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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1790.

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

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

2. Pain's British Palladio: or, The builder's general assistant. Demonstrating in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections. Also, clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject, in letter-press; with a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only ... The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 4, 16 p. 42 plates (part double) 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The complete pigeon-fancier, or, A new treatise on domestic pigeons ... / by Daniel Girton, of the County of Bucks ; embellished with a set of engravings elegantly executed from drawings accurately taken from the life.

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Creator:: Girton, Daniel
Date:: [1790?]
Physical Description:: iv p, pp. [13]-140 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The Builder's golden rule, or, The youth's sure guide : containing the greatest variety or ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry : ... to which is added, and estimate of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with references to specific designs / by William Pain.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: [iv], 18, 54 p., [94] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Descriptions and sketches of some remarkable oaks, in the park at Welbeck, in the county of Nottingham : a seat of His Grace the Duke of Portland. To which are added, observations on the age and durabilty of that tree / with remarks on the annual grown of the acorn by Hayman Rooke, Esq., F.S.A.

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Creator:: Rooke, Hayman, 1722–1806
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: 23, [1] p., 10 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The account of Pythagoras's School in Cambridge : as in Mr. Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales, and other notices.

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Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: [1790?]
Physical Description:: v, [1], 5-58, [4], 59-158 p., [8] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts