Date: 1775 / Image Available: Unavailable / Classification: Books

1. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. the 10th, 1774 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: [2], 36 p. ; 32 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Journal of travels made through the principal cities of Europe ... / translated from the French of M.L. Dutens ... by John Highmore, gent. ; to which is added an appendix containing the roads of Italy ; with some useful tables and hints to strangers who travel in France.

Creator:: Dutens, L. (Louis), 1730–1812
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: [4], xxxi, [l], 175, [3], 26 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

Creator:: Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: xii, 123 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

Creator:: Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782
Date:: [between 1775 and 1780?]
Physical Description:: [2], 13, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Baths of the Romans.

Creator:: Cameron, Charles, ca. 1743–1812
Date:: 1775
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [70] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The poll of the freeholders of Warwickshire : taken at Warwick, on the 20th, 21st, 22d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 31st of October, 1774. William Holbech, Esq ; Sheriff : Candidates, Sir Charles Holte, Baronet : Thomas George Skipwith Esquire : John Mordaunt, Esquire.

Creator:: Warwickshire (England)
Date:: M.DCC.LXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: [2], 133, [1] pages : tables ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 119 etchings after original designs of Raffaelle ...

Creator:: Canale, Giuseppe, 1725–1802
Date:: 1775
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A catalogue of a known capital collection of pictures, in which are the works of the following masters : Raphael, Titian, Guido, P. Veronese, An. Del Sarto, L. Jordano, C. Maratti, C. Dolci, Spagnoletto, Ciro Ferri, Battolomeo, Bourgognone, F. Mola, P. Panini, Marieski, Amiconi, Rubens, Van Dyke, Teniers, Bergham, Ruysdael : also of the capital antique and modern busts, figures, &c. the whole property of a nobleman brought from his seat in Oxfordshire : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Walsh, at his room, opposite Mr. Almack's, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May 12, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

Creator:: Walsh, Mr.
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The history and antiquities of the parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire : illustrated with copper-plates / by John Watson ...

Creator:: Watson, John, 1725–1783
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: [iii]-vi, 764, [10] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., port, plan ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A description of Hagley, Envil and the Leasowes : wherein all the Latin inscriptions are translated, and every particular beauty described : interspersed with critical observations.

Creator:: Heely, Joseph
Date:: [1775?]
Physical Description:: 142 pages ; 17 cm (12 mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

12. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missis[s]ippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ... : with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missis[s]ippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ... / By James Adair.

Creator:: Adair, James, ca. 1709–1783
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 6 p. l., 464 p. front. (fold map) 28 x 22cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

Creator:: Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: [12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses; : in two books. Containing, I. The surgical; II. The medical part of practical farriery; also, directions for the proper treatment of post chaise and other horses, after violent exercise. : With suitable remarks on the whole. : To which are now added; observations on broken-winded horses, endeavouring to prove the seat of that malady not to be in the lungs. : [Three lines from Ovid] / By J. Bartlet, surgeon.

Creator:: Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]
Physical Description:: xii, 293, [3] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The antiquarian repertory : a miscellany intended to preserve and illustrate several valuable remains of old times : adorned with elegant sculptures.

Date:: 1775-1784
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Philosophical arrangements / by James Harris.

Creator:: Harris, James, 1709–1780
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: xiv, 485 [i.e. 487], [32] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The gentlemans pocket farrier / by Captain Burdon ; with large additions and remarks by Dr. Henry Bracken of Lancaster ; shewing the diseases and accidents a horse is liable to, and the most approved methods of cure ; also many useful observations & remarks concerning the choice and management of horses.

Creator:: Burdon, William
Date:: [between 1775 and 1777?]
Physical Description:: [12], 76, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An inquiry into the real and imaginary obstructions to the acquisition of the arts in England. By James Barry ...

Creator:: Barry, James, 1741–1806
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: vii, [4], 227 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades ... Containing upwards of one thousand approved receipts relative to arts and trades ...

Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 4 p.., xxxiv, 312 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Traité de la construction théorique et pratique du scaphandre, ou, Du bateau de l'homme : approuvé par l'Academie Royale des Sciences / par M. de la Chapelle, Centeur Royal, de l"Académie de Lyon, de celle de Rouen, & de la Société Royale de Londres.

Creator:: La Chapelle, abbé de, ca. 1710–ca. 1792
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: xlviij, 328, [6] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. An inquiry into the rise and establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts : to which is prefixed a letter to the Earl of Bute / by Robert Strange, member of the Royal Academy of Painting at Paris, of the academies of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Professor of the Royal Academy at Parma, &c.

Creator:: Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721–1792
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 141, [1] pages ; 19 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Yale University Library

22. Paradise Lost. A poem in twelve books. / The author John Milton.

Creator:: Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: 3 v., 25 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Collection de figures theatrales.

Creator:: Martin, J. B
Date:: [1775]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive ... By the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

Creator:: Barlow, Frederick
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 2 v.: front., ports., 25 numb. pl. (coats of arms) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A catalogue of a most elegant and superb collection of pictures : imported by John Bertels of Brussels, and purchased out of the best cabinets abroad, such as De Heer Lubeling, Fiseau, Vander Dussen, and Vandervelde of Amsterdam, and lately out of that celebrated cabinet of Monsieur le Comte de Barre, of Paris : in which collection will be found the works of Ann. Carracci, P. Veronese, P. Da Cartona, C. Dolci, F. Laura, Viviani, G. Ochiali, F. Mola, B. Morillio, F. Bolognese, Poussin, Bourdon, Le Nain, Vernett, P.P. Rubens, A. Vandyck, Jordans, D. Teniers, D. Ryckaert, Tilbourgh, Du Chatel, Fyt, P. Neef, D. Van Dellen, Rembrandt, Weenix, Hondekooter, C. Du Jardin, M. Van Osterwyck, Cuyp, Ruysdell, Devlieg, Moucheron, Wynants : among many others are three remarkable fine pictures : the Homage paid to the brazen serpent, by S. Bourdon, which measures fourteen feet in length, and ten in height, and is well known by the engraving after it : the Descent from the cross, by A. Carracci, after that famous picture of D. Da Valterra : and an old man's head in the best manner and style of Rembrandt ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. W. Walsh, at his room, opposite Mr. Almack's, King-Street, St. James's-Square, on Friday, April 7th, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

Creator:: Walsh, Mr
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: [4], 384 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Catalogue d'estampes : des plus grands maîtres Italiens, Flamands & François, de divers recueils d'estampes, d'architecture de différents maîtres, & autres traités sur les arts, dépendants de la succession de M. Mariette, contrôleur-général de la Grande-chancellerie de France, honoraire amateur de l'Académie royale de peinture & sculpture, & de l'Académie de Florence, dont la vente commencera le Ier février 1775, de relevée, & jours suivants, sans interruption, dans une salle des Grands-Augustins. / par F. Basan, graveur.

Creator:: Chariot, C.-L. (Claude-Louis)
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: viii, 79, [1] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A new book of ornaments containing a variety of elegant designs for modern pannels [sic] commonly executed in stucco, wood, or painting, and used in decorating principal rooms = Un recueil des ornemens composés, lorsqu'on voudra s'en servir : pour embellir des chambres à l'Angloise = A chiunque piacerà di servirsi di queste idee : serviranno ad accorciar' tempo, con non poco risparmio di fatica, a chi avrá 'l carico di decorar' camere etc. / by P. Columbani ; published according to Act of Parliament. Feb. 15, 1775.

Creator:: Columbani, Placido
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 32 leaves of plates: chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A catalogue of a capital and elegant collection of pictures, selected from the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, and other schools : consisting of the works of the following Masters : Titian, Vandyck, Agostino Caracci, Dominichino, Guercino, Albani, Simon Da Pesaro, Filippo Manzani, Benefiali, Bartolomeo, Baptista Fery, Carlo Dolci, Lu Atelli, Poussin, Bourdon, Stella, Le Brun, Rembrandt, Swanefeld, Holbein, Bamboccio, Cuyp, Hondius : the whole collected during two separate journeys abroad, by Robert Strange : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall-Mall, on Friday, May 5, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The cabinet and chair-maker's real friend and companion, or, The whole system of chair making made plain and easy : containing upwards of one hundred new and useful designs for all sorts of chairs ... / the whole invented and drawn by Robert Manwaring : and ... engraved on forty copper plates by Robert Pranker.

Creator:: Manwaring, Robert
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 23 p., [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A voyage to the island of Mauritius (or, Isle of France), the Isle of Bourbon, the Cape of Good Hope ... : with observations and reflections upon nature and mankind / by a French officer ... ; translated from the French by John Parish.

Creator:: Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737–1814
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: [12], 291 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Horda angel-cynnan, or, A compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the inhabitants of England : from the arrival of the Saxons, till the reign of Henry the Eighth : with a short account of the Britons, during the government of the Romans : in two volumes / by Joseph Strutt ; author of the regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCLXXV-MDCCLXXVI [1775-1776]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Rural improvements: or, Essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accommodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England ... Essay first; shewing the improvements that respect the occupier. Essay second; the improvements that respect the land-owner ... By a landowner.

Creator:: Wimpey, Joseph, 1739–1808
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: xvi, 528, xv, [1] p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Bath and it's environs, a descriptive poem, in three cantos. Wherein the reality, life, and great qualities of it's first founder Bladud are displayed,--his figure, as described by the orator Himerius, delineated;--the natural history of Bath, as well ancient as modern, and the inimitable beauty of it's situation, hills, woods, river, vales, and respective landscapes, depicted according to nature. The whole interspersed with reflections analogous to the subject, and illustrated with explanatory notes authenticating the several historical traditions from which the poem is composed ...

Creator:: Hippesley, R
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: viii p., 2 ., 53 p. 1 plate. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A gentleman's tour through Monmouthshire and Wales, in the months of June and July, 1774.

Creator:: Wyndham, Henry Penruddocke, 1736–1819
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 1 p.., v, 218, [3] p. front. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Sayer & Bennett's catalogue of prints for 1775.

Creator:: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
Date:: 1970
Physical Description:: 150, [10], 66 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. the 10th, 1774 / by the President.

2. Journal of travels made through the principal cities of Europe ... / translated from the French of M.L. Dutens ... by John Highmore, gent. ; to which is added an appendix containing the roads of Italy ; with some useful tables and hints to strangers who travel in France.

3. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

4. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

5. Baths of the Romans.

6. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

7. The poll of the freeholders of Warwickshire : taken at Warwick, on the 20th, 21st, 22d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 31st of October, 1774. William Holbech, Esq ; Sheriff : Candidates, Sir Charles Holte, Baronet : Thomas George Skipwith Esquire : John Mordaunt, Esquire.

8. 119 etchings after original designs of Raffaelle ...

10. The history and antiquities of the parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire : illustrated with copper-plates / by John Watson ...

11. A description of Hagley, Envil and the Leasowes : wherein all the Latin inscriptions are translated, and every particular beauty described : interspersed with critical observations.

15. The antiquarian repertory : a miscellany intended to preserve and illustrate several valuable remains of old times : adorned with elegant sculptures.

16. Philosophical arrangements / by James Harris.

18. An inquiry into the real and imaginary obstructions to the acquisition of the arts in England. By James Barry ...

19. Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades ... Containing upwards of one thousand approved receipts relative to arts and trades ...

20. Traité de la construction théorique et pratique du scaphandre, ou, Du bateau de l'homme : approuvé par l'Academie Royale des Sciences / par M. de la Chapelle, Centeur Royal, de l"Académie de Lyon, de celle de Rouen, & de la Société Royale de Londres.

21. An inquiry into the rise and establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts : to which is prefixed a letter to the Earl of Bute / by Robert Strange, member of the Royal Academy of Painting at Paris, of the academies of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Professor of the Royal Academy at Parma, &c.

22. Paradise Lost. A poem in twelve books. / The author John Milton.

23. Collection de figures theatrales.

24. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive ... By the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

26. A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

31. A voyage to the island of Mauritius (or, Isle of France), the Isle of Bourbon, the Cape of Good Hope ... : with observations and reflections upon nature and mankind / by a French officer ... ; translated from the French by John Parish.

33. Rural improvements: or, Essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accommodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England ... Essay first; shewing the improvements that respect the occupier. Essay second; the improvements that respect the land-owner ... By a landowner.

35. A gentleman's tour through Monmouthshire and Wales, in the months of June and July, 1774.

36. Sayer & Bennett's catalogue of prints for 1775.