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1. The history of the island of Guernsey : part of the ancient duchy of Normandy, from the remotest period of antiquity to the year 1814 : containing an interesting account of the island : its government, civil, military, and ecclesiastical : peculiar privileges, customs, etc. with particulars of the neighbouring islands of Alderney, Serk, and Jersey : compiled from the valuable collections of the late Henry Budd, Esq., His Majesty's receiver, and more than thirty years resident in the island : (collected by him for the purpose of publication, which his death prevented) : as well as from authentic documents, Royal Charters, public records, and private manuscripts / by William Berry, Late of the college of arms, London ; embellished and illustrated with a correct map of the island ; view of the town ; plates of the churches, castles, and other public buildings, gentlemen's sets, &c. &c. &c.

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Creator:
Berry, William, 1774–1851
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
vii, [5], 348 p., [30] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The history of Nottingham, embracing its antiquities, trade, and manufactures, from the earliest authentic records, to the present period. : Inscribed (by permission) to John Smith, esquire, member of Parliament for the town. / By John Blackner.

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Creator:
Blackner, John, 1770–1816
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
459, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Illustrations of the island of Staffa : in a series of views, accompanied by topographical and geographical descriptions / by W. Daniell.

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Creator:
Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
[4], 11, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Horn's Description of Dover : containing a concise account of the castle, heights, harbour, and town, also of the plan for its improvement and enlargement : likewise some useful information to travellers, respecting the custom house, passage vessels, &c. &c. &c., embellished with an accurate coloured view of Dover castle and the town.

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Creator:
Horn, J., bookseller
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[4], 126 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Travels in Brazil / by Henry Koster.

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Creator:
Koster, Henry, 1793–approximately 1820
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xii, 501 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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

7. Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology : explaining the easiest methods of discriminating minerals, and the earthy substances commonly called rocks, which compose the primitive, secondary, floetz or flat, and alluvial formations : to which is added, a description of the lapidaries' apparatus, &c. : with engravings and coloured plate / by J. Mawe, author of the New descriptive catalogue of minerals, &c., &c.

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Creator:
Mawe, John, 1764–1829
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
viii, 78, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons : exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spiritous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy, and methods of detecting them / by Fredrick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Linnean Society; member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts of Berlin, &c, &c.

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Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. An historical survey of the County of Cornwall: to which is added a complete heraldry of the same; with numerous engravings. / By C. S. Gilbert.

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Creator:
Gilbert, Charles Sandoe, 1760–1831
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms, map, portraits ; [57] leaves of plates (some folded), [20] p. of plates : 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809 : in which is included, some account of the proceedings of His Majesty's mission, under Sir Harford Jones ... to the court of the King of Persia / by James Morier ... ; with twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author, a plate of inscriptions, and three maps ; one from the observations of Captain James Sutherland, and two drawn by Mr. Morier, and Major Rennell.

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Creator:
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
xvi, 438 p., [28] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., facsims., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A voyage up the Persian Gulf and a journey overland from India to England, in 1817 : containing notices of Arabia Felix, Arabia Deserta, Persia, Mesopotamia, the Garden of Eden, Babylon, Bagdad, Koordistan, Armenia, Asia Minor, &c. &c. / by Lieutenant William Heude.

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Creator:
Heude, William
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
x, 252 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology : with colored plates : to which is added a practical description of the use of the lapidary's apparatus, explaining the methods of slitting and polishing pebbles, &c. / by John Mawe, Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, &c. &c. author of Travels through the gold and diamond district of Brasil, Treatise on diamonds and precious stones, Descriptive catalogue, &c.

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Creator:
Mawe, John, 1764–1829
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 108, iii, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A journey from India to England : through Persia, Georgia, Russia, Poland and Prussia, in the year 1817 / by Lieut. Col. John Johnson ... ; illustrated with engravings.

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Creator:
Johnson, John, Lieutenant Colonel
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
x, [1], 376 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. An account of the interior of Ceylon, and of its inhabitants : with travels in that island / by John Davy.

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Creator:
Davy, John, 1790–1868
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
viii, 530 p., [14] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The British gallery of pictures, selected from the most admired productions of the old masters, in Great Britain; accompanied with descriptions, historical and critical. By the late Henry Tresham ... and William Young Ottley ... the executive part under the management of Peltro William Tomkins ...

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Creator:
Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814
Date:
1818 [i. e. 1820]
Physical Description:
6 p. ., [iii]-viii, [54] p. 25 mounted col. plates. 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople : between the years 1810 and 1816 : with a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian gulf : together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under His Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley ... / by James Morier ; .. with two maps and engravings from the designs of the author.

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Creator:
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 435 p, [19] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde : accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries : with a map / by Lieutenant Henry Pottinger.

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Creator:
Pottinger, Henry, Sir, 1789–1856
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xxx, 423 p., [2] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts