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1. First volume of the instructions given in the drawing school established by the Dublin-Society ... : to enable youth to become proficients in the different branches of that art and to pursue with success geographical, nautical, mechanical, commercial and military studies / under the direction of Joseph Fenn.

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Creator:: Fenn, Joseph
Date:: 1769-1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A treatise on mensuration, both in theory and practice / by Charles Hutton.

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Creator:: Hutton, Charles, 1737–1823
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: xxvi, 646, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The gentleman's recreations : in three parts : the first part contains a short and easie introduction to all the liberal arts and sciences, &c. : the second treats of horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, agriculture, &c. : done from the most authentick authors, especially several lately printed at Paris, as may be seen in the preface; with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the respective recreations. : the third is a complete body of all our forest, chace, and game-laws, as they are at this time. : the whole illustrated with near an hundred copper-cuts relating to the several subjects, particularly all sorts of nets, engines, traps, &c. are added for the taking of wild beasts, fowl, fish, &c. not hitherto publish'd by any.

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Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1709-1710
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1 : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Geometrical and graphical essays : containing a description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new problems, illustrative of each branch / by George Adams, ...

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Creator:: Adams, George, 1750–1795
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [4], xvi, 500 p., [1], 32 leaves of plates (some folded) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts