Title
A catalogue of the select collection of cabinet pictures, library of books, cameos & intaglios, both antique and modern, carvings in ivory, curious & valuable fire arms and armoury, jewels and bijoutry, prints, Oriental & Persian missals & manuscripts, Hindostany curiosities, and a variety of rare and estimable articles of taste and vertu, the entire property of W. N. Hewett, Esq. By whom, during the last thirty years, they have been collected in India and England, with a judgment and liberality that has secured many of the finest objects of art. / Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at his great room, 73, New Bond Street, on Friday, the 14th day of May, 1819, and following days ...
Local Notes
SML,Y X348 P541 1819/5/14-15: Partially uncut, last two leaves detached. Autograph of Earl of Shrewsbury, Stanhope Street, on cover above the title.
Notes
At head of title: Collection of cabinet pictures, cameos and intaglios, carvings in ivory, library of 5,000 volumes, jewels, fire arms &c., of W. N. W. Hewett, Esq.
At end of the catalog there is a note: See separate Catalogue of the scarce and valuable collection of gold and silver coins.
272 lots.