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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Date 1746

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Period 18th century

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1. Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, belonging to the right honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : laid out by Mr. Bridgman, principal gardener to their majesties King George I and II / delineated in a large plan and fifteen perspective views : drawn on the spot by Mons. Rigaud, and engraved by him and Mons. Bernard Baron = Les jardins de Stowe dans le Comte de Bucks, appartenant a le Tres-Honorable Seigneur Le Vicomte de Cobham / tracé par Mr Bridgman, jardinier principal aux S. Maj. Brit. George I & II ; en une grande plan & XV. veües perspective ; designé sur la place par M. Rigaud, & gravé par le mesme & M. Bernard Baron.

Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, belonging to the right honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : laid out by Mr. Bridgman, principal gardener to their majesties King George I and II / delineated in a large plan and fifteen perspective views : drawn on the spot by Mons. Rigaud, and engraved by him and Mons. Bernard Baron = Les jardins de Stowe dans le Comte de Bucks, appartenant a le Tres-Honorable Seigneur Le Vicomte de Cobham / tracé par Mr Bridgman, jardinier principal aux S. Maj. Brit. George I & II ; en une grande plan & XV. veües perspective ; designé sur la place par M. Rigaud, & gravé par le mesme & M. Bernard Baron.
Creator:
Rigaud, Jacques, 1681–1754
Date:
MDCCXLVI [1746]
Physical Description:
1 leaf, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Selections from George Edwards' A natural history of uncommon birds : with additional watercolors and engravings by Eleazar Albin.

Selections from George Edwards' A natural history of uncommon birds : with additional watercolors and engravings by Eleazar Albin.
Creator:
Edwards, George, 1694–1773
Date:
approximately 1746
Physical Description:
1 volume (53 leaves, with blanks) : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent : containing whatever is most worthy of notice in their ancient and present state ... with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of this great metropolis ... / by the Rev. John Entick ...

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Creator:
Entick, John, 1703?-1773
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., plans, ports., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Letters and memorials of state : in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, part of the reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's usurpation / written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, the famous Sir Philip Sydney, and his brother Sir Robert Sydney ..., Robert, the second earl of Leicester ..., Philip, lord viscount Lisle ... and of his brother, Colonel Algernon Sydney ... ; together with letters of the other ministers of state, with whom they held a correspondence ; the whole containing the antient state of Ireland, with characters and private memoirs ; also, the antient government of the principality of Wales, the wars between the Spaniards, and the States-General in the Netherlands, negotiations between the courts of England, France, &c., the intriegues of the several courts of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First ; with other remarkable transactions, both at home and abroad, during those times, not hitherto known, faithfully transcribed from the originals ; whereunto is added, genealogical and historical observations, also memoirs of the lives and actions of the Sydneys, and their noble ancestors, the Dudleys, Grey, Talbot,

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Universal harmony, or, The gentleman & ladie's social companion : consisting of a great variety of the best & most favourite English & Scots songs, cantatas &c. &c. : with a curious design by way of head piece expressive of the sense of each particulr. song : set to music for the voice, violin, hautboy, German & common flute, with a thorough base for the organ, harpsichd., spinet &c. / by the best masters ; the whole calculated to keep people in good spirits, good health, & good humour, to promote social friendship in all compys. and universal harmony in every neighbourhood.

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Date:
1746
Physical Description:
1 score (129 leaves) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Afbeelding van alle de generale zeinen, die gedaan en geobserveerd werden in 'slands vloot, zoo in het zeilen en ankeren by daag en nagt, als ten tyde van gevegt : met de beteekenis van ieder signaal, en aanwyzing der plaatszen daar dezelve in de origineele Hollandsze en Engelsze zein-boeken te vinden zyn : als meede een register van alle de instructien en waarschouwingen daar toe behoorende : te zamen gesteld, en in 't ligt gebragt, to gemak en dienst van 's lands officieren ter zee / door N. Govertsz, schryver in 's lands-dienst ter zee.

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Creator:
Govertsz, N
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
[176] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings / from an actual survey, taken by John Rocque, land-surveyor, and engraved by John Pine, Bluemantle ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
1 map on 24 sheets ; 203 x 385 cm., sheets 77 x 57 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Les beaux arts reduits à un même principe ...

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Creator:
Batteux, Charles, 1713–1780
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
3 p.., xiii, [5], 291, [13] p. front., ill. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. To the Right Honourable William Baron of Hedon, Viscount Pulteney of Wrington and Earl of Bath : this plan of Shrewsbury is most humbly inscrib'd / by his lordship's most humble and devoted servant, J. Rocque.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
1 map : ill. ; 44 x 62 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts