Coates, Thomas, approximately 1802-1883, collector
Published / Created:
[1834-1836]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 834C
Image Count:
111
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album compiled by Thomas Coates, solicitor and sometime secretary to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, containing 340 proofs of wood engravings mounted on 68 leaves, with section titles and descriptions: Illustrations of the Hindoo...
Description:
Title from dealer's description.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Canada, Egypt, India, Portugal, and Spain
Manuscript, in Horace Walpole's hand, containing his notes from Pierre Bayle's A general dictionary, historical and critical. Some leaves have been torn out from the front; final page of notes on back pastedown
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.
Nine drawings, four copies of drawings of limnings in the Harleian copy of John Lydgate's Life of King Edmund and five drawings, four on vellum, from Froissart's Chronicle, mounted on leaves and bound in old vellum. Most drawings with contemporary cap...
Description:
Title from Hazen catalogue.
Subject (Name):
Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870., Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, and Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
Album of ca. 22 watercolors by Maria Sybilla Merian, of insects, reptiles, and fish probably done on the European continent (Germany or Netherlands), along with a collection of other watercolors by several artists, signed and unsigned, including a por...
