Date: 1795 / Classification: Books - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Bowles & Carver's new and enlarged catalogue, of accurate and useful maps, plans, and prints, of various sorts; universal and English atlasses, correct books of roads, architecture, perspective, geometry, antiquities, &c. elegant drawing-books ... also, great variety of other valuable articles ...

Bowles & Carver's new and enlarged catalogue, of accurate and useful maps, plans, and prints, of various sorts; universal and English atlasses, correct books of roads, architecture, perspective, geometry, antiquities, &c. elegant drawing-books ... also, great variety of other valuable articles ...

Creator:: Bowles & Carver
Date:: 1795]
Physical Description:: 185 (i.e., 177), [3] p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Oriental scenery.

Creator:: Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:: 1795-1807 [that is, 1808]
Physical Description:: (plate volumes): 6 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 80 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The curiosities and beauties of England displayed. Containing the most copious and complete historical descriptions of ... public edifices, royal palaces, abbeys, castles ... and other miscellaneous curiosities and beauties ... of England and Wales. To which will be added, select historical descriptions ... of ... curiosities in Scotland and Ireland. Embellished ... with above three hundred views ... Collected and ... arranged for publication. By Frederick Newman esq. ... assisted by several gentlemen of eminence ...

The curiosities and beauties of England displayed. Containing the most copious and complete historical descriptions of ... public edifices, royal palaces, abbeys, castles ... and other miscellaneous curiosities and beauties ... of England and Wales. To which will be added, select historical descriptions ... of ... curiosities in Scotland and Ireland. Embellished ... with above three hundred views ... Collected and ... arranged for publication. By Frederick Newman esq. ... assisted by several gentlemen of eminence ...

Creator:: Newman, Frederick
Date:: [1795?]
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 42, [376] p. front., pl. 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. To the Queen this book representing the birth and triumph of Cupid in Her Majesty's collection : from papers cut by Lady Dashwood is with permission most humbly dedicated by Her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged servant P.W. Tomkins, historical engraver to Her Majesty.

Creator:: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

Creator:: Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A catalogue of all that noble & superlatively capital assemblage of valuable pictures, drawings, miniatures, and prints : the property of the Right Hon. Charles Alexander De Calonne, late Prime Minister of France : selected with equal taste, judgment, and liberality, during his residence in France, and his travels through Italy, Germany, Flanders, and Holland, and while in England : at the immense expence of above sixty thousand guineas, there is also included a small elegant collection of cabinet pictures, bequeathed to him by the late Monsieur D'arveley, high treasurer of France : forming together the most splendid collection in Europe, which were intended for a magnificent gallery at his late house in Piccadilly : comprising the inestimable works of the most admired masters of the Roman, Florentine, Bolognese, Venetian, Spanish, French, Dutch, and English schools : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, on Monday the 23d of March, 1795, and five following Days, punctually at twelve o'clock, at the great rooms, in spring gardens, by order of the now mortgagees : to be publicly viewed four days preceding the sale, (Sunday excepter.) : catalogues may be had, at two shillings and six-pence each, in Spring Gardens, also of Mess. Skinner and Dyke, Aldergate Street..

Creator:: Skinner and Dyke
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 37, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Essays on subjects connected with civilization. By Benjamin Heath Malkin ...

Creator:: Malkin, Benjamin Heath, 1769–1842
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 p.., ii, [2], 293 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A catalogue of that superlatively capital assemblage of valuable pictures, formed from the sales of the several celebrated collections of M. de Calonne, Baron Nagel, and Sir Joshua Reynolds : with other capital pictures of the first class : forming together an assemblage, superior to any collection that has ever been offered to pubolic attention in this or any other country, comprising the inestimable works of the most-admired Masters :: which will be sold by private contract, at Mr. Bryan's gallery, in Savile Row, on Monday the 27th day of April, 1795, and following days.

Creator:: Bryan, Michael, 1757–1821
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 22, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A catalogue of a valuable collection of ancient and modern prints, beautiful high-finished drawings, coloured etchings, &c. elegantly framed and glazed : comprising a capital proof impression of the Descent from the Cross, after Rubens : high-finished drawings, by Clevely, Serres, and Atkins : two views of the source of the Rivers Arr and Rhone : fine impressions of the Death of Wolfe : Battles of the Boynes and La Hogue : the Resurrection, after Peters, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Monday, January the 19th, 1795, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Practical treatise on painting in oil-colours ...

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xvi, 246 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Anecdotes of some distinguished persons : chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries : adorned with sculptures.

Creator:: Seward, William, 1747–1799
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ports., music, facsims ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The landscape : a didactic poem : in three books : addressed to Uvedale Price ... / by R.P. Knight.

Creator:: Knight, Richard Payne, 1751–1824
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xv, 104 p., 3 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Picturesque views on the upper, or Warwickshire Avon : from its sources at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xviii, 284, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Sterne's sentimental journey through France and Italy : with twelve illustrative prints, designed and etched by Richard Newton.

Creator:: Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 184 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments with a few select notes and embellished with engravings.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A catalogue of part of the reserved collection of pictures late the property of Dominick Serres, Esq. R.A. deceased : among which are introduced the four following national and interesting subjects, by J.T. Serres, Marine Painter to his Majesty and His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, lately exhibited under the patronage of Their Majesties and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : The Glorious Engagement of the 1st of June, under the command of Earl Howe : The fleet returning with the prizes : The launching the Prince of Wales at Portsmouth, in the presence of Their Majesties, and the prizes at anchor in the harbour : The fleet at Spithead saluting Their Majesties on the arrival on board of Queen Charlotte, to review it after the action : also a few pleasing pictures by some of the most esteemed modern artists : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday, April 18th, 1795, at 12 o'clock : to be privately viewed on Wednesday, and publicly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, when catalogues may be had at the Rainbow, Cornhill, and in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A catalogue of the most extensive and magnificent collection of stained glass : the property and performance of those ingenious and celebrated artists, Mr. and Mr. Pearson : being the production of upwards of ten years labour : consisting of a variety of subjects, from the most renowned antient and modern historical, portrait and landscape painters : particularly, a whole length portrait of His Majestey, seated in his coronation robes, after Sir Joshua Reynolds : ditto of the Prince of Wales, after Barry, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Greenwood, at their room, in Leicester-Square, on Friday the 24th of April, 1795, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Monday, and catalogues had.

Creator:: Greenwood (Leicester-Square, London, England)
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent / by William Roscoe.

Creator:: Roscoe, William, 1753–1831
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : portrait; illustrations (engravings) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A catalogue of the genuine, capital, and valuable collection of select and beautiful cabinet pictures, the undoubted works of the most celebrated esteemed Dutch and Flemish Masters : in the highest state of preservation : the property of His Excellency the Baron Nagel, Ambassador from the States of Holland, &c. : consisting of the following Masters, viz. : Ruysdael, Hobbima, A. V. de Velde, J. Steen, Pynaker, LIngelback, Ostade, Terburg, W. V. de Velde, Vander Helst, G. Larais, Rembrandt, &c. : a singurlarly high-finished picture of a Philosopher by Ger. Douw : an elegant and noble picture by Wouvermans, of ladies and entlemen going out to the Chace : a country strolling musician, a most exquisitite picture, by Adrian Ostade : a Flemish farmer preparing for market, by D. Teniers : with many other scarce and valuable pictures : which will sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday, Mach 21st, 1795, at 12 o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : caalogues may be had as avoce : and a the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The biographical mirrour : comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

Creator:: Waldron, F. G. (Francis Godolphin), 1744–1818
Date:: 1795-[1814]
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A catalogue of the capital, genuine, and valuable collection of pictures, late the property of that eminently distinguished artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Late President of the Royal Academy, decd : comprising the undoubted works of the greatest masters of the Roman, Florentine, Bolognese, Venetian, French, Flemish, and Dutch schools, in the most perfect state of preservation : the whole of which will be sold by auction (by order of the executors) by Mr. Christie, on Wednesday 11th, and Thursday 12th of March, 1795, at his Rooms (late the Royal Academy) Pall Mall : and on Friday 13th, and Saturday 14 of March, 1795, at his Great Room (next Cumberland House) Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 28 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. ... Costumes des représentans du peuple, membres des deux conseils, du Directoire exécutif, des ministres, des tribunaux, des messagers d'état, huissiers ... etc. Dont les dessins originaux ont été confiés par le ministre de l'interieur au citoyen Grasset S. Sauveur; gravés par le citoyen Labrousse ... Chaque figure est accompagnée d'une notice historique.

Creator:: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757–1810
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 16 p. 15 col. plates. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, on several subjects ...

Creator:: Melmoth, William, 1710?-1799
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xii, 452 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. An essay on man. By Alexander Pope, esq.

Creator:: Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 40 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of Liverpool, comprising, a review of its government, police, antiquities, and modern improvements; the progressive increase of streets, squares, public buildings, and inhabitants, together with a circumstantial account of the true causes of its extensive African trade ...

Creator:: Wallace, James
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., [v]-vi, 301 p., 1 leaf. front. (fold. plan) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith.: With the life of the author.

Creator:: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: [6], xxiv, 67, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The Chester guide : giving an account of its antiquities, buildings, customs, churches, government, trade, &c. : together with a list of the earls of Chester, embellished with views of the cathedral, old East-Gate and Bridge-Gate, Outer Castle-Gate, and the Barrs : to which is added a directory.

Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [6], 96 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, copied by a chemical and mechanical process by the Polygraphic Society, from original pictures of the following esteemed masters, viz. : Teniers, Vandevelde, Ruysdael, Van Oss, Claude, Vernet, Bourgeois, Serres, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Northcote, Opie, Wright, Stubbs, Angelica, Reinegall, Wilson, &c. : which on account of the death of Mr. Goddard, the late acting manager of the affairs of the Society, has determined the other parties interested therein totally to relinquish the concern : the above property will therefore be sold by auction (by order of the executors of Thomas Goddard, Esq.) by Mr. Christie, at the Polygraphic Rooms, Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A catalogue of all those select, beautiful, and uncommonly high-finished pictures, copied from the celebrated originals which composed the Electoral Gallery of Dusseldorf, which by the gracious permission of His Serene Highness the Elector Palatine, were copied for the purpose of being engraved, in consequence of an exclusive privilege granted for that purpose to Messrs. V. and R. Green : the above-mentioned pictures are most accurately copied from the inestimable originals, several of which were unfortunately destroyed, and much damaged in their removal from Dusseldorf, during the bombardment of that city, when the building which contained them was totally burnt : many of the pictures are of the exact size of the originals, and most of the principal subjects in that collection are included : to which will be added, some scarce and valuable drawings and prints framed and glazed, from the above collection, and some proof impressions of modern engravings, the property of Messrs. Greens : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday, May the 16th, 1795, at twelve o'clock

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 14 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Guicciardini's account of the ancient Flemish school of painting. Translated from his description of the Netherlands, published in Italian at Antwerp, 1567. With a preface, by the translator.

Creator:: Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521–1589
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xv, 36 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Scenery of Ireland : illustrated in a series of prints of select views, castles and abbies / drawn and engraved in aquatinta by Jonathan Fisher ; volume the first containing sixty prints with a letter press description to each.

Creator:: Fisher, Jonathan, -1809
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: [1], page iv, [112], 6 pages, LX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The elements of heraldry ... : To which is annexed, A dictionary of the technical terms made use of in heraldry. By M. A. Porny ...

Creator:: Porny, Mr
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [vii]-xxiv, 278, [81] p. : ill., coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses / from the French of Salignac de La Mothe-Fenelon ... by the late John Hawkesworth ... ; corrected and revised by G. Gregory ... ; with a life of the author, and a complete index, historical and geographical ; embellished with twelve elegant engravings ...

Creator:: Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651–1715
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 v. (439 p.) : ill., 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Travels through the Maritime Alps, from Italy to Lyons, across the Col de Tende, by the way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, &c. : with topographical and historical descriptions : to which are added, some philosophical observations on the various appearances in mineralogy, &c. found in those countries / by Albanis Beaumont ; author of the Rhaetian Alps, &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Beaumont, Albanis, 1755–1812
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: [6], 127 pages, [3] pages, [24] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A collection of select views in London and Westminster / engraved by Watts, Medland, [and Angus] etc.

Creator:: Miller, William, 1740?-1810?
Date:: [1795-1800]
Physical Description:: [17] leaves of text, [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland &c.

Date:: 1795]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Collections for the history of Hampshire, and the bishopric Winchester : including the isles of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, and Sarke / by D.Y. ; with the original Domesday of the county, and an accurate English translation, preface, and introduction, containing an account of this curious record ; to which is added, a glossary explanatory of the obsolete words ; by Richard Warner.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ill., ports., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A review of the Landscape : a didactic poem : also of An essay on the picturesque : together with practical remarks on rural ornament / by the author of "Planting and Ornamental Gardening; a Practical Treatise."

Creator:: Marshall, Mr. (William), 1745–1818
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 275, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Three successive tours in the north of England, and great part of Scotland : interspersed with descriptions of the scenes they presented and occasional observations on the state of society, and the manners and customs of the people / by Henry Skrine ...

Creator:: Skrine, Henry, 1755–1803
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 7, [1], xxvii, [3], 164 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

Creator:: Terry, Garnet
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 26, [1] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The account of a trigonometrical survey carried on in the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 : by order of His Grace the Duke of Richmond, late Master General of the Ordnance / by Lieut. Col. Edward Williams, and Capt. William Mudge ..., and Mr. Isaac Dalby ... ; communicated by the Duke of Richmond ...

Creator:: Williams, Edward, d. 1798
Date:: 1795]
Physical Description:: p. 414-591, [4] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A description of the country from thirty to forty miles round Manchester : containing its geography, natural and civil; principal productions; river and canal navigations; a particular account or its towns and chief villages; their history, population, commerce, and manufactures; buildings, government, &c. / The materials arranged, and the work composed by J. Aikin, M.D. embellished and illustrated with seventry-three plates.

Creator:: Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [8], 624 pages, [62] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A friendly admonition from a country clergyman on the approach of Shrovetide, or, A serious warning against the cruel and abominable custom of throwing at cocks and of cockfighting.

Creator:: Toogood, Charles
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 15, [1] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection of topographical prints and drawings in England and Wales, the most extensive ever offered to public sale : which will be sold by auction, on Friday, December 11, 1795, and the three following days, (Sunday excepted) by Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, at their house in York-Street, Covent-Garden, where catalogues may be had.

Creator:: Leigh and Sotheby
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [2], 40 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A catalogue of the second part of the valuable and curious collection of fine old porcelane : the property of Mr. Charles Bond, china collector, late of Wardour Street, Soho, deceased : comprising an assemblage of all the Oriental manufactories : fine old Dresden : a few articles of rare scarce black and gold India Japan, &c. &c. : which (by order of the executrix) will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, June 5th, 1795, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale : catalogues may be had as above, and a the Rainbow Coffee House.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 11, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. ...Engraved on thirty-eight plates. With appropriate scenery, plans, and explanations, by John Plaw.

Creator:: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 13 p. 38 pl. (incl. front., plans) 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Account of sepulchral monuments discovered at Lincoln. By the reverend John Carter ... Read at the Society of Antiquaries May 25, 1795.

Creator:: Carter, John, 1761 or 1762–1829
Date:: 1795?]
Physical Description:: 7 p. 2 plates. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Fores's new chalk drawing-book, of heads and academy figures / from original drawings by C.M. Metz ; engraved in exact imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Metz, C. M. (Conrad Martin), 1755–1827
Date:: 1795-1799
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 29 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades, or, Approved directions from the best artists : for the various methods of engraving on brass, copper, or steel, of the composition of metals and varnishes, of mastichs and cements, sealing-wax, &c. ...

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: [2], xxii, 240 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The pretended tomb of Homer / drawn by Dominic Fiorillo from a sketch of M. Le Chevalier ; with illustrations and notes by C.G. Heyne.

Creator:: Heyne, Christian Gottlob, 1729–1812
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: vii, 20 p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The history and antiquities of the town and county of the town of Nottingham : containing the whole of Thoroton's account of that place, and all that is valuable in Deering / by John Throsby ...

Creator:: Throsby, John, 1740–1803
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: [2], ii, [3]-177 (i.e. 179), [3] p., [25] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, port ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1795-1798
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark ... By M. Concanen, jun. and A. Morgan.

Creator:: Concanen, Matthew, active 1795
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: viii, 280 p. 2 plates, plan. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the discovery of copper mines, a northwest passage, &c., in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. By Samuel Hearne.

Creator:: Hearne, Samuel, 1745–1792
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xliv, 458, [2] p. 4 fold. plates, 5 fold. maps (incl. front.) 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental; viz. books of plans and elevations for houses, temples, bridges, &c. ... Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's architectural library...where may be had the works of the most celebrated French architects and engineers.

Creator:: I. and J. Taylor (Firm)
Date:: [between 1795 and 1798]
Physical Description:: 4p. 37 cm. (in case 42 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. A Sunday reading : the grand assizes, or, general goal delivery.

Creator:: More, Hannah, 1745–1833
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 13 p. ; 18cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Reis door de departementen van Frankryk; door een gezelschap van konstenaars en geleerden, <met kaarten en plaaten> ...

Creator:: Lavallée, Joseph, 1747–1816
Date:: 1795-96
Physical Description:: 6 pts. 8 fold. maps, 26 plates. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Picturesque and architectural views for cottages, farm houses, and country villas / engraved and designed by Charles Middleton, architect.

Creator:: Middleton, Charles, 1756–approximately 1818
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: [2], 16 pages, XX, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Three essays: I. On dramatic composition. II. The advantages and disadvantages of foreign travel. III. And, On sculpture.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [5]-59 p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Poems / by Goldsmith and Parnell.

Creator:: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xx, 76 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 164, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

62. Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements: a series of domestic and ornamental designs suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms &c ... . London, I. and J. Taylor, 1795.

Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements: a series of domestic and ornamental designs suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms &c ... . London, I. and J. Taylor, 1795.

Creator:: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: [3], 13 p., 38 leaves. illus., plans. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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2. Oriental scenery.

4. To the Queen this book representing the birth and triumph of Cupid in Her Majesty's collection : from papers cut by Lady Dashwood is with permission most humbly dedicated by Her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged servant P.W. Tomkins, historical engraver to Her Majesty.

5. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

7. Essays on subjects connected with civilization. By Benjamin Heath Malkin ...

10. Practical treatise on painting in oil-colours ...

11. Anecdotes of some distinguished persons : chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries : adorned with sculptures.

12. The landscape : a didactic poem : in three books : addressed to Uvedale Price ... / by R.P. Knight.

13. Picturesque views on the upper, or Warwickshire Avon : from its sources at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

14. Sterne's sentimental journey through France and Italy : with twelve illustrative prints, designed and etched by Richard Newton.

15. The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments with a few select notes and embellished with engravings.

18. The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent / by William Roscoe.

20. The biographical mirrour : comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

23. The letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, on several subjects ...

24. An essay on man. By Alexander Pope, esq.

26. The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith.: With the life of the author.

30. Guicciardini's account of the ancient Flemish school of painting. Translated from his description of the Netherlands, published in Italian at Antwerp, 1567. With a preface, by the translator.

31. Scenery of Ireland : illustrated in a series of prints of select views, castles and abbies / drawn and engraved in aquatinta by Jonathan Fisher ; volume the first containing sixty prints with a letter press description to each.

32. The elements of heraldry ... : To which is annexed, A dictionary of the technical terms made use of in heraldry. By M. A. Porny ...

35. A collection of select views in London and Westminster / engraved by Watts, Medland, [and Angus] etc.

36. The lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland &c.

38. A review of the Landscape : a didactic poem : also of An essay on the picturesque : together with practical remarks on rural ornament / by the author of "Planting and Ornamental Gardening; a Practical Treatise."

39. Three successive tours in the north of England, and great part of Scotland : interspersed with descriptions of the scenes they presented and occasional observations on the state of society, and the manners and customs of the people / by Henry Skrine ...

40. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

43. A friendly admonition from a country clergyman on the approach of Shrovetide, or, A serious warning against the cruel and abominable custom of throwing at cocks and of cockfighting.

46. Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. ...Engraved on thirty-eight plates. With appropriate scenery, plans, and explanations, by John Plaw.

47. Account of sepulchral monuments discovered at Lincoln. By the reverend John Carter ... Read at the Society of Antiquaries May 25, 1795.

48. Fores's new chalk drawing-book, of heads and academy figures / from original drawings by C.M. Metz ; engraved in exact imitation of chalk.

49. Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades, or, Approved directions from the best artists : for the various methods of engraving on brass, copper, or steel, of the composition of metals and varnishes, of mastichs and cements, sealing-wax, &c. ...

50. The pretended tomb of Homer / drawn by Dominic Fiorillo from a sketch of M. Le Chevalier ; with illustrations and notes by C.G. Heyne.

51. The history and antiquities of the town and county of the town of Nottingham : containing the whole of Thoroton's account of that place, and all that is valuable in Deering / by John Throsby ...

52. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

53. The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark ... By M. Concanen, jun. and A. Morgan.

54. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the discovery of copper mines, a northwest passage, &c., in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. By Samuel Hearne.

56. A Sunday reading : the grand assizes, or, general goal delivery.

57. Reis door de departementen van Frankryk; door een gezelschap van konstenaars en geleerden, <met kaarten en plaaten> ...

58. Picturesque and architectural views for cottages, farm houses, and country villas / engraved and designed by Charles Middleton, architect.

59. Three essays: I. On dramatic composition. II. The advantages and disadvantages of foreign travel. III. And, On sculpture.

60. Poems / by Goldsmith and Parnell.

61. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

62. Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements: a series of domestic and ornamental designs suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms &c ... . London, I. and J. Taylor, 1795.