A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall / [by the Rev. J. Lightfoot].

Date:
1786
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Credit: A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall / [by the Rev. J. Lightfoot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CONCISE VIEW OF THE CONTENTS of each D A Y’s SALE. Islonday z\th April 1786. Firft Day. OHELLS, Corals, Minerals, Echini, Allerise, ^ Petrefaftions, Infefts, and other Subjefts of Natural Hiftory. ^uefday z^th Second Day. Shells, Corals, Minerals,_ Echini, Afteriae, Petrifaftions, &c. but no Infedts. 'lT’’edne/day zSih Third Day. The fame as the Firft Day. 'Thurfday z’jth Fourth Day. The fame as the Second Day. Friday z%th Fifth Day. China, Japan, Wrought Chryftals, SnufF-Boxes, &c. The fame as the Firft Day^ Saturday Z()th Sixth Day. Monday, May \Jl Seventh Day. The fame as the Second Day. Tuefday zd Eighth Day. The fame as the Firft Day. Wednefday i^d Ninth Day. Shells, Corals, Petrefadftons, Minerals, Eggs of Birds, &c. Thurjday Tenth Day, The fame as the Fifth Day, Friday Eleventh Day. China, Japan, Curious Agates, wroughtCryftals, &c. Saturday 6th Twelfth Day. The fame as the Second. Monday %th Thirteenth Day. The fame as the Firft, with the Addition of fome 'Chino/e and Indian Artiiicial Cnriofities. ^uefday ^th Fourteenth Day. Shells, Corals, Minerals, Nefts and Eggs of Birds, dried Vegetables, &c. 1 W'ednefday \oth Fifteenth Day. The fame as the Firft Day. ^hurfday 1 \tb Sixteenth Day. Shells, particularly an entire Cabinet of Minorca Shells, Birds, fome in Cafes ; Minerals, Pe- trifadlions, Corals, &c. Friday \zth Seventeenth Day, China Snuff Boxes, Cabinets for Natural Hiftory, &'C, The fame as the Firft Day. Saturday ijti Eighteenth Day. Monday i^th Nineteenth Day. Shells, Corals, Infefts, Animals, and Vegetables in Spirits, Petrifadlions, &c. but no Mi- nerals. ^ue/day 16tb Twentieth Day. The fame as the Firft Day, IVednefday \’]th Twenty-firft Day. The fame as the Second Day, ^hur/day \Zth Twenty-fecond Day. Ditto, friday