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1. Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.
Creator:
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.
Creator:
Milton, Thomas, 1743?-1827
Date:
[1783-1793]
Physical Description:
xlvii, [5] p., xxiv leaves of plates : ill ; 21 x 27cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A collection of landscapes / drawn by P. Sandby, Esq. R.A. and engraved by Mr. Rooker, and Mr. Watts, with descriptions.

A collection of landscapes / drawn by P. Sandby, Esq. R.A. and engraved by Mr. Rooker, and Mr. Watts, with descriptions.
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Physical Description:
[4], 39, [1] p., 32 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

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Creator:
Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:
January 1st, 1779 [i.e. 1779-1786]
Physical Description:
[172] p., LXXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:
[16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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

7. The history of Dover Castle / by the Revd. Wm. Darell, chaplain to Queen Elizabeth ; illustrated with 10 views, and a plan of the castle.

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Creator:
Darell, William, -1580
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[2], viii, 71, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., plan ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

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Creator:
Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
xii, 123 p., 9 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Mona antiqua restaurata : An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the isle of Anglesey, the ancient seat of the British druids. In two essays. With an appendix, containing a comparative table of primitive words, and the derivatives of them in several of the tongues of Europe; with remarks upon them. Together with some letters, and three catalogues / By Henry Rowlands, Vicar of Llanidan, in the Isle of Anglesey.

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Creator:
Rowlands, Henry, 1655–1723
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
xi, [5], 357, [3] p., XII leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / by Samuel Johnson : in four volumes.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
4 v. : port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Art's master-piece, or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex : in two parts.

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Creator:
C. K.
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
144 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

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Creator:
Pindar, Peter, 1738–1819
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
35, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

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Creator:
Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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

15. An illustration and mensuration of solid geometry in seven books: : containing forty-two moveable copper-plate schemes for forming the various kinds of solids and their sections; by which the doctrine of solids in general, and those in the eleventh, twelfth, and fifteenth books of Euclid are elucidated, and rendered more easy to learners than by any work hitherto published.... / By the late John Lodge Cowley, F.R.S. professor of the mathematics in the Royal Academy at Woolwich.

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Creator:
Cowley, John Lodge, 1719–1797
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [i.e. 1787]
Physical Description:
32 XLVII leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The gentleman's farriery, or, A practical treatise, on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved : also, a new method of nicking horses is recommended ; with a copper-plate and description of the machine / by J. Bartlet, surgeon.

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Creator:
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:
MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:
[2], xxiv, 357, [11] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The Tunbridge Wells guide, or, An account of the ancient and present state of that place : to which is added a particular description of towns and villages, remains of antiquity, gentlemens seats, founderies, &c. &c. within the circumference of sixteen miles.

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Creator:
Sprange, J. (Jasper), 1746–1823
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
[4], viii, 68, 54, vi, 53-98, xii, 99-106, vi,1 07-178,14,16, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

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Date:
1795
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 164, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

19. A treatise on English shooting : under the following heads : of the knowledge of a good fowling-piece : the ordering and managing of the fowling-piece : the appendages of the fowling-piece : the choice of powder, shot, and flints : of partridge shooting, with the choice and ordering of pointers : of pheasant shooting, with the ordering of spaniels : of woodcock shooting : of snipe shooting : of water and fen-fowl shooting, and the use of proper dogs : of upland winter shooting : with necessary observations for the young sportsman when out and on returning home / by George Edie, gent.

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Creator:
Edie, George
Date:
MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:
23, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts