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Date 1753

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1. The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.

The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
[2] pages, 20 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 x 51 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Beauties of Stow, or, A description of the most noble house, gardens & magnificent buildings therein, of the Right Honorable Earl Temple, Viscount & Baron Cobham : with above thirty plates of each particular building, two views of the house, and a curious general plan of the whole gardens / by Geo. Bickham, engraver.

Beauties of Stow, or, A description of the most noble house, gardens & magnificent buildings therein, of the Right Honorable Earl Temple, Viscount & Baron Cobham : with above thirty plates of each particular building, two views of the house, and a curious general plan of the whole gardens / by Geo. Bickham, engraver.
Creator:
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:
[1753]
Physical Description:
67, [3] p., [31] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Les ruines de Palmyre, autrement dite, Tedmor au desert.

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Creator:
Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
[6], 50 pages, LVII leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia / by William Stith, A.M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

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Creator:
Stith, William, 1707–1755
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
viii, 304, 295-331, [1], v, [1], 34, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An essay on ridicule ...

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Creator:
Ramsay, Allan, 1713–1784
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
1 p.. ii p., 1 leaf, 82 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A letter to the right honourable Earl of ----- concerning the affair of Elizabeth Canning. By a clergyman.

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Creator:
Ramsay, Allan, 1713–1784
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
2 p.., 59 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain. : Divided into circuits or journeys. Giving a particular and entertaining account of whatever is curious, and worth observation ... Interspersed with useful observations. Particularly fitted for the perusal of such as desire to travel over the island. / By a gentleman.

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Creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:
M.DCC.LIII [1753]
Physical Description:
4 v. : facsimiles ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum : discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples / by Mr. Bellicard ; enriched with forty-two plates, designed and engraved by the author.

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Creator:
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726–1786
Date:
1753 [1754?]
Physical Description:
vii, 236 p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A catalogue of prints : engraved from the finest paintings of the most eminent masters : in the collection of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Monsgr. le Duc D'Orleans, Monsgr. le Marquis D'Argenson, Monsr. le Comte de Vence, Monsr. le Chevalier de la Rocque ... : the whole collection are printed on grand eagle paper, to be had either in sheets or bound fit for gentlemen's libraries.

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Creator:
Major, Thomas, 1720–1799
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 38 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.

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Creator:
Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
[2], 35, [3] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Moralities: or, Essays, letters, fables; and translations. By Sir Harry Beaumont.

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Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
2 p.., 167 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The spirit of nations. Translated from the French.

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Creator:
Espiard, François Ignace d', Abbé, 1707–1777
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
xvi, 406 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Religio philosophi: or, The principles of morality and Christianity, illustrated prom [!] a view of the universe, and of man's situation in it. By William Hay ...

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Creator:
Hay, William, 1695–1755
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
4 p.l., 232 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Virgidemiarum, satires in six books. by Joseph Hall ...

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Creator:
Hall, Joseph, 1574–1656
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
ix, [7], 13-108 p. : port. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

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Creator:
Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 28 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The will of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., deceased.

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Creator:
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
[2], 48 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Remarks in support of the new chart of North and South America : in six sheets / by J. Green.

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Creator:
Green, John, -1757
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
[2], iv, [3]-48 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A series of particular and useful observations : made with great diligence and care, upon that admirable structure, the cathedral-church of Salisbury : calculated for the use and amusement of gentlemen, and curious persons, as well as for the assistance of such artists as may be employed in buildings of the like kind : by all which they will be enabled to form a right judgment upon this, or any ancient structure, either in the Gothick or other stiles of building / by Francis Price ...

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Creator:
Price, Francis, -1753
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
[14], v, 78 p., [1], 13 leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A collection of original poems, essays, and epistles. By John Werge, A.B.

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Creator:
Werge, John, 1728–
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
2 p.., 304 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ...

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Date:
1753
Physical Description:
[2] sheets ([2] p.) ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A book of ornam[ents] invented & engrav[ed by] S. Gribelin. A new book of ornaments: useful to all artists. Dedicated to the honourable Colonel Parsons. These XVI plates are now made up into one book of XII leaves; Sim: Gribelin invt. sculp. et excudit. MDCCIV.

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Creator:
Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 1662–1733
Date:
[between 1753 and 1763]
Physical Description:
16 plates on 12 leaves. 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts