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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1761.

1. Journal du camp de Compiegne de 1739 : augmenté des épreuves des mines faites en présence du Roi, par MM. de Turmel et Antoniazzi, capitaines mineurs, rédigé sur les lieux par ordre de M. Dangervillers, Ministre de la Guerre / par le sieur Le Rouge, Ingénieur-Géographe du Roi ; auquel on a joint un Traité-pratique des Mines, par M. le Maréchal De Bauban ; dedié au Roi.

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Creator:: Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: [4], 4, 128, [4] p., 36 folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The ornaments of churches considered : with a particular view to the late decoration of the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing, the history of the said church, an account of the altar-piece, and stained glass window erected over it : a state of the prosecution [!] it has occasioned, and other papers ...

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Creator:: Hole, William, 1710–1791
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: 2 p., iv, [6], v-xiv, 15-143, 38, 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and gothic orders of architecture, made easy... : by nearly 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient andmodern, of pedestals, bases, shafts [etc.] ... : engraved on 184 copper plates: wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down ... / by Batty Langley ...

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: xxiv p., [92] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A short history of Brighthelmston : with remarks on its air, and an analysis of its waters, particularly of an uncommon mineral one, long discovered, though but lately used ... / by Anthony Relhan ...

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Creator:: Relhan, Anthony, 1715–1776
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: [4], 75 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. One hundred & fifty new designs / by Thos. Johnson, carver ; consisting of cielings [sic], chimney pieces, slab, glass & picture frames, stands for china &c., clock & watch cases, girondoles, brackets, grates, lanthorns, &c. &c. ; the whole well adapted for decorating all kinds of ornamental furniture, in the present taste ; engrav'd on 56 copper plates.

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Creator:: Johnson, Thos. (Thomas), 1714?-approximately 1778
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: 4 pt. in 1 : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Vignola revived : wherein is shown the true and most elegant proportions of the five orders as laid down by that great master : illustrated by two hundred and twenty-seven designs of palaces and other magnificent buildings : executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere : neatly engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates : adapted not only to the general use of architecture, but herein particular subjects are treated with the greatest accuracy, viz. : the five orders; columns, symbolical, &c. &c. doors, windows, niches, &c. cornishes, French and Italian ; ballustrades, mosaic work, mouldings, &c., sections of rooms, with designs for furniture; ornamental iron-work for various purposes; temples, grotto's, and summer retreats, for parks, gardens, &c. plan, elevations, and sections of the castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a church, pallaces [sic], &c. : with many other particulars relative to the art of building.

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Creator:: Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653–1701
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 56 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts