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1. Catalogue of the valuable collection of old snuff-boxes, bonbonnieres, bijouterie, and articles of vertu, of John James, Esq., deceased, late of Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park ; also, the choice collection of snuff-boxes of Sigismund Rucker, Esq. ; also, three very fine boxes, with enamels by Petitot, from the collection of George IV : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, May 22, 1873, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1872]
Physical Description:
14 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Valuation of pictures at the Grainge : manuscript.

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Creator:
Batt, John Thomas, 1746–1831
Date:
1786-1787
Physical Description:
1 item (10 pages) ; 24 x 19 cm. + accompanying material
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A catalogue of the valuable theological, classical, and miscellaneous library of the late Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., Lord Bishop of Winchester : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Rushworth, Abbott & Co., on the premises, "Winchester House", no. 19. St. James' Square, on Wednesday, October 22nd 1873, & following day, at twelve for one o'clock each day, by direction of the executors.

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Creator:
Rushworth, Abbott & Co.
Date:
[1873]
Physical Description:
52 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Catalogue of the valuable classical and theological library of the late Rev. George Frederic Tavel, formerly Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge : to which is added the very choice and select library of the late Mr. Harris, editor of the Edition of Shakespeare of 21 vol. 1813, and Principal Librarian in the Royal Institution ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son, Wellington, Street, Strand, on Friday, December the 11th, and four following days (Sunday excepted), at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Sotheby and Son
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
40 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Catalogue of a valuable assemblage of ancient & modern pictures, from different private collections, including twenty pictures and drawings from the collection of the late Sir William Tite, M.P., thirty pictures from the collection of the late General Fox ; also, splendid works of Sir J. Reynolds, Gainsborough ...

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1874]
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Catalogue of the intire cabinet of Robert Udney of Udny, Esq. lately deceased : part I. containing the prints, books of prints, portfolios, and valuable library ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Scott, Jun. under the direction of Mr. T. Philipe, at his room, in Warwick Street, Golden Square, adjoining the chapel : on Wednesday, 26th May, 1802, and fifteen following days, (Sundays and Thanksgiving-day excepted,) at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Scott, Jun., Mr
Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
97, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A catalogue of all the materials of the dwelling-house, out-houses, &c. of His Grace James Duke of Chandos : deceas'd, at his late seat call'd Cannons, near Edgware in Middlesex ... which will be sold by auction / by Mr. Cock, on Tuesday, the 16th of June 1747, and the eleven following days (at Cannons aforesaid).

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Creator:
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720–1749
Date:
[1747]
Physical Description:
60 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Catalogue of the intire cabinet of Robert Udney of Udny, Esq. lately deceased, brought from his seat at Teddington : part II. containing the valuable library & capital books of prints ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Scott, Jun. under the direction of Mr. T. Philipe, at his rooms, in Warwick Street, Golden Square, adjoining the chapel : on Friday, the 11th June, 1802, and two following days, (Sunday excepted,) at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Scott, Jun., Mr
Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
22 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Catalogue of original caricatures by "Lib" : exhibited at 24, Minging Lane, December 1st to 18th, 1884 ; which will be sold by auction (without reserve) at the London Commercial Sale Rooms Friday, December 19th, at 3 o'clock precisely / by Mr. Herbert Walton.

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Creator:
Walton, Herbert, active 1884
Date:
[1884]
Physical Description:
[20] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A catalogue of a valuable and splendid collection of books, prints, books of prints, Persian Mss., Music, &c. : including the library of John Green, Esq. of Dell Lodge, Blackheath, deceased ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Hodgson at his Great Room, "The Poet's Gallery," 192. Fleet-Street, near Chancery Lane, (Removed from no. 39), on Friday, December 11th, 1829, and 3 following days (Sunday excepted) at half past 12 o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Hodgson, Edmund
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A catalogue of the remaining portion of choice water-colour drawings, by Karl Werner, J. Guiaud, Karl Girardet, Soulier, Roelois, Ramelet, Van Wiselingh, Fragonard, Medy, E. Lami, Bossoli, Pelgrini, Pensee and others : several gold snuff boxes ... including a very fine Louis IV sardonyx box, carved in Watteau subjects, and other of the periods of Louis XIV and XVI from the collection of H.I.M. empress eugenie : also a fine set of Gobelinis tapestry after Le Bru representing the triumph of Alexander over darius : and a double set of chairs and sofas covered with tapestry, from the collection of The Marquix of Souza Holstein of Lisbon : specimens of valuable old Sevres, Dresden, Worcester, Chelsea, and Oriental china, Bronzes : a set of three beautiful drawings, by Meissonnier and two drawings by Greuze : which will be sold by auction, by the Crockford's Auction Hall Company Limited, at their spacious gallery, 50, 51, 52, & 53, St. James's Street, on Thursday, June 19th, 1873, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Crockford's Auction Hall Company, Limited
Date:
[1873]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Catalogue of the valuable library of that eminent connoisseur, S. M. Smith, Esq., Deceased, late of 137 New Bond Street : comprising books of prints, picture gallerys, works on architecture and painting, lives of artists, and works in general literature : also, a set of Gould's Splendid Works on Ornithology, the property of a Nobleman : and some valuable illuminated manuscripts, illustrated books, picture galleries, etc. from different private collections : which will be sold by auctions, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Monday, June 29, 1874, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1874]
Physical Description:
26 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A catalogue of a truly choice and capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : comprising superb gallery chef d'œuvres, and an assemblage of high-finished cabinet bijoux ..., being the admired collection lately exhibited at the Academy rooms in Pall Mall, which were purchased at great expence on the continent or from the Orleans, Holderness, Lansdown, Gordon, and other collections : among them are of particular value and celebrity : Heads of the Virgin and Child : the original finished studio by Corregio, for the Marriage of St. Catharine, formerly in the possession of the King of Naples : The Woman Taken in Adultery, Titian ... : The Death of Archimedes, S. Rose ... : a wood scene, by Hobbima ... : ...Landscape with Horsemen, and a View of Dort, Cuyp ... : a beautiful landscape, Potter, the Favorite Holderness Netscher : besides finest specimens of the following great and rare Masters : Schidone, Garofalo, Albano, C. Dolce, P. Da Cortona, Bourdon, Rubens, V. Dyck , Teniers, P. Neefs, Wouvermans, Du Jardin, A.V. De Velde, Berchem, Pynaker, Wynants, Capella, Maes, Metzu, F. Mieris, Lingelback, V. Os, Dietrich, Wilson : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, January the 26th, 1811, precisely at one o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1811]
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Catalogue of a select portion of the valuable library of John Crosse, Esq. of Hull, and a portion of the library of the late Richard Payne Knight, Esq. : including Dugdale's monasticon Anglicanum, by Bandinel, Cayley and Ellis ... Dugdale's St Paul's by Ellis ... Ormerod's History of Cheshire ... : also a large collection of music, and some prints : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans, at his house, no. 93, Pall-Mall, on Monday, December 21, and three following days.

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Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
32 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Catalogue of the select and elegant library of the late Mrs. Martyn, widow of the Rev. Thomas Martyn, Professor of Botany at Cambridge ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son, Wellington Street, Strand, on Thursday, November the 12th, and two following days, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Sotheby and Son
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
26, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A catalogue of the collection of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford deceas'd : consisting of several capital pictures by the most eminent Italian, French, and Flemish masters, great variety of Greek and Roman antiquities in urns, edicts, inscriptions, &c. : as also of busto's and bronzes : together with several very scarce books of prints and drawings; particularly of the most famous altars, vestments, chalices, &c. by J. Paulo Panini and others : collected by the late Mr. Talman; the King of France's Cabinet complete : the heads of the most eminent men in europe in 30 volumes : with divers other valuable curiosities out of the Arundel Collection : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Cock, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 8th of March, 1741-2, and the five following Days : the collection may be viewed at the place of sale on Thursday the 4th instant, and every day after (Sunday excepted) till the time of sale, which will begin each day at half an hour after eleven precisely.

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Creator:
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720–1749
Date:
[1742]
Physical Description:
18 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illlustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Catalogue of the valuable library of Benjamin Heath Malkin , Esq. LL.D., headmaster of Bury School ... : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans at his house, no. 93, Pall Mall, on Saturday March 22, and six following days (Sunday excepted).

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Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
58, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Catalogue of the collection of majolica, palissy ware, and porcelain, of the Rev. J.F. Stuart, deceased, late of Kirton-in-Lindsey : also, some florentine bronzes and marble figures, the property of a gentleman : and some old French furniture and other objects, the property of the late Benjamin Cherry, Esq., of Brickendon Grange, Herts. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, o THursday, July 9, 1874, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1874]
Physical Description:
13 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Catalogue of the renowned collection of English pictures and sculpture, of that distinguished patron of art, Elhanan Bicknell, Esq. : deceased, removed from Herne Hill : which (by order and for account of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... on Saturday, April 25, 1863, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1863]
Physical Description:
24, [4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts