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16801. A description of the country from thirty to forty miles round Manchester : containing its geography, natural and civil; principal productions; river and canal navigations; a particular account or its towns and chief villages; their history, population, commerce, and manufactures; buildings, government, &c. / The materials arranged, and the work composed by J. Aikin, M.D. embellished and illustrated with seventry-three plates.

Creator:: Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [8], 624 pages, [62] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16802. An account of the expedition to the West Indies against Martinico : with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands : subject to the French king, 1759 / by Captain Gardiner of the King's Royal Musqueteers, late Captain of Marines on board his Majesty's Ship Rippon, employed on this expedition.

Creator:: Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [6], 91, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates (2 folded) : i lllustrations, maps ; 31 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16803. Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides; undertaken for the purpose of examining the state of the arts, the sciences, natural history and manners, in Great Britain. Translated from the French of B. Faujas Saint-Fond.

Creator:: Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741–1819
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., pl. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16804. Traité de la peinture au pastel ... par M.P.R. de C....C. à P. de L. ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 376 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16805. A series of particular and useful observations : made with great diligence and care, upon that admirable structure, the cathedral-church of Salisbury : calculated for the use and amusement of gentlemen, and curious persons, as well as for the assistance of such artists as may be employed in buildings of the like kind : by all which they will be enabled to form a right judgment upon this, or any ancient structure, either in the Gothick or other stiles of building / by Francis Price ...

Creator:: Price, Francis, -1753
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: [14], v, 78 p., [1], 13 leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16806. A survey of the city, harbour, bay and environs of Dublin : on the same scale as those of London, Paris & Rome / by John Rocque ... = Plan de la ville, havre, baye, & environs de Dublin : sur la meme echelle de ceux de Londres, Paris & Rome / par Jean Rocque ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map on 2 sheets ; 96 x 140 cm., sheets 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16807. The universal penman; or, The art of writing made useful to the gentleman and scholar, as well as the man of business : exemplified in all the useful and ornamental branches of modern penmanship : with some necessary observations on the excellency of the pen, and a large number of select sentences in prose and verse : various forms of business, relating to merchandize and trade : letters on several occasions : accurate specimens of the oriental languages, and alphabets in all the hands now practis'd / written, with the friendly assistance of several of the most eminent masters,and engrav'd by Geo. Bickham ; the whole embelish'd with beautiful decorations for the amusement of the curious.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:: 1743
Physical Description:: 212 numbered leaves ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16808. A new book of ornaments containing a variety of elegant designs for modern pannels [sic] commonly executed in stucco, wood, or painting, and used in decorating principal rooms = Un recueil des ornemens composés, lorsqu'on voudra s'en servir : pour embellir des chambres à l'Angloise = A chiunque piacerà di servirsi di queste idee : serviranno ad accorciar' tempo, con non poco risparmio di fatica, a chi avrá 'l carico di decorar' camere etc. / by P. Columbani ; published according to Act of Parliament. Feb. 15, 1775.

Creator:: Columbani, Placido
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 32 leaves of plates: chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16809. Letters on the beauties of Hagley, Envil, and the Leasowes. With critical remarks: and observations on the modern taste in gardening. By Joseph Heely ...

Creator:: Heely, Joseph
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 2 v. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16810. A voyage to the island of Mauritius (or, Isle of France), the Isle of Bourbon, the Cape of Good Hope ... : with observations and reflections upon nature and mankind / by a French officer ... ; translated from the French by John Parish.

Creator:: Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737–1814
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: [12], 291 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16811. A guide to classical learning, or, Polymetis abridged .... : being a work absolutely necessary, not only for the right understanding of the classics, but also for forming in young minds a true taste for the beauties of poetry, sculpture, and painting / by N. Tindal, translator of Rapin.

Creator:: Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [16], xxxiv, 224 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16812. A series of prints of Scripture history : designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.

Creator:: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741–1810
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 32 leaves of plates : ill ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16813. State of chimney-sweepers young apprentices : shewing the wretched condition of the distrest boys, the ill conduct of such matters as do notobserve the obligations of indentures, the necessity of a strict enquiryin order to support the civil and religious rights of these apprentices : to encourage good masters and regulate the trade, that the useful occupation of chimney-sweepers may be considered as an object worthy of attention: and the humanity of the nation be no longer violated in the persons of these boys.

Creator:: Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 58, 1 leaf of plates (folded) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16814. A voyage round the world : performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769 / by Lewis de Bougainville, Colonel of Foote, and Commodore of the expedition, in the frigate La Boudeuse, and the store-shop L'Etoile ; translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster.

Creator:: Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, comte, 1729–1811
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xxviii, 476 p., [5] folded eaves of plates : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16815. 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.

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

16816. A design for the bridge at New Palace Yard, Westminster ... : composed of nine arches, independent of each other, whose nature is such, that the greatest weight possibly to be impressed cannot break them down ... / by B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16817. The Art of painting in water colours: exemplified in landscapes, flowers, &c. Together with instructions for painting on glass and in crayons: explained in a full and familiar manner. With particular directions for preparing the colours, agreeably to the practice of the most eminent masters. By the author of The Artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 68 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16818. The art of painting / of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy; translated into English verse by William Mason; with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Creator:: Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: xxi, 221 p. : 18cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16819. Essai sur le beau, par le père André j... avec un discours préliminaire, et des réflexions sur le goût. Par M. Formey.

Creator:: André, Yves Marie, 1675–1764
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: 2 p.., lxxx, [2], 106 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16820. A short account of the most eminent painters,: both ancient and modern, continued down to the present times, according to the order of their succession./ By Richard Graham, ...

Creator:: Graham, Richard, fl. 1680–1720
Date:: [1716]
Physical Description:: [2], 241-397, [7] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16821. The history of Faringdon, and the neighbouring towns and seats in Berkshire / by a Society of Gentlemen.

Creator:: Stone, Thomas, fl. 1798
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: iv, 164 p. : geneal. table ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16822. Misery is vertues whetstone, Reliquiæ Gethinianæ, or, Some remains of the most ingenious and excellent lady, Grace Lady Gethin, lately deceased : being a collection of choice discourses, pleasant apothegmes, and witty sentences : written by her for the most part, by way of essay, and at spare hours. : published by her nearest rellations to preserve her memory, and digested for method's sake under proper heads ...

Creator:: Gethin, Grace, Lady, 1676–1697
Date:: 1703
Physical Description:: [6], 3-7, [5], 90, [8], 28 [i.e. 24] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., port. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16823. Quinti Horatii Flacci opera.

Creator:: Horace
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([4], [v]-vi, [4], 396 [i.e. 336] p.) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16824. Harlequin's invasion : a new pantomine [sic]. Book 4.

Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: 1 folded leaf ([4] p.) : ill. ; 19 x 32 cm. folded to 19 x 8 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16825. Deliciæ britannicæ, or, The curiosities of Hampton-Court and Windsor-Castle, delineated : with occasional reflections, and embellished with copper-plates of the two palaces, &c. / by George Bickham, jun.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:: 1742
Physical Description:: 203 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16826. An historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich : MDCCLXXXIX.

Creator:: Cooke, John, 1738–1823
Date:: [1789]
Physical Description:: viii, 120, 125-132, *129-*132, 133-142, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16827. [Eighty-four mezzotints by Georg Philipp Rugendas and Christian Rugendas].

Creator:: Rugendas, Georg Philipp, 1666–1742
Date:: [1693-1735]
Physical Description:: 84 prints : mezzotint with tint plate ; platemarks 19 x 30 cm, and smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16828. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal architect's assistant : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers ... : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations ... : with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: ii, [8], 187 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16829. An history of Birmingham, to the end of the year 1780. By William Hutton.

Creator:: Hutton, William, 1723–1815
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 1 p.., xii, [10], 280 (i.e. 286) p. fold. front., 14 plates (part fold.) 2 fold. maps. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16830. Examination of William Vaughan, esq. in a committee of the hon. House of Commons, April 22, 1796, on the commerce of the port of London, and the accommodations for shipping, &c.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 23 p. fold. col. plan. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16831. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1792, by the president ... To which is prefixed the speech of the president to the royal academicians on the 24th of March 1792.

Creator:: West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: viii, vi, 36 p. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16832. The British architect, or, The builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved ... on sixty folio copper- plates. By Abraham Swan, carpenter.

Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: viii, 20 p. LX plates. 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16833. Account of sepulchral monuments discovered at Lincoln. By the reverend John Carter ... Read at the Society of Antiquaries May 25, 1795.

Creator:: Carter, John, 1761 or 1762–1829
Date:: 1795?]
Physical Description:: 7 p. 2 plates. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16834. A companion to every place of curiosity and entertainment in and about London and Westminster ... : to which is added a new large and elegant map of London, Westminster, and Southwark ... designed for strangers to choose such objects as suit their convenience, and to enable them to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: x, 191 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16835. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

Creator:: Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 24 p., VIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16836. Some considerations humbly offered to the honourable members of the House of Commons, for building a stone-bridge over the river Thames, from Westminster to Lambeth. Together with some proposals relating to a design drawn for that purpose. In a letter to a member of that honourable house.

Creator:: Price, John, d. 1736
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 16 p. front. (fold. plan) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16837. New idylles, by Gessner. Tr. by W. Hooper, M.D. With a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting, and the Two friend of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot.

Creator:: Gessner, Salomon, 1730–1788
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 129 p. plates. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16838. Of the origin and progress of language ...

Creator:: Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 1714–1799
Date:: 1774-92
Physical Description:: 6 v. front. (v. 6: port.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16839. The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark ... By M. Concanen, jun. and A. Morgan.

Creator:: Concanen, Matthew, active 1795
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: viii, 280 p. 2 plates, plan. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16840. An illustration of the Roman antiquities discovered at Bath / by the Rev. Richard Warner ...

Creator:: Warner, Richard, 1763–1857
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [4], xxvi, 85 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16841. Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales : contenant une relation des differens peuples qui habitent les environs du grand fleuve Saint-Louis, appellé vulgairement le Mississipi : leur religion, leur gouvernement, leurs moeurs, leurs guerres & leur commerce / par M. Bossu, Capitaine dans les Troupes de la Marine.

Creator:: Bossu, M., 1720–1792
Date:: MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:: 2 pt. in 1 v. (xx, 244; [4], 264 p., [4] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16842. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [10] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16843. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1795-1798
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16844. Art's master-piece: or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex. In two parts. I. The art of limning and painting in oil ... II. The art of making glass of chrystal ...

Date:: [1710?]
Physical Description:: 124 p. incl. front. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16845. Observations relative chiefly to the natural history, picturesque scenery, and antiquities of the western counties of England, made in the years 1794 and 1796 ... : illustrated by a mineralogical map, and sixteen views in aquatinta by Alken / by William George Maton ...

Creator:: Maton, William George, 1774–1835
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16846. Remarkable ruins, and romantic prospects, of North Britain : with ancient monuments and singular subjects of natural history / by the Rev. Charles Cordiner ; the engravings by Peter Mazell.

Creator:: Cordiner, Charles, 1746?-1794
Date:: 1788-1795
Physical Description:: vi, [209] p., [99] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16847. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:: [between 1770 and 1784?]
Physical Description:: 16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16848. British biography; or, An accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff ... to the present time ...

Creator:: Towers, Joseph, 1737–1799
Date:: 1766-1780
Physical Description:: 10 v. ports. (incl. fronts.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16849. The honours of the table, or, Rules for behaviour during meals; with the whole art of carving, illustrated by a variety of cuts. Together with directions for going to market, and the method of distinguishing good provisions from bad; to which is added a number of hints or concise lessons for the improvement of youth, on all occasions in life. By the author of Principles of politeness, &c. ... For the use of young people.

Creator:: Trusler, John, 1735–1820
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 120 p. ill. (incl. coat of arms) 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16850. A schizzo on the genius of man: in which, among various subjects, the merit of Mr. Thomas Barker, the celebrated young painter of Bath, is particularly considered, and his pictures reviewed ...

Creator:: Harington, Edward, Sir, 1753?-1807
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [v]-xlviii p., 1 leaf, 390 p., 1 leaf. 2 plates (1 fold.) 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16851. [Four views of Whitehall Palace]

Creator:: Müller, Tobias, active 1744–1790
Date:: March [the] 29th, 1748-[Augt. th. 25, 1749]
Physical Description:: 4 prints in 1 volume : etching and engraving ; platemarks 63 x 93 cm, on sheets 64 x 96 cm, in volume 65 x 98 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16852. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture ... : wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures ... / by Batty Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: [1790?]
Physical Description:: xxiv, [184] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16853. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum viri clarissimi Antonii à Wood. Being a minute catalogue of each particular contained in the manuscript collections of Antony a Wood, deposited in the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford. By William Huddesford, M. A., Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

Creator:: Ashmolean Museum
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., [13]-52 p. 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16854. A travelling dictionary, or, Alphabetical tables of the distance of all the principal cities, borough, market, and sea-port towns in Great Britain from each other ... : the whole being a second part to the New and accurate description of the roads / by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 179 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16855. A specimen / by William Caslon, letter-founder, in Chiswell-street, London.

Creator:: Caslon, William, 1693–1766
Date:: [1750 or 1751]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 51 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16856. Plan de la ville et foubourgs [sic] de York : capitale de la comté de meme nom / levé par le Sr. P. Chassereau ... ; avec les augmentationes jusqu'a l'an 1766.

Creator:: Chassereau, Pierre
Date:: [1766]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 43 x 39 cm., on sheet 48 x 68 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16857. The lives of the English poets : and a criticism on their works / by Samuel Johnson.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: MDCCLXXIX-MDCCLXXXI [1779-81]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara R. and Richard C. Glowacki, Yale BA 1954

16858. The progress of civil society : a didactic poem : in six books / by Richard Payne Knight.

Creator:: Knight, Richard Payne, 1751–1824
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 155 p. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16859. Chorographia Britanniae, or, A set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales : ... with the particular map of each county is an account of all the cities, boroughs, market towns, parishes, and rivers therein, the number of members it sends to Parliament, the market and fair days, and in those of Oxford and Cambridge are the names of all the colleges and halls in both universities, with the dates of their foundations : to the whole is added an alphabetical index of all the cities, boroughs, & market towns, properly distinguish'd from each other, and in what county they are situate : this collection ... was first drawn and compiled into a pocket book, by order and for the use of His late Majesty King George I / by Thomas Badeslade, surveyor and engineer, and now neatly engraved by Will. Henry Toms.

Creator:: Badeslade, Thomas
Date:: 1742
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([53] leaves) : 46 col. maps ; 25 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16860. Rules and orders of the Society instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce.

Creator:: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 20 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16861. Plan de la ville de Nismes, ancienne et moderne / Jean Rocque ..., delin.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 38 x 52 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16862. [Fort de Gibraltar.

Date:: 17--?]
Physical Description:: 4 col. plates. 16 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16863. Pictures belonging to King Charles the First, at his several palaces : appraised, and most of them sold by the Council of State.

Date:: [1757?]
Physical Description:: 8 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16864. Principles of taste, or, The elements of beauty : also reflections on the harmony of sensibility and reason / by J. Donaldson.

Creator:: Donaldson, J. (John), 1737–1801
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 174 p. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16865. Voyage d'Italie, ou, Recueil de notes sur les ouvrages de peinture & de sculpture, qu'on voit dans les principales villes d'Italie / par M. Cochin.

Creator:: Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715–1790
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 3 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16866. Constitutiones synodales Sabinae diocesis / editae ab Hannibale, Cardinale S. Clementis, episcopo Sabinorum, S.R.E. Camerario, anno Domini 1736 ; cum appendice antiquarum Synodorum & variorum monimentorum ejusdem dioecesis quotquot hactenus reperiri potuerunt

Creator:: Catholic Church. Diocese of Sabina (Italy)
Date:: MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:: [28], 115, [1], 372 pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16867. The antient bee-master's farewell, or, Full and plain directions for the management of bees to the greatest advantage : Disclosing further improvements of the hives, boxes and other instruments, to facilitate the operations; especially that of separating double and treble hives or boxes; with certainty and safety, without injuring the bees; interspersed with new but important observations: the whole judiously adapted to general use; with an appropriate method for the curious. Also brief remarks on Schirach, and other distinguished apiators on the continent. Deduced from a series of experiments during thirty years. Illustrated with plates / by John Keys, of Bee-Hall, Near Pembroke.

Creator:: Keys, John
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xvi, 273, [1] p., II leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16868. A proposal for printing all the valuable monumental inscriptions in each cathedral, collegiate church or chapel in England and Wales: in one volume folio. By John Le Neve, gent. author of the Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae, lately publish'd.

Creator:: Le Neve, John, 1679–1741
Date:: 1716?]
Physical Description:: broadside. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16869. A set of japanning prints ... With printed directions.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: 14 double plates (incl. t.-p.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16870. Theron and Aspasio: or, A series of dialogues and letters, upon the most important and interesting subjects ... By James Hervey ...

Creator:: Hervey, James, 1714–1758
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 3 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16871. A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental; viz. books of plans and elevations for houses, temples, bridges, &c. ... Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at J. Taylor's architectural library, no. 59, High Holborn, London. (Moved from no. 56) Where may be had the works of the most celebrated French architects and engineers.

Creator:: Taylor, J. (Josiah)
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 4 p. 38 cm. (in case 42 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16872. Schediasmata selecta ex archetypis Polidori Caravagiensis in musaeo honr. viri A. Hume bart. conservatis / fideliter imitata auctore C.M. Metz.

Creator:: Metz, C. M. (Conrad Martin), 1755–1827
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [64] leaves : all ill. ; 31 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16873. The cabinet of the arts : a series of engravings by English artists : from original designs by Stothard, Harding, Van Assen, Cosway, Mather Brown, Burney, Corbould, Porter, Paul Sanby [i.e. Sandby], Catton ...

Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [119] leaves : all ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16874. An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects : and where their several performances are to be seen / translated from the Musæum pictorium of Palomino Velasco.

Creator:: Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Antonio, 1655–1726
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: viii, 175 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16875. A topographical description of such parts of North America as are contained in the (annexed) map of the middle British colonies & in North America. / by T. Pownall, M.P. Late governor, &c. &c. of His Majesty's provinces of Massachusetts Bay and South Carolina, and lieutenant governor of New Jersey.

Creator:: Pownall, Thomas, 1722–1805
Date:: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
Physical Description:: vi, 46, 16 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 44 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16876. 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.

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

16877. Commercium philosophico-technicum; or, The philosophical commerce of arts: designed as an attempt to improve arts, trades, and manufactures. By W. Lewis ...

Creator:: Lewis, William, 1708–1781
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., xviii, x, 646, [14] p. fold. front., plates (partly fold.) 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16878. The history and antiquities of Rochester and its environs: to which is added, a description of the towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and ancient buildings, situate on, or near the road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover. Embellished with copper-plates ...

Creator:: Denne, Samuel, 1730–1799
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xiv, 353, [1] p. fold. front. (plan) plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16879. A tour through parts of England, Scotland, and Wales, in 1778. : In a series of letters. / By Richard Joseph Sulivan ...

Creator:: Sulivan, Richard Joseph, Sir, 1752–1806
Date:: MDCC.LXXXV [1785]
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16880. The student's treasure : a new drawing book, consisting in a variety of etchings and engravings executed by Irish artists, after the following great masters, viz : Angelica, Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Wheatly, Vivaries, West, Bertrand, Rowlandson, Stubbs, Zucchi, Mortimer, Howit, Gilray, Boucher, Gainsborough, &c. &c.

Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 8, [2] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16881. Prospect of Greenwich Hospital from the river : this stately building intended at first by King Charles II for a royal palace, was afterwards converted to the use of disabled sea men ... = Veue de l'hospital de Greenwich du coté de la riviere : ce magnifique edice scitué au bord de la Tamise, fut destiné par Charles II pour la residence des roys, mais par la suite il a été converti pour la retraite des marins invalides ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16882. A new and accurate survey of the island of Minorca : a particualr plan of the harbour of Mahon and its fortifications, with a map of the Mediterranean Sea, shewing the situation of that island and those of Majorca and Yvica, the ports of Barcelona, Alicant, Cartagena, Malaga, Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, &c. on the European coast, and those of Tangier, Ceuta, Tetuan, Oran, Algier, &c. on that of Barbary, with prospects of the town of Mahon and St. Philip's Castle, taken on the spot and lately brought from thence / drawn and engrav'd by Captn. Lempriere ...

Creator:: Lemprière, Clement
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 1 map : ill. ; 27 x 55 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16883. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

Creator:: Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:: MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:: [8], 42 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16884. Nekrokēdeia, or, The art of embalming : wherein is shown the right of burial, the funeral ceremonies, and the several ways of preserving dead bodies in most nations of the world. With an account of the particular opinions, experiments and inventions of modern physicians, surgeons, chymists and anatomists. Also some new matter propos'd concerning a better method of embalming than hath hitherto been discover'd. And a pharmacopœia Galeno-Chymica, Anatomia sicca sive incruenta, &. In three parts. The whole work adorn'd with variety of sculptures / by Thomas Greenhill, Surgeon.

Creator:: Greenhill, Thomas, 1681–1740?
Date:: [1705]
Physical Description:: [10], viii, v, [9], 367, [13] p., [13] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16885. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16886. A liberal critique on the present exhibition of the Royal Academy : being an attempt to correct the national taste, to ascertain the state of the polite arts at this period, and to rescue merit from oppression / by Anthony Pasquin ...

Creator:: Pasquin, Anthony, 1761–1818
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 36 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16887. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings / from an actual survey, taken by John Rocque, land-surveyor, and engraved by John Pine, Bluemantle ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1746
Physical Description:: 1 map on 24 sheets ; 203 x 385 cm., sheets 77 x 57 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16888. Observations on the cure of the curved spine : in which the effect of mechanical assistance in considered / by James Earle, Esq; F. R.S. Surgeon extraordinary to the King and to his Majesty's Household; And Senior Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Creator:: Earle, James, Sir, 1755–1817
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [6], 81, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16889. [Aquatints of rustic scenes].

Creator:: Orme, Edward, 1775–1848
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16890. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

Creator:: Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: [1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16891. Remarks upon an essay towards supplying the city of Dublin with water.

Creator:: Stokes, Gabriel
Date:: ca. 1735]
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ; 33 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16892. Essai sur les causes de la perfection de la sculpture antique, et sur les moyens d'y atteindre ... Par m. le chevalier Louis de Gillier ...

Creator:: Gillier, Louis de
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 97 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16893. A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental ... which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's architectural library, no. 56, High Holborn, London ...

Creator:: I. and J. Taylor (Firm)
Date:: [1793?]
Physical Description:: 16 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16894. The history civil and ecclesiastical, and survey of the antiquities of Winchester. / By the Rev. John Milner ...

Creator:: Milner, John, 1752–1826
Date:: [1798-1801]
Physical Description:: 2 v., 10 leaves of plates (some folding) : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16895. A new and complete history of Essex, from a late survey; : compared with the most celebrated historians; containing a natural and pleasing description of the several divisions of the county, with their products, and curiosities of every kind both ancient and modern. And a review of the most remarkable events and revolutions therein, from the earliest ra down to 1770. Illustrated with copper-plates. / By a gentleman.

Date:: 1770-1772
Physical Description:: 6 v., [61] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plan ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16896. The poll of the freeholders of Oxfordshire : taken at the county court held in Oxford on the 17th of April, 1754 / by Tho. Blackall ..., High-Sheriff ; candidates : Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Wenman, Sir James Dashwood ..., Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Parker, Sir Edward Turner ...

Date:: [1754]
Physical Description:: 115 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16897. A specimen / by William Caslon, letter-founder, in Chiswell-street, London.

Creator:: Caslon, William, 1693–1766
Date:: [1741]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 53 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16898. A new and accurate plan of the ancient borough of Bury Saint Edmunds : in the county of Suffolk / by Alexander Downing.

Creator:: Downing, Alexander
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 53 x 69 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16899. The young builder's rudiments, or, The principles of geometry, mechanicks, mensuration and perspective, geometrically demonstrated : together with the five orders of columns in architecture, according to the proportions of the celebrated Palladio : calculated for the use of workmen, gentlemen and others, who delight in designing, drawing, painting, engraving, and gardening, &c. / by B. Langley ; adorn'd with about thirty large copper plates, curiously engrav'd by J. Vandergucht and B. Cole.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: [8], 130, [2] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm. (4o.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16900. The artist's assistant, in the study and practice of mechanical sciences. Calculated for the improvement of genius. Illustrated with copper-plates.

Date:: [17--?]
Physical Description:: 288, iv p. ill. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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16803. Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides; undertaken for the purpose of examining the state of the arts, the sciences, natural history and manners, in Great Britain. Translated from the French of B. Faujas Saint-Fond.

16804. Traité de la peinture au pastel ... par M.P.R. de C....C. à P. de L. ...

16806. A survey of the city, harbour, bay and environs of Dublin : on the same scale as those of London, Paris & Rome / by John Rocque ... = Plan de la ville, havre, baye, & environs de Dublin : sur la meme echelle de ceux de Londres, Paris & Rome / par Jean Rocque ...

16809. Letters on the beauties of Hagley, Envil, and the Leasowes. With critical remarks: and observations on the modern taste in gardening. By Joseph Heely ...

16810. A voyage to the island of Mauritius (or, Isle of France), the Isle of Bourbon, the Cape of Good Hope ... : with observations and reflections upon nature and mankind / by a French officer ... ; translated from the French by John Parish.

16811. A guide to classical learning, or, Polymetis abridged .... : being a work absolutely necessary, not only for the right understanding of the classics, but also for forming in young minds a true taste for the beauties of poetry, sculpture, and painting / by N. Tindal, translator of Rapin.

16812. A series of prints of Scripture history : designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.

16815. 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.

16816. A design for the bridge at New Palace Yard, Westminster ... : composed of nine arches, independent of each other, whose nature is such, that the greatest weight possibly to be impressed cannot break them down ... / by B. Langley.

16818. The art of painting / of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy; translated into English verse by William Mason; with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

16819. Essai sur le beau, par le père André j... avec un discours préliminaire, et des réflexions sur le goût. Par M. Formey.

16820. A short account of the most eminent painters,: both ancient and modern, continued down to the present times, according to the order of their succession./ By Richard Graham, ...

16821. The history of Faringdon, and the neighbouring towns and seats in Berkshire / by a Society of Gentlemen.

16823. Quinti Horatii Flacci opera.

16824. Harlequin's invasion : a new pantomine [sic]. Book 4.

16825. Deliciæ britannicæ, or, The curiosities of Hampton-Court and Windsor-Castle, delineated : with occasional reflections, and embellished with copper-plates of the two palaces, &c. / by George Bickham, jun.

16826. An historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich : MDCCLXXXIX.

16827. [Eighty-four mezzotints by Georg Philipp Rugendas and Christian Rugendas].

16829. An history of Birmingham, to the end of the year 1780. By William Hutton.

16830. Examination of William Vaughan, esq. in a committee of the hon. House of Commons, April 22, 1796, on the commerce of the port of London, and the accommodations for shipping, &c.

16831. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1792, by the president ... To which is prefixed the speech of the president to the royal academicians on the 24th of March 1792.

16833. Account of sepulchral monuments discovered at Lincoln. By the reverend John Carter ... Read at the Society of Antiquaries May 25, 1795.

16835. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

16836. Some considerations humbly offered to the honourable members of the House of Commons, for building a stone-bridge over the river Thames, from Westminster to Lambeth. Together with some proposals relating to a design drawn for that purpose. In a letter to a member of that honourable house.

16837. New idylles, by Gessner. Tr. by W. Hooper, M.D. With a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting, and the Two friend of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot.

16838. Of the origin and progress of language ...

16839. The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark ... By M. Concanen, jun. and A. Morgan.

16840. An illustration of the Roman antiquities discovered at Bath / by the Rev. Richard Warner ...

16842. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

16843. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

16844. Art's master-piece: or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex. In two parts. I. The art of limning and painting in oil ... II. The art of making glass of chrystal ...

16845. Observations relative chiefly to the natural history, picturesque scenery, and antiquities of the western counties of England, made in the years 1794 and 1796 ... : illustrated by a mineralogical map, and sixteen views in aquatinta by Alken / by William George Maton ...

16846. Remarkable ruins, and romantic prospects, of North Britain : with ancient monuments and singular subjects of natural history / by the Rev. Charles Cordiner ; the engravings by Peter Mazell.

16848. British biography; or, An accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff ... to the present time ...

16850. A schizzo on the genius of man: in which, among various subjects, the merit of Mr. Thomas Barker, the celebrated young painter of Bath, is particularly considered, and his pictures reviewed ...

16851. [Four views of Whitehall Palace]

16852. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture ... : wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures ... / by Batty Langley.

16853. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum viri clarissimi Antonii à Wood. Being a minute catalogue of each particular contained in the manuscript collections of Antony a Wood, deposited in the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford. By William Huddesford, M. A., Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

16854. A travelling dictionary, or, Alphabetical tables of the distance of all the principal cities, borough, market, and sea-port towns in Great Britain from each other ... : the whole being a second part to the New and accurate description of the roads / by Daniel Paterson ...

16855. A specimen / by William Caslon, letter-founder, in Chiswell-street, London.

16856. Plan de la ville et foubourgs [sic] de York : capitale de la comté de meme nom / levé par le Sr. P. Chassereau ... ; avec les augmentationes jusqu'a l'an 1766.

16857. The lives of the English poets : and a criticism on their works / by Samuel Johnson.

16858. The progress of civil society : a didactic poem : in six books / by Richard Payne Knight.

16860. Rules and orders of the Society instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce.

16861. Plan de la ville de Nismes, ancienne et moderne / Jean Rocque ..., delin.

16862. [Fort de Gibraltar.

16863. Pictures belonging to King Charles the First, at his several palaces : appraised, and most of them sold by the Council of State.

16864. Principles of taste, or, The elements of beauty : also reflections on the harmony of sensibility and reason / by J. Donaldson.

16865. Voyage d'Italie, ou, Recueil de notes sur les ouvrages de peinture & de sculpture, qu'on voit dans les principales villes d'Italie / par M. Cochin.

16866. Constitutiones synodales Sabinae diocesis / editae ab Hannibale, Cardinale S. Clementis, episcopo Sabinorum, S.R.E. Camerario, anno Domini 1736 ; cum appendice antiquarum Synodorum & variorum monimentorum ejusdem dioecesis quotquot hactenus reperiri potuerunt

16868. A proposal for printing all the valuable monumental inscriptions in each cathedral, collegiate church or chapel in England and Wales: in one volume folio. By John Le Neve, gent. author of the Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae, lately publish'd.

16869. A set of japanning prints ... With printed directions.

16870. Theron and Aspasio: or, A series of dialogues and letters, upon the most important and interesting subjects ... By James Hervey ...

16872. Schediasmata selecta ex archetypis Polidori Caravagiensis in musaeo honr. viri A. Hume bart. conservatis / fideliter imitata auctore C.M. Metz.

16873. The cabinet of the arts : a series of engravings by English artists : from original designs by Stothard, Harding, Van Assen, Cosway, Mather Brown, Burney, Corbould, Porter, Paul Sanby [i.e. Sandby], Catton ...

16874. An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects : and where their several performances are to be seen / translated from the Musæum pictorium of Palomino Velasco.

16877. Commercium philosophico-technicum; or, The philosophical commerce of arts: designed as an attempt to improve arts, trades, and manufactures. By W. Lewis ...

16878. The history and antiquities of Rochester and its environs: to which is added, a description of the towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and ancient buildings, situate on, or near the road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover. Embellished with copper-plates ...

16879. A tour through parts of England, Scotland, and Wales, in 1778. : In a series of letters. / By Richard Joseph Sulivan ...

16883. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

16886. A liberal critique on the present exhibition of the Royal Academy : being an attempt to correct the national taste, to ascertain the state of the polite arts at this period, and to rescue merit from oppression / by Anthony Pasquin ...

16887. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings / from an actual survey, taken by John Rocque, land-surveyor, and engraved by John Pine, Bluemantle ...

16888. Observations on the cure of the curved spine : in which the effect of mechanical assistance in considered / by James Earle, Esq; F. R.S. Surgeon extraordinary to the King and to his Majesty's Household; And Senior Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

16889. [Aquatints of rustic scenes].

16890. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

16891. Remarks upon an essay towards supplying the city of Dublin with water.

16892. Essai sur les causes de la perfection de la sculpture antique, et sur les moyens d'y atteindre ... Par m. le chevalier Louis de Gillier ...

16893. A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental ... which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's architectural library, no. 56, High Holborn, London ...

16894. The history civil and ecclesiastical, and survey of the antiquities of Winchester. / By the Rev. John Milner ...

16896. The poll of the freeholders of Oxfordshire : taken at the county court held in Oxford on the 17th of April, 1754 / by Tho. Blackall ..., High-Sheriff ; candidates : Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Wenman, Sir James Dashwood ..., Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Parker, Sir Edward Turner ...

16897. A specimen / by William Caslon, letter-founder, in Chiswell-street, London.

16898. A new and accurate plan of the ancient borough of Bury Saint Edmunds : in the county of Suffolk / by Alexander Downing.

16900. The artist's assistant, in the study and practice of mechanical sciences. Calculated for the improvement of genius. Illustrated with copper-plates.