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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1788.

1. The art of painting in oil : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery ... : the whole treatise being so complete and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity ... : in which are also particularly laid down all the several circumstances required in painting of sun-dials, printed pictures, sash-windows, &c. in oil colours / by John Smith.

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Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680.
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 112 p., [1] leaf : front. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The wonders of the little world: or, A general history of man. In six books. Displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind, in several thousand most interesting relations of persons remarkable for bodily perfections or defects ... Together with accounts of the invention of arts, the advancement of science; surprising escapes from death and dangers; strange discoveries of long-concealed murders, and a vast variety of other matters equally curious. The whole collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, and physicians, of all ages and countries. Forming a complete system of the mental and corporeal powers and defects of human nature; and intended to increase knowledge, to promote virtue, to discourage vice, and to furnish topics for innocent and ingenious conversation. By Nathaniel Wanley ...

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Creator:: Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634–1680
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: vi, 7-752 p., [6] leaves of plates. ill. 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A tour in England and Scotland in 1785 / by an English gentleman.

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Creator:: Thomson, William, 1746–1817
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: x, 367 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The gentle shepherd : a pastoral comedy / by Allan Ramsay.

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Creator:: Ramsay, Allan, 1686–1758
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [2], x, [2], 111, [2], 17, 18 p., 13 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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