Catalogue of the genuine, entire, and capital collection of natural and artificial curiosities of that ingenious and well-known amateur Mr. Joshua Platt, late of the city of Oxford, deceased : comprehending an extensive and beautiful variety of shells, corals, and other singular marine productions ; ores, minerals, and other fossils ; prints, books, manuscripts, China, Otaheite manufactures, &c. among which are two very large and fine dishes of the rare old Japan ; a curious pair of assay scales and weights, made under the inspection of the late celebrated Mr. Edward Carter , remarkable for his skill in adjusting those kind of instruments, and are what he constantly used himself, together with Mr. Carter's MSS. Instructions for assaying all kinds of ores. History of the birds in the Grand Duke of Tuscany's collection, with figures, finely illuminated ; Grose's antiquities ; a beautiful rose-wood cabinet, inlaid with ivory, and a parcel of coins and medals. Which will me sold by Auction by Mr. Willoughby (By order of the executors) at the great room, opposite Old Slaughter's coffe-house, St. Martin's Lane. On Monday the 30th of June, 1777. And the five following days.
entire Catalogue of the genuine
Bok Engelsk 1777 · Auksjonskataloger