Strawberry Hill, the Renowned Seat of Horace Walpole: Mr. George Robins is Honoured by Having Been Selected by the Earl of Waldegrave, to Sell by Public Competition, the Valuable Contents of Strawberry Hill, and it May Fearlessly be Proclaimed as the Most Distinguished Gem that Has Ever Adorned the Annals of Auctions. It is Definitely Fixed for Monday, the 25th Day of April, 1842, and Twenty-three Following Days (Sundays Excepted) ...George Robins, 1842 - 244 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة iv - The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchasemoney, in default of which the lot or lots purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold.
الصفحة xiv - Dearest, — I have not leisure to write much. But I could chide thee that in many of thy Letters thou writest to me, That I should not be unmindful of thee and thy little ones. Truly, if I love you not too well, I think I err not on the other hand much. Thou art dearer to me than any creature; let that suffice.
الصفحة iv - Money deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited ; all Lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or private Sale, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale shall be made good by the Defaulter at this Sale.
الصفحة xiv - Lord hath showed us an exceeding mercy : who can tell how great it is? My weak faith hath been upheld. I have been in my inward man marvellously supported; though I assure thee, I grow an old man, and feel infirmities of age marvellously stealing upon me.
الصفحة 171 - A pair of antique carved and gilt tripods for vases 41 A curious japanned and painted writing table of Clay's ware, in imitation of the old India Japan, with flap and drawer, it is black with blue and white ornaments in a gothic pattern, designed by Paul Sandby 42 Four black and gilt window stools, seats stuffed with hair 43 A dejeune service of the old Oriental China, tea pot, sugar basin, slop basin, 3 cups and saucers and a paper tray The Bronzes, Valuables and Antique Furniture. IN THE LIBRARY.
الصفحة 155 - Near this place is interred Theodore, King of Corsica ; Who died in this parish, Dec. n, 1756, Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency : In consequence of which, he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
الصفحة 25 - Lady Quene Elyzabeth through the Citie of London to Westminster, the daye before her Coronation, Anno 1558-9.
الصفحة 172 - It is richly chased and engraved, and ornamented with fleur de lys, &c. On the top sits a lion, bearing" the arms of England. The weights, which are gilt, are curiously chased with the initials of Henry and Anne within true-lover'sknots. One bears the inscription, ' The most happye,
الصفحة x - ... castle. Imagine the walls covered with (I call it paper, but it is really paper painted in perspective to represent) Gothic fretwork: the lightest Gothic balustrade to the staircase, adorned with antelopes (our supporters) bearing shields ; lean windows fattened with rich saints in painted glass, and a vestibule open with three arches on the landing-place, and niches full of trophies of old coats of mail, Indian shields made of rhinoceros's hides, broadswords, quivers, long bows, arrows, and...
الصفحة vi - Cousin and other masters of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries ; Limoges Enamels of the period of the Renaissance, by Leonard and Courtoise ; Roman and Grecian antiquities in bronze and sculpture ; Oriental and European china, of the choicest forms and colours ; exquisite and matchless missals, painted by Raphael and Julio...