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The second part of T. King's catalogue of books, for M.DCC.LXXXVIII. ... now selling ... by Thomas King, ...
King, Thomas.
Date
1788]
Books
Online
Books. A catalogue of the library of the Rev. Herbert Croft; comprising, a good collection of grammatical, historical, and miscellaneous books, with a few law. Among which are, The State Trials, last edition, fine copy. Pickering's Statutes, 37 vol. Bracton de Legibus, &c. with a very singular and rare Collection of old English and Scotch Ballads, in 2 vol. folio, black letter, with cuts, &c. which will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, at his great room, King-Street, Covent-Garden, on Wednesday, July 5, 1797, And Six following Days, (sunday excepted.) At Twelve O'Clock. May be Viewed on Monday till the Sale, and Catalogues (price Sixpence) then had.
King, Thomas.
Date
1797]
Books
Online
Fossils, remains of animals and vegetables, minerals, recent shells, corals, and other curious subjects of natural history. Catalogue of the genuine and entire museum of curious subjects of natural history, of John Strange, Esq. Fellow of the Royal and Antiquary Societies, &c. Late of Portland Place, Deceased. Comprising One of the most extensive and valuable Collections in Europe, of the exuviae of Corals, Fishes, Insects, Shells, Vegetables, and other organic Remains, deposited in the Earth, at or antecedent to the universal Deluge; to the Attainment and Knowledge of which Bodies, Mr. Strange had chiefly directed his Researches and Studies, and towards their History made large Collectanea, particularly during his long Residence as British-Minister at the Court of Venice, and on his Travels in France, Germany, Italy, and especially in England and Wales; including many rare, curious, and interesting Subjects, together with a great Variety of scientific Specimens of the Calcareous, Barytical, Magnesian and Siliceous Earths, Ores of Metals, Volcanic Productions, and other Minerals and their aggregates, recent Corals, Shells, Vegetables, &c. Which will be sold by auction, By order of the Executors, and agreeable to his Will, by Mr. King, At his great room, King-Street, Covent-Garden, on Friday, July 11, 1800, And Seven following Days, (sunday excepted.) At Twelve O'Clock. May be viewed and Catalogues had at the Place of Sale, price 2s each, which will be allowed to Purchasers.
King, Thomas.
Date
[1800]
Books
Online
A catalogue of the genuine duplicates of an eminent collector of British portraits. Among them are many fine and scarce prints, by Hollar, Faithhorne, Cross, Pass, Vaughan, Smith, Mc. Ardell, Masson, &c. After Van Dyck, Lely, Hogarth, Reynolds, and other painters. Including a great number of foreign portraits, many of which belong to the British series, the whole arranged alphabetically, to assist the purchasers in finding more readily the prints they may want, and very convenient for those who may wish to illustrate Morreri's, or any other biographical dictionaries, which, with many capital portfolios, superbly bound in morocco, will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, at his house, No. 6, Tavistock-Row, Covent-Garden, on Thursday, February 22, 1798, and two following days, at twelve o'clock. To be viewed on Monday till the sale, and catalogues then had at No. 38, King-Street, Covent-Garden, Mr. Hatchard's, No. 173, Piccadilly, and the place of sale.
King, Thomas.
Date
1798]
Books
Online
Hogarth's works. A catalogue of prints, comprising, A Selection of the scarcest, and most valuable Works of Hogarth Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. King, at his great room, King-Street, Covent-Garden, On Saturday, April 21, 1798, At Twelve O'Clock.
King, Thomas.
Date
[1798]
Books
Online
A catalogue of a large and valuable colletion of books, intended for the Russia trade, but witheld in consequence of a late failure. Among them are, Gough's Camden, 3 vol. Chambers's dictionary, 5 vol. Anderson on commerce, 4 vol. Pennant's works, 16 vol. Virtuosi's museum. Harris's insects. Ireland's tours. Gilpin's forest scenary, 2 vol. Annual register, 31 vol. Johnson's poets, 75 vol. Bell's Sahakespere, 20 vol. Malone's Shakespeare, 11 vol. Novelist magazine, 22 vol. Gibbon's Rome, 12 vol. Smellie's Buffon, 9 vol. Sheridan's Swift, 17 vol. Murphy's Johnson, 12 vol. &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, at the Rainbow Coffee-House, in Cornhill, on Wednesday, October 16, 1793, and two following days, at twelve o'clock. To be viewed on Tuesday, till the sale. Catalogues to be had at Mr. King's great room, No.38, King-Street, Covent-Garden, and at the place of sale. T. King begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that his large auction room, in King Street, Covent-Garden, is now ready for the reception of libraries of books, collections of prints, coins, and medals, or any articles intended for sale by auction:- or the same valued, either in town or country, and the money, if required, immediately paid on delivery.
King, Thomas.
Date
1793]
Books
Online
A Catalogue of books; containing many valuable and rare articles in ancient and modern literature; Amongst Them Are: Folio. Liber Sextus Decretalium, Boniface Viii. Impress. In Memb. a Mogunt. 1470 Hearne's Ectypa Varia, fine copy Birch's Lives, with Houbraken's Heads, 2 vol. large paper Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, with Stevens's Continuation, 3 vol. Enderbie's Wales, large paper Fabyan's Chronicle Fuller's Worthies Hasted's Kent, 2 vol. ... Thucydides a Wasse & Dukero Terentius Varro, Edit-Princeps Haurisii Script. His. Rom. 3 vol. Hickesii Thesaurus, 3 vol. Assemanni Bib. Orientales, 4 vol. Diccionario de la Lengua Castellana, 6 vol. Hoffmanni Lexicon Universale, 4 vol. Lye Diction. Saxonic. a Manning, 2 vol. H. Steph. Thesaurus, Gr. 4 vol. ... 1st impression Birch's Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vol. Hawkesworth's Telemachus Swift's Works, 14 vol. complete Madox's Exchequer, 2 vol. Huggins's Orlando Furioso, 2 vol. The Toast, a Poem, by Dr. King Whitaker's Manchester, 2 vol. Gardiner's Logarithms Lilly's Astrology Moxon's Mech. Exercises, 2 vol. in 1, russ. Snelling's Coins Complete Hawkesworth's Voyages, 3 vol. ... Gostling's Canterbury, best edit. Izaacke's Exeter, large paper, Rapin's History of England, 21 vol. best ed. Sir Philip Sidney's Works, 3 vol. Royal and Noble Authors, 2 vol. Sir. Hill Willis's Cathedrals, 3 vol. ... Plautus, Variorum, edit. opt. Polybius, Variorum, 3 vol. Theocritus, cum scholiis Well's Xenophon, 5 vol. Pine's Virgil, russia Cicero, 20 vol. large paper Glasgow Cicero, Lallemand, 14 vol. The Whole are in excellent Condition, and will be on sale from February, 1788, at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, for Ready Money, by Thomas King, Bookseller, No. 25, New Broad-Street, And No. 29, Lower Moorfields. Catalogues, price 6d, may be had at the following Booksellers: Sewell, Cornhill; Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Brown, Corner of Essex-Street, Strand; Chapman, Chandos-Street; Fletcher, Oxford; ..., Cambridge; and the Places of Sale. Where the full Value is given for Libraries, or parcels of Books; also Books Exchanged.
King, Thomas.
Date
1788]
Books
Online
Books, prints, drawings, manuscripts, &c. A catalogue of the genuine library of books, ... of a gentleman, deceased. ... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, ... on Wednesday, November 15, 1797. ...
King, Thomas.
Date
1797]
Books
Online
A catalogue (part the third and last) of duplicates of ores, petrifactions, spars, gems, Crystals, and other Articles of Natural History, Selected from the extensive and valuable collection of the late Right Honourable John Earl of Bute, which will be sold by auction, By Mr. King, At His Great Room, King-Street, Covent-Garden, On Wednesday, March 5, 1794, And Three following Days, At Twelve O'Clock. The Whole to be Viewed on Monday, March 3, and the following Day. Catalogues (price 6d) may be had at the Rooms.
King, Thomas.
Date
1794]
Books
Online
A catalogue of books, containing several scarce and curious articles in English literature; some Latin, French, Italian, &c. ... now selling ... this day, 1780, ... by Thomas King, ...
King, Thomas.
Date
1780]
Books
Online

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