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A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1778. By the president.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Art's treasury of rarities: and curious inventions. In two parts. Art I. Containing the Mystery of Dying Cloth, Silk, Stuffs, Hair, Feathers, Bone, Horn work, Leather, &c. and to prepare and use them. To prepare and colour Skins of Leather, or Gild them with Gold, Silver or Lacquering, &c. To Dye Bristles, Hair, Marble Paper; to recover faded Colours in Cloth or Silk, and to take out Spots or Stains of Tar, Rosin, Grease, Oyl, &c. and preserve them from Moth and Worms. To scower Silver and Gold Lace and Plate. To Cement broken Glass and China, and to make Perfumes, &c. The Art of Drawing, Limning, Painting in Oyl and Japanning, and Tanning Leather, Eching, Graving, Writing, Gilding, Enamelling. To make sundry Colours, prepare Gums and Allom-Water; to thicken Linen, colour Maps and Pictures. Art II. Containing the Generation of Metals, Natura and Artificial, and to Solder, Gild, and to harden and soften them. To Cleanse and Perfume Gloves, Washing and Starching Lawns, Sarsenets, Tiffany, and Lutestrings. With divers other curiosities.
White, John, -1671.Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The Gentleman's companion: or, Tradesman's delight. Containing, the mystery of dying in all its branches. The manner of preparing colours. The method of cleaning and taking out stains from silks woollen or linnen. To clean gold or silver lace, and plate. To prepare a cement for china, or glass. The art of drawing, limning, painting, etching, engraving, carving, gilding, enamelling, and refreshing pictures. Likewise the quality of natural and artifical metals. How to harden or soften them. The art of soldering, burnishing and guilding metals. To make all sorts of ink. To prepare gold and silver for writing. To make sealing wax, or wafers. To know the purity of gold or silver, and detect counterfeit coins. The great Mr. Boyle's method of writing in such a manner as cannot be discovered without the help of fire, water, &c. to take blott out of paper. The art of dressing, cleaning and perfuming gloves and ribbons; and washing all sorts of lace. To which is added, the method of curing and preserving all sorts of wines in the best manner, also, some excellent receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery. Observations on silk worms, with directions how to manage and keep them to advantage. With many other useful things never before printed.
Date: 1735- Books
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Mechanick exercises: or, The doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the art of smithing in general. By Joseph Moxon, late member of the Royal Society, and hydographer [sic] to King Charles II.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.Date: 1693-1694- Books
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A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1782, by the president.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1784. By the president.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The jewel house of art and nature : containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry : with divers chymical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof, faithfully and familiarly set down, according to the authours own experience / by Sir Hugh Plat ... ; whereunto is added, a rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins, with the vertues and use thereof, by D.B., Gent.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1653- Books
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Recueil de quelques écrits relatifs a un ouvrage périodique sur les arts libéraux, qui n'a point été publié.
Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Premiums offered by the Society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce.
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain)Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The jewell house of art and nature : conteining diuers rare and profitable inuentions, together with sundry new experimentes in the art of husbandry, distillation, and moulding / faithfully and familiarly set downe, according to the authors owne experience, by Hugh Platte.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1594- Books
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Polygraphice; or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming : In four books. Exemplifyed, in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countries, and figures of various forms; the way of engraving, etching and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments; the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities ... together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting / by William Salmon.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1673- Books
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An easy introduction to the arts and sciences: Being a short, but comprehensive system useful and polite learning, divided into lessons. Illustrated with cuts, and adapted to the use of schools and academies. By R. Turner, Jun. LL. D. late of Magdalen Hall, Oxford: author of An easy introduction to geography, &c.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1753-1788.Date: 1796- Books
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Arts improvement: or, choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, Gardening, Mechanicks, Chimistry, Painting, Japaning, Varnishing, Guilding, Inlaying, Embossing, Carving, preserving several things in their natural shape and colour. And in other arts and sciences Profitable and Pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several languages; Manuscripts, Experiments Communicated by several Ingenious Gentlemen, and the Author's own Experience. By T. S.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1715- Books
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A journal from London to Rome, By way of Paris, Lyons, Turin, Florence, &c. And from Rome back to London, by way of Loretto, Venice, Milan, Strasbourg, &c. By D. Jeffereys, teacher of the modern languages.
Jefferies, David, teacher of the modern languages.Date: 1742- Books
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Polygraphice: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, guilding, colouring, dying, beautifying, and perfuming : In four books. Exemplified in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countries, and figures of various forms; the way of engraving, etching, and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments; the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities; the paintings of the ancients; washing of maps, globes, or pictures; the dying of cloth, silk, horns, bones, wood, glass, stones, and metals; the varnishing, colouring, and guilding thereof, according to any purpose or intent; the painting, colouring, and beautifying of the face, skin, and hair; the whole doctrine of perfumes, together with the original, advancement, and perfection of the art of painting; the like never published till now ; To which is added, a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1680- Books
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Arts improvement: or, choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, gardening, Mechanicks, Chymistry, Painting, Japanning, Varnishing, Gilding, Inlaying, Embossing, Carving, preserving several things in their natural shape and colour. And in other arts and sciences Profitable and Pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several Languages, Manuscripts, Experiments communicated by several Ingenious Gentlemen, and the Author's own Experience. By the author of The builders dictionary.
Neve, Richard.Date: M.DCC.XXIII. [1723]- Books
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A catalogue of a genuine and capital collection of pictures, the property of a gentleman, The greater Part of which have been lately brought from Italy, selected from some of the principal Cabinets at Rome, Naples, Florence, &c. Consisting of some of the first works of the following great and esteemed Masters: Titian, Polidore, L. Da Vinci, Bassan, Barroccio, Aug. Carracci, Albano, P. D. Veccio, C. Marratt, Schidoni, Valesque, Gisolphi, Paduanino, Guido, Poussin, Trevesani, L. Giordano, Canaletti, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Cuyp, Berghem, Both, &c. Particularly A Remarkable Fine Picture of a Madona and child, by Van Dyck, in the Stile of Titian; The Nativity, a capital Cabinet Picture, by Nich. Poussin; A Landscape, a very beautiful Picture, by Berghem, from the Choisoul Collection; a man selling fish; a Chef D'oeuvre, by Jan Steen. Which will be sold by auction By Mr. Christie, At his Great Room, Pall Mall, On Monday, May the 26th, 1800, at Twelve o'clock. To be publickly viewed Two Days preceding the Sale, when Catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, and in Pall Mall.
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803.Date: 1800]- Books
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Mechanick exercises: or, the doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the art of smithing, joinery, carpentry, and turning. By Joseph Moxon, late Member of the Royal Society, and Hydrographer to King Charles II. The third edition, with an addition of the bricklayers, plaisterers, and masons trades.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.Date: 1701- Books
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The mysteryes of nature, and art : conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engrauing, the fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly collected, and partly of the authors peculiar practice, and invention by I.B.
Bate, JohnDate: 1634- Books
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Premiums offered by the Dublin Society, for manufactures and fine arts. 1792.
Royal Dublin Society.Date: [1792]- Books
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A discourse, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy, October 16, 1780, by the president.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The handmaid to the arts. In two volumes, ...
Dossie, Robert, -1777.Date: 1796- Books
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The mysteries of nature and art : In foure severall parts. The first of water works. The second of fire works. The third of drawing, washing, limming, painting, and engraving. The fourth of sundry experiments. By Iohn Bate.
Bate, JohnDate: 1635- Books
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The art of writing. Containing I. Rules for writing all the hands now in use ... II. An explanation of the different hands ... By Mr. Ambrose Serle. To which is prefixed, a new mathemamical [sic] projection ... by Mr. Peter Hudson.
Serle, Ambrose, Author of 'A treatise on the art of writing'.Date: 1776- Books
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The school of arts; or, an introduction to useful knowledge, being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science, on the following subjects, viz. Mechanics, Electricity, Pneumatics, Hydrostatics and Hydraulics, Optics, Clock and Watch-Making, and Astronomy. The Miscellaneous Articles contain the most approved Art of Drawing, Etching, Engraving, Mezzotinto Scraping, Aquatinta, Crayon Painting, Gilding on Glass, Pots, &c. Silvering Looking Glasses, &c. Lackering, Varnishing, Soldering, Casting in Plaster, &c. Cements, Glues, Metals for Speculums, with the whole Process of grinding, &c. Staining Wood, A Composition for Ornaments, Objects for the Microscope, &c. &c. &c. &c. The second edition, with very considerable additions. By John Imison.
Imison, John, -1788.Date: [1790?]