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, and the thirty-seven following days ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall : by order of the acting executrix

By

Skinner and Co. (London, England), , auctioneer

Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788 , complier

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[London], [Mr. Skinner and Co.], [1786]

Notes

Compiled by John Lightfoot (see John Nichols. Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century, 1812; vol. 3, p. 670 notes).

Etched frontispiece plate signed: Burney delt.; Grignion sculpt. Executed under the direction of J. Bell, book-seller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, London April 8th 1786.

At foot of title page: "No."; the copy number of the catalog was inserted in manuscript.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the title page.

Signatures: [pi]⁴ A-2A⁴.

English short title catalogue, | T28783

Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, | 4028

Subjects

1715-1785 , Art collections , Art objects , Auction catalogs , Catalogs , Catalogs and collections , duchess of, , Early works to 1800 , Mollusks , Natural history , Natural history collections , Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinc , Zoological specimens

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.143650
OCLC: 171423899