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1. The Vitruvian principles of architecture, practically demonstrated : in which is included Vitruvius's orders of columns, applyed to practice. By a great variety of new and useful designes of temples, portico's, altarpieces, triumphal-arches, obelisques, frontispieces, doors, windows, neaches, chimney-pieces, &c. interspersed with several curious designes selected from the works of the most celebrated architects viz. Palladio, Serlio, Le-Clerc, Inigo Iones, and others. Likewise, the construction of brick and stone arches; and a great variety of new and useful designes of vases, never before published, proportioned by modules and minutes, with rules for moduling them in due proportion to any height required. The whole illustrated after a more concise, easey, and instructive method, than hath hetherto been made publick; containing above 120 examples on 84 copper plates / By W. Salmon Iunior carpenter of Colchester Essex.

The Vitruvian principles of architecture, practically demonstrated : in which is included Vitruvius's orders of columns, applyed to practice. By a great variety of new and useful designes of temples, portico's, altarpieces, triumphal-arches, obelisques, frontispieces, doors, windows, neaches, chimney-pieces, &c. interspersed with several curious designes selected from the works of the most celebrated architects viz. Palladio, Serlio, Le-Clerc, Inigo Iones, and others. Likewise, the construction of brick and stone arches; and a great variety of new and useful designes of vases, never before published, proportioned by modules and minutes, with rules for moduling them in due proportion to any height required. The whole illustrated after a more concise, easey, and instructive method, than hath hetherto been made publick; containing above 120 examples on 84 copper plates / By W. Salmon Iunior carpenter of Colchester Essex.
Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1737
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 91 p., [1], 84, [1] leaves of plates, [6] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. A map of the British Empire in America : with the French, Spanish and Hollandish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple ; I. Condet s.

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Creator:
Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:
[ca. 1737]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 48 x 47 cm, on sheet 54 x 64 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A map of the British Empire in America : with the French, Spanish and the dutch settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

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Creator:
Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:
[ca. 1737]
Physical Description:
1 map on 6 sheets : outline col. ; each ca. 58 x 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A dissertation upon the surface of the earth as delineated in a specimen of a philosophico-chorographical chart of East-Kent : herewith humbly presented to, and read before the Royal Society, Nov. 25, 1736 : in a letter to Cromwel Mortimer ... / by Christopher Packe ...

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Creator:
Packe, Christopher, 1686–1749
Date:
1737
Physical Description:
18 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Abhandlung der Porte-Chaises, oder, Trage-Sänfften durch Menschen oder Thiere, in allen vier Theilen der Welt : nach der Critic, Mechanic, Historie, dem Recht, wie auch Cammer- und Policey-Wesen ausgeführet und erläutert mit Urkunden und Kupffern / von Carl Christian Schramm.

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Creator:
Schramm, Carl Christian
Date:
anno 1737
Physical Description:
[6], v, [1], 112, [6] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Fables. By the late Mr. Gay.

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Creator:
Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:
1737-42
Physical Description:
2 v. ill., plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A new and accurate method of delineating all the parts of the different orders in architecture : by means of a well contriv'd, and most easily manag'd instrument; whereon the just proportions of the principal members, and of their several parts, are so disposed, as wholly to avoid the difficulty of the fractional parts that usually attend these operations / English'd from the original Italian of Ottavio Revesi Bruti, by Thomas Malie, Gent.

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Creator:
Revesi Bruti, Ottavio
Date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:
52 p., [51] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Museum Etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis cc. / nunc primum edita et illustrata observationibus Antonii Francisci Gorii, publici historiarum professoris.

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Creator:
Gori, Antonio Francesco, 1691–1757
Date:
Anno MDCCXXXVII-MDCCXXXXIII [1737-1743]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

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Creator:
Guarini, Guarino, 1624–1683
Date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:
[8], 307, [1] pages, [80] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A plan of civil and historical architecture, in the representation of the most noted buildings of foreign nations, both ancient and modern : taken from the most approv'd historians, original medals, remarkable ruins, and curious authentick designs; and display'd in eighty-six double folio-plates, finely engraven : at a very great expence, by the most eminent hands : divided into five books : ... / all drawn with excellent skill, and the utmost diligence by Mr. John Bernhard Fischer, of Erlach ... ; first published at Leipzig, with the explanations of all the plates, in German and French, out of the best ancient and modern writers; and now faithfully translated into English, with large additional notes, by Thomas Lediard, Esq. ...

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Creator:
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656–1723
Date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:
[4], 28 pages, [86] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A plan of the gardens & view of ye buildings of ye Rt. Honble. Henry Pelham, esq., at Echa in ye county of Surry / survey'd & engrav'd by J. Rocque ... = Plan du jardin & vües des maisons de Mr. Henry Pelham, a Echa dans la conté de Surry : a 5 lieües de Londres / tres exactement levé et gravé par J. Rocque.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1737
Physical Description:
1 map : ill. ; 30 x 50 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A survey of the cathedral-church of Worcester : with an account of the bishops thereof, from the foundation of the see, to the year 1600. Also an appendix of many original papers and records, never before printed. / by William Thomas ...

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Creator:
Thomas, William, 1670–1738
Date:
1737
Physical Description:
[1], vi, 124, 222, 8, 210 p., ill. [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plan ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Constitutiones synodales Sabinae diocesis / editae ab Hannibale, Cardinale S. Clementis, episcopo Sabinorum, S.R.E. Camerario, anno Domini 1736 ; cum appendice antiquarum Synodorum & variorum monimentorum ejusdem dioecesis quotquot hactenus reperiri potuerunt

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Creator:
Catholic Church. Diocese of Sabina (Italy)
Date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:
[28], 115, [1], 372 pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A plan of the garden & house of the Rt. Honourable ye Earl of Lincoln, at Weybridge in the county of Surry / survey'd and engrav'd by B. [i.e. J.] Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1737
Physical Description:
1 map : ill. ; 46 x 63 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The Citadel of Plymouth.

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Creator:
Mace, Sandford
Date:
1737
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill., map ; 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts