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1. The British sportsman, or, Nobleman, Gentleman, and farmer's dictionary, of recreation and amusement : Including a most improved system of modern farriery, and anatomical dissections of a horse : with concise rules for chusing good horses, and the secrets of training them with wind and vigour for the course, field, and road : particular instructions for riding, racing, hunting, coursing, hawking, shooting, setting, & fishing : with the most approved methods of breeding, curing, and managing all sorts of cattle : particularly oxen, cows, deer, and sheep : and for breeding, training, and managing dogs, hawks, cocks, doves, pigeons, singing-birds, &c. : with a new and interesting description of all the traps, nets, engines, baits, and magical contrivances, for taking birds, and all sorts of game, alive : and for destroying vermin of every kind that annoy poultry, or infest the farmer's yard : the whole comprised under one alphabetical arrangement, and each article explained under its proper name : Compiled from the latest discoveries, and improved by many years real practice and observation / by William Augustus Osbaldiston, Esq. ; embellished with elegant copper plates, adapted to each subject.

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Creator:
Osbaldiston, William Augustus
Date:
[1792-1796?]
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-664, [2] pages, [41] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An A-Z of bird song / John Bevis.

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Creator:
Bevis, John, 1954–
Date:
1995
Physical Description:
[20] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The field book, or, Sports and pastimes of the United Kingdom : compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern / by the author of "Wild sports of the West."

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Creator:
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
viii, 616 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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Date:
1849
Physical Description:
xii, 1293, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A naval expositor : shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea : also all species that are received into the magazines, and on what services they are used and issued : together with the titles of all the inferior officers belonging to a ship, with an abridgment of their respective duties / by Thomas Riley Blanckley.

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Creator:
Blanckley, Thomas Riley
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
[8], 191, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

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Creator:
Lacombe de Prézel, Honoré, 1725–
Date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:
xxiv, 307, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The Tom & Jerry flash dictionary.

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
69, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific oceans ; in the years 1789 and 1793 : with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country ; illustrated with maps / by Alexander Mackenzie, Esq.

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Creator:
Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764–1820
Date:
MDCCCI [1801]
Physical Description:
[4], viii, [2], cxxxii, 412, [2] pages, [4] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : portrait, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Dictionary of Greek and roman biography and mythology / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood ; in three volumes.

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Creator:
Smith, William, 1813–1893
Date:
[1844-1849]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Ncipit summa que uocat[ur] Catholicon / edita a fratre Iohanne de Ianua ordinis frat[rum] predicato[rum].

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Creator:
Balbi, Giovanni, -1298
Date:
[1460]
Physical Description:
[373] leaves ; 41 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A dictionary of artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions from 1760 to 1893 / compiled by Algernon Graves.

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Creator:
Graves, Algernon
Date:
1895
Physical Description:
xii, 314 p. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Dictionnaire portatif de peinture, sculpture et gravure : avec un Traité pratique des differentes manieres de peindre, dont la théorie est développée dans les articles qui en sont susceptibles : ouvrage utile aux artistes, aux élèves & aux amateurs / par Dom. Antoine-Joseph Pernety.

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Creator:
Pernety, Antoine-Joseph, 1716–1801
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[2], cxxviii, 565 p., 8 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts