Sale by Ausction. One thousand beautiful engravings. [illustrated books and paintings in gilt frames.]

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Sale by Ausction. One thousand beautiful engravings. [illustrated books and paintings in gilt frames.]

Author

Paul, John

Source

Sydney Gazette (Sydney)

Details

1 August 1833, p.3, col.6.

Publication date

1 August 1833

Type

Advertisment

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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SALES BY AUCTION.

ONE THOUSAND BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS, PAINTINGS, BOOKS, &c.,
BY MR. JOHN PAUL,

On Friday, the 9th August, and following Day, at his spacious Rooms, George street, at 11 o'Clock each day,
UPWARDS of ONE THOUSAND ENGRAVING S, comprising Portraits, Views, Landscape, Sporting, and other interesting subjects, by the most celebrated Masters.

Drawing and Instruction Books, by Prout, Alkens, Villiers, Laporte, &c. &c.

Twelve fine Oil Paintings, in richly gilt frames.
500 Volumes of Books, many of them embellished with beautiful engravings, consisting of Annuals, " Forget me Not," and other esteemed periodicals; also, the London Microcosm, 3 vols., fine plates, History of Oxford; Ditto Cambridge; Ditto Westminster Abbey, Akerman's History of Colleges and Public Schools, Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, in England and Wales, Blunt on Machinery; Tour of the Lakes; History of Lithography; Sketches of Russia; Lavater on Anatomy; Christmas Tales; Syntax, 3 vols.; Robertson on Stoves; Royal Poems, British Sports; Miseries of Human Life; Tour of the Simplon; and a great variety of other Works, too numerous to mention.

Terms made known at the time of sale.

[Sydney Gazette (Sydney), 1 August 1833, p.3, col.6.]
 

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