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1. Antiquities of Rome : comprising twenty-four select views of its principal ruins : illustrated by a panoramic outline of the modern city, taken from the capitol / from drawings by Henry Abbott, Esq., made in the year 1818.

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Creator:
Abbot, Henry, 1768–1840
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[25] leaves, [25] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 61 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. 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

4. Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de feu M. Quinten Craufurd : dont la vente se fera le jeudi 14 décembre 1820, et jours suivants, à six heures très pré́cises de relevée, en son Hôtel, rue d'Anjou, faubourg Saint-Honoré, no. 21 : les adjudications seront faites par MM. Alexandre ...

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Creator:
Alexandre
Date:
[1820]
Physical Description:
[4], 92 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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

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. A catalogue of the library of the Athenaeum, Liverpool / by George Burrell ...

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Creator:
Athenaeum (Liverpool, England). Library
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
xxix, 404 [i.e. 808] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Italian scenery : from drawings made in 1817 / by Miss Batty.

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Creator:
Batty, Elizabeth Frances
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[8], 197, [1] p., 60 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Thoughts on hunting, in a series of familiar letters to a friend. By Peter Beckford, esq. ...

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Creator:
Beckford, Peter, 1740–1811
Date:
[1820]
Physical Description:
xii, 321 p., [1] p. front., illus. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick.

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Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
x, 528 p. ill. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The angler's progress : a poem : developing the pleasures the angler receives from the dawn of the propensity in infancy, till the period of his becoming a complete angler

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Creator:
Boaz, H. (Herman)
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
8 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Letters written during a tour through Normandy, Britanny, and other parts of France, in 1818 : including local and historical descriptions : with remarks on the manners and character of the people / by Mrs. Charles Stothard ; with numerous engravings, after drawings by Charles Stothard...

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Creator:
Bray, Mrs. (Anna Eliza), 1790–1883
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
iv, 322 p. , [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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

15. The history and antiquities of the see and cathedral church of Lichfield; illustrated by a series of engravings, of views, elevations, plans, and details of the architecture of the church: with biographical anecdotes of the bishops of Lichfield and Coventry. By John Britton, F. S. A.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1820 [i. e. 1819-1820]
Physical Description:
2 p. ., [7]-74 p. XVI plates (incl. plan) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts