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A catalogue of all the genuine rich houshold furniture, plate, linen, And other valuable effects; Together with his large Live and Dead Stock, Horses, Carriages, Waggons, Carts, Hay, Corn, Wines, &c. of Anthony Keck, Esq; Late of Great Tew, in the County of Oxford, deceased; consisting of Four Post and other Bedsteads, fine Goose Feather Beds and Bedding; Mahogany Tables, Bureaus and Chairs; Pier, Sconce, and Chimney Glasses, and good Kitchen Furniture; Which, by Order of the Executrix, will be Sold by Auction, By Mess. Webster and Willoughby, On the premises, On Monday the 10th of October, 1768, and the Seven following Days, Sunday excepted. The Whole may be viewed on Friday and Saturday before the Sale.
Webster and Willoughby (Auctioneers)Date: 1768]- Pictures
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A woman driving a horse-drawn cart loaded with hay has stopped on the road to speak to a man with dogs. Watercolour.
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A flying contraption with large wings travels over the water. Wood engraving, 1843.
Date: 1843Reference: 36681i- Pictures
Rough seas breaking over a rocky outcrop with a Marian shrine, a pony and trap wait on the land, perhaps in the Channel Islands (?).
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 539414iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
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A gentleman and a lady riding in horse-drawn coach, with a black slave boy riding on the back. Etching by Ferdinand, King of Portugal, 1845.
Fernando II, King, consort of Maria II, Queen of Portugal, 1816-1885.Date: 1845Reference: 2872243i- Pictures
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The fore wheels of a coach: two figures. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey Jnr.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Date: 1818Reference: 36842i- Pictures
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A man driving a a horse-drawn waggon has stopped to ask the way of a man at the side of the road carrying a bundle: he tells him to go back in the opposite direction. Lithograph atributed to E. Purcell after C. Vernet.
Vernet, Carle, 1758-1836.Date: Oct. 11 1821Reference: 36988i- Books
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Lettre a un célebre journaliste, sur un sujet interessant.
Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Pictures
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A doctor changing into hunting clothes in his carriage while rushing to join a fox-hunt. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1859.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: 1859Reference: 13794i- Pictures
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A stone quarry: masons are working the stone, and a team of horses is pulling a cart carrying a massive stone. Lithograph by C. Motte after V. Adam.
Adam, Victor, 1801-1866.Date: [1828]Reference: 36991i- Pictures
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A wine-dealer travelling on a cart pulled by a horse and carrying casks of wine. Lithograph by E. Purcell after Carle Vernet.
Vernet, Carle, 1758-1836.Date: Novr. 14 1821Reference: 36995i- Pictures
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A doctor changing into hunting clothes in his carriage, on his way to a hunt meeting. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: 1859Reference: 15702i- Books
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A treatise upon wheel-carriages; shewing their present defects: with a plan and description of a new constructed waggon: which Will effectually preserve and improve the Public Roads, and be more useful, cheap, and handy to the Proprietor. By Daniel Bourn.
Bourn, Daniel.Date: [1763]- Pictures
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Tom Nero, a hackney coach driver, beats with sadistic cruelty a disabled horse; a herdsman cudgels a sheep and a sleeping drayman runs over a boy with a hoop. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 February 1751Reference: 38380iPart of: The four stages of cruelty- Pictures
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A farrier at Saint-Denis is talking to a countryman as he shoes his horse; people are about to set off for Paris in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured etching by R.B Peake and aquatint by R. Havell.
Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847.Date: Jany. 1819Reference: 30803i- Books
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The supplement to the Treatise on carriages: comprehending all the necessary repairs; the mode and terms for hiring; with Instructions, How to Preserve and Purchase all Kinds of Carriages and Harness Now in Use. Containing also other Useful Information Thereon; with the prices for every article annexed. By William Felton, Coachmaker, No. 36, Leather-Lane, Holborn.
Felton, William, coachmaker.Date: 1796- Books
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An Act for better regulating hackney-coaches, carts, drays, carrs, and waggons, within the cities of London and Westminster, and the weekly bills of mortality; and for preventing mischiefs occasioned by the drivers riding upon such carts, drays, carrs, and waggons.
Great Britain.Date: 1716]- Books
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A bill for relief of the eight hundred licensed hackney-coach-men, within the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Weekly Bills of Mortality.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1716]- Pictures
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A sister of the Sultan of the Ottoman empire being conveyed in her official carriage drawn by two oxen. Engraving by J. Jenkins after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Date: [between 1836 and 1838]Reference: 36750i- Books
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Specification of Pierre Varnaison : night carts.
Varnaison, Pierre.Date: 1873- Pictures
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A mail-coach, overturned by a locomotive (Stephenson's Rocket). Line engraving, c. 1853 (?).
Date: 1853Reference: 473339i- Pictures
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A coach driver is demanding more money from his lady passenger, another driver's customer is searching his pockets. Etching.
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County Hospital, Huntingdon. Line engraving, 1860.
Date: 4 June 1860Reference: 18081i- Books
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Reasons against a bill for permitting only carriages with broad wheels, and those drawn by two horses, to pass on turnpike roads, with regard to the countries within twenty-five or thirty miles of London.
Date: 1755?]- Books
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A guide to stage coaches, diligences, waggons, carts, coasting vessels, barges, and boats, which carry passengers and merchandise from London to the different towns in Great Britain. Describing the Number of Miles to each Town, with the Fares to be paid, and the Days and Hours when the Carriages set out from the Inns, &c. in and near London. With an Account of the several Wharfs, Keys, and Stairs, where Goods and Passengers, are usually received, and conveyed in Vessels, Barges, or Boats, to the different Parts of the Kingdom. Also, the Rates paid to Carmen for the Carriage of Goods, together with their Orders and Ordinances, as settled by the Lord Mayor, &c. at a General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at the Guildhall, London. The Whole useful to Gentlemen, and designed as an Assistant to Warehousemen and Shopkeepers, who send Bales of Parcels into the Country. To this edition are now added, the rates of hackney-coachmen, chairman, and watermen.
Date: 1780