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1. A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated with their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson ...

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Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. : 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The royal gauger, or, Gauging made perfectly easy : as it is actually practised by the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise : in two parts : Part I. Containing the practical methods of finding the areas and contents of such superficies and solids, as are the foundation of gauging ... Part II. Shewing all the necessary steps to be taken for obtaining employment in the excise ... to which is added, cask-gauging, &c. as practised in the port of London : the whole illustrated with many new copper-plates adapted to the subject ... / by Charles Leadbetter.

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Creator:: Leadbetter, Charles, fl. 1728
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: xvii, [1], 474 [i.e. 484] p., 10 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The laboratory, or, School of arts : in which are, faithfully exhibited and fully explain'd : I. A variety of curious and valuable experiments in refining, calcining, melting, essaying, casting, allaying, and toughening gold ... : II. Choice secrets for jewellers ... : translated from the German.

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Creator:: Smith, G. L. (Godfrey L.)
Date:: 1738-1756
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The builder's dictionary, or, Gentleman and architect's companion : explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof ... : also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences : together with the quantities proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ... / fully digested by the most approved writers on the subjects.

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Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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

6. An essay towards a description of Bath. In four parts. Wherein the antiquitity of the city, as well as the reality and eminence of its founder ... are respectively treated of ... By John Wood ...

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Creator:: Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 2 v. plates (part fold.) fold. map, fold. plans. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A defence of reveal'd religion against the exceptions of a late writer, in his book, intituled, Christianity as old as creation, &c. By John Conybeare ...

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Creator:: Conybeare, John, 1692–1755
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: [8], 467, [5] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts