Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Seven conferences held in the King of France's cabinet of paintings,
1740
15
Carlenças, Félix de Juvenel de, 1679–1760
The history of the belles lettres,
1740
16
Cheselden, William, 1688–1752
The anatomy of the human body
1740
17
Bowles, John, 1701–1779
A new and exact map of America laid down from the latest observations and discoveries
[approximately 1740?]
18
Wright, Thomas, 1711–1786
The use of the globes, or, The general doctrine of the sphere
MDCCXL [1740]
19
Great Britain. Parliament
An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming