Sales catalogue 525: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/80
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 525: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Convoy. Destroyed the French Northern Fishery in 1707. LETTER: SIGNED) JO THE: EARL) OF SUNDER SECRETARY: OF STATE, REPORTING VHS) DES ERVe e OF THE FRENCH.NORTHERN FISHERY. 3 pp., folio. St. John’s Harbour, 22nd Sept.; 1707. £6 10s Giving a long and most graphic description of his successful attack (supported by Major Thomas Lloyd, Commander at St. John’s), on the French Northern Fishery, when he captured, destroyed and dis- persed 13 French men-of-war, also burnt some 228 fishing boats, and did other damage to the French including the destruction of a vast quan- tity of fish caught by the enemy. AUTOGRAPH POEM (IN FRENCH) SIGNED. Consisting of some 18 lines on I page, 4to (on thin card). N.D. £3 10s The following is a prose translation. ‘¢ Friends, think of your art and not of success. Were you to succeed from the commencement without struggle or fight! There are not great people everywhere ; Fashion is little. The names which Rhee were illuminated, are to-day, become as rusted iron.’ G: Herald. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO JACOB 4O0ncae 24+ pp., 4to. Greenwich, 25th October, 1725. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XXVIII). £15 15s A fine letter written to Jacob Tonson, the publisher, who in 1725 issued Pope’s edition of Shakespeare. He refers in uncomplimentary terms to the Duchess of Marlborough ~ who had succeeded in getting an injunction against him through her friend the late Chancellor. Vanbrugh was appointed by Marlborough in 1705 as architect of the palace to be erected at Woodstock in commemoration of Blenheim. af . Being forced into Chancery, by that . . . the Duchess of Marlb and her getting an injunction upon me, by her friend the late good Chancelr who
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