 His collection, which at the time of his death in 1753 was contained in his residence, the Manor House, Chelsea, consisted of " books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, medals, and coins, ancient and modern antiquities, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious...  General Guide with Plans and Views of the Building - Page 1by British Museum (Natural History) - 1913 - 121 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Masson - 1850 - 444 pages
...collection of Sir Hans Sloane should be purchased, including ' all his library of books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, medals, and coins, ancient and...mathematical instruments, drawings and pictures, and all other things in said collection or museum.' But parliament did not stop here. Availing themselves... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 694 pages
...Incorporation, it appears that in addition to books, drawings, and manuscripts, he had gathered together 4 prints, medals, and coins, ancient and modern, seals,...mathematical instruments, drawings, and pictures;' and it might have been added, stuffed birds, beasts, and fishes, together with anatomical preparations,... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 592 pages
...manuscripts, he had gathered together ' prints, medals, and coins, ancient and modern, seals, cameos ami intaglios, precious stones, agates, jaspers, vessels...mathematical instruments, drawings, and pictures;' and it might have been added, stuffed birds, beasts, and fishes, together with anatomical preparations,... | |
 | Education - 1860 - 718 pages
...II.) were purchased all Sir Hans Sloane's " library of books, drawings, manuscript?, prints, medals, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious stones, agates,...vessels of agate and jasper, crystals, mathematical instrumenta, pictures," Ac. By the same Act was bought, for £10,000, the Harleian Library of MSS.,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - London (England) - 1879 - 426 pages
...Slbane, of the Manor House, Chelsea, had bequeathed his library of books, drawings, manuscripts, prirts, medals and coins, ancient and modern, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious stones, mathematical instruments, &c., and his multifarious specimens of natural history, to certain trustees... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1879 - 442 pages
...Sloane, of the Manor House, Chelsea, had bequeathed his library of books, drawings, manuscripts, priLts, medals and coins, ancient and modern, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious stones, mathematical instruments, &c., and his multifarious specimens of natural history, to certain trustees... | |
 | Great Britain - 1903 - 320 pages
...consisted of "books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, medals, and coins, ancient and modern antiquities, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious, stones, agates,...agate and jasper, crystals, mathematical instruments, pictures, and other things," which latter included numerous zoological and geological specimens, and... | |
 | sir Henry Cole - 1884 - 446 pages
...of books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, M^m." °r medals and coins, ancient and modern antiquities, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious stones, agates, jaspers, vessels of agate and jasper, chrystals, mathematical instruments, drawings and pictures, more particularly described and numbered,... | |
 | Henry Cole - Art - 1884 - 454 pages
...books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, iSum!i °r medals and coins, ancient and modern antiquities, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious stones, agates, jaspers, vessels of agate and jasper, chrystals, mathematical instruments, drawings and pictures, more particularly described and numbered,... | |
 | William Henry Flower, British Museum (Natural History) - 1893 - 96 pages
...consisted of " books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, medals and coins, ancient and modern antiquities, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious stones, agates,...agate and jasper, crystals, mathematical instruments, pictures, and other things',' which latter included numerous zoological and geological speciMontagu... | |
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