Short title
Austin 1772
Year of publication
1772
Full title

A CATALOGUE Of the Genuine and Curious LIBRARY OF BOOKS, Collection of Manuscript Penmanship, Prints, Drawings, and Books of Prints, Belonging to that late ingenious CONNOISSEUR Mr. Emanuel Austin, Of Bartholomew Close, Collected by him with great Judgment and Industry; Which (by Order of the Executor) Will be sold by Auction, By Mr. BASTIN, At his Great Room in Exeter Change in the Strand, On Tuesday the 9th of this Instant June 1772, and the Three following Evenings. They may be viewed on Monday, till the Time of Sale, which will begin each Evening punctually at Half past Six o’Clock. Catalogues of which may be had gratis at the Place of Sale; and at Mr. Bastin’s, No. 36. in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. [manicule] The Specimens of Writing are really beautiful, and flowed from the Pens of those most accomplish’d Masters, Zacchary Chambers, Esq; Bland, Major Snow, Shelly, Smith, Webb; Norman, Chinnery, and other celebrated Penmen.

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Library
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Shelf mark
BAS-1772-JUIN-9
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auction catalogue private library

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[vignette] First Night’s Sale, Tuesday, June 9. // First Night’s Sale, Tuesday, June 9. / BOOKS. [First Night’s Sale, Tuesday, June 9.] // First Night’s Sale, Tuesday, June 9. / BOOKS. / OCTAVO & DUODECIMO. [BOOKS. First Night’s Sale, Tuesday, June 9.]
1 REmarks on the Characters and Manners of the French
2 Harriett, 2 vol. - Moll Flanders
3 Disguise, a Dramatic Novel, 2 vol.
4 Letters to Altamont - Memoirs of Falkner
5 Smollet’s Adventure of an Atom, 2 vol.
6 Dryden’s Fables
7 Betsey Thoughtless, 4 vol.
8 Joseph Andrew, 2 vol.
9 Waller’s Poems - Terrae Filius
10 New Manual
11 Memoirs of Anne of Austria, 5 vol.
12 Academyof Play - Adventures of an Orphan
13 Common Prayer
14 Bible, bound in 2 vol. morocco
15 History of Sir William Harrington, 4 vol
16 Prior’s Poems, / and 3 others
17 The Herald, / and 2 more
18 Cautious Lover, 2 vol.
19 Reward of Virtue
20 Contrast, 2 vol.
21 Brothers, 2 vol.
22 Younger Sister, 2 vol.
23 Cecil and Gray, 2 vol.
24 Sentimental Tales
25 Gweder Family
26 Clara, 2 vol.
27 Prediction, 3 vol.
28 Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol.
29 Anecdotes of a Convent, 3 vol.
30 A ream of Folio thick Post
31 Mos$’s Gauging
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32 Adanson’s Voyage to Senegal
33 Swift’s four last Years of Queen Anne / - Revolution$ in England
35 Common Prayer, large print
36 Farmer’s Guide
37 Shipwreck and Adventures of Pierre Viaud
38 Dodwell’s sick Man’s Companion
39 Stackhouse’s Life of Christ / - Winstanley’s Christian Calling
40 Common Prayer, large print
41 History of Lewis XI, 2 vol.
42 Switzer’s Fruit Garden, / and 1 more
43 Lecons de Navigation
44 Common Prayer, large print
45 Courtier / - Memoirs of Scotland / - Puffendorf’s Introduction
46 Byron’s Narrative, elegant
47 Hubner de Geographia, 2 vol.
48 Common Prayer, large print
49 Biblographical Dictionary, 12 vol. elegant
50 Hor$es’s Elements, 2 vol.
51 Boyer’s Dictionary, last edition
52 Fenning’s Dictionary, last edition
53 Dictiona$re de Rimes
54 Lediard’s Life of the Duke of Marlborough, 2 vol. with Cuts and Medals
55 Lediard’s Posthumous Works, 2 vol.
56 Baronetage of England, &c. 5 vol.
57 Abernethy’s Sermons, 2 vol. / - Tracts
58 Kennet’s Sermons
59 Churchill's Sermons
60 Boyer's Dictionary, last edition
61 Characters and Manners of the French
62 Practice of Piety
63 German Spy
64 Mazea’s Elements d’Algebre de Geometrie, &c.
65 New Duty of Man
66 Glass’s compleat Confectioner / - Servants Directory
67 A Ream of Folio, thick Post
68 Essaie sur cette Question, quand l’Amerique a-t-elle éte Peuplée, par. E. B. d’E. 4. vol. Amst. 1767
69 Erudition complette de Bielefeld, 4 Vol.
70 Histoire moderne pour Servir de Suite à l’Hist. ancienne de Rollin, 18 vol. Paris 1770
71 Monarchie Françoise dans les Gaules, par Du Bos, 4 tom. Paris 1742
72 Lettres d’une Mere à son Fils sur la Verité de la Religion Chret, 3 tom. Paris 1668
73 Ouvres de la Farque, 2 tom. - ib [Paris], 1765
74 Hommes il comparés les un$ avec les autres, 2 tom. 1756
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75 Hist. de Mils Honora, on le Vice dupe de lui-même 4 tom. Paris 1766
76 Memoires de St. Forlaix, 4 tom. 1770
77 Ah! quel conte! par Crebillon le Fils, 7 tom. 1754
78 Journal Hist. de Louis XV. Paris 1766
79 Voyage aux Isle Malouines, par Pernetty, 2 vol. ib [Paris] 1770
80 Quintilianus ex Officina Soardi Venetiis, leg. nit corio turcico 1513
81 Traité des Miracles, 2 tom. 1764.
82 France Litteraire des Touts les Auteurs & de leurs Oeuvrages, 2 tom. 1769
83 L’Homme de Lettres, par Garnier Paris 1764
84 Nouvelle Clarice, par M. de Beaumont, 2 tom. 1767
85 Chefs - D’Oeuvres Moliere, .3 tom. 1765
86 Pamela, en François, avec des belles fig. 4 tom.

[vignette] Second Night’s Sale, Wednesday, June 10. // Second Night’s Sale, Wednesday, June 10. / BOOKS. [Second Night’s Sale, Wednesday, June 10.] // Second Night’s Sale, Wednesday, June 10. / BOOKS. / OCTAVO & DUODECIMO. [BOOKS. Second Night’s Sale, Wednesday, June 10.]
1 THree Tracts on India Affairs
2 A Ream of thick Folio Post
3 Perrault’s Architecture
4 Du Halde’s Hist. de la Chine, 4. vol.
5 Vidae Opera. 2 vol. Padoua 1731
6 Fletcher of Saltown’s Works
7 London Magazine, 1732 a 1754, 23 vol. and the Index
8 Newton’s Milton, 2 vol.
9 David Crantz’s Hist, of Greenland, 2 vol.
10 A Volume of political Tracts
11 Guenes ce Nassau
12 A Ream of thick Folio Post
13 Sermons de Massillon, 13 vol.
14 Les Trevaux d’Ulysse de diez a Monseigneur de Dancourt, elegantly bound
15 Histoire des decouvertes & Conquestes des Portugais dans le nouveau Mondes, avec des figures, an taille douce, par le R. R. Joseph, Francois La$tau de la Compagnie de Jesus, 2 tom.
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16 Histoire de Dom. Bells Estampe
17 Oeuvrer de Montesquieu, 3 vol. Boards, new
18 Histoire de Naples, 4 vol. neat
19 Jemmet’s Miscellanies
20 Bible, compleat, wich large Letter Common Prayer
21 Dacier’s Plutarch, 8 vol. elegantly bound
22 Cleopatra, 8 vol.
23 Smollet’s Collection of Voyages, 7 vol.
24 Married Victim, 2 vol.
25 New Duty or Man
26 Emily Montague, 4 vol. gilt
27 Woman of Honour, 3 vol.
28 Steele’s Plays, gilt
29 Centlivre’s Plays, 3 vol. ditto [gilt]
30 Joseph Andrews, 2 vol. ditto [gilt]
31 Abelard and Heloise, ditto [gilt]
32 Muse in a moral Humour, 2 vol. ditto [gilt]
33 Paradise Lost, ditto [gilt]
34 The Disguise, 2 vol.
35 The married Victim, 2 vol.
36 Sentimental Tales, 2 vol.
37 Memoirs of Catherine Jemmet, 2 vol.
38 Loves of Othniel and Achsah, 2 vol.
39 Old Maid, 3 vol.
40 History of Harriet, 2 vol.
41 Adventures of Captain Greenland, 4 vol.
42 History of Miss Le Fevre, 2 vol.
43 Bysshe’s Art of Poetry, 2 vol.
44 Francis’s Horace, 4 vol.
45 Hentner’s Travels
46 Webb’s compleat Annuitant
47 Memoirs of a Coquet, and G. L. Amusement
48 Truth and Nature, 2 vol.
49 Overbury’s Wife / - Jemmet’s Memoirs, 2 vol.
50 Practice of Piety
51 Guardian, 2 vol.
52 Religious Courtship
53 Addison’s Travels
54 Cleopatra / - Charles Chance
55 Clergyman’s Companion / - Watts’s Psalms
56 Thomas à Kempis
57 Othniel and Achsah
58 Grey’s Hudibras, 3 vol.
59 Imperatrice Romaines, 3 vol. gilt
60 Gil Blas, cuts, 4 vol. ditto [gilt]
61 Les Vies de Plutarque, 14 vol. ditto [gilt]
62 Cours d’Histoire Naturelle, 7 vol, cuts, ditto [gilt]
63 Contes Arabes, 6 vol. ditto [gilt]
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64 Histoire Generale de l’Amerique, 14 vol. gilt
65 Principia de Philosophie - Pamela, 2 vol.
66 Oeuvres de Cyrano, 3 vol. gilt
67 Siecle de Louis XIV. and XV. 6 vol. par Voltaire, ditto [gilt]
68 Lettres de Talbert, 2 vol.
69 Oeuvres de Racine, 6 vol.
70 Necole de Beauvais, 2 vol. gilt
71 Lettres de Talbert, 4 vol.
72 Spectacle de la Nature, bound in 12 vol. neat
73 Imperatrice Romaines, 3 vol.
74 Turretini octo Dissertationes de Revelationis Veritate, &c. 4to.
75 Breviarium Romanum, ex Officina Plantiniana, Gr. 1632
76 Joannes Vossius de Arte Grammatica, 4to. Amst. 1635 / - De l’Existence de Dieu, par Guil. Derham, Rotterdam 1730 / - Montani Testamentum Graecum, cum Versione Latina
77 Buxtorfius de Abbreviaturis Hebraicis / and 2 more
78 Leusdeni Testamentum Graecum, cum Versione Latina, / and 2 more
79 Monde enchanté, par Becker, 4 vol.
80 A Ream of Folio thick Post

[vignette] Third Night’s Sale, Thursday, June 11. // Third Night’s Sale, Thursday, June 11. / Scarce Books, Specimens, &c. [Third Night’s Sale, Thursday, June 11.]
1 A Large parcel of lines for writing
2 A ditto [Large parcel of lines for writing]
3 Six port folios
4 Twelve metzctintos by Faber
5 Twelve ditto [metzctintos by Faber]
6 Thirteen ditto [metzctintos by Faber]
7 Twenty old heads
8 Twenty ditto [old heade]
9 A large parcel or prints, in a port folio,
10 Ditto [A large] of penmanship by various masters
11 A ditto [large of penmanship by various masters]
12 A ditto [large of penmanship by various masters]
13 A port folio, with a large number of Specimens
14 A ditto [port folio, with a large number of Specimens]
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15 Two Books by Vandervelde and Champion
16 Bickham’s Universal Penmanship
17 Three Books of Bragge’s Sermons
18 Three Books of engraved Writing, several Alphabets in German Text, Advertisements, Puffs, &c.
19 Four Books of Writing by Ollyffe, Champion, &c
20 Vandevelde, 1605 / - Two Books printed from wooden Blocks, 1570, by R. Field, written and designed by Beau Chesne and Baildon, vary rare
21 Four Books by Champion, Bickham, Closterman, and ditto [Four Books] by various Masters
22 A Book of Advertisements and Letters, / and 3 blank Books
23 Fourteen Books of Sermons by Bragge, MSS.
24 Bragge’s Sermons, 2 vol. 4to MSS.
25 Four Books by Shelley, Champion, &c.
26 Four Books by Austin, &c.
27 Twelve Books of Bragge’s Sermons

Third Night’s Sale, Thursday, June 11. / Geographical and other Books.
28 Perrault’s Architecture
29 Bowen’s English Atlas
30 Description of the Maritime Parts of France, 2 vol.
31 Ditto [Description] of the Dresses of all Nations, with 240 Plates, 2 vol.
32 Ditto [Description], ditto [of the Dresses of all Nations, with 240 Plates, 2 vol.]
33 Letters, &c. of Queen Elizabeth, relating to the publick Transactions of her Reign, with Copies of the original Signatures
34 Plans of Dunkirk, in 12 large Plates
35 Cay’s Abridgment of the Statutes, 2 vol.
36 Thurloe’s State Papers, 7 vol.
37 Burton’s Monasticon; or, Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire
38 System of Geography, 2 vol. with Cuts and Maps
39 A Ream of thick Folio Post
40 Snelling on Coins
41 An Account of the Lord Mayors and. Sheriffs of the City of London, with their Names, Trades, Arms, &c. distinguishing the Year of each King’s Reign, from 1189 regularly down to 1739, a very fair MSS, with an Index

Third Night’s Sale, Thursday, June 11. / Books in Quires.
42 Fifteen Descriptions of Margate
43 Fifteen ditto [Descriptions of Margate]
44 Nine, Pomfret’s Poems
45 Nine, Walker’s Epictetus
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46 Four, Moore’s Fables to the Female Sex, with cuts by Grignion

Third Night’s Sale, Thursday, June 11. / Curious Penmanship.
47 Two Books which contain various Manuscripts of Oldfield, Lloyd, Snow, Chinnery, Chambers, &c.
48 Two ditto [Books], Snell, Ollyffe, J. Clarke, Hardy, Postlethwayte, Brooks, and Norman
49 Two ditto [Books], Austin, Bickham, Brooks, Dove, and Norman
50 Three ditto [Books], Austin, Chinnery, junior, and 130 various Pieces of Bland
51 Four ditto [Books], Austin, Bramble, Chinnery, Champion, Dickie, Dove, Fyfe, Gray, Maples, Norman, Peters, Penn, Snell, &c.
52 Two ditto [Books], J. Clark, R. Clark, Chambers, Chinnery, Champion, Fletcher, Hill, Snell, Whilton, and various early Dutch Masters
53 Three ditto [Books], Z.Chambers, Esq; Champion, Dove, Fuller, Fyfe, Hill, Pigge, and Whilton
54 Two ditto [Books], Chambers, Chinnery, Oldfield, Reeve, Snell, &c.
55 Two Books, Applin, Browne of Norwich, Chinnery, Champion, Dickie; Fisher, Forrest, Grant, Leekey, Oldfield, Smith, Stringer, Willis, Webb, Wright, &c.
56 One Book, consisting of 28 pieces hy Dan. Smith, late from Bristol and Liverpool
57 One ditto [Book], by that late most eminent Penman, J. Bland, containing eleven Specimen’s, Letters, &c. one ditto, consisting of curious Pieces, wrote and struck by Z. Chambers, Esq; Chinnery, Champion, Andrews, Dove, Snell, &c.
58 One Book of Bland’s, containing 24 choice pieces, 1 ditto of Chinnery, and various other Masters
59 One ditto [Book], which contains at leaft three dozen Proofs of the Command, by Z. Chambers, Esq; (the modern Velde)
60 One ditto [Book], by Applin, Bickham, Chambers, Webb, and various Dutch Masters
61 One ditto [Book], containing near 400 Specimens, by at least one hundred ancient and modern Masters, many of which were of the greatest Eminence in that Art
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Third Night’s Sale, Thursday, June 11. / Prints and Drawings.
62 Ten various old prints, and a tin case
63 Six books of landscapes
64 Thirteen by Wterotter, P. Potter, &c.
65 Eight by Troost, &c.
66 Six metzotintos by Watson, &c
67 David and Bathsheba, a fine etching after. Rembranas
68 Thirty-eight various
69 Seventeen heat prints
70 Six by Sir J. Reynolds, &c. fine
71 Forty old heads
72 Six metzotintos by Houston, fine
73 Seven by Paul Brill, Rembrandt, &c.
74 Five by. Miller, &c.
75 Ten by sundry masters
76 Ten, fine
77 Four by Watteau, &c. fine
78 Foar by Miller. &c.
79 Two port folios
80 A manuscript on vellum, / and 10 more

[vignette] Fourth Night’s Sale, Friday, June 12. // Fourth Night’s Sale, Friday, June 12. / PRINTS, PLATES, &C. [Fourth Night’s Sale, Friday, June 12.]
1 TWenty-one etchings by Berghem, / and others
2 Eleven figures by Demarteau
3 Eighty-nine various
4 Twenty-one drawings and prints by Demarteau
5 A 6 sheet map of England
6 Thirty etchings by Le Prince and Berghem
7 An head of her Majesty upon India paper, and 2 print by Wille, &c.
8 Ten humorous prints by different masters
9 Three by Poussin, Stubbs, and Baptist
10 Six outlines of landscapes
11 The farmer’s return by Hogarth
12 A scene in the pit
13 Two plates from Teniers
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14 An opera glass
15 Four of the Gaesars, finely chas’d
16 An oil stone in a case, a book, a shell, and a box of fundries

Fourth Night’s Sale, Friday, June 12. / Prints and Books of Prints.
17 Bickham’s Penmanship, compleat, bound, in folio, gilt and letter’d
18 A Journal, ruled, and bound in green vellum
19 An Order Book, fine paper, neatly ruled, bound in red leather
20 A Cash Book, neatly ruled, bound in green vellum
21 An Account Current Book, neatly bound, cover’d with green canvas
22 An Order Book, fine paper, neatly ruled, bound in red leather
23 A Bill Book, neatly ruled, bound in green vellum
24 A Book of Fountains and Gardens at Rome
25 A ditto [Book] of Gems, by Cheron, very fine.
26 A ditto [Book] of Prints, after Baron de Graat, by Pool, fine
27 A ditto [Book] by Houbraken
28 Perrier’s Statues, fine, bound in vellum
29 Love Emblems, in Latin, English, and Italian, very Scarce
30 Two Vol, of Handel’s Solos and Chamber Airs, bound
31 A fine print by Raphael, / and 2 others
32 Ten by different masters
33 Ten by ditto [different masters]
34 Ten by ditto [different], smaller
35 ten by ditto [different], ditto [smaller]
36 Ten by ditto [different], ditto [smaller]
37 Two by Rubens, fine, / and 8 others
38 Two by ditto [Rubens], / and 2 others
39 History of England, by Hayman
40 Four by different masters, finely engraved
41 One by Vandyck, 2 by Scaeler, / and 3 others
42 Thirteen of trades by Van Uliet, fine
43 A narcissius by Sadeler, / and 4 others
44 Six fine prints by Sadeler, Sec.
45 One by Sadeler, / and 5 others
46 Eight prints and 4 drawings
47 A compleat set of fine water colours, from Nurenburgh
48 Two heads of Queen Mary and King William, finely engraved
49 Fourteen Books or old Music
50 Four Quarto Paper Books, / and 1 long ditto [Music], bound
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Fourth Night’s Sale, Friday, June 12. / DRAWINGS, &C.
51 Two by Vernet, fine
52 One by Rembrandt, Scarce
53 Two holy families by Rubens, &c. fine
54 Eighteen views by Marco Ricci
55 St. Genevieve by Balechou
56 Three comic subjects by Troost
57 A large collection out of the Duke de Choiseul’s cabinet
58 Two drawings by Wouvermans, capital
59 Two historical, fine
60 One by Vischer, from Ostade
61 Two of heads, in gold frames
62 Three drawings various
63 Three of landscapes in water colours
64 Three of flowers in water colours
65 One of currants on vellum, very fine
66 A crocus from nature
67 Three landscapes by Tull, in water colours
68 Two landscapes in bister by Vivares
69 Three landscapes from nature
70 Three in bister and water colours
71 Three tinted landscapes
72 Two neat drawings in ink and colours
73 Two in bister, highly finished
74 Four drawings of flowers from nature
75 Four ditto [drawings] by various
76 Two landscapes from nature in water colours
77 Two ditto [landscapes from nature in water colours]
78 Four drawings in bister and India Ink
79 A port folio
80 A parcel of vellum covers
81 A ditto [parcel] of port folios
82 Seven ditto [parcel of port folios]
83 Four ditto [parcel of port folios]
84 Five ditto [parcel of port folios]
85 Five ditto [parcel of port folios]
86 Six ditto [parcel of port folios]
87 Four ditto [parcel of port folios]
88 Four ditto [parcel of port folios]
89 Four ditto [parcel of port folios]
90 Four ditto [parcel of port folios]
91 Four ditto [parcel of port folios]
92 Four ditto [parcel of port folios]
93 Three ditto [parcel of port folios]
94 Three ditto [parcel of port folios]
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Fourth Night’s Sale, Friday, June 12. / PICTURES.
95 A portrait of Dr. Bragge
96 A ditto [portrait] of the Rev. Mr. Ralph Venning
97 A ditto [portrait] of a dissenting minister
98 A ditto [portrait] of Dr. Richard Sibbes
99 A ditto [portrait] of the Rev. Mr. Cole
100 A ditto [portrait] of Dr. John Owen
101 A ditto [portrait] of the Rev. Mr. Phillip Noye
102 A ditto [portrait] of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Goodwyn
103 A ditto [portrait] of a dissenting minister
104 A ditto [portrait of a dissenting minister]
105 A ditto [portrait] of the Rev. Mr. David Clarkson
106 A ditto [portrait] of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Lacy
107 A fine head of a general
108 Eight very eminent dissenting ministers by Faber, &c. framed and glazed
109 Thirteen ditto [very eminent dissenting ministers] by White, &c.