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1. 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

2. 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)
Physical Description:
23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.

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Date:
[1739-1753]
Physical Description:
[104] prints : engravings ; 24 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

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Creator:
Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:
[1739]
Physical Description:
1 map on 20 sheets ; sheets 53 x 72 cm or smaller, bound 53 x 41 cm. + 1 key map (48 x 47 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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