Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
125 L278 755 3/11
Image Count:
172
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Priced., Signatures: A-B⁴., The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754. This sale appears to be the English version of the second part of an earlier sale of the Museum Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques., MED,HSL 17th cent: Bound with the author's A catalogue of pictures, London, 1755., BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754., and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout. Title pages are ruled in red.
Publisher:
Abraham Langford
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, Great Britain, and England.
Subject (Name):
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
Satirical handbill offering a reward for the apprehension of the "said Coachman," said by Narcissus Luttrell to be an attack on Sir Robert Walpole. and Ms. notes (unidentified calculations) on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
With half-title., Last page blank., "(Price six-pence)"--Below imprint., One of the "performances" is [Horace Walpole's] Lessons for the day.--cf. pages 13., Lewis Walpole Library 49 1608 18:4: Horace Walpole's title: Letter on the abuse of Scripture terms., and Mottled calf, with Horace Walpole's manuscript list of contents.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane
Surprising negro from the Gold Coast and To the virtuosi in anatomy and to all lovers of natural curiosities
Description:
At head of title: To the virtuosi in anatomy and to all lovers of natural curiosities. There is now to be seen at Mr. Symes's Peruke-maker, opposite the Mews Wall, Charing-Cross., Caption title., and Date of publication based on the advertisement's reference to the 4 December 1751 meeting of the Royal Society.
Caption title., "The following Address was delivered in the Chapel of the gaol at Chelmsford, by the Rev. S. Bennett, who officiated for the ordinary, on Friday, July 28, 1815, immediately before the execution of James Garrard and James Perry, convicted at the late Assizes of a robbery on the High Road near Romford, Essex ... The beginning of their sad misfortunes was, first of all, a neglect of Divine Worship on the Lord's Day, and their frequenting too often public-houses"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Ellerton and Henderson, printers, Johnson's Court
Subject (Geographic):
England, Essex., England., and Chelmsford
Subject (Name):
Garrard, James, -1815. and Perry, James, -1815.
Subject (Topic):
Crime, Thieves, Executions and executioners, and Execution sermons
Not acted here these ten years. For the benefit of Mrs. Bishop (being the last but one)
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Congreve, William, 1670-1729. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
By the Bath Company of Comedians and This present Friday, being the 24th of July, will be presented the historical tragedy of King Richard
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743.
By desire and This present Thursday, being the 30th of July, will be presented a comedy ...
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]., and Dated in mss.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757. and Townley, James, 1714-1778.