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Kemmish's Annual-Harmonist; or, the British Apollo; being a complete lyric repository and banquet of amusement: containing the whims of the night and day: with all the monstrous good, and convivial songs catches, glees, duets, &c. sung this season, in the Prisoner, Just in time, Hartford bridge, Pirates, at Vauxhall, Bermondsey Spa, And various other polite Assemblies. Likewise, the president's companion; or, compleat toast-master. For the better encouragement of this work, W. K. offers for the best song, that comes to hand by September, 1793, a silver medal, Value 1d. 1s. - --Second Best, an Annual Harmonist bound in Morocco. - -- Third Best in Calf.
Date: [1793]- Books
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The art of divine contentment. By Thomas Watson, pastor of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London, in the year of our lord 1653. Revised and corrected, by Thomas Bennett, Minister of the Gospel.
Watson, Thomas, -1686.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine and curious library; Of the late Reverend Mr. John Jackson, Master of Wigston's-Hospital in Leicester: consisting Of several Elegant, very Scarce, and Valuable Books, In Critical Literature, History, Divinity, &c. In Different Languages; Amongst which, are some of the Oldest and Extreme Scarce Editions of the Classicks: Also many Beautiful Copies of Books, Printed by Aldus Elzevir, Stephens, Colinaeus, and others, the best and most eminent Printers. Which will be Sold, by Order of the Executors, For Ready Money only. Commissions taken in from the Time of Delivering the Catalogues till the end of July, and will be executed in the Order they come to Hand: By John Gregory, Bookseller in Leicester. Catalogues to be had at the place of Sale, of Mr. Field, Bookseller in Paternoster-Row, and Mr. Blythe, Bookseller in Cornhill London. - The Books may be seen during the Month of June.
Gregory, John, -1789.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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A catalogue of several libraries and parcels of books, lately purchased; comprehending a large collection of valuable books, In every part of Literature, and in all Languages, Arts and Sciences. Which will begin to be sold, May 1, 1787, the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue, By Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, At their House, in York-Street, Covent-Garden. Catalogues to be had of the following Booksellers; Mr. Beckett, Pall Mall; Mr. Robson, Bond Street; Mr. Walter, Charing Cross; Mr. Owen's, Temple Bar; Mr. Sewel's, in Cornhill; and at the Place of Sale. - Where is given the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books.
Leigh and Sotheby.Date: 1787]- Books
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A catalogue of several libraries and parcels of books, lately purchased; containing A very Large and Valuable Collection, In all Languages, Arts, and Sciences, Which will be sold very reasonable, the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue, By Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, At their House, in York-Street, Covent-Garden. Beginning June, 1788, and continue till all are sold. Catalogues to be had of the following Booksellers; Mr. Beckett, Pall Mall; Mr. Robson, Bond Street; Mr. Walter, Charing Cross; Mr. Owen, Temple Bar; Mr. Sewel's, Cornhill; and at the Place of Sale. - Where is given the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books.
Leigh and Sotheby.Date: 1788]- Books
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Bibliotheca Askeviana. Sive catalogus librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew, M.D. Quorum auctio fiet apud S. Baker & G. Leigh, In Vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 13 Februarii MDCCLXXV. & in undeviginti sequentes Dies. Catalogi venundantur apud Londini Bibliopolas; Baker & Leigh, York-Street, Covent-Garden; Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Robson, Bond-Street; Walter, Charing-Cross; Owen, Temple-Bar; Brotherton & Sewell, Cornhill; & a Paris chez J. B. Gibert, Hotel de Cluny, Rue des Mathurins, St. Jaques; & Amsterdam chez Marc Michel Rey. (price One Shilling and Six-Pence.) - There are a few Copies printed on Royal Paper. Price Four Shillings.
S. Baker and G. Leigh (London, England)Date: 1774]- Books
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An accurate and impartial narrative of the war, by an officer of the Guards. In two volumes. Containing the second edition of A poetical sketch of the campaign of 1793, revised, corrected, and considerably enlarged, ... also a similar sketch of the campaign of 1794; to which is added, a narrative of the retreat of 1795, ...
Officer of the Guards.Date: [1795?]- Books
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Bibliotheca curiosa. Or a catalogue of a select parcel of books, in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French and English, being the library of Mr. Edward Hunt, deceased. N. B. The Books are in Excellent Condition, many Curiously Bound, and all Gilt on the Back and Letter'd. Among which are the following in Folio. Bayle's Dictionary, 4 vol. compleat Large and small Paper. Pool's Annotations, 2 vol. Giannone's Hist. of Naples, 2 vol. Vertot's Knights of Malta, 71 fine Heads. Tillotson's Works, 3 vol. Burnet's Hist. of his own Time, 2 v. Machiavel's Works, best. Lives of the Painters, 120 fine Heads Sir John Norris's Maps. Prior's Poems, large Paper. Hall's Chronicle. Voyages de Thevenot, 2 vol. Etat. de la France, par Bouillainvilliers, 3 tom. Livii-Vasc. De Chales Cursus Mathemat, 4 tom. Crusius Turco-Graecia. Virgilii Opera, fine Cuts. Demosthenis, Gr. - Benenat. Dryden's Virgil, fine Cuts. Quarto. De Moivres Chances. Emblemata Mich. Majori, fig. Voyages de Labat, 2 tom. fig. Perspective des Jesuites, 3 tom. fig. De Cameron di Boccace, per Rolli. Verona illustrata, par Maffei, fig. 4 tom. Cellarii Geograph. 2 tom. - Cant. Marianae de rebus Hisp. XXX. 2 v. Callimachus - H. Steph. Octavo. Clarendon's Hist. 6 vol. Cuts. Fleetwood's Chronicon. Annals of Q. Anne, 11 vol. compl. Vida del Don Quixot, 2 tom. Greek Test. R. Steph. 1549, beautifully bound. Several good Variorums. Hearn's Camden, 3 vol. Spectators, 16 vol. Many of the rest equally good. To be sold very Cheap, on Wednesday the 27th instant, 1735, and to continue Selling Daily 'till all are Sold, by Olive Payne, Bookseller, At Horace's Head in Round-Court, in the Strand. Catalogues to be had gratis, with the Prices printed, at the Place of sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of books in any Language. N. B. At the said O. Payne's continues the Sales of the Libraries of Peter Baudoin, Esq; the Rev. Mr. Brown, and J. Tyrrel, Esq; all deceased. Being Two Catalogues of upwards of Ten Thousand Volumes, with the Prices printed. Baudoin's and Brown's Catalogue being very large 1s. Tyrrel's 6d.
Payne, Olive, active 1731-1739.Date: 1735]- Books
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The companion to the play-house: or, an historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764. Composed in the form of a dictionary, For the more readily turning to any particular Author, or Performance. In Two Volumes. ... Contains, A Critical and Historical Account of every Tragedy, Comedy, Farce, &c. in the English Language. The respective Merits of each Piece; and of the Actors who performed the principal Characters, are particularly examined and pointed out. ... Contains, The Lives and Productions of every Dramatic Writer for the English or Irish Theatres, including not only all those Memoirs that have been formerly writeen, but also a great Number of new Lives and curious Anecdotes never before communicated to the Public. - Also the Lives of our most celebrated Actors, who were likewise Authors of any Theatrical Composition from Shakespear and Johnson, down to the present Times.
Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767.Date: 1764- Books
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A catalogue of upwards of twenty thousand volumes of books including the remaining part of the valuable library of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle; and the entire Collection of a Person of Distinction, lately deceased: With some very capital Books of Prints, just imported from France and Italy, and many large Parcels, lately purchased. The whole forming a Curious Variety of the best Books inall Languages, Arts and Sciences, in fine Condition, and many upon Royal Paper, in elegant Russia and Morocco Bindings. Amongst which are, Seba Thesaurus eorum nat. 4 tom. Rus. Deliciae nat. selectae, 2 tom. fig. col. Mor. Merian de Insectis Surinam, fig. col. M. Hill's Nat. Hist. Gard. & Herb. roy-pap. 5 vol. coloured, Russia Weinmani Phytantheza Iconograp. 4 tom. coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 tom. Rus. col. Edward's Nat. Hist. 7 vol. Mor. col. Trew Hortus Nitidissimus, fig. colorat Physica Sacra, 8 tom. Ornithologie par Martinet, 3 v. fig. illu. Wilkes and Harris's Moths and Butterfl. coloured Pitture D'ercolano, 5 tom. Estampes de la Gallerie de Dresda, 2 tom. Vandermulen's capital Works, Mor. Oeuvres de Basan, 3 tom. - complet de Vernet, gr. pap. Statute Grece & Romane di S. Mar. R. Illustrious Heads, first Impressions, 1. pap. Fables, & Contes de Fontaine, bel. fig. Pitture di Pelligrino Works of Salvator Rosa - of Ostade. Estampes du Cabinet du Roy, Mor. fine. Halleri Icones Anatomicae, 2 tom. Voyages de Le Brun, 3 tom. General Dictionary, 10 vol. Vocabolario della Crusea, 6 tom. Flor. Dictionaries by Johnston, Chambers, Ainsworth, Bayle, James, Postlethwayte, Richlet, &c. &c. L'antique explique par Montfaucon, 15 tom. gr. pap. Views of the Palace and Gardens at Versailles, Mor. Teniers's Gallery, fine Impressions Stoch, Pierres Antiques par Picart, g. p. Ruins of Balbeck Palmyra-Dioclefian's Palace, de la Grece par le Roy, &c. &c. D. of Newcastle's Horsemanship, 2 v. Imp. paper; Morocco. Clarke's Caesar, Russia leather. Rymer's Foedera, 21 vol. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Pembrochiae Numismata, ch. max. Robert and De L'isles Atlas, gr. pap. Piranesi Antichita Romane, 4 tom. Guichiardini & Davilla Istoria, ch. max. Clarendon's Rebellion, 4 vol. roy. pap. Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent. Rapin's History, 2 vol. large pap. Mor. Norden and Pocock's travels, large pap. Strafford's Letters, by Knowler, 2 vol. large paper, Morocco. Diodorus Siculus Wesselingii, 2 vol. Demosthenis Wolfii. Homeyns, 4 tom. ch. max. Glasgow. Dionysius Halicarnasseus Hudson, 2 v. Euripides Barnesii. Pindarus, per West. Picart's Ovid, fine cuts. Missals, finely illuminated. Voyage en Siberie, 2 tom, Mor. With many Hundreds more, equally valuable. Which will begin to be Sold very reasonable, this Day, 1770, (for ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, to continue on Sale till all are Sold, By James Robson, Bookseller at the Feathers in New-Bond-Street. Who gives the utmost Value for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues (price 6d. to be allowed in the Purchase) to be had of Mr. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mr. Blamire, corner of Craven-Street, Strand; Mr. Cater, Holborn; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Law, Ave-Mary-Lane; and Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal-Exchange; also of the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and all the great Towns in England.
Robson, James, 1733-1806.Date: 1770]- Books
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A catalogue of upwards of twenty thousand volumes, of the most Valuable books in all Languages and Sciences; comprehending The most Capital and Curious Collections of Prints, Books of Natural History, Antiquities, &c. in fine Condition. Amongst which are Raffell's Gallery at the Vatican, finely illuminated Flores Holsteni, elegantis. depict. Enevclopedie par Diderot. &c. 28 tom. P. Eugene & Marlborough's Battles, 4 vol. l p. Antichita D'ercolano, 7 tom. Shakespeare's Works, 1623, Russia Bucho, Centurie des Planches de L'hist. Nat. enluminees - Fleurs Chineses. enluminees Bartolozzi's Works, 5 vol. 400 prints Piranesi's Works, 12 vol. Russia Sir W. Hamilton's Etruic. Antiq. 4 v. Rus. Capt. Baillie's Works, in Mor. Proofs King of Denmark's Shells, painted extra Miller's Linnean System, 2 vol. coloured Pennant's British Zoology, coloured, eleg. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. royal paper Teliemaque, belles fig. Marmora Oxoniensis Spence's Polymetis, first impression, Russia Claude Lorraine's Landscapes Miller's Plants, 2 vol. coloured, Russia St. Chrysostom, 13 tom. eleg. Robert and de L'Isle's Atlas, gr. pap. Hamilton's School of Painting Hunter's Anatomical Plates Ceremonies Religieuses, 7 tom. Strange's Works, complete Buck's Views, 4 vol. Fables de Fontaine, 4 tom. Plato Serrani, 3 tom. Harris's Aurelian, coloured, Russia Knor Deliciae Naturae, 2 tom. coloured, Russia Edward's Natural History, 7 vol. col. Mor. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. Morocco, coloured. Knor Deluvii Testes, 3 tom. coloured Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. finely coloured Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. fine copy Physica Sacra, 4 vol. elegant Museum Florentinum, 12 tom. Graevii et Gronovii Antiquit. &c. 33 tom. Heads of illustrious Persons, l. p first impres. Clarke's Caesar, fine copy, Russia Ruins of Palmyra, Balbeck, Spalatro, Ionia, Greece, Athens, Paestum, &c. &c. Cowper on the Muscles, large paper, Rus. Cowper's Anatomy, large paper, ditto Edmondson's Peerage, 5 vol. large pap. extra Passerii Picturae Etruscor. 2 tom. fig. depict. Pembroke's Medals, large paper. Russia Dactyliotheca Smithiana, 2 tom. fine cuts Ridinger's Works, 3 vol. Russia Gallerie de Boyer D'aguilles, gr. et p. pap. Vandermulen's Works, first impression Crozat's Collection. 2 vol. large paper Clande Lorraine's Drawings, by Erlom, 2 vol. Curious Missals, finely illuminated Robert's Atlas, g. p. Campbell's Vitiuvius Britannicus, 5 vol. Kent's Inigo Jones, 2 vol. large paper Dugdale's Monasticon, 3 vol. Rus. Hollinshead's Chronicle, 2 vol. King's Vale Royal Rymer's Foedera, 20 vol. Stukeley's Itinerary, Stonehenge, and Aubery, 3 vol. Tanneri Notitia Monastica Dictionaries, all the best Editions, Eng. Lat. French, and Italian, &c. Corpus Byzantiae Historiae, 23 tom. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 tom. Medicae Artis Principes Thuani Historia, 7 tom. L'antiquitees par Montfaucon, 15 tom. Corps Diplomatique, 24 tom. With many Others equally Valuable, Which will begin to be Sold this Day, 1780, (for Ready Money only) and continue on Sale till all are Sold, By James Robson, Bookseller in New Bond Street, Who gives the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had (price 6d. to be allowed) At Mr. Dodsley's, Pall-Mall; Mr. Cadell's, in the Strand; Mr. Law, Ave-Mary Lane; Mess. Richardson and Urquhart, Royal Exchange; and at the Place of Sale; also of the Booksellers at Oxford and Cambridge; and all the great Towns in England.
Robson, James, 1733-1806.Date: 1780]- Books
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Bibliotheca Gordoniana: or, a catalogue of valuable and scarce books, chiefly collected by Mr. Gordon, in his Travels through France, Italy, &c. with some curious Manuscripts. To which is Added, The Library of a Student at Cambridge (both Deceas'd.) Many curiously bound in French, &c. binding; all gilt Back or Letter'd. Among many valuable ones are the following, viz. Folio's. Antoniana Margarita, par Peireiram Corio Tursico, Lib. rariss. 2 tom. Postelli de Concordia. Buxtorf's Heb. Bible, 2 vol. Baronii Annales & Ozovio Continuatio, 17 vol. Religious Ceremonies, 4 vol. with fine Cuts, royal Paper, finely bound. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. compleat. Whitby, Burkitt, Burnet, Barrow, &c. Works. D'achery Spicelegium, 3 vol. Several of the Byzantine Historians, Paris Edit. Antonio Bib. Vetus Hispana, 2 tom. Mattair's Marmora - Oxon. Reyneri de Antiquitate Benedictionorum in Anglia. Father Montsaucon's Antiq. 10 vol. in French, royal Paper, finely bound. Voyages de la Motraye, 2 Tom. grand & petit Papier, avec fig. Sandford's Coronation of K. James II. with the Cuts, beautifully colour'd. Capt. Johnson's Hist. of all the Pyrates Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. with 26 curious Cuts. Quarto. Albin's Spiders and Insects, colour'd. Six Volumes of Manuscripts wrote by the famous Comte de Boullainvilliers (author of the Etat de la France, 3 vol. Fol.) very fairly wrote, well preserv'd, and bound exceeding neat. Six Vols. of Mss. relating to Magick, raising the Devil, &c. &c. &c. well preserv'd, suppos'd to have belong'd to the K. of France's Library. Which will begin to be sold very cheap, on Wednesday the 8th of this instant Sept. and to continue till all are sold. by Olive Payne, Bookseller, At Horace's Head, in Round-Court, in the Strand, opposite York-Buildings. Catalogues to be had gratis, with the Prices printed, at the Place of Sale. Where may be had most Money for any Library or Parcel of Books, particularly Foreign, in any Language.
Payne, Olive, active 1731-1739.Date: 1736]- Books
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J. Robson's catalogue, 1775, Of a Valuable collection of books, In all Languages and Sciences, Many Capital books of Prints, and in Natural History, Finely Illuminated. A great Number upon Large Paper, in the most Elegant Bindings, and the whole in fine Condition: amongst which are, Merian's Surinam Insects, coloured, morocco Harris's Aurelian, coloured, Russia Knor Deliciae Naturae, 2 tom coloured, Russia Edward's Natural History, 7 vol col. morocco. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol morocco, coloured Seba's Natural History, 4 vol. elegant Knor Deluvii Testes, 3 tom coloured Petiver's Natural history, 3 vol elegant Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol finely coloured Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. fine copy Physica Sacra, 4 vol lar. & sm. pap. elegant Museum Florentinum, 11 tom extra. Russia Graevii & Gronovii Antiquit. &c. 33 tom Heads of illustrious Persons, l. p. first impres. Piranesi's Works, 11 vol fine set Clarke's Caesar, fine copy, Russia Ruins of Palmyra, Balbeck, Spalatto, Ionia, Grece, Athens, Paestum, &c. &c. Dart's Westminster, 2 vol. lar. pap. Cheseldon on the Bones, lar. pap. Russia Cowper on the Muscles, lar. pap. ditto Cowper's Anatomy, lar. pap. ditto. Edmondson's Peerage, 5 vol. lar. pap. extra. Passerii picturae Etruscor. 2 tom. fig depict Picart's Relig. ceremonies, 6 tom l. p. Rus. Pembroke's Medals, large paper, Russia Biographia Britan. & Bayle, 11 vol lar. pap. Strafford's Letters 2 vol l. p. Russ ditto sm. Arts & Metiers, 13 tom extra. Auteroche, Voyage en Siberie, 4 tom g. p. Worlidge's Gems, 2 tom mor. extra. Works of Captain Railie, fine impressions Dactyliotheca Smithiana, 2 tom fine cuts Galerie de Dresde, grand pap. Chevillard, Tableau D'honneur, illuminees Ridinger's Works, 3 vol first impres. Vernet's Works compleat, 2 vol elegant Gallerie de Versailles, grand pap. - de Boyer D'aguilles, gr. & p. pap. Vandermulen's Works, first impres. Hogarth's Works. Crozat's Collection, 2 vol. lar. pap. Views of Palace and Gardens of Versailles, 3 tom. morocco Claude Lorrain's Drawings, by Erlom, fine Various curious Missals, finely illuminated Bleau grand Atlas, 12 tom illuminees Robert's Atlas, g. p. Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 5 vol Kent's Inigo Jones, 2 vollar. pap. Dugda-'s Monasticon, 3 vol Russia Hollinshed's Cronicle, 2 vol Horsley's Britannia Romana King's Vale Royal. Rymer's Foedera, 20 vol State Tryals, 10 vol Stukeley's Itinerary and Aubery, 2 vol Tanneri Notitia monastica Dictionaries, all the best Editions, Eng. Lat. Fren. and Italian, &c. Corpus Byzantinae historiae, 23 tom Biblia Polyglotta, 8 tom Medicae Artis Principes Thuani Historia, 7 tom L'antiquitees par Montfaucon, 15 tom Corps diplomatique, 24 tom Ramusio, le navigazione, 3 tom Herrera Historia, 5 tom With many Others equally Valuable, Which will begin to be Sold this Day, 1775, and continue on Sale till all are Sold, By James Robson, Bookseller, in New Bond-Street, Who gives the full Value for any Library, or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had at Mr Dodsley's, Pall-Mall; Mr Cadell's, in the Strand; Mr Cater's, Holbour; Mr Law's Ave Mary-Lane; and Mess. Richardson and Urquhart, Royal-Exchange; Also, Mess. Merrill, Cambridge; Prince, and Fletcher, Oxford; and all the great Towns in England.
Robson, James, 1733-1806.Date: 1775]- Books
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The gentleman farrier. Containing instructions for the choice, and directions in the management of horses, either for draught or pleasure, on a journey, or in the stable; with an account of their distempers, and receipts for the cure of them. To which is added an appendix, concerning dogs, either for the Field or the Lap, wherein their diseases are describ'd, and the means to cure them. The horse-receipts by his late Grace of Devonshire, Earl of Orrery, Lord Carleton, Sir John Packington, General Seymour, Portman Seymour, Esq; James Nicholson, Esq; - Thornton, Esq; of Bloxham, &c. Published by the direction of a person of quality.
Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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The dialogues of creatures moralised. Appliable and edifying to every merry and jocund matter, and right profitable to the governance of man / Edited by Joseph Haslewood. [Anon].
Date: 1816- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: GO
Date: 1680-1922Reference: MS.9142- Books
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Privilege and property : essays on the history of copyright / edited by Ronan Deazley, Martin Kretschmer and Lionel Bently.
Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
A friendly debate; or, a dialogue, between Academicus, and Sawny & Mundungus, two eminent physicians, about some of their late performances ... / [Isaac Greenwood].
Greenwood, Isaac, 1702-1745.Date: 1722- Archives and manuscripts
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Pseudo-Serapion, Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus, in Italian, imperfect at the end
Ibn Wafid (d. 1067) of ToledoDate: Mid 15th centuryReference: MS.746- Archives and manuscripts
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Miscellany of practical medicine, in Italian
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.Date: Late 14th CenturyReference: MS.307- Archives and manuscripts
Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)
Browne, Stanley George, 1907-1986Date: 1837-1990Reference: WTI/SGB