A catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection of topographical prints and drawings in England and Wales, the most extensive ever offered to public sale : which will be sold by auction, on Friday, December 11, 1795, and the three following days, (Sunday excepted) by Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, at their house in York-Street, Covent-Garden, where catalogues may be had.

Large Print

Leigh and Sotheby, A catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection of topographical prints and drawings in England and Wales, the most extensive ever offered to public sale , [1795]

Print Record | Large Print Record

Creator:: Leigh and Sotheby
Title(s):: A catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection of topographical prints and drawings in England and Wales, the most extensive ever offered to public sale : which will be sold by auction, on Friday, December 11, 1795, and the three following days, (Sunday excepted) by Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, at their house in York-Street, Covent-Garden, where catalogues may be had.
Published/Created:: [London] : [Leigh and Sotheby], [1795]
Physical Description:: [2], 40 pages ; 23 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
N5247 .C66 1795
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3882334
Classification:: Books
Notes:: '"This collection was the property of Dr. Coombs a physician who had prepared this catalogue in order to sell it by auction but the whole was purchased by private contract by John Symmons Esqr. at the price of £650."--Getty provenance index.
BEIN X348 S71 1791-99: No. [4] of [7] in v. with binder's title: Sotheby. Auction catalogues 1791-1799.
Signatures: [A]1 B-F⁴.
Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 5388
Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-2133
English short title catalogue, T2535
Date of sale: December 11-14, 1795.
Place of sale: London.
BAC: British Art Center copy is not annotated. MS inscription on title page: "This was the capital collection of Dr. Combe of Bloomsbury, and after being 3 days on view, was disposed of by private contract the evening before it was announced for public sale."
Subject Terms:: Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
Catalogs, Booksellers' -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.
Combs, Charles, 1743–1776 -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
Drawings, English -- Catalogs.
Prints, English -- Catalogs.
Topographical drawing -- Catalogs.
Form/Genre:: Auction catalogues -- England -- London -- 1795.
Auction catalogs.
Export:: XML

If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.

YCBA Collections Search