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1. Calke Hall, Derbyshire, the Seat of Sir Henry Harpur, Bt.

Calke Hall, Derbyshire, the Seat of Sir Henry Harpur, Bt.
Creator:
unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:
ca. 1734
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 3/4 x 36 inches (60.3 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Twenty five actions of the manage horse / engrav'd by Josephus Sympson, from original drawings of Mr. John Vanderbanck ; to which are added, two of the English hunter ; with the figure of a fine horse measured from the life, shewing all the proportions ; as also a draught of the true shape of the branch ; with short remarks on some parts of horsemanship.

Twenty five actions of the manage horse / engrav'd by Josephus Sympson, from original drawings of Mr. John Vanderbanck ; to which are added, two of the English hunter ; with the figure of a fine horse measured from the life, shewing all the proportions ; as also a draught of the true shape of the branch ; with short remarks on some parts of horsemanship.
Creator:
Vanderbank, John, 1694-1739
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
[4], 8 p., 29, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The works of Edmund Waller, esqr., in verse and prose : published by Mr. Fenton.

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Creator:
Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
9 p.l., 450, xci, [1] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Andrea Palladio's Five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell, Esq; ; author of Vitruvius Britannicus ; to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Date:
MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical Description:
[8], 66 p., XXXI, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical : wherein the most reasonable and advantageous methods of raising and conducting water, for the watering noblemens and gentlemens seats, buildings, gardens, &c., are carefully (and in a manner not yet publish'd in any language) laid down ... : illustrated and explain'd by sixty copper cuts, done by the best hands ... : collected from the best of the Italian and French designs (together with some new ones of the author's own invention) ... / by Stephen Switzer ...

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Creator:
Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
2 v. ([6], xxxii, [4], 133, [15], [129]-274, 10 p.; [8], [275]- 352, 4, [353]-413, [1], [14] p., [2], [60] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. La galerie agreable du monde : où l'on voit en un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roïaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses, avec leur situation, & ce qu'elles ont de plus remarquable : les iles, côtes, rivières, ports de mer, & autre lieux considerables de l'ancienne & nouvelle géographie : les antiquitez, les abbaies, eglises, academies, colleges, bibliotheques, palais, et autres edifices, tant publics que particuliers : comme aussi les maisons de campagne, les habillemens et moeurs des peuples, leur religion, les jeux, les fêtes, les ceremonies, les pompes & les magnificences : item les animaux, arbres, plantes, fleurs, quelque temples & idoles des païens & autres raretez dignes d'êtres vuës : dans les quatre parties de l'univers, divisée en LXVI tomes / les estampes aiant été dessinées sur les lieux & gravées exactement par les celébres Luyken, Mulder, Goerée, Baptist, Stopendaal, & par d'autres maïtres renomez, avec une courte description qui précede chaque empire, roïaume &c. & même avec le sommaire sous chaque planche ; le tout recueilli avec beaucoup de soin, de travail & de depense, pour l'utilité & pour le plaisir des amateurs de l'histoire & de la géographie.

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Date:
[1729?]
Physical Description:
66 v. : chiefly ill., maps, plans ; 37-38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Nakedness consider'd, or, Reasons for not wearing of clothes / by a gentleman of great parts.

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Creator:
Gentleman of great parts
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
[7], 1 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The art of painting in miniature: teaching the speedy and perfect acquisition of that art without a master. Done from the original French.

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Date:
1729
Physical Description:
5 p.., 100, [6] p. ill. (diagr.) 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The British compendium, or, Rudiments of honour : containing the origin of the Scots, and succession of their kings for above 2000 years : also, the titles, descents, marriages, intermarriages, issue, posts, and seats of all the Scottish nobility, with their robes and arms ... : together with an account of the Knights of the Thistle and Nova Scotia, the regalia and arms of Scotland, and the riding of Parliaments.

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Creator:
Nichols, Francis, 18th cent
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
vii, [92], 520 [i.e. 490], [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., coats of arms, map ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

11. 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

12. 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 ...

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

13. Bibliotheca exquisitissima, sive Librorum selectissimorum collectio in omni facultate, arte, scientia & lingua, nitidissime compactorum ... : Quos ... collegit, et magnam eorum partem propriis studiis / designavit Petrus vander Aa ... ; Horum publica auctio habebitur in ejus ædibus in Academia Lugduno Batava, ad diem 20 Septembris stili novi 1729. & seqq.

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Creator:
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Date:
[1729]
Physical Description:
3 v. ([10], 903, [1] p.) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical / Stephen Switzer.

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Creator:
Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745
Date:
1982
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library