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.
![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, dec. COMPRISING HIS COLLECTIONS OF HERBALS & OTHER NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS, FIRST AND OTHER EDITIONS OF JOHN MILTON’S WRITINGS & MILTONIAN A, AND WORKS IN GENERAL LITERATURE. FIRST DAY’S SALE. THE COLLECTION OF HERBALS, &c., comprising Lots 1 to 116, will first be offered in One Lot, but if the reserve price be not realised, the Collection will immediately be sold separately in lots as catalogued. SIZES MIXED. Lot 1. dams (Geo.) Essays on the Microscope, fine frontispiece and folding plates, calf, ito, 1788—Plates to Adams on the Microscope, by Kanmacher, oblong folio, ib.—Ethnographical Maps to Pritchard’s History of Man—Engraved Plates from (2. Woodville’s Medical Botany (185), mostly coloured; and another anci folio. (5) 2 Aldrovandus (U.) Dendrologiae Naturalis scilicet Arborum His- toriae lib. II, numerous woodcuts, old calf {broken) folio. Francof. B. Ilsnerus [l671] B](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24991338_0001_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
