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1. The Historical and local new Bath guide, containing an accurate description of the public buildings, institutions, and amusements of the city; with observations on the medicinal use of the Bath waters, by Sir George Smith Gibbes, M. D. ...

The Historical and local new Bath guide, containing an accurate description of the public buildings, institutions, and amusements of the city; with observations on the medicinal use of the Bath waters, by Sir George Smith Gibbes, M. D. ...
Date:
[ca. 1832]
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 176 (i. e. 182), [4] p. fold. front (map) plates, fold. plan. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Gibbs's Bath visitant, or, New guide to Bath : containing an account of that city and its environs : together with every information that can interest the stranger : including the institutions, charities, topography and celebrated characters : the list of fares for chairs and hackney carriages : with copious information respecting the celebrated baths and waters : and a plan of the city : corrected to the present time and engraved expressly for the work.

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Date:
1836
Physical Description:
121 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The Weymouth Guide: Exhibiting the ancient and present state of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis; : with a description of Lulworth Castle, the island of Portland, and other places worthy the attention of strangers who visit Weymouth. ...

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Creator:
Delamotte, Peter
Date:
[1785?]
Physical Description:
iv, 5-96 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The origin of building: or, The plagiarism of the heathens detected. In five books. By John Wood, architect.

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1741
Physical Description:
5 p. ., [3]-235 p. 36 [i. e. 25] plates (part fold.) 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The new Bath guide, or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d family : in a series of poetical epistles / by Christopher Anstey, esq.

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Creator:
Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
lxxvi, 176 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

6. A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. : Also, some enquiries into the nature of the water of St. Vincent's Rock, near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary. To which is added, A century of observations, more fully declaring the nature, property, and distinction of the baths. With an account of the lives, and character, of the physicians of Bathe. / By Tho. Guidott ...

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Creator:
Guidott, Thomas, fl. 1698
Date:
1676 [i. e. 1676-1677]
Physical Description:
[30] p., 200 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., plan ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Annals of Bath, from the year 1800 to the passing of the new municipal act : dedicated (by permission) to Vice-Admiral Lord James O'Bryen ... / by Captain Rowland Mainwaring..

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Creator:
Mainwaring, Rowland, 1783–1862
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
xxviii, 484 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Forty-eight aquatint colored engravings / by Theodore Fielding, from a work containing forty-eight subjects of landscape scenery, principally views in and near Bath, painted in oil by Benjamin Barker.

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Creator:
Barker, Benjamin, 1776–1838
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The Historical and local new Bath guide, containing an accurate description of the public buildings, institutions, and amusements of the city; with observations on the medicinal virtues, and directions for the use of the hot waters ...

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Date:
[1823]
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 176 p. front., 7 plates, fold. plan. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Hints on cottage architecture : being a selection of designs for labourer's cottages, singly, in pairs, and in groups with plans, elevations and estimates .../ by Henry Weaver.

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Creator:
Weaver, Henry
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
9 leaves : chiefly ill., plans ; 30 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The new Bath guide, or, Memoirs of the B.N.R.D. family : in a series of poetical epistles.

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Creator:
Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
[2], vi, 106 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Sketches round Bath / by an amateur.

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Creator:
Wright, Anne B
Date:
not before 1835]
Physical Description:
[20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A picturesque guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the river Avon, and the adjacent country / illustrated with a set of views, taken in the summer of 1792 by Mess. Ibbetson, Laporte, and J. Hassell, and engraved in aquatinta.

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Creator:
Ibbetson, Julius, 1759–1817
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
[4], 266, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ills. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The new Bath guide; or, Useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this ancient city. : Giving an account of the first discovery of its medicinal waters by King Bladud; nature and efficacy of the warm baths and sudatories, with the rules and prices of bathing and pumping ...

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Date:
1790
Physical Description:
78, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates (some folding), 1 p. of plates : ill., ports, plan ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A series of views in the city of Bath / drawn on stone by Gauci and other artists ; from originals by R. Woodroffe.

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Date:
[ca. 1840]
Physical Description:
[4] p., [18] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Excursions from Bath. By the Revd. Richard Warner ...

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Creator:
Warner, Richard, 1763–1857
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 346 p., 1 leaf. ill. (maps) 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The improved Bath guide, or, Picture of Bath and its environs : in which is delineated every particular interesting to the visitor and resident : embellished with an accurate map of the city and other engravings : to which are added accounts of Bristol, Hotwells, and Clifton, and an interesting description of Cheltenham.

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Date:
[1809?]
Physical Description:
132 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Bath and Bristol, with the counties of Somerset and Gloucester : displayed in a series of views; including the modern improvements, picturesque scenery, antiquities, etc. / From original drawings, by Thos. H. Shepherd; with historical and descriptive illustrations, by John Britton ...

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1829 [1831?]
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-55 p. 24 pl. (incl. front.) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

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Creator:
Haxell, Edward Nelson
Date:
[1884]
Physical Description:
[10], 122, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

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Creator:
Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Comforts of Bath.

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Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
12 prints : aquatint ; 19 x 24 cm, mounted to leaves in an album 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Bath : a poem ...

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Date:
1748
Physical Description:
32 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A panoramic view of Bath, from Beechen Cliff / sketched from nature and drawn on stone by Harvey Wood.

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Creator:
Wood, Harvey (Printmaker)
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
7 prints : lithography ; image and text 31 x 56 cm, on sheets 34 x 58 cm, mounted to leaves of volume 49 x 70 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Pictorial geography of the Holy Land : designed to elucidate the imagery of Scripture, and demonstrate the fulfillment of prophecy / by the Rev. J.T. Bannister.

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Creator:
Bannister, J. T
Date:
[1851?]
Physical Description:
372 p., [12] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Views of Lansdown Towers, Bath : the favourite edifice of the late William Beckford, Esqr. / from drawings by Willes Maddox ; on stone by C.J. Richardson.

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Creator:
English, Edmund Francis
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
[vi], 10 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 64 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The Historical and local new Bath guide, containing an accurate description of the public buildings,institutions, and amusements of the city; with observations on the medicinal use of the Bath waters, by Sir George Smith Gibbes, M.D. ...

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Date:
[1835?]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 176 (i.e. 182) p. fold. front (map) 13 plates, fold. plan. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A tour through Cornwall, in the autumn of 1808 / by the Revd. Richard Warner ...

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Creator:
Warner, Richard, 1763–1857
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
[4], iv, 363 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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

29. Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world : in two parts : containing every instruction necessary to complete the gentleman and man of fashion, to teach him a knowledge of life and make him well received in the best companies : with considerable additions, now first made and a large collection of well adapted proverbial wisdom for the improvement of youth or a polished education ... / by the Rev. Dr. John Trusler ; part two is particularly addressed to young ladies.

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Creator:
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
108 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A description of Bath, wherein the antiquity of the city, as well as the eminence of its founder; its magnitude, situation ... are respectively treated of ... Illustrated with the figure of King Bladud, the first founder of the city; together with proper plans and elevations from twenty-two copper plates. By John Wood ...

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1765
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part fold.) port., plans (part fold.) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A tour through the island of Mann, in 1797 and 1798; comprising sketches of its ancient and modern history, constitution, laws, commerce, agriculture, fishery, &c. ... By John Feltham ...

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Creator:
Feltham, John
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 294 p., 1 leaf. front. (fold. map) ill., III plates, geneal. table. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Thirty six new, orginal & practical designs for chairs adapted for the drawing and dining room, parlour and hall, by W. Toms junr. carver in general.

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Creator:
Toms, William, fl. 1830–31
Date:
[183-?]
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 36 plates. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Gibb's illustrated Bath visitant, or, New guide to Bath.

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Date:
[1845]
Physical Description:
222 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Connubia florum latino carmine demonstrata / auctore D. de La Croix, M.D. Notas et observationes adjecit Richardus Clayton, baronettus.

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Creator:
La Croix, Demetrius de
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
[6], 138, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The history and antiquities of the county of Somerset, collected from authentick records, and an actual survey made by the late Mr. Edmund Rack. Adorned with a map of the county, and engravings of Roman or other reliques, town-seals, baths, churches, and gentlemen's seats. By the Reverend John Collinson ...

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Creator:
Collinson, John, 1756 or 1757–1793
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
3 v. front. (fold. map), plates. 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A walk through some of the western counties of England / by the Revd. Richard Warner ...

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Creator:
Warner, Richard, 1763–1857
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
[iii]-vi, 222 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The Album of Bath views.

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Date:
[187-?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([21] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 256 cm, folded to 21 x 16 cm, in boards 23 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A topographical survey of the counties of Somerset, Gloucester, Worcester, Stafford, Chester, and Lancaster.: Containing a new-engraved map of each county, with a complete description of the great, direct, and cross roads; the situation, bearing and distances of the seats of the nobility and gentry upon or near such roads, together with elegent engravings of their arms, arranged on a new plan, by Messrs. Woodman and Mutlow, London. To which is added, the direction and survey of the great roads, accurately describing the situations and distances of places, adapted to the use of the gentleman and traveller, ... / By William Tunnicliff, ...

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Creator:
Tunnicliff, William
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 34, [2], 35-87, [3], 40, [2], 41-68, 101-108, [2], 69-100, 109-118, [2] p., [48] p. of plates, [5] leaves of folded plates: ill., coats of arms, maps ; 23 cm. (8 vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Select views of the principal buildings and other interesting and picturesque objects in the cities of Bath and Bristol, and their environs. Drawn and engraved by W. Watts. With topographical illustrations.

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Creator:
Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
28 p., 15 leaves of plates. ill. 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. An illustration of the Roman antiquities discovered at Bath / by the Rev. Richard Warner ...

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Creator:
Warner, Richard, 1763–1857
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[4], xxvi, 85 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Notebook of recipes for the manufacture of china.

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Creator:
Anderson, J., fl. ca. 1840
Date:
circa 1840
Physical Description:
1 v. (53, [2] p.) ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A tour to Cheltenham spa, or, Gloucestershire display'd : containing an account of Cheltenham, in its improved state ... the natural history of the county and city of Gloucester ... a correct itinerary from Cheltenham, and an account of the posts from Gloucester and Cheltenham ... the whole interspersed with explanatory historical, chronological ,and genealogical notes ... / by Simeon Moreau ...

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Creator:
Moreau, Simeon, d. 1810
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
viii, 195, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A Sunday reading : the grand assizes, or, general goal delivery.

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

44. Six views of the city of Bath / from drawings made by David Cox.

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Creator:
Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
6 prints : aquatints ; 32 x 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The new Bath guide: or memoirs of the B-n-r-d family. In a series of poetical epistles.

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Creator:
Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
viii, 175 p. front. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. An essay towards a description of Bath. In four parts. Wherein the antiquitity of the city, as well as the reality and eminence of its founder ... are respectively treated of ... By John Wood ...

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part fold.) fold. map, fold. plans. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Newman & Co. engravings of Bath, Matlock, Buxton, and Castleton.

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Creator:
A.K. Newman & Co.
Date:
ca. 1870
Physical Description:
1 volume (46 prints) : steel engravings ; 15 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The history of Cheltenham, and account of its environs: containing an inquiry into the discovery and properties of the mineral waters ... with a concise display of the county of Gloucester ... intended as a ... guide to the visitor and traveller.

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Creator:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:
[1803]
Physical Description:
xvi, 358 p. front., plate. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

50. Sketches of Lynmouth, Bath and Clifton.

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Creator:
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
Date:
approximately 1834-approximately 1849
Physical Description:
1 volume (39 drawings) ; 21 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The Hurricane : a poem descriptive of the unparalleled perseverance and constancy of the seamen on board H.M. Ship Theseus, 74 guns, commanded by Captain (now Rear-Admiral) E. Hawker, the flag-ship of the late Rear-Admiral Dacres, during three days' and nights' hurricane, which, in company with the Hercule, she encountered north-east of Monte Christi, in the island of St. Domingo / by an eyewitness ; also, historical notices of St. Domingo, from the seizure of Toussant L'Ouverture to the Death of Christophe ; with illustrations.

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Creator:
Burt, Edward
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
[2], 75, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Bath and it's environs, a descriptive poem, in three cantos. Wherein the reality, life, and great qualities of it's first founder Bladud are displayed,--his figure, as described by the orator Himerius, delineated;--the natural history of Bath, as well ancient as modern, and the inimitable beauty of it's situation, hills, woods, river, vales, and respective landscapes, depicted according to nature. The whole interspersed with reflections analogous to the subject, and illustrated with explanatory notes authenticating the several historical traditions from which the poem is composed ...

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Creator:
Hippesley, R
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
viii p., 2 ., 53 p. 1 plate. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Select views of the principal buildings and other interesting and picturesque objects in the cities of Bath and Bristol and their environs / drawn and engraved by William Watts ; with an explanatory letter press.

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Creator:
Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 v. ([7] leaves of plates; [6] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 25 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A narrative of the minutes of evidence respecting the claim to the Berkeley peerage, as taken before the committee of privileges in 1811. Together with the entire evidence of the persons principally concerned. To which are added, facsimiles of the banns, and register of the marriage : extracted from the parish books of Berkeley. To the whole is prefixed a sketch of the proceedings of the committee on the Earl of Berkeley's pedigree in the year 1799.

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Creator:
Fitzhardinge, William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Earl of, 1786–1857
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
xiii, 276, p. 2 facsim. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts