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1. Britania, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones : the like never before published.

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Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:
[14], 464 pages, [63] leaves of plates (50 folded) : coats of arms, maps ; 36 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Les isles Britanniques, qui contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande : distinguiés en leurs principales provinces, subdiviseés en leurs shireries, et comtés / tiré de G. Cambdene, Chr. Saxton, I. Speed, I. Pont. R. Gordon, et de I.B. Boozius par G. Valck.

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Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Date:
[approximately 1695]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand colored ; 46 x 56 cm, on sheet 51 x 61 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

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Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:
[1760?]
Physical Description:
vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Baronagium genealogicum; or, The pedigrees of the English peers, deduced from the earliest times, of which there are any attested accounts including, as well collateral as lineal descents. Originally comp. from the publick records and most authentic evidences; by Sr. William Segar ... and continued to the present time, by Joseph Edmondson.

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Creator:
Segar, William, Sir, -1633
Date:
[1764-84]
Physical Description:
5 volumes genealogical tables, coats of arms 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:
MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

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Date:
[1740]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Views in England, Wales, and Scotland.

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Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:
circa 1787-circa 1819
Physical Description:
approximately 400 drawings in 3 volumes ; 54 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The present peerage of the United Kingdom : with the arms of the peers and baronets ; to which are prefixed, the established order of precedency, and an English translation of the mottos ; and subjoined is a list of the baronets of Great Britain, with reference to their arms.

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Date:
1816
Physical Description:
179 pages, 80, 37 pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The royal kalendar and court and city register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year 1817 : including a complete and correct list of the 6th Imperial Parliament of Great Britain summoned to meet for their first session in Nov. 1812 : upon a new and more extensive plan than any hitherto offered to the public containing: England : lists of both Houses of Parliament : all the state, law, revenue, and public, offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different parts of the Kingdom : the army and navy ; baronets, universities, hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland : II. All the peers, baronets : state, law, revenue, and public, offices : universities, physicians, &c. Ireland : III. All the peers, baronets ; all the law, state, revenue, and public, offices ; bankers, deans &c. &c. Colonies : IV. Governors, law and revenue officers, &c. &c. : carefully corrected at the respective offices.

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Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
396 , 142, 168, 12, 37, [1], 170-178 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Voyage en Angleterre, pendant les années 1810 et 1811; avec des observations sur l'état politique et moral, les arts et la littérature de ce pays, et sur les moeurs et les usages de ces habitans; par Ls Simond ...

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Creator:
Simond, L. (Louis), 1767–1831
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts., illus., plates, plans, tables. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The British imperial calendar for the year of Our Lord 1821 : being the first after bissextile or leap year, and the 2nd year of the reign of His present Majesty (till the 29th January,) : containing a general register of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its colonies : also lists of both Houses of Parliament, the Peerage, the Privy Council, all the official departments of the state, and branches of public service ; the army and navy ; the church ; the law ; national, scientific, or commercial companies and institutions ; with many additional articles of public utility / by John Debrett ...

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Creator:
Debrett, John, -1822
Date:
[1821]
Physical Description:
xiv, 390 [i.e. 398], viii, 112 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Description of the iron bridges of suspension now erecting over the strait of Menai, at Bangor, and over the river Conway, in North Wales : with two views, also some account of the different bridges of suspension in England and Scotland, particularly of Captain S. Brown's iron bar bridge over the river Tweed : with remarks on the proposed suspension bridge over the river Mercy, at Runcorn Gap, and some calculations of the strength of malleable iron, founded on experiments / by T.G. Cumming, surveyor.

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Creator:
Cumming, T. G
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
55, [3] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Debrett's peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland.

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
2 volumes (cliv, 1308 pages) : illustrations, coats of arms, portrait ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Public works of Great Britain : consisting of railways, rails, chairs, blocks, cuttings, embankments, tunnels, oblique arches, viaducts, bridges, stations, locomotive engines &c : cast iron bridges, iron and gas works : canals, lock gates, centering, masonry and brick work for canal tunnels, canal boats, the London and Liverpool docks, plans and dimensions, dock gates, walls, quays and their masonry, mooring chains : plan of the harbour and port of London, and other important engineering works with descriptions and specifications : the whole rendered of the utmost utility to the civil engineer, to the nobility and gentry, as monuments of the useful arts in this country and as examples to the foreign engineer / edited by F.W. Simms, C.E. ; 153 plates.

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Date:
1838
Physical Description:
[5], viii-xii, 72, 32, 24, 70 pages, [142] leaves of plates in various foliations : illustrations, maps, plans ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts