Authentic memoirs of the life of Richard Mead, M.D.

  • Matthew Maty
Date:
1755
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Authentic memoirs of the life of Richard Mead, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    public could never be beftowed more honourably, than in the ad¬ vancement of Science, and the en¬ couragement of the Learned. His large and fpacious houfe in Great Ormond Street, was converted into a Temple of Nature, and a Re- politory of Time. He built a Gal¬ lery for his favourite Furniture, his Pictures, and his Antiquities. His Library, by the Catalogue lately publifhed, conhfts of 6592 Num¬ bers (s), and contains upwards of 10000 Volumes, in which he /par¬ ed no expence for fcarce and ancient editions, for copies well chofen ancf (s) The Erft part of this collection, confift- , ing of 3280 articles, produced at the Auction 2475/. x8j, 6d» G 2 highly
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