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18401. A topographical map of Wiltshire : on a scale of 2 inches to a mile, from an actual survey / by John Andrews & Andrew Dury in the year 1773 ; J. Andrews sculp.

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Creator:
Andrews, John, 1736–1809
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
1 map on 18 sheets ; 273 x 189 cm, sheets 54 x 72 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18402. Vûës des villes de Londres, de Canterbury, de Colchester, et autres lieux circonvoisens : avec leur principales eglises, palais, edifices, maison de campagne & autres choses remarquables. Representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec un courte description sous chaque figure ...

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Creator:
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659–1733
Date:
[ca. 1710]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : all ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18403. Ten minutes advice to every gentleman going to purchase a horse out of a dealer, jockey, or, groom's stables : in which are laid down established rules for discovering the perfections and blemishes of that noble animal.

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Creator:
Bracken, Henry, 1697–1764
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
[4], 20 pages ; 15 cm (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18404. Figurine of William Shakespeare.

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Date:
between 1790 and 1805
Physical Description:
1 figurine : soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast in sections and painted in enamels ; 28 cm high, 13 cm wide, 9 cm deep
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

18405. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of Greek, Roman, Saxon, English, and Irish, gold, silver, and brass coins and medals, of the learned and ingenious Mr. James Simon, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquaries Society of London, author of the historical account of Irish coins, late of the city of Dublin, merchant, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in the Hay-Market, on Thursday, the 8th of December, 1757, and the following day.

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Creator:
Ford, Mr., active 1741–1757
Date:
[1757]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18406. A catalogue of the capital and valuable museum : consisting of an assemblage of rare and scarce articles in natural history, the specimens of marbles, Raphael and Roman ware bronzes, miniatures, carvings in ivory, curious cabinets, &c. : the property of the late Lord James Manners, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie athis Great Room, Pall Mall, on Monday May the 9th, 1791, and the following day at twelve o'clock : to be viewed Friday and Saturday precedin the sale : catalogues may be had as above : and at the Rainbow Coffee House.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18407. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of drawings and prints, a few pictures, books, &c. late the property of the ingenious Mr. John Webber, R.A : well known for his accurate designs made during Capt. Cook's last voyage, and published by order of the Lords of the Admiralty, the whole being the reserved collection : consisting of many capital and curious drawings of the voyage, never engraved : accurate portraits of the different nations in various part of the world : a variety of studies and sketches from nature : also some drawing by Cipriani and Bartolozzi : printed by ancient and modern Masters : two remarkable fine sets of the Battle of the Boyne and La Hogue : five complete sets of Captain Cook's last voyage : and twelve various proof prints of the death of Captain Cook : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, June 14th, 1793, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : when catalogues may be had as above : and at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1793]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18408. Rural beauties; or, The natural history of the four following western counties, viz. Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire. With additional remarks. By Theophilus Botanista, M.D.

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Creator:
Botanista, Theophilus
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
2 p.., xxxvi, xxv-xxxiv, 314 p. front., fold. map. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18409. 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 ...

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Creator:
Denne, Samuel, 1730–1799
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
2 p. ., 336 (i. e. 353) p. plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18410. An account of the model in relievo, : of the great and magnificent city and suburbs of Paris, / By Monsieur Le Quoy, ...

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Creator:
Le Quoy, R
Date:
MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:
vii, [8]-28 p.; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18411. The poetical works of Joseph Addison. : With the life of the author.

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Creator:
Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[2], xxxii, 146, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm. (12 mo.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18412. Tracts on practical agriculture and gardening : particularly addressed to the gentlemen-farmers in Great-Britain : with several useful improvements in stoves and green-houses : to which is added a chronological catalogue of English authors on agriculture, botany, gardening, &c. / by R. Weston ...

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Creator:
Weston, Richard, 1733–1806
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
iv, xxxi, [1], 298, 136 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18413. A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione : very useful for youth to draw after.

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Date:
[176-?]
Physical Description:
6 leaves : all ill. ; 17 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18414. An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year MDCCLXIV, under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq., colonel of foot, and now brigadier general in America : including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace : with an introductory account of the preceding campaign, and battle at Bushy-Run : to which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages, a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country, with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances, and different routs : the whole illustrated with a map and copper-plates / published, from authentic documents, by a lover of his country.

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Creator:
Smith, William, 1727–1803
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
xiii, 71 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18415. The artist's repository and drawing magazine : exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches.

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Date:
[1788?]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18416. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

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Creator:
Armstrong, John, -1758
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
1 map ; 66 x 45 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18417. Twelve prints, representing managing and training horses, with coursing, shooting, settings, &c [graphic].

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Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18418. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

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Creator:
Terry, Garnet
Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
26, [1] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18419. An essay on combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting. Wherein the phlogistic and antiphlogistic hypotheses are proven erroneous. By Mrs. Fulhame.

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Creator:
Fulhame, Mrs. (Elizabeth), active 1780–1810
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
xiii p., 1 leaf, 182 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18420. Considérations sur les révolutions des arts ...

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Creator:
Méhégan, Guillaume-Alexandre de, 1721–1766
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 282, 24, 18, [4] p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18421. Farriery improved, or, A complete treatise on the art of farriery : wherein are fully explained, the nature and structure of that useful creature, a horse : with the diseases and accidents he is liable to : and the methods of cure : exemplified by ten elegant cuts, each the full figure of a horse, describing all the various parts of that noble animal : likewise, rules for breeding and training of colts, practical receipts for the cure of common distempers incident to oxen, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, hogs, &c. : to which is prefixed, ten minutes' advice to the purchasers of horses / by Henry Bracken, M.D.

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Creator:
Bracken, Henry, 1697–1764
Date:
Jan. 11, 1798
Physical Description:
iv, [1], 6-144 pages, [10] leaves of plates (8 folded) : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18422. The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier ... : to all which is added, a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease / by J. Markham, G Jefferies, and discreet Indians.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
ix, 10-364 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18423. The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier, containing ... : to all which is added, a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment or disease / by J. Markham, G. Jefferies, and discreet Indians.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
MDCCXCVII [1797]
Physical Description:
viii, 9-317, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18424. The anatomy of the human body / by W. Cheselden ...

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Creator:
Cheselden, William, 1688–1752
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
[10], 336 p., [1], [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18425. Human passions delineated.

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Creator:
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Date:
1773
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18426. L'art de dessiner / par Jean Cousin ; revu, corrigé et augmenté de plusieurs morceaux d'après l'antique ; avec leurs mesures & proportions ; d'une description exacte des os & muscles du corps humain, & de leurs offices & usages ; avec une instruction facile pour apprendre à dessiner toutes ces figures, selon les différens aspects qu'elles peuvent avoir.

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Creator:
Cousin, Jehan, ca. 1522–ca. 1593
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18427. Sketches of animals from nature / etched by George Garrard.

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Creator:
Garrard, George, 1760–1826
Date:
March 1st, 1794
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 30 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18428. The principles of ancient masonry, or, A general system of building compleated : wherein the theory and practice of architecture are universally demonstrated : comprising all the arts and sciences necessary to be understood for the attaining a just knowledge of building, in a more concise and easy manner than has been yet attempted to be made public, viz : arithmetick, vulgar and decimal : practical geometry : plain trigonometry : mensuration in general : surveying of land, &c. : architecture universally apply'd : perspective : mechanicks : dialing : painting and staining glass : interspersed with proper introductions, remarks, and observations : in which great care is taken to omit everything that is superfluous, and insert nothing but what is really useful : the whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty large folio copper plates, engraven by the best hands : exemplifying the several arts and proportions of the five order of columns, in a very great variety of useful designs of plans, elevations, and sections of building in general : by a society of the most experienced practitioners and workmen in building, and the several branches of learning relating thereto.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1733
Physical Description:
[2], 434, xi, [23] pages : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18429. Elements of criticism.

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Creator:
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696–1782
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
3 v. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18430. The new Bath guide: or memoirs of the B-n-r-d family. In a series of poetical epistles.

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Creator:
Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
viii, 175 p. front. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18431. The practice of perspective: or, An easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art ... The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris; since translated into German ... and into English ... And now, a second time, into the same language, by E. Chambers.

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Creator:
Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
xiii, [4], 150, 150 p. illus. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18432. 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

18433. Geographical cards, or, A view of the principal cities of the known world : designed for a recreation of young gentlemen & ladies, and the use of boarding schools / by John Ryland of Northampton.

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Creator:
Ryland, John, 1723–1792
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
52 cards ; 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18434. Paradise Lost. A poem in twelve books. / The author John Milton.

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Creator:
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
3 v., 25 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18435. A survey of the present state of Aspenden Church, Herts. June 1793.

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Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 p. l., 13 p. 2 pl., 2 ports. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18436. A voyage to the Pacific ocean. Undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern hemisphere. To determine the position and extent of the west side of North America; its distance from Asia; and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 ... Vols. I. and II. written by Captain James Cook, F. R. S. Vol. III. by Captain James King, L. L. D. and F. R. S. Illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts ... with a great variety of portraits ... views ... and historical representations ... drawn by Mr. Webber ... Published by order of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty ...

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Creator:
Cook, James, 1728–1779
Date:
1784
Physical Description:
3 v. plates (part fold.) maps (part fold.) charts (part fold.) 30 cm. and atlas. 57 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18437. The military antiquities of the Romans in Britain. By the late William Roy ... Published by the order, and at the expence of, the Society of antiquaries of London.

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Creator:
Roy, William, 1726–1790
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
5 p.., xvi, 206, [6] p. 3 pl., 3 maps, 44 plans (part fold.) tab. 57 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18438. The history of England / by Mr. Rapin de Thoyran ; continued from the Revolution to the accession of King George II by N. Tindal ... ; illustrated with the heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons : also with maps, medals, and other copper plates : vol. XVI [-XXVIII], being the first [-thirteenth] of the Continuation.

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Creator:
Tindal, N. (Nicolas), 1687–1774
Date:
1744-1747
Physical Description:
13 v. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18439. Two letters on the origin, antiquity, and history of Norman Tiles, stained with armorial bearings.

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Creator:
Henniker-Major, John, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
114 p., [3] leaves of plates : coats of arms ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18440. Matthews's new Bristol directory, for the year, 1793-4. : containing an alphabetical list of the corporation, clergy, merchants, bankers, professors of the law and physic ... of the city of Bristol with its environs. To which are added ... particulars of the coming in and going out of the posts ... Also a list of the hackney coaches, with their owners.

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Creator:
Matthews, William
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
103 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18441. The wonders of the little world: or, A general history of man. In six books. Displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind, in several thousand most interesting relations of persons remarkable for bodily perfections or defects ... Together with accounts of the invention of arts, the advancement of science; surprising escapes from death and dangers; strange discoveries of long-concealed murders, and a vast variety of other matters equally curious. The whole collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, and physicians, of all ages and countries. Forming a complete system of the mental and corporeal powers and defects of human nature; and intended to increase knowledge, to promote virtue, to discourage vice, and to furnish topics for innocent and ingenious conversation. By Nathaniel Wanley ...

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Creator:
Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634–1680
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
vi, 7-752 p., [6] leaves of plates. ill. 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18442. Temples anciens et modernes, ou, Observations historiques et critiques sur les plus celebres monumens d'architecture grecque et gothique / par M. L. M.

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Creator:
Avril, Louis, b. 1722
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
[2], xvj, 347, [3] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18443. Cipriani's rudiments of drawing.

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Creator:
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727–1785
Date:
1796
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18444. Houshold [sic] furniture in genteel taste for the year 1763 / by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c ; containing upwards of 300 plates ... ; consisting of china, breakfast, side-board ...

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Creator:
Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
[100] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18445. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

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Creator:
Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Date:
1797-1803
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18446. [Composite atlas of Caribbean charts].

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Date:
1763-1808
Physical Description:
1 atlas : 32 maps ; 66 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18447. Les beaux arts reduits à un même principe ...

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Creator:
Batteux, Charles, 1713–1780
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
3 p.., xiii, [5], 291, [13] p. front., ill. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18448. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton, His Britannick Maiesty's envoy extraordinary at the Court of Naples = Antiquités etrusques, grecques et romaines tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, envoyé extraordinaire de S.M. Britannique en Cour de Naples.

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Creator:
Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719–1805
Date:
MDCCLXVI-MDCCLVII [1766-1767]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations (some color, some folded) ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Clive Caplan

18449. Fifth book containing nine imitations of drawings of fashionable carriage : on a half inch scale to a foot.

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Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[2] p., 9 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18450. A catalogue of one hundred impressions from gems / engraved by Nathaniel Marchant.

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Creator:
Marchant, Nathaniel, 1739–1816
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
36, vi p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18451. View's of all the cathedrall churches of England and Wales &c neatly engrav'd = Vues de toutes les englises cathederalles d'Angleterre et de Galle &c. proprement gravée.

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Date:
[1715?]
Physical Description:
[32] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18452. Gradation from a greenhorn to a blood. : Altered from an original essay, published about the year 1740; and adapted to the taste and fashion of the year 1790: with several additions; and the progressive situations represented in characteristic designs ... / by G.M. Woodward ...

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Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
[19] p. 8 plates. 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18453. A collection of various forms of stoves : used for forcing pine plants, fruit trees, and preserving tender exotics : intended as well for the use of amateurs, as that of students in the art of gardening : the platesaccompanied by ample letter-press, and a correct method shewn for drawing their elevations and sections, from the plans : with the parts at large / byW.Robertson.

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Creator:
Robertson, William, architect
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
[31] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18454. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales ... By Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1784
Physical Description:
viii, xxiv p., 272 col., 273-280 p. front. (double map) 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18455. St. Michael's Mount : a poem / by the Rev. William Lisle Bowles.

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Creator:
Bowles, William Lisle, 1762–1850
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
25, [3] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18456. An actual Topographical Survey of the County of Sussex; by T. Yeakell & W. Gardner, Surveyors. Engrav'd by Thos. Yeakell. Scale of three ... miles[ = 150 mm].

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Date:
1778-1783
Physical Description:
4 sheets ; 905 x 735 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18457. A catalogue of the late Sir Everard Fawkener's pictures, antique bronzes, large marble group of a lion devouring a horse, two curious Egyptian mummies of a woman and a child : several large portraits, of English gentlemen, by Liotard, in frames and glasses : and a collection of other valuable pictures, vases, and basso relievos, a curious table inlaid with brass, a large book-case, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in St. James's Haymarket, on Tuesday the 27th of this instant March 1759.

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Creator:
Ford, James (Auctioneer)
Date:
[1759]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18458. A catalogue of the genuine and intire stock of capital and valuable prints, drawings, and copper-plates, some of which have never been published : and a few pleasing cabinet pictures : the property of Mr. G. Bartolozzi, retiring from business : comprising an extensive assemblage of prints of the finest impressions : drawings by Cipriani and Bartolozzi : and amongst the plates, the celebrated one after the N. Poussin in the possession of the Marquis of Landsdown : a ditto after the four elements of Albano : and a capital engraving in strokes after the celebrated picture of the Madona Del Sacco, of A. Del Sarto, at Florence by Bartolozzi, lately finished, and which may be truly deemed the finest plate ever executed by that artist : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, June the 23d, 1797, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed till the sale : catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : and in Pall Mall.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18459. Le guide nouveau et universel dans les villes de Londres et de Westminster, le bourg de Southwark, et leurs environs. Par Jean Mazzinghy, M.L.

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Creator:
Mazzinghi, Giovanni
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
303 p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18460. Instructive rambles in London, : and the adjacent villages. Designed to amuse the mind, and improve the understanding of youth. / By Elizabeth Helme ...

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Creator:
Helme, Elizabeth, -1814?
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
2 v., 2 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18461. Catalogue raisonné d'une collection generale de pierres gravées antiques et modernes, tant en creux que camées, tirées des cabinets les plus celébres de l'Europe : moulées en pâtes de couleurs a l'imitation des pierres, emaux blancs, et soufres, par Jacques Tassie, sculpteur / mis en ordre et le texte rédigé par R.E. Raspe ; orné de planches gravées ; au quel on a ajouté un discours preliminaire sur les differents usages de cette collection, sur l'origine de l'art de graver les pierres dures, et le progrès de l'invention des pâtes.

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Creator:
Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737–1794
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18462. A view of England towards the close of the eighteenth century. By Fred. Aug. Wendeborn, LL. D. Translated from the original German, by the author himself.

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Creator:
Wendeborn, Gebhard Friedrich August, 1742–1811
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
2 v. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18463. 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.

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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

18464. The Suffolk traveller / first published by Mr. John Kirby of Wickham-Market, who took an actual survey of the whole county, in the years 1732, 1733, and 1734.

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Creator:
Kirby, John, 1690–1753
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
xvi, 296 p., [5] leaves of plates (fold). : maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18465. The English pilot : part V, describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, ports : with the exact appearances and representations of the most principal marks, lands, &c. : together with the soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, and dangers, on the west-coat [sic] of Africa : from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Cape of Good Hope ...

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Date:
MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 42 pages, [38] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18466. On the conduct of man to inferior animals ...

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Date:
1797
Physical Description:
134, [2] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18467. A catalogue of prints : engraved from the finest paintings of the most eminent masters : in the collection of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Monsgr. le Duc D'Orleans, Monsgr. le Marquis D'Argenson, Monsr. le Comte de Vence, Monsr. le Chevalier de la Rocque ... : the whole collection are printed on grand eagle paper, to be had either in sheets or bound fit for gentlemen's libraries.

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Creator:
Major, Thomas, 1720–1799
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 38 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18468. To the honourable the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled / the humble petition of Joshua Price, glass painter.

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Creator:
Price, Joshua
Date:
[1707?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 30 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18469. Plan general du palais & jardins de Kensington : situé dans le conté de Middlesex, a 2 miles de Londres / tres exactement levé, dessiené & gravé par Jean Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
1 map ; 52 x 65 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18470. An illustration of the Roman antiquities discovered at Bath / by the Rev. Richard Warner ...

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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

18471. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

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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

18472. Traité de l'éducation du cheval en Europe : contenant le développement des vrais principes des haras, du vice radical de l'éducation actuelle, et des moyens de perfectionner les individus, en perfectionnant les espèces; avec un plan d'exécution pour la France / Par M. de Préseau de Dompierre, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de S. Louis, mestre du camp de cavalerie.

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Creator:
Préseau de Dompierre, M. de (Jacques Marguerite)
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
xiii, [3], 246, [2] p., [1] folded plate, [1] folded table : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18473. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. N. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

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Creator:
Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18474. Botanical dialogues : between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry. Designed for the use of schools, / by a lady.

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Creator:
Jackson, Maria Elizabeth
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[2], xlv, [1], 335, [3] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18475. [Composite world atlas].

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Date:
[1799?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([142] leaves, some folded) : 74 hand-colored maps ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18476. A catalogue of a most capital and pleasing collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures, the property of a nobleman, brought from his house in Hertford-Street, May-Fair : consisting of the works of the following great and much-admired Masters : Berghem, Teniers, Van Uden, Ruysdael, P. Potter, Mieres, Poussin, Bourdon, Borgonione, Hirizonti, Canaletti, Marieski, Cuyp, Vanderveldt, Vanderneer, Hobbima, Both, Swaneveldt, Vangoen, Moucheron, Eshimeer, Wyck, Ochiali, Detrich : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Squibb, at his new Great Room, in Saville Row, on Friday the 12th of December, 1783, and following day : In the above is a 'View of Tivoli', a very capital landscape by Berghem, lately purchased from the collection of the Hon. Thomas Walpole : also a beautiful cattle piece by Cuyp, in his best style : two remarkable fine landscapes by Swaneveldt : one Ditto by Wynants : a beautiful Cabinet Picture : one by Loutherberg -- 'A view of Hampstead', with the adjacent country, Harrow church in the distance, a very elegant picture : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had as above.

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Creator:
Squibb, Mr.
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18477. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:
1762
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18478. Turn the carpet, or, The two weavers : a new song : in a dialogue between Dick and John.

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Creator:
More, Hannah, 1745–1833
Date:
[1796?]
Physical Description:
7 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18479. Biographiana / by the compiler of Anecdotes of distinguished persons.

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Creator:
Seward, William, 1747–1799
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
2 v. (Med: 2 v. in 1) : ill., port., music ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18480. The ornaments of churches considered : with a particular view to the late decoration of the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing, the history of the said church, an account of the altar-piece, and stained glass window erected over it : a state of the prosecution [!] it has occasioned, and other papers ...

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Creator:
Hole, William, 1710–1791
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
2 p., iv, [6], v-xiv, 15-143, 38, 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18481. A new map containing the towns, gentlemens houses, villages, and other remarks round London : as from London toe Windsor, Ware, Chelmsford, the Hope, Tunbridge, Guildford, &c.

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
[ca. 1700]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 26 x 28 cm., on sheet 30 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18482. A complete history of English peerage : from the best authorities / by William Guthrie ... ; illustrated with elegant copper-plates of the arms of the nobility, blazoned in the heralds-office, by the proper officers, copper-plates of the premiers in their parliamentary robes ; and at the conclusion of the history of each family, vignets, and other ornaments, proper for the subject.

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Creator:
Guthrie, William, 1708–1770
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18483. The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David : and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

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Creator:
Church of England
Date:
MDCCVI [1706]
Physical Description:
[372], 18, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18484. A catalogue of the capital, genuine, and valuable collection of pictures, the property of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Bart. dec. late president of the Royal Academy : comprising several fine specimens of the works of Teniers, Vandyck, Rubens, Poussin, Rembrandt, Bassan, Titian, Castiglione, &c. &c. : which by order of the executors, will be sold by auction, by Mr. H. Phillips, at his Great Room, 67, New Bond-Street, on Tuesday, May 8, 1798, and following day, at one o'clock each day : may be viewed by catalogues (at one shilling each) to be had as above : of Mr. Lloyd, bookseller, Harley-Sreet : Mr. Varley, York Hotel, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars : and of Mr. Phillips, at his house, No. 22, Bury-Sreet, St. James's.

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Creator:
Phillips, H., -1840
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18485. A catalogue of a capital valuable collection of antique marbles, marble statues, bustos, cinerary and offuary urns, basso relievos : vases of fine polished pavonazza, brecchetta, &c. marbles, ditto, unpollished richly ornamented and restored by Cav. G. B. Piranesi : a number of specimens of antient and modern marbles, Tuscan alabaster, vases, large mosaics, bianconero, alabaster, lumacella and smeraldina, marble tables : a great variety of fine Roman bronzes, by Zoffoli, Luigi, &c. : the whole collected in Rome by the late Matt. Nulty, painter and cicherone, thirty years resident in that city : N.B. By permission will be introduced a few lots of ancient and modern sculpture, purchased out of the collection of the late Lord Melcombe : which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Christie and Ansell, at their Great Room, next Cumberland House, Pall Mall, on Thursday the 27th March, 1783, and the following day.

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Creator:
Christie and Ansell (London, England)
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18486. 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

18487. Plan of the line composed of 11 corps of yeomanry & volunteer cavalry, & 24 corps of volunteer infantry, of the County of Surry, reviewed by the King, on Wimbledon Common, the 4th of July 1799 / engd. by Heath & Ashby.

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Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored engraving ; plate mark 43 x 67, on sheet 50 x 69 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18488. A catalogue of a collection of prints : now engraving by subscription, from the most capital paintings in England / published by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside (removed over the Way to No. 90. the corner of Ironmonger-Lane) : eight numbers of which, containing thirty eight prints, are already published : to which are added, a catalogue of copper-plats belonging to the above John Boydell.

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Creator:
Boydell, John, 1720–1804
Date:
1767
Physical Description:
24 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18489. A topographical map of Hartford-shire, from an actual survey : in which is express'd all the roads, lanes, churches, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, and every thing remarkable in the county, together with the division of the parishes / by Andw. Dury & Jno. Andrews.

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Creator:
Dury, Andrew
Date:
[1782]
Physical Description:
1 map on 9 sheets ; sheets 54 x 71 cm + 1 index map (52 x 71 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18490. Nouvaux livre d'oyseaux desinée au naturel.

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Creator:
Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Physical Description:
52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18491. The art of painting in oil : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery ... : the whole treatise being so complete and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity ... : in which are also particularly laid down all the several circumstances required in painting of sun-dials, printed pictures, sash-windows, &c. in oil colours / by John Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680.
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
112 p., [1] leaf : front. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18492. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
[2] p., p. 407-412 ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18493. The royal gauger, or, Gauging made perfectly easy : as it is actually practised by the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise : in two parts : Part I. Containing the practical methods of finding the areas and contents of such superficies and solids, as are the foundation of gauging ... Part II. Shewing all the necessary steps to be taken for obtaining employment in the excise ... to which is added, cask-gauging, &c. as practised in the port of London : the whole illustrated with many new copper-plates adapted to the subject ... / by Charles Leadbetter.

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Creator:
Leadbetter, Charles, fl. 1728
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
xvii, [1], 474 [i.e. 484] p., 10 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18494. St. Peter's, Cornhill.

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Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18495. Van den Wyngaerde's View of London (circa 1550)

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Creator:
Wyngaerde, Anton van den, d. 1571
Date:
1881-1882
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (7 plates) : all ill. ; 53 x 295 cm, on 7 sheets 80 x 59 cm, in cover 79 x 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18496. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

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Creator:
Darly, Matthias
Date:
[1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:
102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18497. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / illustrated with copper plates in aqua tinta from drawings on the spot, by Samuel Ireland ...

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Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18498. Royal magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly companion.

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Date:
[1759-1771]
Physical Description:
21 v. fronts., illus., plates (part fold., part col.) ports., maps. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18499. A treatise on building in water : in two parts : Part I. : particularly relative to the repair and re-building of Essex-Bridge, Dublin ... : Part II : concerning an attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap methods ... : illustrated with sixty-three copper-plates / by George Semple ...

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Creator:
Semple, George, 1700?-1782?
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
4 p. l., 157 p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18500. A new drawing book.

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Date:
[175-?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts