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  • A radio with information about the Gay Men's Health Crisis AIDS Radiothon on the New York radio station, WNEW. FM 192.7 on 6 Feburary 1994. Colour lithograph by Rick Gerwitz.
  • Five scenes with a skeleton. Drawings attributed to H.K. Browne [Phiz].
  • Mr. Brookes's celebrated museum and theatre of anatomy : Mr. George Robins has the pleasure to announce to the medical world, that he has been honoured by the instructions of Joshua Brookes ... to sell by auction, on Thursday, the 3rd of July, and the 20 following days (Sunday and Monday always excepted) at the Theatre of Anatomy, in Blenheim-Street, London, the anatomical and zoological museum of theis learned anatomist / George Robins.
  • Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.
  • The white outlined painted face of a man representing an advertisement for a modern art benefit auction on 25 October 1996 by auctioneers, F. Dörling; event organised by Thomas Levy at the Galerie Levy Hamburg, patrons of AIDS relief projects in Hamburg. Colour lithograph, 1996.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    A history of the auction / by Brian Learmount.

    Learmount, Brian. | Date: 1985
    • Books

    A romance of the rostrum : being the business life of Henry Stevens, and the history of thirty-eight King Street, together with some account of famous sales held there during the last hundred years / compiled by E.G. Allingham, with a preface by the Right Honble Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., and thirteen plates from photographs by Henry Stevens.

    Allingham, E. G. (Emily Grace), 1876- | Date: 1924
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two rows of individuals holding their hands up with reasons why they use the SIDA Info Service; advertisement for an auction of lithographs to benefit the SIDA Info Service. Lithograph, 1995.

    | Date: [19]95 | Reference: 672533i
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    A naked man standing as if preparing to pull back; a drawing from an exhibition and auction in Siegen entitled: "Artists against AIDS" organized by AIDS-Hilfe Siegen Wittgenstein. Lithograph, 1994.

    | Date: 1994 | Reference: 673449i
    • Books

    Under the hammer : the auctions and auctioneers of London / Jeremy Cooper.

    Cooper, Jeremy, 1946- | Date: 1979
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