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Hungerton Hall

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HUNGERTON HALL (May 20. 22)., the present residence of Gregory Gregory, Esq., is a quiet rural abode in an elevated healthy situation. The house is well arranged, and exceedingly comfortable, and the library contains an admirable collection of books on architecture and ancient gardening, more especially foreign works on these subjects. We noticed the following:- Architecture d'Androuet du Circeau. Paris, 1561.; Fries's Ornaments. 1563. No place.; Dicterlin's Architecture. 1598. No place.; Tresor des Parterres, par Loris. Geneva, 1629.; Arts du Moyen Age, par Du Sommerard. Paris, 1635.; Traite du Jardinage, par Boiceau Paris, 1638.; Sanderi Flandria illustrata. Cologna, 1641.; Meriani, Topographia. 1645. Noplace.; �uvres de Silvestre. Paris, 1650.; Theatre des Plans du Jardinage, par Sercy. Paris, 1652.; �uvres de Perette. Paris, 1652.; Loggan's Oxonia Illustrata. Oxford, 1673.; Loggan's Cantabrigia illustrata. Cambridge, 1688.; Suecia hodierna et antiqua. 1691. No place.; Neue Stedebock von Italien, par Blanc. Amsterdam, 1705.; Le Roi, Castella de Brabant. Amsterdam, 1705.; Theatre de la Grande Bretagne, par Kipp, London, 1708.; Van Nidek's Views in Holland. Amsterdam 1709.; Salzbach, Architecture Civile. Augsburg, 1711.; Works of Pozzo. Roma, 1717.; Pfeffel's Views in Vienna. Augsburg, 1724.; Theatre de Piemont. A' la Haye, 1725.; Maisons de Plaisance de Milan. Milan, 1727.; Butken's Trophees de Brabant. Bruxelles, 1727.; Theatre sacre de Brabant. A' la Haye, 1729.; Rademaker's Netherland Cabinet. Amsterdam, 1732.; Views of the principal Bridges of Europe, by Schramm. Leipsic 1735.; Traite du Jardinage, A' la Haye, 1739.; Works of Piranesi. Paris, 1743.; Works of Vasi, Roma Moderna de Antica. Roma, 1747.; Tirion's Nederland's Cabinet. Amsterdam, 1749.; Architecture de Le Pautre. Paris, 1751.; Pfeffel, Vues de Mayence, de Salburg d' Augsburg. Augsburg, 1751.; �uvres de Marot. Paris, 1751.; �uvres de Biondel. Paris, 1752.; Rigaud's Views of the Palaces of France. Paris, 1752.; Ridinger's great work to the Chase in Germany, in all its diversities. Augsburg, 1760.; Cavillers, �uvres de. Paris, 1772.; Le Rouge, "Details de nonveaux Jardins." Paris, 1776.; Coup-d'�il sur Bel�il, par le Prince de Ligne. Bel�il, 1786.; Millin's Antiquites Nationales. Paris, 1790.; Vuesd' Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 1805.; Voyages dans l'ancienne France, par Taylor, Nodin, &c. Paris, 1815.; Laborde, Monumens de la France. Paris, 1816.; Falda, Fontane di Roma. Roma, no date.; Works of Visentini. No date.; Visser's Views in Holland. Amsterdam, no date.; Ornemens de Berain. Paris, no date.; Fontaines, par Le Brun. No date.; Teatro di Venezia. Venezia, No date.; Oppenort's Architecture. No date.; Plafonds de la Galerie de Florence. No date.; Vitruvien Denmarken. No date or place.; Architecture des Jardins, par Filet. No date or place.; Besides a great number of county histories; and a great variety of old works on chivalry, heraldry, fetes, and processions.