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17701. Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples : and with permission dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the court of Naples / by his most humble servant Frederick Rehberg, historical painter in His Prussian Majesty's service at Rome, MDCCXCIV.

Creator:: Rehberg, Friedrich, 1758–1835
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [2], XII, [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17702. Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) : illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, in three books ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17703. Museum Etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis cc. / nunc primum edita et illustrata observationibus Antonii Francisci Gorii, publici historiarum professoris.

Creator:: Gori, Antonio Francesco, 1691–1757
Date:: Anno MDCCXXXVII-MDCCXXXXIII [1737-1743]
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17704. The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of useful designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces, slab tables, pier glasses, or tabernacle frames ... / explained on copper plates by Wm. Jones.

Creator:: Jones, William, -1757
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: [7] leaves, 60 [i.e. 56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17705. A general map of England & Wales, divided into its counties.

Date:: circa [1800?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : embroidery on linen ; sheet 61 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17706. A catalogue of the reserved collection of statues, busts, vases, urns, sarcophagi, &c. and other select and valuable pieces of antiquity : also sundry modern busts of exquisite sculpture, and highly finished, comprising a bust of Venus de Medicis, Shakespear, Stern, Cato the Censor, Scipio Africano, and other renowned and admired characters : several elegant statuary marble chimney pieces, and curious and scarce marble slabs, the property of Lyde Brown, Esq. : removed from his late residence in the city : also a small collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures, prints, drawings, &c. and a capital set of Brussels tapestry from Teniers, in excellent preservation : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Friday, May 30, 1788, and following day.

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

17707. A catalogue of a capital collection of prints and drawings, scarce and valuable, which have been purchased out of the most distinguished cabinets here and on the continent; the drawings stamped on the back by the several judicious collectors, viz. Padre Resto, Sir Peter Lely, Richardson, Pond, Hudson, and John Barnard : among the prints are many fine proofs and first impressions from Rubens, Vandyke, and other celebrated artists : engraved by Vosterman, Pontius, Sontman, Fisher, Edelinck, Hollar, Mason, Balechou, and other noted engravers : among the drawings is that celebrated one by Thomyris by Rubens, from the Cabinet of Mons. de Mariette--The Mistress instructing her pupil by Cipriani, from the collection of Mr. Locke, with many other capital and well-known works of esteemed masters : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Wednesday, May 11th, 1791, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: 10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17708. Diary in Turkey and Greece : manuscript.

Creator:: Morritt, John B. S. (John Bacon Sawrey), 1772?-1843
Date:: 1794-1796
Physical Description:: 1 volume (230 leaves, some blank) : illustrations ; 32 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17709. The laboratory, or, School of arts : in which are, faithfully exhibited and fully explain'd : I. A variety of curious and valuable experiments in refining, calcining, melting, essaying, casting, allaying, and toughening gold ... : II. Choice secrets for jewellers ... : translated from the German.

Creator:: Smith, G. L. (Godfrey L.)
Date:: 1738-1756
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17710. A residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 / described in a series of letters from an English lady : with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners ; prepared for the press by John Gifford ...

Creator:: Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17711. Twelve views in Kent [graphic] / drawn from nature by J. Cleveley Junr = Douze vües en Kent / tirées d'aprés nature par J. Cleveley Junr.

Creator:: Cleveley, John, 1747–1786
Date:: published 1 Octr. 1770
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17712. Twelve views of the Great Canal of Venice [graphic] = Douze vües du Grand Canal de Venise.

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

17713. Observations on the ventilation of rooms, on the construction of chimneys, and on garden stoves / principally collected from papers left by the late John Whitehurst, F.R.S.

Creator:: Whitehurst, John, 1713–1788
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [8], 52 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17714. Het zegenpralent Kenenmerlant [i.e. Kennemerlant] : vertoont in 100 heerelyke gezichten van deszelfs voornaemste lustplaetzen, adelyke huizen, dorp- en stede-gebouwen : beginnende met Kastrikum, vervolgende door 't Quartier van Heemskerk, Beverwyk, Velzen, Bloemendael, Haerlem, Overveen, Zantvoort, de Vogelezang, en eindigende met Berkenrode, Heemstede, Bennebroek en Hillegom / naer 't leven getekent en in 't koper gebragt door Hendrik de Leth, en kortelyk beschreven door Mattheus Brouërius van Nidek ...

Creator:: Brouerius van Nidek, Matthaeus, 1677–1743
Date:: [1732?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([7], 24 p., [25] leaves of plates, [1], 18 p., [25] leaves of plates) : ill., folded map (engravings) ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17715. The art of painting in miniature ... Translated from the original French. To which are now added I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest colours ... II. Some ... lessons for the art of drawing ... III. The usefulness and benefit of prints.

Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 150 p. 2 plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17716. Abstract of the instrument of institution of the Royal Academy of Arts in London : established December 10, 1768.

Creator:: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Date:: [177-?]
Physical Description:: 30 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17717. To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales : with the tragedy of Cato, Nov. 1714 : to Sir Godfrey Kneller on his picture of the King.

Creator:: Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Date:: 1716
Physical Description:: [2], 9 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17718. A description of a set of prints of Scripture history : contained in a set of easy lessons / by Mrs. Trimmer.

Creator:: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741–1810
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: 96 p. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17719. A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world : with the natural history and trade of each country / taken from the best authors, particularly Cluverius, Brietius, Cellarius, Bleau, Baudrand, Hoffman, Moreri, the two Sansons, Luyts, the Atlas Historique, Sir John Chardin, Le Brun, Tournefort, &c. ; to which is prefix'd an introduction to geography ... ; together with a copious alphabetical index ; the maps, which are all engraven or revised by Mr. Senex, are laid down according to the observations communicated to the English Royal Society, the French Royal Academy of Sciences, and those made by the latest travellers ; and the descriptions suited to the course of each map, which has not been observed in any other atlas.

Creator:: Senex, John, -1740
Date:: MDCC XXI [1721]
Physical Description:: [8], 272, 141-261, [11] pages, [75] leaves of plates : 34 maps, coats of arms ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17720. A voyage round the world : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : embellished with twenty copper-plates : dedicated, by permission, to His Majesty / by Captain Nathaniel Portlock.

Creator:: Portlock, Nathaniel, 1748?-1817
Date:: MDCCLXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: xii, 384, xl pages, [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17721. The American gazetteer : containing a distinct account of all the parts of the New World; their situation, climate, soil, produce, former and present condition, commodities, manufactures, and commerce : together with an accurate account of the cities, towns, ports, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, passes, and fortifications : the whole intended to exhibit the present state of things in that part of the globe, and views and interests of the several powers who have possessions in America : illustrated with proper maps : in three volumes.

Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17722. The compleat horseman : discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults, and imperfections of horses : the signs and causes of their diseases ... : also the art of shoeing ... : together with the best method of breeding colts ... / by the Sieur de Solleysell ... ; to which is added a most excellent supplement of riding, collected from the best authors, with an alphabetical catalogue of all the physical simples in English, French, and Latin ; made English from the eighth edition of the original by Sir William Hope ... ; the whole illustrated with copper cuts ...

Creator:: Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617–1680
Date:: 1717
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([2], xlv, [1], 326, 323-324, [2], xvi, 300, [4] p.) : ill., port. ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17723. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

Creator:: Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17724. Reading made perfectly easy, or, An introduction to the reading the Holy Bible : consisting of lessons so disposed, that the learner is led on with pleasure from easy to more hard words, which is the only rational method of teaching ; being sentences from Scripture and other books, on moral and religious subjects ; also Scripture stories, very pleasant and advantageous to youth, to prepare them to understand the Holy Scriptures / by T. Dyke, School-Master, in London.

Creator:: Dyke, Thomas, schoolmaster
Date:: MDCCXCVIII [1798]
Physical Description:: 120 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17725. The roads from London to Norwich, Cambridge, Ely & Kings Lynn [cartographic material] : comg. at Puckeridge in the Chester Road : also from Oxford to Cambridge / Thos. Bowen sculpt. Fleet Street.

Creator:: Bowen, Thomas, -1790
Date:: [1775?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 15.8 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

17726. A map of the British Empire in America : with the French, Spanish and Hollandish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple ; I. Condet s.

Creator:: Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:: [ca. 1737]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 48 x 47 cm, on sheet 54 x 64 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17727. James Bruce archive, ca. 1750-ca.1850.

Creator:: Bruce, James, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1750-ca.1850
Physical Description:: approximately 1,500 items
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17728. An essay on design: including proposals for erecting a public academy to be supported by voluntary subscription (till a royal foundation can be obtain'd) for educating the British youth in drawing, and the several arts depending thereon ...

Creator:: Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: vi, 92 p. ill., 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17729. Arts companion, or A new assistant for the ingenious, in 3 pts. Pt. 1 containing the art of drawing in perspective ... Pt. II containing the art of drawing and painting in water-colours ... Pt. III containing the art of painting in miniature ... to which are added directions for shadowing, stipling, &c. ... likewise the preparation of an excellent polish and shell: the whole taken from some of the best Italian and other masters.

Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 172 p. ill. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17730. The elements of beauty. : Also, Reflections on the harmony of sensibility and reason / By J. Donaldson.

Creator:: Donaldson, J. (John), 1737–1801
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [5]-119 p. ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17731. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

Creator:: Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [viii], 54 p., illus., plans 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17732. Minutes of the proceedings of the court-martial held at Portsmouth : August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty's ship the Bounty : with an appendix containing a full account of the real causes and circumstances of that unhappy transaction, the most material of which have hitherto been withheld from the public.

Date:: MDCCXCIV [1794]
Physical Description:: [4], 79, [1] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17733. A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world.

Creator:: Gregory, John, 1724–1773
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: xvi, 236, [4] p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17734. Thirty letters on various subjects ...

Creator:: Jackson, William, 1730–1803
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17735. Twelve prospects in Derby-shire, Cheshire, Lincoln-shire, York, Durham, and noblemen's parks [graphic].

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

17736. The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England : containing the representations of all the English monarchs : from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth : together with many of the great persons that were eminent under their several reigns : the whole carefully collected from ancient illuminated manuscripts / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [6], 119, [5], [2], 24 p., [72] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17737. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17738. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17739. A new book of shipping : on six plates.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 6 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17740. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

Creator:: Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: [72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17741. A letter to the Dilettanti Society, respecting the obtention of certain matters essentially necessary for the improvement of public taste, and for accomplishing the original views of the Royal Academy of Great-Britain. By James Barry ...

Creator:: Barry, James, 1741–1806
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 292 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17742. The history of Derby; from the remote ages of antiquity to the year MDCCXCI. Describing its situation, air, soil, water, streets, buildings, and government. With the illustrious families which have inherited its honours ... By W. Hutton, F.A.S.S.

Creator:: Hutton, William, 1723–1815
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: xiii, [3], 320 p. fold. front., plates, fold. plan. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17743. Six designs of frizes. By Js. Gandon, archt.

Creator:: Gandon, James, 1742–1823
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: 6 plates. 23 x 60 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17744. A critical and historical account of all the celebrated libraries in foreign countries, as well ancient as modern; with general reflections upon the choice of books and the method of furnishing libraries ... by a gentleman of the Temple. London: Printed by J. Joliffe, in St. James's Street. 1739.

Creator:: Le Gallois, Pierre, fl. 1680
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: [5], 20 p. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17745. Thirty-six views in Scotland, chiefly from drawings by J. C. esq. With descriptions.

Creator:: J. C
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 12 p. 36 plates. 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17746. An account of the trial of Alexander Whyte, baker, for a false, malicious, and seditious libel : of which charge he was honorably acquitted at the quarter sessions, held for the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, on Wednesday, July 17, 1793.

Creator:: Whyte, Alexander
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: 19 p. ; 23 c.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17747. A brief description of the Collegiate church and chair of St. Mary, in the borough of Warwick : with a concise account of the antiquities and curiosities of the same, and of the chapel thereto adjoining : together with the tables of the several benefactions given to the said church and parish : to which is added, a particular detail of the grand solemnity with which the Earl of Leicester celebrated the French Order of St. Michael at Warwick in the year 1571 / by John Hands ...

Creator:: Hands, John, active 18th century
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: 64 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17748. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads of Scotland / by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: ii p., 32 columns ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17749. A new and accurate survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark : with the country about it for nineteen miles in length and thirteen in depth... / by John Rocque ... = Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium ... / a Johanne Rocque ... = Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Westminster, et bourg de Southwark et des leurs environs contenant l'espace de dixneuf miles en longeur et de trieze en largeur... / par Jean Rocque...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], [32] leaves) : maps ; 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17750. A plan of the city of Dublin and the environs : on the same scale of London, Paris & Rome / by John Rocque ... = Plan de Dublin et de ces environs : sur la meme echelle de ceux de Londres, Paris et Rome / par J. Rocque ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1760]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 2 sheets ; 100 x 140 cm., sheets 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17751. Gemmarum antiquarum delectus.

Creator:: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727–1785
Date:: ca. 1781
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17752. Zograscope.

Date:: late 18th century
Physical Description:: 1 zograscope : mahogany, glass, mirror ; 64 cm in height, base 21 cm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17753. Pictures, prints, drawings & household furniture : a catalogue of the valuable drawings and prints : some pictures, models by Rysbrack : together with the household furniture : comprising beds and beddings : mahogany bedstead : tables : chests of drawers : bureau : chairs : large looking glasses : a quantity of pictures frames, &c. &c. : late he property of Mr. Panton Betew, (deceased) : well known among the collectors as an amateur in the fine arts : among the drawings, will be found originals by Rembrandt, Bergham, Agoslini Caracci, Bloemart, Gravelot, Hayman, Barlow, Sir James Thornhill, Sandby, Wyke, Hollar, Rysbrack, Vandevelde, Serres, Canaleti, Zuccarelli, Chatelain, Van Goyen, Hogarth, Snyders : in the prints are some of Wollett's choicest proofs, in the finest condition possible, viz. :--The dog, the fishery, Macbeth, Ceyx, and Alcyone, cottagers and jocund peasants, some few fine by Wille : portraits and views by Hollar : etchings by Du Jardin, Ruysdael, Both, &c. : in the pictures are, specimens by Wienix, Vander Neer, Wooton, Marco Ricci, Van Goyen, Seymour, Simonini, & : which will be sold by suction, by Mr. King, (by order of the executor,) on the premises, No,. 5, Five-Field Row, Chelsea, on Wednesday, June 12, 1799, and two following days, at 12 o'clock : to be viewed on Monday preceding, and catalogues then had at the place of sale, and no. 38, King-Street, Covent-Garden.

Creator:: King, Thomas
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 14 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17754. A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, collected by Lieutenant General James Dormer, / which will be sold by auction (by order of the administrator) by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent -Garden : to begin on Monday, February the 20th, 1764, and to continue the nineteen following evenings, beginning each evening exactly at six o'clock.

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1764]
Physical Description:: 2 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17755. Idée générale d'une collection complette d'estampes. Avec une dissertation sur l'origine de la gravure & sur les premiers livres d'images.

Creator:: Heinecken, Karl-Heinrich von, 1707–1791
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 520, [32] p. ill., 28 (i.e. 32) plates (part fold.) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17756. The principles of painting ... To which is added, The balance of painters. Being the names of the most noted painters, and their degrees of perfection in the four principal parts of their art ... Written originally in French by Mons. Du Piles ... And now first translated into English. By a painter.

Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: 1743
Physical Description:: xii, 300, [8] p. II plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17757. Supplement a la Bibliographie instructive, ou, Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Louis Jean Gaignat ... / disposé, & mis en ordre par Guill. François De Bure le jeune ... ; avec une table alphabétique des auteurs.

Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17758. [Carriage and harness manufacturer's pattern book].

Date:: [179-?]
Physical Description:: [41] folded leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17759. An Act to explain and amend a clause in an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the game, in relation to the selling or offering to sale any game.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [2], 335-336 p. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17760. A new map of the English empire in America [cartographic material] : viz Virginia New York Maryland New Jarsey Carolina New England Pennsylvania Newfoundland New France &c. / Revis'd by Ion. Senex 1719. ; J. Harris sculp.

Creator:: Senex, John, -1740
Date:: 1719
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand colored ; 49 x 58 cm, on sheet 55 x 63 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17761. Cambridgeshire.

Date:: [1784]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 32 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

17762. Le nouveau & grand illuminant flambeau de la mer, de tout le monde : contenant la premiere, deuxieme, troizieme, quatrieme, & cinquieme partie : par lesquelles il est clairement & parfaitement bien demonstré toutes les côtes maritimes cônues de tout le monde : avec une pertinentes description de tous les havres, bayes, rades conues, secs, estendues des coursses, & ouvertures des terres, le tout dressé sur leurs vrayes hauteurs polaire ... / recueilli & assemblé ... par Nicolas Jansz. Vooght & Gerard van Keulen, geomêtre & maistre en mathematiques.

Creator:: Vooght, Claes Janszoon, -1696
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (6 volumes) : illustrations, maps ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17763. A catalogue of the collection of pictures and drawings framed and glazed, and studies from nature by Mr. George Barrett, of Orchard Street, Portman Square : several of which are particular views in Scotland, England, and Wales ; which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden : on Thursday the 9th of this Instant May 1771 : the said Collection may be viewed on Tuesday the 7th, and till the Time of Sale, which will begin punctually at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Mr. Langford and Son
Date:: [1771]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17764. Sculptura historico-technica: or, The history and art of engraving ... Extracted from Baldinucci, Florent le Compte [!] Fairthorne [!] the Abecedario pittorico, and other authors. With copper-plates.

Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: xi, 264 p. 10 plates. 19 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17765. An abstract of an Answer lately publish'd to a pamphlet intitled Frauds and abuses at St. Paul's.

Date:: 1713
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 18 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17766. The artist's vade-mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17767. A survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin : with the division of the parishes, reduced from the large plan in four sheets / by Iohn Rocque ... = Plan de la ville et faubourgs de Dublin : avec la divisions des paroisses, redui d'apres celui qui est en 4 feuilles / levé et publiez par Iean Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map : 48 x 70 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17768. Piante elevazioni profili e spaccati degli edifici della villa suburbana di Giulio III : Pontefico Massimo fuori la Porta Flaminia / misurati e delineati da Giovanni Stern, architetto romano.

Creator:: Stern, Giovanni, 1734–1794 or 1795
Date:: MDCCLXXXIIII [1784]
Physical Description:: 115 [i.e. 55], [1] pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 79 x 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17769. Eastward ho!!! or, Quoz's letters, relative to the wet dock bill : with an additional letter.

Creator:: Stonestreet, George Griffin
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 35, [1] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17770. Oikidia, or, Nutshells : being ichnographic distributions for small villas : chiefly upon oconomical [sic] principles : in seven classes : with occasional remarks / by Jose Macpacke, a bricklayer's labourer ; part the first, containing twelve designs.

Creator:: Peacock, James, 1738?-1814
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: [4], 89, [3] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17771. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat [sic] and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters ... &c., intersperd with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building : with a great variety of new and useful tables ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 187, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17772. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

Creator:: Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:: 23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17773. A copy of the poll for knights of the shire for the county of Bedford : which began at the town of Bedford on Wednesday the 7th April, 1784, and ended on Monday the 19th : William Goldsmith, Esquire, Sheriff.

Creator:: Bedfordshire (England)
Date:: [1784]
Physical Description:: 73, [1] leaves, 28 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17774. Characters and criticisms upon the ancient and modern orators, poets, painters, musicians, statuaries, & other arts and sciences. With an heroick poem (in blank verse) intituled The age of Lewis the Great. Written originally in French by the Archbishop of Cambray, and made English by Capt. Bladen.

Creator:: Callières, Monsieur de (François), 1645–1717
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 211, [13] p. fold. front. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17775. The royal dictionary abridged. In two parts. : I. French and English. II. English and French ... To which are added, the accents of all English words, to facilitate their pronunciation to foreigners. / By Mr. A. Boyer.

Creator:: Boyer, Abel, 1667–1729
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: 2 v., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17776. Walpoliana ...

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : fold. facsim. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17777. Mœurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps / par le P. Lafitau, de la Compagnie de Jesus ; ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce.

Creator:: Lafitau, Joseph-François, 1681–1746
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17778. Excerpta è statutis Academiæ Cantabrigiensis præfectorum interpretationibus, Senatus decretis, et literis regiis, ad scholarium officia pertinentia.

Creator:: University of Cambridge
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [2], 36 p. : 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17779. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam : perillustris ac magnifici domini Ignatii Christophori nobilis domini de Guarient, & Rall, sacri Romani imperii, & Regni Hungariae equitis, sacrae Caesareae Majestatis consiliarii Aulico-Bellici ab augustissimo, & invictissimo Romanorum Imperatore Leopoldo I. ad serenissimum, ac potentissimum Tzarum, & magnum Moscoviae Ducem Petrum Alexiowicium anno MDCXCVIII / ablegati extraordinarii descriptum a Joanne Georgio Korb, p.t. secretario ablegationis Caesareae ; accessit reditus suae Tzareae Majestatis à provinciis Europaeis ad proprios limites periculosae rebellionis Streliziorum, & latae in eosdem sententiae cum subsecuta sanguinea executione, nec non praecipuarum Moscoviae rerum compendiosa, & accurata descriptio &c.

Creator:: Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
Date:: [1700?]
Physical Description:: [6], 252 p., [19] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 3 maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17780. A new collection of chimney pieces ornamented, in the style of the Etruscan, Greek, and Roman architecture : containing thirty six designs, suitable to the most elegant range of apartments : with descriptions of the plates in English and French / composed, etched and engraved in aquatinta by George Richardson = Nouveau recueil de cheminées ornées dans le stile de l'architecture etrusque, grecque, & romaine : contenant trente six desseins : sortables aux appartements les plus elegants : avec les descriptions des planches en anglois & en françois / composés & gravés en aquatinta par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Physical Description:: [2], 16 pages, XXXVI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17781. Stowe : a description of the house and gardens of the most noble & puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckinghamshire.

Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [3], vi-[viii], [9]-63, [1] pages, [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

17782. New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

Creator:: Hoofnail, John
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: vi, 2, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17783. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: [2], 33, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17784. The gentleman's and builder's director, or, A key that openth to your sight at once, brick work ... / by Edward Roman.

Creator:: Roman, Edward
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: 15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17785. New remarks of London or, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, of Southwark, and part of Middlesex and Surrey, within the circumference of the bills of mortality. Containing the situation ... of each church; the value of the rectory ... Likewise, an alphabetical table of all the streets, courts, lanes ... Collected by the Company of Parish-Clerks ...

Creator:: Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 410 [i.e., 412] p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17786. The artists assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, metzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins ... Methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 48 p. plates, port. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17787. Briefe über die Kunst an eine Freundinn von Joseph Friedrich, Freyherrn zu Racknitz ...

Creator:: Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich, Freiherr zu, 1744–1818
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: iv, [2] p., 1 leaf, [v]-viii, 56, 76 p. XIII fold. plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17788. Lettre à un amateur de la peinture avec des eclaircissemens historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableaux qui le composent. Ouvrage entremêlé de digressions sur la vie de plusieurs peintres modernes.

Creator:: Janneck, Franz Christoph
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 368, [14] p. front. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17789. The American atlas, or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America : wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and islands, and chiefly the British colonies, composed from numerous surveys, several of which were made by order of government / by Capt. Holland, Capt. Carver, Lewis Evans, William Scull, Henry Mouzon, Lieut. Ross, J. Cook, Michael Lane, Joseph Gilbert, Gardner, Hillock, &c. &c. ; engraved on forty-eight copper-plates by the late Mr. Thomas Jefferys, geographer to the king, and others.

Creator:: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2] leaves, [58] leaves of plates (some folded)) : 29 maps ; 54 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17790. The Post office London directory.

Physical Description:: v. maps. 18-27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17791. Pain's British Palladio: or, The builder's general assistant. Demonstrating in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections. Also, clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject, in letter-press; with a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only ... The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 4, 16 p. 42 plates (part double) 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17792. Storia delle arti del disegno presso gli antichi di Giovanni Winkelmann / tradotta dal Tedesco e in questa edizione corretta e aumentata dall' Abate Carlo Fea ...

Creator:: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Date:: 1783-1784
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., ports. (one folded), plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17793. A series of prints of Roman history : dsesigned as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.

Creator:: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741–1810
Date:: [1789]
Physical Description:: [1], 64 leaves : all ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17794. The balnea, or, An impartial description of all the popular watering places in England : interspersed with original sketches and incidental anecdotes ... : with observations on several ancient and respectable towns and cities leading to the above remarkable places / by George Saville Carey ...

Creator:: Carey, George Saville, 1743–1807
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: xii, 275 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17795. The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester ... / by Valentine Green.

Creator:: Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
Date:: MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17796. To the most high puissant & noble prince, Charles, Duke of Marlborough : this plan of Windsor Park is most humbly inscribed / by ... J. Rocque = Plan du chateau et parc de Windsor, dans la conté de Berk. a 20 miles de Londres : renferment une des maisons et jardins du duc de Marlborough / tres exactement levé et gravé par J. Rocque ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: 1 map : ill. ; 38 x 62 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17797. La nvova architettura civile, e militare / di Alessandro Capra, architetto, e cittadino cremonese ; divisa in due tomi, in questa nuova impressione diligentemente corretta, ed accresciuta.

Creator:: Capra, Alessandro, 17th cent
Date:: MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17798. A collection of Welsh tours, or, A display of the beauties of Wales selected principally from celebrated histories and popular tours : with occasional remarks : to which is added a tour of the River Wye.

Creator:: Torbuck, John, -1707
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: xix, 456 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17799. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

Creator:: Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734–1794
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: [12], 112 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17800. A treatise of painting / by Leonardo da Vinci ; translated from the original Italian ... ; to which is prefix'd, the author's life ... from the last edition of the French.

Creator:: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519
Date:: 1721
Physical Description:: [16], 189, [19] p., [36] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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17702. Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) : illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, in three books ... / by William Gilpin ...

17703. Museum Etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis cc. / nunc primum edita et illustrata observationibus Antonii Francisci Gorii, publici historiarum professoris.

17704. The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of useful designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces, slab tables, pier glasses, or tabernacle frames ... / explained on copper plates by Wm. Jones.

17705. A general map of England & Wales, divided into its counties.

17708. Diary in Turkey and Greece : manuscript.

17710. A residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 / described in a series of letters from an English lady : with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners ; prepared for the press by John Gifford ...

17711. Twelve views in Kent [graphic] / drawn from nature by J. Cleveley Junr = Douze vües en Kent / tirées d'aprés nature par J. Cleveley Junr.

17712. Twelve views of the Great Canal of Venice [graphic] = Douze vües du Grand Canal de Venise.

17713. Observations on the ventilation of rooms, on the construction of chimneys, and on garden stoves / principally collected from papers left by the late John Whitehurst, F.R.S.

17715. The art of painting in miniature ... Translated from the original French. To which are now added I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest colours ... II. Some ... lessons for the art of drawing ... III. The usefulness and benefit of prints.

17716. Abstract of the instrument of institution of the Royal Academy of Arts in London : established December 10, 1768.

17717. To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales : with the tragedy of Cato, Nov. 1714 : to Sir Godfrey Kneller on his picture of the King.

17718. A description of a set of prints of Scripture history : contained in a set of easy lessons / by Mrs. Trimmer.

17725. The roads from London to Norwich, Cambridge, Ely & Kings Lynn [cartographic material] : comg. at Puckeridge in the Chester Road : also from Oxford to Cambridge / Thos. Bowen sculpt. Fleet Street.

17726. A map of the British Empire in America : with the French, Spanish and Hollandish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple ; I. Condet s.

17727. James Bruce archive, ca. 1750-ca.1850.

17728. An essay on design: including proposals for erecting a public academy to be supported by voluntary subscription (till a royal foundation can be obtain'd) for educating the British youth in drawing, and the several arts depending thereon ...

17730. The elements of beauty. : Also, Reflections on the harmony of sensibility and reason / By J. Donaldson.

17731. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

17733. A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world.

17734. Thirty letters on various subjects ...

17735. Twelve prospects in Derby-shire, Cheshire, Lincoln-shire, York, Durham, and noblemen's parks [graphic].

17737. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

17739. A new book of shipping : on six plates.

17740. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

17741. A letter to the Dilettanti Society, respecting the obtention of certain matters essentially necessary for the improvement of public taste, and for accomplishing the original views of the Royal Academy of Great-Britain. By James Barry ...

17742. The history of Derby; from the remote ages of antiquity to the year MDCCXCI. Describing its situation, air, soil, water, streets, buildings, and government. With the illustrious families which have inherited its honours ... By W. Hutton, F.A.S.S.

17743. Six designs of frizes. By Js. Gandon, archt.

17745. Thirty-six views in Scotland, chiefly from drawings by J. C. esq. With descriptions.

17746. An account of the trial of Alexander Whyte, baker, for a false, malicious, and seditious libel : of which charge he was honorably acquitted at the quarter sessions, held for the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, on Wednesday, July 17, 1793.

17748. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads of Scotland / by Daniel Paterson ...

17750. A plan of the city of Dublin and the environs : on the same scale of London, Paris & Rome / by John Rocque ... = Plan de Dublin et de ces environs : sur la meme echelle de ceux de Londres, Paris et Rome / par J. Rocque ...

17751. Gemmarum antiquarum delectus.

17752. Zograscope.

17755. Idée générale d'une collection complette d'estampes. Avec une dissertation sur l'origine de la gravure & sur les premiers livres d'images.

17757. Supplement a la Bibliographie instructive, ou, Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Louis Jean Gaignat ... / disposé, & mis en ordre par Guill. François De Bure le jeune ... ; avec une table alphabétique des auteurs.

17758. [Carriage and harness manufacturer's pattern book].

17759. An Act to explain and amend a clause in an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the game, in relation to the selling or offering to sale any game.

17760. A new map of the English empire in America [cartographic material] : viz Virginia New York Maryland New Jarsey Carolina New England Pennsylvania Newfoundland New France &c. / Revis'd by Ion. Senex 1719. ; J. Harris sculp.

17761. Cambridgeshire.

17764. Sculptura historico-technica: or, The history and art of engraving ... Extracted from Baldinucci, Florent le Compte [!] Fairthorne [!] the Abecedario pittorico, and other authors. With copper-plates.

17765. An abstract of an Answer lately publish'd to a pamphlet intitled Frauds and abuses at St. Paul's.

17768. Piante elevazioni profili e spaccati degli edifici della villa suburbana di Giulio III : Pontefico Massimo fuori la Porta Flaminia / misurati e delineati da Giovanni Stern, architetto romano.

17769. Eastward ho!!! or, Quoz's letters, relative to the wet dock bill : with an additional letter.

17770. Oikidia, or, Nutshells : being ichnographic distributions for small villas : chiefly upon oconomical [sic] principles : in seven classes : with occasional remarks / by Jose Macpacke, a bricklayer's labourer ; part the first, containing twelve designs.

17773. A copy of the poll for knights of the shire for the county of Bedford : which began at the town of Bedford on Wednesday the 7th April, 1784, and ended on Monday the 19th : William Goldsmith, Esquire, Sheriff.

17775. The royal dictionary abridged. In two parts. : I. French and English. II. English and French ... To which are added, the accents of all English words, to facilitate their pronunciation to foreigners. / By Mr. A. Boyer.

17776. Walpoliana ...

17777. Mœurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps / par le P. Lafitau, de la Compagnie de Jesus ; ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce.

17778. Excerpta è statutis Academiæ Cantabrigiensis præfectorum interpretationibus, Senatus decretis, et literis regiis, ad scholarium officia pertinentia.

17781. Stowe : a description of the house and gardens of the most noble & puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckinghamshire.

17783. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

17784. The gentleman's and builder's director, or, A key that openth to your sight at once, brick work ... / by Edward Roman.

17786. The artists assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, metzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins ... Methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners.

17787. Briefe über die Kunst an eine Freundinn von Joseph Friedrich, Freyherrn zu Racknitz ...

17788. Lettre à un amateur de la peinture avec des eclaircissemens historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableaux qui le composent. Ouvrage entremêlé de digressions sur la vie de plusieurs peintres modernes.

17790. The Post office London directory.

17792. Storia delle arti del disegno presso gli antichi di Giovanni Winkelmann / tradotta dal Tedesco e in questa edizione corretta e aumentata dall' Abate Carlo Fea ...

17793. A series of prints of Roman history : dsesigned as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.

17795. The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester ... / by Valentine Green.

17797. La nvova architettura civile, e militare / di Alessandro Capra, architetto, e cittadino cremonese ; divisa in due tomi, in questa nuova impressione diligentemente corretta, ed accresciuta.

17798. A collection of Welsh tours, or, A display of the beauties of Wales selected principally from celebrated histories and popular tours : with occasional remarks : to which is added a tour of the River Wye.

17799. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

17800. A treatise of painting / by Leonardo da Vinci ; translated from the original Italian ... ; to which is prefix'd, the author's life ... from the last edition of the French.