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1. Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas : for the lighting of streets, houses and public buildings : with elevations, sections, and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus now employed at the gas works in London and the principal provincial towns of Great Britain : accompanied with comparative estimates, exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light : with seven plates / by Fredrick 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 Limæan Society, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.

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Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:
MDCCXX [1820]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 334, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Panorama of the Progress of Human Life, fashionably display'd : illustrating Shakespears Ages and giving at the same time the manners, costume, amusements, and the field sports of the English people, the whole illustrative of modern characters in a series of many hundreds of moving figures.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
April 20, 1820
Physical Description:
1 print on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 7 x 457 cm, rolled to 10 x 15 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Lessons of thrift : published for general benefit / by a member of the Save-all Club.

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Creator:
Member of the Save-all Club
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 240 [i.e. 196], [2] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons : exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spiritous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy, and methods of detecting them / by Fredrick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Linnean Society; member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts of Berlin, &c, &c.

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Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Naval victories : a series of engravings representing the naval engagements of Great Britain / from original drawings made by officers who were in the actions represented ; engraved by J. Sutherland.

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Creator:
Sutherland, Thomas, approximately 1785–approximately 1825
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [58] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Hints to young practitioners, in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings, intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

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Creator:
Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Date:
[1820]
Physical Description:
67 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The naval and military exploits which have distinguished the reign of George the Third : Accurately described, and methodically arranged / by Jehoshaphat Aspin.

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Creator:
Aspin, Jehoshaphat, 18th/19th cent
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 784 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Fables in action : by means of moveable pictures, and dissected and coloured figures, with explanatory text.

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Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[2], 18 p. : ill. ; 10 x 16 cm. + (1 col. ill. envelope and 24 col. ill. cut out figures.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts