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101. The topography of Freebridge Hundred and Half, in the county of Norfolk : containing the history and antiquities of the borough of King's Lynn, and of the towns, villages, hamlets, monasteries, churches, chapels, chanteries, and other religious buildings in that Hundred and Half, including a circuit of about fifteen miles round Lynn ... / by the Rev. Charles Parkin ...

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Creator:
Parkin, Charles, 1689–1765
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[4], 318, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. The Winchester guide, or, A description of the antiquities and curiosities of the ancient city.

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Creator:
Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
[2], 115, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round : begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and published in 1746, according to act of Parliament / by John Rocque ... ; engrav'd by Richard Parr and printed by W. Pratt ... = Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium : delineatio ichnographica anno 1741 incohata 1745 absoluta / a Johanne Rocque ... = Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Weatminster, et bourg de Southwark et de leurs environs : levée très exactement sur les lieux, en 1741, achevée en 1745, et publieé selon un acte de Parlement en 1746 / par Jean Rocque.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[1747]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], [32] leaves) : maps ; 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

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Date:
1776
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1751
Physical Description:
[2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

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Date:
1796
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-46 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. Essays moral and literary. By Vicesimus Knox... In three volumes...

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Creator:
Knox, Vicesimus, 1752–1821
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:
3 v. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. Eboracum : or, The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its origin to this time : together with an account of the Ainsty, or, county of the same, and a description and history of the cathedral church, from its first foundation to the present year ...

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Creator:
Drake, Francis, 1696–1771
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
2 v., 17 leaves of plates (some folded) ill., plan; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. Disquisitions on several subjects.

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Creator:
Jenyns, Soame, 1704–1787
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
iv, 182 p. : 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. Moralities: or, Essays, letters, fables; and translations. By Sir Harry Beaumont.

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Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
2 p.., 167 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved : wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills ... The whole illustrated with copper plates ... And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method / by Jacob Rowe, Esq;.

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Creator:
Rowe, Jacob
Date:
1734
Physical Description:
[4], 38, [2] p. (last leaf blank), [5] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

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Creator:
Saunders, George, 1762–1839
Date:
MDCCXC [1790 ]
Physical Description:
x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

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Date:
1763
Physical Description:
[2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. A catalogue of a small but capital collection of pictures : the works of Sir Francis Bourgeois, Kt. R.A., painter to His Majesty, the King of Poland : together with a few first-rate pictures of the old schools presented to Sir Francis by that distinguished connoisseur Mons. Decalonne, late Minister of France, removed from his house in Portland Road : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, May 3d, 1794 at twelve o'clock : to be viewed wo days preceding the sale : when catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : and in Pall Mall.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. A catalogue of all that noble & superlatively capital assemblage of valuable pictures, drawings, miniatures, and prints : the property of the Right Hon. Charles Alexander De Calonne, late Prime Minister of France : selected with equal taste, judgment, and liberality, during his residence in France, and his travels through Italy, Germany, Flanders, and Holland, and while in England : at the immense expence of above sixty thousand guineas, there is also included a small elegant collection of cabinet pictures, bequeathed to him by the late Monsieur D'arveley, high treasurer of France : forming together the most splendid collection in Europe, which were intended for a magnificent gallery at his late house in Piccadilly : comprising the inestimable works of the most admired masters of the Roman, Florentine, Bolognese, Venetian, Spanish, French, Dutch, and English schools : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, on Monday the 23d of March, 1795, and five following Days, punctually at twelve o'clock, at the great rooms, in spring gardens, by order of the now mortgagees : to be publicly viewed four days preceding the sale, (Sunday excepter.) : catalogues may be had, at two shillings and six-pence each, in Spring Gardens, also of Mess. Skinner and Dyke, Aldergate Street..

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Creator:
Skinner and Dyke
Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
37, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. A catalogue of a collection of upwards of four hundred original drawings, by Stothard, Burney, Smirke, Corbould, Van Assen, &c. : being designs for various works, published by Mr. Harrison, bookseller, of Pater-Noster-Row, (a bankrupt) : and which, by order of the assignees, will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, at his Great Room, King-Street, Covent-Garden, on Friday, June 2, 1797, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Thursday, till the sale, and catalogues then had.

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Creator:
King, Thomas
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. A catalogue of the exhibition of stained glass by Mr. Pearson, painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : now exhibitin at his house, no. 21, Great Newport Street Long Acre [June] also [1790] variety of subjects by Mrs. Pearson : admittance, one shilling

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Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
[2] pages ; 21cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. The art of etching and aqua tinting, strictly laid down by the most approved masters ... To which is added, the most useful liquid colours, well adapted for staining and colouring the above, &c. &c. With a specimen of landscape and profile. By F. Yrubslips [pseud.]

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Creator:
Spilsbury, F. B. (Francis B.)
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
34 p. ill. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. Resolutions of the Select Society.

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Creator:
Select Society
Date:
1755]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 10 p.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. 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:
1799
Physical Description:
xvi p., 702 columns, [1], 704-759, lxii p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

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Creator:
Boothby, Brooke, Sir, 1743–1824
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
89 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[6], 20, [4], 21, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[12], 131 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : table ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. A catalogue of the genuine collection of pictures, of Lady Sidney Sherrard, lately deceased; (being part of the collection of the Right Hon. Jocelyn Earl of Leicester, late of Penshurst in the County of Kent, deceased) : consisting of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Guido, Tintoret, C. Lorraine, Sal. Rosa, Vandyck, D. Teniers, Elsheimer, Sir P. Lely : also of a sixteen month repeating clock, by Tompion, of most exquisite workmanship, in an ebony case, elegantly enriched with silver and other ornaments : which (by order of the Hon. Lady Yonge) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday the 10th of this instant May 1764 : the same may be viewed on Tuesday the 8th Instant, and till the time of sale, which will begin punctually at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son
Date:
[1764]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. A catalogue of the curious museum of a Gentleman, deceased : consisting of a collection of cabinet pictures, drawings, fine prints, framed and glazed, bronzes, marbles, carvings in ivory, roman earthen ware, curious and valuable shells, minerals, fossils, and petrifactions, fine dresden, oriental, and old Chelsea ornamental procelane, some pieces of engraved crystal, a few volumes of very rare scarce books, two library book cases, a paair of elegnat inlaid commodes, curious old Japan cabinets, a capital piece of grotto work, and other valuable miscellaneous articles : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at this Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Wednesday, May 11th."

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
[13]-[14], 15-19, [1] pages ; 22 x 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

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Creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:
1779
Physical Description:
4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

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Creator:
Lewis, John, 1675–1747
Date:
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
viii, 204, [4], 112, 105-124 pages, [1], XXV leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans, genealogical tables ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

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Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:
[1760?]
Physical Description:
vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Planting and ornamental gardening; a practical treatise.

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Creator:
Marshall, Mr. (William), 1745–1818
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
xi, [2] p., 1 l., 638 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

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Creator:
Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
[6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Bowles's New and complete book of cyphers : designed and engraved on twenty-four copper-plates / by John Lockington ; including a curious print of the emperor Charlemagne's crown, &c.

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Creator:
Lockington, John
Date:
[1785?]
Physical Description:
25 leaves : all ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook : to which are added some particulars, concerning his life and character, and observations respecting the introduction of the venereal disease into the Sandwich Islands / by David Samwell, surgeon of the Discovery.

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Creator:
Samwell, David, 1751–1798
Date:
MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Physical Description:
[4], 34 pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

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Creator:
Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. Oxonia illustrata : views of the Bodleian Library, the theatre, publick schools, colleges, halls and other publick buildings of the University of Oxford : with an account of their foundations and endowments and a succinct description of the buildings.

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Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
[ca. 1720]
Physical Description:
[34] p. : all ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. Arts improvement: or, Choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, gardening, mechanicks, chimistry, painting, japaning, varnishing ... And in other arts and sciences profitable and pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several languages; manuscripts, experiments communicated by several ingenious gentlemen, and the author's own experience. By T.S.

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Creator:
Neve, Richard
Date:
1703
Physical Description:
24 p.., 96, 8, 97-240 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Tour of the Isle of Wight. The drawings taken and engraved by J. Hassell.

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Creator:
Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
2 v. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. The English connoisseur: containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. in the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country. With many additions not in the London edition, particularly the British museum ...

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Creator:
Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:
1767
Physical Description:
2 v. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

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Creator:
Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.

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Creator:
Wallis, N
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
[4] p., [16] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer : either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country. Engraved on thirty plates. To which is added, an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building; tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences / by the late Mr. J. Wood, of Bath, Architect.

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Creator:
Wood, John, -1782
Date:
MDCCXCII (1792)
Physical Description:
[2], 38 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. [Views in the West Indies].

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Creator:
Forrest, Charles, Lieut
Date:
1783-1785]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. A catalogue of the capital and well-chosen collection of cabinet picture, of James Kirke, Esq., deceased : late one of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Victualling-Office : consisting of the undoubted works of the following, and other much esteemed artists : Parmegiano, Domenichino, Soleminie, Pasquilinie, Carache, Morillio, S. Darattie, De Vinci, Rubens, Vandyke, Poussin, Teniers, Ostade, Brower, Ge Gelder, J. Miel, Berghem, Scalken, A. Vandevelde, Ruysdael, Swanvelte, Cuyp, Watteau, Polemburgh : particularly, a select number of original and capital sea-pieces, by those great masters, Vandevelde, Bakhusen, De Vlieger, Stork, Brooking, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Greenwood, at his rooms in Leicester-Square, on Thursday the 21st, and Saturday the 23d of February, 1788, at twelve o'clock each day : to be viewed, and catalogues had two days preceding the sale.

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Creator:
Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

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Creator:
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

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Creator:
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721–1780
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Magnae Britanniae Notitia : or, The present state of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

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Creator:
Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616–1703
Date:
MDCCXXIII (1723)
Physical Description:
[4], vi, [12], 672, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. Illustrated with charts and engravings. By William Coxe ...

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Creator:
Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:
1784-1790
Physical Description:
3 v., [26] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., genealogical tables, maps, plans, ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

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Creator:
Robertson, David, active 1794
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[12], 233, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. To the right honourable John, Earl of Rothes, &ca. these plates exhibiting the funeral solemnities observed at the internment of his grace John Duke of Rothes Lord High Chancelor of Scotland 23 of August 1681, are respectfully inscribed by his lordship's most obedient, & devoted humble servant, Thomas Sommers.

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Date:
between 1700 and 1773]
Physical Description:
4 plates. 48 x 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

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Date:
Printed in the year MDCCLXII [1772]
Physical Description:
16 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. The oeconomy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China to the Earl of ****.

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Creator:
Dodsley, Robert, 1704–1764
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
xxvi, 94 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

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Date:
1760
Physical Description:
32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Vue de la ville de Nismes : du côté de la Tour-Magne.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 38 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. The art of sound building, demonstrated in geometrical problems : shewing geometrical lines for all kinds of arches, niches, groins, and twisted rails, both regular and irregular : with several other draughts of buildings and staircases : all curiously engraven on copper plates : wherein are laid down (suited to every Capacity) easy practical methods for carpenters, joiners, masons, or bricklayers, to work by / by William Halfpenny, architect and carpenter.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
MDCCXXV [1725]
Physical Description:
[12], 56, [2] p., 19, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. The curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : containing a full and accurate description of whatever is remarkable and worthy of notice in the works of nature and art in the several counties, cities, towns, villages &c. of England, Wales and Scotland : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment, &c. : carefully and faithfully displayed.

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Date:
[1780?]
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. The Sportsman's dictionary, or, The country gentlemen's companion in all rural recreations, with full and particular instructions for hawking, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, riding, cocking : with the method of breeding, curing, dieting, and ordering of horses, dogs, pigeons, cocks, etc. : extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, ancient, and modern : with large improvements, made by several gentlemen ... illustrated ...

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Date:
1735
Physical Description:
2 v., 25 [i.e. 26], pl. (part fold.; incl. front., music) ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

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Creator:
Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Travels through Spain, in the years 1775 and 1776 : in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish architecture are illustrated by accurate drawings taken on the spot / by Henry Swinburne, Esq.

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Creator:
Swinburne, Henry, 1743–1803
Date:
MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:
vii, [15], ix-xv, [1], 427 p., [20] leaves of plates ([6] folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. To the Queen this book representing the birth and triumph of Cupid in Her Majesty's collection : from papers cut by Lady Dashwood is with permission most humbly dedicated by Her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged servant P.W. Tomkins, historical engraver to Her Majesty.

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Creator:
Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840
Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
[25] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

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Creator:
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:
1932
Physical Description:
[6], 79, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

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Creator:
Orme, Daniel, b. 1767
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 15 cm. + [1] plate.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / by James Earle, Esq; F.R.S. Surgeon extraordinary to the King and to His Majesty's Household, and Senior Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

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Creator:
Earle, James, Sir, 1755–1817
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[4], 44, [2] p. [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Lectures on horsemanship wherein is explained every necessary instruction for both ladies and gentlemen in the useful and polite art of riding ... by T.S.

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Date:
1793
Physical Description:
40 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. Palladio Londinensis, or, The London art of building : in three parts. : I. Containing a demonstration of all geometrical problems ... : III. copiously treating of the several kinds of stair-cases : the whole illustrated with fifty-two copper plates : to which is annexed, the builder's dictionary ... / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
12, 132, [28] p., [52] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. 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

168. A journal from London to Rome, by way of Paris, Lyons, Turin, Florence, &c. and from Rome back to London, by way of Loretto, Venice, (giving a particular account of the government of that republic),) Milan, Strasburg, &c. By D. Jeffereys, teacher of the modern languages.

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Creator:
Jefferies, David
Date:
[1743?]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 120 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Ideal beauty in painting and sculpture illustrated by remarks on the antique, and the works of Raphael, and other great masters. By Lambert Hermanson Ten Kate. Translated from the French.

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Creator:
Kate, Lambert ten, 1674–1731
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
56 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. A new description of the pictures, statues, bustos, basso-relievos, and other curiosities at the Earl of Pembroke's house at Wilton. In the antiques of this collection are contain'd the whole of Cardinal Richelieu's and Cardinal Mazarine's, and the greatest part of the Earl of Arundel's; besides several particular pieces purchas'd at different times. By James Kennedy.

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Creator:
Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656–1733
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
4 p. l., 107, [1] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. 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

172. 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

173. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

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Date:
1772
Physical Description:
1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. 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

175. 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

176. 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

177. 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

178. Sculptura; or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise, John Evelyn ...

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Creator:
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
3 p.l., [iii]-xxxvi, 140 p. front. (port.) 2 plates (1 fold.) 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Views taken on and near the river Rhine, at Aix La chapelle, and on the river Maese / engraved in aqua tinta by Rev. J. Gardnor and Richard Gardnor, jr.

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Creator:
Gardnor, John, 1729–1808
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
156 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. The rudiments of architecture, or, the young workman's instructor : in two parts : ... with twenty three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary ...

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Date:
1773
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. A general system of horsemanship / William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle ; foreword by W.C. Steinkraus ; technical commentary by E. Schmit-Jensen.

A general system of horsemanship / William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle ; foreword by W.C. Steinkraus ; technical commentary by E. Schmit-Jensen.
Creator:
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:
1970
Physical Description:
[12], viii, [1], 12-142, [102] p. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. A catalogue of a capital, and truly valuable assemblage of Chinese drawings, paintings, natural and artificial curiosities : the property of A. E. Van Braam, Esq. : Chief of the direction of the Dutch East India Company at Canton, and second in the Dutch Embassy, to the Court of Pekin, in the years 1794 and 1795, of which, Mr. Van Braam will speedily publish an authentic account : the whole of which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, February the 15th, 1799, at one o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. A new pocket companion for Oxford: or, Guide through the university. Containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges ... To which are added descriptions of the buildings, tapestry, paintings, sculpture, temples, gardens, &c. at Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham, and Stow ...

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Date:
1789
Physical Description:
2 p. ., 152 p. plates, fold. plan. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. Letters from Italy in the years 1754 and 1755 / by the late Right Honorable John earl of Corke and Orrery ; published from the originals, with explanatory notes, by John Duncombe.

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Creator:
Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707–1762
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
xlvi, 268 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. An history of the manor, and manor-house, of South Winfield, in Derbysire / by Tho. Blore, of the Society of the Middle Temple, and F.S.A.

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Creator:
Blore, Thomas, 1764–1818
Date:
MDCCXCCIII [1793]
Physical Description:
[2], 100, [2] pages, [3], IV leaves of plates ([2]) folded : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

186. A survey of the cathedral church of Bangor, and the edifices belonging to it : containing an account of all the inscriptions on the monuments and gravestones ... : together with a large appendix of records, and other curious matter relating to Bangor Church and bishoprick ... : to which is also subjoined several supplementary additions and records to the like history of St. Asaph Cathedral ... / collected by Browne Willis ... ; illustrated with draughts of the iconography and upright of Bangor Cathedral, and view of Bodowen Chapel.

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Creator:
Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:
1721
Physical Description:
372, [8] p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

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Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. An essay on design in gardening.

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Creator:
Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. Captain Cook's Voyages round the world : the first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 : the second in 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775 : the third and last in 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 : for making discoveries in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, by order of His present Majesty : containing a relation of all the interesting transactions which occurred in the course of the voyages : including Captain Furneaux's Journal of his proceedings during the separation of the ships : with a narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole, and an abridgement of Foster's introduction to his History of northern discoveries on the progress of navigation : to which is added, Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany-Bay, with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, &c. &c.

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Creator:
Cook, James, 1728–1779
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., ports., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. Poems written chiefly at the University of Cambridge : together with a Latin oration upon the history and genius of the Roman and canon laws, with a comparison of the laws of England, spoken in the chapel at Trinity-Hall, Cambridge, December 21, 1756 ...

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Creator:
Marriott, James, Sir, 1730?-1803
Date:
1760]
Physical Description:
2 p.., viii, viii p., 1 leaf, 156 p. front., ill. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. Letters to a young nobleman ...

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Date:
1762
Physical Description:
3 p.., 230 p., 1 leaf. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. Natura, philosophia, & ars in concordia. Or, Nature, philosophy, and art in friendship, an essay. In four parts. I. Demonstrating the necessity and practicability of building all manner of houses proof against fire and vermin ... II. An entire new plan of constructing chimnies ... III. Plain methods pointed out, by which smoky chimnies may be effectually cured. IV. Certain and easy directions to all mechanics in wood, how to finish household furniture, and the wainscotting of rooms, so as no vermin can exist therein ... By W. Cauty, cabinet-maker.

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Creator:
Cauty, William, fl. 1757–1780
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
xvi, 110 p., 1 leaf. fold. plate. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. The exhibition, or a second anticipation : being remarks on the principal works to be exhibited next month, at the Royal Academy ; / By Roger Shanhagan, ...

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Creator:
Shanhagan, Roger
Date:
[1785]
Physical Description:
[2], 101 p., [2] p. : 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. Dionysius Longinus On the sublime / translated from the Greek, with notes and observations, and some account of the life, writings, and character of the author by William Smith ...

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Creator:
Longinus, 1st cent
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
[16], xxxiv, 187 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

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Date:
1731
Physical Description:
21, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

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Date:
[1786-1788]
Physical Description:
[101] leaves, [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

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Creator:
Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
64 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

198. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

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Date:
[1791-1792]
Physical Description:
XII parts ([48] p., [37] leaves of plates ) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

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Creator:
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
[2], 2, 2, [8], xvii, [1], 88 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. 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