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301. 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

302. 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

303. Flower and fruit decoration : with some remarks on the treatment of town gardens, terraces, &c., and with many illustrations of colour and contrast applicable to both subjects / by T.C. March.

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Creator:
March, T. C
Date:
1862
Physical Description:
vii, 112, 16 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

304. History of Hatfield House : illustrated by plans, elevations, and internal views of the apartments, from actual measurement / by P.F. Robinson, architect, F.A.S. and F.G.S.

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Creator:
Robinson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1776–1858
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:
[2], 28 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 62 x 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

305. A catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue ; to which is added an account of the life and works of the latter.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1765
Physical Description:
[4], 140, 14, 20, [8] pages, [9] unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

306. Hudibras / by Samuel Butler ; with Dr. Grey's annotations.

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Creator:
Butler, Samuel, 1612–1680
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

307. A collection of the most remarkable ruins of Lisbon : as they appeared immediately after the great earthquake and fire, which destroyed that city November 1, 1755 / drawn on the spot by Messieurs Paris and Pedegache = Collecaõ de algumas ruinas de Lisboa : causadas pelo terremoto & pelo fogo, do primeiro de Novembro, do anno 1755 / debuxadas na mesma Cidade par m.m. Paris & Pedegade = Receuil des plus belles ruines de Lisbonne : causées par le tremblement et par le feu du premier Novembre 1755 / deffiné sur les lieux par m.m. Paris & Pedegache.

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Creator:
Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe, 1707–1783
Date:
[not before 1757]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 x 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

308. Illustrations of Japan : consisting of private memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning dynasty of the Djogouns, or sovereigns of Japan : a description of the feasts and ceremonies observed throughout the year at their court : and of the ceremonies customary at marriages and funerals : to which are subjoined, observations on the legal suicide of the Japanese, remarks on their poetry, and explanation of their mode of reckoning time, particulars respecting the Dosia powder, the preface of a work Confoutzee on filial piety, &c. &c. / by M. Titsingh ; formerly chief agent to the Dutch East India Company at Nangasaki ; translated from the French, by Frederic Shoberl ; with colored plates ; faithfully copied from Japanese original designs.

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Creator:
Titsingh, Isaac, 1744–1812
Date:
MDCCXXII [1822]
Physical Description:
xvi, 325, [3] pages, [13] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

309. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[101] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

310. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

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Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : all color illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

311. 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

312. The emigrant's guide to New Brunswick, British North America / By the Rev. Christ. Atkinson, A.M., late pastor of Mascreen Kirk, St. George, New Brunswick.

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Creator:
Atkinson, Christopher W. (Christopher William)
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
iv, 124 pages, ([3] leaves of plates, [1] folded) : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

313. Sciography, or, Examples of shadows : with rules for their projection : intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen, and other artists : with twenty-four plates / by Joseph Gwilt.

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Creator:
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784–1863
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
viii, 55, [1] pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

314. Rokeby : in six cantos : the vision of Don Roderick / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

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Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
MDCCCXXXVI [1836]
Physical Description:
[4], 320 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

315. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

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Creator:
Anburey, Thomas, author
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

316. 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

317. 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

318. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1589
Physical Description:
[16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

319. 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

320. The pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities : illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others : and a new complete map, engraved by Lowry.

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Creator:
Weale, John, 1791–1862
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
910 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

321. [Collection of reprints and pamphlets relating to St. Mary Redcliffe].

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Date:
1851-1927]
Physical Description:
[5] pieces : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

322. The universities : Le Keux's memorials of Cambridge : a series of views of the colleges, Halls, and public buildings : engraved by J. Le Keux / with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.

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Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:
1841-42
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

323. 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

324. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:
Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:
23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

325. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke, Esq., author of "The history of the peerage and baronetage," "of the extinct and dormant peerage," &c.

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Creator:
Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:
MDCCCXXXIV-MDCCCXXXVIII [1834-1838]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

326. Italian scenery : from drawings made in 1817 / by Miss Batty.

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Creator:
Batty, Elizabeth Frances
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[8], 197, [1] p., 60 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

327. Stowe : a description of the house and gardens of the most noble & puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckinghamshire.

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Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[3], vi-[viii], [9]-63, [1] pages, [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

328. 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

329. The autobiography of a stage coachman / by Thomas Cross ; illustrated with 45 plates by James Pollard, Robert Havell, C. Cooper Henderson, C.B. Newhouse, Thomas Rowlandson, H. Alken and others ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Cross, T. (Thomas)
Date:
1904
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

330. Stokes, maker, 52 Cheapside.

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Creator:
Stokes, Edward (Hatter)
Date:
[approximately 1830?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illlustrations ; 50 x 40 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

331. The saga of Llywarch the Old / a reconstruction by Glyn Jones ; with the verse interludes translated by T.J. Morgan, D.Litt. ; and an introduction by Sir Ifor Williams, D.Litt., F.B.A.

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Creator:
Jones, Glyn, 1905–1995
Date:
1955
Physical Description:
[4], 7-38 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

332. Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / by John Caspar Lavater ... : illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied, and some duplicates added from originals ; executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway ; translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D., Minister of the Scots Church, London-Wall.

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Creator:
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741–1801
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCVIII [1789-1798, i.e. 1799]
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 5 : illustrations, 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

333. The British Museum, or, Elegant repository of natural history / by William Holloway and John Branch, A.M.

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Creator:
Holloway, William, active 1790–1812
Date:
1803-1804
Physical Description:
4 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

334. A map of the city and county of New York, with the adjacent cities of Brooklyn and Jersey City and the village of Williamsburg : with a street directory of the city of New York.

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Date:
1850-1851
Physical Description:
[2], 27, [1] p., l folded leaf of plates : map ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

335. Hudibras : in three parts / written in the time of the late wars ; corrected and amended, with additions, to which is added annotations, with an exact index to the whole ; adorn'd with a new set of cuts, design'd and engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth.

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Creator:
Butler, Samuel, 1612–1680
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
424 (i.e. 420) p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

336. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:
[12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

337. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

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Date:
[ca. 1720?]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

338. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

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Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[1], 8, [1] p., [100], [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

339. California : its past history, its present position, its future prospects : containing a history of the country from its colonization by the Spaniards to the present time : a sketch of its geographical and physical features: and a minute and authentic account of the discovery of the gold region, and the subsequent important proceedings : including a history of the rise, progress, and present condition of the Mormon settlements : with an appendix, containing the official reports made to the government of the United States.

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Creator:
Fleming, G. A., active 1850
Date:
[1850]
Physical Description:
viii, 270 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

340. 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

341. The garden of caresses / translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint ; now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford.

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Date:
1934
Physical Description:
91, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

342. 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

343. 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

344. 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

345. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:
1630
Physical Description:
[8], 644, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

346. A voyage round the world by way of the great South Sea : perform'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty's commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish crown) till she was cast away on the island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720 : and afterwards continu'd in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c. / by Capt. George Shelvocke, Commander of the Speedwell, Recovery, &c. in this expedition.

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Creator:
Shelvocke, George
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:
[8], xxxii, [4], 468 pages, [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

347. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
[4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

348. The present state of the European settlements on the Missisippi : with a geographical description of that river / illustrated by plans and draughts by Captain Philip Pittman.

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Creator:
Pittman, Philip, active 1760–1770
Date:
MDCCLXX [1770]
Physical Description:
viii, 99, [1] pages, [8] leaves of plates (7 folded) : maps, plans ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

349. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

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Creator:
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:
1843-1844
Physical Description:
4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

350. 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

351. The art of engraving : with the various modes of operation : ... illustrated with ten specimens of the different styles of engraving / by T.H. Fielding.

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Creator:
Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
vii, 109 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

352. The tourist's companion, or, The history and antiquities of Harewood in Yorkshire : giving a particular description of Harewood House, church, and castle : with some account of its environs / by John Jewell.

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Creator:
Jewell, John, of Harewood, Yorkshire
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
103, [1] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

353. Old Bristol houses.

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Creator:
Pritchard, John E
Date:
1894-1897
Physical Description:
8, 6, 10, 2, 3 p., [47] leaves of plates : ill. (some folded), plats ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

354. Nineveh and its remains : with an account of a visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or devil worshippers : and an inquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians / by Austen Henry Layard.

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Creator:
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817–1894
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. : frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some folded) folded map, folded plans ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

355. A description of the island of Jamaica : with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related, viz. Barbadoes, St. Christophers, Nievis or Mevis, Antego, St. Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Barbada, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New England, New-Found-Land : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places. Illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.

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Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
[8], 192 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. (maps) ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

356. Catalogue of the various works of art forming the collection of the late Matthew Uzielli ... : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their great rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Friday, the 12th of April, and seven following days.

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Date:
1861
Physical Description:
vii, 293 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

357. Six views of Blenheim, Oxfordshire : the seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough / by J.P. Neale ; with an historical description of that magnificent edifice ; a complete list of pictures according to the present arrangement, including those lately removed from Marlborough House, London, &c.

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Creator:
Neale, John Preston, 1780–1847
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
24 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

358. 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

359. The visitor's guide to Knole, in the county of Kent : with catalogues of the pictures contained in the mansion, and biographical notices of the principal persons whose portraits form part of the collection / by John H. Brady, F.R.A.S.

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Creator:
Brady, John Henry
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xx, 258, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates, ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

360. 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

361. The history and antiquities of Dartford, with topographical notices of the neighbourhood, by Ino. Dunkin ...

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Creator:
Dunkin, John, 1782–1846
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
xxvi, [2], 478 p., [15] leaves of plates (1 folded). ill., port. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

362. 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

363. Narrative of the Canadian Red River exploring expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan exploring expedition of 1858 / by Henry Youle Hind, M.A. F.R.G.S., Professor chemistry and geology in the University of Trinity College, Toronto, in charge of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan expedition ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Hind, Henry Youle, 1823–1908
Date:
1860
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

364. The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste, including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches ... and other ornaments : to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture, with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified : the whole comprehended in two hundred copper-plates, neatly engraved : calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life / by Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London.

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Creator:
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[4], 20 pages, CC leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 48 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

365. The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa / by Francis Galton ... ; with coloured maps, plates, and woodcuts.

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Creator:
Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822–1911
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 314 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

366. Sketches, illustrative of the topography and history of New and Old Sleaford, in the county of Lincoln, and of several places in the surrounding neighbourhood ...

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
2 p. ., ii, [8], 378, [6] p. front., ill., plates, geneal. tab. (part. fold.) 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

367. Britannia, 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 ...

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Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:
[14], 464 p., [113] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 50 maps plan ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

368. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

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Creator:
Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:
1598
Physical Description:
[6], 31 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

369. The history of the Old Testament : extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers... / translated from the works of ... le sieur de Royaumont by Mr. John Coughen ... and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

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Creator:
Fontaine, Nicolas, 1625–1709
Date:
1688-1690
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

370. Ulick and Soracha / by George Moore.

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Creator:
Moore, George, 1852–1933
Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
[6], 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

371. Portfolio, second edition, with additions, of fragments, relative to the history and atiquities of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster ... / by Matthew Gregson ... in three parts with addition, stitched, and two large pedigrees, portraits, prints, a large sheet map of the county, and upwards of 1600 engraved coats of arms and quarterings of Lancashire families and their alliances.

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Creator:
Gregson, Matthew, 1749–1824
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
4, [vii]-viii, [v]-vii, [3], vii-x, 302 (i.e.324), cviii p. : ill. (some fold.) ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

372. Travels to the seat of war in the East, through Russia and the Crimea, in 1829 : with sketches of the Imperial Fleet and Army, personal adventures, and characteristic anecdotes / by Captain James Edward Alexander.

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Creator:
Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803–1885
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

373. Description of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire / illustrated by views, drawn and engraved by James Storer.

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Creator:
Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[2], 24 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

374. Royal Exchange : report to the Court of Common Council from the Royal-Exchange and Gresham Trusts Committee : presented 23d January, 1845.

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Creator:
Royal Exchange (London, England). Joint Committee for Gresham Affairs
Date:
[1845]
Physical Description:
4, 223, [1] p., [4], 4 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

375. Select examples of architectural grandeur in Belgium, Germany, and France : a series of twenty-four sketches drawn on the spot / by the late Charles Wild, and etched under his direction by John Le Keux, and other artists.

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Creator:
Wild, Charles, 1781–1835
Date:
MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:
16 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

376. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

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Creator:
Lewis, John, 1675–1747
Date:
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
viii, 204, [4], 112, 105-124 pages, [1], XXV leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans, genealogical tables ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

377. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
[6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

378. Oxonia illustrata : views of the Bodleian Library, the theatre, publick schools, colleges, halls and other publick buildings of the University of Oxford : with an account of their foundations and endowments and a succinct description of the buildings.

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Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:
[ca. 1720]
Physical Description:
[34] p. : all ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

379. Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse : collected out of divers forrain authors, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Lowe-Countrey warres.

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Creator:
Cruso, John, d. 1681
Date:
MDCXXXII [1632]
Physical Description:
[10], 108 p., 16 leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

380. The land of the Veda : India briefly described in some of its aspects, physical, social, intellectual and moral : including the substance of the course of lectures delivered at St. Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury / by Rev. Peter Percival.

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Creator:
Percival, P
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
xii, 515 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

381. 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:
1815
Physical Description:
16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

382. Albert Durer revived, or, 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 : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1698]
Physical Description:
[3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

383. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : began Jan. 1, 1677 : and intended to be continued monthly / by Joseph Moxon.

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Creator:
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:
1677-1680
Physical Description:
1-48, 51-114, 119-242, [243-250] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

384. George Cruikshank's table-book / edited by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett ; illustrated by George Cruikshank.

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Date:
MDCCCXLV [1845]
Physical Description:
12 pt. (viii, 284 p., [12] leaves of plates) ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

385. The gentleman's farriery, or, A practical treatise, on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved : also, a new method of nicking horses is recommended ; with a copper-plate and description of the machine / by J. Bartlet, surgeon.

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Creator:
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:
MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:
[2], xxiv, 357, [11] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

386. 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

387. 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

388. 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

389. 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

390. Cottage architecture : being a supplement to the first [-second] series of Goodwin's Rural architecture, lately published : this supplement contains designs of peasants' cottages, both plain and ornamental, separate and in groups, gate lodges, small dairy farm houses, &c. with specifications and estimates of each design : the whole planned and carefully revised in aid of the improving state of rural economy / by Francis Goodwin.

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Creator:
Goodwin, Francis, 1784–1835
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

391. Designs of fashionable furniture / by J. Taylor, upholsterer.

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Creator:
Taylor, J
Date:
[18--?]
Physical Description:
[38] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

392. Amusing stories : part I, for little boys and girls / by the author of "Stories of Old Daniel."

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Creator:
Moore, Margaret King, 1772–1835
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
12 pages : color illlustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

393. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
[8], viii, 144 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

394. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1840]
Physical Description:
[2], 54 p., [14] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., 2 maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

395. 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.

No cover image available
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

396. 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

397. 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

398. 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

399. 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 ...

No cover image available
Date:
1657
Physical Description:
[2], 11 [i.e. 14] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

400. 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