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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

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, 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

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 chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

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Creator:
Manwaring, Robert
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
[2] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Sketches and hints on landscape gardening. Collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made. The whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground. By H. Repton, esq.

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Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
xvi, 83, [2] p. XVI col. pl. 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. [Artificial slate roofs].

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Creator:
Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:
178-?]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body / by Bernard Siegfried Albinus ; translated from the Latin.

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Creator:
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697–1770
Date:
1777-1778
Physical Description:
vi, 32, [3], 32-86 p. : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. School of arts : or, An introduction to useful knowledge : being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science ... / by John Imison.

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Creator:
Imison, John, d. 1788
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
xv, 319, 176 p., [24] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Original letters relating to the hospitals in the diocese of Exeter : communicated at the instance of Seth [Ward] Lord Bishop of that see. Anno MDCLXV.

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Date:
1728]
Physical Description:
[2], 7, [1] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Voyages en Guinée et dans les îles Caraïbes en Amérique / par Paul Erdman Isert ... tirés de sa correspondance avec ses amis ; traduits de l'allemand ...

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Creator:
Isert, Paul Erdmann, 1756–1789
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
viii, 343, [1], 48 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

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Creator:
Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
xii, 123 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Hudibras : in three parts / written in the time of the late wars ; corrected and amended, with additions, to which is added annotations, with an exact index to the whole ; adorn'd with a new set of cuts, design'd and engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth.

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Creator:
Butler, Samuel, 1612–1680
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
424 (i.e. 420) p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:
[12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

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Creator:
Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

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Date:
[ca. 1720?]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

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Creator:
Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
21 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Fables for the female sex.

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Creator:
Moore, Edward, 1712–1757
Date:
1744
Physical Description:
4 p.., 173 p. front., XVI plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs ... Tr. from the Italian, pub. by the Chevr. Don Joseph Nicholas d'Azara ...

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Creator:
Mengs, Anton Raphael, 1728–1779
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
2 v. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The sequel to Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor : in familiar conversations, on a variety of interesting subjects, in which are introduced, lectures on astronomy and natural philosophy, expressed in terms suited to the comprehension of juvenile readers ... / by Ann Murry.

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Creator:
Murry, Ann, 18th cent
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
xii, 325, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Bath : a poem ...

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Date:
1748
Physical Description:
32 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A voyage round the world by way of the great South Sea : perform'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty's commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish crown) till she was cast away on the island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720 : and afterwards continu'd in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c. / by Capt. George Shelvocke, Commander of the Speedwell, Recovery, &c. in this expedition.

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Creator:
Shelvocke, George
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:
[8], xxxii, [4], 468 pages, [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A catalogue of the extensive and valuable stock of copper plates, with the impressions, (some of which are unpublished) the property of Mr. William Dickinson, late of Bond Street, engraver and print seller : comprising a small collection of modern paintings, among which are the two original pictures, of the Resurrection of a Pious Family, and the Spirit of a Child, by the Rev. Mr. Peters : an extensive and choice collection of modern loose prints : an assemblage of scarce portraits, the plates of the prints for Gambado's Horsemanship by Bunbury : Right to a Moiety of the Annals of Horsemanship : a printing press : two presses to contain prints : a variety of portfolios, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction (by order of the assignees) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room (late Royal Academy) Pall-Mall, on Friday, February 14th, 1794, and five following days, (Sunday excepted) at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two 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, e publisher
Date:
[1793] ,
Physical Description:
26 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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

40. 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

41. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

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Creator:
Matthews, John, 1748–
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. 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

43. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

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Creator:
Chiffinch, William, 1602?-1688
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
iv, 144, 51, [3] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
[2], 347-350 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

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Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The antiquities of Athens / measured by and delineated by James Stuart, F.R.S. and F.S.A., and Nicholas Revett, painters, and architects ...

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Creator:
Stuart, James, 1713–1788
Date:
MDCCLXII-MDCCXXX [1762-1830]
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 57 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof : their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:
[10], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts