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1. Remarks on the different constructions of bridges, and improvements to secure their foundations on the different soils where they are intended to be built : which hitherto seems to have been a thing not sufficiently consider'd.

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Creator:: Marquand, Charles
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 15 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: [4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano habita idibus Aprilibus, MDCCXLIX. die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae ...

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Creator:: King, William, 1685–1763
Date:: [1749]
Physical Description:: [6], 34 p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The British monarchy, or, A new chorographical description of all the dominions subject to the King of Great Britain : comprehending the British Isles, the American colonies, the electoral states, the African and Indian settlemts. : and enlarging more particularly on the respective counties of England and Wales ... / the whole illustrated with suitable maps and tables ... and engraved by George Bickham.

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Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 188, [45] leaves (one folded) : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts