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• Drawing -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

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• Mechanical drawing -- Technique -- Early works to 1800

• Practical perspective : being a course of lessons, exhibiting easy and concise rules for drawing justly all sorts of objects : adapted to the use of schools (Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Nourse, in the Strand, and Mr. Murray, no. 32, in Fleet-Street, 1776), by Henry Clarke, John Murray, and Charles Nourse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening, and mensuration : calculated for the service of gentlemen as well as artists, and set to view in four parts ... : to which is annexed, an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in felling timber by measure : the whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands (Printed for W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman, B. Lintot, J. Woodman and D. Lyons, C. King, E. Symon, and W. Bell, 1726), by Batty Langley, W. Bell, Edward Symon, Charles King, Bernard Lintot, J. Woodman and D. Lyons, T. Longman (Firm), and W. and J. Innys (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trattato teorico-pratico di prospettiva di Eustachio Zanotti. (Dalla Società tipografica de' classici Italiani, 1825), by Eustachio Zanotti, Giovanni Boggi, and Società tipografica de' classici italiani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Direzioni della prospettiva teorica corrispondenti a quelle dell'architettura (Nella stamperìa di Lelio dalla Volpe, 1753), by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena and Accademia clementina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura (Por Don Plácido Barco Lopez ..., 1795), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, Plácido Barco López, and Pedro Enguera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratica di prospettiva del Cavaliere Lorenzo Sirigatti (Per Girolamo Franceschi sanese, libraio in Firenze, 1596), by Lorenzo Sirigatti, Francesco de Franceschi, and Girolamo de Franceschi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia conmensvracion para la escvltvra y arqvitectvra (Por Francisco Sanz ... :, 1675), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les régles du dessein et du lavis : pour les plans particuliers des ouvrages & des bâtimens, & pour leurs coupes, profils, elevations & façades, tant de l'architecture militaire que civile (Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert ..., 1754), by M. Buchotte and Charles-Antoine Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architetture, e prospettive dedicate alla maestà di Carlo Sesto imperador de' Romani (Sotto la Direzione di Andrea Pfeffel, 1740), by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Martin Mytens, Salomon Kleiner, Joseph Schmutzer, Andreas Schmutzer, Lorenzo Zucchi, and Johann Andreas Pfeffel (page images at HathiTrust)
• In dem antiquen progressions-quadrat der lunae durch Zahlen, Buchstaben und Linien verhüllte entia invisiblia (Zu finden bey Johann Christoph Weigels seel. Wittwe. :, 1734), by Johann Jacob Schübler and Johann Christoph Weigel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture, in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided (Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Manby and H.S. Cox, 1753), by James Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• British architect (Printed by R. Bell ... for John Norman ..., 1775), by Abraham Swan and John Norman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perspectiva pes picturae (In Verlag Johann Christoph Weigels, Kunsthändlers, 1719), by Johann Jacob Schübler, Johann Christoph Weigel, Johann Daniel de Montalegre, Michael Jindřich Rentz, and Hieronymus Böllmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• La perspective pratique de l'architecture. Contenant par leçons une maniere nouvelle, courte et aisʹee pour représenter en perspective les ordonnances d'architecture & les places fortifiʹees. Ouvrage tres-utile aux peintres, architectes, ingénieurs, & autres dessinateurs. (chez Charles-Antoine Jombert..., 1751), by Louis Bretez and Charles-Antoine Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Instrument zur Architectur (In Verlegung Paulus Fürsten, Kunst- und Buchhändlers seel. Wittib und Erben :, 1673), by Andreas Albrecht, Christoph Gerhard, and Paul Fürstens Witwe und Erben (page images at HathiTrust)

• Underweysung der Messung ([s.n.], 1525), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esemplare di alfabeti diversi fregiati di fiori, di animali e di altri ornati : dedicato a S. E. il signor d. Nicola Caracciolo, principe di Castagneto (s.n., 1830), by Gabriele De Sanctis, Filippo Fergola, Antonio Rossi, and Nicola Riccio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essemplare di piu sorti lettere (Presso Altobello Salicato, alla Libraria della Fortezza, 1583), by Giovanni Francesco Cresci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gründliche Anweisung zu Teutsch- und Lateinischer Schreib-Kunst (s.n., 1734), by à S. Stephano Adam, Thomas Bohacz, and J. A. Leichamschneider (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trois alphabets de chiffres simples, doubles & triples, fleuronnez et au premier trait (Sur le quay des orfevres, au coin de la rue de Harlay, aux armes de Mademoiselle, 1685), by Nicolas Verien, Jean Jouvenet, and Gérard Edelinck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil d'emblêmes, devises, medailles, et figures hieroglyphiques, au nombre de plus de douze cent, avec leurs explications : accompagné de plus de deux mille chiffres fleuronnez simples, doubles & triples ... : cet ouvrage qui est enrichy de deux cens cinquante planches en taille-douce, est très-utile aux graveurs, peintres, sculpteurs, orfevres, brodeurs, serruriers & à tous ceux qui travaillent au dessein (Chez Claude Jombert ..., 1724), by Nicolas Verien, Gérard Edelinck, and Jean Jouvenet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical dictionary : containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time : and a short list of their most esteemed works : with the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained : to which is prefixed, an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood : with several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists (Printed by J. Davis, for Robert Faulder, New Bond Street, 1785), by Joseph Strutt, Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael, and Robert Faulder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues Mahlerlexikon zur nähern Kenntniss alter und neuer guter Gemählde (Bey Conrad Heinrich Stage, 1796), by Johann Heinrich Ludwig von Winckelmann and Conrad Heinrich Stage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau livre de chiffres, qui contient en general tous les noms et surnoms entrelassez par alphabet (Chez l'autheur ..., 1680), by Charles Mavelot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurze Erklärung der Zeichen alter berühmter Künstler : welcher sie sich bey Verfertigung der Bildnisse berühmter Männer bey ihren Arbeiten bedient haben : mit 11. Kupfertafeln, welche solche verborgne Zeichen enthalten. (In commission bey Carl Schaumburg und Compagnie, 1798), by Carl Schaumburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire de chifres et de lettres ornées, a l'usage de tous les artistes : contenant les vingt-quatre lettres de l'alphabet, combinées de maniere à y rencontrer tous les noms & surnoms entrelassés : pour faire suite au Traité des pierres précieuses & parures de joyalerie (Chez N.M. Tilliard, libraire, quai des Augustins, à Saint-Benoît, 1767), by Jean Henri Prosper Pouget, Nicolas-Martin Tilliard, and Claude Antoine Littret de Montigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete and useful book of cyphers : wherein the various combinations of the alphabet are ornamentally disposed in the present taste : beautifully engraved on twenty-four copper plates (Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whittle ..., 1794), by John Russell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Epigrammata Guilielmi Blanci albiensis iurisconsulti in obeliscum (Ex Officina Bartolomaei Grassij, 1586), by Guillaume Blanc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anagram of his Excellency the Lord Generall George Monck, king come ore ([London : s.n., 1660]), by William Drummond (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anagram and acrostick on His sacred Majesty, K. James II. Relating to the late triple conjuction of Saturn & Jupiter in Leo, which began in October 1682. and still continues ([London] : Printed byr N.T. at the entrance into Old Spring-garden near Charing-cross, 1685), by Robert Scamler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great Britains beauties, or, The female glory epitomized, in encomiastick anagramms, and acrostiches, upon the highly honoured names of the Queenes most gracious Majestie, and the gallant lady-masquers in her Graces glorious grand-masque. Presented at White-Hall on Shrove-Tuesday at night, by the Queenes Majestie and her ladies. With disticks, and illustrations, upon their severall anagramms, being in number fifteene, whose names ensure in order on the next side. Published by authoritie. Framed, and formed, by the humble pen of Francis Lenton, the Queenes poet. (London : Printed by Marmaduke Parsons, for Iames Becket, at the Inner Temple Gate, 1638), by Francis Lenton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Innes of Court anagrammatist: or, The masquers masqued in anagrammes Expressed in epigramique lines, upon their severall names, set downe in the next page. Composed by Francis Lenton Gent. one of her Majesties poets. (London : Printed [by T. Harper] for William Lashe, 1634), by Francis Lenton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Remaines concerning Britain (At London : Printed by G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, 1605), by William Camden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The triumph of wit, or, Ingenuity display'd in its perfection. Being the newest and most useful academy, in three parts. Part I. Containing variety of excellent poems, pastorals, satyrs, dialogues, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, choice letters with their answers, ... and exactest collection of choice songs. Part II. Containing the whole art and mystery of love in all its nicest intreagues and curious particulars, ... with the description & anatomy of perfect beauty. Part III. Containing the mystery and art of wheedling and canting, with the original and present management thereof, and the ends to which it serves and is employed. Illustrated with poems, songs and various intreagues in the canting language, with the explanation, &c. To which is added, Instructions for dancing with musical notes. ([n.p.] : Printed for Nicholas Bodington at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane, 1688), by fl. 1680-1702 J. S. (John Shirley) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Royall anagrams expressed in English. (London : Printed by Anne Griffin, 1635), by John Pyne and Arthur Pyne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A biographical dictionary : containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time : and a short list of their most esteemed works : with the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained : to which is prefixed, an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood : with several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists (Printed by J. Davis, for Robert Faulder, New Bond Street, 1785), by Joseph Strutt, Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael, and Robert Faulder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues Mahlerlexikon zur nähern Kenntniss alter und neuer guter Gemählde (Bey Conrad Heinrich Stage, 1796), by Johann Heinrich Ludwig von Winckelmann and Conrad Heinrich Stage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurze Erklärung der Zeichen alter berühmter Künstler : welcher sie sich bey Verfertigung der Bildnisse berühmter Männer bey ihren Arbeiten bedient haben : mit 11. Kupfertafeln, welche solche verborgne Zeichen enthalten. (In commission bey Carl Schaumburg und Compagnie, 1798), by Carl Schaumburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century. (Printed by J. Archdeacon, printer to the University : printed for J. Woodyer in Cambridge : and sold by J. Beecroft in Paternoster Row, T. Payne in Castle-Street, T. Davis in Russel-street, Covent Garden, T. Cadell in the Strand, M. Hingeston without Temple-Bar, London : and D. Prince at Oxford, 1770), by Thomas Martyn, John Beecroft, and John Archdeacon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Albertus Durerus Nurembergensis pictor huius aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinam (Ex officina Christiani Wecheli, sub scuto Basiliensi, 1535), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Libro nelqual s'insegna à scriuer ogni sorte lettera (Per Antonio Blado asolano, 1550), by Giovanni Battista Palatino (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Examples of the chancery hand, engraved]. (Paolo de Enocho, 1598), by Scipione Leone, Paolo de Enocho, and Giovanni Paolo Biancho (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operina di Ludovico Vicentino, da imparare di scrivere littera cancellarescha ([s.n.], 1524), by Ludovico degli Arrighi, Eustachio Celebrino, and Ugo da Carpi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendio del gran volume de l'arte del bene et leggiadramente scrivere tutte le sorti di lettere et caratteri (Apresso gli heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1578), by Giovanni Battista Palatino and Giovanni Battista Palatino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro nel qual s'insegna à scriuere ogni sorte lettera (Per Antonio Blado asolano, 1548), by Giovanni Battista Palatino and Giovanni Battista Palatino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro nelqual s'insegna à scriuer ogni sorte lettera (Per Valerio Dorico alla Chiauica de Santa Lucia, ad instantia de m. Giouan della Gatta, 1561), by Giovanni Battista Palatino and Giovanni Battista Palatino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera nella qvale s'insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere ([s.n.], 1572), by da Ferrara Vespasiano Amphiareo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera del reverendo padre don Augustino da Sciena, monaco certosino (Per Francesco de Tomaso di Salò, e compagni in Frezzaria, al segno della Fede, 1573), by da Siena Augustino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il perfetto cancellaresco corsivo (Appresso Pietro Spada ad instantia dell'autore, & di m. Pietro Pauolo Palombo libraro, 1579), by Giovanni Francesco Cresci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro primo di cancellaresche corsive (Joan. Batt. de Rossi ... excudit ..., Christoforvs Blancvs fecit Romae ..., 1609), by Cesare Picchi, Christoforo Blanco, and Giovanni Battista Rossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moyllus alphabet (At the Sign of the Pegasus, 1927), by Damianus Moyllus, Stanley Morison, France) Pegasus Press (Paris, and Officina Bodoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primo libro di scrivere (Per Pietro Spada appresso il propio autore, 1589), by Giacomo Romano (page images at HathiTrust)

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