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Answers for Laurence Dinwoodie merchant and late provost of Glasgow, Robert Dunwoodie [sic] of London merchant, brother to the said Laurence, Patrick Nisbet merchant, Robert Finlay tanner, both of the city of Glasgow, and John Bird late of London, now of Glasgow, potter, to the petition of John Giles late pot-painter in London, now prisoner in the tolbooth of Glasgow
- by Dinwoodie, Laurence
- 1748
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A catalogue of a pleasing assemblage of prints, by the best masters. Some elegantly framed and glazed. A few books of prints : A small, but well-chosen library of books, many of them elegantly bound. The property of a gentleman. Together with about fifty lots of beautiful shells for cabinets; two ancient missals, on vellum, finely illuminared; a pair of excellent twelve inch globes, by Wright; a quadrant, in Wainscot Case, &c. Among the prints, are the views of the Sandwich Islands, in colours. In the books are Pindar's works, 2 vols. in Morocco; Cook's voyages, and life, 5 vols. Russia; Baskerville's addision, 4 vols. Lavater's physiognomy, 3 vols. Russia; Luxemburgh Gallery, fine impressions; voyage pittoresque de naples et sicile; contes de la fontaine, 2 vols. Buffon, 54 vols. coloured; voyage imaginaire, 41 vols. Pilkington's dictioanry of painters; Rapin's England, 5 vols. &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, at Baker's Coffee-House, Exchange Alley, on Tuesday, September 18, 1792, and the two following days, precisely at twelve o'clocl. To be viewed on Monday till the sale. Catalogues may be had at T. King's great room, King Street. Covent Garden, and at the place of sale
- by King, Thomas
- 1792
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Catalogue of Le melange des arts, or miscellany of arts, at Davis's Long Room, No. 60, South Great George's-Street. First, that amazing philosophical phenomenon the speaking figure, of a superior kind. Second. a collection of pictures in stain'd glass, and transparencies on silk, the productions of those eminent artists, Mr. Jervais, painter in glass to His Majesty, and Mon. De Lou-Therboug, F.R.A.
- by Davis's Long Room (Dublin, Ireland)
- 1790
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Discourse on sacred and profane images
- by Paleotti, Gabriele, 1524-1597
- 2012
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Every young man's companion : Containing directions for spelling, reading, and writing English. Instructions in the art of penmanship. Epistolary writing, containing letters of compliment and business. Forms of address to persons of all ranks. Arithmetic, vulgar, fractional, decimal, logarithmetical, and algebraical. Practical geometry. Astronomy, or an account of the globe, fixed stars, planets and comets. Geography, or a general account of the world, and a particular description of Great-Britain and Ireland. Plain trigonometry. The resolution of astronomical questions. The making and fixing all kinds of dials. The measuring superficies, solids, timber, carpenters, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, glasiers, and joiners work, &c. Surveying of land. Gauging of casks, with a description of everard's gauging-rule. The gardener's calendar, shewing what work is to be done every month in the kitchen, flower, and fruit garden. Farriery, or the art of knowing and curing the diseases of horses. Useful receipts of various kinds. The art of making rockets, and artificial fireworks. The method of painting dials, rooms, timber work, and mezzotinto prints on glass, and of the making and mixing colours. The art of colouring maps, plots, and prints. Forms for business in the mercantile way. Forms in law of general use. Together with a great variety of cuts and tables, accurately drawn and made for the more ready performance of the different operations taught in this treatise. By W. Gordon, teacher of the mathematics
- by Gordon, W.
- 1757
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A catalogue of a very large collection of foreigners who have been in England, ranged alphabetically : Comprising [a]lmost all those mentioned by Granger and Bromley in their appendixes, with many others not generally known; most of them illustrated with notes and references to Clarendon, Burnet, and other books, &c. giving some account of the parties. Here, also, ...ill be found some of the rarest works of British painters and engravers; because the plates, having been done for foreigners, were sent abroad as soon as finished, and very few impressions have since found their way back into this country. ... opportunity like the present will not often occur, to form a numerous collection of eminent statesmen who have figured here in the diplomatic character. To these are added, some very rare private plates, and some curious anonymous prints, all belonging to the British series. Together with ... parcels of elephant and other paper, of various sizes fit ... pasting prints, as also blank-paper books, for transcribing catalogues, with many articles useful to collectors; which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ricardson, at his House, ... 31, the corner of Villiers Street, in the Strand, [o]n Monday, April 29, 1799, and the following day, at twelve o'clock. ... be viewed on Saturday, the 17th. Catalogues may be had of ... Clarke, bookseller, Bond-Street; Mr. Geo. Cooper, Glas ..., &c. No. 82, Lombard-street; and of Mr. Richardson, [N]o. 31, Strand
- by Richardson, William, active 1778-1815
- 1799
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Botanicum medicinale; an herbal of medicinal plants on the College of Physicians list : Describing their places of growth, roots, bark, leaves, buds, time of flowering, blossoms, flowers, stiles, chives, embrio's, fruits, farina, colours, seeds, kernels, seed-vessels, parts used in medicine, preparations in the shops, medicinal virtues, names in nine languages. Most beautifully engraved on 118 large folio copper-plates, from the exquisite drawings of the late ingenious T. Sheldrake. English plants are drawn from nature to the greatest accuracy, flowers, or parts, too small to be distinguished, are magnified. Nothing in any language exceeds this thirty years laborious work, of which it may truly be said that nature only equals it, every thing of the kind, hitherto attempted, being trivial, compared to this inimitable performance. Designed to promote botanical knowledge, prevent mistakes in the use of simples in compounding and preparing medicines, to illustrate, and render such herbals as want the just representations in their proper figures and colours more useful. Necessary to such as practise physic, pharmacy, chemistry, &c. entertaining to the curious, the divine and philosopher, in contemplating these wonderful productions,-useful to painters, heralds, carvers, designers, gardeners, &c. The colours of every part are minutely described; for utility it must be esteemed preferable to any hortus siccus extant. The means to preserve fruits, and dry flowers, in their native form and colour, are not yet discovered; plants cannot be preserved to perfection. The flowers when coloured, are represented in their original bloom, and fruits in the inviting charms of maturity. To which now is added, his tables for finding the heat and cold in all climates, that exotie plants may be raised in summer, and preserved in winter
- by Sheldrake, Timothy, -1770
- 1768
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A catalogue of the choice and valuable libraries William Norton, gent : And Benjamin Wright; both lately deceased. In Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Hebrew, English, &c. Containing a great variety of history, voyages, travels, trade, law, physick, mathematicks, diviinity, geography, plays, novels, and romances. Among which are the following, with many others equally good, the whole being in good condition and most of them gilt or letter'd. Folio's Stanley's lives of the philosophers. Hammond on the N. Testament, best fisher's architecture. Lives of the painters. Rapin's hist. of England, 2 vols. Ogilby's esop. Marott's designs. Henry on the Old Testament. Chaucer's works. Spencer's fairy queen. Acta Regia. Taylor's life of Christ. Stebbing's genealogical hist. Salmon's state trials. Burchett's naval history. Hawkin's pleas of the crown. Modern cases in equity. Sidney on government. Spotswood's hist. of Scotland. Nicholls on the common prayer. Nicholson's historical libraries. Quarto's. Isbrant's travels. James of gardening, Greenhills art of embalming. Littleton's dictionary. Agrippa's occult philosophy. Hoppu's architecture. Octavo's and duedecimo's. South's sermons, 6 vols. Scott's Christian life, 5 vols. Clatendon hist. of France, 5 vols. Beaumont and fletcher, 7 vols. Rowe's Shakespear, 7 vols. Ben. Johnson's works, 6 vols. Vertot's Roman revolutions, 2 vols. Spencer's works, 6 vols. Moliere's plays Fr. and Eng. 8 vols. Spectator's, 8 vols. Tatler's, 4 vols. British theatre, 10 vols. Which will be sold very cheap (the lowest price being printed to each book in the catalogue) this day, and the following; and to continue till all are sold at J. Boydell's shop, over-against the chappel in Russell Court, near Bridge's-street: where may be had money for any library or parcel of books, in any language or faculty, to the utmost of their value. Catalogues are given gratis at the place of sale
- by Boydell, John, 1720-1804
- 1738
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