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1. The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new ... account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell ...

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Creator:
Bardwell, Thomas, 1704–1767
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
2 p.., [iii]-v, 64 p. VI plates. 26 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An exact survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin : in which is express'd the ground plot of publick buildings, dwelling-houses, ware-houses, stables, courts, yards, &c. : published according to act of Parliament in four sheets, price one guinea / by John Rocque ... = Plan general de la ville & faubourg de Dublin : dans lequel les maisons, magazins, ecuries, ruelles, courts, &c. / sont exprime par Jean Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1], [10] leaves : maps ; 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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 grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, oblisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings [sic], and iron works : proportioned by aliquot parts : with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. : to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner than has yet been done : the whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. : the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language / by B. L.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
24 p., CLXXXVI, 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

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Creator:
T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Firm)
Date:
August 21, 1756
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An essay on the present state of our publick roads : shewing the absolute necessity of a total prohibition of the use of narrow wheels on all carriages drawn by one horse lengthways. And the benefit that will accrue thereby to farmers and carriers, to trade and manufactures, as well as ease, pleasure and safety to travellers.

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Date:
1756
Physical Description:
[4], 33, [1] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The history of London : from its foundation to the present time ... including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the bill of mortality ... / by William Maitland ...

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Creator:
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
2 v. (viii, 1410 p.) : ill., map, plans, coats of arms ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Martin Folkes, Esq. President of the Royal Society, and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, lately deceased : which will be sold by auction by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent Garden : to begin on Monday, February 2, 1756, and to continue for forty days successively (Sundays excepted).

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Creator:
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:
[1756]
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, 156 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

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Creator:
Lacombe de Prézel, Honoré, 1725–
Date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:
xxiv, 307, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Caminologie, ou, Traite des cheminees : contenant desobservations sur les differences causes qui font fumer les cheminees : avec des moyens pour corriger ce defaut ...

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Creator:
Hébrard, Pierre, 1718–1759
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
xlviii, 187, [5] p., [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The present state of the arts in England / by M. Rouquet ...

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Creator:
Rouquet, Jean André, 1701–1758
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
[4], 124 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The practice of perspective / from the original Italian of Lorenzo Sirigatti : with the figures engraved by Isaac Ware, Esq.

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Creator:
Sirigatti, Lorenzo
Date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:
[2], 5-8 pages, 43 [i.e. 50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays : Number II. containing a letter, representing the impropriety of sending forces to Virginia : the importance of taking Frontenac : and that the preservation of Oswego was owing to General Shirley's proceeding thither : containing objections to those parts of Evan's general map and analysis, which relate to the French title to the country, on the north-west side of St. Laurence River, between Fort Frontenac and Montreal, &c. : published in the New-York Mercury, no. 178. Jan. 5, 1756 : with an answer to so much thereof as concerns the public : and the several articles set in a just light / by Lewis Evans.

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Creator:
Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:
v, [1], 7-35, [1] pages ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. L'art d'imprimer les tableaux. Traité d'après les écrits, les opérations & les instructions verbales, de J. C. Le Blon.

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Creator:
Gautier de Montdorge, Antoine, 1701–1768
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
xi, vi, [2], [xiii]-xxv, [26]-180, [4] p. 3 fold pl. (1 col.) 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The worrs [i.e. works] of the Marchioness de Lambert ... Carefully translated from the French.

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Creator:
Lambert, Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de, 1647–1733
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
338 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Miscellanies, or, Essays literary, political, and moral / by the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift.

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Creator:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:
[1756?]
Physical Description:
iv, [3]-259, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A new and accurate description of the present great roads and the principal cross roads of England and Wales : commencing at London, and continued to the farthest parts of the kingdom, with the several branches leading out of them, and a description of the several towns that stand thereon : divided into four parts, viz. western, northern, eastern, and southern : to which are added, the ancient Roman roads and stations in Britain : also some general rules to know the original of the names of places in England, a list of mitred abbots, and an alphabetical list of fairs regulated according to the new style.

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Date:
1756
Physical Description:
[8], 168, lxiv p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The manner of securing all sorts of buildings from fire, or, A treatise upon the construction of arches made with bricks and plaister, called flat-arches, and of a roof without timber called a bricked-roof : with the addition of some letters that have passed between the Count of Espie and Peter Wyche, Esq. on this subject : adorned with two copper-plates serving to illustrate the whole work / written in French by Monsieur le comte d'Espie, Knight of the Military Order of St. Lewis, and translated by L. Dutens.

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Creator:
Espié, Félix François, comte d', 1708–1792
Date:
[1756]
Physical Description:
62 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An essay on the study and practice of architecture : explained by the true principles of the science ... : illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved ... : to which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.

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Creator:
Laugier, Marc-Antoine, 1711–1769
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
xvi, [2], 272, [8] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts