A catalogue of the genuine and most curious collection of sardonyx's, onyx's, opals, garnets, agates, porphyrys, and other Oriental stones; antique cameo's and intaglia's in rings, pictures, and miniatures; curious mathematical and optical instruments, and other valuable effects, belonging to Robert Hughes, consul general for the Dutch and agent for the English at Grand Cairo in Egypt
Subtitle: collected during a residence there of thirty-three years : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Bastin, at his auction room, in Exeter Change, in the Strand, on Monday the 17th of this instant December 1770, and the following day
Contributors: Hughes, Robert, active 1738-1770
Published: 1770
Language: eng
Subjects: Catalogs; Scientific apparatus collections; Catalogs and collections; Antiquities; Early works to 1800; Art collections; Natural history collections; Precious stones
Notes: "Note. In the second day will be sold that extremely rare and great curiosity, The Stone of the World, representing the globe; also two Egyptian mummies; beautiful collection of sulphurs from the Roman, Florentine, and other cabinets; six volumes in folio of the Herculaneum, an exceeding fair copy; an orrery, and a pair of globes."

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Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 1873

Date of sale: December 17-18, 1770.

Place of sale: London.