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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Period 18th century

Language English

Subject Terms Westport House -- Bookplate.

1. Variety of capitals, freezes, and corniches : and how to increase, or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original : likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates / published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani.

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Creator:: Columbani, Placido
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 12, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. New designs of vases and tripods decorated in the antique taste / by Geo. Richardson, archt. and son ; on XXV plates.

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Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: Septr. 5th, 1793
Physical Description:: [25] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.

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Creator:: Ellis, Henry, 1721–1806
Date:: MDCCXLVII [1748]
Physical Description:: xxviii, 336 [i.e. 344] pages, [9] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts