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1. The protean figure and metamorphic costumes.

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Date:
1811
Physical Description:
91 pieces. col. ill. 2-21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A provincial glossary : with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions / by Francis Grose, Esq.

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Creator:
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
viii, 304 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A treatise on the ecclesiastical architecture of England during the Middle Ages : with ten illustrative plates / by John Milner.

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Creator:
Milner, John, 1752–1826
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
xix, 135 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland : together with the Psalter or the Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches : and the form and manner of making, ordaining and consecrating of bishops, priests and deacons.

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Creator:
Church of England
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[639] p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Essays on the nature and principles of taste. By Archibald Alison ...

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Creator:
Alison, Archibald, 1757–1839
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
2 v. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Indispensable accomplishments / Billesdon Coplow.

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Creator:
Frankland, Robert, Sir, 1784–1849
Date:
Published June 24, 1811, by H. Humphrey,
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 6 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A report upon the Herculaneum manuscripts : in a second letter addressed, by permission, to His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent / by the Rev. John Hayter, A.M., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Prince, and His Superintendent of those manuscripts.

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Creator:
Hayter, John, d 1755–1818
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[4], 141, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Lectures, delivered in the Royal Academy / By James Barry ...

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Creator:
Barry, James, 1741–1806
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[2], 341-558 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Proposals for publishing by subscription, twelve engravings of a series of views, of interesting scenes and achievements of the British Army in Spain and Portugal : under the command of His Excellency Lieutenant General the Marquis of Wellington, &c. &c. &c. : from original drawings made on the spot, by Major St. Clair, 21st Portuguese Infantry, and Captain Royal Scotts ; engraved by C. Turner ...

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Date:
[1811?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her daughter and her friends : in nine volumes.

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Creator:
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626–1696
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
9 v. : ill., ports. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A new historical and descriptive view of Derbyshire, : from the remotest period to the present time. / By the Rev. D. P. Davies.

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Creator:
Davies, D. P. (David Peter)
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 717, [15], 2 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., col. map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by uparwards of seventy richly coloured engravings.

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Creator:
Harding, Edward
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[152] p., [71] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The banks of Wye : a poem, in four books / by Robert Bloomfield, author of "The Farmer's boy."

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Creator:
Bloomfield, Robert, 1766–1823
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vii, 134 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. An essay on mechanical drawing : comprising an elementary course of practice in the perspective delineation of machinery / illustrated in numerous plates by Charles Blunt.

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Creator:
Blunt, Charles
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[4], 91, [1] p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Letters and important documents relative to the Edystone Lighthouse : selected chiefly from the correspondence of the late Robert Weston, Esq., and from other manuscripts : to which is added a report made to the Lords of the Treasury in 1809 by the Trinity Corporation : with some observations upon that report / by Robert Harcourt Weston ...

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Creator:
Weston, Robert Harcourt
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
xvi, ix-xv,1, 308 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The history of Buxton : and visitor's guide to the curiosities of the Peak, including a descriptive itinerary of excursions usually made, and a set of botanical tables exhibiting the places of growth, &c. of the most remarkable plants found wild in the neighbourhood of Buxton / by A. Jewitt ...

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Creator:
Jewitt, A. (Arthur)
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vii, [2], 12-222, xxvii, [3] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Voyage pittoresque de Geneve a Milan.

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Creator:
Le Simplon
Date:
1811
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The history of London, and its environs : containing an account of the origin of the city, its state under the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, its rise and progress to its present state of commercial greatness : likewise an account of all the towns, villages, and country, within twenty-five miles of London.

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Creator:
Hunter, Henry, 1741–1802
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin's pursuits in Greece.

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Creator:
Hamilton, William, 1777–1859
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
77 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Anthony Hamilton ; to which are prefixed, a biographical sketch of Count Hamilton, and a translation of the epistle to Count Grammont ; illustrated with sixty-four portraits, engraved by Edward Scriven, &c.

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Creator:
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646–1720
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
2 volumes : portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Boydell's heads of illustrious and celebrated persons, generally connected with the history of Great Britain in the reigns of James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. The portraits painted by Van Dyke, Lely, Kneller, Riley, &c. Engraved by John Smith, &c. And revised by Richard Earlom. With biographical memoirs, by John Watkins, LL.D.

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Creator:
Boydell and Co
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
viii, 94 p. front. (port.) ports. 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Twenty-two plates, illustrative of various interesting scenes, in the plays of Shakespeare, engraved by Bartolozzi, Tomkins, Cheeseman, Meadows &c. &c. from the designs of the late Henry Bunbury, esq. in the possession of ... the Duchess of York.

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Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:
1811?]
Physical Description:
1 p. l., 22 plates 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Essays towards the expression of some forms belonging to ground, according to a plan view : being part of a course of instruction in military surveying &c., on the general survey received by C.H. Beague, candidate for the Corps of Rl. Engineers.

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Creator:
Beague, Charles Heard, -1827
Date:
not before 1811
Physical Description:
1 volume (18 leaves) ; 29 x 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The present picture of New South Wales : illustrated with four large coloured views, from drawings taken on the spot, of Sydney, the seat of government : with a plan of the colony taken from actual survey by public authority : including the present state of agriculture and trade, prices of provisions and labour, internal regulations, state of society and manners, later discoveries in natural history, and other interesting subjects : with hints for the further improvement of the settlement / by D.D. Mann ; many years resident in several official situations.

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Creator:
Mann, D. D. (David Dickinson), 1775?-
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vi, 99, [1] pages, [5] folded leaves of plates : plans, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Modern finishings for rooms : a series of designs for vestibules, halls, stair cases, dressing rooms, boudoirs, libraries, and drawing rooms; with their doors, windows, chimney-pieces, and other finishings, to a large scale : and the several mouldings [sic] and cornices at full size : showing their construction and relative proportions : to which are added some designs for villas and porticos : with the rules for drawing the columns, &c. at large : the whole adapted for use and direction of every person engaged in the practical parts of building / engraved on eighty-six plates, from designs by W. F. Pocock, Architect.

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Creator:
Pocock, W. F. (William Fuller), 1779–1849
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
23, [1] p., 86 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A catalogue of a truly choice and capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : comprising superb gallery chef d'œuvres, and an assemblage of high-finished cabinet bijoux ..., being the admired collection lately exhibited at the Academy rooms in Pall Mall, which were purchased at great expence on the continent or from the Orleans, Holderness, Lansdown, Gordon, and other collections : among them are of particular value and celebrity : Heads of the Virgin and Child : the original finished studio by Corregio, for the Marriage of St. Catharine, formerly in the possession of the King of Naples : The Woman Taken in Adultery, Titian ... : The Death of Archimedes, S. Rose ... : a wood scene, by Hobbima ... : ...Landscape with Horsemen, and a View of Dort, Cuyp ... : a beautiful landscape, Potter, the Favorite Holderness Netscher : besides finest specimens of the following great and rare Masters : Schidone, Garofalo, Albano, C. Dolce, P. Da Cortona, Bourdon, Rubens, V. Dyck , Teniers, P. Neefs, Wouvermans, Du Jardin, A.V. De Velde, Berchem, Pynaker, Wynants, Capella, Maes, Metzu, F. Mieris, Lingelback, V. Os, Dietrich, Wilson : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, January the 26th, 1811, precisely at one o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1811]
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Descriptive travels in the southern and eastern parts of Spain and the Balearic isles in the year 1809 / by Sir John Carr ...

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Creator:
Carr, John, Sir, 1772–1832
Date:
18ll
Physical Description:
xii, 374, xx (i.e. xxi), [1], [2], [3] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Ellen, or, The naughty girl reclaimed : a story exemplified in a series of figures.

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Date:
1811
Physical Description:
19 p. : col. ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Lumps of pudding [graphic] / H.W. Bunbury Esqr. delin. ; etch'd by W. Heath.

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Creator:
Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:
[15 August 1811]
Physical Description:
1 print on 5 sheets : etching ; sheets 34 x 51 cm or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The whole historical dramas of William Shakespeare illustrated, : by an assemblage of portraits of the royal, noble, and other persons mentioned; together with those of editors, commentators, and actors, and views of castles, towns, &c. of the respective places referred to; with short biographical and topographical accounts : in two volumes.

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Date:
1811
Physical Description:
2 v., [104] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Il Lavater portatile, o sia, Compendio dell'arte di conoscere gli uomini dai lineamenti del volto / traduzione dal francese, con trentatré tavole colorate.

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Creator:
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741–1801
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
2 volumes : portraits ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A practical essay on the art of flower painting, : comprehending instructions in the drawing, chiaro-scuro, choice, composition, coloring, and execution or finishing of flowers; together with general observations and directions; and accounts of the lives and works of eminent flower painters. / By John Cart Burgess ...

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Creator:
Burgess, John Cart, 1798–1863
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
xix, [1] 130 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. An historical and descriptive account of the town of Lancaster : collected from the best authorities ...

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Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vii, 128, [6] p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The poetical works of Thomas Adams, Warkworth : consisting of The battle of Trafalgar and some miscellaneous pieces.

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Creator:
Blum, Richard H
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
208 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

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Creator:
Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vii, [2] p., pp. 12-17, [2] p., pp. x-xxiii [i.e. xiii], [2] p., 10-241, [7] p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Travels in the island of Iceland : during the summer of the year MDCCCX / by Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, Baronet ; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, &c. &c. &c.

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Creator:
Mackenzie, George Steuart, Sir, 1780–1848
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
xvii, [3], 491, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Ireland / A. Arrowsmith ; engraved by Eduard Jones.

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Creator:
Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets : col. ; 195 x 158 cm., on sheets 91 x 79 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Wallis's tour of Europe : a new geographical pastime / McIntyre sculpsit.

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Creator:
Wallis, J. (John), -1818
Date:
March 13th, 1811
Physical Description:
1 game : coloured, mounted on linen ; 46 x 50 cm, folded to 17 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Plans and views of buildings : executed in England and Scotland, in the castellated and other styles / R. Lugar, architect ; elegantly engraved on thirty-two plates.

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Creator:
Lugar, Robert
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
28 p., 32 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A catalogue of a most singular, rare and valuable collection of portraits by the Passes, Delaram, &c. &c., some of them unique : being the contents of a very celebrated book that has been preserved 150 years in the Delabere family, and is cited by the Rev. Mr. Grainger ... : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March 29, 1811, at one o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1811]
Physical Description:
44 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The history, topography, and antiquities of the parish of St. Mary Islington, in the county of Middlesex : including biographical sketches of the most eminent and remarkable persons who have been born, or have resided there / illustrated by seventeen engravings by John Nelson.

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Creator:
Nelson, John, of Islington
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
viii, 416 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A catalogue of the very valuable and extremely beautiful collection of high-finished water colour and tinted drawings, the works of that justly admired and elegant artist, Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A., deceased : descriptive of picturesque English topography : Views of Windsor Castle, and its neighbouring park and forest : camp scenes and studies from nature : the choicest productions of his pencil during a long career of nearly sixty years : also his ingenious models of landscape scenery, a few architectural designs by T. Sandby, Esq. R.A. : nearly 200 original drawings of shipping by W.V. de Velde, and an invaluable assemblage of near 70 original drawings by Wilson : which .(by order of the executor) will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his great room, Pall Mall, on Thursday, the 2d of May, 1811, and two following days, precisely at one o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1811]
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith : with remarks, attempting to ascertain, chiefly from local observation, the actual scene of The deserted village / by R.H. Newell ; and illustrative engravings, by Mr. Alkin, from drawings taken upon the spot.

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Creator:
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
iv, 182 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A companion to Mr. Bullock's Museum : containing a brief description of upwards of ten thousand natural and foreign curiosities, antiquities, and productions of the fine arts / collected during sixteen years of arduous research and at an expense of upwards of twenty-four thousand pounds, and now open for public inspection in the Great Room, Room 22, Piccadilly, London, which has been fitted up for the purpose in a manner entirely new by William Bullock ...

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Creator:
Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[2], vi, 150 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Ecclesiastical topography : a collection of one hundred views of churches in the environs of London, from drawings expressly taken for this work, accompanied with descriptions from the best sources, both ms. and printed.

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Creator:
Woodburn, Samuel
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[268] p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The catalogue of all the genuine and valuable collection of ancient and modern paintings of the late John Francis Rigaud, Esq. R.A. : including a head by Raphael-a study from nature : a head of Christ, by Corregio : and all his own interesting and excellently accomplished performances : among which are, the finished designs for the Sampson, his justly celebrated academic picture, and the smaller picture for the engraving : the Exposure of Moses : the Portrait of Captain Brant, the American chief : Jupiter and Calista : the allegorical design for the literary fund : and other equally esteemed performances : the plate of the Sampson engraved by Bartolozzi, and the Portrait of Mallet du Pan, engraved by Heath : with all the remaining impression : and various valuable drawings, studies, prints, books of prints, easels, colors, porphyry grinding stone, plaster casts, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Peter Coxe at the Great Room, no. 20, Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, on Wednesday, the 3d of April, and following day at one o'clock precisely, by order of the administrator: may be viewed three days preceding the sale: when catalogues, at one shilling each, may be had at the Room, and of Mr. Coxe, 33 Throgmorton Street.

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Creator:
Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:
[1811]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Frank Feignwell's attempts to amuse his friends. Exhibited in a series of characters.

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Physical Description:
19 p. col. plates. 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

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Creator:
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[2], 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Needwood Forest : written in the year 1776, never published.

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Creator:
Mundy, Francis Noel Clarke, 1738 or 1739–1815
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
46 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Thirty-two etchings of cattle, &c. &c. / by Thomas Harvey, Esq. ; not published.

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Creator:
Harvey, Thomas, 1748–1820
Date:
[approximately 1811?]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [32] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts