A catalogue of the ... library of Martin Folkes, esq., president of the Royal society ... lately deceased; which will be sold by auction by Samuel Baker ... To begin ... February 2, 1756, and to continue for forty days successively (Sundays excepted)

Accession number

PML 79650

Creator

Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.

Published

[London : 1756]

Credit line

Purchased on the H.S. Morgan Antiquarian Reference Fund, 1987.

Notes

Priced.
The 5,126 lots were sold for £3,091.
Library rich in works on natural history, coins, medals, inscriptions and the fine arts.

Description

156 p. ; 21 cm (8vo)

Provenance

Some marginalia by the Rev. Philip Bliss (De Ricci, pp. 141-2).

Binding

Disbound.

Classification

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