Short title
Blew1765
Year of publication
1765
Full title

A CATALOGUE OF THE Genuine Houshold Furniture, Plate, Linen, China, Books, Antiquarian Prints, &c. OF Mr. JOSHUA BLEW, F. S. A. Deceased, Late Librarian of the Inner Temple. Which (by Order of the Executor) will be Sold by AUCTION, By W. BRISTOW, At his late Chambers in the King's Bench Walks, near White Fryars Gateway, in the Temple, On Thursday, March 7, beginning precisely at Twelve o'Clock. The Whole may be viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday the 5th and 6th Instant, to the Time of Sale, and Catalogues then had, of W. Bristow, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and at the Place of Sale.

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Conditions of SALE. I. THE highest Bidder is to be the Purchaser. / II. If any Dispute shall arise between Two or more Bidders, the Lot in Dispute is to be put up again, or decided by the Majority of the Company. / III. No Advance less than Sixpence; above a Pound; One Shilling; and above Five Pounds, Two Shillings and Sixpence. / IV. Each Person to pay Two Shillings and Sixpence in the Pound as Earnest in Part of Payment, for each Lot they buy, and to give in their Names and Places of Abode, if required. / V. The Goods to be taken away, with all Faults, at the Buyer's Expence, within Two Days after the Sale, and the Remainder of the Purchase Money to be paid on the Delivery. / VI. Upon Failure of clearing the Lots at the Time limited, the Deposit Money to be forfeited, the Lots resold, and the Loss and Charges to be made good by the first Purchasers. / Those Gentlemen, who cannot attend the Sale, may depend upon having their Commissions faithfully and punctually executed, by their Devoted and obedient Servant, W. Bristow. St. Paul's Church-Yard.|[vignette] A CATALOGUE OF THE Houshold Furniture, &c.[after N@]|FINIS.[after N@175]

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Lots
1 TWO pokers, shovel, tongs, trivet, and fender
2 Two copper sauce-pans and a frying-pan
3 Two ditto [copper sauce-pans and a frying-pan] with covers and tea-kettle
4 A pottage pot and lid
5 A large dish-kettle
6 Two pair of brass candlesticks, one flat ditto [large dish-kettle], one tinderbox, candlebox, slice, and extinguisher
7 Three flat-irons and stand, a footman, a beef-fork, and two squres
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7* A hanging-iron, a trivet, and a pair of spit-racks
7** Two spits
8 A jack with leaden weights, pullies, and lines
9 One dozen of pewter plates, and four dishes
10 One dozen of ditto [pewter plates], three ditto [pewter plates], and six soup-plates
11 A cullender, wash-hands bason, and two water-plates
12 A small looking-glass, two wainscot flap-tables, and an elbow chair
13 Five wainscot chairs, five white handle knives and forks, a tray, an ironing board, and a pair of bellows
14 Sundry earthen, wood, and tin ware
15 A wainscot chest of drawers
16 A dressing glass in a walnut-tree frame, two chairs, and an old travelling chest
17 A small walnut-tree chest of drawers
18 A ditto [small walnut-tree chest of drawers], bureau
19 A mahogany pillar and claw table
20 A four-post bedstead with crimson harrateen furniture
21 A feather-bed, bolster, two pillows, and a mattrass
22 Three blankets and a quilt
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23 A steel stove, shovel, poker, tongs, and fender
24 Eight mahogany chairs with green worsted damask seats
25 A - chest of drawers, chest upon chest
26 A - card table
27 A - pillar and claw table
28 A - tea-board, and walnut-tree inlaid tea-chest
29 A worked fire screen with mahogany pillar and claws
30 A pair of green silk damask window curtains, valens, and rods
31 A chimney glass in a carved and gilt frame
32 A pier ditto [chimney glass in a carved and gilt frame], the plate 23 inches by 35
33 Six pictures of sea weeds, framed and glazed
34 Eighteen India pictures, ditto [framed and glazed]
35 Four ditto [Eighteen India pictures], not framed, and four casts in plaister of Paris
36 Two pictures of Julius Caesar and Domitian, in black frames with gilt edges
37 A pair of glass sconces, two pair of brass arms, and a brown Dutch tea-kettle and lamp
38 A painted floor-cloth, and sundry pieces of matting, &c.

[vignette] CHINA.
39 Six enamelled cups and saucers, and a tea-pot
40 Six ditto [enamelled cups and saucers], and ditto [a tea-pot]
41 Five slop-basons, two blue and white coffee-cups, and six white ditto [a tea-pot]
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42 A fine old tea-pot with silver spout, three basons, a sugar-dish and cover, five cups, two saucers, and four plates for pickles
43 Eighteen blue and white plates
44 Two dishes and a punch-bowl
45 A blue and white jar
46 Sundry glass ware, and a delft flower-pot
47 Sundry pieces of ornamental china
48 Ditto [Sundry pieces of ornamental china]

[vignette] LINEN, &c.
49 One pair of sheets, and one pair of pillow cases
50 One ditto [pair of sheets], and ditto [one pair of pillow cases]
51 Three Holland, and ditto [one pair of pillow cases]
52 A linen quilt, and a lace-work counterpane
53 A fine Marsailles worked quilt
54 Nine shirts, four neckcloths, four bands
55 Three diaper tablecloths
56 Two large damask tablecloths, and one dozen of napkins
57 Two remnants of Holland, at per yard
58 Eight fine needle-worked chair bottoms
59 A piece of curious work for a toilette, spangles, &c. and a child's worked mantle and sleeves
60 A rich India scarlet damask sack
61 Sundry pieces of lace
62 A pair of fine brussels lace lappets
63 Two pair of double Brussels lace ruffles
64 Three pair of single, ditto [Brussels lace ruffles]
65 Four handkerchiefs, ditto [Brussels lace ruffles]
66 Ten laced caps, ditto [Brussels lace ruffles]
66* Three fans
67 Two flowered lawn aprons
68 One callico apron, and a gauze handkerchief
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69 Two fine muslin handkerchiefs
70 Five cambrick, ditto [fine muslin handkerchiefs]
71 Eight holland shifts and four petticoats

[vignette] PLATE, &c.
72 Two pair of shoe, and one pair of knee-buckles
73 Six tea-spoons, strainer, and tongs
74 A milk Ewer and cup
75 A bell and punch ladle
76 Two castors, a pair of salts and shovels
77 Four table spoons, and one marrow ditto [shovels]
78 Six ditto [table spoons], and one ditto [marrow]
79 A soup spoon
80 A pair of pipe lights
81 A wrought cup
82 A pint mug
83 A tea-pot
84 A coffee-pot
85 An old dish with the heads of four of the Caesars
86 A salver
87 A large waiter
88 A table repeating-clock, by Speakman
89 A silver Otho, a six-pence of queen Elizabeth, one of queen Anne, two small silver boxes, and a silver seal
90 A small piece of gold, a gold coin of Edward VI.
91 An Amythist seal set in gold
92 Two quarter guineas, and three mourning rings
93 Twenty-two new shillings of king George II.
94 Queen Anne's money, three half-crowns, thirty-nine shillings and eleven six-pences
95 A small copper box with ten commonwealth, and other silver half-pence, and two small Chinese pieces
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96 Three mother of pearl snuff-boxes, one toirtoishe-studded with gold
97 A box of gold scales and weights, a reading glass, a pair of spectacles, and a bag of shells
98 A Roman lamp, a cup, some fossils, petrifactions, impressions of seals, &c.
99 A broad sword with basket hilt
100 An ancient sword with a very fine blade, mounted in steel, curiously wrought, supposed to be the sword of Edward VI. his head being engraved thereon

[vignette] BOOKS.
101 A Common Prayer Book / _ Sherlock's Cases considered by Taylor / _ Willes's Prophecy of Perilous Times / _ Bishop Hall's Old Religion / _ Synge on the Communion
102 Dryden's Miscellanies, vol. 1 and 5. / _ Motteux's D. Quixote, vol. 2. / _ Vocal Miscellany, vol. 1. / _ and a Volume of Plays
103 Stow's Chronicle imp. / _ Order of Lord-mayor Alderman and Sheriffs, with two other Tracts / _ Museum Tradescancianum / _ Dugdale's Ancient Usage of Arms / _ Blount's on Baker's Chron.
104 Gent's History of York / _ Pointer's Chronological History of England, 2 vol.
105 Cleveland's Poems / _ Triumphs of Bacchus / _ A Collection of Epigrams
106 History of Charles XII. by Voltaire / _ Of the Prince of Orange / _ Quevedo's Visions
107 Psalms of David in four languages, by Slater / _ Ignoramus / _ Oxford Grammar / _ Poemata et Epigrammata / _ Crashaw
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108 Fasciculus Plantarum circa Harefield / _ Merrett Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum
109 Patini Historia Numismatum / _ Hulsius Numismatum Romanorum / _ Vaughn of Coin and Coinage
110 De L'utilite des Voyages par Baudelot, 2 tom.
111 Hoadly on the Common Rights of Subjects on Episcopacy
112 De Pile's Lives of the Painters / _ A Collection of Original Letters
113 Trowell's Husbandry / _ The Compleat Fisherman / _ Mortimer on Intermitting Fevers
114 Herne's Life of King Alfred / _ Dodwell on the Phoenecian History
115 Phillipe's Poems / _ Lely's Poems
116 Behren's Natural History of Hart's Forest / _ Sharp's Voyages
117 Burnett's Life of the Earl of Rochester / _ Funeral Sermon of Margaret, Mother to King Henry the VIIth.
118 Herne's Vindication of the Oath of Allegiance / _ Wake's Appeal to the Members of the Church of England / _ Sandy's View of the State of Religion.
129 Wheare's Method of Reading Histories / _ Kennett's Roman Antiquities
120 Willis's Notitia Parliamentaria / _ The Court Register
121 Tanner's Notitia Monastica
122 Baxter's Glossarium Antiquitatum Brittanicarum
123 Avesbury Historia Edvardi Tertii Herne
124 Rawlinson's English Topographer
125 Lewis's Life of Caxton 2
126 Doddridge's History of Wales, Cornwall, and Chester / _ History of Hereford 2
127 Woodward's History of Fossils 2
128 Knowledge of Medals / _ Catalogue of Medals / _ Greek and Roman History illustrated by Medals 2
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129 Five Volumes of Miscellaneous Tracts 2
130 Felton's Sermons, Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalms in Octavo, in Blue Turkey 2
131 Warren's Sermons, 2 vol. 2
132 Bishop Sherlock's Discourses, 4 vols. 2

[vignette] QUARTO.
133 Strada Epitome Thesauri Antiquitatum 2
134 Pauldin's Account of taking Pontefract Castle, and several other curious tracts 2
135 Tournefort's Compleat Herbal 2
136 Haym's British Treasury, vol. 1 and 2 2
138 Vertue's Description of Hollar's Works 2
139 _ [Vertue's] Medals, Coins, Great-seals, &c. 2
140 Dr. Du Carel's Series of Angli Gallic Coins 2
141 Withy and Ryall's Twelve Plates of English Silver Coins 2
142 M. Folke's Plates of English Silver Coins 2
144 A Table of English Silver Coins, published by the Society of Antiquarians 2
145 Table of English Antiquities / _ Dr. Petangale's Latin Inscription / _ Mr. Webb's ditto / _ Account of Danageld / _ Catalogue of English Printers / _ Aymes's Index to Pembroke's Coins / _ Webb's Account of Doomsday Book 2
146 North's Remarks, and some Conjectures relating to a Coin of Richard the First / _ Clark's ditto / _ Observations on Carausius and Oriana / _ Short Dissertations on Carausius / _ Answer to a Scandalous Libel, entitled, The Impertinence and Imposture of Modern Antiquities displayed / _ Account of an Ancient Painting of Edward the Sixth / _ Catalogus Nummorum Suego Gothicorum, Nic. Keredo 2
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147 A bundle of sermons 2
148 Ditto [A bundle] of Forms of Prayer 2
149 Ancient Painting of Edward the Sixth / _ Tour through Normandy / _ Endowments of Vicarages in Canterbury Diocess / _ Webb's Account of Danageld / _ Account of Isis / _ Webb's Excerpta de Judaeis / _ Herne's Antiquities between Windsor and Oxford / _ Methods of making the River Dunn navigable 2
150 A bundle of King's Speeches 2
151 The Speeches of King George the Second 2
152 Proclamations, Acts of Parliament, Speeches, &c. 2
153 Ignorami Lamentatio / _ Coronation of King George the Second / _ Report of the Guildhall Subscription, and sundry Political and Miscellaneous Pamphlets and Papers 2
154 A bundle of Political Papers 2
155 A large parcel of London Gazettes 2
156 Ditto [A large parcel] of old News Papers 2
157 Memento for English Protestants / _ Address of the Presbyterians / _ Middleton's Dissertatio de Medicis / _ Memorial of the Church of England, and other Miscellaneous Tracts 2

[vignette] FOLIO.
158 Nicholson's English Historical Library / _ Holmes's Account of the Cottonian Library 2
159 Bickham's Universal Penman, 1733 2
160 The Oxford Common Prayer 2
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161 The Holy Bible, Oxford, 1715 2
162 Bloom's History of the Bible, 1705 2

[vignette] PRINTS.
163 Twenty Heads of Eminent Persons, by different Masters 2
164 Fifteen Prints of Castles, Antient Crosses, and other Antiquities, by the Society of Antiquarians, &c. 2
165 Fifteen ditto [Prints of Castles, Antient Crosses, and other Antiquities, by the Society of Antiquarians, &c.] 2
166 Ten ditto [Prints of Castles, Antient Crosses, and other Antiquities, by the Society of Antiquarians, &c.] 2
167 Twenty-one Views of Cities, &c. 2
168 Twenty-one Maps, &c. 2
169 A fine emblematical Print of Oliver Cromwell, and two curious Pictures of Wove Paper 2
170 A large Print of the Procession of Queen Anne to St. Paul's, by Vertue / _ Twenty other Prints, and a curious Drawing on Vellum 2
171 Twenty Prints of Ancient Deeds, Seals, &c. by Dr. Rawlinson 2
172 Twenty-four ditto [Prints of Ancient Deeds, Seals], by Ditto [Dr. Rawlinson] 2
173 A small Port Folio, with sundry Prints of Coins, Seals, &c. 2
174 Ectypa Varia, ad Historiam Britannicam, Illustrandam per T. Hearne, 1737 2
175 Twelve Prints of Birds, &c. beautifully coloured by Edwards. 2