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17301. Art's masterpiece: or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex. In two parts. I. The art of limning and painting in oil, &c. ... II. The art of making glass ofcrystal, of all sorts and colours, and to prepare the materials ...

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Date:
[170-?]
Physical Description:
166, [2] p. incl. front. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17302. The history and antiquities of Shrewsbury: from its first foundation to the present time. Containing, a recital of occurrences and remarkable events, for above twelve hundred years. With an appendix, containing several particulars relative to castles, monasteries, &c. in Shropshire. By T. Phillips ...

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Creator:
Phillips, Thomas, d. 1815
Date:
1779
Physical Description:
244 p., 1 leaf. front., 13 plates. 1 fold. table. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17303. The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its origin to the present times. : Illustrated with twenty-two copper-plates ...

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]
Physical Description:
3 v., 22 leaves of plates (some folded): ill., plan, map; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17304. [Prospectuses, catalogues, advertisements, announcements, etc.]

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Date:
[1789-1797]
Physical Description:
70 pieces : ill. ; 19-23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17305. A summary of Mr. Rapin de Thoyras's History of England and Mr. Tindal's Continuation : from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the end of the reign of King George I : illustrated with medals, plans of battles, towns, and sieges.

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Creator:
Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661–1725
Date:
1751
Physical Description:
[2], 274, iv, 40, 22 p., [141] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17306. Memorials and characters, together with the lives of divers eminent and worthy persons ... : from the year one thousand six hundred to the present time / collected and compiled from above one hundred and fifty different authors, several scarce pieces and some original manuscripts, communicated to the editor ; to which is added, an appendix of monumental inscriptions, in Latin and English ...

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Creator:
Wilford, John, active 1716–1742
Date:
1741
Physical Description:
[4], iv, [8], iv, 788, 42, [2] p. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17307. The art of preserving health : a poem / by John Armstrong, M.D.

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Creator:
Armstrong, John, 1709–1779
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
99 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17308. Samuel Johnson halfpenny tokens.

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Date:
1792-1797
Physical Description:
6 tokens : copper ; each approximately 3 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert

17309. Caminologie, ou, Traite des cheminees : contenant desobservations sur les differences causes qui font fumer les cheminees : avec des moyens pour corriger ce defaut ...

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Creator:
Hébrard, Pierre, 1718–1759
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
xlviii, 187, [5] p., [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17310. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

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Creator:
Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17311. Die drey reiche der natur.

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Creator:
Heppe, Johann Christoph, 1745–1806
Date:
1776-1780
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17312. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay. In two volumes.

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

17313. Art de la verrerie / de Neri, Merret et Kunckel ; auquel on a ajouté le Sol sine veste d'Orschall ; l'Helioscopium videndi sine veste solem chymicum; le Sol non sine veste ; le chapitre XI. du Flora saturnizans de Henckel, sur la vitrification des végétaux ; un Mémoire sur la manière de faire le saffre ; le Secret des vraies porcelaines de la Chine & de Saxe ; ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de fair le verre & le crystal, d'y porter des couleurs, d'imiter les pierres prétieuses, de préparer & colorer les emaux, de faire la potasse, de peindre sue le verre, de préparer des vernis, de composer des couvertes pour les fayances & poteries, d'extraire la couleur pourpre de l'or, de contrefaire les rubis, de fair le saffre, de faire & peindre les porcelaines, &c. ; traduits de l'allemand, par M. D * * *.

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Creator:
Neri, Antonio, 1576–1614
Date:
MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:
[4], lv, [1], 629, [3] p., 16 leaves of plates (14 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17314. [Etchings of animals].

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Creator:
Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822
Date:
[1792-1803]
Physical Description:
[49] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 27cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17315. The art of painting / of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy ; translated into English verse by William Mason ; with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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Creator:
Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
[2], xxi, [3], 221, [1] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17316. A catalogue of all that valuable and magnificent collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures : selected with singular taste and admitted judgement : the property of Mr. Bryan, and comprising the original works and great performances of the following Masters : Rubens, Vandyke, Titian, Salvator Rosa, Claude Loraine, Berghem, Guido, Nich. Poussin, W. Vandevelde, Philip Wouvermans, Velasquez, Paul Potter, Schiavone, Rembrandt, Morillio, Adrian Ostade, Isaac Ostade, Both, David Teniers, Pordenone, Hobbima, Palma, Adrian Vandevelde, Gerard Douw, Guercino, Metzu, P. de Cortona, Dietricy, Ruysdael, C. Du Jardyn, Sir. J. Reynolds, Cuyp, Tintoretto, Denner, Wilson, Ferdinand Bol, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Goster at Mr. Bryan's celebrated gallery in Pall Mall : where they are displaced, on Thursday, May 17, 1798, and two following days, at twelve o'clock : to be publickly viewed three days preceding the sale : when catalogues may be had of Messrs. Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Fuller, 5, Throgmorton Street, Royal Exchange : and at Mr. Bryan's Gallery, Pall Mall : price two shillings and sixpence, to be returned to purchasers, And it is respectfully mentioned, that in order to prevent inconvenience from an over-crouded room, no person can possibly be admitted on the days of sale, without being in possession of one of the catalogues.

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Creator:
Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster (London, England)
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
24 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17317. An epistle to William Hogarth. By C. Churchill ...

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Creator:
Churchill, Charles, 1731–1764
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 p.., 31 p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17318. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.

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Creator:
Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
viii, [8], 184 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17319. The modern, complete measurer, adapted to timber and building, agreeable to the Irish standard ... By P. Levi Hodgson and son, measurers ...

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Creator:
Hodgson, Ph. Levi
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
116 p. incl. tables. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17320. Aretin: or, A dialogue on painting. From the Italian of Lodovico Dolce.

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Creator:
Dolce, Lodovico, 1508–1568
Date:
1870 [i.e., 1770]
Physical Description:
218, [2] p. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17321. An essay upon poetry and painting, with relation to the sacred and profane history. With an appendix concerning obscenity in writing and painting ... By Charles Lamotte ...

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Creator:
Lamotte, Charles
Date:
1742
Physical Description:
1 p.., 202 p., [12] p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17322. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.

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Creator:
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671–1713
Date:
1732
Physical Description:
3 v. front. (port.) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17323. Lælius and Hortensia; or, Thoughts on the nature and objects of taste and genius, in a series of letters to two friends.

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Creator:
Stedman, John, d. 1791
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
xiv, 536 p. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17324. A familiar epistle to the author of the Heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, and of the Heroic postscript to the public.

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Date:
1774
Physical Description:
iv, 35 p. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17325. A Complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the city of London, and parts adjacent ...

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Date:
1744
Physical Description:
2 p.., 140, [24] p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17326. Observations on Reading Abbey, by Sir Henry Englefield ... Read May 13, 1779.

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Creator:
Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752–1822
Date:
1779?]
Physical Description:
6 p. fold. plate. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17327. A plan for rebuilding the city of London, after the great fire in 1666 : design'd by that great architect Sr. Christopher Wren ; and approv'd by King and Parliament, but unhappily defeated by faction / J. Gwynn delin. ; E. Rooker, sculp.

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Creator:
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
Date:
[1749 October 3]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 16 x 4 cm, on sheet 30 x 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17328. 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.

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Creator:
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
2 p. l., viii, [8], 284 p. front., XLVI fold. pl. (incl. diagrs.) 38 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17329. Coade's Gallery, or, Exhibition in artificial stone, Westminster-Bridge Road : ... of statues, vases, bustos, pedestals, and stoves, medallions and pannels in bass-relief, models from the antique, chimney pieces, monuments, fonts, coats of arms, &c. : being specimens from the manufactory, at Kings Arms Stairs, Narrow-Wall, Lambeth, opposite Whitehall and Hungerford-stairs, established in the year 1769 ...

No cover image available
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
xii, [13]-36 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17330. Geographia classica, or, The geography of the antients : as contained in the Greek and Latin classics : exhibited in thirty-two maps ... principally designed for the use of schools ... / by Herman Moll ...

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([10] p., [61] leaves of plates (some folded)) : 32 maps ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17331. A plan of London on the same scale as that of Paris : in order to ascertain the difference of the extent of these two rivals ... / by John Rocque ... = Plan de Londres, &c. sur la même echelle que celui de Paris : afin de constater la difference en grandeur de ces deux rivals ... / par J. Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1754
Physical Description:
1 map ; 43 x 62 cm., on sheet 55 x 74 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17332. A New drawing book.

No cover image available
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : all ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17333. The fables of John Dryden : ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc.

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Creator:
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[4], xviii, 241, [1] p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17334. The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699.

No cover image available
Date:
MDCCCXXXIV [1834]
Physical Description:
15 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17335. Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working according to the rules of that science, representing the five orders : with their several doors & windows taken from Inigo Jones & other celebrated architects ... / by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
1730
Physical Description:
[3], 48 leaves : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17336. A new book of ornament and supporters / by James Hoe.

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Creator:
Hoe, James
Date:
June 2, 1768
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17337. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country in different parts of England & South Wales : interspersed with curious anecdotes, embellished with upwards of one hundred characteristic & illustrative prints / by G.M. Woodward.

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Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
[2], iv, iv, 5-217, [1] p., [1], 100 [i.e. 99] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17338. A description and historical account of the places, now the theatre of war in the Low Countries : viz Charlemont, Givet, Arras, St. Omer, Bethune, Aire, Lens, Bapaume, Hedin, St. Venant, Lillers, St. Paul, Dunkirk, Berg St. Vinox, Cassel, Bourbourg, Gravelines, Lisle, Douay, St. Amand, Armentiers, Orchies, Comines, La Bôssee, Tourcoing, Valenciennes, Maubeuge, Conde, Le Quesnoy, Bouchain, Landrecies, Philippeville, Avesnes, Chimay, Bavay, Cambray, Cateau-Cambresis, Thionville, Montmedi, &c. : embellished with a frontispiece and plans of those places the most remarkable for their fortifications / by Philip Astley, of Hercules Hall, Lambeth, London ; author of the "Remarks of the profession and duty of a soldier and other observations relative to the Arny.".

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Creator:
Astley, Philip, 1742–1814
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
v, [3], 82 p., [16] folded leaves of plates : ill., facsim., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17339. A drawing book of figures and animals from Berghem.

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Creator:
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620–1683
Date:
[ca. 1790]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17340. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1730]
Physical Description:
11 leaves : illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17341. A new description of the pictures, statues, bustos, basso-relievos, and other curiosities at the Earl of Pembroke's house at Wilton : in the antiques of this collection are contained the whole of Cardinal Richelieu's and Cardinal Mazarine's, and the greatest part of the Earl of Arundel's : besides several particular pieces, purchased at different times / by James Kennedy.

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Creator:
Kennedy, James, active 1769
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
[6], 144 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustration ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

17342. Sundry landscapes for learners.

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Creator:
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720–approximately 1778
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
5 plates : engravings ; 18 cm, mounted on 27 cm album leaves
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17343. A catalogue of a superlatively fine collection of capital pictures by the most celebrated Masters of the English, Flemish, and Italian Schools : amongst which are the works of Aldegraver, Rembrandt, Waterloo, De Heem, L. Bramer, Beschey, P. Brill, Schalcken, Bassano, Callot, Hamskerck, Vander Neer, Vinchenbooms, Goltzius, D. V. Bergen, Savery, Steinwick, Vernet, Wright, of Derby, West, Fuseli, Barrett, Mortimer, Cipriani, Angelica, Smith, of Chichester, Hearne, &c. : the whole being the property of the late Daniel Daulby, Esq, and will be sold by auction, by T. Vernon, in his Gothic Room, Marble-Street, Williamson Square, Liverpool, on Monday, August 27, 1798, at 10 o'clock precisely : may be viewed three days previous to the sale, and catalogues had on the premises, at one shilling each.

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Creator:
Vernon, Thomas
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17344. Catalogue des différents objets de curiosité : qui composoient le Cabinet de feu Monsieur Bertault, Chanoine de la Cathédrale de Noyen : dont la vente se sera le lundi 26 juillet, 1779, à quatre heures, de relevée, dans la grande salle de l'Hôtel d'Aligre, rue Saint Honoré.

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Creator:
Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771–1835
Date:
MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17345. The British monarchy, or, A new chorographical description of all the dominions subject to the King of Great Britain : comprehending the British Isles, the American colonies, the electoral states, the African and Indian settlemts. : and enlarging more particularly on the respective counties of England and Wales ... / the whole illustrated with suitable maps and tables ... and engraved by George Bickham.

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Creator:
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
188, [45] leaves (one folded) : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17346. A picturesque guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the river Avon, and the adjacent country / illustrated with a set of views, taken in the summer of 1792 by Mess. Ibbetson, Laporte, and J. Hassell, and engraved in aquatinta.

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Creator:
Ibbetson, Julius, 1759–1817
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
[4], 266, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ills. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17347. A new drawing-book of out-lines &c. : very proper for the first-practice of all who are willing to excell in that noble-art = Nouveau livres pour apprendre les premiers principes du dessein : tres-utile à ceux qui souhaitent d'exceller dans ce bel art.

No cover image available
Date:
1722
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm. x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17348. A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England : from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time : illustrated by engravings taken from the most authentic remains of antiquity : to which is prefixed an introduction, containing a general description of the ancient habits in use among mankind, from the earliest period of time to the conclusion of the seventh century / Joseph Strutt.

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Creator:
Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:
MDCCXCVI-MDCCXCIX [1796-1799]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17349. A description of the Earl of Pembroke's pictures. Now published by C. Gambarini of Lucca. Being an introduction to his design.

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Creator:
Gambarini, Carlo, conte
Date:
1731
Physical Description:
2 p.., [iii]-xvi, 108 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17350. The death of Abel, in five books; attempted from the German of Mr. Gessner.

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Creator:
Gessner, Salomon, 1730–1788
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
1 p.., xi, 275 p. front. (port.) plates. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17351. Lettere familiari e critiche di Vincenzio Martinelli.

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Creator:
Martinelli, Vincenzio, 1702–1785
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
xvi, [15], 397 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17352. The history and antiquities of the conventual and cathedral church of Ely: from the foundation of the monastery, A. D. 673. To the year 1771. Illustrated with copper-plates. By James Bentham ...

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Creator:
Bentham, James, 1708–1794
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. fold. front., plates (part fold.) plans (part fold.) 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17353. The Weymouth Guide: Exhibiting the ancient and present state of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis; : with a description of Lulworth Castle, the island of Portland, and other places worthy the attention of strangers who visit Weymouth. ...

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Creator:
Delamotte, Peter
Date:
[1785?]
Physical Description:
iv, 5-96 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17354. Album of designs for fancy goods.

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Date:
18th century
Physical Description:
1 volume (352 pages) : etching, engraving ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17355. Wood engravings of varied subjects.

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

17356. Six narrative poems / by Eliza Knipe.

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Creator:
Cobbold, Elizabeth, 1767–1824
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
x, 74, [2] p. ; 26 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17357. The present state of the arts in England / by M. Rouquet ...

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Creator:
Rouquet, Jean André, 1701–1758
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
[4], 124 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17358. Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, octavo : at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the fourteenth day of January, Anno Dom. 1734, in the eighth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc. : being the first session of this present Parliament.

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Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
1735
Physical Description:
[2] p., p. 215-218 ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17359. A supplement to the antiquities of St. Peter's, or, The abbey-church of Westminster ...

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Creator:
Crull, Jodocus, -1713?
Date:
1713
Physical Description:
56, [6] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17360. The experienc'd huntsman, or, a collection of observations upon the nature and chace of the stagg, buck, hare, fox, martern and otter ... / by Arthur Stringer.

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Creator:
Stringer, Arthur
Date:
1714
Physical Description:
v, 7-310 p., 1 l. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17361. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta : quibus Romanorum veterum ritus varii tam sacri quam profani, tum Graecorum atque Aegyptiorum nonnulli illustrantur / Romæ olim maxima ex parte collecta ; ac dissertationibus jam singulis instructa, a Conyers Middleton, S.T.P. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Protobibliothecario ; his appendicis item loco adjuncta est mumiae Cantabrigiensis descriptio.

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Creator:
Middleton, Conyers, 1683–1750
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
xii, 266, [8] p., 23 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17362. The magazine of architecture, perspective, & sculpture : in five parts : Part the first. Geometrical, practical, & usefull [sic] problems ; for ye describing of circles, ovals, arches, groyns (Regular or rampant) & polygons, ye mouldings made use of in architecture; the handrail to stair-cases; ye wreath'd columns; ionic (capital antient & modern) volutes; & to flute columns and pilasters : Part the second. Plain & easy directions, for the construction of ye five orders of architecture , with their imposts & arches, plans, elevations & profiles, (accurately describ'd by feet, inches & parts; likewise by the customary measure of modules & minutes) frontispieces & windows; ornaments for mouldings, capitals & freezes; fretts & flowers; enrich'd pedestals for statues; compartiments [sic] for domes, soffites of arches & pavements; of the proportion and cieling [sic] of rooms; and designs of obelisks : Part the third. On the disposition & regularity of stair-cases; with several necessary improvements, wherein the symetry [sic] requir'd is preserv'd in ye steps & halfpaces, &c. also in ye rangeing [sic] ballisters & ornaments : Part the fourth. A most easy & expeditious method, to delineate in perspective, all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from ye confusion of occult lines : Part the fifth. The parts of human-body describ'd; with ye nature of motion reduc'd to geometrical rules; to which is added, a collection of ye most beautiful antique statues, with their parts describ'd, as measur'd from the originals / engraven on 96 copper plates by Benjn. Cole ; to which is annexed, an alphabetical explanation of ye terms made use of in architecture ; collected from the most approv'd authors, antient & modern, particularly, Palladio, Scamozzi & Vignola, & made a work of general use for gentlemen, architects, sculptors, painters, workmen, & all persons concern'd in building, by Edward Oakley, Architect . M. M.

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Creator:
Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:
MDCCXXX [1730]
Physical Description:
[12], 119, [1] p., XCIII leaves of plates : ill., coat of arms, diagrams, plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17363. Fourteen maps of ancient and modern geography ...

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Creator:
Blair, John
Date:
1768
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17364. Shakespeare illustrated ... by S. & E. Harding.

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Creator:
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:
1793
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17365. Masons' report concerning the roof-line balustrade of St. Paul's Cathedral.

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Creator:
Woodman, William, ca. 1654–1731?
Date:
1719 January 26
Physical Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17366. Every man his own farrier : being a collection of valuable and efficacious receipts, for most disorders incident to horses, carefully collected and applied with repeated success, for upwards of fifty years past / by Sir Paulet St. John, Bart., of Farley, Hants.

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Creator:
St. John, Paulet, Sir, 1704–1780
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
viii, 80, [8] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17367. A collection of fifty etchings after Raphael, Julio Romano, Guido, Parmigiano, Domenichino, Albert Durer, Paul Veronese, Palma, Annibal and Ludovico Caracci, Guerchino, N. Poussin, F. Mola, Franceschini, Joseph Passeri, Passinelli, Cavedone, P. da Cortona, Carlo Cignani, Carlo Maratti, &c / executed by Huck, Selcke, and Billinger, after the original drawings in the collection of the Elector Palatine, Duke of Bavaria, &c. at Dusseldorf.

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Date:
[1797?]
Physical Description:
[2] pages, 50 leaves of plates : illustrations, 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17368. Les forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique, ou, Description des principales villes, avec leurs fortifications : dessignées par les meilleurs ingenieurs, particulierement celles qui sont sous la domination de la France, dont les plans ont esté levez par Monsieur de Vauban, avec la description de tous les instrumens servans à la fortification, à l'attaque & deffense des places, ensemble ceux qui servent pour l'artillerie, des magasins, la maniere de dresser un camp devant une ville assiegée, &c. : et ornées de plusieurs superbes edifices : ouvrage necessaire pour toutes sortes de personnes / le tout mis en ordre par les soins de Pierre Mortier.

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Creator:
Fer, Nicolas de, 1646–1720
Date:
[1707]
Physical Description:
14 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans ; 31 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17369. A catalogue of a superb and capital collection of pictures : comprising works of the most distinguished Masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, Venetian and Dutch Schools : the greater part of the Imperial Exhibition, and to the many capital pictures still remaining are added : The Virgin and Child by Corregio : a fine warm coloured Landscape by Both : the Inside of a Room, clear and Transparent, by Teniers : and a beautiful Cabinet Picture by Vernet, &c, &c. &c : also, an elaborate model of the celebrated Voltaire, a very striking Similitude : likewise a collection of scarce and curious exotic insects, containing specimens of most of the different genera, among which are Scarabeus Atlas male and female : Papilio Priam : some curious Mantes, and others equally rare : selected by a Gentleman in Holland, and other natural curiosities : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May the 23d, 1788, and the following day : to be publickly viewed two days preceding the sale, which will begin each day at twelve o'clock : catalogues may be had as above, and at Mr. Christie's : N.B. The insects, shells, minerals, &c. will be sold on the Monday following

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17370. A catalogue of all the materials of the dwelling-house, out-houses, &c. of His Grace James Duke of Chandos : deceas'd, at his late seat call'd Cannons, near Edgware in Middlesex ... which will be sold by auction / by Mr. Cock, on Tuesday, the 16th of June 1747, and the eleven following days (at Cannons aforesaid).

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Creator:
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720–1749
Date:
[1747]
Physical Description:
60 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17371. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature: being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

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Date:
[ca. 1760]
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17372. A catalogue of a cllection of pictures, some fine drawings, and a pair of globes, of a well-known artist, retired : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Hutchins, at his rooms in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, on Tuesday, the 11th of February 1783, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Monday the 10th, when catalogues will be delivered.

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Creator:
Hutchins, Mr. (Hassil), active 1779–1789
Date:
[1783]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17373. A descriptive catalogue of a genuine and capital collection of Italian pictures, never before seen in this country, and by the most celebrated masters : particularly of the Venetian and Lombard schools, from the earliest era of painting, to the present times : being the sole and genuine property of a Gentleman, long resident in Italy, and a great lover of the art, who has left off collecting : containing among several other rare and valuable acquisitions, as particularly specified in the catalogue : the entire and genuine collection of pictures of the esteemed connoisseur Monsignor Negri, late Bishop of Parenze, in Ilaria, collected by him chiefly at Rome, and purchased of his executors by the present proprietor : the who lately imported from Italy, and brought, in the same state, to the Great Rooms, formerly occupied by the Royal Academy, no. 125, Pall Mall, where they will be exhibited and sold by private contract, on December 10th, 1789, and following days (Sundays excepted) from ten o'clock in the morning, till five in the afternoon : sold at the place of exhibition.

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Date:
[1789]
Physical Description:
40 pages ;28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17374. A catalogue of a collection of upwards of four hundred original drawings, by Stothard, Burney, Smirke, Corbould, Van Assen, &c. : being designs for various works, published by Mr. Harrison, bookseller, of Pater-Noster-Row, (a bankrupt) : and which, by order of the assignees, will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, at his Great Room, King-Street, Covent-Garden, on Friday, June 2, 1797, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Thursday, till the sale, and catalogues then had.

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Creator:
King, Thomas
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17375. Catalogue of a valuable collection of pictures, prints, & drawings, the property of a gentleman, removed from his house, in Berner's-Street : to which are added, a few pictures, bronzes, and marbles, the property of a nobleman, comprising a capital painting of a stag-hunt, Sneyder's -- portrait of King Henry the Eighth, by Holbein -- two views in Venice, by Cananetti -- a sea piece, Vankable : a highly finished picture, Metzu; Venus and Satyrs, Rubens; and various by Guido, Guerchino, Carlo, Marratti, Dolce, &c. and Sir Joshua Reynolds, Wilson, Morland, Pether, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. H. Phillips, at his Great Room, New Bond-Street, on Wednesday, January 16th, 1799, and following day, at twelve o'clock each day : may be viewed by catalogues (at one shilling each, to be returned to purchasers) to be had as above : of Mr. Llooyd, bookseller, Harley-Sreet : Mr. Varley, York Hotel, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars : and of Mr. Phillips, at his house, No. 22, Bury-Street, St. James's.

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Creator:
Phillips, H., -1840
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
9, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17376. St. Peter's, Cornhill.

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Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17377. The handmaid to the arts : vol. the first [-second], teaching ...

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Creator:
Dossie, Robert, d. 1777
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17378. Van den Wyngaerde's View of London (circa 1550)

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Creator:
Wyngaerde, Anton van den, d. 1571
Date:
1881-1882
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (7 plates) : all ill. ; 53 x 295 cm, on 7 sheets 80 x 59 cm, in cover 79 x 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17379. An authentic historical racing calendar of all the plates, sweepstakes, matches, &c. run for at York, from the first commencement of the races there in the year 1709, to the year 1785 inclusive : comprehending a period of seventy-seven years: with an account of the cock-matches fought at York in each race-week for upwards of forty years. To which is added, an account of the races for the royal plates, run for by five years old mares, at Hambleton, York, and Richmond; and of the races that were run at Hambleton from the year 1748 to the year 1757, also of the races from the first commencement of the Gold Cups at Richmond and Doncaster; likewise for the Gold Cups at Beverley. In which is also given pedigrees and performances of the most celebrated race-horses, that have appeared upon the English turf since the time of Basto, Bay Bolton, Flying Childers, Brocklesby Betty, Bonny Black, &c. With an historical account of the most favourite Arabians, Turks, Barbs, English-stallions, and brood-mares. Likewise a complete alphabetical list of the subscribers to the York Assembly-Rooms in each race-week from 1752 to 1777. And an account of the Earls of March and Eglingtoun's carriage-match; of Mr. Shafto's time-match; of Mr. Thornhill's road-match; of Mr. Woodcock's riding 2900 miles; the late Sir C. Turner's leaping-match; fox-chaces, &c. The whole carefully compiled from authehtic materials / by W. Pick of York.

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Creator:
Pick, W. (William), 1759?-1816
Date:
[1785]
Physical Description:
viii, 198, 132 p. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17380. Observations on the mechanism of the horse's foot : its natural spring explained, and a mode of shoeing recommended, by which the foot is defended from external injury, with the least impediment to its spring : illustrated by copperplates / by Strickland Freeman, Esq.

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Creator:
Freeman, Strickland, 1754?-1821
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
[4], viii, 107, [33] pages, 16, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17381. Dictionnaire bibliographique, historique, et critique, des livres rares, precieux, singuliers, curieux, estimés, et recherchés : qui n'ont aucun prix fixe, tant des auteurs connus, que de ceux qui ne le sont pas, soit manuscrits, avant et depuis l'invention de l'imprimerie, soit imprimés, et qui ont paru successivement de nos jours, en françois, grec, latin, italien, espagnol, anglois, &c. : avec leur valuer réduite à une juste appréciation, suivant les prix auxquels ils ont été portés dans les ventes publiques, depuis la fin du XVII siècle jusqu'à présent : auxquels on a ajouté des observations et des notes pour faciliter la connoissance exacte & certaine des editions originales, & des remarques pour les distinguer des editions contrefaites : suivi d'un Essai de bibliographie, où il est traité de la connoissance & de l'amour des livres, de leurs divers degrés de rareté, &c, &c. : ouvrage utile et nécessaire a tous littérateurs, bibliographes, bibliophiles, & à tous ceux qui veulent exercer, avec quelques connoissances, la librairie ancienne & moderne ...

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Creator:
Duclos, R
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
3 v. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17382. The antiquarian repertory : a miscellany intended to preserve and illustrate several valuable remains of old times : adorned with elegant sculptures.

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Date:
1775-1784
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17383. A plan of the city and the harbour of Rochefort : a place remarkable for its fine docks & surprizing magazines for warlike stores where from this important place are continually sent supplies of all sorts for building men of war to Brest, the l'Orient, St. Malo's, Toulon & several other sea ports in France.

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Creator:
Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
1 map ; 29 x 42 cm., on sheet 57 x 78 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17384. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

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

17385. A treatise on the nature and true foundation of breeding cocks / by Thomas Dixon.

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Creator:
Dixon, Thomas
Date:
1744
Physical Description:
47 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17386. The gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses; : in two books. Containing, I. The surgical; II. The medical part of practical farriery; also, directions for the proper treatment of post chaise and other horses, after violent exercise. : With suitable remarks on the whole. : To which are now added; observations on broken-winded horses, endeavouring to prove the seat of that malady not to be in the lungs. : [Three lines from Ovid] / By J. Bartlet, surgeon.

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Creator:
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:
M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]
Physical Description:
xii, 293, [3] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17387. Westminster bridge : designs for superstructure, with estimates.

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Creator:
Labelye, Charles, 1705–1781?
Date:
ca. 1740?
Physical Description:
1 volume (20 pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17388. A catalogue of a valuable collection of undoubted original drawings and pictures, by the most esteemed ancient and modern Masters : amongst the later are the best productions from the pencils of Gainsborough, Wheatley, Barret, Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Cooper, Mortimer, Peters, Cozens, Rowlandson, Smith, Catton, Jun., Moreland, Serres, Angelica, Payne, Gilpin, Lambert, Walton, Northcote, &c. : also a scarce and valuable collection of prints, books of prints, & drawings, by Raphael, and many old Masters : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Greenwood, at his room in Leicester-Square on Thursday the 19th of March, 1789, and the two following days at twelve o'clock, precisely : to be viewed two days preceding the sale.

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Creator:
Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
Date:
[1789]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17389. A catalogue of valuable curiosities of the late eminent John Hunter, Esq. deceased : comprising statues, bronzes, models of ships, a capital set of tapestry, mathematical instruments and a great variety of interesting articles : which will be sold by auction (by order of the executors) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, January the 31st, 1793, at twelve o'clock : N.B. his valuable library of books will be sold to-morrow, the 1st of February : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had at the Rainbow, and in Pall-Mall.

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Creator:
1730–1803 Christie, Mr. (James)
Date:
[1793]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17390. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Count A. Hamilton.

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Creator:
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646–1720
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17391. Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments: also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. with estimates to each design by the great square, and such remarks, explanations and scales are annexed, that the comprehension is rendered easy, and subject most agreeable : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[12], 8 p., 50 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17392. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

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Date:
1756-1817
Physical Description:
144 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17393. The United States of North America, with the British territories and those of Spain, according to the treaty of 1784 [cartographic material] / engrav'd by Wm. Faden, 1793.

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Creator:
Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col. ; 53 x 63 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17394. Kayō hisō.

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Creator:
Hirasawa, Kyokuzan, 1733–1791
Date:
Kansei 1 [1789] shinsen
Physical Description:
2 volumes : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17395. An excursion to Cheltenham, Birmingham, & Oxford, &c. &c. &c. : August the 26th, 1782.

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Creator:
Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17396. [Morning] / T. Stothard, R.A. pinxt. ; F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt.

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Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:
[2015]
Physical Description:
1 print : stipple engraving and etching ; visible image 15 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

17397. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1772, inclusive ... by the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

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Creator:
Barlow, Frederick
Date:
1772-1773
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17398. Choice observations upon the art of painting : together with Vasari's Lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo : with an explanation of the difficult terms.

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Creator:
Aglionby, William, d. 1705
Date:
1719
Physical Description:
[36], 374 [i.e. 387], [2] p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17399. A survey of the cathedral-church of Landaff : containing an account of all the inscriptions on the monuments and grave-stones, the history of the Bishops, and other dignitaries belonging to the same, their several preferments, times of decease, burial and epitaphs : with a large appendix of records and other curious matters, relating to Landaff Church and Bishoprick : to which is subjoined an exact list of all the churches and chapels in this diocese ... : and illustrated with a draught of the iconography and upright of Landaff Cathedral / by Browne Willis ...

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Creator:
Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:
1718
Physical Description:
228, [2], 10 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17400. A poetical epistle to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. and President of the Royal Academy ...

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
[6], 20 p. ; 26 cm. in folder 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts