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151. The complete dictionary of arts and sciences : in which the whole circle of human learning is explained, and the difficulties attending the acquisition of every art, whether liberal or mechanical, are removed, in the most easy and familiar manner ... / the theological, philological and critical branches by the Rev. Temple Henry Croker ... ; the medicinal, anatomical, and chemical, by Thomas Williams ... ; the mathematical by Samuel Clark ...

The complete dictionary of arts and sciences : in which the whole circle of human learning is explained, and the difficulties attending the acquisition of every art, whether liberal or mechanical, are removed, in the most easy and familiar manner ... / the theological, philological and critical branches by the Rev. Temple Henry Croker ... ; the medicinal, anatomical, and chemical, by Thomas Williams ... ; the mathematical by Samuel Clark ...
Date:
1765-1766
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., maps ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. 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

153. 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.

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

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

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

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

The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.
Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. The drawing school for little masters and misses : containing the most easy and concise rules for learning to draw, without the assistance of a teacher : embellished with a great variety of figures, curiously designed : to which are added, The whole art of kite making ; and the author's new discoveries in the preparation of water colours / by Master Michael Angelo.

The drawing school for little masters and misses : containing the most easy and concise rules for learning to draw, without the assistance of a teacher : embellished with a great variety of figures, curiously designed : to which are added, The whole art of kite making ; and the author's new discoveries in the preparation of water colours / by Master Michael Angelo.
Creator:
Angelo, Michael, 18th cent
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
[6], iv, 106 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. 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

158. 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

159. The general history of the vast continent and islands of America : commonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof : with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities / collected from the original relations sent to the kings of Spain, by Antonio de Herrera ; historiographer to His Catholick Majesty ; translated into English by Capt. John Stevens ... ; illustrated with cutts and maps.

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Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, -1625
Date:
MDCCXXV-MDCCXXVI [1725-1726]
Physical Description:
6 volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

161. 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.

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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

162. The gentleman's farriery, or, A practical treatise, on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved : also, a new method of nicking horses is recommended ; with a copper-plate and description of the machine / by J. Bartlet, surgeon.

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Creator:
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:
MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:
[2], xxiv, 357, [11] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. The gentleman's guide.

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

164. 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.

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

165. 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.

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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

166. 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.

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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

167. The history and antiquities of the archiepiscopal palace of Lambeth : from its foundation to the present time / by Dr. Ducarel, F.R. and A.SS.

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Creator:
Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713–1785
Date:
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Physical Description:
[4], vi-ix, 132, 72 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Canterbury, and the once-adjoining monastery: containing, an account of its first establishment, building, reedifications, repairs, endowments, benefactions, chapels, altars, shrines, reliques, chauntries, obiits, ornaments, books, jewels, plate, vestments; before the dissolution of the monastery: and the manner of its dissolution. A survey of the present church and cloysters, monuments, and inscriptions, with other things remarkable: which, with the several prospects of the church, are engraved by the best hands. The lives of the archbishops, priors, &c. of Christ-church: with an account of learned men there flourishing in their several times. An appendix of ancient charters and writings relating to the church and monastery. A catalogue of the church-wealth in prior Estrey's time. An ancient Saxon obituary and a large one continu'd thence downward. By the Reverend Mr. J. Dart.

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Creator:
Dart, John, -1730
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
2 p. l., ix, 204, lvi p. illus., plates (part. fold.), coats of arms, plan. 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester ... / by Valentine Green.

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Creator:
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. 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.

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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

171. 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 ...

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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

172. 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

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

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

174. 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.

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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

175. 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.

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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

176. The history of the British plantations in America : with a chronological account of the most remarkable things, which happen'd to the first adventurers in their several discoveries of that new world : Part I. Containing The history of Virginia; with remarks on the trade and commerce of that colony / by Sir William Keith, Bart.

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Creator:
Keith, William, Sir, 1680–1749
Date:
MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Physical Description:
[8], 187, [1] pages, ([2] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1704
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... By E. Hargrove.

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Creator:
Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
4, 382 p. front., ill., plates, plan, col. fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. 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.

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

180. The history of Virginia, in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706 : II. The natural productions and conveniences 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, the 10th of June 1702 / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

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Creator:
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:
1722
Physical Description:
[8], 284, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues, and with former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches.

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Date:
MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:
[1296] pages : illustrations ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[101] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. The journey from Chester to London.

The journey from Chester to London.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 452, [6] pages, 22 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. 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..

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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

185. 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.

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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

186. 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.

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

187. 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 ...

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

188. 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 ...

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

189. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:
[16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. The practical surveyor, or, The art of Land-measuring made easy : shewing by plain and familiar rules, how to survey any piece of land whatsoever, by the plain-table, theodolite, or circumferentor, or, by the chain only : and how to protract, cast up, reduce, and divide the same : likewise, an easy method of protracting observations made with the meridian : and how to cast up the content of any plot of land, by reducing any multangular figure to one triangle : to which is added, an appendix, shewing how to draw buildings, &c. in perspective : of levelling : and also how to measure standing timber / by Samuel Wyld.

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Creator:
Wyld, Samuel
Date:
[approximately 1737]
Physical Description:
viii, 188, [4] pages, [7] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

192. The present state of the European settlements on the Missisippi : with a geographical description of that river / illustrated by plans and draughts by Captain Philip Pittman.

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Creator:
Pittman, Philip, active 1760–1770
Date:
MDCCLXX [1770]
Physical Description:
viii, 99, [1] pages, [8] leaves of plates (7 folded) : maps, plans ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. 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.

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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

194. The sailing and fighting instructions, or, Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.

The sailing and fighting instructions, or, Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.
Creator:
Greenwood, Jonathan
Date:
[1715?]
Physical Description:
[72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. 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.

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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

196. 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 cartoons at the Queen's palace : to which are now added, the outlines 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.

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Creator:
Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
21, [1] pages, [102] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. 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.

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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

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

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

199. The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales : in a collection of select views / engraved by W. Angus, from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales : in a collection of select views / engraved by W. Angus, from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.
Creator:
Angus, William, 1752–1821
Date:
Feby. 1, 1787 [i.e. 1787-1815]
Physical Description:
[130] p., [1], LXIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. The triumph of painting.

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