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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1752.

1. Chinese landskips.

Chinese landskips.

Date:: [ca. 1752?]
Physical Description:: 12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method whereby youth are directed in the practice of that useful art : being a compleat drawing book containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips [sic], cattle, building, &c. curiously engraved on copper plates, after the designs of Albert Durer, Abrah. Bloemart, Carlo Morac, Le Clerc, Hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd, an introduction to drawing; containing an account of the instruments and materials used in drawing, and the method of managing them; also instruction to form the judgment of a young beginner, and direct his hand in practice, with early and proper lessons for him at the first entrance : also, early and proper lessons for a young beginner, with instructions to form his judgment and direct his practice / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerard de Lairesse and improved with abstracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method whereby youth are directed in the practice of that useful art : being a compleat drawing book containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips [sic], cattle, building, &c. curiously engraved on copper plates, after the designs of Albert Durer, Abrah. Bloemart, Carlo Morac, Le Clerc, Hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd, an introduction to drawing; containing an account of the instruments and materials used in drawing, and the method of managing them; also instruction to form the judgment of a young beginner, and direct his hand in practice, with early and proper lessons for him at the first entrance : also, early and proper lessons for a young beginner, with instructions to form his judgment and direct his practice / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerard de Lairesse and improved with abstracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:: [2], 8, [2] p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Ædes Walpolianæ, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.

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Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: xxxv, 143 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Vue de la ville de Nismes : du côté de la Tour-Magne.

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Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 38 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Ogilby's and Morgan's Pocket-book of the roads : with their computed and measured distances, and the distinction of market and post towns : also a table for the ready finding any road, city, or market-town, and its distance from London : a sheet-map of England, fitted to bind with the book : and an exact account of all the fairs, both fixed and movable, in alphabetical order, shewing the days on which they are held / by William Morgan ...

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Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: [40], 17-166 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Art de la verrerie / de Neri, Merret et Kunckel ; auquel on a ajouté le Sol sine veste d'Orschall ; l'Helioscopium videndi sine veste solem chymicum; le Sol non sine veste ; le chapitre XI. du Flora saturnizans de Henckel, sur la vitrification des végétaux ; un Mémoire sur la manière de faire le saffre ; le Secret des vraies porcelaines de la Chine & de Saxe ; ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de fair le verre & le crystal, d'y porter des couleurs, d'imiter les pierres prétieuses, de préparer & colorer les emaux, de faire la potasse, de peindre sue le verre, de préparer des vernis, de composer des couvertes pour les fayances & poteries, d'extraire la couleur pourpre de l'or, de contrefaire les rubis, de fair le saffre, de faire & peindre les porcelaines, &c. ; traduits de l'allemand, par M. D * * *.

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Creator:: Neri, Antonio, 1576–1614
Date:: MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:: [4], lv, [1], 629, [3] p., 16 leaves of plates (14 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts