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17401. A description of the works of the ingenious delineator and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life. By George Vertue ...

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Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
vi p., 1 l., 151, [1] p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17402. Monumenti antichi inediti / spiegati ed illustrati da Giovanni Winckelmann ; prefetto delle antichità di Roma.

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Creator:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Date:
MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17403. Earnest and affectionate address to the people of England concerning the usual recreations on Shrove Tuesday.

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Creator:
Tucker, Josiah, 1712–1799
Date:
[1750]
Physical Description:
10 p. ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17404. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith, LL. D. and F.R.S., formerly professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Smith, Adam, 1723–1790
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17405. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham : with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
158 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17406. Ballet-costumes / Martin Engelbrecht.

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Creator:
Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684–1756
Date:
[1735?]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves of plates : all ill ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17407. The builder's compleat assistant, or, a Library of arts and sciences absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general ... : the whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates / by B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17408. A short narrative of the proceedings of the gentlemen, concerned in obtaining the act, for building a bridge at Westminster; and of the steps, which the honourable the commissioners, appointed by that act, have taken to carry it into execution. In a letter to a member of Parliament in the country; together with his answer ...

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Date:
1738
Physical Description:
1 p.., 70 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17409. The history of churches in England: wherein is shewn, the time, means, and manner of founding, building and endowing of churches, both cathedral and rural, with their furniture and appendages.

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Creator:
Staveley, Thomas, 1626–1684
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
6 p.., 323 p. fold. plates. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17410. Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets / by Samuel Johnson ...

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1779-1781
Physical Description:
10 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17411. Exhibition of models of the most elegant buildings in Europe : viz. the Church of St. Peter at Rome, that of St. Paul at London, the Stadthouse at Amsterdam : together with a great variety of others ...

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Date:
[ca. 1780]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 27 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17412. Saggio sopra l'Accademia di Francia che è in Roma ...

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Creator:
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712–1764
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
52 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17413. A catalogue of a small but well-chosen collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : the undoubted property of the Duc de Cheney, and the Comte de Suffrein : consisting of the works of the most esteemed and admired Masters, viz. : P. Veronese, Albano, Canaletti, A. V. De Velde, Dietrick, Espagniolet, C. Maratt, P. Potter, Metzu, Murillio, L. Giordano, Berghem, Teniers, &c. : the whole in high preservation : also, (by order of the executors) the reserved capital collection of beautiful miniatures in enamel, &c. late the property of The Right Hon. Lord Dudle and Ward, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, May 7th, 1791, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17414. De l'art de voir dans les beaux-arts, tr. de l'italien de Milizia; suivi Des institutions propres à les faire fleurir en France, et d'un État des objets d'arts dont ses musées ont été enrichis par la guerre de la liberté. Par le général Pommereul.

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Creator:
Milizia, Francesco, 1725–1798
Date:
an 6 [1798]
Physical Description:
4 p., 316 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17415. A trip to Kilkenny, from Durham, by way of Whitehaven and Dublin, in the year MDCCLXXVI ... In a series of letters to a friend.

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Creator:
Elstob, Mark
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
229 p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17416. Six landscapes from original paintings.

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Date:
1779
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. in folder 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17417. The British carpenter, or, a treatise on carpentry : containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art ... / by Francis Price.

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Creator:
Price, Francis, d. 1753
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[8], 72 p., [64] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17418. [A collection of broadsides / by Adam Toppin].

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Creator:
Toppin, Adam, b. 1701
Date:
[1750s or 1760s?]
Physical Description:
44 broadsides : ill. ; 14-36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17419. Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall : consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity in Britain, and the British Isles, exemplified and proved by monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language / By William Borlase, LL.D. F.R.S., Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall.

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Creator:
Borlase, William, 1695–1772
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
xvi, 464 p., 37 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 37 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17420. The natural history of the horse : to which is added, that of the ass, bull, cow, ox, sheep, goat, and swine : with accurate descriptions of their several parts : and full directions for breeding, chusing, feeding, and improving, those useful creatures / translated from the French of the celebrated M. de Buffon.

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Creator:
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707–1788
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, [2], 340 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17421. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all [the] direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales : wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all [the] cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &c. scituate on or near the roads, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles ... / by Eman. Bowen engraver.

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 atlas (5, [3] pages, [2], 273, [1] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17422. Cambridgeshire [cartographic material] : by T. Kitchin, geographer.

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Creator:
Kitchin, Thomas, 1719–1784
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
1 map ; 17.3 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

17423. The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come. The second part : delivered under the similitude of a dream : wherein is set forth the manner of the setting out of Christian's wife and children : their dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country / by John Bunyan.

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Creator:
Bunyan, John, 1628–1688
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
[12], 179, [1] pages : illustrations, portrait ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17424. Britannia's triumph in the year MDCCLXII : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, &c. &c. ... / these drawings were made by Lieutenant Philip Ousbridge, an officer on the spot ...

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Creator:
Orsbridge, Philip, -1767
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
4, [4] pages, 11, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17425. A catalogue of the genuine, capital, and valuable collection of select and beautiful cabinet pictures, the undoubted works of the most celebrated esteemed Dutch and Flemish Masters : in the highest state of preservation : the property of His Excellency the Baron Nagel, Ambassador from the States of Holland, &c. : consisting of the following Masters, viz. : Ruysdael, Hobbima, A. V. de Velde, J. Steen, Pynaker, LIngelback, Ostade, Terburg, W. V. de Velde, Vander Helst, G. Larais, Rembrandt, &c. : a singurlarly high-finished picture of a Philosopher by Ger. Douw : an elegant and noble picture by Wouvermans, of ladies and entlemen going out to the Chace : a country strolling musician, a most exquisitite picture, by Adrian Ostade : a Flemish farmer preparing for market, by D. Teniers : with many other scarce and valuable pictures : which will sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday, Mach 21st, 1795, at 12 o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : caalogues may be had as avoce : and a the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17426. Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian artists in painting and sculpture : in a series of letters / by the Abbe Winkelman ...

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Creator:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
158 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17427. Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois / par J.M. Papillon ... ; ouvrage enrichi des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa gravure ...

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

17428. A view of Constantinople : taken from the Helespont = Vue de Constantinople : prise de l'Helespont / J. Mason, sculp. ; P. Chatelain, del.

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Creator:
Mason, James, 1710–1783
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 38 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17429. The art and the pleasures of hare-hunting : in six letters to a person of quality / by John Smallman Gardiner, gent.

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Creator:
Gardiner, John Smallman
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
viii, 56 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17430. A tour in England and Scotland in 1785 / by an English gentleman.

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Creator:
Thomson, William, 1746–1817
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
x, 367 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17431. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

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Creator:
Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17432. Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano habita idibus Aprilibus, MDCCXLIX. die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae ...

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Creator:
King, William, 1685–1763
Date:
[1749]
Physical Description:
[6], 34 p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17433. A letter to a friend on commerce and free ports, and London-docks.

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Creator:
Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
2 p.., 24 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17434. The parochial history and antiquities of Stockton upon Tees: including an account of the trade of the town, the navigation of the river, and of such parts in the neighbourhood as have been connected with that place. In a series of letters; embellished with views of public buildings, &c. By John Brewster...

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Creator:
Brewster, John, 1753–1842
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
x, 178 p. front., plates (1 fold.) map, plan. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17435. A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world.

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Creator:
Gregory, John, 1724–1773
Date:
MDCCLXVI
Physical Description:
xvi, 239, [5] p. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17436. Baldwin's new complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the city of London, and parts adjacent. : ... Being the exactest piece of the kind hitherto published: and designed for the use of persons of all degrees, as well natives as foreigners.

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Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[2], 266, [24] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17437. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted window at New-College Oxford / by Thomas Warton ...

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Creator:
Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
[2], 8 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17438. History of the plague in London in 1665 : with suitable reflections.

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Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
23 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17439. John Howard halfpenny token.

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Date:
[1794?]
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; 28 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17440. De Londres et de ses environs.

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Creator:
Cambry, Jacques, 1749–1807
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
2 p.., v [i.e. iv], 147 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17441. Clio: or, A discourse on taste ... By I.U.

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Creator:
Ussher, James, 1720–1772
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
xiii, [2], 247 p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17442. Original designs in architecture, by William Thomas ... consisting of twenty-seven copper-plates, in folio; which contain plans, elevations, sections, ceilings and chimney pieces, for villas and town houses; designs for temples, grottos, sepulchres, bridges, &c. in the most approved taste. To which are prefixed, a suitable introduction, and a description, explaining the several designs.

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Creator:
Thomas, William, -1800
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
12 p. XXVII plates. 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17443. A tour through the island of Mann, in 1797 and 1798; comprising sketches of its ancient and modern history, constitution, laws, commerce, agriculture, fishery, &c. ... By John Feltham ...

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Creator:
Feltham, John
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 294 p., 1 leaf. front. (fold. map) ill., III plates, geneal. table. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17444. A supplement to the four volumes of the Peerage of England : containing a succession of the peers from 1740 : with accounts of those that have been promoted to higher titles, and a genealogical history of all the families since advanced to the peerage of this kingdom ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters, curiously engraven on copper plates : collected from records, authentick manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities ... / by Arthur Collins ...

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
2 v. (viii, 820 p.) : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17445. The continuation of Mr. Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, from the revolution to the accession of King George II : illustrated with thirty-six heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons, also with twenty maps and sea-charts / by N. Tindal ....

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Creator:
Tindal, N. (Nicholas), 1687–1774
Date:
1751
Physical Description:
2 v. ill., ports., maps ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17446. A new and compleat map of all America : also of the West Indies and other islands depending thereon : with a copious table fully shewing the several possessions of each European prince and state, as settled by the definitive treaty concluded at Paris Feby. 10th, 1763 the clauses of which relative thereto are inserted / by John Gibson ...

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Creator:
J. G. (John Gibson)
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 104 x 121 cm., folded to 26 x 15 cm., in case 27 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17447. A concise treatise on the art of angling ... / by Thomas Best.

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Creator:
Best, Thomas
Date:
1992
Physical Description:
[77] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17448. Introductio brevissima ad perspectivam : projectionem & spherae stereographicam, orthographica[m] et gnomicam : in usum juventutis academicae conscripta / a Johanne Eames S.T.P. & R.S.S.

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Creator:
Eames, John, -1744
Date:
1765, Nov. 20
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 143, 11, [47] leaves) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17449. The natural history of Cambridgeshire.

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Creator:
Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
pages 81-104, [1] leaf of plates : map ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

17450. Antiquitates prioratus Majoris Malverne in argo Wicciensi. Cum chartis originalibus easdem illustrantibus, ex registris sedis episcopalis Wigorniensis. Nunc primum editis.

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Creator:
Thomas, William, 1670–1738
Date:
1725
Physical Description:
5 p.l., ciii, [1], 43, 204 p. front. (fold. map) fold. plan, fold. plate. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17451. ... Costumes des représentans du peuple, membres des deux conseils, du Directoire exécutif, des ministres, des tribunaux, des messagers d'état, huissiers ... etc. Dont les dessins originaux ont été confiés par le ministre de l'interieur au citoyen Grasset S. Sauveur; gravés par le citoyen Labrousse ... Chaque figure est accompagnée d'une notice historique.

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Creator:
Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757–1810
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 p.., 30 p., 1 leaf. 15 col. plates. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17452. Extrait de l'Essai sur la peinture, la sculpture et l'architecture par M. l'abbé Du Resnel ... Tiré du Journal des sçavans, second vol. du mois de Décembre 1751. commençant à la page 2612, & finissant à celle de 2622.

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Creator:
Du Resnel, Mr. (Jean François du Bellay), 1692–1761
Date:
1751
Physical Description:
14 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17453. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

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Date:
1757
Physical Description:
iv, 92 p. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17454. The Builder's magazine: or, A universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. ... consisting of designs in architecture in every stile and taste ... together with the plans and sections ... / By a society of architects.

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Date:
MDCC LXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
[4], 345, [1], 100 p., CLXXXV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17455. Constantinople ancient and modern : with excursions to the shores and islands of the Archipelago and to the Troad / by James Dallaway, M.B. F.S.A. late chaplain and physician of the British Embassy to the Porte.

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Creator:
Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[2], xi, [1], 415, [9] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17456. Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes / par M. Fossé, officier Régiment d'Infanterie du Roi ; dédié a M. Le Duc du Chatelet.

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Creator:
Fossé, Charles-Louis-François, 1734–1812
Date:
MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:
[12], 116, 60, [2] p., 11 leaves of plates (10 folded) : col. ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17457. Hausirer in Gruppen von 2. fig. : nach der natur gezeichnet und geatzt / von G. Geissler ; 24 colorirte blätter nebst Beschreigung.

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Creator:
Geissler, G
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17458. Essay on the origin and principles of gothic architecture / by Sir James Hall, Bart., F. R. & A. S.S. Edin. ; from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; (read April 6, 1797).

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Creator:
Hall, James, Sir, 1761–1832
Date:
1798?]
Physical Description:
27, [1] p., vi leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17459. Loose engravings, matted : wood engravings.

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Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
18--?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17460. A country dance / designed by John Nixon, Esqr.

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Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818
Date:
Dec. 1, 1789
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([9] p.) : all ill. ; 31 x 229 cm., folded to 31 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17461. Catalogue de quelques tableaux de bons maitres : et d'un choix de pierres précieuses & bijoux : provenant du cabinet de M*** : dont la vente se sera le Lundi 14 Mai 1778 & jours suivans de relevee, en une des salles des Grands-Augustins : les amateurs pourront vois les objets qui la composent le Mercredi 13 et le Jeudi 14, le matin seulement : elle commencera par les pierres precieuses & bijoux, sand interruption, & finira par les tableaux.

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Creator:
Dufresne
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17462. [Views in Kent].

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Creator:
Noel, Amelia, 1759–1818
Date:
1797]
Physical Description:
4 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17463. Picturesque views on the upper, or Warwickshire Avon : from its sources at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.

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

17464. A catalogue of several libraries lately purchased, containing a large collection of valuable and useful books in most branches of learning : and a neat collection of prints, drawing, pictures, &c. &c. : which will be sold at the Ware-Room Carrubber's Close, on Monday the 15th September 1777, at the prices printed in the catalogue : ... catalogues may be had at the Ware-Room, which will always be open from ten in the morning to six in the evening, also at Mr. Gordon's Shop, Parliament Square : orders addressed to Robert Murray at either of the above places will be punctually attended to ...

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Date:
printed in the year 1777
Physical Description:
[4], 120 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17465. Observations on the river Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to picturesque beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
xvi, 152 p. 1 leaf. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17466. Cary's new itinerary; or, An accurate delineation of the great roads,: both direct and cross, throughout England and Wales; with many of the principal roads in Scotland. From an actual admeasurement made by command of His Majesty's postmaster general, for official purposes, / under the direction and inspection of Thomas Hasker ... By John Cary ...

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Creator:
Cary, John, approximately 1754–1835
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
[62] p., 740 col., 741-796, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17467. Universal harmony, or, The gentleman & ladie's social companion : consisting of a great variety of the best & most favourite English & Scots songs, cantatas &c. &c. : with a curious design by way of head piece expressive of the sense of each particulr. song : set to music for the voice, violin, hautboy, German & common flute, with a thorough base for the organ, harpsichd., spinet &c. / by the best masters ; the whole calculated to keep people in good spirits, good health, & good humour, to promote social friendship in all compys. and universal harmony in every neighbourhood.

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Date:
1746
Physical Description:
1 score (129 leaves) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17468. A collection of figures and conversations, cattle, birds, beasts and landskips : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : from Varnet, Boucher, Bergham, Barlow, &c.

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Date:
1771
Physical Description:
[1], 66, 6 leaves : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17469. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

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Creator:
Pocklington, Joseph, 1736–1817
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 v. ([15] p.) ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17470. [Notice. Lost gold girdle and other items].

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Creator:
Pyne, Benjamin, -1732
Date:
June 16, 1731
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 9 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17471. Le avventure di Saffo.

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Creator:
Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814
Date:
1784
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17472. An essay on painting. Written in Italian by Count Algarotti, F.R.S., F.S.A.

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Creator:
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712–1764
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
viii, 190 p, [1] l. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17473. An essay upon prints: containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty; the different kinds of prints; and the characters of the most noted masters: illustrated by criticisms upon particular pieces: to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
xii, 246 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17474. The art of painting in oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl colours ...

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Creator:
Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:
1723
Physical Description:
4 p.., 108, [4] p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17475. Deformity: an essay. By William Hay ...

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Creator:
Hay, William, 1695–1755
Date:
1754
Physical Description:
2 p.., 81, [2] p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17476. The new Oxford guide: or, companion through the university. Exhibiting every particular worthy the observation of the curious in each of the public buildings, colleges, halls, &c. To which is added, a tour to Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham, and Stow ... By a gentlemen of Oxford.

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Date:
1786
Physical Description:
vii, 159 p. fold. front (plan), 4 plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17477. Terræ-filius: or, The secret history of the University of Oxford; in several essays. To which are added, remarks upon a late book entitled, University education, by R. Newton ...

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Creator:
Amhurst, N. (Nicholas), 1697–1742
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 354 p. front. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17478. A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt : and of a route through the desarts [sic] of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European traveller, in the year M.DCC.LXXVII : in letters to a lady / by Eyles Irwin ... ; illustrated with maps and cuts ...

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Creator:
Irwin, Eyles, 1751?-1817
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 400 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17479. Remarks in support of the new chart of North and South America : in six sheets / by J. Green.

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Creator:
Green, John, -1757
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
[2], iv, [3]-48 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17480. British curiosities in art and nature : giving an account of rarities both ancient and modern, viz. monuments, monasteries, walls, Roman camps ... kings palaces, gentlemens seats ... learning and learned men, unusual customs of places, with whatever else is worthy observing, either by foreigners or our own countrymen that are inclin'd to go abroad : likewise an account of the posts, markets, & fair-towns : to which is added a very useful scheme, containing a brief account of the state of each county in England at one view, curiously engrav'd, and printed on a sheet, to fold up or put in a frame.

No cover image available
Date:
1721
Physical Description:
[16], 158 [i.e. 160] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17481. An abstract of the most material things belonging to the cathedral of St. Peter, Glocester [sic].

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Date:
[ca. 1790?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17482. The history of Monmouthshire / By David Williams ; illustrated and ornamented by views of its principal landscapes, ruins, and residences, by John Gardnor, Vicar of Battersea ; engraved by Mr. Gardnor and Mr. Hill.

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Creator:
Williams, David, 1738–1816
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
[14], xi, [1], 360, 199, [7] p., XXXVI, [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., map, genealogical tables ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17483. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

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Creator:
Robertson, David, active 1794
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[12], 235, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17484. An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional duty on certificates issued with respect to the killing of game.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
1047-1053, [1] p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17485. The practice of perspective: or, An easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art ... The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris; since translated into German ... and into English ... And now, a second time, into the same language, by E. Chambers ...

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Creator:
Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
xiii, [4], 16, 150, 150 p. ill., fold. diagrs. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17486. Reisen, Entdeckungen und Unternehmungen des Schifs-Capitain Johann Schmidt, oder John Smith : welche den wahren Ursprung derer englischen Colonien in Nord-Amerika bewirkt haben ... / gröstentheils aus dessilben eigenen Schriften beschrieben von Carl Friedrich Scheibler ...

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Creator:
Scheibler, Carl Friedrich
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
232, [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17487. Ankographia, sive, Convallium descriptio : in which are briefly but fully expounded the origin, course and insertion, extent, elevation and congruity of all the valleys and hills, brooks and rivers (as an explanation of A new philosophico-chorographical chart) of East-Kent : occasionally are interspersed some transient remarks that relate to the natural history of the country, and to the military marks and signs of Cæsar's rout thro it, to his decisive battle in Kent ... / by Christopher Packe, M.D.

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Creator:
Packe, Christopher, 1686–1749
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
[2], 110, [2] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17488. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the contiguous buildings : with all the new roads that have been made on account of Westminster Bridge, and the new buildings and alterations to the present year MDCCLV / engraved from an actual survey made by John Rocque ; this plan extends from east to west near six miles, and from north to south a little more than three, and contains about 11,500 acres of ground.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
1 map on 8 sheets ; 132 x 216 cm., sheets 67 x 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17489. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

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Creator:
Grierson, George, -1753
Date:
1740]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17490. A tour through parts of Wales : sonnets, odes, and other poems, with engravings from drawings taken on the spot, by J. Smith / by W. Sotheby, Esq.

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Creator:
Sotheby, William, 1757–1833
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[8], 120 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17491. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times : collected from the best authorities, both printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary ...

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Date:
1747-1766
Physical Description:
6 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17492. Voyage en différentes parties de l'Angleterre : et particulièrement dans les Montagnes & sur les Lacs du Cumberland & du Westmoreland ; contenant des observations relatives aux beautés pittoresques / par M. William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17493. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
xxxvi p., 372 columns, 373-386 p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17494. The gentleman's guide.

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Creator:
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (4 leaves) : hand col. maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17495. The British cabinet : containing portraits of illustrious personages, engraved from original pictures, with biographical memoirs / by John Adolphus ...

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Creator:
Adolphus, John, 1768–1845
Date:
1799-1800
Physical Description:
2 v. : ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17496. Works in architecture.

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Creator:
Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
Date:
1778-1779
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17497. The history and antiquities of Windsor Castle, and the Royal College, and Chapel of St. George : with the institution, laws, and ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter ... : with an account of the town and corporation of Windsor, the royal apartments, and paintings in the castle ... : the whole intirely new wrote, and illustrated with cuts ...

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Creator:
Pote, Joseph, 1704–1787
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
iii, [11] 431 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17498. Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street, Worcester.

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Creator:
Simpson, Miss
Date:
ca. 1795
Physical Description:
1 v. ([35] p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17499. The story of Tom Cole : with old father Thames's malediction of the Wapping docks. Addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.

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Creator:
S. P
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
21, [3] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17500. Chinese tales, or, The wonderful adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam / related by himself, to divert the sultana upon the celebration of her nuptials ; written in French by M. Gueulette ; translated by the Rev. Mr. Stackhouse.

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Creator:
Gueullette, Thomas-Simon, 1683–1766
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
viii, 9-115 p., 3 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts