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1. The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.

The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.

Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: [2] pages, 20 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 x 51 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

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Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: January 12, 1773
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts