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A catalogue of a valuable collection of pictures, at the Exhibition Room, 209, Regent Street, the property of a gentleman, ... also ... the celebrated Exeter clock, ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Geoe. Robins, at the Exhibition Room, ... on Monday, the 11th of August, 1834, ...
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ROBINS,, George, auctioneer
[Sale catalogue. 1834:08:11]
A catalogue of a valuable collection of pictures, at the Exhibition Room, 209, Regent Street, the property of a gentleman, ... also ... the celebrated Exeter clock, ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Geoe. Robins, at the Exhibition Room, ... on Monday, the 11th of August, 1834, ...
[London]:, Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand,, [1834].
6 p. ; 23.5 cm. (4º)
Not in Lugt. The star of this sale was the so-called 'Exeter' clock, a 17th-century copy of the famous mechanical clock at Strasbourg. According to the auctioneer's description its 'talented but ill-requited' maker, Jacob Lovelace of Exeter, 'consumed thirty-four years in completing this astonishing proof of the power of Mechanism'.
Copy Notes Unannotated copy. Bound in a collection of sale catalogues.
Binding Recent half goatskin.
Reference Number 3187
Additional Names Exeter Clock - Auction catalogue
[Sale catalogue. 1834:08:11]
A catalogue of a valuable collection of pictures, at the Exhibition Room, 209, Regent Street, the property of a gentleman, ... also ... the celebrated Exeter clock, ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Geoe. Robins, at the Exhibition Room, ... on Monday, the 11th of August, 1834, ...
[London]:, Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand,, [1834].
6 p. ; 23.5 cm. (4º)
Not in Lugt. The star of this sale was the so-called 'Exeter' clock, a 17th-century copy of the famous mechanical clock at Strasbourg. According to the auctioneer's description its 'talented but ill-requited' maker, Jacob Lovelace of Exeter, 'consumed thirty-four years in completing this astonishing proof of the power of Mechanism'.
Copy Notes Unannotated copy. Bound in a collection of sale catalogues.
Binding Recent half goatskin.
Reference Number 3187
Additional Names Exeter Clock - Auction catalogue