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Richardson1788
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1788
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A CATALOGUE OF THE NEAT Houthold Furniture, Pictures, Prints, China; CHOICE STOCK of EXCELLENT WINES, Small Library of BOOKS; A CAPITAL FINE FULL TONED CHAMBER ORGAN, A PIANO FORTE; Hot House and Green House Plants; TWO MILCH COWS, and a Variety of Valuable Effects, THE PROPERTY OF JOHN RICHARDSON, Esq; AT HIS HOUSE, Late the GEORGE INN at GODALMING, in the County of SURRY. WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. CHRISTIE, ON THE PREMISES, On Wednesday, September 24th, 1788, AND FOLLOWING DAY. To be Viewed on Monday and Tuesday preceding the Sale, which will begin each Day at ELEVEN o’Clock. Catalogues may be had as above; at the Ship, at Liphook; the White Hart, Guildford; Bush, Farnham; at the Rainbow Coffee House, and in Pall Mall.

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CONDITIONS of SALE. / I. THE highest Bidder is to be the Buye; and if any Dispute shall arise between any two or more Bidders, the Lot fo disputed shall be put up again and re-fold. / II. No Person to advance less than 6d. above a Pound, is. above five Pounds, 2s. 6d. and so on in Proportion. / III. The Purchasers to give in their Names and Places of Abode, if required, and to pay down 5s. in the Pound in Part of Payment of the Purchase Money; in Default of which, the Lot or Lots so purchased, to be immediately put up again and re-fold. / IV. The Lots to be taken away at the Buyer’s Expence, within One Day from the Day of Sale. / V. To prevent Inconveniences that frequently attend long and open Accounts, the Remainder of the Purchase Money to be absolutely paid on or before the Delivery. / VI. Upon Failure of complying with the above Conditions, the Money so deposited in Part of Payment shall be forfeited; all Lots uncleared within the Time aforefaid, shall be re-fold, by public or private Sale, and the Deficiency (if any) attending such Re-sale, shall be made good by the Defaulters at this Sale.|A CATALOGUE, &c. &c. &c.[after N@]|End of the First Day’s Sale.[after N@77]|FINIS.[after N@98]

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First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. I. Mens Garret.
1 A Whole-tester turn-up bedstead with blue cheney furniture, feather bed, bolster, 2 blankets and 3 coverlets

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. II. Garrets East.
2. Two walnut chests of drawers and 7 back-stool chairs
3 A four-post bedstead with crimson harrateen furniture, and 2 ditto festoon window curtains
4 A goose bed, bolster and 2 pillows
5 A hair matress in a ticken case
6 Three blankets and a counterpane
7 A wainscot chest of drawers
8 A large sauaie dressing glass in a swing frame with 3 drawers and a deal chamber table
9 A cut cus caived cabinet on a frame
10 A cauch badliend with apparatus and furniture to ditto, feather bed, bolster and pillow, a hair quab, 1 blanket and a white cotton counterpane
11 A neat pulistaed steel slove with commode front, feuder and freirons
12 Six back-stool chairs and a bedside table
13 A Anatogeny donble chest of drawers
14 A ditto chamber horse
15 Five matted chairs, a mahogany stool, 7 small drawings, &c.
16 An old Turky carpet, a walnut chamber table, night stool, small Scotch carpet, Turky bedside ditto and an airing horse

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. III. Drawing Room.
17 Ten mahogany chairs with green leather feats
18 Six ditto
19 An elegant mahogany Chinese glazed bookcase with two drawers and folding doors underneath
20 A pair of japan’d candlestands
21 A mahogany sopha in canvas, stripe Manchester case
22 A neat mahogany Pembroke table with a drawer
23 A pair of elegant brass patent lamps complete
24 A fine toued piano ferte by Hancock, in an elegant inlaid case

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. IV. Second Room, Ons Pair.
25 Six neat japan’d chairs with matted feats
26 An excellent eight-day clock by Steàman, in an eleganz mahogany case
27 A pair of cone shape lanternz, with lines, pullies and burners to ditto
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First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. V. Third Room, One Pair.
28 A full-fize four-post bedstead, mahogany feet posts and scarlet stuff damask furniture
29 A mahogany pillar and claw table
30 A large chimney glass in 3 plates and gilt frame
31 Six walnut chairs with loose feats and covers to match the bed
32 Two French arm ditto in canvas and stripe cases
33 A deal toilet table with green stuff cover, 2 scarlet stuff damask window curtains and a Wilton carpet round the bed

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. VI. Eating Parlor.
34 An elegant inlaid mahogany commode shape side table with cistern, celleret, drawers, &c. complete
35 A large oval pier glass with glass border and rich carved and gilt frame
36 An excellent fine full-toned organ with 3 stops, by Goddard, a spiral barrel with 3 favorite pieces of music and 2 common ditto, plays 20 tunes ; the case of beautiful mahogany inlaid and cross banded, and gilt front to ditto
37 A square mahogany celleret
38 Ditto [A square mahogany celleret]
39 Ten neat mahogany circular fan-back chairs and 2 aruz ditto, with fattin horse hair feats and double rows of brass nails
40 Three crimson morine festoon window curtains fring’d and complete and 3 window blinds
41 A Turky carpet 9 ft. by 10
42 An oval mahogany two-flap dining table

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. PICTURES and PRINTS.
43 An Italian sea port
44 A pair, brood mares, after Stubbs
45 The finding of Moses
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46 A pair of fine prints framed and glazes, the Aerora and companion, from Guido
47 A set of 4 shooting pieces by Woollett, after Stubbs, fine impressions

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. VII. WINES, &c.
48 A hogshead of fine slavor’d Old Faro, at per gallon
49 Three doz. ditto [slavor’d] in bottles, at per doz.
50 Ditto [Three doz]
51 Ditto [Three doz]
52 Ditto [Three doz]
53 Ditto [Three doz]
54 Ditto [Three doz]
55 Ditto [Three doz] fine rich old Port
56 Ditto [Three doz]
57 Ditto [Three doz]
58 Ditto [Three doz]
59 Ditto [Three doz]
60 A hogshead of excellent fine old Lisbon, at per gallon
61 Three doz. ditto in bottles, at per doz.
62 Ditto [Three doz]
63 One doz. fine Rhenish white Constantia ia pints
64 Ditto [Three doz]
65 Ditto [Three doz]
66 Ditto [Three doz]
67 Ditto [Three doz]
68 Ditto [Three doz]
69 Ditto [Three doz]
70 Four doz. old bottled strong beer
71 Ditto [Four doz]

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. VIII. BOOKS.

1 Seven odd vols. hist. of America, a parcel of magazines and pamphlets
2 Forty odd vols.
3 Thirty ditto
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4 Anson’s voyage, and 10 more
5 Antiquities of Rome, and 10 more
6 Hadibras, and 8 more
7 Baily’s dictionary, and 8 more
8 Characterses history of the rebellion, 6 v. 1721
9 Characterses, 3 v. 1708. Temple’s letters, 2 v. 1700. Travels of Cyrus, 2 v. 1730.
10 Seed’s sermons, 2 v. Sharp’s, 3 v. Bullock’s, 1 v. Butler’s, 1 v. Ibbot’s, 1 v.
11 Historical dict. 2 v. Puffendorf’s introduction, 1 v. 1728. Skelton’s Don Quixote, 2 v. Bolingbroke’s letters to Wyndham, 1 v. 1753
12 Collection of miscellanies, 3 v. 1705. Sydney’s works, 3 v. 1725. Burnet’s discourses at Boyle’s lectures, 2 v. 1726
13 The farmer’s guide, 2 v. 1770. Brown’s letters, 2 v. 1707. Burnet’s theory of the earth, 2 v. 1719. Whiston’s life and writings, 2 v.
14 Herrera’s history of America, 6 v. 1725
15 Annals of Queen Anne, 7 v. 1703 to 1707
16 Echard’s Roman history, 5 v. 1724
17 Rollin’s ancient history, 10 v. 1738
18 Cato’s letters, 4 v. 1733, Discovery of the infernal world, 2 v.
19 Tom Jones, 6 v. 1749. Turkish spy, 7 vol. the 2d wanting
20 Fordyce’s sermons to young women, 2 v. 1767. Memoirs of Mrs. Pilkington, 2 v. 1748. Rowe’s Lucan, 2 v. 1753
21 Plato’s works, 2 v. by Dacier, 1772. Sydney’s works, 3 v. 1739. Digby’s Curtius, 2 v. 1726
22 Oeuvres d’Horace, par Dacier, 10 tom. 1727
23 Rapin’s history of England, 15 v. 1728
24 Historical register from 1714 to 1735 inclusive, 22 v.

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. QUARTO.
25 Cambridge dictionary, 1693, and 4 more
26 Mortimer’s elements of commerce, 1 v. 1772. Clarke’s letters on Spain, 1 v. 1763. Locke on St. Pael’ epistles, 1 v. 1707
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27 $$$$ation, 1 v. 1670. Sherlocke on pro-$$$$, 1694. Staahops’s sermons at Boyle’s dictures 1 v. 1702. Beatley’s sermons at ditto, 1 v. 1695

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. FOLIO.
28 Conquest of Mexico, 1 v. Commentaries of Peru, 1 v. History of Spain, 2 v. and 4. more
29 Sidney on government, 1 v. 1704 Coke’s reports, 1 v. 1680. laws of England, 1 v. 1684. Harris’s lexicon, 1 v. 1704.
30 Tillotson’s sermons, 1 v. 1718. Trial of the seven bishops, 1 v. 1689. Ellwood’s facred history, 1 v. 1709. Stephens’s world of wonders, 1 v. 1607. Cowley’s life, 1 v.
31 Rushworth’s historical collections, 1 v. 1659. Reports from the secret committee on India affairs, 1 v. 1773. Walker’s life and progress of Charles 1st, &c. 1 v. 1705. Author of the duty of man’s works, 1 v. 1687
32 Phillips’s dict. 1 v. 1706. Hampden’s trial, 1 v. 1719, and 4 more
33 Burnet’s history of the reformation, 3 v. 1715
34 Raleigh’s history of the world, 1 v. 1687. Ainsworth on the Pentateuch, &c. 1 v. 1627
35 Barrow’s sermons, &c. 3 v. 1683

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. IX. Dairy.
72 Three churns, 14 milk pans, scales and weights, marble mortar and sundry small implements

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. X. Room adjoinirg.
73 A wainscot press with shelves, a deal ditto with drawers, 3 chairs various and a piece of oil cloth
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First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. XI. Store Room.
74. An ullage of vinegar in a cask
75 A salting tub lined with lead
76 A dough bin, 3 falting tubs, jelly stand and odd articles

First Day’s Sale, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the 24th, 1788. No. XII. Laundry.
77 Six cloaths baskets, a pail, milk ditto, 2 stools, a lye drainer and odd articles
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Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XIII. Fourth Room, One Pair.
1 A Crimson morine festoon window curtain, a toilet table, and a bed-side table
2 A mahogany dressing chest of drawers
3 A pair of shaped card tables lined
4 A wainscot wardrobe
5 A four-post bedstead with chintz furniture, lined with green silk

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XIV. Lumber Room in the Gallery.
6 An easy chair and cushion covered with leather
7 A ditto [easy] in blue damask and case
8 Two crimson morine window curtains
9 Two armed chairs faulty, a stool, a pole screen, and a green wire fender
10 A marble mortar with a stand, wood pestle and cover, and a mahogany night stool
11 Three wire sieves, a lawn ditto, a draught board, and a pair of flower stands
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12 A cieling broom, a tin night lantern, a cradle, child’s chair, fundry window laths and odd articles

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XV. The next Room.
13 A settee stove and green wire fender
14 Four armed chairs in canvas, a deal table with a drawer, a toilet ditto, a long bench, and an ironing board

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XVI. China, &c.
15 Two blue and white tureens with covers and dishes
16 A ditto bowl faulty, 2 fruit dishes, an oblong burnt-in ditto, 12 fruit dishes and 3 plates
17 A pair of sauce tureens, covers and dishes, an imaged mosaic tea set, 34 pieces, and 6 asparagus servers
18 Two pewter pots with glass bottoms, a liqueur case with 4 bottles, a barometer, and 2 Wedgwood tea pots
19 Thirteen flower glasses, a tin cheese toaster, a ditto oil can, 4 large glass covers, and a square ditto with mahogany frame
20 A brown japan’d tea urn and a lamp
21 A Dutch clock, a pagoda, a piece of shell work, a pewter lamp and sundry yellow ware
22 Thirty pieces of blue and white tea equipage, three Wedgewood tea pots, cream ditto, 4 yellow jugs and a mug

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XVII. Press Bed Chamber in the Gallery.
23 A very elegant mahogany wardrobe bedstead with Chinese glazed doors and green silk curtains; the furniture a fine chintz pattern cotton lined, fringed vallens, bases, and complete
24 A walnut settee with blue check case and a ditto bedside table
25 A Japan cabinet on a frame
26 A ditto with plated mountings
27 A curious inlaid ditto
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Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XVIII. Library.
28 Two crimson morine seitcon window curtains fringed and 2 window blinds
29 An elegant mahogany wardrobe with sliders and drawers, fine wond, ovai panncls, cross-banded
30 A ditto library bookcase, with cupboards and pediment, 12 feet wide by 9 feet High
31 A ditto desk with drawers and counter
32 A mahogany one-flap table fitted to the center of the book case
33 A ditto less
34 Ten green and white japanned chairs with loose matted feats, two armed ditto, and a sopha to correspond with squab and check case
35 A Scotch carpet, 9 ft. by 11, and a piece of Wilton ditto
36 A backgammon board, boxes and men, a draft ditto, and 2n inkstand with glasses
37 A sea piece with shipping in a gilt frame, and 6 coloured prints
38 A set of mahogany library steps
39 An iron chest complete with lock and key
40 An excellent barometer and thermometer by Poncone in a neat inlaid case

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XIX. Dressing Room
41 A mahogany music or reading desk to rise, on a pillar and claw with apparatus
42 A ditto table with a drawer, a pot cupboard and a window blind
43 A compass stove and sundry old iron
44 A wainscot tool box with sundry tools, and a parcel of fishing rod and tackle

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XX. Holl.
45 A compass lantern, line and pulley, and 12 yards of stcorcloth
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Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XXL Butler’s Pantry.
46 A wainscot press in two parts and folding doors
47 A deal bureau bedstead
48 A deal press with thelves, 2 arm chairs and a wainsco chest of drawers
49 A mahogany claw table and a night chair
50 A chimney glass in three plates faulty, and 2 tables
51 An elegant brown japanned tea vase with plated mountings

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XXII. Kitchen.
52 An excellent screw range with iron back, crane, ash grate, &c. complete
53 A smoak jack complete with two chains
54 An octagon iron oven as fixed with furnace and complete
55 A double copper boiler with 2 brass cocks, covers, iron work, and complete N. B. The four preceding Lots are new, and fixed about six months.
56 A fender, tongs, poker, shovel, bellows, 2 spits, cookhold and 2 ballance skewers
57 A meat skreen lined with tin and iron bar shelves to ditto
58 A clock by Goodyer
59 Two flat irons, 5 stands, 12 iron skewers, 2 racks, brass mortar and pestle, 3 brass candlesticks various, 8 lacquered ditto, a Japan coal sccup, coffee and pepper mills, basting ladle, mincing knife, dinner bell, 5 trivets various and 2 gridirons
60 Three copper tea kettles, 2 baking pans, a tin boiling pot and cover and a warming pan
61 A dripping pan
62 A pewter water dish and 6 ditto plates
63 A parcel of tin ware, 2 iron frying pans, 2 cleavers, hanging iron and a pair of stilliards
64 A quantity of earthen ware various
65 A deal table, a round ditto, 3 stools, 3 chairs, salt binn, plate rack, chopping block, 10 round tubs various and a stand to ditto
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Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XXIII. Granary.
66 An iron vane complete
67 A cod net and a flue

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XXIV. Stables, &c.
68 A quantity of fire wood, including all on the premises

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XXV. Coach Houses, &c.
69 Two painted gates
70 A cow crib, a wheelbarrow, 2 hog troughs and a turkey coop
71 A quantity of ashes and ditto of paving stones
72 A pair of leading harness with saddle to ditto and a pad
73 Two saddles, a side saddle and 2 false collars
74 A small size new saddle and bridle
75 A pair of town harness with bridles and plated mountings

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XXVI. Cellars.
76 Four iron-bound new hogsheads
77 Ditto [Four iron-bound new hogsheads]
78 Ditto [Four iron-bound new hogsheads]
79 Five large beer stands and 1 old iron-bound cask
80 A quantity of bottles, at per doz.

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XXVII. HOT-HOUSE and Green-House Plants.
81 Six misembranthernum of sorts
82 Ditto [Six misembranthernum of sorts]
83 Ditto [Six misembranthernum of sorts]
84 Ditto [Six misembranthernum of sorts]
85 Ditto [Six misembranthernum of sorts]
86 Ditto [Six misembranthernum of sorts]
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87 One fine geranium lancelatum, 6 others of forts, 1 meleanthus, 2 heliotrophium, 1 balm of Gilead and 1 variegated marble
88 One very large budelea, 1 fine carnation, 1 exotic rasberry and 6 geraniums
89 Twelve geraniums of sorts and sundry odd plants
90 One Malabar nut and 3 Adam’s needle
91 One torch thistle, 2 creeping Ceres and sundry hot-house plants

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XXVIII. Garden Tools, &c.
92 An iron crow, pair of sheers, seythe, Dutch hoe, 3 iron rakes, edging iron, 2 prong, an iron reel, 4 hoes, a hand engine, 3 tin watering pots and a beck
93 A stone roller with iron frame and an iron bound water tub
94 One three-light and 1 two-light cucumber frames
95 A cross-cut saw, a hand ditto, a sawing horse, beetle, 3 iron wedges, ditch drag, sundry paint pots and brushes and a tub with red oker

Second Day’s Sale, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1788. No. XXIX. LIVE STOCK.
96 An excellent red milch cow, 2d calf
97 A red and white ditto, ditto
98 A cow calf, four months old
99 About 20 load of exccllent hay
100 Fifteen hurdles
101 Six hand glasses
102 Ditto [Six hand glasses]