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PUBLIC VENDUE, On THURSDAY the 10th Day of March, at the late Dwelling House of Pierre Eugene du Simitiere, Esq. In Arch-street, between Third and Fourth-streets, where the State Lottery Office is now kept, THE AMERICAN MUSAEUM.
This curious Collection was, for many Years, the principal Object of Mr. Du Simitiere's Attention, and has been thought worthy of Notice by both American and European Literati: It consists of the following Articles, which will be sold in Lots, viz.
BOOKS.
- LOT No. 1
- ALMANACS and Registers
- LOT No. 2
- Architecture, viz.
- De Vignole, 4to. Cuts
- De F [...]libien, 4to. do.
- LOT No. 3
- Catalogues of Books and Curiosities.
- LOT No. 4
- Dictionaries and Grammars, viz.
- Sewel's Dutch and English Dictionary, 4to.
- Boyer's French and English Dictionary, 8vo.
- Dictionnaire François-Latin, 4to.
- — & Allemand, 8vo.
- — Allemand-François-Latin, 12mo.
- Grammaire Allemande
- Dictionnaire Historique, 1st. vol.
- LOT No. 5
- Drawing, viz.
- Algarotti on Painting, 12mo.
- Durer's Proportions du Corps Humain, fol.
- Leonard de Vinci sur la Peinture, fol.
- La Perspective Pratique, 4to. Cuts
- Traité de la Peinture en Miniature, 12mo.
- Abrégé de la Vie des Peintres, par De Pile
- Goree's Inleydingh tot Schilder-Konst, 12mo.
- LOT No. 6
- Divinity, viz.
- Stalham's Reviler Rebuked, 4to.
- Penn's no Cross no Crown, 4to.
- Antip [...]dorantism, by Abel Morgan, 12mo.
- Tennent's Examiner Examined
- Dickinson's Display of God's Especial Grace
- Keith's Deism of William Penn
- Common Prayer Book, New Test. and Psalms, in Welch
- La Liturgie de l'Eglise Anglicane
- Le Nouveau Testament
- Barclay's Apology, in French, 8vo.
- — in Spanish, 8vo.
- Bible in Low-Dutch, fol.
- — 8vo.
- Biblia Sacra
- Tremellii Novum Testamentum, 4to. interleaved
- Lightfoot's Horae Hebraicae
- LOT No. 7
- Geography and Astronomy, viz.
- Monstere's Cosmographie Universelle, fol. Cuts
- Luyt's Introductio ad Geographiam, 4to. Cuts
- Atlas Coelestis
- Honter's Cosmographiae Elementa
- Pomponius Mela de Orbis Situ
- LOT No. 8
- Heraldry, viz.
- Morgan's Sphere of Gentry, fol. Cuts
- The Analysis of Honor, imperfect
- English, Scotch and Irish Peerage, 4 vols.
- Nouvelle Méthode du Blason, 12mo.
- De-Doorluchtige Wereld, 3 vol. 12mo.
- LOT No. 9
- History, viz.
- Chamberlayne's present State of Great Britain
- History of Man
- Account of the Kingdom of Maccassar
- Stowe's Survey of London, 4to. written in 1598
- Remaine's concerning Britain, edit. 1623
- Parliamentary Register, 2d. vol. half bound
- Verstegen's English Antiquities, 4to. edit. 1628
- Howe's Continuation of Stowe's Chronicle
- Account of Switzerland, 12mo.
- History of Jamaica
- Ligon's History of Barbadoes, fol.
- L'Histoire de l'Imprimerie, 4to.
- Histoire du Ciel, 2 tom. 12mo. half bound
- — de Geneve, par Spon, 2 tom.
- — de St. Domingue, par Charlevoix, 2me tome, 4.
- Les Elémens de l'Histoire, par Vallemont, 2 vol. 12mo.
- Les Mémoires d'Edmond Ludlow
- Prospectus d'un Journal de St. Domingue, 3 v. 12. hf. b.
- Montanus von Ost Indien
- Goeree's Kerkelyke & Wereldlyke Historie, 4to. Cuts
- LOT No. 10
- Mathematics, viz.
- Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning, 8vo.
- De la Pluralité des Mondes, par Huygens, 12mo. hf. b.
- Oeuvres Posthumes de Rohault, 2d. vol. 12mo.
- Gassendi Institutio Astronomica, 8vo.
- Sphaera Johannis de Sacrobosco.
- LOT No. 11
- Miscellany, (
a) viz.
- Grew's Musaeum of the Royal Society, fol.
- Brown's Vulgar Errors, 4to.
- Epitome of Boyle's Works, 8vo.
- Salmon's Polygraphice, 8vo.
- Bates's Mysteries of Art and Nature, 4to.
- Hickeringill's Works, 4to.
- Miscellaneous Letters, 4to.
- British Librarian, 8vo.
- Bacon's Essays, 12mo.
- Ward's Miscellanies, 8vo. half bound, imperfect
- Caspipina's Letters, 12mo.
- Laws of Barbadoes during the Protectorate, 12mo.
- Mercer's Abridgment of the Laws of Virginia, 8vo.
- Alexi [...]'s Secrets
- L'Art d'Ecrire, fol. stitched
- La Danse des Morts, 4to. Cuts
- Traité de toute Sorte de Chasse, 2 tom. 12mo. Cuts
- Apologie de la Bruyere, 12mo.
- Les Characteres de The [...]phraste, 12mo.
- Le Chef d'Oeuvre d'un Inconnu, 12mo. half bound
- L'Eloge de la Folie, 12mo.
- Les Conseils de Sagesse, 12mo.
- Les Délices de l'Hollande
- Les Essais de Montaigne, 3 vols.
- Anecdotes de Du Barri, 12mo.
- Logique de Crouzas
- Liste Générale des Postes de France
- Mémoires de Brantome, 7 vs. stitched (Female Biograp.)
- Pieces Anciennes
- La Décoration de la Nature Humaine, edit. 1537
- Secrets pour conserver la Beauté des Dames
- Lettres de St. Domingue
- La Morale Universelle, a Pamphlet
- Le Cousin de Mahomet, 1st. vol. stitched
- Oeuvres Philosophiques de Diderot, 5th vol. 8vo.
- Les Oeuvres de Moliere, tom. 4.
- Libri rari Italiani, (in Italian) 8vo.
- Miscellanea Curiosa, 3 vol. 8vo.
- Alciati Emblemata
- Polydorus Virgilius de Inventoribus Rerum
- Agrippa de Vanitate Scientiarum
- Aristotelis et Alberti Magni editio antiqua, imperfect
- Hoffman's Key to the Arts, (German)
- Het Naturlyk Tover Boek
- De Geheimen Brieven-Schryver, 12mo. half bound
- A Lot ( b)
- consisting of
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- Abrégé de l'Histoire des Provinces Unies
- Thomas a Kempis de Imitatione Christi
- A Book in Short Hand, supposed to be the Bible
- Epictetus in Greek.
- LOT No. 12
- Occult Philosophy, viz.
- Agrippa's Occult Philosophy, 4to.
- — 8vo. French
- Parker's Astrology
- Demonologie
- History of Witches and Apparitions
- Satan's Invisible World discovered
- Hocus Pocus
- Portae Magia Naturalis
- Bodini Daemonomania
- Authores Varii super Alchemiam
- Hermes Trismegistus
- Paracelsus's Aurora.
- LOT No. 13
- Natural History, viz.
- Willoughby's Ornithology
- Sir Hans Sloane's Natural History of Jamaica, 2d. vol. in Sheets, fol. Cuts
- Woodward's Natural History of the Earth, 8vo.
- — on Fossils, 8vo.
- Bradley's Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature, 8vo.
- Henckel on Pyrites, 8vo.
- D'Acosta's Mineralogy, 8vo.
- A Description of some curious Creatures, 12mo.
- Leonardus's Mirror of Stones, 12mo.
- Blount's Natural History, 12mo.
- Grew's Anatomy of Vegetables, stitched
- Compendium Botanicum, in Manuscript
- L'Abbé de Vallemont Curiosités de la Nature, 2 vol. 12mo. Cuts
- L'Histoire des Insectes, par Reaumur, 4 tom. 12. Cuts
- Spectacle de la Nature, 9 vol. 12mo. half bound
- Traité de Physique, par Rohault, 12mo.
- Cours de l'Histoire Naturelle, 7 vol. 12mo. Cuts
- Vincent's Wondertooneel der Natuur, 4to. half bound
- Charleton de Animalibus, fol.
- Do. — 4to.
- Piso's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, fol.
- Hermanni Paradisus Batavus, 4to. Cuts
- Königs Regnum Minerale, 4to.
- Raii Synopsis Animalium, 8vo.
- — Stirpium, 8vo.
- Linnaei Systema Naturae, 2 vol. 8vo.
- — 1 vol. do.
- Icones Plantarum, 12mo. Cuts
- De Boot's Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia, 12mo.
- Leuwenhoeck's Arcana Naturae detecta, 2 v. 4to. Cuts
- Lemnius de Miraculis occultis Naturae
- Johnstoni Notitia Regni Vegetabilis
- Nylandt's Herbarius
- Metamorphosis Naturalis, 2d and 3d Parts
- LOT No. 14
- Physic and Surgery, viz.
- Cullen's First Lines of the Practice of Physic, 1st. vol. 8.
- Morgan on Medical Schools, 8vo.
- Lemery Cours de Chemie, 4to. Cuts
- — des Drogues simples, 4to. do.
- Histoire des Maladies de St. Domingue, 3 vol. 12mo.
- Expériences de Physique, par Poliniere, 12mo.
- Alle de ontleed-genees-en heelkundige Werken van Frederick Ruysch, 3 vol. 4to. half bound, Cuts
- LOT No. 15
- Poetry, viz.
- Colin's Walk through London
- Oeuvres de Boileau, 2 vol. 4to. Cuts
- Oeuvres Poëtiques de Mellin, 12mo.
- Metamorphose d'Ovid
- Les Rimes de Francisco Petrarca (Italian)
- La Peinture, a Poem, by Mierre, 4to. Cuts, an eleg. ed.
- Les Oeuvres de Scarron, 5 vol.
- Amusemens des Dames
- Les Oeuvres de Marot
- Prophéties de Nostradamus
- Horace in Latin, 12mo.
- Gedichte und Lieder von Iohann C. Kunze
- Empfindungen des Herzens.
- LOT No. 16
- Voyages and Travels, viz.
- Ray's Travels, 8vo.
- Burnet's Ditto
- Houston's Ditto
- Twiss's Tour in Ireland
- Navigation des Hollandois aux Indes Orientales, fol.
- Voyage de Lucas au Levant, 12mo.
- — du Nord, 3 tom. 12mo.
- — de Klimmius, half bound
- Relation de l'Expedition de Carthagene
- Historia Navigationis in Brasiliam, 12mo. half bound
- LOT No. 17
- Books and Papers relat. to America, viz.
- Pownall's Administration of the Colonies
- Present State of America, 1687, 8vo. half bound
- American Whigs, 2 vols. 8vo. half bound
- French Memorial, in answer to the English, 8vo.
- Backus's History of the Baptists, 1st vol. 8vo.
- Hubbard's Indian Wars, 4to.
- — 12mo.
- Prince's Chronology, 12mo.
- Morton's New-England's Memorial, 4to.
- Josselyn's Voyages to New-England
- Mather's remarkable Providences in New-England
- Romans's History of Florida, vol. 1st. 12mo.
- History of the Five-Nations, 1st Part
- — of Pennsylvania and West-Jersey
- Kalm's Travels in North-America, 3 vols. 8vo. hf. bd.
- European Settlements, in Ditto, 2 vols. 8vo.
- Robson's Account of Hudson's Bay, 8vo.
- Douglass's Summary, 2 vols. 8vo.
- Wood's New-England's Prospect, 8vo.
- Neale's History of New-England, 2 vols. 8vo.
- Hutchinson's History of Massachusett's Bay, 3 vols. 8vo.
- Smith's History of New-Jersey, 8vo.
- Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 8vo.
- Beverley's History of Virginia, 8vo.
- Stith's — 8vo.
- Natural History of North-Carol. 8vo. half bd. imperfect
- An Account of Indian Missions, 8vo. half bound
- Pennsylvania Magazine, for 1757 and 1758, half bound; published by Bradford
- Ditto, for 1775 and to July 1776, 2 vols. half bound; published by Aitken
- New-Jersey Ditto, 1758, 1759, 1760, half bound
- American Ditto, 1769, ditto
- The present State of Great Britain and North-America, 8vo. stitched
- Votes of the Assembly of Virginia, 1769 & 70, fol. h. bound
- Ditto of Pennsylvania, 1754 to 1768, 2 vols. fol. h. bound
- Ditto ditto Octr. 1769 to 1784, with some Laws, &c.
- Ditto and Laws of New-Jersey, 1776 and seqq.
- Laws of Maryland, fol. interleaved
- New-York, 1777 to 1782, fol. boards
- Smith's History of New-York, 4to.
- Horsemanden's Account of the Negro Plot at New-York, 4to.
- American Tracts, 4to. half bound
- Atlas Geographicus, vol. 5th, 4to.
- Learning and Spicer's Collection of New-Jersey Grants, &c. fol.
- Pennsylvania Gazette 1729 to 1782, incomplete
- Papers relating to the American Stamp Act, fol.
- New-Jersey Bill in Chancery, fol. half bound
- New-York Politics, fol.
- Publications of the Enemy in Philadelphia, 1777 & 1778
- A Collection of Indian Treaties, stitched
- Trials of Generals Arnold, Schuyler, Sinclair and Lee
- A Collection of Journals of Congress
- A Collection of Pamphlets, Handbills, Extracts from News-Papers, &c.
- Regulations for the American Troops, 12mo.
- Constitutions of the United States, in boards
- An Indian and English Spelling Book, half bound
- Seven Volumes political Pamphlets, half bound
- One — in boards
- Two Volumes of Pamphlets, half bound
- A Collection of manuscript and printed Materials for an History of North-America and the West Indies, in two Boxes
- Hennepin's Voyages, in French
- De la Salle's Voyage dans le Golfe de Mexique
- Recueil des Reglemens des Colonies Françoises de l'Amérique, 12mo.
- Herrera's Description des Indes Occidentales, fol. Cuts
- Charlevoix Histoire de la Nouvelle France, 3 vols. 4to
- Voyage aux Isles de l'Amérique, 2 vols. 4to. Cuts
- Histoire de la Floride, 2de Partie
- Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera, 4to. Cuts
- Holm's Novae Sueciae Descriptio (Swedish) half bound
- Historie der Bocaniers in America
- LOT No. 18
- News-Papers, viz.
- Freeman's Journal from the Beginning to May 1783
- Pennsylvania Chronicle — Do — 1774 inclus.
- — Packet — Do. — Sept. 1784
- — Ledger 1775 & 1776
- — Mercury, first 38 Numbers
- — Journal 1743 to 1784
- — Evening Post 1775 to 1782
- New-York Gazette 1747 to 1772
- — Journal 1767 to 1779
- — Mercury 1752 to 1777
- — Gazetteer, and Royal Gazette 1773 to 83
- A large Collection of English, Irish, West-Indian, and of several of the United States, incomplete.
COINS.
- LOT No. 19
- A Mahogony Cabinet containing ancient and modern Gold, Silver and Copper Coins and Medals; among which are some very curious Bronzes.
CURIOSITIES.
- LOT No. 20
- Indian and African Antiquities, Dresses, Weapons, Utensils, &c.
- LOT No. 21
- Preservations in Spirits, in 38 Phials.
- LOT No. 22
- An elegant Collection of Shells and other Marine Productions.
- LOT No. 23
- Fossils and Petrifactions.
- LOT No. 24
- A Collection of Woods, Barks, Fruits, Pods, &c. from the West-Indies.
DRAWINGS & PRINTS.
- LOT No. 25
- A Port Folio containing about 170 Drawings.
- LOT No. 26
- Ditto ( a) containing about 240 Prints
- LOT No. 27
- Ditto ( b) 390 do.
- LOT No. 28
- Ditto ( c) 250 do.
- LOT No. 29
- Ditto ( d) 140 do.
- LOT No. 30
- Ditto ( h) 110 do.
- LOT No. 31
- Ditto ( i) containing Drawings, finished and unfinished; Specimens of Writing and of old Print.
- LOT No. 32
- Ditto ( e) containing about 170 Prints, and a Hortus Siccus.
- LOT No. 33
- Ditto ( k) containing about 160 Maps and Plans.
HORTI SICCI.
- LOT No. 34
- A Port Folio ( f)
- LOT No. 35
- Ditto ( g)
AMERICAN MONEY.
- LOT No. 36
- A Collection of Parchment and Paper Money.
MATTHEW CLARKSON,
Administrator.
EBENEZER HAZARD,
Administrator.