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1. Oxonium poema / authore F.V. ex aede Christi.

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Creator:
Vernon, Francis, 1637?-1677
Date:
1667
Physical Description:
[2], 26 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan. By Edward Earl of Clarendon.

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Creator:
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609–1674
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
5 p. ., 322 p. illus. 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Isole Britanniche.

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Creator:
Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650–1718
Date:
[1706]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3] leaves, [170] leaves of plates, some folded) : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. An account of a Roman pavement, : lately found at Stunsfield in Oxfordshire, prov'd to be 1400 years old. / By John Pointer ...

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Creator:
Pointer, John, 1668–1754
Date:
1713
Physical Description:
[6], 24, 17-24, 33-39, [1] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Oxonia illustrata : views of the Bodleian Library, the theatre, publick schools, colleges, halls and other publick buildings of the University of Oxford : with an account of their foundations and endowments and a succinct description of the buildings.

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Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
[ca. 1720]
Physical Description:
[34] p. : all ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A defence of reveal'd religion against the exceptions of a late writer, in his book, intituled, Christianity as old as creation, &c. By John Conybeare ...

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Creator:
Conybeare, John, 1692–1755
Date:
1732
Physical Description:
[8], 467, [5] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A letter to Dr. Mead concerning some antiquities in Berkshire : particularly shewing that the White Horse, which gives name to the Vale, is a monument of the West-Saxons, made in memory of a great victory obtained over the Danes A.D. 871 / by Francis Wise ...

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Creator:
Wise, Francis, 1695–1767
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
58 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Choir gaure, vulgarly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain : described, restored, and explained, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer / by John Wood ...

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
119 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 5 plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The ornaments of churches considered : with a particular view to the late decoration of the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing, the history of the said church, an account of the altar-piece, and stained glass window erected over it : a state of the prosecution [!] it has occasioned, and other papers ...

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Creator:
Hole, William, 1710–1791
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
2 p., iv, [6], v-xiv, 15-143, 38, 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum viri clarissimi Antonii à Wood. Being a minute catalogue of each particular contained in the manuscript collections of Antony a Wood, deposited in the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford. By William Huddesford, M. A., Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

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Creator:
Ashmolean Museum
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
3 p. ., [13]-52 p. 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Marmora Oxoniensia.

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Creator:
Chandler, Richard, 1738–1810
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 p. l., vii, [2], xxi p., 2 l., 147, [2], xxvi, [2] p. illus., plates (1 fold.) LIX pl. 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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

13. The antient and present state of the city of Oxford. Containing an account of its foundation, antiquity, situation, suburbs, division by wards, walls, castle, fairs, religious houses, abbeys, St. Frideswede's, churches, as well those destroyed as the present, with their monumental inscriptions; mayors, members of Parliament &c. The whole chiefly collected by Mr. Anthony à Wood; with additions by the Rev. Sir J. Peshall, Bart. ...

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Creator:
Wood, Anthony à, 1632–1695
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
4 p.l., 372, 36 p., 1 . ill., 3 plates (1 fold., fold. map) 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted window at New-College Oxford / by Thomas Warton ...

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Creator:
Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
[2], 8 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The Weymouth Guide: Exhibiting the ancient and present state of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis; : with a description of Lulworth Castle, the island of Portland, and other places worthy the attention of strangers who visit Weymouth. ...

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Creator:
Delamotte, Peter
Date:
[1785?]
Physical Description:
iv, 5-96 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia : humbly dedicated and recommended to country gentlemen ; and if they please, to be repeated as their own, after a hunt, at horse races, in watering-places, and other such polite assemblies, round the bottle and fire-side.

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Date:
1786
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-49 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The new Oxford guide: or, companion through the university. Exhibiting every particular worthy the observation of the curious in each of the public buildings, colleges, halls, &c. To which is added, a tour to Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham, and Stow ... By a gentlemen of Oxford.

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Date:
1786
Physical Description:
vii, 159 p. fold. front (plan), 4 plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the University of Oxford / by Antony Wood ... ; now first published in English, from original manuscsipt [sic] in the Bodleian Library ; with a continuation to the present time by the editor, John Gutch.

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Creator:
Wood, Anthony à, 1632–1695
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
[16], 692 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A new pocket companion for Oxford: or, Guide through the university. Containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges ... To which are added descriptions of the buildings, tapestry, paintings, sculpture, temples, gardens, &c. at Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham, and Stow ...

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Date:
1789
Physical Description:
2 p. ., 152 p. plates, fold. plan. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

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Creator:
Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
[viii], 54 p., illus., plans 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Notes on visits to various country houses and towns in Great Britain.

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Creator:
Kerr, Mary, active 1789–1826
Date:
1789-1826
Physical Description:
1 v. ([4], 19, [1], 83 p., with blanks) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The elements of civil architecture according to Vitruvius and other ancients and the most approved practice of modern authors, especially Palladio by Henry Aldrich, translated by Philip Smyth.

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Creator:
Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
lxvi, 66 p. 55 plates (incl. plans) 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The history and antiquities of the parish of Tottenham High-Cross, in the county of Middlesex. : Collected from authentic records. With an appendix, containing the account of the said town, drawn up by the Rt. Hon. Henry, last Lord Colerane. ... / By H. G. Oldfield, and R. R. Dyson.

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Creator:
Oldfield, Henry George
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
xvi, 123, [4], 90 p., 9 leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., geneal. table ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Views of all the colleges, halls, and public buildings in the university and city of Oxford : exhibiting to strangers every place deserving particular notice.

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Date:
[1802?]
Physical Description:
1 v. : all ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. New description of Blenheim, the seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough : containing a full and accurate account of the paintings, tapestry, and furniture; a picturesque tour of the gardens & park : and a general description of the china gallery, &c. : with a preliminary essay on landscape gardening.

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Creator:
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 152 pages, [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

26. Observations on English architecture, military, ecclesiastical, and civil, compared with similar buildings on the continent : including a critical itinerary of Oxford and Cambridge : also historical notices of stained glass, ornamental gardening, &c. : with chronological tables and dimensions of cathedral and conventual churches / by the Rev. James Dallaway, M.B. F.S.A.

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Creator:
Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
[4], xii, 318, [12], [4] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Observations on architecture in England ...

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Creator:
Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Date:
1807-1830
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The academic costume of the University of Oxford : exemplified with twenty-five plates, shewing in regular gradation the different dresses of the university.

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Date:
[1807]
Physical Description:
[26] leaves : all ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The painter's primer : in familiar rhyme, without notes : containing the most approved methods for beginners in the art progressively laid down, and peculiarly adapted for the purpose of a Vade-Mecum to practitioners in every branch of painting / by an Experienced Artist.

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Creator:
Experienced artist
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], 43 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A narrative of the minutes of evidence respecting the claim to the Berkeley peerage, as taken before the committee of privileges in 1811. Together with the entire evidence of the persons principally concerned. To which are added, facsimiles of the banns, and register of the marriage : extracted from the parish books of Berkeley. To the whole is prefixed a sketch of the proceedings of the committee on the Earl of Berkeley's pedigree in the year 1799.

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Creator:
Fitzhardinge, William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Earl of, 1786–1857
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
xiii, 276, p. 2 facsim. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A new description of Blenheim, the seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough : containing a full and accurate account of the paintings, tapestry, and furniture : a picturesque tour of the gardens and park : and a general description of the china gallery, &c. : with a preliminary essay on landscape gardening.

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Creator:
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
Date:
MDCCCXIV [1814]
Physical Description:
iv, [2], 150 pages, [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

32. An account of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent and Their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia to the University of Oxford in June MDCCXIV.

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Creator:
University of Oxford
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
[2], 98 p., [3] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 38cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Prospectus for publishing in subscription The Oxford portfolio : offered to the nobility and gentry of the university / by G. Cooper.

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Creator:
Cooper, George, active 1792–1830
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The history of the ancient town and borough of Uxbridge : containing copies of interesting public documents, and a particular account of all chritable donations, left for the benefit of the poor ; with plates, and an appendix, &c / by George Redford ... and Thomas Hurry Riches.

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Creator:
Redford, George, 1785–1860
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xvi, 328, [8] p., [12] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Oxfordshire. Preparing for publication, Parochial collections for Oxfordshire, chiefly compiled from the mss. of Anthony à Wood, Tindal, Hutton, Dugdale, Dodsworth, &c. ... By Thomas Phillipps ...

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Creator:
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792–1872
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
broadside. 28 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The Oxford University and city guide, on a new plan : containing a full description of the colleges, halls, public buildings, libraries, gardens, walks, pictures and statues, in Oxford : with an account of the dresses, examinations, degrees, distinctive ranks, manners, customs, &c. of the members of the of the university to which is added a guide to Blenheim, Nuneham, the newly discovered Roman villa, near Northleigh, &c.

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Date:
1823
Physical Description:
ix, [5]-[216] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Thirty-five views on the Thames, at Richmond, Eton, Windsor, and Oxford / drawn by W. Westall, A.R.A.

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Creator:
Westall, William, 1781–1850
Date:
MDCCCXXIV [1824]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [35] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The Oxford University and city guide : on a new plan ... with an account of the dresses, examinations, degrees, distinctive ranks, manners, customs, &c. of the members of the university : to which is added, a guide to Blenheim, Nuneham, the newly-discovered Roman villa, near Northleigh, &c., &c.

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
3, vi, [4], 11-220 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Mathews's views of colleges in Oxford.

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Creator:
Mathews, William, 1780 or 81–1866
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[24] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 9 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Walks in Oxford : comprising an account of the colleges, halls, and public buildings of the university : with an introductory outline of the academical history of Oxford, to which is added, concise history of the city / by W.M. Wade ; illustrated by seventy-two views, drawn and engraved by J. and H.S. Storer.

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Creator:
Wade, W. M
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A topographical and historical description of the university and city of Oxford : with views of churches, colleges, halls, and other public edifices, and the most remarkable remains of ancient buildings, in the vicinity of Oxford : to which is added, correct delineations of the costume of the members of the university / by Nathaniel Whittock, lithographist to the University of Oxford.

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Creator:
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
iv, [2], 102, [2] p., [42] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The microcosm of Oxford : containing a series of views of the churches, colleges, halls & other public buildings of the University and city of Oxford / by N. Whittock ; accompanied with brief notices of founders, benefactors, dates of buildings, and other subjects explanatory of the several drawings.

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Creator:
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
40 p., [38] leaves of plates (1 fold.) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Oxford : a poem / by Robert Montgomery ...

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Creator:
Montgomery, Robert, 1807–1855
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
258 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough : containing a full and accurate account of the painting, tapestry, and furniture : a picturesque tour of the gardens and park : a general delineation of the China gallery, private gardens, &c. : to which are also added : an itinerary : an account of the roman villa, near Northleigh, &c. &c. : with a preliminary essay on landscape gardening.

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Creator:
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
Date:
[1836]
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 139 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Le Keux's memorials of Cambridge : a series of views of the colleges, halls, churches, and other public buildings, of the university and town of Cambridge : engraved by J. Le Keux, from original drawings, made expressly for the work : with historical and descriptive accounts of the buildings, &c. / by Thomas Wright.

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Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:
[1837?]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Salsette and Elephanta : a prize poem, recited in the theatre, Oxford, June 12, 1839 / by John Ruskin.

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Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
19 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Costumes of the members of the University of Oxford / drawn, engraved & published by N. Whittock.

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Creator:
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([1], 16, [1] p.) : all ill. ; 11 x 119 cm, folded to 11 x 7 cm, attached to boards 12 x 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough : containing a full and accurate account of the Gallery of Paintings, as newly arranged; an alphabetical list of the names of the painters, and their respective schools; A picturesque tour of the gardens and park; a general delineation of the tapestry, furniture, private gardens ... To which are also added, an itinerary; an account of the Roman villa, near Northleigh ... with a preliminary essay on landscape gardening ...

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Creator:
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
Date:
[1848?]
Physical Description:
xii, 139 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., plan ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The universities : Le Keux's memorials of Cambridge : a series of views of the colleges, Halls, and public buildings : engraved by J. Le Keux / with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.

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Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:
1841-42
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Eton sketched : a series of designs illustrative of an Eton life / by Quis?

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Creator:
Quis
Date:
1841]
Physical Description:
[10], [32] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts