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Date 1815

Subject Terms Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

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1. Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings : [game]

Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings : [game]

Date:: [ca. 1815?]
Physical Description:: [26] pictorial cards : ill. ; 65 x 45 mm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain during the years 1810 and 1811 / by a French traveller; with remarks on the country, its arts, literature, and politics, and on the manners and customs of its inhabitants.

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Creator:: Simond, L. (Louis), 1767–1831
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

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Creator:: Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: xii, 240 pages, 4 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A practical treatise on gas-light : exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal-gas; with remarks on the utility, safety, and general nature of this new branch of civil economy / by Frederick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, on mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Linnæn Society, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.

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Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [1], v, [1], 186 p., VII leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts