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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]- Books
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A catalogue of near forty thousand volumes of choice books; Containing the Libraries of the late Rev. Dr. T. Winchester, Rector of Appleton, Berks; And the Rev. Dr. Richardson, Rector of St. Anne's, Westminster, And of several other curious Collections; ... D. Halicarnass. Hudsoni, 2 t. Strabo, 2 tom. ch. max. Polybius, Casauboni Caesaris, a Clarke, corio turc. Hist. Script. Romanae, 3 t. cor. russ. Erasmi Opera, 11 tom. ch. max. Hollinshed's Chronicle, 2 v. in russia Catte's Hist. of England. 4 v. Rushworth's Collections, 8 v. Journals, &c. of Lords and Commons, 76 v. State Trials, 11 vol. Blomefreid's Norfolk, 5 vol. ... Sloane's Jamaica, 2 v. in russia Folio, Brown's Jamaica Chauncy's Hertfordshire Thoroton's Nottinghamshire Dictionaries, viz. Biograph. Brit. and Bayle, 12 v. - Richardson's Persian Dict. 2 v. - Chambers, 2 v. - Postlethwayte, 2 v. - Johnson, 2 v. - James, 3 v. - Calmet, 3 v. - Bayle, 5 v. - Ainsworth, 2 v. - Collier. 4 v. - Trevoux, 10 v. - Bayle & Oeuvres, 9 v. - Savary, 5 v. - Richelet, 3 v. - Chaufepe, 4 t. - Martiniere, 10 v. - Espanola. 6 t. - De la Crusca, 6 t. - H. Stephani Thesaur. 5 t. - R. Stephani Thesaur. 4 t. - Hoffmanni Lexicon, 4 t. - Constantine & Scapulae-Hesychii Lex. 2t. -Ducange Gloss. 6 t. - Hickes Thesaur. 3 t. - Dufresne Gloss. & Supple. 10 t. ... De la Jaye Bib. Polyglotta, 10 t. Cooper's Anatomy, l. p. in russia Hippocrates & Galen, 9 t. cor. russ. A compleat and fine Set of Philosoph Transactions at Large, 4to. And many Hundred others equally good, which will be sold, for Ready Money only, this Day, February 1782, and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne and son, booksellers, Next the Mews Gate, in Castle Street. St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had, with Prices printed (price 6d) at Mr. Sewell's, Bookseller, Cornhill; Mr. Owen's, Bookseller, near Temple-Bar, Fleet Street; Mr. Lewis, Bookseller, Russel Street, Covent Garden; Mr. Walter, Bookseller, at Charing Cross; Mr. Ridley, Bookseller, St. James's Street; Mr. Robson, Bookseller, New Bond Street; of the Booksellers at Oxford and Cambridge, and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Thomas Payne and Son.Date: 1782]- Books
Vesalius at 500 : an exhibition commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius / exhibition and catalogue by Philip Oldfield.
Oldfield, PhilipDate: [2014]- Books
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The poll for Members of Parliament, for the city and county of Norwich, taken the twenty-fifth of May, 1796. (the Parishes and Names of the Voters alphabetically arranged, and carefully copied from the Original Poll Books) Candidates the Hon. Henry Hobart, of Intwood - - - - - - - - - - - - 1622 The Right Hon. William Windham, of Felbrigg 1159 Bartlett Gurney, of Norwich, Esq. - - - - - - - - - 1076 Edward Coleman, Esq. Peter Chamberlin, Esq. Sheriffs and Returning Officers. By Permission of the Sheriffs.
Norwich (England)Date: [1796]- Books
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A general bill of all the christenings and burials, In the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex, From the 21st of December, 1786, to the 21st of December, 1787; Presented by their obedient Servant; George Goodyer, Deputy Clerk. Whereof Have Died, Under Two Years of Age - 50 Between Two and Five - 24 - Five and Ten - - 9 - Ten and Twenty - 7 - Twenty and Thirty - 17 - Thirty and Forty - 16 Between Forty and Fifty - 19 - Fifty and Sixty - 22 - Sixty and Seventy - 18 - Seventy and Eighty - 16 - Eighty and Ninety - 8 - Ninety and a Hundred - 4 In all - 210 Diseases and Casualties. Aged - - - 20 Ague - - - 3 Apoplexy - - - 2 Asthma - - - 5 Cancer - - - 1 Childbed - - - 2 Cholic - - - 4 Consumption - - 55 Convulsions - - - 18 Dropsy - - - 4 Drowned by Accident - - 2 Fever - - - 20 Fits - - - 17 Gout - - - 1 Gripes - - - 5 Hooping Cough - - 3 Inflammation - - 2 Measles - - - 5 Mortification - - - 4 Palsy - - - 3 Small Pox - - - 21 Teeth - - - 8 Thrush - - - 5 In all - 210 Abortive and Still - Born, Ten. Christened. Males - - - 90 Females - - - 77 In all - 167 Buried. Males - - - 107 Females - - - 103 In all - 210 Increased in the Baptisms, 2. - In the Burials, 30. N. B. Out of which Number of Burials, were Nine Strangers buried.
Parish of Saint Luke (Chelsea, London, England)Date: [1787]