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1. Saint James's, or, The court of Queen Anne : an historical romance / by William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., ; author of "The Tower of London," "Windsor Castle," etc. ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in three volumes.

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Creator:
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805–1882
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

2. The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.

The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.
Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
[10] pages, [48] leaves, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The costume of the Russian Empire / illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings ; with descriptions in English and French.

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Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
MDCCCIII [1803]
Physical Description:
[164] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with descriptions in English and French.

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Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
[4], iii, [1] iii, [149] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The costume of the Russian Empire : illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with decriptions in English and French.

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Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
[164] p., 73 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians : illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions.

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Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
v, [132] p., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

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Creator:
Anburey, Thomas, author
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Plan of the town of Hull and its immediate surroundings.

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Creator:
Archer, James, approximately 1632–approximately 1680
Date:
ca. 1680
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 67 x 94 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Plan of Scarbrogh Castle & towne / delineated by Capt. James Archer, one of his Matie. of England's Ingeniers.

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Creator:
Archer, James, approximately 1632–approximately 1680
Date:
circa 1680
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and gray wash ; sheet 85 x 170 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

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Creator:
Armstrong, John, -1758
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
1 map ; 66 x 45 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The glorious recovery by the Vaudois of their valleys, from the original by Henri Arnaud, their commander and pastor. With a compendious history of that people, previous and subsequent to that event. By Hugh Dyke Acland.

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Creator:
Arnaud, Henri, 1641–1721
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
cxxii, xxv, 239, [1] p. front. (map) plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Map of lower Egypt / from various surveys communicated by Major Bryce and other officers ; drawn by A. Arrowsmith 1807 ; Jas. Palmer sculp.

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Creator:
Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
1 map on 2 sheets : hand col. ; 120 x 157 cm., sheets 65 x 164 cm. and 66 x 164 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

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Creator:
Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
[4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The naval and military exploits which have distinguished the reign of George the Third : Accurately described, and methodically arranged / by Jehoshaphat Aspin.

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Creator:
Aspin, Jehoshaphat, 18th/19th cent
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 784 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Sir Joseph Banks's fishery book of the River Witham in Lincolnshire.

Sir Joseph Banks's fishery book of the River Witham in Lincolnshire.
Creator:
Banks, Sarah Sophia, 1744–1818
Date:
1784-1800
Physical Description:
2 v. ; ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

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Creator:
Beatson, Robert, 1742–1818
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 211, [1], 372, 117, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Two hymns to Pan : from the faithful shepherdess, 1610 / by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher.

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Creator:
Beaumont, Francis, 1584–1616
Date:
MM [2000]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

18. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

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Creator:
Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:
1690
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 111 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Plans for the fortifications at Hull.

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Creator:
Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:
1681-1682
Physical Description:
13 sheets : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheets 68 x 72 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The history of Virginia, in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706 : II. The natural productions and conveniences of the country, suited to trade and improvement : III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace : IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land, the 10th of June 1702 / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

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Creator:
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:
1722
Physical Description:
[8], 284, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The history and present state of Virginia : in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time -- II. The natural productions and conveniencies of the country, suited to trade and improvement -- III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace. -- IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

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Creator:
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:
MDCCV [1705]
Physical Description:
[12], 104, 40, 64, 83, [1], 16, [4] pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 / described in a series of letters from an English lady : with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners ; prepared for the press by John Gifford ...

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Creator:
Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

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Creator:
Boothby, Brooke, Sir, 1743–1824
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
89 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
xxi, 3, 382 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A letter to the people of Scotland on the alarming attempt to infringe the articles of the Union : and introduce a most pernicious innovation, by diminishing the number of the lords of Session / by James Boswell.

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
107 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Remarks concerning certain pictures supposed to be photographs of early date / by M.P.W. Boulton.

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Creator:
Boulton, M. P. W. (Matthew Piers Watt), -1894
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
74 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Bowles & Carver's new and enlarged catalogue, of accurate and useful maps, plans, and prints, of various sorts; universal and English atlasses, correct books of roads, architecture, perspective, geometry, antiquities, &c. elegant drawing-books ... also, great variety of other valuable articles ...

Bowles & Carver's new and enlarged catalogue, of accurate and useful maps, plans, and prints, of various sorts; universal and English atlasses, correct books of roads, architecture, perspective, geometry, antiquities, &c. elegant drawing-books ... also, great variety of other valuable articles ...
Creator:
Bowles & Carver
Date:
1795]
Physical Description:
185 (i.e., 177), [3] p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Boydell's heads of illustrious and celebrated persons, generally connected with the history of Great Britain in the reigns of James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. The portraits painted by Van Dyke, Lely, Kneller, Riley, &c. Engraved by John Smith, &c. And revised by Richard Earlom. With biographical memoirs, by John Watkins, LL.D.

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Creator:
Boydell and Co
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
viii, 94 p. front. (port.) ports. 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A catalogue of historical prints, various subjects, landscapes, sea pieces, views, &c. : after the most capital pictures in England / engraved by the most celebrated artists ; published by John and Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside.

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Creator:
Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:
1787-1794
Physical Description:
2 v. ([4], 88; viii, 23 p.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A catalogue of more than five thousand copper plates : engraved by the most esteemed British artists, during the last and present century, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, English, and other schools ... : the copper plates of the whole of these great works, with their impressions ... will be sold without reserve by Robert H. Evans ... on Monday June 1, 1818, and the five following days ... : comprising the entire stock of Messrs. John and Josiah Boydell, deceased ...

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Creator:
Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
58 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. An alphabetical catalogue of plates, engraved by the most esteemed artists, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, French, English, and other schools, which compose the stock of John and Josiah Boydell, engravers and printsellers, No. 90, Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; preceded by an account of various works,sets of prints, galleries &c. form,ing a great part of the same stock.

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Creator:
Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
xxix, 60 p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

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Creator:
Boyn, John
Date:
1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The fine arts of the English school : illustrated by a series of engravings, from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists : with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays, by various authors / edited, and partly written by John Britton, F.S.A.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[128] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Six picturesque views in North Wales / engraved in aquatinta by Alken, from drawings made on the spot ; with poetical reflections on leaving that country by Brian Broughton.

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Creator:
Broughton, Brian, 1767?-1839
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
32 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

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Creator:
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:
1923
Physical Description:
[1], 4-67, [9] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The complete works of Robert Burns / edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with a glossarial index and a biographical memoir by Alexander Smith.

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Creator:
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:
[1891]
Physical Description:
lxii, [4], 636, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

38. Songs & poems / by Henry Carey ; with decorations by Robert Gibbings.

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Creator:
Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743
Date:
1924
Physical Description:
[4], 9-64, [4] pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Don Quixote de la Mancha : the history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha / written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; Motteux' translation revised anew (1743) & corrected, rectified and filled up in numberless places by J. Ozell who likewise added the explanatory notes from the best editions in English & Spanish. Reprinted with twenty-one illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer.

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Creator:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616
Date:
[1930]
Physical Description:
2 v. : fronts., plates ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Letters to his son / Philip Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield ; selected, edited and introduced by James Harding ; wood-engravings by Richard Shirley Smith.

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Creator:
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Date:
1973
Physical Description:
201, [1] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill., facsims., ports. : 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

41. Every man his own brewer : a small treatise, explaining the art and mystery of brewing porter, ale, twopenny, and table-beer; recommending and proving the ease and possibility of every man's brewing his own beer, in any quantity from one peck to a hundred quarters of malt, calculated by exposing the deception in brewing; to reduce the expence of a family and lessen the destructive practice of public-house tipling / by Samuel Child, brewer.

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Creator:
Child, Samuel
Date:
[1794?]
Physical Description:
20, [4] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A catalogue of the genuine, capital, and valuable collection of pictures, by the most esteemed masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Schools : selected by that eminent artist and esteemed connoisseur Benjamin van der Gucht, Esq. deceased : this celebrated collection contains some of the most rare and capital pictures ever offered to the public : comprising the following most remarkable viz. : A Venus disarming Cupid by Corregio, brought to England by Sir William Hamilton : two, a most capital Landscape, and a Sea Port, by Claude : A landscape, a Chef D'oeuvre, by Cuyp : A Ditto by Rubens : and one Ditto, very capital, by Berghem : Le Retour de Chasse, an elegant Cabinet Picture, by Wouvermans : the Judgment of Paris by Vander Werf : A Conversation by Teniers : The Madona and Infant Christ by C. Dolce : The Transfiguration by Julio Romano : several fine portraits by Vandyck, F. Hals, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction (by order of the administratrix) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, March 11th, 1796, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had at the room in Pall Mall, at one shilling each.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
14, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Early English literature, 1519-1700, collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark, jr. ...

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Creator:
Clark, William Andrews, 1877–1934
Date:
1920-25
Physical Description:
4 v. mounted front. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. : from His Lordship's manuscripts / by the Rev. James Stanier Clarke, F.R.S., Librarian to the Prince, and Chaplain of His Royal Highness's Household, and John M'Arthur, Esq. LL.D., Late Secretary to Admiral Lord Viscount Hood.

The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. : from His Lordship's manuscripts / by the Rev. James Stanier Clarke, F.R.S., Librarian to the Prince, and Chaplain of His Royal Highness's Household, and John M'Arthur, Esq. LL.D., Late Secretary to Admiral Lord Viscount Hood.
Creator:
Clarke, James Stanier, 1765?-1834
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Account book.

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Creator:
Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Date:
1784 January 1-December 31
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

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Creator:
Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Album.

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Creator:
Cockburn, James Pattison, 1779–1847
Date:
1823-1825
Physical Description:
1 v. ([226] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Twelve views of places in the Kingdom of Mysore : the country of Tippoo Sultan, from drawings taken on the spot : to which are annexed concise descriptions of the places drawn, with a brief detail of part of the operations of the Army under the Marquis of Cornwallis, during the late war, and a few other particulars / by R.H. Colebrook, Lieutenant in the service of the Honourable East-India Company, who attended the Army in the capacity of surveyor.

Twelve views of places in the Kingdom of Mysore : the country of Tippoo Sultan, from drawings taken on the spot : to which are annexed concise descriptions of the places drawn, with a brief detail of part of the operations of the Army under the Marquis of Cornwallis, during the late war, and a few other particulars / by R.H. Colebrook, Lieutenant in the service of the Honourable East-India Company, who attended the Army in the capacity of surveyor.
Creator:
Colebrook, Robert H.
Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Will of Patrick Collins.

Will of Patrick Collins.
Creator:
Collins, Patrick, -1781
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 18 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The prices of cabinet work, with tables and designs : illustrating the various articles of manufacture : revised and corrected by a committee of masters cabinet makers.

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Creator:
Committee of Masters Cabinet Makers (London, England)
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
xvi, 259 p., xvi leaves, 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts