Period: 18th century / Work Type: annotations (provenance) / Classification: Books

1. Sailing and fighting instructions for His Majesties fleet.

Creator:: Great Britain. Admiralty
Date:: [approximately 1711]
Physical Description:: 34 pages ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The school of fencing : with a general explanation of the principal attitudes and positions peculiar to the art / by Mr. Angelo.

Creator:: Angelo, Domenico, 1717?-1802
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: viii, 105, [9] p., [44] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 24 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Iconologia, or, Moral emblems / by Caesar Ripa, wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies, as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity ; illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters ; by the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.

Iconologia, or, Moral emblems / by Caesar Ripa, wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies, as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity ; illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters ; by the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.

Creator:: Ripa, Cesare, 1560–1645
Date:: MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:: [4], 81 leaves, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations (326 emblems on 81 plates) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: [4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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.

6. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

Creator:: Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [4], xii, 128, [16] p., III folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Fingal : an ancient epic poem, in six books: together with several other poems / composed by Ossian the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson.

Creator:: Macpherson, James, 1736–1796
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [16], xvi, [2], 270 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell, esq. containing some poetical pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the tour, and never before published; a series of his conversation, literary anecdotes, and opinions of men and books: with an authentick account of the distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II. in the year 1746 ...

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 524 p., 1 l. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times : collected from the best authorities, both printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary ...

Date:: 1747-1766
Physical Description:: 6 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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.

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

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

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

12. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

Creator:: Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734–1794
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: [12], 112 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol : with historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it : illustrated by perspective views of the most select and picturesque scenery : to which is added a correct map of the country three miles on each side of the road, planned from a scale of one inch to a mile / by Archibald Robertson.

Creator:: Robertson, Archibald, ca. 1745–1813
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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.

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

16. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Journal of travels made through the principal cities of Europe ... / translated from the French of M.L. Dutens ... by John Highmore, gent. ; to which is added an appendix containing the roads of Italy ; with some useful tables and hints to strangers who travel in France.

Creator:: Dutens, L. (Louis), 1730–1812
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: [4], xxxi, [l], 175, [3], 26 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:: xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, collected by Lieutenant General James Dormer, / which will be sold by auction (by order of the administrator) by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent -Garden : to begin on Monday, February the 20th, 1764, and to continue the nineteen following evenings, beginning each evening exactly at six o'clock.

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1764]
Physical Description:: 2 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Supplement a la Bibliographie instructive, ou, Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Louis Jean Gaignat ... / disposé, & mis en ordre par Guill. François De Bure le jeune ... ; avec une table alphabétique des auteurs.

Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent / by William Roscoe.

Creator:: Roscoe, William, 1753–1831
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : portrait; illustrations (engravings) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The history and antiquities of the ancient villa of Wheatfield, in the county of Suffolk.

Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 1703–1773
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: xiii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 16-31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / by Samuel Johnson : in four volumes.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 4 v. : port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta : quibus Romanorum veterum ritus varii tam sacri quam profani, tum Graecorum atque Aegyptiorum nonnulli illustrantur / Romæ olim maxima ex parte collecta ; ac dissertationibus jam singulis instructa, a Conyers Middleton, S.T.P. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Protobibliothecario ; his appendicis item loco adjuncta est mumiae Cantabrigiensis descriptio.

Creator:: Middleton, Conyers, 1683–1750
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: xii, 266, [8] p., 23 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. An inquiry into the rise and establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts : to which is prefixed a letter to the Earl of Bute / by Robert Strange, member of the Royal Academy of Painting at Paris, of the academies of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Professor of the Royal Academy at Parma, &c.

Creator:: Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721–1792
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 141, [1] pages ; 19 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Yale University Library

26. An essay upon prints : containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters : illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces : to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 4, [2], 249, [13] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A catalogue of the library of the late Right Honourable Denis Daly : which will be sold by auction on Tuesday, the first of May, 1792 by James Vallance at his auction-room, no. 6, Eustace-Street.

Creator:: Vallance, James
Date:: [1792]
Physical Description:: v, [3], 149, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plate : 1 facsim. ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A catalogue of the noble collection of pictures, miniatures, bronzes, gems, magnificent embossed plate, ornaments in gold and silver, coins and medals, china, Japan, &c. of the Right Honourable Lady Elizabeth Germain, lately deceas'd : being the collection of the old Earls of Peterborough; and also part of the Arundelian collection : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Wednesday the 7th of this instant March 1770, and the three following days [...] Not. : in the second day's sale will be sold, her Ladyship's rich set of gold and silver dressing plate, her brilliant ear rings, necklace, girdle buckle, stay buckles, and other jewels; her large and fine Oriental pearl necklace, and several other rich and valuable effects.

Creator:: Mr. Langford and Son
Date:: [1770]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A catalogue of the magnificent collection of pictures of the late Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bart. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Greenwood at their room in Leicester Square, on Thursday, 29th May, 1794, and two following days at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Greenwood (Leicester-Square, London, England)
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [4], 33, [3] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A descriptive catalogue of a collection of pictures, selected from the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, Neapolitan, Flemish, French and Spanish schools : to which are added remarks on the principal painters and their works : with a catalogue of thirty-two drawings from capital paintings of greater masters / collected and drawn, during a journey of several years in Italy, by Robert Strange.

Creator:: Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721–1792
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: vii, 173 p. : 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Letters upon the poetry and music of the Italian opera : addressed to a friend / by the late Mr. John Brown, painter.

Creator:: Brown, John, 1752–1787
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: [2], xx, 141, [1] p. 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys. &c. contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : with the contiguous buildings / engraved by John Pine ... from an actual survey by John Rocque, and printed on twenty-four sheets of imperial paper, with references for finding the said places ; adapted likewise to a contracted copy of the above mentioned plan, printed on eight sheets of paper ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: vi [i.e. vii], [1], 46, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. 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

34. A practical treatise on farriery : deduced from the experience of above forty years, in the services, of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart., the present Earl Grosvenor, and, the present Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart. / by William Griffiths, Groom, at Wynnstay.

Creator:: Griffiths, William, groom
Date:: [1784]
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [1], 184, [14] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: [4], 384 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

Creator:: Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: [4], 182, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici Comitis de Hoym : olim Regis Poloniae Augusti II. apud regem Christianissimum legati extraordinarii / digestus & descriptus à Gabriele Martin, bibliopola Parisiensi ; cum indice auctorum alphabetico.

Creator:: Hoym, Karl Heinrich, Graf von, 1694–1736
Date:: MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Physical Description:: 6 unnumbered pages, xx, 528 pages, 6 pages, 58 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Some remarkable passages in the life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner : who was slain at the battle of Preston-Pans, September 21, 1745 : with an appendix relating to the antient family of the Munro's of Fowlis / by P. Doddridge, D.D.

Creator:: Doddridge, Philip, 1702–1751
Date:: MDCCXLVII [1747]
Physical Description:: [16], 260 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. An account of a Roman pavement, : lately found at Stunsfield in Oxfordshire, prov'd to be 1400 years old. / By John Pointer ...

Creator:: Pointer, John, 1668–1754
Date:: 1713
Physical Description:: [6], 24, 17-24, 33-39, [1] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Sailing and fighting instructions for His Majesties fleet.

2. The school of fencing : with a general explanation of the principal attitudes and positions peculiar to the art / by Mr. Angelo.

4. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

5. 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.

6. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

7. Fingal : an ancient epic poem, in six books: together with several other poems / composed by Ossian the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson.

10. 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.

12. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

15. 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.

17. Journal of travels made through the principal cities of Europe ... / translated from the French of M.L. Dutens ... by John Highmore, gent. ; to which is added an appendix containing the roads of Italy ; with some useful tables and hints to strangers who travel in France.

18. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

20. Supplement a la Bibliographie instructive, ou, Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Louis Jean Gaignat ... / disposé, & mis en ordre par Guill. François De Bure le jeune ... ; avec une table alphabétique des auteurs.

21. The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent / by William Roscoe.

22. The history and antiquities of the ancient villa of Wheatfield, in the county of Suffolk.

23. The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / by Samuel Johnson : in four volumes.

25. An inquiry into the rise and establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts : to which is prefixed a letter to the Earl of Bute / by Robert Strange, member of the Royal Academy of Painting at Paris, of the academies of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Professor of the Royal Academy at Parma, &c.

26. An essay upon prints : containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters : illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces : to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints.

27. A catalogue of the library of the late Right Honourable Denis Daly : which will be sold by auction on Tuesday, the first of May, 1792 by James Vallance at his auction-room, no. 6, Eustace-Street.

29. A catalogue of the magnificent collection of pictures of the late Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bart. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Greenwood at their room in Leicester Square, on Thursday, 29th May, 1794, and two following days at twelve o'clock.

31. Letters upon the poetry and music of the Italian opera : addressed to a friend / by the late Mr. John Brown, painter.

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

34. A practical treatise on farriery : deduced from the experience of above forty years, in the services, of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart., the present Earl Grosvenor, and, the present Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart. / by William Griffiths, Groom, at Wynnstay.

35. A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

36. A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...

37. Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici Comitis de Hoym : olim Regis Poloniae Augusti II. apud regem Christianissimum legati extraordinarii / digestus & descriptus à Gabriele Martin, bibliopola Parisiensi ; cum indice auctorum alphabetico.

38. Some remarkable passages in the life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner : who was slain at the battle of Preston-Pans, September 21, 1745 : with an appendix relating to the antient family of the Munro's of Fowlis / by P. Doddridge, D.D.

39. An account of a Roman pavement, : lately found at Stunsfield in Oxfordshire, prov'd to be 1400 years old. / By John Pointer ...