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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. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. The picture of England, or, Historical and descriptive delineation of the most curious works of nature and art in each county : calculated as an agreeable companion to the tourist, or a class book for the student ... / by J.N. Brewer ...

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Creator:
Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. J. Clarke : boot & shoe maker : 110 High Holborn, London.

J. Clarke : boot & shoe maker : 110 High Holborn, London.
Creator:
Clarke, J., active 1820
Date:
[approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Cecilia Fitzgerald-de-Ros sketchbook.

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Creator:
Fitzgerald-de-Ros, Cecilia, 1811–1869
Date:
1820s
Physical Description:
1 volume (39 drawings) ; 13 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A geological map of England & Wales / by G.B. Greenough ... ; drawn by T. Webster ; engraved by S. Neele & Son.

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Creator:
Greenough, George Bellas, 1778–1855
Date:
November 1st, 1819 [that is, 1820]
Physical Description:
1 map on 6 sheets : hand-colored ; 185 x 162 cm, sheets 65 x 79 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A geological map of England & Wales / by G.B. Greenough ... ; drawn by T. Webster ; engraved by S. Neele & Son.

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Creator:
Greenough, George Bellas, 1778–1855
Date:
November 1st, 1819 [that is, 1820]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets : hand-colored, mounted on linen ; 192 x 162 cm, sheets 96 x 81 cm, folded to 32 x 27 cm, in portfolio 36 x 28 cm + 1 book ([2], 17, [1] pages ; 33 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. H. Molyneux (wholesale & retail) : linen & woollen draper, silk mercer & hoster.

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Creator:
H. Molyneux (Firm)
Date:
[between 1820-1825]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Hoyle's games improved : consisting of practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet ..., with an essay on game cocks and the rules, etc.: at horse races wherein are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms / revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq.

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Creator:
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672–1769
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
502 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The commercial directory of Scotland, Ireland, and the four most northern counties of England for 1820-21 & 22 : containing a representation of the professional & mercantile inhabitants of the principal town, with sketches of ancient and modern history : and a variety of matter of local and general interest : embellished with neat maps of Scotland & Ireland.

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Creator:
J. Pigot & Co
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
viii, 248, xxiv p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The shooter's guide, or, Complete sportsman's companion : containing a compendious view of the game laws : a description of the various kinds of dogs : and the best mode of breeding, rearing, and training them : with an account of the diseases to which they are liable, and the best methods of cure : to which are added, directions for grouse, partridge, pheasant, woodcock, snipe, hare, and wild duck shooting : particular instructions for the young sportsman : and much miscellaneous information on the choice of guns, gunpowder, shot, &c. &c. / by B. Thomas.

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Creator:
Johnson, Thomas Burgeland, -1840
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[5], viii-x, 304 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A catalogue of a collection of prints the property of Thomas Lloyd ... : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Sotheby ... 6th December, 1820 ...

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Creator:
Lloyd, Thomas, print collector
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
64 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts