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(Millan, John, -1782)

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• Millan, John, -1782: Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice (Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall., 1766), also by Robert Jones and William Darling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Millan, John, -1782: Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions : in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples and pavillions &c. : with plans, elevations and profiles (Printed for John Millan, near Whitehall, 1747), also by Batty Langley and T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Millan, John, -1782: Lectures on architecture : consisting of rules founded upon harmonick and arithmetical proportions in building : design'd as an agreeable entertainment for gentlemen : and more particularly useful to all who make architecture or the polite arts, their study ... (Printed for J. Brindley ..., 1734), also by Robert Morris, W. H. Toms, John Wilcox, and John Brindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Millan, John, -1782: The military history of Great Britain, for 1756, 1757. : Containing a letter from an English officer at Canada, taken prisoner at Oswego. Exhibiting the cruelty and infidelity of the French, and their savage Indians, in times of peace and war. Shewing their superior advantages, and the only means of redress. Impartially delineating the present state of our colonies in America, with some hints for their future regulation. Also, a journal of the siege of Oswego, the articles of capitulation. With a particular table of their inhabitants. Likewise of the loss and retaking of Bengall. A journal of the siege of St. Philip's in Minorca. With a plan of the fortification of St. Philip's its Environs, &c. [Four lines from Shakespeare]. (Printed for J. Millan, near White-Hall, 1757), also by William L. Clements (page images at HathiTrust)
• Millan, John, -1782: A system of camp-discipline, military honours, garrison-duty, and other regulations for the land forces. : Collected by a gentleman of the army. In which are included, Kane's discipline for a battalion in action. With a map of the seat of war, lines and plans of battles, and above sixty military schemes, finely engraved from the originals of the most eminent generals, &c. To which is added, General Kane's campaigns of King William and the Duke of Marlborough, improved from the late Earl of Craufurd's and Colonel Dunbar's copies, taken from Gen. Kane's own writing. With his remarks on the several stratagems by which every battle was won or lost, from 1689 to 1712. (Printed for J. Millan, opposite the Admiralty Office. 1757. (Price seven shillings and six pence.) Where may be had, Muller's mathematicks, fortification, and artillery, six volumes., price 1 l. 16, 1757), also by Richard Kane and Gentleman of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

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