A catalogue of the genuine and capital collection of natural history, collected by that well-known connoisseur, the late Charles Chauncey, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Antiquarian Society, together with several curious articles selected by his brother Nathaniel Chauncery, Esq. deceased [electronic resource] : Among which we a pleasing affortment of beautiful shells, some of them very scarce, particularly the orange gowry, and two elegant cups, formed of the nautilus shell, finely engraved and carved by C. Bellekin; a great variety of agates, mochos, jaspers, sardonyxes, crystals, gems, and other curious stones, remarkable for beauty or rarity; corals, petrifactions; uncommonly fine specimens of amber gum-copal, some of them inclosing insects; preserved birds, and numerous other productions of nature, together with the elegant mahogany cabinets and glass cases which contained them. Which by order of the executors of Nathaniel Chauncey, Esq. late of Castle-Street, Leicester-Fields. Will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard, at his house in Litchfield-Street, St. Anne's, Soho, on Monday, April 12, 1790, and the three following days, at twelve o'clock precisely. To be viewed on Friday, the 9th, and Saturday, the 10th from ten o'clock till three. Catalogues may be had of Messrs Skinner and Dyke, Aldergate-street; at No. 28, Castle-street, Leicester-fields; and at Mr. Gerard's.
1790
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A catalogue of the genuine and capital collection of natural history, collected by that well-known connoisseur, the late Charles Chauncey, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Antiquarian Society, together with several curious articles selected by his brother Nathaniel Chauncery, Esq. deceased [electronic resource] : Among which we a pleasing affortment of beautiful shells, some of them very scarce, particularly the orange gowry, and two elegant cups, formed of the nautilus shell, finely engraved and carved by C. Bellekin; a great variety of agates, mochos, jaspers, sardonyxes, crystals, gems, and other curious stones, remarkable for beauty or rarity; corals, petrifactions; uncommonly fine specimens of amber gum-copal, some of them inclosing insects; preserved birds, and numerous other productions of nature, together with the elegant mahogany cabinets and glass cases which contained them. Which by order of the executors of Nathaniel Chauncey, Esq. late of Castle-Street, Leicester-Fields. Will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard, at his house in Litchfield-Street, St. Anne's, Soho, on Monday, April 12, 1790, and the three following days, at twelve o'clock precisely. To be viewed on Friday, the 9th, and Saturday, the 10th from ten o'clock till three. Catalogues may be had of Messrs Skinner and Dyke, Aldergate-street; at No. 28, Castle-street, Leicester-fields; and at Mr. Gerard's.
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Catalogues. 1790
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[London] : [s.n.], [1790]
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26 p. ; 8vo.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.
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English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T30285
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