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1. Atlas minor, or, A new and curious set of sixty two maps : in which are shewn all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, in all the known parts of the earth : with their bounds, divisions, chief cities & towns, the whole composed & laid down agreable to modern history / by Herman Moll ...

Atlas minor, or, A new and curious set of sixty two maps : in which are shewn all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, in all the known parts of the earth : with their bounds, divisions, chief cities & towns, the whole composed & laid down agreable to modern history / by Herman Moll ...
Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
[1763?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], [124] leaves (some folded)) : 62 maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the Mss. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added an account of the life and works of the latter ...

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 p. l., 128, 14, 20 p., 4 leaves. ports. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

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Date:
1763
Physical Description:
[2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell, esq.

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Creator:
Erskine, Andrew, 1739–1793
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
[3], 156 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

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Creator:
Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A complete history of English peerage : from the best authorities / by William Guthrie ... ; illustrated with elegant copper-plates of the arms of the nobility, blazoned in the heralds-office, by the proper officers, copper-plates of the premiers in their parliamentary robes ; and at the conclusion of the history of each family, vignets, and other ornaments, proper for the subject.

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Creator:
Guthrie, William, 1708–1770
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A catalogue of the genuine collection of Italian, Dutch, and Flemish pictures, belonging to the late Capt. Henry Prole, (deceased) : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his Great Room the End of Savile-Row, next Conduit-street, Hanover-squre, on Tuesday next, the 12th of April 1763.

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Creator:
Prestage, John, -1767
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in everything that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

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Date:
1763
Physical Description:
iv, 92 p. IV fold. plates. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A set of new designs for coach & chariot bodies = Receuil de diverse nouveau desseins en carosses et carosses coupé / by Edw. Abbott, painter.

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Creator:
Abbott, Edward, 1737–1791
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
[13] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. An epistle to William Hogarth. By C. Churchill ...

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Creator:
Churchill, Charles, 1731–1764
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 p.., 31 p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Saggio sopra l'Accademia di Francia che è in Roma ...

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Creator:
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712–1764
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
52 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A catalogue of the genuine and well-known collection of large and other pictures, brought from Buckingham-House : amongst the collection are the following masters, Ann. Carracci, Raphael, Fetti, Castiglione, Tintoret, Rembrandt, Parmegiano, Val. Castelli, Holbein, Car. Maretti, Calabresse, Salviati, and the remarkable fine picture of Endimion Porter's family, by Vandyke : likewise the fine drawings by Titian, Raphael, Palma, Rubens, &c. framed and glazed : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his Great Room the End of Savile-Row, next Conduit-street, Hanover-square, the 24th and 25th of Feb. 1763.

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Creator:
Prestage, John, -1767
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The practice of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor: in a series of examples, from the most simple and easy, to the most complicated, and difficult cases ... Written many years since, but now first pub., by Joseph Highmore.

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Creator:
Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
xvi, 129, [1] p. diagrs. on 50 fold. pl. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Cantabrigia depicta : a concise and accurate description of the university and town of Cambridge, and its environs : a particular history of the several colleges and buildings, their founders and benefactors ...

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Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
[4], 117, [3] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., 1 plan ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Plans, elevations, sections, and perspective views of the gardens and buildings at Kew, in Surry : the seat of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales / by William Chambers ; member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at Florence ; and of the Royal Academy of Architecture at Paris, architect to the King and to Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.

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Creator:
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:
MDCCLXIII [1763]
Physical Description:
[4], 8, 41 leaves of plates (some double) : illustrations, plans ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. An account of the first discovery, and natural history of Florida : with a particular detail of the several expeditions and descents made on that coast / collected from the best authorities by William Roberts ; illustrated by a general map, and some particular plans, together with a geographical description of that country, by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Roberts, William, active 1763
Date:
MDCCLXIII [1763]
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 102 pages, [6] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Houshold [sic] furniture in genteel taste for the year 1763 / by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c ; containing upwards of 300 plates ... ; consisting of china, breakfast, side-board ...

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Creator:
Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
[100] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... also the art of etching, and that of japanning ... to which is added, a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

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Date:
1763
Physical Description:
iv, 92 p. fold. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The origin and progress of letters : an essay, in two parts. The first shewing when, and by whom letters were invented; the formation of the alphabets of various nations; their manner of writing, on what materials, and with what instruments men have written in different ages to the present time. Wherein is considered the great utility of this art with regard to mankind. The second part consists of a compendious account of the most celebrated English penmen, with the titles and characters of the books they have published both from the rolling and letterpress. Interspersed with many interesting particulars by way of notes throughout the first part; and the second is a new species of biography never before attempted in English. The whole collected from undoubted authorities / by W. Massey, master of a boarding school for many years at Wandsworth in Surry.

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Creator:
Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
iv, 160, [12], 175, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Journey of a tour to Italy : containing (among many other interesting and curious particulars) an account of the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius : of the curiosities discovered at Herculaneum : of the leaning Towers of Pisa and Bologna ... / by M. de la Condamine.

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Creator:
La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701–1774
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
xii, [1] 168 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The compleat drawing-master : containing many curious specimens : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips, cattle, buildings &c. neatly engraved on copper-plates, after the designs of the great masters : wherein the principles of drawing are laid down after a natural and easy manner : to which is prefixed some general instructions to form the judgement of young beginners : by which the useful art can be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:
1763
Physical Description:
21 p., [102] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Commercium philosophico-technicum; or, The philosophical commerce of arts: designed as an attempt to improve arts, trades, and manufactures. By W. Lewis ...

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Creator:
Lewis, William, 1708–1781
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 p. l., xviii, x, 646, [14] p. fold. front., plates (partly fold.) 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts