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1. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

Creator:: Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753
Date:: 1707-1725
Physical Description:: 2 v., XI, 274 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. (frontispiece), map (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue of that superlatively capital assemblage of valuable pictures, formed from the sales of the several celebrated collections of M. de Calonne, Baron Nagel, and Sir Joshua Reynolds : with other capital pictures of the first class : forming together an assemblage, superior to any collection that has ever been offered to pubolic attention in this or any other country, comprising the inestimable works of the most-admired Masters :: which will be sold by private contract, at Mr. Bryan's gallery, in Savile Row, on Monday the 27th day of April, 1795, and following days.

Creator:: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 22, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The London tradesman : being an historical account of all the trades, professions, arts, both liberal and mechanic, now practised in the cities of London and Westminster, calculated for the instruction of youth in their choice of business ... ; to which is added, an appendix, containing many useful particulars relative to the foregoing / by R. Campbell ...

Creator:: Campbell, R
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: xii, 340 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A topographical map of the county of Norfolk [cartographic material] : surveyed and measured in the years 1790, 91, 92, 93, and 94 by Thos. Donald, Thos. Milne and associates : planned from a scale of one inch to a statute mile / the whole executed and published at the expense of the proprietor William Faden.

Creator:: Faden, William, 1749-1836
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 1 map on 6 sheets ; 124 x 183 cm, each sheet 62 x 61 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

Creator:: Clúny, Alexander
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Wiltshire, wth. Salisbury citty & Stone heng described ano. 1689 [cartographic material] / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Remigius Hogenbergius sculpsit.

Creator:: Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:: [approximately 1715?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 41 x 33 cm, on sheet 47 x 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of Greek, Roman, Saxon, English, and Irish, gold, silver, and brass coins and medals, of the learned and ingenious Mr. James Simon, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquaries Society of London, author of the historical account of Irish coins, late of the city of Dublin, merchant, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in the Hay-Market, on Thursday, the 8th of December, 1757, and the following day.

Creator:: Ford, Mr., active 1741-1757
Date:: [1757]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. To the nobility, gentry, clergy and others, this map of the county of Monmouth, is most humbly inscribed / by their ever dutyfull & very humble serv.t Robert Snell ; engrav'd & printed by I. Ames.

Creator:: Snell, Robert, fl. 1756-1785
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., dissected and mounted on linen ; 89 x 84 cm., folded in slipcase 25 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

Creator:: Burdon, William
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 62 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali siti / delineatio cura et sumtibus Matthaei Seutteri ; chalcographi Augustani.

Creator:: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756
Date:: [1730]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 48 x 56 cm., on sheet 52 x 60 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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

12. Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi : à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville / inventé, dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis, graveur de la ville de Strasbourg.

Creator:: Weis, Johann Martin, 1711-1751
Date:: [1748]
Physical Description:: [2], 20 pages, [1] leaf of plates, 11 folded leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 64 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

Creator:: Gibbs, James, 1682-1754
Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 28 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties [cartographic material] / by Lewis Evans, MDCCXLIX ; L. Hebert, sculpt.

Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 63 x 47 cm, on sheet 66 x 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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.

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

16. The county of Suffolk [cartographic material] / surveyed by Joseph Hodskinson.

Creator:: Hodskinson, Joseph
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 1 map on 6 sheets : hand col. ; 120 x 162 cm on sheets 64 x 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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.

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

18. A catalogue of a most superb and distinguished collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : a selection formed with peculiar taste and judgment by John Trumbull, Esq. during his late residence in Paris, from some of the most celebrated cabinets in France : consisting of the undoubted works of the following great masters, in the highest state of preservation : Raphael, Titian, Pordenone, Bassan, Spagnoletto, Guercino, Guido, Salvator Rosa, Murillo, Poussin, Rubens, V. Dyck, Teniers, Berghem, Wouvermans, Ger. Douw, Ch. V. Werff, Rembrandt, Vernet / which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, February 17th, 1797, and following day, at one o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803
Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: iv, [1], 6-13, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

Creator:: Senex, John, -1740
Date:: 1719
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 48 x 54 cm, on sheet 53 x 59 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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.

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

22. The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent / by William Roscoe.

Creator:: Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : portrait; illustrations (engravings) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 = The world maps of Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 / J. Fischer & F. v. Wieser.

Creator:: Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
Date:: 1903
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 24 sheets ; 127 x 230 cm., sheets 44 x 62 cm. or smaller and 122 x 227 cm., sheets 45 x 62 cm. or smaller, in portfolio 64 x 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

Date:: [1740]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Baronagium genealogicum; or, The pedigrees of the English peers, deduced from the earliest times, of which there are any attested accounts including, as well collateral as lineal descents. Originally comp. from the publick records and most authentic evidences; by Sr. William Segar ... and continued to the present time, by Joseph Edmondson.

Creator:: Segar, William, Sir, -1633
Date:: [1764-84]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes genealogical tables, coats of arms 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Glamorga[n]shire [cartographic material] / discribed by C.S. ; corrected and amended by P. Lea.

Creator:: Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:: [approximately 1715?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 32 x 46 cm, on sheet 46 x 58 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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

28. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of Greek and Roman medals and medalions in gold, silver, and brass, of the learned Dr. Kennedy, deceas'd : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his great room the end of Savile-Row, next Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square, on Thursday and Friday, the 8th and 9th of May, 1760.

Creator:: Prestage, John, -1767
Date:: [1760]
Physical Description:: 18 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A map of the British and French dominions in North America [cartographic material] : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations / by their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell ; Tho. Kitchin, sculp.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711-1768
Date:: Febry 13th, 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 136 x 195 cm, on sheets 77 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.

Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.

Creator:: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
Date:: [1970]
Physical Description:: 16 p., 230 plates : 2 col. illus., coats of arms, maps. ; 54 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

31. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved road atlas of England and Wales 1731 / [compiled] by Emanuel Bowen.

Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 273 p. : chiefly maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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6. Wiltshire, wth. Salisbury citty & Stone heng described ano. 1689 [cartographic material] / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Remigius Hogenbergius sculpsit.

8. To the nobility, gentry, clergy and others, this map of the county of Monmouth, is most humbly inscribed / by their ever dutyfull & very humble serv.t Robert Snell ; engrav'd & printed by I. Ames.

9. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

10. Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali siti / delineatio cura et sumtibus Matthaei Seutteri ; chalcographi Augustani.

12. Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi : à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville / inventé, dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis, graveur de la ville de Strasbourg.

13. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

14. A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties [cartographic material] / by Lewis Evans, MDCCXLIX ; L. Hebert, sculpt.

16. The county of Suffolk [cartographic material] / surveyed by Joseph Hodskinson.

17. 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.

20. A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

21. 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.

22. The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent / by William Roscoe.

23. Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 = The world maps of Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 / J. Fischer & F. v. Wieser.

24. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

26. Glamorga[n]shire [cartographic material] / discribed by C.S. ; corrected and amended by P. Lea.

30. Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.

31. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved road atlas of England and Wales 1731 / [compiled] by Emanuel Bowen.

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6. Wiltshire, wth. Salisbury citty & Stone heng described ano. 1689 [cartographic material] / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Remigius Hogenbergius sculpsit.

8. To the nobility, gentry, clergy and others, this map of the county of Monmouth, is most humbly inscribed / by their ever dutyfull & very humble serv.t Robert Snell ; engrav'd & printed by I. Ames.

9. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

10. Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali siti / delineatio cura et sumtibus Matthaei Seutteri ; chalcographi Augustani.

12. Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi : à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville / inventé, dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis, graveur de la ville de Strasbourg.

13. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

14. A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties [cartographic material] / by Lewis Evans, MDCCXLIX ; L. Hebert, sculpt.

16. The county of Suffolk [cartographic material] / surveyed by Joseph Hodskinson.

17. 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.

20. A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

21. 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.

22. The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent / by William Roscoe.

23. Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 = The world maps of Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 / J. Fischer & F. v. Wieser.

24. A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster : on Wednesday the 18th day of June, 1740 : six years old for twenty guineas, stakes five guineas.

26. Glamorga[n]shire [cartographic material] / discribed by C.S. ; corrected and amended by P. Lea.

30. Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.

31. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved road atlas of England and Wales 1731 / [compiled] by Emanuel Bowen.