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1. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

Date:: 1528
Physical Description:: 384 p. ; 19 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde / par Antoine de Herrera ... ; translatee d'espagnol en françois ; a la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la navigation du vaillant capitaine de mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres ...

Creator:: Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Date:: 1622
Physical Description:: [6], 103, [7], 107-254 p., [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

Creator:: Morosini, Andrea, 1558–1618
Date:: 1623
Physical Description:: [18], 729, [22] p., : port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning ano: 1584 to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journeyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes / by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.

Creator:: Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:: 1624
Physical Description:: [14], 96, 105-248 p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk.

Creator:: De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
Date:: 1661-1662?
Physical Description:: 7 drawings : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheets 20 x 30 cm to 39 x 100 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Historien der Nederlanden : en haar naburen oorlogen tot het jaar 1612 / door Emanuel van Meteren ; met heerelijker konterfeytsels dan ooyt voordezen verciert, en verbetert.

Creator:: Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535–1612
Date:: 1663
Physical Description:: [6], 629, [11] leaves : ill., ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Plan of the fortification at Sandown, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 69 x 80 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 64 x 75 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: [1671?]
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 64 x 76 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Atlas chinensis : being a second part of A relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tartar against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly, both of the whole empire of China in general, and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces / collected out of their several writing and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq. ...

Creator:: Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636–1689
Date:: MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:: [6], 723, [1] pages, [72] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Plan of fortification, possibly at Newtown, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Storff, Paul Auguste de
Date:: December, 1671
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 76 x 120 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Nautical chart of Grand Havre, Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and gray wash ; sheet 45 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Plan of the town of Hull and its immediate surroundings.

Creator:: Archer, James, approximately 1632–approximately 1680
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 67 x 94 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Plan of Scarbrogh Castle & towne / delineated by Capt. James Archer, one of his Matie. of England's Ingeniers.

Creator:: Archer, James, approximately 1632–approximately 1680
Date:: circa 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and gray wash ; sheet 85 x 170 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, -1693
Date:: ca. 1680
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink ; sheet 102 x 72 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Plan for the Citadel at Hull.

Creator:: De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
Date:: [1681?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 36 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Plans for the Citadel at Hull.

Date:: 1681-1682
Physical Description:: 2 maps : pen and ink and watercolor ; each sheet 39 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Plans for the fortifications at Hull.

Creator:: Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:: 1681-1682
Physical Description:: 13 sheets : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheets 68 x 72 cm, or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Plan of a fortification in Guernsey.

Date:: July 20, 1682
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 32 x 25 cm, on sheet 38 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

Creator:: Tower of London (London, England)
Date:: [approximately 169-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page.) ; 17 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

Creator:: Beckman, Martin, -1702
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 111 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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

23. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam perillustris ac magnifici Domini Ignatii Christophori, nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall ... ab ... Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I ad ... Tzarum & Magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII ablegati extraordinarii / descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb ... ; 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 (13 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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

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

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

26. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

Creator:: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555–1628
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The establishment of the yearly charge of our dyett, with incidents for housekeeping : also wages & boardwages to the officers & servants of our house, chamber, chappells, & stables, with provisions for horses : also allowances, stipends, and pentions to old & supernumerary servants and widows, to commence the first day of October, 1714.

Creator:: George I, King of Great Britain, 1660–1727
Date:: 1714-1716
Physical Description:: 1 volume (159, [1] pages) ; 47 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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.

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

29. Views of the several parts of the palace, or castle of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, basins, groves, parterras, and other the most beautifull parts of the gardens : wherein are represented whatever are remarkable, as, statues, groups of figures, water-falls, &c. : drawn on the spot, by order, and with ye approbation of the French king : engraved in the year 1725.

Date:: [1725?]
Physical Description:: [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

31. The Leeds Mercury.

Physical Description:: volumes ; 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Versailles illustrated, or Divers views of the several parts of the royal palace of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, groves, parterras, ye labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens, wherein are represented whatever is remarkable, whether statues, groups of figures, water falls, pleasure houses &c. : drawn on the spot by the order & with the approbation of the French king.

Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [29] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: 22 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

35. Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, octavo : at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the fourteenth day of January, Anno Dom. 1734, in the eighth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc. : being the first session of this present Parliament.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: [2] p., p. 215-218 ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

Creator:: Hoofnail, John
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: vi, 2, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

Creator:: Grierson, George, -1753
Date:: 1740]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1740
Physical Description:: [2] p., p. 407-412 ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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

40. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent : containing whatever is most worthy of notice in their ancient and present state ... with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of this great metropolis ... / by the Rev. John Entick ...

Creator:: Entick, John, 1703?-1773
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill., plans, ports., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano habita idibus Aprilibus, MDCCXLIX. die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae ...

Creator:: King, William, 1685–1763
Date:: [1749]
Physical Description:: [6], 34 p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR.

Creator:: Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:: 1750-1778
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([83] p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A new drawing book.

Date:: [175-?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Voyage historique de l'Amerique Meridionale : fait par ordre du roi d'Espagne / par Don George Juan ... et par Don Antoine de Ulloa ... ouvrage orné des figures, plans et cartes necessaires ; et qui contient une histoire de Yncas du Perou, et les observations astronomiques & physiques, faites pour déterminer la figure & la grandeur de la terre.

Creator:: Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716–1795
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Religio philosophi: or, The principles of morality and Christianity, illustrated prom [!] a view of the universe, and of man's situation in it. By William Hay ...

Creator:: Hay, William, 1695–1755
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 4 p.l., 232 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A catalogue of prints : engraved from the finest paintings of the most eminent masters : in the collection of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Monsgr. le Duc D'Orleans, Monsgr. le Marquis D'Argenson, Monsr. le Comte de Vence, Monsr. le Chevalier de la Rocque ... : the whole collection are printed on grand eagle paper, to be had either in sheets or bound fit for gentlemen's libraries.

Creator:: Major, Thomas, 1720–1799
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 38 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

Creator:: Armstrong, John, -1758
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 66 x 45 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. 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

50. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 54 x 46 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

Date:: 1756-1817
Physical Description:: 144 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays : Number II. containing a letter, representing the impropriety of sending forces to Virginia : the importance of taking Frontenac : and that the preservation of Oswego was owing to General Shirley's proceeding thither : containing objections to those parts of Evan's general map and analysis, which relate to the French title to the country, on the north-west side of St. Laurence River, between Fort Frontenac and Montreal, &c. : published in the New-York Mercury, no. 178. Jan. 5, 1756 : with an answer to so much thereof as concerns the public : and the several articles set in a just light / by Lewis Evans.

Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: v, [1], 7-35, [1] pages ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

Creator:: Livingston, William, 1723–1790
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [4], 144 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. A plan of the city, and fortifications of Louisburg / from a survey made by Richard Gridley ... ; A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg : with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the siege in 1745.

Creator:: Gridley, Richard, 1711–1796
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet ; 38 x 47 cm. and 38 x 45 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

Date:: 1758 April 27
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : parchment ; 71 x 86 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Andrew F. Petryn

58. A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

Date:: [1758?]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

Creator:: Hipwell, John
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

Creator:: Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: [1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Geometry exercise book.

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

62. 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

63. Clemency to brutes : the substance of two sermons preached on a Shrove-Sunday, with a particular view to dissuade from that species of cruelty annually practised in England, the throwing at cocks.

Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director.

Creator:: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Date:: [1966]
Physical Description:: 1 v. (chiefly ill.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

66. Relation de l'expedition aux Indes Occidentales, contre la Martinique : avec la reduction de la Guadelupe, et autres Isles Sous Vent, appartenant au roi de France, en 1759 / par Mons. Gardiner, capitaine des Mousquetaires Royaux de S.M., autrefois capitaine des Troupes de Marine à bord le Rippon, vaisseau de S.M. employé à cette expedition.

Creator:: Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [6] pages, 91, [1] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

69. A general map of North America : in which is express'd the several new roads, forts, engagements, & c, taken from actual surveys and observations made in the army employ'd there, from the years 1754, to 1761 / drawn by the late John Rocque, topographer to his majesty = Cartes generales de l'Amérique Septentrionale; en les quelles sont exprimis les nouvelles routes, forts, batailles, &c. d'apres les observations qui ou été faites depuis l'an 1754, jusqu'a l'an 1761: recuellies par feu Jean Rocque, topographe de sa Majesté Britannique.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [1762?]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets : hand colored ; 87 x 89 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. 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

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

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

73. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: xxi, 3, 382 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Catalogue of Mr. Strange's works : engraved after pictures of the most celebrated painters of the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, and other schools : to be had at his house in Castle-Street, Leicester-Fields.

Creator:: Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721–1792
Date:: [1768?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Account book of the surveyors of the highway in the parish of Healaugh.

Date:: 1768-1837
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

78. [Muster order for the enrollment into the Gloucestershire militia].

Date:: August 30, 1770
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Twelve views of the Greenland and whale fishery [graphic].

Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

Creator:: Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. 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.

Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: [1772]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Anthony St. Leger account book.

Creator:: St. Leger, Anthony, 1731–1786
Date:: 1772-1835 (bulk 1772)
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (43, 70 pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 1 volume (approximately 42 leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

Creator:: Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

Creator:: Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 16 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 96 pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. State of chimney-sweepers young apprentices : shewing the wretched condition of the distrest boys, the ill conduct of such matters as do notobserve the obligations of indentures, the necessity of a strict enquiryin order to support the civil and religious rights of these apprentices : to encourage good masters and regulate the trade, that the useful occupation of chimney-sweepers may be considered as an object worthy of attention: and the humanity of the nation be no longer violated in the persons of these boys.

Creator:: Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 58, 1 leaf of plates (folded) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

Creator:: Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 14 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

Creator:: Boyn, John
Date:: 1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:: 1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A familiar epistle to the author of the Heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, and of the Heroic postscript to the public.

Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: iv, 35 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

Creator:: Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782
Date:: [between 1775 and 1780?]
Physical Description:: [2], 13, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

Creator:: Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Date:: circa 1776-circa 1832
Physical Description:: 1 v. (270 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 30 p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A book of maps / by Geo. Hutson Jun., MDCCLXXVII.

Creator:: Hutson, George, 1754 or 5–1794
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 1 volume (37 leaves) : maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1779-1781
Physical Description:: 10 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

3. Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.DC.XV. : in quinque partes tributa.

5. Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk.

6. Historien der Nederlanden : en haar naburen oorlogen tot het jaar 1612 / door Emanuel van Meteren ; met heerelijker konterfeytsels dan ooyt voordezen verciert, en verbetert.

7. Plan of the fortification at Sandown, Isle of Wight.

8. Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight.

9. Plans of the fortifications at Newport and Cowes, Isle of Wight.

11. Plan of fortification, possibly at Newtown, Isle of Wight.

12. Nautical chart of Grand Havre, Guernsey.

13. Plan of the town of Hull and its immediate surroundings.

14. Plan of Scarbrogh Castle & towne / delineated by Capt. James Archer, one of his Matie. of England's Ingeniers.

15. Nautical chart of the east coast of Guernsey.

16. Plan for the Citadel at Hull.

17. Plans for the Citadel at Hull.

18. Plans for the fortifications at Hull.

19. Plan of a fortification in Guernsey.

20. A List of His Majesty's regalia : besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London.

21. The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

26. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

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

31. The Leeds Mercury.

33. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

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

38. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

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

40. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

42. Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano habita idibus Aprilibus, MDCCXLIX. die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae ...

43. Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR.

44. A new drawing book.

46. Religio philosophi: or, The principles of morality and Christianity, illustrated prom [!] a view of the universe, and of man's situation in it. By William Hay ...

48. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

49. 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.

50. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

52. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

53. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

57. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

59. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

60. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

61. Geometry exercise book.

63. Clemency to brutes : the substance of two sermons preached on a Shrove-Sunday, with a particular view to dissuade from that species of cruelty annually practised in England, the throwing at cocks.

64. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

65. The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director.

70. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

74. An account of Corsica : the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, esq. ; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.

75. Catalogue of Mr. Strange's works : engraved after pictures of the most celebrated painters of the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, and other schools : to be had at his house in Castle-Street, Leicester-Fields.

76. Account book of the surveyors of the highway in the parish of Healaugh.

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

78. [Muster order for the enrollment into the Gloucestershire militia].

79. Twelve views of the Greenland and whale fishery [graphic].

80. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

81. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

82. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

84. Anthony St. Leger account book.

85. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

86. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

87. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance ...

88. Essai sur les troupes provinciales.

90. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

91. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

92. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

93. A familiar epistle to the author of the Heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, and of the Heroic postscript to the public.

94. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

95. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

97. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

99. A book of maps / by Geo. Hutson Jun., MDCCLXXVII.

100. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...