Catalogue of a large collection of valuable books : including several rare and curious works, classics and standard authors, in various languages, many of which are handsomely bound, modern novels, and other recently published works : a medical library, including some modern works of theory and practice, also the stock of the late Mr. Thomas Burgess, medical bookseller of Coventry Street : a collection of vocal, piano forte and harp music, a winged bookcase, library, reclining, & Elizabethan chairs, a marqueterie chest of drawers, etc. etc. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Friday, January 17, 1851, and 4 following days, (Sunday excepted), at one o'clock most punctually.

  • Puttick and Simpson.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Catalogue of a large collection of valuable books : including several rare and curious works, classics and standard authors, in various languages, many of which are handsomely bound, modern novels, and other recently published works : a medical library, including some modern works of theory and practice, also the stock of the late Mr. Thomas Burgess, medical bookseller of Coventry Street : a collection of vocal, piano forte and harp music, a winged bookcase, library, reclining, & Elizabethan chairs, a marqueterie chest of drawers, etc. etc. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Friday, January 17, 1851, and 4 following days, (Sunday excepted), at one o'clock most punctually. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    OF A COLLECTION OE BOOKS. FIRST DAY’S SALE. Friday, Jan. \7th, 1851, AT ONE O’CLOCK MOST PUNCTUALLY. OCTAVO ET INFRA. 1 School Books . 14 vols. 2 Children’s Books . . 12 vols. 3 Ditto . . 14. vols. 4 Graglia’s Italian Dictionary, 1822 ; and others 12 vols. 5 Willcokes’ and Fryer’s Arithmetic, 1834 ; and others 13 vols. 6 Helme (Elk.) History of England, 2 vols. 1821 ; and others 11 vols. 7 True Stories from Modern History, 1829—Evenings at Home; and others . 10 vols. 8 Literary Souvenir, plates, 1829—Forget me Not, plates, 1828 —Grecian Stories, 1819; and 1 other 9 Cicero’s Offices, translated by Cockman, 1833 ; and 2 others 10 Trimmer (Mrs.) History of England, 2 vols. 1827—Trimmer’s English History, 3 vols. . 1828 11 Rundall (M. A.) Symbolical Illustrations of the History of Eng- land, 1822—Carne’s Travels in the East 1829 12 Dickson (S.) Fallacies of the Faculty, 2 copies 1845 13 Italian Phrase-Book ; and others . a parcel 14 Family Secrets, parts 1, and 3 to 9, plates—Blackwood’s Edin- burgh Magazine, 2 parts . 1837 15 Art of Wheedling, or Insinuation, calf gilt 1684 16 Carey (David) Life in Paris, coloured plates 1822 17 Laurie (R. II.) General Atlas, coloured maps 18 Thiers (A.) Ilistoire du Consulat ct de l’Empire, 6 vols. 1845-47 19 Pamphlets, Handbooks, &c. . a parcel 20 Autobiography of Benj. Franklin, 1850—Popular Fallacies, 1849—Battles of Europe, 1818—Descriptive Geography and Popular Statistics , 1838 B