Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Period: 18th century / Associated Places: Great Britain / Classification: Books

101. At a special committee of the Light-Horse Volunteers, held the 25th of October 1798.

Creator:: Great Britain. Army. London and Westminster Light House Volunteers
Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons or creation : their descents and collateral lines : their births, marriages, and issues ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. : coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

Date:: 1766-1769
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. Select views in Great Britain / engrav'd by S. Middiman ; from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions.

Creator:: Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750–1831
Date:: [1784-1792]
Physical Description:: [112] p., 49 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

Creator:: Garret, Daniel, -1753
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [4], 11, [1] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

Creator:: Bertram, Charles, 1723–1765
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 198 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: [2], 839-854 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof : their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [10], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

Creator:: Morison, Robert
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, to the present times : collected from the best authorities, printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary.

Date:: 1778-1793
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

Date:: [1786-1788]
Physical Description:: [101] leaves, [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

Creator:: Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 64 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

114. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. An essay on design in gardening.

Creator:: Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ...

Creator:: Mudge, William, 1762–1820
Date:: 1799-1811
Physical Description:: 3 v. plates (partly fold.) incl. maps, tables, diagrs. 29 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates : containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs ... : the whole correctly and neatly engraved on sixteen copper plates from the original drawings of J.H. Morris ... and J. Crunden.

Creator:: Morris, J. H
Date:: 1765
Physical Description:: [2], [16] plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

Date:: [1791-1792]
Physical Description:: XII parts ([48] p., [37] leaves of plates ) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

Creator:: Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 2, 2, [8], xvii, [1], 88 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [2], 347-350 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

Creator:: Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc
Date:: 1721
Physical Description:: 179, [21] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: [4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

Creator:: Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:: MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 46-52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1773-1787
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., maps, port., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

130. The English baronetage : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... to which are added, an account of such Nova-Scotia baronets as are of English families, now resident in England : and a list of such persons names who were deemed fit and qualifiwed at the restoration, to be made Knights of the Royal Oak ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 5 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. Minutes of the proceedings at a court-martial assembled for the trial of the Honourable Admiral Augustus Keppel : on a charge exhibited against him by Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, as taken by George Jackson, Esq; Judge-Advocate of His Majesty's Fleet. Published by order of the Right Honourble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. : With an appendix containing all the letters and papers that have any relation to the trial.

Creator:: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725–1786
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: [4], 182 p. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

Creator:: Pindar, Peter, 1738–1819
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:: MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved : wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills ... The whole illustrated with copper plates ... And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method / by Jacob Rowe, Esq;.

Creator:: Rowe, Jacob
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: [4], 38, [2] p. (last leaf blank), [5] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Count A. Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646–1720
Date:: MDCCXCIV [1794]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. A catalogue of Hogarth's original works / to be had of Mrs. Hogarth, at her house, at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields, London. 1784.

Creator:: Hogarth, Jane, 1711?-1789
Date:: [1784]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Statutes of the most honourable Order of the Bath.

Creator:: Order of the Bath
Date:: 1725, reprinted 1812
Physical Description:: viii, 77 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: [1751]
Physical Description:: [2], 867-868 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

Creator:: Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:: 24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. The history of England / written in French by Mr. Rapin de Thoyras ; translated into English, with additional notes, by N. Tindal ...

Creator:: Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661–1725
Date:: 1743-1747
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 5 : ill., geneal. tables, maps, ports. 40 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

Creator:: Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 16 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. The diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, baron of Melcombe Regis : from March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761 : with an appendix, containing some curious and intersting [!] papers, which are either referred to, or alluded to, in the diary / published from His Lordship's original manuscripts by Henry Penruddocke Wyndham ...

Creator:: Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691–1762
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: xv, 504 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Desiderata curiosa, or, A collection of divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history : consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters, wills, epitaphs, &c., transcribed, many of them, from the originals themselves, and the rest from divers antient ms. copies, or the ms. collections of sundry famous antiquaries and other eminent persons, both of the last and present age : the whole, as near as possible, digested into an order of time, and illustrated with ample notes, contents, additional discourses, and a complete index / by Francis Peck ...

Creator:: Peck, Francis, 1692–1743
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith, LL. D. and F.R.S., formerly professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Smith, Adam, 1723–1790
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham : with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 158 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. Designs for monuments including grave stones, compartments, wall pieces and tombs on 40 plates.

Date:: [between 1787 and 1798]
Physical Description:: 40 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1772, on several parts of England : particularly the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. One hundred & fifty new designs / by Thos. Johnson, carver ; consisting of cielings [sic], chimney pieces, slab, glass & picture frames, stands for china &c., clock & watch cases, girondoles, brackets, grates, lanthorns, &c. &c. ; the whole well adapted for decorating all kinds of ornamental furniture, in the present taste ; engrav'd on 56 copper plates.

Creator:: Johnson, Thos. (Thomas), 1714?-approximately 1778
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: 4 pt. in 1 : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved : being an actual survey of all the direct and principal cross roads of England and Wales : shewing all the cities, towns, villages, churches, gentlemen's seats, &c. situated on, or near any of the roads ... / engraved by Emanuel Bowen ... ; to which is added an accurate historical and topographical description of all the cities, boroughs, towns corporate, and other places of note ; compiled from the best authorities, by John Owen ... ; the whole illustrated with maps of all the counties of South-Britain, and a summary description of each.

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1764
Physical Description:: 12, 273 p. : coats of arms, maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein, in the collection of His Majesty, for the portraits of illustrious persons of the court of Henry VIII. With biographical tracts. Published by John Chamberlaine ...

Creator:: Chamberlaine, John, 1745–1812
Date:: 1792 [i. e. 1792-1800]
Physical Description:: XIII parts. col. ports. (part mounted) 55 cm. (60 cm., in case)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. The traveller's guide, or, A most exact description of the roads of England : being Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, and mensuration by the wheel, of the great roads from London to all the considerable cities and towns in England and Wales, together with the cross-roads from one city or eminent town to another ... : and for the better illustration thereof, are added tables ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: [1712?]
Physical Description:: [8], 254 (i.e. 256) p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. Observations on the western parts of England : relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : to which are added, A few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: xvi, 359, [1] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. A collection of views of gentlemen's seats, castles, and romantick places, in North Wales / drawn and engraved by eminent artists.

Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [11] leaves, 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol : with historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it : illustrated by perspective views of the most select and picturesque scenery : to which is added a correct map of the country three miles on each side of the road, planned from a scale of one inch to a mile / by Archibald Robertson.

Creator:: Robertson, Archibald, ca. 1745–1813
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. Patent artificial slate manufactory, Woodford Bridge, Essex for cove ring roofs, fronts of houses, and ricks : also water pipes and gutters.

Creator:: Cook, Henry, fl. 1786
Date:: 1786?]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 16, [2], 17-28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Oikidia, or, Nutshells : being ichnographic distributions for small villas : chiefly upon oconomical [sic] principles : in seven classes : with occasional remarks / by Jose Macpacke, a bricklayer's labourer ; part the first, containing twelve designs.

Creator:: Peacock, James, 1738?-1814
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: [4], 89, [3] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat [sic] and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters ... &c., intersperd with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building : with a great variety of new and useful tables ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 187, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 27, [3] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. The biographical mirrour : comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

Creator:: Waldron, F. G. (Francis Godolphin), 1744–1818
Date:: 1795-[1814]
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. A tour in England and Scotland in 1785 / by an English gentleman.

Creator:: Thomson, William, 1746–1817
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: x, 367 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

Creator:: Robertson, David, active 1794
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12], 235, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional duty on certificates issued with respect to the killing of game.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 1047-1053, [1] p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

Creator:: Labat, maître d'armes
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Sixty different sorts of ornaments / invented by Gaetano Brunetti, Italian painter ; very useful to painters, sculptors, stone carvers, wood carvers, silversmiths, &c.

Creator:: Brunetti, Gaetano, -1758
Date:: June ye. 25. 1736
Physical Description:: [61] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. The journey from Chester to London / by Thomas Pennant ...

Creator:: Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 468, [6] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

Date:: [ca. 1780?]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. The trial of Frederick Calvert, Esq., Baron of Baltimore in the kingdom of Ireland, for a rape on the body of Sarah Woodcock : and of Eliz. Griffinburg and Ann Harvey, otherwise Darby, as accessaries before the fact, for procuring, aiding, and abetting him in committing the said rape : at the assizes held at Kingston for the county of Surry, on Saturday the 26th of March, 1768 before the Hon. Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe, Knt., one of the barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer / published by permission of the judge ; taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.

Creator:: Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731–1771
Date:: MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:: [2], 74 p. ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

Creator:: Beatson, Robert, 1742–1818
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 211, [1], 372, 117, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. A description of nine historical prints, representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. Selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 21 p. 9 double pl. (incl. ports.) 60 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries : the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years / by Thomas Davies.

Creator:: Davies, Thomas, 1713–1785
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 2 v. : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. Six landscapes from original paintings.

Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. in folder 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. British curiosities in art and nature : giving an account of rarities both ancient and modern, viz. monuments, monasteries, walls, Roman camps ... kings palaces, gentlemens seats ... learning and learned men, unusual customs of places, with whatever else is worthy observing, either by foreigners or our own countrymen that are inclin'd to go abroad : likewise an account of the posts, markets, & fair-towns : to which is added a very useful scheme, containing a brief account of the state of each county in England at one view, curiously engrav'd, and printed on a sheet, to fold up or put in a frame.

Date:: 1721
Physical Description:: [16], 158 [i.e. 160] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1772, inclusive ... by the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

Creator:: Barlow, Frederick
Date:: 1772-1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. A supplement to the four volumes of the Peerage of England : containing a succession of the peers from 1740 : with accounts of those that have been promoted to higher titles, and a genealogical history of all the families since advanced to the peerage of this kingdom ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters, curiously engraven on copper plates : collected from records, authentick manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities ... / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: 2 v. (viii, 820 p.) : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. The continuation of Mr. Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, from the revolution to the accession of King George II : illustrated with thirty-six heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons, also with twenty maps and sea-charts / by N. Tindal ....

Creator:: Tindal, N. (Nicholas), 1687–1774
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 2 v. ill., ports., maps ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. Earnest and affectionate address to the people of England concerning the usual recreations on Shrove Tuesday.

Creator:: Tucker, Josiah, 1712–1799
Date:: [1750]
Physical Description:: 10 p. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture : in the newest and most approved taste, displaying a great variety of patterns ... : also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... / from drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. cabinet-makers.

Creator:: A. Hepplewhite and Co
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: iv, 24, [1] p., 125 plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. [Views of county seats]

Date:: 1774-1776
Physical Description:: 40 p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. [Cabinet maker's pattern book].

Date:: [175-?]
Physical Description:: 93 leaves : all ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Lichfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol : giving an account of their foundations, builders, antient monuments and inscriptions, endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages, dates of consecreation, admission, preferment, deaths, burials, and epithaphs of the archbishops, bishops, deans, precentors, chancellors, treasurers, archdeacons, and prebendaries ... : with an exact account of all the churches and chapels in every diocese ... / by Browne Willis ...

Creator:: Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:: 1727-1730
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 3 : ill., plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. [Glass frames, ovals, stands for candles, picture frames, slab frames, side of a room, an organ, ceilings, chimney pieces ... ].

Creator:: Johnson, Thos. (Thomas), 1714?-approximately 1778
Date:: 1758
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, oblisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings [sic], and iron works : proportioned by aliquot parts : with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. : to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner than has yet been done : the whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. : the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language / by B. L.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 24 p., CLXXXVI, 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. A supplement to the tour through Great-Britain : containing a catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, plantations, scenes and situations, in England and Wales : arranged according to the alphabetical order of the several counties / by the late Mr. Gray ... ; to which are now added, by another hand, several additions : also blank spaces at the end, to enable every traveller or reader to make his own remarks or corrections.

Creator:: Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: v, [1], 119, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire; member in three successive parliaments for Berkshire. : First published in the paper of the World. / Inscribed to Sir Paul Jodrell, by Edward Topham ...

Creator:: Topham, Edward, 1751–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: vii, l06 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. The chronicle of England / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCLXXVII-MDCCLXXVIII [1777-1778]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. Six sketches in aquatinta / by Mr. Cartwright.

Creator:: Cartwright, Mr.
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design ... / by J. Miller, architect.

Creator:: Miller, J. (John), architect
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 32 plates, 4 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. 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.

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

194. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature: being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:: [ca. 1760]
Physical Description:: 16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. Pisé, or, The art of building strong and durable walls, to the height of several stories, with nothing but earth or the most common materials / drawn up and presented to the board of agriculture by Henry Holland, Esq.

Creator:: Holland, Henry, 1745–1806
Date:: 1797]
Physical Description:: 20 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school.

Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: [1754?]
Physical Description:: 8 p.l., 439 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:: 1782-1783
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. The military antiquities of the Romans in Britain. By the late William Roy ... Published by the order, and at the expence of, the Society of antiquaries of London.

Creator:: Roy, William, 1726–1790
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 5 p.., xvi, 206, [6] p. 3 pl., 3 maps, 44 plans (part fold.) tab. 57 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. The history of England / by Mr. Rapin de Thoyran ; continued from the Revolution to the accession of King George II by N. Tindal ... ; illustrated with the heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons : also with maps, medals, and other copper plates : vol. XVI [-XXVIII], being the first [-thirteenth] of the Continuation.

Creator:: Tindal, N. (Nicolas), 1687–1774
Date:: 1744-1747
Physical Description:: 13 v. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. Sketches of animals from nature / etched by George Garrard.

Creator:: Garrard, George, 1760–1826
Date:: March 1st, 1794
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 30 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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101. At a special committee of the Light-Horse Volunteers, held the 25th of October 1798.

102. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

104. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

105. Select views in Great Britain / engrav'd by S. Middiman ; from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions.

106. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

107. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

108. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

110. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

112. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

113. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

115. An essay on design in gardening.

116. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

117. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

119. An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ...

120. The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates : containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs ... : the whole correctly and neatly engraved on sixteen copper plates from the original drawings of J.H. Morris ... and J. Crunden.

121. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

122. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

123. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

124. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

125. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

126. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

127. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

128. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

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

132. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

133. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

137. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Count A. Hamilton.

138. A catalogue of Hogarth's original works / to be had of Mrs. Hogarth, at her house, at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields, London. 1784.

139. Statutes of the most honourable Order of the Bath.

140. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

141. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

142. The history of England / written in French by Mr. Rapin de Thoyras ; translated into English, with additional notes, by N. Tindal ...

143. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

144. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

147. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith, LL. D. and F.R.S., formerly professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes.

148. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham : with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.

149. Designs for monuments including grave stones, compartments, wall pieces and tombs on 40 plates.

150. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1772, on several parts of England : particularly the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland ... / by William Gilpin ...

153. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

154. Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein, in the collection of His Majesty, for the portraits of illustrious persons of the court of Henry VIII. With biographical tracts. Published by John Chamberlaine ...

156. Observations on the western parts of England : relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : to which are added, A few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight / by William Gilpin ...

157. A collection of views of gentlemen's seats, castles, and romantick places, in North Wales / drawn and engraved by eminent artists.

159. Patent artificial slate manufactory, Woodford Bridge, Essex for cove ring roofs, fronts of houses, and ricks : also water pipes and gutters.

160. Oikidia, or, Nutshells : being ichnographic distributions for small villas : chiefly upon oconomical [sic] principles : in seven classes : with occasional remarks / by Jose Macpacke, a bricklayer's labourer ; part the first, containing twelve designs.

162. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

163. The biographical mirrour : comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

164. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

165. A tour in England and Scotland in 1785 / by an English gentleman.

166. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

167. An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional duty on certificates issued with respect to the killing of game.

168. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

169. Sixty different sorts of ornaments / invented by Gaetano Brunetti, Italian painter ; very useful to painters, sculptors, stone carvers, wood carvers, silversmiths, &c.

170. The journey from Chester to London / by Thomas Pennant ...

171. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

173. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

174. A description of nine historical prints, representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. Selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

175. Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries : the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years / by Thomas Davies.

176. Six landscapes from original paintings.

178. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1772, inclusive ... by the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

180. The continuation of Mr. Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, from the revolution to the accession of King George II : illustrated with thirty-six heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons, also with twenty maps and sea-charts / by N. Tindal ....

181. Earnest and affectionate address to the people of England concerning the usual recreations on Shrove Tuesday.

183. [Views of county seats]

184. [Cabinet maker's pattern book].

186. [Glass frames, ovals, stands for candles, picture frames, slab frames, side of a room, an organ, ceilings, chimney pieces ... ].

189. The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire; member in three successive parliaments for Berkshire. : First published in the paper of the World. / Inscribed to Sir Paul Jodrell, by Edward Topham ...

190. The chronicle of England / by Joseph Strutt.

191. Six sketches in aquatinta / by Mr. Cartwright.

192. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design ... / by J. Miller, architect.

195. Pisé, or, The art of building strong and durable walls, to the height of several stories, with nothing but earth or the most common materials / drawn up and presented to the board of agriculture by Henry Holland, Esq.

197. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

198. The military antiquities of the Romans in Britain. By the late William Roy ... Published by the order, and at the expence of, the Society of antiquaries of London.

200. Sketches of animals from nature / etched by George Garrard.