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1. Clemency to brutes : the substance of two sermons preached on a Shrove-Sunday, with a particular view to dissuade from that species of cruelty annually practised in England, the throwing at cocks.

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Date:
1761
Physical Description:
31, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A short history of Brighthelmston : with remarks on its air, and an analysis of its waters, particularly of an uncommon mineral one, long discovered, though but lately used ... / by Anthony Relhan ...

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Creator:
Relhan, Anthony, 1715–1776
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
[4], 75 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. One hundred & fifty new designs / by Thos. Johnson, carver ; consisting of cielings [sic], chimney pieces, slab, glass & picture frames, stands for china &c., clock & watch cases, girondoles, brackets, grates, lanthorns, &c. &c. ; the whole well adapted for decorating all kinds of ornamental furniture, in the present taste ; engrav'd on 56 copper plates.

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Creator:
Johnson, Thos. (Thomas), 1714?-approximately 1778
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
4 pt. in 1 : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A call to the connoisseurs, or Decisions of sense, with respect to the present state of painting and sculpture, and their several professors in these kingdoms. Together with a review of and examination into their comparative merits and excellencies. Intended to vindicate the genius and abilities, of the artists of our own country, from the malevolence of pretended connoisseurs, or interested dealers ... By T.B. esq;

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Creator:
T. B
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
2 p.., 44 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The perspective of architecture : in two parts : a work entirely new, deduced from the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor : and performed by two rules only of universal application : part the first, contains the description and use of a new instrument called the architectonic sector : part the second, a new method of drawing the five orders, elegant structures, &c. in perspective / begun by command of His Present Majesty, when Prince of Wales, by Joshua Kirby, designer in perspective to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:
MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:
[6], 82, [2], ii, 60, [2] pages, [1], XXV, LXXII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

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Creator:
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734–1794
Date:
MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:
[12], 112 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum viri clarissimi Antonii à Wood. Being a minute catalogue of each particular contained in the manuscript collections of Antony a Wood, deposited in the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford. By William Huddesford, M. A., Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

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Creator:
Ashmolean Museum
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
3 p. ., [13]-52 p. 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. London and its environs described : containing an account of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity or use, in the city and in the country twenty miles round it. Comprehending also whatever is most material in the history and antiquities of this great metropolis : decorated and illustrated with a great number of views in perspective, engraved from original drawings, taken on purpose for this work : together with a plan of London, a map of the environs, and several other useful cuts ...

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Date:
1761
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., map, plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The works of the late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq; : ... With a complete index.

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Creator:
Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The ornaments of churches considered : with a particular view to the late decoration of the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing, the history of the said church, an account of the altar-piece, and stained glass window erected over it : a state of the prosecution [!] it has occasioned, and other papers ...

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Creator:
Hole, William, 1710–1791
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
2 p., iv, [6], v-xiv, 15-143, 38, 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and gothic orders of architecture, made easy... : by nearly 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient andmodern, of pedestals, bases, shafts [etc.] ... : engraved on 184 copper plates: wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down ... / by Batty Langley ...

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
xxiv p., [92] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A general table of all cautions, fees, and perquisites : both statutable and customary for exercise and degrees in the University of Cambridge / drawn up by H. Newcome ...

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Creator:
Newcome, H
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 p.) ; 19 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A description of the maritime parts of France : containing a particular account of all the fortified towns, forts, harbours, bays, and rivers, with their tides, currents, soundings, shoals, &c., also of all manufactures, and articles of commerce, and of the most remarkable invasions, sieges, and sea-fights, which have happened on or near that coast : illustrated with charts of the sea-coast, and plans of all the fortified places on it : collected from the best authorities / engraved by Tho. Jefferys ... ; to which are prefixed, a glossary, and plans of the several parts of fortification, on two plates, to explain the terms made use of in the work.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:
[2], 4, [4], 10, 505, [1] pages ; 29 x 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Vignola revived : wherein is shown the true and most elegant proportions of the five orders as laid down by that great master : illustrated by two hundred and twenty-seven designs of palaces and other magnificent buildings : executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere : neatly engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates : adapted not only to the general use of architecture, but herein particular subjects are treated with the greatest accuracy, viz. : the five orders; columns, symbolical, &c. &c. doors, windows, niches, &c. cornishes, French and Italian ; ballustrades, mosaic work, mouldings, &c., sections of rooms, with designs for furniture; ornamental iron-work for various purposes; temples, grotto's, and summer retreats, for parks, gardens, &c. plan, elevations, and sections of the castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a church, pallaces [sic], &c. : with many other particulars relative to the art of building.

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Creator:
Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653–1701
Date:
MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:
4 p., 56 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts