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201. Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.

Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.
Date:
1740 October 6
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

202. Wet drug jar.

Wet drug jar.
Date:
circa 1750
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 20 cm high (including handle) x 14 cm in diameter (20 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

203. Dry drug jar.

Dry drug jar.
Date:
circa 1750
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 19 cm high x 15 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

204. The city and country builder's, and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.

The city and country builder's, and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.
Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
iv, 24 pages, clxxxiv [i.e. 186] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.

205. Atlas minor, or, A new and curious set of sixty two maps : in which are shewn all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, in all the known parts of the earth : with their bounds, divisions, chief cities & towns, the whole composed and laid down agreeable to modern history / by Herman Moll ...

Atlas minor, or, A new and curious set of sixty two maps : in which are shewn all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, in all the known parts of the earth : with their bounds, divisions, chief cities & towns, the whole composed and laid down agreeable to modern history / by Herman Moll ...
Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
[174-?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1], 62 leaves) : 62 maps ; 25 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

206. [Wallpaper fragment with classical frieze].

No cover image available
Date:
[circa 1760?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet of wallpaper : chiaroscuro ; 46 x 75 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

207. The anatomy of the human body / by W. Cheselden ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Cheselden, William, 1688–1752
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
[10], 336 p., [1], [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

208. A new and exact map of America laid down from the latest observations and discoveries.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bowles, John, 1701–1779
Date:
[approximately 1740?]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 56 x 70 cm, on sheet 62 x 104 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

209. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
[2] p., p. 407-412 ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

210. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Grierson, George, -1753
Date:
1740]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

211. The use of the globes, or, The general doctrine of the sphere : explaining and demonstrating the most natural propositions relating to astronomy, geography and dialing : to which is added A synopsis of the doctrine of eclipses ... / by Thomas Wright

No cover image available
Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1711–1786
Date:
MDCCXL [1740]
Physical Description:
iv, 162, [2] p., [30] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

212. Seven conferences held in the King of France's cabinet of paintings, between Mr. Le Brun, Mr. Bourdon, Mr. de Champagne, Mr. Perrault, &c. on some of the most celebrated pictures of Raphael, Titian, Paulo Veronese, Poussin, &c. in which the method of forming a judgment on paintings, is laid down with the greatest elegance and perspicuity. Translated from the French of Felibien. With a curious preface.

No cover image available
Creator:
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
2 p.., [iii]-lxii, 170, [2] p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

213. World described.

No cover image available
Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
1740-1745
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

214. The history of the belles lettres, and of the arts and sciences, from their origin, down to this present time. Translated from the French of M. Juvenal de Carlencas. With a complete alphabetical index.

No cover image available
Creator:
Carlenças, Félix de Juvenel de, 1679–1760
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
xiv, 309, [24] p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

215. A description of nine historical prints : representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family / selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:
1740]
Physical Description:
28 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts