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1. [Views of the cities of Westminster and London taken from the opposite bank of the Thames]

[Views of the cities of Westminster and London taken from the opposite bank of the Thames]
Creator:
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 panorama on 5 sheets : engraving ; full panorama 31 x 395 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. To Martin Folkes, esq., president of the Royal Society : this plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings / is humbly inscribed by his most humble servants John Pine and John Tinney.

To Martin Folkes, esq., president of the Royal Society : this plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings / is humbly inscribed by his most humble servants John Pine and John Tinney.
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 map ; 46 x 91 cm., on sheet 55 x 96 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the contiguous buildings : with all the new roads that have been made on account of Westminster Bridge, and the new buildings and alterations to the present year MDCCLV / engraved from an actual survey made by John Rocque ; this plan extends from east to west near six miles, and from north to south a little more than three, and contains about 11,500 acres of ground.

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
1 map on 8 sheets ; 132 x 216 cm., sheets 67 x 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent : containing whatever is most worthy of notice in their ancient and present state ... with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of this great metropolis ... / by the Rev. John Entick ...

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Creator:
Entick, John, 1703?-1773
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., plans, ports., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Six landscapes from original paintings.

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Date:
1779
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. in folder 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

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Creator:
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721–1780
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 46, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, walls, gates, bridges ... and many other curious matters in antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the difference between the ancient and present state of these two famous cities. By N.B.

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Creator:
Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742
Date:
1722
Physical Description:
3 p.., 244 p. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The London tradesman : being an historical account of all the trades, professions, arts, both liberal and mechanic, now practised in the cities of London and Westminster, calculated for the instruction of youth in their choice of business ... ; to which is added, an appendix, containing many useful particulars relative to the foregoing / by R. Campbell ...

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Creator:
Campbell, R
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
xii, 340 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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

11. A new pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations, to the year 1790.

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Creator:
Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 47 x 91 cm., folded to 18 x 12 cm., in case 19 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A collection of select views in London and Westminster / engraved by Watts, Medland, [and Angus] etc.

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Creator:
Miller, William, 1740?-1810?
Date:
[1795-1800]
Physical Description:
[17] leaves of text, [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The magazine of architecture, perspective, & sculpture : in five parts : Part the first. Geometrical, practical, & usefull [sic] problems ; for ye describing of circles, ovals, arches, groyns (Regular or rampant) & polygons, ye mouldings made use of in architecture; the handrail to stair-cases; ye wreath'd columns; ionic (capital antient & modern) volutes; & to flute columns and pilasters : Part the second. Plain & easy directions, for the construction of ye five orders of architecture , with their imposts & arches, plans, elevations & profiles, (accurately describ'd by feet, inches & parts; likewise by the customary measure of modules & minutes) frontispieces & windows; ornaments for mouldings, capitals & freezes; fretts & flowers; enrich'd pedestals for statues; compartiments [sic] for domes, soffites of arches & pavements; of the proportion and cieling [sic] of rooms; and designs of obelisks : Part the third. On the disposition & regularity of stair-cases; with several necessary improvements, wherein the symetry [sic] requir'd is preserv'd in ye steps & halfpaces, &c. also in ye rangeing [sic] ballisters & ornaments : Part the fourth. A most easy & expeditious method, to delineate in perspective, all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from ye confusion of occult lines : Part the fifth. The parts of human-body describ'd; with ye nature of motion reduc'd to geometrical rules; to which is added, a collection of ye most beautiful antique statues, with their parts describ'd, as measur'd from the originals / engraven on 96 copper plates by Benjn. Cole ; to which is annexed, an alphabetical explanation of ye terms made use of in architecture ; collected from the most approv'd authors, antient & modern, particularly, Palladio, Scamozzi & Vignola, & made a work of general use for gentlemen, architects, sculptors, painters, workmen, & all persons concern'd in building, by Edward Oakley, Architect . M. M.

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Creator:
Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:
MDCCXXX [1730]
Physical Description:
[12], 119, [1] p., XCIII leaves of plates : ill., coat of arms, diagrams, plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts adjacent ... / by Robert Seymour ... ; the whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, i.e. to the present year ...

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Creator:
Mottley, John, 1692–1750
Date:
1734-1735
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms, map ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Bowles's New pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1790.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 48 x 94 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The history of London : from its foundation to the present time ... including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the bill of mortality ... / by William Maitland ...

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Creator:
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
2 v. (viii, 1410 p.) : ill., map, plans, coats of arms ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings / from an actual survey, taken by John Rocque, land-surveyor, and engraved by John Pine, Bluemantle ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
1 map on 24 sheets ; 203 x 385 cm., sheets 77 x 57 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts