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1. Buck's antiquities; or venerable remains of above four hundred castles, monasteries, palaces, &c. &c. in England and Wales. With near one hundred views of cities and chief towns. By Messrs. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck ...

Buck's antiquities; or venerable remains of above four hundred castles, monasteries, palaces, &c. &c. in England and Wales. With near one hundred views of cities and chief towns. By Messrs. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck ...
Creator:
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., map, port., plates (some folded) ; 47 cm. (v. 3, 32 x 46 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Letters from Italy in the years 1754 and 1755 / by the late Right Honorable John earl of Corke and Orrery ; published from the originals, with explanatory notes, by John Duncombe.

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Creator:
Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707–1762
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
xlvi, 268 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:
[16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Poems on various occasions: consisting of original pieces and translations by Samuel Bentley ...

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Creator:
Bentley, Samuel, 1722–1803
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
2 p.., xxiv, 205 p. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Geschichte der See-Reisen und Entdeckungen im Süd-Meer welche auf Befehl Sr. Grossbrittanischen Majestät unternommen : und von Commodore Byron, Capitain Wallis, Capitain Carteret und Capitain Coock im Dolphin, der Swallow, und dem Endeavour nach eïnander ausgeführet worden sind / aus den Togebüchern der verschiedenen Befehlshaber und den Handschriften Joseph Banks verfasst von Dr. Johann Hawkesworth ; Mit des Herrn Verfassers Genehmhaltung aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Johann Friedrich Schiller ...

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Date:
1774
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Every man a compleat builder, or, Easy rules and proportions for drawing and working the several parts of architecture ... / the whole nearly engraved on 51 copper plates ; compiled by the late Edward Oakley ... ; to which is annexed, a plan, elevation, and section of the carpenter's work, erected to support the center-arch of Black-Fryers-Bridge.

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Creator:
Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
32 p., [52] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

8. A supplement to the builder's jewel ... : illustrated by upwards of 132 examples, engraved on 44 copper-plates.

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Date:
1774
Physical Description:
36 p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Observations on the discourses delivered at the Royal Academy : addressed to the President.

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Date:
1774
Physical Description:
19, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A list of the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, London, October 12, 1774.

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

11. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : explaining, short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... / by B. and T. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
32 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Views of county seats]

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Date:
1774-1776
Physical Description:
40 p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A key to civil architecture; or, The universal British builder ... To which is added, a treatise of arithmetick ... By Thomas Skaife ...

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Creator:
Skaife, Thomas
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-296 p., 8 leaves. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A familiar epistle to the author of the Heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, and of the Heroic postscript to the public.

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Date:
1774
Physical Description:
iv, 35 p. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham : with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
158 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A sermon upon the turf, / by a Saint from the tabernacle: preached at the last Newmarket-meeting.

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Date:
M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]
Physical Description:
[4], 28 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

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Creator:
Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
14 p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church : according to the use of the Church of England : together with the psalter and psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung and said in Church : pointed as they are to be sung and said in churches.

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Creator:
Church of England. Book of common prayer. 1774
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
[428] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. An essay towards the history of Leverpool / drawn up from papers left by the late Mr. George Perry, and from other materials since collected, by William Enfield. With views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour, and a map of the environs.

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Creator:
Enfield, William, 1741–1797
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
vi, [6], 116 [i.e. 120] p., [12] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The gentleman and farmer's architect : a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs : being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described : dutch, and other barns, cow-houses, stables, sheep-cots, huts, facades : with all offices appertaining to a well regulated farm : their situations rendered convenient, and aspects agreeable : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use / designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect ; and well engraved on twenty-five folio copper plates.

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Creator:
Lightoler, T. (Timothy), 18th cent
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
25 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Rules and orders of the Society instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce.

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

23. 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.

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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.

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

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

25. 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.

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

26. The additions to the quarto edition of the tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX : and the new appendix : reprinted for the accomodation of the purchasers of the first and second editions.

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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
[2], viii, 172 p., [31] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Of the origin and progress of language ...

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Creator:
Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 1714–1799
Date:
1774-92
Physical Description:
6 v. front. (v. 6: port.) 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery : compriz'd in the schedule annexed to an act of Parliament made in the thirtenth year of the reign of His present Majesty George the Third : for enabling Mr. James Cox, of the city of London, jeweller, to dispose of his museum by way of lottery ...

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Creator:
Cox, James, jeweler
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
xiii, 14-71 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts