Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:
August 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/543
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    = Indian poets, writers, and famous men Ditto: Picturesque accounts of curious events, short biographies of saints, philosophers, physicians, warriors, etc. (no other copy can be traced) Two Persian drawings—A king and a princess, etc., framed lecture, papier-maché, very curious and_ probably unique 7 A magician with his pupil, and a standard-bearer Four portraits of Indian magicians and conjurators, etc., framed Three Persian miniature paintings—Love scenes, ladies, etc., framed Six Persian and Indian miniature paintings—Fighting with devils, the ruler of devils, a magician at obser- vation, etc., framed Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, with numerous engrav- ings of antique instruments, etc., in 2 vols., 1778 History of Plants, etc., being a medical work with numerous engravings, by John Hill, M.D., very rare, 1751 Three early Latin works, 1601, dealing with philosophic and ancient religious tendencies of Greeks and Romans, and their character studies, etc. and scientific books The Great Historical Dictionary, religious and sciences of all nations, etc., complete in itself Antiquity explained and represented in sculptures, etc., with numerous engravings of ancient gods and god- desses, arts, sciences, beliefs, customs, etc., of all ancient nations, Egyptians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Hebrews, Arabians, etc., from Sir Copley’s collection, in 5 vols., a complete museum in itself History of the Earth and Nature, with numerous coloured pictures on 80 plates, a most important scientific work of its kind Three engravings (A.F.) Water-colour—The Last of the Froudroy, by Richard Wane Pair of oil paintings, by V. Monbleau, in gilt frames < ‘o/~