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Date 1776

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1. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

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Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

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Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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

4. Journal dédié a Monsieur frere du roi : table generale des journaux anciens et modernes, contenant les jugemens des jounalistes sur les principaux ouvrages en tout genre : suivie d'observations impartiales, & de planches en taille-douce ou en colour : par un société de gens de lettres.

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Physical Description:
v. ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

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Creator:
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
30 p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Die drey reiche der natur.

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Creator:
Heppe, Johann Christoph, 1745–1806
Date:
1776-1780
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Great Britain's coasting-pilot : in two parts : being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland from the River of Thames to the westward and northward : with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle : likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland, describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place : the setting and flowing of the tides : with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety : with directions for coming into the channel between England and France / by Captain Greenville Collins, Hyrdographer in Ordinary to the King's most excellent Majesty.

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Creator:
Collins, Greenvile, active 1669–1698
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 30 pages, [95] leaves of plates) : 49 maps ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts