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18601. De zegepraalende Vecht, vertoonende verscheidene gesichten van lustplaatsen, heeren huysen en dorpen; beginnende van Uitrecht en met Muyden besluytende. La triomphante riviere de Vecht, remonstrant diverses veües des lieux de plaisance & maisons seignorales & villages; commençant de Uitrecht & finissant avec Muyden.

Creator:: Leth, Andries de
Date:: 1719
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 16, 37 p. 52 plates (incl. map, plan) 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18602. Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material, 1699-1981 (bulk 1811-1899).

Creator:: Carr family
Date:: 1699-1981
Physical Description:: 10 linear ft.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18603. Hints to gentlemen of landed property. To which are now first added, supplementary hints. By Nathaniel Kent, of Fulham.

Creator:: Kent, Nathaniel, 1737–1810
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: vii, 286 p. plates (part fold.) fold. plans. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18604. Remarks on the beauties of poetry / by Daniel Webb, Esq.

Creator:: Webb, Daniel, 1718 or 19–1798
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [4], 123, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18605. A topographical survey of the counties of Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, commonly called the Western circuit. Containing an accurate and comprehensive description of all the principal direct and cross roads in each respective county ... By William Tunnicliffe ...

Creator:: Tunnicliff, William
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: xi, 256 p. coats of arms, 7 fold. col. maps (incl. front.) 6 fold. tables. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18606. An account of a Roman pavement, : lately found at Stunsfield in Oxfordshire, prov'd to be 1400 years old. / By John Pointer ...

Creator:: Pointer, John, 1668–1754
Date:: 1713
Physical Description:: [6], 24, 17-24, 33-39, [1] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18607. Le livre rouge, or, Red book : being a list of secret pensions, paid out of the public treasure of France; and containing characters of the persons pensioned, anecdotes of their lives, an account of their services and observations tending to shew the reasons for which the pensions were granted : translated from the eighth Paris edition.

Date:: MDCCXC. [1790]
Physical Description:: [5], 4-163, [1] p. : 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18608. A concise introduction to the knowledge of the most eminent painters : by which every lover of the art of painting may instantly know the names, the years, and places of the birth of above two thousand four hundred of the most celebrated artists, who have flourished in any kingdom of Europe for upwards of five hundred years past : and also the subjects painted by each artist, the master under whom he studied, and the age at which he died.

Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: [124] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18609. The additions to the quarto edition of the tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX : and the new appendix : reprinted for the accomodation of the purchasers of the first and second editions.

Creator:: Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: [2], viii, 172 p., [31] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18610. An account of the discovery of the body of King John in the cathedral church of Worcester July 17, 1797 : from authentic communications / with illustrations and remarks by Valentine Green, F.S.A.

Creator:: Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [2], 8 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18611. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18612. A picture of Italy / translated fron the original German of W. de Archenholtz, formerly a captain in the Prussian service, by Joseph Trapp ...

Creator:: Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 1743–1812
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: xii, 327 p. : 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18613. Twenty-four figures from Salvator Roza / by Benjamin and Sarah Green.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:: January 1, 1789
Physical Description:: [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18614. [Collection of engraved book illustrations by Thomas Stothard].

Creator:: Stothard, Thomas, 1755–1834
Date:: [1780-1825]
Physical Description:: 1 v. : ill ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18615. Afbeelding van alle de generale zeinen, die gedaan en geobserveerd werden in 'slands vloot, zoo in het zeilen en ankeren by daag en nagt, als ten tyde van gevegt : met de beteekenis van ieder signaal, en aanwyzing der plaatszen daar dezelve in de origineele Hollandsze en Engelsze zein-boeken te vinden zyn : als meede een register van alle de instructien en waarschouwingen daar toe behoorende : te zamen gesteld, en in 't ligt gebragt, to gemak en dienst van 's lands officieren ter zee / door N. Govertsz, schryver in 's lands-dienst ter zee.

Creator:: Govertsz, N
Date:: 1746
Physical Description:: [176] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18616. A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America.

Creator:: Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Physical Description:: 13 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18617. Plans, elevations, sections, and perspective views of the gardens and buildings at Kew, in Surry : the seat of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales / by William Chambers ; member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at Florence ; and of the Royal Academy of Architecture at Paris, architect to the King and to Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLXIII [1763]
Physical Description:: [4], 8, 41 leaves of plates (some double) : illustrations, plans ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18618. Baronagium genealogicum; or, The pedigrees of the English peers, deduced from the earliest times, of which there are any attested accounts including, as well collateral as lineal descents. Originally comp. from the publick records and most authentic evidences; by Sr. William Segar ... and continued to the present time, by Joseph Edmondson.

Creator:: Segar, William, Sir, -1633
Date:: [1764-84]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes genealogical tables, coats of arms 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18619. Rules for bad horsemen : addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. / by Charles Thompson, Esq.

Creator:: Thompson, Charles, b. ca. 1710
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 82 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18620. The history and antiquities of the archiepiscopal palace of Lambeth : from its foundation to the present time / by Dr. Ducarel, F.R. and A.SS.

Creator:: Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713–1785
Date:: MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Physical Description:: [4], vi-ix, 132, 72 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18621. Gale's cabinet of knowledge, or, Miscellaneous recreations : containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural, and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility ... : to which are added a great number of originals, likewise an appendix, containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings, with some curious definitions in optics.

Creator:: Gale, John, active 18th century-19th century
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xiv, 336 pages, VI folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18622. A word to the wise [cartographic material].

Creator:: Le Charron, André-Louis-Lambert, Baron, 1759–1837
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 1 map : watercolor, pen and black ink ; sheet 55 x 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18623. Joseph Wright of Derby letter to Daniel Daulby.

Creator:: Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Date:: 1789 July 15
Physical Description:: 1 item (3 pages)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18624. Samson Agonistes.

Creator:: Westall, Richard, 1765–1836
Date:: [between 1779 and 1797]
Physical Description:: 1 drawing : graphite on wove paper ; 28 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles R. Caldwell

18625. A new drawing book of ornaments, shields, compartments, masks, &c., drawn & engrav'd by M. Lock.

Creator:: Lock, Matthias, approximately 1710–1765
Date:: [ca. 1768]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 5 plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18626. A catalogue of the entire and genuine library of books of Mr. George Vertue, engraver ... consisting of scarce and valuable editions in history, antiquity, painting, architecture, &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ford, at his great room the upper end of St. James's Haymarket, on Friday and Saturday, the 18th and 19th of this instant March, 1757 ...

Creator:: Ford, Mr., auctioneer
Date:: 1757]
Physical Description:: 11 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18627. A survey of the province of Moray; historical, geographical, and political ...

Creator:: Grant, John, 1731–1814
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: viii, [3]-353, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18628. Saggio sopra la pittura ...

Creator:: Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712–1764
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 184, [1] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18629. A general map of North America : in which is express'd the several new roads, forts, engagements, & c, taken from actual surveys and observations made in the army employ'd there, from the years 1754, to 1761 / drawn by the late John Rocque, topographer to his majesty = Cartes generales de l'Amérique Septentrionale; en les quelles sont exprimis les nouvelles routes, forts, batailles, &c. d'apres les observations qui ou été faites depuis l'an 1754, jusqu'a l'an 1761: recuellies par feu Jean Rocque, topographe de sa Majesté Britannique.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [1762?]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets : hand colored ; 87 x 89 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18630. Descrizione de' cartoni disegnati da Carlo Cignani, e de' quadri dipinti da Sebastiano Ricci : posseduti dal signor Giuseppe Smith, console della Gran Bretagna ... : con un compendio delle vite dei due celebri professori.

Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: [2], CLVIII, [2] p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18631. Collections for the history of Worcestershire ...

Creator:: Nash, T. (Treadway Russell), 1725–1811
Date:: 1781-1782
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port., map, plans, facsims., geneal. tables ; 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18632. Traité des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle / par M. F*** ...

Creator:: Frézier, Amédée François, 1682–1773
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: lii, [2], 496 p. : front., XIII fold. pl. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18633. An account of the first discovery, and natural history of Florida : with a particular detail of the several expeditions and descents made on that coast / collected from the best authorities by William Roberts ; illustrated by a general map, and some particular plans, together with a geographical description of that country, by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty.

Creator:: Roberts, William, active 1763
Date:: MDCCLXIII [1763]
Physical Description:: viii, [2], 102 pages, [6] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18634. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18635. A description of the English province of Carolana : by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane : as also of the great and famous river Meschacebe or Missisipi : the five vast navigable lakes of fresh water, and the parts adjacent : together with an account of the commodities of the growth and production of the said province : and a preface containing some considerations of the consequences of the French making settlements there / by Daniel Coxe, Esq.

Creator:: Coxe, Daniel, 1673–1739
Date:: MDCCXXII [1722]
Physical Description:: [54], 122 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18636. An account of six years residence in Hudson's-Bay from 1733 to 1736, and 1744 to 1747 / by Joseph Robson, late suveyor and supervisor of the buildings to the Hudson's-Bay Company ...

Creator:: Robson, Joseph
Date:: MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:: [4], vi, 84, 95, [1] pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18637. Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening, and mensuration ... : and set to view in four parts ... : the whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands / by Batty Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [4], viii, [8], 136 p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18638. Six views of St. Agatha's Abbey at Easby, near Richmond, Yorkshire / drawn and done in aqua tinta, by G. Cuit.

Creator:: Cuit, George, 1743–1818
Date:: November 21st. 1792]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18639. Traité sur la cavalerie / par M. le Comte Drummond de Melfort, maréchal de camp ès armées du roi, & inspecteur-général des troupes-légeres.

Creator:: Drummond de Melfort, Louis, comte, 1726–1788
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: xxij, [2], 505, [3] p., [1], 11 leaves of plates (9 double) : ill. ; 43 cm. + atlas (XXXII double leaves of plates; 65 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18640. Plan of alterations intended at Hoppyland.

Creator:: Mickle, A
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18641. Vûës des villes de Yorck, de Lancaster et autres lieux circonvoisins : avec leurs principales maisons de campagne & autre choses remarquables : representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec une courte description sous chaque figure.

Creator:: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659–1733
Date:: [ca. 1710]
Physical Description:: [100] p. : all ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18642. [Five engraved plates of trade with French captions and additional English captions added to the plates.]

Date:: 1748.]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18643. Houshold [sic] furniture in genteel taste for the year 1763 / by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c ; containing upwards of 300 plates ... ; consisting of china, breakfast, side-board ...

Creator:: Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [100] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18644. The fables of Flora / by Dr. Langhorne.

Creator:: Langhorne, John, 1735–1779
Date:: MDCCXCIV [1794]
Physical Description:: 73, [1] p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18645. An essay on the study and practice of architecture : explained by the true principles of the science ... : illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved ... : to which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.

Creator:: Laugier, Marc-Antoine, 1711–1769
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: xvi, [2], 272, [8] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18646. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters, ... &c : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building ... with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmons.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [1], ii, [8], 187, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18647. A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton-House : illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos, and relievos : in this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from his Lordship's mss.

Creator:: Kennedy, James, active 1759
Date:: MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Physical Description:: [4], xxxviii, 116, [2] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18648. Versuch einer Anweisung zur Anlegung, Verbesserung und Nutzung der Wildbahnen so wohl im Freyn als in Thiergärten : mit 118 Kupfern.

Creator:: Mellin, August Wilhelm von
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: xxi, [1], 356 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18649. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

Creator:: Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Date:: 1797-1803
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18650. Twelve pleasing views down the River Thames, and prospects at sea [graphic].

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

18651. Twelve views of gentlemens seats & gardens by Woollett &c [graphic].

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

18652. Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur.

Creator:: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
Date:: [circa 1703?]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([1] leaf, [289] leaves of plates) : 144 maps ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18653. A catalogue of a capital and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, the property of a Nobleman, brought from his late mansion in Piccadilly :comprising the undoubted works of the following esteemed masters : Julia Romana, Permegiano, Perdononi, Bassan, L. Du Vinci, Langranco, Luca Giordano, Guido, Carlo Marratte, G. Poussin, Le Seure, Stella, Watteau, D. Teniers, Jean Steen, Backhuysem, Van de Velde, Ruysdael, Cup, Vandermeer, Glauber, Vangoyen, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, March the 7th, 1794, and the following day at twelve o'clock : to be viewed till the sale : catalogues may be had at the Rainbow, and in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1794] ,
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18654. Les beaux arts reduits à un même principe ...

Creator:: Batteux, Charles, 1713–1780
Date:: 1746
Physical Description:: 3 p.., xiii, [5], 291, [13] p. front., ill. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18655. A letter to Uvedale Price, esq.

Creator:: Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 20 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18656. A catalogue of portraits, &c. : engraved from pictures painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., late president of the Royal Academy.

Creator:: Richardson, William, active 1778–1815
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [4], 24, [4] pages 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Yale University Library

18657. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... also the art of etching, and that of japanning ... to which is added, a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18658. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton, His Britannick Maiesty's envoy extraordinary at the Court of Naples = Antiquités etrusques, grecques et romaines tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, envoyé extraordinaire de S.M. Britannique en Cour de Naples.

Creator:: Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719–1805
Date:: MDCCLXVI-MDCCLVII [1766-1767]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations (some color, some folded) ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Clive Caplan

18659. The gentleman and tradesman's compleat assistant; or, The whole art of measuring and estimating, made easy ... By J. Leadbeater, and assistants.

Creator:: Leadbeater, J
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: xii, 240 p. front. fold. plate. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18660. Bibliographie instructive: ou, Traite de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers ... Par Guillaume-François De Bure, le jeune ...

Creator:: Bure, Guillaume-François de, 1731–1782
Date:: 1763-1768
Physical Description:: 7 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18661. Plan tres exact de Thionville : avec ses fortifications telles qu'elles sont aujourd'hui & ses environs ...

Creator:: Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 44 x 49 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18662. Fifth book containing nine imitations of drawings of fashionable carriage : on a half inch scale to a foot.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [2] p., 9 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18663. A catalogue of one hundred impressions from gems / engraved by Nathaniel Marchant.

Creator:: Marchant, Nathaniel, 1739–1816
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 36, vi p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18664. View's of all the cathedrall churches of England and Wales &c neatly engrav'd = Vues de toutes les englises cathederalles d'Angleterre et de Galle &c. proprement gravée.

Date:: [1715?]
Physical Description:: [32] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18665. [Biblical playing cards].

Creator:: Visentini, Antonio, 1688–1782
Date:: [1748]
Physical Description:: 52 cards : etching ; 100 x 55 mm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18666. Twelve views of cities [graphic] = Douze vües de villes.

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

18667. Twelve elegant and humorous prints of rural scenes, adorned with comic figures [graphic] / by Robert Dighton.

Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814
Date:: publish'd as the act directs 25 Sept. 1782
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18668. Gradation from a greenhorn to a blood. : Altered from an original essay, published about the year 1740; and adapted to the taste and fashion of the year 1790: with several additions; and the progressive situations represented in characteristic designs ... / by G.M. Woodward ...

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: [19] p. 8 plates. 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18669. A collection of various forms of stoves : used for forcing pine plants, fruit trees, and preserving tender exotics : intended as well for the use of amateurs, as that of students in the art of gardening : the platesaccompanied by ample letter-press, and a correct method shewn for drawing their elevations and sections, from the plans : with the parts at large / byW.Robertson.

Creator:: Robertson, William, architect
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: [31] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18670. A critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments in, and about London and Westminster. To which is prefix'd, the dimensions of St. Peter's church at Rome, and St. Paul's cathedral at London.

Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: 3 p., viii, 118+ p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18671. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales ... By Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1784
Physical Description:: viii, xxiv p., 272 col., 273-280 p. front. (double map) 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18672. St. Michael's Mount : a poem / by the Rev. William Lisle Bowles.

Creator:: Bowles, William Lisle, 1762–1850
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 25, [3] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18673. Proposals / by John Rocque ... ; for engraving and printing by subscription a new and accurate map of the country adjacent to the cities and liberties of London, Westminster, and borough of Southwark : from an exact survey thereof, begun in 1741, and now finished : the engraving is now in hand, and the whole will be finished with all possible expedition.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1745]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : map ; 45 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18674. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

Creator:: Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: xxxv, 49 p. : facsims. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18675. Chatsworth : a poem / dedicated by permission to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire.

Date:: 1788]
Physical Description:: iv, 29, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18676. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

Creator:: Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:: MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18677. Book with groups of figures (by Pyne) for decorating landscapes.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18678. The contrast, or, The opposite consequences of good and evil habits, : exhibited in the lowest ranks of rural life : for the benefit of intelligent servants, and the best proficients in Sunday schools.

Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], vii, [1], 291, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18679. Relation d'un voyage du Levant : fait par ordre du roy : contenant l'histoire ancienne & moderne de plusieurs Ils de l'Archipel, de Constinople, des Cotes de la Mer Noire, de l'Armenie, de La Georgie, des frontiere de Perse & de l'Asie Mineure : avec les plans de villes & des lieux considerables, le genie, les moeurs, le commerce & la religion des differenspeuples qui les habitene et l'explication des medailles & des monumens antiqutes : enrichie de description & de figures d'un grand nombre de plantes rares, de divers animaux, et de plusieure observations touchant l'histoire / par M. Pitton de Tournefort ...

Creator:: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656–1708
Date:: 1717
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill.,maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18680. A plan of civil and historical architecture, in the representation of the most noted buildings of foreign nations, both ancient and modern : taken from the most approv'd historians, original medals, remarkable ruins, and curious authentick designs; and display'd in eighty-six double folio-plates, finely engraven : at a very great expence, by the most eminent hands : divided into five books : ... / all drawn with excellent skill, and the utmost diligence by Mr. John Bernhard Fischer, of Erlach ... ; first published at Leipzig, with the explanations of all the plates, in German and French, out of the best ancient and modern writers; and now faithfully translated into English, with large additional notes, by Thomas Lediard, Esq. ...

Creator:: Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656–1723
Date:: MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:: [4], 28 pages, [86] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18681. Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working, according to the rules of that science : representing the five orders, with their several doors and windows ... / by William Halfpenny.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: [1764?]
Physical Description:: [3], 48 leaves : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18682. A collection of select views in London and Westminster / engraved by Watts, Medland, [and Angus] etc.

Creator:: Miller, William, 1740?-1810?
Date:: [1795-1800]
Physical Description:: [17] leaves of text, [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18683. Persepolis illustrata, or, The ancient and royal palace of Persepolis in Persia, destroyed by Alexander the Great, about two thousand years ago : with particular remarks concerning that palace, and an account of the ancient authors, who have wrote thereupon : illustrated and described, in twenty one copper-plates.

Date:: MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves, XIII leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18684. A general treatise of architecture : in seven books : containing all that is necessary to be known in building, with several new designs of houses, &c. and also the plans of their different situations : in a manner entirely new and pleasant : being an easy Introduction to the knowledge of architecture and building, and for the better understanding the rules of Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi, and others both Antient and Modern / by Thomas Rowland, of New-Windsor, Gent. ; to which is added, a work of infinite labour and expence, consisting of tables for the mensuration of all sorts of works us'd in building, of great use and service to all architects, artificers, and measurers whatsoever.

Creator:: Rowland, Thomas, of New-Windsor
Date:: MDCCXXXII [1732, i.e. 1743?]
Physical Description:: [4], 56, pages, [15] leaves of plates; [4], viii, 49-52 pages, 48 pages of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18685. [Twelve engravings of birds]

Date:: [between 1767 and 1794]
Physical Description:: 12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18686. The lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland &c.

Date:: 1795]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18687. A scheme for eventually supplying every part of the city of Dublin with pipe water : without any charge of water-engines, or any water-forcers, by a close adherence only to the natural laws of gravitation, and the principles, rules, and experiments of hydrostaticks.

Creator:: Stokes, Gabriel
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 40 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18688. The Spectator, with illustrative notes : to which are prefixed the lives of the authors : comprehending Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Thomas Parnell, John Hughes, Eustace Budgel, Lawrence Eusden, Thomas Tickell, Alexander Pope : with critical remarks on their respective writings ... / by Robert Bisset, L.L.D. author of the Life of Burke, &c. &c.

Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 8 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18689. An actual Topographical Survey of the County of Sussex; by T. Yeakell & W. Gardner, Surveyors. Engrav'd by Thos. Yeakell. Scale of three ... miles[ = 150 mm].

Date:: 1778-1783
Physical Description:: 4 sheets ; 905 x 735 mm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18690. A catalogue of the late Sir Everard Fawkener's pictures, antique bronzes, large marble group of a lion devouring a horse, two curious Egyptian mummies of a woman and a child : several large portraits, of English gentlemen, by Liotard, in frames and glasses : and a collection of other valuable pictures, vases, and basso relievos, a curious table inlaid with brass, a large book-case, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in St. James's Haymarket, on Tuesday the 27th of this instant March 1759.

Creator:: Ford, James (Auctioneer)
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18691. A catalogue of the genuine and intire stock of capital and valuable prints, drawings, and copper-plates, some of which have never been published : and a few pleasing cabinet pictures : the property of Mr. G. Bartolozzi, retiring from business : comprising an extensive assemblage of prints of the finest impressions : drawings by Cipriani and Bartolozzi : and amongst the plates, the celebrated one after the N. Poussin in the possession of the Marquis of Landsdown : a ditto after the four elements of Albano : and a capital engraving in strokes after the celebrated picture of the Madona Del Sacco, of A. Del Sarto, at Florence by Bartolozzi, lately finished, and which may be truly deemed the finest plate ever executed by that artist : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, June the 23d, 1797, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed till the sale : catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : and in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18692. The English pilot : part V, describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, ports : with the exact appearances and representations of the most principal marks, lands, &c. : together with the soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, and dangers, on the west-coat [sic] of Africa : from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Cape of Good Hope ...

Date:: MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], 42 pages, [38] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18693. Sketches of the history of man.

Creator:: Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696–1782
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 4 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18694. Some considerations humbly offered to the honourable members of the House of Commons, for building a stone-bridge over the river Thames, from Westminster to Lambeth. Together with some proposals relating to a design drawn for that purpose. In a letter to a member of that honourable house.

Creator:: Price, John, d. 1736
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 16 p. front. (fold. plan) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18695. New idylles, by Gessner. Tr. by W. Hooper, M.D. With a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting, and the Two friend of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot.

Creator:: Gessner, Salomon, 1730–1788
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 129 p. plates. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18696. Of the origin and progress of language ...

Creator:: Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 1714–1799
Date:: 1774-92
Physical Description:: 6 v. front. (v. 6: port.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18697. The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark ... By M. Concanen, jun. and A. Morgan.

Creator:: Concanen, Matthew, active 1795
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: viii, 280 p. 2 plates, plan. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18698. Prospect of Greenwich Hospital from the river : this stately building intended at first by King Charles II for a royal palace, was afterwards converted to the use of disabled sea men ... = Veue de l'hospital de Greenwich du coté de la riviere : ce magnifique edice scitué au bord de la Tamise, fut destiné par Charles II pour la residence des roys, mais par la suite il a été converti pour la retraite des marins invalides ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18699. A new and accurate survey of the island of Minorca : a particualr plan of the harbour of Mahon and its fortifications, with a map of the Mediterranean Sea, shewing the situation of that island and those of Majorca and Yvica, the ports of Barcelona, Alicant, Cartagena, Malaga, Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, &c. on the European coast, and those of Tangier, Ceuta, Tetuan, Oran, Algier, &c. on that of Barbary, with prospects of the town of Mahon and St. Philip's Castle, taken on the spot and lately brought from thence / drawn and engrav'd by Captn. Lempriere ...

Creator:: Lemprière, Clement
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: 1 map : ill. ; 27 x 55 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18700. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

Creator:: Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:: MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:: [8], 42 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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18602. Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material, 1699-1981 (bulk 1811-1899).

18603. Hints to gentlemen of landed property. To which are now first added, supplementary hints. By Nathaniel Kent, of Fulham.

18604. Remarks on the beauties of poetry / by Daniel Webb, Esq.

18605. A topographical survey of the counties of Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, commonly called the Western circuit. Containing an accurate and comprehensive description of all the principal direct and cross roads in each respective county ... By William Tunnicliffe ...

18606. An account of a Roman pavement, : lately found at Stunsfield in Oxfordshire, prov'd to be 1400 years old. / By John Pointer ...

18609. The additions to the quarto edition of the tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX : and the new appendix : reprinted for the accomodation of the purchasers of the first and second editions.

18610. An account of the discovery of the body of King John in the cathedral church of Worcester July 17, 1797 : from authentic communications / with illustrations and remarks by Valentine Green, F.S.A.

18611. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

18612. A picture of Italy / translated fron the original German of W. de Archenholtz, formerly a captain in the Prussian service, by Joseph Trapp ...

18613. Twenty-four figures from Salvator Roza / by Benjamin and Sarah Green.

18614. [Collection of engraved book illustrations by Thomas Stothard].

18616. A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America.

18619. Rules for bad horsemen : addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. / by Charles Thompson, Esq.

18620. The history and antiquities of the archiepiscopal palace of Lambeth : from its foundation to the present time / by Dr. Ducarel, F.R. and A.SS.

18622. A word to the wise [cartographic material].

18623. Joseph Wright of Derby letter to Daniel Daulby.

18624. Samson Agonistes.

18625. A new drawing book of ornaments, shields, compartments, masks, &c., drawn & engrav'd by M. Lock.

18627. A survey of the province of Moray; historical, geographical, and political ...

18628. Saggio sopra la pittura ...

18630. Descrizione de' cartoni disegnati da Carlo Cignani, e de' quadri dipinti da Sebastiano Ricci : posseduti dal signor Giuseppe Smith, console della Gran Bretagna ... : con un compendio delle vite dei due celebri professori.

18631. Collections for the history of Worcestershire ...

18632. Traité des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle / par M. F*** ...

18636. An account of six years residence in Hudson's-Bay from 1733 to 1736, and 1744 to 1747 / by Joseph Robson, late suveyor and supervisor of the buildings to the Hudson's-Bay Company ...

18637. Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening, and mensuration ... : and set to view in four parts ... : the whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands / by Batty Langley.

18638. Six views of St. Agatha's Abbey at Easby, near Richmond, Yorkshire / drawn and done in aqua tinta, by G. Cuit.

18639. Traité sur la cavalerie / par M. le Comte Drummond de Melfort, maréchal de camp ès armées du roi, & inspecteur-général des troupes-légeres.

18640. Plan of alterations intended at Hoppyland.

18641. Vûës des villes de Yorck, de Lancaster et autres lieux circonvoisins : avec leurs principales maisons de campagne & autre choses remarquables : representées en taille-douces tres exactes, avec une courte description sous chaque figure.

18642. [Five engraved plates of trade with French captions and additional English captions added to the plates.]

18643. Houshold [sic] furniture in genteel taste for the year 1763 / by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c ; containing upwards of 300 plates ... ; consisting of china, breakfast, side-board ...

18644. The fables of Flora / by Dr. Langhorne.

18645. An essay on the study and practice of architecture : explained by the true principles of the science ... : illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved ... : to which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.

18648. Versuch einer Anweisung zur Anlegung, Verbesserung und Nutzung der Wildbahnen so wohl im Freyn als in Thiergärten : mit 118 Kupfern.

18649. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

18650. Twelve pleasing views down the River Thames, and prospects at sea [graphic].

18651. Twelve views of gentlemens seats & gardens by Woollett &c [graphic].

18652. Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur.

18654. Les beaux arts reduits à un même principe ...

18655. A letter to Uvedale Price, esq.

18656. A catalogue of portraits, &c. : engraved from pictures painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., late president of the Royal Academy.

18657. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... also the art of etching, and that of japanning ... to which is added, a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

18659. The gentleman and tradesman's compleat assistant; or, The whole art of measuring and estimating, made easy ... By J. Leadbeater, and assistants.

18660. Bibliographie instructive: ou, Traite de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers ... Par Guillaume-François De Bure, le jeune ...

18661. Plan tres exact de Thionville : avec ses fortifications telles qu'elles sont aujourd'hui & ses environs ...

18662. Fifth book containing nine imitations of drawings of fashionable carriage : on a half inch scale to a foot.

18663. A catalogue of one hundred impressions from gems / engraved by Nathaniel Marchant.

18664. View's of all the cathedrall churches of England and Wales &c neatly engrav'd = Vues de toutes les englises cathederalles d'Angleterre et de Galle &c. proprement gravée.

18665. [Biblical playing cards].

18666. Twelve views of cities [graphic] = Douze vües de villes.

18667. Twelve elegant and humorous prints of rural scenes, adorned with comic figures [graphic] / by Robert Dighton.

18668. Gradation from a greenhorn to a blood. : Altered from an original essay, published about the year 1740; and adapted to the taste and fashion of the year 1790: with several additions; and the progressive situations represented in characteristic designs ... / by G.M. Woodward ...

18670. A critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments in, and about London and Westminster. To which is prefix'd, the dimensions of St. Peter's church at Rome, and St. Paul's cathedral at London.

18671. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales ... By Daniel Paterson ...

18672. St. Michael's Mount : a poem / by the Rev. William Lisle Bowles.

18674. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

18675. Chatsworth : a poem / dedicated by permission to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire.

18677. Book with groups of figures (by Pyne) for decorating landscapes.

18678. The contrast, or, The opposite consequences of good and evil habits, : exhibited in the lowest ranks of rural life : for the benefit of intelligent servants, and the best proficients in Sunday schools.

18681. Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working, according to the rules of that science : representing the five orders, with their several doors and windows ... / by William Halfpenny.

18682. A collection of select views in London and Westminster / engraved by Watts, Medland, [and Angus] etc.

18685. [Twelve engravings of birds]

18686. The lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland &c.

18687. A scheme for eventually supplying every part of the city of Dublin with pipe water : without any charge of water-engines, or any water-forcers, by a close adherence only to the natural laws of gravitation, and the principles, rules, and experiments of hydrostaticks.

18689. An actual Topographical Survey of the County of Sussex; by T. Yeakell & W. Gardner, Surveyors. Engrav'd by Thos. Yeakell. Scale of three ... miles[ = 150 mm].

18693. Sketches of the history of man.

18694. Some considerations humbly offered to the honourable members of the House of Commons, for building a stone-bridge over the river Thames, from Westminster to Lambeth. Together with some proposals relating to a design drawn for that purpose. In a letter to a member of that honourable house.

18695. New idylles, by Gessner. Tr. by W. Hooper, M.D. With a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting, and the Two friend of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot.

18696. Of the origin and progress of language ...

18697. The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark ... By M. Concanen, jun. and A. Morgan.

18700. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.