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17101. A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain. : Divided into circuits or journeys. Giving a particular and entertaining account of whatever is curious, and worth observation ... Interspersed with useful observations. Particularly fitted for the perusal of such as desire to travel over the island. / By a gentleman.

Creator:: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:: M.DCC.LIII [1753]
Physical Description:: 4 v. : facsimiles ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17102. The history of London : from its foundation to the present time ... including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the bill of mortality ... / by William Maitland ...

Creator:: Maitland, William, 1693?-1757
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 2 v. (viii, 1410 p.) : ill., map, plans, coats of arms ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17103. Views of ancient buildings in England / drawn in different tours and engraved by John Carter.

Creator:: Carter, John, 1748–1817
Date:: 1786-1793
Physical Description:: 6 v. (89 p., 119 leaves of plates) : chiefly ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17104. 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

17105. The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England : containing, in a compleat series, the representations of all the English monarchs, from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth : together with many of the great persons that were eminent under their several reigns : the figures are principally introduced in antient delineations of the most remarkable passages of history, and are correctly copied from the originals, which particularly express the dress and customs of the time, to which each piece respectively relates : the whole carefully collected from antient illuminated manuscripts / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: iv, 5-39, [2] p., 60 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17106. An actual survey of the Great Post Road : from London to Chester, Park-Gate, & Holy-Head / by Peter Bell ...

Creator:: Bell, Peter
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([20] leaves) : 19 hand col. maps ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17107. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: viii, xxiv p., 266 columns, [2] leaves of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17108. Pinacotheca Hamptoniana : Georgio Mag[nae] Brit[annicae] Fran[cia] et Hiber[niae] Regi : septem de Actis Apostolorum tabulas superstites ex pluribus quas, duobus circiter ab hinc seculis iussu Leonis X. Pont. Rom., Raphael Sancius Urbinas pictorum facile princeps coloribus aqua dilutis pinxit in chartis in Aulœorum texturam ... / Nicolaus Dorigny.

Creator:: Dorigny, Nicolas, 1658–1746
Date:: [ca. 1719]
Physical Description:: [20] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 73 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17109. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys. &c. contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : with the contiguous buildings / engraved by John Pine ... from an actual survey by John Rocque, and printed on twenty-four sheets of imperial paper, with references for finding the said places ; adapted likewise to a contracted copy of the above mentioned plan, printed on eight sheets of paper ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: vi [i.e. vii], [1], 46, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17110. A new and complete history and description of the cities of London, Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : containing the whole histories of London, Westminster, Southwark, &c, ancient and modern : from the very earliest authentic intelligence to the year 1796 ... / by Richard Skinner ...

Creator:: Skinner, Richard
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: iv, 5-538 [i.e. 544], [6] p., [52] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17111. A plan of Paris &c. : reduc'd to the same scale as that of London ... = Plan de Paris &ac. : reduit sur la meme echelle que celui de Londres ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 46 x 69 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17112. Thoughts on hunting : in a series of familiar letters to a friend.

Creator:: Beckford, Peter, 1740–1811
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Physical Description:: [10], 334 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17113. Campania fœlix, or, A discourse of the benefits and improvements of husbandry : containing directions for all manner of tillage, pasturage, and plantation : as also for the making of cyder and perry : with some considerations upon I. Justices of the peace, and inferior officers. II. On inns and alehouses. III. On servants and labourers. IV. On the poor : to which are added, two essays: I. Of a country-house. II. Of the fuel of London / by Tim. Nourse ...

Creator:: Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699
Date:: 1700
Physical Description:: 6, 354 (i.e. 366) p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17114. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCI [1789-1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17115. Travels through the Maritime Alps, from Italy to Lyons, across the Col de Tende, by the way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, &c. : with topographical and historical descriptions : to which are added, some philosophical observations on the various appearances in mineralogy, &c. found in those countries / by Albanis Beaumont ; author of the Rhaetian Alps, &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Beaumont, Albanis, 1755–1812
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: [6], 127 pages, [3] pages, [24] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17116. A new and exact map of America laid down from the latest observations and discoveries.

Creator:: Bowles, John, 1701–1779
Date:: [approximately 1740?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 56 x 70 cm, on sheet 62 x 104 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17117. 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

17118. Cottages, from nature / by John Burton.

Creator:: Burton, John, 1696–1771
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17119. Noblemen and gentlemen's seats in ... Kent.

Creator:: Badeslade, Thomas
Date:: 1715
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17120. Traite des sieger.

Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17121. De Houtsneden van Mansion's Ovide moralise, Bruges 1484 / met een toelichting door M.D. Henkel.

Date:: 1922
Physical Description:: xxxiv, 44 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17122. The fables of Aesop : with a life of the author : and embellished with one hundred & twelve plates.

Date:: 4th June 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17123. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling / by Geoffrey Gambado.

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xx, 38 p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17124. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight : painted by himself, for the Royal Academy, 1780 ; engrav'd by V. Green, mezzotinto engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.

Creator:: Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
Date:: [1780]
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 49 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17125. The reflector; representing human affairs, as they are; and may be improved ...

Creator:: Shaw, Peter, 1694–1763
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: xx, 371 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17126. The museum of arts: or, The curious repository. By George Bickham, engraver of all sorts of work on copper-plates.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:: 1745?]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 75 plates (part. col., part double) front. 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17127. An essay on the invention of engraving and printing in chiaro oscuro, as practised by Albert Durer, Hugo di Carpi, &c. and the application of it to the making paper hangings of taste, duration, and elegance.

Creator:: Jackson, John Baptist, 1701–1780?
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 19 p. col. plates. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17128. A catalogue and description of the etchings of Rembrandt Van-Rhyn, : with some account of his life. To which is added, a list of the best pieces of this master for the use of those who would make a select collection of his works. / Written originally by the late Mr. Gersaint, and published by Mess. Helle and Glomy, with considerable additions and improvements. Translated from the French.

Creator:: Gersaint, E. F. (Edme-François), d. 1750
Physical Description:: [8] p., 184 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17129. Man and wife; or, The Shakespeare jubilee, a comedy of three acts, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden ...

Creator:: Colman, George, 1732–1794
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: 3 p. l., v, [1], 64 p. 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17130. A collection of emblematical figures : moral and instructive / chiefly composed from the Iconology of cavaliere Cesare Ripa, Perugino ; exhibiting the elements and celestial bodies, seasons and months of the years, hours of the day and night, quarters of the world, the principal rivers, the four ages, the muses, the senses, arts, sciences, dispositions of the mind, virtues and vices ; as represented by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; containing upwards of four hundred human figures, engraved from original designs, with their explanations ; illustrated by variety of authorities from classical authors ; together with an introductory discourse on the science of iconology ; the whole collected and arranged by George Richardson ...

Creator:: Ripa, Cesare, 1560–1645
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: [12], vii, 49 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17131. The history of the town of Taunton, in the county of Somerset : embellished with plates / by Joshua Toulmin ...

Creator:: Toulmin, Joshua, 1740–1815
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [16], 192 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plan, map ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17132. To the Right Honourable William Baron of Hedon, Viscount Pulteney of Wrington and Earl of Bath : this plan of Shrewsbury is most humbly inscrib'd / by his lordship's most humble and devoted servant, J. Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1746
Physical Description:: 1 map : ill. ; 44 x 62 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17133. Catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Martin Folkes, Esq. President of the Royal Society, and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, lately deceased : which will be sold by auction by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent Garden : to begin on Monday, February 2, 1756, and to continue for forty days successively (Sundays excepted).

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1756]
Physical Description:: 4 unnumbered pages, 156 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17134. Saggio sulla nautica antica de' Veneziani : con una illustrazione d'alcune carte idrografiche antiche della Biblioteca di S. Marco, che dimostrano l'isole Antille prima della scoperta di Cristoforo Colombo / di Vincenzio Formaleoni.

Creator:: Formaleoni, V. A. (Vincenzio Antonio), 1752–1797
Date:: MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:: [10], 60, 64 pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17135. Choix des pierres gravées du Cabinet impérial des antiques : représentées en XL. planches / décrites et expliquées par M. L'Abbé Eckhel, directeur de ce cabinet et professeur des antiquités en l'Université de Vienne.

Creator:: Eckhel, Joseph Hilarius von, 1737–1798
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [14], 77, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17136. Pisé, or, The art of building strong and durable walls, to the height of several stories, with nothing but earth or the most common materials / drawn up and presented to the board of agriculture by Henry Holland, Esq.

Creator:: Holland, Henry, 1745–1806
Date:: 1797]
Physical Description:: 20 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17137. For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring, etc. : a new and compleat drawing book ... / being the close study ... of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

Creator:: Lens, Bernard, 1682–1740
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [3], [1], 42 p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17138. The prices of cabinet work, with tables and designs : illustrating the various articles of manufacture : revised and corrected by a committee of masters cabinet makers.

Creator:: Committee of Masters Cabinet Makers (London, England)
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: xvi, 259 p., xvi leaves, 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17139. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

Creator:: Robinson, William, approximately 1744–
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [32] leaves, 33-47 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17140. A supplement to the builder's jewel ... : illustrated by upwards of 132 examples, engraved on 44 copper-plates.

Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 36 p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17141. Delineatio domvs recreatricis adjacentiumq prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem : auspicys & jussu illustriss, dni Arnoldi Iusti, Toparchae in Keppel, Comitis de Albemarle etc. etc. etc. structorum per cl. postri temporis Magistrum, Jacobum Roman Sereniss. Britann. Regis architectum / accurate sculpta & illustrissimo nomini humillimé inscripta à Petro Schenkio sculptore.

Creator:: Schenk, Peter, 1661–1711
Date:: ca. 1700]
Physical Description:: [27] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17142. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

Creator:: Lacombe de Prézel, Honoré, 1725–
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 307, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17143. A catalogue of a curious collection of the rare old stained, or painted glass : exhibiting a beautiful variety of the works of those celebrated German and Flemish artists : among which are two exceeding fine altar pieces, after Rubens : which will be sold by auction, by Samuel Paterson, at Essex House, in Essex Street, in the Strand, on Friday, May 21, 1762, to begin exactly at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Wednesday the 19th instant, and to the time of sale : catalogues may be had at Essex House aforesaid.

Creator:: Paterson, Samuel, 1728–1802
Date:: [1762]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17144. Remarks on forest scenery and other woodland views : (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire : in three books / by William Gilpin.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17145. A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made clear, in theory, by various moveable schemes, and diagrams; and reduced to practice ... Containing diagrams, views, and original designs, in architecture, &c. ... All originals; invented, delineated, and, great part, engraved by the author, Thomas Malton.

Creator:: Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 10 p.l., 296 p. fold. front., XLVIII plates (part. fold., incl. diagr.) 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17146. The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in everything that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. IV fold. plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17147. Des causes de la corruption du goust. Par Madame Dacier.

Creator:: Dacier, Madame (Anne), d. 1720
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 614, [4] p., 1 leaf. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17148. Leonora / translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq ; with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc.

Creator:: Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747–1794
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [8], 35, [1] p. [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17149. The history and antiquities of the parish of Tottenham High-Cross, in the county of Middlesex. : Collected from authentic records. With an appendix, containing the account of the said town, drawn up by the Rt. Hon. Henry, last Lord Colerane. ... / By H. G. Oldfield, and R. R. Dyson.

Creator:: Oldfield, Henry George
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: xvi, 123, [4], 90 p., 9 leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., geneal. table ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17150. Les jardins, ou L'art d'embellir les paysages : poëme / par M. l'abbé de Lille ...

Creator:: Delille, Jacques, 1738–1813
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 107 p., [4] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17151. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Brandebourg : d'après l'original ...

Creator:: Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712–1786
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: 3 v. maps, geneal. tables ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17152. Bowles's New pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1790.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 48 x 94 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17153. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and gothic orders of architecture, made easy... : by nearly 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient andmodern, of pedestals, bases, shafts [etc.] ... : engraved on 184 copper plates: wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down ... / by Batty Langley ...

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: xxiv p., [92] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17154. Six views of Margate and its environs.

Creator:: Pickett, William, 1792–1820
Date:: 1797]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17155. [Tunbridge-Wells Directory.]

Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17156. Vitruvius Britannica or the British Architect.

Date:: s.d.]
Physical Description:: 5 vols.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17157. Notes on visits to various country houses and towns in Great Britain.

Creator:: Kerr, Mary, active 1789–1826
Date:: 1789-1826
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([4], 19, [1], 83 p., with blanks) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17158. An Act to explain and amend several laws therein mentioned, for the better preservation of the game.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1717
Physical Description:: [2], 403-405, [1] p. ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17159. [Table of the reciprocal distances of the principal towns of Cambridgeshire, from Magna Britannia]

Date:: [1738]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] pages) ; 22 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

17160. Three treatises. The first concerning art. The second concerning music, painting, and poetry. The third concerning happiness. By J. H.

Creator:: Harris, James, 1709–1780
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 3 p.., [3]-357 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17161. Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks : with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art / translated from the German original of the Abbé Winkelmann ... by Henry Fusseli ...

Creator:: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Date:: 1765
Physical Description:: vi, 287, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17162. A description of the celebrated pieces of paintings; of the most eminent masters ancient and modern, with reflections upon the several foreign-schools of painting. By John Elsum esq;

Creator:: Elsum, John, fl. 1700–1705
Date:: 1704
Physical Description:: 133, [1] p., 1 leaf. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17163. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni ... da Lione Pascoli.

Creator:: Pascoli, Lione, 1674–1744
Date:: 1730-1736
Physical Description:: 2 v. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17164. A collection of fifty prints from antique gems : In the collections of the Right Honourable Earl Percy, the Honourable C. F. Greville, and T. M. Slade, esquire. Engraved by Mr. John Spilsbury.

Creator:: Spilsbury, John, 1730?-1795?
Date:: [1784]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17165. The art of japanning, varnishing, pollishing, and gilding. : Being a collection of very plain directions and receipts. Written for the use of those who have a mind to follow those diverting and useful amusements, and published at the request of several ladies of distinction. / By Mrs. Artlove.

Creator:: Artlove, Mrs
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: [2], 26, [2] p. (the final 2 p. blank ; 21 cm.(8 vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17166. Observations on the present state of the Royal Academy : with characters of living painters / by an old artist ...

Creator:: Old artist
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: [2], 29 p. ; 26 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17167. Heads representing the various passions of the soul : as they are expressed in the human countanance / drawn by that great master Monsr. Le Brun and finally engraved in twenty folio copper plates, nearly the size of life.

Creator:: Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 20 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17168. Observations on the discourses delivered at the Royal Academy : addressed to the President.

Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 19, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17169. The Brighthelmston directory : containing a description of that town, its soil, air, spring and mineral-waters, amusements, etc. : with some account of its history, antiquities, fishery, and sea-bathing : the times of sailing of the pacquet-boats : the stage-coaches, etc. their inns, and time of setting out, post-roads to it, etc. ...

Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: 40 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17170. Rules and instructions for playing at skittles / by a Society of gentlemen.

Creator:: Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustration, plan ; 46 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17171. 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

17172. London : a poem, in imitation of the third satire of Juvenal.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: 19 p. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17173. Owen's new book of roads, or, A description of the roads of Great Britain : being a companion to Owen's complete book of fairs ...

Creator:: Owen, W. (William), -1793
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: [36], 228 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17174. Every man his own brewer : a small treatise, explaining the art and mystery of brewing porter, ale, twopenny, and table-beer; recommending and proving the ease and possibility of every man's brewing his own beer, in any quantity from one peck to a hundred quarters of malt, calculated by exposing the deception in brewing; to reduce the expence of a family and lessen the destructive practice of public-house tipling / by Samuel Child, brewer.

Creator:: Child, Samuel
Date:: [1794?]
Physical Description:: 20, [4] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17175. 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

17176. Collection of engraved portraits.

Physical Description:: 21 v. : all ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17177. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / by Samuel Ireland ; author of the Histories and picturesque scenery of the Rivers Thames, Medway, and Avon, and graphic illustrations of Hogarth.

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17178. Letters from America, historical and descriptive : comprising occurrences from 1769 to 1777 inclusive / by William Eddis, late surveyor of the customs, &c. at Annapolis, in Maryland.

Creator:: Eddis, William, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCXCII [1792]
Physical Description:: [50], 455, [1] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17179. The British sportsman, or, Nobleman, Gentleman, and farmer's dictionary, of recreation and amusement : Including a most improved system of modern farriery, and anatomical dissections of a horse : with concise rules for chusing good horses, and the secrets of training them with wind and vigour for the course, field, and road : particular instructions for riding, racing, hunting, coursing, hawking, shooting, setting, & fishing : with the most approved methods of breeding, curing, and managing all sorts of cattle : particularly oxen, cows, deer, and sheep : and for breeding, training, and managing dogs, hawks, cocks, doves, pigeons, singing-birds, &c. : with a new and interesting description of all the traps, nets, engines, baits, and magical contrivances, for taking birds, and all sorts of game, alive : and for destroying vermin of every kind that annoy poultry, or infest the farmer's yard : the whole comprised under one alphabetical arrangement, and each article explained under its proper name : Compiled from the latest discoveries, and improved by many years real practice and observation / by William Augustus Osbaldiston, Esq. ; embellished with elegant copper plates, adapted to each subject.

Creator:: Osbaldiston, William Augustus
Date:: [1792-1796?]
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-664, [2] pages, [41] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17180. Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades, or, Approved directions from the best artists : for the various methods of engraving on brass, copper, or steel, of the composition of metals and varnishes, of mastichs and cements, sealing-wax, &c. ...

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: [2], xxii, 240 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17181. The art of painting in oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl colours. The whole treatise being so full ... that all persons ... may be able by these directions, to paint in oyl-colours all manner of timberwork ... In which is also laid down, all the several circumstances required in painting of sun-dials, printed pictures, shash-windows, etc. in oily-colours.

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:: 1705
Physical Description:: 4 p., 108 p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17182. Tryphiodōrou Iliou halōsis = Tryphiodori Ilii excidium, cum metricâ Nicodemi Frischlini versione, et selectis virorum doctorum notis: lacunas aliquot è Codice MSto explevit, et suas annotationes adjecit, Jacobus Merrick A.B. è Coll. Trin. Oxon.

Creator:: Tryphiodorus
Date:: [1741]
Physical Description:: [8], 112 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17183. List of pattern book belonging to Ashforth, Ellis, Wilson and Hawksleys, platers, Sheffield.

Creator:: Ashforth, Ellis, Wilson and Hawksleys (Firm)
Date:: [ca. 1785]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17184. Report and statement of accounts of the Parish of Liverpool, for the year MDCCXCIII : with a statement of the supposed revenue and expenditure, for the year MDCCXCIV, exhibited by Mr. William Haliday, treasurer : read and approved at the Vestry, assembled on Easter Tuesday, May 22, 1794 : then ordered to be printed under the direction of Mr. James Hargreaves, and Mr. Matthew Gregson, churchwardens : to which is added, some other particulars relating to the parish.

Creator:: Liverpool (England : Parish)
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: 14 p. : table ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17185. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

Creator:: Burdon, William
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 62 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17186. A catalogue of the entire collection of bronzes, of the Palazzo Gaddi, Palazzo Marucelli, and the late eminent antiquary Baron Stosch : consisting of great variety of groupes, statues, busts, priapi, animals, basso and alto relievos, sacrificing vessels, instruments, &c. of Roman, Grecian, Etruscan and Egyptian workmanship : with some few modern bronzes of Mich. Angelo, Benv. Cellini, Tacca, Giov. di Bologna, Fiamingo, Algardi, and other celebrated masters : which will be sold by auction / by Mr. Langford and son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Wednesday the 21st of this instant March 1764, and the two following days ; the said collections will be exhibited to publick view, on Monday the 19th, and every day after till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock ; Catalogues of which may be had gratis, on the days of viewing, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

Creator:: Mr. Langford and Son
Date:: [1764]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17187. A catalogue of the capital and entire collection of paintings, of Roger Harenc, Esq. of Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, lately deceased : consisting of the best and choicest works of Raphael, and Del Sarto, Bronzino, Guido, Carracci, Titian, Parmegiano, P. Da Cortona, P. Veronese, C. Lorraine, F. Laura, Wovermans, Vanderwerf, D. Teniers, Rubens, Vandyck, and others of the most eminent and most admired Masters : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford and Son, at their house in the Grand Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday the 1st of March 1764, and the two following days : the said paintings will be exhibited to public view on Tuesday the 28th of this instant February, and every day after till the time of sale which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Mr. Langford and Son
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17188. Vollständiger Sack-atlas aller Theile des bewohnten Erdbodens und derer Länder : in hauptund special Landcharten, nebst einem kurzgefasten Entwurf und Anweisung zur newesten Geographie / Herausgegeben von Tobias Lobecks sel. Erben, bey welchen es auch zu finden in Augspurg.

Creator:: Lobeck, Tobias
Date:: [between 1758 and 1786]
Physical Description:: 72 pages ; 12 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17189. An essay on British cottage architecture: being an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance. Supported by fourteen designs ... the whole extending to twenty-one plates, designed and executed in aqua-tinta. By James Malton ...

Creator:: Malton, James, d. 1803
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 27 p. 21 plates (incl. plans) 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17190. An account of a series of pictures, in the great room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi. By James Barry ...

Creator:: Barry, James, 1741–1806
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 221 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17191. An inquiry into the beauties of painting; and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern. By Daniel Webb ...

Creator:: Webb, Daniel, 1718 or 19–1798
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: xvi, 200 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17192. Remarks concerning the encroachments on the river Thames near Durham-Yard ...

Creator:: Sharp, Granville, 1735–1813
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: xvi, 42, [6] p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17193. Choir Gaur; the grand orrery of the ancient druids, commonly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury plain, : astronomically explained, and mathematically proved to be a temple erected in the erarliest ages, for observing the motions of the heavenly bodies. Illustrated with three copper plates. / By Dr. John Smith ...

Creator:: Smith, John, 1747–1807
Date:: M DCC LXXI. [l77l]
Physical Description:: vi, 73, [1] p., [IV] leaves of folded plates : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17194. The history and antiquities of the most ancient town and borough of Colchester, in the county of Essex : in three books : collected chiefly from manuscripts : with an appendix of records and original papers : adorned and illustrated with sculptures / by Philip Morant ...

Creator:: Morant, Philip, 1700–1770
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: iv, 100 [i. e. 104], 54 [i. e. 58], 53, [9] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17195. The history and antiquities of the county of Somerset, collected from authentick records, and an actual survey made by the late Mr. Edmund Rack. Adorned with a map of the county, and engravings of Roman or other reliques, town-seals, baths, churches, and gentlemen's seats. By the Reverend John Collinson ...

Creator:: Collinson, John, 1756 or 1757–1793
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 3 v. front. (fold. map), plates. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17196. A list of the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, London, October 12, 1774.

Creator:: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 71 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17197. [Illustrations to Aesop's Fables]

Creator:: Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Date:: [175-?]
Physical Description:: 32 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17198. Stow : the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham ...

Date:: [1751]
Physical Description:: [4], [4], 28 p., [11] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17199. Ædes Walpolianæ, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk : the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: xxxv, 122 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., plans. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17200. London and its environs described : containing an account of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity or use, in the city and in the country twenty miles round it. Comprehending also whatever is most material in the history and antiquities of this great metropolis : decorated and illustrated with a great number of views in perspective, engraved from original drawings, taken on purpose for this work : together with a plan of London, a map of the environs, and several other useful cuts ...

Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., map, plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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17102. The history of London : from its foundation to the present time ... including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the bill of mortality ... / by William Maitland ...

17103. Views of ancient buildings in England / drawn in different tours and engraved by John Carter.

17104. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay ...

17106. An actual survey of the Great Post Road : from London to Chester, Park-Gate, & Holy-Head / by Peter Bell ...

17107. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

17111. A plan of Paris &c. : reduc'd to the same scale as that of London ... = Plan de Paris &ac. : reduit sur la meme echelle que celui de Londres ...

17112. Thoughts on hunting : in a series of familiar letters to a friend.

17114. The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose Esqr. F.A.S.

17116. A new and exact map of America laid down from the latest observations and discoveries.

17118. Cottages, from nature / by John Burton.

17119. Noblemen and gentlemen's seats in ... Kent.

17120. Traite des sieger.

17121. De Houtsneden van Mansion's Ovide moralise, Bruges 1484 / met een toelichting door M.D. Henkel.

17122. The fables of Aesop : with a life of the author : and embellished with one hundred & twelve plates.

17123. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling / by Geoffrey Gambado.

17124. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight : painted by himself, for the Royal Academy, 1780 ; engrav'd by V. Green, mezzotinto engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.

17125. The reflector; representing human affairs, as they are; and may be improved ...

17126. The museum of arts: or, The curious repository. By George Bickham, engraver of all sorts of work on copper-plates.

17127. An essay on the invention of engraving and printing in chiaro oscuro, as practised by Albert Durer, Hugo di Carpi, &c. and the application of it to the making paper hangings of taste, duration, and elegance.

17129. Man and wife; or, The Shakespeare jubilee, a comedy of three acts, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden ...

17131. The history of the town of Taunton, in the county of Somerset : embellished with plates / by Joshua Toulmin ...

17132. To the Right Honourable William Baron of Hedon, Viscount Pulteney of Wrington and Earl of Bath : this plan of Shrewsbury is most humbly inscrib'd / by his lordship's most humble and devoted servant, J. Rocque.

17134. Saggio sulla nautica antica de' Veneziani : con una illustrazione d'alcune carte idrografiche antiche della Biblioteca di S. Marco, che dimostrano l'isole Antille prima della scoperta di Cristoforo Colombo / di Vincenzio Formaleoni.

17135. Choix des pierres gravées du Cabinet impérial des antiques : représentées en XL. planches / décrites et expliquées par M. L'Abbé Eckhel, directeur de ce cabinet et professeur des antiquités en l'Université de Vienne.

17136. Pisé, or, The art of building strong and durable walls, to the height of several stories, with nothing but earth or the most common materials / drawn up and presented to the board of agriculture by Henry Holland, Esq.

17138. The prices of cabinet work, with tables and designs : illustrating the various articles of manufacture : revised and corrected by a committee of masters cabinet makers.

17139. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

17140. A supplement to the builder's jewel ... : illustrated by upwards of 132 examples, engraved on 44 copper-plates.

17142. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

17144. Remarks on forest scenery and other woodland views : (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire : in three books / by William Gilpin.

17146. The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in everything that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

17147. Des causes de la corruption du goust. Par Madame Dacier.

17148. Leonora / translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq ; with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc.

17149. The history and antiquities of the parish of Tottenham High-Cross, in the county of Middlesex. : Collected from authentic records. With an appendix, containing the account of the said town, drawn up by the Rt. Hon. Henry, last Lord Colerane. ... / By H. G. Oldfield, and R. R. Dyson.

17150. Les jardins, ou L'art d'embellir les paysages : poëme / par M. l'abbé de Lille ...

17151. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Brandebourg : d'après l'original ...

17152. Bowles's New pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1790.

17154. Six views of Margate and its environs.

17155. [Tunbridge-Wells Directory.]

17156. Vitruvius Britannica or the British Architect.

17157. Notes on visits to various country houses and towns in Great Britain.

17158. An Act to explain and amend several laws therein mentioned, for the better preservation of the game.

17159. [Table of the reciprocal distances of the principal towns of Cambridgeshire, from Magna Britannia]

17160. Three treatises. The first concerning art. The second concerning music, painting, and poetry. The third concerning happiness. By J. H.

17161. Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks : with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art / translated from the German original of the Abbé Winkelmann ... by Henry Fusseli ...

17162. A description of the celebrated pieces of paintings; of the most eminent masters ancient and modern, with reflections upon the several foreign-schools of painting. By John Elsum esq;

17163. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni ... da Lione Pascoli.

17164. A collection of fifty prints from antique gems : In the collections of the Right Honourable Earl Percy, the Honourable C. F. Greville, and T. M. Slade, esquire. Engraved by Mr. John Spilsbury.

17166. Observations on the present state of the Royal Academy : with characters of living painters / by an old artist ...

17167. Heads representing the various passions of the soul : as they are expressed in the human countanance / drawn by that great master Monsr. Le Brun and finally engraved in twenty folio copper plates, nearly the size of life.

17168. Observations on the discourses delivered at the Royal Academy : addressed to the President.

17170. Rules and instructions for playing at skittles / by a Society of gentlemen.

17171. 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.

17172. London : a poem, in imitation of the third satire of Juvenal.

17173. Owen's new book of roads, or, A description of the roads of Great Britain : being a companion to Owen's complete book of fairs ...

17176. Collection of engraved portraits.

17177. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / by Samuel Ireland ; author of the Histories and picturesque scenery of the Rivers Thames, Medway, and Avon, and graphic illustrations of Hogarth.

17178. Letters from America, historical and descriptive : comprising occurrences from 1769 to 1777 inclusive / by William Eddis, late surveyor of the customs, &c. at Annapolis, in Maryland.

17180. Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades, or, Approved directions from the best artists : for the various methods of engraving on brass, copper, or steel, of the composition of metals and varnishes, of mastichs and cements, sealing-wax, &c. ...

17182. Tryphiodōrou Iliou halōsis = Tryphiodori Ilii excidium, cum metricâ Nicodemi Frischlini versione, et selectis virorum doctorum notis: lacunas aliquot è Codice MSto explevit, et suas annotationes adjecit, Jacobus Merrick A.B. è Coll. Trin. Oxon.

17183. List of pattern book belonging to Ashforth, Ellis, Wilson and Hawksleys, platers, Sheffield.

17185. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

17188. Vollständiger Sack-atlas aller Theile des bewohnten Erdbodens und derer Länder : in hauptund special Landcharten, nebst einem kurzgefasten Entwurf und Anweisung zur newesten Geographie / Herausgegeben von Tobias Lobecks sel. Erben, bey welchen es auch zu finden in Augspurg.

17190. An account of a series of pictures, in the great room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi. By James Barry ...

17191. An inquiry into the beauties of painting; and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern. By Daniel Webb ...

17192. Remarks concerning the encroachments on the river Thames near Durham-Yard ...

17194. The history and antiquities of the most ancient town and borough of Colchester, in the county of Essex : in three books : collected chiefly from manuscripts : with an appendix of records and original papers : adorned and illustrated with sculptures / by Philip Morant ...

17196. A list of the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, London, October 12, 1774.

17197. [Illustrations to Aesop's Fables]

17198. Stow : the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham ...

17199. Ædes Walpolianæ, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk : the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.