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1. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

Date:: [not after 18 November 1477]
Physical Description:: [78] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Incipit liber moraliu[m] su[per] trenis iheremie [pro]phete.

Creator:: Lathbury, John
Date:: [31 July 1482]
Physical Description:: [584] pages ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1486 or 7]
Physical Description:: [196] p. : ill. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Sexti Iulii Frontini uiri consularis De aquis que in urbem influunt : libellus mirabilis.

Creator:: Frontinus, Sextus Julius
Date:: 1486 or 7?]
Physical Description:: [32] p. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Hē tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa.

Creator:: Homer
Date:: [9 December 1488, i.e. not before 13 January 1488/9]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ([880] pages) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Supplementum chronicharum.

Creator:: Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
Date:: anno a natiuitate D[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij [1493]
Physical Description:: [2], 256, [12] leaves : illustrations; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cum tabulis et universali figura et cum additione locorum quae recentioribus reperta sunt diligenti cura emendatus et impressus [cartographic material].

Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: Anno Domini. M.D.XI. die. xx. mensis Martii. [March 22, 1511]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([62] leaves, [28] double leaves of plates) : ill., maps ; 43 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

Date:: [1519?]
Physical Description:: [72] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Primo volume, & terza editione delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio, & con molti & vaghi discorsi, da lui in molti luoghi dichiarato & illustrato ; nel quale si contengono la descrittione dell'Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varij viaggi, dalla città di Lisbona, & dal Mar Rosso insino à Calicut, & all'isole Molucche, doue nascono le spetierie, et la nauigatione attorno il mondo ; con la relatione dell'isola Giapan, scoperta nella parte del settentrione ; et alcuni capitoli appartenenti alla geographia, estratti dell'historia del S. Giouan di Barros Portoghese ; con tre tavole di geographia in disegno, che hanno le marine, secondo le carte da nauigare de Portoghesi, & fra terra, secondo gli scrittori che hanno descritto li detti viaggi ; con due indici ...

Creator:: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:: l'anno MDLXIII [1563]
Physical Description:: [4], 34, 162, 162-394 leaves, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Terzo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio nel quale si contengono le nauigationi al Mondo Nuouo, à gli antichi incognito, fatte da don Christoforo Colombo Genouese, che fu il primo à scoprirlo à i Re Catholici, detto hora l'Indie occidentali, con gl' acquisti fatti da lui, & accresciuti poi da Fernando Cortese, da Francesco Pizzarro, & altri valorosi capitani, in diuerse parti delle dette Indie, in nome di Carlo V Imp. ; con lo scoprire la gran città di Temistitan nel Mexico, doue hora è detto la Nuova Spagna, & la gran prouincia del Perù, il grandissimo fiume Maragnon, et altre città, regni & prouincie ; la nauigationi fatte dipoi alle dette Indie, poste nella parte verso Maestro Tramontana, dette hora la Nuoua Francia, scoperta al Re Christianiss, la prima volta da Bertoni & Normandi, et dipoi da Giouanni da Verrazzano Fiorentino, & dal Capitano Iacques Carthier ; si come si legge nelle diuerse relationi, tradotte dal Ramusio di lingua spagnuola & francese nella nostra, & raccolte in questo volume, con tauole di geographia, che dimostrano il sito di diuerse isole, città, & paesi, et figure diuerse di piante, & altre cose à noi incognite, et con l'indice copiosissimo di tutte le cose piu notabili in esso contenute.

Creator:: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:: l'anno MDLXV [1565]
Physical Description:: [6], 34, 453, 455-456 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Secondo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio Battista Ramusio, et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto ; nel quale si contengono l'historia delle cose de Tartari, & diuersi fatti de' loro imperatori, descritta da M. Marco Polo gentilhuomo venetiano, & da Hayton Armeno : varie descrittioni di diversi auttori, dell' Indie Orientali, della Tartaria, della Persia, Armenia, Mengrelia, Zorzania, & altre prouincie : nelle quali si raccontano molte imprese d'Vssuncassan, d'Ismael Soffi, del Soldano di Babilonia, di diuersi imperatori Ottomani, & particolarmente de Selim contro Tomombei, vltimo Soldano de Mamalucchi, & d'altri principi : et il viaggio della Tana ; con la descrittione de' nomi de' popoli, città, fiumi, & porti d'intorno al Mar Maggiore, come si nominauano al tempo dell'Imperator Adriano, & molte altre narrationi, cosi dello stato de Moscouiti, Sciti, & Circassi, come d'altre genti barbare a gli antichi incognite, et il naufragio di M. Pietro Quirino gentilhuomo venetiano, portato per fortuna settanta gradi sotto la Tramontana ; con l'indice diligentemente ordinato, delle cose piu notabili.

Creator:: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:: l'anno MDLXXIIII [1574]
Physical Description:: 5, [1], 9-30, 17, 20-22, 25-36, 39-42, 45-65, 58-248 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Descrittione di M. Lodovico Gvicciardini patritio fiorentino, di tvtti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore : con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & con ritratto naturale di molte terre principali riueduta di nuovo, & ampliata per tutto piu che la meta dal medesimo autore ... Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.

Creator:: Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521–1589
Date:: 1581
Physical Description:: [24], 558, [18] pages : illustrations (maps, portrait, coats of arms) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

Creator:: Saviolo, Vincentio
Date:: 1595
Physical Description:: [6], 17 [i.e. 21] leaves, [250] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Date:: 1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:: 3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.

Creator:: Manwood, John, -1610
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

Creator:: Melzo, Lodovico, 1567–1617
Date:: MDCXI [1611]
Physical Description:: [12], 221, [3] pages, [25] leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Halinitro-pyrobolia. : Beschreibu[n]g einer newen Büchsen-Meisterey, nemlichen: gründlicher Bericht, wie der Salpeter, Schwefel, Kohlen, vnnd das Pulfer zu praepariren, zu probieren, auch langwirrig gut zu behalten: das Fewrwerck zur Kurtzweil vnd Ernst zu laboriren. Dann, wie der Pöler, das grobe Geschütz, vnd der Petardo zu gobernirn: ingleichem die Lunden bey Tag- vnd Nachtszeiten, sicherlich vnd ohne gesehen zu tragen, &c. Sampt einer kurtzen geometrishcen Einlaytung, die Weite vnd Höhe gar gering zu erfahren. Alles ausz eygener Experientza; neben etlichen newen, zuvor nicht gesehnen Inventionen, gantz fleissig und vertrewlich beshrieben; vber das, mit. 44. Kupfferstucken delinirt vnd für Augen gestellt / durch Josephum Furttenbach..

Creator:: Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:: Anno MDCXXVII [1627]
Physical Description:: [20], 107, [1] p., [1], 44 [i.e. 88] leaves of plates (44 folded) : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The true travels, adventvres, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593 to 1629 : his accidents and sea-fights in the Straights, his service and strategems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia ... : together with a continuation of his Generall history of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624, to this present 1629, as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies / all written by actuall authors, whose names you shall finde along the history.

Creator:: Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:: 1630
Physical Description:: [12], 60 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Architectura martialis, das ist, Ausführliches Bedeucken, über das, zu dem geschütz und Waffen gehärige Gebäu ... allen Martialisten, besondes den Zeügwartten und Bächsenmeistern zu Wolgefallen beschrieben und mit 12 hierzau dienlichen Kupfferstücken aussgefertiget / durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Creator:: Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:: Anno MDCXXX [1630]
Physical Description:: [14], 93, [5], 22, [48] p., [12] double-leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The union of honovr : containing the armes, matches and issves of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640 : with the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being : and of the gentry of Lincolnshire : whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the conquest, till the yeere 1602 / collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-Smith.

Creator:: Yorke, James, fl. 1640
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 16, 331, 52, 76 p. : coats of arms ; 31 cm. (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A nevv book of architecture : wherein is represented fourty figures of gates and arches triumphant, composed of different inventions according to the five orders of columnes, viz. the Tuscane, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite / by Alexander Francine ... ; with a description of each figure ; set forth by Robert Pricke, for the use and benefit of all ingenious workmen that are concerned in eminent building.

Creator:: Francine, Alexandre, -1648
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [4] pages, XXXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. L'escole des filles, ou, La philosophie des dames, divisée en deux dialogues, agere & pati : avec une instruction des curiosités, dont la methode de trouver est marquée par leur leur [sic] nombre, suivant les tables.

Creator:: Millot, Michel, active 1655
Date:: l'an 1674
Physical Description:: 230 pages ; 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. [Portraits of figures of the court of Louis XIV].

Creator:: Dieu, Jean, 1654–1695
Date:: [1678-1698]
Physical Description:: [114] prints : engraving ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Bucaniers of America, or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies, by the bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French : wherein are contained more especially, the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama &c. / written originally in Dutch, by John Esquemeling, one of the Bucaniers, who was present at those tragedies ; and then translated into Spanish by Alonso de Bonne-maison, Doctor of Physick and practitioner at Amsterdam ; now faithfully rendered into English.

Creator:: Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:: 1684-1685
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illlustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland ; to which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

Creator:: Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Date:: 1698
Physical Description:: [22], 243, [1], [32], 228 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A survey of the ports on the south west coast of England : from Dover to the Lands-end / by Edmd. Dummer & Capt. Tho. Wiltshaw, Esqrs., Comrs. of His Mties. Navy ; together with Capt. James Conaway and Capt. William Cruft, Masters of Trinity House at Deptford ; delineated in July & Augst. 1698.

Creator:: Dummer, Edmund, -1712
Date:: [1698]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (78 pages) : manuscript, 17 maps, pen and ink and watercolor ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people. With the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties. Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.

Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: MDCXCIX [1699]
Physical Description:: [8], 248, 40 p., [2] double plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Album of English bookplates.

Date:: approximately 1700-1950?
Physical Description:: 1 volume ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam : perillustris ac magnifici domini Ignatii Christophori nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall, sacri Romani imperii, & Regni Hungariae equitis, sacrae Caesareae Majestatis consiliarii Aulico-Bellici ab augustissimo, & invictissimo Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I. ad serenissimum, ac potentissimum Tzarum, & magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII / ablegati extraordinarii descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb, p.t. secretario ablegationis Caesareae ; accessit reditus suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

Creator:: Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:: [1700?]
Physical Description:: [6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 3 maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 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.

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

32. 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

33. 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

34. Bibliothecae Americanae primordia : an attempt towards laying the foundation of an American library, in several books, papers, and writings, humbly given to the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for the perpetual use and benefit of their members, their missionaries, friends, correspondents, and others concern'd in the good design of planting and promoting Christianity within Her Majesties colonies and plantations in the West-Indies / by a member of the said Society.

Creator:: Kennett, White, 1660–1728
Date:: 1713 [i.e. 1714]
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [1], xvi, 3-132,125-275, [225] p. ; 22 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. 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

36. The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c. / written by himself, now alive.

Creator:: Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Date:: 1720
Physical Description:: [3], page viii, 72, 136, 179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le Ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

Date:: [172-?]
Physical Description:: [74] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Le cabinet des plus beaux portraits des plusieurs princes & princesses, hommes illustres, fameux peintres & autres / faits par le fameux Antoine Van Dyck, Chevalier et Peintre du Roi, quel l'auteur a fait graver à ses propres dépens, par les meilleurs graveurs de son temps ; cette ouvrage peut aussi servir pour supplement au Cabinet du fameux van Dyck, imprimez à Anvers.

Creator:: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [49] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.

Creator:: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671–1713
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: 3 v. front. (port.) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti perugini / scritta, e dedicate alla maesta di Carlo Emanuel re di Sardegna da Lione Pascoli.

Creator:: Pascoli, Lione, 1674–1744
Date:: MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:: [12], 259, [9] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

Creator:: Gosden, Thomas, 1780–1843
Date:: MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:: 92 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Fabbriche' antiche' / disegnate' da Andrea Palladio Vicentino e date in luce' da Riccardo Conte' di Burlington.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXX [1730, i.e. 1735]
Physical Description:: [42] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. 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

48. 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.

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

49. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

Creator:: Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:: [1739]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 20 sheets ; sheets 53 x 72 cm or smaller, bound 53 x 41 cm. + 1 key map (48 x 47 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

Date:: [1739-1753]
Physical Description:: [104] prints : engravings ; 24 x 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. 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

52. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:: [6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The principles of painting ... To which is added, The balance of painters. Being the names of the most noted painters, and their degrees of perfection in the four principal parts of their art ... Written originally in French by Mons. Du Piles ... And now first translated into English. By a painter.

Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: 1743
Physical Description:: xii, 300, [8] p. II plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. 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

55. 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

56. 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

57. 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

58. 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

59. 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

60. A new treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner for many years practice and experience : with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies / by William Gibson, surgeon, in Duke-Sreet, Grosvenor-Square ; illustrated with thirty-two copper-plates.

Creator:: Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750
Date:: MDCCLI [1751]
Physical Description:: [12], 464, [12] pages, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Art de la verrerie / de Neri, Merret et Kunckel ; auquel on a ajouté le Sol sine veste d'Orschall ; l'Helioscopium videndi sine veste solem chymicum; le Sol non sine veste ; le chapitre XI. du Flora saturnizans de Henckel, sur la vitrification des végétaux ; un Mémoire sur la manière de faire le saffre ; le Secret des vraies porcelaines de la Chine & de Saxe ; ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de fair le verre & le crystal, d'y porter des couleurs, d'imiter les pierres prétieuses, de préparer & colorer les emaux, de faire la potasse, de peindre sue le verre, de préparer des vernis, de composer des couvertes pour les fayances & poteries, d'extraire la couleur pourpre de l'or, de contrefaire les rubis, de fair le saffre, de faire & peindre les porcelaines, &c. ; traduits de l'allemand, par M. D * * *.

Creator:: Neri, Antonio, 1576–1614
Date:: MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:: [4], lv, [1], 629, [3] p., 16 leaves of plates (14 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Inscriptionum antiquarum Græc. et Latin. liber. : Accedit, numismatum Ptolemæorum, imperatorum, Augustarum, et Cæsarum, in Ægypto cusorum, e scriniis Britannicis, catalogus. / A Richardo Pococke, LLD. Societatis Regalis, et antiquariorum, Londini, Socio.

Date:: Anno MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:: [8], 127, [1] p. ; 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Les ruines de Palmyre, autrement dite, Tedmor au desert.

Creator:: Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771
Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: [6], 50 pages, LVII leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia / by William Stith, A.M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Creator:: Stith, William, 1707–1755
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: viii, 304, 295-331, [1], v, [1], 34, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Réflexions sur l'alphabet et sur la langue dont on se servoit autrefois à Palmyre / par M. l'Abbé Barthelemy.

Creator:: Barthélemy, J.-J. (Jean-Jacques), 1716–1795
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 8 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. 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

67. Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. : qui prostabunt venales sub hasta apud Samuelem Baker, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 18vo. Novembris, M. DCC. LIV. iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M. DCC. LV.

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1754]
Physical Description:: [4], 116, [2], 117-242 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school.

Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: [1754?]
Physical Description:: 8 p.l., 439 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The lives of the most eminent modern painters, who have lived since, or were omitted by Mons. De Piles / by J.B.

Creator:: Burgess, James, 18th cent
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: [24], 140, [4] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. 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

71. 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

72. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

Creator:: Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770
Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. 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

74. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

Creator:: Lacombe de Prézel, Honoré, 1725–
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 307, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. 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

76. Louthiana, or, An introduction to the antiquities of Ireland : in upwards of ninety views and plans : representing, with proper explanation, the principal ruins, curiosities, and antient dwellings, in the County of Louth : divided into three books / taken upon the spot by Thomas Wright, author of The physical and mathematical elements of astronomy, &c. ; engraved by Paul Fourdrinier.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1711–1786
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: 3 pt. in 1 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politicks, and literature for the year ...

Date:: [1762?]-1838
Physical Description:: 80 v. : ill., maps ; 21-23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Geometry exercise book.

Date:: circa 1780
Physical Description:: 1 v. (71 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The natural and civil history of the French dominions in North and South America : giving a particular account of the climate, soil, minerals, animals, vegetables, manufactures, trade, commerce and languages, together with the religion, government, genius, character, manners and customs of the Indians and other inhabitants, illustrated by maps and plans of the principal places / collected from the best authorities, and engraved by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Creator:: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:: MDCCLX [1760]
Physical Description:: 2 parts in 1 ([8], 132, *129-*142, 168 pages; [4], 246, [18] folded leaves of plates) : 8 maps, 10 plans ; 37 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies / compiled from authentic memoirs, revised by gentlemen who have resided many years in the Spanish settlements ; and illustrated with thirty-two maps and plans, chiefly from original drawings taken from the Spaniards in the last war, and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

Creator:: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [4], xxiv, 106, [2] pages, 32 folded leaves of plates : maps, plans ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. 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:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [8], 128 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Rules for bad horsemen : addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. / by Charles Thompson, Esq.

Creator:: Thompson, Charles, b. ca. 1710
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 82 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Bibliographie instructive: ou, Traite de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers ... Par Guillaume-François De Bure, le jeune ...

Creator:: Bure, Guillaume-François de, 1731–1782
Date:: 1763-1768
Physical Description:: 7 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. 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

85. A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

Creator:: Rogers, Robert, 1731–1795
Date:: MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 264 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682–1761
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan : with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company : as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah : and a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell, esq.

Creator:: Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711–1798
Date:: 1766-1771
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Monumenti antichi inediti / spiegati ed illustrati da Giovanni Winckelmann ; prefetto delle antichità di Roma.

Creator:: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. 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

90. 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.

91. 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

92. 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

93. The history of a voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764 : under the command of M. de Bougainville, in order to form a settlement there : and of two voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with an account of the Patagonians / translated from Dom Pernety's Historical journal, written in French ; illustrated with copper plates.

Creator:: Pernety, Antoine-Joseph, 1716–1801
Date:: MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:: [4], xvii, [1], 294 p., 16 leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: January 12, 1773
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. 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

96. 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

97. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

Creator:: Taylor, George (Geographer), active 1778
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([3], 61 p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : 62 maps ; 22 x 53 cm. folded to 22 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Variety of capitals, freezes, and corniches : and how to increase, or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original : likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates / published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani.

Creator:: Columbani, Placido
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 12, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Travels in Greece, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti / by Richard Chandler, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and of the Society of Antiquaries.

Creator:: Chandler, Richard, 1738–1810
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 4, xiv, [2], 304 p., [7] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Liber veritatis, or, A collection of prints, after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire / executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings ; to which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print, together with the names of those for whom, and the places for which, the original pictures were first painted (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures.

Creator:: Lorrain, Claude, 1600–1682
Date:: [1777]-1819
Physical Description:: 3 v. : chiefly ill., ports. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

2. Incipit liber moraliu[m] su[per] trenis iheremie [pro]phete.

3. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

4. Sexti Iulii Frontini uiri consularis De aquis que in urbem influunt : libellus mirabilis.

5. Hē tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa.

6. Supplementum chronicharum.

7. Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cum tabulis et universali figura et cum additione locorum quae recentioribus reperta sunt diligenti cura emendatus et impressus [cartographic material].

8. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

13. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

14. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

17. Regole militari del caualier Melzo sopra il gouerno e seruitio della caualleria.

23. L'escole des filles, ou, La philosophie des dames, divisée en deux dialogues, agere & pati : avec une instruction des curiosités, dont la methode de trouver est marquée par leur leur [sic] nombre, suivant les tables.

24. [Portraits of figures of the court of Louis XIV].

27. A survey of the ports on the south west coast of England : from Dover to the Lands-end / by Edmd. Dummer & Capt. Tho. Wiltshaw, Esqrs., Comrs. of His Mties. Navy ; together with Capt. James Conaway and Capt. William Cruft, Masters of Trinity House at Deptford ; delineated in July & Augst. 1698.

29. Album of English bookplates.

31. 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.

33. 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..

35. 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.

37. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le Ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

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

41. 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.

42. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.

43. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti perugini / scritta, e dedicate alla maesta di Carlo Emanuel re di Sardegna da Lione Pascoli.

44. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

45. Fabbriche' antiche' / disegnate' da Andrea Palladio Vicentino e date in luce' da Riccardo Conte' di Burlington.

48. 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.

49. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

50. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

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

52. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

56. 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.

57. 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 ...

62. Inscriptionum antiquarum Græc. et Latin. liber. : Accedit, numismatum Ptolemæorum, imperatorum, Augustarum, et Cæsarum, in Ægypto cusorum, e scriniis Britannicis, catalogus. / A Richardo Pococke, LLD. Societatis Regalis, et antiquariorum, Londini, Socio.

63. Les ruines de Palmyre, autrement dite, Tedmor au desert.

64. The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia / by William Stith, A.M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

65. Réflexions sur l'alphabet et sur la langue dont on se servoit autrefois à Palmyre / par M. l'Abbé Barthelemy.

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

67. Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. : qui prostabunt venales sub hasta apud Samuelem Baker, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 18vo. Novembris, M. DCC. LIV. iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M. DCC. LV.

69. The lives of the most eminent modern painters, who have lived since, or were omitted by Mons. De Piles / by J.B.

72. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

73. 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.

74. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

77. The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politicks, and literature for the year ...

78. Geometry exercise book.

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

82. Rules for bad horsemen : addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. / by Charles Thompson, Esq.

83. Bibliographie instructive: ou, Traite de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers ... Par Guillaume-François De Bure, le jeune ...

88. Monumenti antichi inediti / spiegati ed illustrati da Giovanni Winckelmann ; prefetto delle antichità di Roma.

89. 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.

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

92. 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 ...

97. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

99. Travels in Greece, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti / by Richard Chandler, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and of the Society of Antiquaries.