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1. Felix on the bat : being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat : together with the history and use of the catapulta : also the laws of cricket, as revised by the Marylebone Club, 1845.

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Creator:: Felix, Nicholas, 1804–1876
Date:: MDCCCXLV [1845]
Physical Description:: 40, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Rouge et noir : the academicians of 1823, or, The Greeks of the Palais Royal, and the clubs of St. James's : dedicated (sans permission) to His the Duke of , and Bishop of _, commander in ___, &c. &c. &c. / by Charles Persius, Esq. ; Garde Nationale de Paris, auteur des Réflexions sur l'homme, d'un Essai sur la folie, des observations sur les femmes du xix siècle, et d'un critique sur les Mémoires de Mrs. Dyott, one of the Graces of Grosvenor Square.

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Creator:: Dunne, Charles
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 456, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Edward Ryland : copper plate printer in the Old Bailey near Ludgate Hill, London.

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Creator:: Ryland, Edwd. (Edward), active approximately 1762–1775
Date:: [ca. 1760]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 27 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation : Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush, or flying. IV. How to make shot, proportion the charge, and know good powder; with the proper use of the stalking-horse, bush, hedge, and how to manage them. V. Of singing birds, their diseases and cure. VI. How to distinguish all sorts of poulterers ware, whether old or young, fresh or stale, full of eggs or not. Also to well order, and speedily fat tame and wild fowl. VII. To which is added directions for destroying all manner of vermine / By J.S. Gent.

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Creator:: Smith, John, active 1684–1704
Date:: 1697
Physical Description:: [8], 159, [1] p. : ill. ; 12 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts