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1. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. the 10th, 1774 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[2], 36 p. ; 32 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A discourse, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy, October 16, 1780 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
Physical Description:
6, [7], [4], 32 p. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 11, 1769 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[4], 23, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy / by the President [i.e., J. Reynolds]

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1776 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M DCC LXXVII [1777]
Physical Description:
[4], 44 p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1784 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]
Physical Description:
[4], 32 p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1778 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M DCC LXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:
[4], 38, [2] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1772 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M DCC LXIII. [i.e. 1773]
Physical Description:
[4], 27, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. 10th, 1788 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
Physical Description:
[4], 26, [2] ; 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A discourse, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy, January 2, 1769 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[4], 15, [1] ; 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on the distribution of the prizes, December 11, 1786 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
Physical Description:
[4], 30, [2] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1771 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXXII [1772]
Physical Description:
[2], 29, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... : containing his Discourses, Idlers, A journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting, printed from his revised copies ... : to which is prefixed An account of the life and writings of the author / by Edmond Malone ...

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 14, 1770 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:
[4], 20 p. ; 30 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1782 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]
Physical Description:
28 p. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... : containing his Discourses, Idlers, A journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting; printed from his revised copies ... To which is prefixed An account of the life and writings of the author, by Edmond Malone ...

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
3 v.; 23 cm. (8 vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. 10, 1790 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
Physical Description:
[4], 31, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new ... account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell ...

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Creator:
Bardwell, Thomas, 1704–1767
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
2 p.., [iii]-v, 64 p. VI plates. 26 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Art's master-piece: or, A companion for the ingenious, of either sex. In two parts. I. The art of limning and painting in oil ... II. The art of making glass of crystal ...

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Date:
[171-?]
Physical Description:
144 p. incl. front. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

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Creator:
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
1773-1787
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., maps, port., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A new treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner for many years practice and experience : with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies / by William Gibson, surgeon, in Duke-Sreet, Grosvenor-Square ; illustrated with thirty-two copper-plates.

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Creator:
Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750
Date:
MDCCLI [1751]
Physical Description:
[12], 464, [12] pages, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Characaturas / by Leonardo da Vinci ; from drawings by Winceslaus Hollar out of the Portland museum .

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Creator:
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : chiefly ill. (ports.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The polite arts, or, A dissertation on poetry, painting, musick, architecture, and eloquence.

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Date:
MDCCXLIX [1749]
Physical Description:
xii, 160 p. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Remarks made in a tour from London to the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland in the summer of M.DCC.XCI. Originally published in the Whitehall Evening Post, and now reprinted with additions and corrections. To which is annexed, A sketch of the police, religion, arts, and agriculture of France, made in an excursion to Paris in M.DCC.LXXXV. By A. Walker, ...

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Creator:
Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31–1821
Date:
M,DCC,XCII [1792]
Physical Description:
[6], 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The history and antiquities of the town and county of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne : including an account of the coal trade of that place ... / by John Brand ...

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Creator:
Brand, John, 1744–1806
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., plans, facsim. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Roma illustrata, or, A description of the most beautiful pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture, antique and modern, at and near Rome.

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Creator:
Raguenet, François, 1660?-1722
Date:
[172-?]
Physical Description:
[20], 195, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Collection of drawings of arms.

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Creator:
Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:
[ca. 1779?]
Physical Description:
2 vols.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the Mss. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added an account of the life and works of the latter ...

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 p. l., 128, 14, 20 p., 4 leaves. ports. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

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Date:
1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:
[2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies / compiled from authentic memoirs, revised by gentlemen who have resided many years in the Spanish settlements ; and illustrated with thirty-two maps and plans, chiefly from original drawings taken from the Spaniards in the last war, and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[4], xxiv, 106, [2] pages, 32 folded leaves of plates : maps, plans ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : wherein their pedastals, columns, entablatures, imposts, and arches, are taken from the best examples of the ancients, and proportioned by equal parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy manner, than has been done in any language : for the instruction of apprentices and journeymen, masons and bricklayers ... : and others who desire a just knowledge of the fundamental rule of that noble art / B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
[2], 8 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc
Date:
1721
Physical Description:
179, [21] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The complete modern joiner, or, A collection of original designs in the present taste for chimney-pieces and door-cases : with their mouldings and enrichments at large, frizes, tablets, ornaments for pilasters, bases, sub-bases and cornices for rooms, &c. : with a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures to rooms of any size / by N. Wallis, Architect.

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Creator:
Wallis, N
Date:
[1772]
Physical Description:
[4] p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. 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.

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

37. New copper plate magazine : containg select views of noblemens and gentlemens seats in England : taken from original drawings.

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Date:
[1789-1796]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [78] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. 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.

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

39. Les delices des chateaux royaux, or, A pocket companion to the royal palaces of Windsor, Kensington, Kew, and Hampton Court : containing an account of their buildings, gardens, paintings, monuments and curiosities : with the institution and ceremonies of the order of the Garter : also a concise description of the towns, villages, and villas within XIV miles of Windsor : to which are added short sketches of the lives of the most eminent painters ...

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Date:
[1785]
Physical Description:
[6], 90, [2], 44, [2], 26, 32 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

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Creator:
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
38 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760 : with observations upon the state of the colonies / by the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester and Vicat of Greenwich.

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Creator:
Burnaby, Andrew, 1732–1812
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 209, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682–1761
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A familiar introduction to the theory and practice of perspective / by Joseph Priestley.

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Creator:
Priestley, Joseph, 1733–1804
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
[2], xv, [1], 132, [10] p., [25] folded leaves of plates ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A catalogue of a known capital collection of pictures, in which are the works of the following masters : Raphael, Titian, Guido, P. Veronese, An. Del Sarto, L. Jordano, C. Maratti, C. Dolci, Spagnoletto, Ciro Ferri, Battolomeo, Bourgognone, F. Mola, P. Panini, Marieski, Amiconi, Rubens, Van Dyke, Teniers, Bergham, Ruysdael : also of the capital antique and modern busts, figures, &c. the whole property of a nobleman brought from his seat in Oxfordshire : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Walsh, at his room, opposite Mr. Almack's, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May 12, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

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Creator:
Walsh, Mr.
Date:
[1775]
Physical Description:
6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A catalogue of a most capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures, by the most esteemed Masters, in the highest state of preservation : also a valuable selection of capital high-finished drawings, remarkable fine prints, books of prints and bronzes : small but well-chosen library of books in elegant and uniform bindings : a number of fine casts in plaster from the rarest subjects of the antique : capital models, a great variety of drawing implements : mathematical and musical instruments : a quantity of choice music : also all the elegant household furniture : fine china : a fine-toned piano forte by Longman and Broderip : a modern chaise and harness : and a great variety of curious and valuable effects : the property of John Alexander Gress, Esq. deceased, eminently and most deservedly distinguished for his knowledge in the fine arts, at his late house, No. 24, on the west side of Tottenham Court Road, nearly opposite Tavistock Street, Bedford Square : which will be sold by auction (by order of the executor) by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Monday, April 7th, 1794, and five following days, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed Frida and Saturday preceding the sale.--catalogues may be had on the premises : at the Rainbow Coffee House : and in Pall Mall : also, at one o'clock, on the first day's sale, will be sold, the valuable lease of the premises--particulars may be had : N.B. the first and second days sale, will consist of prints, books of prints, &c. : third and fourth days, the drawings, drawing implements, models, &c. : fifth day, the capital collection of pictures, and library of books : sixth day, all the houshold furniture, china, musical instruments, &c.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Two dissertations concerning sense, and the imagination. With an essay on consciousness.

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Creator:
Mayne, Zachary, 1631–1694
Date:
1728
Physical Description:
4 p.., 231 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The poetical works of S. Johnson : with the life of the author.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[6], 83, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm. (12 mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
[4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

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Creator:
Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:
MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 46-52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

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Creator:
Morison, Robert
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The art of painting, and the lives of painters: containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints ... Done from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English-school, with the lives and characters of above 100 painters.

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Creator:
Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:
1706
Physical Description:
480 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
viii, xxiv p., 272 columns, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

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Creator:
Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:
January 1st, 1779 [i.e. 1779-1786]
Physical Description:
[172] p., LXXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The second part of Fact against scandal; in answer to a pamphlet intitled A continuation of Frauds and abuses at St. Paul's ...

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Date:
1713
Physical Description:
3 p.., 84 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

56. The Italian library : containing an account of the lives and works of the most valuable authors of Italy, with a preface, exhibiting the changes of the Tuscan language, from the barbarous ages to the present time / by Giuseppe Baretti.

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Creator:
Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio, 1719–1789
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[2], xciv, [2], 343, [27] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

58. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

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Creator:
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
40 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

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Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[4], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., plans, map, coats of arms ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[177-?]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Gallery of poets, Pall-Mall and Fleet Street : April 2, 1790 : catalogue of the third exhibition of pictures / painted for Mr. Macklin by the artists of Britain ; illustrative of the British poets and the Bible ...

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Date:
1790
Physical Description:
vii, 42 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The man of taste : occasion'd by an epistle of Mr. Pope's on that subject / by the author of the Art of politicks.

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Creator:
Bramston, James, 1694?-1744
Date:
1733
Physical Description:
19, [1] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A new survey of the globe, or, An accurate mensuration of all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, principal provinces, counties, & islands in the world ... : a collection of all the noted sea-ports in the world ... : also the settlements and factories, belonging to the English Dutch ... &c. in the East and West-Indies, Africa, and other parts : with notes explanatory & political, wherein the number of people in all ye principal countries and cities of Europe are severally calculated ... / by Thomas Templeman ...

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Creator:
Templeman, Thomas, -1729
Date:
[1729]
Physical Description:
[4], ix, [1] p., 35 leaves of plates : tables ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons or creation : their descents and collateral lines : their births, marriages, and issues ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1741
Physical Description:
4 v. : coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

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Date:
1766-1769
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A biographical dictionary : containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time, and a short list of their most esteemed works : with the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained : to which is prefixed, an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood : with several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists / by Joseph Strutt.

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Creator:
Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:
1785-1786
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The importance of the British plantations in America to this kingdom : with the state of their trade, and methods for improving it; as also a description of the several colonies there.

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Creator:
Hall, Fayrer
Date:
MDCCXXXI [1731]
Physical Description:
[6], 114 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missis[s]ippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ... : with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missis[s]ippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ... / By James Adair.

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Creator:
Adair, James, ca. 1709–1783
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
6 p. l., 464 p. front. (fold map) 28 x 22cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. General view of the agriculture in Berkshire, with observations on the means of its improvement. By William Pearce. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.

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Creator:
Pearce, William
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
74 p. 3 plates 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The history and antiquities of the ancient town of Leicester: attempted by John Throsby ...

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Creator:
Throsby, John, 1740–1803
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
3 p. ., 423, [1] p. front., 1 ill., 50 plates (partly col.) incl. port., plans, facsim. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Voyage pittoresque de Paris, : ou Indication de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette ville, en peinture, sculpture & architecture: / Par M. D. ***.

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Creator:
Dézallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Nicolas, -1794
Date:
M.DCC.LXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
[2], xii, [2], 492, [4] p., VIII leaves of plates (some folding) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. An historical account of the ancient town of Lowestoft, in the county of Suffolk. To which is added some cursory remarks on the adjoining parishes, and a general account of the island of Lothingland. / By Edmund Gillingwater.

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Creator:
Gillingwater, Edmund, 1735 or 6–1813
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 485, [7] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Moral and literary dissertations, on the following subjects: 1. On truth and faithfulnss. 2. On habit and association. 3. On inconsistency of expectation in literary pursuits. 4. On a taste for the general beauties of nature. 5. On a taste for the fine arts. 6. On the alliance of natural history, and philosophy, with poetry. To which are added a tribute to the memory of Charles de Polier ... and an appendix. By Thomas Percival ...

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Creator:
Percival, Thomas, 1740–1804
Date:
1784
Physical Description:
15, [5], 3-332, [8] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Gustavus Vasa, the deliverer of his country : a tragedy / written by Henry Brooke, Esq. ; as intended to have been performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.

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Creator:
Brooke, Henry, 1703?-1783
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill., port. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

76. Miscellanies, or, Essays literary, political, and moral / by the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift.

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Creator:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:
[1756?]
Physical Description:
iv, [3]-259, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

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Creator:
Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
[4], xii, 128, [16] p., III folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

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Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The antiquities of St. Peter's, or, The abbey-church of Westminster : containing all the inscriptions, epitaphs, &c. upon the tombs and grave-stones : with the lives, marriages and issue of the most eminent personages therein reposited and their coats of arms truly emblazon'd : adorn'd with draughts of the tombs, curiously engraven ...

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Creator:
Crull, Jodocus, -1713?
Date:
1713
Physical Description:
[10], 351, [15] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark : in a series of letters / by Matthew Consett.

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Creator:
Consett, Matthew
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
[16], 157 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A short history of Brighthelmston : with remarks on its air, and an analysis of its waters, particularly of an uncommon mineral one, long discovered, though but lately used ... / by Anthony Relhan ...

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Creator:
Relhan, Anthony, 1715–1776
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
[4], 75 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Panoramic survey of the Steine.

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Creator:
Lay, Eleor
Date:
1788
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Liber veritatis, or, A collection of prints, after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire / executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings ; to which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print, together with the names of those for whom, and the places for which, the original pictures were first painted (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures.

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Creator:
Lorrain, Claude, 1600–1682
Date:
[1777]-1819
Physical Description:
3 v. : chiefly ill., ports. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:
Middleton, Charles, 1756–approximately 1818
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
[2], 16 pages, XX, [1] leaves of plates (some double) : illustrations, plans ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Nautical remarks and observations on the coasts and harbours of Nova Scotia : surveyed pursuant to orders from the Right Honble. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the use of the Royal Navy of Great-Britain / by J.F.W. Des Barres.

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Creator:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729–1824
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
iv, 27, [1] pages : tables ; 23 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Monastic remains and ancient castles in England and Wales / drawn on the spot by James Moore ... ; finished and etched by J. Schnebbelie ... ; aquatinted by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...

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Creator:
Moore, James, 1762–1799
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
1 pt. ([6], 12 p., [6] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple : Viscount and Baron Cobham : one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and knight of the most noble order of the garter : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building with perspective views of the same.

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Creator:
Seeley, B. (Benton)
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
44 pages, [20] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

89. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

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Creator:
Sketchley, William
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
45, [28] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. An essay towards the history of Leverpool / drawn up from papers left by the late Mr. George Perry, and from other materials since collected, by William Enfield. With views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour, and a map of the environs.

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Creator:
Enfield, William, 1741–1797
Date:
MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:
vi, [6], 116 p., [10] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

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Date:
1785
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste, including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches ... and other ornaments : to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture, with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified : the whole comprehended in two hundred copper-plates, neatly engraved : calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life / by Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London.

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Creator:
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[4], 20 pages, CC leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 48 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

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Creator:
Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782
Date:
[between 1775 and 1780?]
Physical Description:
[2], 13, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Heraldry in miniature; containing all the arms, crests, supporters, and mottos, of the peers, peeresses, and bishops, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the baronets of Great Britain; and the insignia of the different orders of knighthood in the three kingdoms: also an introduction to the science of heraldry, a dictionary of heraldic terms ...

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Date:
1788
Physical Description:
2 p.., 36, [20] p. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. A new guide to the city of Edinburgh : containing a description of all the public buildings, and a concise history of the city, from the earliest periods to the present time : embellished with elegant engravings of the principal public buildings.

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Date:
1792
Physical Description:
118 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Ædes Walpolianæ, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
xxxv, 143 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Letters and memorials of state : in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, part of the reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's usurpation / written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, the famous Sir Philip Sydney, and his brother Sir Robert Sydney ..., Robert, the second earl of Leicester ..., Philip, lord viscount Lisle ... and of his brother, Colonel Algernon Sydney ... ; together with letters of the other ministers of state, with whom they held a correspondence ; the whole containing the antient state of Ireland, with characters and private memoirs ; also, the antient government of the principality of Wales, the wars between the Spaniards, and the States-General in the Netherlands, negotiations between the courts of England, France, &c., the intriegues of the several courts of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First ; with other remarkable transactions, both at home and abroad, during those times, not hitherto known, faithfully transcribed from the originals ; whereunto is added, genealogical and historical observations, also memoirs of the lives and actions of the Sydneys, and their noble ancestors, the Dudleys, Grey, Talbot,

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. An essay towards the history of Leverpool / drawn up from papers left by the late Mr. George Perry, and from other materials since collected, by William Enfield. With views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour, and a map of the environs.

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Creator:
Enfield, William, 1741–1797
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
vi, [6], 116 [i.e. 120] p., [12] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The carpenter's rule made easy, or, The art of measuring superficies and solids : also a second way, being the ground-work of measuring timber, stone, board, glass, etc. : with a table of accounts, much enlarged, performing multiplications / by John Darling ; and also a treatise of practical gauging by Heber Lands.

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Creator:
Darling, John, 17th cent
Date:
1727
Physical Description:
viii, 264, 112 p. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. A voyage towards the South pole, and round the world. Performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux's narrative of his proceedings in the Adventure during the separation of the ships ... Illustrated with maps and charts, and a variety of portraits ... and views ... drawn during the voyage by Mr. Hodges ...

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Creator:
Cook, James, 1728–1779
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part fold.) ports. (incl. front.) maps (part fold.) charts (part fold.) fold. plans. 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts