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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1757.

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1. The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Cœlosyria.

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Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
28 p., XLVI leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

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Creator:
Bertram, Charles, 1723–1765
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
198 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The history of the Saracens : containing the lives of Abubeker, Omar, Othman, Ali, Hasan, Moawiyah I. Yezid I. Moawiyah II. Abdolla, Merwan I. and Abdolmelick, the immediate succesors of Mahomet : giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, & c. particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem : illustrating the religion, rites, customs, and manner of living of that warlike people : collected from the most authentic Arabic authors, especially mss. not hitherto publish'd in any European language / by Simon Ockley, B.D. Vicar of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire, Professor of Arabick in the University of Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimerby Simon Ockley.

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Creator:
Ockley, Simon, 1678–1720
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments: also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. with estimates to each design by the great square, and such remarks, explanations and scales are annexed, that the comprehension is rendered easy, and subject most agreeable : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[12], 8 p., 50 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The roads through England delineated, or, Ogilby's survey / revised, improved, and reduced to a size portable for the pocket by John Senex ; being an actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales, distinctly laid down on one hundred and one copper plates on which are delineated all the cities, towns, villages, hills, rivers, brooks, churches, capital seats, and every place worthy of note throughout each road ; with the addition of some roads newly drawn, which were omitted by Mr. Ogilby ...

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([10], [1], 101 p.) : 102 maps ; 19 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

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Creator:
Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A journal of eight days journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames : through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. : with miscellaneous thoughts, moral and religious ; in sixty-four letters addressed to two ladies of the partie : to which is added an essay on tea, considered as pernicious to health, obstructing industry, and impoverishing the nation ..., with thirty-two letters to two ladies ... / by Mr. H*****.

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Creator:
Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts