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1. Campi Phlegraei : observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies, as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London / by Sir William Hamilton, K.B. F.R.S., His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples ; to which, in order to convey the most precise idea of each remark, a new and accurate map is annexed, with 54 plates illuminated from drawings taken and colour'd after nature, under inspection of the author, by the editor, Mr. Peter Fabris = Observations sur les volcans des Deux Siciles, telles qu' elles ont été communiquées à la Société royale de Londres / par le chevalier Hamilton ... auxquelles pour donner une idée plus précise de chaque observation, on a ajouté une carte nouvelle & très exacte avec 54 planches enluminées d'après les desseins faits & coloriés sur la nature même, sous l'inspection de l'auteur, par l'éditeur le sieur Pierre Fabris.

Campi Phlegraei : observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies, as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London / by Sir William Hamilton, K.B. F.R.S., His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples ; to which, in order to convey the most precise idea of each remark, a new and accurate map is annexed, with 54 plates illuminated from drawings taken and colour'd after nature, under inspection of the author, by the editor, Mr. Peter Fabris = Observations sur les volcans des Deux Siciles, telles qu' elles ont été communiquées à la Société royale de Londres / par le chevalier Hamilton ... auxquelles pour donner une idée plus précise de chaque observation, on a ajouté une carte nouvelle & très exacte avec 54 planches enluminées d'après les desseins faits & coloriés sur la nature même, sous l'inspection de l'auteur, par l'éditeur le sieur Pierre Fabris.
Creator:
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : color illustrations (engravings), 1 color map (engraving) ; 47 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

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Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
[2], 839-854 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

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Creator:
Matthews, John, 1748-
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

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Creator:
Taylor, George (Geographer), active 1778
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], 61 p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : 62 maps ; 22 x 53 cm. folded to 22 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

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Date:
1776
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A new treatise on the method of breeding, breaking, and training, horses / by William Ward ...

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Creator:
Ward, William, active 1776
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xvi, 200 p. : 4 fold. pl. (incl. front.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Travels through Italy, in the years 1771 and 1772 : described in a series of letters to Baron Born, on the natural history, particularly the mountains and volcanoes of that country / by John James Ferber ... ; translated from the German ; with explanatory notes, and a preface on the present state and future improvement of mineralogy by R. E. Raspe.

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Creator:
Ferber, Johann Jakob, 1743-1790
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [1], 377, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

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Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. An election ball : in poetical letters from Mr. Inkle, at Bath, to his wife at Glocester : with a poetical address to John Miller, Esq. at Batheaston villa / by the Author of the New Bath guide.

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Creator:
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A catalogue of pictures, composed and painted chiefly by the most admired masters of the Roman, Florentine, Parman, Bolognese, Venetian, Flemish, and French schools : in which many of the most capital are illustrated by descriptions and critial remarks / humbly offered to the impartial examination of the public by Robert Foulis.

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Creator:
Foulis, Robert, 1707-1776
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
3 v. in 1 ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The works of Alexander Pope, esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death: printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton.

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Creator:
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
6 v. front., plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. An account of a newly invented beautiful green paint. Lasting in the open air, and daily improving by the winds, sunshine and rains. Prepared by Francis Armstrong ...

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Creator:
Armstrong, Francis
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
2 p.., 31 p. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A treatise on building in water : in two parts : Part I. : particularly relative to the repair and re-building of Essex-Bridge, Dublin ... : Part II : concerning an attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap methods ... : illustrated with sixty-three copper-plates / by George Semple ...

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Creator:
Semple, George, 1700?-1782?
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
4 p. l., 157 p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Ugbrooke Park: a poem.

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Creator:
Reeve, Joseph, 1733-1820
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
3 p.., [5]-29 p. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

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Creator:
Skaife, Thomas
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
iv, [8]-387 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made clear, in theory, by various moveable schemes, and diagrams; and reduced to practice ... Containing diagrams, views, and original designs, in architecture, &c. ... All originals; invented, delineated, and, great part, engraved by the author, Thomas Malton.

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Creator:
Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
2 p. l., viii, [8], 284 p. front., XLVI fold. pl. (incl. diagrs.) 38 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith, LL. D. and F.R.S., formerly professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Viaggiana, or, Detached remarks on the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of ancient and modern Rome.

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Creator:
Weston, Stephen, 1747-1830
Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
iv, 176 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A catalogue of that capital collection of pictures, of Edward Ravenell, Esq., deceased : formed by Sir Peter Killegrew in the reign of Charles I : consisting of the works of Rubens, Rembrandt, Vandyke, Poussin, Ostade, Wouvermans, Carlo Dolci, Barroccio, Wynants, Deneef, S. Rosa, Tintoret, Vanderveldt, Zuchero, Titian, &c.: in this collection there are also a most beautiful picture of a Dutch fair, by Wouvermans : an original portrait of Thomas Killegrew, the Jester, by Vandyck : a sea view by Vanderveldt : Venus and Adonis, by Netscher : and two elegant Porphyry Busts with Jasper Draperies, on beautiful variegated Pedestals : which (by order of the executor,) will be sold by auction, by Mess. Langford, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Saturday the 24th of this Instant February 1776 : the said collection may be viewed on Thursday the 22nd, and till the time of sale, which will begin punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had gratis on the days of viewing, at Mess. Langford's aforesaid : conditions of sale as usual.

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Creator:
Mess. Langford (Firm)
Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. 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:
1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The American atlas, or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America : wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and islands, and chiefly the British colonies, composed from numerous surveys, several of which were made by order of government / by Capt. Holland, Capt. Carver, Lewis Evans, William Scull, Henry Mouzon, Lieut. Ross, J. Cook, Michael Lane, Joseph Gilbert, Gardner, Hillock, &c. &c. ; engraved on forty-eight copper-plates by the late Mr. Thomas Jefferys, geographer to the king, and others.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2] leaves, [58] leaves of plates (some folded)) : 29 maps ; 54 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Travels in Greece, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti / by Richard Chandler, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and of the Society of Antiquaries.

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Creator:
Chandler, Richard, 1738-1810
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
4, xiv, [2], 304 p., [7] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738-1825
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

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Creator:
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, 1736?-1817?
Date:
MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. ...

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Date:
Jany. 1, 1776, according to act of Parlt. (39 Strand)
Physical Description:
[240] prints : etchings ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A description of nine historical prints, representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. Selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

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Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
21 p. 9 double pl. (incl. ports.) 60 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Variety of capitals, freezes, and corniches : and how to increase, or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original : likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates / published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani.

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Creator:
Columbani, Placido
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
12, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Bond of Indemnity ... : manuscript.

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Date:
1776
Physical Description:
1 item ; 33 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. An essay on architecture.

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Creator:
Lowth, Thomas Henry, 1753 or 4-1778
Date:
1776]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 21 p. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

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Creator:
Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768-1849
Date:
circa 1776-circa 1832
Physical Description:
1 v. (270 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

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Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Needwood Forest.

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Creator:
Mundy, Francis Noel Clarke, 1738 or 1739-1815
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
52 p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Great Britain's coasting-pilot : in two parts : being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland from the River of Thames to the westward and northward : with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle : likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland, describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place : the setting and flowing of the tides : with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety : with directions for coming into the channel between England and France / by Captain Greenville Collins, Hyrdographer in Ordinary to the King's most excellent Majesty.

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Creator:
Collins, Greenvile, active 1669-1698
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 30 pages, [95] leaves of plates) : 49 maps ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Britannica curiosa, or, A description of the most remarkable curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : in the several counties, cities, towns, villages, &c. : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment... : illustrated with copper plates.

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Date:
1776
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The school of wisdom; or repository of the most valuable curiosities of art & nature ... Compiled from various authors.

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Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xii, 324 p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. New idylles, by Gessner. Tr. by W. Hooper, M.D. With a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting, and the Two friend of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot.

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Creator:
Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
3 p. ., 129 p. plates. 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A practical essay on a cement and artificial stone : justly supposed to be that of the Greeks and Romans / lately rediscovered by Monsieur Loriot ... ; for the cheap, easy, expeditious and durable construction of all manner of buildings ; and the formation of all kinds of ornaments of architecture, even with the commonest and coarsest materials ; translated from the French ...

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Creator:
Loriot, Antoine-Joseph, 1716-1782
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
48 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Observations on the Night thoughts of Dr. Young, with occasional remarks on the beauties of poetical composition ... / by Courtney Melmoth.

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Creator:
Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 211 p. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A topographical description of such parts of North America as are contained in the (annexed) map of the middle British colonies & in North America. / by T. Pownall, M.P. Late governor, &c. &c. of His Majesty's provinces of Massachusetts Bay and South Carolina, and lieutenant governor of New Jersey.

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Creator:
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805
Date:
MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
Physical Description:
vi, 46, 16 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 44 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A companion to every place of curiosity and entertainment in and about London and Westminster ... : to which is added a new large and elegant map of London, Westminster, and Southwark ... designed for strangers to choose such objects as suit their convenience, and to enable them to describe what they have seen.

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Date:
1776
Physical Description:
x, 191 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Observations on the Highlands of Scotland / by William Gilpin.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804
Date:
1973
Physical Description:
462 p. in various pagings, [39] leaves : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

43. John Bracken : a monograph / by M.E. Burkett.

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Creator:
Burkett, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Date:
[1976?]
Physical Description:
viii, 5 pages, 11 pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Reference Library