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Messrs. Hamilton & Bird's catalogue of autograph letters, original manuscripts, &c.
Hamilton and Bird.Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]- Pictures
A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.
Hamilton, John McLure, 1853-1936.Date: 23 June 1883Reference: 25933i- Pictures
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Two anatomists dissecting a corpse, surrounded by birds, a cat, a dog and mice. Etching by S. Ireland after J. H. Mortimer, 17--.
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779.Reference: 25697i- Pictures
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A pair of birds nesting in treetops, a fox lurking below. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: 13/1/58 [13 January 1958]Reference: 2907968iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A bird flying over waves of the sea; representing the dove sent by Noah. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: 26 June 68 [26 June 1968]Reference: 2884998iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A bird singing on the branch of a tree, with purple zigzags above. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: April 73 [April 1973]Reference: 2897620iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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Above, neck-handled black-figured Greek amphora (Corinthian, ca. 550 B.C.); centre, detail of decorative frieze showing two men on horseback and a bird holding a snake in its beak; below, detail of decorative frieze showing a man on a chariot drawn by horses, with two attendants. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.Date: 1760-1769Reference: 565669iPart of: Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.- Pictures
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Birds with the head of a cat. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: July 73 [July 1973]Reference: 2897069iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A woman floating in a black sky threatened by a bat and a bird of prey. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: May 1970Reference: 2885119iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Saint Francis of Assisi talking to a bird. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: 20/1/58 [20 January 1958]Reference: 2907969iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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The Phlegraean plain: birdseye view from the top of the San Nicola mountain. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43671i- Pictures
Two birds of prey attacking a person tied down on a mountain-top. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: June 1968Reference: 2897398iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
Infection, polymorphism, and evolution / edited by W.D. Hamilton and J.C. Howard.
Date: 1997- Pictures
Saint Francis of Assisi. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: 21/1/58 [21 January 1958]Reference: 2907970iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar; and present state of the several Kingdoms of the world. Containing I. The figures, motions, and distances of the planets, according to the Newtonian System, and the latest Observations. II. A general View of the Earth, considered as a Planet; with several useful Geographical Definitions and Problems. III. The grand Divisions of the Globe into Land and Water, Continents and Islands. IV. The Situation and Extent of Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, and Colonies. V. Their Climate, Air, Soil, Vegetable Productions, Metals, Minerals, Natural Curiosities, Seas, Rivers, Bays, Capes, Promontories, and Lakes. VI. The Birds and Beasts peculiar to each Country. Vii. Observations on the Changes that have been any-where observed upon the Face of Nature, since the most early Periods of History. Viii. The History and Origin of Nations, their Forms of Government, Religion, Laws, Revenues, Taxes, Naval and Military Strength, Orders of Knighthood, &c. IX. The Genius, Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. X. Their Language, Learning, Arts, Sciences, Manufactures, and Commerce. XI. The chief Cities, Structures, Ruins, and artificial Curiosities. XII. The longitude, latitude, bearings, and distances of principal places from London. To which are added, I. A geographical index, with the Names of Places alphabetically arranged. II. A Table of the Coins of all Nations, and their Value in English Money. III. A chronological table of remarkable Events, from the Creation to the present Time. By William Guthrie, Esq. The astronomical part by James Ferguson, F. R. S. To Which Have Been Added The Late Discoveries Of DR. Herschel, And Other Eminent Astronomers. Illustrated with A Correct Set Of maps, Engraved From The Most Recent Observations And Draughts Of Geographical Travellers. The eighteenth edition, corrected and considerably enlarged.
Guthrie, William, 1708-1770.Date: 1800- Books
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A catalogue of the library of the Rev. John Bowle, M. A. F. S. A. Late of Idmiston, near Salisbury, and Editor of Don Quixote in Spanish, with Notes and various Readings: with several other collections, Containing the most valuable Books in every Language and Class of Learning. Jacquin, Stirpes Americanae, finely coloured. Jacquin, Icones Plant, rar. 11 fascic. dep. Jacquin, Flora Austr. 5 vol. c. m. depict. Plenck, Plantae Medicinales, 6 fascic dep. Flora Rossica, cura Pallas, vol. 1, 2 pts dep. Flora Danica, Oederi, &c. 16 fas. cleg. dep. Kniphosii Botan. in Orig. 4 vol. 1200 fig. Weinmanni Phytantheza, 8 vol. fig. dep. Hedwig, Plantae Cryptogamicae, 8 fas. dep. Herbarium Black wellianum, 6 vol. depict. Herbarium Amboinense, Rumphii, 7 vol. Hortus Eystettensis, cura Besleri, 3 vol. Robert, Plant. grav. par Ordre de Louis XIV Mr. Pennant's British Zoology, coloured. J. F. Miller's Non-Des. Anim. Plants, &c. Catesby's Nat. Hist. of Carolina, 2 vol. col. ... Thesaurus Rerum Naturalium, 4 vol. Aldrovandi Opera omnia, 13 vol. Fritsch's Nat. Hist. of Birds, coloured. Bloch's Fishes, 6 vol. beautifully coloured. King of Denmark's Book of Shells, col. Bar. Born's Shells, and Martyn's Shells, col. Martini's Shells, and Buonanni's Shells, col. Knorr's Petrifactions, and his Museum, col. M. Merian's Surinam Insects, orig. ed. col. Zoolog. Danica, Mulleri, 3 vol. c. m. dep. Sloane's & Browne's Nat. Hist. of Jamaica Mr. Pennant's Works, 16 vol. compl. eleg. Buffon, Oiseaux, & Planches col. 10 tom. Edwards's, Brown's and Albin's Birds, col. Ernst, Papillons D'europe, 6 tom. enlum. Cramer, Papillons Exotiq. 4 tom. enlum. Schaefferi Insecta & Fungi, 8 vol. depict. Luffon, Oeuvres, 37 tom. 4 to. complets. Piranesi's Works, complete, 19 vol. fine. G. Duke of Tuscany's Gallery of Paintings. La Galerie de Luxembourg, first impress. Crozat's Collect. of Paint. 2 vol. first im. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Vases, 4 vol. Passeri's Etruscan Vases, 3 vol. coloured. Antichita di Ercolano, 8 vol. eleg. bound. Ruins of Rome, Ath. Palm. &c. 11 vol. eleg. Montfaucon, Antiquites, 15 tom. best edit. Museum Florentinum, 12 vol. fine impr. Museum Capitolinum, 4 vol. comp. eleg. Ceremonies Religieuses, 7 tom. gr. pap. Blaeu's Great Atlas, 11 vol. coloured. D'anville's and Robert's Atlas, coloured. Cowper's Anatomy, Oxford, L P. red lett. Plinii Historia Nat. Harduini. 3 vol. c. m. Virgilius, 2 vol. MS. on Vel. with Illum. Apollonius Rhodius, Gr. editio princeps. Anthologia Gr. editio princeps. Diogenes Laertius, 2 vol. charta max. Barbou's Claslics, 70 vol. Morocco. Meninski, Thesaurus Ling. Orient. 4 vol. Mabillon, Carpen. & Walther, de Re Dipl. Corps Diplomatique, 20 tom. complets. Encyclopedie, 35 tom. complets. Par. edit. Traite des Arts & des Metiers, 26 tom. com. Blomefield's and Parkins's Norfolk, 5 vol. Holingshed's Chronicles, 3 vol. with Castr. Froissart's Chronicle, by Ld. Berners, Russ. Grafton's Chronicle, very fine copy, Russ. Philosophical Transactions, 59 vol. T. Hearne's Works, complete, 63 vol. Monthly Review, 82 vol. complete. Gentleman's Magazine, 66 vol. comp. The Sale will begin on Tuesday, January 19, 1790. By Benjamin White and Son, Booksellers, at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London. N. B. The lowest Prices are marked in the Catalogue, and in the first Leaf of every Book. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Faulder, New Bond-Street; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. Sewell, in Cornhill; the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and the principal Towns of England: also of Mr. Richard White, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer, No 76, Oxford-Street, opposite the Pantheon.
Benjamin White and Son.Date: 1790]- Books
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A Catalogue of several valuable collections of books, lately purchased; The Whole forming a general Assortment of the best Authors in every Branch of Literature. Many of them in the most elegant Bindings. Amongst which are Estampes du Cabinet du Roy, 25 tom. Coypell's Works. Berghem's Works, mor. Salvator Rosa's Works, mor. Vandermeulin's Works, 3 vol. mor. Oeuvres de Redinger. Sacre de Louis XV. mor. Estampes de Caylus, mor. L'art de Verifier les Dates, sur Velin Tableau de Suisse, 2 tom. Walpole's Painters, 5 vol. Museum Florentinum, 10 tom. Fontaine Fables, 4 tom. grand. pap. Houbraken's Heads, L. P. Hunter's Gravid Uterus. Hamilton's School of Painting. The Luxembourg Gallerie. Montfaucon L'antiquite, 15 tom. La Gallerie de Dussledorff, 2 tom. Adams's Architecture. Wood's Palmyra and Balbec. Stuart's Athens. Cameron's Baths of the Romans. Adams's Dioclesian's Palace. Cleresseau Antiq. des Nismes, L.P. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Antiquities, 2 vols. Hollingshed's Chronicle, l. p. 3 vols. Troyssart's Chronicle. Blomfield's Norfolk, 5 vol. Dugdale's Baronage. Dugdale's Warwickshire. Dugdale's Monasticon, 3 vol. Hutchins's Dorsetshire, 2 vol. Horsley's Britannia Romana. Tanner's Notitia Monasticon. Chauncy's Hertfordshire. Drake's York. Thorsbey's Leeds. Caesaris, per Clarke. Dionis Cassii Reimari, 2 tom. Diodorus Siculus Wesslingii, 2 tom Dionysius Halicarnass. Hudsoni, 2 tom. Oxon. Maittaire Corpus Poetarum, 2 tom. chart. max. Plinii Hist. Nat. Harduini, 3 tom. Platonis Serrani, 3 tom. Poetae Graeci Principes, 2 tom. Thucydidis Dukeri. Aeschylus Stanleii. Pindarus, per West Gale Scriptores, 3 tom. russia. Borlase's Cornwall, 2 vol. Miller's Plants, 2 vol. col. Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. col. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. col. Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Thoroton's Nottinghamshire. Plott's Staffordshire. Ovid by Banier, 2 vols. Voyages by Harris, Hackluyt, Pocock, Purchase, &c. &c. Dictionaries by Johnson, Chambers Postlethwaite, Bayle, &c. Mininski Thesaurus, 5 tom. Stephani Thesaurus, Gr. 5 tom. Encyclopedie, 28 tom. Regenfuss Recueil de Coquillage, col. Merian's Insects, in Dutch, col. Hill's Eden, coloured. Hayes's Birds, coloured. Harris's Insects, coloured. Drury's Insects, coloured. Edwards's Birds, 7 vol. coloured. Albin's Birds and Insects, 4 vol. Philosophical Transactions at large, complete. Which will begin to be Sold This Day, 1785, By Robert Faulder, Bookseller to his Majesty. No. 42, New Bond-Street, the Corner of Maddox-Street, who gives the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books. N. B. Books Exchanged. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Blamire, Strand; Mr. White, Fleet-Street; Mr. Law, Avemary-Lane; Mr. Sewel, Cornhill; Mr. Cater, Holborn; of the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and principal Towns in England.
Faulder, Robert, 1747 or 1748-1815.Date: 1785]- Books
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A new history of Jamaica, from the earliest accounts, to the taking of Porto Bello by Vice-Admiral Vernon. In thirteen letters from a gentleman to his friend. Containing, I. The Author's Voyage to that Island; with an Account of several Curious Particulars which he met with in his Passage. II. A Description of Jamaica; its Natural Advantages, Manners of the People, &c. III. Spanish Cruelty on first Settling there. Expedition of Sir Anthony Shirley and Col. Jackson against them. Its Conquest by the English. IV. The Enterprizes of the famous Buccaneers Bartholomew, Brasiliano, Lewis Scot, and John Davis, who took St. Augustine. V. The Life and gallant Actions of the ever-memorable Sir Henry Morgan, and his almost incredible Enterprizes and Successes against the Spaniards. VI. Institution of the General Assembly, and other Curious Particulars. Vii. Abstract of all the Laws and Statutes in Force in Jamaica. Viii. The first Assiento Contract. Enterprizes of the Rebel Negroes. Dreadful Earthquake. French Invasions. Col. Lillingstone's Expedition against Hispaniola. The Scots Settlement at Darien. Gallant Actions and Death of Admiral Bembow, &c. IX. Port-Royal burnt to the Ground. A dreadful Hurricane. Of Blackbeard, a famous Pyrate. Character and Importance of the Mosqueto Indians. Formidable Power of the Rebel Negroes. X. The Rebels submit to Terms. Admiral Vernon's Success against Porto-Bello. XI. Of the Government, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, of Jamaica. Customs of the Inhabitants. The Sacrifices, Libations, Exercises, and Diversions of the Negroes, &c. XII. Of the Products of Jamaica; of its Trees, Plants, Birds, Beasts, Fish, Insects, &c. XIII. Its Trade and Commerce. Its Importance to Great Britain. Number of its People-Money it returns to Great Britain. Directions to new Settlers, in relation to their Healths, &c. In which are briefly interspersed, The Characters of its Governors and Lieutenant-Governors; viz. Colonel D'oyley. Major Sedgewick. Colonel Brayne. Lord Windsor. Sir Tho. Moddiford. Sir Tho. Lynch. Lord Vaughan. Earl of Carlisle. Sir Henry Morgan. Colonel Molesworth. Duke of Albemarle. Earl of Inchiquin. Sir William Beeston. General Selwyn. Peter Beckford, Esq; Earl of Peterborough. Colonel Handasyde. Ld. Arch. Hamilton. Sir Nicolas Lawes. Duke of Portland. Major Gen. Hunter. John Ayscough, Esq; John Gregory, Esq; H. Cunningham, Esq; And the present Governor, Edward Trelawney, Esq; With two maps, one of that Island, and the other of the circumjacent Islands and Territories belonging to France, Spain, &c.
Leslie, Charles, of Jamaica.Date: 1740- Books
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Edwards's catalogue of a select collection of ancient and modern books, in every branch of science, valuable drawings and prints, painted from the antique; Including the choicest Part of the Libraries of Monsignor Salichetti of Rome, late Physician to the Pope; of Cav. Zanetti of Venice; and an Assortment of the rarest and most esteemed Articles, collected in various Parts of Europe. Zanetti's Orig. Drawings of Ant. Stat. 2 v. Books of finely colour'd Drawings from Herculaneum, the Baths of Titus, and the Vatican, &c. Capital Drawings of Birds by G. di Udino, a scholar of Raphael Lewin's Paintings of English Birds, on vel. Albert Durer's Engravings complete Vernet's Prints, first impressions Piranesi's Works complete, 16 vol. russia Gallerie de Dresde Luxemburg Gallery, first impression Museum Florentinum, 13 vol. russia Museum Clementinum, 3 vol. russia Sir W. Hamilton's Views of Naples, col. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Antiq. col. Antiquities of Herculancum, royal edition Worlidge's Gems, fine impressions Houbraken's Heads, large paper, 1st impr. Hogarth's Works, old impressions, morocco The Old French School of Engravers, 14 v. Tewrdancks, 1517, printed on vel. & illum. Telemaque, grand papier, 1734 Voyages Pittoresq. D'italie, Grece, France, Sicile & Suisse, 21 vol. Superb Manuscripts of the Classics on vel. Alcoran, folio MS. with rich illuminations Decamerone di Boccacio, 1527, pr. on vel. Campbell's Vitruvins Britannicus, 5 vol. Sir W. Dugdale's Works Chronicles by Froissart, Holinshed, &c. Rapin & Tindal, russia Historiae Byzantinae Scriptores, edit. ptima Rymeri Foedera Dc Bry Navigationes in Indias Gesneri Numismata Montfaucon Mon. Francoise, 5 tom. gr. p. - Antiq. & Sup. 15 tom. gr. pa. Lancelot du Lac, Cirongilio di Francia, Primaleon y Polendos, Olivante de Macedonia, Amadis di Gaula, Guerino il Meschino, &c. Edmondson's Baronagium Anglicanum, 6 v Physique Sacre, 8 vol. morocco Winkelman Monumenta Inedita, 2 vol. Ariosto Orlando Furioso, carta mass. Biblia Sacra Mogunt. 1462, pr on vel. with il. Boccacio II Decamerone, ediz. prima Petrarca, 1472 Decor Puellarum, 1461 Psalterium, Gr. & Lat. 1481. edit. primae Juvenal, 1470, edit. princeps Florus, edit. princeps Manilius, 1474, edit. princeps Sallustius, edit. princeps Terentius, edit. princeps C. Nepos, 1471, edit. princeps Hist. Augustae Scriptores, 1475, edit. prin. Plautus, 1472, edit. princeps Rei Rusticae Scriptores, 1472, edit. prin. Solinus, 1473, edit. princeps V. Flaccus, 1474, edit. princeps Celsus, 1478, edit. princeps Astronomi Veteres, edit. princeps Lascaris Grammatica Graeca, 1480 Anthologia Graeca, 1494, edit. princeps Apoll. Rhodius, 1496, edit princeps Caefar a Clark, morocco Lucretius, charta max. 1712 Lactantius, 1468, morocco Doleti Comment. Ling. Lat. 2 vol. Delphin Classics complete Catullus, &c. Vulpii, charta max. 6 vol. Periera Antoniana Margarita Eustatius in Homerum, 4 vol. russ. Marchi Architettura Militare Atlas de D'anville Jacquin's Drawings of American Plants, Hortus Vindobonensis, &c. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 10 vol. Merian's Surinam, coloured Petiver's Works Lister's Shells Sloane's Jamaica Various Bibles, with fine cuts Cook's Voyages complete, first edition Voyages de Chardin, Nieburh, Sonderat, de la Valle, &c. Booke called Caton, Caxton, 1483 Pylgremage of the Soule, Caxton, 1483 Parliamentary Debates complete, 120 vol. Gentleman's Magazine, 66 vol. complete Monthly Review, complete The whole are in fine Condition, and many of them in elegant Bindings. They are now on Sale, 1790, (at the Prices printed in the Catologue, and marked in the First Leaf of every Book) At Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall, London. - The full Value for Libraries. - Books exchanged and Libraries valued.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1790]- Books
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The new British traveller; or, a complete modern universal display of Great-Britain and Ireland: Being a New, Complete, Accurate, and Extensive Tour Through England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isles of Man, Wight, Scilly, Hebrides, Jersey, Sark, Guernsey, Alderney, And other Islands adjoining to and dependent on the Crown of Great-Britain. Comprising all that is worthy of Observation in every County, Shire, &c. And containing a full, ample, and circumstantial Account of every Thing remarkable in the several Cities, Market-Towns, Boroughs, Hundreds, Villages, Hamlets, Parishes, &c. throughout these Kingdoms. Being calculated equally to please the Polite - entertain the Curious - instruct the Uninformed - and direct the Traveller. The Whole Clearly and Accurately Displayed under the Following General Heads: Situation, Etymology, Extent, Roads, Capes, Battles, Sieges, Skirmishes, Civil Commotions, Trading and other Companies, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military Offices, Earthquakes, Storms, Inundations, and other singular Occurrences, Rocks, Rivers, Mines, Grottos, Abbey-Lands, Fossils, Caves, Hills, Moors, Springs, Woods, Antiquities-Roman, Danish, and Saxon; Minerals, Plants, Agriculture, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Amphibious Creatures, Castles, Manors, Military Ways, Camps, Docks, Harbours, Bays, Havens, Markets, Fairs, Canals, Buildings, Fortifications, Palaces, Seats, Parks, Bridges, Forests, Cathedrals, Collegiate and Parish Churches, Monuments, Ecclesiastical and Civil Jurisdictions, Corporations, Charters, Charitable Foundations, Institutions, &c. Customs, Manners, &c. Handicrafts, Commodities, Military and Naval Exploits, Lives of all such Persons as have done Honor to the Counties, Towns, or Villages in which they were born, whether Kings, Princes, Peers, Generals, Admirals, Divines, Lawyers, Physicians, Poets, Philosophers, Historians, Legislators, &c. Government, Manufactures, Trades, Commerce, Revenues, Forces, Naval and Military, Polity, Power and Prerogative of the King, Laws, Prerogative, and Customs of the House of Lords, Privileges, Prerogative, & Usages of the House of Commons. Nature of the Legislature, and Modes of Proceeding in the various Courts of Justice, ancient and modern, &c. &c. &c. Being Really the Result of An actual and late General Survey, accurately made by a Society of Gentlemen, Each of whom has undertaken that Part for which his Study and Inclination has more immediately qualified him. And Including a Valuable Collection of Landscapes, Views, County-Maps, &c. Which Make an Admirable and Inimitable Groupe of Elegant Copper-Plate Prints. Also, A Complete Book of the Roads, a List of all the Fairs, and a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, Not to be found in any other Work of the Kind, but which are worthy the Notice of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, Travellers, Traders, and all Ranks of People whatever. The whole published under the immediate inspection of George Augustus Walpoole, Esq. Assisted in the Digest and Arrangement of the Articles respecting Wales, by David Wynne Evans, F. R. S. In those descriptive of Scotland, by Alexander Burnet, L. L. D. And in such as relate to Ireland, &c. by Robert Conway, A. M. And Others, to whom many valuable and curious Circumstances have been communicated (for this Work) by Gentlemen of Rank and Abilities. Embellished with upwards of one hundred and fifty large, grand, and superb views of the principal Cities and Towns in Great-Britain and Ireland; perspective Views of Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, Castles, Ruins, Abbies, Cataracts, Sea Pieces, Landscapes, natural and artificial Curiosities, correct County and other Maps, Charts, Historical Pieces, &c. drawn with critical Exactness by the most capital Painters and Designers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, namely Hamilton, Carter, Griffith, O'Neal, Dodd, Metz, &c. and engraved in the most masterly Manner by the following ingenious Artists, viz. Thornton, Pollard, Lodge, Page, Roberts, Royce, Taylor, Carey, Rennoldson, Wooding, Kitchen, Conder, Hawkins, Walker, Flyn, Simpson, Grainger, Hogg, Myers, Smyth, Clowes, and others, who have distinguished themselves by their great Abilities in the Polite Arts.
Date: 1784- Books
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A catalogue of a select and valuable collection of ancient and modern books, in various languages. Containing, A considerable Number of very rare and curious Articles in the finest Condition. Also, An extensive Assortment of the best Modern Books in the most elegant Bindings. Including the Libraries of the late J. Mainwaring, M. D. an eminent Civilian, and a celebrated Collector, deceased. Among others equally curious are, Caxton's Game of Chesse. Caxton's Chaucer. Caxton's Cato. Caxton's Alain Chartier. Caxton's Catharine of Senes. Caxton's Bull of Pope Innocent for the Marriage of Henry Vii. and Elizabeth of York. several by Wynken de Worde, Pynson, Maclinia, and other early Printers. Books printed on Vellum. Books printed at Strawberry-Hill. Sir William Dugdain's Works. Most of the scarce English Topographical Histories. Early English Poetry. Chronicles, by Froissart, Higden, Hollinshed, Hall, Grafton, Fabian, &c. Romans de Chevalerie de la Table ronde Illuminated Missals and Mss. Mss. on English History and Antiquities. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 5 vol. Morocco. Hill's Vegetable System, coloured, 26 vol. Merian's Surinam Insects, coloured. Knorr's Shells, coloured. Martyn's Shells, painted. Lister's Shells, orig. edit. large paper. Hamilton's Sicilies, coloured, 3 vol. - Etruscan Vases, coloured, 4 vol. Antiquities of Herculaneum, 7 vol. Voyages Pittoresques de la Grece, de Naples, de France, de Sicile, de Suisse, &c. 18 vol. Houbraken's Heads, large paper. Perrault Hommes Illustres, lar. pap. Vandyke's Heads. Claude's Drawings, Proofe. Pilastres of the Vatican, coloured. Cielings of the Vatican, coloured. Oeuvres de Buffon, 33 vol. complets. - de Voltaire, 30 vol. - de Rousseau, 30 vol. Tasso, 3 vol: 4 to. par Didot. Which will begin to be sold, for Ready Money, at the Prices fixed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of each Book, in May 1787, at Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall. - The full Value given for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had of Mr. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and at the Place of Sale; also at Edwards's, Halifax.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1787]- Books
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A catalogue of books, for 1793; containing several valuable collections, lately purchased. And a great Number of Curious and Rare Books, Some very Capital Books of Prints, Hindoo and other high finished Drawings, fine Prints, Manuscripts, Atlasses, Surveys of Counties, &c. purchased out of the principal Libraries, sold in 1792. Amongst which are the following: Boydel's and Nicol's Shakespeare, early impres. The Houghton Collection of Prints, ditto Fifty-Three Hindoo, or India Paintings Le Brun's Collection of Prints, fine impres. Weirotter's Works Dessins des Jean Prestel Boyer's D'aguilles Gallery Habits of the Levant, beautifully coloured Hamilton's Etruscan Antiquities, 2 vols. Antiquarian Prints, 2 vols. Hodge's Large Views in India, 12 numbers, very fine impressions Metz's beautiful Imitations of Antient and Modern Drawings, 90 Prints Crispin de Pas's Drawing Book Bavaria Sancta, 4 vols. rare Travels through the Rhaetian Alps, with picturesque views Ostade's Etchings, very fine A fine Collection of Scarce Prints, by Hollar, Della Bella, Callot, L. Clerc, Mark Antony, Goltzius, and other old engravers, in port folio, with leaves, and very eleg. bound in morocco A Port folio, with scarce English Portraits, by Smith, Vandyck, Becket, Cooper, &c. Archaeologia by the Society of Antiquarians, 9 vols. 4 to. Tempest's Cries of London, old impressions A Large Collection of Books of Emblems, curious and rare Surveys of Counties, Chapman's, Dury and Andrews, Rocque's, Jeffery's, Armstrong's, &c. of Nottinghamshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Bedford, Buckingham, Huntingdon, Dorsetshire, Durham, Oxford, &c. &c. Rennell's large Bengal Atlas Merian's Surinam Insects, original edition, beautifully coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vols. ditto Lewin's Birds, 5 vols. all drawings on vellum paper, and beautifully coloured Hill's Herbal, the largest paper, coloured Vandermeuiin's Large and Capital Prints of the Battles of Lewis XIV. Pennant's London, first edit. l. p. interleaved in 4 vols. with a great number of additional Prints and Drawings Sleazer's Theatrum Scotiae, fine impression Carter's Antiquities, 25 numbers Sandrart's Academia Ars Pictoria Lavater's Physiognomy, 25 numbers, first impressions Hearne and Byrne's Antiquities Delices de la Grande Bretagne Description des Arts et Metiers, 9 vols. Bleau's Atlas, 11 vols. illuminated Chambers's Encyclopedia, by Rees, 4 vols. in Russia Ashmole's Order of the Garter Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656 - Summons to Parliament, original edit. bound in russia - Monasticon Anglicanum, Latin, 2 vols. 1682, &c. Grafton's Chronicle, b. l. 1568 Dart's Antiquities of Westminster and Canterbury, 3 vols. Bruce, Cook, Hawkesworth, Phillips, White, Parkinson, Phipps, &c. Voyages Worsley's Hist. of the Isle of Wight Vicar's Parliamentary Chronicle, 4 parts, compleat England's Worthies, from 1642, to 1647, with fine portraits, by Hollar, &c. very rare Some Curious and Valuable Manuscripts, and printed Missals on vellum And many other equally Scarce and Valuable. The books in general are in very good Condition, many in elegant Bindings, and are now on sale exceeding Cheap, (for Ready Mony only), and will continue on Sale by Henry Chapman, Bookseller, No. 65, Chandois Street, Covent Garden. Catalogues (price 6d, allowed to Purchasers), may be had of the following Booksellers, Mr. Collins, Exchange Alley, Cornhill, Mr. J. Walker, Paternoster-Row, Mr. Stockdale, Piccadilly, and at the Place of Sale.
Chapman, Henry, active 1776-1796.Date: 1793]- Archives and manuscripts
British Societies and Organisations, etc
Date: 1938-1982Reference: PP/ASP/DPart of: Parkes, Sir Alan Sterling (1900-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
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