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London, city of lost hospitals
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Our complicated love affair with light
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A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, In and about London and Westminister. Originally written by - Ralphk, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions. The whole being digested into a six days tour, in which every thing worthy the attention of the judicious enquirer, is pointed out and described.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1783- Books
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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A catalogue of prints and books of prints, both ancient and modern, after the most eminent masters. Among them are the following Books of Prints. The Works of Capt. Baillie Oeuvres de Phil Wovermans Oeuvres de Pillement, half bound Scenographia Americana Sadelar's Landscapes Oeuvres de F. K. Wierotter Perelle's Landscapes, Worlidge's Gems, 3 vols. Hayes's British Birds finely coloured Edwards's Flowers on 100 plates, do. Harris's English Insects, Moths and Butterflies Redinger's various coloured Horses Miller's Plants, done at Nuremberg Ovid's Metamorphoses The Life of Massachio, by Patch - Fra. Bartolomeo, ditto - Giotta ditto Barry's Charts of Nova Scotia, &c. The North American Pilot The American Atlas, by Jefferies The West Indian Atlas De L'isle's Atlas Dunn's Atlas Piranesi's Views of Rome Books bound in Russia, &c. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. fol. Johnson's Dictionary in 2 vols. Postlethwayte's Dictionary of Trade Beauwe's Lex Mercutoria Atkyn's History of Gloucestershire Wood's Body of Conveyancing, 3 vols. Harris's Collection of Voyages, 2 vols. Anderson's History of Trade, 2 vols. Hawkin's History of Music, 5 vols. Grose's Antiquities of Eng. and Wales Strut's Customs and Manners of the Ancient Inhabitants of Eng. 3 vols. Pennant's Tour to Scotland, 3 vols. Anson's Voyage Blackwel's Courtof Augustus, 3 vols. Hume's History of England, 8 vols 4 to Robinson's History of Scotland, 2 vols. Hooke's Roman History, 4 vols. Locke's Works, 4 vols. Bolingbroke's Works, 5 vols. Thompson's Description of the Royal Palace of the Escurial with plates Philosophical Transactions, complete Wards Justice, 4 vols. Lexembourg Gallery half bound. A Choice Collection of Metzotintos, First Impressions; many of them Proof Prints; all in fine Preservation and many very scarce. Likewise A Collection of fine Paintings. With an Appendix, containing. A Collection of Books, most of them in elegant Bindings, the lowest Price of each Article printed in the Catalogue By Hooper and Davis, No. 25, Ludgate-Hill. Catalogues to be had gratis, as above; at Mr. Ridley's, St. James's Street; Mr. Shropshire's, New Bond Street; Mr. Millan's, Charing-Cross; and at Mr. Sewel's, Cornhill.
Hooper and Davis (Booksellers : London, England)Date: 1779?]- Books
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J. Todd's catalogue for 1795. A catalogue of valuable books, ancient and modern, in various languages, and in every class of Literature. Including the entire Library of The Rev. and Learned Anth. Temple, M. A. Late Master of the Grammar-School at Richmond, and Vicar of Easby. And several other Libraries and Parcels of Books lately purchased. Amongst which are the following scarce and curious Articles: Bill's Vegetable System, 26 vol. Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, 2 vol. Dugdale's Antiquities of York Thoresby's History of Leeds Parkinson's theater of Plants - - Russia gorrarde's Herbal, by Johnson. - - Russia Rapin's History of England, 5 vol. Gardnor's Views on the Rhine Raphael's Ceilings in the Vatican Stubbs's Anatomy of a Horse Philosophical Transactions, 56 vol. Capt. Cook's last voyage, fine impressions, 4 vol. Monthly Review and index, 86 vol. Johnson's Works of English Poets, 75 vol. Gilpin on Ornamental Landscape, &c. 9 vol. Codex T. Bezae, Cantabrigiensis, 2 vol. Sebae Thesaurus Retum Nat. 4 vol. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, 8 vol. Diodoras Siculus, Gr. Lat. Wesselingli, 2 vol 2 Constantini Lexicon, Gr. Lat. edit. opt. Encyclopedic, public par Diderot, 25 tom. Scapulae Lexicon, Gr. Lat. edit. opt. Ciceronis Opera-Omnia, 10 vol. Reaumur, Histoire des Insectes, 6 tom. Salustio en Espanol . . . . Madrid 2772 Histoire dea Ordres Monastiques, 8 tom. Virgilii Opera, Burmanni, 4 vol. Principales Avantures de Don Quichotte Decameron de Jean Boccace, 5 tom. Buffon Oeuvres Completes, 58 tom. Anacreontis Carmina, Graece. Parma 1791 The Books will begin to be sold, at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Monday the 12th of October, and continue till Christmas next, By J. Todd, Bookseller, Stationer, and Printseller, In Stonegate, York. - The full value for Libraries, Parcels of Books, and Prints. Catalogues, Price 1s. may be had of Mr. Faulder, Bookseller, New Bond-Street, Mr. Baldwin, Bookseller, Pater-Noster-Row, London, and at the Place of Sale.
Todd, John, -1811.Date: 1795]- Books
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes, In all Arts, Sciences, and every Branch of polite Literature, Many on Royal Paper, and in Morocco, and other elegant Bindings; being the Stock of the late Mr. John Hildyard, deceased, with other Libraries purchased since. Among which are Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Lincis rubris. Buxtorsii Concordant. Bib. Heb. ... Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vols. Martinii Lexicon, 2 vols. Plutarchi Opera, 2 vols. Aristophanes, Kusteri. Euripides, Barnes. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vols. Herodotus, Gronovii. Galeni Opera, 7 vols. Diogenes Laertius, Meibonaii. Virgilii Opera, Baskerville. Homeri Opera, Barnes, 2 vols. Homeri Opera, Clarke, 2 vols. Hist. D'angleterre, par M. Rapin, 10 tom. Ruins of Palmyra, Ruins of Balbec, fine Plates. Postlethwayt's Dictionary, 2 vols. Chambers's and Supplement, 4 vols. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vols. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. Rushworth's Hist. Collections, 8 vols. Rapin's History of England, 2 vols. Guthrie's and Ralph's, 5 vols. Kennet's, 3 vols. Tyrrel's, 5 vols. Drake's Antiquities of York. Thoresby's Leeds. Somner's Canterbury. Stukeley's Stonehenge. Maitland's History of Edinburgh. - History of Scotland, 2 vols. Antient Universal History, 21 vols. Modern Universal Hist. 3 vols. and 8 vols. Bp. Gibson's Camden, 2 vols. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vols. Bacon's Works, 4 vols. Churchill's Voyages, 8 vols. Duncan's Caesar, fine Plates. Dugdale's Summons to Parliament. - Origines Juridiciales. - Hist. of St. Paul's, Hollar's Cuts Sir William Temple's Works, 2 vols. Ben. Jonson's Works, best Edition. System of Geography, 2 vols. Maps. Ware's Architecture Compleat Body of Husbandry Compleat Body of Gardening Swammerdam's Natural History of Insects ... Humphreys on the O. and N. Test, 3 vols. Burkit on the New Testament. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vols. Tillotson's Works, 3 vols. Barrow's Works, 2 vols. Bp. Hooper's Works. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance, 2 vols. Lord Sommers's Tracts, 12 vols. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vols. Astley's Voyages, 4 vols. Addison's Works, 4 vols. Sully's Memoirs, 3 vols. Davila's Civil Wars of France, 2 vols. Hampton's Polybius. Smollet's History of England, 4 vols. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vols. Strange's Reports, 2 vols. Peere Williams's Reports. Besides a large Collection of other Reports and Law Books. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue) on Wednesday, February 14, 1759, and continue on Sale till the Summer Assizes. By John Hinxman, Bookseller in Stonegate, York. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Messrs. Rivington and Fletcher, in Pater-Noster-Row; Messrs. Whiston and White, in Fleet-Street; and Mr. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, London. - Also of Mr. Fletcher, in Oxford. - Mr. Merrill, in Cambridge. - Messrs. Hamilton and Balsour, in Edinburgh. - All the Booksellers in the North of England, and at the Place of Sale. Price One Shilling, which will be return'd to any Gentleman who lays out Twenty.
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