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1. Fifty of the pleasantest landscape views in Holland / from the designs of the celebrated Rademaker.

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Creator:
Rademaker, Abraham, 1675–1735
Date:
[ca. 1745?]
Physical Description:
16 pt. : all ill. ; 13 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Remarks on the antiquity and the different modes of brick and stone buildings in England. By Mr. James Essex ... Read at the Society of Antiquaries, Dec. 8, &c. 1774.

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Creator:
Essex, James, 1722–1784
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 37 p. plate. 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A description of the works of the ingenious delineator and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life.

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Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
vi, 136 p., 1 leaf. plate. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: or The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred ... designs ... engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper plates, for piers, gates ... With an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams ... To which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio ... By B.L.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
1 p.., 22 p. 200 plates (incl. diagrs.) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Magnae Britanniae Notitia: or, The present state of Great Britain; with diverse remarks upon the ancient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

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Creator:
Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616–1703
Date:
MDCCXLV [1745]
Physical Description:
[14], 440, 292, 70 p., [1] leaf of plates : ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The museum of arts: or, The curious repository. By George Bickham, engraver of all sorts of work on copper-plates.

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Creator:
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:
1745?]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 75 plates (part. col., part double) front. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Proposals / by John Rocque ... ; for engraving and printing by subscription a new and accurate map of the country adjacent to the cities and liberties of London, Westminster, and borough of Southwark : from an exact survey thereof, begun in 1741, and now finished : the engraving is now in hand, and the whole will be finished with all possible expedition.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1745]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : map ; 45 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The British architect, or, The builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved ... on sixty folio copper- plates. By Abraham Swan, carpenter.

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Creator:
Swan, Abraham
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
viii, 20 p. LX plates. 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal architect's assistant : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers ... : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations ... : with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
ii, [8], 187 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. An introduction to the art of drawing, neatly engraved by G. Bickham: on thirty-six plates.

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Creator:
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 35 plates on 34 leaves. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Essai sur l'homme / par Monsieur Alexander Pope ; traduction françois en prose, par Mr. S****.

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Creator:
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
[iii]-xxiv, 116 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts