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1. Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy / by the President [i.e., J. Reynolds]

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Delle arti del disegno : discorsi del cav. Giosuè Reynolds, presidente della R. accad. di Londra ec. / transportati dall' inglese nel toscano idioma.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
xi, 240, [2] p. : port. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The art of painting : in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates : and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters : and their perfections and oversights laid open / by Gerard de Lairesse ; translated by John Frederick Fritsch.

The art of painting : in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates : and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters : and their perfections and oversights laid open / by Gerard de Lairesse ; translated by John Frederick Fritsch.
Creator:
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[20], 504 p., [71] leaves of plates : ill. (some folded) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...

A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...
Creator:
Rogers, Charles, 1711–1784
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
2 v. illus., plates, ports. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Principles of beauty, relative to the human head / by Alexander Cozens.

Principles of beauty, relative to the human head / by Alexander Cozens.
Creator:
Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
[6], 15, [5], 15, [1] p, [3], 2-17 leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 53 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The virtuosi's museum : containing select views, in England, Scotland and Ireland / drawn by P. Sandby, Esqr. R.A.

The virtuosi's museum : containing select views, in England, Scotland and Ireland / drawn by P. Sandby, Esqr. R.A.
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
1778[-1781]
Physical Description:
[222] p., 108 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Museum Britannicum : being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects : and with distinct explanations of each figure / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, pictors.

Museum Britannicum : being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects : and with distinct explanations of each figure / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, pictors.
Creator:
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[4], xvi, 84 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.

Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[not after 1778]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. [A tour in Wales MDCCLXX.

[A tour in Wales MDCCLXX.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1778-1781]
Physical Description:
2 v. ill., plates, plans, ports. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
viii, xxiv p., 272 columns, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, to the present times : collected from the best authorities, printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary.

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Date:
1778-1793
Physical Description:
5 v. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, &c. on a plan entirely new: by which, the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems, comprehending the history, theory, and practice, of each, according to the latest discoveries and improvements; and full explanations given of the various detached parts of knowledge, whether relating to natural and artificial objects, or to matters ecclesiastical, civil, military, commercial, &c. Together with a description of all the countries, cities ... a general history, ancient and modern, of the different empires, kingdoms and states; and an account of the lives of the most eminent persons in every nation, from the earliest ages down to the present times ...

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Date:
1778-1783
Physical Description:
10 v. fold. plates, fold. maps, fold. tables, fold. diagrs. (1 col.) 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the roads of Ireland, surveyed 1777.

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Creator:
Taylor, George (Geographer), active 1778
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
1 atlas (xvi, 288, 16 p., [1] folded leaf of plates) : maps ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Notice de quelques bon tableaux de différens maitres : sculptures en marble, dessins & estampes : provenant du Cabinet de M*** : dont le vente se sera le lundi 18 & mardi 19 mai, 1778, de relevée, à l'Hôtel d'Aligre, rue Saint Honoré : les amateurs pourront vois les objets qui la composent le dimanche 17 & le lundi 18, le matin seulement.

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Creator:
Florentin, Honoré
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A catalogue of the most magnificent and valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : in this collection are the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Rubens, Rembrandt, S. Rosa, Mola, Corregio, Guerchino, C. Maratti, P. Veronese, Murillo, L. Da Vinci, Tintoret, Titian, Carracci, Claude, Cignani, Beughel, Poussin, Vandyke, Castigione, P. Cortona, Elsheimer, Schidone, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms, late belonging to the Society of Arts &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand : on Thursday, March 26, and the two following days : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday the 24th and 25th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1778]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. La Galerie électorale de Dusseldorff, ou, Catalogue raisonné et figuré de ses tableaux : dans lequel on donne une connoissance exacte de cette fameuse collection, & de son local, par des descriptions détaillées, & par une suite de 30 planches, contenant 365 petites estampes redigées & gravées d'après ces mêmes tableaux, par Chretien de Mechel ... ouvrage composé dans un gout nouveau / par Nicolas de Pigage.

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Creator:
Pigage, Nicolas de, 1723–1796
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778.]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 x 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

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Creator:
Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
xii, 123 p., 9 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Heads of a second set of lectures, on the polite arts / by Francis Fitzgerald.

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Creator:
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
228 p., [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Observations on two trials at law, respecting Messieurs Adams's new-invented patent-stucco / with additional remarks by a practical plaisterer.

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Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[4], iii, [1], 31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. L'art de dessiner / par Jean Cousin ; revu, corrigé et augmenté de plusieurs morceaux d'après l'antique ; avec leurs mesures & proportions ; d'une description exacte des os & muscles du corps humain, & de leurs offices & usages ; avec une instruction facile pour apprendre à dessiner toutes ces figures, selon les différens aspects qu'elles peuvent avoir.

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Creator:
Cousin, Jehan, ca. 1522–ca. 1593
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A catalogue of the third and last part of the most valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever Imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : this collection consists of the most unquestionable and best performances, in the highest preservation, of Raphael , Guido, Caracci, Albano, Romanelli, Lucatelli, Canaletti, Poussin, Watteau, Lancret, Vernet, Titian, Bandinelli, Julio Romani, Caraveggio, Domen. Feti, Le Seuer, Murillo, Velasquez, Le Brun, Tintoret, Bassan, A. Veronese, Rubens, S. Rosa, V. Castelli, Castiglione, Solimene, Bourdon, Freminet, Vandermeulen, Parocel, Vandyke, Berghem, Teniers, Woverman, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms late belonging to the Society of Arts, &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand : on Thursday, May 14 and the following day : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Tuesday the 13th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : descriptive catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

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Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son,
Date:
[1778]
Physical Description:
20 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made clear, in theory, by various moveable schemes, and diagrams; and reduced to practice ... Containing diagrams, views, and original designs, in architecture, &c. ... All originals; invented, delineated, and, great part, engraved by the author, Thomas Malton.

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Creator:
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
10 p.l., 296 p. fold. front., XLVIII plates (part. fold., incl. diagr.) 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A trip to Kilkenny, from Durham, by way of Whitehaven and Dublin, in the year MDCCLXXVI ... In a series of letters to a friend.

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Creator:
Elstob, Mark
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
229 p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Catalogue de quelques tableaux de bons maitres : et d'un choix de pierres précieuses & bijoux : provenant du cabinet de M*** : dont la vente se sera le Lundi 14 Mai 1778 & jours suivans de relevee, en une des salles des Grands-Augustins : les amateurs pourront vois les objets qui la composent le Mercredi 13 et le Jeudi 14, le matin seulement : elle commencera par les pierres precieuses & bijoux, sand interruption, & finira par les tableaux.

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Creator:
Dufresne
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Works in architecture.

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Creator:
Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
Date:
1778-1779
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A view of Northumberland with an excursion to the Abbey of Mailross in Scotland. By W. Hutchinson, anno 1776.

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Creator:
Hutchinson, William, 1732–1814
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
2 v., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map, genealogical tables ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks and other buildings : for decorating pleasure-ground, parks, forests, &c., &c. : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soan [sic].

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[1], [2] p. : [38] (i.e. 37) leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Warley : a satire addressed to the first artist in Europe ...

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Creator:
Huddesford, George, 1749–1809
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
2 pts. (25, [4]; 32, [3] p.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The young colorist.

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Date:
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm. x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A reply to Observations on two trials at law, respecting Messieurs Adams's new-invented stucco : containing Mr. Wallace's reply to Mr. Dunning : with the summary of the evidence and charge to the jury, as taken down in court.

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Date:
1778
Physical Description:
38 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Nautical remarks and observations on the coasts and harbours of Nova Scotia : surveyed pursuant to orders from the Right Honble. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the use of the Royal Navy of Great-Britain / by J.F.W. Des Barres.

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Creator:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729–1824
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
iv, 27, [1] pages : tables ; 23 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Vente considérable d'une belle collection de tableaux des plus grands maîtres, italiens, flamands, hollandois & françois, dont plusieurs ont été dans différents cabinets célebres, & de plusieurs figures en bronze & marbre ...

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Creator:
Basan, François, 1723–1797
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
27, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. A catalogue of the reserved part of the most magnificent and valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : this collection consists of the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Corregio, Caracci, Guercino, Caravaggio, Cl. Lorain, L. Da Vinci, Parmegiano, C. Maratti, Mola, Murillo, V. Castelli, Rembrandt, Titian, P. Veronese, Tintoret, S. Rosa, Rubens, Vandyke, Velasquez, Poussin, Borgognone, S. Bourdon, Polemburg, Bassan, Vanderwerf, Mieris, &c. : and will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms, late belonging to the Society of Arts &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand, on Friday, April 10, and the following day : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Wednesday and Thursday the 8th and 9th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock ; descriptive catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

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Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
23, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A catalogue of the much distinguished and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures : fine bronzes, sepulchral urns, bustos, vases in antique marble, Porphry, &c. &c. of the late John Blackwood, Esq. deceased : whose knowledge and peculiar taste in the polite arts require no comment : in this collection ae the undoubted works of the following much admired Great Masters, viz Guido, Dominichino, Parmegiano, L. Giordano, P. D. Cortona, M. Angelo, Spagnioletto, F. Mola, Albano, A. Sacchi, S. & M. Ricci, Calabrese, Orbeto, Sal. rosa, Bartholomeo, Borgognione, P. Laura, Valasquez, Bourdon, Du Jardin, N. & G. Poussin, Ochiali, Elsheimer, Swaneveldt, Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, Gonzales, J.-Stien, J. Van Eck, Ursula, P. Brill, B. Luti, V.D. Velde, Cuyp, Snyders, Fyte, De Vos, Hondikooter, Kamboutts, F. Hals, Moucheron, Hommima &c. &c. : particularly, a most capital landscape by S. Rosa : the Tribute-Money by Rembrandt, his own portrait by Ditto : the Aurora and the Evening by Rubens, both engraved : a portrait, Vandyke : St. Peter repenting, L. Giordano : a capital landscape, Cuyp : the Reposo, Rubens : several capital hunting pieces by Snyders, &c. &c. &c. : Which by order of the executors, will be sold by auction, by Mess. Christie & Ansell, at their Great Room, next Cumberland House, Pall Mall, on Friday, February 20, 1778 and the following day : to be publicly viewed on Wednesday the 18th, and to the sale, which will begin each day at twelve o'clock : catalogues may be had as above.

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Creator:
Christie and Ansell (London, England)
Date:
[1778]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Voyage pittoresque de Paris, : ou Indication de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette ville, en peinture, sculpture & architecture: / Par M. D. ***.

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Creator:
Dézallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Nicolas, -1794
Date:
M.DCC.LXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
[2], xii, [2], 492, [4] p., VIII leaves of plates (some folding) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Gustavus Vasa, the deliverer of his country : a tragedy / written by Henry Brooke, Esq. ; as intended to have been performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.

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Creator:
Brooke, Henry, 1703?-1783
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill., port. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

37. Mémoire pour servir de suite aux Recherches sur la préparation que les Romains donnoient à la chaux, dont ils se servoient pour leurs constructions, & sur la composition & l'emploi de leurs mortiers. Par M. de La Faye.

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Creator:
La Faye, Polycarpe de
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
viii, 110, xviii, [2] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Déclaration du roi, donnée à Versailles, le 15 Mars 1778, relative aux arts de peinture & sculpture. Avec l'arrêt de registre du 20 juin 1778.

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Creator:
France. Sovereign (1774–1792 : Louis XVI)
Date:
1778]
Physical Description:
8 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A concise introduction to the knowledge of the most eminent painters : by which every lover of the art of painting may instantly know the names, the years, and places of the birth of above two thousand four hundred of the most celebrated artists, who have flourished in any kingdom of Europe for upwards of five hundred years past : and also the subjects painted by each artist, the master under whom he studied, and the age at which he died.

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Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[124] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. An actual Topographical Survey of the County of Sussex; by T. Yeakell & W. Gardner, Surveyors. Engrav'd by Thos. Yeakell. Scale of three ... miles[ = 150 mm].

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Date:
1778-1783
Physical Description:
4 sheets ; 905 x 735 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Sketches of the history of man.

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Creator:
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696–1782
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
4 v. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Catalogue de quelques tableaux de bons maitres : et d'un choix de pierres précieuses & bijoux : provenant du cabinet de M*** : dont la vente se sera le lundi 14 mai 1778 & jours suivans de relevée, en une des salles des Grands-Augustins : les amateurs pourront vois les objets qui la composent le mercredi 13 et le jeudi 14, le matin seulement : elle commencera par les pierres precieuses & bijoux, sans interruption, & finira par les tableaux.

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Creator:
Hayot de Longpré, Phillippe
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Prospectus du Voyage pittoresque de l'Italie.

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Creator:
Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:
[1778]
Physical Description:
6 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Catalogue d'une belle collection de tableaux originaux des trois ecoles : pastels, gouaches, dessins, estampes, marbres, bronzes, porcelaines, bijoux, meubles & autre objects de curiosité : provenans du cabinet de feue Madame *** : dont le vente se sera le mercredi 11 novembre 1778, & jours suivans, de relevée, rue Saint Honoré, Hôtel d'Aligre : l'on verra les objets les 9 & 10, depuis dix heures jusqu'à deux : par J.B.P. Le Brun, peintre.

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Creator:
Dufresne
Date:
MDCCLXXVII [1778]
Physical Description:
46, pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The carpenter's and joiner's repository, or, A new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, for finishing of rooms, &c. : a great variety of staircases, on a plan entirely new, and easy to be understood : circular circular soffits, shewing and winding, in strait and circular walls, groins, angle brackets, circular and elliptical skylights : and the method of squaring and preparing their circular bars, shop-fronts, &c. / by W. Pain, joiner ; engraved on sisty-nine copper-plates.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
[30] p., LXI leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts