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" ... of birds, fish, flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatured to the life. He told us that one book ' stood him in .£300 ; it was painted by that excellent workman whom the late Gaston Duke of Orleans emploied. This gentleman's whole collection, gatherM... "
The Naturalist's Library - Page 24
by William Jardine - 1836
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Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6 ..., Volume 3

John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1827 - 458 pages
...rare of their kind, especially his bookes of birds, fish, flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatur'd to the life. He told us that one book stood him in...excellent workman whom the late Gaston Duke of Orleans emploied. This gentleman's whole collection, gather'd by himselfe travelling over most parts of Europe,...
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Part the first. History of libraries

Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 940 pages
...minerals, ... all being very perfect and rare of their kind, especially his books of birds, fishes, flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatured to the life. He told us that one book stood him in f 300. It was painted by that excellent workman whom the late Gaston, Duke of Orleans, employed. This...
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Part the first. History of libraries

Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 898 pages
...being very perfect and rare of their kind, especially IMS books of birds, fishes, flowers, and shell?, drawn and miniatured to the life. He told us that one book stood him in f 30O. It was painted by that excellent workman whom the late Gaston, Duke of Orleans, employed. This...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S ...

John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1870 - 788 pages
...rare in their kind, especialy his bookes of birds, fish, flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatur'd to the life. He told us that one book stood him in...excellent workman whom the late Gaston Duke of Orleans emploied. This gentleman's whole collection, gather'd by himselfe travelling over most parts of Europe,...
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The Athenaeum, Volume 2961; Volume 3038

England - 1870 - 930 pages
....... minerals : all being very perfect and rare of their kind, especially his books of birds, fishes, flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatured to the life. He told us that one book stood him in three hundred pounds. It was painted by that excellent workman whom the late Gaston, Duke of Orleans,...
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The life of John Locke, Volume 2

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 596 pages
...spirits of wine), minerals, precious stones, vessels, curiosities in amber, crystal, agate, etc. ; all being very perfect and rare in their kind, especially...flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatured to the life. This gentleman's whole collection, this stray letter we should know hardly anything, however, of their...
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The Life of John Locke, Volume 2

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Celebrities - 1876 - 618 pages
...minerals, precious stones, vessels, curiosities in amber, crystal, agate, etc. ; all being very perfect ami rare in their kind, especially his books of birds,...flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatured to the life. This gentleman's whole collection, *t.354.] A LETTER TO WILLIAM CHARLETON. 65 this stray letter we...
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The diary of John Evelyn

John Evelyn - Autobiography - 1879 - 652 pages
...rare in their kind, especialy his bookes of birds, fish, flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatur'd to the life. He told us that one book stood him in...excellent workman whom the late Gaston Duke of Orleans emploied. This gentleman's whole collection, gather'd by himselfe travelling over most parts of Europe,...
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Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S.: To which is ..., Volume 2

John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1889 - 494 pages
...are given. vessels, curiosities in amber, crystal, agate, &c. ; all being very perfect and rare of their kind, especially his books of birds, fish, flowers,...was painted by that excellent workman, whom the late Graston, Duke of Orleans, employed. This gentleman's whole collection, gathered by himself, travelling...
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Famous Ladies of the English Court

Jerusha D. Richardson ("Mrs. Aubrey Richardson.") - Great Britain - 1899 - 522 pages
...precious stones, vessels, curiosities in amber, cristal, agate, &c. ; all being very perfect and rare of their kind, especially his books of birds, fish, flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatured to the life."* These glimpses of Lady Sunderland in the character of intelligent patroness of the arts and sciences...
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