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Period 18th century

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1. Oxonia depicta sive Collegiorum et aularum in inclyta Academia Oxoniensi ichnographica, orthographica & scenographica delineatio : LXV tabulis æneis / expressa a Guilielmo Williams cui accedit uniuscujusque collegij aulæque notitia.

Oxonia depicta sive Collegiorum et aularum in inclyta Academia Oxoniensi ichnographica, orthographica & scenographica delineatio : LXV tabulis æneis / expressa a Guilielmo Williams cui accedit uniuscujusque collegij aulæque notitia.
Creator:
Williams, William, active 1724–1733
Date:
[1733]
Physical Description:
[66] leaves (1 folded) : illustrations, maps, plans 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The history of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England begun in the year 1641 : with the precedent passages, and actions, that contributed thereunto, and the happy end, and conclusion thereof by the king's blessed restoration and return upon the 29th of May, in the year 1660 / written by ... Edward, Earl of Clarendon ...

The history of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England begun in the year 1641 : with the precedent passages, and actions, that contributed thereunto, and the happy end, and conclusion thereof by the king's blessed restoration and return upon the 29th of May, in the year 1660 / written by ... Edward, Earl of Clarendon ...
Creator:
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609–1674
Date:
1702-1704
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia : humbly dedicated and recommended to country gentlemen ; and if they please, to be repeated as their own, after a hunt, at horse races, in watering-places, and other such polite assemblies, round the bottle and fire-side.

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Date:
1786
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-49 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted window at New-College Oxford / by Thomas Warton ...

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Creator:
Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
[2], 8 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The new Oxford guide: or, companion through the university. Exhibiting every particular worthy the observation of the curious in each of the public buildings, colleges, halls, &c. To which is added, a tour to Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham, and Stow ... By a gentlemen of Oxford.

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Date:
1786
Physical Description:
vii, 159 p. fold. front (plan), 4 plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The antient and present state of the city of Oxford. Containing an account of its foundation, antiquity, situation, suburbs, division by wards, walls, castle, fairs, religious houses, abbeys, St. Frideswede's, churches, as well those destroyed as the present, with their monumental inscriptions; mayors, members of Parliament &c. The whole chiefly collected by Mr. Anthony à Wood; with additions by the Rev. Sir J. Peshall, Bart. ...

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Creator:
Wood, Anthony à, 1632–1695
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
4 p.l., 372, 36 p., 1 . ill., 3 plates (1 fold., fold. map) 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A new pocket companion for Oxford: or, Guide through the university. Containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges ... To which are added descriptions of the buildings, tapestry, paintings, sculpture, temples, gardens, &c. at Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham, and Stow ...

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Date:
1789
Physical Description:
2 p. ., 152 p. plates, fold. plan. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Oxonia illustrata : views of the Bodleian Library, the theatre, publick schools, colleges, halls and other publick buildings of the University of Oxford : with an account of their foundations and endowments and a succinct description of the buildings.

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Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
[ca. 1720]
Physical Description:
[34] p. : all ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

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Creator:
Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
[4], xii, 128, [16] p., III folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The history and antiquities of the parish of Tottenham High-Cross, in the county of Middlesex. : Collected from authentic records. With an appendix, containing the account of the said town, drawn up by the Rt. Hon. Henry, last Lord Colerane. ... / By H. G. Oldfield, and R. R. Dyson.

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Creator:
Oldfield, Henry George
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
xvi, 123, [4], 90 p., 9 leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., geneal. table ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Marmora Oxoniensia.

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Creator:
Chandler, Richard, 1738–1810
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 p. l., vii, [2], xxi p., 2 l., 147, [2], xxvi, [2] p. illus., plates (1 fold.) LIX pl. 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The ornaments of churches considered : with a particular view to the late decoration of the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing, the history of the said church, an account of the altar-piece, and stained glass window erected over it : a state of the prosecution [!] it has occasioned, and other papers ...

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Creator:
Hole, William, 1710–1791
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
2 p., iv, [6], v-xiv, 15-143, 38, 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

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Creator:
Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
[viii], 54 p., illus., plans 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the University of Oxford / by Antony Wood ... ; now first published in English, from original manuscsipt [sic] in the Bodleian Library ; with a continuation to the present time by the editor, John Gutch.

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Creator:
Wood, Anthony à, 1632–1695
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
[16], 692 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The Weymouth Guide: Exhibiting the ancient and present state of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis; : with a description of Lulworth Castle, the island of Portland, and other places worthy the attention of strangers who visit Weymouth. ...

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Creator:
Delamotte, Peter
Date:
[1785?]
Physical Description:
iv, 5-96 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A defence of reveal'd religion against the exceptions of a late writer, in his book, intituled, Christianity as old as creation, &c. By John Conybeare ...

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Creator:
Conybeare, John, 1692–1755
Date:
1732
Physical Description:
[8], 467, [5] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum viri clarissimi Antonii à Wood. Being a minute catalogue of each particular contained in the manuscript collections of Antony a Wood, deposited in the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford. By William Huddesford, M. A., Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

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Creator:
Ashmolean Museum
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
3 p. ., [13]-52 p. 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The elements of civil architecture according to Vitruvius and other ancients and the most approved practice of modern authors, especially Palladio by Henry Aldrich, translated by Philip Smyth.

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Creator:
Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
lxvi, 66 p. 55 plates (incl. plans) 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A letter to Dr. Mead concerning some antiquities in Berkshire : particularly shewing that the White Horse, which gives name to the Vale, is a monument of the West-Saxons, made in memory of a great victory obtained over the Danes A.D. 871 / by Francis Wise ...

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Creator:
Wise, Francis, 1695–1767
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
58 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. An account of a Roman pavement, : lately found at Stunsfield in Oxfordshire, prov'd to be 1400 years old. / By John Pointer ...

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Creator:
Pointer, John, 1668–1754
Date:
1713
Physical Description:
[6], 24, 17-24, 33-39, [1] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Choir gaure, vulgarly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain : described, restored, and explained, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer / by John Wood ...

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
119 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 5 plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts