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1. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

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Creator:
Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, collected by Lieutenant General James Dormer, / which will be sold by auction (by order of the administrator) by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent -Garden : to begin on Monday, February the 20th, 1764, and to continue the nineteen following evenings, beginning each evening exactly at six o'clock.

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Creator:
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:
[1764]
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

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

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Date:
1747-1766
Physical Description:
6 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues, and with former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches.

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Date:
MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:
[1296] pages : illustrations ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:
xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. An essay upon prints : containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters : illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces : to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 4, [2], 249, [13] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta : quibus Romanorum veterum ritus varii tam sacri quam profani, tum Graecorum atque Aegyptiorum nonnulli illustrantur / Romæ olim maxima ex parte collecta ; ac dissertationibus jam singulis instructa, a Conyers Middleton, S.T.P. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Protobibliothecario ; his appendicis item loco adjuncta est mumiae Cantabrigiensis descriptio.

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Creator:
Middleton, Conyers, 1683–1750
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
xii, 266, [8] p., 23 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

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Creator:
Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:
1748
Physical Description:
[4], 182, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Some remarkable passages in the life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner : who was slain at the battle of Preston-Pans, September 21, 1745 : with an appendix relating to the antient family of the Munro's of Fowlis / by P. Doddridge, D.D.

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Creator:
Doddridge, Philip, 1702–1751
Date:
MDCCXLVII [1747]
Physical Description:
[16], 260 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts