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17001. Marmora Oxoniensia.

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Creator:
Chandler, Richard, 1738–1810
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 p. l., vii, [2], xxi p., 2 l., 147, [2], xxvi, [2] p. illus., plates (1 fold.) LIX pl. 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17002. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:
1762
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17003. Turn the carpet, or, The two weavers : a new song : in a dialogue between Dick and John.

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Creator:
More, Hannah, 1745–1833
Date:
[1796?]
Physical Description:
7 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17004. Biographiana / by the compiler of Anecdotes of distinguished persons.

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Creator:
Seward, William, 1747–1799
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
2 v. (Med: 2 v. in 1) : ill., port., music ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17005. The ornaments of churches considered : with a particular view to the late decoration of the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing, the history of the said church, an account of the altar-piece, and stained glass window erected over it : a state of the prosecution [!] it has occasioned, and other papers ...

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Creator:
Hole, William, 1710–1791
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
2 p., iv, [6], v-xiv, 15-143, 38, 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17006. A new map containing the towns, gentlemens houses, villages, and other remarks round London : as from London toe Windsor, Ware, Chelmsford, the Hope, Tunbridge, Guildford, &c.

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
[ca. 1700]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 26 x 28 cm., on sheet 30 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17007. A complete history of English peerage : from the best authorities / by William Guthrie ... ; illustrated with elegant copper-plates of the arms of the nobility, blazoned in the heralds-office, by the proper officers, copper-plates of the premiers in their parliamentary robes ; and at the conclusion of the history of each family, vignets, and other ornaments, proper for the subject.

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Creator:
Guthrie, William, 1708–1770
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17008. An historical description of Westminster-Abbey : its monuments and curiosities : containing an account of its foundation and miraculous consecration by St. Peter ... : designed as a guide to strangers in viewing this venerable pile ...

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Date:
1764
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-190, [2] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17009. The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David : and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

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Creator:
Church of England
Date:
MDCCVI [1706]
Physical Description:
[372], 18, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17010. Vûës des villes de Londres, de Canterbury, de Colchester, et autres lieux circonvoisens : avec leur principales eglises, palais, edifices, maison de campagne & autres choses remarquables. Representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec un courte description sous chaque figure ...

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Creator:
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659–1733
Date:
[ca. 1710]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : all ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17011. A topographical map of Hartford-shire, from an actual survey : in which is express'd all the roads, lanes, churches, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, and every thing remarkable in the county, together with the division of the parishes / by Andw. Dury & Jno. Andrews.

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Creator:
Dury, Andrew
Date:
[1782]
Physical Description:
1 map on 9 sheets ; sheets 54 x 71 cm + 1 index map (52 x 71 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17012. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

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Creator:
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
30 p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17013. Descriptions and sketches of some remarkable oaks, in the park at Welbeck, in the county of Nottingham : a seat of His Grace the Duke of Portland. To which are added, observations on the age and durabilty of that tree / with remarks on the annual grown of the acorn by Hayman Rooke, Esq., F.S.A.

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Creator:
Rooke, Hayman, 1722–1806
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
23, [1] p., 10 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17014. Nouvaux livre d'oyseaux desinée au naturel.

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Creator:
Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Physical Description:
52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17015. 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.

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

17016. 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.

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

17017. Wiltshire, wth. Salisbury citty & Stone heng described ano. 1689 [cartographic material] / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Remigius Hogenbergius sculpsit.

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Creator:
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:
[approximately 1715?]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 41 x 33 cm, on sheet 47 x 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17018. Figurine of William Shakespeare.

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Date:
between 1790 and 1805
Physical Description:
1 figurine : soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast in sections and painted in enamels ; 28 cm high, 13 cm wide, 9 cm deep
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

17019. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of Greek, Roman, Saxon, English, and Irish, gold, silver, and brass coins and medals, of the learned and ingenious Mr. James Simon, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquaries Society of London, author of the historical account of Irish coins, late of the city of Dublin, merchant, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in the Hay-Market, on Thursday, the 8th of December, 1757, and the following day.

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Creator:
Ford, Mr., active 1741–1757
Date:
[1757]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17020. A catalogue of the capital and valuable museum : consisting of an assemblage of rare and scarce articles in natural history, the specimens of marbles, Raphael and Roman ware bronzes, miniatures, carvings in ivory, curious cabinets, &c. : the property of the late Lord James Manners, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie athis Great Room, Pall Mall, on Monday May the 9th, 1791, and the following day at twelve o'clock : to be viewed Friday and Saturday precedin the sale : catalogues may be had as above : and at the Rainbow Coffee House.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17021. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of drawings and prints, a few pictures, books, &c. late the property of the ingenious Mr. John Webber, R.A : well known for his accurate designs made during Capt. Cook's last voyage, and published by order of the Lords of the Admiralty, the whole being the reserved collection : consisting of many capital and curious drawings of the voyage, never engraved : accurate portraits of the different nations in various part of the world : a variety of studies and sketches from nature : also some drawing by Cipriani and Bartolozzi : printed by ancient and modern Masters : two remarkable fine sets of the Battle of the Boyne and La Hogue : five complete sets of Captain Cook's last voyage : and twelve various proof prints of the death of Captain Cook : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, June 14th, 1793, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : when catalogues may be had as above : and at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1793]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17022. An historical report on Ramsgate harbour; written by order of, and addressed to the trustees. By John Smeaton ...

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Creator:
Smeaton, John, 1724–1792
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 85 p. front. (fold. plan) fold. map. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17023. Porto-Bello: or, A plan for the improvement of the port and city of London ... By Sir Frederick Morton Eden ...

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Creator:
Eden, Frederick Morton, Sir, 1766–1809
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
1 p.., 53 p. 4 fold. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17024. A new drawing book of ornaments in the antique style, comprised in XXXVII plates, designed & engraved by G. Richardson archt. & son.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 p.., 36 plates. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17025. An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue; in two treatises. I. Concerning beauty, order, harmony, design. II. Concerning moral good and evil.

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Creator:
Hutcheson, Francis, 1694–1746
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
xxvi p., 1 leaf, 304 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17026. Rural beauties; or, The natural history of the four following western counties, viz. Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire. With additional remarks. By Theophilus Botanista, M.D.

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Creator:
Botanista, Theophilus
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
2 p.., xxxvi, xxv-xxxiv, 314 p. front., fold. map. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17027. Extrait de l'Essai sur la peinture, la sculpture et l'architecture de M. de *** [i.e. L.P. de Bachaumont]. Par Monsieur l'abbé Raynal. Tiré du Mercure de France du mois d'Octobre 1751, pag. 123 & suiv.

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Creator:
Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713–1796
Date:
1751
Physical Description:
15 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17028. The history and antiquities of Rochester and its environs: to which is added, a description of the towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and ancient buildings situate on, or near the road from London to Margate, Deal and Dover. Embellished with copper-plates ...

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Creator:
Denne, Samuel, 1730–1799
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
2 p. ., 336 (i. e. 353) p. plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17029. An account of the model in relievo, : of the great and magnificent city and suburbs of Paris, / By Monsieur Le Quoy, ...

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Creator:
Le Quoy, R
Date:
MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:
vii, [8]-28 p.; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17030. The poetical works of Joseph Addison. : With the life of the author.

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Creator:
Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[2], xxxii, 146, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm. (12 mo.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17031. Tracts on practical agriculture and gardening : particularly addressed to the gentlemen-farmers in Great-Britain : with several useful improvements in stoves and green-houses : to which is added a chronological catalogue of English authors on agriculture, botany, gardening, &c. / by R. Weston ...

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Creator:
Weston, Richard, 1733–1806
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
iv, xxxi, [1], 298, 136 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17032. Observations on two trials at law, respecting Messieurs Adams's new-invented patent-stucco / with additional remarks by a practical plaisterer.

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Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[4], iii, [1], 31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17033. A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione : very useful for youth to draw after.

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Date:
[176-?]
Physical Description:
6 leaves : all ill. ; 17 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17034. An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year MDCCLXIV, under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq., colonel of foot, and now brigadier general in America : including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace : with an introductory account of the preceding campaign, and battle at Bushy-Run : to which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages, a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country, with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances, and different routs : the whole illustrated with a map and copper-plates / published, from authentic documents, by a lover of his country.

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Creator:
Smith, William, 1727–1803
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
xiii, 71 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17035. A description of the freedom box, voted by the City of London to the Hon. Augustus Keppel, admiral of the Blue : to which is prefixed a succinct account of his public services.

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Creator:
Charron, Wm. (William)
Date:
[1779]
Physical Description:
vi, 22 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17036. Inscriptionum antiquarum Græc. et Latin. liber. : Accedit, numismatum Ptolemæorum, imperatorum, Augustarum, et Cæsarum, in Ægypto cusorum, e scriniis Britannicis, catalogus. / A Richardo Pococke, LLD. Societatis Regalis, et antiquariorum, Londini, Socio.

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Date:
Anno MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:
[8], 127, [1] p. ; 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17037. A view of the present state of Derbyshire : with an account of its most remarkable antiquities, illustrated by an accurate map and plates .../ by James Pilkington.

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Creator:
Pilkington, James
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17038. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

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Creator:
Birch, William, 1760–1794?
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
[8] pages, x, [36] leaves, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17039. Bowles's universal display of the naval flags of all nations in the world = Bowles son vue universelle des pavillons marine dans touts les parties du monde.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
[41] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17040. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

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Creator:
T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Firm)
Date:
August 21, 1756
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17041. A vindication of Homer and of the ancient poets and historians, who have recorded the siege and fall of Troy : in answer to two late publications of Mr. Bryant : with a map and plates / by J.B.S. Morritt.

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Creator:
Morritt, John B. S. (John Bacon Sawrey), 1772?-1843
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
[2], 124 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17042. [The passions delineated].

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Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17043. Abhandlung der Porte-Chaises, oder, Trage-Sänfften durch Menschen oder Thiere, in allen vier Theilen der Welt : nach der Critic, Mechanic, Historie, dem Recht, wie auch Cammer- und Policey-Wesen ausgeführet und erläutert mit Urkunden und Kupffern / von Carl Christian Schramm.

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Creator:
Schramm, Carl Christian
Date:
anno 1737
Physical Description:
[6], v, [1], 112, [6] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17044. Plocacosmos, or, The whole art of hair dressing : wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. : as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair ... / by James Stewart. With an elegant frontispiece, and other copper-plates.

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Creator:
Stewart, James
Date:
MDCCLXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
[6], 435, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17045. The artist's repository and drawing magazine : exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches.

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

17046. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

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Creator:
Terry, Garnet
Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
26, [1] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17047. A catalogue of the library of the late Right Honourable Denis Daly : which will be sold by auction on Tuesday, the first of May, 1792 by James Vallance at his auction-room, no. 6, Eustace-Street.

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Creator:
Vallance, James
Date:
[1792]
Physical Description:
v, [3], 149, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plate : 1 facsim. ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17048. The English pilot : part III, describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports : together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers in the whole Mediterranian Sea : likewise the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the prospects of the lands, &c. : collected from the practice and experience of divers able navigators both of our own and other nations.

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Date:
MDCCIII [1703]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 92 pages, [37] leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17049. Atlas geographicus portatilis, XXIX mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens / caelo accurate expressit Tobias Conradus Lotterus ; delineavit et excudit Tobias Lobeck, chalcograph.

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Creator:
Lobeck, Tobias
Date:
[1762?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([51] leaves) : illustrations, 47 maps ; 12 x 16 cm (32mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17050. Elements of criticism.

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Creator:
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696–1782
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
3 v. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17051. The new Bath guide: or memoirs of the B-n-r-d family. In a series of poetical epistles.

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Creator:
Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
viii, 175 p. front. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17052. The practice of perspective: or, An easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art ... The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris; since translated into German ... and into English ... And now, a second time, into the same language, by E. Chambers.

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Creator:
Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
xiii, [4], 150, 150 p. illus. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17053. A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. Originally written by -----Ralph, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions.

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Date:
1783
Physical Description:
xxxi, 209 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17054. Geographical cards; or, A view of the principal cities of the known world. Designed for a recreation of young gentlemen & ladies, and the use of boarding schools, by John Ryland of Northampton.

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Creator:
Ryland, John, 1723–1792
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
52 cards. 10 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17055. Report on the proper methods of measuring and drawing antient buildings. Drawn up, in pursuance of the directions of the Society of Antiquaries of London, by Sir H.C. Englefield ... and J. Windham ...

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Creator:
Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752–1822
Date:
17--?]
Physical Description:
8 p. ill. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17056. An essay towards a description of Bath. In four parts. Wherein the antiquitity of the city, as well as the reality and eminence of its founder ... are respectively treated of ... By John Wood ...

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part fold.) fold. map, fold. plans. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17057. Paradise Lost. A poem in twelve books. / The author John Milton.

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Creator:
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
3 v., 25 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17058. A survey of the present state of Aspenden Church, Herts. June 1793.

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Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 p. l., 13 p. 2 pl., 2 ports. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17059. A list of the works of John Rocque ... : to be had at his house the corner of Old Round Court in the Strand = Catalogue des cartes & plans / levé & publié par Jean Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1760?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17060. 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.

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

17061. A plan of St. Philips Castle, on the island of Minorca : with its fortifications & the entrance of the harbour of Port Mahon / by Jno. Armstrong ...

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Creator:
Armstrong, John, -1758
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
1 map ; 66 x 45 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17062. 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.

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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

17063. Das Römische Carneval.

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Creator:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
69, [3] p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17064. A catalogue of the noble collection of pictures, miniatures, bronzes, gems, magnificent embossed plate, ornaments in gold and silver, coins and medals, china, Japan, &c. of the Right Honourable Lady Elizabeth Germain, lately deceas'd : being the collection of the old Earls of Peterborough; and also part of the Arundelian collection : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Wednesday the 7th of this instant March 1770, and the three following days [...] Not. : in the second day's sale will be sold, her Ladyship's rich set of gold and silver dressing plate, her brilliant ear rings, necklace, girdle buckle, stay buckles, and other jewels; her large and fine Oriental pearl necklace, and several other rich and valuable effects.

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Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son
Date:
[1770]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17065. The royal pastime of cock-fighting, or, The Art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game : published purely for the good, and benefit of all such as take delight in that royal, and warlike sport: to which is prefixed, a short treatise, wherein cocking is proved not only ancient and honourable, but also useful, and profitable / by R. H., a lover of the sport, and a friend to such as delight in military discipline.

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Creator:
Howlett, Robert
Date:
1709
Physical Description:
[30], 92 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17066. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
1734
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17067. An essay on the present state of our publick roads : shewing the absolute necessity of a total prohibition of the use of narrow wheels on all carriages drawn by one horse lengthways. And the benefit that will accrue thereby to farmers and carriers, to trade and manufactures, as well as ease, pleasure and safety to travellers.

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Date:
1756
Physical Description:
[4], 33, [1] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17068. Instructions for cutting out apparel for the poor; principally intended for the assistance of the patronesses of Sunday schools : And other Charitable Institutions, But Useful in all Families. Containing patterns, directions, and calculations, whereby the most Inexperienced may readily buy the Materials, cut out and value each Article of Cloathing of every Size, without the least Difficulty, and with the greatest Exactness : With a Preface, Containing a Plan for assisting the Parents of poor Children belonging to Sunday Schools, to clothe them; and other useful Observations : Published for the benefit of the Sunday school children at Hertingfordbury, In the County of Hertford; Where the above Plan has been found to be the best Encouragement to the Parents to send their Children to the Sunday School, and at the same Time the best Source of Employment for the Schools of Industry.

No cover image available
Date:
MDCCLXXIX[1789]
Physical Description:
xii, 85, [7] pages, ([13] folded leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17069. 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.

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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

17070. The history and present state of discoveries relating to vision, light, and colours / by Joseph Priestley.

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Creator:
Priestley, Joseph, 1733–1804
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
2 v. (4, v, [1], xvi, 812, [12] p. [25] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17071. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

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Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
1782-1783
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17072. A catalogue of the genuine collection of Italian, Dutch, and Flemish pictures, belonging to the late Capt. Henry Prole, (deceased) : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his Great Room the End of Savile-Row, next Conduit-street, Hanover-squre, on Tuesday next, the 12th of April 1763.

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Creator:
Prestage, John, -1767
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17073. Catalogo dei generi vendibili / presso Giacinto Micali e figlio in Livorno.

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Creator:
Giacinto Micali e figlio
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
xli, [1], 205, [3] pages ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17074. An essay on combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting. Wherein the phlogistic and antiphlogistic hypotheses are proven erroneous. By Mrs. Fulhame.

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Creator:
Fulhame, Mrs. (Elizabeth), active 1780–1810
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
xiii p., 1 leaf, 182 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17075. An account of a newly invented beautiful green paint. Lasting in the open air, and daily improving by the winds, sunshine and rains. Prepared by Francis Armstrong ...

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Creator:
Armstrong, Francis
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
2 p.., 31 p. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17076. Considérations sur les révolutions des arts ...

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Creator:
Méhégan, Guillaume-Alexandre de, 1721–1766
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 282, 24, 18, [4] p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17077. A voyage to the Pacific ocean. Undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern hemisphere. To determine the position and extent of the west side of North America; its distance from Asia; and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 ... Vols. I. and II. written by Captain James Cook, F. R. S. Vol. III. by Captain James King, L. L. D. and F. R. S. Illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts ... with a great variety of portraits ... views ... and historical representations ... drawn by Mr. Webber ... Published by order of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty ...

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Creator:
Cook, James, 1728–1779
Date:
1784
Physical Description:
3 v. plates (part fold.) maps (part fold.) charts (part fold.) 30 cm. and atlas. 57 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17078. Matthews's new Bristol directory, for the year, 1793-4. : containing an alphabetical list of the corporation, clergy, merchants, bankers, professors of the law and physic ... of the city of Bristol with its environs. To which are added ... particulars of the coming in and going out of the posts ... Also a list of the hackney coaches, with their owners.

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Creator:
Matthews, William
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
103 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17079. 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 ...

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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

17080. The military antiquities of the Romans in Britain. By the late William Roy ... Published by the order, and at the expence of, the Society of antiquaries of London.

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Creator:
Roy, William, 1726–1790
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
5 p.., xvi, 206, [6] p. 3 pl., 3 maps, 44 plans (part fold.) tab. 57 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17081. The history of England / by Mr. Rapin de Thoyran ; continued from the Revolution to the accession of King George II by N. Tindal ... ; illustrated with the heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons : also with maps, medals, and other copper plates : vol. XVI [-XXVIII], being the first [-thirteenth] of the Continuation.

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Creator:
Tindal, N. (Nicolas), 1687–1774
Date:
1744-1747
Physical Description:
13 v. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17082. Farriery improved, or, A complete treatise on the art of farriery : wherein are fully explained, the nature and structure of that useful creature, a horse : with the diseases and accidents he is liable to : and the methods of cure : exemplified by ten elegant cuts, each the full figure of a horse, describing all the various parts of that noble animal : likewise, rules for breeding and training of colts, practical receipts for the cure of common distempers incident to oxen, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, hogs, &c. : to which is prefixed, ten minutes' advice to the purchasers of horses / by Henry Bracken, M.D.

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Creator:
Bracken, Henry, 1697–1764
Date:
Jan. 11, 1798
Physical Description:
iv, [1], 6-144 pages, [10] leaves of plates (8 folded) : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17083. The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier ... : to all which is added, a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease / by J. Markham, G Jefferies, and discreet Indians.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
ix, 10-364 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17084. The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier, containing ... : to all which is added, a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment or disease / by J. Markham, G. Jefferies, and discreet Indians.

No cover image available
Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
MDCCXCVII [1797]
Physical Description:
viii, 9-317, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17085. The anatomy of the human body / by W. Cheselden ...

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Creator:
Cheselden, William, 1688–1752
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
[10], 336 p., [1], [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17086. Human passions delineated.

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Creator:
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Date:
1773
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17087. L'art de dessiner / par Jean Cousin ; revu, corrigé et augmenté de plusieurs morceaux d'après l'antique ; avec leurs mesures & proportions ; d'une description exacte des os & muscles du corps humain, & de leurs offices & usages ; avec une instruction facile pour apprendre à dessiner toutes ces figures, selon les différens aspects qu'elles peuvent avoir.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cousin, Jehan, ca. 1522–ca. 1593
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17088. Sketches of animals from nature / etched by George Garrard.

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Creator:
Garrard, George, 1760–1826
Date:
March 1st, 1794
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 30 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17089. The principles of ancient masonry, or, A general system of building compleated : wherein the theory and practice of architecture are universally demonstrated : comprising all the arts and sciences necessary to be understood for the attaining a just knowledge of building, in a more concise and easy manner than has been yet attempted to be made public, viz : arithmetick, vulgar and decimal : practical geometry : plain trigonometry : mensuration in general : surveying of land, &c. : architecture universally apply'd : perspective : mechanicks : dialing : painting and staining glass : interspersed with proper introductions, remarks, and observations : in which great care is taken to omit everything that is superfluous, and insert nothing but what is really useful : the whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty large folio copper plates, engraven by the best hands : exemplifying the several arts and proportions of the five order of columns, in a very great variety of useful designs of plans, elevations, and sections of building in general : by a society of the most experienced practitioners and workmen in building, and the several branches of learning relating thereto.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1733
Physical Description:
[2], 434, xi, [23] pages : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17090. Two letters on the origin, antiquity, and history of Norman Tiles, stained with armorial bearings.

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Creator:
Henniker-Major, John, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
114 p., [3] leaves of plates : coats of arms ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17091. Cipriani's rudiments of drawing.

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Creator:
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727–1785
Date:
1796
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17092. Temples anciens et modernes, ou, Observations historiques et critiques sur les plus celebres monumens d'architecture grecque et gothique / par M. L. M.

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Creator:
Avril, Louis, b. 1722
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
[2], xvj, 347, [3] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17093. Picturesque antiquities of Scotland / etched by Adam De Cardonnel.

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Creator:
Cardonnel, Adam de, d. 1820
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788, i.e. 1798?]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 27, [1], [3]-11, [1], [4], [iii]-iv, [101] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17094. Manoeuvres nouvelles : d'après les principes prussiens avec leur exercice détaillé.

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Creator:
Chaulay, Sebastian
Date:
mid-18th century
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 13 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17095. To the nobility, gentry, clergy and others, this map of the county of Monmouth, is most humbly inscribed / by their ever dutyfull & very humble serv.t Robert Snell ; engrav'd & printed by I. Ames.

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Creator:
Snell, Robert, fl. 1756–1785
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., dissected and mounted on linen ; 89 x 84 cm., folded in slipcase 25 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17096. A catalogue of the third and last part of the most valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever Imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : this collection consists of the most unquestionable and best performances, in the highest preservation, of Raphael , Guido, Caracci, Albano, Romanelli, Lucatelli, Canaletti, Poussin, Watteau, Lancret, Vernet, Titian, Bandinelli, Julio Romani, Caraveggio, Domen. Feti, Le Seuer, Murillo, Velasquez, Le Brun, Tintoret, Bassan, A. Veronese, Rubens, S. Rosa, V. Castelli, Castiglione, Solimene, Bourdon, Freminet, Vandermeulen, Parocel, Vandyke, Berghem, Teniers, Woverman, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms late belonging to the Society of Arts, &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand : on Thursday, May 14 and the following day : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Tuesday the 13th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : descriptive catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son,
Date:
[1778]
Physical Description:
20 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17097. James Kirk toy shop token.

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Creator:
Kirk, James, active 1784–1793
Date:
between 1784 and [1793?]
Physical Description:
1 token : brass ; 31 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17098. The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school.

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Creator:
Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:
[1754?]
Physical Description:
8 p.l., 439 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17099. An account of some of the most romantic parts of North Wales ...

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Creator:
Cradock, Joseph, 1742–1826
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
iv, [2], 147 p. plates, fold. map. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17100. Letters upon the poetry and music of the Italian opera : addressed to a friend / by the late Mr. John Brown, painter.

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Creator:
Brown, John, 1752–1787
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
[2], xx, 141, [1] p. 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts