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1. An historical and explanatory dissertation on steam-engines and steam-packets : with the evidence in full given by the most eminent engineers, mechanists, and manufacturers, to the select committees of the House of Commons; together with the committees' reports, distinguishing and defining safe and unsafe steam-engines, and their proper management : comprising particulars of the fatal explosions of boilers at Norwich, Northumberland, Wells-street, and in America : concluding with a narrative, by Isaac Weld, Esq. of the interesting voyage of the Thames steam-yacht, from Glasgow, in Scotland, to Dublin and London / by Geo. Dodd, civil engineer ; illustrated by two elegant engravings of steam-yachts.

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Creator:
Dodd, George, 1783–1827
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
[2], xxv, [3], 280 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A series of picturesque views of the River Thames / from the drawings of Wm. Havell ; dedicated to the Commissioners of the Thames Navigation, by their humble servant Robt. Havell.

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Creator:
Havell, William, 1782–1857
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
[13] leaves : illustrations ; 59 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Illustrations of the island of Staffa : in a series of views, accompanied by topographical and geographical descriptions / by W. Daniell.

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Creator:
Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
[4], 11, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

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Creator:
Varley, John, 1778–1842
Date:
1818]
Physical Description:
[2] double plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The history of the ancient town and borough of Uxbridge : containing copies of interesting public documents, and a particular account of all chritable donations, left for the benefit of the poor ; with plates, and an appendix, &c / by George Redford ... and Thomas Hurry Riches.

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Creator:
Redford, George, 1785–1860
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xvi, 328, [8] p., [12] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea : and the great Loo-Choo Island : with an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices / by Captain Basil Hall ... ; and a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo languages, by H.J. Clifford ...

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Creator:
Hall, Basil, 1788–1844
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xv, 222, cxxx, [72] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. An historical and descriptive account of Aix La Chapelle and its curiosities, antiquities, ecclesiastical history, &c : with memoirs of the life and reign of its founder the Emperor Charlemagne : to which is added a description of the preparations made for the congress assembled there and of the entry of the allied sovereigns : with an address on behalf of the Africans, and the treaty for evacuating the French territory, &c.

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Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
116 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. View of the entrance of the River Exe [graphic] : taken from the Beacon Hill, Exmouth / H. Haseler delt ; F.C. Lewis sculp.

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Creator:
Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779–1856
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 33 x 92 cm, rolled to 33 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Views of the caves near Ingleton, Gordal Scar, and Malham Cove, in Yorkshire / drawn and engraved by William Westall, A.R.A. F.L.S.

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Creator:
Westall, William, 1781–1850
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
8 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey / by Adam Neale.

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Creator:
Neale, Adam, d. 1832
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xiii, [1], 295, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Rural residences : consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings, accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening / by John B. Papworth.

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Creator:
Papworth, John Buonarotti, 1775–1847
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
106, [2] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Billets in the Low Countries, 1814 to 1817 : in a series of letters : embellished with coloured plates.

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Date:
1818
Physical Description:
228 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Narrative of a residence in Algiers : comprising a geographical and historical account of the regency, biographical sketches of the dey and his ministers, anecdotes of the late war, observations on the relations of the Barbary States with the Christian Powers, and the necessity and importance of their complete subjugation / by Signor Pananti ; with notes and illustrations by Edward Blaquiere ...

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Creator:
Pananti, Filippo, 1766–1837
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xxx, 467 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Views of Weathercote Cave / by W. Westall, A.R.A.

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Creator:
Westall, William, 1781–1850
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
[5] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816 : with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope / by the Rev. C. I. Latrobe.

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Creator:
Latrobe, Christian Ignatius, 1758–1836
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 406 p., [17] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean : illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait during the summer of 1817 / by Bernard O'Reilly ; with charts and numerous plates, from drawings of the author taken on the spot.

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Creator:
O'Reilly, Bernard
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
vi, 293 p., XVIII, [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, ports. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Historical account [of Beleigh Abbey, Essex].

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Creator:
Draper, George, approximately 1796–
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
5 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Historical, military, and picturesque observations on Portugal : illustrated by seventy-five coloured plates, including authentic plans of the sieges and battles fought in the Peninsula during the late war / by George Landmann, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Corps of Royal-Engineers, the same rank in the Spanish Corps of Engineers, with brevet rank of Colonel.

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Creator:
Landmann, George Thomas, 1780–1854
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The military costume of Turkey : illustrated by a series of engravings, from drawings made on the spot.

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Date:
1818
Physical Description:
[38] leaves, [2], 30 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Studies of flowers from nature ... : a selection of subjects from the choicest exotics, painted after nature, with a correct outline of each and instructions for producing a facsimile of the finished drawing / by Miss Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, Penelope
Date:
[ca. 1818]
Physical Description:
3 p., [20] leaves, [41] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A journey from India to England : through Persia, Georgia, Russia, Poland and Prussia, in the year 1817 / by Lieut. Col. John Johnson ... ; illustrated with engravings.

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Creator:
Johnson, John, Lieutenant Colonel
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
x, [1], 376 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The military costume of Turkey : illustrated by a series of engravings, from drawings made on the spot.

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Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
[39] leaves, [30] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Voyages dans la partie septentrionale du Bresil depuis 1809 jusqu'en 1815 : comprenant les provinces de Pernambuco (Fernambouc), Seara, Paraiba, Maragran, etc. / par Henri Koster ; traduits de l'anglais par M. A. Jay ; ornes de huit planches colories et de deux cartes.

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Creator:
Koster, Henry, 1793–approximately 1820
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. View of the entrance of the River Teign [graphic] : taken at high water from the summit of the Ness Point : opposite Teignmouth / H.Haseler delt. ; F.C. Lewis sculp.

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Creator:
Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779–1856
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; sheet 33 x 92 cm, rolled to 33 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Rudiments of drawing, shadowing, and colouring flowers in water colours : contained in thirty-six instructive lessons, illustrated by twenty-nine plates from the outline of a single leaf progressively to the completion of a fine group : intended for beginners and students of this delightful art : with a description of colours used & the method of mixing them.

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Date:
1818 [i.e. 1817]
Physical Description:
[4], 36 p., [1], 29 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A cruise, or, Three months on the continent / by a naval officer ; embellished with coloured plates.

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Date:
1818
Physical Description:
iv, 125 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill., 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A visit to the monastery of La Trappe, in 1817 : with notes taken during a tour through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjoy, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the environs of Paris / by W.D. Felllowes.

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Creator:
Fellowes, W. D. (William Dorset)
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xii, 188 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew : with an account of her subsequent shipwreck / by John M'Leod.

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Creator:
M'Leod, John, 1777?-1820
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
323 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The British gallery of pictures, selected from the most admired productions of the old masters, in Great Britain; accompanied with descriptions, historical and critical. By the late Henry Tresham ... and William Young Ottley ... the executive part under the management of Peltro William Tomkins ...

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Creator:
Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814
Date:
1818 [i. e. 1820]
Physical Description:
6 p. ., [iii]-viii, [54] p. 25 mounted col. plates. 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople : between the years 1810 and 1816 : with a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian gulf : together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under His Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley ... / by James Morier ; .. with two maps and engravings from the designs of the author.

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Creator:
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 435 p, [19] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts