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1. John Pym, Esquire

John Pym, Esquire
Creator:
Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:
1738
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

2. The Exercise of See Saw

The Exercise of See Saw
Creator:
L. Truchy, 1721–1764
Date:
ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A View of London about the Year 1560

A View of London about the Year 1560
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1738
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Descent from the Cross

Descent from the Cross
Creator:
Print made by John Baptist Jackson, 1701–1780
Date:
1738
Materials & Techniques:
Chiaroscuro woodcut
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Ralph Kirkpatrick, Yale MA (HON.) 1965

5. Sliding on Ice

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Creator:
Remi Parr, 1743–after 1750
Date:
ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The history of the British plantations in America : with a chronological account of the most remarkable things, which happen'd to the first adventurers in their several discoveries of that new world : Part I. Containing The history of Virginia; with remarks on the trade and commerce of that colony / by Sir William Keith, Bart.

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Creator:
Keith, William, Sir, 1680–1749
Date:
MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Physical Description:
[8], 187, [1] pages, ([2] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Amusemens des eaux de Schwalbach, des bains de Wisbaden et de Schlangenbad : avec deux relations curieuses, l'une de la nouvelle Jerusalem, et l'autre d'une partie de la tartarie independante : avec des figures en taille-douce.

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Creator:
Solignac, Pierre Joseph de La Pimpie, 1687–1773
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
320 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. [Table of the reciprocal distances of the principal towns of Cambridgeshire, from Magna Britannia]

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Date:
[1738]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] pages) ; 22 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

9. London : a poem, in imitation of the third satire of Juvenal.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
19 p. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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 Gérard de Lairesse. Translated by John Frederick Fritsch ...

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Creator:
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
1 p.., iv, [10] 654 p. front., LXXI plates (part. fold.) 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The builder's compleat assistant, or, a Library of arts and sciences absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general ... : the whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates / by B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A short narrative of the proceedings of the gentlemen, concerned in obtaining the act, for building a bridge at Westminster; and of the steps, which the honourable the commissioners, appointed by that act, have taken to carry it into execution. In a letter to a member of Parliament in the country; together with his answer ...

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Date:
1738
Physical Description:
1 p.., 70 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The laboratory, or, School of arts : in which are, faithfully exhibited and fully explain'd : I. A variety of curious and valuable experiments in refining, calcining, melting, essaying, casting, allaying, and toughening gold ... : II. Choice secrets for jewellers ... : translated from the German.

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Creator:
Smith, G. L. (Godfrey L.)
Date:
1738-1756
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The royal dictionary abridged. In two parts. : I. French and English. II. English and French ... To which are added, the accents of all English words, to facilitate their pronunciation to foreigners. / By Mr. A. Boyer.

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Creator:
Boyer, Abel, 1667–1729
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
2 v., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

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Creator:
Hoofnail, John
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
vi, 2, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. To the most high puissant & noble prince, Charles, Duke of Marlborough : this plan of Windsor Park is most humbly inscribed / by ... J. Rocque = Plan du chateau et parc de Windsor, dans la conté de Berk. a 20 miles de Londres : renferment une des maisons et jardins du duc de Marlborough / tres exactement levé et gravé par J. Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
1 map : ill. ; 38 x 62 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Stereography, or, A compleat body of perspective : in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions. Together with their projections or shadows, and their reflections by polished planes. The whole performed by uniform, easy, and general methods, for the most part entirely new. In seven books / By J. Hamilton ... In two volumes.

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Creator:
Hamilton, J. (John)
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
[9] p., 400, [6] p. : diagrs. on 130 fold. pl. ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Palladio Londinensis, or, The London art of building : in three parts. : I. Containing a demonstration of all geometrical problems ... : III. copiously treating of the several kinds of stair-cases : the whole illustrated with fifty-two copper plates : to which is annexed, the builder's dictionary ... / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
12, 132, [28] p., [52] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:
[12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A method of study; or, An useful library. In two parts. Part I, containing short directions and a catalogue of books for study of several valuable parts of learning, viz. geography, chronology, history, classical learning, natural philosophy, &c. Part II, containing some directions for the study of divinity, and prescribing proper books for that purpose. By John Boswell ...

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Creator:
Boswell, John, 1698–1757
Date:
1738-43
Physical Description:
2 v. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici Comitis de Hoym : olim Regis Poloniae Augusti II. apud regem Christianissimum legati extraordinarii / digestus & descriptus à Gabriele Martin, bibliopola Parisiensi ; cum indice auctorum alphabetico.

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Creator:
Hoym, Karl Heinrich, Graf von, 1694–1736
Date:
MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Physical Description:
6 unnumbered pages, xx, 528 pages, 6 pages, 58 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A letter to Dr. Mead concerning some antiquities in Berkshire : particularly shewing that the White Horse, which gives name to the Vale, is a monument of the West-Saxons, made in memory of a great victory obtained over the Danes A.D. 871 / by Francis Wise ...

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Creator:
Wise, Francis, 1695–1767
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
58 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts