Date: 1793 / Work Type: auction catalog / Subject Terms: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 -- Scientific apparatus collections -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800. - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

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Date 1793

Work Type auction catalog

Subject Terms Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 -- Scientific apparatus collections -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800.

1. A Catalogue of the capital collection of optical, mathematical, and philosophical Instruments and machines : late the property of The Right Hon. the Earl of Bute, Deceased : consisting of a great variety of elegant and valuable articles : including a grand orrery, a nicely-finished new universal equatorial, by Ramsden : a large armillary sphere, a cabinet selection of silver and brass drawing instruments and scales, air pumps, electrical machines, and apparatus, by Nairne : a silver compound microscope; elegant solar, lucernal, and other microscopes, by Adams, &c. reflecting telescopes, by Short, &c. achromatic telescopes, by Dollond and Ramsden : a large universal ring dial, with dials of other constructions : improved barometers, and thermometers; loadstones, silver-mounted : sets of artificial magnets; perspective machines : a curious assortment of French recreations, by Guyot ... : which will be sold by auction by Mess. Skinner & Dyke, on Tuesday the 5th February, and the two following days at twelve o'clock, at Mr. Hutchin's Rooms, King-Street, Covent-Garden.

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Creator:: Skinner and Dyke
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: 23, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue of the compleat apparatus and contents of the Laboratory at Luton House, Bedfordshire : late the property of John Earl of Bute, deceased : comprising a numerous assortment of retorts, recipients, and other glass vessels : black lead and other crucibles : iron and other mortars : furnaces, bellows, with many other utensils, preparations, &c. used in making chemical experiments, assaying, &c. as well on a large as small scale : together with a great variety of ores of silver, copper, iron, lead, cobalt, &c. : spars, crystals, marcarsites, and other minerals : some curious petrifactions of fish, corals, &c. chiefly foreign : and other interesting subjects of natural history : also a magnificent air pump on a new construction, not finished : copper scales and weight, shelves, fixtures, &c. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, at Mr. Hutchins's rooms, in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, on Thursday, May 30th, and following day at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:: Skinner and Dyke
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: 8, [4], 17-24 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts