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A catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection of topographical prints and drawings in England and Wales, the most extensive ever offered to public sale : which will be sold by auction, on Friday, December 11, 1795, and the three following days, (Sunday excepted) by Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, at their house in York-Street, Covent-Garden, where catalogues may be had
Author
Leigh and Sotheby, auctioneer, publisher
Published
[London] : [Leigh and Sotheby], [1795]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N5247 .C66 1795
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> X348 S71 1791-99
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A Catalogue of the capital collection of optical, mathematical, and philosophical Instruments and machines : late the property of The Right Hon. the Earl of Bute, Deceased : consisting of a great variety of elegant and valuable articles : including a grand orrery, a nicely-finished new universal equatorial, by Ramsden : a large armillary sphere, a cabinet selection of silver and brass drawing instruments and scales, air pumps, electrical machines, and apparatus, by Nairne : a silver compound microscope; elegant solar, lucernal, and other microscopes, by Adams, &c. reflecting telescopes, by Short, &c. achromatic telescopes, by Dollond and Ramsden : a large universal ring dial, with dials of other constructions : improved barometers, and thermometers; loadstones, silver-mounted : sets of artificial magnets; perspective machines : a curious assortment of French recreations, by Guyot ... : which will be sold by auction by Mess. Skinner & Dyke, on Tuesday the 5th February, and the two following days at twelve o'clock, at Mr. Hutchin's Rooms, King-Street, Covent-Garden
Author
Skinner and Dyke, auctioneer, publisher
Published
[London] : [Skinner and Dyke], [1793]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N8640 .N6 v. 18 no. 2
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A catalogue of the compleat apparatus and contents of the Laboratory at Luton House, Bedfordshire : late the property of John Earl of Bute, deceased : comprising a numerous assortment of retorts, recipients, and other glass vessels : black lead and other crucibles : iron and other mortars : furnaces, bellows, with many other utensils, preparations, &c. used in making chemical experiments, assaying, &c. as well on a large as small scale : together with a great variety of ores of silver, copper, iron, lead, cobalt, &c. : spars, crystals, marcarsites, and other minerals : some curious petrifactions of fish, corals, &c. chiefly foreign : and other interesting subjects of natural history : also a magnificent air pump on a new construction, not finished : copper scales and weight, shelves, fixtures, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, at Mr. Hutchins's rooms, in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, on Thursday, May 30th, and following day at twelve o'clock
Author
Skinner and Dyke, auctioneer, publisher
Published
[London] : [Skinner and Dyke], [1793]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N8640 .N6 v. 18 no. 3
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A catalogue of the curious museum of a Gentleman, deceased : consisting of a collection of cabinet pictures, drawings, fine prints, framed and glazed, bronzes, marbles, carvings in ivory, roman earthen ware, curious and valuable shells, minerals, fossils, and petrifactions, fine dresden, oriental, and old Chelsea ornamental procelane, some pieces of engraved crystal, a few volumes of very rare scarce books, two library book cases, a paair of elegnat inlaid commodes, curious old Japan cabinets, a capital piece of grotto work, and other valuable miscellaneous articles : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at this Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Wednesday, May 11th."
Author
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803
Published
[London] : [Mr. Christie], [1791]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N8640 .N6+ v. 1 no. 49 Oversize
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A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid
Author
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, publisher
Published
[London] : [Abraham Langford], [1755]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N8640 .B35 1754
MEDICAL/HISTORICAL, Histories, Locked (Non-Circulating) >> 17th cent
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 125 L278 755 3/11
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A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings
Author
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774
Published
[London] : [Mr. Langford], [1755]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N8640 .B35 1754
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 125 B167 754
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 125 L278 755 3/11
MEDICAL/HISTORICAL, Histories, Locked (Non-Circulating) >> 17th cent
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7.
A catalogue of a most noble, capital, and valuable collection of antique marble statues and bustoes : with a choice and matchless selection of Etruscan vases, the whole forming a very interesting and magnificent gallery, the property of The Right Hon. Lord Cawdor ..
Author
Skinner and Dyke, auctioneer, publisher
Published
[London] : [Mess. Skinner and Dyke], [1800]
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LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> Quarto 49 3833
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N8640 .N6+ v. 2 no.50 Oversize
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8.
A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of Greek, Roman, Saxon, English, and Irish, gold, silver, and brass coins and medals, of the learned and ingenious Mr. James Simon, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquaries Society of London, author of the historical account of Irish coins, late of the city of Dublin, merchant, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in the Hay-Market, on Thursday, the 8th of December, 1757, and the following day
Author
Ford, Mr., active 1741-1757
Published
[London] : [Mr. Ford], [1757]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N8640 .N6+ v. 1 no. 2 Oversize
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9.
A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of Greek and Roman medals and medalions in gold, silver, and brass, of the learned Dr. Kennedy, deceas'd : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his great room the end of Savile-Row, next Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square, on Thursday and Friday, the 8th and 9th of May, 1760
Author
Prestage, John, -1767
Published
[London] : Mr. Prestage, [1760]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N8640 .N6+ v. 6 no. 3 Oversize
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10.
A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV
Author
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774
Published
London : [Abraham Langford], Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Location
MEDICAL/HISTORICAL, Histories, Locked (Non-Circulating) >> 17th cent
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> N8640 .B35 1754
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 125 L278 755 3/11
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 125 W576 749
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