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1. Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley.

Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley.
Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
1 p.., 64 pl. 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. By the Rev.d Mr. Spence.

Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. By the Rev.d Mr. Spence.
Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
xii, 361, [1] p. front. (port.) illus., XLI pl. (part fold.) 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round : begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and published in 1746, according to act of Parliament / by John Rocque ... ; engrav'd by Richard Parr and printed by W. Pratt ... = Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium : delineatio ichnographica anno 1741 incohata 1745 absoluta / a Johanne Rocque ... = Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Weatminster, et bourg de Southwark et de leurs environs : levée très exactement sur les lieux, en 1741, achevée en 1745, et publieé selon un acte de Parlement en 1746 / par Jean Rocque.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[1747]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], [32] leaves) : maps ; 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Vetusta Monumenta.

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Creator:
Society of Antiquaries of London
Date:
n.d.]
Physical Description:
1 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain ...

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Creator:
Birch, Thomas, 1705–1766
Date:
1747-1752
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The plan of a dictionary of the English language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield ...

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Physical Description:
1 p.l., 34 p. 26 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A catalogue of all the materials of the dwelling-house, out-houses, &c. of His Grace James Duke of Chandos : deceas'd, at his late seat call'd Cannons, near Edgware in Middlesex ... which will be sold by auction / by Mr. Cock, on Tuesday, the 16th of June 1747, and the eleven following days (at Cannons aforesaid).

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Creator:
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720–1749
Date:
[1747]
Physical Description:
60 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times : collected from the best authorities, both printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary ...

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Date:
1747-1766
Physical Description:
6 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Bibliotheca radcliviana, or, A short description of the Radcliffe library at Oxford : containing in several plans, uprights, sections, and ornaments, on twenty-three copper plates, neatly engraved, with the explanation of each plate / by James Gibbs, architect, fellow of the Royal Society, &c.

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Creator:
Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
12 p., XXI, [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Sculptura-historico-technica: or, The history and art of ingraving ... Extracted from Baldinucci, Florent le Comte, Faithorne, the Abcedario pittorico, and other authors.

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Date:
1747
Physical Description:
xii, 225 p. 10 plates. 17 x 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 46, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Choir gaure, vulgarly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain : described, restored, and explained, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer / by John Wood ...

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
119 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 5 plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Some remarkable passages in the life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner : who was slain at the battle of Preston-Pans, September 21, 1745 : with an appendix relating to the antient family of the Munro's of Fowlis / by P. Doddridge, D.D.

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Creator:
Doddridge, Philip, 1702–1751
Date:
MDCCXLVII [1747]
Physical Description:
[16], 260 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Traité des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle / par M. F*** ...

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Creator:
Frézier, Amédée François, 1682–1773
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
lii, [2], 496 p. : front., XIII fold. pl. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. General rures [sic] for painting in oil and water-colours; washing prints, maps, and mezzitintoes. With the art of japaning. By George Bickham, Junior, engraver.

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Creator:
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
20 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A set of japanning prints ... With printed directions.

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Creator:
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
14 double plates (incl. t.-p.) 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts