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Period 18th century

Form genre ss Tracts (literary works)

Language English

1. The manner of securing all sorts of buildings from fire, or, A treatise upon the construction of arches made with bricks and plaister, called flat-arches, and of a roof without timber called a bricked-roof : with the addition of some letters that have passed between the Count of Espie and Peter Wyche, Esq. on this subject : adorned with two copper-plates serving to illustrate the whole work / written in French by Monsieur le comte d'Espie, Knight of the Military Order of St. Lewis, and translated by L. Dutens.

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Creator:: Espié, Félix François, comte d', 1708–1792
Date:: [1756]
Physical Description:: 62 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Useful architecture : being the last work in this kind of William Halfpenny, architect and carpenter : in twenty-five new designs : with full and clear instructions, in every particular, for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns, with their respective offices, &c. ... : together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only ... : the four designs added, are for bridges ...

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Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [4], 78 [i.e. 76] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens near Pekin: In a letter from F. Attiret, a French missionary, now employ'd by that emperor to paint the apartments in those gardens, to his friend at Paris. Translated from the French, by Sir Harry Beaumont.

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Creator:: Attiret, Jean Denis, 1702–1768
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: vi, 50 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

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Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: [4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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.

6. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

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Creator:: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555–1628
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts