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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
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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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