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19001. The poetical works of John Langhorne ... : With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

Creator:: Langhorne, John, 1735–1779
Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: [2], 210, iv, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19002. The history of Great Britain connected with the chronology of Europe: with notes, &c. containing anecdotes of the times, lives of the learned, and specimens of their works ... By James Pettit Andrews ...

Creator:: Andrews, James Pettit, 1737?-1797
Date:: 1794-1795
Physical Description:: 2 v., folded plates : genealogical tables ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19003. Britannica curiosa, or, A description of the most remarkable curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : in the several counties, cities, towns, villages, &c. : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment... : illustrated with copper plates.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19004. Supplemento alla Serie dei trecento elogi e ritratti degli uomini i più illustri in pittura, scultura e architettura : o sia, Abecedario pittorico dall' origine delle belle arti a tutto l' anno MDCCLXXV ...

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 1 v. in 2 : port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19005. A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Creator:: Green, John, -1757
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 1753.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19006. A tour through the south of England, Wales, and part of Ireland, made during the summer of 1791.

Creator:: Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769–1822
Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:: xxx, [2], 403, [1] pages, [12] leaves of plates : engravings ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19007. Choir gaure, vulgarly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain : described, restored, and explained, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer / by John Wood ...

Creator:: Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: 119 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 5 plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19008. The account of Pythagoras's School in Cambridge : as in Mr. Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales, and other notices.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: [1790?]
Physical Description:: v, [1], 5-58, [4], 59-158 p., [8] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19009. Select views of the lakes in Cumberland, Westmoreland & Lancashire / from drawings made by P. Holland, engraved by C. Rosenberg.

Creator:: Holland, Peter, 1757–1812
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [22] leaves, [21] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19010. Picturesque and architectural views for cottages, farm houses, and country villas / engraved and designed by Charles Middleton, architect.

Creator:: Middleton, Charles, 1756–approximately 1818
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: [2], 16 pages, XX, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19011. The joyner and cabinet-maker's darling, or, pocket director : containing sixty different designs, new and useful ... / the whole designed and engraved by John Crunden.

Creator:: Crunden, John, ca. 1745–1835
Date:: 1765
Physical Description:: [2] p., [26] plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19012. Parentalia, or, Memoirs of the family of the Wrens : viz. of Mathew bishop of Ely, Christopher dean of Windsor, &c but chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren ... : in which is contained, besides his works, a great number of original papers and records; on religion, politicks, anatomy, mathematicks, architecture, antiquities; and most branches of polite literature / comp. by his son Christopher; now published by his grandson, Stephen Wren, esq. ; with the care of Joseph Ames ...

Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: [2], ii, [4], iii-xii, 368 (i.e. 343), [4] p. : ill., ports. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19013. The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Creator:: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Physical Description:: volumes ; 14-27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles

19014. Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons : faite en exécution de l'arrêté du Comité de salut public, du 18 pluviôse de l'an 2 de la République Française, une et indivisible / par Gaspard Monge ...

Creator:: Monge, Gaspard, 1746–1818
Date:: an 2 de la République française [1794]
Physical Description:: [4], viii, 231, [1] p., 4, lx folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19015. A set of 4 fox huntings which are in the highest repute [graphic] / from that celebrated artist J. Seymour.

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

19016. The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia / by William Stith, A.M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Creator:: Stith, William, 1707–1755
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: viii, 304, 295-331, [1], v, [1], 34, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19017. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

Date:: [1740]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19018. Bath and it's environs, a descriptive poem, in three cantos. Wherein the reality, life, and great qualities of it's first founder Bladud are displayed,--his figure, as described by the orator Himerius, delineated;--the natural history of Bath, as well ancient as modern, and the inimitable beauty of it's situation, hills, woods, river, vales, and respective landscapes, depicted according to nature. The whole interspersed with reflections analogous to the subject, and illustrated with explanatory notes authenticating the several historical traditions from which the poem is composed ...

Creator:: Hippesley, R
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: viii p., 2 ., 53 p. 1 plate. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19019. A gentleman's tour through Monmouthshire and Wales, in the months of June and July, 1774.

Creator:: Wyndham, Henry Penruddocke, 1736–1819
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 1 p.., v, 218, [3] p. front. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19020. Plan of the London-dock, with some observations respecting the river immediately connected with docks in general, and of the improvement of navigation.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 12 p. front. (fold. plan) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19021. An introduction to the art of drawing, neatly engraved by G. Bickham: on thirty-six plates.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:: [17--]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 35 plates on 34 leaves. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19022. Three essays: I. On dramatic composition. II. The advantages and disadvantages of foreign travel. III. And, On sculpture.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [5]-59 p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19023. The history of the belles lettres, and of the arts and sciences, from their origin, down to this present time. Translated from the French of M. Juvenal de Carlencas. With a complete alphabetical index.

Creator:: Carlenças, Félix de Juvenel de, 1679–1760
Date:: 1740
Physical Description:: xiv, 309, [24] p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19024. An authentic history and description of the castle & priory of Dudley, chiefly compiled from the works of Leland, Erdeswicke, Plott, Grose &c. By J. Payton ...

Creator:: Payton, John
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [iii]-iv, [5]-52, [2] p. 3 plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19025. The school of wisdom; or repository of the most valuable curiosities of art & nature ... Compiled from various authors.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xii, 324 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19026. An accurate and descriptive catalogue of the several paintings in the King of Spain's palace at Madrid; with some account of the pictures in the Buen-Retiro. By Richard Cumberland ...

Creator:: Cumberland, Richard, 1732–1811
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: iv, 131 p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19027. Remarkable antiquities of the city of Exeter: giving an account of the laws and customs of the place; the offices, court of judicature, gates, walls, rivers, churches, and immunities; the titles and privileges of the several corporations, and their distinct coats of arms finely engraven on copper-plates: with a catalogue of all the bishops, mayors, and sheriffs, from the year 1049, to 1677. Originally collected by Richard Izacke, esq; ...

Creator:: Izacke, Richard, 1624?-1698
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., iii, 25, [26], 50-69, 213, [66] p. front., ill., (coats of arms) fold. plate, fold. plan. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19028. A survey of the cathedral-church of Worcester : with an account of the bishops thereof, from the foundation of the see, to the year 1600. Also an appendix of many original papers and records, never before printed. / by William Thomas ...

Creator:: Thomas, William, 1670–1738
Date:: 1737
Physical Description:: [1], vi, 124, 222, 8, 210 p., ill. [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plan ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19029. Select views of the principal buildings and other interesting and picturesque objects in the cities of Bath and Bristol and their environs / drawn and engraved by William Watts ; with an explanatory letter press.

Creator:: Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([7] leaves of plates; [6] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 25 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19030. The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol; compiled from original records and authentic manuscripts in public offices or private hands; illustrated with copper-plate prints. By William Barrett ...

Creator:: Barrett, William, 1733–1789
Date:: [1789]
Physical Description:: xix, 704 p. illus., 31 pl. (partly fold.) incl. front., plans, facsim. 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19031. Premiums offered by the Society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce.

Creator:: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 53 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19032. Dedicated to the connoisseurs : six views near Edinburgh / drawn from nature and etched by John Westgarth.

Creator:: Westgarth, John
Date:: [1796?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : all ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19033. A philosophical and critical history of the fine arts, painting, sculpture, and architecture : with occasional observations on the progress of engraving ... deduced from the earliest records, through every country in which those arts have been cherished, to their present establishment in Great-Britain : under the auspices of His Majesty King George III ... / by the Rev. Robert Anthony Bromley ...

Creator:: Bromley, Robert Anthony, 1735–1806
Date:: 1793-95
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 28cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19034. A curious collection of beasts, horses, and birds : copied from the best masters : very useful to draw after : in four parts.

Date:: [ca. 1750]
Physical Description:: 25 leaves : all ill. ; 22 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19035. Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves / by John Harris ...

Creator:: Harris, John, 1667?-1719
Date:: 1710-1716
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19036. A new view of London, or, An ample account of that city, in ... eight sections : being a more particular description thereof than has hitherto been known to be published of any city in the world ...

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

19037. An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce ... into Abyssinia, to discover the shores of the Nile / abridged from the original work by Samuel Shaw ...

Creator:: Bruce, James, 1730–1794
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: ix, [11]-380 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19038. A new drawing book of heads : from the cartoons at Hampton Court ...

Date:: [17--]
Physical Description:: 6 leaves : all ill. ; 23 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19039. The baronetage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... : to which is added an account of such Nova Scotia baronets as are of English families and a dictionary of heraldry ... / by E. Kimber and R. Johnson ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: 3 v. : coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19040. Poems / by Goldsmith and Parnell.

Creator:: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xx, 76 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19041. Plan de la ville et citadelle de Montpellier : avec ses environs.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 44 x 62 cm., on sheet 55 x 73 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19042. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 164, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

19043. English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans : a facsimile edition of sigs. a2-f8 of the Boke of St. Albans (1486) / by Rachel Hands.

Creator:: Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:: 1975
Physical Description:: lxix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19044. The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come : delivered under the similitude of a dream : wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country / by John Bunyan.

Creator:: Bunyan, John, 1628–1688
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: [10], 205, [1] pages : illustrations, portrait ; 15 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19045. Remarks on a tour to north and south Wales, in the year 1797 : with plates from Rowlandson, Pugh, Howitt, etc. ; aquatinted by I. Hill.

Creator:: Wigstead, Henry
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: vii, [3], 69 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19046. The Builder's magazine, or, Monthly companion for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : as well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building ... / by a society of architects.

Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 2, 345, 100 p., [185] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19047. The IId edition of Genteel houshold furniture in the present taste : with an addition of several articles never before executed / by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c. ; containing upwards of 350 designs on 120 copper plates ...

Creator:: Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c
Date:: [1765?]
Physical Description:: [1], 120 leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19048. A new copy-book of the small Italian hand : published for the use of publick and private schools as well as for the use of families / by John Langton, writing master ...

Creator:: Langton, John, active 1700–1727
Date:: [1727?]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19049. The English gentleman's guide, or, A new and compleat book of maps of all England and Wales : shewing its ancient and present government, divided as in the Saxon heptarchy : also into dioceses, judges circuits, and counties : describing all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, noble and gentlemens seats, archbishops and bishops sees, universities, places which send members to Parliament, &c. : with the names of the rivers, sea-ports, sand-hills, moors, forests, &c. : all the great or post-roads, cross-roads, posts for directions on the roads, ponds, inns and houses on the roads, with the distances of measur'd miles, according to Mr. Ogilby's survey : with many additions and corrections not extant on any maps : the whole being finely engrav'd, and made portable either for cloak-bag, portmanteau, or pocket.

Date:: [1717?]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; sheets 47 x 146 cm or smaller, folded in cover 48 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19050. The first book of Andrea Palladio's Architecture : treating of the five orders : and what is most necessary in building : correctly drawn from his original work, publish'd by himself at Venice, Anno 1570 : and accurately engraved by I. Ware.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 1742
Physical Description:: viii, 63, [1] p., 34 [i.e. 29] plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19051. The Rambler.

Date:: [1750-1752]
Physical Description:: 208 no. in 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19052. Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners of that country in the years 1765, and 1766. To which is annexed, an admonition to gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their tour through Italy. By Samuel Sharp, esq.

Creator:: Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778
Date:: [1767]
Physical Description:: iv, 315 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19053. A book of maps / by Geo. Hutson Jun., MDCCLXXVII.

Creator:: Hutson, George, 1754 or 5–1794
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 1 volume (37 leaves) : maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19054. The tales and fables of the late Archbishop and Duke of Cambray, author of Telemachus, in French and English : written originally for the instruction of a young prince : and now publish'd for the use of schools : to which is prefix'd an account of the author's life, extracted from the memoirs of the Chevalier Ramsay, author of The travels of Cyrus : with a particular and curious relation of the method observed in training up the young prince, even from his infancy, to virtue and learning / by Nathaniel Gifford of the Inner-Temple, gent. ; illustrated with twenty-nine copper-plates engraven by George Bickham, Junior.

Creator:: Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651–1715
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xxi, [3], 164 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19055. Darly, engraver and printseller, no. 39 Strand.

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: [between 1767 and 1780]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : engraving ; sheet 251 x 177 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19056. Atlas minimus, or A new set of pocket maps of the several empires, kingdoms and states of the known world : with historical extracts relative to each / drawn and engrav'd by J. Gibson from the best authorities ; revis'd, corrected and improv'd by Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty.

Creator:: Gibson, J. (John), active 1750–1792
Date:: [1758]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([4], 52, [1] leaves) : illustrations, 52 maps ; 12 cm (32mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19057. A catalogue of the compleat apparatus and contents of the Laboratory at Luton House, Bedfordshire : late the property of John Earl of Bute, deceased : comprising a numerous assortment of retorts, recipients, and other glass vessels : black lead and other crucibles : iron and other mortars : furnaces, bellows, with many other utensils, preparations, &c. used in making chemical experiments, assaying, &c. as well on a large as small scale : together with a great variety of ores of silver, copper, iron, lead, cobalt, &c. : spars, crystals, marcarsites, and other minerals : some curious petrifactions of fish, corals, &c. chiefly foreign : and other interesting subjects of natural history : also a magnificent air pump on a new construction, not finished : copper scales and weight, shelves, fixtures, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, at Mr. Hutchins's rooms, in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, on Thursday, May 30th, and following day at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Skinner and Dyke
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: 8, [4], 17-24 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19058. Richardson's catalogue. A large and curious collection of English and foreign portraits, topography and historical prints ... drawings, books, and books of prints, now selling, with the prices affixed to each, at Mr. Richardson's print warehouse ...

Creator:: Richardson, William, fl. 1778–1815
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 127 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19059. Needwood Forest.

Creator:: Mundy, Francis Noel Clarke, 1738 or 1739–1815
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 52 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19060. Déclaration du roi, donnée à Versailles, le 15 Mars 1778, relative aux arts de peinture & sculpture. Avec l'arrêt de registre du 20 juin 1778.

Creator:: France. Sovereign (1774–1792 : Louis XVI)
Date:: 1778]
Physical Description:: 8 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19061. 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.

Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19062. A collection of plans of the principal cities of Great Britain and Ireland : with maps of the coast of the said kingdoms / drawn from the most accurate surveys ; in particular, those taken by the late Mr. J. Rocque ...

Date:: [1764]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([3], [22], [18] leaves) : 22 maps, 18 plans (some folded) ; 13 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19063. The history of Newcastle upon Tyne, or, The ancient and present state of that town / by ... Henry Bourne ...

Creator:: Bourne, Henry, 1696–1733
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [4], viii, 245, [6] p., one folded leaf of plates : plan ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19064. An exact surveigh of the streets, lanes and churches comprehend[e]d within the ruins of the city of London : first described in six plats 10 Decemr. Ao Dom. 1666 : by the order & directions of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, & common councell of the said city / Iohn Leake, Iohn Iennings, Willm. Marr, Willm. Leybourn, Thomas Streete, Richard Shortgrave, surveyors ; & reduced into one intire plat by Iohn Leake, for the use of the commisioners for the regulation of streets, lanes, &ct.

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

19065. Essai sur l'homme / par Monsieur Alexander Pope ; traduction françois en prose, par Mr. S****.

Creator:: Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: [iii]-xxiv, 116 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19066. A catalogue of the collection of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford deceas'd : consisting of several capital pictures by the most eminent Italian, French, and Flemish masters, great variety of Greek and Roman antiquities in urns, edicts, inscriptions, &c. : as also of busto's and bronzes : together with several very scarce books of prints and drawings; particularly of the most famous altars, vestments, chalices, &c. by J. Paulo Panini and others : collected by the late Mr. Talman; the King of France's Cabinet complete : the heads of the most eminent men in europe in 30 volumes : with divers other valuable curiosities out of the Arundel Collection : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Cock, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 8th of March, 1741-2, and the five following Days : the collection may be viewed at the place of sale on Thursday the 4th instant, and every day after (Sunday excepted) till the time of sale, which will begin each day at half an hour after eleven precisely.

Creator:: Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720–1749
Date:: [1742]
Physical Description:: 18 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illlustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19067. Cantabrigia depicta : a concise and accurate description of the university and town of Cambridge, and its environs : a particular history of the several colleges and buildings, their founders and benefactors ...

Date:: [1763]
Physical Description:: [4], 117, [3] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., 1 plan ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19068. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

Creator:: Gosden, Thomas, 1780–1843
Date:: MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:: 92 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19069. Sketches in architecture : containing plans and elevations of cottages, villas, and other useful buildings, with characteristic scenery / by John Soane ... ; to which are added, Six designs for improving and embellishing of grounds, with sections and explanations, by an amateur ; the whole engraved on fifty-four plates.

Creator:: Soane, John, Sir, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCXCVIII [1798]
Physical Description:: [6], iv, iv, 20 pages, XLI, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19070. The Tunbridge Wells guide, or, An account of the ancient and present state of that place : to which is added a particular description of towns and villages, remains of antiquity, gentlemens seats, founderies, &c. &c. within the circumference of sixteen miles.

Creator:: Sprange, J. (Jasper), 1746–1823
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4], viii, 68, 54, vi, 53-98, xii, 99-106, vi,1 07-178,14,16, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19071. Aesop's fables.

Date:: ca. 1750]
Physical Description:: 24 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19072. Animals drawn from nature and engraved in aqua-tinta / by Charles Catton, Jun. ; with a description of each animal.

Creator:: Catton, Charles, 1756–1819
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [38] leaves, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19073. [Plates from William Coxe's Travels in Switzerland]

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves ([1] folded) : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19074. The antiquities of Ireland.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1791-1795
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19075. Great Britain's coasting-pilot : in two parts : being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland from the River of Thames to the westward and northward : with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle : likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland, describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place : the setting and flowing of the tides : with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety : with directions for coming into the channel between England and France / by Captain Greenville Collins, Hyrdographer in Ordinary to the King's most excellent Majesty.

Creator:: Collins, Greenvile, active 1669–1698
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], 30 pages, [95] leaves of plates) : 49 maps ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19076. Histoire des philosophes modernes : avec leur portrait gravé dans le goût du crayon, d'apres les desseins des plus grands peintres / par M. Saverien.

Creator:: Savérien, Alexandre, 1720–1805
Date:: [1760-1769?]
Physical Description:: 8 volumes : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19077. A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners ...

Creator:: Pringle, John, Sir, 1707–1782
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19078. A new description of the pictures, statues, bustos, basso-relievos, and other curiosities in the Earl of Pembroke's house at Wilton : in the antiques of this collection are contained the whole of Cardinal Richelieu's, and Cardinal Mazarine's, and the greatest part of the Earl of Arundel's, besides several particular pieces purchased at different times / by James Kennedy.

Creator:: Kennedy, James, active 1769
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: [6], 146 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

19079. Exhibition of Mr. Wright's Pictures at Robin's Rooms, Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

Creator:: Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 1 v. (26 p.) ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19080. A description of the paintings in the Hall of Ossian, at Pennycuik near Edinburgh.

Creator:: Ross, Walter, 1738–1789
Date:: MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:: [2], 50 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19081. Fête de l'agriculture [graphic] / : an III de la République, pendant la dictature de Robespierre / lith. Spengler et Cie. à Lausanne.

Creator:: Spengler et Cie. (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 1 print : lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 20 x 1493 cm, accordion folded to 20 x 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19082. A map of England and Wales / Elizabeth Smith.

Creator:: Smith, Elizabeth, approximately 1787–
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 1 map : silk embroidery on linen ; 57 x 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19083. Commonplace book, 1753-1760.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1753-1760
Physical Description:: 88 leaves ; 21 x 33 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19084. [Sir Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book]

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1757-
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19085. Songs of innocence and of experience / William Blake ; edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lincoln.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: c1991
Physical Description:: 209 p. : 54, 12 col. facsims. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19086. Poetical sketches / By W.B.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: [8], 70 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19087. A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c... / Society of Artists of Great Britain.

Creator:: Society of Artists of Great Britain
Date:: 1760-1791
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19088. A short introduction in the binding of books / Dirk de Bray ; followed by a note on the gilding of the edges by Ambrosius Vermerck ; with an introd. and a paraphrase by K. van der Horst and C. de Wolf ; translated by H. S. Lake.

A short introduction in the binding of books / Dirk de Bray ; followed by a note on the gilding of the edges by Ambrosius Vermerck ; with an introd. and a paraphrase by K. van der Horst and C. de Wolf ; translated by H. S. Lake.

Creator:: Bray, Dirk de, 17th cent
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 87 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19089. [Benjamin West : list of paintings with dates contained in the article]

Collection:: Reference Library

19090. A sparke of frendship and warme goodwill, that shewes the effect of trve affection and Vnfoldes the fineneffe of this world : Whereunto is ioined, the commoditie of sundrie sciences, the benefit that paper bringeth, with many rare matters rehearsed in the same : with a description & commendation of a paper mill, now and of late set vp (neere the towne of Darthford) by an high Germayn called M. Spilman, Ieweller to the Qu. most excellent Maiestie / written by Thomas Chruchyard Gent.

A sparke of frendship and warme goodwill, that shewes the effect of trve affection and Vnfoldes the fineneffe of this world : Whereunto is ioined, the commoditie of sundrie sciences, the benefit that paper bringeth, with many rare matters rehearsed in the same : with a description & commendation of a paper mill, now and of late set vp (neere the towne of Darthford) by an high Germayn called M. Spilman, Ieweller to the Qu. most excellent Maiestie / written by Thomas Chruchyard Gent.

Creator:: Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: [36] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19091. Entwurff und Beschreibung von der Papiermacherey, worinnen der Ursprung des Papiermachens, der Fortgang, wie heutiges Tages das Papier gemachet wird, wie solches viele Mühe und Arbeit hat, benebst denen bey den Papiermachern befindlichen Wörtern, denen Kayserlichen Verordnungen und andern dahin einschlagenden Dingen / zum Druck befördert von Frantz Henning Schaden.

Date:: 1962]
Physical Description:: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19092. A new orchard and garden / William Lawson. Knots for gardens / John Marriott. A treatise of fruit-trees together with the spiritual use of an orchard / Ralph Austen.

Creator:: Lawson, William, active 1618
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: 241 p. in various pagings : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19093. Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Creator:: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Physical Description:: 14 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19094. The exact dress of the head, 1725.

Creator:: Lens, Bernard, 1682–1740
Date:: 1970
Physical Description:: 9 p., 30 plates. illus., facsim. 14 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19095. John Bracken : a monograph / by M.E. Burkett.

Creator:: Burkett, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Date:: [1976?]
Physical Description:: viii, 5 pages, 11 pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19096. The history of the London clubs, or, The citizens' pastime .../ by the author of the London spy.

Creator:: Ward, Edward, 1667–1731
Date:: 1896]
Physical Description:: 31 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19097. The Banqueting House with the Whitehall and Holbein gates [graphic] / Inigo Jones.

Creator:: Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: 1 art reproduction ; 37 x 61 cm., on sheet 48 x 68 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19098. The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director.

Creator:: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Date:: [1966]
Physical Description:: 1 v. (chiefly ill.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19099. A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints etc. of the present artists : exhibited in the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce ...

Creator:: Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain)
Date:: 1760-[1764]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19100. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved road atlas of England and Wales 1731 / [compiled] by Emanuel Bowen.

Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 273 p. : chiefly maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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19001. The poetical works of John Langhorne ... : With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

19002. The history of Great Britain connected with the chronology of Europe: with notes, &c. containing anecdotes of the times, lives of the learned, and specimens of their works ... By James Pettit Andrews ...

19004. Supplemento alla Serie dei trecento elogi e ritratti degli uomini i più illustri in pittura, scultura e architettura : o sia, Abecedario pittorico dall' origine delle belle arti a tutto l' anno MDCCLXXV ...

19005. A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.

19006. A tour through the south of England, Wales, and part of Ireland, made during the summer of 1791.

19007. Choir gaure, vulgarly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain : described, restored, and explained, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer / by John Wood ...

19008. The account of Pythagoras's School in Cambridge : as in Mr. Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales, and other notices.

19009. Select views of the lakes in Cumberland, Westmoreland & Lancashire / from drawings made by P. Holland, engraved by C. Rosenberg.

19010. Picturesque and architectural views for cottages, farm houses, and country villas / engraved and designed by Charles Middleton, architect.

19011. The joyner and cabinet-maker's darling, or, pocket director : containing sixty different designs, new and useful ... / the whole designed and engraved by John Crunden.

19013. The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts.

19014. Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons : faite en exécution de l'arrêté du Comité de salut public, du 18 pluviôse de l'an 2 de la République Française, une et indivisible / par Gaspard Monge ...

19015. A set of 4 fox huntings which are in the highest repute [graphic] / from that celebrated artist J. Seymour.

19016. The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia / by William Stith, A.M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

19017. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

19019. A gentleman's tour through Monmouthshire and Wales, in the months of June and July, 1774.

19020. Plan of the London-dock, with some observations respecting the river immediately connected with docks in general, and of the improvement of navigation.

19021. An introduction to the art of drawing, neatly engraved by G. Bickham: on thirty-six plates.

19022. Three essays: I. On dramatic composition. II. The advantages and disadvantages of foreign travel. III. And, On sculpture.

19023. The history of the belles lettres, and of the arts and sciences, from their origin, down to this present time. Translated from the French of M. Juvenal de Carlencas. With a complete alphabetical index.

19024. An authentic history and description of the castle & priory of Dudley, chiefly compiled from the works of Leland, Erdeswicke, Plott, Grose &c. By J. Payton ...

19025. The school of wisdom; or repository of the most valuable curiosities of art & nature ... Compiled from various authors.

19026. An accurate and descriptive catalogue of the several paintings in the King of Spain's palace at Madrid; with some account of the pictures in the Buen-Retiro. By Richard Cumberland ...

19028. A survey of the cathedral-church of Worcester : with an account of the bishops thereof, from the foundation of the see, to the year 1600. Also an appendix of many original papers and records, never before printed. / by William Thomas ...

19029. Select views of the principal buildings and other interesting and picturesque objects in the cities of Bath and Bristol and their environs / drawn and engraved by William Watts ; with an explanatory letter press.

19030. The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol; compiled from original records and authentic manuscripts in public offices or private hands; illustrated with copper-plate prints. By William Barrett ...

19031. Premiums offered by the Society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce.

19032. Dedicated to the connoisseurs : six views near Edinburgh / drawn from nature and etched by John Westgarth.

19034. A curious collection of beasts, horses, and birds : copied from the best masters : very useful to draw after : in four parts.

19035. Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves / by John Harris ...

19036. A new view of London, or, An ample account of that city, in ... eight sections : being a more particular description thereof than has hitherto been known to be published of any city in the world ...

19037. An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce ... into Abyssinia, to discover the shores of the Nile / abridged from the original work by Samuel Shaw ...

19038. A new drawing book of heads : from the cartoons at Hampton Court ...

19040. Poems / by Goldsmith and Parnell.

19041. Plan de la ville et citadelle de Montpellier : avec ses environs.

19042. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

19043. English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans : a facsimile edition of sigs. a2-f8 of the Boke of St. Albans (1486) / by Rachel Hands.

19044. The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come : delivered under the similitude of a dream : wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country / by John Bunyan.

19045. Remarks on a tour to north and south Wales, in the year 1797 : with plates from Rowlandson, Pugh, Howitt, etc. ; aquatinted by I. Hill.

19046. The Builder's magazine, or, Monthly companion for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : as well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building ... / by a society of architects.

19047. The IId edition of Genteel houshold furniture in the present taste : with an addition of several articles never before executed / by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c. ; containing upwards of 350 designs on 120 copper plates ...

19048. A new copy-book of the small Italian hand : published for the use of publick and private schools as well as for the use of families / by John Langton, writing master ...

19050. The first book of Andrea Palladio's Architecture : treating of the five orders : and what is most necessary in building : correctly drawn from his original work, publish'd by himself at Venice, Anno 1570 : and accurately engraved by I. Ware.

19051. The Rambler.

19052. Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners of that country in the years 1765, and 1766. To which is annexed, an admonition to gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their tour through Italy. By Samuel Sharp, esq.

19053. A book of maps / by Geo. Hutson Jun., MDCCLXXVII.

19055. Darly, engraver and printseller, no. 39 Strand.

19056. Atlas minimus, or A new set of pocket maps of the several empires, kingdoms and states of the known world : with historical extracts relative to each / drawn and engrav'd by J. Gibson from the best authorities ; revis'd, corrected and improv'd by Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty.

19058. Richardson's catalogue. A large and curious collection of English and foreign portraits, topography and historical prints ... drawings, books, and books of prints, now selling, with the prices affixed to each, at Mr. Richardson's print warehouse ...

19059. Needwood Forest.

19060. Déclaration du roi, donnée à Versailles, le 15 Mars 1778, relative aux arts de peinture & sculpture. Avec l'arrêt de registre du 20 juin 1778.

19062. A collection of plans of the principal cities of Great Britain and Ireland : with maps of the coast of the said kingdoms / drawn from the most accurate surveys ; in particular, those taken by the late Mr. J. Rocque ...

19063. The history of Newcastle upon Tyne, or, The ancient and present state of that town / by ... Henry Bourne ...

19065. Essai sur l'homme / par Monsieur Alexander Pope ; traduction françois en prose, par Mr. S****.

19067. Cantabrigia depicta : a concise and accurate description of the university and town of Cambridge, and its environs : a particular history of the several colleges and buildings, their founders and benefactors ...

19068. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

19070. The Tunbridge Wells guide, or, An account of the ancient and present state of that place : to which is added a particular description of towns and villages, remains of antiquity, gentlemens seats, founderies, &c. &c. within the circumference of sixteen miles.

19071. Aesop's fables.

19072. Animals drawn from nature and engraved in aqua-tinta / by Charles Catton, Jun. ; with a description of each animal.

19073. [Plates from William Coxe's Travels in Switzerland]

19074. The antiquities of Ireland.

19076. Histoire des philosophes modernes : avec leur portrait gravé dans le goût du crayon, d'apres les desseins des plus grands peintres / par M. Saverien.

19077. A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners ...

19079. Exhibition of Mr. Wright's Pictures at Robin's Rooms, Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

19080. A description of the paintings in the Hall of Ossian, at Pennycuik near Edinburgh.

19081. Fête de l'agriculture [graphic] / : an III de la République, pendant la dictature de Robespierre / lith. Spengler et Cie. à Lausanne.

19082. A map of England and Wales / Elizabeth Smith.

19083. Commonplace book, 1753-1760.

19084. [Sir Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book]

19085. Songs of innocence and of experience / William Blake ; edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lincoln.

19086. Poetical sketches / By W.B.

19087. A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c... / Society of Artists of Great Britain.

19088. A short introduction in the binding of books / Dirk de Bray ; followed by a note on the gilding of the edges by Ambrosius Vermerck ; with an introd. and a paraphrase by K. van der Horst and C. de Wolf ; translated by H. S. Lake.

19089. [Benjamin West : list of paintings with dates contained in the article]

19092. A new orchard and garden / William Lawson. Knots for gardens / John Marriott. A treatise of fruit-trees together with the spiritual use of an orchard / Ralph Austen.