Sales catalogue: Puttick and Simpson

Date:
1st July 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/16/140
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Puttick and Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    34 ose Byron: “Childe pes a portion of the original autcgraph MS., 1 p. 4to., consisting of 9 lines (canto 4, stanza 98), ae a footnote by J. L. Gower, 1838— Barry (Mis.)\cA. LS. .2. pp. . 8v0, presenting. tins autograph to Mr. Gower—An old transcript of the lines | ae) * ©. Gower’s.:tootnpte states. that .- Mrs, Baris husband was very intimate with the Poet, who, on departing for Greece, left him his furniture and most of his MSS., ete. 583. Byron. Autograph MS., with corrections, 2 pp. 4to, being a Note toa MS. extract from Petrarch’s Letters with reference to the Conspiracy of the Doge, together 3 pp. 4to. *.* Byron records in his diary under the date of Feb.. 21, 1821, that he had this extract made. 584. Byron. Oscar of Alva, a portion. of the orginal autograph MS., with corrections, and 2 deleted lines which were not printed, 2 pp. 4to., inserted in glazed polished oak frame (1807) Byron. <A Lock of the Poet’s Hair—An A.L.S., 4 pp. Svo., signed ‘‘ Nina,’ and written. trom st. James Palace, “May 6, 182 8, forwarding this lock. pes . I must s say that I have the vanity to pique myself on my success in having obtained from Mrs. Leigh [Byron’s sister] (as a proof of her attach- ment to me) that truly inestimable gift, a lock of hair of the late immortal Byron, which you will find enclosed oe 586 <A fan, with carved and pierced mother o’ pearl sticks, enriched with gilt roccoco ornament, paper leaf a4 panels of young people in eardens, on one side, and a lady seated in a garden, on the other side, faulty, in case * * This fan was given by Byron to Lady Charlotte Harley, to whom he dedicated the first canto of Childe Harold under the name of “Ianthe.’”? See the late owner’s statement with this lot. Or CO ie 587 Frederick the-Great. U.5., 1p. 4to. “with, port.) ioe —Bliicher. Order S. and sealed, 1 p. oblong <8vo., 1816 (3) 588 Napoleon I. Vellum Doc. S. ‘‘ Bonaparte,’ as. First Consul, 1 p. oblong folio, with port., An dix (2) 589 Napoleon’s Brothers. Jerome. L.S., 14 pp. folio, 1849 —Lucien. ,L.$., 1 p. 4to., An 8—Joseph. LeSaad ee 4to., An 1 Tous. 0. S., 22p. folto do ches mage Consul (4) 590 Napotron’s Marswats. <A Collection of Letters and Does.S., A.Ls.8., etc., some with portracts, meluding Marshals Augereau, Belluno, Bernadotte, Berthier, Clarke, Davout, Duroc, Grouchy, Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, Jourdan, Junot (Secret Instructions to Gen. Bona- parte), Kellermann, Lauriston, Macdonald, Massena, Mortier, Murat, Ney, Oudinot, Sebastiani, Soult, Suchet, and Vaillant, with Generals Gourgaid, Montholon, Montbrun, and Bertrand — | (a parcel)
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