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1. Some account of London / Thomas Pennant.

Some account of London / Thomas Pennant.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
vi, [4], 479, [9] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

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Creator:
Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

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Creator:
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

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Creator:
Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

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Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, walls, gates, bridges ... and many other curious matters in antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the difference between the ancient and present state of these two famous cities. By N.B.

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Creator:
Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742
Date:
1722
Physical Description:
3 p.., 244 p. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster : containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities / written at first in the year MDXCVIII ... since ... augmented by the author, and afterwards by A.M., H.D., and others ; now lastly corrected ... and ... brought down from ... 1633 ... to the present time by John Strype ... ; to which is prefixed the life of the author, writ by the editor ... added an appendix ... concerning the state of the city of London ...

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
MDCCXX [1720]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., maps, plans ; 41 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

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Creator:
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721–1780
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. De Londres et de ses environs.

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Creator:
Cambry, Jacques, 1749–1807
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
2 p.., v [i.e. iv], 147 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A new critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. With some reflections on the use of sepulchral monuments; as also a scheme shewing the dimensions of St. Peter's Church at Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral at London; and a preface, being an essay on taste. To all which is added, an Appendix, containing a dispute between the Weekly miscellany and the author; and a compleat Alphabetical index.

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Date:
1736
Physical Description:
3 p. l., vi, 91, [5] p. fold. table. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

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Creator:
Pocklington, Joseph, 1736–1817
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 v. ([15] p.) ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : containing the original, antiquity, increase, present state and government of those cities : written at first in the year 1698 [i.e. 1598] / by John Stow ... ; corrected, improved, and very much enlarged, in the year 1720, by John Strype ..., the survey and history brought down to the present time ... ; the life of the author, written by Mr. Strype is prefixed ... added, an appendix of certain tracts, discourses, and remarks on the state of the city of London ...

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
1754-1755
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts adjacent ... / by Robert Seymour ... ; the whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, i.e. to the present year ...

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Creator:
Mottley, John, 1692–1750
Date:
1734-1735
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms, map ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A new pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations, to the year 1790.

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Creator:
Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 47 x 91 cm., folded to 18 x 12 cm., in case 19 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Bowles's New pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1790.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 48 x 94 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. Originally written by -----Ralph, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions.

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Date:
1783
Physical Description:
xxxi, 209 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys. &c. contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : with the contiguous buildings / engraved by John Pine ... from an actual survey by John Rocque, and printed on twenty-four sheets of imperial paper, with references for finding the said places ; adapted likewise to a contracted copy of the above mentioned plan, printed on eight sheets of paper ...

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Date:
1755
Physical Description:
vi [i.e. vii], [1], 46, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. London and its environs described : containing an account of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity or use, in the city and in the country twenty miles round it. Comprehending also whatever is most material in the history and antiquities of this great metropolis : decorated and illustrated with a great number of views in perspective, engraved from original drawings, taken on purpose for this work : together with a plan of London, a map of the environs, and several other useful cuts ...

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Date:
1761
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., map, plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A new view of London, or, An ample account of that city, in ... eight sections : being a more particular description thereof than has hitherto been known to be published of any city in the world ...

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Creator:
Hatton, Edward, b. 1664?
Date:
1708
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map, plan ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. An exact surveigh of the streets, lanes and churches comprehend[e]d within the ruins of the city of London : first described in six plats 10 Decemr. Ao Dom. 1666 : by the order & directions of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, & common councell of the said city / Iohn Leake, Iohn Iennings, Willm. Marr, Willm. Leybourn, Thomas Streete, Richard Shortgrave, surveyors ; & reduced into one intire plat by Iohn Leake, for the use of the commisioners for the regulation of streets, lanes, &ct.

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Creator:
Leake, John
Date:
[1723]
Physical Description:
1 map on 2 sheets ; 106 x 125 cm, sheets 55 x 72 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A series of prints exhibiting the most interesting scenes in London and Westminster : drawn from the most striking points of view, and executed in aquatinta, by T. Malton, Jun.

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Date:
March, 1781
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. This day is published, number XCIV, with a view of the city gates : (to be continued weekly, price six-pence) : the sixth edition of Stow's survey of London and Westminster : and of the borough of Southward : being the best topography of those cities : together with the distinct history of them : in two large volumes, folio : containing their original, antiquity, increase, present state, and government : written at first by John Stow, citizen and native of London ; several times reprinted and augmented, then corrected, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by J. Strype, M.A. ; and the history and survey now brought down to this present time by careful hands ; illustrated with exact maps of all the wards and out-parishes both of London and Westminister ; with other draughts of the most eminent and public edifices and monuments.

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Date:
November 29, 1755
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page (incomplete)) ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A survey of London, by John Stow; reprinted from the text of 1603, with introduction and notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
1908
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts. (v. 1. port.) illus., fold. map inserted, double facsim. 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library