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Total number of records: 196

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Brotherton Collection34
English Literature19
Cookery Collection5
Ripon Cathedral5
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History3
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3

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art59
military art and science48
industrial arts21
mythology, classical19
painting19
art, greco-roman18
archaeology17
religions17
art, italian13
classical antiquities12

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Rome16
Greece14
Europe10
France7
Paris (France)7
Rome (Italy)3
Turkey3
England1
Florence1
Gaul1

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Montfaucon, Bernard De (1655-1741)17
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)14
Polybius11
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574)11
Feuquieres, Antoine De Pas Marquis De (1648-1711)8
Gillet De Moivre8
Lefebvre De Saint-Marc, Charles Hugues8
Lefebvre De Saint-Marc, Charles Hugues (1698-1769)8
Humphreys, David (1689-1740)7
Folard, Jean-Charles6

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A Catalogue of the collection of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford deceas'd: consisting of several capital pictures... : which will be sold at auction, by Mr. Cock, at his house in the great piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 8th of March, 1741-2, and the five following days ... [etc.]

Harley, Edward Earl of Oxford (1689-1741); Cock, Mr (fl. 1720-1749)

[1742]

Lists paintings, prints and drawings, busts, and assorted objects d'art. Place and date of publication from ESTC. Engraved frontispiece after Vertue.

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Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy

Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792)

1778

The first collected edition of "Discourses" 1-7. The dedication "To the King", although signed by "Joshua Reynolds", was written by Dr. Johnson. With 2 pp. of advertisements of books sold by T. Ca...

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An account of some of the statues, bas-reliefs, drawings and pictures in Italy, &c : with remarks

Richardson, Jonathan (1665-1745); Richardson, Jonathan (1694-1771); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Adam, John (1721-1792); Jack, Ian (1923-2008)

1722

With a postscript. Printed by William Bowyer.

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An account of some of the statues, bas-reliefs, drawings and pictures in Italy, &c : with remarks

Richardson, Jonathan (1665-1745); Richardson, Jonathan (1694-1771); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Adam, John (1721-1792); Jack, Ian (1923-2008)

1722

With a postscript. Printed by William Bowyer.

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Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des terms propres à chacun de ces arts

Félibien, André sieur des Avaux et de Javercy (1619-1695)

1690

Signed prelim. p. [8], Felibien. Dictionary: p. [465]-797. Marginal notes.

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The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (1903-1912)

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

1769-

Quarto issues, 1913-1917, 5 vols. Front cover bears statement: Under revision. Catalogue.

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The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (1893-1902)

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

1769-

Quarto issues, 1913-1917, 5 vols. Front cover bears statement: Under revision. Catalogue.

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Nouvelle description des chateaux et parcs de Versaille et de Marly : contenant une explication historique de toutes les peintures, tableaux, statues, vases & ornemens qui s'y voyent (t.2)

Piganiol de La Force, Jean-Aimar (1673-1753); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)

M. DCC. LXIV. [1764]

Vol. 1: xvj, [2], 328 pages, [8] leaves of plates; v. 2: [6], 381, [5] pages, [8] folded leaves of plates. Spine title: Descriptn de Versail [that is, Description de Versailles?]

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