Catalogue of a large collection of valuable books : including several rare and curious works, classics and standard authors, in various languages, many of which are handsomely bound, modern novels, and other recently published works : a medical library, including some modern works of theory and practice, also the stock of the late Mr. Thomas Burgess, medical bookseller of Coventry Street : a collection of vocal, piano forte and harp music, a winged bookcase, library, reclining, & Elizabethan chairs, a marqueterie chest of drawers, etc. etc. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Friday, January 17, 1851, and 4 following days, (Sunday excepted), at one o'clock most punctually.

  • Puttick and Simpson.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Catalogue of a large collection of valuable books : including several rare and curious works, classics and standard authors, in various languages, many of which are handsomely bound, modern novels, and other recently published works : a medical library, including some modern works of theory and practice, also the stock of the late Mr. Thomas Burgess, medical bookseller of Coventry Street : a collection of vocal, piano forte and harp music, a winged bookcase, library, reclining, & Elizabethan chairs, a marqueterie chest of drawers, etc. etc. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Friday, January 17, 1851, and 4 following days, (Sunday excepted), at one o'clock most punctually. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREPARING FOR IMMEDIATE SALE BY MESSRS. PUTTICK AND SIMPSON. THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE STOCK OF MODERN FOREIGN BOOKS OF MR. ALEXANDER BLACK, BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER, WELLINGTON STREET, BANKRUPT. THE LIBRARY OF A CLERGYMAN DECEASED. REMOVED FROM WARWICK, CONSISTING OF AN EXCELLENT SELECTION OF CLASSICS, THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE. A COLLECTION OF INTERESTING MANUSCRIPTS, INCLUDING SOME VERY VALUABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. A VERY SELECT LIBRARY, CONSISTING OF CHOICE BOOKS, BOOKS OF PRINTS, GALLERIES, ETC., IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION. A COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS, INCLUDING MANY FINE AND RARE EXAMPLES, CORRESPONDENCE OF POETS, ANTIQUARIES, AND OTHERS. THE MUSICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS LIBRARY OF A GENTLEMAN, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. A COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS. A FURTHER PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE WILL. BROMET, ESQ. M.D. E.S.A. COINS, MEDALS, A COIN CABINET, etc.