the appendix to a pamphlet entitled Minutes of the proceedings on the court martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship the Bounty / by Captain William Bligh.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [2], 31, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

Creator:: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: 4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

Creator:: Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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.

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

51. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

Creator:: Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

53. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: 32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: [2], 839-854 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Valuation of pictures at the Grainge : manuscript.

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

56. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1773-1787
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., maps, port., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: [4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

Creator:: Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:: MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 46-52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. [Receipt for drawing and engrossing lycence for Mr Skynnor and Lady].

Creator:: Martin, Phil., active 18th century
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 19 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. [Commercial traveler's catalog of silver-plated ware, possibly made in Sheffield].

Date:: [ca. 1780]
Physical Description:: 74 prints (in 1 volume) : engravings ; 24 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence, 1767-1917.

Date:: 1767-1917
Physical Description:: .84 linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

66. The method of cutting up a stag.

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

67. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved : wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills ... The whole illustrated with copper plates ... And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method / by Jacob Rowe, Esq;.

Creator:: Rowe, Jacob
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: [4], 38, [2] p. (last leaf blank), [5] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

70. The English baronetage : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... to which are added, an account of such Nova-Scotia baronets as are of English families, now resident in England : and a list of such persons names who were deemed fit and qualifiwed at the restoration, to be made Knights of the Royal Oak ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 5 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Nakedness consider'd, or, Reasons for not wearing of clothes / by a gentleman of great parts.

Creator:: Gentleman of great parts
Date:: 1729
Physical Description:: [7], 1 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. An Act for the further punishment of such persons as shall unlawfully kill or destroy deer in parks, paddocks, or other inclosed grounds.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: [1719]
Physical Description:: [2], 463-464 p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design ... / by J. Miller, architect.

Creator:: Miller, J. (John), architect
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 32 plates, 4 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The general stud-book.

Date:: 1791-
Physical Description:: v. ; 21-23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Lichfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol : giving an account of their foundations, builders, antient monuments and inscriptions, endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages, dates of consecreation, admission, preferment, deaths, burials, and epithaphs of the archbishops, bishops, deans, precentors, chancellors, treasurers, archdeacons, and prebendaries ... : with an exact account of all the churches and chapels in every diocese ... / by Browne Willis ...

Creator:: Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:: 1727-1730
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 3 : ill., plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Six sketches in aquatinta / by Mr. Cartwright.

Creator:: Cartwright, Mr.
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The royal geographical amusement, or, The European traveller / designed from the grand tour by Dr. Nugent.

Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : map ; 50 x 69 cm. folded to 18 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The chronicle of England / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCLXXVII-MDCCLXXVIII [1777-1778]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire; member in three successive parliaments for Berkshire. : First published in the paper of the World. / Inscribed to Sir Paul Jodrell, by Edward Topham ...

Creator:: Topham, Edward, 1751–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: vii, l06 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. The plans, elevations, and sections, chimney-pieces, and cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk : built by Sr. Robert Walpole ... Earl of Orford &c. / the whole designed by Thomas Ripley ... ; delinated by Isaac Ware and William Kent ... ; and engrav'd by ... Mr. Fourdrinier , with a description of the house and of the elegant collection of pictures.

Creator:: Ripley, Thomas, -1758
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [4], 10 p., [37] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Count A. Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646–1720
Date:: MDCCXCIV [1794]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. John Howard halfpenny token.

Date:: [1794?]
Physical Description:: 1 token : copper ; 28 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional duty on certificates issued with respect to the killing of game.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 1047-1053, [1] p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

Creator:: Robertson, David, active 1794
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12], 235, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times : collected from the best authorities, both printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary ...

Date:: 1747-1766
Physical Description:: 6 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The compleat sportsman ... Part I. Containing the nature and various kinds of game ... Part II. Of the ... erecting and management of parks, warrens, &c. of hunting the buck, doe, &c., ... Part III. Of fish and fishing ...

Creator:: Jacob, Giles, 1686–1744
Date:: 1718
Physical Description:: 6 p.l., 152, [4] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1772, inclusive ... by the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

Creator:: Barlow, Frederick
Date:: 1772-1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. A supplement to the four volumes of the Peerage of England : containing a succession of the peers from 1740 : with accounts of those that have been promoted to higher titles, and a genealogical history of all the families since advanced to the peerage of this kingdom ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters, curiously engraven on copper plates : collected from records, authentick manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities ... / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: 2 v. (viii, 820 p.) : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The continuation of Mr. Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, from the revolution to the accession of King George II : illustrated with thirty-six heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons, also with twenty maps and sea-charts / by N. Tindal ....

Creator:: Tindal, N. (Nicholas), 1687–1774
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 2 v. ill., ports., maps ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Earnest and affectionate address to the people of England concerning the usual recreations on Shrove Tuesday.

Creator:: Tucker, Josiah, 1712–1799
Date:: [1750]
Physical Description:: 10 p. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith, LL. D. and F.R.S., formerly professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Smith, Adam, 1723–1790
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham : with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 158 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of useful designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces, slab tables, pier glasses, or tabernacle frames ... / explained on copper plates by Wm. Jones.

Creator:: Jones, William, -1757
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: [7] leaves, 60 [i.e. 56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Gosling & Bennet account book.

Creator:: Gosling & Bennet (London, England)
Date:: 1751 September 28-1756 March 24
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([138] p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive ... By the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

Creator:: Barlow, Frederick
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 2 v.: front., ports., 25 numb. pl. (coats of arms) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The heads of the kings of England : proper for Mr. Rapin's History, translated by N. Tindal ... : viz. Egbert First, monarch of England, Alfred the Great, Canute the Dane, William the Conquerer, first of the Norman line, and all the succeeding kings and sovereign queens to the Revolution : with some of the most illustrious princes of the royal family / collected, drawn, and engraven, with ornaments and decorations, by George Vertue ; to which are added, the heads of Mr. Rapin and N. Tindal ... ; and an account of the several heads, of the antiquities that have been followed, and of the pictures copied for engraving them ; also, twenty two plates of the monuments of the kings of England, with their epitaphs, and inscriptions, and a brief historical account of them.

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 12 p., [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ports. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: [1783]-1797
Physical Description:: 8 v. : ill., maps, port., plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. An Act to repeal an Act, made in the tenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the game within that part of Great Britain called England : and for making other provisions in lieu thereof.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:: [2], 1583-1590 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Seymour's twelve prints of hunters & running horses [graphic] : taken in various actions.

Creator:: Seymour, James, 1702–1752
Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. [Metamorphic pictures].

2. Account book of George Romney with his banker, Thomas Greene.

3. Manuscript daybook for George Romney, in the hand of Richard Williams.

4. Industry and idleness [graphic] / design'd by Wm. Hogarth.

6. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

7. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

8. An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ...

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

12. [Transparent prints published by Rudolph Ackermann]

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

14. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

15. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

19. An essay on design in gardening.

21. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

22. [Album of cut paper work].

23. [All the bubbles]

24. Notebook of accounting exercises.

26. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

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

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

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

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

31. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

32. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

33. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

34. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

36. Plans, sections, and elevations of Chiswick House and the Assembly Rooms, York.

37. [Views of English cathedrals and churches]

39. Geometry exercise book.

40. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

41. Magnae Britanniae Notitia : or, The present state of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

42. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

45. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

46. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

47. An answer to certain assertions : contained in the appendix to a pamphlet entitled Minutes of the proceedings on the court martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship the Bounty / by Captain William Bligh.

48. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

49. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

51. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

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

53. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

54. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

55. Valuation of pictures at the Grainge : manuscript.

56. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

57. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

58. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

59. [Receipt for drawing and engrossing lycence for Mr Skynnor and Lady].

60. [Commercial traveler's catalog of silver-plated ware, possibly made in Sheffield].

61. Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence, 1767-1917.

62. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

63. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

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

66. The method of cutting up a stag.

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

71. Nakedness consider'd, or, Reasons for not wearing of clothes / by a gentleman of great parts.

72. An Act for the further punishment of such persons as shall unlawfully kill or destroy deer in parks, paddocks, or other inclosed grounds.

73. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design ... / by J. Miller, architect.

74. The general stud-book.

76. Six sketches in aquatinta / by Mr. Cartwright.

77. The royal geographical amusement, or, The European traveller / designed from the grand tour by Dr. Nugent.

78. The chronicle of England / by Joseph Strutt.

79. The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire; member in three successive parliaments for Berkshire. : First published in the paper of the World. / Inscribed to Sir Paul Jodrell, by Edward Topham ...

81. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Count A. Hamilton.

82. John Howard halfpenny token.

83. An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional duty on certificates issued with respect to the killing of game.

84. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

85. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

87. The compleat sportsman ... Part I. Containing the nature and various kinds of game ... Part II. Of the ... erecting and management of parks, warrens, &c. of hunting the buck, doe, &c., ... Part III. Of fish and fishing ...

88. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1772, inclusive ... by the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

90. The continuation of Mr. Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, from the revolution to the accession of King George II : illustrated with thirty-six heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons, also with twenty maps and sea-charts / by N. Tindal ....

91. Earnest and affectionate address to the people of England concerning the usual recreations on Shrove Tuesday.

92. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith, LL. D. and F.R.S., formerly professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes.

93. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham : with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.

94. The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of useful designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces, slab tables, pier glasses, or tabernacle frames ... / explained on copper plates by Wm. Jones.