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1. Dionysius Longinus On the sublime / translated from the Greek, with notes and observations, and some account of the life, writings, and character of the author by William Smith ...

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Creator:
Longinus, 1st cent
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
[16], xxxiv, 187 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

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Date:
[1739-1753]
Physical Description:
[104] prints : engravings ; 24 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of useful designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces, slab tables, pier glasses, or tabernacle frames ... / explained on copper plates by Wm. Jones.

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Creator:
Jones, William, -1757
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
[7] leaves, 60 [i.e. 56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A critical and historical account of all the celebrated libraries in foreign countries, as well ancient as modern; with general reflections upon the choice of books and the method of furnishing libraries ... by a gentleman of the Temple. London: Printed by J. Joliffe, in St. James's Street. 1739.

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Creator:
Le Gallois, Pierre, fl. 1680
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
[5], 20 p. 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:
Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:
23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Amusemens des bains de Bade en Suisse, de Schintznach et de Pfeffers : avec la description, & la comparaison de leurs eaux avec celles des bains de Schwalbach & autres de l'empire : le tout accompagné d'histoires & d'anecdotes curieuses.

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Creator:
Merveilleux, David-François de, -1748
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
290 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Destruction of Troy : being the sequel of the Iliad / translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus. With Notes. By J. Merrick Scholar of Trinity Co.. Oxford.

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Creator:
Tryphiodorus
Date:
[1739]
Physical Description:
[24], lxxxviii, 151 p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Persepolis illustrata, or, The ancient and royal palace of Persepolis in Persia, destroyed by Alexander the Great, about two thousand years ago : with particular remarks concerning that palace, and an account of the ancient authors, who have wrote thereupon : illustrated and described, in twenty one copper-plates.

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Date:
MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:
8 leaves, XIII leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The English pilot : part V, describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, ports : with the exact appearances and representations of the most principal marks, lands, &c. : together with the soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, and dangers, on the west-coat [sic] of Africa : from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Cape of Good Hope ...

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Date:
MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 42 pages, [38] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Prospect of Greenwich Hospital from the river : this stately building intended at first by King Charles II for a royal palace, was afterwards converted to the use of disabled sea men ... = Veue de l'hospital de Greenwich du coté de la riviere : ce magnifique edice scitué au bord de la Tamise, fut destiné par Charles II pour la residence des roys, mais par la suite il a été converti pour la retraite des marins invalides ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Arcus Trajano dedicatus Beneventi porta aurea dictus, sculpturis et mole omnium facile princeps.

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Creator:
Pò, Teresa del, d. 1716
Date:
MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:
1 album (10 prints) : copper engravings ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk, containing a description of the towns, villages, and hamlets, with the foundations of monasteries ... and other religious buildings ... Collected out of leiger-books, registers ... and other authentic memorials, by Francis Blomefield ...

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Creator:
Blomefield, Francis, 1705–1752
Date:
1739-1775
Physical Description:
5 v. illus., port., maps, plans, facsim., fold. geneal. tab. 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects : and where their several performances are to be seen / translated from the Musæum pictorium of Palomino Velasco.

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Creator:
Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Antonio, 1655–1726
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
viii, 175 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

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Creator:
Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:
[1739]
Physical Description:
1 map on 20 sheets ; sheets 53 x 72 cm or smaller, bound 53 x 41 cm. + 1 key map (48 x 47 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts