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1. Versailles illustrated, or Divers views of the several parts of the royal palace of Versailles : as likewise of all the fountains, groves, parterras, ye labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens, wherein are represented whatever is remarkable, whether statues, groups of figures, water falls, pleasure houses &c. : drawn on the spot by the order & with the approbation of the French king.

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Date:
1726
Physical Description:
[29] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue; in two treatises. I. Concerning beauty, order, harmony, design. II. Concerning moral good and evil.

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Creator:
Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
xxvi p., 1 leaf, 304 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The practice of perspective: or, An easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art ... The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris; since translated into German ... and into English ... And now, a second time, into the same language, by E. Chambers.

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Creator:
Dubreuil, Jean, 1602-1670
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
xiii, [4], 150, 150 p. illus. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. An historical and chronological list of the painters.

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Date:
[between 1726 and 1741]
Physical Description:
fold. table. 36 x 47 cm. fold. to 17 x 10 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come. The second part : delivered under the similitude of a dream : wherein is set forth the manner of the setting out of Christian's wife and children : their dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country / by John Bunyan.

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Creator:
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
[12], 179, [1] pages : illustrations, portrait ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Terræ-filius: or, The secret history of the University of Oxford; in several essays. To which are added, remarks upon a late book entitled, University education, by R. Newton ...

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Creator:
Amhurst, N. (Nicholas), 1697-1742
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 354 p. front. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Canterbury, and the once-adjoining monastery: containing, an account of its first establishment, building, reedifications, repairs, endowments, benefactions, chapels, altars, shrines, reliques, chauntries, obiits, ornaments, books, jewels, plate, vestments; before the dissolution of the monastery: and the manner of its dissolution. A survey of the present church and cloysters, monuments, and inscriptions, with other things remarkable: which, with the several prospects of the church, are engraved by the best hands. The lives of the archbishops, priors, &c. of Christ-church: with an account of learned men there flourishing in their several times. An appendix of ancient charters and writings relating to the church and monastery. A catalogue of the church-wealth in prior Estrey's time. An ancient Saxon obituary and a large one continu'd thence downward. By the Reverend Mr. J. Dart.

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Creator:
Dart, John, -1730
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
2 p. l., ix, 204, lvi p. illus., plates (part. fold.), coats of arms, plan. 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Della architettura di Leon Battista Alberti.

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Creator:
Leoni, Giacomo, ca. 1686-1746
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
3 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books : of painting in three books and of statuary in one book : translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli : and now first into English, and divided into three volumes / by James Leoni, Venetian, architect ; to which are added several designs of his own, for buildings both public and private.

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Creator:
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Original letters relating to the hospitals in the diocese of Exeter : communicated at the instance of Seth [Ward] Lord Bishop of that see. Anno MDCLXV.

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Date:
1728]
Physical Description:
[2], 7, [1] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Hudibras : in three parts / written in the time of the late wars ; corrected and amended, with additions, to which is added annotations, with an exact index to the whole ; adorn'd with a new set of cuts, design'd and engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth.

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Creator:
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
424 (i.e. 420) p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A voyage round the world by way of the great South Sea : perform'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty's commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish crown) till she was cast away on the island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720 : and afterwards continu'd in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c. / by Capt. George Shelvocke, Commander of the Speedwell, Recovery, &c. in this expedition.

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Creator:
Shelvocke, George
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:
[8], xxxii, [4], 468 pages, [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening, and mensuration ... : and set to view in four parts ... : the whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands / by Batty Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
[4], viii, [8], 136 p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The city and country purchaser, and Builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builders guide ... / by Richard Neve.

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Creator:
Neve, Richard
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
[12], xx, [288] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The British compendium, or, Rudiments of honour : containing the descents, marriages, issue, titles, posts, and seats of all the nobility of England ... : likewise, the institution, creation and investiture of all degrees of peerage, and the several orders of knighthood.

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Creator:
Nichols, Francis, 18th cent
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
[6], 120, 544, [7] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The exact dress of the head, 1725.

The exact dress of the head, 1725.
Creator:
Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740
Date:
1970
Physical Description:
9 p., 30 plates. illus., facsim. 14 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library