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1. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:
xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

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Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:
[1755]
Physical Description:
15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk : the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
Printed in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:
143 pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

5. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

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Creator:
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:
1843-1844
Physical Description:
4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Catalogue of the various works of art forming the collection of the late Matthew Uzielli ... : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their great rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Friday, the 12th of April, and seven following days.

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Date:
1861
Physical Description:
vii, 293 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
xxiv, 250 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

8. Catalogue of the beautiful collection of modern pictures, water-colour drawings, and objects of art of Charles Dickens, deceased : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... on Saturday, July 9, 1870 at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1870]
Physical Description:
11, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Goodwood : its house park and grounds, with a catalogue raisonné of the pictures in the gallery of His Grace the Duke of Richmond, K.G. : to which are added an account of the antient encampment, tumuli, and British village of the adjacent downs : and a deailed record of Goodwood races from their first establishment : with six illustrations / by William Hayley Mason, librarian of Goodwood.

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Creator:
Mason, William Hayley, -1864
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
215, [1] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

10. A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, collected by Lieutenant General James Dormer, / which will be sold by auction (by order of the administrator) by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent -Garden : to begin on Monday, February the 20th, 1764, and to continue the nineteen following evenings, beginning each evening exactly at six o'clock.

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Creator:
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:
[1764]
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1875 / by John Ruskin.

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Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1875
Physical Description:
59 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Catalogue of the collection of pictures, works of art, and decorative objects, the property of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, K. T. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods at their Great Rooms, 8 King Street, St. James's Square ...

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Creator:
Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:
[1882]
Physical Description:
234 pages, 78 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

13. Indication of memorials, monuments, paintings, and engravings of persons of the Howard family : and of their wives and children, and of those who have married ladies of the name, and of the representatives of some of its branches now extinct, as far as they have been ascertained by Henry Howard.

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Creator:
Howard, Henry, 1757–1842
Date:
[1834-1841]
Physical Description:
97, [98] pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, coats of arms, genealogical tables ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brooke Allen and Peter Aaron

14. A catalogue of the noble collection of pictures, miniatures, bronzes, gems, magnificent embossed plate, ornaments in gold and silver, coins and medals, china, Japan, &c. of the Right Honourable Lady Elizabeth Germain, lately deceas'd : being the collection of the old Earls of Peterborough; and also part of the Arundelian collection : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Wednesday the 7th of this instant March 1770, and the three following days [...] Not. : in the second day's sale will be sold, her Ladyship's rich set of gold and silver dressing plate, her brilliant ear rings, necklace, girdle buckle, stay buckles, and other jewels; her large and fine Oriental pearl necklace, and several other rich and valuable effects.

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Creator:
Mr. Langford and Son
Date:
[1770]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A catalogue of the magnificent collection of pictures of the late Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bart. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Greenwood at their room in Leicester Square, on Thursday, 29th May, 1794, and two following days at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Greenwood (Leicester-Square, London, England)
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
[4], 33, [3] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A catalogue of the library of the late John, Duke of Roxburghe : arranged by G. and W. Nicol, booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall ; which will be sold by auction, at His Grace's late residence in St. James's Square, on Monday, 18th May, 1812, and the forty-one following days, Sundays excepted, at twelve o'clock, by Robert H. Evans, bookseller, Pall-Mall.

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Creator:
Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740–1804
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
17 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, xxii-xxiv, 284 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A catalogue of the highly valuable collection of prints and drawings, the property of the late George Baker, Esq., of St. Paul's Church Yard : the leading features of which embrace a matchless display of the works of Hogarth, ... an unequalled collection of the superior engravings of Woollett, ... chef d'oeuvres of the productions of Sir R. Strange, R. Morghen, Berwic, Volpato, Wille, ... which will be sold by auction by Mr. Sotheby at his house ... on Thursday, the 16th of June, 1825 and nine following days (Sunday excepted) at twelve o'clock each day.

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Creator:
Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
[7], 4-71, [1] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts