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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Date 1775

46. The cabinet and chair-maker's real friend and companion, or, The whole system of chair making made plain and easy : containing upwards of one hundred new and useful designs for all sorts of chairs ... / the whole invented and drawn by Robert Manwaring : and ... engraved on forty copper plates by Robert Pranker.

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Creator:: Manwaring, Robert
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 23 p., [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

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Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: [4], 384 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A catalogue of a capital and elegant collection of pictures, selected from the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, and other schools : consisting of the works of the following Masters : Titian, Vandyck, Agostino Caracci, Dominichino, Guercino, Albani, Simon Da Pesaro, Filippo Manzani, Benefiali, Bartolomeo, Baptista Fery, Carlo Dolci, Lu Atelli, Poussin, Bourdon, Stella, Le Brun, Rembrandt, Swanefeld, Holbein, Bamboccio, Cuyp, Hondius : the whole collected during two separate journeys abroad, by Robert Strange : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall-Mall, on Friday, May 5, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

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Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Rural improvements: or, Essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accommodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England ... Essay first; shewing the improvements that respect the occupier. Essay second; the improvements that respect the land-owner ... By a landowner.

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Creator:: Wimpey, Joseph, 1739–1808
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: xvi, 528, xv, [1] p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Bath and it's environs, a descriptive poem, in three cantos. Wherein the reality, life, and great qualities of it's first founder Bladud are displayed,--his figure, as described by the orator Himerius, delineated;--the natural history of Bath, as well ancient as modern, and the inimitable beauty of it's situation, hills, woods, river, vales, and respective landscapes, depicted according to nature. The whole interspersed with reflections analogous to the subject, and illustrated with explanatory notes authenticating the several historical traditions from which the poem is composed ...

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Creator:: Hippesley, R
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: viii p., 2 ., 53 p. 1 plate. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. A gentleman's tour through Monmouthshire and Wales, in the months of June and July, 1774.

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Creator:: Wyndham, Henry Penruddocke, 1736–1819
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 1 p.., v, 218, [3] p. front. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts