Short title
Vertue 1757
Year of publication
1757
Full title

A CATALOGUE Of the Entire and Genuine LIBRARY of BOOKS OF Mr GEORGE VERTUE, ENGRAVER, Late of Brownlow-Street, deceas'd, CONSISTING OF Scarce and valuable Editions in History, Antiquity, Painting, Architecture, &c. Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. FORD, At his Great Room$$ upper End of St. James's Haymarket, On Friday and Saturday, the 18th and 19th of this Instant March, 1757. The BOOKS may be viewed with his Prints and Drawings every Day till to the Hour of Sale, which will begin each Day exactly at Twelve o'Clock. CATALOGUES to be had gratis at Mr. FORD's.

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CONDITIONS of SALE. / 1st, THE bigbest Bidder to be the Buyer; and if any Dispute arises between any two or more Bidders, the Lot so disputed to be put up again. / 2dly, No Person to advance less than 6d. above a Pound 1 s. above Five Pounds 2s. 6d. and so on in Proportion. / 3dly, The Purchasers are to give in their Names and Places of Abode, and positively to pay down 2 s. 6d. in the Pound in Part of Payment of the Purchase Money, in Default of which, the Lot or Lots so purchased, to be immediately put up again, and resold. / 4thly, The Books to be taken as perfect without collating, those that are known to be otherwise being mention'd in the Catalogue. / 5thly, To prevent the INCONVENIENCIES that too frequently attend long and OPEN Accounts, the Remainder of the Purchase Money to be ABSOLUTELY Paid on or BEFORE the Delivery. / 6thly, 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 resold, 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.

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First Day's Sale, Friday, March 18th, 1757. // First Day's Sale, Friday, March 18th, 1757. / OCTAVO, &c.

1 ODES of Horace /_ Ward's reformation, 2 vol. /_ Hudibras, 3 vol.
2 Prior's poems /_ Waller's poems /_ Vida's art of poetry /_ Davies on the soul
3 Milton's paradise lost /_ Garth's dispensary /_ Waller's poems /_ Rochester's works
4 Cartright's poems and 5 more
5 Earl of Surry's poems /_ Sedley's works /_ Fenton's Poems Mariamne
6 Spenser's shepherd's calendar /_ Molesworth's poems /_ Pattison's poems /_ Pilkington's poems
7 Young's love of fame /_ Skelton's poems /_ Milton's paradise lost
8 Wailer's poems large paper, 1711 /_ Mrs. Philips's poems large paper, 1710
9 Gardiner on the sacrament and 10 other books in black letter
10 Burnet's travels /_ Microcosmography /_ Vol. of plays and poems /_ Pancirolius /_ Keill's anatomy /_ Examiners
11 Telemachus, 2 vols. /_ Pointer's history of England, 3 vols
12 Collection of epigrams /_ Hallifax's miscellanies /_ Howard's plays
13 Pope's Homer's iliad, 6 vols 1720
14 Spectators, 8 vols 1718
15 Spenser's works, 6 vols 1718
16 Bulwer's chirologia and chiromania /_ Somner's Roman ports and forts of Kent /_ Survey of Newcastle /_ Dodridge's account of Wales
17 Sadler's letters and 5 more
18 Swift's works, 14 vols 1751
19 View of London, 2 vol and 4 more
20 Catalogus biblethecae Harleianae, 5 vols 1743
21 Shakespear's works by Theobald, 8 vols 1752
22 History of France, 2 vols /_ History of Spain /_ Higgons's remarks on Burnet
23 Winstanley's England's worthies /_ Sandys's worthies of England /_ Herne's account of the Charter-house
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24 Salmon's examination of Burnet's history, 2 vols /_ Boccalini's advertisements from Parnassus, 2 vols
25 Vidae poemata, 3 tom /_ Barberini poemata
26 Atalautis, 4 vols /_ King's heathen gods /_ Parker's own time
27 Antiquities of Westminster abbey, 2 vols /_ Richardson's notes on Milton /_ Memorials of English affairs
28 Baronettage of England, 2 vols /_ Brodrick's history of the late war, 2 vols
29 Johnston's notitia Anglicana, 2 vols /_ Willis's notitia parliamentaria
30 Collins's Peerage of England, 4 vol 1730
31 Milton's paradise lost /_ Era$mus, on folly /_ Parson$ analogy
32 Antiquities of Salisbury /_ Antiquities of Rochester /_ Antiquities of Worcester /_ Antiquities of Exeter
33 History of the rebellion in verse with cuts, 3 vols 1713
34 Athenian oracle, 4 vols 1706
35 Echard's Roman history, 5 vols 1713
36 Fanshaw's letters and 9 more
37 King's works, 2 vol /_ Bysshe's art of poetry /_ Ashmole's order of the garter /_ Heath's Chronicle
38 Mercare Francois, 10 tom Paris 1611
39 Historical registers 23 vols
40 Life of Barwick /_ Lives of the archbishops /_ Sparrow's rationale /_ Perrault's lives of illustrious men
41 Life of the black prince /_ Life of Militon /_ Life of Cromwell /_ Life of king Charles /_ Jacob's lives of the poets, 2 vols

QUARTO.

42 ANtiquitates Middletonianae
43 Folkes's tables of silver and gold coin 1745
44 Wollaston's religion of nature 1738
45 Tomlinson's art of dancing /_ Weaver's ditto [1738]
46 Casley's catalogue of the manuscripts in the king's library 1734
47 North's examen /_ Lives of lord North, Sir Dudley North, and Dr. North
48 Wright's travels, 2 vol. 1730
49 Wotton's short view of Hickes's thesaurus, by Shelton 1735
50 Lambarde's description of England and Wales 1730
51 Collins's English baronage 1727
52 Warburton's Vallum Romanum 1753
53 Waller's poems 1729
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54 Vrays portraits des roys de France Paris 1633
55 Metamorphoses d'Ovide, avec fig. ib. 1676
56 Haym's Tesoro Britannico, 2 vol. 1719
57 Ames's account of printing in England 1749
58 Fresnoy's art of painting /_ Aglionby's lives of the painters
59 Widmore's history of Westminster abbey 1751
60 Dale's antiquities of Harwich 1732
61 Magna Britannia et Hibernia, 6 vol. 1720
62 Castiglione's courtier /_ Dunciad variorum
63 Re$esby's memoirs and 8 more
64 Stow's annals and 9 more
65 Three vol. of plays
66 Godwin and Rous's antiquities and 11 more
67 Milton's history of England and 13 more
68 Present state of Europe, 6 vol.
69 Lord Bacon's letters /_ Boccace's amorous Fiametta /_ Nisbett on armories /_ Two 2 Junius on painting
70 Littleton and 3 other dictionaries
71 Dutch book of psalms and 13 more
72 Simon's account of Irish coins 1749

FOLIO.

73 GIBBS's architecture 1728
74 Speed's maps /_ Speed's history of Britain /_ Ogilby's Homer's iliad
75 Historia Arthuri regis /_ Historia Lanceloti du Lac, MSS. on vellum, with 87 miniature paintings
76 Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, 2 vol. 1721
77 Histoire d'Angleterre, par Larrey, 4 tom. Amst. 1723
78 Sandford's coronation of king James II. with cuts 1687
79 Wise catalogus nummorum antiquorum Scriniis Bodleanis 1750
80 Lord Strafford's state letters, 2 vol. 1739
81 Froyssart's chronicle 1523
82 Peck's anuals of Stanford 1727
83 Description du Manege moderne, par d'Eisenberg 1727
84 Sandford's genealogical history of England 1677
85 Camden's Britanni, by Gibson 1695
86 Anderson's genealogical tables 1736
87 Favine's $heatre of $on$ur /_ Milles's catalogue of honour 1610 Vincent's errors in Brooke's heraldry York's heraldry 1622
88 Ashmole's order of the garter 1672
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89 Grimeston's history of France /_ Heylin's cosmography /_ Stow's survey of London /_ Martin's history of England
90 Johnston on monarchy /_ Newcourt's repertorium /_ Camden's Britannia /_ Moll's geography
91 Weever's funeral monuments 1631
92 Dugdale's monasticon in English 1718
93 Anderson diplomata & numismata Scotiae
94 Churchill's divi Britannici /_ Lleyd's worthies /_ Broughton's history of Britain /_ Dugdale's view of the troubles in England
95 Brooke's heraldry with the arms colour'd 1622
96 Drayton's poems /_ Chaucer's works, imperfect
97 Brady's history of England, 3 vol. 1684
98 Fabian's chronicle 1533
99 Herbert's life of Henry VIII. /_ Camden's Elizabeth Sanderson's life of Mary queen of Scots /_ Udall's life of Mary queen of Scots
100 Higden's polycronycon 1527
101 Sir Thomas More's works, gilt leaves 1557
102 Gower de confessione amantis /_ Boccace's fall of princes 1554
103 Fuller's history of the worthies of England, imperfect 1662
104 Marsilii dissertatio de generatione fungor$m Roma 1714
105 Vies des hommes illustres, par Thevet /_ Paris 1584
106 Dart's antiquities of Canterbury 17$6
107 Ross's Silius Italicus 1661
108 Prynn's history of king John 1670
109 Blomefield's history of Norfolk, 2 vol. 1739
110 Echard's history of England, 3 vol. 1707
111 Rapin's history of England, with the heads and monuments of the kings, &c. of England, 2 vol. in morrocco, and gilt leaves, 1732. Note, The above book is printed on a fine paper, and Mr. Vertue has added a number of heads of eminent men to it
112 Dugdale's view of the troubles /_ Stow's chronicle /_ Walker's historical discourses /_ Frankland's annals of James and Charles
113 Stukeley's itinerarium curiosum 1724
114 Brown's art of painting /_ Lives and heads of the painters
115 Hollandi Herwolegia Anglica
116 Evelyn on medals 1697
117 Hackluyt's voyages and 6 more
118 Ogilby's Virgil and 5 more
119 Architettura da Vignola, 1607 /_ Architettura di Palladio 1601
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The Second Day's Sale, Saturday, March 19. // The Second Day's Sale, Saturday, March 19. / OCTAVO, &c.

1 ROLLIN's arts and sciences, 2 vol. and 9 more odd vols.
2 Illuminato di Venezia and 4 more Italian
3 Le pittura di Bologna /_ Le minere della pittura /_ Dialogo di pittura /_ Indice delle stampe de Rossi /_ Studio di pittura /_ Disennos y estampas de San Lorencio del Escurial
4 Habiti antichi & moderni Venet. 1590
5 Boyer's French dictionary /_ Erasme de la folie /_ Livre intitule, Internelle consolation 1522
6 Houbraken's lives of the painters in Dutch, 2 vol.
7 Catalogue du cabinet de Crozat /_ Catalogue de desseias de Mons. Huls /_ Catalogue du cabinet de M. Quentin /_ Memorial de Paris
8 Vies des peintres, par Felibien, 5 tom. /_ Lond. 1705
9 Traité de la peinture, par Richardson, 2 vol. /_ Reflexions sur la poesie & sur la peinture, 2 vol.
10 Cabinet d'architecture, peinture, &c. par le Comte, 4 vol 1702
11 Maniele de graver en taille douce, par Bosse /_ Description du t$bieaux du palais royal /_ Cours de peinture, par de Piles /_ Vies des peintres, par de Piles
12 Traité de peinture en mignature /_ L'academie de la peinture /_ Se$timens des diverses manieres de peinture, par Bosse /_ Descriptica de divers ouvrages de peinture /_ Dissertation sur les ouvrages des plus fameux peintres
13 Eloge de Mons. le Clerc /_ Vie de pierre Mignard /_ Conference de Mons. le Brun /_ Pratique de geometrie, par le Clerc /_ Les monumens de Rome
14 Epigrams upon paintings /_ La Motte's essay en poetry and painting /_ Samber's Roma illustrata /_ Evelyn's idea of painting /_ Tradescant's rarities /_ Salmon's Polygraphice
15 Judgment of He$cu$es /_ Elsum's art of painting /_ Painter's voyage of Italy /_ Evelyn's idea of painting /_ Neri's art of glass /_ Bull's essay on painting
16 Richardson's treatise of painting, 3 vol.
17 Evelyn's art of chalcography /_ Faithorne's art of graving, &c.
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18 De Pile's art of painting /_ Fresnoy's art of painting
19 Da Vinci on painting /_ Monier's history of painting, &c.
20 Norden's declineation of Northamptonshire
21 Charter of the society of antiquaries /_ Ames's catalogue of English heads
22 Cowdrey's description of lord Pembroke's pictures, &c. 1751
23 Gambarini's description of lord Pembroke's pictures, with some MSS. remarks and drawings by Mr. Vertue 1731
24 Reges, reginae, nobiles, & alii in ecclesia Westmonast. sepulti 1603
25 Treatise of dancing, MSS.
26 Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, on Vellum Lugd. 1499
27 The same book, MSS. on Vellum, with several miniatures
28 Large collection of old books in English, &c.
29 Vidae poemata, per Owen, Oxon. 1733 /_ Reliquiae Baxterianae Barberini poemata 1726
30 Vidae hymni de rebus divinis, Chart. Mag. Oxon. 1733
31 Vidae poemata Tristram & Owen, 2 vol. ib [Oxon]. 1733
32 _ Ditto [Vidae], 3 vol. ib [Oxon]. 1733
33 Parcel of pamphlets
34 Ditto [Parcel of pamphlets]
35 Les images de la mort Lyon 1562
36 Imagines mortis Lugd. 1545
37 Catalogue Raisonnee de plus belles cabinets, par Mons. Gersaint, 8 vol. Paris 1745, &c.
38 Of the new lands and people found by the messengers of Emanuel king of Portugal, black letter printed by J. Desborow
39 Knight's life of Dr. Collet /_ Bearcroft's account of the Charter-house
40 Knight's life of Erasmus 1726
41 Lewis's life of Caxton, large paper 1737
42 Collection of curious discourses by eminent antiquarians 1720

QUARTO.

43 THE images of the old testament Lyon, 1549
44 Icones Livianae, 1572 /_ Icones historiarum veteris testamenti Lugd. 1547
45 The heads of the kings of England on wood prints with some of their principal acts by T. Timms, with Mss. additions 1597
46 Holben's death's dance with a Mss. account of it by Mr. Vertue Franc.
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47 Wright's Louthiana 1748
48 AEdes Walpolianae 1747
49 Boiffardi icones illustrium virorum, fig. de Bry Franc. 1597
50 Biblia Latina Venet. 1478
52 Traite Historique des monnoyes de France, parle Blanc 1692
53 Epitome thesauri antiquitatum, ex museo de Strada /_ Promptuarium Iconum /_ Van Goch's money of Europe in Dutch
54 Vita del Cav. Bernino Firesz. 1672
55 Notizia de professori del delegno, di Baldinucci Firenz. 1688
56 L'Abcedario Pittorico B$l$gn. 1710
57 Le vite de Pittori Veneti dal Ridolfi Venet 1648
58 Vormandir's Lives of the painters in Dutch Amst. 1618
59 Vies des plus sameux peintres, a tom Paris 1745
60 Traité sur la peinture, par du Puy 1700
61 Le vite de pittori, scultori, &c. da Baglione R$ma 1649
62. Due Trattati di Cellini Firenz. 1731
63 Vite de pittori, &c. di Vasari tom 1, and 4 more
64 Gardner's history of Dunwich, in sheets 1754
65 The same book in sheets 1754
66 Simon's medals, coins, great seals, &c. by Mr. Vertue. 1753
67 Martyn's unlawfulness of priests marriages 1553 /_ Sir Thomas More's dialogue of comfort, 1554 /_ Erasmus's praise of folly 1549 /_ Bishop Gardiner against Joye 1546
68 Milton's paradise lost first edition 1668
69 Spenser's fairy queen 1596
70 Lisle's Saxon monuments /_ Brown's travels /_ Plat's jewel house of art and nature /_ Haaksbee's experiments
71 Lord Pembroke's medals
72 Collins's account of the Oxford family /_ Catalogue of lord Oxford's coins, medals, &c. with the prices and names of the buyers /_ Catalogue of lord Oxford's pictures, with the prices and the names of the buyers /_ Catalogue of the countess of Oxford's miniatures, enamel and limned pictures taken by Mr. Vertue, Mss. In this book is contained drawings of several of the curiosities by Mr. Vertue

FOLIO.

73 EVELYN's parallel of architecture /_ Ma$clere's architecture /_ Serly's architecture
74 Tiadal's bible
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75 Polydor. Virgilius, and 3 more
76 Voyage de Charles II. a Hollande /_ Histoire de l'entre dela Reyne Mere de la Grande Bretaigne /_ Lord Castlemaine's embassy to the Pope
77 Monumens de la monarchie Francoise, par Montfaucon, tom 5 Paris 1733
78 Time's storehouse and 9 more
79 Caxton's chronicle imperfect
80 Grafton's chronicle imperfect 1568
81 Hall's chronicle imperfect
82 Collection of poems in mss. on vellum
83 Fructus temporum, by Pynson 1510
84 Lomatius on painting /_ Sanderson's art of painting
85 Hollingshed's chronicle and 8 more
86 Monumenta illustrium virorum /_ Barlandi Hollandiae comitum historia 1684
87 Erasmi opera and 4 more
88 Grew's rarities of Gresham college /_ Browne on the muscles
89 Chaucer's works and 4 more
90 Rushworth's collections, 4 vols
91 Histoire naturelle de l'Or et de l'Argent /_ Histoire de la peinture ancienne 1725
92 Goltzii Icones imperatorum Romanorum Antwerp 1645
93 Spelmanni vita Alfraedi magni 1678
94 Fiddes's life of cardinal Wolsey 1726
95 Collins's historical collections of several noble families 1752
96 Wright's antiquities of Rutland /_ Tent of Darius explained /_ Forbes's state papers, vol. 1.
97 Gordon's itinerarium septentrionale 1726
98 Ward's lives of the professors of Gresham college 1740
99 Motraye's travels, 3 vol. 1723
100 Sammes's Britannia and 3 more
101 AEsopi fabulae /_ Lives of the saints, imp. Medielan. 1480
102 Morant's history and antiquities of Colchester, in sheets 1748
103 Julii Clovii thesaurus artis pictoriae 1733
104 Biblia Latina, MSS. on vellum, with a great number of fine miniature paintings
105 Biblia Latina, bound in velvet Venet. 1478
106 Exposition de l'institution nouvelle en mathematique, par Chazeyrat, MSS. on vellum, and bound in velvet
107 Elsvug's ancient manner of holding parliaments, MSS. This was Peter le Neve's book
108 Accounts of the works of the several workmen, the materials and labour, with all the sums of money, bills and payments for the parish churches, chapels and cemeteries, with the parsonage houses, built by the commissioners of the new churches, in MSS. 14 vol.
109 Pope's works, vol. 2. 1735
110 Sandrart academia artis pictoriae Neria. 1683
111 Catalogue of king Charles the First's collection of pictures, enamels, medals, &c. Note. Part of this is printed, and the printed part is to go with the MSS.
112 Tratados del matrimonio, pretendido por el principe de tales con la infanta le Espana, Mss.
113 Catalogue of the nobility in England in the time of James the first
114 Collection of Mss on various subjects 15 vol Mss
115 Two account books of work done by Mr. Stone master mason to James and Charles the first with a vol. of designs by him, Mss.
116 A catalogue of king James the second's pictures at White-hall and other palaces, Mss.
117 Collection of arms of foreign princes, nobility, &c. with the the arms coloured, 2 vols
118 Copy of Shakespear's last will, Mss.
119 Catalogue of the officers of the crown for the years 1597, 1626, 1633, &c. 2 vols. Mss.
120 Of the union of England and Wales, Mss.

FINIS. // William Stukeley

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