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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. By the Rev.d Mr. Spence.

Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. By the Rev.d Mr. Spence.
Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
xii, 361, [1] p. front. (port.) illus., XLI pl. (part fold.) 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:
[12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : executed from drawings made upon the spot in the year 1791 ...

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Creator:
Merigot, James
Date:
1797[-1799]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera.

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Creator:
Horace
Date:
MDCCXXXIII-MDCCXXXVII [1733-1737]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. (engraved), maps (engraved) ; 24 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Recherches sur la préparation que les Romains donnoient à la chaux dont ils se servoient pour leurs constructions, & sur la composition & l'emploi de leurs mortiers. Par M. de La Faye ...

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Creator:
La Faye, Polycarpe de
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
vi, 83, xi p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Mémoire pour servir de suite aux Recherches sur la préparation que les Romains donnoient à la chaux, dont ils se servoient pour leurs constructions, & sur la composition & l'emploi de leurs mortiers. Par M. de La Faye.

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Creator:
La Faye, Polycarpe de
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
viii, 110, xviii, [2] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Piante elevazioni profili e spaccati degli edifici della villa suburbana di Giulio III : Pontefico Massimo fuori la Porta Flaminia / misurati e delineati da Giovanni Stern, architetto romano.

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Creator:
Stern, Giovanni, 1734–1794 or 1795
Date:
MDCCLXXXIIII [1784]
Physical Description:
115 [i.e. 55], [1] pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 79 x 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Travels in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, in 1796 and 1797 : written for the amusement of an absent daughter.

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Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:
1796-1799
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

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Creator:
Austin, William, 1721–1820
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
6, [2] p., [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Fabbriche' antiche' / disegnate' da Andrea Palladio Vicentino e date in luce' da Riccardo Conte' di Burlington.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXX [1730, i.e. 1735]
Physical Description:
[42] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
[6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts