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Goldsmith 1774
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1774
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A CATALOGUE OF THE HOUSHOLD FURNITURE, With the SELECT Collection of Scarce, Curious and Valuable BOOKS, IN English, Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and other Languages, Late the Library of Dr. GOLDSMITH, deceased, WHICH By ORDER of the ADMINISTRATOR, Will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. GOOD, At his Great Room, No. 121, Fleet-Street, On Tuesday the 12th of July, 1774, at Twelve o'Clock. To be viewed on Monday, and till the Time of Sale, when Catalogues may be had as above.

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[vignette] Ist. THE highest Bidder to be the Buyer, and if any Dispute arises between any two or more Bidders, the Lot in Dispute to be put up again, or be decided by the Majority of the Company. / IIdly, No Person to advance less than Six-pence; above one Pound one Shilling; above five Pounds, two Shillings and Six pence; and so in Proportion. / IIIdly, The Buyer to give in his Name and Place of Abode, (if required) and pay five Shillings in the Pound as Earnest for each Lot. / Lastly, The Goods to be taken away, with all Faults at the Expence of the Purchaser, within two Days after the Sale is ended, and the Remainder of the Purchase-Money to be paid on the Delivery; otherwise the Lots to be resold, and what Deficiency may arise with he Charges, to be made good by the first Purchaser. [vignette]|[vignette] CATALOGUE, &c.[after N@]|FINIS.[after N@106]

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Tuesday, July, 12, 1774. HOUSHOLD FURNITURE.
1 A Bath stove, compass front, open border, fender, shovel, tongs and poker
2 One blue morine festoon window-curtain compleat
3 A mahogany dining-table
4 Six ditto hollow seat chairs, covered with blue morine, finished with a double row of brass nails, and check cases
5 A Wiston carpet
6 A sun-shade, line and pulleys, and a deal side-board stained
7 A tea-chest and 2 mahogany card-racks
8 A four-post bedstead, crimson and white check furniture
9 A feather-bed, bolster and 2 down pil$ows
10 A check mattrass
11 Three blankets and a counterpane
12 Three blue morine window-curtains compleat
13 Two oval glasses, gilt frames
14 Two ditto two-light girandoles
15 A very large dreffing-glass, mahogany frame
16 A three-plate bordered chimney-glass, gilt frame
17 A large Wilton carpet
18 A mahogany sofa covered with blue morine, finished with a double row of brass nails, and a check case.
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19 Eight ditto chairs and check cases.
20 Two mahogany compass front card tables, lined.
21 A ditto Pembroke table.
22 A stove, brass fender, shovel, tongs and poker.
23 A stained matted chair, and a wainscot table.
24 Two telescopes.
25 A steel hilted sword, inlaid with gold, and a black hilted ditto.
26 Eleven blue and white octagon dishes, 18 ditto plate$ and an enamalled bowl.
27 A teapot, 5 coffee cups, sugar bason and cover, 4 saucers, and 6 cups.
28 Two quart decanters and stoppers, 1 plain ditto, 11 glasses and 1 wine and water glass.
29 A pair of bellows, a brush, a footman, a copper tea kettle and a coal scuttle.
30 Two pair of plated candlesticks.
31 A mahogany tea-board, a fret bordered ditto, a large round japanned ditto, and 2 waiters.
32 The Tragic Muse, in a gold frame

Books. FOLIOS.
1 HARDUINI Opera, Amst. 1709. / Plinii Hist. Naturalis. Francf. 1582.
2 Kercheri Latium, Amst. 1671. / Hist. Rom. Scriptores. Gen. 1653. / Hugoni Militia Equestri Antw. 1630.
3 Gesnerus de Quadrupedibus, cum fig. 1551. / Baconi Opera, Franc. 1665. / Blount Censura Authorum, Lond. 1690.
4 Photii Epistolae, Lond. 1651. / Thuani Hist. sui temporis, 4 tom. Franc. 1625.
4* Buchanani Opera, 2 tom. Edinb. 1715.
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5 Rowe's Lucan, 1718. / Jure Divino, 1706. / Prior's Poems, 1718. / Du Bartas.
6 Chaucer's Works, 1602.
7 Davenant's Works, 1673, / and 2 more.
8 Camoen's Luciad, by Fanshaw, 1655. / Cowley's Works, 1674. / Skelton's Don Quixote.
8* Wood's Athenae Oxoniensis, 1691.
9 Heylyn's Cosmography, 1703. / Knolles's Hist. of the Turks, 1638.
10 Raleigh's Hist. of the World, 1614.
11 Breval's Travels, 1738. / Horrebow's Hist. of Iceland, 1758. / Ludolphut's Hist. of Ethiopia.
12 Pietro della Valle's Travels, 1665. / Sir J. Chardin's Travels, 1686. / Herbert's Travels, 1638.
13 Ambassador's Voyages and Travels, 1662. / Sandys's Travels, 1637. / Life of John de Castro, 1664. / Taverner's Travels, 1684.
14 Stanley's Lives of the Philosophers. 1701.
15 Rolt's Dictionary of Trade and commerce, 1761.
16 Croker's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 3 vols. 1768.
17 Stephani Thesaurus, Ling. Lat. 2 tom. Par. 1543
18 Fabri Thesaurus, Lips. 1726.
19 Calipini Dictionarium, 2 tom. Bas. Scapulae Lexicon. Gen. 1619. / Photii Bibliotheca. Rothom. 1653.
20 Aldrovandus de Quadrupedibus, de Piscibus & Ornithologia, 3 tom. Bonon. 1619, &c.
21 Oeuvres de la Mothe le Vayer, 2 tom. 1656. / Oeuvres du P. le Moyne. 1671.
22 Dictionaire de Commerce, par Savary, 3 tom. Par. 1723.
23 Aristotelis Opera, 4 tom. Par. 1639.
24 Xenophontis Opera Gr. H. Stephani. Gen. 1581. / Diogines Laertius. Lond. 1664.
25 Kappii Bibliotheca, Amst. 1744.
26 Rushworth's Collections, 3 vol. Machiavel's Works, 1675.
27 Hill's Natural History of Fossils. 1748.
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28 Terentii Comoediae, Lat. & Ital. cum fig. Rom. 1767
29 Historia da Angeloni, Rom. 1641.
30 Histoire Romaine, Paris 1625.

Books. QUARTOS.
1 FENTON's Poems. / Williams's Poems. / Say's Poems. / The Secretes of Maister Alexis 1580, / and 9 more. / Literary Journals, &c.
2 Acta Lipsiensa, 7 tom. 1736, &c.
3 Oeuvres de Voiture, Par 1650. / Histoire de Turcs, Pieces Curienses, 1644.
3* Histoire de Poissons par Gouan, 1770, / and 7 more.
4 Chefs d'Oeuvres de Marmontel. Par. 1773. / Histoire de Ciceron, 2 tom. ib. 1745.
5 Puffeudorf droit de la Nature, 2 tom. Oeuvres de Boileau.
6 Hist. de Blois. Tournefort's Voyage du Levant. Amst. 1718. / Tournefort's Herbaria. Par. 3 vol. 1719, / and 5 more.
7 Bonada Carmina ex Lap. Antiq. 1751. / Casaubon's de Rebus Sacris, 1654. / Institut. Univers. Philosoph. 2 tom. / Donati Roma Vetus a Recens, 1695, / and 11 more.
8 Miscellanea Graecorum aliquot Script Carmina a Maittaire. Lond. 1722. / Bohadsch de Animal. Marinis, 1761. / Noodt Opera Omnia, 1713.
9 Rosini Antiq. Rom. 1663. /Wolfii Element. Matheseos, 2 tom. 1717, / and 5 more.
10 Miscellanea Curiosa Medico. Physica, 19 tom. Lips. 1670, &c. / Orlando Furioso di Ariosto. Ven. 1564.
11 Davila Hist di Francia, 1642. / L'Ercoma del Sig. Biondi, 1624.
12 Philosophical Transactions, 3 vol. / The same abridged, by Lowthorp and Jones, 5 vol.
13 Cibber's Apology and Considerations on the Life of Cicero, 1740, &c.
14 Astrue on the Venereal Disease, 1754. / Owen on Serpents, 1742.
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15 Revolutions d'Espagne par le P. d'Orleans, 3 tom. 1734.
16 Statii Opera, 2 tom. Par. 1618, / Ennii Fragmenta. Nap. 1590. / Salmasii Epistolae. L. Bat. 1656.
17 Bulwer's Arificial Changling, 1653. / Verftigan's Antiquities, 1634. / Hartlib's Legacie, 1651. / Sir K. Digby on the Nature of Bodies, 1645.
18 Histoire des Insectes par de Ceer. 3 tom. Stock. 1771
19 Dictionaire Raisonne & Univers. des Animaux, 4 tom. Par. 1759.
20 Leland's Life of Philip of Macedon, 1761
21 Wharton's History of English Poetry, 1774
22 Killarney, a Poem, by Lessie, Dub. 1772. / Chambers's Oriental Gardening, 1772.
23 La Jartiere, a French Poem in M. S. S. dedicated to the King, elegantly bound
24 Terentius, Horatius, Virgilus, Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius, 4 tom. Cant. 1701
25 Lucretius, Lond. 1712
26 Encyclopedie ou Dictionare Univers. Raisonne, 25 tom. 1770

Books. OCTAVOS, TWELVES, &c.
1 VOYAGES to Bengal and Buenos Ayres. / Three odd volumes of Plays. / Epistles of Aristaenetus / and 4 more.
2 Collier on Trade. / Chapman on Education. Travels to Arabia. /Henry and Frances, 3 and 4 vol. / Vanburgh's Plays, / and 4 more.
3 Brook's Natural History, 5 and 6 vol. / The Idler vol. 1. / Scots Epigrams. / Pac on the Roman Poets, / and 4 more
4 Bons Mots de Santeuil. / Lettres de Montesquieu Dictionaire Gentilhomme. / Four odd vols. of Cornelle's Plays, / and 7 more French books
5 French Plays by Avis. / Ditto by Grange. / Ditto by Champmelé. / Theatre de la Foire. / Ditto by Favart, / and 5 more
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6 Analecta Medii; Aeviae Specimen Literatur Florentinae, 2 vols. / and 6 more
7 Voyage par Winckelman. / Passetemps Poetique. Fanny Palmer, 2 parts. / Scaroon Roman Comique, 2 tom. / and 10 more
8 Ouvres de Balzac. Theatre Espagnol, 2 tom. / Theatre de la Chausséc, / and 3 more
9 La Fabricia Bibliotheca, 3 tom. / Theophrastus. Martial, / and 15 more
10 Ouvres D'ancourt, 7 tom. the 1st wanting. / Ouvres De Bruey's, 1st 3d 4th and 5th tom. / Theatre de la Haye, 1st 2d 4th and 5th tom.
11 Histoire de L'Academie Royale, 15 tom. the 11th wanting
12 Theatre Itlaien De Gherardi, 5 tom. 1st wanting, and 8 others
13 Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 8 vol. imperfect, and 2 vol. of curiour pamphlets
14 D'Foe's Works, 2 tom. South's Sermons, 4 vol. Collier's Essays, 4 vol. in 3
15 Tindal's Continuation, 26th 27th and 28th vol. / Milton's History of England. / Hudibrass, / and 12 more
17 Spectator, 8 vol. 1729
18 Nature Displayed, 7 vol. 1757
19 Lettre del Annibal Caro, 6 vol.
20 Dryden's Virgil, 3 vol. 1763
21 Fielding's Works, 12 vol. 1766
22 Byssshe's Art of Poetry, 2 vol. / and Hoole's Metastatio, 2 vol.
23 World, 4 vol. / and Bysshe's Art of Poetry, 2 vol.
24 Connoisseur, 4 vol.
25 Young's Works, 4 vol. 1762
26 Gay's Poems, 2 vol. 1767. / Hoole's Metastasio, 2 vol. 1767
27 Hawkins's Origin of the English Drama, 3 vol. 1773.
28 Reliques of Ancient Poetry, 3 vol. Dublin, 1766.
29 Cibber's Works, 5 vol. 1760
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30 Bell's Travels, 2 vol. 1764. / Sentimental Journey through Greece, 3 vol. 1772
31 Pope's Homer, 2 vol. Edinb. 1767. / Gay's Poems, 2 vol. 1767. / Celebrated Authors, 2 vol. 1750. / Waller's Poems, 1758
32 Hughes's Spencer, 6 vol. 1750
33 Cibber's Lives of the Poets, 5 vol. 1753
34 Amenites Litteraires & Recueil d'Anecdotes, 2 tom. 1773
35 Recherches Philosophiques, 2 tom. 1773. / Histoire du Fanatisme, 2 tom. 1737
36 Oeuvres de Boissy, 8 tom. 1768
37 Histoire de Siam, 2 tom. 1771. / Voyage Litteraire de la Grece, 2 tom. 1771. / Voyage d'Italie, 2 tom. 1773. / Oeuvres de Rousseau, 4 tom. 1734
38 Dictionaire Literaire, 3 tom. Liege, 1768. / Dictionaire Veterinairo & des Animaux Domestiques, 2 tom. Par. 1770
39 Dictionaire Critique Pittoresque & Sentencieux, 3 tom. Par. 1768. / Dictionaire d'Anecdotes, 2 tom. Par. 1769. / Dictionaire Abrege d'Antiquites, Par. 1773.
40 Commedia di Dante, 3 tom. Ven. 1751
41 Rime di Chiabrera, 3 tom. Rem. 1718
42 Parrhasiana, 2 tom. Ducatiana, 2 tom. Naudaeana & Patiniana, 1703
43 Oeuvres de Gresset, 2 tom. Oeuvres de Saintfoix, 2 tom.
44 Fables Choisies de Fontaine, 5 tom.
45 Lecons de Physique par Mollet, 2 tom. Entretiens Physiques par Regnault, 4 tom.
46 Memoires de Retz, 4 tom. Bossuet Histoire Universelle, 2 tom.
47 Tite-Live, 8 tom. Amst. 1700
48 Oeuvres du Fresny, 3 tom. / Oeuvres de Grange. Chancel, 3 tom. / Reflexion sur la Poefie, &c. 2 tom. 1719. / Oeuvres de Patru, 2 tom. / Le Passe-Tems Agreable. / Contes D'Ouville, 2 tom. 1703
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49 Dictionaire de Litteraire, 3 vol. 1770. / Vertot Revolutions de Romaine, 3 tom. 1752
50 Theatre Francois, 11 tom. 12th wanting, Par. 1737
51 Nouveau Theatre Francois, 12 tom. Utrecht. 1735
52 Oeuvres de Saint Real, 8 tom. Par. 1757
53 Oeuvres de Regnard, 4 tom. 1758. / Oeuvres de Pavillon, 2 tom. 1750
54 Recueil des Poetes Francois, 6 tom. Par. 1752
55 Oeuvres de Destouches, 7 tom. 1745
56 Helvetius de L'homme de Facultes Intellectualles & de Education, 2 tom. Lond. 1773
57 Oeuvres de Voltaire, 19 odd vol.
58 Oeuvres de Fontenelle, 10 odd vol.
59 Grerusalemme di Tasso, 2 tom. Nimes, 1764
60 Poeta Spagnnola, Ven. 1757. / Grammatica Spagniola & Italiana, 1648
61 Don Quixote, Spanish, Bruss. 1607
62 Therese Philosophe. / Meursus. / Bibliotheque d'Atetin
63 La Pucelle. Le Grelot. La Nuit & Le Moment
64 Histoire des Empereurs par Crevier, 11 tom. Amst. 1750
65 Goedartij Hist. Nat. Insectorum, Mediob.
96 Prudentius, Col. 1701. / Sophoclis Frag. 2 tom. Glasg. 1745. / Virgil Maavicij. Amst. 1730. / Salustius, Edinb. 1755
67 Selecta Poemata Italorum, 2 tom. 1740. / Petronius Arbiter, 1677. / Pomp. Mela, 1743. / Claudianus, Elz. 1650
68 Ovidij Opera, 3 tom. Par. 1762. / Virgilij Opera, 2 tom. Par. 1767
69 Horatij Opera, Par. 1763. / Juvenalis & Persii Satira, ib. 1754. / AEsopi Fabulae, ib. 1769
70 Martialis Epigram. 2 tom. Par. 1754. / Plauti Comoediae, 3 tom. ib. 1759
71 Taciti Opera, 3 tom. Par. 1760. / Vel. Paterculus, ib. 1754.
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72 J. Caesaris Comment. 2 tom. Par. 1755. / Q. Curtius, ib. 1757. / Plinii Epistolae, ib. 1769
73 Thucydidis, Gr. & Lat. 8 tom. Glasg. 1759
74 Ciceronis Opera, 19 tom. ib. 1749
75 A Collection of Tracts, black letter, 3 vol.
76 Histoire Philosophique & Politique, 6 tom. 1772
77 Voyage a L'Isle de France, a l'Isle de Bourbon, 2 tom. 1773
78 Les Efforts de la Liberte & du Patriotisme, 3 tom. 1772. / Constitution de L'Angleterre, 1772. / Congres Politique, 1772
79 Le Deserteur par Mercier, 1770. / Le Fabricant de Londres, 1771. / Gaston & Baiard par Belloy, 1770. / Le Temple de Gnide, / and 3 more
80 Fermin's Histoire Naturelle de la Hollande Equinoxiale, Amst. 1765. / Questions sur L'Encyclopedie, 2 tom, 1771. / L'An Deux Mille Quatro Cent. Quarante, 1772.
81 La Palingenesie Philosophique, 2 tom. 1769. / Coup d'OEil d'une Bibliotheque, very curious
82 Musae Anglican. 2 tom. 1699. / Vidae Poemata, 2 tom, 1732.
83 Apparatus Litterarius. 3 tom. Apuleius, 3 tom.
84 Senecae Opera, 2 tom, 1590. / Homeri Ilias. / Andron. / Rhodius. / Panegyricae. / Aristophanis, / and one more.
85 Lucretius, 2 tom. 1743.
86 Euripidis, 2 tom. Cant. 1726. / Juvenal & Persii Satyrae, Amst. 1684.
87 Minucii Fif$tis, 1709. / Isocratis, 1729. / Aureli Victoris, 1670. / Dionysii Orbis Descriptio, 1688, / and 2 more.
88 AEliani Var Historiae, 2 tom. Amst. 1670. / Appiani Hist. 2 tom. ib. 1770. / Historia Augusta Scriptores, 1661. / Alexand. ab. Alexandro. Par. 1549.
89 Montesquieu on the Roman Empire, 1759. / Duten's Enquiry, 1769. / Derham's Physico Theology, 1768
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99 Stanyan's Grecian History, 2 vol. 1766. / History of F$iar Gerund, 2 vol. 1772. / Freind's History of Physic, 2 vol. / Berkenhout's Outlines of Nat. Hist. 1769. / Walton and Cotton's Angler, 1766.
90 Milton's Works, 2 vol. 1705. / Odes, Elegies, Ballads, &c. by Ball. Dublin. / Translations from the Asiatick Language. Ozf. 1772, / and one more.
92 Echard's Roman History, 5 vol. / and 2 more.
93 Italia Liberata, 1729. / Dictionaire de Commerce, 1769. / Satires de Juvenal, 1770, / and 1 more
94 Penant's Synopsis of Quadrupeds, Chest. 1771
95 Bossu's Travels, 2 vol. 1771. / Ulloa's Voyage, 2 vol. 1760. / Hist. of the Fast Indies, 2 vol. 1757
96 De Bure Bibliographia Instructione, 9 tom.
97 Jones Perseos Asiaticae.
98 Sir William Temple's Work, 4 vol.
99 Dictionnaire Typographique, 2 tom.
100 Linnaei Systema Naturae, 3 tom.
101 De Fauna Suecica, 1 tom.
102 De Amenitates Academicae, 7 vol.
103 Rollin's Ancient History, 8vo. 7 vol.
104 Oeuvres Di derot, 5 vol.
805 Rapin's History of England, 21 vol.
106 Orlando Furioso, by Baskerville, very fine Plates, 5 vol.