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18201. De re nummaria antiqua, opera quae extant universa ...

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Creator:
Goltzius, Hubert, 1526–1583
Date:
1708
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18202. Observations on the western parts of England : relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : to which are added, A few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight / by William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
xvi, 359, [1] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18203. A collection of views of gentlemen's seats, castles, and romantick places, in North Wales / drawn and engraved by eminent artists.

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Date:
1792
Physical Description:
[11] leaves, 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18204. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

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Creator:
Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18205. A catalogue of the capital, genuine, and valuable collection of pictures, late the property of that eminently distinguished artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Late President of the Royal Academy, decd : comprising the undoubted works of the greatest masters of the Roman, Florentine, Bolognese, Venetian, French, Flemish, and Dutch schools, in the most perfect state of preservation : the whole of which will be sold by auction (by order of the executors) by Mr. Christie, on Wednesday 11th, and Thursday 12th of March, 1795, at his Rooms (late the Royal Academy) Pall Mall : and on Friday 13th, and Saturday 14 of March, 1795, at his Great Room (next Cumberland House) Pall Mall.

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

18206. James Wales archive, 1786-1797.

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Creator:
Wales, James, 1746 or 1747–1795
Date:
1786-1797
Physical Description:
1 linear foot (1 box, 2 volumes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18207. The country in full cry, after poachers and hunters of various denominations : more particularly, insolent common-huntsmen ... take illegal and illiberal liberties upon the real landed-gentlemens grounds and inclosures : in a series of letters printed in the Edinburgh advertisers, No. 233, 236, 237, 238, 240, 245 ...

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Date:
1766
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18208. Recherches sur la préparation que les Romains donnoient à la chaux dont ils se servoient pour leurs constructions, & sur la composition & l'emploi de leurs mortiers. Par M. de La Faye ...

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Creator:
La Faye, Polycarpe de
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
vi, 83, xi p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18209. Monody to the memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, late president of the Royal academy ... / by Mrs. Mary Robinson ...

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Creator:
Robinson, Mary, 1758–1800
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
16 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18210. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues, and with former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches.

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Date:
MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:
[1296] pages : illustrations ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18211. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18212. Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum : discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples / by Mr. Bellicard ; enriched with forty-two plates, designed and engraved by the author.

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Creator:
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726–1786
Date:
1753 [1754?]
Physical Description:
vii, 236 p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18213. A new book of foliage : for the instruction of young artists / by M. Lock.

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Creator:
Lock, Matthias, approximately 1710–1765
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18214. [Twenty Views of Naples and its Environs].

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Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
[between 1777 and 1782]
Physical Description:
1 album : aquatint, etching and engraving, printed in sepia ; sheet 32.5 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18215. Enamel patch box.

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Date:
ca. 1790
Physical Description:
1 patch box : enamel, copper, glass ; 3.2 x 3.9 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Van Ness family

18216. The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c. / written by himself, now alive.

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Creator:
Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Date:
1720
Physical Description:
[3], page viii, 72, 136, 179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18217. The antient and present state of the city of Oxford. Containing an account of its foundation, antiquity, situation, suburbs, division by wards, walls, castle, fairs, religious houses, abbeys, St. Frideswede's, churches, as well those destroyed as the present, with their monumental inscriptions; mayors, members of Parliament &c. The whole chiefly collected by Mr. Anthony à Wood; with additions by the Rev. Sir J. Peshall, Bart. ...

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Creator:
Wood, Anthony à, 1632–1695
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
4 p.l., 372, 36 p., 1 . ill., 3 plates (1 fold., fold. map) 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18218. An essay on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and the beautiful; and, on the use of studying pictures, for the purpose of improving real landscape. By Uvedale Price, esq. ...

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Creator:
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747–1829
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
xv, 288 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18219. A treatise of the five orders of columns in architecture, viz., Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and composite ... To which is annex'd, a discourse concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduc'd into architecture. Engraven on six folio plates of the several orders, adorn'd with twenty-four borders, as many initial letters, and a like number of tail-pieces, by John Sturt. Written in French by Claude Perrault ... Made English by John James.

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Creator:
Perrault, Claude, 1613–1688
Date:
1708
Physical Description:
7 p. l., xxi, [1], 131 p. illus., VI (i. e. 7) pl. 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18220. Frauds and abuses at St. Paul's. In a letter to a member of Parliament ...

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Creator:
Hare, Francis, 1671–1740
Date:
1712
Physical Description:
1 p.., 42 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18221. Dell' arte di vedere nelle belle arti del disegno secondo i principii di Sulzer e di Mengs ...

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Creator:
Milizia, Francesco, 1725–1798
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
142 p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18222. George Stevens's celebrated lecture on heads; : which has been exhibited upwards of three hundred successive nights to crowded audiences, and met with the most universal applause.

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Creator:
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710–1784
Date:
ca. 1766]
Physical Description:
8 p., 1 folded plate : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18223. La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit : dialogues.

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Creator:
Bouhours, Dominique, 1628–1702
Date:
1705
Physical Description:
[4], 463, [33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18224. Plans, elevations and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses, and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples, and other garden buildings; executed in the counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham, and York. By James Paine ...

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Creator:
Paine, James, 1717?-1789
Date:
1767-83
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part fold.) plans (part double) 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18225. A description of nine historical prints, representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. Selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

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Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
21 p. 9 double pl. (incl. ports.) 60 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18226. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

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Date:
1796
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18227. The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Cœlosyria.

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Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
28 p., XLVI leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18228. Strictures on Lt.-Col. Tarleton's History "of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America" ... Wherein military characters and corps are vindicated from injurious aspersions, and several important transactions placed in their proper point of view. In a series of letters to a friend, by Roderick Mackenzie ... To which is added, a detail of the siege of Ninety Six, and the re-capture of the island of New-Providence.

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Creator:
Mackenzie, Roderick
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
1 p.l., vi, 1 l. 186 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18229. The villas of the ancients illustrated / by Robert Castell.

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Creator:
Castell, Robert
Date:
1728
Physical Description:
[4], 35, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates (9 folded) : ill. ; 54 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18230. A second walk through Wales / by the Revd. Richard Warner, of Bath, in August and September 1798.

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Creator:
Warner, Richard, 1763–1857
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
viii, 365 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18231. [London and provincial news.]

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Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18232. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

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Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18233. Louthiana, or, An introduction to the antiquities of Ireland : in upwards of ninety views and plans : representing, with proper explanation, the principal ruins, curiosities, and antient dwellings, in the County of Louth : divided into three books / taken upon the spot by Thomas Wright, author of The physical and mathematical elements of astronomy, &c. ; engraved by Paul Fourdrinier.

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Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1711–1786
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18234. Variety of capitals, freezes, and corniches : and how to increase, or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original : likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates / published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani.

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Creator:
Columbani, Placido
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
12, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18235. The biographical mirrour : comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

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Creator:
Waldron, F. G. (Francis Godolphin), 1744–1818
Date:
1795-[1814]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18236. Lucina sine concubitu : a letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society : with 3 engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury.

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Creator:
Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:
MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:
[4], 40, [3] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18237. Travels in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, in 1796 and 1797 : written for the amusement of an absent daughter.

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Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:
1796-1799
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18238. Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries : the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years / by Thomas Davies.

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Creator:
Davies, Thomas, 1713–1785
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18239. Bill of expenses incurred by John Lawford for the funeral of William Bodimeade : manuscript.

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Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 26 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18240. L'art de peindre : poëme : avec des réflexions sur les différentes parties de la peinture / par M. Watelet, associé libre de l'Académie Royale de peinture & de sculpture.

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Creator:
Watelet, Claude-Henri, 1718–1786
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 144 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18241. A catalogue of historical prints, various subjects, landscapes, sea pieces, views, &c. : after the most capital pictures in England / engraved by the most celebrated artists ; published by John and Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside.

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Creator:
Boydell, John, 1719–1804
Date:
1787-1794
Physical Description:
2 v. ([4], 88; viii, 23 p.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18242. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 46, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18243. Peinture Anglaise 1730-1850.

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Creator:
Bazin, Germain
Date:
n.d
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18244. Large English atlas.

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Creator:
Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694–1767
Date:
1767
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18245. A catalogue of part of the reserved collection of pictures late the property of Dominick Serres, Esq. R.A. deceased : among which are introduced the four following national and interesting subjects, by J.T. Serres, Marine Painter to his Majesty and His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, lately exhibited under the patronage of Their Majesties and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales : The Glorious Engagement of the 1st of June, under the command of Earl Howe : The fleet returning with the prizes : The launching the Prince of Wales at Portsmouth, in the presence of Their Majesties, and the prizes at anchor in the harbour : The fleet at Spithead saluting Their Majesties on the arrival on board of Queen Charlotte, to review it after the action : also a few pleasing pictures by some of the most esteemed modern artists : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday, April 18th, 1795, at 12 o'clock : to be privately viewed on Wednesday, and publicly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, when catalogues may be had at the Rainbow, Cornhill, and in Pall Mall.

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

18246. A catalogue of the pictures, drawings, painted glass, &c. &c. which will be exhibited and sold by private contract, at the European Museum, King Street, St. James's Square.

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Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
20 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18247. Edward Ryland : copper plate printer in the Old Bailey near Ludgate Hill, London.

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Creator:
Ryland, Edwd. (Edward), active approximately 1762–1775
Date:
[ca. 1760]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 27 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18248. Bond of Indemnity ... : manuscript.

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Date:
1776
Physical Description:
1 item ; 33 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18249. Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, A register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. By T. Smollett ...

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Creator:
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721–1771
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
2 v. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18250. Essays on the Characteristics. By John Brown ...

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Creator:
Brown, John, 1715–1766
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
2 p.., viii, 408 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18251. Conference of Monsieur Le Brun : cheif [sic] painter to the French King, Chancellor and Director of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture ; upon expression, general and particular; translated from the French, and adorned with 43 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
1701
Physical Description:
[16], 17, [1], 47, [1] pages, 43 : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18252. London's gratitude: or, An account of such pieces of sculpture and painting as have been placed in Guildhall at the expense of the city of London. To which is added, A list of those distinguished persons to whom the freedom of the city has been presented for public services since the year MDCCLVIII. With engravings of the sculptures, & c.

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Date:
1783
Physical Description:
50 p. plates (incl. port., coats of arms) 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18253. A book of ornam[ents] invented & engrav[ed by] S. Gribelin. : A new book of ornaments: useful to all artists. Dedicated to the honourable Colonel Parsons. These XVI plates are now made up into one book of XII leaves.

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Creator:
Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 1662–1733
Date:
[1764?]
Physical Description:
16 plates on 12 leaves. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18254. An essay on architecture.

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Creator:
Lowth, Thomas Henry, 1753 or 4–1778
Date:
1776]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 21 p. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18255. Moral and literary dissertations, on the following subjects: 1. On truth and faithfulnss. 2. On habit and association. 3. On inconsistency of expectation in literary pursuits. 4. On a taste for the general beauties of nature. 5. On a taste for the fine arts. 6. On the alliance of natural history, and philosophy, with poetry. To which are added a tribute to the memory of Charles de Polier ... and an appendix. By Thomas Percival ...

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Creator:
Percival, Thomas, 1740–1804
Date:
1784
Physical Description:
15, [5], 3-332, [8] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18256. General view of the agriculture in Berkshire, with observations on the means of its improvement. By William Pearce. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.

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Creator:
Pearce, William
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
74 p. 3 plates 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18257. The history and antiquities of the ancient town of Leicester: attempted by John Throsby ...

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Creator:
Throsby, John, 1740–1803
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
3 p. ., 423, [1] p. front., 1 ill., 50 plates (partly col.) incl. port., plans, facsim. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18258. Voyage pittoresque de Paris, : ou Indication de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette ville, en peinture, sculpture & architecture: / Par M. D. ***.

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Creator:
Dézallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Nicolas, -1794
Date:
M.DCC.LXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
[2], xii, [2], 492, [4] p., VIII leaves of plates (some folding) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18259. An historical account of the ancient town of Lowestoft, in the county of Suffolk. To which is added some cursory remarks on the adjoining parishes, and a general account of the island of Lothingland. / By Edmund Gillingwater.

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Creator:
Gillingwater, Edmund, 1735 or 6–1813
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 485, [7] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18260. A catalogue of engraved British portraits, from Egbert the Great to the present time. Consisting of the effigies of persons in every walk of human life ... With an appendix, containing the portraits of such foreigners as ... may claim a place in the British series. Methodically disposed in classes, and interspersed with a number of notices biographical and genealogical, never before published. By Henry Bromley [pseud.]

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Creator:
Bromley, Henry, b. 1750
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
xiv, 479, 56, [80] p. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18261. Gustavus Vasa, the deliverer of his country : a tragedy / written by Henry Brooke, Esq. ; as intended to have been performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.

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Creator:
Brooke, Henry, 1703?-1783
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill., port. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

18262. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

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Creator:
Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770
Date:
MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:
[8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18263. The post-chaise companion, or, Traveller's directory through Ireland : containing a new and accurate description of the direct and principal crossroads, with particulars of the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, cities, town, parks, natural curiosities, antiquities, castles, ruins, manufactures, loughs, glens, harbours, &c. &c. : forming an historical & descriptive account of the kingdon : to which is added a dictionary, or alphabetical tables, shewing the distance of all the principal cities, boroughs, market and sea port towns, in Ireland from each other.

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Creator:
Wilson, William, active 1769–1801
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
xii, 530 columns, [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18264. The will of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., deceased.

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Creator:
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
[2], 48 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18265. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

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Creator:
Robertson, William, 1721–1793
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18266. An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile : abridged from the original work / by Samuel Shaw, Esq.

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Creator:
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 372 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18267. An illustration and mensuration of solid geometry in seven books: : containing forty-two moveable copper-plate schemes for forming the various kinds of solids and their sections; by which the doctrine of solids in general, and those in the eleventh, twelfth, and fifteenth books of Euclid are elucidated, and rendered more easy to learners than by any work hitherto published.... / By the late John Lodge Cowley, F.R.S. professor of the mathematics in the Royal Academy at Woolwich.

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Creator:
Cowley, John Lodge, 1719–1797
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [i.e. 1787]
Physical Description:
32 XLVII leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18268. The art of landscape drawing made easy : by specimens in the rual stile, intended for the use of those who wish to excell in that noble art : recommended to the use of schools.

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Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18269. At a special committee of the Light-Horse Volunteers, held the 25th of October 1798.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Army. London and Westminster Light House Volunteers
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18270. A catalogue of a valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, by the most esteemed ancient and modern masters : a capital large bronze figure of Neptune : a marble bust of the great Duke of Marlborough, &c. : the property of a Gentleman, gone to India : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, December 8th, 1797, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : and catalogues may be then had in Pall Mall, and at the Rainbow Coffee House.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18271. Gallery of poets, Pall-Mall and Fleet Street : April 2, 1790 : catalogue of the third exhibition of pictures / painted for Mr. Macklin by the artists of Britain ; illustrative of the British poets and the Bible ...

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Date:
1790
Physical Description:
vii, 42 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18272. The perspective of architecture : in two parts : a work entirely new, deduced from the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor : and performed by two rules only of universal application : part the first, contains the description and use of a new instrument called the architectonic sector : part the second, a new method of drawing the five orders, elegant structures, &c. in perspective / begun by command of His Present Majesty, when Prince of Wales, by Joshua Kirby, designer in perspective to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:
MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:
[6], 82, [2], ii, 60, [2] pages, [1], XXV, LXXII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18273. Twelve prints of the most famous high bred running horses, by Shaw and others [graphic].

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Date:
published 2d. Jany.,1773
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18274. An essay on the naturalization of foreigners.

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Creator:
Ramsay, Allan, 1713–1784
Date:
Printed in the year 1762
Physical Description:
18 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18275. Etchings of views and antiquities in the county of Gloucestershire : hitherto imperfectly or never engraved.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
[26] p., [106] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18276. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

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Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[4], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., plans, map, coats of arms ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18277. A method to learn to design the passions : proposed in a conference on their general and particular expression / written in French and illustrated with a great many figures excellently designed by Mr. Le Brun, chief painter to the French king ... ; translated into English and all the designs engraved on copper by John Williams ...

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Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
1734
Physical Description:
xii, [11]-58 p., [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18278. The man of taste : occasion'd by an epistle of Mr. Pope's on that subject / by the author of the Art of politicks.

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Creator:
Bramston, James, 1694?-1744
Date:
1733
Physical Description:
19, [1] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18279. A new survey of the globe, or, An accurate mensuration of all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, principal provinces, counties, & islands in the world ... : a collection of all the noted sea-ports in the world ... : also the settlements and factories, belonging to the English Dutch ... &c. in the East and West-Indies, Africa, and other parts : with notes explanatory & political, wherein the number of people in all ye principal countries and cities of Europe are severally calculated ... / by Thomas Templeman ...

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Creator:
Templeman, Thomas, -1729
Date:
[1729]
Physical Description:
[4], ix, [1] p., 35 leaves of plates : tables ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18280. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

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Date:
1766-1769
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18281. A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.
Creator:
Livingston, William, 1723–1790
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[4], 144 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18282. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18283. Clemency to brutes : the substance of two sermons preached on a Shrove-Sunday, with a particular view to dissuade from that species of cruelty annually practised in England, the throwing at cocks.

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Date:
1761
Physical Description:
31, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18284. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

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Creator:
Bertram, Charles, 1723–1765
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
198 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18285. The history of the reign of the Emperor Charles V., by William Robertson ...

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Creator:
Robertson, William, 1721–1793
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
3 v. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18286. Religio philosophi: or, The principles of morality and Christianity, illustrated prom [!] a view of the universe, and of man's situation in it. By William Hay ...

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Creator:
Hay, William, 1695–1755
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
4 p.l., 232 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18287. Printing plate for Morning / T. Stothard, R.A. pinxt. ; F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt.

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Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:
between 1792 and 1795
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 25 x 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

18288. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of pictures, miniatures, &c. of Mr. John Oldfield, late of Tufton Street, Westminster, deceased : which by order of the administratrix will by sold by auction, by Mr. Langford and Son, at their home in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday, the 29th of this instant March 1768, and the two following days : the said collection may be viewed on Saturday next the 26th, and every day after till the time of sale (Sunday excepted) which will begin punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogue of which may be had gratis, on the days of viewing, at Mr. Langford, aforesaid.

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Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son
Date:
[1768]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18289. A catalogue of the extensive and valuable stock of copper plates, with the impressions, (some of which are unpublished) the property of Mr. William Dickinson, late of Bond Street, engraver and print seller : comprising a small collection of modern paintings, among which are the two original pictures, of the Resurrection of a Pious Family, and the Spirit of a Child, by the Rev. Mr. Peters : an extensive and choice collection of modern loose prints : an assemblage of scarce portraits, the plates of the prints for Gambado's Horsemanship by Bunbury : Right to a Moiety of the Annals of Horsemanship : a printing press : two presses to contain prints : a variety of portfolios, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction (by order of the assignees) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room (late Royal Academy) Pall-Mall, on Friday, February 14th, 1794, and five following days, (Sunday excepted) at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : when catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : and in Pall Mall.

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

18290. A catalogue of a capital and magnificent collection of stained glass in vitrified colours : the whole forming a choice assemblage on interesting subjects, in sacred, profane, natural history, and landscapes, from the following much-renowned ancient and modern masters : Raphael, Caracci, Corregio, Berghem, Claude, Vandyke, Boucher, Rembrandt, Teniers, Sir J. Reynolds, Barry, Patel, &c. &c. : the property and performances of those ingenious and celebrates artists, Mr. and Mrs. Pearson, which will be sold by auction, by Hutchins, Wells, and Fisher, at their rooms, no. 41, King Street, and no. 11, Hart Street, Covent Garden, on Friday, June 16, 1797, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,

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Creator:
Hutchins, Wells, and Fisher
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18291. The carpenter's new guide : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery ... : the whole founded on true geometrical principles : ... and fully exemplified on seventy-eight copper-plates, correctly engraved by the author : including some observations and calculation on the strength of timber / by Peter Nicholson.

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Creator:
Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
xii, 76 p., [78] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18292. A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

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Date:
[1758?]
Physical Description:
15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18293. Magna Britannia, aut Anglia, Scotia et Hibernia, quarum prior divisa in septem Regna, sive Provincias, dictas Northumbriam, Merciam, Angliam Orient. Essexiam, Cantium, Sussexiam, Westsexiam, et Princi. Walliae. posterior in Septent. et Austr. Scotiam. postrema in quatuor Provincias Ultoniam, Lageniam, Momoniam, et Conagtiam / typis G. et L. Valk.

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Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Date:
[approximately 1705]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 46 x 58 cm, on sheet 54 x 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18294. [A drawing-book consisting of 33 original sketches supposedly by Sir John Deane Paul]

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Creator:
Paul, John Dean, Sir, 1775–1852
Physical Description:
1 v. 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18295. The antiquities of St. Peter's, or, The abbey-church of Westminster : containing all the inscriptions, epitaphs, &c. upon the tombs and grave-stones : with the lives, marriages and issue of the most eminent personages therein reposited and their coats of arms truly emblazon'd : adorn'd with draughts of the tombs, curiously engraven ...

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Creator:
Crull, Jodocus, -1713?
Date:
1713
Physical Description:
[10], 351, [15] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18296. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18297. A tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark : in a series of letters / by Matthew Consett.

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Creator:
Consett, Matthew
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
[16], 157 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18298. The London directory, or, A new and improved plan of London, Westminster & Southwark : with the adjacent country, the new buildings, the new roads, and the late alterations by opening of new streets, & widening of others, &c.

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Creator:
Robert Laurie and James Whittle
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 31 x 5l cm., folded to 14 x 11 cm., in case 14 x 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18299. A short history of Brighthelmston : with remarks on its air, and an analysis of its waters, particularly of an uncommon mineral one, long discovered, though but lately used ... / by Anthony Relhan ...

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Creator:
Relhan, Anthony, 1715–1776
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
[4], 75 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18300. A voyage to the South Sea : undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh : including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies.

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Creator:
Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
[10], 264 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts