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1. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

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Creator:
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 42 leaves) : ill. ; 21 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. An excursion to Cheltenham, Birmingham, & Oxford, &c. &c. &c. : August the 26th, 1782.

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Creator:
Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. Captain Molloy's remarks on board the Caesar.

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Creator:
Molloy, Anthony James Pye
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 v. (34 p.) : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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

7. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

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Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Bill of expenses incurred by John Lawford for the funeral of William Bodimeade : manuscript.

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Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 26 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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

19. 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

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

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

21. [Views in the South Seas]

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Creator:
Jukes, Francis, 1745–1812
Date:
1787-1788
Physical Description:
4 prints : etching and aquatint ; plate marks 50.1 x 66.5, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

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Date:
1758 April 27
Physical Description:
1 sheet : parchment ; 71 x 86 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Andrew F. Petryn

23. Botanical collages from the circle of Booth Grey.

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Creator:
Grey, Booth, 1740–1802
Date:
1790s
Physical Description:
40 linear feet (139 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. 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

25. 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

26. A new drawing book.

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

27. 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

28. Account book of the surveyors of the highway in the parish of Healaugh.

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Date:
1768-1837
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. [Muster order for the enrollment into the Gloucestershire militia].

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Date:
August 30, 1770
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Exhibition of Mr. Wright's Pictures at Robin's Rooms, Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

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Creator:
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 v. (26 p.) ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

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Creator:
Boyn, John
Date:
1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Account book.

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Creator:
Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Date:
1784 January 1-December 31
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. 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

38. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

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Creator:
Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Date:
circa 1776-circa 1832
Physical Description:
1 v. (270 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. A general map of North America : in which is express'd the several new roads, forts, engagements, & c, taken from actual surveys and observations made in the army employ'd there, from the years 1754, to 1761 / drawn by the late John Rocque, topographer to his majesty = Cartes generales de l'Amérique Septentrionale; en les quelles sont exprimis les nouvelles routes, forts, batailles, &c. d'apres les observations qui ou été faites depuis l'an 1754, jusqu'a l'an 1761: recuellies par feu Jean Rocque, topographe de sa Majesté Britannique.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[1762?]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets : hand colored ; 87 x 89 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. 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.

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

44. A plan of the city, and fortifications of Louisburg / from a survey made by Richard Gridley ... ; A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg : with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the siege in 1745.

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Creator:
Gridley, Richard, 1711–1796
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
2 maps on 1 sheet ; 38 x 47 cm. and 38 x 45 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

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Creator:
Grierson, George, -1753
Date:
1740]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. 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

47. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

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Creator:
Armstrong, John, -1758
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
1 map ; 66 x 45 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. 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

55. 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

56. 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

57. Comforts of Bath.

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Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
12 prints : aquatint ; 19 x 24 cm, mounted to leaves in an album 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. 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

59. A book of maps / by Geo. Hutson Jun., MDCCLXXVII.

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Creator:
Hutson, George, 1754 or 5–1794
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
1 volume (37 leaves) : maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Geometry exercise book.

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

61. Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1795, April 16-1816, September 10.

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Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Date:
1795, April 16-1816, September 10
Physical Description:
1 volume ([225] p.) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

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Creator:
Forbes, Miss
Date:
1780-1781
Physical Description:
1 v. (115 leaves, with blanks) ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street, Worcester.

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Creator:
Simpson, Miss
Date:
ca. 1795
Physical Description:
1 v. ([35] p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

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Creator:
Pocklington, Joseph, 1736–1817
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 v. ([15] p.) ; 14 cm.
Collection:
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65. Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR.

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Creator:
Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:
1750-1778
Physical Description:
1 v. ([83] p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
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66. 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

67. General inventory of Colonel Aston's furniture, plate, linen, china &c. September the 1, 1796 / Wm. Hadlow.

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Creator:
Hadlow, William, fl. 1796
Date:
1796-1802
Physical Description:
1 v. ([4], 99 p., with blanks) : 26 cm.
Collection:
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68. John Morphett drawing and writing exercise book.

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Creator:
Morphett, John
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
1 v. (12 leaves) : ill. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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

75. 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

76. 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

77. 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:
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78. 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

79. [The passions delineated].

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

80. A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

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Date:
[1758?]
Physical Description:
15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

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Creator:
Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
[4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:
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82. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

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Date:
[ca. 1725?]
Physical Description:
[25] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The prices of cabinet work, with tables and designs : illustrating the various articles of manufacture : revised and corrected by a committee of masters cabinet makers.

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Creator:
Committee of Masters Cabinet Makers (London, England)
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
xvi, 259 p., xvi leaves, 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

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Creator:
Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:
[1759]
Physical Description:
[1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:
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85. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

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

86. Letters from America, historical and descriptive : comprising occurrences from 1769 to 1777 inclusive / by William Eddis, late surveyor of the customs, &c. at Annapolis, in Maryland.

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Creator:
Eddis, William, 1738–1825
Date:
MDCCXCII [1792]
Physical Description:
[50], 455, [1] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Voyage historique de l'Amerique Meridionale : fait par ordre du roi d'Espagne / par Don George Juan ... et par Don Antoine de Ulloa ... ouvrage orné des figures, plans et cartes necessaires ; et qui contient une histoire de Yncas du Perou, et les observations astronomiques & physiques, faites pour déterminer la figure & la grandeur de la terre.

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Creator:
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716–1795
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

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Creator:
Anburey, Thomas, author
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... By E. Hargrove.

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Creator:
Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
4, 382 p. front., ill., plates, plan, col. fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. A residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 / described in a series of letters from an English lady : with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners ; prepared for the press by John Gifford ...

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Creator:
Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan : with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company : as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah : and a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell, esq.

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Creator:
Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711–1798
Date:
1766-1771
Physical Description:
3 pt. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam perillustris ac magnifici Domini Ignatii Christophori, nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall ... ab ... Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I ad ... Tzarum & Magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII ablegati extraordinarii / descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb ... ; 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 (13 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

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Date:
1773
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 96 pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes / par M. Fossé, officier Régiment d'Infanterie du Roi ; dédié a M. Le Duc du Chatelet.

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Creator:
Fossé, Charles-Louis-François, 1734–1812
Date:
MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:
[12], 116, 60, [2] p., 11 leaves of plates (10 folded) : col. ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

96. The history of the origin, progress, and termination of the American war / by C. Stedman : who served under Sir W. Howe, Sir H. Clinton, and the Marquis Cornwallis ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Stedman, C. (Charles), 1753–1812
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 volumes : maps, plans ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

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Date:
1796
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. [Flower groups].

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Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1744
Physical Description:
2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Clemency to brutes : the substance of two sermons preached on a Shrove-Sunday, with a particular view to dissuade from that species of cruelty annually practised in England, the throwing at cocks.

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Date:
1761
Physical Description:
31, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts