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17201. Sketches from nature / by G. Morland.

Creator:: Morland, George, 1763–1804
Date:: 1796-1797
Physical Description:: 2 pts. (6, 4 leaves) : all ill. ; 23 x 32-27 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17202. A set of new designs for coach & chariot bodies = Receuil de diverse nouveau desseins en carosses et carosses coupé / by Edw. Abbott, painter.

Creator:: Abbott, Edward, 1737–1791
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [13] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17203. An historical account of the twelve prints of monasteries, castles, antient churches, and monuments, in the county of Suffolk / which were drawn by Joshua Kirby, painter, in Ipswich, and published by him, March 26, 1748.

Creator:: Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 36, 4 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17204. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: [1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:: 102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17205. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / illustrated with copper plates in aqua tinta from drawings on the spot, by Samuel Ireland ...

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17206. Mes rêveries / ouvrage posthume de Maurice comte de Saxe, duc de Curlande et de Sémigalle, maréchal général des armées de Sa Majesté trés-chrétienne ; augmenté d'une histoire abrégée de sa vie, & de différentes pièces qui y ont rapport, par l'abbé Pérau.

Creator:: Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1696–1750
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., plans ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17207. Royal magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly companion.

Date:: [1759-1771]
Physical Description:: 21 v. fronts., illus., plates (part fold., part col.) ports., maps. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17208. A treatise on building in water : in two parts : Part I. : particularly relative to the repair and re-building of Essex-Bridge, Dublin ... : Part II : concerning an attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap methods ... : illustrated with sixty-three copper-plates / by George Semple ...

Creator:: Semple, George, 1700?-1782?
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 4 p. l., 157 p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17209. A new drawing book.

Date:: [175-?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17210. Houshold [sic] furniture in genteel taste for the year 1760 / by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c. ; containing upwards of 180 designs ... ; consisting of china, breakfast, side-board ...

Creator:: Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [60] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17211. Memoirs of the ancient earls of Warren and Surrey : and their descendants to the present time / by the Rev. John Watson, M.A. F.A.S. late fellow of the Brasen-Nose College in Oxford, and rector of Stockport in Cheshire.

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

17212. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1740
Physical Description:: [2] p., p. 407-412 ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17213. The royal gauger, or, Gauging made perfectly easy : as it is actually practised by the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise : in two parts : Part I. Containing the practical methods of finding the areas and contents of such superficies and solids, as are the foundation of gauging ... Part II. Shewing all the necessary steps to be taken for obtaining employment in the excise ... to which is added, cask-gauging, &c. as practised in the port of London : the whole illustrated with many new copper-plates adapted to the subject ... / by Charles Leadbetter.

Creator:: Leadbetter, Charles, fl. 1728
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: xvii, [1], 474 [i.e. 484] p., 10 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17214. Account book of the surveyors of the highway in the parish of Healaugh.

Date:: 1768-1837
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17215. Twelve prints, representing managing and training horses, with coursing, shooting, settings, &c [graphic].

Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17216. Letters to Edmund Cartwright.

Creator:: Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
Date:: September 20, 1797 and February 16, 1798
Physical Description:: 2 letters (8 pages) ; 24 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17217. A catalogue of a genuine capital and valuable collection of pictures, late the property of Isaac Jemineau, Esq; deceased : eminently distinguished for his refined taste in the polite arts, and selected during his long residence as British Consul, at Naples : comprising the works of the following great and admired masters, viz : Raphael, Guido, Solimeni, P. Veronses, Paffinelli, Van Uden, Carracci, Claude, Titian, Borgognione, P. Brill, Palma, Poussin, F. Penna, S. Rosa, Canneletti, Tintorett, P. Cortona, Perugino, Guerchino, Occhiali, Bassan, C. Cignani, Polenborgh : N.B. The whole of the collection remains exactly in the state as left by the late possessor : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his great room in Pall Mall, on Friday the 26th of February 1790, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill, and in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17218. A catalogue of the capital, genuine, and valuable collection of pictures, the property of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Bart. dec. late president of the Royal Academy : comprising several fine specimens of the works of Teniers, Vandyck, Rubens, Poussin, Rembrandt, Bassan, Titian, Castiglione, &c. &c. : which by order of the executors, will be sold by auction, by Mr. H. Phillips, at his Great Room, 67, New Bond-Street, on Tuesday, May 8, 1798, and following day, at one o'clock each day : may be viewed by catalogues (at one shilling each) to be had as above : of Mr. Lloyd, bookseller, Harley-Sreet : Mr. Varley, York Hotel, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars : and of Mr. Phillips, at his house, No. 22, Bury-Sreet, St. James's.

Creator:: Phillips, H., -1840
Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17219. A catalogue of a capital valuable collection of antique marbles, marble statues, bustos, cinerary and offuary urns, basso relievos : vases of fine polished pavonazza, brecchetta, &c. marbles, ditto, unpollished richly ornamented and restored by Cav. G. B. Piranesi : a number of specimens of antient and modern marbles, Tuscan alabaster, vases, large mosaics, bianconero, alabaster, lumacella and smeraldina, marble tables : a great variety of fine Roman bronzes, by Zoffoli, Luigi, &c. : the whole collected in Rome by the late Matt. Nulty, painter and cicherone, thirty years resident in that city : N.B. By permission will be introduced a few lots of ancient and modern sculpture, purchased out of the collection of the late Lord Melcombe : which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Christie and Ansell, at their Great Room, next Cumberland House, Pall Mall, on Thursday the 27th March, 1783, and the following day.

Creator:: Christie and Ansell (London, England)
Date:: [1783]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17220. The plan of an essay upon delicacy. With a specimen of the work. In two dialogues. By Nathaniel Lancaster ...

Creator:: Lancaster, Nathaniel, 1701–1775
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: xxxii, 77 (i.e. 87) p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17221. Amicis suis necnon unicuique artium elegantiorum amatori, tabulas insequentes ludentis otii temporibus ligno incisas, dum artem pene amissam restaurare conaretur, eorum favoris et patrocinii studiosus, dicat, dedicat, Johannes Skippe.

Creator:: Skippe, John, 1742–1812
Date:: 1781 [i.e. 1810]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 31 mounted plates (part. col.) on 28 leaves. 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17222. A short tour made in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy one.

Creator:: Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716–1776
Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: [2], 89, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17223. Testimonies to the genius and memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds. By the author of Imperfect hints towards a new edition of Shakspeare ...

Creator:: Felton, Samuel
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 118 p. 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17224. An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, to the time of Francis, the present earl Brooke, and earl of Warwick, including the history and succession of the several earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick castle.

Creator:: Edmondson, Joseph, -1786
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 108 p. front., illus., 2 pl., 3 plans, 4 geneal. tab. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17225. A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical : illustrated with copper cutts / by Humphrey Ditton ....

Creator:: Ditton, Humphry, 1675–1715
Date:: 1712
Physical Description:: [4], xvi, 173 p., 6 leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17226. La peinture : poëme en trois chants / par M. Le Mierre ...

Creator:: Le Mierre, M. (Antoine-Marin), 1723–1793
Date:: [1769]
Physical Description:: [4], vii, 94 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17227. The roads through England delineated, or, Ogilby's survey / revised, improved, and reduced to a size portable for the pocket by John Senex ; being an actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales, distinctly laid down on one hundred and one copper plates on which are delineated all the cities, towns, villages, hills, rivers, brooks, churches, capital seats, and every place worthy of note throughout each road ; with the addition of some roads newly drawn, which were omitted by Mr. Ogilby ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([10], [1], 101 p.) : 102 maps ; 19 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17228. [Flower groups].

Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17229. A new and rare inventions of water-works ... : as also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising of vast quantities of water by fire.

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

17230. Principles of fortification.

Creator:: Downman, Thomas Charles Francis, 1776–1843
Date:: 1789-1790
Physical Description:: 1 volume : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17231. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : explaining, short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... / by B. and T. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 32 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17232. Reglement concernant l'exercise et les manoeuvres de l'infanterie du 1.Aout 1791.

Creator:: France. Ministère de la guerre
Date:: 1791-1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17233. Clio, or, A discourse on taste : addressed to a young lady.

Creator:: Ussher, James, 1720–1772
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: 91 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17234. Safety from fire in chimnies : besides contributing to an act of great humanity.

Creator:: Price, William
Date:: [ca. 1790]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 29 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17235. Three successive tours in the north of England, and great part of Scotland : interspersed with descriptions of the scenes they presented and occasional observations on the state of society, and the manners and customs of the people / by Henry Skrine ...

Creator:: Skrine, Henry, 1755–1803
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 7, [1], xxvii, [3], 164 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17236. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

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

17237. Collections for the history of Hampshire, and the bishopric Winchester : including the isles of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, and Sarke / by D.Y. ; with the original Domesday of the county, and an accurate English translation, preface, and introduction, containing an account of this curious record ; to which is added, a glossary explanatory of the obsolete words ; by Richard Warner.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ill., ports., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17238. Theodore & Honoria : a translation from Boccaccio / by John Dryden ; illustrated by Carol Walklin.

Creator:: Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: [23] p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17239. The vanity of human wishes. The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitated by Samuel Johnson.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 28 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17240. Essay on the theory of painting / by Mr. Richardson.

Creator:: Richardson, Jonathan, 1665–1745
Date:: 1725
Physical Description:: viii, 279 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17241. A review of the Landscape : a didactic poem : also of An essay on the picturesque : together with practical remarks on rural ornament / by the author of "Planting and Ornamental Gardening; a Practical Treatise."

Creator:: Marshall, Mr. (William), 1745–1818
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 275, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17242. The gentleman's recreations : in three parts : the first part contains a short and easie introduction to all the liberal arts and sciences, &c. : the second treats of horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, agriculture, &c. : done from the most authentick authors, especially several lately printed at Paris, as may be seen in the preface; with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the respective recreations. : the third is a complete body of all our forest, chace, and game-laws, as they are at this time. : the whole illustrated with near an hundred copper-cuts relating to the several subjects, particularly all sorts of nets, engines, traps, &c. are added for the taking of wild beasts, fowl, fish, &c. not hitherto publish'd by any.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1709-1710
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1 : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17243. Elements of painting with crayons / by John Russell.

Creator:: Russell, John, 1745–1806
Date:: MDCCLXXII [1772]
Physical Description:: [8], 46 p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17244. Shave's Suffolk memorandum-book, or, Complete pocket ledger : peculiarly adapted to the use of the gentlemen of the country : being the bissextile or leap year, the thirty-third of the new stile used in Great-Britain, and the twenty-fourth of the reign of George III.

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

17245. [Horses with pedigrees].

Date:: [1741-1754]
Physical Description:: 34 prints : etching and engraving ; 35 x 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17246. A catalogue of a most elegant and superb collection of pictures : imported by John Bertels of Brussels, and purchased out of the best cabinets abroad, such as De Heer Lubeling, Fiseau, Vander Dussen, and Vandervelde of Amsterdam, and lately out of that celebrated cabinet of Monsieur le Comte de Barre, of Paris : in which collection will be found the works of Ann. Carracci, P. Veronese, P. Da Cartona, C. Dolci, F. Laura, Viviani, G. Ochiali, F. Mola, B. Morillio, F. Bolognese, Poussin, Bourdon, Le Nain, Vernett, P.P. Rubens, A. Vandyck, Jordans, D. Teniers, D. Ryckaert, Tilbourgh, Du Chatel, Fyt, P. Neef, D. Van Dellen, Rembrandt, Weenix, Hondekooter, C. Du Jardin, M. Van Osterwyck, Cuyp, Ruysdell, Devlieg, Moucheron, Wynants : among many others are three remarkable fine pictures : the Homage paid to the brazen serpent, by S. Bourdon, which measures fourteen feet in length, and ten in height, and is well known by the engraving after it : the Descent from the cross, by A. Carracci, after that famous picture of D. Da Valterra : and an old man's head in the best manner and style of Rembrandt ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. W. Walsh, at his room, opposite Mr. Almack's, King-Street, St. James's-Square, on Friday, April 7th, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

Creator:: Walsh, Mr
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17247. Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c., on sixty copper plates, with full instructions for workmen; also a near estimate of the charge, and hints where proper to be erected. The whole invented & drawn by Willm. & Inn. Halfpenny ...

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 4 pt. in 1 v. 64 plates (part fold.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17248. A catalogue of the several pictures, statues, and busto's in the picture gallery, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford ...

Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 16 p., 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17249. The origin of building: or, The plagiarism of the heathens detected. In five books. By John Wood, architect.

Creator:: Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 5 p. ., [3]-235 p. 36 [i. e. 25] plates (part fold.) 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17250. Avis aux souscripteurs : sur cette dernière livraison du Voyage pittoresque

Creator:: Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17251. The Atlantic pilot.

Creator:: De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717–ca. 1799
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: viii, 25, [1] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17252. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from His Lordship's mss. / by James Kennedy.

Creator:: Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [10], xxxviii, 116, [2] pages, 25 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

17253. A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / Society of Artists of Great Britain.

Creator:: Society of Artists of Great Britain
Date:: 1760-1791
Physical Description:: 23 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17254. Travels in India during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783 / by William Hodges, R.A.

Creator:: Hodges, William, 1744–1797
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: vi, 156, [2] p., [14] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. map ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17255. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture : in the newest and most approved taste, displaying a great variety of patterns ... : also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... / from drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. cabinet-makers.

Creator:: A. Hepplewhite and Co
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: iv, 24, [1] p., 125 plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17256. Travels through Spain, in the years 1775 and 1776 : in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish architecture are illustrated by accurate drawings taken on the spot / by Henry Swinburne ...

Creator:: Swinburne, Henry, 1743–1803
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17257. Antiquités nationales, ou, Recueil de monuments : pour servir à l'histoire générale et particulière de l'empire françois, tels que tombeaux, inscriptions, statues, vitraux, fresque, etc. ; tirés des abbayes, monastères, châteaux, et autres lieux devenus domaines nationaux / par Aubin-Louis MIllin.

Creator:: Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759–1818
Date:: 1790-1797
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17258. Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste : being above fifty intire [sic] new designs of plans, sections, elevations,&c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks,forests, woods, canals, &c. ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on fifty four copper-plates from the designs of Charles Over, architect.

Creator:: Over, Charles
Date:: 1758
Physical Description:: 8 p., [54] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17259. The Builder's golden rule, or, The youth's sure guide : containing the greatest variety or ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry : ... to which is added, and estimate of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with references to specific designs / by William Pain.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: [iv], 18, 54 p., [94] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17260. Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali siti / delineatio cura et sumtibus Matthaei Seutteri ; chalcographi Augustani.

Creator:: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678–1756
Date:: [1730]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 48 x 56 cm., on sheet 52 x 60 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17261. [Views of county seats]

Date:: 1774-1776
Physical Description:: 40 p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17262. An historical list of horse-matches run : and of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland, in ... with a list also of the principal cock-matches of the year above ... / by Reginald Heber.

Creator:: Heber, Reginald
Date:: 1751-1769
Physical Description:: 18 v. ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17263. Anthony St. Leger account book.

Creator:: St. Leger, Anthony, 1731–1786
Date:: 1772-1835 (bulk 1772)
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (43, 70 pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17264. A brief account of the cathedrals in England and Wales : with ancient views of them.

Creator:: Todd, Henry John, 1763–1845
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 1 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17265. A catalogue of all the Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures, and valuable museum of rare and scarce articles of antique, the property of Gustavus Brander, Esq. deceased : brought from his seat at Christ Church in Hampshire : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, (by order of the executors) at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday the 11th of December 1789, and the following day ...

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1789]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17266. A catalogue of a valuable and capital collection of pictures, late the property of the Earl of Bute, deceased : brought from his seat at High-Cliffe in the County of Hants, comprising the very best specimens of some of the most esteemed masters, and the first marine collection ever offered to public sale : the paintings by Rubens, Vandyck, Teniers, Berghem, Alb. Cuyp, Osade, W. Vandevelde, P. Panini, Storck, De Blieger, Weenix, Rich. Hoff, Wellart, Vetringa, Brooking, Vandercabel, Augustine Tassi, Com. Vandeveldt, Zeeman, Biersraten, Backhuysen, Canaletti, Marieski, Vangoyen, B. Peters, Monamy, Tellemans, Verschuring, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday, March the 19th, 1796, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had at one shilling each (to be returned to purchasers) in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17267. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes ...

Creator:: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671–1713
Date:: 1711
Physical Description:: 3 v. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17268. La perspective pratique de l'architecture, contenant par leçons une maniere nouvelle, courte et aisée pour representer en perspective les ordinances d'architecture et les places fortifiées. Ouvrage tres utile aux peintres, architectes, ingenieurs, et autres desinateurs. Par Louis Bretez.

Creator:: Bretez, Louis, d. 1738
Date:: 1706
Physical Description:: [10] p. front., 52 plates. 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17269. Repertorium sculptile-typicum: or A complete collection and explanation of the several marks and cyphers by which the prints of the best engravers are distinguished. With an alphabetical index of their names. Translated from the Abcedario pittorico.

Creator:: Orlandi, Pellegrino Antonio, 1660–1727
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: 69 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17270. Ugbrooke Park: a poem.

Creator:: Reeve, Joseph, 1733–1820
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 3 p.., [5]-29 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17271. The elements of universal erudition, containing an analytical abridgment of the sciences, polite arts, and belles lettres, by Baron Bielfeld, tr. from the last ed. printed at Berlin, by W. Hooper.

Creator:: Bielfeld, Jakob Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1717–1770
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: 3 v. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17272. 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 ... Vol. 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 ...

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

17273. The peerage of Ireland, or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom ... : collected from public records, authentic manuscripts, approved historians, well-attested pedigrees, and personal information / by John Lodge ... ; revised, enlarged and condinued to the present time by Mervyn Archdall ...

Creator:: Lodge, John, 1692–1774
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 7 v. : coats of arms ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17274. A dissertation upon the surface of the earth as delineated in a specimen of a philosophico-chorographical chart of East-Kent : herewith humbly presented to, and read before the Royal Society, Nov. 25, 1736 : in a letter to Cromwel Mortimer ... / by Christopher Packe ...

Creator:: Packe, Christopher, 1686–1749
Date:: 1737
Physical Description:: 18 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17275. The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the University of Oxford / by Antony Wood ... ; now first published in English, from original manuscsipt [sic] in the Bodleian Library ; with a continuation to the present time by the editor, John Gutch.

Creator:: Wood, Anthony à, 1632–1695
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [16], 692 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17276. Registrum roffense, or, A collection of antient records, charters, and instruments of divers kinds : necessary for illustrating the ecclesiastical history and antiquities of the diocese and cathedral church of Rochester / transcribed from the originals by John Thorpe ... ; and published by his son John Thorpe ... ; together with the monumental inscriptions in the several churches and chapels within the diocese.

Creator:: Thorpe, John, 1682–1750
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [2], 697, [4], 701-1056, [16] p. : port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17277. A new plan of Richmond Garden : this survey is inscrib'd to Thos. & Robt. Greening ... / by ... John Rocque ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 1 map : ill. ; 57 x 90 cm., on sheet 62 x 93 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17278. The American traveller: or, observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable; with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively,--and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively: together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great Britain therefrom. In a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honorable the Earl of ********* by an old and experienced trader.

Creator:: Clúny, Alexander
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: 4 p. l., 122 p. front., fold. map. 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17279. Proposals for carrying on certain public works in the city of Edinburgh.

Creator:: Minto, Gilbert Elliot, Lord, 1693–1766
Date:: 1752]
Physical Description:: 43, [1] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17280. A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated with their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. : 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17281. Coleccion de Frages de Espana.

Date:: [s.d.]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17282. Debrett's peerage, Scotland and Ireland.

Date:: s.d.]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17283. Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretange.

Creator:: Kip, Johannes, 1653–1722
Date:: 1715-1719
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17284. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the art of bricklayers-work / by Joseph Moxon.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: 1700
Physical Description:: 64 [i.e. 46] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17285. [Cabinet maker's pattern book].

Date:: [175-?]
Physical Description:: 93 leaves : all ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17286. Familiar architecture : consisting of original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages and summer-retreats : with back-fronts, sections, &c. : together with banqueting-rooms, churches, and chimney-pieces : to which is added, the masonry of the semicircular and elliptical arches, with practical remarks / by Thomas Rawlins, architect.

Creator:: Rawlins, Thomas
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1768]
Physical Description:: [2], 30, [2] p., LX leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17287. The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters : containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists, ... extracted from the most authentic writters ... : to which are added, two catalogues : the one, a catalogue of the disciples of the most famous masters, ... the other, a catalogue of those painters, who initiated the works of the eminent masters ... / by the Reb. M. Pilkington, A.M. Vicar of Donabate and Portraine, in the diocese of Dublin.

Creator:: Pilkington, Matthew, 1701–1784
Date:: MDCCLXX [1770]
Physical Description:: xxxiv, 723 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

17288. The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politicks, and literature for the year ...

Date:: [1762?]-1838
Physical Description:: 80 v. : ill., maps ; 21-23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17289. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

Creator:: Skaife, Thomas
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: iv, [8]-387 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17290. Essay sur les feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre par Mr. P. d'O.

Creator:: Perrinet d'Orval, Jean-Charles, 1707–ca. 1780
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: xii, [4], 224 p. 13 plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17291. Catalogue of the prints in Mr Rapins Hist. of England, and Mr Tindals Continuation : with the ornaments &c. explained.

Creator:: Wren, Stephen
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([2], 960, 54 p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17292. Twelve of the most capital views of St. Petersburg and Florence [graphic].

Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17293. Carte de France / levée par ordre du Roy par Messrs. Maraldi & Cassini de Thury, de l'Académie Royale des Sciences.

Creator:: Cassini, César-François, 1714–1784
Date:: 1744-1760
Physical Description:: 1 map in 182 sheets : engraved, part. col. some sheets ; 58.5 x 90 cm. each ; 4 index sheets.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17294. The art of painting, in all its branches, methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters; and their perfections and oversights laid open. By Gérard de Lairesse. Translated by John Frederick Fritsch ...

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: 1 p.., iv, [10] 654 p. front., LXXI plates (part. fold.) 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17295. 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:: 1760
Physical Description:: xvi, 200 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17296. An enquiry into the original of moral virtue wherein it is shewn, (against the author of the Fable of the bees, &c.) that virtue is founded in the nature of things, is unalterable, and eternal, and the great means of private and publick happiness. With some reflections on a late book, entitled, An enquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue. By Archibald Campbell ...

Creator:: Campbell, Archibald, 1691–1756
Date:: 1733
Physical Description:: 2 p.., xxxii, [23], 546, [1] p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17297. An historical and chronological list of the painters.

Date:: [between 1726 and 1741]
Physical Description:: fold. table. 36 x 47 cm. fold. to 17 x 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17298. A dialogue in the manner of Plato, on the superiority of the pleasures of the understanding to the pleasures of the senses.

Creator:: Stubbes, George, 1682 or 1683–
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: xi, 138 p. 1 leaf, 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17299. A critical essay on oil-painting; proving that the art of painting in oil was known before the pretended discovery of John and Hubert van Eyck; to which are added, Theophilus De arte pingendi, Eraclius De artibus Romanorum. And a review of Farinator's Lumen anima︠e︡, by R.E. Raspe ...

Creator:: Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737–1794
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: vii, 148 p. 1 plate. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17300. A key to civil architecture; or, The universal British builder ... To which is added, a treatise of arithmetick ... By Thomas Skaife ...

Creator:: Skaife, Thomas
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-296 p., 8 leaves. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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17201. Sketches from nature / by G. Morland.

17202. A set of new designs for coach & chariot bodies = Receuil de diverse nouveau desseins en carosses et carosses coupé / by Edw. Abbott, painter.

17203. An historical account of the twelve prints of monasteries, castles, antient churches, and monuments, in the county of Suffolk / which were drawn by Joshua Kirby, painter, in Ipswich, and published by him, March 26, 1748.

17204. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

17205. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / illustrated with copper plates in aqua tinta from drawings on the spot, by Samuel Ireland ...

17206. Mes rêveries / ouvrage posthume de Maurice comte de Saxe, duc de Curlande et de Sémigalle, maréchal général des armées de Sa Majesté trés-chrétienne ; augmenté d'une histoire abrégée de sa vie, & de différentes pièces qui y ont rapport, par l'abbé Pérau.

17207. Royal magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly companion.

17209. A new drawing book.

17210. Houshold [sic] furniture in genteel taste for the year 1760 / by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c. ; containing upwards of 180 designs ... ; consisting of china, breakfast, side-board ...

17211. Memoirs of the ancient earls of Warren and Surrey : and their descendants to the present time / by the Rev. John Watson, M.A. F.A.S. late fellow of the Brasen-Nose College in Oxford, and rector of Stockport in Cheshire.

17212. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

17214. Account book of the surveyors of the highway in the parish of Healaugh.

17215. Twelve prints, representing managing and training horses, with coursing, shooting, settings, &c [graphic].

17216. Letters to Edmund Cartwright.

17220. The plan of an essay upon delicacy. With a specimen of the work. In two dialogues. By Nathaniel Lancaster ...

17221. Amicis suis necnon unicuique artium elegantiorum amatori, tabulas insequentes ludentis otii temporibus ligno incisas, dum artem pene amissam restaurare conaretur, eorum favoris et patrocinii studiosus, dicat, dedicat, Johannes Skippe.

17222. A short tour made in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy one.

17223. Testimonies to the genius and memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds. By the author of Imperfect hints towards a new edition of Shakspeare ...

17224. An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, to the time of Francis, the present earl Brooke, and earl of Warwick, including the history and succession of the several earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick castle.

17225. A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical : illustrated with copper cutts / by Humphrey Ditton ....

17226. La peinture : poëme en trois chants / par M. Le Mierre ...

17228. [Flower groups].

17229. A new and rare inventions of water-works ... : as also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising of vast quantities of water by fire.

17230. Principles of fortification.

17231. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : explaining, short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... / by B. and T. Langley.

17232. Reglement concernant l'exercise et les manoeuvres de l'infanterie du 1.Aout 1791.

17233. Clio, or, A discourse on taste : addressed to a young lady.

17234. Safety from fire in chimnies : besides contributing to an act of great humanity.

17235. Three successive tours in the north of England, and great part of Scotland : interspersed with descriptions of the scenes they presented and occasional observations on the state of society, and the manners and customs of the people / by Henry Skrine ...

17236. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

17238. Theodore & Honoria : a translation from Boccaccio / by John Dryden ; illustrated by Carol Walklin.

17239. The vanity of human wishes. The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitated by Samuel Johnson.

17240. Essay on the theory of painting / by Mr. Richardson.

17241. A review of the Landscape : a didactic poem : also of An essay on the picturesque : together with practical remarks on rural ornament / by the author of "Planting and Ornamental Gardening; a Practical Treatise."

17243. Elements of painting with crayons / by John Russell.

17244. Shave's Suffolk memorandum-book, or, Complete pocket ledger : peculiarly adapted to the use of the gentlemen of the country : being the bissextile or leap year, the thirty-third of the new stile used in Great-Britain, and the twenty-fourth of the reign of George III.

17245. [Horses with pedigrees].

17248. A catalogue of the several pictures, statues, and busto's in the picture gallery, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford ...

17249. The origin of building: or, The plagiarism of the heathens detected. In five books. By John Wood, architect.

17250. Avis aux souscripteurs : sur cette dernière livraison du Voyage pittoresque

17251. The Atlantic pilot.

17253. A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / Society of Artists of Great Britain.

17254. Travels in India during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783 / by William Hodges, R.A.

17256. Travels through Spain, in the years 1775 and 1776 : in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish architecture are illustrated by accurate drawings taken on the spot / by Henry Swinburne ...

17260. Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali siti / delineatio cura et sumtibus Matthaei Seutteri ; chalcographi Augustani.

17261. [Views of county seats]

17262. An historical list of horse-matches run : and of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland, in ... with a list also of the principal cock-matches of the year above ... / by Reginald Heber.

17263. Anthony St. Leger account book.

17264. A brief account of the cathedrals in England and Wales : with ancient views of them.

17267. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes ...

17269. Repertorium sculptile-typicum: or A complete collection and explanation of the several marks and cyphers by which the prints of the best engravers are distinguished. With an alphabetical index of their names. Translated from the Abcedario pittorico.

17270. Ugbrooke Park: a poem.

17271. The elements of universal erudition, containing an analytical abridgment of the sciences, polite arts, and belles lettres, by Baron Bielfeld, tr. from the last ed. printed at Berlin, by W. Hooper.

17274. A dissertation upon the surface of the earth as delineated in a specimen of a philosophico-chorographical chart of East-Kent : herewith humbly presented to, and read before the Royal Society, Nov. 25, 1736 : in a letter to Cromwel Mortimer ... / by Christopher Packe ...

17275. The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the University of Oxford / by Antony Wood ... ; now first published in English, from original manuscsipt [sic] in the Bodleian Library ; with a continuation to the present time by the editor, John Gutch.

17277. A new plan of Richmond Garden : this survey is inscrib'd to Thos. & Robt. Greening ... / by ... John Rocque ...

17279. Proposals for carrying on certain public works in the city of Edinburgh.

17280. A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated with their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson ...

17281. Coleccion de Frages de Espana.

17282. Debrett's peerage, Scotland and Ireland.

17283. Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretange.

17284. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the art of bricklayers-work / by Joseph Moxon.

17285. [Cabinet maker's pattern book].

17288. The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politicks, and literature for the year ...

17289. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

17290. Essay sur les feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre par Mr. P. d'O.

17291. Catalogue of the prints in Mr Rapins Hist. of England, and Mr Tindals Continuation : with the ornaments &c. explained.

17292. Twelve of the most capital views of St. Petersburg and Florence [graphic].

17293. Carte de France / levée par ordre du Roy par Messrs. Maraldi & Cassini de Thury, de l'Académie Royale des Sciences.

17294. The art of painting, in all its branches, methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters; and their perfections and oversights laid open. By Gérard de Lairesse. Translated by John Frederick Fritsch ...

17295. An inquiry into the beauties of painting; and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern. By Daniel Webb ...

17297. An historical and chronological list of the painters.

17298. A dialogue in the manner of Plato, on the superiority of the pleasures of the understanding to the pleasures of the senses.

17299. A critical essay on oil-painting; proving that the art of painting in oil was known before the pretended discovery of John and Hubert van Eyck; to which are added, Theophilus De arte pingendi, Eraclius De artibus Romanorum. And a review of Farinator's Lumen anima︠e︡, by R.E. Raspe ...

17300. A key to civil architecture; or, The universal British builder ... To which is added, a treatise of arithmetick ... By Thomas Skaife ...