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Mill 1771
Year of publication
1771
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A CATALOGUE OF THE GENUINE Houshold Furniture, Philosophical and Mathematical Instruments-Various Improvements in Mechanics, Implements in Arts and Trades. PLATE, WATCHES, BOOKS, Sundry CURIOSITIES, and other EFFECTs, OF Henry Mill, Esq; Chief Engineer to the NEW RIVER. COMPANY, Which will be Sold by AUCTION, By SAMUEL PETERSON, At Essex Housw, in- Essex Street, in the Strand, On Thursday, April the 18th, 1771, And the following Day, To begin each Day precisely at Twelve o’Clock. To be viewed on Tuesday, the 16th Instant, and to the Time of Sale. Catalogues may be had (gratis) at Essex House aforefaid. CONDITIONS of SALE as usual.

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Preface and paratexts

THE Terms of SALES by AUCTION, BY SAMUEL PATERSON, of Essex House, in Essex Street in the Strand, LONDON. / ESTATES; Freehold, Copyhold and Leasehold; REVERSIONS PERPETUITIES, ADVOWSONS, ANNUITIES, COMPANY-SHARES, &c. worth from 100l. to 300l. at Five per Cent. From 300l. to 1000l. at Two and a Half per Cent. From 1000l. upwards at One and a Half per Cent. Printed Particulars, Advertisements and all other Expences attending the said Sales included. / STOCKS in TRADE, viz. Woolen, Linen, Mercery, Haberdashery and Millinery Goods; Hard Wares, Bankrupts Effects, &c. Wines, Rum, Brandy, Tobacco, Drugs, Hemp, Flax, Cordage, White and Tarred Yarn, Raw Silk, Cotton, Indigo, Iron, and Importations of all Kinds; Prize Goods, &c. worth from 100l. to 500l. at Five per Cent. From 500l. to 1000l. at Four per Cent. From 1000l. to 3000l. at Two and at Half per Cent. From 3000l. upwards, at One and a Half per Cent. / STOCKS in HUSBANDRY, viz. Corn, Hay, Hops, Cattle, Timber, Utensils in Husbandry, Arts and Commerce as above. / HOUSHOLD FURNITURE and moveables of all Kinds, worth from 100l. to 500l. at Seven and a Half per Cent. From 500l. upwards at Five per Cent. / PLATE and JEWELS, from 100l. to 1000l. at Two and a Half per Cent. From 1000l. upwards at One and a Half per Cent. / PICTURES, SCULPTURES, BRONZES, COINS and MEDALS, CHINA and CURIOSITIES of all Sorts, from 100l. to 500l. at Seven and a Half per Cent; From 500l. upwards at Five per Cent. / NATURAL RARITIES, viz. Fossils, Shelly &c. at Ten per Cent. BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS,PRINTS, &C. atditto. / N. B. It is to be remembered, that in the Sales of the above Gools, Advetisements, printed Catalogues, ami all other Expences attending the said Sales, are included in the Commission, five in the Articles of Books, Manuscripts and Prints, in which the extraordinary Time and trouble in taking Catalogues must be made a feparate Charge: and wherever a double Portion of Time, and an unusual Length of Catalogue are necessary, a reasonable Allowance must be made; as also the extra-charge of engraving Plans Surveys of Lands, &c. where such are required. / CONSIGNMINTS from Abroad, and from any Part of Great Britain and Ireland, will be executed on the above Terms, with the utmost Integrity and Punctuality, by the Publick’s most faithful Servant, / S. PATERSON, AUCTIONEER. / ††† Goods and Merchandize of all Sorts bought by Commission.

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FIRST DAY’s SALE. Thursday April 18th. BOOKS. OCTAVO & Infra.
1 COLES’s Lat. and Engl. Dict.and t5 more
2. The English Tutor, 1760 and 2 more
3 Loughton’s English Grammar, 1735 and 2 mo.
4 Bailey’s English Dictionary
5 Cowley’s Works, 8vo. V. T. cuts,.1707 and 2 mo
6 Steele’s Christian Hero, 1712 and 5 more
7 Whole Duty of Man, i2mo. 1737 and 4 more
8 Taylor’s Holy Living and Dying, 1663 and 3 m
9 Foster against Tindal, 1731 and 3 more
10 Defaguliers’s Hydrostatics, 1718 and 3 more
11 Gardiner’s Surveying, 1737 and 3 more
12 Stonehouse’s Arithmetic, 1753 and 3 more
13 Wilkins’s Mathematical Magic, 1691 and 3 mo
14 Leyhourn’s Trader’s Sure Guide, 1756 and 3 mo
15 _ [Leyhourn’s] 1762 and 3 mo
16 Memoirs of Fanny Hill and 3 more
17 Art of knowing Mankind, 1766 and 3 more
18 Nelson of the Govern. of Children, 1753 and 3 m
19 Family Companion for Health, 1729, 12mo
20 Arbuthnot of Air, 1733 and 2 more
21 Hermippus redivivus, 1749 and 2 more
22 Muffett or Foods, 1746 and 3 more
23 Blagrave’s Astrolog. Prac of Physic, 1689 and 3
24 The Marq. of Worcester’s Century of Scantlings, 1662 eller’s Atlas Caelestis
25 Chorographia Britanniae, 1742 and 3 more
26 Tenants Law, 1741 Law of Sewers, 1726
27 Robinson Crusoe, 2 V. 8vo
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28 Tracts, philosophical and miscellaneous
29 Ditto [Tracts, philosophical and miscellaneous]
30 Ditto [Tracts, philosophical and miscellaneous]
31 Ditto [Tracts, philosophical and miscellaneous]
32 Gethinge’s Penmanship, with his Head and other Tracts

FIRST DAY’s SALE. Thursday April 18th. BOOKS. QUARTO.
33 Gardiner’s Logarithms. 1742
34 Hodgson’s Mathematics, V. r. 1723
35 Lawrence’s Duty of a Steward 1727
36 Price’s Observations on Salisbury Cathedral 1753
37 Waller’s Experiments in the Academy del Cimento 1684 Hobbes Leviathan, 1651
38 Gunter’s Works and 4 more
39 Holy Bible, B. L. and 2 more

FIRST DAY’s SALE. Thursday April 18th. BOOKS. FOLIO.
40 Craig’s Right of Succession, 1703 and 2 more
41 Seller’s Atlas Calestis
42 Saunders’s Physiognomic and Chiromancie 1671
42 Another Copy
45 Ditto [Another Copy], 2 Copies
46 Maitland’s Hist. of London 1739
47 Thirty-three large Plans of London and the Suburbs 1719

FIRST DAY’s SALE. Thursday April 18th. BOOKS. HOUSHOLD FURNITURE
1 A Compass grate for Scotch coals (iron raisers)
2 A Two four-Jeav’d clothes-horses, two pair of steps and four stools
3 A deal safe with folding doors and a fall, and a tool chest
3 A Hump bedstead on rollers
4 A nest with 24 drawers on a frame
5 Six cane bottom chairs and I arm ditto on a frame
6 A lady’s head, 6 mathematical prints framed and glazed, and 5 others
7 Two pair of brass candlesticks and 2 others
8 Ditto, and two flat irons.
9 Three pair ditto and two others
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10 Ditto [Three], and 3 extingaishers
11 Four ditto and a tinder box pistol
12 Ditto and two others
13 A large brass reading-stand, with 2 candlesticks
14 A brass tea kettle and lamp, on a pillar and claw stand, and 2 hand bells
15 Ditto with a high brass stand
16 Two toasting irons, 2 icon stands, 3 pair of steak tongs, a tin oven and a canister
17 Ditto with a shovel
18 Six water plates
18* A basket of tin ware
19 A large iron stand and sundries
20 A large jack with a warning-bell, a muiltiplyipg wheel and lead weight, complete
21 A deal escrutore and chest of drawers
22 A wainscot ditto
23 Six cane chairs and an arm ditto
24 A deal weather box for a garden and to stools
25 A wainscot ditto and ditto
26 Three coal boxes, 14 wig slands and 4 soppps
27 A wainscot cabinet with folding doors, and a falling slap with a very singular strong drawer.
28 A large kitchen table, II foot long, with a walnut-tree top, on rollers
29 Four deal benches
30 Six cane chairs and an arm ditto
31 A mahogany stand on a pillar and claw and 3 candle stands
32 Ditto, ditto
33 Ditto and a bafon stand
34 A mahogany 2 leav’d fire screen and 2 pair of window blinds
35 A small engine by Newsham and Ragg with leather pipe and 4 buckets
36 A painted bureau bedstead, featherbed, bolster and one pillow

FIRST DAY’s SALE. Thursday April 18th. BOOKS. Curiosities, Mathematical Instruments, &c.
1 Six shaving glasses in shaggreen cases, &c.
2 Eighteen boxes medal and spedtacle cases
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3 An ivory box with a compleat Alphabet of Letters and figures, a ditto of letters, a spice box, candle shade, 6 eclipse glasses, 2 plates of Ivory, &c.
4. Nine pair of spectacles and 3 others (japan’d cases)
5 A pair of jointed tongs, a large swivel, 3 small ditto, 4 key ditto, 2 pair of watch spring tools, two pair of sugar tongs, 2 punches, a pair of snusters, a small augur, a pair of pliers, a corkscrew, eight hooks, 96 Gimblets and 6 hand pinchers
6 Ditto [A pair of jointed tongs]
7 Ditto [A pair of jointed tongs]
8 Ditto [A pair of jointed tongs]
9 Ditto [A pair of jointed tongs]
10 Ditto [A pair of jointed tongs]
11 A hand vice, a pair of pliers, 2 watch spring tools 3 punches, 4 small swivels, 8 key ditto, 12 gimblets, 6 thread pinchers, a metal purfe, 2 padlocks, a whistle, a comb and 2 brushes
12 Ditto [A hand vice]
13 Ditto [A hand vice]
14 Ditto [A hand vice]
15 Seven chimney hooks, 18 hat pins, II screws with nuts, 2 box locks and keys, and 6 padlocks
16 A drawer with steel and brass instruments
17 Ditto, with sundries
18 Ditto [with sundries]
19 Eight large iron bolts
20 Fifteen locks and catches
21 A brass lock, an iron ditto, and a stock ditto
22 Twelve box and drawer locks
23 A curious iron street door lock, with 2 keys
24 Four brass wheels, set in strong iron frames
25 A set of curious brass casters
26 Two pair of chest handles, and 8 door ditto
27 Four pair of ditto
28 Two pair of ditto, large
29 Three pr of glove stretchers and prof curling tonge
30 Ditto [Three pr of glove stretchers and prof curling tonge]
31 A pair of boot stretchers and a pair of shoe ditto 32 A large iron melting surnace
33 A small press for leather suckers
24 Ditto [A small press for leather suckers]
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35 Three pair or beam compasses and sundry tools
36 Two large augurs
37 Rocque’s Map of 10 miles round London on a large roller, with pulley and brackets
38 Ditto of London and its Environs, and a pr of racks
39 Five ditto on rollers, and fundry prints and drawings, &c.

SECOND DAY’s SALE. Friday, April the 19th, 1771. HOUSHOLD FURNITURE, &c.
36 A Large wainscot coal chest lined with lead, on rowlers
37 A square steel stove, pierc’d front and sender, shovel, tongs and poker
38 A mahogany two-slap dining table
39 A ditto [mahogany] square fide-board table
40 A ditto [mahogany] dumb waiter
41 A ditto [mahogany] large stand, with sluted pillars
42 A ditto [mahogany] reading desk
43 A ditto [mahogany] 2-leaved fire screen, a dressing table and 3 drawers
44 Six leather bottom chairs and an arm ditto
45 A large mahogany cloaths chest with 2 drawers;
46 A corner chair with horse-hair feat, and a walnuttree dressing table, with a drawer
47 A chimney glass, gilt frame, mid. pl. 33 Inc. by 17
48 A pier glass in a black frame, pi. 28 inch, by 22
49 A hall lantern, a burner, brass ball and pullies, with large glass shade
50 A mahogany four-post bedstead, with sluted head and seet posts, mahogany cornish, with blue caffoy furniture, on rowlers
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51 A feather bed, bolster and 2 pillows
52 A mahogany book case, with foldings glass doors
53 A chimney glass in a carv’d and gilt frame, middle plate 33 inches, by 19
54 A pier glass plate 29 by 19
55 A pair of double brais arms
56 A white marble slab, ditto grain’d with a bik border
57 A black and yellow grain’d marble pannel
58 A grain’d ditto with a border on a mahogany frame
59 A walnut-tree commode adreffing cheft of drawers
60 A mahogany cloaths-press, with sliding shelves, folding doors and 2 drawers

SECOND DAY’s SALE. Friday, April the 19th, 1771. BUSTS, &c.
1 Three busts of Cicero, Milton, and Horace
2 Three ditto of Pope, Congreve and Addison
3 Two figures of Juno and Prudence, with an openwork obelisk
4 A pair of elegant tureen urns and a Bacchanalian vase
5 A bust of the Rev. Dr. Whitefield
6 A bust of a yestal and 2 Roman urns
7 Three figures of Homer, Milton, Virgil, on brackets

SECOND DAY’s SALE. Friday, April the 19th, 1771. Mathematical Instruments &c. continued.
40 Four japan’d boxes and 14 medal cases
41 A small mirror in a brasa frame, 3 (having glasses in cases, and an optic glass in a ditto
42 An ivory box with a compleat alphabet of letters and figures, 2 ditto boxes, a ditto ball, &c.
43 Twelve pair of spectaclcs, 14 japann’d cases, 4 comb brushes and 2 pair of scistars
44 A pair of jointed tongs, a hand vice, a pair of pliers, 4 small swivels, 10 key ditto, 10 gimblets 6 hooks, a purse, a watch spring tool, 6 thread pinchers, a knife, a pair of snuffers, 3 shaving brushes, a 2 foot and other rules
45 Ditto, the fame number of pieces
46 Two large augurs and a leather case
48 A box with sundries
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49 Two barometers in cases, and a thermometer, ditto
50 A telescope, a pocket thermometer, a small stillard to weigh gold, an artificial magnet, some compass needles, and 4 rules
51 A 4 foot telescope in a mahogany case
52 Two artificial magnetes, and a large M in brass
53 A ring dial, 2 common ditto, % pair of compasses, a drawing pen, and 2 two-foot rules
54 Ditto, ditto [A ring dial]
55 Two pair of divisers, a 2 foot rule, with a needle and sundry other mathematical instruments
56 Ditto, ditto [Two pair of divisers]
57 A brass plate in a frame to show the earth’s motion
58 A table of interest with moveable characters, a 2 foot and other rules
59 A Chinese counting table, and a pair of pocket globes by Moll
60 A pair of proportional, dividers in a case, and a 2 foot rule with a needle
61 A brass stiliiard and balances, and an ivory rule
62 A pair of beam compasses and 2 two foot rules
63 A mathematical dial for taking elevations, and 3 two foot rules
64 A compleat universal ring dial, in a fish-skin case
65 A camera obseura, and a reflecting glass for prints, mahogany case
66 Three large brass and I iron keys, with chains
67 A double solar microscope
68 A microsscope in a wainscot case
69 A double theodolite in a cafe, with complete stand
70 A 2 wheel’d perambulator
71 A standard yard of lead in a deal case
72 A ditto steel, in a mahogany case
73 Four measuring rules, &c. a level and 2 plungers
74 Three brass drawer locks with a key, compleat
74 A set of 6 ditto for a desk and book-case, 2 keys
76 Four drawer lock’s compleat, with 1 key
77 Two ditto and 2 locks with 1 key
78 A curious notice lock an 1 key, and a brass bolt
79 Six ditto, on leat
80 Some printing letters, & other utensils or printing
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SECOND DAY’s SALE. Friday, April the 19th, 1771. WATCHES, SWORDS, &c.
1 A time-piece with a double pendulum,(black cafe)
2 A curious ditto, in a deal case
3 A large striking clock watch, in a metal case
4 A silver watch by Marshi, in a shagreen case studded with silver
5 A large silver watch, by Josh. Antram
6 A silver watch in a box, with 2 glasles, by Jarratt
7 A ditto by Peter Garon, with a blank dial plate
8 A double case pierc’d alarum watch, by Hewbert
9 A ditto ditto, by Dieppe
10 A metal watch, by M. Burdett
11 A ditto with a gold dial plate, by Godfrey
12 A silver repeater, in a pierc’d case, by Alinson
13 A gold repeater in a fish-skin case, capp’d and jewel’d, by Martin
14 A silver tea kettle and lamp, at per oz.
15 A ditto large waiter
16 A ditto pint mug
15 A ditto half pint
17 A ditto bason
19 A pair of falts
20 A silver snuff-box
21 A ditto and a tortoise-shell
22 A silver book ditto [tortoise-shell]
23 Ditto [A silver book]
24 An ivory ditto, strongly mounted in silver
25 A sine slab of chrystal
26 Four canes and sticks, 2 mourning swords, 2 sword blades, and 2 common slutes
27 Two sticks and three whips
28 Three thong whips
29 Three canes with amber heads, mounted with silver
30 Ditto, ditto
31 A cane mounted with gold, and a sword, gilt, silver gripe
32 A silver hilted sword