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1. Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple : Viscount and Baron Cobham : one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and knight of the most noble order of the garter : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building with perspective views of the same.

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Creator:
Seeley, B. (Benton)
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
44 pages, [20] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

2. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
[4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

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Creator:
Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628
Date:
1714
Physical Description:
[16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Description of the iron bridges of suspension now erecting over the strait of Menai, at Bangor, and over the river Conway, in North Wales : with two views, also some account of the different bridges of suspension in England and Scotland, particularly of Captain S. Brown's iron bar bridge over the river Tweed : with remarks on the proposed suspension bridge over the river Mercy, at Runcorn Gap, and some calculations of the strength of malleable iron, founded on experiments / by T.G. Cumming, surveyor.

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Creator:
Cumming, T. G
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
55, [3] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An historical account of the rise and growth of the West- India collonies : and of the great advantages they are to England, in respect to trade : licenced according to order.

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Creator:
Thomas, Dalby, Sir
Date:
1690
Physical Description:
[6], 53, [1] pages : 1 table ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The manner of securing all sorts of buildings from fire, or, A treatise upon the construction of arches made with bricks and plaister, called flat-arches, and of a roof without timber called a bricked-roof : with the addition of some letters that have passed between the Count of Espie and Peter Wyche, Esq. on this subject : adorned with two copper-plates serving to illustrate the whole work / written in French by Monsieur le comte d'Espie, Knight of the Military Order of St. Lewis, and translated by L. Dutens.

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Creator:
Espié, Félix François, comte d', 1708-1792
Date:
[1756]
Physical Description:
62 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts