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1. Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions / by John White, esqre., surgeon general to the settlement.

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions / by John White, esqre., surgeon general to the settlement.
Creator:
White, John, active 1757–1759
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
[16], 299, [37] pages, [66] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.

Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.
Creator:
Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
Date:
MDCCXV-MDCCLXXI [1715-1771]
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books.

The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books.
Creator:
Tomlinson, Kellom
Date:
MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:
[22], 159, [1] p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Thirty different drafts of Guinea / by William Smith, Surveyor to the Royal African Company of England.

Thirty different drafts of Guinea / by William Smith, Surveyor to the Royal African Company of England.
Creator:
Smith, William, surveyor
Date:
[not before 1727]
Physical Description:
30 leaves (1 folded) : chiefly ill., maps, plans (etchings) ; 28 x 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

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Creator:
Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:
MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:
2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

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Creator:
Aheron, John
Date:
MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:
vi, 110, 8, [20] pages, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The natural history of Cornwall : the air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides ; of stones, semimetals, metals, tin, and manner of mining ; the constitution of the stannaries ; iron, copper, silver, lead, and gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, rare birds, fishes, shells, reptiles, and quadrupeds : of the inhabitants, their manners, customs, plays or interludes, exercises, and festivals ; the Cornish language, trade, tenures, and arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the county, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from original drawing taken on the spot / by William Borlase, A.M. F.R.S. Rector of Ludgvan, and author of the Antiquities of Cornwall.

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Creator:
Borlase, William, 1695–1772
Date:
MDCCLVII [1758]
Physical Description:
xix, 326 p., XXIX leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The antiquities of Herculaneum / translated from the Italian; by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice ... ; containing pictures.

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Creator:
Reale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia
Date:
MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], lxxiii, [1], 236, [2] p., [50] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., map ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
27, [3] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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

11. Destruction of Troy : being the sequel of the Iliad / translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus. With Notes. By J. Merrick Scholar of Trinity Co.. Oxford.

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Creator:
Tryphiodorus
Date:
[1739]
Physical Description:
[24], lxxxviii, 151 p. 23 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. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
[12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.

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Creator:
Ellis, Henry, 1721–1806
Date:
MDCCXLVII [1748]
Physical Description:
xxviii, 336 [i.e. 344] pages, [9] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts