A catalogue of the magnificent effects of holford house, regent's park : including Twelve Pairs of rich Crimson Silk and Satin Curtains.several pairs of oriental china jars, of unusual size.The Venus de Medicis and Thorwalsden's Venus, both of life size, in Marble.An Extensive and Curious Collection of Specimens of Entomology.a collection of pictures.cellar of wines.some 15 years in botle.which will be sold by auction by messrs. foster and son on the premises.on wednesday, 26th luly, 1854, and Thirteen following Days.by order of the executors of the late James Holford, Esq.

[HOLFORD HOUSE]

Published by J. Davy and Sonds, Printers [1854], 1854

97pp, [3]. With terminal blank leaf. Stitched within original pink printed paper wrappers. Worn, with loss and staining to wrappers, some marking to text, large portion of terminal blank torn away. Some occasional pencilled annotations/prices added. The first 109 lots of this 13 day sale of the contents of Holford House, which was - when designed by Decimus Brutus and built in 1832 for the wealthy wine importer James Holford - the largest house in Regent's Park, rather fittingly dispersed the deceased former owner's private cellar of Sherry, Hock, Champagne, Port, Madeira, Cognac, Rum and Whiskey. The entire sale, as this catalogue attests, totalled over 2000 lots, and included choice examples of contemporary furniture, furnishings, antiques, art, and a library. The latter was disposed of in 68 lots (several of which including multiply volumes) on the seventh day of the sale, and featured largely nineteenth-century works. Amongst novelists featured were Scott, Edgeworth, Fieldin and Sterne, whilst political economists and historians included Smith and Gibbon. Choice luxury works listed in folio format included Boydell's large paper Shakespeare in nine volumes (London, 1802) with a further plate volume, and the ever-popular Foreign Field Sports with '110 coloured illustrations' (London 1813). COPAC locates no copies in British institutions, and OCLC adds just the single, extra-illustrated example at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Size: Quarto. Seller Inventory # AQ30271

Bibliographic Details

Title: A catalogue of the magnificent effects of ...
Publisher: J. Davy and Sonds, Printers [1854]
Publication Date: 1854
Binding: Soft cover