Volume 1

Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day.

  • Payne, Joseph Frank, 1840-1910.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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