Period: 18th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

18001. Vue de la ville de Nismes : du côté de la Tour-Magne.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 38 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18002. Ichnographia urbis Londinii : post magnum et fatale incendium ano. Dni. MDCLXVI, cum idea novæ urbis qualem tunc temporis / ex cineribus renatam esse designibat clarissimus vir Dns. Christophorus Wren = A plan of the city of London : after the great fire, in the year of our Lord 1666, with the modell of the new city / according to the design and proposal of Sr. Christopher Wren ... for rebuilding thereof.

Creator:: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632–1723
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 35 x 70 cm., on sheet 49 x 72 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18003. The curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : containing a full and accurate description of whatever is remarkable and worthy of notice in the works of nature and art in the several counties, cities, towns, villages &c. of England, Wales and Scotland : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment, &c. : carefully and faithfully displayed.

Date:: [1780?]
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18004. The Sportsman's dictionary, or, The country gentlemen's companion in all rural recreations, with full and particular instructions for hawking, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, riding, cocking : with the method of breeding, curing, dieting, and ordering of horses, dogs, pigeons, cocks, etc. : extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, ancient, and modern : with large improvements, made by several gentlemen ... illustrated ...

Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 2 v., 25 [i.e. 26], pl. (part fold.; incl. front., music) ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18005. The oeconomy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China to the Earl of ****.

Creator:: Dodsley, Robert, 1704–1764
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xxvi, 94 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18006. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18007. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: 32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18008. Travels through Spain, in the years 1775 and 1776 : in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish architecture are illustrated by accurate drawings taken on the spot / by Henry Swinburne, Esq.

Creator:: Swinburne, Henry, 1743–1803
Date:: MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: vii, [15], ix-xv, [1], 427 p., [20] leaves of plates ([6] folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18009. To the Queen this book representing the birth and triumph of Cupid in Her Majesty's collection : from papers cut by Lady Dashwood is with permission most humbly dedicated by Her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged servant P.W. Tomkins, historical engraver to Her Majesty.

Creator:: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18010. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [6], 79, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18011. Letters from a father to his son, on various topics, relative to literature and the conduct of life. Written in the years 1792 and 1793, by J. Aikin, M.D.

Creator:: Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: xii, 348 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18012. The art of etching and aqua tinting, strictly laid down by the most approved masters ... To which is added, the most useful liquid colours, well adapted for staining and colouring the above, &c. &c. With a specimen of landscape and profile. By F. Yrubslips [pseud.]

Creator:: Spilsbury, F. B. (Francis B.)
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 34 p. ill. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18013. A reply to Observations on two trials at law, respecting Messieurs Adams's new-invented stucco : containing Mr. Wallace's reply to Mr. Dunning : with the summary of the evidence and charge to the jury, as taken down in court.

Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 38 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18014. Grove-Hill : a descriptive poem, with An ode to Mithra / by the author of Indian antiquities ; the engravings on wood by J. Anderson, from drawings by G. Samuel.

Creator:: Maurice, Thomas, 1754–1824
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [6], 76 pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

18015. A catalogue of the curious museum of a Gentleman, deceased : consisting of a collection of cabinet pictures, drawings, fine prints, framed and glazed, bronzes, marbles, carvings in ivory, roman earthen ware, curious and valuable shells, minerals, fossils, and petrifactions, fine dresden, oriental, and old Chelsea ornamental procelane, some pieces of engraved crystal, a few volumes of very rare scarce books, two library book cases, a paair of elegnat inlaid commodes, curious old Japan cabinets, a capital piece of grotto work, and other valuable miscellaneous articles : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at this Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Wednesday, May 11th."

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [13]-[14], 15-19, [1] pages ; 22 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18016. Draft announcement on the employment of boys from the Blue Coat Hospital in Manchester : manuscript.

Creator:: Chetham's Hospital (Manchester, England)
Date:: 1797? December 4
Physical Description:: 1 item ; 25 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18017. Arts improvement: or, Choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, gardening, mechanicks, chimistry, painting, japaning, varnishing ... And in other arts and sciences profitable and pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several languages; manuscripts, experiments communicated by several ingenious gentlemen, and the author's own experience. By T.S.

Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1703
Physical Description:: 24 p.., 96, 8, 97-240 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18018. Tour of the Isle of Wight. The drawings taken and engraved by J. Hassell.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 2 v. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18019. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18020. Essays on subjects connected with civilization. By Benjamin Heath Malkin ...

Creator:: Malkin, Benjamin Heath, 1769–1842
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 p.., ii, [2], 293 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18021. Moralities: or, Essays, letters, fables; and translations. By Sir Harry Beaumont.

Creator:: Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 167 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18022. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

Creator:: Pindar, Peter, 1738–1819
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18023. The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth / from a drawing of the time supposed to be by the hand of William Camden, then Clarencieux King at Arms in the posession of John Wilmot, Esq., F.A.S., who found it among the papers of his wife's grandfather, Peter Sainthill, Esq., and has since presented it to the British Museum

Creator:: Camden, William, 1551–1623
Date:: Apr. 23d., 1791]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [7] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 40 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hankins.

18024. A survey of Dorsetshire / publish'd from an original manuscript, written by Mr. Coker [i.e. Thomas Gerard].

Creator:: Gerard, Thomas, 1592–1634
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: 128 p. : front. (fold. map) pl. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18025. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [6], 20, [4], 21, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18026. Das nach Original Zeichnungen geschilderte Thier Reich = Les animaux representés suivant des desseins originels.

Creator:: Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698–1767
Date:: 1768?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([2], 24, [2], 20 p., [62] leaves of plates; [2], 20, [2], 17, [1] p., [65] leaves of plates) : chiefly ill. ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18027. [Four sporting prints].

Date:: [between 1754 and 1764]
Physical Description:: 4 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18028. The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.

Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: [1773]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18029. A catalogue of the capital and well-chosen collection of cabinet picture, of James Kirke, Esq., deceased : late one of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Victualling-Office : consisting of the undoubted works of the following, and other much esteemed artists : Parmegiano, Domenichino, Soleminie, Pasquilinie, Carache, Morillio, S. Darattie, De Vinci, Rubens, Vandyke, Poussin, Teniers, Ostade, Brower, Ge Gelder, J. Miel, Berghem, Scalken, A. Vandevelde, Ruysdael, Swanvelte, Cuyp, Watteau, Polemburgh : particularly, a select number of original and capital sea-pieces, by those great masters, Vandevelde, Bakhusen, De Vlieger, Stork, Brooking, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Greenwood, at his rooms in Leicester-Square, on Thursday the 21st, and Saturday the 23d of February, 1788, at twelve o'clock each day : to be viewed, and catalogues had two days preceding the sale.

Creator:: Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18030. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

Creator:: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18031. An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / by James Earle, Esq; F.R.S. Surgeon extraordinary to the King and to His Majesty's Household, and Senior Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Creator:: Earle, James, Sir, 1755–1817
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [4], 44, [2] p. [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18032. Lectures on horsemanship wherein is explained every necessary instruction for both ladies and gentlemen in the useful and polite art of riding ... by T.S.

Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 40 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18033. A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

Creator:: Senex, John, -1740
Date:: 1719
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 48 x 54 cm, on sheet 53 x 59 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18034. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

Creator:: Lewis, John, 1675–1747
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: viii, 204, [4], 112, 105-124 pages, [1], XXV leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans, genealogical tables ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18035. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

Creator:: Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18036. Oxonia illustrata : views of the Bodleian Library, the theatre, publick schools, colleges, halls and other publick buildings of the University of Oxford : with an account of their foundations and endowments and a succinct description of the buildings.

Creator:: Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:: [ca. 1720]
Physical Description:: [34] p. : all ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18037. The English connoisseur: containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. in the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country. With many additions not in the London edition, particularly the British museum ...

Creator:: Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: 2 v. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18038. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

Creator:: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: 4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18039. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

Creator:: Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18040. The Seraglio & gardens of the Grand Seignior = Serrail & jardins du Grand Seigneur.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 31 x 26 cm., on sheet 36 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18041. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18042. Bowles's New and complete book of cyphers : designed and engraved on twenty-four copper-plates / by John Lockington ; including a curious print of the emperor Charlemagne's crown, &c.

Creator:: Lockington, John
Date:: [1785?]
Physical Description:: 25 leaves : all ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18043. A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook : to which are added some particulars, concerning his life and character, and observations respecting the introduction of the venereal disease into the Sandwich Islands / by David Samwell, surgeon of the Discovery.

Creator:: Samwell, David, 1751–1798
Date:: MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Physical Description:: [4], 34 pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18044. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18045. Planting and ornamental gardening; a practical treatise.

Creator:: Marshall, Mr. (William), 1745–1818
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: xi, [2] p., 1 l., 638 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18046. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

Creator:: Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18047. Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia : humbly dedicated and recommended to country gentlemen ; and if they please, to be repeated as their own, after a hunt, at horse races, in watering-places, and other such polite assemblies, round the bottle and fire-side.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-49 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18048. To His Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales : this actual survey of the county of Salop is most humbly inscribed / by ... John Rocque = Carte topographique de la comté de Salop ou Shropshire ... / par ... J. Rocque ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; 244 x 204 cm., sheets 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18049. Catalogue de tableaux originaux des écoles françoise et hollandoise, d'un bon choix : très-belle collection d'histoire naturelle, consistant en minéraux, pétrifications, madrépores, coquilles, univalves & bivalves, suite d'oiseaux rares & parfaitement conservés, groupes, figures en bronze, & autres objets curieux, provenans du cabinet de M. *** : dont la vente commencera au plus offrant, le lundi 21 février 1780, 4 heures & demi de relevée, dans la grande salle de l'Hôtel de Bullion, rue Plâtrière, où les objets seront exposés pendant les trois jours qui précéderont la vente, depuis dix heures jusqu'à une heure.

Creator:: Chariot, C.-L. (Claude-Louis)
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: 19, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18050. Sketches.

Creator:: Morland, George, 1763–1804
Date:: 1792-1793
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18051. A general map of the middle British colonies in America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode-Island : of Aquanishuonigy the country of the confederate Indians comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio & Thuchsochruntie their deer hunting countries, Couchsachrage & Skaniadarade their beaver hunting countries, of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain : wherein is also shewn the antient & present seats of the Indian nations / carefully copied from the original published at Philadelphia, by Lewis Evans.

Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand colored ; 48 x 63 cm, on sheet 53 x 71 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18052. The English pilot : the fourth book, describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones : particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein : as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands : also, a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. : with many other things necessary to be known in navigation : the whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions / by the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.

Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (4, 3-66 pages, [43] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18053. Nautical remarks and observations on the coasts and harbours of Nova Scotia : surveyed pursuant to orders from the Right Honble. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the use of the Royal Navy of Great-Britain / by J.F.W. Des Barres.

Creator:: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729–1824
Date:: MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:: iv, 27, [1] pages : tables ; 23 x 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18054. The practice of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor: in a series of examples, from the most simple and easy, to the most complicated, and difficult cases ... Written many years since, but now first pub., by Joseph Highmore.

Creator:: Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: xvi, 129, [1] p. diagrs. on 50 fold. pl. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18055. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

Creator:: Garret, Daniel, -1753
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [4], 11, [1] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18056. A sure guide to builders, or, The principles and practice of architecture geometrically demonstrated and made easy for the use of workmen in general ... / by B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1729
Physical Description:: [20], 179 p., [82] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18057. Select views in Great Britain / engrav'd by S. Middiman ; from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions.

Creator:: Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750–1831
Date:: [1784-1792]
Physical Description:: [112] p., 49 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18058. Sonnets and other small poems / by T. Park.

Creator:: Park, Thomas, 1759–1834
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [2],120 p., VI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18059. A specimen of ancient carpentry : consisting of variety of designs for roofs ... : collected by James Smith : to which are added designs of frontispieces to doors, gateways, piers ... : & other useful decorations never before published by Jones ; the whole illustrated with 66 copper plates nearly engraven.

Creator:: Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [5], [3], [66] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18060. A description of the library of the Escorial : extracted from a book printed at Madrid, Anno 1657, intituled, "Descripcion breve del monasterio de S. Lorenzo el Real del Escorial." Por el P.F. Francisco, de los Santos / translated by Philip Carteret Webb.

Creator:: Webb, Philip Carteret, 1700–1770
Date:: circa 1754
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([4], 26 p., [3] folded leaves of plates) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18061. The history of the Saracens : containing the lives of Abubeker, Omar, Othman, Ali, Hasan, Moawiyah I. Yezid I. Moawiyah II. Abdolla, Merwan I. and Abdolmelick, the immediate succesors of Mahomet : giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, & c. particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem : illustrating the religion, rites, customs, and manner of living of that warlike people : collected from the most authentic Arabic authors, especially mss. not hitherto publish'd in any European language / by Simon Ockley, B.D. Vicar of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire, Professor of Arabick in the University of Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimerby Simon Ockley.

Creator:: Ockley, Simon, 1678–1720
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18062. The poll of the freeholders of Warwickshire : taken at Warwick, on the 20th, 21st, 22d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 31st of October, 1774. William Holbech, Esq ; Sheriff : Candidates, Sir Charles Holte, Baronet : Thomas George Skipwith Esquire : John Mordaunt, Esquire.

Creator:: Warwickshire (England)
Date:: M.DCC.LXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: [2], 133, [1] pages : tables ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18063. A Catalogue of the capital collection of optical, mathematical, and philosophical Instruments and machines : late the property of The Right Hon. the Earl of Bute, Deceased : consisting of a great variety of elegant and valuable articles : including a grand orrery, a nicely-finished new universal equatorial, by Ramsden : a large armillary sphere, a cabinet selection of silver and brass drawing instruments and scales, air pumps, electrical machines, and apparatus, by Nairne : a silver compound microscope; elegant solar, lucernal, and other microscopes, by Adams, &c. reflecting telescopes, by Short, &c. achromatic telescopes, by Dollond and Ramsden : a large universal ring dial, with dials of other constructions : improved barometers, and thermometers; loadstones, silver-mounted : sets of artificial magnets; perspective machines : a curious assortment of French recreations, by Guyot ... : which will be sold by auction by Mess. Skinner & Dyke, on Tuesday the 5th February, and the two following days at twelve o'clock, at Mr. Hutchin's Rooms, King-Street, Covent-Garden.

Creator:: Skinner and Dyke
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: 23, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18064. Catalogue des diverses curiosités provenant du cabinet de feu M. de La Tour Daigues ... : consistant en tableaux, dessins, estampes des plus grand maîtres, & quelques bijoux : dont la vent s'en fera le jeudi 15 mai 1777, & jours suivans, de relevée, dans une salle des Grands-Augustins / par F. Basan.

Creator:: Basan, François, 1723–1797
Date:: MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Physical Description:: 67, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18065. Vente considérable d'une belle collection de tableaux des plus grands maîtres, italiens, flamands, hollandois & françois, dont plusieurs ont été dans différents cabinets célebres, & de plusieurs figures en bronze & marbre ...

Creator:: Basan, François, 1723–1797
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 27, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18066. An excursion to the United States of North America, in the summer of 1794. Embellished with the profile of General Washington, and an aqua-tinta view of the Statehouse at Philadelphia. By Henry Wansey, F.A.S.

Creator:: Wansey, Henry, 1751–1827
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: xi, 270, [14] p., 1 leaf. front. (port.) fold. plate, fold. tab. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18067. The art of painting after the Italian manner. With practical observations on the principal colours. And directions how to know a picture. Also a description of the celebrated pieces of paintings, of the most eminent masters, ancient and modern; with reflections upon the several foreign-schools of painting. By John Elsum ...

Creator:: Elsum, John, fl. 1700–1705
Date:: 1704
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 142, [10] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18068. A catalogue of a most curious and valuable collection of prints, drawings, books of prints, and portfolios; collected ... by the late Jonathan Blackburne, esq; of Liverpool. This collection consits[!] of near ten thousand ... prints ... which will be sold at auction by Mr. Hutchins, at his rooms in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, on Monday, the 20th of March 1786, and the twelve following evenings (Sundays excepted) ...

Creator:: Hutchins, Hassell
Date:: 1786?]
Physical Description:: 91 p. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18069. Recherches sur les costumes et sur les théatres de toutes les nations, tant anciennes que modernes; ouvrage utile ... aux artistes de tous les genres; non moins utile pour l'etude de l'histoire des temps reculés, des mœurs des peuples antiques ... Avec des estampes en couleur et au lavis, dessinées par m. Chéry, et gravées par P. M. Alix ...

Creator:: Le Vacher de Charnois, Jean Charles, ca. 1750–1792
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 2 v. col. front., plates (part col.) map. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18070. The universal British directory of trade and commerce ; : comprehending lists of the inhabitants of London, Westminster, and borough of Southwark; ... with the mails, and other coaches, stage-waggons, hoys, packets, and trading vessels. ... : To which is added, a genuine account of the drawbacks and duties chargeable at the custom-house on all goods and merchandize ... with a particular of the public houses of every denomination ... with the whole body of liverymen, and places of residence, together with an historical and particular detail of the trade, polity, and manufactures, of each city, town, and village ...

Creator:: Barfoot, Peter
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18071. Miscellanies, or, Essays literary, political, and moral / by the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: [1756?]
Physical Description:: iv, [3]-259, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18072. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

Creator:: Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [4], xii, 128, [16] p., III folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18073. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18074. Dictionnaire d'architecture, civile, militaire et navale, antique, ancienne et moderne : et de tous les arts et métiers qui en dépendent : dont tous les termes sont exprimés, en françois, latin, italien, espagnol, anglois et allemand : enrichi de cent une planches de figures en taille-douce, pour en faciliter l'intelligence,. auquel on a joint une notice des architectes, ingénieurs, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, & autres artistes les plus célèbres, dont on rapporte les principaux ouvrages / par m. C.F. Roland le Virloys, ci devant Architecte du Roi de Prusse, & depuis de l"Impératrice-Reine ; trois volumes in-quarto.

Creator:: Roland le Virloys, C. F. (Charles François), 1716–1772
Date:: 1770-1771
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18075. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18076. Zeluco : various views of human nature taken from life and manners, foreign and domestic. In two volumes.

Creator:: Moore, John, 1729–1802
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18077. The London calendar, or, Court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year ...

Physical Description:: v. ; 16-17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18078. Twelve views in Surry & Kent [graphic] / drawn from nature by J. Clevely junr. = Douze vües en Surry & Kent / tirées d'aprés nature par J. Cleveley junr.

Creator:: Cleveley, John, 1747–1786
Date:: published 2d. May 1771
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18079. The road from Cambridge to Coventry [cartographic material] : containing 54 comp. and 80'4 measd. miles.

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: [1720]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; sheet 21 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

18080. Moral philosophy, &c On the duties of the young, by Dr. Hugh Blair. On the duties of school-boys, from Rollin.

Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 27 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18081. Voyages en Guinée et dans les îles Caraïbes en Amérique / par Paul Erdman Isert ... tirés de sa correspondance avec ses amis ; traduits de l'allemand ...

Creator:: Isert, Paul Erdmann, 1756–1789
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: viii, 343, [1], 48 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18082. Hudibras : in three parts / written in the time of the late wars ; corrected and amended, with additions, to which is added annotations, with an exact index to the whole ; adorn'd with a new set of cuts, design'd and engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth.

Creator:: Butler, Samuel, 1612–1680
Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: 424 (i.e. 420) p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18083. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18084. The American wanderer : through various parts of Europe, in a series of letters to a lady (interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes) / by a Virginian.

Creator:: Virginian
Date:: MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 288 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18085. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 21 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18086. Fables for the female sex.

Creator:: Moore, Edward, 1712–1757
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 173 p. front., XVI plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18087. Essays and treatises on several subjects / by David Hume ...

Creator:: Hume, David, 1711–1776
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 4 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18088. A concise description of the Royal hospital, for seamen at Greenwich. Extracted from the historical account published by the chaplains.

Creator:: Cooke, John, 1738–1823
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1, 42 p. fold. tab. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18089. A description of a set of prints of ancient history : contained in a set of easy lessons : in two parts / by Mrs. Trimmer.

Creator:: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741–1810
Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: vi, 7-104, iv, 5-120 p. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18090. The sequel to Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor : in familiar conversations, on a variety of interesting subjects, in which are introduced, lectures on astronomy and natural philosophy, expressed in terms suited to the comprehension of juvenile readers ... / by Ann Murry.

Creator:: Murry, Ann, 18th cent
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: xii, 325, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18091. Bath : a poem ...

Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 32 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18092. A voyage round the world by way of the great South Sea : perform'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty's commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish crown) till she was cast away on the island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720 : and afterwards continu'd in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c. / by Capt. George Shelvocke, Commander of the Speedwell, Recovery, &c. in this expedition.

Creator:: Shelvocke, George
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:: [8], xxxii, [4], 468 pages, [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18093. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18094. The present state of the European settlements on the Missisippi : with a geographical description of that river / illustrated by plans and draughts by Captain Philip Pittman.

Creator:: Pittman, Philip, active 1760–1770
Date:: MDCCLXX [1770]
Physical Description:: viii, 99, [1] pages, [8] leaves of plates (7 folded) : maps, plans ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18095. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18096. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

Creator:: Manwaring, Robert
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: [2] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18097. Sketches and hints on landscape gardening. Collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made. The whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground. By H. Repton, esq.

Creator:: Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: xvi, 83, [2] p. XVI col. pl. 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18098. World described.

Creator:: Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:: 1740-1745
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18099. [Artificial slate roofs].

Creator:: Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:: 178-?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18100. A catalogue of the reserved part of the most magnificent and valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : this collection consists of the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Corregio, Caracci, Guercino, Caravaggio, Cl. Lorain, L. Da Vinci, Parmegiano, C. Maratti, Mola, Murillo, V. Castelli, Rembrandt, Titian, P. Veronese, Tintoret, S. Rosa, Rubens, Vandyke, Velasquez, Poussin, Borgognone, S. Bourdon, Polemburg, Bassan, Vanderwerf, Mieris, &c. : and will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms, late belonging to the Society of Arts &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand, on Friday, April 10, and the following day : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Wednesday and Thursday the 8th and 9th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock ; descriptive catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

Creator:: Mr. Langford and Son
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 23, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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18001. Vue de la ville de Nismes : du côté de la Tour-Magne.

18005. The oeconomy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China to the Earl of ****.

18006. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

18007. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

18008. Travels through Spain, in the years 1775 and 1776 : in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish architecture are illustrated by accurate drawings taken on the spot / by Henry Swinburne, Esq.

18009. To the Queen this book representing the birth and triumph of Cupid in Her Majesty's collection : from papers cut by Lady Dashwood is with permission most humbly dedicated by Her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged servant P.W. Tomkins, historical engraver to Her Majesty.

18010. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

18011. Letters from a father to his son, on various topics, relative to literature and the conduct of life. Written in the years 1792 and 1793, by J. Aikin, M.D.

18012. The art of etching and aqua tinting, strictly laid down by the most approved masters ... To which is added, the most useful liquid colours, well adapted for staining and colouring the above, &c. &c. With a specimen of landscape and profile. By F. Yrubslips [pseud.]

18013. A reply to Observations on two trials at law, respecting Messieurs Adams's new-invented stucco : containing Mr. Wallace's reply to Mr. Dunning : with the summary of the evidence and charge to the jury, as taken down in court.

18014. Grove-Hill : a descriptive poem, with An ode to Mithra / by the author of Indian antiquities ; the engravings on wood by J. Anderson, from drawings by G. Samuel.

18016. Draft announcement on the employment of boys from the Blue Coat Hospital in Manchester : manuscript.

18018. Tour of the Isle of Wight. The drawings taken and engraved by J. Hassell.

18019. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

18020. Essays on subjects connected with civilization. By Benjamin Heath Malkin ...

18021. Moralities: or, Essays, letters, fables; and translations. By Sir Harry Beaumont.

18022. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

18024. A survey of Dorsetshire / publish'd from an original manuscript, written by Mr. Coker [i.e. Thomas Gerard].

18025. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

18026. Das nach Original Zeichnungen geschilderte Thier Reich = Les animaux representés suivant des desseins originels.

18027. [Four sporting prints].

18028. The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.

18030. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

18031. An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / by James Earle, Esq; F.R.S. Surgeon extraordinary to the King and to His Majesty's Household, and Senior Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

18032. Lectures on horsemanship wherein is explained every necessary instruction for both ladies and gentlemen in the useful and polite art of riding ... by T.S.

18033. A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

18034. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

18036. Oxonia illustrata : views of the Bodleian Library, the theatre, publick schools, colleges, halls and other publick buildings of the University of Oxford : with an account of their foundations and endowments and a succinct description of the buildings.

18037. The English connoisseur: containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. in the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country. With many additions not in the London edition, particularly the British museum ...

18038. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

18039. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

18040. The Seraglio & gardens of the Grand Seignior = Serrail & jardins du Grand Seigneur.

18041. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

18042. Bowles's New and complete book of cyphers : designed and engraved on twenty-four copper-plates / by John Lockington ; including a curious print of the emperor Charlemagne's crown, &c.

18043. A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook : to which are added some particulars, concerning his life and character, and observations respecting the introduction of the venereal disease into the Sandwich Islands / by David Samwell, surgeon of the Discovery.

18044. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

18045. Planting and ornamental gardening; a practical treatise.

18046. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

18048. To His Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales : this actual survey of the county of Salop is most humbly inscribed / by ... John Rocque = Carte topographique de la comté de Salop ou Shropshire ... / par ... J. Rocque ...

18050. Sketches.

18053. Nautical remarks and observations on the coasts and harbours of Nova Scotia : surveyed pursuant to orders from the Right Honble. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the use of the Royal Navy of Great-Britain / by J.F.W. Des Barres.

18054. The practice of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor: in a series of examples, from the most simple and easy, to the most complicated, and difficult cases ... Written many years since, but now first pub., by Joseph Highmore.

18055. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

18056. A sure guide to builders, or, The principles and practice of architecture geometrically demonstrated and made easy for the use of workmen in general ... / by B. Langley.

18057. Select views in Great Britain / engrav'd by S. Middiman ; from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions.

18058. Sonnets and other small poems / by T. Park.

18060. A description of the library of the Escorial : extracted from a book printed at Madrid, Anno 1657, intituled, "Descripcion breve del monasterio de S. Lorenzo el Real del Escorial." Por el P.F. Francisco, de los Santos / translated by Philip Carteret Webb.

18062. The poll of the freeholders of Warwickshire : taken at Warwick, on the 20th, 21st, 22d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 31st of October, 1774. William Holbech, Esq ; Sheriff : Candidates, Sir Charles Holte, Baronet : Thomas George Skipwith Esquire : John Mordaunt, Esquire.

18065. Vente considérable d'une belle collection de tableaux des plus grands maîtres, italiens, flamands, hollandois & françois, dont plusieurs ont été dans différents cabinets célebres, & de plusieurs figures en bronze & marbre ...

18066. An excursion to the United States of North America, in the summer of 1794. Embellished with the profile of General Washington, and an aqua-tinta view of the Statehouse at Philadelphia. By Henry Wansey, F.A.S.

18071. Miscellanies, or, Essays literary, political, and moral / by the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift.

18072. A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century.

18073. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

18075. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

18076. Zeluco : various views of human nature taken from life and manners, foreign and domestic. In two volumes.

18077. The London calendar, or, Court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year ...

18078. Twelve views in Surry & Kent [graphic] / drawn from nature by J. Clevely junr. = Douze vües en Surry & Kent / tirées d'aprés nature par J. Cleveley junr.

18079. The road from Cambridge to Coventry [cartographic material] : containing 54 comp. and 80'4 measd. miles.

18080. Moral philosophy, &c On the duties of the young, by Dr. Hugh Blair. On the duties of school-boys, from Rollin.

18081. Voyages en Guinée et dans les îles Caraïbes en Amérique / par Paul Erdman Isert ... tirés de sa correspondance avec ses amis ; traduits de l'allemand ...

18082. Hudibras : in three parts / written in the time of the late wars ; corrected and amended, with additions, to which is added annotations, with an exact index to the whole ; adorn'd with a new set of cuts, design'd and engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth.

18083. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

18084. The American wanderer : through various parts of Europe, in a series of letters to a lady (interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes) / by a Virginian.

18085. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

18086. Fables for the female sex.

18087. Essays and treatises on several subjects / by David Hume ...

18088. A concise description of the Royal hospital, for seamen at Greenwich. Extracted from the historical account published by the chaplains.

18089. A description of a set of prints of ancient history : contained in a set of easy lessons : in two parts / by Mrs. Trimmer.

18090. The sequel to Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor : in familiar conversations, on a variety of interesting subjects, in which are introduced, lectures on astronomy and natural philosophy, expressed in terms suited to the comprehension of juvenile readers ... / by Ann Murry.

18091. Bath : a poem ...

18094. The present state of the European settlements on the Missisippi : with a geographical description of that river / illustrated by plans and draughts by Captain Philip Pittman.

18095. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

18096. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

18097. Sketches and hints on landscape gardening. Collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made. The whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground. By H. Repton, esq.

18098. World described.