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1. Six landscapes from original paintings.

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Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. in folder 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Minutes of the proceedings at a court-martial assembled for the trial of the Honourable Admiral Augustus Keppel : on a charge exhibited against him by Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, as taken by George Jackson, Esq; Judge-Advocate of His Majesty's Fleet. Published by order of the Right Honourble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. : With an appendix containing all the letters and papers that have any relation to the trial.

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Creator:: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725–1786
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: [4], 182 p. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.

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Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [1779]
Physical Description:: [1], [26] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A description of the freedom box, voted by the City of London to the Hon. Augustus Keppel, admiral of the Blue : to which is prefixed a succinct account of his public services.

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Creator:: Charron, Wm. (William)
Date:: [1779]
Physical Description:: vi, 22 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

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Creator:: Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:: January 1st, 1779 [i.e. 1779-1786]
Physical Description:: [172] p., LXXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Desiderata curiosa, or, A collection of divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history : consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters, wills, epitaphs, &c., transcribed, many of them, from the originals themselves, and the rest from divers antient ms. copies, or the ms. collections of sundry famous antiquaries and other eminent persons, both of the last and present age : the whole, as near as possible, digested into an order of time, and illustrated with ample notes, contents, additional discourses, and a complete index / by Francis Peck ...

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Creator:: Peck, Francis, 1692–1743
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Owen's new book of roads, or, A description of the roads of Great Britain : being a companion to Owen's complete book of fairs ...

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Creator:: Owen, W. (William), -1793
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: [36], 228 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of that kingdom ... : collected from records, old wills, authentic manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities, which are cited / by Arthur Collins ...

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Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: 8 volumes : coats of arms ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

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Creator:: Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:: 1779?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

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Creator:: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: 4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts