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17801. A set of thirty six new and correct maps of Scotland divided into its shires, &c. : a work long wanted, and very useful for all gentlemen that travel to any part of that kingdom / all, except two, composed and done by Herman Moll, geographer ...

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
[1725]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4] pages, [36] leaves of plates) ; 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17802. Practical geometry, or, A new and easy method of treating that art ... / translated from the french of Monsieur S. Le Clerc.

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Creator:
Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:
1727
Physical Description:
1 p., 195, [6] p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17803. [Campaign box belonging to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn] [realia].

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Creator:
Bramah, Joseph, 1749–1814
Date:
[London?] :
Physical Description:
1 campaign box : leather, brass, and velvet ; 12 x 28 x 10 cm + 1 metal key
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

17804. A call to the connoisseurs, or Decisions of sense, with respect to the present state of painting and sculpture, and their several professors in these kingdoms. Together with a review of and examination into their comparative merits and excellencies. Intended to vindicate the genius and abilities, of the artists of our own country, from the malevolence of pretended connoisseurs, or interested dealers ... By T.B. esq;

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Creator:
T. B
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
2 p.., 44 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17805. A collection of the most remarkable ruins of Lisbon : as they appeared immediately after the great earthquake and fire, which destroyed that city November 1, 1755 / drawn on the spot by Messieurs Paris and Pedegache = Collecaõ de algumas ruinas de Lisboa : causadas pelo terremoto & pelo fogo, do primeiro de Novembro, do anno 1755 / debuxadas na mesma Cidade par m.m. Paris & Pedegade = Receuil des plus belles ruines de Lisbonne : causées par le tremblement et par le feu du premier Novembre 1755 / deffiné sur les lieux par m.m. Paris & Pedegache.

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Creator:
Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe, 1707–1783
Date:
[not before 1757]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 x 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17806. A survey of the house, gardens & park of Claremount : one of the seats of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle / survey'd & publish'd ... by J. Rocque ... = Plan des jardins & parc de Claremount : une des maisons de plaisance du duc de Newcastle / levé & publié par J. Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
1 map ; 25 x 50 cm., on sheet 36 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17807. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

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Creator:
Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:
MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:
[8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17808. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.

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Creator:
Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
[2], 35, [3] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17809. Verstellung und Beschreibung derer Schul und Campagne Pferden nach ihren Lectionen, in was vor Gelegenheiten solche können gebraucht werden. Representation et description de toutes les leçons des chevaux de manège et de la campagne, dans quelles occasions on s'en puisse servir.

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Creator:
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698–1767
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
1 p.l., 35 p., 46 plates. 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17810. Travels in Greece, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti / by Richard Chandler, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and of the Society of Antiquaries.

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Creator:
Chandler, Richard, 1738–1810
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
4, xiv, [2], 304 p., [7] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17811. Nachtricht von den Frankischen Kraistrouppen : neb einem anhang von den Schwabischen Kreisregimentun.

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Date:
1782
Physical Description:
[1], 6-102 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17812. America.

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Creator:
Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676–1751
Date:
[after 1727]
Physical Description:
1 map : outline color ; 56.7 x 97.3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17813. Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

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Creator:
Anburey, Thomas, author
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17814. The ancient and present state of Glocestershire. By Sir Robert Atkyns, knt.

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Creator:
Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1647–1711
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
5 p. l., 452, [6] p. 71 pl. (part double, part fold.), coats of arms, double map, double plan. 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17815. [Commercial traveler's catalog of silver-plated ware, possibly made in Sheffield].

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Date:
[ca. 1780]
Physical Description:
13 prints (in 1 volume) : engravings ; 24 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17816. Twelve prints representing the most interesting, sentimental, and humorous scenes in Tristram Shandy [graphic] / by R. Dighton.

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Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814
Date:
published as the Act directs 3 Jan. 1785
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17817. The pilgrim's progress, from the world, to that which is to come : the third part : delivered under the similitude of a dream : shewing the several difficulties and dangers he met with and the many victories he obtain'd over the world, the flesh, and the devil : together with his happy arrival at the celestial city, and the glory and joy he found to his eternal comfort : to which is added, the life and death of John Bunyan, author of the first and second part : compleating the whole progress.

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Date:
[1725?]
Physical Description:
[10], 138, 31, [1] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17818. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
27, [3] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17819. L'Aminta, di Torquato Tasso : favola boschereccia = Tasso's Aminta : a pastoral comedy : in Italian and English.

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Creator:
Tasso, Torquato, 1544–1595
Date:
[1701?]
Physical Description:
[12], 135, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17820. The county of Suffolk [cartographic material] / surveyed by Joseph Hodskinson.

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Creator:
Hodskinson, Joseph
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
1 map on 6 sheets : hand col. ; 120 x 162 cm on sheets 64 x 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17821. [Twelve prospects in that part of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, called the Peak and Moor Lands] [graphic].

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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

17822. Bowles's art of painting in water-colours : exemplified in landscapes, flowers, &c. : together with instructions for painting on glass and in crayons : explained in a full and familiar manner : with particular directions for preparing the colours agreeable to the practice of the most eminent masters / by the author of Bowles's artist's assistant.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
[i]-iv, [5-7], 8-80 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17823. Nederlandsche Rijtuigfabriek.

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Creator:
Schrader, J .G. G
Date:
[s.d.]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17824. The British architect, or, The builder's treasury of stair-cases : containing : I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved ... on sixty folio copper-plates / by Abraham Swan.

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Creator:
Swan, Abraham
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
viii, 20 p., [56] leaves : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17825. Speculi Britanniae pars : a topographical and historical description of Cornwall : with a map of the County and each hundred; in which are contained the names and seats of the several gentlemen then inhabitants, as also, thirteen views of the remarkable curiosities in that county / by the perambulation, view, and delineation of John Norden ; to which are added, The west prospect of the some-time Conventual Church of St. Germans ; and a table of the distances of the towns from each other ; with some account of the author.

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Creator:
Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:
1728
Physical Description:
[24], 104 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., maps (some folded) ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17826. John Boydell account book : autograph manuscript, fragment.

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Creator:
Boydell, John, 1720–1804
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
2 leaves ; 37 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

17827. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks and other buildings : for decorating pleasure-ground, parks, forests, &c., &c. : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soan [sic].

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[1], [2] p. : [38] (i.e. 37) leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17828. A catalogue of a genuine and capital collection of Roman earthen ware in dishes, plates, ewers, &c. : painted by Raphael, Benvenuto Garofolo, Julio Romano, Vasari, Paci, Roso, Perino del Vaga, and others : also, a curious collection of miniatures by Isaac Oliver, Hillier, Hoskins, and others : and likewise several pictures by various Master's : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday and Friday, the 17th and 18th of this instant March 1757 : to be viewed on Tuesday the 15th and every day after till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock :

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1757]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17829. L'art d'imprimer les tableaux. Traité d'après les écrits, les opérations & les instructions verbales, de J. C. Le Blon.

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Creator:
Gautier de Montdorge, Antoine, 1701–1768
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
xi, vi, [2], [xiii]-xxv, [26]-180, [4] p. 3 fold pl. (1 col.) 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17830. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

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Creator:
Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:
MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:
24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17831. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

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Date:
[ca. 1780?]
Physical Description:
[5] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17832. Horse accomplishments.

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Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
12 prints : aquatint ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17833. Instruction sur l'art de séparer le cuivre du métal des cloches / publié par ordre du Comité de salut public.

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Creator:
Pelletier, Bertrand, 1761–1797
Date:
l'an 2me. de la République française [1794]
Physical Description:
32 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17834. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, copied by a chemical and mechanical process by the Polygraphic Society, from original pictures of the following esteemed masters, viz. : Teniers, Vandevelde, Ruysdael, Van Oss, Claude, Vernet, Bourgeois, Serres, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Northcote, Opie, Wright, Stubbs, Angelica, Reinegall, Wilson, &c. : which on account of the death of Mr. Goddard, the late acting manager of the affairs of the Society, has determined the other parties interested therein totally to relinquish the concern : the above property will therefore be sold by auction (by order of the executors of Thomas Goddard, Esq.) by Mr. Christie, at the Polygraphic Rooms, Pall Mall.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17835. A catalogue of a most capital and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : the property of the late Thomas Hankey, Esq. dec. (in pursuance of the directions of his will) collected during the course of a number of years, by John Bernard, Esq., universally esteemed for his correct knowledge of the fine arts and superior taste in the line of the virtù : selected from the finest collections, both foreign and domestic, at a most liberal expence, and consisting of the undoubted works of the following great and esteemed masters : L. da Vinci, P. Veronese, J. Bassan, Proccasino, Corregio, Maturino, Parmegiano, H. Carracci, F. Laura, Sal. Rosa, Claude, C. Marratt, Poussin, Bourdon, Borgonione, Zuccarelli, Canaletti, Van Dyck, Teniers, Berghem, Ruysdael, Cuyp, Van de Velde, Jan Steen, &c. / which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, on the premises, the north side of Bedford Square, on Friday, June 7, 1799, and following day at twelve o'clock : to be viewed four days preceding the sale, by tickets, to be had only in Pall Mall : and to prevent improper persons from intruding, no one will be admitted without a ticket : catalogues may be ad at two shillings and sixpence, (to be returned to purchasers), on the premises, and in Pall Mall..

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17836. The poetical works of J. Armstrong ... With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

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Creator:
Armstrong, John, 1709–1779
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
[2], xi, [1], 14-87, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17837. The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith.: With the life of the author.

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Creator:
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
[6], xxiv, 67, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17838. A catalogue of a collection of modern pictures & drawings, chiefly consisting of the works and property of Mr. Serres, Junior, marine painter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence going to Italy : to which are added, some by the most admired and esteemed masters, viz. : West, Barret, Wheatley, Ibberson, Morland, Rathbone, Ashford, Pether, Schweickhardt, Reinagle, De Bruyn, Carver, Bourgeois, Sandby, Payne, De Roye, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Greenwood at his room in Leicester-Square on Thursday the 22d of April, 1790, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday, preceding the sale.

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Creator:
Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17839. [Invitation to dine with Tallow Chandlers].

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Date:
[approximately 1790?]
Physical Description:
1 ticket ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Valerie Jackson-Harris.

17840. The handmaid to the arts.

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Creator:
Dossie, Robert, d. 1777
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17841. A description of Bath, wherein the antiquity of the city, as well as the eminence of its founder; its magnitude, situation ... are respectively treated of ... Illustrated with the figure of King Bladud, the first founder of the city; together with proper plans and elevations from twenty-two copper plates. By John Wood ...

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1765
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part fold.) port., plans (part fold.) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17842. Bowles's new preceptor in drawing ... Being the close study, for a series of years, of the late Mr. Lens ... On sixty-two copper-plates, engraved by himself. Designed chiefly for young beginners ... To which is prefixed, An introduction to drawing ... Translated from the French of monsieur Gerard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. du Fresnoy, Salmon, &c.

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Date:
[ca. 1799]
Physical Description:
20 p. 62 plates on 42 leaves. 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17843. Stereography, or, A compleat body of perspective : in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions. Together with their projections or shadows, and their reflections by polished planes. The whole performed by uniform, easy, and general methods, for the most part entirely new. In seven books / By J. Hamilton ... In two volumes.

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Creator:
Hamilton, J. (John)
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
[9] p., 400, [6] p. : diagrs. on 130 fold. pl. ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17844. The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith ... : complete in one volume : with the life of the author / embellished with vignettes & tail-pieces, designed and engraved on wood by T. Bewick ...

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Creator:
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
93 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17845. Catalogue des volumes d'estampes / dont les planches font à la bibliothèque du roy.

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Creator:
Bibliothèque nationale (France). Cabinet des estampes
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
34 p. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17846. A guide through the Royal Academy / by Joseph Baretti ...

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Creator:
Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio, 1719–1789
Physical Description:
32 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17847. The history of England / written in French by Mr. Rapin de Thoyras ; translated into English, with additional notes, by N. Tindal ...

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Creator:
Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661–1725
Date:
1743-1747
Physical Description:
4 v. in 5 : ill., geneal. tables, maps, ports. 40 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17848. The Prince of Abissinia : a tale in two volumes.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17849. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... By E. Hargrove.

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Creator:
Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
4, 382 p. front., ill., plates, plan, col. fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17850. The trial of Frederick Calvert, Esq., Baron of Baltimore in the kingdom of Ireland, for a rape on the body of Sarah Woodcock : and of Eliz. Griffinburg and Ann Harvey, otherwise Darby, as accessaries before the fact, for procuring, aiding, and abetting him in committing the said rape : at the assizes held at Kingston for the county of Surry, on Saturday the 26th of March, 1768 before the Hon. Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe, Knt., one of the barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer / published by permission of the judge ; taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.

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Creator:
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731–1771
Date:
MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:
[2], 74 p. ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17851. Réflexions sur l'alphabet et sur la langue dont on se servoit autrefois à Palmyre / par M. l'Abbé Barthelemy.

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Creator:
Barthélemy, J.-J. (Jean-Jacques), 1716–1795
Date:
1754
Physical Description:
8 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17852. A catalogue of the genuine and well-known collection of large and other pictures, brought from Buckingham-House : amongst the collection are the following masters, Ann. Carracci, Raphael, Fetti, Castiglione, Tintoret, Rembrandt, Parmegiano, Val. Castelli, Holbein, Car. Maretti, Calabresse, Salviati, and the remarkable fine picture of Endimion Porter's family, by Vandyke : likewise the fine drawings by Titian, Raphael, Palma, Rubens, &c. framed and glazed : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his Great Room the End of Savile-Row, next Conduit-street, Hanover-square, the 24th and 25th of Feb. 1763.

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Creator:
Prestage, John, -1767
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17853. A catalogue of a capital and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : the property of a gentleman : comprising the works of the following much esteemed Masters, viz. : Raphael, Corregio, Giogione, Baldalocci, Claude, Poussin, Borgonione, Watteaux, Rembrandt, Wouvermans, Both, Ruysdael, Vandervelde, Teniers, Rottenhamer, Brughel, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Sharp, and Harper, at the Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday 13th, and Monday 15th of May, 1797, at twelve o'clock : to be publicly viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had in Pall Mall : and at no. 32, Winchester Street.

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Creator:
Christie, Sharp, and Harper
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17854. Ancient stained glass: to be sold by private contract, separately or together. no. 98, Pall-Mall, (rooms formerly belonging to the Deletani Society) : a valuable collection of ancient stained glass for churches, public buildings, & cabinets : among other subjects are: the Crucifixion : Presentation : Martyrdom of St. John : Assumption of the Virgin : the Saviour at Emmaus : Visitation : Last Supper : Martyrdom of St. Catherine : St. Paul at Malta : Fall of Man : to be viewed only with tickets, one shilling each, which will be returned to purchasers : the nobility, clergy and collectors of these rare specimens of the art, are respectfully entreated to attend to the above, which were brought from the Continent, and are in fine preservation.

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Physical Description:
1 page 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17855. To Sir Joshua Reynolds : on his late resignation of the president's chair of the Royal Academy / by the Earl of Carlisle.

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Creator:
Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748–1825
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
[2], 5 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17856. The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Canterbury, and the once-adjoining monastery: containing, an account of its first establishment, building, reedifications, repairs, endowments, benefactions, chapels, altars, shrines, reliques, chauntries, obiits, ornaments, books, jewels, plate, vestments; before the dissolution of the monastery: and the manner of its dissolution. A survey of the present church and cloysters, monuments, and inscriptions, with other things remarkable: which, with the several prospects of the church, are engraved by the best hands. The lives of the archbishops, priors, &c. of Christ-church: with an account of learned men there flourishing in their several times. An appendix of ancient charters and writings relating to the church and monastery. A catalogue of the church-wealth in prior Estrey's time. An ancient Saxon obituary and a large one continu'd thence downward. By the Reverend Mr. J. Dart.

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Creator:
Dart, John, -1730
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
2 p. l., ix, 204, lvi p. illus., plates (part. fold.), coats of arms, plan. 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17857. Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham, one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter : embellished with a general plan of the gardens : and also a separate plan of the house and of each building, with perspective views of the same.

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Date:
1777
Physical Description:
41, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17858. The English garden: a poem ... By W. Mason ...

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Creator:
Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:
1772-1781
Physical Description:
4 v. in 1. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17859. [Davy's etchings of churches and seats in Suffolk]

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Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17860. Outlines of figures, landscape, & cattle, etched by T. Rowlandson ...

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Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1790-92]
Physical Description:
16 col. plates. 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17861. A survey of the city of Worcester, containing the ecclesiastical and civil government thereof, as originally founded, and the present administration as since reformed. Comprehending also the most material parts of its history, from its foundation to the present time. Extracted from the best authorities. Together with an account of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity, or use, in this antient city. The whole embellished with sixteen copper-plates of perspective views of the publick buildings, &c. engraved from original drawings, taken on purpose for this work ... By Valentine Green ...

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Creator:
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
2 p.., vii, [1], 252 p. plates (part fold.) map. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17862. A catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue ; to which is added an account of the life and works of the latter.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1765
Physical Description:
[4], 140, 14, 20, [8] pages, [9] unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17863. To the honourable Archibald Douglas esqr. of Douglas ... these plates exhibiting the solemnities, and ceremonies used at the sitting down, & rising of the Scots Parliament, before the union with England, are most humbly enscribed, by his most obedient & devoted humble servt. Thomas Sommers.

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Date:
17--]
Physical Description:
3 plates 48 x 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17864. Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters.

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Creator:
Beckford, William, 1760–1844
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
[4], 158, [2] ; 19 cm.(8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17865. Specimens of Gothic Ornaments selected from the Parish Church of Lavenham in Suffolk on forty plates.

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Physical Description:
[2] leaves, [39] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17866. The young ladies school of arts : containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, shell-work, gilding ... : also a great many curious receipts both useful and entertaining, never published / by Mrs. Hannah Robertson.

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Creator:
Robertson, Hannah
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
xx, [2], 182 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17867. The traveller's guide to Lochlomond, and its environs : illustrated with a map / by Charles Ross.

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Creator:
Ross, Charles
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
111 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17868. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

No cover image available
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[101] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17869. A Topographical Map of the Isle of Wight ... on a scale of 2 inches to a mile ... By J. Andrews ... Second edition. (A Plan of the Town of Newport).

No cover image available
Date:
1775
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17870. The four Indian kings.

No cover image available
Date:
[1780?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 22 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17871. Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; with cursory remarks upon the present state of arts in that kingdom.

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Creator:
Cumberland, Richard, 1732–1811
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17872. Account of the institution and progress of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, by William Smellie.

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Creator:
Smellie, William, 1740–1795
Date:
1782-84
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17873. Le peintre amateur et curieux, ou description générale des tableaux des plus habiles maîtres, qui font l'ornement des églises, couvents, abbayes prieurés & cabinets particuliers dans l'et́endue des Pays-Bas Autrichiens ... Par G.P. Mensaert ...

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Creator:
Mensaert, Guillaume Pierre, 1711–1777
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17874. The elements of heraldry: ... embellished with several fine cuts, and twenty-four copper plates containing above five hundred different examples of escutcheons, arms, &c. ... To which is annexed, a dictionary of the technical terms made use of in heraldry. / By Mark Anthony Porny ...

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Creator:
Porny, Mr
Date:
MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description:
xx, 199, [41] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 20 cm (8 vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17875. Warley : a satire addressed to the first artist in Europe ...

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Creator:
Huddesford, George, 1749–1809
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
2 pts. (25, [4]; 32, [3] p.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17876. A companion and useful guide to the beauties of Scotland, to the lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the curiosities in the district of Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire : to which is added, a more particular description of Scotland, especially that part of it called the Highlands / by the Hon. Mrs. Murray ...

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Creator:
Murray, Sarah, 1744–1811
Date:
1799-1805
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17877. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved : being an actual survey of all the direct and principal cross roads of England and Wales : shewing all the cities, towns, villages, churches, gentlemen's seats, &c. situated on, or near any of the roads ... / engraved by Emanuel Bowen ... ; to which is added an accurate historical and topographical description of all the cities, boroughs, towns corporate, and other places of note ; compiled from the best authorities, by John Owen ... ; the whole illustrated with maps of all the counties of South-Britain, and a summary description of each.

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
12, 273 p. : coats of arms, maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17878. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17879. The Chester guide : giving an account of its antiquities, buildings, customs, churches, government, trade, &c. : together with a list of the earls of Chester, embellished with views of the cathedral, old East-Gate and Bridge-Gate, Outer Castle-Gate, and the Barrs : to which is added a directory.

No cover image available
Date:
[1795]
Physical Description:
[6], 96 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17880. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
[4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17881. A catalogue of a most superb and distinguished collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : a selection formed with peculiar taste and judgment by John Trumbull, Esq. during his late residence in Paris, from some of the most celebrated cabinets in France : consisting of the undoubted works of the following great masters, in the highest state of preservation : Raphael, Titian, Pordenone, Bassan, Spagnoletto, Guercino, Guido, Salvator Rosa, Murillo, Poussin, Rubens, V. Dyck, Teniers, Berghem, Wouvermans, Ger. Douw, Ch. V. Werff, Rembrandt, Vernet / which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, February 17th, 1797, and following day, at one o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
iv, [1], 6-13, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17882. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

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Creator:
Beatson, Robert, 1742–1818
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 211, [1], 372, 117, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17883. A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English, coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford deceas'd : which will be sold by auction, By Mr. Cock, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Thursday the 18th of March, 1741-2, and the five following days ; the whole may be view'd, at the place of sale, on Monday the 15th, and every day after till the hour of sale, which will begin precisely at eleven o'clock, by reason of the great number of lots to be sold each day.

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Creator:
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), fl. 1720–1749
Date:
[1742]
Physical Description:
50 [id est 46] pages ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17884. The history of Virginia, in four parts : I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706 : II. The natural productions and conveniences of the country, suited to trade and improvement : III. The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace : IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land, the 10th of June 1702 / by a native and inhabitant of the place.

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Creator:
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
Date:
1722
Physical Description:
[8], 284, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17885. Business and diversion inoffensive to God, and necessary for the comfort and support of human society. : A discourse utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg-Falls, in the fishing-season. 1739.

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Creator:
Seccombe, Joseph, 1706–1760
Date:
MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 5-21, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17886. The sportsman's companion; or, An essay on shooting : illustriously shewing in what manner to fire at birds of game ... and, directions to gentlemen for the treatment and breaking their own pointers and spaniels ... / By a gentleman, who has made shooting his favourite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America.

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Creator:
Gentleman, who has made shooting his favorite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
viii, [9]-89, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17887. A catalogue of the large and capital collection of pictures : by the most admired Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch masters : also prints and drawings, framed and glazed, of James West, Esq; of King Street, Covent Garden, deceased, late President of the Royal Society : which (by order of the administratrix,) will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford's at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden : on Wednesday the 31st of this Instant March 1773, and the three following days : to be viewed on March the 27th, and till the time of sale, (Sunday excepted) which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues may be then had gratis on Mess. Langford's aforesaid : condition of sale as usual.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son
Date:
[London] :
Physical Description:
9, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17888. Select views of the antiquities and harbours in the south of France : with topographical and historical descriptions / by the author of The Rhaetian Alps &c. &c.

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Creator:
Beaumont, Albanis, 1755–1812
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[2], 56 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17889. [13 plates illustrating rustic figures]

No cover image available
Date:
1798]
Physical Description:
13 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17890. Patent artificial slate manufactory, Woodford Bridge, Essex for cove ring roofs, fronts of houses, and ricks : also water pipes and gutters.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cook, Henry, fl. 1786
Date:
1786?]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 16, [2], 17-28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17891. The history and antiquities of the parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire : illustrated with copper-plates / by John Watson ...

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Creator:
Watson, John, 1725–1783
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
[iii]-vi, 764, [10] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., port, plan ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17892. A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol : with historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it : illustrated by perspective views of the most select and picturesque scenery : to which is added a correct map of the country three miles on each side of the road, planned from a scale of one inch to a mile / by Archibald Robertson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Robertson, Archibald, ca. 1745–1813
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17893. Sketches on the art of painting; with a description of the most capital pictures in the King of Spain's palace at Madrid. In a letter from Sir Anthony Raphael Mengs ... to Don Antonio Ponz ... Translated from the original Spanish, by John Talbot Dillon ...

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Creator:
Mengs, Anton Raphael, 1728–1779
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
2 p.l., xii, 128 p., 1 leaf. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17894. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
14 p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17895. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts, collected by the late Mr. George Vertue / and now digested and published from his original mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1765-1771 [i.e. 1765-1780]
Physical Description:
5 v. : ports. ; 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17896. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, : interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. / By William Coxe ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:
MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:
3 v., plates : ill., geneal. tables ; 22 cm. (8 vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17897. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1735
Physical Description:
3 v. in 4 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17898. Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / by John Caspar Lavater ... : illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied, and some duplicates added from originals ; executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway ; translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D., Minister of the Scots Church, London-Wall.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741–1801
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCVIII [1789-1798, i.e. 1799]
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 5 : illustrations, 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17899. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

No cover image available
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [70] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17900. Magna Carta Regis Johannis.

No cover image available
Date:
[1790?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts