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32.
- Creator:
- Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1755]
- Call Number:
- 125 L278 755 3/11
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Priced., Signatures: A-B⁴., The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754. This sale appears to be the English version of the second part of an earlier sale of the Museum Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques., MED,HSL 17th cent: Bound with the author's A catalogue of pictures, London, 1755., BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754., and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout. Title pages are ruled in red.
- Publisher:
- Abraham Langford
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, Great Britain, and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid
33.
- Creator:
- Minguet é Irol, Pablo, -1801?, composer
- Published / Created:
- [1752]-1754.
- Call Number:
- 2018 699
- Image Count:
- 57
- Resource Type:
- notated music
- Alternative Title:
- Academia musical de los instrumentos
- Description:
- BEIN 2018 699: Contemporary limp vellum binding; ties wanting. Unidentified armorial bookplate., In 7 parts, [pts. 2-7] each with special t.p. "Aprobacion" ([pt. 2]) dated: 1752. Imprint (slight variations) appears on title pages to [pts. 2-7]; [pts. 4 and 7] dated: 1754., On title pages to [pts. 2 and 4-7]: compuestas por Pablo Minguet y Yrol (slight variations)., and Frontispiece has title: Academia musical de los instrumentos / que explica Pablo Minguet en sus tratados, los quales enseñan el nuevo estilo de tañerlos por musica, y cifra con perfecc[io]n.
- Publisher:
- Por Joaquin Ibarra ...
- Subject (Topic):
- Musical instruments, Instrumental music, and Instruction and study
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Reglas, y advertencias generales que enseñan el modo de tañer todos los instrumentos mejores : y mas usuales : como son la guitarra, tiple, vandola, cythara, clavicordio, organo, harpa, psalterio, bandurria, violin, flauta travesera, flauta dulce, y la flautilla : con varios tañidos, danzas, contradanzas, y otras cosas semejantes, demonstradas, y figuradas en diferentes laminas sinas, por musica, y cifra, al estilo castellano, italiano, catalàn, y francès, para que qualquier aficionado las pueda comprehender con mucha facilidad, y sin maestro : con una breve explicacion de como el autor los aprendiò, que esta al bolver de esta hoja
34.
- Creator:
- Chute, John, 1701-1776
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3490
- Image Count:
- 173
- Abstract:
- A collection of approximately 130 drawings and sketches by John Chute and one etching and engraving entitled Chaucer's Grove by P. Mazell (artist James Pettit Andrews) given to Horace Walpole, for his renovation of Strawberry Hill, bound in one volume and with an additional 23 loose leaves, including sketches for the Gallery, Round Tower, and one inspired by a doorcase in Dugdale's St. Paul's for the presses in the Library. Some of the drawings have been annotated by Walpole and/or Thomas Kirgate
- Alternative Title:
- Original drawings and sketches
- Description:
- Title from ms. title page in Horace Walpole's hand., Title from Hazen: Original drawings and sketches., In English., John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'Strawberry committee.', Bound in original marbled boards., Inscribed on front fly leaf: "Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 5, 1887.", On front pastedown, Carlingford's bookplate., Marble boards with half-leather. Written in ink in unidentified hand on front cover: Strawberry Hill (drawings). Paper lable on spine: "33.", The 3 volumes consist of 1 album and 2 cases., and Original marbled boards. Second Strawberry Hill Sale fleuron used as bookplate. Press-mark K.13, but moved to the Closet. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; probably kept in the Glass Closet until 1790. Inscribed on the fly-leaf: 'Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 6, 1867.' Bookplate of Lord Carlingford, who married Lady Waldegrave in 1863.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Country homes, and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Slight sketches of architecture by John Chute, Esq., of the Vine in Hampshire,1753 [art original].
35.
- Creator:
- Simms, Henry, 1716-1747
- Published / Created:
- 1747.
- Call Number:
- WA 9762
- Image Count:
- 53
- Description:
- BEIR WA 9762: Stamp: Manley Sims, Eton Collection. Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims.
- Publisher:
- T. Parker and C. Corbett
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crime and Criminals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Life of Henry Simms, alias Young gentleman Harry : From his birth, to his death at Tyburn, on Wednesday June 17, 1747 ; Containing a full and plain narrative of the vast number of remarkable robberies he has committed. And the particulars of his extraordinary adventures both at home and abroad
36.
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1723 and 1735]
- Call Number:
- 49 2610
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A volume of drawings mostly by Vertue in various medium and some engravings, with the drawings mounted or laid in, including twenty-two portraits; eighteen other drawings of allegorical figures, scenes from mythology, and a scene from Richard Steele's Spectator (1711), in which Yarico is drawn as a Native American Indian maiden. Some of the drawings are copies of engravings including those by Pierre Berchet, Claude Lorrain, and other unidentified sources. A few portraits are unidentified but most have been annotated with the name of the subject, some with additional annotations in Horace Walpole's hand: Sr. R. Walpole from Wotton; W. Caxton, printer; Sr. Is. Watts; Coverd[?]; Henry Howard Earl of Surrey; Junus; Dr. Clarke; Dr. Swift; Milton; Joseph Bowles, with a note indicating that the sketch took 55 minutes; Scarpu(?); T. Hearne; Tho. Tristram, dated 20 April 1723; Mich. Bergers; Chr. Mazard(?); Dr. Tudway, with a portrait of the Earl of Oxenford on verso; unidentified portrait with a portrait of Vertue on the verso; unidentified scholar, dated July 1729 Cambridge. Also tipped in are: an engraved portrait of Darcy Wentworth by Willem de Passe; an engraved portrait of William Parsons by Simon Gribelin, after Pierre Berchet; an engraved portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Goltzius; Hatchard, a gentleman of Berkshire who "was so very fat that he could not get into a hackney coach", S.G. sculp. Also included is a drawing of a pearl said to have been "taken out of the ear of my grandfather after his head was cutt off and given to the princess Royal. This the attestation of Queen Mary .. now in the possession of the Duke of Portland ... trans. by G. June 1735", later used for his engraving 1749? Also included is a portrait sketch identified as "Grimaldi" on wove paper and laid in (at a later date?) a sketch of a man on a sleigh pulled by a horse, also on wove paper
- Alternative Title:
- Drawings by Vertue
- Description:
- In English, some Latin., Title from Hazen., Leaves 14, 15 lacking images?, Binding: red morocco, now rebacked., Note on first blank in Horace Walpole's hand: "This was Mr. Vertue's, & most of the Drawings are by Him." Followed by a note in another hand: "Knowley Inner Library B.e. S.4. No. 21.", On front pastedown: Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP1)., Also on front pastedown: Armorial bookplate of Lord Derby on front pastedown, with his shelf mark "3.B"., and Red morocco, now rebacked. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
- Subject (Name):
- Burgers, Michael, -1726,, Bowles, Joseph, 1692 or 1693-1729,, Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492,, Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742,, Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735,, Junius, Franciscus, 1589-1677,, Milton, John, 1608-1674,, Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604,, Parsons, William, 1658-1725?,, Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547,, Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745,, Tristram, Thomas,, Tudway, Thomas, 1655 or 1656-1726,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748,, and Wentworth, Darcy, 1592-1667,
- Subject (Topic):
- Inkle and Yarico, Cupids, Gods, and Goddesses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings, mostly done by Vertue, of various people and of antiquities] [art original].
37.
- Creator:
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
- Call Number:
- Bg44 27y
- Image Count:
- 3
- Description:
- BEIN Bg44 27y: Unidentified armorial bookplate with motto: Nec impetu, nec imperio., Signatures: pi² A-R⁸ S⁴(-S4, S3v blank)., and Title in red and black.
- Publisher:
- Chez Jaques [sic] Desbordes, MDCCXXXIV [1734]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence
38.
- Creator:
- Gay, John, 1685-1732
- Published / Created:
- 1727.
- Call Number:
- Ik G252 727 2
- Container / Volume:
- Copy 2
- Image Count:
- 200
- Description:
- BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 1: No. 1 of 2 works bound together with binder's title: Gay's Fables. Autographs of Walter Falk and Morley Hirsch., BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 2: 26 cm. Armorial bookplate: John Holland., BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 3: 25 cm. Bookplates of George Herbert Palmer and Chauncey Brewster Tinker., BEIN Tinker 1069: 24 cm. Bound with his The beggar's opera. 3d ed. London, 1729] Imperfect: p.173 wanting. In manuscript on t.p.: "O.F. [i.e. Charles Ford] given me by Mr. Gay 1727.", Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Z⁴ 2A²., and Final p. blank.
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fables
39.
- Creator:
- Weston, James
- Published / Created:
- 1727.
- Call Number:
- WB 40716
- Image Count:
- 123
- Description:
- BEIR WB 40716: Armorial bookplate: James Spearing., BEIR WB 40716 copy 4: Armorial bookplate: William Middleton, Esqr., Parts [2]-[4] have special t.p.; pt. [2]: Directions for writing shorthand ... pt. [3]: A dictionary, or An alphabetical table, containing almost all the words in the English tongue, with the short-hand over-against each word ... pt. [4]: Observations, and explications ..., and Engraved, with the exception of 8 p. following general t.p., and pt. [4], p. 1-16.
- Publisher:
- Printed for the author
- Subject (Topic):
- Shorthand
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Stenography compleated, or The art of short-hand brought to perfection; being the most easy, exact, lineal, speedy, and legible method extant ...
40.
- Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Published / Created:
- MDCCXXII [1722]
- Call Number:
- Defoe 50 722 1
- Image Count:
- 11
- Description:
- BEIN Defoe 50 722 1: Armorial bookplate of Wadham Wyndham. Ms. note on front paste-down endpaper: Exlibris Hon. P[?] Wyndham., Fully described in Hutchins, H.C. Robinson Crusoe and its printing, p. 83-85., Title in red and black., With two final advertisement leaves., and Signatures: pi² B-2A⁸.
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Taylor, at the ship and Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The life, and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque : having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished by himself : with an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates
