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101. Twelfth book, containing nine imitations of drawings of fashionable carriages : on a half-inch scale to a foot.

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Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 24 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. An account of the great flood in the river Tyne ... Dec. 30, 1815 : to which is added, a narrative of the great flood in the rivers Tyne, Tease, and Wear, &c. on the 16th and 17th Nov. 1771 : with an account of the eruption of Solway Moss.

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Creator:
Bell, John, 1783–1864
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
16 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. Descriptive guide of Leamington Priors : containing a brief account of that celebrated and fashionable spa : with general rules for drinking the waters, and the use of the baths : (as recommended by the most eminent physicians,) : comprising also various interesting county sketches, including a particular account of Kenilworth and Warwick Castles, Stonley-Abbey, Off-Church, Guy's Cliff, Birmingham, Coventry, Ragley Park, and Stratford-on-Avon, &c. : illustrated with elegant vignettes and a perspective view of the castle and borough of Warwick : likewise with views of the Royal Pump Room and New Baths, of the Assembly Rooms, the theatre, and other superb embellishments / by J. Bisset, (Late of Birmingham,) proprietor of the historic picture gallery, of the Public Reading Room, and the Museum of Natural History at Leamington ; with a map of ten miles round the spa.

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Creator:
Bisset, J. (James), 1762?-1832
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 114, [12] p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map : 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. Letters on the fine arts, written from Paris, in the year 1815. By Henry Milton.

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Creator:
Milton, Henry
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
vii, 255 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Practical hints on decorative printing; with specimens in colours, engraved on wood. Containing instructions for forming black and coloured printing inks; for producing fine presswork; and for printing in colours. By William Savage ...

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Creator:
Savage, William, 1770–1843
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[4] p. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde : accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries : with a map / by Lieutenant Henry Pottinger.

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Creator:
Pottinger, Henry, Sir, 1789–1856
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xxx, 423 p., [2] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. A biographical dictionary of the living authors of Great Britain and Ireland : comprising literary memoirs and anecdotes of their lives : and a chronological register of their publications, with the number of editions printed : including notices of some foreign writers whose works have been occasionally published in England : illustrated by a variety of communications from persons of the first eminence in the world of letters.

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Date:
1816
Physical Description:
viii, 449, [1] pages ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. Catalogue of all the ancient and modern household furniture, comprising every requisite domestic article for the use of the mansion, villa, or cottage : India Japan screens and tables, fire arms, fowling pieces, models of ships, gongs, three marquees, ... tortoise-shell & ebony cabinet ... chairs and sofas, with embroidered cushions ... : fifty-two Vauxhall plates of looking glass ... : tapestry .. marble slabs on curved pedestals : collection of pictures by the most esteemed Masters : a cabinet of moths, insects, and minerals : Oriental Dresden, Seve, and other china ... : wardrobe of table & bed linen ... : rare coins and bijoutry : a sideboard of 15,000 ounces of rich old chased and modern plate : the cellar of choice and superior wines ... : some brewed ale, 100 dozen of empty bottles : live and dead farming stock, and implements of husbandry ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. H. Phillips, ... on Tuesday, the 23d of April, 1816, and ten following days.

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Creator:
Phillips, H., -1840
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
78 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. The history and antiquities of the see and cathedral church of Norwich; illustrated with a series of engravings, of views, elevations, plans, and details of the architecture of that edifice: including biographical anecdotes of the bishops, and of other eminent persons connected with the church. By John Britton, F. S. A.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
3 p. ., 89, [1] p. XXV plates (incl. plan) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. L'art de juger du caractère des hommes sur leur ecriture : avec vingt-quatre planches représentant les écritures de divers personnages célèbres, gravées d'après les originaux autographes / [E.A.P. Hocquart].

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Creator:
Hocquart, Edouard Auguste Patrice, 1787–1870
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
78 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. Cathedral antiquities.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1816-1836
Physical Description:
13 v. ill., plates, plans. 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. A descriptive catalogue of the antique statues, paintings, and other productions of the fine arts that existed in the Louvre at the time the allies took possession of Paris in July 1815 : to which are added some useful hints to those who intend to visit the memorable field of Waterloo.

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Creator:
Musée du Louvre
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
ii, 229 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. The Campaign of Waterloo : illustrated with engravings of Les Quatre Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and other principal scenes of actions : including a correct military plan, together with a grand view of the battle on a large scale : to which is prefixed a history of the campaign, compiled from official documents and other authentic sources.

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Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[2], 34, 10, [4] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. Prospectus of A general history of the County of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

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Creator:
Longman (Firm)
Date:
1816.]
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 28 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. The Itinerarium Hibernicum. Part I : being a topographical survey of the county of Kilkenny / by W. Robertson.

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Creator:
Robertson, William, architect
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[23] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Fordna och närvarande Sverige = La Suède ancienne et moderne / af U. Thersner.

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Creator:
Thersner, Ulrik, 1779–1829
Date:
[1816-1867]
Physical Description:
13 pts., leaves of plates : ill. (aquatints) ; 37 x 51 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. The history and antiquities of Bicester, a market town in Oxfordshire: compiled from original records ... and containing translations of the principal papers, charters, &c. in Kennett's Parochial antiquities. To which is added An inquiry into the history of Alchester, a city of the Dobuni, the site of which now forms a part of the common field of Wendlebury in the county of Oxford. By John Dunkin. With an appendix, and the whole of Kennett's Glossary.

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Creator:
Dunkin, John, 1782–1846
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
viii, 272, [8] p., 1 leaf, [2], 156 p. 1 geneal. table. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. The complete farrier and British sportsman : containing a systematic enquiry into the structure and animal economy of the horse, the causes, symptoms, and most approved methods of prevention and cure for every disease to which he is liable : a detection and exposure of the erroneous and bad methods of treatment generally adopted, with numerous approved and original recipes for various diseases : the whole rendered easy and familiar, with a view to general utility, and founded on the latest discoveries and experimental facts, to which the progress of improvement for the last twenty years in the veterinary act has led : including a faithful delineation of the various dogs used in the sports of the field, with canine pathology : interspersed with sporting anecdotes, and an account of the most celebrated horses, dogs, &c. &c. : equally important and interesting to The British Sportsman : as well as inn-keepers, coach-masters, farmers, owners of stage-waggons, &c. : embellished with a series of engravings, executed in the first style of the art, from original drawings in the possession of noblemen and Gentlemen of the Turf, and compiled, by permission, exclusively for this work / by Richard Lawrence ...

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Creator:
Lawrence, Richard, active 1801–1816
Date:
[1816?]
Physical Description:
iv, [1], 6-510 pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. Sketches in Flanders and Holland : with some account of a tour through parts of those countries, shortly after the battle of Waterloo : in a series of letters to a friend / by Robert Hills.

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Creator:
Hills, Robert
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
viii, 215, [1] p., XXXVI leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. Descriptive synopsis of the Roman gallery, (in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly,) with its magnificent decorations; consisting of antique marbles, jasper, agate, &c. in vases, tablets, and tazzas; and superb pictures of the ancient and modern masters; including the great and celebrated picture of The judgment of Brutus upon his sons; painted by the president of the academy at Rome.

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Date:
1816
Physical Description:
20 p. ill., fold. front. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. The art of penwork, to lay down the ground on military plans. Elucidated by sixteen copper-plates ...

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Creator:
Decker, K
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
x, 72, [xi]-xii p. 16 fold. plates. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of shooting / in a series of seven plates ... by Ben Tally-Ho.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. An account of the most striking and wonderful events in the life of Napoleon Bonaparte : from his sailing from Elba to his landing at St. Helena : comprising a circumstantial description of the memorable Battle of Waterloo, and of the singular island to which the ex-emperor has been banished : embellished with a view of St. Helena.

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Creator:
Mackenzie, E. (Eneas), 1778–1832
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
119, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., plan ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. A treatise on the coal mines of Durham and Northumberland; with information relative to the stratifications of the two counties: and containing accounts of the explosions from fire-damp, which have occured therein for the last twenty years; their causes, and the means proposed for their remedy, and for the general improvements of the mining system, by mew methods of ventilation, &c. By J. H. H. Holmes ...

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Creator:
Holmes, J. H. H
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xxii p., 1 ., 259 p. vii pl. (incl. front., map) 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the borough of Reading : in the county of Berks / by John Man.

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Creator:
Man, John, of Reading, Eng
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[2], iii, [1], 430, [2], xxxvi p., 21 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map, port, facsim. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. Nearly ready for publication, in two volumes ... An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving on copper and wood : with an account of the most ancient engravers and their works, from the earliest period, to the middle of the sixteenth century : comprising observations on some of the first books ornaments with wood-cuts : by William Young Ottley, F.A.S.

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Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. Rowlandson's world in miniature : consisting of groups of figures for the illustration of landscape scenery / drawn and etched by T. Rowlandson.

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Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[40] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. Cambria depicta : a tour through north Wales : illustrated with picturesque views / by a native artist.

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Creator:
Pugh, Edward, 1763–1813
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xv, 476 p., [71] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. The importance of the Cape of Good Hope as a colony to Great Britain : independently of the advantages it possesses as a military and naval station an the key to our territorial possessions in India ... / by Richard Barnard Fisher ...

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Creator:
Fisher, Richard Barnard
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xxiv, 190 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. French characteristic costumes / etched by R.B. Peake.

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Creator:
Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792–1847
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
[18] leaves, [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. The history of Bristol, civil and ecclesiastical; including biographical notices of eminent and distinguished natives ...

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Creator:
Corry, John, approximately 1770–
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts., ill., 10 plates. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. The history of Crowland Abbey, digested from the materials collected by Mr. Gough, and published ... 1783 and 1797; including an abstract of the observations of Mr. Essex, respecting the ancient and present state of the abbey, and the origin and use of the triangular bridge ...

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Creator:
Holdich, Benjamin, 1770–1824
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xvi, 182, [2] p. front., plate. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. A collection of ornaments in the antique style, comprised in XXXVII plates designed & engraved by G. Richardson archt. & son.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 p.., 36 plates. 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. Remains of John Tweddell ... being a selection of his correspondence, a republication of his Prolusiones juveniles, an appendix containing some account of the author's collections, mss., drawings, &c., and of their extraordinary disappearance, preceded by a biographical memoir of the deceased, and illustrated with portraits, picturesque views, and maps, by the Rev. Robert Tweddell A.M.

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Creator:
Tweddell, John, 1769–1799
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
viii, 595, 179, [17] p. front., ill. (maps) plates, maps. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts