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1. The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.

The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
[2] pages, 20 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 x 51 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22979204190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A new and accurate survey of the island of Minorca : a particualr plan of the harbour of Mahon and its fortifications, with a map of the Mediterranean Sea, shewing the situation of that island and those of Majorca and Yvica, the ports of Barcelona, Alicant, Cartagena, Malaga, Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, &c. on the European coast, and those of Tangier, Ceuta, Tetuan, Oran, Algier, &c. on that of Barbary, with prospects of the town of Mahon and St. Philip's Castle, taken on the spot and lately brought from thence / drawn and engrav'd by Captn. Lempriere ...

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Creator:
Lemprière, Clement. no_linkage
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
1 map : ill. ; 27 x 55 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum : discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples / by Mr. Bellicard ; enriched with forty-two plates, designed and engraved by the author.

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Creator:
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726–1786
Date:
1753 [1754?]
Physical Description:
vii, 236 p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22902655870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection