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1. Vues de la ville de Londres : comme il etoit devant & apres l'incendie de 1666 : avec le plan pour la rabâtir / projetté par ... Christophle [sic] Wren, & aprouvé par le roi & Parlement, mais malheureusement rejetté par faction.

Vues de la ville de Londres : comme il etoit devant & apres l'incendie de 1666 : avec le plan pour la rabâtir / projetté par ... Christophle [sic] Wren, & aprouvé par le roi & Parlement, mais malheureusement rejetté par faction.
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 39 x 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...
Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
[6], 4 pages, [76] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

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Creator:
Chiffinch, William, 1602?-1688
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
iv, 144, 51, [3] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Description geographique des isles Antilles possédées par les Anglois.

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Creator:
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703–1772
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
[2], xii, 171, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates, [8] folded : ill. (maps, plans); 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. [Glass frames, ovals, stands for candles, picture frames, slab frames, side of a room, an organ, ceilings, chimney pieces ... ].

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Creator:
Johnson, Thos. (Thomas), 1714?-approximately 1778
Date:
1758
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The history and antiquities of the ancient villa of Wheatfield, in the county of Suffolk.

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Creator:
Clubbe, John, 1702 or 1703–1773
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
xiii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 16-31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Vollständiger Sack-atlas aller Theile des bewohnten Erdbodens und derer Länder : in hauptund special Landcharten, nebst einem kurzgefasten Entwurf und Anweisung zur newesten Geographie / Herausgegeben von Tobias Lobecks sel. Erben, bey welchen es auch zu finden in Augspurg.

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Creator:
Lobeck, Tobias
Date:
[between 1758 and 1786]
Physical Description:
72 pages ; 12 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste : being above fifty intire [sic] new designs of plans, sections, elevations,&c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks,forests, woods, canals, &c. ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on fifty four copper-plates from the designs of Charles Over, architect.

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Creator:
Over, Charles
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
8 p., [54] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Lettere familiari e critiche di Vincenzio Martinelli.

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Creator:
Martinelli, Vincenzio, 1702–1785
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
xvi, [15], 397 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Sketches: or Essays on various subjects. By Launcelot Temple, esq;

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Creator:
Armstrong, John, 1709–1779
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
vii, 86 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The natural history of Cornwall : the air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides ; of stones, semimetals, metals, tin, and manner of mining ; the constitution of the stannaries ; iron, copper, silver, lead, and gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, rare birds, fishes, shells, reptiles, and quadrupeds : of the inhabitants, their manners, customs, plays or interludes, exercises, and festivals ; the Cornish language, trade, tenures, and arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the county, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from original drawing taken on the spot / by William Borlase, A.M. F.R.S. Rector of Ludgvan, and author of the Antiquities of Cornwall.

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Creator:
Borlase, William, 1695–1772
Date:
MDCCLVII [1758]
Physical Description:
xix, 326 p., XXIX leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The handmaids to the arts : teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the matria pictoria: ... : III. the various manners of gilding, silvering, ...

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Creator:
Dossie, Robert, d. 1777
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece.

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Creator:
Le Roy
Date:
1758
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The handmaid to the arts.

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Creator:
Dossie, Robert, d. 1777
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A new description of the pictures, statues, bustos, basso-relievos, and other curiosities at the Earl of Pembroke's house at Wilton. In the antiques of this collection are contain'd the whole of Cardinal Richelieu's and Cardinal Mazarine's, and the greatest part of the Earl of Arundel's; besides several particular pieces purchas'd at different times. By James Kennedy.

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Creator:
Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656–1733
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
4 p. l., 107, [1] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Louthiana, or, An introduction to the antiquities of Ireland : in upwards of ninety views and plans : representing, with proper explanation, the principal ruins, curiosities, and antient dwellings, in the County of Louth : divided into three books / taken upon the spot by Thomas Wright, author of The physical and mathematical elements of astronomy, &c. ; engraved by Paul Fourdrinier.

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Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1711–1786
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

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Date:
[1758?]
Physical Description:
15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. English architecture, or, The publick buildings of London and Westminster : with plans of the streets and squares, represented in one hundred and twenty-three folio plates : with a succinct review of their history, and a candid examination of their perfections and defects.

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Date:
[ 1758?]
Physical Description:
[6], 112, [4] pages, [123] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A catalogue of the grand and capital collection of Italian, Flemish, and Dutch paintings, of the Hon. Sir Luke Schaub, lately deceased : amongst which are the choicest works of Raphael, A.L. Carracci, M. Angelo, Guercino, Tintoretto, Titian, Albano, Corregio, Guido, P. da Cortona, P. Veronese, P. Laura, Luca Giordano, C. Lorraine, Poussin, Murillo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Vandyck, Jordaens, Wovermans, Teneirs, P. Brill, Ostade, and several other masters of great eminence : which, (by order of the administratrix), will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Wednesday the 26th, Thursday the 27th, and Friday the 28th of this instant April 1758 ...

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1758]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. De la manière de graver a l'eau forte et au burin : et de la gravûre en manière noire : avec la façon de construire les presses modernes, & d'imprimer en taille-douce / par Abraham Bosse.

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Creator:
Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
[4], xxxii, 205 p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The British architect.

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Creator:
Swan, Abraham
Date:
1967
Physical Description:
viii, viii, 16., 60 plates. 42 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library