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1. Antiquities of Ionia, by the Society of dilettanti. [pt. 1]-5.

Antiquities of Ionia, by the Society of dilettanti. [pt. 1]-5.
Creator:
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Date:
1769-1915
Physical Description:
5 v. illus., plates, maps, plans, diagrs. 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 11, 1769 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[4], 23, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A discourse, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy, January 2, 1769 / by the President.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[4], 15, [1] ; 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The anatomy of painting, or, A short and easy introduction to anatomy : being a new edition, on a smaller scale, of six tables of Albinus, with their linear figures ; also, a new translation of Albinus's history of that work, and of his index to the six tables : to which are added the anatomy of Celsus, with notes, and the physiology of Cicero : with an introduction, giving a short view of picturesque anatomy / by John Brisbane ...

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Creator:
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697–1770
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
xxvi, [5]-76 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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

6. Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall : consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity in Britain, and the British Isles, exemplified and proved by monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language / By William Borlase, LL.D. F.R.S., Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall.

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Creator:
Borlase, William, 1695–1772
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
xvi, 464 p., 37 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 37 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Clio: or, A discourse on taste ... By I.U.

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Creator:
Ussher, James, 1720–1772
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
xiii, [2], 247 p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A new book of foliage : for the instruction of young artists / by M. Lock.

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Creator:
Lock, Matthias, approximately 1710–1765
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. An account of King's college-chapel, in Cambridge ... including a character of Henry VI. and a short history of the foundation of his two colleges, King's and Eton ... By Henry Malden, chapel-clerk ...

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Creator:
James, Thomas, 1748–1804
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
iv, 91, [1] p. front. (port.) plate. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The history of the reign of the Emperor Charles V., by William Robertson ...

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Creator:
Robertson, William, 1721–1793
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
3 v. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple : Viscount and Baron Cobham : one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and knight of the most noble order of the garter : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building with perspective views of the same.

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Creator:
Seeley, B. (Benton)
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
44 pages, [20] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

12. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

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Date:
[1769]
Physical Description:
[2], 682, [10] p., [68] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., map, plans ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Ideal beauty in painting and sculpture illustrated by remarks on the antique, and the works of Raphael, and other great masters. By Lambert Hermanson Ten Kate. Translated from the French.

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Creator:
Kate, Lambert ten, 1674–1731
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
56 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The Brighthelmston directory : containing a description of that town, its soil, air, spring and mineral-waters, amusements, etc. : with some account of its history, antiquities, fishery, and sea-bathing : the times of sailing of the pacquet-boats : the stage-coaches, etc. their inns, and time of setting out, post-roads to it, etc. ...

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Date:
1769
Physical Description:
40 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from His Lordship's mss. / by James Kennedy.

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Creator:
Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[10], xxxviii, 116, [2] pages, 25 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

16. The American traveller: or, observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable; with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively,--and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively: together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great Britain therefrom. In a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honorable the Earl of ********* by an old and experienced trader.

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Creator:
Clúny, Alexander
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
4 p. l., 122 p. front., fold. map. 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A descriptive catalogue of a collection of pictures, selected from the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, Neapolitan, Flemish, French and Spanish schools : to which are added remarks on the principal painters and their works : with a catalogue of thirty-two drawings from capital paintings of greater masters / collected and drawn, during a journey of several years in Italy, by Robert Strange.

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Creator:
Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721–1792
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
vii, 173 p. : 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An ode upon dedicating a building, and erecting a statue, to Shakespeare, at Stratford upon Avon. By D.G.

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Creator:
Garrick, David, 1717–1779
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
2 p. ., 34 p. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Boscobel, or, The compleat history of His Sacred Majesty's most miraculous preservation after the battle of Worcester, which was fought Sept. 3, 1651 : illustrated with a plan of the city of Worcester and a view of Boscobel-house.

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Creator:
Blount, Thomas, 1618–1679
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
93, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The survey of Cornwall. And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue./ By Richard Carew ... with the life of the author, by H**** C***** Esq.

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Creator:
Carew, Richard, 1555–1620
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
xxv, [8] p., 159 leaves, [8], 13, [1] p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

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Creator:
Clúny, Alexander
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. England displayed : being a new, complete, and accurate survey and description of the kingdom of England, and principality of Wales... / by a society of gentlemen ... ; the particulars respecting England revised, corrected, and improved, by P. Russell ... and those relating to Wales, by Mr. Owen Price.

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Date:
1769
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Sculptura; or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise.

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Creator:
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
3 p.l., [iii]-xxxvi, 140 p. front. (port.) 2 plates (1 fold.) 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts