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1. The new, complete, and universal history, description, and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the parts adjacent ... / written and compiled from authentic records and other genuine information by a society of gentlemen ; the whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Thornton ; assisted by George Smith ... the Rev. Alex. Townsend ... and other gentlemen.

The new, complete, and universal history, description, and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the parts adjacent ... / written and compiled from authentic records and other genuine information by a society of gentlemen ; the whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Thornton ; assisted by George Smith ... the Rev. Alex. Townsend ... and other gentlemen.
Creator:
Thornton, William
Date:
1784
Physical Description:
532, [4] p. : ports. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711, by the ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol : containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage : the winds, currents, and variation of the compass : the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes, one of which a rich Acapulco ship : a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north, (from the Coasting-pilot, a Spanish manuscript) : wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk, his manner of living and taming some wild beasts during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes : illustrated with cuts and maps : in two volumes / by Capt. Edward Cooke.

A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711, by the ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol : containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage : the winds, currents, and variation of the compass : the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes, one of which a rich Acapulco ship : a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north, (from the Coasting-pilot, a Spanish manuscript) : wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk, his manner of living and taming some wild beasts during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes : illustrated with cuts and maps : in two volumes / by Capt. Edward Cooke.
Creator:
Cooke, Edward, Captain
Date:
MDCCXII [1712]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Das nach Original Zeichnungen geschilderte Thier Reich = Les animaux representés suivant des desseins originels.

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Creator:
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698–1767
Date:
1768?]
Physical Description:
2 v. ([2], 24, [2], 20 p., [62] leaves of plates; [2], 20, [2], 17, [1] p., [65] leaves of plates) : chiefly ill. ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Amusemens des bains de Bade en Suisse, de Schintznach et de Pfeffers : avec la description, & la comparaison de leurs eaux avec celles des bains de Schwalbach & autres de l'empire : le tout accompagné d'histoires & d'anecdotes curieuses.

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Creator:
Merveilleux, David-François de, -1748
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
290 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... By E. Hargrove.

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Creator:
Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
4, 382 p. front., ill., plates, plan, col. fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

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Creator:
Lamy, Bernard, 1640–1715
Date:
MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:
[16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la conoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval. Avec figures en taille-douce / Par M. de la Gueriniere , ecuyer du Roy.

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Creator:
La Guérinière, François Robichon de, 1688–1751
Date:
MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:
[10], 276, [8] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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.

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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

10. Le guide du cavalier / par M. de Garsault, auteur du Nouveau Parfait Maréchal.

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Creator:
Garsault, François A. de (François Alexandre), 1693–1778
Date:
M.DCC.LXX [1770]
Physical Description:
v [i.e. iv], 311[i.e. 216] p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm. (BEIN Copy 2: 17 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Museum Etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis cc. / nunc primum edita et illustrata observationibus Antonii Francisci Gorii, publici historiarum professoris.

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Creator:
Gori, Antonio Francesco, 1691–1757
Date:
Anno MDCCXXXVII-MDCCXXXXIII [1737-1743]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Memoirs of the ancient earls of Warren and Surrey : and their descendants to the present time / by the Rev. John Watson, M.A. F.A.S. late fellow of the Brasen-Nose College in Oxford, and rector of Stockport in Cheshire.

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Creator:
Watson, John, 1725–1783
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782, that is 1785]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The seasons / by James Thomson ; adorned with a set of engravings, from original paintings ; together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on the seasons. By Robert Heron.

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Creator:
Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:
6, lii, 250, 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The gentleman and farmer's guide for increase and improvement of cattle : viz. lambs, sheep, hogs; calves, cows, oxen. Also the best manner of breeding, and breaking horses, both for sport and burden: with an account of their respective distempers, and the most approved medicines for the cure of them. Also some observations on the many benefits of the woollen manufactures of Great-Britain, and the great advantages arising from hides, tallow, &c. Illustrated with copper plates / by R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.

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Creator:
Bradley, Richard, 1688–1732
Date:
1732
Physical Description:
[4], iv, [10], 352 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. An essay in defence of ancient architecture, or, A parallel of the ancient buildings with the modern : , shewing [sic] the beauty and harmony of the former, and the irregularity of the latter : with impartial reflections on the reasons of the abuses introduced by our present builders : to which is annexed an inspectional table, universally useful / by Robert Morris ; illustrated with sixteen copper-plates.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1728
Physical Description:
xxviii, 114, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The builder's dictionary, or, Gentleman and architect's companion : explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof ... : also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences : together with the quantities proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ... / fully digested by the most approved writers on the subjects.

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Date:
1734
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Andrea Palladio's Five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell, Esq; ; author of Vitruvius Britannicus ; to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical Description:
[8], 66 p., XXXI, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A new and rare inventions of water-works ... : as also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising of vast quantities of water by fire.

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Creator:
Caus, Isaac de, 1590–1648
Date:
1704
Physical Description:
47, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates (fold.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Shave's Suffolk memorandum-book, or, Complete pocket ledger : peculiarly adapted to the use of the gentlemen of the country : being the bissextile or leap year, the thirty-third of the new stile used in Great-Britain, and the twenty-fourth of the reign of George III.

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Date:
MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:
[112], 32, [16] p., [2] leaves of plates : map ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves / by John Harris ...

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Creator:
Harris, John, 1667?-1719
Date:
1710-1716
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts