Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870, 2. kötetTrübner, 1870 - 780 oldal |
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... twenty - third of February , 1818 , the Trustees of the British Museum presented to the House of Commons a petition , praying that Dr. BURNEY'S Library should be acquired for the Public . The prayer of the petition was supported by Mr ...
... twenty - third of February , 1818 , the Trustees of the British Museum presented to the House of Commons a petition , praying that Dr. BURNEY'S Library should be acquired for the Public . The prayer of the petition was supported by Mr ...
442. oldal
... twenty ; and the total sum given for the whole was thirteen thousand five hundred pounds . It was estimated that the Collection had cost Dr. BURNEY a much larger sum , and that , possibly , if sold by public auction , it might have ...
... twenty ; and the total sum given for the whole was thirteen thousand five hundred pounds . It was estimated that the Collection had cost Dr. BURNEY a much larger sum , and that , possibly , if sold by public auction , it might have ...
459. oldal
... twenty- seven pounds . OF THE MON- TAGU MU- SEUM ; [ See , here after , Book In 1816 , a valuable accession came to the zoological department , by the purchase , for the sum of eleven hundred pounds , of a Collection of British Zoology ...
... twenty- seven pounds . OF THE MON- TAGU MU- SEUM ; [ See , here after , Book In 1816 , a valuable accession came to the zoological department , by the purchase , for the sum of eleven hundred pounds , of a Collection of British Zoology ...
463. oldal
... twenty - four years PUBLIC afterwards , it was lent , for exhibition ( 1810 ) , by the third BENEFAC- Duke of PORTLAND , to the Trustees of the British Museum , where it has since remained . When WEDGWOOD set about imitating the ...
... twenty - four years PUBLIC afterwards , it was lent , for exhibition ( 1810 ) , by the third BENEFAC- Duke of PORTLAND , to the Trustees of the British Museum , where it has since remained . When WEDGWOOD set about imitating the ...
469. oldal
... twenty thou- sand pounds . For seven or eight years the shops and Dactyliotheca warehouses of English booksellers were also sedulously 1767 ; Lady examined , and large purchases were made from them . this labour JOHNSON often assisted ...
... twenty thou- sand pounds . For seven or eight years the shops and Dactyliotheca warehouses of English booksellers were also sedulously 1767 ; Lady examined , and large purchases were made from them . this labour JOHNSON often assisted ...
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addition ancient Antonio PANIZZI appointed archæological arrangement Assyrian BANKSIAN basement bequest BOOK III British Museum building Catalogue century Chap Coins and Medals Committee early edition Egyptian ELLIS eminent England exhibition feet Felix SLADE Gallery GEORGE THE THIRD GEORGIAN GISTS AND EXPLORERS glass Greek GRENVILLE ground GROUP OF ARCHEOLO Henry honour House increase inscription JECTORS Joseph PLANTA King KING'S OR GEORGIAN labours LAYARD less Librarian literary literature London Lord SHELBURNE LOVERS AND PUBLIC Lycian manuscripts Marbles ment monuments MUSEUM UNDER SIR National Natural History Nineveh Nitrian Desert objects PANIZZI Parliament persons PLANTA portion present Printed Books PUBLIC BENEFAC purchase reader Reading-Room RECON removed Roman Room Royal sculptures side Sir Charles FELLOWS SIR H Sir Joseph BANKS space species specimens staircase STRUCTORS Syriac TATTAM Thomas GRENVILLE thousand five hundred thousand pounds tion tomb TORS OF RECENT Trustees upper floor vases volumes walls WATTS Zoology