A Catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased, which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ... in Privy-Garden, Whitehall
- Bib ID:
- 472940
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. NK4358 copy
- Description:
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- [London] : Catalogues may now be had ... of Mr. Skinner and Co., Aldersgate-Street, 1786
- viii, 194 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 26 cm.
- Notes:
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- National Library of Australia's FRM F14 copy half bound in maroon leather with five raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges; copy numbered 1115; stamped Commonwealth National Library, E29969, 24 Sep 1943.
- National Library of Australia's NK3713 copy has been rebound in half black calf with five raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges; lacks title page, frontispiece and the bottom of page 193 (from lot 4140); bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1786/3).
- National Library of Australia's NK4358 copy half bound in contemporary calf with marbled paper boards and five raised bands; inscribed in ink inside the front cover, "Mary Esther [Hopkins?] presented by Mrs Coombe. Oct 1842" (possibly Frances Drewitt (1804-1873), Mrs George Augustus Coombe (1799-1857)) with book label of "J. Drewitt" in the of a chest, pasted down suggesting a connection between the bankrupt bankers, dealers and chapmen John Drewitt (1769-1842) and James Hopkins of Arundel in Sussex; and in pencil, "Thomas P. Greig"; copy numbered 1329 and has the prices realised for each lot noted in the margins in a contemporary hand, also the names of purchasers of the more important lots - especially natural history items - and calculations for each day's sales; includes various notes and press clippings loosely inserted; also bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1786/4).
- National Library of Australia's NK4358 copy bound with: A catalogue of a very valuable collection of cameos, intaglios, and precious stones, and of curiosities; being part of a much celebrated cabinet, many out of the Adundel Collection; which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co., on Thursday the 8th of June, 1786 at twelve o'clock ...
- NK4358 copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-120428904
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK3713, NK4358.
- Cited In:
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- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 14
- Beddie, 4661
- Forbes, 116
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1856 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1786
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