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1. A natural and civil history of California : containing an accurate description of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours, lakes, rivers, and seas : its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fishery for pearls : the customs of the inhabitants, their religion, government and manner of living, before their conversion to the Christian religion by the missionary Jesuits : together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California and taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, and coast of the south sea : illustrated with copper plates, and an accurate map of the country and the adjacent seas / translated from the original Spanish of Miguel Venegas, a Mexican Jesuit, published at Madrid 1758.

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Creator:
Venegas, Miguel, 1680–1764
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, map ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of plans and elevations, &c. from the imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China : likewise their marine subjects : the whole to adorn gardens, parks, forests, woods, canals, &c. consisting of great variety, among which are the following, viz. royal garden seats, heads and terminations for canals, alcoves, banqueting houses, temples both open and close, adapted for canals and others ways, bridges, summer-houses, repositories, umbrello'd seats, cool retreats, the summer dwelling of a chief bonza or priest, honorary pagodas, Japaneze [sic] and imperial barges of China : also, those for the emperor's women, and principal officers attending on the emperor, pleasure boats, &c. : to which are added, Chinese flowers, landscapes, figures, ornaments, &c. : the whole neatly engraved on twenty-four copper-plates, from real designs drawn in China, adapted to this climate / by P. Decker, architect.

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Creator:
Decker, Paul
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A poetical description of Mr. Hogarth's election prints: in four cantos. Written under Mr. Hogarth's sanction and inspection ...

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Creator:
Smith, John, fl. 1759
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
30 p. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

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Creator:
Robinson, William, approximately 1744–
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
[32] leaves, 33-47 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A description of the works of the ingenious delineator and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life. By George Vertue ...

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Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
vi p., 1 l., 151, [1] p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The art of painting in oil ...

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Creator:
Smith, John, 1647 or 1648–1727?
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
4 p.., 110 p. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The Prince of Abissinia : a tale in two volumes.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

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Creator:
Garret, Daniel, -1753
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
[4], 11, [1] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Conjectures on original composition. In a letter to the author of Sir Charles Grandison.

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Creator:
Young, Edward, 1683–1765
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
[4], 112 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

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Creator:
Robertson, William, 1721–1793
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Designs in carpentry : containing domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, angle-brackets, and cornices / by Abraham Swan.

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Creator:
Swan, Abraham
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
[1], 8, [55] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

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Creator:
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
[vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A catalogue of the late Sir Everard Fawkener's pictures, antique bronzes, large marble group of a lion devouring a horse, two curious Egyptian mummies of a woman and a child : several large portraits, of English gentlemen, by Liotard, in frames and glasses : and a collection of other valuable pictures, vases, and basso relievos, a curious table inlaid with brass, a large book-case, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in St. James's Haymarket, on Tuesday the 27th of this instant March 1759.

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Creator:
Ford, James (Auctioneer)
Date:
[1759]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings after the most celebrated heads in the cartons at Hampton-Court : to which are now added, the outline of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing, and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

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Creator:
Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
[2], 13, [2], 14-24 pages, XI, [1], 45 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Description historique-géographique des isles Britanniques ou des royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande / par M. l'Abbé Expilly, de la Société Royale des Sciences & Belles-Lettres de Nancy ; avec des cartes géographiques.

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Creator:
Expilly, M. l'abbé (Jean-Joseph), 1719–1793
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
[4], xvi, 464 pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : maps, 17 cm (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

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Creator:
Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:
[1759]
Physical Description:
[1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Accurate vorstellung der samtlichen koeniglich preussischen armee : worinnen zur eigentlichen Kenntniss der Uniform von jedem Regimente ein Officier und Gemeiner in Völliger Montirung und ganzer Statur nach dem Leben abgebildet sind Nebst beygefügter Nachricht 1.) von der Stiftung. 2.) denen Chefs. 3.) der Staerke und 4.) der in Friedenszeiten habenden Gvarnisons iedes Regiments / herausgegeben und gezeichnet von I.C.H. v. S.

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Creator:
Schmalen, Johann Christ. Hermann von
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
[121], [2] leaves : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. [Sir Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book]

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1757-
Physical Description:
v. : ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library