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1. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

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Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22913983310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

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Creator:: Lewis, John, 1675–1747
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: viii, 204, [4], 112, 105-124 pages, [1], XXV leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans, genealogical tables ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The tales and fables of the late Archbishop and Duke of Cambray, author of Telemachus, in French and English : written originally for the instruction of a young prince : and now publish'd for the use of schools : to which is prefix'd an account of the author's life, extracted from the memoirs of the Chevalier Ramsay, author of The travels of Cyrus : with a particular and curious relation of the method observed in training up the young prince, even from his infancy, to virtue and learning / by Nathaniel Gifford of the Inner-Temple, gent. ; illustrated with twenty-nine copper-plates engraven by George Bickham, Junior.

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Creator:: Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651–1715
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xxi, [3], 164 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22975961360008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary, or, The complete builder's guide : containing an explanation of all the terms of art used by workmen ; as also what is necessary to be known in the art of building ... / originally written and compiled by Richard Neve.

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Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [3], vi-xvi, [376] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22850188450008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The heads of the kings of England : proper for Mr. Rapin's History, translated by N. Tindal ... : viz. Egbert First, monarch of England, Alfred the Great, Canute the Dane, William the Conquerer, first of the Norman line, and all the succeeding kings and sovereign queens to the Revolution : with some of the most illustrious princes of the royal family / collected, drawn, and engraven, with ornaments and decorations, by George Vertue ; to which are added, the heads of Mr. Rapin and N. Tindal ... ; and an account of the several heads, of the antiquities that have been followed, and of the pictures copied for engraving them ; also, twenty two plates of the monuments of the kings of England, with their epitaphs, and inscriptions, and a brief historical account of them.

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Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 12 p., [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ports. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22666745300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. A conference between a painter and an engraver : containing some useful hints and necessary instructions, proper for the young artist / by Tho. Atkinson ...

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Creator:: Atkinson, Thomas
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [1], 31 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22872492800008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. The builder's guide and gentleman and trader's assistant, or, A universal magazine of tables : wherein is contained greater variety than in any other book of its kind, with several new and useful tables, never before published ... / by William Salmon, junior, carpenter, of Colchester.

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Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: xvi, 155, [7] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22759816410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. A design for the bridge at New Palace Yard, Westminster ... : composed of nine arches, independent of each other, whose nature is such, that the greatest weight possibly to be impressed cannot break them down ... / by B. Langley.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22677878250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A new critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. With some reflections on the use of sepulchral monuments; as also a scheme shewing the dimensions of St. Peter's Church at Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral at London; and a preface, being an essay on taste. To all which is added, an Appendix, containing a dispute between the Weekly miscellany and the author; and a compleat Alphabetical index.

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Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 3 p. l., vi, 91, [5] p. fold. table. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22666760730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22611419610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. A specimen of ancient carpentry : consisting of variety of designs for roofs ... : collected by James Smith : to which are added designs of frontispieces to doors, gateways, piers ... : & other useful decorations never before published by Jones ; the whole illustrated with 66 copper plates nearly engraven.

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Creator:: Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [5], [3], [66] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22843333050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The history of Newcastle upon Tyne, or, The ancient and present state of that town / by ... Henry Bourne ...

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Creator:: Bourne, Henry, 1696–1733
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [4], viii, 245, [6] p., one folded leaf of plates : plan ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Sixty different sorts of ornaments / invented by Gaetano Brunetti, Italian painter ; very useful to painters, sculptors, stone carvers, wood carvers, silversmiths, &c.

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Creator:: Brunetti, Gaetano, -1758
Date:: June ye. 25. 1736
Physical Description:: [61] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22951985680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Plans des principales places de guerre et villes maritimes frontieres du royaume de France, distinguez par départemens, gouvernement generaux & particuliers des provinces, : avec les officiers generaux et principaux qui y commandent ... & dans la Nouvelle France ou Amerique ... au premier juillet 1736. ... / par Lemau de la Jaisse ...

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Creator:: Lemau de la Jaisse
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 268 p. : incl. maps ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22720479320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection