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CATALOGUES - AUCTION [LIGHTFOOT (JOHN)] A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, Lately the Property of The Duchess Dowager of Portland, Deceased: Which will be Sold at Auction, by Mr. Skinner and Col., on Monday the 24th April, 1786, and the Thirty-seven Following Days, 4to image 1
CATALOGUES - AUCTION [LIGHTFOOT (JOHN)] A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, Lately the Property of The Duchess Dowager of Portland, Deceased: Which will be Sold at Auction, by Mr. Skinner and Col., on Monday the 24th April, 1786, and the Thirty-seven Following Days, 4to image 2
THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
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CATALOGUES - AUCTION
[LIGHTFOOT (JOHN)] A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, Lately the Property of The Duchess Dowager of Portland, Deceased: Which will be Sold at Auction, by Mr. Skinner and Col., on Monday the 24th April, 1786, and the Thirty-seven Following Days, 4to

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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CATALOGUES - AUCTION

[LIGHTFOOT (JOHN)] A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, Lately the Property of The Duchess Dowager of Portland, Deceased: Which will be Sold at Auction, by Mr. Skinner and Col., on Monday the 24th April, 1786, and the Thirty-seven Following Days, copy number "55" (as per ink numeral on title), engraved frontispiece, SOME LEAVES PRICED UP, WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES (see footnote), [?J. Bell, 1786]; A Catalogue of a Very Valuable Collection of Cameos, Intaglios, and Precious Stones, and Other Curiosities... Out of the Arundel Collection... by Mr. Skinner and Co.... 8th of June, 1786, with final blank, [London, no publisher, 1786], 2 works bound in 1 vol., contemporary calf over marbled boards, red morocco spine label lettered "Portland Catalogue" in gilt, upper cover (and opening blanks) detached, 4to

Footnotes

Scarce auction catalogues, including the 37-day long sale of the "Portland Museum", consisting of upwards of 4000 items, mostly relating to natural specimens, fossils, shells, etc, and catalogued by John Lightfoot, "librarian and chaplain" of the Duchess of Portland. This copy has the prices (and in some places buyer names) marked up in ink on several of the days, a couple headed "I neither viewed or attended this day's sale. Priced by Mr. Lazarus", with occasional comments on items, such as "with thin very long & prickly or cucumber spines" next to item 377, an Echinus Cidarius from Sicily.

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