A catalogue of the entire valuable museum of the late Matthew Duane, F.R. & A.S. ... containing the coins and medals : which, by order of the executors, will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard, at his house in Litchfield Street, St. Anne's, Soho, on Tuesday, the 3d of May, 1785, and the four following days ..
An auction catalogue of the coins, medals and antiquities of the barrister-collector Matthew Duane, issued by the London auctioneer John Gerard in 1785 for bidders and dealers. The plates reproduce engraved amulets and talismanic plaques, round and paddle-shaped, packed with Hebrew lettering and crude figures of enthroned rulers, dancers and arched shrines, printed as dense black marks on scuffed metal grounds.
