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1. Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and digested and published from his original Mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole ...

Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and digested and published from his original Mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]
Physical Description:
5 v. front. ports. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A book of caricaturas : on sixty copper plates, with ye principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner / by M. Darly ; with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas, taken from the Tabernacles, Newmarket Playhouses, &c., &c.

A book of caricaturas : on sixty copper plates, with ye principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner / by M. Darly ; with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas, taken from the Tabernacles, Newmarket Playhouses, &c., &c.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[1762]
Physical Description:
60 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Letters to a young nobleman ...

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Date:
1762
Physical Description:
3 p.., 230 p., 1 leaf. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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

6. The topography of Freebridge Hundred and Half, in the county of Norfolk : containing the history and antiquities of the borough of King's Lynn, and of the towns, villages, hamlets, monasteries, churches, chapels, chanteries, and other religious buildings in that Hundred and Half, including a circuit of about fifteen miles round Lynn ... / by the Rev. Charles Parkin ...

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Creator:
Parkin, Charles, 1689–1765
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[4], 318, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The antiquities of Athens / measured by and delineated by James Stuart, F.R.S. and F.S.A., and Nicholas Revett, painters, and architects ...

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Creator:
Stuart, James, 1713–1788
Date:
MDCCLXII-MDCCXXX [1762-1830]
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 57 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called England.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[2], 683-686 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. An essay on the naturalization of foreigners.

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Creator:
Ramsay, Allan, 1713–1784
Date:
Printed in the year 1762
Physical Description:
18 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Antiquities of Athens.

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Creator:
Stuart, James, 1713–1788
Date:
1762-1794
Physical Description:
3 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. An Act to amend so much of an Act made in the first year of the reign of King James the First, intituled, An Act for the better execution of the intent and meaning of former statutes made against shooting in guns : and for the preservation of the game of pheasants and partridges, and against the destroying of hares with hare pipes, and tracing hares in the snow; as relates to the preservation of house doves and pidgeons, by making the manner of convicting such person or persons as shall offend therein, more easy and expeditious.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[2], 855-858 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A map of the kingdom of Ireland : divided into provinces, counties and baronies, shewing the archbishopricks, bishopricks, cities, boroughs, market towns, villages, barracks, mountains, lakes, bogs, rivers, bridges, ferries, passes : also, the great, the branch and the by post roads, together with the inland navigation, &c. / by John Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[between 1762 and 1773]
Physical Description:
1 map on 2 sheets ; 120 x 188 cm., sheets 67 x 108 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Relation de l'expedition aux Indes Occidentales, contre la Martinique : avec la reduction de la Guadelupe, et autres Isles Sous Vent, appartenant au roi de France, en 1759 / par Mons. Gardiner, capitaine des Mousquetaires Royaux de S.M., autrefois capitaine des Troupes de Marine à bord le Rippon, vaisseau de S.M. employé à cette expedition.

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Creator:
Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[6] pages, 91, [1] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The American gazetteer : containing a distinct account of all the parts of the New World; their situation, climate, soil, produce, former and present condition, commodities, manufactures, and commerce : together with an accurate account of the cities, towns, ports, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, passes, and fortifications : the whole intended to exhibit the present state of things in that part of the globe, and views and interests of the several powers who have possessions in America : illustrated with proper maps : in three volumes.

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Date:
1762
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The natural history of the horse : to which is added, that of the ass, bull, cow, ox, sheep, goat, and swine : with accurate descriptions of their several parts : and full directions for breeding, chusing, feeding, and improving, those useful creatures / translated from the French of the celebrated M. de Buffon.

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Creator:
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707–1788
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, [2], 340 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A dialogue on taste ...

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Creator:
Ramsay, Allan, 1713–1784
Date:
Printed in the year 1762
Physical Description:
77 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Fingal : an ancient epic poem, in six books: together with several other poems / composed by Ossian the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson.

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Creator:
Macpherson, James, 1736–1796
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[16], xvi, [2], 270 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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

19. The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste, including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches ... and other ornaments : to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture, with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified : the whole comprehended in two hundred copper-plates, neatly engraved : calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life / by Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London.

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Creator:
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[4], 20 pages, CC leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 48 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The court and city kalendar, or, Gentleman's register, for the year 1762 : Containing I. Rider's Almanack, II. New and exact lists of both Houses of Parliament. III. Court and city register. IV. Lists of the Army and Navy. Corrected with the greatest care, at the proper offices, to the present time: Including an account of the late preferments at court, and containing the Queen's household, directions for buying stocks, with additional lists of public offices, not to be found in any other book of this sort.

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Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[64], 247, [1] p. ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A catalogue of a curious collection of the rare old stained, or painted glass : exhibiting a beautiful variety of the works of those celebrated German and Flemish artists : among which are two exceeding fine altar pieces, after Rubens : which will be sold by auction, by Samuel Paterson, at Essex House, in Essex Street, in the Strand, on Friday, May 21, 1762, to begin exactly at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Wednesday the 19th instant, and to the time of sale : catalogues may be had at Essex House aforesaid.

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Creator:
Paterson, Samuel, 1728–1802
Date:
[1762]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Atlas geographicus portatilis, XXIX mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens / caelo accurate expressit Tobias Conradus Lotterus ; delineavit et excudit Tobias Lobeck, chalcograph.

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Creator:
Lobeck, Tobias
Date:
[1762?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([51] leaves) : illustrations, 47 maps ; 12 x 16 cm (32mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Elements of criticism.

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Creator:
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696–1782
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
3 v. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The investigator. Containing the following tracts: I. On ridicule. II. On Elizabeth Canning. III. On naturalization. IV. On taste ...

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Creator:
Ramsay, Allan, 1713–1784
Date:
Printed in the year 1762
Physical Description:
4 v. in 1. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:
1762
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Betrachtungen über die mahlerey.

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Creator:
Hagedorn, Christian Ludwig von, 1712–1780
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
2 v. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. An account of the expedition to the West Indies against Martinico : with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands : subject to the French king, 1759 / by Captain Gardiner of the King's Royal Musqueteers, late Captain of Marines on board his Majesty's Ship Rippon, employed on this expedition.

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Creator:
Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[6], 91, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates (2 folded) : i lllustrations, maps ; 31 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A collection of some of the finest prospects in Italy : with short remarks on them / by Abbate R. Venuti, antiquarian to the Pope, and Fellow of the Royal Society of London ; engraved by various celebrated engravers at Rome.

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Creator:
Venuti, Ridolfino, 1705–1763
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
vi, 80 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 24 cm (oblong 4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The universal system of houshold furniture : consisting of above 300 designs on the most elegant taste, both useful & ornamental : finely engraved, in which the nature of ornament & perspective, is accurately exemplified : the whole made convenient to the nobility and gentry, in their choice, & comprehensive to the workman, by directions for executing the several designs, with specimens of ornament for young practitioners in drawing / by Ince & Mayhew cabinet-makers & upholders, in Bond Street, Golden Square, London ...

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Creator:
Ince, William, active 18th century
Date:
[1762?]
Physical Description:
iii-iv, 11, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Remarks on the beauties of poetry / by Daniel Webb, Esq.

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Creator:
Webb, Daniel, 1718 or 19–1798
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[4], 123, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 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

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

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