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1. New principles of linear perspective, or, The art of designing on a plane, the representations of all sorts of objects : in a more general and simple method than has been hitherto done / by Brook Taylor ... ; revised and corrected by John Colson ...

New principles of linear perspective, or, The art of designing on a plane, the representations of all sorts of objects : in a more general and simple method than has been hitherto done / by Brook Taylor ... ; revised and corrected by John Colson ...
Creator:
Taylor, Brook, 1685–1731
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
x, [11]-80 p., [13] leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. [Views of the cities of Westminster and London taken from the opposite bank of the Thames]

[Views of the cities of Westminster and London taken from the opposite bank of the Thames]
Creator:
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 panorama on 5 sheets : engraving ; full panorama 31 x 395 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. To Martin Folkes, esq., president of the Royal Society : this plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings / is humbly inscribed by his most humble servants John Pine and John Tinney.

To Martin Folkes, esq., president of the Royal Society : this plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings / is humbly inscribed by his most humble servants John Pine and John Tinney.
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 map ; 46 x 91 cm., on sheet 55 x 96 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Bernardi Siegfried Albini Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.

Bernardi Siegfried Albini Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.
Creator:
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697–1770
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
[94] pages, XXV [i.e. 40] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 72 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Joshua Reynolds archive, 1749-1816.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1749-1816
Physical Description:
1 linear foot
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles

6. The polite arts, or, A dissertation on poetry, painting, musick, architecture, and eloquence.

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Date:
MDCCXLIX [1749]
Physical Description:
xii, 160 p. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. An essay on design: including proposals for erecting a public academy to be supported by voluntary subscription (till a royal foundation can be obtain'd) for educating the British youth in drawing, and the several arts depending thereon ...

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Creator:
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
vi, 92 p. ill., 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Arts companion, or A new assistant for the ingenious, in 3 pts. Pt. 1 containing the art of drawing in perspective ... Pt. II containing the art of drawing and painting in water-colours ... Pt. III containing the art of painting in miniature ... to which are added directions for shadowing, stipling, &c. ... likewise the preparation of an excellent polish and shell: the whole taken from some of the best Italian and other masters.

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Date:
1749
Physical Description:
172 p. ill. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano habita idibus Aprilibus, MDCCXLIX. die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae ...

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Creator:
King, William, 1685–1763
Date:
[1749]
Physical Description:
[6], 34 p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. [Book of ruins].

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Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
[ca. 1745?]
Physical Description:
6 prints : etchings ; plate mark 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Remarks on the different constructions of bridges, and improvements to secure their foundations on the different soils where they are intended to be built : which hitherto seems to have been a thing not sufficiently consider'd.

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Creator:
Marquand, Charles
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
15 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
[4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The history and antiquities of Windsor Castle, and the Royal College, and Chapel of St. George : with the institution, laws, and ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter ... : with an account of the town and corporation of Windsor, the royal apartments, and paintings in the castle ... : the whole intirely new wrote, and illustrated with cuts ...

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Creator:
Pote, Joseph, 1704–1787
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
iii, [11] 431 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties [cartographic material] / by Lewis Evans, MDCCXLIX ; L. Hebert, sculpt.

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Creator:
Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 map ; 63 x 47 cm, on sheet 66 x 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The British monarchy, or, A new chorographical description of all the dominions subject to the King of Great Britain : comprehending the British Isles, the American colonies, the electoral states, the African and Indian settlemts. : and enlarging more particularly on the respective counties of England and Wales ... / the whole illustrated with suitable maps and tables ... and engraved by George Bickham.

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Creator:
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
188, [45] leaves (one folded) : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The vanity of human wishes. The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitated by Samuel Johnson.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
28 p. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Quinti Horatii Flacci opera.

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Creator:
Horace
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
2 v. ([4], [v]-vi, [4], 396 [i.e. 336] p.) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An essay towards a description of Bath. In four parts. Wherein the antiquitity of the city, as well as the reality and eminence of its founder ... are respectively treated of ... By John Wood ...

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part fold.) fold. map, fold. plans. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A plan for rebuilding the city of London, after the great fire in 1666 : design'd by that great architect Sr. Christopher Wren ; and approv'd by King and Parliament, but unhappily defeated by faction / J. Gwynn delin. ; E. Rooker, sculp.

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Creator:
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
Date:
[1749 October 3]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 16 x 4 cm, on sheet 30 x 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Geographia classica, or, The geography of the antients : as contained in the Greek and Latin classics : exhibited in thirty-two maps ... principally designed for the use of schools ... / by Herman Moll ...

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([10] p., [61] leaves of plates (some folded)) : 32 maps ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Descrizione de' cartoni disegnati da Carlo Cignani, e de' quadri dipinti da Sebastiano Ricci : posseduti dal signor Giuseppe Smith, console della Gran Bretagna ... : con un compendio delle vite dei due celebri professori.

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Date:
1749
Physical Description:
[2], CLVIII, [2] p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The Rambler.

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Date:
[1750-1752]
Physical Description:
208 no. in 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts