 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...  A General Guide to the British Museum (Natural History), London: With Plans ... - Page 7by British Museum (Natural History), William Henry Flower - 1893 - 78 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Masson - 1850 - 444 pages
...including ' all his library of books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, medals, and coins, ancient and modern, seals, cameos, and intaglios, precious stones, agates,...agate and jasper, crystals, mathematical instruments, drawings and pictures, and all other things in said collection or museum.' But parliament did not stop... | |
 | 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
...drawings, and manuscripts, he had gathered together 4 prints, medals, and coins, ancient and modern, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious stones, agates,...agate and jasper, crystals, mathematical instruments, drawings, and pictures;' and it might have been added, stuffed birds, beasts, and fishes, together... | |
 | 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...agate and jasper, crystals, mathematical instruments, drawings, and pictures;' and it might have been added, stuffed birds, beasts, and fishes, together... | |
 | 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.,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1903 - 320 pages
...convenient Use of the said Collections and of the Cottonian Library and of the Additions thereto." Sloan's collection, which at the time of his death in 1753...latter included numerous zoological and geological specimens, and an extensive herbarium of dried plants preserved in 310 large folio volumes. According... | |
 | sir Henry Cole - 1884 - 446 pages
...is called, con- The si«me sisted of "his library of books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, M^m." °r medals and coins, ancient and modern antiquities,...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
...called, con- The sioane sisted of "his library of books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, iSum!i °r medals and coins, ancient and modern antiquities,...stones, agates, jaspers, vessels of agate and jasper, chrystals, mathematical instruments, drawings and pictures, more particularly described and numbered,... | |
 | Henry Woodward - Geology - 1904 - 706 pages
...manuscripts, prints, medals and coins, ancient and modern antiquities, seals, cameos and intnglios, precious stones, agates, jaspers, vessels of agate...mathematical instruments, pictures, and other things," which last included numerous zoological and geological specimens and an extensive herbarium of dried plants... | |
 | Edward Codrington William Grey - Bloomsbury (London, England) - 1905 - 272 pages
...included a very valuable " library of books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, medals, seals, cameos and precious stones, agates, jaspers, vessels of agate and jasper, crystals, mathematical instruments and pictures ". Under the provisions of this same Act the Harleian library of MSS. (about 7,600 volumes),... | |
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