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1. A new and accurate method of delineating all the parts of the different orders in architecture : by means of a well contriv'd, and most easily manag'd instrument; whereon the just proportions of the principal members, and of their several parts, are so disposed, as wholly to avoid the difficulty of the fractional parts that usually attend these operations / English'd from the original Italian of Ottavio Revesi Bruti, by Thomas Malie, Gent.

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Creator:
Revesi Bruti, Ottavio
Date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:
52 p., [51] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The practical surveyor, or, The art of Land-measuring made easy : shewing by plain and familiar rules, how to survey any piece of land whatsoever, by the plain-table, theodolite, or circumferentor, or, by the chain only : and how to protract, cast up, reduce, and divide the same : likewise, an easy method of protracting observations made with the meridian : and how to cast up the content of any plot of land, by reducing any multangular figure to one triangle : to which is added, an appendix, shewing how to draw buildings, &c. in perspective : of levelling : and also how to measure standing timber / by Samuel Wyld.

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Creator:
Wyld, Samuel
Date:
[approximately 1737]
Physical Description:
viii, 188, [4] pages, [7] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Fables. By the late Mr. Gay.

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Creator:
Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:
1737-42
Physical Description:
2 v. ill., plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A plan of civil and historical architecture, in the representation of the most noted buildings of foreign nations, both ancient and modern : taken from the most approv'd historians, original medals, remarkable ruins, and curious authentick designs; and display'd in eighty-six double folio-plates, finely engraven : at a very great expence, by the most eminent hands : divided into five books : ... / all drawn with excellent skill, and the utmost diligence by Mr. John Bernhard Fischer, of Erlach ... ; first published at Leipzig, with the explanations of all the plates, in German and French, out of the best ancient and modern writers; and now faithfully translated into English, with large additional notes, by Thomas Lediard, Esq. ...

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Creator:
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656–1723
Date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:
[4], 28 pages, [86] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A dissertation upon the surface of the earth as delineated in a specimen of a philosophico-chorographical chart of East-Kent : herewith humbly presented to, and read before the Royal Society, Nov. 25, 1736 : in a letter to Cromwel Mortimer ... / by Christopher Packe ...

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Creator:
Packe, Christopher, 1686–1749
Date:
1737
Physical Description:
18 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Citadel of Plymouth.

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Creator:
Mace, Sandford
Date:
1737
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill., map ; 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A survey of the cathedral-church of Worcester : with an account of the bishops thereof, from the foundation of the see, to the year 1600. Also an appendix of many original papers and records, never before printed. / by William Thomas ...

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Creator:
Thomas, William, 1670–1738
Date:
1737
Physical Description:
[1], vi, 124, 222, 8, 210 p., ill. [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plan ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The rudiments of genteel behavior / Francis Nivelon

The rudiments of genteel behavior / Francis Nivelon
Creator:
Nivelon, François
Date:
2003
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library