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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1749.

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1. New principles of linear perspective, or, The art of designing on a plane, the representations of all sorts of objects : in a more general and simple method than has been hitherto done / by Brook Taylor ... ; revised and corrected by John Colson ...

New principles of linear perspective, or, The art of designing on a plane, the representations of all sorts of objects : in a more general and simple method than has been hitherto done / by Brook Taylor ... ; revised and corrected by John Colson ...
Creator:
Taylor, Brook, 1685–1731
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
x, [11]-80 p., [13] leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
[4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Remarks on the different constructions of bridges, and improvements to secure their foundations on the different soils where they are intended to be built : which hitherto seems to have been a thing not sufficiently consider'd.

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Creator:
Marquand, Charles
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
15 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. [Book of ruins].

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Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
[ca. 1745?]
Physical Description:
6 prints : etchings ; plate mark 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The history and antiquities of Windsor Castle, and the Royal College, and Chapel of St. George : with the institution, laws, and ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter ... : with an account of the town and corporation of Windsor, the royal apartments, and paintings in the castle ... : the whole intirely new wrote, and illustrated with cuts ...

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Creator:
Pote, Joseph, 1704–1787
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
iii, [11] 431 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Geographia classica, or, The geography of the antients : as contained in the Greek and Latin classics : exhibited in thirty-two maps ... principally designed for the use of schools ... / by Herman Moll ...

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([10] p., [61] leaves of plates (some folded)) : 32 maps ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Quinti Horatii Flacci opera.

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Creator:
Horace
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
2 v. ([4], [v]-vi, [4], 396 [i.e. 336] p.) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts