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1. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817 : containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited / by Clarke Abel, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. and member of the Geological Society, Chief Medical Officer and naturalist to the Embassy ; illustrated by maps and other engravings.

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Creator:
Abel, Clarke, 1780–1826
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
xvi, 420 pages, [23] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas : for the lighting of streets, houses, and public buildings : with elevations, sections, and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus now employed at the gas works in London, and the principal provincial towns of Great Britain : accompanied with comparative estimates, exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light : with seven plates / by Fredrick Accum, operative chemist ; lecturer on practical chemistry, on mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures, member of the Royal Irish Academy, fellow of the Limæan Society, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.

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Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:
MDCCXIX [1819]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 334, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas, for the lighting of streets, houses, and public buildings, with elevations, sections, and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus now employed at the gas works in London, and the principal provincial towns of Great Britain, accompanied with comparative estimates, exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light / by Fredrick Accum.

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Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
xv, 334 p., [6] fold. plates : col. diagrs ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Guide to the chalybeate spring of Thetford : exhibiting the general and primary effects of the Thetford spa : rules essential to be observed whilst taking a course of the waters, an account of the diseases in which it will most probably be found in efficacious : cautionary hints against the indiscriminate use of this water in diseases to which it is inapplicable, and testimonials of medical men ... / by Fredrick Accum ...

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Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
xiv, 159 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
[2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Four views of Claremont.

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Creator:
Arnold, Harriot
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Sefer Rabenu Baḥye : beʾur ʻal ha-Torah / le-Rabenu Baḥye b.-r. Asher.

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Creator:
Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava, d. 1340
Date:
1819?]
Physical Description:
104, 53 [i.e. 208, 106] p. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

8. The costume of the hereditary states of the House of Austria : displayed in fifty coloured engravings / with descriptions, and an introduction by M. Bertrand de Moleville ; translated by R.C. Dallas, Esq. = Costumes des états héréditaires de la maison d'Autriche : consistant en cinquante gravures coloriées / dont les description, ainsi que l'introduction, ont été redigées par M. Bertrand de Moleville.

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Creator:
Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François, marquis de, 1744–1818
Date:
1804 [that is, 1819?]
Physical Description:
[4], iv, [102] pages, 50 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee : with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa / by T. Edward Bowdich.

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Creator:
Bowdich, T. Edward (Thomas Edward), 1791–1824
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 512 p., [14] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., map, facsim., music ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

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Creator:
Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2], 21, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The history and antiquities of the metropolitical church of York; illustrated by a series of engravings, of views, elevations, plans and details of the architecture of that edifice: with biographical anecdotes of the archbishops. By John Britton, F. S. A.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1819 [i. e. 1818-1819]
Physical Description:
96, [2] p. XXXVI plates (incl. plans) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The history and antiquities of the metropolitical church of York; illustrated by a series of engravings, of views, elevations, plans, and details of the architecture of that edifice: with biographical anecdotes of the archbishops. By John Britton, F. S. A.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1819 [i. e. 1818-1819]
Physical Description:
96, [2] p. XXXVI plates (incl. plans) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Groups of flowers : drawn and accurately coloured after nature : with full directions for the young artist, designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Britannica, Treatise on flower painting, &c.

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
20 p., [12] leaves of plates. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Groups of fruit : accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist : designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[16] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Six birds : accurately drawn and coloured after nature with full instructions for the young artist : intended as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[18] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Manor of Buckland, in the county of Gloucester.

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Creator:
Buckland Manor (England)
Date:
[between 1819 and 1822]
Physical Description:
broadside. 38 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A companion in a tour round Southampton: comprehending various particulars, ancient & modern, of the new forest, Lymington, Christchurch, Ringwood, Romsey, Winchester, Bishop's Waltham, Titchfield, Gosport, Portsmouth, &c. With notices of the villages, gentlemen's seats, curiosities, antiquities, &c. Occuring in the different roads described; and various biographical sketches. By John Bullar ...

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Creator:
Bullar, John
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
4 p. ., [7]-262, [4] p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Travels in Nubia; / by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. With maps, &c.

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Creator:
Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784–1817
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[6], xcii, 543 p., 4 leaves of plates (some folded): ill., port., maps, diagrs.; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.

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Creator:
Busby, C. A. (Charles Augustin), 1786–1834
Date:
[not before 1819]
Physical Description:
25 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The fishing costume and local scenery of Hartlepool, in the county of Durham / painted and engraved from nature by T.L. Busby.

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Creator:
Busby, Thomas Lord
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2], 6, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Hudibras / by Samuel Butler ; with Dr. Grey's annotations.

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Creator:
Butler, Samuel, 1612–1680
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Hudibras, a poem / by Samuel Butler. With notes selected from Grey and other authors, to which are prefixed a life of the author, and a preliminary discourse on the Civil War, &c. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II]

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Creator:
Butler, Samuel, 1612–1680
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Cary's Traveller's companion, or, A delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales : shewing the immediate route to every market and borough town throughout the kingdom, laid down from the best authorities on a new set of county maps : to which is added an alphabetical list of all the market towns with the days on which they are held.

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Creator:
Cary, John, approximately 1754–1835
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], [43] leaves (one folded), [16] p.) : 43 maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Cary's New itinerary, or, An accurate delineation of the great roads, both direct and cross throughout England and Wales, with many of the principal roads in Scotland / from an actual admeasurement by John Cary ; made by command of His Majesty's postmaster general for official purposes under the direction and inspection of Thomas Hasker ...

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Creator:
Cary, John, approximately 1754–1835
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[52] p., 124 columns, [90] p., 912 columns, 913-991, [1] p., [7] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons : from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant. / By James Caulfield ...

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Creator:
Caulfield, James, 1764–1826
Date:
1819-1820
Physical Description:
4 volumes : frontispiece, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the original Spanish by Charles Jarvis. Embellished with 24 highly finished engravings from drawings designed expressly for this ed.

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Creator:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
4 v. col. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A general history of Worcester : embellished with plates / by John Chambers ...

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Creator:
Chambers, John, 1780–1852
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
viii, 411 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Manor of Childswickham, in the county of Gloucester.

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Creator:
Childswickham Manor (England)
Date:
[between 1819 and 1822]
Physical Description:
broadside. 38 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A catalogue of the very capital, valuable and highly important collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures of the late Ph; Panné, Esq., of Great George Street, Hanover Square, deceased : comprising nearly 350 works of the greatest Masters of the several schools : many of them choicest specimens, both of gallery size, and precious cabinet bijoux of the most exquisite finishing which were selected by him from the finest public collections, or by means of private opportunities on the continent : the above were the investment of a very considerable capital, and will be found worthy of the judgement and taste of the late proprietor, which have been deservedly respected in the long course of thirty-seven years experience : by order of the administrator, they will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March 26, 1819, & two following days (Sunday excepted) each day at one o'clock precisely, without reserve.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
29, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Architectura ecclesiastica Londini : being a series of views, architectural and topographical, of the cathedral, collegiate and parochial churches in London, Southwark, & Westminster, with adjoining parishes : the whole illustrative of the ecclesiastical architecture of the metropolis : and also of the various topographical and historial accounts : consisting of one hundred and twenty-two plates from original drawings by John Coney, George Shepherd, etc. : to each is affixed an account of its original foundation : with connected memorabilia / with an introductory essay on early English architecture, and descriptional remarks by Charles Clarke.

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Creator:
Clarke, Charles, -1840
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[4], 35, [1], 7, [3] p., 123 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Claudii Claudiani Opera / ex editione Petri Burmanni secundi, sedulâ recensione accurata.

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Creator:
Claudianus, Claudius
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[4], 308, [1] p. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque : a poem.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
iii, [3], 276 p., [2], 29 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Observations on Ackermann's patent moveable axles, for four wheeled carriages, containing engraved elevations of carriages, with plans and sections, conveying accurate ideas of this superior improvement.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
2 p.., 58 p. plates. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A practical and familiar view of the science of physiognomy, compiled chiefly from the papers of the late Mr. T. Cooke, of Manchester, with a memoir and observations on the temperaments, by the editor. Illustrated by lithographic plates.

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Creator:
Cooke, Thomas, 1763–1818
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
x p., 1 ., 328, [12] p. VIII pl., incl front. (port.) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Antiquities of Saint Mary's Chapel at Stourbridge near Cambridge, &c. &c. / by John Sell Cotman, author of Architectural antiquities of Norfolk, Architectural antiquities of Normandy, &c. &c.

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Creator:
Cotman, John Sell, 1782–1842
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2], 2 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A compendium of the theory and practice of drawing and painting : illustrated by the technical terms in art : with practical observations on the essential lines and the forms connected with them : adapted to the earliest state of instruction for the use of school or private tuition : to which is added, the practice of the pencil, chalk, tinted, and water-colour drawing / by R. Dagley ; author of "Select gems from the antique".

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Creator:
Dagley, Richard, d. 1841
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
xvi, 79 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Letters from Buenos Ayres and Chile : with an original history of the latter country : illustrated with engravings / by the author of Letters from Paraguay.

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Creator:
Davie, John Constanse
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
xi, 323, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The life of Bartolomé E. Murillo, comp. from the writings of various authors. Tr. by Edward Davies ...

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Creator:
Davies, Edward, captain
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
2 p.l., [iii]-x p., 1 leaf, [xi]-ciii, [2], 9-183, [1] p., 1 leaf. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A treatise on land-surveying : in seven parts ... : the whole illustrated with upwards of two hundred diagrams, and a coloured plan of an estate / by Thomas Dix.

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Creator:
Dix, Thomas, 1769 or 1770–1813
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
xii, [214], [2] p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Voyage en Perse pendant les annees 1812 et 1813 : contenant des details peu connus sur les moeurs, usages, coutumes et ceremonies religieuses des Persans : ainsi que sur leur etat militaire, tant ancien qu'actuel, et generalement sur tout ce que concern les forces regulieres et irregulieres de cet empire.

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Creator:
Drouville, Gaspard
Date:
1819-1820
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 26 cm. + 1 atlas ([60] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The new British traveller; or, Modern panorama of England and Wales; : exhibiting ... an ... account, historical, topographical, and statistical, of this ... portion of the British empire ... interspersed with biographical particulars of eminent and remarkable persons. / By James Dugdale ...

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Creator:
Dugdale, James
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
4 v., [94] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. William's secret. By Mary Elliott, (late Belson,) ...

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Creator:
Elliott, Mary, 1794?-1870
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
60, [4] p. col. fold. front., 2 col. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Copy of an ancient deed relating to Broadway and Pershore fairs, in Worcestershire.

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Creator:
England. Sovereign (1422–1461 : Henry VI)
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
p. [31]-42. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Copy of an exemplification of a decree relating to Broadway, in Worcestershire.

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Creator:
England. Sovereign (1422–1461 : Henry VI)
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
p. [19]-29. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A catalogue of the curious and extensive library, of the late John North, Esq. : removed from his residence East Acton / they will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, no. 26, Pall-Mall.

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Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
3 volumes (58 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 80 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 38 pages) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. An original history of the city of Gloucester : almost wholly compiled from new materials, supplying the numerous deficiencies and correcting the errors, of preceding accounts : including also the original papers of the late Ralph Bigland ... / by the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke ...

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Creator:
Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770–1842
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2], x, 471 p., [38] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plan ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

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Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
[1819?]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

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Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Galerie Imperiale et Royale de Florence.

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Creator:
Galleria degli Uffizi
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
193 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Dr. Goldsmith's Abridged history of England : from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of George II / continued from that period to the bombardment of Copenhagen by an able writer ; and brought down to the present time by an attentive observer of public events.

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Creator:
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[4], 444 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts