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1. A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues ; by John Evelyn, Esq. fellow of the Royal Society.

A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues ; by John Evelyn, Esq. fellow of the Royal Society.
Creator:
Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
Date:
MDCLXIV [1664]
Physical Description:
[24], 159, [1] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. W. Stevens's circulating library and general newspaper office : 23, Trinity Square, Tower HIll.

W. Stevens's circulating library and general newspaper office : 23, Trinity Square, Tower HIll.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 12 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:
[16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The builder's dictionary, or, Gentleman and architect's companion : explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof ... : also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences : together with the quantities proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ... / fully digested by the most approved writers on the subjects.

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Date:
1734
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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

6. An essay in defence of ancient architecture, or, A parallel of the ancient buildings with the modern : , shewing [sic] the beauty and harmony of the former, and the irregularity of the latter : with impartial reflections on the reasons of the abuses introduced by our present builders : to which is annexed an inspectional table, universally useful / by Robert Morris ; illustrated with sixteen copper-plates.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1728
Physical Description:
xxviii, 114, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A map of the kingdom of France : according to the Treaty of Paris, November 20th. 1815 / divided into departments and districts from the map of M. Cassini de Theury.

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Creator:
Cassini, César-François, 1714–1784
Date:
Augt. 2nd. 1838
Physical Description:
1 map : 121 x 121 cm on sheet 126 x 126 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

9. Catalogue of an extensive and valuable collection of books, antiquities, books of prints, and manuscripts, : being the family library of a gentleman of distinction (deceased) the collection of which commenced in the 17th century, and are (many of them) enriched with manuscript notes by the founder, who was a profound scholar and antiquary ... : also the northern part of the library of the late Rev. James Johnstone, chaplain to His Britannic Majesty's envoy extraordinary at the Court of Denmark and author of Antiquitates celto-normannicae; celto-scandicae, &c. / This library, the largest ever sold in Ireland ... will be sold by auction by Thomas Jones, (bookseller and auctioneer) at ... No. 6, Eustace-Street, Dublin, on Monday. April 16th, 1810 ... : to be viewed on Thursday April 12th, and two following days ... : catalogues price two shillings and six-pence ... : to be had at the place of sale, also of Mr. William Miller, bookseller, Albemarle Street, and Mr. Richard Priestly, bookseller, 143 High Holborn, London.

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Creator:
Jones, Thomas (Auctioneer)
Date:
[1810]
Physical Description:
[2], 219, [3] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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

11. 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

12. The perspective of architecture : in two parts : a work entirely new, deduced from the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor : and performed by two rules only of universal application : part the first, contains the description and use of a new instrument called the architectonic sector : part the second, a new method of drawing the five orders, elegant structures, &c. in perspective / begun by command of His Present Majesty, when Prince of Wales, by Joshua Kirby, designer in perspective to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:
MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:
[6], 82, [2], ii, 60, [2] pages, [1], XXV, LXXII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Gale's cabinet of knowledge, or, Miscellaneous recreations : containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural, and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility ... : to which are added a great number of originals, likewise an appendix, containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings, with some curious definitions in optics.

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Creator:
Gale, John, active 18th century-19th century
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
xiv, 336 pages, VI folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

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Creator:
Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale / par don Félix de Azara ... depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801 ; contenant la description géographique, politique et civile du Paraguay et de la rivière de la Plata ; l'histoire de la découverte et de la conquête de ces contrées ; des détails nombreux sur leur histoire naturelle, et sur les peuples sauvages qui les habitent ... Publiés d'après les manuscrits de l'auteur, avec une notice sur sa vie et ses écrits par C.A. Walckenaer ; enrichis de notes par G. Cuvier ... Suivis de L'historie naturelle des oiseaux du Paraguay et de la Plata, par le même auteur, traduite d'après l'original espagnol, et augumentée d'un grand nombre de notes par M. Sonnini ; accompagnés d'un atlas de vingt-cinq planches ...

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Creator:
Azara, Félix de, 1746–1821
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
4 volumes ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The builder's price-book : containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London : to the several artificers concerned in building : including the journeymen's prices / by an experienced surveyor.

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Creator:
Experienced surveyor
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
viii, 176, [16] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A tutor to astronomy and geography, or, An easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, cœlestial and terrestrial : in six books ... : with an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere / by Joseph Moxon ... ; whereunto is added the antient poetical stories of the stars ... ; as also a discourse of the antiquity, progress and augmentation of astronomy.

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Creator:
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:
MDCLXXIV [1674]
Physical Description:
[8], 271, [9] p. : ill. ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts