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Dubos, Jean Baptiste (1670-1742)6
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Kirnberger, Johann Philipp (1721-1783)5
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The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste

Hogarth, William (1697-1764)

1772

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The analysis of beauty : Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste

Hogarth, William (1697-1764)

1753

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Dionysiou Longinou peri hypsous hypomnēma = Dionysii Longini de sublimitate commentarius

Longinus; Pearce, Zachary (1690-1774)

1743

Title-page in red and black. Greek text and Latin transltion vis-à-vis. The first five words of the title are transliterated from the Greek.

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An essay on taste

Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795); Voltaire (1694-1778); Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' (1717-1783); Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat baron de (1689-1755)

1764

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Augustini Niphi ad illustrissimam Joannam Aragoniam... De pulchro liber

Nifo, Agostino (1473-1545)

1641

Title page in red and black. Title vignette. Published also as part of the author's Veneres et cupidines venales (Lugduni Batavorum, 1641-1646.).

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Essai sur le goût

Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795); Voltaire (1694-1778); Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' (1717-1783); Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat baron de (1689-1755); Eidous, Marc Antoine

1766

With half-title. The last 4 pages contain the Approbation, the Privilège, etc. At the end: De l'Imprimerie de Lottin l'aîné, Imprimeur de Mgr le Dauphin, 1766. First edition in French, and ap...

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Les beaux arts réduits à un même principe

Batteux, Charles (1713-1780); Eisen, Charles Dominique Joseph (1720-1778); Delafosse, Jean Charles (1734-1789); Louis Dauphin of France (1729-1765)

1747

Author's name on half title page. Engraved front. and vignettes by C. Eisen after Delafosse. Dedicatory epistle to the Dauphin of France signed: Votre très-humble & très-obéissant serviteur, Ba...

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Of the sister arts : an essay

Jacob, Hildebrand (1693-1739)

1734

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