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1. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711, by the ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol : containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage : the winds, currents, and variation of the compass : the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes, one of which a rich Acapulco ship : a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north, (from the Coasting-pilot, a Spanish manuscript) : wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk, his manner of living and taming some wild beasts during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes : illustrated with cuts and maps : in two volumes / by Capt. Edward Cooke.

A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711, by the ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol : containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage : the winds, currents, and variation of the compass : the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes, one of which a rich Acapulco ship : a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north, (from the Coasting-pilot, a Spanish manuscript) : wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk, his manner of living and taming some wild beasts during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes : illustrated with cuts and maps : in two volumes / by Capt. Edward Cooke.

Creator:: Cooke, Edward, Captain
Date:: MDCCXII [1712]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

Creator:: Lamy, Bernard, 1640–1715
Date:: MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:: [16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Roma illustrata, or, A description of the most beautiful pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture, antique and modern, at and near Rome.

Creator:: Raguenet, François, 1660?-1722
Date:: [172-?]
Physical Description:: [20], 195, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:: [6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Travels through Italy, in the years 1771 and 1772 : described in a series of letters to Baron Born, on the natural history, particularly the mountains and volcanoes of that country / by John James Ferber ... ; translated from the German ; with explanatory notes, and a preface on the present state and future improvement of mineralogy by R. E. Raspe.

Creator:: Ferber, Johann Jakob, 1743–1790
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xxxiii, [1], 377, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The new Bath guide; or, Useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this ancient city. : Giving an account of the first discovery of its medicinal waters by King Bladud; nature and efficacy of the warm baths and sudatories, with the rules and prices of bathing and pumping ...

Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 78, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates (some folding), 1 p. of plates : ill., ports, plan ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. An essay on design in gardening.

Creator:: Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved : wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills ... The whole illustrated with copper plates ... And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method / by Jacob Rowe, Esq;.

Creator:: Rowe, Jacob
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: [4], 38, [2] p. (last leaf blank), [5] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal architect's assistant : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers ... : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building ... : with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: [2], ii, [8], 187 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world : in two parts : containing every instruction necessary to complete the gentleman and man of fashion, to teach him a knowledge of life and make him well received in the best companies : with considerable additions, now first made and a large collection of well adapted proverbial wisdom for the improvement of youth or a polished education ... / by the Rev. Dr. John Trusler ; part two is particularly addressed to young ladies.

Creator:: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: 108 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

Creator:: Labat, maître d'armes
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The looking-glass for the mind, or, Intellectual mirror : being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories and interesting tales / chiefly translated from that much admired work, L'ami des enfans ; with seventy-four cuts, designed and engraved on wood by I. Bewick.

Creator:: Berquin, M. (Arnaud), 1747–1791
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: [8], 271 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper : deres Tungemaal, Levemaade og forrige Afgudsdyrkelse, oplyst ved mange Kaabberstykker / med J.E. Gunneri ... Anmaerlninger og E.J. Jessen-s ...

Creator:: Leem, Knud, 1697–1774
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: 544, 82 p., [101] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The new, complete, and universal history, description, and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the parts adjacent ... / written and compiled from authentic records and other genuine information by a society of gentlemen ; the whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Thornton ; assisted by George Smith ... the Rev. Alex. Townsend ... and other gentlemen.

Creator:: Thornton, William
Date:: 1784
Physical Description:: 532, [4] p. : ports. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.

Creator:: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The builder's dictionary, or, Gentleman and architect's companion : explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof ... : also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences : together with the quantities proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ... / fully digested by the most approved writers on the subjects.

Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Andrea Palladio's Five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell, Esq; ; author of Vitruvius Britannicus ; to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical Description:: [8], 66 p., XXXI, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay ...

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: viii, 232 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The gentleman and farmer's guide for increase and improvement of cattle : viz. lambs, sheep, hogs; calves, cows, oxen. Also the best manner of breeding, and breaking horses, both for sport and burden: with an account of their respective distempers, and the most approved medicines for the cure of them. Also some observations on the many benefits of the woollen manufactures of Great-Britain, and the great advantages arising from hides, tallow, &c. Illustrated with copper plates / by R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.

Creator:: Bradley, Richard, 1688–1732
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: [4], iv, [10], 352 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The new London letter writer : containing the compleat art of corresponding with ease, elegance, and perspicuity as is now practised by all persons of respectability / by Samuel Johnson, M.A. ; foreword and decorations by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: 63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. An essay in defence of ancient architecture, or, A parallel of the ancient buildings with the modern : , shewing [sic] the beauty and harmony of the former, and the irregularity of the latter : with impartial reflections on the reasons of the abuses introduced by our present builders : to which is annexed an inspectional table, universally useful / by Robert Morris ; illustrated with sixteen copper-plates.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1728
Physical Description:: xxviii, 114, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Memoirs of the ancient earls of Warren and Surrey : and their descendants to the present time / by the Rev. John Watson, M.A. F.A.S. late fellow of the Brasen-Nose College in Oxford, and rector of Stockport in Cheshire.

Creator:: Watson, John, 1725–1783
Date:: MDCCLXXXII [1782, that is 1785]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A new and rare inventions of water-works ... : as also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising of vast quantities of water by fire.

Creator:: Caus, Isaac de, 1590–1648
Date:: 1704
Physical Description:: 47, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates (fold.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [2], v, [1], 94, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Shave's Suffolk memorandum-book, or, Complete pocket ledger : peculiarly adapted to the use of the gentlemen of the country : being the bissextile or leap year, the thirty-third of the new stile used in Great-Britain, and the twenty-fourth of the reign of George III.

Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:: [112], 32, [16] p., [2] leaves of plates : map ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay. In two volumes.

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([18], 334 p., [1] leaf of plates) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699.

Date:: MDCCCXXXIV [1834]
Physical Description:: 15 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Wood engravings of varied subjects.

Creator:: Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:: early 19th century?
Physical Description:: 26 prints : sheets 23 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois / par J.M. Papillon ... ; ouvrage enrichi des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa gravure ...

Creator:: Papillon, Jean-Michel, 1698–1776
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 2 : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Picturesque views on the upper, or Warwickshire Avon : from its sources at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xviii, 284, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Picturesque views on the River Thames : from its source in Gloucestershire to the Nore : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 2 v. (xvi, 209, viii, 258 p., [29, 27] leaves of plates) : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Viaggiana, or, Detached remarks on the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of ancient and modern Rome.

Creator:: Weston, Stephen, 1747–1830
Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: iv, 176 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

Creator:: G. M. (Geffray Minshull), 1594?-1668
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xviii, 91 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Le guide du cavalier / par M. de Garsault, auteur du Nouveau Parfait Maréchal.

Creator:: Garsault, François A. de (François Alexandre), 1693–1778
Date:: M.DCC.LXX [1770]
Physical Description:: v [i.e. iv], 311[i.e. 216] p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm. (BEIN Copy 2: 17 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The seasons / by James Thomson ; adorned with a set of engravings, from original paintings ; together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on the seasons. By Robert Heron.

Creator:: Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:: 6, lii, 250, 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The works of the late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq; : ... With a complete index.

Creator:: Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Proverbs exemplified, and illustrated by pictures from real life. Teaching morality and a knowledge of the world; with prints. Designed as a succession-book to Æsop's Fables. After the manner, and by the author, of Hogarth moralized.

Creator:: Trusler, John, 1735–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: viii, 196 p. illus. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Museum Etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis cc. / nunc primum edita et illustrata observationibus Antonii Francisci Gorii, publici historiarum professoris.

Creator:: Gori, Antonio Francesco, 1691–1757
Date:: Anno MDCCXXXVII-MDCCXXXXIII [1737-1743]
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

Creator:: Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. [Carriage and harness manufacturer's pattern book].

Date:: [179-?]
Physical Description:: [41] folded leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat [sic] and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters ... &c., intersperd with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building : with a great variety of new and useful tables ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 187, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A collection of Welsh tours, or, A display of the beauties of Wales selected principally from celebrated histories and popular tours : with occasional remarks : to which is added a tour of the River Wye.

Creator:: Torbuck, John, -1707
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: xix, 456 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Nachtricht von den Frankischen Kraistrouppen : neb einem anhang von den Schwabischen Kreisregimentun.

Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: [1], 6-102 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith ... : complete in one volume : with the life of the author / embellished with vignettes & tail-pieces, designed and engraved on wood by T. Bewick ...

Creator:: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 93 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... By E. Hargrove.

Creator:: Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 4, 382 p. front., ill., plates, plan, col. fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

Creator:: Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:: 1779?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Espingarda perfeyta : & regras para la sua operçam com circunstancias necessarias para o seu artificio, & doutrinas uteis para o melhor acerto ... / Pelos dous Irmãos Cesar Fiosconi, e Jordam Guserio.

Creator:: Fiosconi, César
Date:: 1718
Physical Description:: [34], 183 p., [10] leaves of plates (some folded ) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books : of painting in three books and of statuary in one book : translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli : and now first into English, and divided into three volumes / by James Leoni, Venetian, architect ; to which are added several designs of his own, for buildings both public and private.

Creator:: Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404–1472
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. School of arts : or, An introduction to useful knowledge : being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science ... / by John Imison.

Creator:: Imison, John, d. 1788
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: xv, 319, 176 p., [24] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [12], 131 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : table ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The oeconomy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China to the Earl of ****.

Creator:: Dodsley, Robert, 1704–1764
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xxvi, 94 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: 32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Grove-Hill : a descriptive poem, with An ode to Mithra / by the author of Indian antiquities ; the engravings on wood by J. Anderson, from drawings by G. Samuel.

Creator:: Maurice, Thomas, 1754–1824
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [6], 76 pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

56. Das nach Original Zeichnungen geschilderte Thier Reich = Les animaux representés suivant des desseins originels.

Creator:: Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698–1767
Date:: 1768?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([2], 24, [2], 20 p., [62] leaves of plates; [2], 20, [2], 17, [1] p., [65] leaves of plates) : chiefly ill. ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. [Artificial slate roofs].

Creator:: Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:: 178-?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la conoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval. Avec figures en taille-douce / Par M. de la Gueriniere , ecuyer du Roy.

Creator:: La Guérinière, François Robichon de, 1688–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:: [10], 276, [8] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Voyage du chevalier Des Marchais en Guinée, isle voisines et à Cayenne : fait en 1725, 1726 & 1727 : contenant une description très exacte & très étenduë de ces païs : & du commerce qui s'y fait : enriche d'un grand nombre de cartes & de figures entailles douces / par le R. père Labat ...

Creator:: Labat, Jean Baptiste, 1663–1738
Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill., maps ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Voyage de M. Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique : par le cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 et 85.

Creator:: Le Vaillant, François, 1753–1824
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay ...

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: viii, [9]-252 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A second walk through Wales / by the Revd. Richard Warner, of Bath, in August and September 1798.

Creator:: Warner, Richard, 1763–1857
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: viii, 365 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The biographical mirrour : comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

Creator:: Waldron, F. G. (Francis Godolphin), 1744–1818
Date:: 1795-[1814]
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The post-chaise companion, or, Traveller's directory through Ireland : containing a new and accurate description of the direct and principal crossroads, with particulars of the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, cities, town, parks, natural curiosities, antiquities, castles, ruins, manufactures, loughs, glens, harbours, &c. &c. : forming an historical & descriptive account of the kingdon : to which is added a dictionary, or alphabetical tables, shewing the distance of all the principal cities, boroughs, market and sea port towns, in Ireland from each other.

Creator:: Wilson, William, active 1769–1801
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: xii, 530 columns, [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The will of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., deceased.

Creator:: Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: [2], 48 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Amusemens des bains de Bade en Suisse, de Schintznach et de Pfeffers : avec la description, & la comparaison de leurs eaux avec celles des bains de Schwalbach & autres de l'empire : le tout accompagné d'histoires & d'anecdotes curieuses.

Creator:: Merveilleux, David-François de, -1748
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: 290 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Picturesque views on the river Medway : from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood / by Samuel Ireland, author of "A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France", and of "Picturesque views on the river Thames.".

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:: [5], p. viii, [1], viii-xii, 206, [2] p., [29] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves / by John Harris ...

Creator:: Harris, John, 1667?-1719
Date:: 1710-1716
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Poems / by Goldsmith and Parnell.

Creator:: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xx, 76 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Rules for bad horsemen : addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. / by Charles Thompson, Esq.

Creator:: Thompson, Charles, b. ca. 1710
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 82 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters, ... &c : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building ... with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmons.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [1], ii, [8], 187, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Relation d'un voyage du Levant : fait par ordre du roy : contenant l'histoire ancienne & moderne de plusieurs Ils de l'Archipel, de Constinople, des Cotes de la Mer Noire, de l'Armenie, de La Georgie, des frontiere de Perse & de l'Asie Mineure : avec les plans de villes & des lieux considerables, le genie, les moeurs, le commerce & la religion des differenspeuples qui les habitene et l'explication des medailles & des monumens antiqutes : enrichie de description & de figures d'un grand nombre de plantes rares, de divers animaux, et de plusieure observations touchant l'histoire / par M. Pitton de Tournefort ...

Creator:: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656–1708
Date:: 1717
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill.,maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. A scheme for eventually supplying every part of the city of Dublin with pipe water : without any charge of water-engines, or any water-forcers, by a close adherence only to the natural laws of gravitation, and the principles, rules, and experiments of hydrostaticks.

Creator:: Stokes, Gabriel
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 40 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The Harleian miscellany, or, a collection of scarce, curious, and entertaining pamphlets and tracts : as well in manuscript as in print, found in the late earl of Oxford's library : interspersed with historical, political, and critical notes : with a table of contents, and an alphabetical index.

Date:: 1744-46
Physical Description:: 8 v. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects : and where their several performances are to be seen / translated from the Musæum pictorium of Palomino Velasco.

Creator:: Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Antonio, 1655–1726
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: viii, 175 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. A guide to classical learning, or, Polymetis abridged .... : being a work absolutely necessary, not only for the right understanding of the classics, but also for forming in young minds a true taste for the beauties of poetry, sculpture, and painting / by N. Tindal, translator of Rapin.

Creator:: Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [16], xxxiv, 224 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique : ou, Description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière : avec des figures en taille douce / par Mr. Grollier de Servière ... son petit fils.

Creator:: Grollier de Servière, Mr. (Gaspard), 1677–1745
Date:: 1719
Physical Description:: 14 p.l., 101, [8] p., 1 l., [87] leaves of plates : ill. 25 cm. x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. State of chimney-sweepers young apprentices : shewing the wretched condition of the distrest boys, the ill conduct of such matters as do notobserve the obligations of indentures, the necessity of a strict enquiryin order to support the civil and religious rights of these apprentices : to encourage good masters and regulate the trade, that the useful occupation of chimney-sweepers may be considered as an object worthy of attention: and the humanity of the nation be no longer violated in the persons of these boys.

Creator:: Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 58, 1 leaf of plates (folded) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Deliciæ britannicæ, or, The curiosities of Hampton-Court and Windsor-Castle, delineated : with occasional reflections, and embellished with copper-plates of the two palaces, &c. / by George Bickham, jun.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:: 1742
Physical Description:: 203 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. [Muster order for the enrollment into the Gloucestershire militia].

Date:: August 30, 1770
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. On the conduct of man to inferior animals ...

Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 134, [2] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

4. Roma illustrata, or, A description of the most beautiful pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture, antique and modern, at and near Rome.

5. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

8. An essay on design in gardening.

12. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

13. The looking-glass for the mind, or, Intellectual mirror : being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories and interesting tales / chiefly translated from that much admired work, L'ami des enfans ; with seventy-four cuts, designed and engraved on wood by I. Bewick.

14. Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper : deres Tungemaal, Levemaade og forrige Afgudsdyrkelse, oplyst ved mange Kaabberstykker / med J.E. Gunneri ... Anmaerlninger og E.J. Jessen-s ...

19. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay ...

21. The new London letter writer : containing the compleat art of corresponding with ease, elegance, and perspicuity as is now practised by all persons of respectability / by Samuel Johnson, M.A. ; foreword and decorations by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve.

23. Memoirs of the ancient earls of Warren and Surrey : and their descendants to the present time / by the Rev. John Watson, M.A. F.A.S. late fellow of the Brasen-Nose College in Oxford, and rector of Stockport in Cheshire.

24. A new and rare inventions of water-works ... : as also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising of vast quantities of water by fire.

25. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

26. Shave's Suffolk memorandum-book, or, Complete pocket ledger : peculiarly adapted to the use of the gentlemen of the country : being the bissextile or leap year, the thirty-third of the new stile used in Great-Britain, and the twenty-fourth of the reign of George III.

27. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay. In two volumes.

28. The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699.

29. Wood engravings of varied subjects.

30. Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois / par J.M. Papillon ... ; ouvrage enrichi des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa gravure ...

31. Picturesque views on the upper, or Warwickshire Avon : from its sources at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

32. Picturesque views on the River Thames : from its source in Gloucestershire to the Nore : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

33. Viaggiana, or, Detached remarks on the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of ancient and modern Rome.

34. Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners / by Geffray Mynshul ...

35. Le guide du cavalier / par M. de Garsault, auteur du Nouveau Parfait Maréchal.

36. The seasons / by James Thomson ; adorned with a set of engravings, from original paintings ; together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on the seasons. By Robert Heron.

37. The works of the late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq; : ... With a complete index.

38. Proverbs exemplified, and illustrated by pictures from real life. Teaching morality and a knowledge of the world; with prints. Designed as a succession-book to Æsop's Fables. After the manner, and by the author, of Hogarth moralized.

39. Museum Etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis cc. / nunc primum edita et illustrata observationibus Antonii Francisci Gorii, publici historiarum professoris.

41. [Carriage and harness manufacturer's pattern book].

43. A collection of Welsh tours, or, A display of the beauties of Wales selected principally from celebrated histories and popular tours : with occasional remarks : to which is added a tour of the River Wye.

44. Nachtricht von den Frankischen Kraistrouppen : neb einem anhang von den Schwabischen Kreisregimentun.

45. The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith ... : complete in one volume : with the life of the author / embellished with vignettes & tail-pieces, designed and engraved on wood by T. Bewick ...

47. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

49. Espingarda perfeyta : & regras para la sua operçam com circunstancias necessarias para o seu artificio, & doutrinas uteis para o melhor acerto ... / Pelos dous Irmãos Cesar Fiosconi, e Jordam Guserio.

51. School of arts : or, An introduction to useful knowledge : being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science ... / by John Imison.

52. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

53. The oeconomy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China to the Earl of ****.

54. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

55. Grove-Hill : a descriptive poem, with An ode to Mithra / by the author of Indian antiquities ; the engravings on wood by J. Anderson, from drawings by G. Samuel.

56. Das nach Original Zeichnungen geschilderte Thier Reich = Les animaux representés suivant des desseins originels.

57. [Artificial slate roofs].

58. Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la conoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval. Avec figures en taille-douce / Par M. de la Gueriniere , ecuyer du Roy.

60. Voyage de M. Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique : par le cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 et 85.

61. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay ...

62. A second walk through Wales / by the Revd. Richard Warner, of Bath, in August and September 1798.

63. The biographical mirrour : comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

65. The will of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., deceased.

66. Amusemens des bains de Bade en Suisse, de Schintznach et de Pfeffers : avec la description, & la comparaison de leurs eaux avec celles des bains de Schwalbach & autres de l'empire : le tout accompagné d'histoires & d'anecdotes curieuses.

68. Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves / by John Harris ...

69. Poems / by Goldsmith and Parnell.

70. Rules for bad horsemen : addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. / by Charles Thompson, Esq.

73. A scheme for eventually supplying every part of the city of Dublin with pipe water : without any charge of water-engines, or any water-forcers, by a close adherence only to the natural laws of gravitation, and the principles, rules, and experiments of hydrostaticks.

75. An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects : and where their several performances are to be seen / translated from the Musæum pictorium of Palomino Velasco.

76. A guide to classical learning, or, Polymetis abridged .... : being a work absolutely necessary, not only for the right understanding of the classics, but also for forming in young minds a true taste for the beauties of poetry, sculpture, and painting / by N. Tindal, translator of Rapin.

77. Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique : ou, Description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière : avec des figures en taille douce / par Mr. Grollier de Servière ... son petit fils.

79. Deliciæ britannicæ, or, The curiosities of Hampton-Court and Windsor-Castle, delineated : with occasional reflections, and embellished with copper-plates of the two palaces, &c. / by George Bickham, jun.

80. [Muster order for the enrollment into the Gloucestershire militia].

81. On the conduct of man to inferior animals ...