A Guide to all the watering and sea-bathing places

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Folding frontispiece of Brighton Pavilion and an engraved pictorial title page preceding six unnumbered preliminary pages.
Four views on each of the 23 plates.

  • Title: A Guide to all the watering and sea-bathing places : description of the lakes, tour in Wales, &c. &c.
  • Publication: London : Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, Paternoster Row, [not before 1820]
  • Manufacture: London : Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode

Catalog Record

62 820 G946

Acquired May 2023

Histoire de l’antiquité et de l’etat présent de Londres

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Originally published in 1785 under title: A guide through London

 

  • Author: Mazzinghi, Giovanni.
  • Title: Histoire de l’antiquité et de l’etat présent de Londres, de Westminster, et du bourg de Southwark : contenant un guide pour les bâtimens publics et particuliers de la metropole : a la quelle est ajouté, un abrégé de l’histoire de l’isle de Bretagne, des Tems les plus reculés, jusquà l’invasion, la conquête, et la fin de la jurisdiction des Romains / par Jean Mazzinghi.
  • Published: À Londres : Impriné pour C. Dilly, dans le Poultry & J. Owen, No. 168, Piccadilly, MDCCXCIII [1793]

Catalog Record

646 793 M477

Acquired March 2020

Authentic account of all the fairs in England and Wales

  • AuthorOwen, W. (William), -1793.
  • Uniform Title[Authentic account of all the fairs in England and Wales]
  • TitleAn authentic account published by the King’s authority, of all the fairs in England and Wales : as they have been settled to be held since the alteration of the stile. Noting likewise the commodities which each of the said fairs is remarkable for furnishing.
  • EditionThe second edition.
  • PublishedLondon : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer’s Head, near Temple-Bar, Fleet-street, and R. Goadby, at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, MDCCLIX [1759]

Catalog Record

62 759 Ow97

Acquired April 2017

Kearsleys’ Stranger’s guide, or Companion through London

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The plan of London includes ‘new buildings to the year 1791’

  • AuthorKearsley, Catharine.
  • TitleKearsleys’ Stranger’s guide, or Companion through London and Westminster and the country round : containing a description of the situation, antiquity, and curiosities of every place, within the circuit of fourteen miles, together with a map of the surrounding country, and a plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark.
  • PublishedLondon : Printed for and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, [1791]

Catalog Record

646 791 K24

Acquired June 2016

The gentleman’s guide, in his tour through France

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  • AuthorPlaystowe, Philip.
  • TitleThe gentleman’s guide, in his tour through France / wrote by an officer in the Royal-Navy …
  • PublishedBristol : Printed by S. Farley in Castle-Green, and sold by T. Cadell, Mrs. Palmer, and A. Brown ; also by A. Millar, in the Strand, and G. Kearsley, on Ludgate-Hill, London ; Mr. Fletcher, in Oxford ; Messrs. Fletcher and Hodson, in Cambridge ; and Smith and Son, in Dublin, [1766]

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82 766P

Acquired February 2016

A description of the Isle of Thanet…

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Bound in contemporary calf with red spine label ‘Isle of Thanet’ and black spine label ‘Town of Margate.’

  • Author: T. G.
  • Title: A description of the Isle of Thanet : and particularly of the town of Margate ; with an account of the accommodations provided there for strangers ; … with a description of Sandwich, Deal, Dover, Canterbury, Rochester, Chatham … The whole illustrated with a correct map of the island … and a representation of the machines for bathing.
  • Published: London : Printed for J. Newbery and W. Bristow in St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1763.

Catalog record

62 763 T356

Acquired November 2012

The gentleman’s guide in his tour through France

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Cover: The gentleman's guide in his tour through France

Title page: The gentleman's guide in his tour through France

Brown pigskin spine with red label, marble boards.

  • Author: Playstowe, Philip.
  • Title: The gentleman’s guide in his tour through France / wrote by an officer, who lately travelled on a principle which he most sincerely recommends to his countrymen, viz. Not to spend more money than is requisite to support, with decency, the character of an Englishman : to which is added, a correct map of all the post-roads of France …
  • Edition: The sixth edition, with very considerable additions, particularly an accurate account of the different routs through Italy, with the distances of the towns, and the expence of travelling.
  • Published: London : Printed for G. Kearsly, No. 46, Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXVII [1777]

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Acquired March, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.