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1. Discours prononcés a l'Académie royale de peinture de Londres, par M. Josué Reynolds, président de la dite Académie. Suivis des Notes du même auteur, sur le poëme de l'Art de peindre, de Dufresnoy. Le tout traduit de l'anglois ...

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Delle arti del disegno : discorsi del cav. Giosuè Reynolds, presidente della R. accad. di Londra ec. / transportati dall' inglese nel toscano idioma.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
243 p. : port. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Essays moral and literary. By Vicesimus Knox... In three volumes...

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Creator:
Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:
3 v. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Bowles's Artist's assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, mezzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, and in water-colours, and on silk or satin ... Methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners. By the author of Bowles's Art of painting in water-colours.

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Date:
1787
Physical Description:
64 p. (p. 58-64 advertisements) plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A supplement to the tour through Great-Britain : containing a catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, plantations, scenes and situations, in England and Wales : arranged according to the alphabetical order of the several counties / by the late Mr. Gray ... ; to which are now added, by another hand, several additions : also blank spaces at the end, to enable every traveller or reader to make his own remarks or corrections.

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Creator:
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
v, [1], 119, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The picturesque beauties of Shakspeare : being a selection of scenes from the works of that great author / engraved under the direction of Charles Taylor ; part the first containing As you like it, Macbeth, Hamlet, The merry wives of Windsor, Much ado about nothing, Twelfth night.

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Date:
[1787]
Physical Description:
[40] leaves, [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Illustrations of Shakspeare : being a selection of scenes, from the works of that great author / engraved on forty plates from designs by Stothard & Smirke.

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Date:
[1787]
Physical Description:
[41] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. [Views in the South Seas]

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Creator:
Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812
Date:
1787-1788
Physical Description:
4 prints : etching and aquatint ; plate marks 50.1 x 66.5, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The penman's repository : containing twenty correct alphabets, ... a valuable selection of flourishes, and a variety of new designs / by William Milns ...

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Creator:
Milns, William, 1761-1801
Date:
[1787]
Physical Description:
32 leaves ; 31 x 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A catalogue of the superlatively fine collection of pictures, late the property of the Right Reverend Dr. Newton, Lord Bishop of Bristol, dec. : amongst which are some of the best works of the Italian school, formerly purchased for his Lordship by that well known connoisseur, Dr. Bragg, at the sale of the celebrated collection of the late Cardinal Ottoboni at Rome, including a valuable assemblage of Dutch and Flemish pictures, the property of a Gentleman going abroad : also a most capital Descent from the Cross, by Vandyck, and other first-rate performances, collected in Spain, by Richard Cumberland, Esq : likewise that chef d'oeuvre, representing the death of Chatham, with the portraits of several peers and members of the house of commons, painted by J.S. Copley, Esq. R.A. together with forty-two capital pictures just imported from abroad, and several more, some being brought to sale in conformity to the will of a nobleman, and others being the property of different gentlemen : which will be exhibited and sold (by private contract) by a committee appointed for that purpose, at the Great Rooms, late the Royal Academy, No. 125, Pall Mall, on Tuesday, April 8, 1788, and following days (Sundays excepted) till about the middle, or latter end of May following, from nine o'clock in the morning till seven in the evening.

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Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
24 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling / by Geoffrey Gambado.

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Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
Date:
1929
Physical Description:
xx, 38 p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:
Swinburne, Henry, 1743-1803
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Six narrative poems / by Eliza Knipe.

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Creator:
Cobbold, Elizabeth, 1767-1824
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
x, 74, [2] p. ; 26 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A concise treatise on the art of angling ... / by Thomas Best.

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Creator:
Best, Thomas
Date:
1992
Physical Description:
[77] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The gentleman's guide in his tour through France : with a correct map of all the post-roads, the expense of travelling in a post-chaise, stage-coach, or inland water carriage : also the distances of the towns, and the best houses of accomodations.

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Creator:
Millard, John, 18th/19th cent
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
xxiv, 306, iv p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Antiquités étrusques, grecques et romaines : gravées par F. A. David / avec leurs explications par d'Hancarville

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Creator:
Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Bowles's art of painting in water-colours : exemplified in landscapes, flowers, &c. : together with instructions for painting on glass and in crayons : explained in a full and familiar manner : with particular directions for preparing the colours agreeable to the practice of the most eminent masters / by the author of Bowles's artist's assistant.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
[i]-iv, [5-7], 8-80 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Ricerche sull'architettura Egiziana e su di o che i Greci par abbia nooresi da quella nazione : in risposta al quesito della R.Accademia d'iscrizione e belle lettere di Parigi proposto per l'anno MDCCLXXXV.

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Creator:
Del Rosso, Giuseppe, 1760-1831
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
[3], vii, [1], 224 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. School of arts : or, An introduction to useful knowledge : being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science ... / by John Imison.

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Creator:
Imison, John, d. 1788
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
xv, 319, 176 p., [24] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Imperfect hints towards a new edition of Shakespeare, written chiefly in the year 1782 ...

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Creator:
Felton, Samuel
Date:
1787-1788
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Designs for monuments including grave stones, compartments, wall pieces and tombs on 40 plates.

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Date:
[between 1787 and 1798]
Physical Description:
40 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. Ten minutes advice to every gentleman going to purchase a horse out of a dealer, jockey, or groom's stables : In which are laid down established rules for discovering the perfections and blemishes of that noble animal.

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Creator:
Bracken, Henry, 1697-1764
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
3 p.l., 43, iv, [5]-70 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Views in England, Wales, and Scotland.

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Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749-1819
Date:
circa 1787-circa 1819
Physical Description:
approximately 400 drawings in 3 volumes ; 54 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. An accurate and descriptive catalogue of the several paintings in the King of Spain's palace at Madrid; with some account of the pictures in the Buen-Retiro. By Richard Cumberland ...

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Creator:
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
iv, 131 p. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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.

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

29. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs : for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges ... and ornamental wooden gates / ... engraved on thirty-two plates : from designs drawn by J. Miller.

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Creator:
Miller, J. (John), architect
Physical Description:
32 plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A history of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the southern provinces of North America / by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton ...

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Creator:
Tarleton, Lieutenant-General (Banastre), 1754-1833
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 518, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates (3 folded) : maps ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Particulars, and conditions of sale, of several very valuable manors, advowsons, and freehold estates ... consisting of the extensive manors of Northington, Totford, Swarraton, and Godsfield, the Grainge Manor, and Lordship of Serveton otherwise Swarroughton; and the noble and superb mansion called the Grainge, ... and the very desirable Manor of Bradley, ... also, the advowson of the rectory of Bradley, ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. W. Young, on Wednesday, the 11th of April, 1787, at twelve o' clock, at Garraway's coffee-house, 'Change-Alley, London, in two lots, by order of the co-heiresses of the Right Hon. the Earl of Northington, deceased.

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Creator:
Young, W., Mr
Date:
[1787]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Rules for bad horsemen, or, Those who depend upon practice without principles : addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. / by Charles Thompson.

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Creator:
Thompson, Charles, fl. 1750
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
xii, 88 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Lettres sur l'architecture des anciens : et celle des modernes, dans lesquelles se trouve développé le génie symbolique qui présida aux monumens de l'antiquité / par m. Viel de Saint-Maux ...

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Creator:
Viel de Saint Maux, Jean Louis
Date:
1787
Physical Description:
[262] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A treatise on the five orders of architecture : in which the principles of that art are illustrated by elegant and correct examples, ... accompanied with observations made on several of the antiquities at Rome, and various parts of Italy, ... and ... France, ... / by George Richardson, architect = Traité des cinq ordres d'architecture, ... par George Richardson, architecte.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, 1736?-1817?
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:
x, 32, [2] pages, xxii leaves of plates : illustrations ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A catalogue of a truly capital and valuable collection of drawings, of the late Matthew Duane, Esq; deceased : collected for him, by the late Mr. Hamilton, at Rome : and consists of the undoubted works of the following great Italian Masters, viz. : Raphael, Corregio, Schidoni, A. del Sarto, Titian, P. Veronese, Tintorett, Palma, Carracci, Guido, Guercino, S. Rosa : several fine drawings, framed and glazed : together with a select collection of seventy-two elegant high-finished drawings, by that much esteemed artist Mr. Hussey : being a selection of the most striking efforts of that celebrated Master's genius : which will be sold by auction, (by order of the executor) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall, On Tuesday, May 1st, 1787, and the following day : to be viewed two days preceding the sale, which will begin each day at twelve o'clock : catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill, and in Pall Mall.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803
Date:
[1787]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A catalogue of that superb and well known cabinet of drawings of John Barnard, Esq. late of Berkley-Square, deceased : consisting of the choicest works of all the ancient masters, collected at a great expence from the cabinets of Lord Somers, Arundel, and Cholmondley, Sir Peter Lely, Dr. Mead, Holditch, and Uvedale Price, Esqrs. Mr Muilman, and Vander Dussens, of Amsterdam, Mons. Mariette, of Paris, and many others : among which are many exceeding fine and capital, by Raphael, A. Del Sarto, Titian, M. Angelo, Parmegiano, Corregio, P. Veronese, Bassano, Claude Loraine, Poussin, Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, Berghem, Adrian, Will. V. De Vedel, Potter, Du Jardin, Ruysdale, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Greenwood, at his room, in Leicester-Square, on Friday, Feb. 16, 1787, and the seven following evenings : it is presumed, that a more capital collection of the valuable works of the Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French, and English schools, were never offered to the public, or more worthy the attention of the learned connoisseurs.

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Creator:
Greenwood, John, 1727-1792
Date:
[1787]
Physical Description:
43, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts