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1. Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.

Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.
Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:
1813 [i.e. 1839]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.

Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1791-[1800]
Physical Description:
[96] leaves : chiefly ill., ports. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts : ... consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.

Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts : ... consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.
Creator:
Lucas, Fielding, Jr., 1781–1854
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 24 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The Artist's repository, or, Encyclopedia of the fine arts : exhibiting the principles, and explaining the practice in all their various branches ....

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Date:
1813
Physical Description:
4 v. in 8 : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

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Creator:
Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1813-1817
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. (some col.), port., plans, map ; 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A collection of Gloucestershire antiquities / by Samuel Lysons ...

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
[4], iv, 38, [4] p., 110 leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The history of Java / by Thomas Stamford Raffles, Esq., late Lieut.-Governor of that Island and its dependencies, F.R.S. and A.S., member of that Asiatic Society at Calcutta, Honorary Member of the Literary Society at Bombay, and late President of the Society of Arts and Science at Batavia ; in two volumes ; with a map and plates.

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Creator:
Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781–1826
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

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Creator:
Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Travels in Sicily, Greece & Albania / by the Rev. Thos. Smart Hughes.

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Creator:
Hughes, T. S. (Thomas Smart), 1786–1847
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The itinerary of Greece : with a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country : compiled in the years 1801-06 / by W. Gell Esq. M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A.

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Creator:
Gell, William, Sir, 1777–1836
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[6], 171, [9] p., 28 leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Plates from William Coxe's Travels in Switzerland]

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Creator:
Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
[24] leaves ([1] folded) : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts