Period: 18th century / Language: English / Work Type: engraving / Classification: Books

101. Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries : the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years / by Thomas Davies.

Creator:: Davies, Thomas, 1713–1785
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 2 v. : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Britannia's triumph in the year MDCCLXII : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, &c. &c. ... / these drawings were made by Lieutenant Philip Ousbridge, an officer on the spot ...

Creator:: Orsbridge, Philip, -1767
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 4, [4] pages, 11, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. Aedes Walpolianae, 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.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: 143 pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

104. A voyage round the world : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America : performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon / by Captain George Dixon.

Creator:: Beresford, William, active 1788
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: xxix [i.e., 27], [3], 360, 47, [1] pages, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. The history and present state of Virginia : in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time -- II. The natural productions and conveniencies of the country, suited to trade and improvement -- III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace. -- IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

Creator:: Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:: MDCCV [1705]
Physical Description:: [12], 104, 40, 64, 83, [1], 16, [4] pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

Creator:: La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747–1827
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : maps, charts ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. Travels through different cities of Germany, Italy, Greece and several parts of Asia, as far as the banks of the Euphrates : in a series of letters : containing, an account of what is most remarkable in their present state, as well as in their monuments of antiquity / by Alexander Drummond, Esq. ...

Creator:: Drummond, Alexander, -1769
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: [4], 311, [1] p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 39 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. The practice of perspective / from the original Italian of Lorenzo Sirigatti : with the figures engraved by Isaac Ware, Esq.

Creator:: Sirigatti, Lorenzo
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: [2], 5-8 pages, 43 [i.e. 50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. The natural history of the horse : to which is added, that of the ass, bull, cow, ox, sheep, goat, and swine : with accurate descriptions of their several parts : and full directions for breeding, chusing, feeding, and improving, those useful creatures / translated from the French of the celebrated M. de Buffon.

Creator:: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707–1788
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, [2], 340 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. A voyage round the world : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : embellished with twenty copper-plates : dedicated, by permission, to His Majesty / by Captain Nathaniel Portlock.

Creator:: Portlock, Nathaniel, 1748?-1817
Date:: MDCCLXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: xii, 384, xl pages, [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. The American gazetteer : containing a distinct account of all the parts of the New World; their situation, climate, soil, produce, former and present condition, commodities, manufactures, and commerce : together with an accurate account of the cities, towns, ports, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, passes, and fortifications : the whole intended to exhibit the present state of things in that part of the globe, and views and interests of the several powers who have possessions in America : illustrated with proper maps : in three volumes.

Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England / with explanatory observations on armorial ensigns, by James Dallaway, A.M. of Trinity College Oxford, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Creator:: Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:: [4], xiii, [1], 424, [4], cxii pages, [28] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. Elements of the veterinary art : containing an essay on the proportions of the celebrated eclipse : six lectures on farriery, or the art of horse-shoeing, and on the diseases of the foot : an essay on the grease, which obtained the prize given by the Royal Society of Medicine : an essay on the glanders : and observations on the gripes : the whole illustrated with nine anatomical, geometrical, and mechanical engravings / by Charles Vial de Sainbel, late equerry to the King and Professor to the Veterinary College ; to which is prefixed, a short account of his life.

Creator:: Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753–1793
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 29, [1], 83, [1], 2, [3], vi-xii, [5], ii-iii, [2], 6-202, [2]; 127, [1] pages, [2], III, 2, III-IV leaves of plates (4 folded) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. The history and antiquities of the county of Essex : compiled from the best and most ancient historians, from Domesday-book, Inquisitiones post mortem, and other the most valuable records and mss. &c. / the whole digested, improved, perfected, and brought down to the present time, by Philip Morant ; illustrated with copper plates.

Creator:: Morant, Philip, 1700–1770
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. (some folded), 9 maps, plan ; 48 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, 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, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system 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 Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

Creator:: Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: [12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

Date:: [ca. 1725?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.

Creator:: Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708–1742
Date:: MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:: 16 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. The works of Edmund Waller, esqr., in verse and prose : published by Mr. Fenton.

Creator:: Waller, Edmund, 1606–1687
Date:: MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:: 9 p.l., 450, xci, [1] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. The gentleman's guide.

Creator:: Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794
Date:: [17--]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (4 leaves) : hand col. maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

Creator:: Labat, maître d'armes
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

Creator:: Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: [72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. A new book of shipping : on six plates.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 6 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. The world displayed, or, A curious collection of voyages and travels : selected from the writers of all nations : in which the conjectures and interpolations of several vain editors and translators are expunged, every relation is made concise and plain, and the divisions of countries and kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted : illustrated and embellished with variety of maps and prints by the best hands.

Date:: 1760-1761
Physical Description:: 20 v. : ill., col. maps, plans ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. The chronicle of England / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCLXXVII-MDCCLXXVIII [1777-1778]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. A proposition for a new order in architecture : with rules for drawing the several parts / by Henry Emlyn, of Windsor.

Creator:: Emlyn, Henry, 1728 or 1729–1815
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Physical Description:: [4], iv, 11, [1] pages, X leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio / translated from the original Latin, by W. Newton, architect.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. The history and art of horsemanship / by Richard Berenger, Esq., Gentleman of the Horse to His Majesty ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Berenger, Richard, 1719 or 1720–1782
Date:: MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. Proposal for county naval free-schools : to be built on waste lands, giving such effectual instructions to poor boys, as may nurse them for the sea service : teaching them also to cultivate the earth, that in due time tey may furnish their own food : & to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, etc. with a view to provide their own raiment, while good regulations and discipline, diffuse a moral & religious oeconomy through the land.

Creator:: Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:: [1783]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, [1], x-xxii, [2], 2, 90, [4], 91-120, [2], 121-141, [1], 48, [4], v, [3], 67, [1] pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

Creator:: Aheron, John
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: vi, 110, 8, [20] pages, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs / by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

Creator:: Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756, i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [18], 92, [2], 93-116, [2], 117-120, [2], 121-748, [4] pages, [115] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

Creator:: Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 4-194 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. (4vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy H. Bartels

132. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Observations on the mechanism of the horse's foot : its natural spring explained, and a mode of shoeing recommended, by which the foot is defended from external injury, with the least impediment to its spring : illustrated by copperplates / by Strickland Freeman, Esq.

Creator:: Freeman, Strickland, 1754?-1821
Date:: MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:: [4], viii, 107, [33] pages, 16, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. The antiquities of Herculaneum / translated from the Italian; by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice ... ; containing pictures.

Creator:: Reale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia
Date:: MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], lxxiii, [1], 236, [2] p., [50] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., map ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. The dances of death : through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copperplates, done from the original designs which were cut in wood, afterwards painted by John Holbein, in the town-house at Basil : to which is prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the Scripture text from which the designs were taken.

Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [4], 46 p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. The seasons / by James Thomson ; adorned with a set of engravings, from original paintings ; together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on the seasons. By Robert Heron.

Creator:: Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:: 6, lii, 250, 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. The Grecian orders of architectvre : delineated and explained from the antiquities of Athens : also the parallels of the orders of Palladio, Scamozzi and Vignola : to which are added remarks concerning pvblick abd private edifices, with designs.

Creator:: Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [20], 78 pages, 18, 10 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. The gentlemans pocket farrier / by Captain Burdon ; with large additions and remarks by Dr. Henry Bracken of Lancaster ; shewing the diseases and accidents a horse is liable to, and the most approved methods of cure ; also many useful observations & remarks concerning the choice and management of horses.

Creator:: Burdon, William
Date:: [between 1775 and 1777?]
Physical Description:: [12], 76, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Catalogue raisonné d'une collection generale de pierres gravées antiques et modernes, tant en creux que camées, tirées des cabinets les plus celébres de l'Europe : moulées en pâtes de couleurs a l'imitation des pierres, emaux blancs, et soufres, par Jacques Tassie, sculpteur / mis en ordre et le texte rédigé par R.E. Raspe ; orné de planches gravées ; au quel on a ajouté un discours preliminaire sur les differents usages de cette collection, sur l'origine de l'art de graver les pierres dures, et le progrès de l'invention des pâtes.

Creator:: Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737–1794
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation : exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals and boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen : with a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries, independent of locks and aqueducts : including observations on the great importance of water communications : with thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood : illustrated with seventeen plates / by R. Fulton, civil engineer.

Creator:: Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xvi, 144 pages, 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. An account of the expedition to the West Indies against Martinico : with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands : subject to the French king, 1759 / by Captain Gardiner of the King's Royal Musqueteers, late Captain of Marines on board his Majesty's Ship Rippon, employed on this expedition.

Creator:: Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [6], 91, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates (2 folded) : i lllustrations, maps ; 31 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:: [12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. [Table of the reciprocal distances of the principal towns of Cambridgeshire, from Magna Britannia]

Date:: [1738]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] pages) ; 22 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

144. The new, complete, and universal history, description, and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the parts adjacent ... / written and compiled from authentic records and other genuine information by a society of gentlemen ; the whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Thornton ; assisted by George Smith ... the Rev. Alex. Townsend ... and other gentlemen.

Creator:: Thornton, William
Date:: 1784
Physical Description:: 532, [4] p. : ports. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. The builder's dictionary, or, Gentleman and architect's companion : explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof ... : also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences : together with the quantities proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ... / fully digested by the most approved writers on the subjects.

Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Instructions for cutting out apparel for the poor; principally intended for the assistance of the patronesses of Sunday schools : And other Charitable Institutions, But Useful in all Families. Containing patterns, directions, and calculations, whereby the most Inexperienced may readily buy the Materials, cut out and value each Article of Cloathing of every Size, without the least Difficulty, and with the greatest Exactness : With a Preface, Containing a Plan for assisting the Parents of poor Children belonging to Sunday Schools, to clothe them; and other useful Observations : Published for the benefit of the Sunday school children at Hertingfordbury, In the County of Hertford; Where the above Plan has been found to be the best Encouragement to the Parents to send their Children to the Sunday School, and at the same Time the best Source of Employment for the Schools of Industry.

Date:: MDCCLXXIX[1789]
Physical Description:: xii, 85, [7] pages, ([13] folded leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Andrea Palladio's Five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell, Esq; ; author of Vitruvius Britannicus ; to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical Description:: [8], 66 p., XXXI, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Farriery improved, or, A complete treatise on the art of farriery : wherein are fully explained, the nature and structure of that useful creature, a horse : with the diseases and accidents he is liable to : and the methods of cure : exemplified by ten elegant cuts, each the full figure of a horse, describing all the various parts of that noble animal : likewise, rules for breeding and training of colts, practical receipts for the cure of common distempers incident to oxen, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, hogs, &c. : to which is prefixed, ten minutes' advice to the purchasers of horses / by Henry Bracken, M.D.

Creator:: Bracken, Henry, 1697–1764
Date:: Jan. 11, 1798
Physical Description:: iv, [1], 6-144 pages, [10] leaves of plates (8 folded) : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. Thoughts on hunting : in a series of familiar letters to a friend.

Creator:: Beckford, Peter, 1740–1811
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Physical Description:: [10], 334 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCI [1789-1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. The gentleman and farmer's guide for increase and improvement of cattle : viz. lambs, sheep, hogs; calves, cows, oxen. Also the best manner of breeding, and breaking horses, both for sport and burden: with an account of their respective distempers, and the most approved medicines for the cure of them. Also some observations on the many benefits of the woollen manufactures of Great-Britain, and the great advantages arising from hides, tallow, &c. Illustrated with copper plates / by R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.

Creator:: Bradley, Richard, 1688–1732
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: [4], iv, [10], 352 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of that kingdom ... : collected from records, old wills, authentic manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities, which are cited / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: 8 volumes : coats of arms ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. The history of the origin, progress, and termination of the American war / by C. Stedman : who served under Sir W. Howe, Sir H. Clinton, and the Marquis Cornwallis ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Stedman, C. (Charles), 1753–1812
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : maps, plans ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. The British monarchy, or, A new chorographical description of all the dominions subject to the King of Great Britain : comprehending the British Isles, the American colonies, the electoral states, the African and Indian settlemts. : and enlarging more particularly on the respective counties of England and Wales ... / the whole illustrated with suitable maps and tables ... and engraved by George Bickham.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 188, [45] leaves (one folded) : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England : from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time : illustrated by engravings taken from the most authentic remains of antiquity : to which is prefixed an introduction, containing a general description of the ancient habits in use among mankind, from the earliest period of time to the conclusion of the seventh century / Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCXCVI-MDCCXCIX [1796-1799]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

Creator:: Clúny, Alexander
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David : and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

Creator:: Church of England
Date:: MDCCVI [1706]
Physical Description:: [372], 18, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

Creator:: Birch, William, 1760–1794?
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [8] pages, x, [36] leaves, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

Creator:: Terry, Garnet
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 26, [1] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos, and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from his Lordship's mss.

Creator:: Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:: MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Physical Description:: [4], xxxviii, 116, [2] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton, His Britannick Maiesty's envoy extraordinary at the Court of Naples = Antiquités etrusques, grecques et romaines tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, envoyé extraordinaire de S.M. Britannique en Cour de Naples.

Creator:: Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719–1805
Date:: MDCCLXVI-MDCCLVII [1766-1767]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations (some color, some folded) ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Clive Caplan

162. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

Creator:: Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:: MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. A plan of civil and historical architecture, in the representation of the most noted buildings of foreign nations, both ancient and modern : taken from the most approv'd historians, original medals, remarkable ruins, and curious authentick designs; and display'd in eighty-six double folio-plates, finely engraven : at a very great expence, by the most eminent hands : divided into five books : ... / all drawn with excellent skill, and the utmost diligence by Mr. John Bernhard Fischer, of Erlach ... ; first published at Leipzig, with the explanations of all the plates, in German and French, out of the best ancient and modern writers; and now faithfully translated into English, with large additional notes, by Thomas Lediard, Esq. ...

Creator:: Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656–1723
Date:: MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:: [4], 28 pages, [86] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. [Twelve engravings of birds]

Date:: [between 1767 and 1794]
Physical Description:: 12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Rules and instructions for playing at skittles / by a Society of gentlemen.

Creator:: Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustration, plan ; 46 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. An essay in defence of ancient architecture, or, A parallel of the ancient buildings with the modern : , shewing [sic] the beauty and harmony of the former, and the irregularity of the latter : with impartial reflections on the reasons of the abuses introduced by our present builders : to which is annexed an inspectional table, universally useful / by Robert Morris ; illustrated with sixteen copper-plates.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1728
Physical Description:: xxviii, 114, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

Creator:: Burdon, William
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 62 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The history and antiquities of the most ancient town and borough of Colchester, in the county of Essex : in three books : collected chiefly from manuscripts : with an appendix of records and original papers : adorned and illustrated with sculptures / by Philip Morant ...

Creator:: Morant, Philip, 1700–1770
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: iv, 100 [i. e. 104], 54 [i. e. 58], 53, [9] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: [1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:: 102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Memoirs of the ancient earls of Warren and Surrey : and their descendants to the present time / by the Rev. John Watson, M.A. F.A.S. late fellow of the Brasen-Nose College in Oxford, and rector of Stockport in Cheshire.

Creator:: Watson, John, 1725–1783
Date:: MDCCLXXXII [1782, that is 1785]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. The royal gauger, or, Gauging made perfectly easy : as it is actually practised by the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise : in two parts : Part I. Containing the practical methods of finding the areas and contents of such superficies and solids, as are the foundation of gauging ... Part II. Shewing all the necessary steps to be taken for obtaining employment in the excise ... to which is added, cask-gauging, &c. as practised in the port of London : the whole illustrated with many new copper-plates adapted to the subject ... / by Charles Leadbetter.

Creator:: Leadbetter, Charles, fl. 1728
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: xvii, [1], 474 [i.e. 484] p., 10 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. [Flower groups].

Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. A new and rare inventions of water-works ... : as also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising of vast quantities of water by fire.

Creator:: Caus, Isaac de, 1590–1648
Date:: 1704
Physical Description:: 47, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates (fold.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Shave's Suffolk memorandum-book, or, Complete pocket ledger : peculiarly adapted to the use of the gentlemen of the country : being the bissextile or leap year, the thirty-third of the new stile used in Great-Britain, and the twenty-fourth of the reign of George III.

Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:: [112], 32, [16] p., [2] leaves of plates : map ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from His Lordship's mss. / by James Kennedy.

Creator:: Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [10], xxxviii, 116, [2] pages, 25 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

176. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture : in the newest and most approved taste, displaying a great variety of patterns ... : also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... / from drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. cabinet-makers.

Creator:: A. Hepplewhite and Co
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: iv, 24, [1] p., 125 plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. A new book of ornament and supporters / by James Hoe.

Creator:: Hoe, James
Date:: June 2, 1768
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

Date:: [approximately 1730]
Physical Description:: 11 leaves : illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. 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 contained the whole of Cardinal Richelieu's and Cardinal Mazarine's, and the greatest part of the Earl of Arundel's : besides several particular pieces, purchased at different times / by James Kennedy.

Creator:: Kennedy, James, active 1769
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: [6], 144 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustration ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

180. A narrative of the mutiny : on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty : and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat : from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies / written by Lieutenant William Bligh ; illustrated with charts.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: iv, 88 pages, [4] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : maps ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. The cabinet of the arts : a series of engravings by English artists : from original designs by Stothard, Harding, Van Assen, Cosway, Mather Brown, Burney, Corbould, Porter, Paul Sanby [i.e. Sandby], Catton ...

Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [119] leaves : all ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. Horda angel-cynnan, or, A compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the inhabitants of England : from the arrival of the Saxons, till the reign of Henry the Eighth : with a short account of the Britons, during the government of the Romans : in two volumes / by Joseph Strutt ; author of the regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCLXXV-MDCCLXXVI [1775-1776]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. The triumph of painting.

Creator:: Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: 38 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. Misery is vertues whetstone, Reliquiæ Gethinianæ, or, Some remains of the most ingenious and excellent lady, Grace Lady Gethin, lately deceased : being a collection of choice discourses, pleasant apothegmes, and witty sentences : written by her for the most part, by way of essay, and at spare hours. : published by her nearest rellations to preserve her memory, and digested for method's sake under proper heads ...

Creator:: Gethin, Grace, Lady, 1676–1697
Date:: 1703
Physical Description:: [6], 3-7, [5], 90, [8], 28 [i.e. 24] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., port. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed, undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver.

Creator:: Vancouver, George, 1757–1798
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 31 x 24 cm (4to) + 1 atlas ([16] leaves of plates (6 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm (folio))
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture : illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by old Rooker, old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands / by Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. ...

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [1], 8-137, [1] pages, [53] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

Creator:: Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:: MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:: [8], 42 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. The universal system of houshold furniture : consisting of above 300 designs on the most elegant taste, both useful & ornamental : finely engraved, in which the nature of ornament & perspective, is accurately exemplified : the whole made convenient to the nobility and gentry, in their choice, & comprehensive to the workman, by directions for executing the several designs, with specimens of ornament for young practitioners in drawing / by Ince & Mayhew cabinet-makers & upholders, in Bond Street, Golden Square, London ...

Creator:: Ince, William, active 18th century
Date:: [1762?]
Physical Description:: iii-iv, 11, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. A collection of twenty antique statues : drawn after the originals etc. in Italy / by Richard Dalton Esq. ; and engraved by Messrs. Ravenet, Grignion, Wagner, Baron, &c.

Creator:: Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, 20 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 65 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings after the most celebrated heads in the cartons at Hampton-Court : to which are now added, the outline of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing, and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

Creator:: Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [2], 13, [2], 14-24 pages, XI, [1], 45 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk, containing a description of the towns, villages, and hamlets, with the foundations of monasteries ... and other religious buildings ... Collected out of leiger-books, registers ... and other authentic memorials, by Francis Blomefield ...

Creator:: Blomefield, Francis, 1705–1752
Date:: 1739-1775
Physical Description:: 5 v. illus., port., maps, plans, facsim., fold. geneal. tab. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. Chorographia Britanniae, or, A set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales : ... with the particular map of each county is an account of all the cities, boroughs, market towns, parishes, and rivers therein, the number of members it sends to Parliament, the market and fair days, and in those of Oxford and Cambridge are the names of all the colleges and halls in both universities, with the dates of their foundations : to the whole is added an alphabetical index of all the cities, boroughs, & market towns, properly distinguish'd from each other, and in what county they are situate : this collection ... was first drawn and compiled into a pocket book, by order and for the use of His late Majesty King George I / by Thomas Badeslade, surveyor and engineer, and now neatly engraved by Will. Henry Toms.

Creator:: Badeslade, Thomas
Date:: 1742
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([53] leaves) : 46 col. maps ; 25 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. The life of Ælfred the Great / by Sir John Spelman Kt. ; from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library ; with considerable additions, and several historial remarks by the publisher Thomas Hearne, M.A..

Creator:: Spelman, John, Sir, 1594–1643
Date:: MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:: [6], 238, [10] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. A history of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the southern provinces of North America / by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton ...

Creator:: Tarleton, Lieutenant-General (Banastre), 1754–1833
Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 518, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates (3 folded) : maps ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. The Book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches.

Creator:: Church of England. Book of common prayer. 1717
Date:: [1717]
Physical Description:: xxii, 166 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. Observations on the cure of the curved spine : in which the effect of mechanical assistance in considered / 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.

Creator:: Earle, James, Sir, 1755–1817
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [6], 81, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. The carpenter's compleat guide to the whole system of gothic railing : ... / by Robert Manwaring.

Creator:: Manwaring, Robert
Date:: 1765
Physical Description:: [6] p., [14] plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.

Creator:: Ellis, Henry, 1721–1806
Date:: MDCCXLVII [1748]
Physical Description:: xxviii, 336 [i.e. 344] pages, [9] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. An account of the English colony in New South Wales : with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c., of the native inhabitants of that country : to which are added, some particulars of New Zealand / compiled, by permission from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King, by David Collins, Esquire, late judge advocate and secretary of the colony ; illustrated by engravings.

Creator:: Collins, David, 1756–1810
Date:: 1798-1802
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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101. Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries : the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years / by Thomas Davies.

103. Aedes Walpolianae, 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.

104. A voyage round the world : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America : performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon / by Captain George Dixon.

106. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

108. The practice of perspective / from the original Italian of Lorenzo Sirigatti : with the figures engraved by Isaac Ware, Esq.

112. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England / with explanatory observations on armorial ensigns, by James Dallaway, A.M. of Trinity College Oxford, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

116. Prospects, of palaces and other publick buildings in France, Italy, Spain, &c. very neatly engraved.

117. Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.

118. The works of Edmund Waller, esqr., in verse and prose : published by Mr. Fenton.

119. The gentleman's guide.

120. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

121. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

122. A new book of shipping : on six plates.

124. The chronicle of England / by Joseph Strutt.

125. A proposition for a new order in architecture : with rules for drawing the several parts / by Henry Emlyn, of Windsor.

126. The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio / translated from the original Latin, by W. Newton, architect.

127. The history and art of horsemanship / by Richard Berenger, Esq., Gentleman of the Horse to His Majesty ; in two volumes.

129. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

130. A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs / by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

131. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

132. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

133. Observations on the mechanism of the horse's foot : its natural spring explained, and a mode of shoeing recommended, by which the foot is defended from external injury, with the least impediment to its spring : illustrated by copperplates / by Strickland Freeman, Esq.

134. The antiquities of Herculaneum / translated from the Italian; by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice ... ; containing pictures.

136. The seasons / by James Thomson ; adorned with a set of engravings, from original paintings ; together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on the seasons. By Robert Heron.

137. The Grecian orders of architectvre : delineated and explained from the antiquities of Athens : also the parallels of the orders of Palladio, Scamozzi and Vignola : to which are added remarks concerning pvblick abd private edifices, with designs.

143. [Table of the reciprocal distances of the principal towns of Cambridgeshire, from Magna Britannia]

149. Thoughts on hunting : in a series of familiar letters to a friend.

150. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

152. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of that kingdom ... : collected from records, old wills, authentic manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities, which are cited / by Arthur Collins ...

153. The history of the origin, progress, and termination of the American war / by C. Stedman : who served under Sir W. Howe, Sir H. Clinton, and the Marquis Cornwallis ; in two volumes.

158. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

159. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

164. [Twelve engravings of birds]

165. Rules and instructions for playing at skittles / by a Society of gentlemen.

167. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

168. The history and antiquities of the most ancient town and borough of Colchester, in the county of Essex : in three books : collected chiefly from manuscripts : with an appendix of records and original papers : adorned and illustrated with sculptures / by Philip Morant ...

169. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

170. Memoirs of the ancient earls of Warren and Surrey : and their descendants to the present time / by the Rev. John Watson, M.A. F.A.S. late fellow of the Brasen-Nose College in Oxford, and rector of Stockport in Cheshire.

172. [Flower groups].

173. A new and rare inventions of water-works ... : as also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising of vast quantities of water by fire.

174. Shave's Suffolk memorandum-book, or, Complete pocket ledger : peculiarly adapted to the use of the gentlemen of the country : being the bissextile or leap year, the thirty-third of the new stile used in Great-Britain, and the twenty-fourth of the reign of George III.

177. A new book of ornament and supporters / by James Hoe.

178. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

180. A narrative of the mutiny : on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty : and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat : from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies / written by Lieutenant William Bligh ; illustrated with charts.

181. The cabinet of the arts : a series of engravings by English artists : from original designs by Stothard, Harding, Van Assen, Cosway, Mather Brown, Burney, Corbould, Porter, Paul Sanby [i.e. Sandby], Catton ...

183. The triumph of painting.

186. A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture : illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by old Rooker, old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands / by Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. ...

187. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

189. A collection of twenty antique statues : drawn after the originals etc. in Italy / by Richard Dalton Esq. ; and engraved by Messrs. Ravenet, Grignion, Wagner, Baron, &c.

194. The life of Ælfred the Great / by Sir John Spelman Kt. ; from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library ; with considerable additions, and several historial remarks by the publisher Thomas Hearne, M.A..

195. A history of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the southern provinces of North America / by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton ...

196. The Book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches.

197. Observations on the cure of the curved spine : in which the effect of mechanical assistance in considered / 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.

198. The carpenter's compleat guide to the whole system of gothic railing : ... / by Robert Manwaring.