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101. 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

102. 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

103. 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

104. 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

105. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

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Date:
1756-1817
Physical Description:
144 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. 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

107. 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

108. 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

109. 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

110. 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

111. 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

112. 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

113. 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