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1. The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.

The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724-1806
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
[4], 47, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 x 60 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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.
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
44 pages, [20] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

3. London and Westminster improved : illustrated by plans : to which is prefixed, A discourse on publick magnificence, with observations on the state of arts and artists in this kingdom, wherein the study of the polite arts is recommended as necessary to a liberal education : concluded by some proposals relative to places not laid down in the plans / by John Gwynn.

London and Westminster improved : illustrated by plans : to which is prefixed, A discourse on publick magnificence, with observations on the state of arts and artists in this kingdom, wherein the study of the polite arts is recommended as necessary to a liberal education : concluded by some proposals relative to places not laid down in the plans / by John Gwynn.
Creator:
Gwynn, John, 1713-1786
Date:
MDCCLXVU [1766]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 132 pages, IIII folded leaves of plates : plans ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
8 p., 105 leaves of plates on 85 leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan : with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company : as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah : and a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell, esq.

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Creator:
Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711-1798
Date:
1766-1771
Physical Description:
3 pt. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year MDCCLXIV, under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq., colonel of foot, and now brigadier general in America : including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace : with an introductory account of the preceding campaign, and battle at Bushy-Run : to which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages, a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country, with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances, and different routs : the whole illustrated with a map and copper-plates / published, from authentic documents, by a lover of his country.

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Creator:
Smith, William, 1727-1803
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
xiii, 71 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, to the time of Francis, the present earl Brooke, and earl of Warwick, including the history and succession of the several earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick castle.

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Creator:
Edmondson, Joseph, -1786
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
2 p. l., 108 p. front., illus., 2 pl., 3 plans, 4 geneal. tab. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A catalogue of the several pictures, statues, and busto's in the picture gallery, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford ...

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Date:
1766
Physical Description:
16 p., 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Britannia's triumph in the year MDCCLXII : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, &c. &c. ... / these drawings were made by Lieutenant Philip Ousbridge, an officer on the spot ...

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Creator:
Orsbridge, Philip, -1767
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
4, [4] pages, 11, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian artists in painting and sculpture : in a series of letters / by the Abbe Winkelman ...

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Creator:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
158 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world.

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Creator:
Gregory, John, 1724-1773
Date:
MDCCLXVI
Physical Description:
xvi, 239, [5] p. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Mona antiqua restaurata : An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the isle of Anglesey, the ancient seat of the British druids. In two essays. With an appendix, containing a comparative table of primitive words, and the derivatives of them in several of the tongues of Europe; with remarks upon them. Together with some letters, and three catalogues / By Henry Rowlands, Vicar of Llanidan, in the Isle of Anglesey.

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Creator:
Rowlands, Henry, 1655-1723
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
xi, [5], 357, [3] p., XII leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners of that country, in the years 1765, and 1766. To which is annexed, An admonition to gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their tour through Italy ...

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Creator:
Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
iv, 312 p., 1 l. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The English connoisseur: containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. In the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country ...

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Creator:
Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation : consisting of plans, elevations and sections in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste : calculated for the ornamenting of parks, forests, woods, gardens ... &c. : together with a full explanation, in letter press, to each design, and exact scales for measurement / by Thomas Collins Overton.

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Creator:
Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
19, [1] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

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Creator:
Manwaring, Robert
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
[2] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The elements of clock and watch-work : adapted to practice : in two essays / by Alexander Cumming.

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Creator:
Cumming, Alexander, 1733-1814
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
192, [14] p., [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Original designs of temples, and other ornamental buildings for parks and gardens, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste. By Tho. Collins Overton.

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Creator:
Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
19 p. 50 plates (incl. plans, 1 fold.) 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The country in full cry, after poachers and hunters of various denominations : more particularly, insolent common-huntsmen ... take illegal and illiberal liberties upon the real landed-gentlemens grounds and inclosures : in a series of letters printed in the Edinburgh advertisers, No. 233, 236, 237, 238, 240, 245 ...

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Date:
1766
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. George Stevens's celebrated lecture on heads; : which has been exhibited upwards of three hundred successive nights to crowded audiences, and met with the most universal applause.

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Creator:
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784
Date:
ca. 1766]
Physical Description:
8 p., 1 folded plate : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, A register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. By T. Smollett ...

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Creator:
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
2 v. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

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Date:
1766-1769
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio 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, ornaments, buildings, 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 ; in which 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.

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Date:
1766
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton, His Britannick Maiesty's envoy extraordinary at the Court of Naples = Antiquités etrusques, grecques et romaines tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, envoyé extraordinaire de S.M. Britannique en Cour de Naples.

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Creator:
Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805
Date:
MDCCLXVI-MDCCLVII [1766-1767]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations (some color, some folded) ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Clive Caplan

26. Plan de la ville et foubourgs [sic] de York : capitale de la comté de meme nom / levé par le Sr. P. Chassereau ... ; avec les augmentationes jusqu'a l'an 1766.

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Creator:
Chassereau, Pierre
Date:
[1766]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 43 x 39 cm., on sheet 48 x 68 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. British biography; or, An accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff ... to the present time ...

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Creator:
Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799
Date:
1766-1780
Physical Description:
10 v. ports. (incl. fronts.) 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The Life of Mr. James Quin, comedian, with the history of the stage from his commencing actor to his retreat to Bath ... To which is added a supplement of original facts and anecdotes ... together with his trial for the murder of Mr. Bowen.

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Date:
1887
Physical Description:
107 p. port. 20 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library