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Date: c.1926-c.1952Reference: PP/HUN/C/2/34Part of: Hunter, Donald (1898-1977)- Books
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Tentamen medico-chirurgicum circa erysipelas / [Salvator Vila y Canals].
Vila y Canals, Salvator.Date: 1791- Pictures
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Cholera Hospital, Oxford: near the Oxford Canals. Line engraving by J. Fisher after T. Taylor junior.
Taylor, Thomas.Reference: 20874i- Books
Coleccion de lo perteneciente al ramo de la rubia, ó granza en España / [Juan Pablo Canals y Martí].
Canals y Martí, Juan Pablo.Date: 1779- Pictures
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International Exhibition, Barcelona, 1929: figures from paintings by El Greco, Goya and Velázquez, representing Spanish art. Colour lithograph by R. Canals y Llambi, 1929.
Canals y Llambi, Ricardo, 1876-1931.Date: 1929Reference: 575591i- Books
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Observations on the various systems of canal navigation, with inferences practical and mathematical; in Which Mr. Fulton's Plan of Wheel - Boats, and the Utility of Subterraneous and of Small Canals are Particularly Investigated, Including an Account of the Canals and Inclined Planes of China. with four plates. By William Chapman, Member of the Society of Civil Engineers in London, and M. R. I. A.
Chapman, William, 1749-1832.Date: 1797- Books
Compendi d'educació civil / R. Rucabado.
Rucabado, R.Date: 1920- Books
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A general history of inland navigation, foreign and domestic: containing a complete account of the canals already executed in England, with considerations on those projected. To Which Are Added, Practical Observations. The whole illustrated with a map Of All The Canals In England, And Other Useful Plates. By J. Phillips.
Phillips, J. (John), active 1792.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A general history of inland navigation, foreign and domestic: containing a complete account of the canals Already Executed In England, With Considerations ON Those Projected. To which are added, practical observations. The whole illustrated with a large map coloured, Shewing The Lines Of All The Canals Executed, Those Proposed, And The Navigable Rivers; With Other Useful Plates. By J. Phillips.
Phillips, J. (John), active 1792.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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The universal gazetteer; being a concise description, alphabetically arranged, of the nations kingdoms, States, Towns, Empires, Provinces, Cities, Oceans, Seas, Harbours, Rivers, Lakes, Canals, Mountains, Capes, &c. in the known world; the Government, Manners, and Religion of the inhabitants, with the extent, Boundaries, and Natural productions, Manufactures and Curiosities of the different Countries. Containing Several thousand Places not to be met with in any similar Gazetteer. Illustrated with a complete set of maps. By John Walker.
Walker, John, 1759-1830.Date: 1795- Books
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A topographical description of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashire, and a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire; Comerthending, First, A General Introductory View. Secondly, A more detailed Account of each County; its Extent, General Appearance, Mountains, Caves, Rivers, Lakes, Canals, Soils, Roads, Minerals, Buildings, Market-Towns, Commerce, Manufactures, Agriculture, Antiquities, and the Manners and Customs of its Inhabitants. Thirdly, A Tour through the most intercsting Parts of the District; describing, in a concise and perspicuous Manner, such Object, as are best worth the Attention of the curious Traveller and Tourist. Illustrated with Various Maps, Plans, Views, and other Useful Appendages. By John Housman.
Housman, John.Date: 1800- Books
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A topographical survey of the county of Berks, in eighteen sheets. In which is expressed, His Majesty's Royal Palace of Windsor, its Parks and Forrest; the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; Towns, Villages, Hamlets, Farms, Cottages, &c. with The Main and Cross Roads, Bridle Ways, Pales, Hedges, Hills, Valleys, Rivers, Brooks, Canals, Ponds, Bridges, Ferries, Wind and Water Mills, Woods, Heaths, Commons, and Greens, appertaining to each Parish, &c. to which is added, A Geographical and Historical index Of all Remarkable Places in the said County; with their Bearings and Distance to the next Market Town, or well-known Place. The Length, Breadth, Circumference, and Content, in Acres and Square Miles, of the County, Windsor Forest, and of each Parish.
Rocque, John, -1762.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste: Calculated for the Ornamenting of Parks, Forests, Woods, Gardens, Canals, Eminences, Extensive Views, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, &c. Together with a full Explanation, in Letter Press, to each Design, and exact Scales for Measurement. By Thomas Collins Overton.
Overton, Thomas Collins.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for Pleasure and Recreation; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste: Calculated for the Ornamenting of Parks, Forests, Woods, Gardens, Canals, Eminences, Extensive Views, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, &c. Together with a full Explanation, in Letter Press, to each Design, and exact Scales for Measurement. By Thomas Collins Overton,
Overton, Thomas Collins.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Report on the line of navigation from Hexham to Haydon-Bridge, proposed as a continuation of the Stella and Hexham Canal; with Comparative Observations on the Proposed Canals On each Side of the River Tyne: and a report on the line from Newcastle to Haydon-Bridge, On the North Side of that River; Together with Full Estimates of the Expence of Execution. By John Sutcliffe, engineer.
Sutcliffe, John (Civil engineer)Date: [1797]- Books
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Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste, being above fifty intire new designs of plans, sections, elevations, &c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks, forests, Woods, Canals, &c. Containing Paling of several Sorts, Gates, Garden Seats, both close and open, Umbrello's, Alcoves, Grotto's and Grotesque Seats, Hermitages, Triumphal Arches, Temples, Banqueting Houses and Rooms, Rotundo's, Observatories, Ice-Houses, Bridges, Boats, and Cascades, also, An Obelisk or Monument, with Directions where proper to be erected, and the Method how to execute them. The Whole neatly Engrav'd On Fifty Four Copper-Plates. From the designs of Charles Over, architect.
Over, Charles.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Hand bills, following an Advertisement in the News-Papers, having been circulated, stating Distances, Prices of Carriage, &c. for a New Canal Undertaking, and comparing them with the Price of Carriage paid upon the present Canals. - ----That the Public might not be deceived by spurious Productions, the following is a true State of Facts; the Calculation on the New Scheme is taken from one in Mr. Pratt's own Hand-Writing.
Date: 1785]- Books
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A topographical survey of the counties of Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, commonly called the western circuit. Containing An accurate and comprehensive Description of all the Principal Direct and Cross Roads In Each Respective County. In which the Situations of all the Towns, Villages, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, Navigable Rivers, Canals, &c. upon and in the Vicinity of each Road, are particularly expressed, and their relative Distances exactly ascertained. Embellished with new and elegantly engraved maps of the several Counties, Taken from actual Surveys, And laid down with great Accuracy on a large Scale. Also A General Map of the Western Circuit. And many Hundreds of Elegant Engravings of the Arms of the Subscribers, Arranged in a Manner entirely New, and neatly finished by an eminent Artist. Likewise copious and complete indexes of all the roads, Exhibiting at one View the several Stages, principal Inns, Fairs, and other Objects of Note thereon. To Which Are Added, Accurate Tables of the Distances from Town to Town, in each County, and throughout the West of England. Together With The Names of the Nobility, Gentry, and other Subscribers, their respective Seats and Places of Residence, with proper References to the same in the Body of the Work. The whole adapted to the various Uses of the Gentleman and Traveller in each respective County. By William Tunnicliff, Land-Surveyor.
Tunnicliff, William.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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A developement of the views and designs of the French nation, And the Advantages which will derive to them, if they should be able, by a Peace, or otherwise, to secure to themselves the free navigation of the rivers Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt; To which it is their long avowed Intention and Design, to join many of their numerous navigable Rivers and Canals, and thereby, at all Times, secure to themselves, a safe and speedy Conveyance of their various Productions, Manufactures and Commerce, from the most interior Parts of the Kingdom, to the above Rivers; and from thence to the Centre of Germany, Holland, and the Netherlands; and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Bay of Biscay, to the British Channel, and to the North Sea, and thereby to monopolize the whole Trade of almost all the northren Part of Europe; and particularly to the Exclusion of the Trade and Manufacturers of Great Britain.
Date: April, 1796- Books
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The political economy of inland navigation, irrigation and drainage; with thoughts on the multiplication of commercial resources; And ON Means Of Bettering The Condition Of Mankind, BY The Construction Of Canals, BY The Improvement Of Their Various Capacities For Commerce, Transfer, Agriculture, Household Supplies, And Mechanical Power; And BY The Unlimited Extension Thereof Into The Remotest Interior Of Great Britain And Of Foreign Parts. By W. Tatham.
Tatham, William, 1752-1819.Date: 1799- Books
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The compleat art of land-measuring; or, a guide to practical surveying: teaching an exact method of Measuring and Mapping of Lands, Woods, Waters, &c. by the Catoptric Sextant, and of Casting up the same by the Pen. Together with Directions for Levelling, in order to convey Water either in Pipes or Canals. To which is added an appendix, containing a new theory of the catoptric sectant, and its Use in taking Heights and Distances, independent of Trigonometry: also, Instructions for Measuring of Standing Timber. With several plain and useful tables. The second edition, illustrated with copper-plates. By B. Talbot, Teacher of the Mathematics at Cannock.
Talbot, Benjamin.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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French perfidy illustrated in general, but particularly in the present intended invasion, and the state of Dunkirk; or, cogent reasons for forcing France to an immediate execution of the Treaties of Utrecht in 1713, and the Hague in 1717, in Relation, not only to Dunkirk, but the Canals of Mardyke and Graveling, which cannot remain in their present Condition without the utmost Danger to our Liberties and Trade. in Which Notice is taken of the vast Progress and Extent of the present Trade from Dunkirk, how it contributes to the Decay of Ours, what it was before the Port was lately open'd, and what it wou'd be had it continued shut, as expresly intended by Treaties.
Date: [1744]- Books
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A developement of the views and designs of the French nation, and the advantages which will derive to them, if they should be able, by a peace, or otherwise, to secure to themselves the free navigation of the rivers Rhine, Maese, and Scheldt; To which it is their long avowed Intention and Design, to join many of their numerous navigable Rivers and Canals, and thereby, at all Times, secure to themselves, a safe and speedy Conveyance of their various Productions, Manufactures and Commerce, from the most interior Parts of the Kingdom, to the above Rivers; and from thence to the Centre of Germany, Holland, and the Netherlands; and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Bay of Biscay, to the British Channel, and to the North Trade of almost all the northern Part of Europe: and particularly to the Exclusion of the Trade and Manufacturers of Great Britain.
Koops, Matthias.Date: 1798- Books
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A developement of the views and designs of the French nation, and the advantages which will derive to them, if they should be able, by a peace, or otherwise, to secure to themselves the free navigation of the rivers Rhine, Maese, and Scheldt; To which it is their long avowed Intention and Design, to join many of their numerous navigable Rivers and Canals, and thereby, at all Times, secure to themselves, a safe and speedy Conveyance of their various Productions, Manufactures and Commerce, from the most interior Parts of the Kingdom, to the above Rivers; and from thence to the Centre of Germany, Holland, and the Netherlands; and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Bay of Biscay, to the British Channel, and to the North Sea, and thereby to monopolize the whole Trade of almost all the northern Part of Europe; and particularly to the Exclusion of the Trade and Manufacturers of Great Britain.
Koops, Matthias.Date: 1796- Books
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A treatise of universal inland navigations, and the use of all sorts of mines. A work entirely new. Recommended to the inhabitants of Great-Britain and Ireland. Plainly demonstrating the possibility of making any river and stream of running water in the world navigable, by Canals of a New Construction, without Locks and Dams, with Estimations of the Expence of he making thereof per Mile in Length. Together With The Construction, Explanation, and Use, of a New Invented Mechanical and Hydraulical Machine, for island Navigation of this New Construction, which will raise, on [an] Inclined Plane, Boats ... Lighte ... and cargoes all at once, even to Fifty Fathoms in Perpendicular, without unloading. To which is added a supplement, Plainly demonstrating the Possibility ... Means whereby a Ship of any Size may be Launched at any Time, except at Low Ebb, without waiting for the Time of High Water; together with ... Construction, Explanation, and Use of a Machine for that Purpose, ... to shew the Lower and Force required to draw or roll a Ship up upon a Launch of any Size, not more than Two Thousand Tons.
Leach, Edmund (Surveyor)Date: [1790]