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18801. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos, and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from his Lordship's mss.

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Creator:
Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:
MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Physical Description:
[4], xxxviii, 116, [2] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18802. Versuch einer Anweisung zur Anlegung, Verbesserung und Nutzung der Wildbahnen so wohl im Freyn als in Thiergärten : mit 118 Kupfern.

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Creator:
Mellin, August Wilhelm von
Date:
1779
Physical Description:
xxi, [1], 356 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18803. 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

18804. Twelve pleasing views down the River Thames, and prospects at sea [graphic].

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Date:
published 2d. March, 1773
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18805. Twelve views of gentlemens seats & gardens by Woollett &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

18806. Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur.

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Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
Date:
[circa 1703?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1] leaf, [289] leaves of plates) : 144 maps ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18807. A catalogue of a capital and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, the property of a Nobleman, brought from his late mansion in Piccadilly :comprising the undoubted works of the following esteemed masters : Julia Romana, Permegiano, Perdononi, Bassan, L. Du Vinci, Langranco, Luca Giordano, Guido, Carlo Marratte, G. Poussin, Le Seure, Stella, Watteau, D. Teniers, Jean Steen, Backhuysem, Van de Velde, Ruysdael, Cup, Vandermeer, Glauber, Vangoyen, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, March the 7th, 1794, and the following day at twelve o'clock : to be viewed till the sale : catalogues may be had at the Rainbow, and in Pall Mall.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1794] ,
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18808. [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

18809. School of arts : or, An introduction to useful knowledge : being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science ... / by John Imison.

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Creator:
Imison, John, d. 1788
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
xv, 319, 176 p., [24] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18810. Comforts of Bath.

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Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
12 prints : aquatint ; 19 x 24 cm, mounted to leaves in an album 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18811. Original letters relating to the hospitals in the diocese of Exeter : communicated at the instance of Seth [Ward] Lord Bishop of that see. Anno MDCLXV.

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Date:
1728]
Physical Description:
[2], 7, [1] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18812. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

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Creator:
Forbes, Miss
Date:
1780-1781
Physical Description:
1 v. (115 leaves, with blanks) ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18813. Journal in France.

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Date:
circa 1753
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 200 pages) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18814. The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation : consisting of plans, elevations and sections in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste : calculated for the ornamenting of parks, forests, woods, gardens ... &c. : together with a full explanation, in letter press, to each design, and exact scales for measurement / by Thomas Collins Overton.

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Creator:
Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
19, [1] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18815. The young colorist.

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Date:
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm. x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18816. Treatise on perspective.

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Date:
circa 1770
Physical Description:
1 volume (15 leaves) : illustrations
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18817. Catalogue d'une belle collection de tableaux originaux des bons maitres des trois écoles : figures, bustes de marbre & de bronze, d'ancienne porcelaine de la Chine & du Japon : lacques, pierres gravées & autres, médailles, estampes & objets curieux, qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Duc de S. Aignan : dont la vent se fera le lundi 17 juin 1776, en son Hôtel rue Saint Avoye : par J.B.P. Lebrun.

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Creator:
Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre, 1748–1813
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
50 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18818. Malpas, engraver : in Church Street near Greek Street, Soho / Malpas del. et sculp.

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Creator:
Malpas, Edward
Date:
[approximately 1775]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; sheet 125 x 87 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18819. Nature displayed in 12 prints of humorous & satirical subjects, with a variety of whimsical characers [graphic] / by R. Dighton.

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Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814
Date:
published as the Act directs, 2 Sep. 1784
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18820. At Mr. de Poggi's new room, No. 91, New Bond Street, near Oxford Road, are now exhibiting two large pictures painted by Mr. Robert Cleveley of the Royal Navy : representing the great and important victory obtained by the British fleet, under the command of the Earl Howe, over the French, on the first of June, 1794.

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Creator:
Poggi, A. C. de
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 leaflet ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18821. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

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Creator:
Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:
MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:
2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18822. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

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Creator:
Hipwell, John
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18823. Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum, per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur.

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Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
Date:
[approximately 1716?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2] pages, 95, 132 leaves of plates) : 227 maps ; 54 x 68 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18824. The method of cutting up a stag.

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Date:
Jany. 1st, 1793
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 22.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 23.7 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18825. An old man taught wisdom, or, The virgin unmask'd / by Henry Fielding.

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Creator:
Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:
[1735?]
Physical Description:
24 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sidney Sabin

18826. A catalogue of the reserved part of the most magnificent and valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : this collection consists of the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Corregio, Caracci, Guercino, Caravaggio, Cl. Lorain, L. Da Vinci, Parmegiano, C. Maratti, Mola, Murillo, V. Castelli, Rembrandt, Titian, P. Veronese, Tintoret, S. Rosa, Rubens, Vandyke, Velasquez, Poussin, Borgognone, S. Bourdon, Polemburg, Bassan, Vanderwerf, Mieris, &c. : and will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms, late belonging to the Society of Arts &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand, on Friday, April 10, and the following day : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Wednesday and Thursday the 8th and 9th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock ; descriptive catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

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Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
23, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18827. Collection choisie de desseins : tirés de pierres precieuses antiques, pour la plupart dans la possession de la grande et petite noblesse de ce royaume, gravés dans le goût de Rembrandt / par T. Worlidge, peintre.

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Creator:
Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700–1766
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[5], 48 p., [182] plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18828. Sketchbooks of tours in Italy / 1792, July 21-1793, April 12.

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Creator:
Swinburne, Edward, 1765–1847
Date:
1792, July 21-1793, April 12
Physical Description:
5 volumes ; 20 x 13 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18829. [Four sporting prints].

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Date:
[between 1754 and 1764]
Physical Description:
4 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18830. A catalogue of the genuine collection of pictures, of Lady Sidney Sherrard, lately deceased; (being part of the collection of the Right Hon. Jocelyn Earl of Leicester, late of Penshurst in the County of Kent, deceased) : consisting of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Guido, Tintoret, C. Lorraine, Sal. Rosa, Vandyck, D. Teniers, Elsheimer, Sir P. Lely : also of a sixteen month repeating clock, by Tompion, of most exquisite workmanship, in an ebony case, elegantly enriched with silver and other ornaments : which (by order of the Hon. Lady Yonge) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday the 10th of this instant May 1764 : the same may be viewed on Tuesday the 8th Instant, and till the time of sale, which will begin punctually at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son
Date:
[1764]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18831. A catalogue of the curious museum of a Gentleman, deceased : consisting of a collection of cabinet pictures, drawings, fine prints, framed and glazed, bronzes, marbles, carvings in ivory, roman earthen ware, curious and valuable shells, minerals, fossils, and petrifactions, fine dresden, oriental, and old Chelsea ornamental procelane, some pieces of engraved crystal, a few volumes of very rare scarce books, two library book cases, a paair of elegnat inlaid commodes, curious old Japan cabinets, a capital piece of grotto work, and other valuable miscellaneous articles : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at this Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Wednesday, May 11th."

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
[13]-[14], 15-19, [1] pages ; 22 x 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18832. Draft announcement on the employment of boys from the Blue Coat Hospital in Manchester : manuscript.

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Creator:
Chetham's Hospital (Manchester, England)
Date:
1797? December 4
Physical Description:
1 item ; 25 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18833. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

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Creator:
Robertson, William, 1721–1793
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18834. An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile : abridged from the original work / by Samuel Shaw, Esq.

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Creator:
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 372 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18835. A description of the library of the Escorial : extracted from a book printed at Madrid, Anno 1657, intituled, "Descripcion breve del monasterio de S. Lorenzo el Real del Escorial." Por el P.F. Francisco, de los Santos / translated by Philip Carteret Webb.

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Creator:
Webb, Philip Carteret, 1700–1770
Date:
circa 1754
Physical Description:
1 v. ([4], 26 p., [3] folded leaves of plates) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18836. The history of the Saracens : containing the lives of Abubeker, Omar, Othman, Ali, Hasan, Moawiyah I. Yezid I. Moawiyah II. Abdolla, Merwan I. and Abdolmelick, the immediate succesors of Mahomet : giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, & c. particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem : illustrating the religion, rites, customs, and manner of living of that warlike people : collected from the most authentic Arabic authors, especially mss. not hitherto publish'd in any European language / by Simon Ockley, B.D. Vicar of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire, Professor of Arabick in the University of Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimerby Simon Ockley.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ockley, Simon, 1678–1720
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18837. An illustration and mensuration of solid geometry in seven books: : containing forty-two moveable copper-plate schemes for forming the various kinds of solids and their sections; by which the doctrine of solids in general, and those in the eleventh, twelfth, and fifteenth books of Euclid are elucidated, and rendered more easy to learners than by any work hitherto published.... / By the late John Lodge Cowley, F.R.S. professor of the mathematics in the Royal Academy at Woolwich.

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Creator:
Cowley, John Lodge, 1719–1797
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [i.e. 1787]
Physical Description:
32 XLVII leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18838. The art of landscape drawing made easy : by specimens in the rual stile, intended for the use of those who wish to excell in that noble art : recommended to the use of schools.

No cover image available
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18839. At a special committee of the Light-Horse Volunteers, held the 25th of October 1798.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Army. London and Westminster Light House Volunteers
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18840. The poll of the freeholders of Warwickshire : taken at Warwick, on the 20th, 21st, 22d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 31st of October, 1774. William Holbech, Esq ; Sheriff : Candidates, Sir Charles Holte, Baronet : Thomas George Skipwith Esquire : John Mordaunt, Esquire.

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Creator:
Warwickshire (England)
Date:
M.DCC.LXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[2], 133, [1] pages : tables ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18841. A Catalogue of the capital collection of optical, mathematical, and philosophical Instruments and machines : late the property of The Right Hon. the Earl of Bute, Deceased : consisting of a great variety of elegant and valuable articles : including a grand orrery, a nicely-finished new universal equatorial, by Ramsden : a large armillary sphere, a cabinet selection of silver and brass drawing instruments and scales, air pumps, electrical machines, and apparatus, by Nairne : a silver compound microscope; elegant solar, lucernal, and other microscopes, by Adams, &c. reflecting telescopes, by Short, &c. achromatic telescopes, by Dollond and Ramsden : a large universal ring dial, with dials of other constructions : improved barometers, and thermometers; loadstones, silver-mounted : sets of artificial magnets; perspective machines : a curious assortment of French recreations, by Guyot ... : which will be sold by auction by Mess. Skinner & Dyke, on Tuesday the 5th February, and the two following days at twelve o'clock, at Mr. Hutchin's Rooms, King-Street, Covent-Garden.

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Creator:
Skinner and Dyke
Date:
[1793]
Physical Description:
23, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18842. Art of surveying.

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Creator:
Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676–1751
Date:
1757?
Physical Description:
1 v. ([74] p.) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18843. Voyage historique de l'Amerique Meridionale : fait par ordre du roi d'Espagne / par Don George Juan ... et par Don Antoine de Ulloa ... ouvrage orné des figures, plans et cartes necessaires ; et qui contient une histoire de Yncas du Perou, et les observations astronomiques & physiques, faites pour déterminer la figure & la grandeur de la terre.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716–1795
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18844. An history of the manor, and manor-house, of South Winfield, in Derbysire / by Tho. Blore, of the Society of the Middle Temple, and F.S.A.

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Creator:
Blore, Thomas, 1764–1818
Date:
MDCCXCCIII [1793]
Physical Description:
[2], 100, [2] pages, [3], IV leaves of plates ([2]) folded : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

18845. A catalogue of a capital, and truly valuable assemblage of Chinese drawings, paintings, natural and artificial curiosities : the property of A. E. Van Braam, Esq. : Chief of the direction of the Dutch East India Company at Canton, and second in the Dutch Embassy, to the Court of Pekin, in the years 1794 and 1795, of which, Mr. Van Braam will speedily publish an authentic account : the whole of which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, February the 15th, 1799, at one o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18846. Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence, 1767-1917.

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Date:
1767-1917
Physical Description:
.84 linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18847. The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.

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Creator:
Wallis, N
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
[4] p., [16] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18848. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer : either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country. Engraved on thirty plates. To which is added, an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building; tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences / by the late Mr. J. Wood, of Bath, Architect.

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Creator:
Wood, John, -1782
Date:
MDCCXCII (1792)
Physical Description:
[2], 38 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18849. [Views in the West Indies].

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Creator:
Forrest, Charles, Lieut
Date:
1783-1785]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18850. The Sportsman and breeder's vade mecum.

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Physical Description:
12 v. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18851. A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

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Creator:
Senex, John, -1740
Date:
1719
Physical Description:
1 map ; 48 x 54 cm, on sheet 53 x 59 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18852. An Act for making the Act of the fifth year of Her Majesties reign, for the better preservation of the game, perpetual, and for making the same more effectual.

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Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
[1711]
Physical Description:
[2], 531-533, [1] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18853. Edgeworthstown archive, 1796-1815.

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Creator:
Beaufort, Daniel Augustus, 1739–1821
Date:
1796-1815
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box, approximately 50 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18854. The practical surveyor, or, The art of Land-measuring made easy : shewing by plain and familiar rules, how to survey any piece of land whatsoever, by the plain-table, theodolite, or circumferentor, or, by the chain only : and how to protract, cast up, reduce, and divide the same : likewise, an easy method of protracting observations made with the meridian : and how to cast up the content of any plot of land, by reducing any multangular figure to one triangle : to which is added, an appendix, shewing how to draw buildings, &c. in perspective : of levelling : and also how to measure standing timber / by Samuel Wyld.

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Creator:
Wyld, Samuel
Date:
[approximately 1737]
Physical Description:
viii, 188, [4] pages, [7] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18855. Pantograph.

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Creator:
Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782
Date:
between 1756 and 1778
Physical Description:
1 pantograph : brass ; 11 x 58 x 7 cm (folded), in box 14 x 60 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18856. Designs in carpentry : containing domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, angle-brackets, and cornices / by Abraham Swan.

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Creator:
Swan, Abraham
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
[1], 8, [55] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18857. The London calendar, or, Court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year ...

No cover image available
Physical Description:
v. ; 16-17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18858. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

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Creator:
Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Date:
circa 1776-circa 1832
Physical Description:
1 v. (270 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18859. Twelve views in Surry & Kent [graphic] / drawn from nature by J. Clevely junr. = Douze vües en Surry & Kent / tirées d'aprés nature par J. Cleveley junr.

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Creator:
Cleveley, John, 1747–1786
Date:
published 2d. May 1771
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18860. Sketches.

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Creator:
Morland, George, 1763–1804
Date:
1792-1793
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18861. A general map of the middle British colonies in America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode-Island : of Aquanishuonigy the country of the confederate Indians comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio & Thuchsochruntie their deer hunting countries, Couchsachrage & Skaniadarade their beaver hunting countries, of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain : wherein is also shewn the antient & present seats of the Indian nations / carefully copied from the original published at Philadelphia, by Lewis Evans.

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Creator:
Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand colored ; 48 x 63 cm, on sheet 53 x 71 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18862. Four engraved sheets representing painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture.

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Creator:
Marshall, R
Date:
ca. 1780
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18863. An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical : wherein the most reasonable and advantageous methods of raising and conducting water, for the watering noblemens and gentlemens seats, buildings, gardens, &c., are carefully (and in a manner not yet publish'd in any language) laid down ... : illustrated and explain'd by sixty copper cuts, done by the best hands ... : collected from the best of the Italian and French designs (together with some new ones of the author's own invention) ... / by Stephen Switzer ...

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Creator:
Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
2 v. ([6], xxxii, [4], 133, [15], [129]-274, 10 p.; [8], [275]- 352, 4, [353]-413, [1], [14] p., [2], [60] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18864. The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the young of both sexes, or, A complete body of the polite and useful arts : ... Comprising ... I. The art of designing : II. Complete compendium of colours : III. Painting in miniature, or water colours : IV. Painting in oil colours: V. Painting in crayons : illustrated with 72 copper plate cuts ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1785?]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18865. A residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 / described in a series of letters from an English lady : with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners ; prepared for the press by John Gifford ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18866. Vorstellung und Beschreibung derer Schul und Campagne Pferden nach ihren Lectionen, in was vor Gelegenheiten solche können gebraucht werden = Representation et description de toutes les leçons des chevaux de manège et de la campagne, dans quelles occasions on s'en puisse servir / heraus gegeben von Johann Elias Ridinger, Mahler u. Kupferstecher auch der Augspurgischen Kunst und Mahler Academie Director.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698–1767
Date:
Anno 1760
Physical Description:
35, 8 p., 46, [1], 15 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18867. The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur : notwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf & actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur: of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table : theyr merveyllous enquestes & adventures, thachyevynge of the sanc-greall and in the ende the dolourous deth: and departynge out of this worlde of them al. : which boke was reduced in to Englysshe / by the well dysposyd knyghte Syr Thomas Malory.

No cover image available
Creator:
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18868. An Act to repeal an Act, made in the tenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the game within that part of Great Britain called England : and for making other provisions in lieu thereof.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:
[2], 1583-1590 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18869. Seymour's twelve prints of hunters & running horses [graphic] : taken in various actions.

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Creator:
Seymour, James, 1702–1752
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

18870. Twelve views in Kent [graphic] / drawn from nature by J. Cleveley Junr = Douze vües en Kent / tirées d'aprés nature par J. Cleveley Junr.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cleveley, John, 1747–1786
Date:
published 1 Octr. 1770
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18871. Twelve views of the Great Canal of Venice [graphic] = Douze vües du Grand Canal de Venise.

No cover image available
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

18872. A general map of England & Wales, divided into its counties.

No cover image available
Date:
circa [1800?]
Physical Description:
1 map : embroidery on linen ; sheet 61 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18873. A catalogue of the reserved collection of statues, busts, vases, urns, sarcophagi, &c. and other select and valuable pieces of antiquity : also sundry modern busts of exquisite sculpture, and highly finished, comprising a bust of Venus de Medicis, Shakespear, Stern, Cato the Censor, Scipio Africano, and other renowned and admired characters : several elegant statuary marble chimney pieces, and curious and scarce marble slabs, the property of Lyde Brown, Esq. : removed from his late residence in the city : also a small collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures, prints, drawings, &c. and a capital set of Brussels tapestry from Teniers, in excellent preservation : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Friday, May 30, 1788, and following day.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18874. A catalogue of a capital collection of prints and drawings, scarce and valuable, which have been purchased out of the most distinguished cabinets here and on the continent; the drawings stamped on the back by the several judicious collectors, viz. Padre Resto, Sir Peter Lely, Richardson, Pond, Hudson, and John Barnard : among the prints are many fine proofs and first impressions from Rubens, Vandyke, and other celebrated artists : engraved by Vosterman, Pontius, Sontman, Fisher, Edelinck, Hollar, Mason, Balechou, and other noted engravers : among the drawings is that celebrated one by Thomyris by Rubens, from the Cabinet of Mons. de Mariette--The Mistress instructing her pupil by Cipriani, from the collection of Mr. Locke, with many other capital and well-known works of esteemed masters : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Wednesday, May 11th, 1791, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had in Pall Mall.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18875. Diary in Turkey and Greece : manuscript.

No cover image available
Creator:
Morritt, John B. S. (John Bacon Sawrey), 1772?-1843
Date:
1794-1796
Physical Description:
1 volume (230 leaves, some blank) : illustrations ; 32 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18876. Het zegenpralent Kenenmerlant [i.e. Kennemerlant] : vertoont in 100 heerelyke gezichten van deszelfs voornaemste lustplaetzen, adelyke huizen, dorp- en stede-gebouwen : beginnende met Kastrikum, vervolgende door 't Quartier van Heemskerk, Beverwyk, Velzen, Bloemendael, Haerlem, Overveen, Zantvoort, de Vogelezang, en eindigende met Berkenrode, Heemstede, Bennebroek en Hillegom / naer 't leven getekent en in 't koper gebragt door Hendrik de Leth, en kortelyk beschreven door Mattheus Brouërius van Nidek ...

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Creator:
Brouerius van Nidek, Matthaeus, 1677–1743
Date:
[1732?]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 ([7], 24 p., [25] leaves of plates, [1], 18 p., [25] leaves of plates) : ill., folded map (engravings) ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18877. Observations on the ventilation of rooms, on the construction of chimneys, and on garden stoves / principally collected from papers left by the late John Whitehurst, F.R.S.

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Creator:
Whitehurst, John, 1713–1788
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[8], 52 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18878. Gosling & Bennet account book.

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Creator:
Gosling & Bennet (London, England)
Date:
1751 September 28-1756 March 24
Physical Description:
1 v. ([138] p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18879. Scenery of Ireland : illustrated in a series of prints of select views, castles and abbies / drawn and engraved in aquatinta by Jonathan Fisher ; volume the first containing sixty prints with a letter press description to each.

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Creator:
Fisher, Jonathan, -1809
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
[1], page iv, [112], 6 pages, LX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18880. Rei nauticæ incrementa.

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Creator:
Lowth, Thomas Henry, 1753 or 1754–1778
Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
1 preliminary leaf, 10 pages 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18881. Writing box.

No cover image available
Date:
late 18th century?
Physical Description:
1 box ; 27 x 22 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18882. The penman's repository : containing twenty correct alphabets, ... a valuable selection of flourishes, and a variety of new designs / by William Milns ...

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Creator:
Milns, William, 1761–1801
Date:
[1787]
Physical Description:
32 leaves ; 31 x 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18883. Observations on the river Wye, and several parts of South Wales, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the summer of the year 1770 / by William Gilpin.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
99 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18884. A naval expositor : shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea : also all species that are received into the magazines, and on what services they are used and issued : together with the titles of all the inferior officers belonging to a ship, with an abridgment of their respective duties / by Thomas Riley Blanckley.

No cover image available
Creator:
Blanckley, Thomas Riley
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
[8], 191, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18885. An act for the better preservation of the game.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1707
Physical Description:
[2], 151-154 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18886. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Robertson, David, active 1794
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[12], 235, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18887. [Book of ruins].

No cover image available
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
[ca. 1745?]
Physical Description:
6 prints : etchings ; plate mark 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18888. Loose engravings, matted : wood engravings.

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Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
18--?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18889. Connubia florum latino carmine demonstrata / auctore D. de La Croix, M.D. Notas et observationes adjecit Richardus Clayton, baronettus.

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Creator:
La Croix, Demetrius de
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
[6], 138, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18890. A map of the British and French dominions in North America : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations / by their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell ; Tho: Kitchin, sculp.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:
[that is, 1757]
Physical Description:
1 map in 4 sheets : hand colored ; 136 x 192 cm, sheets 71 x 99 cm and 71 x 100 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18891. An Act for the further punishment of such persons as shall unlawfully kill or destroy deer in parks, paddocks, or other inclosed grounds.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
[1719]
Physical Description:
[2], 463-464 p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18892. The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio / translated from the original Latin, by W. Newton, architect.

No cover image available
Creator:
Vitruvius Pollio
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18893. Nakedness consider'd, or, Reasons for not wearing of clothes / by a gentleman of great parts.

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Creator:
Gentleman of great parts
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
[7], 1 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18894. Atlas National de France.

No cover image available
Creator:
D'Houdan
Date:
[1793?]
Physical Description:
83 sheets ; fol.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18895. The general stud-book.

No cover image available
Date:
1791-
Physical Description:
v. ; 21-23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18896. A catalogue of the Orleans' Italian pictures : which will be exhibited for sale by private contract, on Wednesday, the 26th of December, 1798, and following days, at Mr. Bryan's gallery, no. 88, Pall Mall.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bryan, Michael, 1757–1821
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
14, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18897. An Act to amend so much of an Act made in the first year of the reign of King James the First, intituled, An Act for the better execution of the intent and meaning of former statutes made against shooting in guns : and for the preservation of the game of pheasants and partridges, and against the destroying of hares with hare pipes, and tracing hares in the snow; as relates to the preservation of house doves and pidgeons, by making the manner of convicting such person or persons as shall offend therein, more easy and expeditious.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[2], 855-858 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18898. Proposal for county naval free-schools : to be built on waste lands, giving such effectual instructions to poor boys, as may nurse them for the sea service : teaching them also to cultivate the earth, that in due time tey may furnish their own food : & to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, etc. with a view to provide their own raiment, while good regulations and discipline, diffuse a moral & religious oeconomy through the land.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, [1], x-xxii, [2], 2, 90, [4], 91-120, [2], 121-141, [1], 48, [4], v, [3], 67, [1] pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18899. A catalogue of several libraries lately purchased, containing a large collection of valuable and useful books in most branches of learning : and a neat collection of prints, drawing, pictures, &c. &c. : which will be sold at the Ware-Room Carrubber's Close, on Monday the 15th September 1777, at the prices printed in the catalogue : ... catalogues may be had at the Ware-Room, which will always be open from ten in the morning to six in the evening, also at Mr. Gordon's Shop, Parliament Square : orders addressed to Robert Murray at either of the above places will be punctually attended to ...

No cover image available
Date:
printed in the year 1777
Physical Description:
[4], 120 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18900. A country dance / designed by John Nixon, Esqr.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818
Date:
Dec. 1, 1789
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([9] p.) : all ill. ; 31 x 229 cm., folded to 31 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts