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Pearkes 1788
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1788
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A CATALOGUE OF THE GENUINE LIBRARY OF Printed BOOKS, a Collection of Natural CURIOSITIES, ANTIQUITIES, and other miscellaneous Articles, Of the late Reverend Dr. JOHN PEARKES, F.A.S. Rector of Bredon, in the County of Worcester: WHICH, By Order of the ADMINISTRATRIX, WILL BE SOLD by AUCTION, By Mr. GERARD, AT HIS HOUSE, IN LITCHFIELD-STREET, St. ANNE's, SOHO, On MONDAY the 7th, and TUESDAY the 8th, of APRIL, 1788, at HALF after ELEVEN o'Clock precisely. To be viewed on FRIDAY the 4th, and SATURDAY the 5th, from TEN till FOUR. Catalogues to be had at Mr. GERARD's aforesaid.

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Conditions of Sale. / I. THE highest bidder to be the buyer; and, if any dispute shall arise between any two or more bidders, the lot so disputed to be put up again. / II. No person to advance less than sixpence; above one pound, one shilling; above five pounds, two shillings and sixpence, and so in proportion. / III. The purchasers are to give in their names and places of abode, if required, and to pay down five shillings in the pound in part of the purchase-money; in default of which, the lot or lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and resold. / IV. The lots to be fetched away, with all faults, at the buyer's expence, within one day after the sale. / Lastly, Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money, so deposited in part of payment, shall be forfeited; the lots, uncleared within the time aforesaid, shall be re-sold by public or private sale, and the deficiency, (if any,) together with the charges attending such re-sale, shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale.|A Catalogue, &c.[after N@]|THE END.[after N@62]

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FIRST DAY's SALE, Monday, April 7, 1788. / OCTAVO ET INFRA.

1 LAW of Testaments and Last-wills, 1744; -/ Bohan's Law of Tithes, 1744; -/ Gray's Ecclesiastical Law, 1743, / and nine others. 4.-
2 Bailey's Dictionary, 1737; / Dictionarium Rusticum et Urbanicum cuts, 1714; / Nott's Confectioner's Dictionary, 1733. 5.-
3 Traherne's Christian Ethics, / and 11 more, 1675 3.-
4 Wilkins's (Bp) Discovery of a new World, / and 11 more, 1684 4.6
5 Jacob's common Law common-placed, 1726; -/ Bp Parker's History of his own Time, 1727, / and 10 more. 5.6
6 Digby Cotes's Sermons on several Occasions, / Weston's practical Discourses, and seven Volumes of Sermons, 1724 2.6
7 Nourse's practical Discourses on the Homilies, / and seven Volumes of Sermons 1731 3-
8 Clagett's Sermons, 2 vol. -/ Ibbot's Sermons at Boyle's Lecture, / and five Volumes of Sermons 1699 3.-
9 Bull's Sermons, and Life by Nelson, 4 vol. 5.6
10 Smith's Sermons at Hoxton Chapel, -/ Balguy's twenty-one Sermons on different Subjects, / and seven Volumes of Sermons 1745 4.6
11 Ray on the Creation, 1704; -/ Wilkin's Natural Religion, / and ten others 1704 4.6
12 Bp Wilkins's Natural Religion, / and eleven others 1693 4.-
13 Beveridge on the xxxix Articles, / and eleven others, 1716 4.-
14 Sherlock's practical Discourse on Death, / eleven others 1693 4.- / £2.17
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15 Baker's Reflections upon Learning, 1714; -/ Dart's Tibullus, / and ten more 1714 6.-
16 Historical Account of the Life of King David, -/ Weston on the Miracles, / and two more. 4.-
17 Letters from Theodosius and Constantia, -/ Keill's Anatomy, / and ten more 1764 3.6
18 Gastrell's Christian Institutes, / and eleven others 1748 2 6
19 Cowley's Works; -/ Gay's Fables 1681 2 6
20 Grotius on the Christian Religion, / and eleven more 1711 2 6
21 Prideaux's Life of Mahomet, / and five more. 5-
22 Gastrell's Christian Institutes, and five more. 3.6
23 History of Birds, 2 vol. cuts; -/ Salmon's Gazetteer. 5.-
24 History of Count Saxe, 2 vol. -/ Theodosius and Constantia. 2 6
25 Placete's Death of the Righteous, 2 vol. / and four more. 2-
26 Basia of Joan. Secundus Nicolaius; -/ and Poems and Translations from the antient and modern Classics, neat, and gilt. 2.6
27 Tooke's Pantheon, / and seven more. 4.-
28 Clergyman's Vade Mecum, / and Tracts, 2 vol. 2.6
29 Plato's Works abridged by Mad. Dacier, 2 vol. neatly bound 1749 5.-
30 Quillet's Callipaedia, by Rowe; -/ Suckling's Works, / and two others. 2.-
31 Sharpe's Defence of Christianity, / and eleven more. 6.-
32 Law's practical Treatise on Christian Perfection, / and nine more. 9.6
33 Harte's Essays on Husbandry. / and seven more. 4.6
34 Bragge on the Parables, 2 vol. -/ Wall on Infant Baptism, 2 vol. -/ Ludlow's Memoirs, 3 vol. 6.6
35 Trial of the Regicides; -/ Bladen's Caesar's Commentaries, / and three others. 4.6
36 Pointer's Miscellanies, / and three more. 5.6
37 Shaw's Justice, 2 vol. / and wood's Institute, 2 vol. 1 6
38 Cunningham's Law of Tithe, /and Bateman on Agistment Tithe, neat 1777 5.6
39 Horneck's Crucified Jesus, / and five more. 4.6
40 Parson's Christian's Directory, by Stanhope, / and five more. 2.6
41 History of Nadir Shah, Oldcastle's Remarks on the history of England, / and two more. 3-
42 Watt's Logic; -/ Ward's Mathematics, / and two more. 6 6
43 Eicon Basiliks, with a good portrait, neat and gilt 1649 5.-
44 Doddington's Diary, neat and gilt 1785 5.-
45 Maundrell's Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, large paper, cuts 1703 7.6
46 West on the Resurrection, -/ and Stevenson on Christ's Miracles 4.-
47 Lowman on the Hebrews, / and three more. 3.6 / £9.17.-
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48 Vertot's Revolutions of Rome, Sweden, and Portuga, 4 vol. gilt 1724 5.6
49 Antiquities of Herculaneum, and Mahometism displayed 5-
50 Antiquities of St. Peter's, Westminister, cuts 1715 3-6
51 Hearne's Ductor Historicus, 2 vol. 1698 3.-
52 Deism Delineated, 2 vol. Chapman's Eusebius, / and two more. 36
53 Saunderson's Elements of Algebra, neat 1756 5-
54 Smith's Longinus, neatly bound 1752 2-
55 Buchanan's History of Scotland, by Bond, 2 vol. cuts 1722 6.6
56 Rowning's System of Natural Philosophy, 2 vol. plates, 1753 7.-
57 Heylyn's Help to English History, by Paul Wright, plates new 1773 6 6
58 Davidson's Virgil, with a prose Translation, 2 vol. 1754 6 6-
59 Davidson's Horace, with the prose Translation, 2 vol. 1748 7-
60 Burn's Ecclesiastical Law, 4 vol. neatly bound, last Edition, 1781 16-
61 Owen's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, with copper plates, and neatly bound in 8 vol. 1754 3.-
62 Bragge on the Miracles, 2 vol. / and Burnet's Demonstration of True Religion, 2 vol. 7-
63 Leland's divine Authority of the Old and New Testament, 2 vol. 1739 5-
64 Lediard's Life of the Duke of Marlborough, 2 vol. cuts, 1743 4.-
65 Tillotson's (Abp) Sermons, 14 vol. 1698 10 6
66 Hole on the Liturgy, 5 vol, 1715 5 6
67 Clarke's (Dr. John) Sermons, 2 vol. Conant's Sermons, 4 vol. 3 6
68 Sharpe's Sermons on several Occasions, 7 vol. gilt 1722 10-
69 Coneybeare's Sermons, 2 vol. / Newton's Sermons, 2 vol. 4-
70 Gentleman's Magazine for 1744, 1766, 1767, and 1768, half bound. 6 6
71 Universal Magazine for 1757 and 1759 7.6
72 New Annual Register, 1781 and 1783, boards. 7.6
73 Lovett's Philosophical Essays and Electrical Philosopher, 2 vol. boards 1766 3 6
74 Memoirs of the Baron de Tott, 2 vol. boards. 5.-
75 History of Timur Bec. 2 vol. sewed; -/ Account of King Charle's Escape after the Battle of Worcester. 4.-
76 Ryver's Poems; -/ Essay on the Laws of Celibacy, sewed. 1 6
77 Testamentum Graecum, 2 tom. apud Elsev. corio Turcico, foliis aeauratis 1641 7-
78 Virgilii Opera, uit. comp. apud Elsev. 1676 3-
79 Taciti Opera; -/ Lucanus; -/ et duo. 3 / 21.4.6
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80 Ovidii Opera, per Burmannum, 3 tom. Amst. 3713 -4 6
81 Caesaris Comment. Elsev. -/ Valerius Maximus; -/ et Erasmi Colloquia. -2 6
82 Vetus et Nov. Test. cum Liturgia, 6 vol. interfoliat. semi-comp. Cant. Field, 1675 -5-
83 Grotius de Veritate; -/ Liturgia Graeca; -/ Leusdeni Compendium; -/ et aliis. -4-
84 Sandersoni Logica; -/ Statuta Univ. Oxoniensis; -/ Ward Grammatica Graeca; -/ et aliis. -1 6
85 Quintus Curtius; -/ Justin; -/ Juvenal; -/ Lucretius; -/ et aliis. -2-
86 Lactantius; Mori Enchiridion Ethicum; -/ Sandersoni Praelectionis Acad. -/ et aliis. -1 6
87 Anacreon Gr. & Lat. Barnes, nit. comp. 1705 -5.6
88 Philosophia Burgundiana, 6 tom. in 3, cum aliis. -1 6
89 Vetus Testamentum Graecum, ex Versione Septuaginta Interpretum, Amst. 1683 -3 6
90 Pomponius Mila; -/ Aristaeus; -/ Well's Elementa Arithmeticae; - et aliis. -2 6
91 Novum Testamentum Gr. et Lat. Leusdeni, Amst. 1741 -3-
92 Vetus Testamentum Graecum, Cant. Field, 1665 -1-
93 Novum Testamenium Graecum, Ap. T. Buck, 1632 -1-
94 Novum Testamentum Graecum, Lond. 1728 -2-
95 Biblia Hebraica, cum Punctis, Amst. ap. J. Athiam, 1661 -9-
96 Pasoris Lexicon Gr. et Lat. -/ Dugard Lexicon Nov. Test. et Turretini Theologia. -2-
97 Lusus Westmonasterienses; -/ Clerici Ars Critica; -/ et aliis. -2-
98 Musae Anglicanae, 2 tom. -/ Cieeronis Orationes selectae; - Terentius, Delphini. -2-
99 Musae Anglicanae, 2 tom. -/ Ciceronis Orationis selectae; -/ Clavis Homerica. -2 6
100 Polybii Historia, notis Variorum, per Gronovium, 3 tom. nit. comp. Amst. 1670 1 11 6
101 Livii Historia, 2 tom. 1702 -5-
102 Lucius Florus, notis Var. 1660 -1 6
103 Caesaris Commentaria, notis Var. 1661 -1 6
104 Aurelius Victor, notis Var. 1670 -3-
105 Virgilius, Delphini; -/ Schrevelii Lexicon; -/ Horatius, Delphini, et aliis. -3-
106 Dawson's Lexicon; -/ Corn. Nepos; -/ Whitby Ethica; -/ cum aliis. 3 6
107 Livii Historia, notis Var. per Gronovium, 3 tom. Amst. 1665 -16 6
108 Plinii Epistolae, notis, Delphini; -/ Sallustius, notis, Delphini; -/ Cellarii Geographia; -/ Schrevelii Lexicon. -2-
109 Lucretius, per Creech, Ox. 1695 2 6
110 Clavis Homerica; -/ Juvenal, Delph; -/ Longinus, Pearce. -5-
111 Livii Historia, 2 tom. Cant. 1679 -4- / £28-2.-
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112 Grotius de Jure Belli ac Pacis; -/ Pratt Grammat. Latina. 2-
113 Erasmi Colloquia, notis Var. Amst. 1693 3-
114 Terentius, notis Variorum, L. Bat. 1669 1.6
115 Virgilius, notis Variorum, ib. [L. Bat.] 1666 4.6
116 Corn. Nepos, notis Var. Amst. 1687 1.6
117 Justinus, notis Variorum, L. Bat. 1701 2.6
118 Lucius Florus, notis Var. Amst. 1702 1.6
119 Eutropius, per Hearne, Chart. Max. nit. com. Ox. 1703 6-
120 Epictetus, Berkelii et Gronovii, comp. in Membr. D. Bat. 1683 2-
121 Cicero de Nat. Deorum, et Tuscul. Disputat. Davisii, Cant. 1723 2.6
122 Xenophon Memorabilia et de Cyri Institutione, Gr. et Lat. per Hutchinson. 2 6
123 Homeri Ilias, Gr. et Lat. Clarke, 2 tom. 1754 7 6
124 Longinus, Gr. et Lat. Pearce; -/ Platonis Dialogi, Gr. et Lat. Fosteri. 4-
125 AEschines et Demonsthenes, Gr. et Lat. per Foulkes & Friend. Oxon. 1695 2 6
126 Johnsoni Questiones Philosophicae 1741 1-
127 Epictetus, Gr. et Lat. Simpson; -/ AEschines et Demosthenes, Gr. et Lat. Foulkes & Friend. 3 6
128 Boethius, Anglo-Saxonice reddit. ab Alfredo, with a fine portrait, Oxon. 1698 6-
129 Stanhope's Epictetus, and six odd volumes. 5 6
130 Gravesande's Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy, / and eight more. 3 6
131 Scott's Christian Life, 2 vol. / and six more. 4 6
132 A Vindication of the Miracles of our Saviour, by the Bishop of St. David's, / and six more. 3 6
133 Dr. Blackall's Sermons, / and nine more. 4 6
*133 Bateman on Agistment Tithe, with the Appendix, -/ and a parcel of pamphlets. 5 6 / $-3.-
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SECOND DAY's SALE, Tuesday, April 8, 1788. / QUARTO.

134 HEDERICI Lexicon, Gr. et Lat. a Morell 1755 -10.
135 Lyttleton's Latin and English Dictionary, / and four more. -7
136 Ovidii Metamorph. black letter, / and four more. -5.
137 Ciceronis Opera omnia, per Schrevelium, 2 tom Amst. ap. Elz. 1661 -5-
138 Philosophical Transactions abridged by Lowthorp, 3 vol. plates 1716 -7 1
139 Ainsworth's Latin & English Dictionary, by Patrick, 2 vol. 1751 -11.
140 Limborch's History of the Inquisition, by Chandler, cuts 1731 - 6 6
141 Lambard's Alphabetical Description of the chief Places in England and Wales, with his portrait 1730 -8-
142 Life of the Earl of Crauford; -/ Religion Delineated, -/ and four more. -4-
143 Lindsay's Voyage to the Coast of Africa, cuts, / and five more. -46
144 Morgan's complete History of Algiers 1731 -5-
145 Greek Testament, interleaved with MS. Notes, 2 vol. boards. -74.
146 Greek Testament, interleaved, 2 vol. boards, Oxf. 1675 -5.
147 Diogenes Laertius, Gr. et Lat. a Meibomio, 2 tom. Amst. 1698 -1.6
148 North's Examen, neatly bound 1740 -6-
149 Camerarii Symbola, cum multis figuris 1696 -2 6
150 Triumphalia de Victoriis Elizabethae, nit. comp. 1698 1 6-
151 Duck's Poem; -/ and eight others. -6-
152 Verstegan's Restitution of decay'd Intelligence; -/ and nine more. -46
153 Vaillant Numismata Imperat. Romanorum, / 3 tom. semi-comp. Romae, 1743 -9-
154 Selectiora Numismata, illust. D. D. Fran. de Camps, fig. 1696 -3 6
155 Snelling's View of the Gold Coin and Coinage of England, plates, neat, and gilt 1763 1 1-
156 Withy and Ryal's twelve Plates of Coins, half-bound. $
157 Pegge's Coins of Cunobeline; -/ and three Tracts on Coins. -56
157* Snellings 72 Plates of Gold / & Silver Coins / & one more 9- / £10-16-
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158 The Pembroke Coins, in 3 parts, fine impression, sewed 1746 -2-
159 Patini Imperat. Romanorum Numismata, cum fig. Paris 1698 5-6
160 Vaillant Nummi antiqui Famlliarum Romanarum, 2 tom. nitid. compact. Amst. 1703 10-
161 Evelyn's Discourse of Medals 1697 7 6
162 Critici Sacri, 10 tom. 1760 1-
163 Biblia Sacra. Heb. Lat. Gr. et Lat. per Montanum, 1619 17-
164 Collier's Ecclesiastical History, 2 vol. gilt 1708 6-6
165 Mede's Works 1673 5-
166 Vertot's Knights of Mata, 2 vol. cuts 1748 16-6
167 Hooker's Works, with his Life, large Paper 1723 11-
168 Novum Testamentum Graecum, Sholiis Gregorii, Oxon. 1703 3-
169 Cave's Lives of the primitive Fathers, gilt 1716 7-
170 Testamentum Graecum Millii, nitid, comp. Oxon. 1707 13-
171 Perry's View of the Levant; -/ Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy. 7
172 Johnson's History of Highwaymen, cuts 1742 10-
173 Scapuiae Lexicon, Gr. et Lat. Edit. opt. Elsev. 1652 1-1.-
174 Smallridge's (Bp.) Sermons, large paper 1727 3.6
175 Whitby on the New Testament, 2 vol. gilt 1718 11-6
176 Temple's Works, 2 vol. 1731 5-
177 Desolis's Conquest of Mexico, by Townsend, cuts 1724 7 6
178 Nicholls on the Common Prayer, and Supplement 1710 6 6
179 Spenser's Works, with his Life 1679 6-
180 Chillingworth's Works, 7th Edition 1719 1 6
181 Whole Duty of Man's Works 2 6
182 Pocoche's Travels in the East, 2 vol. cuts, neatly bound 1743 2-8
183 Camden's Britannia, by Bp Gibson, maps 1695 10-
184 Josephus's History of the Jews, by Whiston, large paper, neat 1737 1-9
185 Plot's History of Oxfordshire, cuts 1677 8 6
186 Burnet on the xxxix Articles 1705 2 6
187 Pococke's Theological Works, 2 vol. gilt 1721 6 6
188 Sermons at Boyle's Lectures, 3 vol. elegant, in Russia, with a gold border 1739 1-11-6
189 Barrow's Works, with his Life, by Tillotson, 2 vol. 1716 9-
190 Staplyton's Juvenal, large papers, fine portrait; -/ and two more. 5-
191 History of the Wars in Ireland; -/ Tavenier's Voyages; -/ and three more. 14-
192 Rycaut's Turkish History; -/ Sandy's Travels; -/ and History of Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army, with his portrait on horseback. 15 6 / 32.1.6
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193 Kettlewell's Works, 2 vol. -4-6
194 Scott's Works, with his Life, 2 vol. 1718 -5 6
195 Comber's Works, 2 vol. 1701 -3 6
196 History of Troy, in 3 Books, black letter, imperfect, but supplied with MS. -6-
197 Frisii Perspectiva theoretica et practica; -/ Pol. Vergilii Historia Angliae; -/ et Josephus, Gr. et Lat. -5-
198 Le Brun's Travels; -/ Johnson's (Rev. Samuel) Works; -/ and Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy. -7-
199 Bulli Opera omnia; -/ and seven more. -9-
200 Hammond's Paraphrase on the New Testament; -/ and seven more. -8-
201 Fox's Martys, 2 vol. -/ and six more. -9-
202 Cudworth's Intellectual System; -/ and six more. -12-
203 Stillingfleet's Origines; -/ and five more. -5-
204 Hooker's Works, with his Life, large paper 1723 -7-
205 Critici Sacri, 9 tom. 1660 1.-.- / £37 3.-

SECOND DAY's SALE, Tuesday, April 8, 1788. / NATURAL CURIOSITIES.

1 VARIOUS spars, /and other fossils, / a large ammonities &c. 3 6
2 A pudding-stone, / three large spars, / and a selenites. -1.6
3 Sundry echini, / ammonitae, / anomiae, / belemnitae, / and other fossil-shells. -1.6
4 Three lead ores, / a copper ore, / three marcasites, / and various other fossils. -1.6
5 Two vertebrae of a large fift; / a broad leaf in iron stone, from Shropshire; / a large pecten from Bath; / and five other petrifactions. -2.6
6 Sundry Cornish diamonds, / a group of crystals with marcasites, crystals on iron ore, Bristol; / a specimen of tin-droppings; / and other fossils. -6 6
[none] A large marcasite, Cornwall; / lead ore, Derbyshire; / a dendrites, a mundic and a terrene spar, Monmouthshire; / and various other minerals. -2.6
8 Various ammonitae, / corals, / pediculi, / fossils-vegetables, / and other petrifactions. -1.6
9 Two dendritae, / various lead ores, / marcasites, / and other fossils. -1 6
10 Seed-vessel of the sand-box tree, / a locust-pod, / a cocoa-nut, / and various other vegetables. -1-
11 Various specimens of native copper and copper ore; / coloured and other marcasites; / and crystallized tin ores, from Cornwall and Derbyshire; / calamine, from Flintshire; / and other fossils. -60. / £1.10-
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12 A large pecten, with its impression, from Bredon; / two masses of corals, and other marine subjects, from Worcestershire; / a smooth pecten, Bath; / and an echinus clypeatus. 1.-
13 Horns of a Muscovy ram, beak of an hydrocorax bird, / and a file-fish. 1.6
14 Three leopard, three nutmeg, and four other, cowries; / a harp; / and seven other shells. 3 6
15 Two boxes, containing a great variety of shells of different genera and species. 3.-
16 Impression of a fern, and two other vegetables, in iron stones; / fossil-wood in iron-stone; / a large belemnites with vermiculi on it; / an ammonites; / and five more. 6-
17 Five large many-rayed asteriae; / and four echini marini. 3.6
18 Sundry copper and lead ores, marcasites, crystals, and other fossils, chiefly from Derbyshire and Cornwall. 4.6
19 A beech-wood, four brocades, and another volute; / a music, and a variety of cowries, olives, and other shells. 2.6
20 Bones, probably of a tortoise, in a coarse lime-stone; / a large vertebra of a fish, analogous to the shark; / impression of the bark of a curious plant in stone; / two large pectens from Bath; / and seven other petrifactions. 1 6
21 Several specimens of native copper, some cubic and other marcasites, copper ores,& from Cornwall; / a singulary-veined iron stones; / and other fossils. 8.-
22 Impression of the leaf of an aquatic plant in iron stone, from Shropshire; / a plant of the cane or reed kind in iron stone, from ditto [Shropshire]; a belemnites; / an astroites; / and ten other petrifactions. 2-
23 Head of a goosander; / an ostrich's egg; / several other eggs of birds; / some porcupine's quills; &c. 3 6
24 A scarabeaus Hercules; / a green Chinese buprestis; / various other insects; / four land tortoises, &c. 7-
25 A specimen of landscape marble from Somersetshire, framed; / and twenty other marbles, slate, spar, pebbles, &c. most of them polished. 6-
26 Four leopard cowries; / an oriental purpura; / a spider; / a strombus; / a group of balani; / and five more. 3 6
27 Two specimens of native silver, one of them from Peru; / five of native copper, from Cornwall; / two of stell-grained lead ore, Rythen; / calamine, Flintshire; / a terra ponderosa; / and six other curious minerals. 14.6
28 An alphabet and a spectre volute; / two harps; / a bishop's mitre; / a poached egg; / two olives; / and six other shells. 4.6
29 A brainstone; / two astroitae; / a tubularia purpurea; / and various other corals and corallines. 1.6 / 5.7.6
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30 Two fine specimens of native copper from Cornwall; / singularly-figured marcasite from ditto [Cornwall]; / a curious stellated spar, Derbyshire; / and an uncommon iron ore from Bristol. -10 6
31 Madrepora ramea, from Sicily; and two brainstone corals, from the West-Indies. -1.-
32 Various anomiae; / echini; / pediculi; / ammonitae; / and other curious petrifactions. -4.6
33 A most curious specimen of seven vertebrae of the backbone of a fish united together, very rare, from Dorsetshire; / and a fine impression of a fern in iron stone, from Coalbrook Dale, Shropshire. -15.6
34 Three guanas, in spirits, from America. -.3.-
35 Twelve bottles, containing a scorpion, two centipedes, a grylius, a remora, and other animals, in spirits. -.4.6
36 A large and fine armadillo, or hog in armour, from America, very rare. -.12.6

SECOND DAY's SALE, Tuesday, April 8, 1788. / Antiquities, and other miscellaneous Articles.

37 A blade-bone of Lord Darnley, and five antique urns. -4-
38 Four Roman lamps; / part of a tesselated pavement; / a figured tile; / and five other specimens of Roman earthen ware. -15-
39 An abbey-seal; / a pair of spurs; / the seal of Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor under Queen Elizabeth; / three basso-relievos; a pair of velvet lady's $mits; an embroidered mit; / a curious agate seal; / a Catharine's loaf; / and various other curious pieces of antiquity. 1.-
40 Three celts; / a spear-head, and another antient instrument, in copper; / the head of an antique halberd, and an antient spur. 1.-
41 A curious set of twelve fortune-telling cards, done in wood, singularly painted; / supposed, from the style and the manner of spelling in the quaint English verses on each, to be very antient, -/ The following is a copy of one of the verses: Iff that a bacheler thou bee Kepe the so style be ruled by mee, Leste that repentance all to latte Rewarde the withe a broke patte. -.11-
42 Two antient pictures, the virgin and child, and St. John; / and a curious antient basso-relievo in wood of St. George. -12-
43 An antique sconce, with a curious imbossed reflecting dish. -4-
44 A large dish made of serpentine stone, from the manufactory at Zeoblitz, in Saxony. -17-
40* The original seal of the Carthe of Worcester -14- / £13.2-
45 An Adria Farrara, with a wooden knife, and a curion dagger. 9 6
46 A pair of antient horse-pistols, / a pair of screw-barrel pistols, / and a pistol tinder-box 7 6
47 A old sword, / two curious daggers, / and a bayonet. 8-6
48 An antient halberd. 3
49 A bow and an arrow from Rio Isquebo, in Guiana; / two other Indian bows; / three arrows; / and a staff. 6 6
50 Six boxes, containing various impressions in wax, plaster, and sulphur, of antient abbey-seals, antique gems, coins, medals, &c. and four medal-boards. 9-
51 Two rolls of plaited hair from Otaheite; / a curious painted drinking-cup formed of a calabash of King Philip, son of Massassoit, who ruled the Massassachuset's bay, when first discovered; / a comb from Anamokka; / a bone arrow-head, from ditto [Anamokka]; / a curious beaded purse; / and a Chinese box formed of an echinus. 5-
52 Four amber necklaces, / three agate beads, / and other articles. 5-
53 A pair of slippers, a purse, a powder-horn, and various other appendages of an Indian dress; / with a pair of snow-shoes, from Hudson's bay. 9-
54 Two miniature pictures; / a table, shewing the hour of the day or night in various parts of the globe at the same time; / some coloured glass; / a prism; / and various other articles. 16-
55 A bottle formed of a calabash; a curious embroidered purse; / a singluar knife; / two wooden mills; / four enamellings on copper; / and sundry other oddities. 12-
56 A magnificent set of three jars and two beakers of the rare old coloured japan, very fine and complete. 2-10-
57 A bust in terra cotta; / a sleeping vestal, and a bracket, in plaster; / a curious piece of phillagree in wood; / and a Portugal hat. 3-
58 A pair of mandarine shoes, a steellyard, and a set of three sieves from China. 2 6
59 Various impressions on glass, and sundry other curiosities. 5 6
60 A fine miniature of Queen Catharine, wife of Charles I. some dresses on talc for pictures, and a tortoiseshell snuff-box inlaid and mounted with silver. 18 6
61 A parcel of Italian cast, in paste, from antique gems. 1-3-