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201. A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England : from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time : illustrated by engravings taken from the most authentic remains of antiquity : to which is prefixed an introduction, containing a general description of the ancient habits in use among mankind, from the earliest period of time to the conclusion of the seventh century / by Joseph Strutt.

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Creator:
Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:
MDCCCXLII [1842]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

202. 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

203. Histories of noble British families : with biographical notices of the most distinguished individuals in each : illustrated by their armorial bearings, portraits, monuments, seals, etc.

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Creator:
Drummond, Henry, 1786–1860
Date:
1842-1846
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

204. 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.

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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

205. The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic ; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptions.

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Creator:
Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:
1815-1818
Physical Description:
7 v. : pl. ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

207. The pictorial history of the county of Lancaster : with 170 illustrations and a map.

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Date:
1844
Physical Description:
238 [i.e. 338], xlviii p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

208. Sporting : embellished by large engravings and vignettes illustrative of British field sports, from pictures painted by T. Gainsborough, R.A., E. Landseer, R.A., A. Cooper, R.A., Charles Hancock, J.F. Lewis, W. Barraud, &c. / edited by Nimrod ; with literary contributions by Thomas Hood ... John Hamilton Reynolds ... &c.

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Date:
1838
Physical Description:
[8], viii, 144 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

209. Wallis's royal edition, with seven engravings, patronized by the Queen. Brighton as it is, 1840 : describing the banks, boarding houses, baths, places of worship, hotels, libraries, royal palace, markets, and every recent improvement.

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Date:
[1840]
Physical Description:
[2], 54 p., [14] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., 2 maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

210. The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America : viz. Jamaica, Barbadoes, S. Christophers, Mevis, Antego, S. Vincent, Dominica, New-Jersey, Pensilvania, Monserat, Anguilla, Bermudas, Carolina, Virginia, New-England, Tobago, New-found-land, Mary-land, New-York. With new maps of every place. Together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands; from the year 1686, to 1700. Also a table by which, at any time of the day or night here in England, you may know what hour it is in any of those parts. And how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.

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Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
1687
Physical Description:
[8], 262, [42] p., [9] leaves of plates ([8] folded) : ill. (port., 7 fold. maps, fold. diagr.) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

211. The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards, or dice : to which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.

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Creator:
Cotton, Charles, 1630–1687
Date:
1680
Physical Description:
[16], 175, [1] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

212. The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing / by Nimrod.

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Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
MDCCCXLII [1842]
Physical Description:
viii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

213. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

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Creator:
Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Date:
[1760?]
Physical Description:
[72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

214. Encyclopedia of antiquities, and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval. By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke ...

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Creator:
Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770–1842
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts. (v. 1: port.) illus., plates, plan. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

215. Proceedings at the reception and dinner in honor of George Peabody, Esq., of London : by the citizens of the old town of Danvers, October 9, 1856 : to which is appended an historical sketch of the Peabody Institute, with the exercises at the laying of the corner-stone and at the dedication / published by order of the Committee of Arrangements.

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Creator:
Danvers (Mass.)
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 195, [1] pages, [18] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

216. The costumes of the members of the University of Oxford.

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Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([16] p.) : all ill. ; 11 x 110 cm, folded to 11 x 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

217. The Silurian system : founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caernarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford : with descriptions of the coalfields and overlying formations / by Roderick Impey Murchison ... ; in two parts.

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Creator:
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792–1871
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

218. A new book of shipping : on six plates.

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Date:
1796
Physical Description:
6 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

219. Letters and important documents relative to the Edystone Lighthouse : selected chiefly from the correspondence of the late Robert Weston, Esq., and from other manuscripts : to which is added a report made to the Lords of the Treasury in 1809 by the Trinity Corporation : with some observations upon that report / by Robert Harcourt Weston ...

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Creator:
Weston, Robert Harcourt
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
xvi, ix-xv,1, 308 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

220. 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

221. Theory on the classification of beauty and deformity, and their correspondence with physiognomic expression : exemplified in various works of art, and natural objects, and illustrated with four general charts, and thirty-eight copper plates / by Mary Anne Schimmelpennick, author of "A tour to Alet.".

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Creator:
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne, 1778–1856
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
xviii, 440, [2] p., [2], 38 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

222. The picture of London for 1815 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and various other engravings.

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Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
x, 458 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

223. Topographical and statistical description of the county of Lincoln : containing an account of its situation, extent, towns, roads ... &c. ... : to which is prefixed, a copious travelling guide ... which form a complete county itinerary, with a list of the fairs, and an index table ... / by G.A. Cooke ...

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Creator:
Cooke, George Alexander
Date:
[1818?]
Physical Description:
iv, 5-144 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

224. A second edition of the Anecdotes and history of Cranbourn Chase / by William Chafin, clerk ; with additions, and a continuation of the said history to some extent ; to which are added, some scenes in, and anecdotes of Windsor forest ; by the same author.

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Creator:
Chafin, William, 1733–1818
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
[2],103, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

225. The private journal of Captain G.F. Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, during the recent voyage of discovery under Captain Parry : with a map and plates.

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Creator:
Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
xiii, [1] 468 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, folded map ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

226. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

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Creator:
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

227. A new-naturalized work of a learned stranger, or, An exquisite tutor powerfull to benefit the publick : and convey unto English men, especially architects and artificers of all sorts : that is, masons, carpenters, joyners, glasiers, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, and all that live by hammer and hand : necessary, certaine, and most ready helps of geometrie, which is the first degree of all good art ...

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Date:
1657
Physical Description:
[2], 11 [i.e. 14] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

228. Strawberry Hill : a catalogue of a singularly choice collection of rare and valuable books in the various departments of literature : comprising early English poetry & plays : British and foreign history and biography : black letter and privately printed books : romances, jest books, songs, ballads, music, and treatises on music : a few highly-interesting manuscripts : many fine books of prints, coins, gems, &c. : miniatures, paintings, ancient carvings, tapestry : valuable original portraits of distinguished persons : together with some thousand of engraved portraits, &c. &c. : principally from the collection of Horace Walpole / by W. Strong, Bristol.

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Creator:
Strong, William, active 1821–1844
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
xi, 188 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

229. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

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Creator:
Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

230. The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio / translated from the original Latin, by W. Newton, architect.

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Creator:
Vitruvius Pollio
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

231. A topographical history of Surrey / by Edward Wedlake Brayley ; assisted by John Britton, and E. W. Brayley ... ; the geological section by Gideon Mantell.

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Creator:
Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:
1841-44
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

232. The practical gardener, and modern horticulturist : containing the latest and most approved methods for the management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower-garden, the green-house, hot-house, &c., &c., for every month in the year : each department being distinctly and separately arranged : illustrated by numerous designs of the most eligible plans for the formation of kitchen and pleasure-gardens, the erection of hot-houses, hot-beds, green-houses, conservatories, walls, fences, &c., &c. including the new method of heating forcing-houses with hot water only : forming a complete system of modern practice, in the various branches of horticultural science : embellished with highly-finished engravings of some of the most choice and valuable fruits and flowers now cultivated in this country / by Charles McIntosh, C.M.C.H.S. ...

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Creator:
McIntosh, Charles, 1794–1864
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
2 volumes (viii, 1122 pages, [28] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

233. A series of antient allegorical, historical, and legendary paintings, in fresco : discovered in the summer of 1804 on the walls of the chapel of the Trinity, belonging to the Gild of the Holy Cross, at Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire / from drawings made at the time of their discovery by Thomas Fisher ... ; also, a plan of the Chapel, facsimiles of various grants and indulgences to the gild ; with representations of one hundred and fifty public and private seals appended to them, facsimile extracts from the register of the gild ...

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Creator:
Fisher, Thomas, 1781?-1836
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
[6], 8 p., [55] leaves of plates : ill., plan, facsims. ; 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

234. Old plans and views of Bristol.

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Creator:
Pritchard, John E
Date:
1926
Physical Description:
p. 325-353, [26] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

235. A sequel to the adventures of Baron Munchausen : containing his expedition into Africa ... : humbly dedicated to Mr. Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller ...

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Date:
1801
Physical Description:
xvii, [2], 26-184 pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

236. Two views of the ruins of Furness Abbey / from drawings by Mr. Crosthwaite, of Ulverston ; and Mr. Shaw, of London ; in lithotint by Mr. Walton, of London ; with a compendious account of the monastery.

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Date:
[1843]
Physical Description:
9, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

237. A famous fox-hunter : reminiscences of the late T.A. Smith, Esq., or, The pursuits of an English country gentleman / by Sir John E. Eardley-Wilmot, Bart.

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Creator:
Eardley-Wilmot, John E. (John Eardley), Sir, 1810–1892
Date:
1893
Physical Description:
vii, [5], 212 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

238. The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester ... / by Valentine Green.

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Creator:
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

239. Barthomley : in letters from a former rector to his eldest son / by the Rev. Edward Hinchliffe ...

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Creator:
Hinchliffe, Edward, 1801?-1878
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
viii, 370, [16] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

240. Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting / by Lt. Col. P. Hawker.

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Creator:
Hawker, Peter, 1786–1853
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[3], vi-xxii, 470 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

241. Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries : the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years / by Thomas Davies.

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Creator:
Davies, Thomas, 1713–1785
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

242. 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.

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

243. Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. illustrated : in a series of views drawn from nature by W. H. Bartlett, William Purser, &c. With descriptions of the plates / by John Carne.

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Creator:
Carne, John, 1789–1844
Date:
[1836-38]
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

244. 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

245. An introduction to the study of perspective : elucidated by easy and familiar examples in question and answer : so as to enable the student of drawing, to apply the principles of the science with facility, to sketching from nature / by Stephen Humble ; teacher of drawing and painting, Edinburgh ; illustrated with seventeen copperplates.

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Creator:
Humble, Stephen
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
27, [1] p., 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

246. Daphnis & Chloe : a most sweet, and pleasant pastorall romance for young ladies / translated out of the Greek of Longus, by Geo. Thornley, gent.

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Creator:
Longus
Date:
mcmxxiij [1923, that is 1930]
Physical Description:
108, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

247. 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.

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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

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

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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

249. Cottage scenes : being a collection of pastoral tales, illustrative of rural manners : and calculated for the improvement of juvenile readers / by Anne Elizabeth Oulton.

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Creator:
Oalton, Ann Elizabeth
Date:
[1825?]
Physical Description:
88, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

250. London survey'd, or, An explanation of the large map of London : giving a particular account of the streets and lanes in the city and liberties : with the courts, yards, and alleys, churches, halls, and houses of note in every street and lane and directories to find them in the map : with the names and marks of the wards, parishes, and precincts, therein described / by John Ogilby & William Morgan ...

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1677
Physical Description:
[14], 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : plan ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

251. The chace, the turf, and the road / by Nimrod ; with portrait of author and illustrations.

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Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
1870
Physical Description:
xviii, [2], 277, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

252. The poetical works of Robert Southey : complete in one volume.

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Creator:
Southey, Robert, 1774–1843
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
xxviii, 828 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

253. The ladies' pocket book of etiquette / by A. F. (1838) ; with engravings by Hester Sainsbury.

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Creator:
Freeling, Arthur
Date:
MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:
[10], 55, [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

254. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East passage : undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue : illustrated with numerous plates and maps : in three volumes.

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Creator:
Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

255. Modern Athenians : being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland.

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Creator:
Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803–1847
Date:
MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:
[4] p., 48 leaves of plates : ports. ; 28 x 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John E. Hankins

256. Owen, engraver : 40, Goswell Street, opposite Wilderness Row.

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Creator:
Owen, active 1838–1851
Date:
[approximately 1830?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 6 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

257. The sportsman's directory, or, Park and gamekeeper's companion : containing instructions for breeding, feeding, and breaking dogs, hunting, and coursing, shooting, fishing, preserving game, decoys, breeding pheasants, partridges, pigeons, rabbits, &c. &c. : also, a description of all kinds of poaching, how to detect poachers, and to destroy their works : with abstracts of the new game acts, and upwards of fifty valuable recipes / by John Mayer, gamekeeper.

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Creator:
Mayer, John, gamekeeper
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 204, [12] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

258. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... By E. Hargrove.

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Creator:
Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
4, 382 p. front., ill., plates, plan, col. fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

259. Engravings from the choicest works of Sir Thomas Lawrence ...

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Creator:
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830
Date:
[1846]
Physical Description:
54 l. 50 port. (incl. front.) 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

260. The Holy Bible : reprinted according to the Authorized version 1611.

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Date:
1924-27
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

261. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain / engraved by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue ; with their lives and characters by Thomas Birch.

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Creator:
Birch, Thomas, 1705–1766
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
[2], 216 pages, [108] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

262. Mellificium mensionis, or, The marrow of measuring : wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plastering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works : as also the measuring of land and all other superfices and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the intergers into the least denomination : giving the content of any superfices or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetic : together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto : the whole treatise being comprized in six books and illustrated with copper cuts : an account whereof is given in the epistle to the reader : the like not heretofore published / by Venterus Mandey.

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Creator:
Mandey, Venterus
Date:
1682
Physical Description:
[26], 376, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

263. A memoir, explanatory of the chart and survey of the county of London-Derry, Ireland / by the Rev. George Vaughan Sampson.

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Creator:
Sampson, George Vaughan
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 359 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
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264. Proposal for county naval free-schools : to be built on waste lands, giving such effectual instructions to poor boys, as may nurse them for the sea service : teaching them also to cultivate the earth, that in due time tey may furnish their own food : & to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, etc. with a view to provide their own raiment, while good regulations and discipline, diffuse a moral & religious oeconomy through the land.

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Creator:
Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, [1], x-xxii, [2], 2, 90, [4], 91-120, [2], 121-141, [1], 48, [4], v, [3], 67, [1] pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
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265. The light-horse drill : describing the several evolutions, in a progressive series, from the first rudiments, to the manoeuvres of the squadron and regiment : designed for the use of the privates and officers of the volunteer corps of Great Britain / by a private of the London and Westminster Light-Horse Volunteers.

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Date:
[1803]
Physical Description:
[2], vi, [2], 37, [5], 20 pages, [1], 28 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

266. A visit to London: containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis. By the author of "The visit to a farm-house."

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Date:
[1838?]
Physical Description:
vi, 192 p. front., ill., plates. 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

267. A history of Hartlepool / by Sir Cuthbert Sharp ...

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Creator:
Sharp, Cuthbert, Sir, 1781–1849
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
vi, 180, [iii]-xxvi p., [3], [1], [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plates, plans, geneal. tables ; 22 cm.
Collection:
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268. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verrulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts.

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Creator:
Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626
Date:
1671
Physical Description:
[16], 14, [2], 255, [3], 99, [17], 8, [2], 16, [2], 62, [4], 58, [8], 92, [14], 26 p. : ports. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

269. Introduction to the Original delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, intituled The beauties of England and Wales : comprising observations on the history and antiquities of the Britons ... : together with remarks on the progress of ... architecture in succeeding ages / by J. Norris Brewer.

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Creator:
Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xl, 676 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

270. 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.

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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

271. Gas without heat smoke or smell.

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Creator:
Benham & Sons (Firm : London, England)
Date:
[circa 1874]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

272. Testimonies communicated by various persons in favor of the expansion shoe.

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Date:
1828
Physical Description:
16 pages, VI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

273. Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases, in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fourteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
[16], 80 p., pp. 79-394, [2], 26, 49, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

274. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

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Creator:
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747–1827
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
2 volumes : maps, charts ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

275. 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.

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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

276. Funeral of the late Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G. : admit [blank] to St. Paul's Cathedral.

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Date:
[1852]
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hilda Lease Jay.

277. An abridgment of the architecture of Vitruvius : containing a system of the whole works of that author illustrated with divers copper plates, curiously engraved, with a table of explanation : to which is added in this edition the etymology and derivation of the terms used in architecture / first done in French by Monsr. Perrault, of the Academy of Paris, and now Englished, with additions.

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Creator:
Vitruvius Pollio
Date:
1692
Physical Description:
[12], 158, [34] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., plans ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

278. Id quod visum placet : a practical test of the beautiful. / by Eric Gill, T.O.S.D.

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Creator:
Gill, Eric, 1882–1940
Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
19 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

279. Caledonia : illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for the work / by W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom and others ; the descriptive text by William Beattie.

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Creator:
Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:
[1838]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

280. Quarterly papers on architecture. Volume I-IV ... / edited and published by Johan Weale.

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Date:
1844-1845
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. (part col., part fold.), maps, plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

281. Lucina sine concubitu : a letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society : with 3 engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury.

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Creator:
Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:
MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:
[4], 40, [3] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

282. Illustrations of the University of Cambridge / by J. & H.S. Storer ; comprising thirty-two views.

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Creator:
Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:
[1827]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [32] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

283. The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; with 15 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

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Creator:
Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:
1929-1930
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

284. New description of Blenheim, the seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough : containing a full and accurate account of the paintings, tapestry, and furniture; a picturesque tour of the gardens & park : and a general description of the china gallery, &c. : with a preliminary essay on landscape gardening.

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Creator:
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 152 pages, [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

285. An account of the mutinies in Oudh : and of the siege of the Lucknow residency : with some observations on the condition of the province of Oudh : and on the causes of the mutiny of the Bengal army / by Martin Richard Gubbins.

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Creator:
Gubbins, Martin Richard, 1812–1863
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
xii, 464 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

286. The history of Wisbech, and the Fens. / By Neil Walker, and Thomas Craddock ...

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Creator:
Walker, Neil
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
viii, 564 p., [18] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., charts, map ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

287. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

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Date:
1660
Physical Description:
[5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

288. The golden bed of Kydno / translated from the modern Greek of Evadne Lascaris by P.M. & illustrated with twelve line-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

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Creator:
Lascaris, Evadne
Date:
1935
Physical Description:
[2], 7-41, [5] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

289. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

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Creator:
Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:
MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:
24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

290. A new method of cryptography : humbly presented to the most serene Majesty of Charles the II / by Samuel Morland, knight and baronet, and one of the gentlemen of his Majestie's privy chamber in ordinary. 1666.

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Creator:
Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625–1695
Date:
[1666]
Physical Description:
12 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

291. Tallis's illustrated London : in commemoration of the Great exhibition of all nations in 1851 : forming a complete guide to the British metropolis and its environs : illustrated by upwards of two hundred steel engraving from original drawings and daguerreotypes / with historical and descriptive letterpress by William Gaspey, Esq. Vol. I <-II>.

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Creator:
Gaspey, William, 1812–1888
Date:
<1851-52>
Physical Description:
2 v. (vii, <1>, 320 p., <74> leaves of plates (1 folded); vii, <1>, 304 p., <86> leaves of plates (2 folded)) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

292. London and its environs : including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

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Creator:
Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Date:
1878
Physical Description:
x, 366 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., maps ; 17 cm.+ [1] folded map (73 x 94 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

293. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster : containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities / written at first in the year MDXCVIII ... since ... augmented by the author, and afterwards by A.M., H.D., and others ; now lastly corrected ... and ... brought down from ... 1633 ... to the present time by John Strype ... ; to which is prefixed the life of the author, writ by the editor ... added an appendix ... concerning the state of the city of London ...

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
MDCCXX [1720]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., maps, plans ; 41 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

295. An architectural dictionary : containing a correct nomenclature and derivation of the terms of art with a full display of their technical meaning and application, as used by architects, builders, and workmen ... / by Peter Nicholson.

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Creator:
Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:
1812-1819
Physical Description:
2 v. (xlvi, 475, [1], 260; [2], 261-913, [1] p., [281] plates) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

296. Hippodonomia, or The true structure, laws, and economy of the horse's foot : also, Podophthora, or, A ruinous defect in the principle of the common shoe detected, and demonstrated by experiments : with a proposition for a new principle of shoeing, which abundant practice has since confirmed / by Bracy Clark, F.L.S. ...

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Creator:
Clark, Bracy, 1771–1860
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
viii, [1], 10-140, 79, [1] pages, 11 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

297. The bibliographical decameron, or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography / by the Rev. T.F. Dibdin ...

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Creator:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

298. The compleat horseman and expert ferrier : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts, as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge, and prescribing the best manner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not hitherto so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses: a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leech: the cures placed alphabetically: with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any author. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the whole kingdome: and dedicated to His most excellent Majestie / By Thomas de Gray Esquire.

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Creator:
De Grey, Thomas
Date:
1639
Physical Description:
[32], 356, [8] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

299. A treatise on the care, treatment, and training of the English race horse : in a series of rough notes / by R. Darvill, V.S. 7th Hussars.

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Creator:
Darvill, Richard
Date:
1828-34
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

300. The practical surveyor, or, The art of Land-measuring made easy : shewing by plain and familiar rules, how to survey any piece of land whatsoever, by the plain-table, theodolite, or circumferentor, or, by the chain only : and how to protract, cast up, reduce, and divide the same : likewise, an easy method of protracting observations made with the meridian : and how to cast up the content of any plot of land, by reducing any multangular figure to one triangle : to which is added, an appendix, shewing how to draw buildings, &c. in perspective : of levelling : and also how to measure standing timber / by Samuel Wyld.

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Creator:
Wyld, Samuel
Date:
[approximately 1737]
Physical Description:
viii, 188, [4] pages, [7] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts