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Book/Printed MaterialA biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads. Intended as an … Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2543 English short title catalogue, T90309 Bibliographical footnotes. --A supplement, consisting of corrections and large additions, to A biographical history of England, referred to their proper places in that work: to which, besides an index to the additional characters, are subjoined exact emendations and improvements of the index to the former volumes; and a list of curious…- Contributor: Granger, James - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1769
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Book/Printed MaterialA political and satirical history of the years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, and 1762. : In a series of 112 humourous and entertaining prints. Contraining all the most remarkable transactions, … Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1757 English short title catalogue, T13270 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy Ex libris Howard C. Levis. LAC snh 2019-03-06 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-03-07 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-03-11 LAC ddw 2022-04-04 update (1 card)- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1762
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Book/Printed MaterialDescription du jubilé de sept cens ans de S. Macaire, patron particulier contre la peste, qui sera céléré dans la ville de Grand ... a commencer le 30. de mai jusqu'au 15. … Etchings by P. Wauters, I. L. Wauters, and Heylbrouck after designs by E. P. F. van Reysschoot. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1734 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has bookplate of the Baron de Béthune. LAC tnb 2019-03-14 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-03-19 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-03-27 LAC ddw…- Contributor: Wouters, J. L. (Jan Lieven) - Heylbrouck, Norbert - Meyer, Jean Thomas - Reysschoot, Emanuel Petrus Franciscus Van - Wauters, P. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1767
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Book/Printed MaterialNouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales : contenant une relation des differens peuples qui habitent les environs du grand fleuve Saint-Louis, appellé vulgairement le Mississipi : leur religion, leur gouvernement, leurs mœurs, leurs … The author's observations during his first two visits to the country, 1751-1757 and 1757-1762. Vol. 1: xx, 244 p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 264 p., [2] leaves of plates. Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 3989 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1662 The engraved plates are after designs by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Bookseller's catalogue: v. 2,…- Contributor: Bossu - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint-Aubin, Gabriel Jacques De - Le Jay, Edme-Jean - Beurlier, Charles - Force, Peter - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1768
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MapAtlas maritime, ou, Cartes reduites de toutes les côtes de France, avec les cartes particulieres des isles voisines les plus considerables, suivies des plans des principales villes maritimes de ce royaume
Atlas maritime | Cartes reduites de toutes les côtes de France Engraved throughout. Title page. and maps hand-colored; folded maps of Paris and Versailles inserted. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1653 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Imperfect: p. [3]-[4] (dedication to the King) wanting. LC copy: Provenance: Bookplate of Lancelot Charles Lee in original red morocco binding. LAC knj 2019-07-02 update (1 card) LAC…- Contributor: Lattré, Jean - Bonne, Rigobert - Lee, Lancelot Charles - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1762
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Book/Printed MaterialArrest du Conseil d'État du roi concernant l'imprimerie & la librairie d'Avignon & du Comtat Venaissin. Du 10 août 1769. Extrait des registres du Conseil d'État. Caption title. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1663 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2019-09-19 create (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-22 update (1 card)- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - France. Conseil D'état
- Date: 1769
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Book/Printed MaterialArrest du Conseil d'État du roi qui déclare Louis Michelin, imprimeur a Provins, déchû de la maîtrise d'imprimeur-libraire & lui fait très-expresses inhibitions & défenses de faire le commerce de livres, directement … Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1651 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has manuscript note on final leaf: 921. Amée-Discipline. Décret Imperial qui prescrit de nouvelles Mesures pour réprimer la désablissance aux Lois de la Conscription militaire. 5 avril 1811. LAC ael 2019-09-19 create (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-21…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - France. Conseil D'état - Imprimerie Royale (France)
- Date: 1761
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Book/Printed MaterialCatalogue raisonné des tableaux, desseins & estampes, et autres effets curieux, après le décès de M. de Jullienne. On a joint à ce catalogue celui des porcelaines ... des laques les plus … "Liste des catalogues que P. Remy a faits seul & de société, pour des ventes": p. [v]-10 (i. e. x). Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2612 LAC knj 2019-09-11 update (1 card) N5262.D8 R43 Copy 1 formerly shelved under: N8650.R43 Copy 1. LAC ecr 2019-10-25 LAC ecr 2019-10-25 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-06-13 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without…- Contributor: Jullienne, Jean De - Remy, Pierre - Julliot, Claude François - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1767
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Book/Printed MaterialOriginal drawings. Title lettered on cases. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1657 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Reconsider type of record value for recataloging; td12 2009-03-12 LAC ael 2019-09-05 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-21 update (1 card)- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gravelot, Hubert François
- Date: 1764
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialThéatre de Voltaire Title lettered on case. 50 mounted pencil and pen sketches for the illustrations to the Collection complète des oevres de Voltaire, Genève, Cramer, 1768-96. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1604 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Provenance: Marquis de Fourquevaulx, Emmanuel Bocher, Louis Orly-Roederer. LAC ael 2019-09-05 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-03-09 update…- Contributor: Olry-Roederer, Louis - Bocher, Emmanuel - Fourquevaulx - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gravelot, Hubert François
- Date: 1760
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Book/Printed MaterialThe practice of perspective; or, an easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art ... With rules for the proportion and position of figures ...The whole illustrated with …
Practice of perspective | Easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art "The theory of perspective, by James Hodgson": xvi p. (2nd group). Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2518 English short title catalogue, T44152 LAC scc 2019-09-18 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-06-02 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-02- Contributor: Hodgson, James - Dubreuil, Jean - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Chambers, Ephraim
- Date: 1765
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Book/Printed MaterialAnecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts The author's A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England (printed 1763) is a companion volume. Vols. 1-2 are reprints retaining printer statement and date 1762 from 1st ed.; actually printed by William Pratt, probably early in 1763. Vol. 3 has imprint: Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII. Vol 4, published in 1780, has imprint: Strawberry-Hill : Printed by…- Contributor: Loveden, Edward Loveden - Walpole, Horace - Vertue, George - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1763
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Book/Printed MaterialSculptura, or, The history, and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper : with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed a new manner …
Sculptura | History, and art of chalcography and engraving in copper "A reissue of the second edition of 1755, with a cancel title page"--ESTC. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2527 English short title catalogue, T134297 LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis. LAC nsk 2019-10-01 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-06-03 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-03- Contributor: Evelyn, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Rupert - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1769
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Book/Printed MaterialSculptura historico-technica: or, The history and art of engraving. Containing, I. The rise and progress of engraving. II. Of engraving in general. III. Of engraving, etching, and scraping on copper ... IV. …
History and art of engraving The Repertorium, extracted from Orlandi's Abecedario pittorico, was published separately in 1730 under title: Repertorium sculptile-typicum. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2626 English short title catalogue, T148066 National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, NS 0362885 (vol. 535, p. 269) LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis. LAC nsk 2019-09-27 update (2 cards) LAC ddw 2022-06-14 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Orlandi, Pellegrino Antonio - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1766
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Book/Printed MaterialA catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2645 English short title catalogue, T63187 Includes index. LAC knj 2019-09-23 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-06-14 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number or copy number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-14- Contributor: Walpole, Horace - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Vertue, George
- Date: 1765
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Book/Printed MaterialL'œuvre gravé. Title page in manuscript. Proofs, in various states, of 9 portraits, [i.e. Bossuet after H. Rigaud (2 ports.)] ; Descartes after F. Hals; Dryden after G. Kneller; Fénélon after J. Vivien; Adrienne Lecouvreur after C. Coypel; Montesquieu after Dassier; Cardinal de Polignac after H. Rigaud; Rousseau after J. Aved. "J.-B. de Grateloup [par Faucheux]": 6 p. mounted on leaf following title page. Library of…- Contributor: Aved, Jacques-André-Joseph Camelot - Kneller, Godfrey - Rigaud, Hyacinthe - Coypel, Charles-Antoine - Grateloup, Jean-Baptiste De - Hals, Frans - Vivien, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Dassier, Jean
- Date: 1765
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Book/Printed MaterialRobert Sayer's new and enlarged catalogue for the year MDCCLXVI of new, useful, and correct maps, scarce and valuable prints in sets, and single, books of architecture, drawing and copy-books ... at … Added engraved t.p.: A catalogue of new and useful maps, curious & entertaining prints, books of architecture, great variety of drawing books ..., copy books in all the branches of penmanship ... printed for Robt. Sayer ... Signatures: engr. added t.p. + A-X⁴. English short title catalogue, N55665 Bound with: A catalogue for the year MDCCLXVIII of useful and correct maps ... printed for…- Contributor: Sayer, Robert - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1766
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Book/Printed MaterialAn essay upon prints : containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters : illustrated by criticisms upon particular … Signatures: a⁶ B-Q⁸ R⁴ S⁶. Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 4235 English Short Title Catalogue, T94038 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2537 Includes index. Errata: p. [1] at end. LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. NE840.G48 1768 Copy 1 transferred from the Pre-1801 Imprint Collection to the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. he04 2019-09-25 LAC knj 2019-09-26…- Contributor: Gilpin, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1768
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Book/Printed MaterialAn essay upon prints: containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty; the different kinds of prints; and the characters of the most noted masters: Anonymous. By William Gilpin. Cf. ESTC. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2538 English short title catalogue, T94039 Includes index. LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis. LAC knj 2019-09-26 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-06-06 update (1 card) Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-06- Contributor: Gilpin, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1768
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Book/Printed MaterialLes Metamorphoses d'Ovide en latin et en françoise, de la traduction de m. l'abbé ... avec des explications historiques. Plates after Eisen, Monnet, J. M. Moreau, Boucher, Gravelot, Le Prince, Parizeau, and St. Gois, engraved by Lemire, Leveau, Massard, and others. Added title page, Dedication, title vignettes, head-pieces, and tail-piece (plate) in v. 4 engraved by Choffard. Added title page: Les Métamoorphoses d'Ovide gravées sur les dessins des meilleurs peintres français. Par les soins des srs. Le Mire et Basan, graveurs. Paris, Chez…- Contributor: Monnet, Charles - Banier, (Antoine) - Ovid - Massard, Jean - Panckoucke, Charles Joseph - Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field) - Eisen, Charles - Choffard, Pierre-Philippe - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Goujet, Claude-Pierre ... Monnet, Charles - Banier, (Antoine) - Ovid - Massard, Jean - Panckoucke, Charles Joseph - Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field) - Eisen, Charles - Choffard, Pierre-Philippe - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Goujet, Claude-Pierre - Le Mire, Noël - Parizeau, Ph. L. (Philippe Louis) - Basan, François - Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gravelot, Hubert François
- Date: 1767
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Book/Printed MaterialThe comedies of Terence, Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1759 English short title catalogue, T137838 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Provenance: Bookplates of P. M. Mills and Rev. John Holmes. LAC ael 2019-10-04 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-04-04 update (1 card)- Contributor: Flexney, William - Mills, P. M. - Johnston, W. (William) - Colman, George - Terence - Becket, Thomas - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Davis, Robert - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1765
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Book/Printed MaterialMōrias enkōmion = Stultitiae laudatio
Stultitiae laudatio First two words of title in Greek characters. Editor's dedication signed: A.G. Meusnier de Querlon. Probably printed in Paris. Cf. ESTC. With half title page. Engraved frontispiece illustration signed: H. Gravelot Inv. and De Longueil Sculp. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1758 English Short Title Catalogue, T138058 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has…- Contributor: Meusnier De Querlon, A.-G. (Anne-Gabriel) - Clark, George T. - Erasmus, Desiderius - Longueil, Joseph De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gravelot, Hubert François
- Date: 1765
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Book/Printed MaterialRodogune, Engraved frontispiece signed: F. Boucher inv. et delin. 1759. Gravé a l'eau forte par Me. de Pompadour. Retouché par C.N. Cochin. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1650 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: From the collection of Anatole Fance, with his autograph note inserted. LAC ael 2019-11-04 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-06-30 update…- Contributor: Corneille, Pierre - France, Anatole - Boucher, François - Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson - Cochin, Charles Nicolas - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1760
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Book/Printed MaterialFables choisies, mises en vers Vols. 3-4: "le text [gravé] par le Sr. Drouet." Engravings after drawings by Bardin, Bidault, Loutherbourg, Meyer, Monnet and others. "La vie d'Esope": v. 1, p. xvi-xlix. "Eloge historique de M. de La Fontaine, par M. l'abbé d'Olivet": v. 1, p. li-lxviii. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1660 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy:…- Contributor: Monnet, Charles - Beveridge, Catherine Eddy - Fessard, Etienne - Drouet - Bement, Clarence S. (Clarence Sweet) - La Fontaine, Jean De - Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques De - Olivet, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier - Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste - Pigou, Charles Edward - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1765
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Book/Printed MaterialContes et nouvelles en vers Plates engraved after Eisen, vignettes after Choffard. Published at the expense of the Fermiers généraux. "Dissertation sur la Joconde [par N. Boileau Despréaux]": v. 1, p. [239]-268. This copy includes seven states of the engraved portrait. of La Fontaine, after Rigault, two states of the portrait of Eisen, after Vispré, and two states of the plates illustrating Richard Minutolo, Les lunettes and Le rossignol.…- Contributor: Rigaud, Hyacinthe - Derome, Nicolas-Denis - Barbou, Joseph-Gérard - La Bédoyère, Henri De - Coislin, Pierre-Adolphe Du Cambout - Eisen, Charles - Choffard, Pierre-Philippe - Vispré, F. X. - La Fontaine, Jean De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1762
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