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1. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

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Date:
[not after 18 November 1477]
Physical Description:
[78] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The Canterbury tales.

The Canterbury tales.
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1483]
Physical Description:
[312] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

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Date:
[1519?]
Physical Description:
[72] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

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Creator:
Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:
1897
Physical Description:
[8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

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Creator:
Saviolo, Vincentio
Date:
1595
Physical Description:
[6], 17 [i.e. 21] leaves, [250] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.

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Creator:
Manwood, John, -1610
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:
3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The true travels, adventvres, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593 to 1629 : his accidents and sea-fights in the Straights, his service and strategems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia ... : together with a continuation of his Generall history of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624, to this present 1629, as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies / all written by actuall authors, whose names you shall finde along the history.

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Creator:
Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:
1630
Physical Description:
[12], 60 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The union of honovr : containing the armes, matches and issves of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640 : with the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being : and of the gentry of Lincolnshire : whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the conquest, till the yeere 1602 / collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-Smith.

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Creator:
Yorke, James, fl. 1640
Date:
1640
Physical Description:
16, 331, 52, 76 p. : coats of arms ; 31 cm. (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated : wherein is contained a geographical and historical description of that famous county, with all its hundreds and seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders; its rivers, towns, castles, buildings ancient and modern. Adorned with maps and prospects, and the coats of arms belonging to every individual family of the whole county / performed by William Smith, and William Webb, gentlemen. Published by Mr. Daniel King. To which is annexed, an exact chronology of all its rulers and governors both in church and state, from the time of the foundation of the stately city of Chester, to this very day: fixed by eclipses, and other chronological characters. Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants. Of the state ecclesiasticall. Of the civil government. Of the trade; and, of the strength of the island.

The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated : wherein is contained a geographical and historical description of that famous county, with all its hundreds and seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders; its rivers, towns, castles, buildings ancient and modern. Adorned with maps and prospects, and the coats of arms belonging to every individual family of the whole county / performed by William Smith, and William Webb, gentlemen. Published by Mr. Daniel King. To which is annexed, an exact chronology of all its rulers and governors both in church and state, from the time of the foundation of the stately city of Chester, to this very day: fixed by eclipses, and other chronological characters. Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants. Of the state ecclesiasticall. Of the civil government. Of the trade; and, of the strength of the island.
Creator:
King, Daniel, -1664?
Date:
1656
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 239 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 55 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 34 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A nevv book of architecture : wherein is represented fourty figures of gates and arches triumphant, composed of different inventions according to the five orders of columnes, viz. the Tuscane, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite / by Alexander Francine ... ; with a description of each figure ; set forth by Robert Pricke, for the use and benefit of all ingenious workmen that are concerned in eminent building.

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Creator:
Francine, Alexandre, -1648
Date:
1669
Physical Description:
[4] pages, XXXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Bucaniers of America, or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies, by the bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French : wherein are contained more especially, the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama &c. / written originally in Dutch, by John Esquemeling, one of the Bucaniers, who was present at those tragedies ; and then translated into Spanish by Alonso de Bonne-maison, Doctor of Physick and practitioner at Amsterdam ; now faithfully rendered into English.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1684-1685
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illlustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland ; to which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

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Creator:
Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Date:
1698
Physical Description:
[22], 243, [1], [32], 228 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A survey of the ports on the south west coast of England : from Dover to the Lands-end / by Edmd. Dummer & Capt. Tho. Wiltshaw, Esqrs., Comrs. of His Mties. Navy ; together with Capt. James Conaway and Capt. William Cruft, Masters of Trinity House at Deptford ; delineated in July & Augst. 1698.

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Creator:
Dummer, Edmund, -1712
Date:
[1698]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (78 pages) : manuscript, 17 maps, pen and ink and watercolor ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people. With the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties. Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.

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Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:
MDCXCIX [1699]
Physical Description:
[8], 248, 40 p., [2] double plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Album of English bookplates.

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Date:
approximately 1700-1950?
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1704
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David : and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

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Creator:
Church of England
Date:
MDCCVI [1706]
Physical Description:
[372], 18, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.
Creator:
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:
1707-1725
Physical Description:
2 v., XI, 274 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. (frontispiece), map (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The life of Ælfred the Great / by Sir John Spelman Kt. ; from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library ; with considerable additions, and several historial remarks by the publisher Thomas Hearne, M.A..

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Creator:
Spelman, John, Sir, 1594–1643
Date:
MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:
[6], 238, [10] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Bibliothecae Americanae primordia : an attempt towards laying the foundation of an American library, in several books, papers, and writings, humbly given to the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for the perpetual use and benefit of their members, their missionaries, friends, correspondents, and others concern'd in the good design of planting and promoting Christianity within Her Majesties colonies and plantations in the West-Indies / by a member of the said Society.

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Creator:
Kennett, White, 1660–1728
Date:
1713 [i.e. 1714]
Physical Description:
[2], iii, [1], xvi, 3-132,125-275, [225] p. ; 22 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues, and with former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches.

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Date:
MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:
[1296] pages : illustrations ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c. / written by himself, now alive.

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Creator:
Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Date:
1720
Physical Description:
[3], page viii, 72, 136, 179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le Ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

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Date:
[172-?]
Physical Description:
[74] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peters Westminster : containing an account of its ancient and modern building ... : with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it : together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats, collected from ancient mss. of that convent, and historians, & the lives of the deans to this time : and also, a survey of the church and cloysters, taken in the year 1723, with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands ... / by Mr. John Dart ; to which is added, Westminster Abbey, a poem, by the same author.

Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peters Westminster : containing an account of its ancient and modern building ... : with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it : together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats, collected from ancient mss. of that convent, and historians, & the lives of the deans to this time : and also, a survey of the church and cloysters, taken in the year 1723, with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands ... / by Mr. John Dart ; to which is added, Westminster Abbey, a poem, by the same author.
Creator:
Dart, John, -1730
Date:
[between 1723 and 1727]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., ports, plan ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Twenty five actions of the manage horse / engrav'd by Josephus Sympson, from original drawings of Mr. John Vanderbanck ; to which are added, two of the English hunter ; with the figure of a fine horse measured from the life, shewing all the proportions ; as also a draught of the true shape of the branch ; with short remarks on some parts of horsemanship.

Twenty five actions of the manage horse / engrav'd by Josephus Sympson, from original drawings of Mr. John Vanderbanck ; to which are added, two of the English hunter ; with the figure of a fine horse measured from the life, shewing all the proportions ; as also a draught of the true shape of the branch ; with short remarks on some parts of horsemanship.
Creator:
Vanderbank, John, 1694–1739
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
[4], 8 p., 29, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The works of Edmund Waller, esqr., in verse and prose : published by Mr. Fenton.

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Creator:
Waller, Edmund, 1606–1687
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
9 p.l., 450, xci, [1] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

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Creator:
Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.

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Creator:
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671–1713
Date:
1732
Physical Description:
3 v. front. (port.) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

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Creator:
Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:
MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:
[8], 42 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

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Creator:
Gosden, Thomas, 1780–1843
Date:
MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:
92 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
[4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
[6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:
[12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords : representing the several engagments between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII ... : to which are added, from a book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio, A.D. 1588 ... ten charts of the sea coasts of England, and a general one of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c. shewing the places of action between the two fleets ... : also an historical account of each day's action, collected from the most authentic manuscripts and writers / by John Pine, engraver.

The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords : representing the several engagments between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII ... : to which are added, from a book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio, A.D. 1588 ... ten charts of the sea coasts of England, and a general one of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c. shewing the places of action between the two fleets ... : also an historical account of each day's action, collected from the most authentic manuscripts and writers / by John Pine, engraver.
Creator:
Pine, John, 1690–1756
Date:
[1739]
Physical Description:
[6], 23, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

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Date:
[1739-1753]
Physical Description:
[104] prints : engravings ; 24 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

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Creator:
Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:
[1739]
Physical Description:
1 map on 20 sheets ; sheets 53 x 72 cm or smaller, bound 53 x 41 cm. + 1 key map (48 x 47 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.

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Creator:
Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708–1742
Date:
MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:
16 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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

40. The principles of painting ... To which is added, The balance of painters. Being the names of the most noted painters, and their degrees of perfection in the four principal parts of their art ... Written originally in French by Mons. Du Piles ... And now first translated into English. By a painter.

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Creator:
Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
xii, 300, [8] p. II plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, belonging to the right honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : laid out by Mr. Bridgman, principal gardener to their majesties King George I and II / delineated in a large plan and fifteen perspective views : drawn on the spot by Mons. Rigaud, and engraved by him and Mons. Bernard Baron = Les jardins de Stowe dans le Comte de Bucks, appartenant a le Tres-Honorable Seigneur Le Vicomte de Cobham / tracé par Mr Bridgman, jardinier principal aux S. Maj. Brit. George I & II ; en une grande plan & XV. veües perspective ; designé sur la place par M. Rigaud, & gravé par le mesme & M. Bernard Baron.

Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, belonging to the right honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : laid out by Mr. Bridgman, principal gardener to their majesties King George I and II / delineated in a large plan and fifteen perspective views : drawn on the spot by Mons. Rigaud, and engraved by him and Mons. Bernard Baron = Les jardins de Stowe dans le Comte de Bucks, appartenant a le Tres-Honorable Seigneur Le Vicomte de Cobham / tracé par Mr Bridgman, jardinier principal aux S. Maj. Brit. George I & II ; en une grande plan & XV. veües perspective ; designé sur la place par M. Rigaud, & gravé par le mesme & M. Bernard Baron.
Creator:
Rigaud, Jacques, 1681–1754
Date:
MDCCXLVI [1746]
Physical Description:
1 leaf, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

43. Some remarkable passages in the life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner : who was slain at the battle of Preston-Pans, September 21, 1745 : with an appendix relating to the antient family of the Munro's of Fowlis / by P. Doddridge, D.D.

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Creator:
Doddridge, Philip, 1702–1751
Date:
MDCCXLVII [1747]
Physical Description:
[16], 260 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. 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 ...

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

45. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.

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Creator:
Ellis, Henry, 1721–1806
Date:
MDCCXLVII [1748]
Physical Description:
xxviii, 336 [i.e. 344] pages, [9] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
[12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A new treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner for many years practice and experience : with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies / by William Gibson, surgeon, in Duke-Sreet, Grosvenor-Square ; illustrated with thirty-two copper-plates.

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Creator:
Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750
Date:
MDCCLI [1751]
Physical Description:
[12], 464, [12] pages, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia / by William Stith, A.M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

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Creator:
Stith, William, 1707–1755
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
viii, 304, 295-331, [1], v, [1], 34, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

50. The lives of the most eminent modern painters, who have lived since, or were omitted by Mons. De Piles / by J.B.

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Creator:
Burgess, James, 18th cent
Date:
1754
Physical Description:
[24], 140, [4] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school.

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Creator:
Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:
[1754?]
Physical Description:
8 p.l., 439 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:
xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

No cover image available
Creator:
Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Louthiana, or, An introduction to the antiquities of Ireland : in upwards of ninety views and plans : representing, with proper explanation, the principal ruins, curiosities, and antient dwellings, in the County of Louth : divided into three books / taken upon the spot by Thomas Wright, author of The physical and mathematical elements of astronomy, &c. ; engraved by Paul Fourdrinier.

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Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1711–1786
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politicks, and literature for the year ...

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Date:
[1762?]-1838
Physical Description:
80 v. : ill., maps ; 21-23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Geometry exercise book.

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

60. 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

61. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies / compiled from authentic memoirs, revised by gentlemen who have resided many years in the Spanish settlements ; and illustrated with thirty-two maps and plans, chiefly from original drawings taken from the Spaniards in the last war, and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[4], xxiv, 106, [2] pages, 32 folded leaves of plates : maps, plans ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

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Creator:
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734–1794
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[8], 128 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Rules for bad horsemen : addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. / by Charles Thompson, Esq.

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Creator:
Thompson, Charles, b. ca. 1710
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 82 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The environs of London : reduced from an actual survey in 16 sheets / by the late John Rocque ... ; with new improvements to the year 1763.

The environs of London : reduced from an actual survey in 16 sheets / by the late John Rocque ... ; with new improvements to the year 1763.
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets ; 86 x 125 cm., sheets 58 x 79 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. 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.

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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

66. A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.
Creator:
Rogers, Robert, 1731–1795
Date:
MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 264 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682–1761
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. 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

69. An essay upon prints : containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters : illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces : to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 4, [2], 249, [13] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from His Lordship's mss. / by James Kennedy.

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Creator:
Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[10], xxxviii, 116, [2] pages, 25 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

71. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

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Creator:
Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
[4], xii, 128, [16] p., III folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

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Creator:
Darly, Matthias
Date:
[1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:
102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The history of a voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764 : under the command of M. de Bougainville, in order to form a settlement there : and of two voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with an account of the Patagonians / translated from Dom Pernety's Historical journal, written in French ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Creator:
Pernety, Antoine-Joseph, 1716–1801
Date:
MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:
[4], xvii, [1], 294 p., 16 leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Practical farriery, or, The complete directory : in whatever relates to the food, management, and cure of the diseases incident to horses ; the whole alphabetically digested, and illustrated with copper-plates / by John Blunt, surgeon, at Leominster, Hereforshire.

Practical farriery, or, The complete directory : in whatever relates to the food, management, and cure of the diseases incident to horses ; the whole alphabetically digested, and illustrated with copper-plates / by John Blunt, surgeon, at Leominster, Hereforshire.
Creator:
Blunt, John, surgeon
Date:
MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:
viii, 316, [8] p., III leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (engraving) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

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Creator:
Darly, Matthias
Date:
January 12, 1773
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. XII views in aquatinta from drawings taken on the spot in South-Wales [graphic] : dedicated to the Honourable Charles Greville and Ioseph Banks Esquire / by their ever grateful and much obliged servant Paul Sandby, R.A.

XII views in aquatinta from drawings taken on the spot in South-Wales [graphic] : dedicated to the Honourable Charles Greville and Ioseph Banks Esquire / by their ever grateful and much obliged servant Paul Sandby, R.A.
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775-1776]
Physical Description:
39 prints in 1 album : aquatints with etching ; album 29 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. 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.

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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

78. Horda angel-cynnan, or, A compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the inhabitants of England : from the arrival of the Saxons, till the reign of Henry the Eighth : with a short account of the Britons, during the government of the Romans : in two volumes / by Joseph Strutt ; author of the regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England.

No cover image available
Creator:
Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:
MDCCLXXV-MDCCLXXVI [1775-1776]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

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Creator:
Taylor, George (Geographer), active 1778
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], 61 p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : 62 maps ; 22 x 53 cm. folded to 22 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Travels in Greece, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti / by Richard Chandler, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and of the Society of Antiquaries.

No cover image available
Creator:
Chandler, Richard, 1738–1810
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
4, xiv, [2], 304 p., [7] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Variety of capitals, freezes, and corniches : and how to increase, or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original : likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates / published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani.

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Creator:
Columbani, Placido
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
12, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Liber veritatis, or, A collection of prints, after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire / executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings ; to which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print, together with the names of those for whom, and the places for which, the original pictures were first painted (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures.

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Creator:
Lorrain, Claude, 1600–1682
Date:
[1777]-1819
Physical Description:
3 v. : chiefly ill., ports. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The Tunbridge Wells guide, or, An account of the ancient and present state of that place : to which is added a particular description of towns and villages, remains of antiquity, gentlemens seats, founderies, &c. &c. within the circumference of sixteen miles.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sprange, J. (Jasper), 1746–1823
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
[4], viii, 68, 54, vi, 53-98, xii, 99-106, vi,1 07-178,14,16, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Biographical anecdotes of William Hogarth; and a catalogue of his works chronologically arranged; with occasional remarks.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
157 [i.e. 159] p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The journey from Chester to London.

The journey from Chester to London.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 452, [6] pages, 22 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
1782-1783
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Proposal for county naval free-schools : to be built on waste lands, giving such effectual instructions to poor boys, as may nurse them for the sea service : teaching them also to cultivate the earth, that in due time tey may furnish their own food : & to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, etc. with a view to provide their own raiment, while good regulations and discipline, diffuse a moral & religious oeconomy through the land.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, [1], x-xxii, [2], 2, 90, [4], 91-120, [2], 121-141, [1], 48, [4], v, [3], 67, [1] pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. 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

89. The history and antiquities of the archiepiscopal palace of Lambeth : from its foundation to the present time / by Dr. Ducarel, F.R. and A.SS.

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Creator:
Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713–1785
Date:
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Physical Description:
[4], vi-ix, 132, 72 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment : containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories ... : accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions ... a complete set of county-maps ... together with an authentic account of Doomsday-Book ... / published under the inspection of Henry Boswell ... assisted by Robert Hamilton ... and other ingenious gentlemen ...

Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment : containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories ... : accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions ... a complete set of county-maps ... together with an authentic account of Doomsday-Book ... / published under the inspection of Henry Boswell ... assisted by Robert Hamilton ... and other ingenious gentlemen ...
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elizabeth Langhorne

91. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
viii, [1], 4-194 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. (4vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy H. Bartels

92. The sea of Marmara or Propontis : with the straits of Constantinople and of Gallipoli / by Wm. Faden ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:
Jany. 11th, 1786
Physical Description:
1 map : mounted on linen ; 58 x 102 cm, on sheet 59 x 105 cm., folded to 19 x 14 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...

A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
2 v. 162 plates (incl. fronts., engr. t.-p.'s, ports. plans) on 133 leaves. 69 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. 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.

No cover image available
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

95. Travels in Sicily and Malta / translated from the French of M. De Non.

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Creator:
Denon, Vivant, 1747–1825
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
[4], 427, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. 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

97. New description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough : to which is prefixed, Blenheim, a poem.

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Creator:
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
ix, [3], 172 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

98. 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.

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

99. An historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich : MDCCLXXXIX.

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Creator:
Cooke, John, 1738–1823
Date:
[1789]
Physical Description:
viii, 120, 125-132, *129-*132, 133-142, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

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Creator:
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCI [1789-1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts