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1. Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...

Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...
Creator:
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front., plates, diagrs. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.
Date:
MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages, 100 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new book of Chinese designs / by Pillement.

A new book of Chinese designs / by Pillement.
Creator:
Pillement, Jean, 1728–1808
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Sculptura; or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise, John Evelyn ...

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Creator:
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
3 p.l., [iii]-xxxvi, 140 p. front. (port.) 2 plates (1 fold.) 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Letters concerning taste ...

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Creator:
Cooper, John Gilbert, 1723–1769
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
7 p.., 143 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A scenographic plan of the city of the kings : otherwise called Lima, the capital of the kingdoms of Peru ... as it was before the late earthquakes.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
1 map ; 37 x 53 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Considérations sur les révolutions des arts ...

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Creator:
Méhégan, Guillaume-Alexandre de, 1721–1766
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 282, 24, 18, [4] p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys. &c. contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : with the contiguous buildings / engraved by John Pine ... from an actual survey by John Rocque, and printed on twenty-four sheets of imperial paper, with references for finding the said places ; adapted likewise to a contracted copy of the above mentioned plan, printed on eight sheets of paper ...

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Date:
1755
Physical Description:
vi [i.e. vii], [1], 46, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated with their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson ...

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
2 v. : 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the contiguous buildings : with all the new roads that have been made on account of Westminster Bridge, and the new buildings and alterations to the present year MDCCLV / engraved from an actual survey made by John Rocque ; this plan extends from east to west near six miles, and from north to south a little more than three, and contains about 11,500 acres of ground.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
1 map on 8 sheets ; 132 x 216 cm., sheets 67 x 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. An Act to explain and amend a clause in an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the game, in relation to the selling or offering to sale any game.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[2], 335-336 p. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Lettre à un amateur de la peinture avec des eclaircissemens historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableaux qui le composent. Ouvrage entremêlé de digressions sur la vie de plusieurs peintres modernes.

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Creator:
Janneck, Franz Christoph
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
1 p.., 368, [14] p. front. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[12], 131 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : table ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Resolutions of the Select Society.

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Creator:
Select Society
Date:
1755]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 10 p.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

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Creator:
Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Polymetis, or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists : being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another ... / by the Revd. Mr. Spence.

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Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
vi, 361, [1] p., : port., ill., XLI pl. (part fold.) ; 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
xiv p., [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The art of drawing in perspective: wherein the doctrine of perspectiv[e is] clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometrical principles; and a mechanical method of perspective and designing invented, for the benefit of such as are strangers to mathematics. Illustrated with variety [!] of copper-plate figures. To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... the art of etching, and that of japanning upon wood, or any metal ... and ... a method of casting amber ...

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Date:
1755
Physical Description:
iv, 92 p. fold. front. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. L'état des arts, en Angleterre.

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Creator:
Rouquet, Jean André, 1701–1758
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
211 p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The life of Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. By William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
M.DCC.LV
Physical Description:
1 p.., 197, [5] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

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Creator:
Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770
Date:
MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:
[8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

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Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[4], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., plans, map, coats of arms ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:
xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A descriptive poem, addressed to two ladies, at their return from viewing the mines near Whitehaven. To which are added, some thoughts on building and planting, to Sir James Lowther, of Lowther-Hall, Bart. By John Dalton, D. D.

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Creator:
Dalton, John, 1709–1763
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
viii, 35 p. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Dictionnaire portatif des beaux-arts, ou Abregé de ce qui concerne l'architecture, la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure, la poésie & la musique; avec la définition de ces arts, l'explication des termes & des choses qui leur appartiennent ... Par M. Lacombe.

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Creator:
Lacombe, Jacques, 1724–1811
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
1 p.., vi, 758, [2] p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

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Date:
MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:
[2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters, ... &c : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building ... with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmons.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[1], ii, [8], 187, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A map of the British and French dominions in North America [cartographic material] : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations / by their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell ; Tho. Kitchin, sculp.

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Creator:
Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:
Febry 13th, 1755
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 136 x 195 cm, on sheets 77 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Theron and Aspasio: or, A series of dialogues and letters, upon the most important and interesting subjects ... By James Hervey ...

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Creator:
Hervey, James, 1714–1758
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
3 v. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. This day is published, number XCIV, with a view of the city gates : (to be continued weekly, price six-pence) : the sixth edition of Stow's survey of London and Westminster : and of the borough of Southward : being the best topography of those cities : together with the distinct history of them : in two large volumes, folio : containing their original, antiquity, increase, present state, and government : written at first by John Stow, citizen and native of London ; several times reprinted and augmented, then corrected, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by J. Strype, M.A. ; and the history and survey now brought down to this present time by careful hands ; illustrated with exact maps of all the wards and out-parishes both of London and Westminister ; with other draughts of the most eminent and public edifices and monuments.

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Date:
November 29, 1755
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page (incomplete)) ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in every thing that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

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Date:
1755
Physical Description:
iv, 92 p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts