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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Date 1801

Subject Terms Drawing, British -- Catalogs.

1. A catalogue of the capital, truly valuable and interesting collection of drawings, designs, prints, books of prints, &c. &c. of that distinguished artist and civil engineer, the Athenian Reveley, Dec. : consisting of his well-known topographical views and drawings of the celebrated remains of antiquity, which were accurately measured and delineated by him during a journey through Italy, Egypt, and Greece, in the years 1785-1786 : the whole accompanied with numerous remarks in MS by himself, which render them highly curious and valuable to the lover of the arts and classic antiquity : also, elegant collection of architectural designs and plans, including those for the public baths, in the city of Bath : rare drawings by the late George Barret and others : architectural casts taken from the antique, at a great expence, book of architecture prints and antiquities : a reflecting telescope by Nairne and Blunt, with specula by Watson : hydraulic and other models : a violin and violoncello : and a watch by Ellicot : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, (No. 118, late the Royal Academy) in Pall Mall, on Monday, May 11, 1801, and following day, at twelve o'clock : may be viewed on Friday and Saturday preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had : and the plaster casts to be viewed (with tickets) at Dr. Willich's, Litton Street, Litton Green, Paddington.

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Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue of the genuine reserved property of Mr. A.C. de Poggi of New Bond-Street, retired from business : consisting of a most valuable collection of beautiful pictures, painted in body colours, by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. and other eminent artists, elegantly framed, a great variety of highly-finished cabinet prints, coloured as miniatures : an assemblage of eighty-nine lots of very scarce proofs and aqua fortis impressions, in high preservation, forming an early part of the most scarce prints engraved by F. Bartolozzi, Esq. R.A. : proof and other prints of various masters: scarce portraits of the great literary & military characters living in Germany near the close of the last century, by J.F. Bause of Leipzig; Professor Muller of Stutgard; and other artists of eminence : capital drawings by Sidelman, in handsome gilt frames and plate glasses, taken from the pictures of Coregio, Raphael, Mengs, & Ferdinand Bol, in the electoral collection at Dresden : three of the largest convex glasses made by the British Cast Plate Company, in rich and handsome gilt frames, &c. &c. : the whole forming a selection no less calculated to attract the attention of the connoisseur, than adapted for useful and ornamental embelishments of the most handsome apartments of private families : which will be sold by auction by Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster, at the Great Room, late othe King's-Arms, Cornhill, on Wednesday, the 20th of May, 1801, & following day, at eleven o'clock.

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Creator:: Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster (London, England)
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: 14 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A catalogue of a small, but select assemblage of elegant modern drawings, loose, and framed and glazed : together with a few prints and pictures, the property of a Gentleman : comprising about twelve capital landscapes and ruins by Marco Ricci, in his very best style : a few elegant and high-finished ditto by Bartolozzi, La Porte, and other admired Masters : a few capital pictures by Berghem, Barret, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Wednesday, May the 13th, 1801, at twelve o'clock : to be publickly viewed two days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, and in Pall Mall.

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Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts