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Proposals for publishing, by subscription, a print Christ Church Great Gate, Oxford, form a drawing by W. Delamotte, to be engravec by James Fittler, engraver to His Majesty. Conditions. The size of the print to be fifteen inches and a half wide, by twenty-one inches high. Price of the prints, fifteen shillings; proof impressions, twenty-five shillings. Half to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the remainder on delivering of the prints. A few will be printed in colours, in imitation of the drawing.
Delamotte, William Alfred, 1775-1863.Date: 1800]- Books
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Proposals for publishing a mathematical and philosophical dictionary; Containing an explanation of the terms, an an account of the several subjects. Comprized under the heads mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy, both natural and experimental; with an historical account of the rise, progress and present state of these sciences: also memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent authors. Both ancient and modern, who by their discoteries or improvement have contributed to the advancement of them in two large volumes. With many cuts and copper-plates. By Charles Hutton, LL.D. F.R.S. And professor of mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: [1794?]- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, an account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last one the walls of the present House of Commons. Including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the city of Westminster, and the place and other buildings there, and the principles and history of painting and gothic architecture. By John Sidney Hawkins, Esq.F.A.S. The plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot.
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842.Date: [1800]- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, the history and antiquities of Staffordshire. Compiled not only from the MSS. of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttleton , and other valuable collections of Dr. Wilkes, and Rev. T. Feilde; but from actual surveys, extracts from the record-office, the public libraries of Cambridge and Oxford, the British Museum, the Herald's college ...
Shaw, Stebbing, 1762-1802.Date: 1794]- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription a complete collection of the works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; printed from the best editions, with considerable improvements and additions from his original manuscripts: particularly letters upon various subjects, written by himself and his friends, and some tracts never before published. To the whole will be prefixed a new account of his life, partly from memoirs drawn up by himself: together with his effects curiously engraven from an original painting, in the possession of Dr. Mead. At the end will be added a complete index.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: 1741]