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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1750.

1. The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : wherein their pedastals, columns, entablatures, imposts, and arches, are taken from the best examples of the ancients, and proportioned by equal parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy manner, than has been done in any language : for the instruction of apprentices and journeymen, masons and bricklayers ... : and others who desire a just knowledge of the fundamental rule of that noble art / B. Langley.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: [2], 8 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A supplement to the four volumes of the Peerage of England : containing a succession of the peers from 1740 : with accounts of those that have been promoted to higher titles, and a genealogical history of all the families since advanced to the peerage of this kingdom ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters, curiously engraven on copper plates : collected from records, authentick manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities ... / by Arthur Collins ...

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Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: 2 v. (viii, 820 p.) : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: viii, 20 p., [56] leaves : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A view of Claremount : one of the seats of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle = Vue de Claremount : une des maisons de plaisance du duc de Newcastle / par J. Rocque.

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Creator:: Bonneau, J
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 30 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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.

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Creator:: Blanckley, Thomas Riley
Date:: MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:: [8], 191, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts