Date: 1796 / Classification: Books - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
Date:: MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The temple of taste : comprising elegant historical engravings : also, views of the principal buildings in London : also, a select variety of elegant and amusing subjects : with the histories, and other connected information, at large, by the best artists, designers and engravers.

The temple of taste : comprising elegant historical engravings : also, views of the principal buildings in London : also, a select variety of elegant and amusing subjects : with the histories, and other connected information, at large, by the best artists, designers and engravers.

Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [144] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.

A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.

Creator:: Wells, William Frederick, 1762-1836
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [4], 19, [1] page, [6] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.

Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.

Creator:: Garneray, Jean-François, 1755-1837
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [4] pages, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J. G. Stedman ...

Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J. G. Stedman ...

Creator:: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Memoirs of the Royal academicians; being an attempt to improve the national taste. By Anthony Pasquin ...

Creator:: Williams, John, 1754-1818?
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 3 p.., [5]-148 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Jeffery's edition of The castle of Otranto, a Gothic story. Translated by William Marshal, gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto ...

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xvi, 152 p. col. front., col. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The birth-day gift or The joy of a new doll, from papers cut by a lady ...

Creator:: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., 7 plates. 31 x 37 cm. (in case, 38 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A descriptive catalogue of the works of Rembrandt : and of his scholars, Bol, Livens, and Van Vliet : compiled from the original etchings, and from the catalogues of De Burgy, Gersaint, Helle and Glomy, Marcys, and Yver / by Daniel Daulby.

Creator:: Daulby, Daniel
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [4], xxii, [2], 339, [4] p. : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A description of the lake of Killarney : illustrated with twelve prints of its most interesting views / drawn and engraved in aquatinta, by Jonathan Fisher ; being an appendix to his "Scenery of Ireland.".

Creator:: Fisher, Jonathan, -1809
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [2], 14 pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A tour to the Isle of Wight : illustrated with eighty views / drawn and engraved in aqua tinta by Charles Tomkins ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Tomkins, Charles, 1757-1823
Date:: London :
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Prospectus and specimen of an history of marine architecture : drawn from the best authorities, and chronologically deduced from the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by upwards of one hundred plates : exhibiting at least a thousand figures : accurately engraved by the most eminent artists : in three volumes Royal Quarto / by John Charnock, Esq.

Creator:: Charnock, John, 1756-1807
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [2], 20, 2 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Turn the carpet, or, The two weavers : a new song : in a dialogue between Dick and John.

Creator:: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Date:: [1796?]
Physical Description:: 7 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A new drawing book of ornaments in the antique style, comprised in XXXVII plates, designed & engraved by G. Richardson archt. & son.

Creator:: Richardson, George, 1736?-1817?
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 36 plates. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The poetical works of Joseph Addison. : With the life of the author.

Creator:: Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [2], xxxii, 146, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm. (12 mo.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A survey of the present state of Aspenden Church, Herts. June 1793.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., 13 p. 2 pl., 2 ports. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Cipriani's rudiments of drawing.

Creator:: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785
Date:: 1796
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay ...

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685-1732
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: viii, 232 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A new and complete history and description of the cities of London, Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : containing the whole histories of London, Westminster, Southwark, &c, ancient and modern : from the very earliest authentic intelligence to the year 1796 ... / by Richard Skinner ...

Creator:: Skinner, Richard
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: iv, 5-538 [i.e. 544], [6] p., [52] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Leonora / translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq ; with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc.

Creator:: Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747-1794
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [8], 35, [1] p. [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / by Samuel Ireland ; author of the Histories and picturesque scenery of the Rivers Thames, Medway, and Avon, and graphic illustrations of Hogarth.

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Sketches from nature / by G. Morland.

Creator:: Morland, George, 1763-1804
Date:: 1796-1797
Physical Description:: 2 pts. (6, 4 leaves) : all ill. ; 23 x 32-27 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A catalogue of a valuable and capital collection of pictures, late the property of the Earl of Bute, deceased : brought from his seat at High-Cliffe in the County of Hants, comprising the very best specimens of some of the most esteemed masters, and the first marine collection ever offered to public sale : the paintings by Rubens, Vandyck, Teniers, Berghem, Alb. Cuyp, Osade, W. Vandevelde, P. Panini, Storck, De Blieger, Weenix, Rich. Hoff, Wellart, Vetringa, Brooking, Vandercabel, Augustine Tassi, Com. Vandeveldt, Zeeman, Biersraten, Backhuysen, Canaletti, Marieski, Vangoyen, B. Peters, Monamy, Tellemans, Verschuring, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Saturday, March the 19th, 1796, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had at one shilling each (to be returned to purchasers) in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A New drawing book.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England : from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time : illustrated by engravings taken from the most authentic remains of antiquity : to which is prefixed an introduction, containing a general description of the ancient habits in use among mankind, from the earliest period of time to the conclusion of the seventh century / Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802
Date:: MDCCXCVI-MDCCXCIX [1796-1799]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Observations on the mechanism of the horse's foot : its natural spring explained, and a mode of shoeing recommended, by which the foot is defended from external injury, with the least impediment to its spring : illustrated by copperplates / by Strickland Freeman, Esq.

Creator:: Freeman, Strickland, 1754?-1821
Date:: MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:: [4], viii, 107, [33] pages, 16, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A letter to a friend on commerce and free ports, and London-docks.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752-1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 24 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The parochial history and antiquities of Stockton upon Tees: including an account of the trade of the town, the navigation of the river, and of such parts in the neighbourhood as have been connected with that place. In a series of letters; embellished with views of public buildings, &c. By John Brewster...

Creator:: Brewster, John, 1753-1842
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: x, 178 p. front., plates (1 fold.) map, plan. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. ... Costumes des représentans du peuple, membres des deux conseils, du Directoire exécutif, des ministres, des tribunaux, des messagers d'état, huissiers ... etc. Dont les dessins originaux ont été confiés par le ministre de l'interieur au citoyen Grasset S. Sauveur; gravés par le citoyen Labrousse ... Chaque figure est accompagnée d'une notice historique.

Creator:: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 30 p., 1 leaf. 15 col. plates. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The history of Monmouthshire / By David Williams ; illustrated and ornamented by views of its principal landscapes, ruins, and residences, by John Gardnor, Vicar of Battersea ; engraved by Mr. Gardnor and Mr. Hill.

Creator:: Williams, David, 1738-1816
Date:: MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:: [14], xi, [1], 360, 199, [7] p., XXXVI, [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., map, genealogical tables ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The story of Tom Cole : with old father Thames's malediction of the Wapping docks. Addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.

Creator:: S. P
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 21, [3] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The chase. A poem. By Wiiliam Somervile, esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675-1742
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xv, vii, 126 p. illus. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The chase, and William and Helen : two ballads / from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürger.

Creator:: Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747-1794
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: v, [1], 41, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A treatise on painting / by Leonardo da Vinci ; translated from the original Italian ; illustrated with a great number of cuts ; to which is added the life of the author, and a portrait from a picture in the Duke of Tuscany's gallery at Florence.

Creator:: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [2], xii, 189, [19] p., [30] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental; viz. books of plans and elevations for houses, temples, bridges, &c. ... Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's architectural library ... where may be had the works of the most celebrated French architects and engineers.

Creator:: I. and J. Taylor (Firm)
Date:: [1796?]
Physical Description:: 4 p. 36 cm. (in case 42 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A new book of shipping : on six plates.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 6 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Eastward ho!!! or, Quoz's letters, relative to the wet dock bill : with an additional letter.

Creator:: Stonestreet, George Griffin
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 35, [1] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester ... / by Valentine Green.

Creator:: Green, Valentine, 1739-1813
Date:: MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The poetical works of J. Armstrong ... With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

Creator:: Armstrong, John, 1709-1779
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [2], xi, [1], 14-87, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Specimens of Gothic Ornaments selected from the Parish Church of Lavenham in Suffolk on forty plates.

Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [39] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-46 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Creator:: Orme, Daniel, b. 1767
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 15 cm. + [1] plate.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. An account of the campaign in the West Indies, in the year 1794 , under the command of... Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K. B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis ... with the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, Guadaloupe, Marigalante, Desiada, &c. and the events that followed those unparalleled successes and caused the loss of Guadaloupe. By the Rev. Cooper Willyams...

Creator:: Willyams, Cooper, 1762-1816
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 10 p. l., 149, [3] p., 1 l., 62 p. map, plan. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs ... Tr. from the Italian, pub. by the Chevr. Don Joseph Nicholas d'Azara ...

Creator:: Mengs, Anton Raphael, 1728-1779
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The poetical works of David Mallet. : With the life of the author.

Creator:: Mallet, David, 1705?-1765
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [2], xii, 132 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

Creator:: Boothby, Brooke, Sir, 1743-1824
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 89 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752-1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 21 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Examination of William Vaughan, esq. in a committee of the hon. House of Commons, April 22, 1796, on the commerce of the port of London, and the accommodations for shipping, &c.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752-1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 23 p., [3] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738-1825
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. [West Indies views].

Creator:: Willyams, Cooper, 1762-1816
Physical Description:: [S.l. : s.n., 1796].
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Ambulator, or, A pocket companion in a tour round London : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty : including new catalogs of pictures, and illustrated by historical and biographical observations : to which are prefixed concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described ...

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 324 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Twelve stories from the life of Christ / engraved by Thomas Piroli ; from the designs of William Young Ottley.

Creator:: Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836
Date:: Febr. 1796
Physical Description:: [1], 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Dedicated to the connoisseurs : six views near Edinburgh / drawn from nature and etched by John Westgarth.

Creator:: Westgarth, John
Date:: [1796?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : all ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Gale's cabinet of knowledge, or, Miscellaneous recreations : containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural, and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility ... : to which are added a great number of originals, likewise an appendix, containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings, with some curious definitions in optics.

Creator:: Gale, John, active 18th century-19th century
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xiv, 336 pages, VI folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The progress of civil society : a didactic poem : in six books / by Richard Payne Knight.

Creator:: Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 155 p. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The antient bee-master's farewell, or, Full and plain directions for the management of bees to the greatest advantage : Disclosing further improvements of the hives, boxes and other instruments, to facilitate the operations; especially that of separating double and treble hives or boxes; with certainty and safety, without injuring the bees; interspersed with new but important observations: the whole judiously adapted to general use; with an appropriate method for the curious. Also brief remarks on Schirach, and other distinguished apiators on the continent. Deduced from a series of experiments during thirty years. Illustrated with plates / by John Keys, of Bee-Hall, Near Pembroke.

Creator:: Keys, John
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xvi, 273, [1] p., II leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A catalogue of the reserved part of a capital collection of Italian pictures : the property of the late Jacob More, Esq. dec : many years distinguished as an eminent artist, resident at Rome : and selected from some of the first cabinets in Italy : comprising the works of the following much esteemed Masters, viz : M. Angelo, J. Bassiano, Corregio, G. de Notte, L. da Vinci, Mola, Pamegiano, P. Perugino, S. Rosa, Tintoretto, P. Veronse, &c. &c. : a most capital sea-port by Claude : and a landscape by the late Mr. Jacob More : also, by permission are added, a valuable collection of cabinet pictures : containing chiefly of the Flemish and Dutch schools, in the highest preservation : the property of Mons. Liss, of Antwerp : brought to England on the invasion of Flanders by the French : consisting of the works of the following great Masters, viz. : Rubens, Vandyck, Teniers, Ostade, Cuyp, A. V. de Velde, W.V. de Velde, Ruysdael, Backuysen, Lingelback, Wynants, Mieres, Weenix, C. du Jardin, Dietrich, Vernet, &c. : also, a most capital portrait, by Vandyck, of the celebrated Govartius, author of the History of the Netherlands : and a beautiful landscape, representing a Summer's Evening, by Claude, a very picturesque and poetical scene : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, (by order of the executors and consignees) at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, February 26th, 1796, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : when catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : and in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 9 pages ; cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A catalogue of the genuine, capital, and valuable collection of pictures, by the most esteemed masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Schools : selected by that eminent artist and esteemed connoisseur Benjamin van der Gucht, Esq. deceased : this celebrated collection contains some of the most rare and capital pictures ever offered to the public : comprising the following most remarkable viz. : A Venus disarming Cupid by Corregio, brought to England by Sir William Hamilton : two, a most capital Landscape, and a Sea Port, by Claude : A landscape, a Chef D'oeuvre, by Cuyp : A Ditto by Rubens : and one Ditto, very capital, by Berghem : Le Retour de Chasse, an elegant Cabinet Picture, by Wouvermans : the Judgment of Paris by Vander Werf : A Conversation by Teniers : The Madona and Infant Christ by C. Dolce : The Transfiguration by Julio Romano : several fine portraits by Vandyck, F. Hals, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction (by order of the administratrix) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, March 11th, 1796, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had at the room in Pall Mall, at one shilling each.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Reasons in favour of the London-docks.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752-1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 9 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A description of the university, town and county of Cambridge : containing an account of the colleges, churches, and public buildings, and their founders, benefactors, eminent men, libraries, pictures and curiosities, a list of the heads of colleges, professors, university officers ... and other useful tables, a description of the seats, rivers, &c. in the county ... : illustrated with neat views of the public buildings. This edition contains near one third more than any former one with a new plan of the town.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [6], iv, 166, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The poetical works of William Falconer. : With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

Creator:: Falconer, William, 1732-1769
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [2], 104 p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Examination of William Vaughan, esq. in a committee of the hon. House of Commons, April 22, 1796, on the commerce of the port of London, and the accommodations for shipping, &c.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752-1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 23 p. fold. col. plan. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation : exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals and boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen : with a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries, independent of locks and aqueducts : including observations on the great importance of water communications : with thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood : illustrated with seventeen plates / by R. Fulton, civil engineer.

Creator:: Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xvi, 144 pages, 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [10] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The poetical works of Elijah Fenton : with the life of the author.

Creator:: Fenton, Elijah, 1683-1730
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 140, iii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Essays by a society of gentlemen, at Exeter ...

Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: viii, 573, 1 p., 5 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Copper plate perspective itinerary / by T. Bonnor, engraver ...

Creator:: Bonnor, Thomas
Date:: May 13th 1796-1798 [i.e. 1799]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20-21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The poetical works of Thomas Tickell. : With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

Creator:: Tickell, Thomas, 1686-1740
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [6], viii, 141, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

2. The temple of taste : comprising elegant historical engravings : also, views of the principal buildings in London : also, a select variety of elegant and amusing subjects : with the histories, and other connected information, at large, by the best artists, designers and engravers.

4. Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires : costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics.

5. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J. G. Stedman ...

6. Memoirs of the Royal academicians; being an attempt to improve the national taste. By Anthony Pasquin ...

7. Jeffery's edition of The castle of Otranto, a Gothic story. Translated by William Marshal, gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto ...

8. The birth-day gift or The joy of a new doll, from papers cut by a lady ...

9. A descriptive catalogue of the works of Rembrandt : and of his scholars, Bol, Livens, and Van Vliet : compiled from the original etchings, and from the catalogues of De Burgy, Gersaint, Helle and Glomy, Marcys, and Yver / by Daniel Daulby.

10. A description of the lake of Killarney : illustrated with twelve prints of its most interesting views / drawn and engraved in aquatinta, by Jonathan Fisher ; being an appendix to his "Scenery of Ireland.".

11. A tour to the Isle of Wight : illustrated with eighty views / drawn and engraved in aqua tinta by Charles Tomkins ; in two volumes.

13. Turn the carpet, or, The two weavers : a new song : in a dialogue between Dick and John.

14. A new drawing book of ornaments in the antique style, comprised in XXXVII plates, designed & engraved by G. Richardson archt. & son.

15. The poetical works of Joseph Addison. : With the life of the author.

16. A survey of the present state of Aspenden Church, Herts. June 1793.

17. Cipriani's rudiments of drawing.

18. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay ...

20. Leonora / translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq ; with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc.

21. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / by Samuel Ireland ; author of the Histories and picturesque scenery of the Rivers Thames, Medway, and Avon, and graphic illustrations of Hogarth.

22. Sketches from nature / by G. Morland.

24. A New drawing book.

26. Observations on the mechanism of the horse's foot : its natural spring explained, and a mode of shoeing recommended, by which the foot is defended from external injury, with the least impediment to its spring : illustrated by copperplates / by Strickland Freeman, Esq.

27. A letter to a friend on commerce and free ports, and London-docks.

30. The history of Monmouthshire / By David Williams ; illustrated and ornamented by views of its principal landscapes, ruins, and residences, by John Gardnor, Vicar of Battersea ; engraved by Mr. Gardnor and Mr. Hill.

31. The story of Tom Cole : with old father Thames's malediction of the Wapping docks. Addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.

32. The chase. A poem. By Wiiliam Somervile, esq.

33. The chase, and William and Helen : two ballads / from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürger.

34. A treatise on painting / by Leonardo da Vinci ; translated from the original Italian ; illustrated with a great number of cuts ; to which is added the life of the author, and a portrait from a picture in the Duke of Tuscany's gallery at Florence.

36. A new book of shipping : on six plates.

37. Eastward ho!!! or, Quoz's letters, relative to the wet dock bill : with an additional letter.

38. The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester ... / by Valentine Green.

39. The poetical works of J. Armstrong ... With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

40. Specimens of Gothic Ornaments selected from the Parish Church of Lavenham in Suffolk on forty plates.

41. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

42. An accurate and impartial narrative of the war / by an officer of the guards ... ; comprising the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795 ; introducing also the original poetical epistles from head-quarters; with copious notes throughout.

43. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

45. The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs ... Tr. from the Italian, pub. by the Chevr. Don Joseph Nicholas d'Azara ...

46. The poetical works of David Mallet. : With the life of the author.

47. Sorrows : sacred to the memory of Penelope.

48. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

49. Examination of William Vaughan, esq. in a committee of the hon. House of Commons, April 22, 1796, on the commerce of the port of London, and the accommodations for shipping, &c.

50. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

51. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

52. [West Indies views].

54. Twelve stories from the life of Christ / engraved by Thomas Piroli ; from the designs of William Young Ottley.

55. Dedicated to the connoisseurs : six views near Edinburgh / drawn from nature and etched by John Westgarth.

57. The progress of civil society : a didactic poem : in six books / by Richard Payne Knight.

61. Reasons in favour of the London-docks.

63. The poetical works of William Falconer. : With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.

64. Examination of William Vaughan, esq. in a committee of the hon. House of Commons, April 22, 1796, on the commerce of the port of London, and the accommodations for shipping, &c.

66. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

67. The poetical works of Elijah Fenton : with the life of the author.

68. Essays by a society of gentlemen, at Exeter ...

69. Copper plate perspective itinerary / by T. Bonnor, engraver ...

70. The poetical works of Thomas Tickell. : With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings.