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1. Drawing for schools : containing expositions of the method of teaching drawing in schools ; a full explanation of the practice of model drawing after the method of Dupuis, as first practised at the Battersea Training College ; the principles and practice of outline and perspective drawing : together with numerous illustrations and drawing exercises / by Thomas Tate, F.R.A.S., of Kneller Training College, Twickenham; late mathematical professor and lecturer on chemistry in the National Society's Training College, Battersea. Author of "The principles of the differential and integral calculus;" " A treatise on the strength of materials;" "The principles of geometry and mensuration," etc. etc.

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Creator:
Tate, Thomas, 1807–1888
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
[4], 45, [3] p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

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Creator:
Bishop, James
Date:
[between 1854 and 1856]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities : illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others : and a new complete map, engraved by Lowry.

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Creator:
Weale, John, 1791–1862
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
910 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Specimen of one of the materials used by Messrs. Gaimes, Sanders & Nicol, 22 Birchin Lane, Cornhill, & 111 Strand : in the preparation of the foundations for their pliant, ventilating, velvet & silk hats.

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Creator:
Gaimes, Sanders & Nicol
Date:
[1854?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 9 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The log of a merchant officer : viewed with reference to the education of young officers and the youth of the merchant service / by Robert Methven, Commander in the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and author of the "Narrative of the Blenheim Hurricane of 1851" ; with an editorial preface by Dr. Lyon Playfair ; illustrated from sketches by the author.

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Creator:
Methven, Robert
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
xiv, 52, [4], 53-61, [24], 63-68 pages, [7] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, map ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts