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1. An account of the statues, bas-reliefs, drawings, and pictures in Italy, France, &c. with remarks / by Mr. Richardson, Sen. and Jun.

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Creator:: Richardson, Jonathan, 1665–1745
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: [2], [50], 357, [5] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A critical examination of those two paintings on the cieling [sic] of the banqueting-house at Whitehall : in which architecture is introduced, so far as relates to the perspective : together with the discussion of a question, which has been the subject of debate among painters ...

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Creator:: Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: [4], viii, 15 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : containing the original, antiquity, increase, present state and government of those cities : written at first in the year 1698 [i.e. 1598] / by John Stow ... ; corrected, improved, and very much enlarged, in the year 1720, by John Strype ..., the survey and history brought down to the present time ... ; the life of the author, written by Mr. Strype is prefixed ... added, an appendix of certain tracts, discourses, and remarks on the state of the city of London ...

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Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1754-1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Travels through different cities of Germany, Italy, Greece and several parts of Asia, as far as the banks of the Euphrates : in a series of letters : containing, an account of what is most remarkable in their present state, as well as in their monuments of antiquity / by Alexander Drummond, Esq. ...

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Creator:: Drummond, Alexander, -1769
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: [4], 311, [1] p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 39 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school.

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Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: [1754?]
Physical Description:: 8 p.l., 439 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An essay on the invention of engraving and printing in chiaro oscuro, as practised by Albert Durer, Hugo di Carpi, &c. and the application of it to the making paper hangings of taste, duration, and elegance.

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Creator:: Jackson, John Baptist, 1701–1780?
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 19 p. col. plates. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

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Creator:: Aheron, John
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: vi, 110, 8, [20] pages, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Deformity: an essay. By William Hay ...

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Creator:: Hay, William, 1695–1755
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 81, [2] p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. : qui prostabunt venales sub hasta apud Samuelem Baker, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 18vo. Novembris, M. DCC. LIV. iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M. DCC. LV.

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Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1754]
Physical Description:: [4], 116, [2], 117-242 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. De arte graphica; or, The art of painting. Translated from the original Latin of C.A. Du Fresnoy. By Mr. Wills. With notes miscellaneous and explanatory ...

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Creator:: Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., viii, 59 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Réflexions sur l'alphabet et sur la langue dont on se servoit autrefois à Palmyre / par M. l'Abbé Barthelemy.

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Creator:: Barthélemy, J.-J. (Jean-Jacques), 1716–1795
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 8 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A catalogue of the genuine and capital collection of pictures, by the most celebrated masters, of that late great and learned physician, Doctor Richard Mead, deceased : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 20th, 21st, and 22d of this instant March 1754 : the said collection will be exhibited to publick view from Monday the 18th instant, till the time of sale, which will begin punctually each day at twelve-o'clock : catalogues of which may be had gratis, at Mr. Langford's in the Great Piazza aforesaid : conditions of sale as usual.

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Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1754]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The gentleman's farriery, or, A practical treatise, on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved : also, a new method of nicking horses is recommended ; with a copper-plate and description of the machine / by J. Bartlet, surgeon.

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Creator:: Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: [2], xxiv, 357, [11] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Rules and orders of the Select Society, instituted on Wednesday the 23d day of May, 1754.

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Creator:: Select Society
Date:: 1754]
Physical Description:: 12 p.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The poll of the freeholders of Oxfordshire : taken at the county court held in Oxford on the 17th of April, 1754 / by Tho. Blackall ..., High-Sheriff ; candidates : Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Wenman, Sir James Dashwood ..., Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Parker, Sir Edward Turner ...

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Date:: [1754]
Physical Description:: 115 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The lives of the most eminent modern painters, who have lived since, or were omitted by Mons. De Piles / by J.B.

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Creator:: Burgess, James, 18th cent
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: [24], 140, [4] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A view of the amphitheatre, part of ye great lake & the new house in the island situated in the gardens of Claremount : one of the seats of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle = Vue de l'amphitheâtre, situé dans les jardins de Clare Mount : une des maisons de plaisance du duc de Newcastle, a 6 lieues de Londres.

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Creator:: Benazech, Peter Paul, ca. 1730–ca.1783
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 38 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director.

The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director.

Creator:: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 3 p.l., iii-x, 27 p. CLX (i.e. 161) pl. ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library