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1. Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented : being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates : containing a great variety of magnificent buildings, accurately described : as also, several of a smaller kind elegantly design'd, with all necessary offices, of great strength, easy construction, and graceful appearance : scales are annexed, and regular estimates are made for each design : the whole carefully calculated by the great square : with instructions to workmen, &c. in several pages of letter-press : intended as an improvement of what has been published of that sort / correctly engraved from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects ; published according to act of Parliament, April 24, 1752.

Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented : being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates : containing a great variety of magnificent buildings, accurately described : as also, several of a smaller kind elegantly design'd, with all necessary offices, of great strength, easy construction, and graceful appearance : scales are annexed, and regular estimates are made for each design : the whole carefully calculated by the great square : with instructions to workmen, &c. in several pages of letter-press : intended as an improvement of what has been published of that sort / correctly engraved from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects ; published according to act of Parliament, April 24, 1752.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 16 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Plan du chateau, jardin et parc de Wilton : la terre du comte de Pembroke, située dans la comté de Wilts. à 75 miles de Londres / par J. Rocque ... = An exact survey of the beautiful & magnificent house, garden & park of the Right Honble. the Earl of Pembroke : with the ancient town of Wilton 3 miles from Salisbury / by John Rocque ...

Plan du chateau, jardin et parc de Wilton : la terre du comte de Pembroke, située dans la comté de Wilts. à 75 miles de Londres / par J. Rocque ... = An exact survey of the beautiful & magnificent house, garden & park of the Right Honble. the Earl of Pembroke : with the ancient town of Wilton 3 miles from Salisbury / by John Rocque ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1754
Physical Description:: 1 map : ill. ; 29 x 30 cm., on sheet 47 x 61 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China.

The rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China.

Date:: [1770?]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

4. New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings &c. ... / by William Halfpenny.

New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings &c. ... / by William Halfpenny.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1750-1752
Physical Description:: 4 pts. in 1 : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The environs of London : reduced from an actual survey in 16 sheets / by the late John Rocque ... ; with new improvements to the year 1763.

The environs of London : reduced from an actual survey in 16 sheets / by the late John Rocque ... ; with new improvements to the year 1763.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [1763]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; 86 x 125 cm., sheets 58 x 79 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing : a new work : elegantly engraved on eighty quarto copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; wherein the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing : a new work : elegantly engraved on eighty quarto copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; wherein the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 8 p., [80] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts