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1. Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple : Marquis of Buckingham, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham.

Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple : Marquis of Buckingham, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham.

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 54, [2] pages, [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

2. A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...

A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 v. 162 plates (incl. fronts., engr. t.-p.'s, ports. plans) on 133 leaves. 69 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Choix de vues de l'Inde : dessinées sur les lieux, pendant les années 1780, 1781, 1782, et 1783 / et exécutées en aqua tinta, par W. Hodges ... = Select views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, and executed in aqua tinta by William Hodges, R.A.

Choix de vues de l'Inde : dessinées sur les lieux, pendant les années 1780, 1781, 1782, et 1783 / et exécutées en aqua tinta, par W. Hodges ... = Select views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, and executed in aqua tinta by William Hodges, R.A.

Creator:: Hodges, William, 1744–1797
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: [44] leaves, [49] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 60 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...

Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Heraldry in miniature; containing all the arms, crests, supporters, and mottos, of the peers, peeresses, and bishops, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the baronets of Great Britain; and the insignia of the different orders of knighthood in the three kingdoms: also an introduction to the science of heraldry, a dictionary of heraldic terms ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 36, [20] p. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 38 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

Creator:: Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 64 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

8. Cynegetica, or, Essays on sporting : consisting of observations on hare hunting : containing, an account of the hare hunting and coursing of the ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian : a philosophical enquiry into the nature and properties of the scent : remarks on the different kinds of hounds, with the manner of training them : directions for the choice of a hunter : the qualifications requisite for a huntsman : and other general rule to be observed in every contingency incident to the chase : together with an account of the vizier's manner of hunting in the Mogul empire by William Blane, Esq. : to which is added The chace, a poem by William Somervile, Esq.

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: [8], 292, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Eboracum : or, The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its origin to this time : together with an account of the Ainsty, or, county of the same, and a description and history of the cathedral church, from its first foundation to the present year ...

Creator:: Drake, Francis, 1696–1771
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 2 v., 17 leaves of plates (some folded) ill., plan; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The bee, or, The exhibition exhibited in a new light : being a complete catalogue-raisonné of all the pictures : with comments, illustrations, and remarks : in which also will be found the names of the principal portraits ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: [2], 42 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The art of painting in oil : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery ... : the whole treatise being so complete and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity ... : in which are also particularly laid down all the several circumstances required in painting of sun-dials, printed pictures, sash-windows, &c. in oil colours / by John Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680.
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 112 p., [1] leaf : front. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Ten minutes advice to every gentleman going to purchase a horse out of a dealer, jockey, or, groom's stables : in which are laid down established rules for discovering the perfections and blemishes of that noble animal.

Creator:: Bracken, Henry, 1697–1764
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: [4], 20 pages ; 15 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The artist's repository and drawing magazine : exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches.

Date:: [1788?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The wonders of the little world: or, A general history of man. In six books. Displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind, in several thousand most interesting relations of persons remarkable for bodily perfections or defects ... Together with accounts of the invention of arts, the advancement of science; surprising escapes from death and dangers; strange discoveries of long-concealed murders, and a vast variety of other matters equally curious. The whole collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, and physicians, of all ages and countries. Forming a complete system of the mental and corporeal powers and defects of human nature; and intended to increase knowledge, to promote virtue, to discourage vice, and to furnish topics for innocent and ingenious conversation. By Nathaniel Wanley ...

Creator:: Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634–1680
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: vi, 7-752 p., [6] leaves of plates. ill. 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Choix des pierres gravées du Cabinet impérial des antiques : représentées en XL. planches / décrites et expliquées par M. L'Abbé Eckhel, directeur de ce cabinet et professeur des antiquités en l'Université de Vienne.

Creator:: Eckhel, Joseph Hilarius von, 1737–1798
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [14], 77, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Les jardins, ou L'art d'embellir les paysages : poëme / par M. l'abbé de Lille ...

Creator:: Delille, Jacques, 1738–1813
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 107 p., [4] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The modern, complete measurer, adapted to timber and building, agreeable to the Irish standard ... By P. Levi Hodgson and son, measurers ...

Creator:: Hodgson, Ph. Levi
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 116 p. incl. tables. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A catalogue of a superb and capital collection of pictures : comprising works of the most distinguished Masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, Venetian and Dutch Schools : the greater part of the Imperial Exhibition, and to the many capital pictures still remaining are added : The Virgin and Child by Corregio : a fine warm coloured Landscape by Both : the Inside of a Room, clear and Transparent, by Teniers : and a beautiful Cabinet Picture by Vernet, &c, &c. &c : also, an elaborate model of the celebrated Voltaire, a very striking Similitude : likewise a collection of scarce and curious exotic insects, containing specimens of most of the different genera, among which are Scarabeus Atlas male and female : Papilio Priam : some curious Mantes, and others equally rare : selected by a Gentleman in Holland, and other natural curiosities : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May the 23d, 1788, and the following day : to be publickly viewed two days preceding the sale, which will begin each day at twelve o'clock : catalogues may be had as above, and at Mr. Christie's : N.B. The insects, shells, minerals, &c. will be sold on the Monday following

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A tour in England and Scotland in 1785 / by an English gentleman.

Creator:: Thomson, William, 1746–1817
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: x, 367 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. De Londres et de ses environs.

Creator:: Cambry, Jacques, 1749–1807
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 p.., v [i.e. iv], 147 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The Builder's magazine: or, A universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. ... consisting of designs in architecture in every stile and taste ... together with the plans and sections ... / By a society of architects.

Date:: MDCC LXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [4], 345, [1], 100 p., CLXXXV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Report from the Committee appointed to inspect the several houses and other buildings immediately adjoining to Westminster Hall, and the two Houses of Parliament, and the offices thereto belonging : (June 3d, 1788).

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A series of prints of ancient history : designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.

Creator:: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741–1810
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: [1], 64 leaves : all ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The dances of death : through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copperplates, done from the original designs which were cut in wood, afterwards painted by John Holbein, in the town-house at Basil : to which is prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the Scripture text from which the designs were taken.

Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [4], 46 p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A catalogue of the reserved collection of statues, busts, vases, urns, sarcophagi, &c. and other select and valuable pieces of antiquity : also sundry modern busts of exquisite sculpture, and highly finished, comprising a bust of Venus de Medicis, Shakespear, Stern, Cato the Censor, Scipio Africano, and other renowned and admired characters : several elegant statuary marble chimney pieces, and curious and scarce marble slabs, the property of Lyde Brown, Esq. : removed from his late residence in the city : also a small collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures, prints, drawings, &c. and a capital set of Brussels tapestry from Teniers, in excellent preservation : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Friday, May 30, 1788, and following day.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A catalogue of the capital and well-chosen collection of cabinet picture, of James Kirke, Esq., deceased : late one of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Victualling-Office : consisting of the undoubted works of the following, and other much esteemed artists : Parmegiano, Domenichino, Soleminie, Pasquilinie, Carache, Morillio, S. Darattie, De Vinci, Rubens, Vandyke, Poussin, Teniers, Ostade, Brower, Ge Gelder, J. Miel, Berghem, Scalken, A. Vandevelde, Ruysdael, Swanvelte, Cuyp, Watteau, Polemburgh : particularly, a select number of original and capital sea-pieces, by those great masters, Vandevelde, Bakhusen, De Vlieger, Stork, Brooking, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Greenwood, at his rooms in Leicester-Square, on Thursday the 21st, and Saturday the 23d of February, 1788, at twelve o'clock each day : to be viewed, and catalogues had two days preceding the sale.

Creator:: Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A description of a set of prints of ancient history : contained in a set of easy lessons : in two parts / by Mrs. Trimmer.

Creator:: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741–1810
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: vi, 7-104, iv, 5-120 p. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind. By the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith ...

Creator:: Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750–1819
Date:: M,DCC,LXXXVIII
Physical Description:: viii, [9]-217 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Introduction to drawing ships.

Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Panoramic survey of the Steine.

Creator:: Lay, Eleor
Date:: 1788
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A sketch of the life and paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, esq. By Philip Thicknesse.

Creator:: Thicknesse, Philip, 1719–1792
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 61 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The gentle shepherd : a pastoral comedy / by Allan Ramsay.

Creator:: Ramsay, Allan, 1686–1758
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [2], x, [2], 111, [2], 17, 18 p., 13 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Plan of alterations intended at Hoppyland.

Creator:: Mickle, A
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Chatsworth : a poem / dedicated by permission to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire.

Date:: 1788]
Physical Description:: iv, 29, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Memoirs of the celebrated dwarf, Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish gentleman : containing a faithful and curious account of his birth, education, marriage, travels and voyages / written by himself ; translated from the French by Mr. Des Carrieres ; with a copper-plate engraving, wherein he is represented in a family-scene.

Creator:: Borusławski, Józef, 1739–1837
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: vii, [9], 247, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Traité de la peinture au pastel ... par M.P.R. de C....C. à P. de L. ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 376 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Remarkable ruins, and romantic prospects, of North Britain : with ancient monuments and singular subjects of natural history / by the Rev. Charles Cordiner ; the engravings by Peter Mazell.

Creator:: Cordiner, Charles, 1746?-1794
Date:: 1788-1795
Physical Description:: vi, [209] p., [99] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Sacred history, selected from the Scriptures : annotations and reflections, particularly calculated to facilitate the study of the Holy Scriptures in schools and families. Vol. I[-VI] / by Mrs. Trimmer.

Creator:: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741–1810
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 6 volumes ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Nimrod's Songs of the chace : the best collection of hunting songs ever presented to the lovers of that delightful sport : with an animated description of a fox-chace, and a superb print of a stag-hunt, near Windsor : with exact likenesses of The King, Prince of Wales, and Duke of York : the whole compiled (with permission) from the hunting register of the Windsor Nimrod.

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: [2], iv, [1], 4-103, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Traité de l'éducation du cheval en Europe : contenant le développement des vrais principes des haras, du vice radical de l'éducation actuelle, et des moyens de perfectionner les individus, en perfectionnant les espèces; avec un plan d'exécution pour la France / Par M. de Préseau de Dompierre, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de S. Louis, mestre du camp de cavalerie.

Creator:: Préseau de Dompierre, M. de (Jacques Marguerite)
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: xiii, [3], 246, [2] p., [1] folded plate, [1] folded table : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A catalogue of a collection of Italian, Dutch, & Flemish Pictures : the property of a Man of Fashion : brought from his seat in the country : among which will be found the undoubted works of the following esteemed Masters : viz. Guido, Raphael, J. de Belino, Parmegiano, Da Vinci, Guerchino, P. Veronses, Domenichino, Coregia, C. Marattie, C. Cignani, S. Concha, Schidonie, Rubens, Vandyke, Rottenhamer, Palembergh, Eliherimer, D. Vlieger, Vandevelde, Eckhout, Breughel, Schovaerts, Van Goen, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Greenwood, a his room in Leicester-Square, on Thursday the 22d of May, 1788, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed and catalogues had on Tuesday.

Creator:: Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple : Marquis of Buckingham, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham.

2. A Set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia. Lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk; with plans, elevations, sections, chimney pieces & ceilings ...

3. Choix de vues de l'Inde : dessinées sur les lieux, pendant les années 1780, 1781, 1782, et 1783 / et exécutées en aqua tinta, par W. Hodges ... = Select views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, and executed in aqua tinta by William Hodges, R.A.

4. For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...

6. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

7. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

9. Eboracum : or, The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its origin to this time : together with an account of the Ainsty, or, county of the same, and a description and history of the cathedral church, from its first foundation to the present year ...

10. The bee, or, The exhibition exhibited in a new light : being a complete catalogue-raisonné of all the pictures : with comments, illustrations, and remarks : in which also will be found the names of the principal portraits ...

12. Ten minutes advice to every gentleman going to purchase a horse out of a dealer, jockey, or, groom's stables : in which are laid down established rules for discovering the perfections and blemishes of that noble animal.

13. The artist's repository and drawing magazine : exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches.

15. Choix des pierres gravées du Cabinet impérial des antiques : représentées en XL. planches / décrites et expliquées par M. L'Abbé Eckhel, directeur de ce cabinet et professeur des antiquités en l'Université de Vienne.

16. Les jardins, ou L'art d'embellir les paysages : poëme / par M. l'abbé de Lille ...

17. The modern, complete measurer, adapted to timber and building, agreeable to the Irish standard ... By P. Levi Hodgson and son, measurers ...

19. A tour in England and Scotland in 1785 / by an English gentleman.

20. De Londres et de ses environs.

21. The Builder's magazine: or, A universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. ... consisting of designs in architecture in every stile and taste ... together with the plans and sections ... / By a society of architects.

22. Report from the Committee appointed to inspect the several houses and other buildings immediately adjoining to Westminster Hall, and the two Houses of Parliament, and the offices thereto belonging : (June 3d, 1788).

23. A series of prints of ancient history : designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.

27. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

28. A description of a set of prints of ancient history : contained in a set of easy lessons : in two parts / by Mrs. Trimmer.

29. An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind. By the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith ...

30. Introduction to drawing ships.

31. Panoramic survey of the Steine.

32. A sketch of the life and paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, esq. By Philip Thicknesse.

33. The gentle shepherd : a pastoral comedy / by Allan Ramsay.

34. Plan of alterations intended at Hoppyland.

35. Chatsworth : a poem / dedicated by permission to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire.

37. Traité de la peinture au pastel ... par M.P.R. de C....C. à P. de L. ...

38. Remarkable ruins, and romantic prospects, of North Britain : with ancient monuments and singular subjects of natural history / by the Rev. Charles Cordiner ; the engravings by Peter Mazell.

39. Sacred history, selected from the Scriptures : annotations and reflections, particularly calculated to facilitate the study of the Holy Scriptures in schools and families. Vol. I[-VI] / by Mrs. Trimmer.