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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

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Creator:
Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

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Date:
1756
Physical Description:
1 map ; 54 x 46 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Characters / by Williams.

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Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Date:
ca. 1800?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

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Date:
1772
Physical Description:
1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

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Date:
1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:
[2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. [Album of cut paper work].

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Date:
[179-?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (ca. 33 p.) ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq., comprising his diary from 1641 to 1705-6 and a selection of his familiar letters, edited by John Evelyn.

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Creator:
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:
[187-?]
Physical Description:
783 p. ill. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

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Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The life of David Garrick : from original family papers, and numerous published and unpublished sources / by Percy Fitzgerald ; in four volumes.

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Creator:
Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington, 1834–1925
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

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Creator:
Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:
1953
Physical Description:
73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Geometry exercise book.

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Date:
circa 1780
Physical Description:
1 v. (71 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

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Creator:
Hipwell, John
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. At Mr. de Poggi's new room, No. 91, New Bond Street, near Oxford Road, are now exhibiting two large pictures painted by Mr. Robert Cleveley of the Royal Navy : representing the great and important victory obtained by the British fleet, under the command of the Earl Howe, over the French, on the first of June, 1794.

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Creator:
Poggi, A. C. de
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 leaflet ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

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Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts