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1. Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 / by Sir Robert Ker Porter ; with numerous engravings of portraits, costumes, antiquities, &c.

Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 / by Sir Robert Ker Porter ; with numerous engravings of portraits, costumes, antiquities, &c.
Creator:
Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777–1842
Date:
1821-1822
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

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Creator:
Measom, George S
Date:
[1864]
Physical Description:
lii, 475, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The official illustrated guide to the Northern Railway of France, with six days in Paris / by George Measom ... ; embellished with one hundred engravings and map.

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Creator:
Measom, George S
Date:
[1858]
Physical Description:
x, [1], 164, 110, [8] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The lady's economical assistant, or, The art of cutting out, and making the most useful articles of wearing apparel, without waste : explained by the clearest directions, and numerous engravings, of appropriate and tasteful patterns : designed for domestic use / by a Lady ; designed for domestic use.

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Creator:
Lady
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 55, [9] p., XXVII folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The official illustrated guide to the South-Eastern Railway and its branches : including the North Kent and Greenwich lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with two hundred engravings and map.

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Creator:
Measom, George S
Date:
[1858]
Physical Description:
[16], 324 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The book of sports, games, and athletic exercises / by William Martin, author of The Parlour Book, &c. &c. &c.

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Creator:
Martin, William, 1801–1867
Date:
[between 1837 and 1845]
Physical Description:
[4], 268 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The official illustrated guide to the Great Eastern Railway (Colchester line) : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with numerous engravings and maps.

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Creator:
Measom, George S
Date:
[1865]
Physical Description:
xxxii, 436 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing / written by Isaac Walton ; and instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream by Charles Cotton ; with original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, K.C.M.G.

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Creator:
Walton, Izaak, 1593–1683
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The school perspective : being a progressive course of instruction in Linear Perspective, both theoretical and practical : specially designed for the use of schools / by J.R. Dicksee, principal drawing master to the city of London School, to The Normal College for training teachers of the British and Foreign School Society, &c. ; illustrated with many woodcuts and forty engraved plates.

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Creator:
Dicksee, J. R. (John Robert), 1817–1905
Date:
[1862]
Physical Description:
xiv, 79, [1] p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Silk and scarlet / by the Druid.

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Creator:
Dixon, Henry Hall, 1822–1870
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
[2], iv, [4], 398, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by Colonel George Greenwood ...

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Creator:
Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:
1871
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 110, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Illustrations of the field movements of cavalry : in a series of copper plate engravings : with an introductory chapter, illustrated by engravings upon wood : intended for the use of yeomanry and volunteer cavalry : and also of noblemen and gentlemen, who, contemplating service in this force, or from whatever other motive, may wish to acquire a knowledge of cavalry tactics / by Captain John Bamford.

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Creator:
Bamford, John, Captain
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
xvi, 18, [2] p., 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 53 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. To China and back : being a diary kept, out and home / by Albert Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
[2], ii, [1], 6-72 pages, [1] leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The Sampler, or, A system of teaching plain needlework in schools / by a Lady.

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Creator:
Finch, Elizabeth, -1879
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
103, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possesion of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, Esq.

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Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., port., map ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Songs of the chace: containing an extensive collection relative to the sports of the field : including the several subjects of hunting, shooting, racing, coursing, angling, hawking, &c. &c.

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Date:
1811
Physical Description:
v, [1], 469 [i.e. 449], [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts