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Date 1783

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1. A catalogue of a sundry elegant solid gold snuff-boxes, of rich workmanship : a fine single-stone brilliant, and other diamond rings : gold repeating, and other watches, one by Graham : Dresden, Brussels, and fine point ruffles : gold-headed canes, swords, fine cameos and intaglios : and a number of other curious and valuable articles of an eminent physician, lately deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Hutchins, at his rooms in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, on Thursday, the 22nd of May 1783, punctually at twelve o'clock.

A catalogue of a sundry elegant solid gold snuff-boxes, of rich workmanship : a fine single-stone brilliant, and other diamond rings : gold repeating, and other watches, one by Graham : Dresden, Brussels, and fine point ruffles : gold-headed canes, swords, fine cameos and intaglios : and a number of other curious and valuable articles of an eminent physician, lately deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Hutchins, at his rooms in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, on Thursday, the 22nd of May 1783, punctually at twelve o'clock.
Creator:
Hutchins, Mr. (Hassil), active 1779–1789
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.
Creator:
Milton, Thomas, 1743?-1827
Date:
[1783-1793]
Physical Description:
xlvii, [5] p., xxiv leaves of plates : ill ; 21 x 27cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Plans, elevations, and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses, and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples, and other garden buildings; executed in the counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham and York. By James Paine ...

Plans, elevations, and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses, and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples, and other garden buildings; executed in the counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham and York. By James Paine ...
Creator:
Paine, James, 1717?-1789
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part double) plans (part double) 62 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1782 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]
Physical Description:
28 p. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. [Views in the West Indies].

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Creator:
Forrest, Charles, Lieut
Date:
1783-1785]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A catalogue of a cllection of pictures, some fine drawings, and a pair of globes, of a well-known artist, retired : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Hutchins, at his rooms in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, on Tuesday, the 11th of February 1783, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Monday the 10th, when catalogues will be delivered.

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Creator:
Hutchins, Mr. (Hassil), active 1779–1789
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A catalogue of a most capital and pleasing collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures, the property of a nobleman, brought from his house in Hertford-Street, May-Fair : consisting of the works of the following great and much-admired Masters : Berghem, Teniers, Van Uden, Ruysdael, P. Potter, Mieres, Poussin, Bourdon, Borgonione, Hirizonti, Canaletti, Marieski, Cuyp, Vanderveldt, Vanderneer, Hobbima, Both, Swaneveldt, Vangoen, Moucheron, Eshimeer, Wyck, Ochiali, Detrich : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Squibb, at his new Great Room, in Saville Row, on Friday the 12th of December, 1783, and following day : In the above is a 'View of Tivoli', a very capital landscape by Berghem, lately purchased from the collection of the Hon. Thomas Walpole : also a beautiful cattle piece by Cuyp, in his best style : two remarkable fine landscapes by Swaneveldt : one Ditto by Wynants : a beautiful Cabinet Picture : one by Loutherberg -- 'A view of Hampstead', with the adjacent country, Harrow church in the distance, a very elegant picture : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had as above.

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Creator:
Squibb, Mr.
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

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Date:
October 1, 1783
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The art of painting / of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy ; translated into English verse by William Mason ; with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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Creator:
Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
[2], xxi, [3], 221, [1] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose.

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Creator:
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
[1783]-1797
Physical Description:
8 v. : ill., maps, port., plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Designs of sundry articles of Queens or cream colour'd earthenware : manufactured by Hartley , Greens and Co. at Leeds Pottery : with a great variety of other articles : the same enamel'd printed or ornamented with gold to any pattern : also with coats of arms, cyphers, landscapes, &c. &c.

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Creator:
Hartley, Greens, and Co
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
4 p., [45] [i.e. 43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. Originally written by -----Ralph, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions.

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Date:
1783
Physical Description:
xxxi, 209 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Bowles's universal display of the naval flags of all nations in the world = Bowles son vue universelle des pavillons marine dans touts les parties du monde.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
[41] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Saggio sulla nautica antica de' Veneziani : con una illustrazione d'alcune carte idrografiche antiche della Biblioteca di S. Marco, che dimostrano l'isole Antille prima della scoperta di Cristoforo Colombo / di Vincenzio Formaleoni.

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Creator:
Formaleoni, V. A. (Vincenzio Antonio), 1752–1797
Date:
MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:
[10], 60, 64 pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The sportsman's companion; or, An essay on shooting : illustriously shewing in what manner to fire at birds of game ... and, directions to gentlemen for the treatment and breaking their own pointers and spaniels ... / By a gentleman, who has made shooting his favourite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America.

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Creator:
Gentleman, who has made shooting his favorite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
viii, [9]-89, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783.

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Creator:
Taylor, George (Geographer), active 1778
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
1 atlas (xxvii, 289, [10] p., [1] folded leaf of plates) : 289 maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The art of painting / of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy; translated into English verse by William Mason; with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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Creator:
Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
xxi, 221 p. : 18cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / by Samuel Johnson ...

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
4 v. : port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. An account of a series of pictures, in the great room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi. By James Barry ...

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Creator:
Barry, James, 1741–1806
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
221 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Thirty letters on various subjects ...

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Creator:
Jackson, William, 1730–1803
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Sketch of a tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire : including part of Buckingham, Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Northampton, Bedford and Hertford-shires / by William Bray ...

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Creator:
Bray, William, 1736–1832
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 402 p., [9] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The American wanderer : through various parts of Europe, in a series of letters to a lady (interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes) / by a Virginian.

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Creator:
Virginian
Date:
MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 288 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Dissertations moral and critical. On memory and imagination. On dreaming. The theory of language. On fable and romance. On the attachments of kindred. Illustrations on sublimity. By James Beattie ...

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Creator:
Beattie, James, 1735–1803
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
x, [6], 655 p. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. London's gratitude: or, An account of such pieces of sculpture and painting as have been placed in Guildhall at the expense of the city of London. To which is added, A list of those distinguished persons to whom the freedom of the city has been presented for public services since the year MDCCLVIII. With engravings of the sculptures, & c.

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Date:
1783
Physical Description:
50 p. plates (incl. port., coats of arms) 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy. Translated into English verse by William Mason ... with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds ...

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Creator:
Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
xix p., 1 leaf, 213, [1] p. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A catalogue of a capital valuable collection of antique marbles, marble statues, bustos, cinerary and offuary urns, basso relievos : vases of fine polished pavonazza, brecchetta, &c. marbles, ditto, unpollished richly ornamented and restored by Cav. G. B. Piranesi : a number of specimens of antient and modern marbles, Tuscan alabaster, vases, large mosaics, bianconero, alabaster, lumacella and smeraldina, marble tables : a great variety of fine Roman bronzes, by Zoffoli, Luigi, &c. : the whole collected in Rome by the late Matt. Nulty, painter and cicherone, thirty years resident in that city : N.B. By permission will be introduced a few lots of ancient and modern sculpture, purchased out of the collection of the late Lord Melcombe : which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Christie and Ansell, at their Great Room, next Cumberland House, Pall Mall, on Thursday the 27th March, 1783, and the following day.

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Creator:
Christie and Ansell (London, England)
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Receuil de peintures antiques trouvees a Roma.

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Creator:
Bartoli, Pietro Santi, 1635–1700
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
2 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Storia delle arti del disegno presso gli antichi di Giovanni Winkelmann / tradotta dal Tedesco e in questa edizione corretta e aumentata dall' Abate Carlo Fea ...

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Creator:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Date:
1783-1784
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports. (one folded), plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Original designs in architecture, by William Thomas ... consisting of twenty-seven copper-plates, in folio; which contain plans, elevations, sections, ceilings and chimney pieces, for villas and town houses; designs for temples, grottos, sepulchres, bridges, &c. in the most approved taste. To which are prefixed, a suitable introduction, and a description, explaining the several designs.

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Creator:
Thomas, William, -1800
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
12 p. XXVII plates. 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A description and plan of the ancient timber bridge at Rochester, collected from two mss. published in Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent. By Mr. Essex.

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Creator:
Essex, James, 1722–1784
Date:
1783?]
Physical Description:
6 p. front. 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted window at New-College Oxford / by Thomas Warton ...

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Creator:
Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
[2], 8 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The journey from Chester to London / by Thomas Pennant ...

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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 468, [6] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes / par M. Fossé, officier Régiment d'Infanterie du Roi ; dédié a M. Le Duc du Chatelet.

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Creator:
Fossé, Charles-Louis-François, 1734–1812
Date:
MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:
[12], 116, 60, [2] p., 11 leaves of plates (10 folded) : col. ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Amicis suis, necnon unicuique artium elegantiorum amatori, tabulas insequentes ludentis otii temporibus ligno incisas, dum artem pene amissam restaurare conaretur, eorum favoris et patrocinii studiosus, dicat, dedicat, Johannes Skippe.

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Creator:
Skippe, John, 1742–1812
Date:
1783]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 20 mounted plates (part col.) 53 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The New complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the city of London, and parts adjacent ...

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Date:
1783
Physical Description:
2 p.., 332 p. front. (plan) fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts