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1. The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords : representing the several engagments between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII ... : to which are added, from a book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio, A.D. 1588 ... ten charts of the sea coasts of England, and a general one of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c. shewing the places of action between the two fleets ... : also an historical account of each day's action, collected from the most authentic manuscripts and writers / by John Pine, engraver.

The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords : representing the several engagments between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII ... : to which are added, from a book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio, A.D. 1588 ... ten charts of the sea coasts of England, and a general one of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c. shewing the places of action between the two fleets ... : also an historical account of each day's action, collected from the most authentic manuscripts and writers / by John Pine, engraver.

Creator:: Pine, John, 1690–1756
Date:: [1739]
Physical Description:: [6], 23, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22637269960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Prospect of Greenwich Hospital from the river : this stately building intended at first by King Charles II for a royal palace, was afterwards converted to the use of disabled sea men ... = Veue de l'hospital de Greenwich du coté de la riviere : ce magnifique edice scitué au bord de la Tamise, fut destiné par Charles II pour la residence des roys, mais par la suite il a été converti pour la retraite des marins invalides ...

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Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:: Cowley, J. (John), no_linkage
Physical Description:: 23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22867174730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Amusemens des bains de Bade en Suisse, de Schintznach et de Pfeffers : avec la description, & la comparaison de leurs eaux avec celles des bains de Schwalbach & autres de l'empire : le tout accompagné d'histoires & d'anecdotes curieuses.

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Creator:: Merveilleux, David-François de, -1748
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: 290 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22824320700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk, containing a description of the towns, villages, and hamlets, with the foundations of monasteries ... and other religious buildings ... Collected out of leiger-books, registers ... and other authentic memorials, by Francis Blomefield ...

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Creator:: Blomefield, Francis, 1705–1752
Date:: 1739-1775
Physical Description:: 5 v. illus., port., maps, plans, facsim., fold. geneal. tab. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22744266290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of useful designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces, slab tables, pier glasses, or tabernacle frames ... / explained on copper plates by Wm. Jones.

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Creator:: Jones, William, -1757
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: [7] leaves, 60 [i.e. 56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22614837970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Dionysius Longinus On the sublime / translated from the Greek, with notes and observations, and some account of the life, writings, and character of the author by William Smith ...

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Creator:: Longinus, 1st cent
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: [16], xxxiv, 187 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Persepolis illustrata, or, The ancient and royal palace of Persepolis in Persia, destroyed by Alexander the Great, about two thousand years ago : with particular remarks concerning that palace, and an account of the ancient authors, who have wrote thereupon : illustrated and described, in twenty one copper-plates.

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Date:: MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves, XIII leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22895236230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Destruction of Troy : being the sequel of the Iliad / translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus. With Notes. By J. Merrick Scholar of Trinity Co.. Oxford.

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Creator:: Tryphiodorus. no_linkage
Date:: [1739]
Physical Description:: [24], lxxxviii, 151 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22960465300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects : and where their several performances are to be seen / translated from the Musæum pictorium of Palomino Velasco.

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Creator:: Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Antonio, 1655–1726
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: viii, 175 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22757361570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. A critical and historical account of all the celebrated libraries in foreign countries, as well ancient as modern; with general reflections upon the choice of books and the method of furnishing libraries ... by a gentleman of the Temple. London: Printed by J. Joliffe, in St. James's Street. 1739.

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Creator:: Le Gallois, Pierre, fl. 1680
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: [5], 20 p. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22677562960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection