Creator Gender: unknown / Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Period: 18th century / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances

1. Beauties of the Dutch school.

Creator:: [Apostool]
Date:: 1793
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

3. Vûës des villes de Londres, de Canterbury, de Colchester, et autres lieux circonvoisens : avec leur principales eglises, palais, edifices, maison de campagne & autres choses remarquables. Representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec un courte description sous chaque figure ...

Creator:: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659–1733
Date:: [ca. 1710]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : all ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Vûës des villes de Yorck, de Lancaster et autres lieux circonvoisins : avec leurs principales maisons de campagne & autre choses remarquables : representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec une courte description sous chaque figure.

Creator:: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659–1733
Date:: [ca. 1710]
Physical Description:: [100] p. : all ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Bibliotheca exquisitissima, sive Librorum selectissimorum collectio in omni facultate, arte, scientia & lingua, nitidissime compactorum ... : Quos ... collegit, et magnam eorum partem propriis studiis / designavit Petrus vander Aa ... ; Horum publica auctio habebitur in ejus ædibus in Academia Lugduno Batava, ad diem 20 Septembris stili novi 1729. & seqq.

Creator:: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659–1733
Date:: [1729]
Physical Description:: 3 v. ([10], 903, [1] p.) ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A set of new designs for coach & chariot bodies = Receuil de diverse nouveau desseins en carosses et carosses coupé / by Edw. Abbott, painter.

Creator:: Abbott, Edward, 1737–1791
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [13] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Suite du Neptune françois, ou, Atlas nouveau des cartes marines : levées par ordre expres des roys de Portugal, sous qui on a fait la découverture de l'Afrique &c., et données au public par les soins de feu Monsieur d'Ablancourt ... / le tout fait sur les observations & l'experience des plus habiles ingenieurs & pilotes.

Creator:: Ablancourt, sieur d', 1621–1696
Date:: MDCC [1700]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (5, [1] pages, [80] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, 37 maps ; 65 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Explication des peintures, sculptures, et autres ouvrages de messieurs de l'Academie royale; dont l'exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l'intention de Sa Majeste', par M. Le Normand de Tournehem ...

Creator:: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 14 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Seven conferences held in the King of France's cabinet of paintings, between Mr. Le Brun, Mr. Bourdon, Mr. de Champagne, Mr. Perrault, &c. on some of the most celebrated pictures of Raphael, Titian, Paulo Veronese, Poussin, &c. in which the method of forming a judgment on paintings, is laid down with the greatest elegance and perspicuity. Translated from the French of Felibien. With a curious preface.

Creator:: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Date:: 1740
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [iii]-lxii, 170, [2] p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Watercolor box.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: between 1799 and 1827
Physical Description:: 1 watercolor box : wood ; 10 x 26 x 4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Fifth book containing nine imitations of drawings of fashionable carriage : on a half inch scale to a foot.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [2] p., 9 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [10] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missis[s]ippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ... : with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missis[s]ippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ... / By James Adair.

Creator:: Adair, James, ca. 1709–1783
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 6 p. l., 464 p. front. (fold map) 28 x 22cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

15. Works in architecture.

Creator:: Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
Date:: 1778-1779
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Index villaris, or, An exact register, alphabetically digested, of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, ... the bishopricks, deanries [sic], churches, chapels, hospitals : with the rectories and vicarages in England and Wales, ... the private seats of the king, nobility and gentry, the number of Parliament men sent by cities or burroughs, the inns of court, colleges, inns of chancery, or other societies ... : hereto is added a perfect catalogue of the nobility of England and Wales, to the present time, Feb. 20 1700, with their respective seats and the counties wherein they are situate.

Creator:: Adams, Mr. (John), -1738
Date:: 1700
Physical Description:: [8], 420 [i.e. 416] p. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Geometrical and graphical essays : containing a description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new problems, illustrative of each branch / by George Adams, ...

Creator:: Adams, George, 1750–1795
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [4], xvi, 500 p., [1], 32 leaves of plates (some folded) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales : with the tragedy of Cato, Nov. 1714 : to Sir Godfrey Kneller on his picture of the King.

Creator:: Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Date:: 1716
Physical Description:: [2], 9 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The works of the late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq; : ... With a complete index.

Creator:: Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The poetical works of Joseph Addison. : With the life of the author.

Creator:: Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [2], xxxii, 146, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm. (12 mo.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The British cabinet : containing portraits of illustrious personages, engraved from original pictures, with biographical memoirs / by John Adolphus ...

Creator:: Adolphus, John, 1768–1845
Date:: 1799-1800
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Choice observations upon the art of painting : together with Vasari's Lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo : with an explanation of the difficult terms.

Creator:: Aglionby, William, d. 1705
Date:: 1719
Physical Description:: [36], 374 [i.e. 387], [2] p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

Creator:: Aheron, John
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: vi, 110, 8, [20] pages, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Letters from a father to his son, on various topics, relative to literature and the conduct of life. Written in the years 1792 and 1793, by J. Aikin, M.D.

Creator:: Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: xii, 348 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A description of the country from thirty to forty miles round Manchester : containing its geography, natural and civil; principal productions; river and canal navigations; a particular account or its towns and chief villages; their history, population, commerce, and manufactures; buildings, government, &c. / The materials arranged, and the work composed by J. Aikin, M.D. embellished and illustrated with seventry-three plates.

Creator:: Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [8], 624 pages, [62] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The poems of Mark Akenside, M. D.

Creator:: Akenside, Mark, 1721–1770
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xii, 402 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books : of painting in three books and of statuary in one book : translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli : and now first into English, and divided into three volumes / by James Leoni, Venetian, architect ; to which are added several designs of his own, for buildings both public and private.

Creator:: Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404–1472
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The anatomy of painting, or, A short and easy introduction to anatomy : being a new edition, on a smaller scale, of six tables of Albinus, with their linear figures ; also, a new translation of Albinus's history of that work, and of his index to the six tables : to which are added the anatomy of Celsus, with notes, and the physiology of Cicero : with an introduction, giving a short view of picturesque anatomy / by John Brisbane ...

Creator:: Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697–1770
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: xxvi, [5]-76 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body / by Bernard Siegfried Albinus ; translated from the Latin.

Creator:: Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697–1770
Date:: 1777-1778
Physical Description:: vi, 32, [3], 32-86 p. : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

Creator:: Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [viii], 54 p., illus., plans 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The elements of civil architecture according to Vitruvius and other ancients and the most approved practice of modern authors, especially Palladio by Henry Aldrich, translated by Philip Smyth.

Creator:: Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: lxvi, 66 p. 55 plates (incl. plans) 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. An essay on painting. Written in Italian by Count Algarotti, F.R.S., F.S.A.

Creator:: Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712–1764
Date:: 1764
Physical Description:: viii, 190 p, [1] l. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Saggio sopra l'Accademia di Francia che è in Roma ...

Creator:: Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712–1764
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 52 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Saggio sopra la pittura ...

Creator:: Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712–1764
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 184, [1] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Book of aquatint landscapes / drawn and engraved by S. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Samuel, 1756–1815
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Six landscapes / from drawings by the Reverend Mr. Gilpin ; engraved by S. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Samuel, 1756–1815
Date:: [Feby. 1st. 1794]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all illustrations ; 30 x 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Book of aquatint landscapes / drawn and engraved by S. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Samuel, 1756–1815
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

Creator:: Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: [4], 182, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Terræ-filius: or, The secret history of the University of Oxford; in several essays. To which are added, remarks upon a late book entitled, University education, by R. Newton ...

Creator:: Amhurst, N. (Nicholas), 1697–1742
Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 354 p. front. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

41. The history of Great Britain connected with the chronology of Europe: with notes, &c. containing anecdotes of the times, lives of the learned, and specimens of their works ... By James Pettit Andrews ...

Creator:: Andrews, James Pettit, 1737?-1797
Date:: 1794-1795
Physical Description:: 2 v., folded plates : genealogical tables ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A topographical map of Wiltshire : on a scale of 2 inches to a mile, from an actual survey / by John Andrews & Andrew Dury in the year 1773 ; J. Andrews sculp.

Creator:: Andrews, John, 1736–1809
Date:: [1773]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 18 sheets ; 273 x 189 cm, sheets 54 x 72 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Essai sur le beau, par le père André j... avec un discours préliminaire, et des réflexions sur le goût. Par M. Formey.

Creator:: André, Yves Marie, 1675–1764
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: 2 p.., lxxx, [2], 106 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Proposal for printing by subscription L'ecole des armes, ou, L'explication generale des principales attitudes et positions concernent l'escrime / written the first edition in French, the second in English, by Mr. Angelo Tremamondo, fencing master to Their Royal Highnesses Prince William Henry & Prince Henry Frederick.

Proposal for printing by subscription L'ecole des armes, ou, L'explication generale des principales attitudes et positions concernent l'escrime / written the first edition in French, the second in English, by Mr. Angelo Tremamondo, fencing master to Their Royal Highnesses Prince William Henry & Prince Henry Frederick.

Creator:: Angelo, Domenico, 1717?-1802
Date:: circa 1763
Physical Description:: [2] sheets ([4] p.) ; 31 x 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. An election ball : in poetical letters from Mr. Inkle, at Bath, to his wife at Glocester : with a poetical address to John Miller, Esq. at Batheaston villa / by the Author of the New Bath guide.

Creator:: Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. An election ball : in poetical letters from Mr. Inkle, at Bath, to his wife, at Glocester / by the author of The new Bath guide.

Creator:: Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: 64 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The new Bath guide: or memoirs of the B-n-r-d family. In a series of poetical epistles.

Creator:: Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: viii, 175 p. front. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A picture of Italy / translated fron the original German of W. de Archenholtz, formerly a captain in the Prussian service, by Joseph Trapp ...

Creator:: Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 1743–1812
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: xii, 327 p. : 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Examen critique des différentes ecoles de peinture, par M. Jean Bapt. de Boyer marquis d'Argens ...

Creator:: Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d', 1704–1771
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: xiv, 528 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. An account of a newly invented beautiful green paint. Lasting in the open air, and daily improving by the winds, sunshine and rains. Prepared by Francis Armstrong ...

Creator:: Armstrong, Francis
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 31 p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Sketches: or Essays on various subjects. By Launcelot Temple, esq;

Creator:: Armstrong, John, 1709–1779
Date:: 1758
Physical Description:: vii, 86 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The poetical works of J. Armstrong ... With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

Creator:: Armstrong, John, 1709–1779
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [2], xi, [1], 14-87, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The art of preserving health : a poem / by John Armstrong, M.D.

Creator:: Armstrong, John, 1709–1779
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 99 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. 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 ...

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

55. A map of the United States of North America : drawn from a number of critical researches / by A. Arrowsmith.

Creator:: Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823
Date:: Jany. 1st 1796
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 123 x 141 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. 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.

Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The art of japanning, varnishing, pollishing, and gilding. : Being a collection of very plain directions and receipts. Written for the use of those who have a mind to follow those diverting and useful amusements, and published at the request of several ladies of distinction. / By Mrs. Artlove.

Creator:: Artlove, Mrs
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: [2], 26, [2] p. (the final 2 p. blank ; 21 cm.(8 vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. List of pattern book belonging to Ashforth, Ellis, Wilson and Hawksleys, platers, Sheffield.

Creator:: Ashforth, Ellis, Wilson and Hawksleys (Firm)
Date:: [ca. 1785]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum viri clarissimi Antonii à Wood. Being a minute catalogue of each particular contained in the manuscript collections of Antony a Wood, deposited in the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford. By William Huddesford, M. A., Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

Creator:: Ashmolean Museum
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., [13]-52 p. 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. [Views in Scotland].

Creator:: Ashmore
Date:: Decr. 1793
Physical Description:: [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

Creator:: Association of Architects (London, England)
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [5]-31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A description and historical account of the places, now the theatre of war in the Low Countries : viz Charlemont, Givet, Arras, St. Omer, Bethune, Aire, Lens, Bapaume, Hedin, St. Venant, Lillers, St. Paul, Dunkirk, Berg St. Vinox, Cassel, Bourbourg, Gravelines, Lisle, Douay, St. Amand, Armentiers, Orchies, Comines, La Bôssee, Tourcoing, Valenciennes, Maubeuge, Conde, Le Quesnoy, Bouchain, Landrecies, Philippeville, Avesnes, Chimay, Bavay, Cambray, Cateau-Cambresis, Thionville, Montmedi, &c. : embellished with a frontispiece and plans of those places the most remarkable for their fortifications / by Philip Astley, of Hercules Hall, Lambeth, London ; author of the "Remarks of the profession and duty of a soldier and other observations relative to the Arny.".

Creator:: Astley, Philip, 1742–1814
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: v, [3], 82 p., [16] folded leaves of plates : ill., facsim., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A conference between a painter and an engraver : containing some useful hints and necessary instructions, proper for the young artist / by Tho. Atkinson ...

Creator:: Atkinson, Thomas
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [1], 31 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The ancient and present state of Glocestershire. By Sir Robert Atkyns, knt.

Creator:: Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1647–1711
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: 5 p. l., 452, [6] p. 71 pl. (part double, part fold.), coats of arms, double map, double plan. 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens near Pekin: In a letter from F. Attiret, a French missionary, now employ'd by that emperor to paint the apartments in those gardens, to his friend at Paris. Translated from the French, by Sir Harry Beaumont.

Creator:: Attiret, Jean Denis, 1702–1768
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: vi, 50 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

Creator:: Austin, William, 1721–1820
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 6, [2] p., [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Vignola revived : wherein is shown the true and most elegant proportions of the five orders as laid down by that great master : illustrated by two hundred and twenty-seven designs of palaces and other magnificent buildings : executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere : neatly engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates : adapted not only to the general use of architecture, but herein particular subjects are treated with the greatest accuracy, viz. : the five orders; columns, symbolical, &c. &c. doors, windows, niches, &c. cornishes, French and Italian ; ballustrades, mosaic work, mouldings, &c., sections of rooms, with designs for furniture; ornamental iron-work for various purposes; temples, grotto's, and summer retreats, for parks, gardens, &c. plan, elevations, and sections of the castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a church, pallaces [sic], &c. : with many other particulars relative to the art of building.

Creator:: Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653–1701
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 56 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Temples anciens et modernes, ou, Observations historiques et critiques sur les plus celebres monumens d'architecture grecque et gothique / par M. L. M.

Creator:: Avril, Louis, b. 1722
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: [2], xvj, 347, [3] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. An historical description of an ancient picture in Windsor Castle. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe ...

Creator:: Ayloffe, Joseph, Sir, 1709–1781
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 45 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Historical description of an ancient picture in Windsor-Castle : representing the interview between King Henry VIII and the French king Francis I : between Guines and Andres in the year 1520 / by Sir Joseph Ayloffe ...

Creator:: Ayloffe, Joseph, Sir, 1709–1781
Date:: [1771?]
Physical Description:: 47 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Mémoires sur le Louvre.

Creator:: Bachaumont, Louis Petit de, 1690–1771
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 31 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Essai sur la peinture, la sculpture, et l'architecture ...

Creator:: Bachaumont, Louis Petit de, 1690–1771
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 1 p.., vi, [7]-93 p. front. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Chorographia Britanniae, or, A set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales : ... with the particular map of each county is an account of all the cities, boroughs, market towns, parishes, and rivers therein, the number of members it sends to Parliament, the market and fair days, and in those of Oxford and Cambridge are the names of all the colleges and halls in both universities, with the dates of their foundations : to the whole is added an alphabetical index of all the cities, boroughs, & market towns, properly distinguish'd from each other, and in what county they are situate : this collection ... was first drawn and compiled into a pocket book, by order and for the use of His late Majesty King George I / by Thomas Badeslade, surveyor and engineer, and now neatly engraved by Will. Henry Toms.

Creator:: Badeslade, Thomas
Date:: 1742
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([53] leaves) : 46 col. maps ; 25 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Noblemen and gentlemen's seats in ... Kent.

Creator:: Badeslade, Thomas
Date:: 1715
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A compleat sett of mapps of England and Wales in general, and of each county in particular : accurately projected in a new method and all of them original drawings, most humbly inscribed to His Majesty King George by Francis Negus, Comisioner for Executing the Office of Master of the Horse to His Majesty : drawn and finsh'd by Tho. Badeslade.

Creator:: Badeslade, Thomas
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([58] leaves) : maps ; 17 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen halbinsel Californien : mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten / geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher land darinn diese letztere Jahr gelbt hat ...

Creator:: Baegert, Jacob, 1717–1772
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: [16], 358, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, walls, gates, bridges ... and many other curious matters in antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the difference between the ancient and present state of these two famous cities. By N.B.

Creator:: Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742
Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 244 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Lettre sur la peinture, sculpture, et architecture à M. ***.

Creator:: Baillet de Saint Julien, Louis Guillaume, Baron, fl. 1748–1775
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 239 (i.e. 139), [6] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Bainbridge deer park management archive, 1760-1821.

Creator:: Bainbridge family
Date:: 1760-1821
Physical Description:: 0.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

80. A picturesque guide through Wales and the Marches : interspersed with the most interesting subjects of antiquity in the principality / by James Baker.

Creator:: Baker, James, topographer
Date:: 1794-1795
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, collected by Lieutenant General James Dormer, / which will be sold by auction (by order of the administrator) by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent -Garden : to begin on Monday, February the 20th, 1764, and to continue the nineteen following evenings, beginning each evening exactly at six o'clock.

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1764]
Physical Description:: 2 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

83. Catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Martin Folkes, Esq. President of the Royal Society, and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, lately deceased : which will be sold by auction by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent Garden : to begin on Monday, February 2, 1756, and to continue for forty days successively (Sundays excepted).

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1756]
Physical Description:: 4 unnumbered pages, 156 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabve in qva, per le quali si dimostra come, e per chi le bell'arti di pittura, scultura, e architettura lasciata la rozzezza delle maniere greca, e gottica, si siano in questi secoli ridotte all' antica loro perfezione. Opera di Filippo Baldinvcci Fiorentino distinta in secoli, e decennali ...

Creator:: Baldinucci, Filippo, 1625–1696
Date:: 1681-1728
Physical Description:: 6 v. in 3. fold. geneal. tables. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The trial of Frederick Calvert, Esq., Baron of Baltimore in the kingdom of Ireland, for a rape on the body of Sarah Woodcock : and of Eliz. Griffinburg and Ann Harvey, otherwise Darby, as accessaries before the fact, for procuring, aiding, and abetting him in committing the said rape : at the assizes held at Kingston for the county of Surry, on Saturday the 26th of March, 1768 before the Hon. Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe, Knt., one of the barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer / published by permission of the judge ; taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.

Creator:: Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731–1771
Date:: MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:: [2], 74 p. ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Sir Joseph Banks's fishery book of the River Witham in Lincolnshire.

Creator:: Banks, Sarah Sophia, 1744–1818
Date:: 1784-1800
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. A view of the arts and sciences, from the earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great. By the Rev. James Bannister.

Creator:: Bannister, James, b. 1750 or 51
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [iii]-vii, 124 p., 1 leaf. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new ... account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell ...

Creator:: Bardwell, Thomas, 1704–1767
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [iii]-v, 64 p. VI plates. 26 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The Italian library : containing an account of the lives and works of the most valuable authors of Italy, with a preface, exhibiting the changes of the Tuscan language, from the barbarous ages to the present time / by Giuseppe Baretti.

Creator:: Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio, 1719–1789
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [2], xciv, [2], 343, [27] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. A guide through the Royal Academy / by Joseph Baretti ...

Creator:: Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio, 1719–1789
Physical Description:: 32 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The universal British directory of trade and commerce ; : comprehending lists of the inhabitants of London, Westminster, and borough of Southwark; ... with the mails, and other coaches, stage-waggons, hoys, packets, and trading vessels. ... : To which is added, a genuine account of the drawbacks and duties chargeable at the custom-house on all goods and merchandize ... with a particular of the public houses of every denomination ... with the whole body of liverymen, and places of residence, together with an historical and particular detail of the trade, polity, and manufactures, of each city, town, and village ...

Creator:: Barfoot, Peter
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. [Illustrations to Aesop's Fables]

Creator:: Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Date:: [175-?]
Physical Description:: 32 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Nouvaux livre d'oyseaux desinée au naturel.

Creator:: Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Physical Description:: 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. 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

95. 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

96. The case concerning setting up images or painting of them in churches ... : published upon occasion of a painting set up in White-chappel Church.

Creator:: Barlow, Thomas, 1607–1691
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [2], 22 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. An historical character relating to the holy and exemplary life of the Right Honourable Lady Elisabeth Hastings: to which are added: I.One of the codicils of her last will, setting forth her device of lands to the provost and scholars of Queen's college in Oxford, for the interest of twelve northern schools. II.Some observations resulting therefrom. III.A schedule of her other perpetual charities; with the principal rules for their administration. By Thomas Barnard ...

Creator:: Barnard, Thomas, 1685–1750
Date:: 1742
Physical Description:: xxviii, 190 p. 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol; compiled from original records and authentic manuscripts in public offices or private hands; illustrated with copper-plate prints. By William Barrett ...

Creator:: Barrett, William, 1733–1789
Date:: [1789]
Physical Description:: xix, 704 p. illus., 31 pl. (partly fold.) incl. front., plans, facsim. 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Dictionarium polygraphicum: or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ... adorned with proper sculptures, curiously engraven on more than fifty copper plates ...

Creator:: Barrow, John, fl. 1735–1756
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. A letter to the Dilettanti Society, respecting the obtention of certain matters essentially necessary for the improvement of public taste, and for accomplishing the original views of the Royal Academy of Great-Britain. By James Barry ...

Creator:: Barry, James, 1741–1806
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 292 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Beauties of the Dutch school.

3. Vûës des villes de Londres, de Canterbury, de Colchester, et autres lieux circonvoisens : avec leur principales eglises, palais, edifices, maison de campagne & autres choses remarquables. Representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec un courte description sous chaque figure ...

4. Vûës des villes de Yorck, de Lancaster et autres lieux circonvoisins : avec leurs principales maisons de campagne & autre choses remarquables : representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec une courte description sous chaque figure.

6. A set of new designs for coach & chariot bodies = Receuil de diverse nouveau desseins en carosses et carosses coupé / by Edw. Abbott, painter.

8. Explication des peintures, sculptures, et autres ouvrages de messieurs de l'Academie royale; dont l'exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l'intention de Sa Majeste', par M. Le Normand de Tournehem ...

10. Watercolor box.

11. Fifth book containing nine imitations of drawings of fashionable carriage : on a half inch scale to a foot.

12. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

15. Works in architecture.

17. Geometrical and graphical essays : containing a description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new problems, illustrative of each branch / by George Adams, ...

18. To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales : with the tragedy of Cato, Nov. 1714 : to Sir Godfrey Kneller on his picture of the King.

19. The works of the late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq; : ... With a complete index.

20. The poetical works of Joseph Addison. : With the life of the author.

21. The British cabinet : containing portraits of illustrious personages, engraved from original pictures, with biographical memoirs / by John Adolphus ...

22. Choice observations upon the art of painting : together with Vasari's Lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo : with an explanation of the difficult terms.

23. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

24. Letters from a father to his son, on various topics, relative to literature and the conduct of life. Written in the years 1792 and 1793, by J. Aikin, M.D.

26. The poems of Mark Akenside, M. D.

29. Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body / by Bernard Siegfried Albinus ; translated from the Latin.

30. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

31. The elements of civil architecture according to Vitruvius and other ancients and the most approved practice of modern authors, especially Palladio by Henry Aldrich, translated by Philip Smyth.

32. An essay on painting. Written in Italian by Count Algarotti, F.R.S., F.S.A.

33. Saggio sopra l'Accademia di Francia che è in Roma ...

34. Saggio sopra la pittura ...

35. Book of aquatint landscapes / drawn and engraved by S. Alken.

36. Six landscapes / from drawings by the Reverend Mr. Gilpin ; engraved by S. Alken.

37. Book of aquatint landscapes / drawn and engraved by S. Alken.

38. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

39. Terræ-filius: or, The secret history of the University of Oxford; in several essays. To which are added, remarks upon a late book entitled, University education, by R. Newton ...

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

41. The history of Great Britain connected with the chronology of Europe: with notes, &c. containing anecdotes of the times, lives of the learned, and specimens of their works ... By James Pettit Andrews ...

42. A topographical map of Wiltshire : on a scale of 2 inches to a mile, from an actual survey / by John Andrews & Andrew Dury in the year 1773 ; J. Andrews sculp.

43. Essai sur le beau, par le père André j... avec un discours préliminaire, et des réflexions sur le goût. Par M. Formey.

45. An election ball : in poetical letters from Mr. Inkle, at Bath, to his wife at Glocester : with a poetical address to John Miller, Esq. at Batheaston villa / by the Author of the New Bath guide.

46. An election ball : in poetical letters from Mr. Inkle, at Bath, to his wife, at Glocester / by the author of The new Bath guide.

47. The new Bath guide: or memoirs of the B-n-r-d family. In a series of poetical epistles.

48. A picture of Italy / translated fron the original German of W. de Archenholtz, formerly a captain in the Prussian service, by Joseph Trapp ...

49. Examen critique des différentes ecoles de peinture, par M. Jean Bapt. de Boyer marquis d'Argens ...

50. An account of a newly invented beautiful green paint. Lasting in the open air, and daily improving by the winds, sunshine and rains. Prepared by Francis Armstrong ...

51. Sketches: or Essays on various subjects. By Launcelot Temple, esq;

52. The poetical works of J. Armstrong ... With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

53. The art of preserving health : a poem / by John Armstrong, M.D.

54. 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 ...

55. A map of the United States of North America : drawn from a number of critical researches / by A. Arrowsmith.

57. The art of japanning, varnishing, pollishing, and gilding. : Being a collection of very plain directions and receipts. Written for the use of those who have a mind to follow those diverting and useful amusements, and published at the request of several ladies of distinction. / By Mrs. Artlove.

58. List of pattern book belonging to Ashforth, Ellis, Wilson and Hawksleys, platers, Sheffield.

59. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum viri clarissimi Antonii à Wood. Being a minute catalogue of each particular contained in the manuscript collections of Antony a Wood, deposited in the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford. By William Huddesford, M. A., Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

60. [Views in Scotland].

61. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

63. A conference between a painter and an engraver : containing some useful hints and necessary instructions, proper for the young artist / by Tho. Atkinson ...

64. The ancient and present state of Glocestershire. By Sir Robert Atkyns, knt.

65. A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens near Pekin: In a letter from F. Attiret, a French missionary, now employ'd by that emperor to paint the apartments in those gardens, to his friend at Paris. Translated from the French, by Sir Harry Beaumont.

66. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

68. Temples anciens et modernes, ou, Observations historiques et critiques sur les plus celebres monumens d'architecture grecque et gothique / par M. L. M.

69. An historical description of an ancient picture in Windsor Castle. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe ...

70. Historical description of an ancient picture in Windsor-Castle : representing the interview between King Henry VIII and the French king Francis I : between Guines and Andres in the year 1520 / by Sir Joseph Ayloffe ...

71. Mémoires sur le Louvre.

72. Essai sur la peinture, la sculpture, et l'architecture ...

74. Noblemen and gentlemen's seats in ... Kent.

76. Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen halbinsel Californien : mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten / geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher land darinn diese letztere Jahr gelbt hat ...

78. Lettre sur la peinture, sculpture, et architecture à M. ***.

79. Bainbridge deer park management archive, 1760-1821.

80. A picturesque guide through Wales and the Marches : interspersed with the most interesting subjects of antiquity in the principality / by James Baker.

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

86. Sir Joseph Banks's fishery book of the River Witham in Lincolnshire.

87. A view of the arts and sciences, from the earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great. By the Rev. James Bannister.

88. The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new ... account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell ...

89. The Italian library : containing an account of the lives and works of the most valuable authors of Italy, with a preface, exhibiting the changes of the Tuscan language, from the barbarous ages to the present time / by Giuseppe Baretti.

90. A guide through the Royal Academy / by Joseph Baretti ...

92. [Illustrations to Aesop's Fables]

93. Nouvaux livre d'oyseaux desinée au naturel.

94. 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 ...