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Date 1736

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Period 18th century

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1. A letter on the nature and state of curiosity as at present with us ... First treating of luxury and the use of riches; and then of the knowledge and use of matters of curiosity in particular: as, drawings, paintings ... medals, &c.

A letter on the nature and state of curiosity as at present with us ... First treating of luxury and the use of riches; and then of the knowledge and use of matters of curiosity in particular: as, drawings, paintings ... medals, &c.
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
66 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Drawings of houses and gardens.

Drawings of houses and gardens.
Creator:
Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747
Date:
1736-1743
Physical Description:
1 v. (circa 280 pages, with blanks) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A short historical account of London-bridge; with a proposition for a new stone-bridge at Westminster. As also an account of some remarkable stone-bridges abroad, and what the best authors have said and directed concerning the methods of building them. Illustrated with proper cuts. In a letter to the Right Honourable the members of Parliament for the city and liberty of Westminster. By Nicholas Hawksmoor, Esq; ...

A short historical account of London-bridge; with a proposition for a new stone-bridge at Westminster. As also an account of some remarkable stone-bridges abroad, and what the best authors have said and directed concerning the methods of building them. Illustrated with proper cuts. In a letter to the Right Honourable the members of Parliament for the city and liberty of Westminster. By Nicholas Hawksmoor, Esq; ...
Creator:
Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1661–1736
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
47, [1] p. 5 fold. plates. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A plan of the palace gardens and town of Kensington ... = Plan du palais jardins et bourg de Kensington : situé à deux mile de Londres / par Jean Rocque ...

A plan of the palace gardens and town of Kensington ... = Plan du palais jardins et bourg de Kensington : situé à deux mile de Londres / par Jean Rocque ...
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[1736?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 28 x 48 cm., on sheet 39 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of usefull designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces and other decorations / by Wm. Jones ... ; part the first illustrated with 31 copper-plates neatly engraved.

The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of usefull designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces and other decorations / by Wm. Jones ... ; part the first illustrated with 31 copper-plates neatly engraved.
Creator:
Jones, William, -1757
Date:
1736]
Physical Description:
[3], [31] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A conference between a painter and an engraver : containing some useful hints and necessary instructions, proper for the young artist / by Tho. Atkinson ...

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Creator:
Atkinson, Thomas
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
[4], xi, [1], 31 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Sixty different sorts of ornaments / invented by Gaetano Brunetti, Italian painter ; very useful to painters, sculptors, stone carvers, wood carvers, silversmiths, &c.

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Creator:
Brunetti, Gaetano, -1758
Date:
June ye. 25. 1736
Physical Description:
[61] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A new critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. With some reflections on the use of sepulchral monuments; as also a scheme shewing the dimensions of St. Peter's Church at Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral at London; and a preface, being an essay on taste. To all which is added, an Appendix, containing a dispute between the Weekly miscellany and the author; and a compleat Alphabetical index.

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Date:
1736
Physical Description:
3 p. l., vi, 91, [5] p. fold. table. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Plans des principales places de guerre et villes maritimes frontieres du royaume de France, distinguez par départemens, gouvernement generaux & particuliers des provinces, : avec les officiers generaux et principaux qui y commandent ... & dans la Nouvelle France ou Amerique ... au premier juillet 1736. ... / par Lemau de la Jaisse ...

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Creator:
Lemau de la Jaisse
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
2 p.l., 268 p. : incl. maps ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The builder's guide and gentleman and trader's assistant, or, A universal magazine of tables : wherein is contained greater variety than in any other book of its kind, with several new and useful tables, never before published ... / by William Salmon, junior, carpenter, of Colchester.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
xvi, 155, [7] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The heads of the kings of England : proper for Mr. Rapin's History, translated by N. Tindal ... : viz. Egbert First, monarch of England, Alfred the Great, Canute the Dane, William the Conquerer, first of the Norman line, and all the succeeding kings and sovereign queens to the Revolution : with some of the most illustrious princes of the royal family / collected, drawn, and engraven, with ornaments and decorations, by George Vertue ; to which are added, the heads of Mr. Rapin and N. Tindal ... ; and an account of the several heads, of the antiquities that have been followed, and of the pictures copied for engraving them ; also, twenty two plates of the monuments of the kings of England, with their epitaphs, and inscriptions, and a brief historical account of them.

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Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
12 p., [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ports. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Le nouveau & grand illuminant flambeau de la mer, de tout le monde : contenant la premiere, deuxieme, troizieme, quatrieme, & cinquieme partie : par lesquelles il est clairement & parfaitement bien demonstré toutes les côtes maritimes cônues de tout le monde : avec une pertinentes description de tous les havres, bayes, rades conues, secs, estendues des coursses, & ouvertures des terres, le tout dressé sur leurs vrayes hauteurs polaire ... / recueilli & assemblé ... par Nicolas Jansz. Vooght & Gerard van Keulen, geomêtre & maistre en mathematiques.

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Creator:
Vooght, Claes Janszoon, -1696
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
1 atlas (6 volumes) : illustrations, maps ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

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Creator:
Lewis, John, 1675–1747
Date:
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
viii, 204, [4], 112, 105-124 pages, [1], XXV leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans, genealogical tables ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A specimen of ancient carpentry : consisting of variety of designs for roofs ... : collected by James Smith : to which are added designs of frontispieces to doors, gateways, piers ... : & other useful decorations never before published by Jones ; the whole illustrated with 66 copper plates nearly engraven.

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Creator:
Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
[5], [3], [66] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
[4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary, or, The complete builder's guide : containing an explanation of all the terms of art used by workmen ; as also what is necessary to be known in the art of building ... / originally written and compiled by Richard Neve.

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Creator:
Neve, Richard
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
[3], vi-xvi, [376] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

18. 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.

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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

19. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
[6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A design for the bridge at New Palace Yard, Westminster ... : composed of nine arches, independent of each other, whose nature is such, that the greatest weight possibly to be impressed cannot break them down ... / by B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
30 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Plan general du palais & jardins de Kensington : situé dans le conté de Middlesex, a 2 miles de Londres / tres exactement levé, dessiené & gravé par Jean Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
1 map ; 52 x 65 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts