Auction catalogues.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Catalogues of objects, manuscripts, books, or other items offered for sale at auction.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Auction records of Dowell's Limited.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7603/1-174
Scope and Contents
Including roup rolls and sale catalogues.
Dates:
1892-1950.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
File
Identifier: MS.3804
Scope and Contents
With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.
The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.
Dates:
1743-1825.
"Catalogue of Valuable Books ... which belong'd to Sir Alexander Seaton of Pitmedden, Baronet [Seton, Lord Pitmedden] ... to be sold by way of auction ... in Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1719), being the interleaved copy belonging to John Willson, clerk to the auction, who has entered the names of purchasers and the amounts paid.
Item
Identifier: MS.3802
Dates:
1719-1720.